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WILLIAM   RICHARD    CUTTER,    A.    M. 

Hislorian   of  ilie    New    Kngland    Histoiic-Cem-aliisiial    Scuiety:    Liljiariaii    Kineiil  us    uf    Wi>liiiiM    I'lililic 
Lihi-ary:   Aullior  of  "The  Cutter  Family."   "History     of  Arliiiglon."   "HihlioHrapliy  ot   Woinirii."   .-tir..  etc. 

ASSIS'I'KI)     l!V 

WILLIAM  FREDERICK    ADAMS, 

President    of    Connecticul    Valley    Historical    Society;     l'iil)lisliir    of    Pynchoii    Genealogy.    "Picturesque 
Hampden."    "Picture.«(iue   Berkshire,"   etc..   etc. 


VOLUME  I. 


■'*/^-    :  :  :v: 


lUvUS.T.RATEip. 


NEW  YORK 
LEWIS  HISTORICAL  PUBLISHING  COMPANY 

1  9  1  0  A.  .  . 


INTRODUCTORY 


who  gathered  about  them,  and  provinjj  a  puwer    tor   ideal   citizenship  and   good   government. 

Uni(|iic  in  conce|)tion  and  treatment,  this  work  constitutes  one  of  the  most  original  and 
permanently  \alual)le  contributions  ever  made  to  the  social  history  of  an  American  community 
In  it  are  arrayed  in  a  lucid  and  dignified  mainiei'  all  the  ini])ijrtant  tact^  regarding  the  ancestry, 
personal  career  and  matrimonial  alliances  of  those  who.  in  each  succeeding  generation,  have 
been  accorded  leading  ])ositions  in  the  social,  professional  and  business  life  of  the  State.  Xor 
has  it  been  based  u])on.  neither  does  it  mini>lrr  lo.  ari--tocralic  preiudice--  and  assum])tions. 
On  the  contrary,  its  fundamental  ideas  are  thoroughl\  American  and  democratic.  The  work 
everywhere  conveys  the  lesson  that  distinction  has  been  "gained  only  by  honorable  |)uhlic  service. 
or  by  usefulness  in  pri\ale  station,  .ind  that  the  development  and  i)ros])erity  of  the  ."^late  of 
which  it  treats  has  been  dependent  itpon  the  character  of  its  citizens,  and  the  stimulus  which 
they  have  given  to  commerce,  to  industry,  to  the  arts  and  sciences,  to  education  and  religion — 
to  all  that  is  com|)risc(l  in  the  highest  civiliz.ilion  oi'  the  pre^eiU  day — through  ;i  conlimial  pro- 
gressive develc  )])ment . 

The  inspiration  un<lerl\iiig  the  w  (Ilk  i^  a  ler\eut  a]iprecialioii  of  the  truth  -n  well  exprosed 
b)-  .^ir  \\  alter  .^cott.  that  "there  is  no  heroic  poem  in  the  wciid.  but  is  at  the  bottom  the  lili- 
of  a  man."  And  with  this  goes  a  kitidred  truth,  that  to  know  a  man.  and  rij,ditly  measure  his 
character,  and  weigh  his  achievements,  we  must  know  whence  he  came,  from  what  forbears  be 
sprang.  Truly  as  heroic  poetns  have  been  written  in  buman  lives  in  the  paths  of  peace  as  in 
the  scarred  roads  of  war.  Such  examples,  in  whatever  line  of  endeavtir.  are  of  much  worth 
a.s  an  incentive  to  those  who  come  afterward,  and  such  were  never  so  needful  to  he  written  oi 
as  in  the  jjresent  day,  when  pessimism,  forgetful  of  the  s])len(lid  lessons  of  the  past,  witlibolds 
its  effort  in  the  present,  and  views  the  future  only  with  alarm. 

.And.  further,  the  custodian  of  records  concerning  the  useful  men  oi  preceding  generations. 
who  has  aided  in  placing  his  knowledge  in  preservable  and  accessible  form,  of  the  homes  and 
churches,  schools,  and  otlier  institutions,  which 
they  fotmded,  and  of  their  descendants  who  have 
lived  honorable  and  useful  lives,  has  |)erformed  a 
public  service  in  rendering  honor  to  whom  honor 
is  due,  and  in  inculcating  the  most  valuable  les- 
sons of  patriotism  and  good  citizenshi]). 

The  \'ast  intluence  e.xerteil  b\  the  people  of 
this  .State  is  imtueasurable.  The  story  of  the 
Plymouth  and  Massachusetts  ilay  colonies  lies  a; 
the  foun(lalii>n  of  the  best  there  is  in  .\mericau 
history,  and  the  names  of  ISrewsler.  \\  inslow, 
Bradford,  .^tandish.  .\lden.  AX'arren.  1  lowland 
I  all  ot  whom  c;niie  in  the  ".\lavllow  er"  and  were 
prominent  in  the  (lid  t'oloiu'.)  with  bfet'iuati. 
<  lorbam  and  I-^ears — all  these  of  I'lymouth  :  and 
Winihrop.  Saltoustall.  Dudley,  Wilson,  I'.rad- 
street,  and  others,  of  the  Massachusetts  I'.ay  Col- 
ony, have  an  undying  fame,  and  these  names  are 
|)rominent  to-day  in  Massachusetts.  These  early 
settlers  erected  an  original  form  of  govertiment, 
pledging  themselves  to  maintain  atid  ])reserve  all 
their  liberties  and  privileges,   and   in   their   vote  ,><i.uki>riiiKi-  ^r.>lulnu•llt. 


IXTRODL  l  K  )KN' 


IsaiHll    Thomas, 

.if  "MHSsai'luisetls  S|i.v." 


ami  surt'rage  as  tlieir  oiiisi-iciiic  nii,i;lil  iluiu  iimM'.  a^  lo  bcsi 

conduce  and  tend  to  the  jnihlic  weal  of  the  body,  witlunU 

respect  of  persons  or  tavor  of  any  man.      Their  heroism  was 

CNhibited  in  their  confliots  with  savages.      In  >tatc-.inan-~lu|) 

thev  Iniilded  better  than  they  knew.   Their  code  of  law  s  know  n 

as  the  "I'.ody  of  Liberties"  has  l)ecn  termed  an  ahuo>i  drclara- 

tion  of  independence,  opening  with  the  pninnunci.  nuiit  thai 

neither  life,  liberty,  honor  nor  estate  weru  to  be  in\  aikd  unless 

under  e.vjiress  laws  enacted  b\- the  local  aiitlmritii.-^.  aiul  when 

this  bold  declaration  led  to  the  ikiiiand  nf  the  l'".ngli>h  t^ovuii- 

ment  that  the  colonial  charter  >h(iiild  be  snrrendereil.  the  cole 

nists  resisted  to  a  successful  issue.    In  later  ilay^  b'aneuil  I  lall 

became  the  cradle  of  .American  Libeiix.  and  from  il^  platform 

were  proclaimed  the  doctrines  which  bore  frttit  in  loistance  to 

the  Stamj)  .\ct.  in  the  Boston  .Massacre,  and  the  engagement.^ 

of  contesting  armed  forces  at  Lexington  and  Concord  and  ISuiiker  I  Mil 

.\t  a  later  da\ .  when  came  the  uiMmentnUN  ijuestioii  wlu'tber  a  free  and  liberal  i^iAern- 
ment  "of  the  i)eo])lc.  by  the  peoi>le  and  for  the  |)eople"  was  to  perish  from  the  earth,  the 
>ons  of  their  illustrious  sires  were  not   found  wanting  in  |)atriotism  and  devolinii,  but  lreel\ 

sacriliced  comforts,  ])ro|)e!-t\   and  life,   tur  the  \inili- 
■    .   cation  I  if  the  pi-inciples  inherited   from  the  fathers. 

I  leie.  too.  wi're  developed  in  highest  degree  the 
arts  of  ])eace.  Keliginn.  ediieatii  m,  science,  inveii 
ticiii,  labor  along  all  the  lines  "\  mechanical  and 
inilusii-ial  iirnoress,  ]]<.rv  made  llieir  be^innmgs.  and 
while  iheiv  ramificatic  nis  extended  tlir.  m.^bc  mt  the 
lentjth  and  breadth  <if  the  land.  ih.  parnn  Imuie  ,ind 
the  parent  stuck  held  llieir  pre  einiiieiice.  as  they  do 
111  the  presi'iit  day. 

The  descendants  of  those  early  si  tilers  are 
especialh-  proud  of  their  ancestry  :  for.  whatever  the 
])art  allotted  them.  e\eii  the  nmst  trixial  service 
rendered  shmild  coiuuiand  I'especM  and  adniiralic  m. 
and  those  now  residents  of  .Massachusetts  slimilij 
esteem  it  a  ]:)recious  ])ri\'ilege  to  have  their  n.uius 
.issdciated  witli  such  an  illiistiiDiis  i,M-ou]i  ol  laiiii- 
ilies.  Such  an  honorable  aiici-stry  is  a  noble  heritage, 
and  the  st(ir\-  of  its  achievements  is  a  sacred  trust 
committed  to  its  descendants,  upon  whom  devolves 
the  perpetuation  of  the  riconl, 

II  was  the  consensus  of  opinion  ol  L;eiilleiiK-n 
well  informed  and  loval  to  ihe  memories  ot  tb,-  past 
;md  the-  needs  of  the  ])resent  and  fulure,  that  the 
editorial  supervision  of  William  Kichard  flitter.  ,\, 
.M..  ensured  the  best  results  attainable  in  lhe|irepara- 

Stanie  of  fapt.  Parker.  I.exinKtnn.  tioii    of   material    for   the   proposed    work.       b'or   more 


King's  Chapel,    Boston. 


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INTRODUCTORY. 


Governor  Levi  Lincoln. 


than  a  generation  ]jast  he  has  given  his  leisure  to  hi.storicaI 
and  genealogical  research  and  authorship.  He  was  thc 
author.  with  his  father,  of  "History  of  the  Cutter  Family  of 
Xew  England.''  1871-1875:  and  "History  of  .\rlington. 
-Massachusetts."  1880:  and  edited  Lieutenant  Samuel  Thomp- 
son's "Diary  While  Serving  in  the  French  and  Indian  War. 
1758,"  1896.  He  also  prepared  a  monograph  entitled  "Jour- 
nal of  a  Forton  Prisoner,  England."  sketches  of  Arlington 
and  Woburn.  Massachusetts,  and  many  articles  on  subjects 
connected  with  local  historical  and  genealogical  matters,  for 
jjeriodical  literature.  He  prepared  a  "Bibliography  of 
Woburn."  which  was  published,  and  he  has  lieen  engaged  as 
editor  of  various  historical  works  outside  of  his  own  city. 
His  narrative  on  "Early  Families,"  which  introduces  Volume 
1.  of  this  work,  and  the  leading  fifty  pages  of  biography  in 
V'okmie  II..  are  of  peculiar  value. 

Others  to  whom  the  publishers  desire  to  make  grateful 
acknowledgment  for  services  rendered  in  various  ways — a^ 
writers,  or  in  an  advisory  way.  in  pointing  to  channels  of  valuable  information,  are:  William 
l-'rederick  Adams,  a  first  authority.  ]niblisher  of  "The  Pynchon  ( jenealogv."  "Picturesque 
Hampden,"  "Picturesque  Berkshire,"  etc.;  Edward  Henry  Clement,  for  many  years  editor 
of  the  Boston  Transcript;  John  Howard  Brown,  editor  of  Lamb's  "Biographical  Dictionary 
of  the  United  States:"'  and  Ezra  Scolly  Stearns,  the  well-known  Xew  Hampshire  historian 
and  antiquarian. 

This  work  comprises  a  carefully  prepared  genealogical  history  of  several  hundred  rep- 
resentative families  of  Massachusetts.     The  editor  and  publishers  desire  to  state  that  they 
have  adopted  a  different  method  for  collecting  and  compiling  data  than  has  heretofore  been 
l>ursued  in  this  country.     Time  and  expense  w  ere  not  spared  in  making  the  publication  a 
valuable  work  for  reference.     The  value  of  family    history    and    genealogy    depends    upon 
accuracy,  and  the  thoroughness  of  research  in  [)ublic  and  private  records  :  also,  upon  the  use 
of  old  and  unpublished  manuscripts,  supplemented  by  a  careful  gleaning  and  compiling  of 
information  to  be   found  in  the  various 
])rinted    works    in    public    and    private 
libraries.     It  was  the  aim  of  editor  and 
publishers   to   utilize   all    such     material. 
connecting  the  same  with  the  .-Xmerican 
progenitor,   where   possible,  and   present 
in    a    narrative    form    the    family    line 
down  to  and  including  the  present  gen- 
eration,   weaving    in    the    military    and 
civic  services  of  the  subject  treated.     In 
order   to   insure   greatest   possible    accu- 
racy, all  matter  for  this  work  was  sub- 
mitted in  typewritten  manuscript  to  per- 
sons   mo.st    interested,    for    revision    and 

correction.  Bancn.ft    House.   Worcester. 


INTRO!  )l('r(  )R^' 


111  the  comparalivcly  lew  iiistaiico 
where  a  sketch  is  faulty,  the  shortcoiiiiiig 
is  in  the  main  ascrihahle  tn  the  paucity  (jf 
(hit a  (ilitainahle,  xnne  lamihes  heiiif^  wilh- 
iiut  exact  reciifds  in  their  family  line;  in 
nlher  cases,  rejoresentatives  of  a  given 
family  are  at  flisagreenient  as  to  name--. 
dates,  etc. 

It  is  helieved  that  the  present  wnrk. 
in  spite  ui  llu-  nccasinnal  fault  which 
attaches  to  such  undertakings,  will  prci\^ 
a  real  addition  to  the  mass  of  annals  con- 
cerning tile  historic  families  of  Massa- 
cluisetts,  and  that,  without  it.  much  vahiahle  infunnalion  would  remain  inacce 
irretrievahh'  lost,  owing  to  the  passing  away  of  cusiddi.ins  df  lamily  records, 
:onse(iiient  disappearance  of  material  in  their  possessiwu. 

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EARLY  FAMILIES. 


SUFFOLK  CDLXTY. 

The  late  William  II.  \\  hilinure.  city  regis- 
trar of  Boston,  has  treated  the  history  of  the 
prominent  families  of  I'oston  in  the  seven- 
teenth and  eighteenth  centuries  in  a  cursory 
manner  in  two  chapters  at  the  end  of  the  first 
and  second  volumes  of  Winsor's  "^lemorial 
History  of  Boston."  There  has  never  been, 
according  to  his  statement,  any  general  or 
com|)lete  attempt  to  write  their  genealogy,  as 
a  whole,  and  probably  never  will  be,  owing  to 
the  want  of  jjroper  material,  and  the  magni- 
tude of  the  undertaking.  The  greater  part  of 
the  early  settlers  came  from  the  middle  class 
of  England.  Their  ideas  of  society  were  the 
same  as  the  English,  and  they  were  devoid  of 
the  element  of  the  very  poor,  as  well  as  of  the 
higher  class  of  the  nobility.  Until  the  Revolu- 
tion of  1775  they  were  in  effect  and  in  practice 
a  I'ritish  province. 

Mr.  W'hitriKire  gives  a  list  of  forty  promi- 
nent families  of  the  seventeenth  century  in 
which  he  names  the  following: 


I. 

\\  inthrop. 

21. 

( ierrish. 

2. 

Bellingham. 

22. 

f'ayne. 

.3- 

Endicott. 

23- 

Middlecott. 

4- 

Leverett. 

24. 

I'sher. 

5- 

Rradstreet. 

2^- 

Jeft'ries. 

6. 

Hough. 

2(k 

Lidgett. 

7- 

Hibbens. 

-27- 

Safifin. 

8. 

Gibbons. 

28. 

Ruck. 

9- 

Davie. 

2\)- 

W  hittingliam 

10. 

Richards. 

30- 

Shrimpton. 

II. 

Savage. 

31- 

Stoddard. 

12. 

Cooke. 

32- 

Sergeant. 

13- 

Hutchinson. 

^?^■ 

.Sheaffe. 

14. 

Oliver. 

34- 

Gibbs. 

IS- 

Hull. 

35- 

Lynde. 

16. 

Brattle. 

36. 

Lvde. 

17- 

Tyng. 

2,7- 

Clarke. 

18. 

.Alford. 

.18. 

Cotton. 

10- 

Scarlett. 

yh 

.Allen. 

20. 

Joyliffe. 

40. 

Mather. 

Of  the  above.  W'inthrop.  Endicott.  Leverett, 
Rradstreet.  Savage.  Hutchinson.  Oliver,  Brat- 
tle, Tyng,  I'sher.  Jeffries.  .Shrimpton.  Stod- 
dard, Lynde,  Clarke,  Cotton  and  Mather,  are 

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about  all  the  names  that  are   familiar  to  the 
jiresent  generation.     Taken  up  seriatim  : 

1.  The  ancestor  of  the  W'inthrop  family  left 
two  sons  who  left  male  descendants  in  New 
London.  Connecticut,  and  Cambridge,  Massa- 
chusetts. One  son,  whose  only  son  died  with- 
out issue,  is  represented  at  present  by  descend- 
ants in  the  female  line  in  Chelsea  and  W'in- 
throp, Massachusetts. 

2.  Bellingham:  Name  extinct  in  the  second 
generation. 

3.  Endicott :  Descendants  in  Esse.x  county, 
through  one  son.  The  other  son  died  without 
issue. 

4.  Leverett :  .Vncestor  an  alderman  in  Old 
Boston  before  removal  here;  one  son  and 
several  married  daughters  in  the  second  gener- 
ation. 

5.  Bradstreet :    Numerous  descendants. 

6.  Hough :  Alderman  of  Old  Boston  before 
coming  here  ;  one  son  in  the  second  generation, 
one  son  in  the  third ;  two  sons  in  the  fourth 
generation  died  before  middle  age. 

7.  Hibbens:   No  issue  after  first  generation. 

8.  Gibbons:   Extinct  soon. 

9.  Davy:  Ancestor  was  son  of  a  baronet: 
one  son  returned  to  England  and  inherited 
estate  and  title  of  his  grandfather;  two  sons 
by  a  second  wife. 

10.  Richards :  No  children  in  one  case ; 
another  Richards  had  an  only  son  and  also 
daughters;  a  third  of  the  name  died  without 
issue. 

11.  Savage:  By  two  wives,  six  children  and 
eleven  children.  "The  family  has  maintained 
its  position  in  Boston  till  the  present  genera- 
tion." 

12.  Cooke:  One  son  of  the  second  genera- 
tion. This  -son  had  an  only  daughter  whose 
descendants  of  another  name  still  represent 
the  family  in  Boston. 

13.  Hutchinson:  The  later  generation  belongs 
to  the  record  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

74.  ()liver:  .Appear  to  have  well  sustained 
their  innulxr  and  influence. 

13.  Hull:  In  the  second  generation,  an  only 
clu'ld.  a  daughter,  whose  descendants  were 
numerous. 

ifi.  I'.rattlc:  Male  line  extinct  in  the  third 
generation. 

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MASSACHUSETTS. 


17.  Tyng:  Male  members,  descendants  of 
two  brothers,  not  numerous ;  line  continued  in 
female  branches. 

18.  Altord:  Does  not  appear  after  the  third 
generation. 

19.  Scarlett :   Xo  male  descendants. 

20.  Joylift'e:  In  the  second  generation,  an 
only  child,  a  daughter,  died  unmarried. 

21.  Gerrish  (later  Essex  county)  ;  a  grand- 
son returned  to  Boston  and  left  descendants. 

22.  Payne:  One  child  (a-son).  "The  family 
became  extinct  here  in  1834." 

23.  Middlecott :  Four  children,  three  daugh- 
ters and  one  son  ;  the  son  settled  in  England. 

24.  Usher:  Two  sons  and  two  daughters  of 
the  second  generation ;  one  son  married  and 
had  no  children ;  one  son  married  and  had  one 
daughter,  and  by  a  second  marriage  had  other 
issue  "still  represented  in  Rhode  Island. "' 

25.  Jeffries :  Two  sons  of  the  second  gener- 
ation. '"The  family  is  still  represented  in 
Boston,  being  one  of  the  few  which  have  con- 
tinued through  all  the  changes  of  two  centu- 
ries." 

26.  I.idgett:  Represented  by  a  son  of  the 
second  generation,  who  died  at  London  in 
1698. 

27.  Saffin :   No  issue  of  the  first  generation. 

28.  Ruck,  or  Rock:  one  son  of  second  gen- 
eration, beyond  whom  the  line  is  not  traced. 

29.  Whittingham  :  Left  issue  after  first  gen- 
eration here. 

30.  Shriniptun:  Eeft  issue  of  a  later  distin- 
guished generation. 

31.  Stoddard:  "The  family  still  flourishes, 
though  not  in  Boston." 

32.  Sergeant:  Onegeneration,  without  issue. 

33.  Sheaffe :  Two  daughters  of  the  second 
generation,  one  of  whom  married  a  relative  of 
the  same  name.  The  name  appears  to  have 
ended  in  Hoston  in  1724. 

34.  ( iibbs  :  "The  name  continued  till  recently 
in  Middlesex  county." 

35.  I^ynde :  One  son  (second  generation) 
settled  in  Salem. 

36.  Lyde  :  One  child,  a  son,  no  further  men- 
tion. 

37.  Clarke :  One  son,  for  one  family ;  other 
families  of  this  name  were  more  numerously 
represented. 

38.  Cotton :  Tw-o  sons  of  the  second  gener- 
ation an<l  two  daughters.  "The  family,  how- 
ever, soon  passed  from  Boston." 

39.  Allen:  One  son,  who  was  treasurer  of 
the  province. 

40.  Mather:  The  members  of  this  family 
appear  to  be  numerous,  especially  in  the  female 


branches.  "The  name,  however,  was  soon  lost 
to  Boston,  though  descendants  in  Connecticut 
still  bear  it." 

Mr.  W'hitmore,  for  the  eighteenth  century, 
continues  his  list  of  the  most  prominent  fami- 
lies of  IJoston  (or  Suffolk  county )  until  he 
has  included  one  hundred  numbers  for  the  two 
centuries  which  his  list  was  designed  to  cover; 
more  especially  for  the  eighteenth  century,  the 
provincial  period  from  1692  to  1775.  He  also 
observes  that  with  few  exceptions  the  names 
of  the  colonial  (or  first  period)  disappear  early 
in  the  eighteenth  century.  In  his  list  for  the 
eighteenth  century  he  includes  such  names  as 
follows : 


41. 

Phips. 

71- 

Tavlor. 

42. 

Tailer. 

72. 

Ehot. 

4.S- 

Dummer. 

7?,- 

lielchcr. 

44- 

Shirley. 

74- 

Williams. 

45- 

Hutchinson.     • 

75- 

Winslow. 

46. 

Oliver. 

76. 

Willard. 

47- 

Hobby. 

77- 

Walley. 

48. 

Temple. 

78. 

I>allentine. 

49- 

Nelson. 

79- 

\'alentine. 

50. 

Sewall. 

80. 

Cushing. 

5'- 

.Addington. 

81. 

]!owdoin. 

5^- 

Davenport. 

82. 

Faneuil. 

53- 

Savage. 

83- 

Johonnot. 

54- 

Phillips. 

84. 

Olivier. 

.S5- 

Wendell. 

85- 

Sigourney. 

56. 

Lloyd. 

86. 

Brimmer. 

57- 

Borland. 

87. 

Mascarene. 

58. 

\'assall. 

88. 

Bethune. 

50- 

Lindall. 

89. 

Cunningham 

60. 

Brinlev. 

90. 

I'ovlston. 

Cm. 

Pitts.  ■ 

91. 

Trail. 

62. 

.\pthorp. 

92. 

Mount  fort. 

63- 

Salisbury. 

93- 

Greenwood. 

Ch. 

Marion. 

94- 

Charnock. 

6S. 

Bridge. 

95- 

Martyn. 

66. 

Ouincv. 

96. 

Cooper. 

67. 

Fitch.' 

97. 

I-ynde. 

68. 

Clark. 

98. 

Gardiner. 

69. 

Bromfield. 

99. 

.Amorv. 

70. 

Pavne. 

TOO. 

Waldo. 

The  Eighteenth  Century,  taken  up  .seriatim : 

41.  Phips:  No  children  of  the  first  ancestor, 
but  a  wife's  nephew  became  bis  heir  and 
adopted  the  name :  this  nephew  had  an  only 
surviving  son.  whose  family  consisted  of  three 
sons  and  three  daughters. 

42.  Tailer:  The  founder  married  twice;  no 
issue  reported  after  first  generation. 

43.  Dummer :  Three  sons  of  this  name,  of 
which   one   died   unmarried,  another  married 


MASSACHL-SETTS. 


111. 


left  an  only  daughter,  and  the  third  left  no 
children.  "The  family  has  been  continued  in 
Boston,  though  not  in  the  name." 

44.  Shirley  (  family  nf  the  English  Gover- 
nor)  :  Four  .sons  ami  five  daughters.  "Only 
one  son  survived  him.  whose  only  son  died 
without  issue  in  1815." 

45.  Hutchinson  (also  of  the  seventeenth 
centur}')  :  1-amily  consisting  of  two  sons,  botli 
married,  whose  descendants  were  most  notable ; 
the  first  had  Thomas  (the  famous  lieutenant- 
governor  of  the  province)  and  Foster  Hutch- 
inson :  the  second  left  a  son  Edward  and  tv;o 
daughters.  Foster  had  a  son  and  daughter, 
and  Governor  Thomas  had  three  children.  As 
the  members  became  refugees,  they  are  not 
found  here  after  the  Revolution. 

46.  Oliver:  In  the  second  generation  was 
one  son,  whose  son  was  the  father  of  a  branch 
of  the  family  which  remained  here.  By  a 
second  marriage  the  first  ancestor  had  a  famil}- 
of  fourteen  children.  Another  branch  of  the 
early  Oliver  family  had  two  sons  who  were 
married.  Another  branch  of  the  second  gen- 
eration was  a  member  who  had  four  sons,  the 
flescendants  of  whom  have  been  numerous. 
There  was  still  another  branch  of  these  Bos- 
ton Olivers,  one  of  whose  members  had  two 
wives,  and  by  them  many  children,  most  of 
whom  died  young.  A  son  of  this  last  group 
was  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College  in  1719, 
one  of  whose  daughters  married  Benjamin 
I'rescott.  and  was  "the  ancestress  of  famous 
men." 

47.  Hobby:  The  particular  member  was 
knighted— "one  of  our  few  titled  natives ;"  he 
left  a  widow,  but  no  children. 

48.  Temi>le:  One  son  of  this  family  had 
three  dauglitcrs,  and  sons,  whose  descendants 
are  numerous.  One  of  the  sons  of  the  emi- 
grant inherited  the  baronetcy  belonging  to  this 
family. 

49.  Xelson :      Two    sons    represented    this 
family  in  the  second  generation;  also  daugh 
tirs. 

50.  Sewall :  One  son  of  the  second  genera- 
tion was  married,  but  "the  line  soon  ceased  in 
the  name  ;"  one  son  of  the  same  generation  was 
married  and  had  a  family.  "Descendants  of 
tiie  name  still  reside  in  Boston  and  the  vicin- 
ity." 

51.  Addington:  The  family  ended  in  the 
second  generation  with  the  death  of  a  daughter 
who  died  young. 

^2.  Davenport :  Third  generation  was  repre- 
seiitc<l  by  two  sons  and  two  married  daughters 
in  Boston.  ,   I 


53.  Savage:  Thi.s  family  was  numerously 
rei)resented  in  the  eightecth  centurv  in  the 
male  line. 

54.  I'hillips:  Well  represented  in  the  male 
line  in  I'.oston  to  a  late  generation. 

55.  \\  endell :  Well  represented  in  the  male 
line. 

56.  Lloyd :  Numerously  represented  in  the 
male  line  to  about  1850. 


.^z- 


Borlanc 


An   only  son   of   the   second 


generation  here  had  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 
Oni'  of  the  two  sons  had  twelve  children. 

58.  \  assail :  h^arly  rather  numerous,  and 
rue  of  a  later  generation  had  seventeen  chil- 
dren, and  another  member  of  the  faniilv  had 
si.vteen  children. 

5|^  Lindall;  The  first  generation  was  repre- 
sented by  a  person  who  had  three  wives  and 
seven  children,  hut  only  one  daughter  lived  to 
marry. 

fio.  Brinley:  The  representative  of  the  first 
gentration  left  a  daughter  and  a  son  ;  the  son 
had  five  sons  and  two  daughters.  One  of  these 
sons  married  his  cousin  and  left  no  children: 
another  left  many  descendants,  the  third  mar- 
ried his  cousin  and  left  one  married  son. 

61.  Pitts:  Here  after  1731.  The  father 
had  three  sons,  the  second  of  whom  had  five 
sons  and  two  daughters.     The  third  left  issue. 

62.  Apthorp :  The  first  representative  had 
eighteen  children,  of  whom  fifteen  survived 
him.  and  eleven  married.  "The  name  is  still 
rejjresented  among  us." 

63.  Salisbury:  The  first  representative  had 
ten  children,  of  whom  two  sons  and  six  daugh- 
ters married.  "Many  descendants  of  this 
worthy  couple  remain." 

64.  Marion:  In  the  second  generation  fixe 
sons  and  three  daughters.  Later  members  ot 
this  family  are  still  numerous  in  this  vicinity. 

65.  Bridge  :  Represented  by  several  married 
daughters. 

66.  Ouincy:  Long  identified  with  Boston. 
The  emigrant  had  an  only  son,  whose  progenv 
are  numerous.  One  of  the  male  descendants 
had  nine  children  from  whom  are  many  de- 
scendants of  the  name  and  of  other  families. 
Another  line  represented  by  an  only  son  had 
later  very  eminent  representatives. 

67.  Fitch :  In  the  male  line  .soon  extinct ; 
but  through  a  daughter  there  are  descendants. 

68.  Clark:  Two  children,  two  daughters,  of 
the  second  generation  in  one  case,  one  son  and 
daughters  only  in  the  other.  In  the  second 
case  the  only  son  had  two  daughters  who  mar- 
ried. A  sister  of  the  only  son  died  "a  child- 
less  widow ;"   her   sister   had    four    children. 


AIASSACHUSETTS. 


( Jther  lines  of  this  family  in  ISoston  have  been 
distinguished  for  their  number  and  influence. 
(«}.  Bromfield  :  ( )ne  daughter  and  a  son  of 
the  second  generation  ;  and  several  sons  and 
(laughter  of  the  third  have  carried  the  name 
and  family  down  to  1849. 

70.  Payne:  An  only  son,  who  died  in  1735, 
left  a  large  family. 

71.  Taylor:  Of  two  sons  of  the  second  gen- 
eration, one  died  unmarrietl ;  the  other  had 
only  two  daughters. 

•]2.  Eli(jt:  The  descendants  of  the  first 
member  are  now  mostly  in  Connecticut  ;  the 
second  member  had  only  daughters;  the  thir'l 
had  the  same  ;  and  the  fourth  had  two  sons  and 
several  daughters.  Of  three  male  members 
of  a  later  generation  two  died  without  issue. 
Another  noted  family  of  this  name,  more  proj)- 
erly  spelled  Elliott,  adopted  at  a  later  period 
the  shorter  spelling. 

73.  Belcher:  The  father  of  the  Boston 
family  of  this  name  had  daughters,  and  one 
son  who  was  governor  of  the  province.  The 
governor  had  a  daughter  and  two  sons.  Another 
branch  of  the  family  early  in  Boston  was  less 
distinguished. 

74.  Williams:  One  branch  of  this  family  is 
descended  from  an  early  schoolmaster,  1703- 
1734,  well  connected  by  marriage.  "Alany 
other  bearers  of  the  name  have  lived  here,  but 
most  of  them  are  probably  descendants  of 
Robert  Williams,  of  Roxbury." 

75.  Winslow  :  "Little  can  be  found  in  print 
about  the  Ijoston  line."  The  family  is  de- 
scended from  John,  a  brother  of  Governor 
lulward.  This  John  had  daughters,  and  six 
surviving  sons.  The  male  line  in  this  family 
was  prominent,  especially  from  1740  to  1770. 
(  'thers  were  merchants  in  the  city  "within  the 
memory  of  the  present  generation."  Other 
branches  also  have  been  well  rejiresented. 

76.  Willard  :  lieginning  with  a  pastor  of 
the  Old  South  Church,  having  by  two  wives, 
twenty-one  children.  The  only  descendants  of 
the  name,  however,  are  traced  to  a  son,  by 
whose  son  was  ])reserved  the  line  to  the  present 
generation.  .Another  .son  of  the  first  generation, 
was  twice  married,  but  left  no  sons. 

77.  Walley:  Two  sons  of  the  second  gen- 
eration: one  had  daughters  and  a  son.  This 
last  married  and  had  two  sons;  one  died  with- 
out issue,  and  the  other  bad  daughters,  besides 
a  son  (who  had  twelve  children)  and  a  son, 
who  had  a  son.  who  was  a  "distingnislicd  citi- 
zen of  only  a  few  years  ago." 

78.  Balkntine:      In    th*"    second    geiuTatinn 


there  were  twelve  children.     "The  name  fre- 
(luently  occurs  on  our  records." 

79.  X'alentine:  The  founder  tlied  in  1724, 
having  had  seven  children.  The  eldest  son 
went  to  England.  Other  sons  were  of  Hop- 
kinton  and  ball  River;  "but  many  of  the  de- 
scendants of  the  name  have  returned  to  Bos- 
ton, and  have  been  engaged  in  business  here." 

80.  Gushing :  The  first  representative  in 
Boston  had  several  children.  "The  family  has 
been  especially  famous  for  the  number  of 
judges  it  has  furnished,"  and  many  of  the 
name  "have  been  citizens  here." 

81.  Piowdoin  (Huguenot  element):  Two 
sons  in  the  second  generation ;  one  went  to 
\  irginia,  "where  his  descendants  still  live." 
The  other  was  thrice  married,  and  had  daugh- 
ters and  sons  who  married.  A  grandson  was 
Governor  of  the  State ;  his  only  son  left  no 
issue ;  and  tw  o  daughters  were  married  into 
distinguished  names.  .\  son  of  one  of  the  two 
daughters,  last  named,  took  the  name  of  P>ow- 
doin.  as  did  his  son.  "but  this  line  is  extinct." 

82.  Faneuil :  Three  brothers  of  this  name 
were  settled  as  early  as  1691.  One  returned 
to  France,  another  ac(|uired  a  large  fortune, 
and  died  in  1737-38,  leaving  a  nephew,  who 
gave  to  Boston  "Faneuil  Hall."  The  remain- 
ing brother  had  two  sons  and  several  sisters  ; 
one  of  these  sons  died  in  1785.  having  had  \^no 
sons  and  a  daughter  ;  one  of  the  sons  became 
a  refugee  and  died  in  England :  the  other  after 
a  stay  in  Canada  and  the  West  Indies,  returned 
to  Boston  after  the  revolutionary  war. 

83.  Johonnot :  The  first,  a  member  of  the 
Huguenot  church,  died  in  1748,  leaving  three 
sons  and  a  daughter.  The  descendants  of  later 
generations  have  been  numerous  and  "the 
name  still  continues." 

84.  Oliver  (Huguenot):  Fifteen  children 
of  the  progenitor  were  born  between  1712  and 
i73r.  The  name  in  a  few  cases  was  changed 
to  Oliver,  "but  the  family  was  represented  here 
in  1850." 

85.  .Sigourney :  The  family  ancestor  died 
here  in  1727,  aged  8<> ;  a  son  married  and  had 
three  daughters  and  three  sons.  One  of  the 
latter  had  twelve  children ;  another  had  ten 
children  ;  and  another  had  five  children.  "The 
name  has  l)een  widely  sjiread  in  this  cnin- 
munity.  ' 

86.  Brimmer:  The  founder  was  born  in 
Germany  in  1697,  and  married  here,  and  had 
three  daughters  and  a  son.  all  married.  .-X 
son  of  the  later  generation  wa<  mayor  of  Ros- 
ti'u  and  died  in  1847.     The  name  still  exists. 


MASSACHISRTTS. 


V. 


87.  Mascarene  (distinguished  Huguenot  an- 
cestry )  :  The  original  representative  here  w  as 
a  soldier,  but  married  and  made  Boston  his 
home.  He  had  an  only  son  and  three  married 
daughters.  The  son  died  in  1778,  leaving  an 
only  son  who  died  iminarried.  In  another  line 
were  a  few  male  representatives  of  a  late  gen- 
eration. 

88.  Bethune:  Dates  from  about  1724.  "By 
the  death  of  the  senior  representatives  the  heir 
of  this  line  now  is  the  head  of  the  family." 
The  representatives  in  the  male  line  are  not 
numerous. 

8y.  Cunnfngham :  The  family  came  here 
about  1680.  There  were  three  sons  of  the 
second  generation.  The  line  has  been  prolific 
in  comparison  with  some  of  the  families  previ- 
ously named.  "This  family  has  contributed 
largely  towards  bu^ding  up  the  town.  ' 

90.  Boylston  :  The  name  has  had  numerous 
influential  male  representatives  in  Ijoston  and 
vicinity  since  1653.  A  member  of  the  female 
line  had  fourteen  children,  and  one  of  her  sons 
taking  the  name  of  Boylston,  became  a  wealthy 
merchant  in  London,  and  left  descendants  of 
this  name. 

91.  Trail:  Two  brothers  were  residents 
about  1750:  and  others  of  this  name,  possibly 
their  relatives,  were  here  at  the  same  date 
and  probably  left  descendants. 

92.  Mountfort:  The  family  "spring  from 
three  brothers" — all  here  about  1660.  One  had 
two  sons.  The  male  portion  has  been  well 
represented  to  very  nearly  the  present  time. 

93.  Greenwood  :  The  founder  died  here  in 
1684:  had  two  sons,  and  one  of  these  had  five 
sons.  ".Several  other  branches  of  the  family 
resided  here." 

94.  Charnock :  First  prominent  in  1710, 
there  were  two  sons  of  the  second  generation, 
also  daughters.  One  son  had  three  children, 
who  die<l  unmarried. 

95.  Martyn  :  One  member  dierl  here  in  1700; 
his  cousin  left  will  of  1717,  in  which  is  named 
four  sons  aufl  five  daughters.  The  family  has 
been  continued  here  and  the  name  is  often  en- 
countered. 

96.  Cooper:  The  first  to  come  here  in  1678 
was  sent  here  to  learn  business.  There  were 
two  sons  of  the  second  generation.  In  the 
male  line  this  name  has  been  prominent,  and 
the  members  numerous.  Another  branch  of 
this  name  beginning  in  1755.  became  promi- 
nent in  the  South  ;  one  of  them  being  adjutant- 
general,  U.  S.  .-\.,  and  then  resigncfl  to  join 
the  Confederate  side,  1861-65. 

97.  Lynde:  The  first  member  of  this  family 


was  in  Boston,  1650,  was  married,  and  had 
three  sons.  The  first  and  second  sons  had 
each  a  married  daughter.  The  second  son  had 
a  son,  and  both  father  and  son  were  chief- 
justices  of  the  province  (one  from  1728  to 
I74<^),  and  the  other,  who  succeeded  his  father, 
in  1746,  from  1 77 1  to  1772). 

98.  tjardiner:  The  first  comer  was  a  physi- 
cian and  also  a  merchant:  became  a  refugee, 
and  returned  after  the  war ;  had  three  wives, 
and  left  issue.,  one  son  and  four  daughters. 
The  son  had  distinguished  descendants.  One 
of  the  grandsons  of  the  original  member,  being 
in  the  female  line,  took  name  of  Gardiner. 

99.  .\mory  :  The  first  member  settled  about 
1721  in  P)Oston  ;  had  three  sons,  and  the  male 
line  has  been  numerous. 

100.  Waldo:  The  first  member  was  of  Bos- 
tcm  in  1697.  A  second  member,  ancestor  of 
a  branch,  came  about  the  same  time.  The  male 
line  has  been  well  rejjresented. 

No  one  is  so  foolish  as  to  believe  such  a 
list  as  the  above  is  absolute.  Mr.  W'hitmore, 
its  author,  never  made  any  such  claim ;  and 
asserted  that  other  families  equally  worthy 
were  entitled  f presumably)  to  a  place  in  the 
list.  However,  as  arranged,-  it  is  suggestive. 
The  basis  is  wealth  and  official  distinction,  as 
existing  in  the  colonies.  It  is  also  interesting 
to  notice  the  rise  and  fall  of  the  families 
thniugh  the  mediimi  of  an  increased  or  lessened 
birth-rate,  and  also  the  effect  upon  them  of 
the  influence  of  longevity. 

In  the  second  place,  as  it  is  natural  that  the 
best  ability  should  gravitate  towards  the  metro- 
polis, such  as  Boston  then  was  and  is  now, 
men  of  that  character  and  their  family  repre- 
sentatives would  in  the  nature  of  the  case  be 
fewer  in  their  numerical  importance  as  fami- 
lies, regardless  of  their  "natural  increase,"  or 
birth-rate:  and  so  the  selected  number  "one 
hundred"  is  not  absurb,  but  furnishes  an  idea 
of  the  relative  size  of  the  "ruling  influence" 
in  the  ca])ital,  as  well  as  in  the  colony  at  large ; 
and,  in  comjjarison,  their  mmibers  would  not 
be  as  great  as  those  of  their  more  numerous 
compeers  in  the  country  districts,  from  whom 
were  drawn  in  the  course  of  events  recruits 
to  swell  the  urban  poptdatiun  and  occasionally 
the  upper  classes. 

In  the  lists  which  fuljuw'  it  is  impossible  to 
Confine  the  numbers  to  one  hundred,  for  the 
standard  set  embraces  a  much  larger  number 
of  the  so-called  common  people :  nor  will  the 
length  of  the  lists  admit  of  the  i)articidar  speci- 
fication of  the  former.  The  lists  also  do  not 
take  into  account  the  still  much  greater  num- 


:VIASSACHUSETTS. 


ber  of  the  first  settlers  who  remained  here 
Ijernianently,  or  those  who  after  a  short  stay 
returned  to  the  mother  country,  and  who  were 
never  elected  to  any  prominent  office  in  this 
community.  In  the  seaports  at  that  time  was 
a  floating  ])0]ndation  ,of  considerable  propor- 
tions, composed  of  mariners  and  others,  whose 
stay  in  one  place  was  short  from  the  nature 
of  the  circumstances.  Armies  composed  of 
regiments  from  abroad  were  occasionally  sta- 
tioned in  Boston,  or  on  the  islands  near  it,  for 
a  jjeriod  of  several  months  at  a  time.  The 
names  of  such  wanderers,  and  they  are  occa- 
sionallv  found  in  the  local  records,  are  a  puzzle 
to  the  genealogist. 

It  should  be  distinctly  understood  that  the 
great  land  company  which  settled  Massachu- 
setts, first  with  headquarters  located  in  Eng- 
land, and  afterwards  in  this  country,  was  a 
close  corporation,  the  English  government  re- 
garding it  simply  as  an  instrument  for  trading 
in  certain  territory  on  this  side  of  the  ocean, 
wliicli  it  considered  as  a  ])art  of  its  realm. 
The  idea  of  the  colonists  to  set  up  a  govern- 
ment of  their  own,  with  laws  not  repugnant 
to  those  of  the  mother  coimtry,  is  another 
matter.  It  can  be  shown  that  a  large  degree 
of  prosperity  attended  the  movement;  that  by 
i/OO  communities  with  many  of  the  blessings 
of  agriculture  and  of  the  home  country  were 
firmly  established  ;  that  good  houses  were  com- 
mon ;  that  the  people  generally  were  content 
to  abide  under  their  own  "vine  and  fig-tree." 
That  by  173''),  a  hundred  years  after  the  estab- 
lishment of  their  first  college,  according  to  the 
testimony  of  an  authority  of  that  day,  the  pro- 
vince was  distinguished  among  the  British 
colonies  for  its  pleasant  homes,  its  wholesome 
laws,  its  jjrivileges  of  education,  its  learned 
men,  its  good  government,  the  general  knowl- 
edge of  the  common  peo])le,  and  in  which  good 
land  all  were  as  happy  as  any  on  earth. 

In  1770,  after  the  unwise  oppression  of  a 
reasonably  prosperous  province  by  the  British 
government  had  begun,  the  condition  of  the 
average  inhabitant  of  the  country  town  was 
fairly  well  described  in  an  election  sermon  of 
that  year,  by  a  village  minister  living  not  re- 
mote from  the  mctro])olis.  In  passing  the 
reader  will  observe  that  the  trouljles  about 
climate  are  definitely  alluded  to.  This  author- 
ity says:  "There  is  in  t\\e  close  of  our  short 
summer  the  apjiearance  of  plenty  in  our  dwell- 
ings ;  but,  from  the  length  of  our  winters,  our 
l)lenty  is  consumed,  and  the  ona-half  of  our 
necessary  labor  is  spent  in  dispersing  to  our 
flocks  and  herds  the  ingatherings  of  the  fore- 


going season ;  and  it  is  known  to  every  person 
ot  common  observation  that  few,  very  few, 
t.\cept  id  the  mercantile  way,  from  one  genera- 
tion to  another,  acquire  more  than  a  neces- 
sary subsistence,  and  sufficient  to  discharge 
the  expenses  of  government  and  the  support 
of  the  gos])el.  yet  content  and  dis])0sed  to  lead 
peaceable  lives." 

.Applying  the  principle  of  Mr.  W'hitmore's 
plan  to  the  selection  of  a  list  of  prominent 
families  in  other  counties  of  Massachusetts 
than  Suffolk,  we  find  that  their  number  can 
be  greatly  extended  the  period  being  still  the 
seventeenth  and  eighteenth  centuries,  or  the 
time  covered  by  the  colonial  and  provincial 
periods  of  New  England  history.  In  the  esti- 
mation of  the  people  of  old  New  England 
(John  Farmer,  "Genealogical  Register  of  the 
I-'irst  Settlers,"  1829)  the  o^cial  society  of  the 
community  consisted  of  the  governors,  deputy 
governors,  assistants  (or  councillors),  the 
ministers  of  the  gospel,  representatives  of  the 
general  courts,  graduates  of  Harvard  College, 
the  members  of  the  .Ancient  and  Honorable 
Artillery  Compau}-,  and  the  freeman  (or 
voters )  of  the  colony,  es])ecially  those  of  the 
])eriod  (when  church  membership  was  a  quali- 
fication) from  163010  1662,  in  Massachusetts. 
.Mellen  Chamberlain,  a  good  legal  authority, 
in  his  "History  of  Chelsea,"  in  passim,  claims 
that  the  original  Massachusetts  Bay  Company 
was  a  close  corporation,  "to  which  no  one  was 
admitted  unless  a  member  of  tiie  church  estal)- 
li'-hed  within  its  limits;  but  when  communities 
had  gatiiered  remote  from  the  seat  of  govern- 
ment, there  were  local  duties  and  rights,  not 
specified  by  general  laws,  in  which  it  was  dc- 
sirnMe  that  some,  not  freeman,  should  share; 
and  in  1647  the  general  court  authorized  the 
freemen  in  towns  to  choose  inhabitants,  not 
freemen,  to  vote  in  specified  affairs  under  cer- 
tain conditions.  By  the  charter  of  \(^)2.  Mass- 
achusetts became  more  clearly  a  local  body 
politic  with  enlarged  powers,  instead  of  a 
great  land  com])any  located  in  luigland.  and 
in  1693  the  General  Court  determined  who 
should  I)e  freeholders,  and  inhabitants  with 
their  ([ualifications  as  voters  in  town  meetings; 
but  these  matters  were  practically  determined 
by  the  selectmen,  who.  sharing  tlie  poi)ular 
feeling,  seldom  used  their  power  of  exclusion 
or  of  challenge  in  town-meeting  of  any  person, 
voting  by  a  siiow  of  hands,  es])ecially  in  |ioli- 
tical  affairs. 

•  riic  nature  of  the  First  Charter,  and  th' 
powers  granted  bv  it.  have  been  the  subject 
of  controversy.     The  l-jiglish  government  re- 


MASSACHl'SI'.TTS. 


garded  it  as  a  corporation  in  the  kingdom  for 
trading  in  the  territory  described  in  the  instru- 
ment, with  the  power  of  making  rules  for  that 
purpose.  accorcHng  to  the  course  of  other  cor- 
porations in  the  reahn :  while  the  colonist.^ 
claimed  the  power  to  set  up  a  government 
proper,  and  make  laws  not  repugnant  to  those 
of  Great  Britain." 

Again,  while  giving  a  history  of  the  Eng- 
lish claim,  under  the  subject  of  "Allotments 
of  Land,"  Judge  Chamberlain   states:     "The 

history  of  the  Charter  is  interesting 

Probably  the  King  intendetl  to  grant  only  such 
powers  as  would  enable  the  Comjiany  in  Eng- 
land to  carry  on  its  business  in  Massachusetts 
with  a  local  government."  But  for  various 
reasons,  "in  the  opinion  of  some  good  English 
lawyers,  it  could  be  legally  transferred  to  Mass- 
achusetts   \nd  this  latter  seems  to  have 

been  the  o])inion  of  Winthrop  and  his  asso- 
ciates, for  no  sooner  were  they  set  down  in 
I'oston  Bay  than  they  acted  on  that  view  of 
tlicir  powers.  This  explains  many  things 
which  seem  very  extraordinary  to  some  in  our 
day." 

On  the  other  hand.  Farmer  ("(jcnealogical 
Register")*  representing  the  opinion  current 
among  the  greater  number  of  the  orthodox 
New  Englanders  when  he  wrote  (1829)  lays 
greater  stress  on  the  ecclesia'iticism  of  the 
situation,  and  (|U0tes  on  his  title-page  two 
authorities,  one  of  the  Puritans,  and  the  other 
of  a  later  and  more  advanced  member  of  the 
clerical  profession. 

"Multitudes  of  ]jious.  ])eaceable  Protestants 
were  driven  to  leave  their  native  country,  and 
seek  a  refuge  for  their  lives  and  liberties,  with 
freedom  for  the  worship  of  God.  in  a  wilder- 
ness, in  the  ends  of  the  earth." — Dr.  John 
Owen. 

"Our  ancestors,  though  not  perfect  and  in- 

•Note. — The  monumental  dictionary  of  .lanif-s 
Savage  i.s  an  enlarprement  of  Farmer's  work,  and 
on  the  same  line.«.  In  lii.^  preface  Savage  .say.s  the 
five  cla,sses  of  per.<on.s  prominent,  .sucli  as  gover- 
nors, deputy-governors,  assistants,  ministers  in  all 
the  colonies,  representatives  in  that  of  Massaeliu- 
setts  to  161»2.  and  graduates  of  Harvard  College  to 
1662.  members  of  the  .Vnoient  and  Honorable  Artil- 
lery Company,  atid  freemen  in  Massaciiusetts  alone. 
are  features  of  Farmer's  book.  Savage  agrees  on 
1692  as  fixing  an  absolute  limit.  He  states  that 
nineteen-twentieths  of  the  people  of  New  England 
colonies  in  ITT.'i  were  descendants  of  those  found 
here  in  1692.  and  probably  seven-eightlis  of  tlieni 
were  offspring  of  the  .settlers  before  16-12.  At  the 
time  when  S;ivage  wrote  (1S60)  he  considered  that 
more  than  four-fifths  of  our  people  still  counted 
their  progenitors  among  the  ante-revolutionary 
colonists. 

It  was  Savage's  opinion  after  twent.v  years'  work 
on  the  subject,  that  the  record  of  the  first  three 
generations  of  the  first  settlers  bordered  upon  "uni- 
versal genealogy."  and  thus  the  ditfii-ulties  perti- 
nent to  the  next  century  of  their  descendants  arc 
made  evident. 


fallible  in  all  respects,  were  a  religious,  brave, 
and  virtuous  set  of  men,  whose  love  of  liberty, 
civil  and  religious,  brought  them  from  their 
native  land  into  the  .-Xmerican  desert." — Dr. 
Jonathan  Mavhew. 
V 

PROMIXE.VT  I'AMILIES. 

The  fiillnwing  list  of  prominent  families  in 
Massachusetts  in  the  seveiiteenlh  century  is 
based  on  the  rule  established  by  the  celebrated 
John  I'armer.  in  1829: 


ESSEX  COUNTY. 

I. 

.\bbot. 

44- 

Coldam. 

■7, 

.\danis. 

45- 

Conaiit. 

,S- 

Ailing. 

46. 

Cowdry. 

4- 

.•\ndrews. 

47- 

Cross. 

5- 

.■\])])leton. 

48. 

Curwin. 

(1. 

.\very. 

49- 

Gushing. 

7- 

A  xey. 

50- 

Dane. 

8. 

-Ayers. 

51- 

Davenport. 

<;■ 

Baker. 

52. 

Davis. 

10. 

liallard. 

53- 

Davison. 

11. 

liarker. 

54- 

Denison. 

12. 

Barnard. 

5.S- 

Dillingham 

i.S- 

Barney. 

5(>- 

Dodge. 

14. 

liartholomew. 

.S7- 

Downing. 

15- 

I'.artlett. 

58. 

Dresser. 

Hi. 

Batchelor. 

.VJ. 

Dummer. 

I"- 

P.att. 

r«. 

Eastman. 

18. 

I'.atter. 

61. 

Easton. 

19. 

P)elcher. 

62. 

Eastow. 

20. 

lielknap. 

''\3- 

Eliot. 

21. 

Bisho]). 

64. 

Ellery. 

22 

I'llackleach. 

''5- 

Emerson. 

-\V 

Blowers. 

<ii. 

Emery. 

-'4- 

Bnreman. 

('7. 

Endicott. 

-25- 

Boynton. 

08. 

English. 

26. 

Bradbury. 

U). 

Epes. 

27- 

Bradford. 

JO. 

Eveleth. 

28. 

I'.radstreet. 

71- 

P^airfield. 

29- 

Bridges. 

Feake. 

.^''- 

Brown. 

■ 

i^'isjje. 

.^i- 

Bruen. 

^•^-'itch.' 

?,-■ 

I'.urge. 

7  ^- 

Fogg. 

3.1- 

Bun-ill. 

Foote. 

34- 

liuswell. 

77- 

Foster. 

35- 

Capen. 

78. 

Fowler. 

.3f>- 

Carleton. 

70. 

Fereman. 

7,7- 

Caulkins. 

80. 

French. 

3«- 

Chalice. 

81. 

Fricntl. 

,39- 

Oieever. 

82. 

Fuller. 

40. 

Clark. 

83. 

Gardner. 

41. 

Clement. 

84. 

Gedney. 

42- 

Cobbett. 

85- 

Gerrisli. 

43- 

Colby. 

86. 

Giddings. 

Vlll. 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


87. 

Gilbert. 

88. 

Goodhue. 

89. 

Gott. 

90. 

Gould. 

91. 

Green. 

92. 

Greenleaf. 

93- 

Hale. 

94. 

Hall. 

95- 

Halsall. 

96. 

Harris. 

97- 

Harrison. 

98. 

Harvey. 

99. 

Haskell. 

100. 

Hathorne. 

lOI. 

Haven. 

102. 

Hendrick. 

103. 

Higginson. 

104. 

Hirst. 

105. 

Hobart. 

106. 

Hobson. 

107. 

Holgrave. 

108. 

Holliman. 

109. 

Holmes. 

no. 

Holyoke. 

III. 

Howe. 

112. 

Hubbar.l. 

113- 

Humfrcy. 

114. 

Hussey. 

115- 

Hutchins. 

116. 

Ingalls. 

117. 

Ingersoll. 

118. 

Jaffrcy. 

119. 

Jennings. 

120. 

Jewett. 

121. 

Johnson. 

122. 

Ketchani. 

123- 

Kilhani. 

124. 

Kinsman. 

125- 

Kirman. 

126. 

Knight. 

127. 

Ladd. 

128. 

Laighton. 

129. 

'  ^^^y-        .„s  I 

130 
131 

.  Lord.             '^r 

132 

.   Lothrnp. 

133 

.  Lumpkin. 

134 

.  Macy. 

135 

.  Mansficlil. 

136 

.  IMarston. 

137 

.  Ma  wry. 

T3« 

.  Meade. 

139 

L  Metcalf. 

140 

1.   Moody. 

141 

.  'NToulton. 

142 

'.  Nelson, 

U3 

;.  Newman. 

144- 

Xicholet. 

145- 

Norcross. 

146. 

Norden. 

147. 

Norris. 

148. 

Xorthend. 

149. 

Norton. 

150. 

Noyes. 

151- 

Olney. 

152. 

Osgood. 

153- 

Otley. 

154- 

Page. 

155- 

Paine. 

156. 

Palfrey. 

157- 

Palmer. 

158. 

Paris. 

159- 

Parker. 

160. 

Parrott. 

161. 

Patch. 

162. 

Payson. 

163. 

Peabody. 

164. 

Pearson. 

165. 

Pease. 

166. 

Perkins. 

167. 

Perley. 

168. 

Peters. 

169. 

Phillips. 

170. 

Pickard. 

171. 

Picket. 

172. 

Pierce. 

173- 

Pike. 

174- 

Pingry. 

US- 

Piatt. 

17G. 

Plummer. 

177- 

Price. 

178. 

Pritchard. 

179. 

Putnam. 

180. 

Rawson. 

181. 

Raymond. 

182. 

Raxner. 

I  S3. 

Read. 

184. 

Redington. 

iSs. 

Revcli. 

i8r,. 

Richardson 

is-, 

,   Rogers. 

188 

.  Ruck. 

189 

,  Rust. 

100 

.  Saltonstall. 

T91 

.  Sargent. 

192 

.  Scrugg.s. 

'93 

.   Shepard. 

">4 

.   Siblcv. 

105 

.   Skclt.m. 

1 06 

.  Smith. 

107 

.   Spencer. 

108 

;.   Stanley. 

T09 

1.  Stevens. 

200 

1.  Sticknev. 

201.   .Stilcman. 

224.   Waller. 

202.  Swan. 

225.  Wallis. 

203.  Symmes. 

226.   Walton. 

204.  Symonds. 

227.  Ward. 

205.  Tenney. 

228.  Weare. 

206.  Tewksbury. 

229.  Welles. 

207.  Thacher. 

230.  \\'ensley. 

208.  Thompson. 

2^1.  West. 

209.  Thorndike. 

232.   Weston. 

210.  Titcomb. 

233.   Wliipi)le. 

211.  Tomlyns. 

234.   Whiting. 

212.  Townsend. 

235.   Whittiiigham. 

213.  Tracy. 

236.  Wickham. 

214.  Trask. 

237.  Wigglesworth, 

215.  True. 

238.  Willis. 

216.  Tupper. 

230.  Winthrop. 

217.   Turner. 

240.  \\'ise. 

218.  Tuttle. 

241.  Wood. 

219.   \  cnner. 

242.  Woodbidgc. 

220.   \'incent. 

243.  Woodbury. . 

221.   Wade. 

244.  Woodman. 

222.  W'ainwright. 

245.  Worcester. 

223.   Walker. 

246.  Wright. 

MIDDLESEX  COUNTY. 

I.  Allen. 

33.  Chaplin. 

2.  Ames. 

34.  Chesholme. 

3.  Aspinwall. 

35.  Child. 

4.   P.ailey. 

36.  Church. 

5.   Barrett. 

37.  Clark. 

6.  Beecher. 

38.  Collins. 

7.   Beers. 

39.  Converse. 

8.  Belcher. 

40.  Cook. 

9.  Blakeman. 

41.  Cooledge. 

10.   Blodget. 

42.   Coytemore. 

II.   Bloocl. 

43.  Crosby. 

ij.    r.ond. 

44.  Crow. 

13.    l',ra(Uha\\'. 

45.  Cutler. 

14.    1  Wattle. 

4?).  Cutter. 

15.   P.ridge. 

47.   Daggett. 

16.   Brighani. 

48.  Dan  forth. 

17.  Bright. 

49.  Davis. 

iS.  Brimsmcad. 

50.  Davi.son. 

H).   Brock. 

51.  Denison. 

20.   r.rooks. 

32.  Dow. 

21.   Pirown. 

33.  Drury. 

22.   Bulkloy. 

54.  Dunstcr. 

23.   Bunker. 

S;.  Eames. 

24.   Butler. 

^f").  Eliot. 

2^.   Cakehread. 

57-  Ely. 

26.  Call. 

38.  Estabrook. 

27.  Carrington. 

30.  Evered. 

28.  Carter. 

60.  Eyre. 

29.  Case. 

61.  Fairfielfl. 

30.  Chadwick. 

62.  Fay. 

31.  Chanipnoy. 

63.  Eeake. 

32.  Chandler. 

r>4.  Fiske. 

MASSACHL'SF/nS. 


'^5- 

Fitch. 

122. 

Lyndc. 

66. 

Flint. 

123. 

Manning. 

67. 

Footc. 

124. 

Marion. 

68. 

Foster. 

12^. 

Marshall. 

69. 

Fox. 

126. 

MasfMi. 

70. 

Frencli. 

127. 

Matthews. 

"I- 

darticlcl. 

128. 

Maverick. 

"-• 

Ciibbons. 

129. 

Mayhcw. 

73- 

Gibbs. 

130. 

Mi-riam. 

74- 

Glover. 

',1I- 

Miiiiir. 

75- 

Goddanl. 

13-2- 

.Mitchell. 

76. 

Goffe. 

133- 

Mitchelson. 

77- 

Gooflenow. 

134- 

Morrill. 

78. 

Goodwin. 

135- 

Morse. 

79- 

Gookin. 

136. 

Morton. 

80. 

Gould. 

137- 

Mousall. 

81. 

Graves. 

138. 

Mygate. 

82. 

Green. 

i.'?9. 

Xowell. 

8.1 

Greenwood. 

140. 

Koyes. 

84. 

Griffin. 

141. 

Oakes. 

85- 

Hall. 

142. 

Oliver. 

86. 

Hammond. 

143- 

Page. 

87. 

Harlakenden. 

144- 

Palmer. 

88. 

Hart. 

U?- 

Parish. 

89. 

Harvard. 

146. 

Parke. 

90. 

Hastings. 

147- 

Pearson. 

91. 

Hayman. 

148. 

Pelham. 

92. 

Haynes. 

149. 

Pendleton. 

93- 

Hay  ward. 

150. 

Phillips. 

94- 

Henchman. 

151- 

Phips. 

95- 

Hill. 

1^2. 

Pierce. 

96. 

Hoar. 

153- 

Pierniont. 

97- 

Hobart. 

154- 

Poole. 

98. 

Hooker. 

155- 

Pratt. 

99- 

Hosmer. 

156. 

Prentice. 

100. 

Hough. 

L" 

Prescott. 

:oi. 

Howard. 

158. 

Prout. 

102. 

Howe. 

159. 

Ravncr. 

103. 

Isaac. 

160. 

Rice. 

104. 

Jackson. 

161. 

Richards. 

105. 

James. 

162. 

Richardson 

106. 

Jennison. 

163. 

Russell. 

107. 

Johnson. 

164. 

Saltonstall. 

108. 

Tones. 

165. 

Saunders. 

109. 

Judd. 

166. 

Sedgwick. 

no. 

Kelsey. 

167. 

Shapleigh. 

III. 

King. 

168. 

Shaw.   ' 

112. 

Kingsbury. 

i6<). 

.'shcpard. 

ii.V 

Knowles. 

170. 

Sherman. 

114. 

Lane. 

171. 

.  Smcdlev. 

II5- 

.  Larkin. 

172. 

.  Smith.  ' 

T16 

,  T,atham. 

173 

.  Sparhawk. 

117. 

T.ewis. 

174, 

.   Spaulding. 

118 

.  Long. 

175 

.  Spencer. 

119 

.  Looker. 

176 

.  Sprague. 

120 

.  Lord. 

177 

.  Spring. 

121 

.  Loring. 

178 

.   S(|uire. 

179.  Stebbins. 

200. 

Ward. 

180.  Steele. 

201. 

Warren. 

181.  Stetson. 

202. 

Webb. 

182.  Stone. 

203. 

\\-eId. 

183.  Straight. 

204. 

Westwood. 

184.  Swain. 

205. 

Wheeler, 

i8^.  Svmmes. 

206. 

\\hite. 

186.  Tahnr. 

207. 

Whiting. 

187.  Talcott. 

208. 

Wigglesworlh 

188.  Thachcr. 

20(). 

\\'ilcocks. 

189.  Thompson. 

210. 

Willard. 

190.  Todd. 

211. 

Williams. 

191.  Trowbridge. 

212. 

Willoughby. 

11)2.  Tufts. 

213- 

Wincoll. 

193.  Tyng. 

214. 

Winds. 

194.  Usher. 

2m. 

Winshi]). 

193.  \\'a<le. 

216. 

Wolcott. 

196.  Wadsworth. 

217. 

Woodbridge. 

107.  W'aite. 

218. 

Wooddy. 

108.  Waldo. 

210. 

Woodhouse. 

109-   Walker. 

220. 

Wright. 

NORFOLK  COUNTY 

I.  Adams. 

35- 

Cook. 

2.  Alcock. 

36. 

Cornwell. 

3.  .Mien. 

Z7- 

Crafts. 

4.  .Astwood. 

38. 

Cros1)y. 

5.  .Atherton. 

39- 

Curtis. 

6.  .\very. 

40. 

Dalton. 

7.  P.aker. 

41- 

Dan  forth. 

8.  P.arber. 

42. 

Davis. 

9.   Piass. 

43- 

Denison. 

10.   Rates. 

44- 

Dewing. 

II.   P.ickncll. 

45- 

Dimniock. 

12.  Birchard. 

46. 

Dudley. 

13.  Blake. 

47- 

Duncan. 

14.   Bowker. 

48. 

Dwight. 

15.  Bowles. 

49. 

Dven 

16.   Boves. 

50- 

Eliot. 

17.   Brackett. 

?'• 

Farnum. 

iS.   Brewer. 

52- 

Faxon. 

19.   Bridgham. 

53- 

Fenn. 

20.  Bull.' 

54- 

I'iler. 

21.  Bumstead. 

55- 

Fisher. 

22.  Burr. 

56. 

Fiske. 

23.  Burrows. 

57- 

Flint. 

24.  Bursley. 

58. 

Ford. 

25.  Butler. 

59- 

Foster. 

26.  Capcn. 

60. 

French. 

27.  Carder. 

61. 

iMiIler. 

28.  Carpenter. 

62. 

Gardner. 

29.  Chapin. 

63- 

Gaylord. 

30.  Chickering. 

64. 

Geary. 

31.  Clap. 

65. 

,  Gilbert, 

32.  Clark. 

66. 

Glover. 

},■},.  Coggeshall. 

67. 

,  Gore. 

34.  Collicott. 

68. 

.  Halsall. 

X. 


-ArASSACIIL'SETTS. 


69 

Harding. 

126 

Poole. 

70 

Haeyden. 

127 

Porter. 

71 

Heath. 

128. 

Purchase. 

72 

Hewes. 

129 

Pynchon. 

71 

Hill. 

130 

Ouincy. 

74 

Hinsdale. 

131 

Read. 

75 

Hobart. 

132 

Richards. 

76. 

Holbrook. 

133 

Riggs. 

77- 

HoJli.ster. 

1.^4- 

Robinson. 

78. 

Holman. 

135- 

Rogers. 

79- 

Holmes. 

136. 

Rosseter. 

80. 

Hoskins. 

T'?>7- 

Ruggles. 

81. 

Houcliin. 

138. 

.Sams. 

82. 

Howard. 

139- 

.Sherman. 

83- 

Hull. 

140. 

Short. 

84. 

Hunt. 

141. 

Smith. 

85- 

Jenner. 

142. 

Spurr. 

86. 

Jewett. 

143- 

.Stacy. 

^7- 

Johnson. 

144. 

Stearns. 

88. 

Tones. 

145- 

Stoughton. 

89. 

Kibby. 

146. 

Stow. 

90. 

Kingman. 

147. 

Strong. 

91. 

Kingsley. 

148. 

Sumner. 

92. 

Leavitt. 

149. 

Tajijjan. 

93- 

Lentball. 

150. 

Timelier. 

94- 

Lusher. 

151- 

Thompson. 

95- 

Lyon. 

152. 

Thornton. 

96. 

Makepeace. 

153- 

Thurston. 

97- 

jVfann. 

154- 

Tilestone. 

98. 

Marsh. 

155- 

Titus. 

99. 

Marshall. 

i.S6. 

Torrey. 

lOO. 

Mason. 

'iS7- 

Trowbridge. 

101. 

Mather. 

158. 

Tucker. 

102. 

Maudsley. 

i.W. 

W'akeman. 

103. 

Maverick. 

760. 

\\'alter. 

104. 

Mayo. 

ir,i. 

W'altham. 

loq. 

Mcakins. 

ir.2. 

Walton. 

T06. 

Metcalf. 

I  (.3. 

Ward. 

I07. 

Misrhill. 

164. 

Ware. 

108. 

Miller. 

If>q. 

\^'arl^am. 

109. 

Minot. 

ir/). 

A\'aterhouse. 

I  10. 

INlnorc. 

167. 

Wav. 

111. 

Morgan. 

iC.S. 

Wci)1>. 

1  12. 

Morrill. 

Uxi. 

Weld. 

I  13- 

Morris. 

170. 

West. 

114. 

Morse. 

171. 

Wheelock. 

im. 

Nash. 

172. 

\\  heelwright 

116. 

Xewberry. 

U?,- 

White. 

117. 

Paine. 

174. 

Wilson. 

118. 

Park. 

175- 

Wilton. 

119. 

Parker. 

17^.. 

Winchester. 

120. 

Peck. 

'77- 

Wiswall. 

121. 

Perkins. 

^-s. 

\\  ithington. 

122. 

Phelps. 

179- 

Wolcot't. 

'-23- 

Phillips. 

180. 

\\'oodward. 

124. 

Pierce. 

181. 

Woolridgc. 

125. 

Plumbe. 

PLYMOUTH  COUNTY. 


1.  Alden. 

2.  Allen. 

3.  Allerton. 

4.  Andrews. 

5.  Annable. 
C).   Arnold. 

7.  Atwood. 

8.  Raker. 

9.  P.angs. 

10.  Barlow. 

1 1 .  Pjarstow. 

12.  P.artlett. 

13.  Rassett. 

14.  Real. 

15.  Resbedge. 

16.  Blackwood. 

17.  Bourne. 

18.  Bradford. 

19.  Brett. 

20.  Brewster. 

21.  Bryant. 

22.  Buck. 

23.  Burgess. 

24.  Carver. 

25.  Chandler. 

26.  Cbauncy. 

27.  Chittenden. 

28.  Clap. 

29.  Clark. 

30.  Cole. 

31.  Collier. 

32.  Cook. 

33.  Cooper. 

34.  Cotton. 

35.  Crow. 

36.  Cudworth. 

37.  Cushing. 

38.  Cushman. 

39.  Damon. 

40.  Doane. 
4T.   Dunham. 

42.  Lames. 

43.  Ivlenden. 

44.  Lells. 
43.   Mnney. 

46.  Fogg. 

47.  Folsom. 

48.  Foster. 

49.  Fuller. 

50.  Gil  son. 

51.  Cray. 
^2.  Harvey. 

53.  Hatch.' 

54.  Hatherly. 

55.  Hersey. 


56.  Hicks. 
57-  Higgins. 

58.  Hilton. 

59.  Hobart. 

60.  Holmes. 

61.  Hopkins. 

62.  Howland. 

63.  Hull. 

64.  Jacob. 

65.  Jenkins. 

66.  Jenny. 

67.  Jones. 

68.  Keith. 

69.  Kempton. 

70.  Kenrick. 

71.  Lawson. 

72.  Loring. 
~^.  Lothrop. 

74.  Ludkin. 

75.  Lvford. 

76.  IViighill. 
yy.  Morton. 

78.  Nash. 

79.  Norton. 

80.  Oldham. 

81.  Paddy. 

82.  Palmer. 

83.  Parker. 

84.  Partridge. 
Ss-  Peabody. 

86.  Peck. 

87.  Phippen. 

88.  Prence. 

89.  Prince. 
<)0.  Rayner. 

91.  Robinson. 

92.  Saffin 

93.  Saxton. 

94.  Silvester. 

95.  Smith. 

96.  Snow. 

97.  Senile. 

98.  Southw-orth. 

99.  Sjiarrow. 

100.  -Sprague. 

101.  Standish. 

102.  Stetson. 

103.  Thaxter. 

104.  Thomas. 

105.  Tlioni])son. 

106.  Tisdale. 

107.  Tracy. 
laS.  Turner. 
109.  I'nderwood. 
no.  \'assall. 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


XI. 


1 1 1 

W'adswrrtli. 

11(1. 

Whitman. 

I  I  2 

Warren. 

117. 

Willet. 

113 

\\  aternian. 

118. 

Willis. 

114 

W'ctlierell. 

iig. 

W'inslow. 

115 

White. 

120. 

Wi-wall. 

BRISTOL  COLXTY. 

I 

Andrew.s. 

21. 

-Mylcs. 

2 

.•\ngier. 

22. 

.Xewman. 

3 

Iloweii. 

-3- 

I'aine. 

4 

Pireiiton. 

-24- 

IVck. 

s 

Cbesebrougli. 

25- 

I'errv. 

6 

Cole. 

26. 

Read. 

7 

Dan  forth. 

27. 

Russell. 

8 

Dean. 

28. 

•Sabin. 

9 

Delano. 

29. 

.Seward. 

]0 

Doiightv. 

30. 

Shove. 

II 

Earle.   ' 

31- 

.'^mith. 

12 

Emer.son. 

3-- 

Street. 

13 

(lilbert. 

.S3- 

Tabor. 

'4 

Greenwood. 

M- 

Tripp. 

15 

I  looke. 

35- 

Walker. 

16 

Ihmt. 

36. 

W'etherell 

17 

Lane. 

y?- 

Williams. 

18. 

Leonard. 

.^8. 

W'inslow. 

19. 

Luther. 

.39- 

Wvatt. 

20. 

Macy. 

i;ar.\s'I 

.\1',LE  COUXTY. 

I. 

Allen. 

-'4- 

Ldthrop. 

2. 

Allyn. 

25- 

Mayo. 

3- 

.Xrnold. 

2f). 

Miller. 

4- 

P.acon. 

27- 

Xewland. 

R. 

Pioiirne. 

28. 

Otis. 

6. 

Cliijiman. 

29. 

i^aine. 

7- 

Cobb. 

30- 

Rider. 

8. 

Crocker. 

3'- 

Robinson. 

<>. 

Dimmock. 

32. 

Rowlev. 

10. 

lOnnham. 

.33- 

Russell 

1 1. 

Eldridge. 

34- 

Sears. 

12. 

Falland. 

35- 

Skifif. 

13- 

Fesscnden. 

36. 

Smith. 

14- 

Freeman. 

37- 

Snow. 

15- 

Gcndall. 

38. 

.Sparrow. 

16. 

Hathaway. 

.W- 

.Stone. 

17- 

Hawes. 

40. 

Swift. 

18. 

Hinckley. 

41- 

Thacher. 

19. 

Hoar. 

42. 

Thornton. 

20. 

Howes. 

43- 

Treat. 

21. 

Hiickins. 

44- 

Tnpper. 

22. 

Hull. 

45- 

W'alley. 

23- 

Leverich. 

NA.VTCCKET  COUNTY. 

I 

Folger. 

3- 

Mayhew. 

2 

Gayer. 

ni-K 

E'S  COUXTY. 

I. 

-Athcarn. 

0. 

Mayhew. 

CENTRAL  AXD  WESTERN  ALASSACIIU 

SETTS. 

I. 

.■\therton. 

22. 

Moore. 

2. 

P.ondet. 

23- 

Mo.xon. 

3- 

Prewer. 

24- 

Parsons. 

4- 

Chapin. 

25- 

Partridge. 

5- 

Chauncy. 

26. 

Pomeroy. 

6. 

Clark. 

27. 

Porter. 

7- 

Colton. 

28. 

Pynchon. 

8. 

Cook. 

29. 

Raw  son. 

9- 

Frary. 

30. 

Rowlandson. 

10. 

Glover. 

31- 

Sheldon. 

11. 

Hawley. 

32. 

Stillman. 

12. 

Holyoke. 

Zi- 

.Stoddard. 

13- 

Houghton. 

34- 

Taylor. 

14. 

Hovey. 

35- 

Welles. 

15- 

Hunt. 

36. 

West. 

16. 

James. 

37- 

Whiting. 

17- 

Manfield. 

.^8. 

Williams. 

18. 

Marsh. 

.S9. 

W'ilson. 

19. 

Marshficld. 

40. 

Woodrop.          • 

20. 

Mather. 

41- 

Younglove. 

21. 

Montague. 

THE  EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY. 

The  first  three  generations  of  the  first  set- 
tlers having  disapi)eared  the  next  important 
list  existing  to  give  an  idea  of  the  names  of 
the  prominent  families  in  the  early  part  of  the 
eighteenth  century  was  a  subscription  list  to 
a  book.  Even  lists  of  subscribers  to  literary 
works  were  then  uncommon  in  this  community, 
and  this  list  has  discrejiancies  regarding  the 
address  of  a  large  number  which  cannot  be 
ex|)laincd.  Leaving  out  the  |)art  relating  to 
.Suffolk  county  (which  included  P>oston  ) .  the 
much  smaller  list  for  the  other  counties  is  here 
includetl.  The  book  referred  to  is  Prince's 
"Chronology."* 

Prince,  who  was  one  of  the  most  learned 
mtn  in  the  l^rovince,  speaking  of  the  pros- 
perity of  New  England  in  1736.  in  the  dedica- 
tion f)f  his  work  to  the  governor,  lieutenant- 
governor,  the  crnnicillf)rs  and  re])resentatives 
of  the  Massachusetts  Hay  government — men 
mo'itK'.  if  not  wholly,  descendants  of  the 
foiniders  nf  tin's  commonwealth — and  speak- 
ing alsi)  fidm  the  standpoint  of  an  ecclesiast. 
as  most  clergymen  of  this  jieriod  did,  says: 
"It  is  to  these  (the  founders)  we  firstly  owe 
our   pleasant   houses,   our    fruitful   fields,   our 

•"Chronological  HlRtory  of  New  RnKl.Tnd  In  the 
Form  of  Annal.«,"  by  Thoma.s  Prince.  M.  A.  (Boston. 
173C). 


MASSACHL'SETTS. 


growing  towns  and  churches,  our  wholesome 
laws,  our  ])recious  privileges,  our  grammar 
schools  ami  colleges,  our  pious  and  learned 
ministers  and  magistrates,  our  good  govern- 
ment and  order,  the  ])ul)lic  restraints  of  vices, 
the  general  knoweldge  of  our  common  jjeople, 
the  strict  observation  of  the  christian  sabbath  ; 
with  those  remains  of  public  modesty,  sobriet)', 
social  virtues  and  religion ;  for  which  this 
country  is  distinguished  among  the  British  col- 
onies, and  in  which  we  arc  as  happv  as  anv  on 
earth.'' 

The  following  list  of  IVince's  subscribers 
outside  of  Suffolk  county  illustrate  the  high 
standing  in  the  community  of  certain  families 
in  1 736". 

MIDDLESEX  COUX'TY. 


I. 
2. 
3- 

4- 

5- 
6. 

/• 
8. 

9- 
10. 
1 1. 
12. 

13- 
14. 

15- 
10. 

17- 
18. 

IQ. 
20. 
21. 
22. 
23- 


Abbot. 
Allen. 
Appleton. 
Austin. 
Badger. 
■Barret. 
Bean. 
P>lanchard. 
Bradstreet. 
Brattle. 
Breed. 
Brigden. 


Hurr. 

Call. 

Cary. 

Cheever. 

Codman. 

CoUings. 

Converse. 

Cooke. 

Coolidge. 

Cotton. 

Danforth. 

24.  Dummer. 

25.  Durant. 

26.  Edcs. 

27.  Emerson. 

28.  Fessenden. 

29.  Fiske. 
•30.  Flegg. 

31.  Fletcher. 

32.  Mint. 

33.  Flucker. 

34.  Flynt. 

35.  Foster. 

36.  Foxcroft. 

37.  Frost. 

38.  Frotliingliam. 

39.  Fuller. 


40.  Gibbs. 

41.  Goddard. 

42.  Greaves. 

43.  Greenwood. 

44.  Hall. 

45.  Haven. 

46.  Hays. 

47.  Hemmingway. 

48.  Hendly. 

49.  Hide. 

50.  Hopkins. 

51.  Hovey. 

52.  Hunt. 

53.  Hurd. 

54.  Jenner. 

55.  Johnson. 

56.  Jones. 

57.  Kenrick. 

58.  Kent. 

59.  Kettle. 

60.  Lemmon. 

61.  Livermore. 

62.  Loring. 

63.  Lovett. 
64. 

65- 
66. 
67. 
68. 
69. 
70. 

/I- 
72. 
7?,- 
74- 


Mason. 

Miller. 

T'aige. 

Parker. 

Peahoih-, 

I'hillips. 

I  'rescot. 

Remington. 

Rice. 

Russell. 

Sartle. 

75.  Sheaf. 

76.  Skinner. 

77.  Spring. 

78.  Stone. 


79- 
80. 
81. 
82. 

83- 
84. 

>^5. 


I. 
2. 
3- 

4- 
5- 
6. 

7- 
8. 

9- 
10. 
II. 
12. 
13- 
,  14- 
IS- 
16. 

17- 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21. 
22. 


I. 
2. 

3- 

4- 
5- 
6. 

7- 
8. 

9- 

TO. 
I  I. 
12. 

13- 
14 

15- 

Ih. 

17- 
18. 
19. 
20. 


Storer. 

Sutton. 

Sweetser. 

Symnies. 

Trumbal. 

\'inton. 

Ward. 


86 
87 
88 
89 
90, 

91 
92 


Webb. 

Wells. 

\\'hitney. 

Wigglesworth. 

Williams. 

Woods. 

Wver. 


ESSEX  COL'.VTV 


Allen. 
Balch. 
.Barnard. 
Beck. 
Berrv. 
Bixby. 
Brown. 
Browne. 
Burril. 
Capen. 
Cheever. 
Chipman. 
Choate. 
Coffin. 
Gushing. 
Dana. 
Emerson. 
Fiske. 
Fitch. 
Gerrish. 
Hale. 
Hazen. 


23- 
24. 

25- 

26. 
27. 
28. 
29. 
30- 
31- 
32. 
33- 
34- 
35- 
36. 
37- 
38. 
39- 
40. 

41- 
42. 

-43- 


T  lenchman. 

Jenison. 

Kimbal. 

Little. 

Lynde. 

Majory. 

March'. 

Parsons. 

Pavson. 

Phillips. 

Pickering. 

Prince. 

Rogers. 

Russell. 

Stacey. 

Thorold. 

Tufts. 

Wainwright. 

Ward. 

White. 

Wigglesworth. 


NORFOLK  COUNTY. 


Adams. 

•Ames. 

Balch. 

Ba.xtcr. 

Blake. 

P)0SS011. 

P>owles. 

Clap. 

Dexter. 

Dudley. 

Dunbar. 

Dwight. 

Gardner. 

Gay. 

Heath. 

ITiggins. 

Ilobart. 

Huni]ihre)'. 

Kingsbury. 

Lincoln. 


21. 

2'> 


Loring. 

Marshall. 

Messenger. 

Metcalf. 

Morse. 

26.  Phillijis. 

27.  Quincy. 
Smith. 
Taylor. 
Thayer. 
Tilestone. 
Tom]ison. 

33.  Torrey. 

34.  Townsend. 
Vosc. 
Walter. 
Ware. 
Whitmarsh. 
Whitnev. 
Wilson.' 


23 

24 

25- 


28 
29. 

30- 
31- 
32. 


35- 
3C> 
37 
38. 
39. 
40. 


l'I.^■Mo^•i■^  c()^^■T^■ 


.Arnold. 
Bass. 


Real. 
Bourn. 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


5- 

Carpenter. 

i6. 

Marsh. 

6. 

Clark. 

17- 

ralmcr. 

7- 

dishing. 

1 8. 

Parker. 

8. 

Gardner. 

19. 

Perkins. 

9- 

Hovey. 

20. 

Pratt. 

lO. 

Howard. 

21. 

Robinson. 

II. 

Leavitt. 

22. 

Stevens. 

12. 

Le Baron. 

23- 

Thacher. 

13- 

Leonard. 

24- 

Tha.xter. 

'4- 

Lewis. 

25- 

Weston. 

15- 

Loring. 

26. 

W'inslow. 

F.ARXST 

.\i;le 

COUNTY. 

I. 

Avery. 

8. 

.Mayhew. 

2. 

Bourn. 

y- 

Oakes. 

3- 

Denni.s. 

10. 

Rotch. 

4- 

Fessenden. 

1 1. 

Spear. 

5- 

Green. 

12. 

.Stone. 

6. 

Lewis. 

13- 

Stiirgis. 

7- 

Lombard. 

14. 

Webb. 

BRISTOL  COUxXTY. 

I. 

Bowen. 

5- 

Crosman. 

2. 

Church. 

6. 

(ireenwood. 

3- 

Clap. 

/  • 

Leonard. 

4- 

Cotton. 

8. 

Williams. 

CEXTKAI,  AND  WESTERN  ,\L\SSACHU- 
SETTS. 


I. 

Bull. 

2. 

Chandler. 

3- 
4- 
5- 

Cheney. 

dishing. 

Doolittle. 

6. 

7- 
8. 

Dwight. 

Flegg. 

Frink. 

9- 

Hnggins. 

10. 

I,ee. 

1 1. 

I,orkin. 

12. 

Marshfield 

i3- 

Mead. 

U- 

1  'arknian. 

15- 

I'rentice. 

16. 

Pynchon. 

17- 

.Stebbins. 

18. 

White. 

19. 

Wilder. 

20. 

Williams. 

21. 

Wright. 

Cf.  "New  England  TTistorical  and  Genealog- 
ical Regi.ster."  vol.  vi.,  p.  189.  etc. 

The  tax  lists  of  the  several  towns  contain  the 
names  of  citizens  at  successive  periods.  Pjut 
jireviously  to  the  revolutionary  war  there  is  very 
little  else  upon  which  to  build  a  complete  record. 
The  first  important  census  was  taken  in  17^^14, 
and  this,  as  preserved,  is  not  a  record  of  names, 
but  only  a  list  of  figures.  The  numl)er  of  houses 
and  persons  of  each  sex  was  ke])t  u])  in  this 
way  at  occasional  intervals  until  1800.  Tims 
the  value  of  such  a  list  as  that  of  1736.  as  above 
presented,  may  well  be  ai)i)reciated,even  though 
it  may  contain  the  names  of  many  students  and 
ckrgrmen  of  that  period. 

When  the  United  States  direct  tax  of   1798 


was  assessed  in  Massachusetts,  a  list  was  pre- 
|)ared  which  contains  a  description  oi  real  estate 
in  the  hands  of  private  persons,  and  the  list  is 
now  valuable  for  its  account  of  farms  and  their 
bouiKlaries,  and  of  outlands,  and  for  the  de- 
scri])tiou  which  it  gives  of  ilwelling  houses, 
barns,  outbuildings,  etc. 

Following  is  a  list  of  family  names  most 
numerously  represented  in  the  original  eight 
towns  of  Middlesex  county,  Massachusetts, 
during  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  centuries. 

Counties  were  first  made  in  1643,  for  ex- 
ample: Esse.x,  Middlesex,  Suffolk  and  Nor- 
folk (old  Norfolk)  were  incorporated  in  that 
year. 

MIDDLESEX  COUNTY. 

CiiARLicsTOW.N. —  Princi])al  authority,  Wy- 
man"s"Charlestown.'"  The  families nxist  numer- 
ously represented  in  this  work  are  Adams  (78), 
Austin  (42),  Brown  (83),  Cutter  (60),  Froth- 
ingham  ( 49  ) ,  Green  or  t  jreene  (78),  Hall  (46), 
Harris  (47),  Johnson  (81),  Newell  (45), 
Parker  (58),  Phillips  (46).  Pierce  (54),  Rand 
(75),  Reed  (43),  Richardson  (68),  Russell 
(51 ),  Smith  (  123  i.  Sprague  (45  ),  Tufts  (84), 
and  W'hittemore  (56).  The  numbers  in  paren- 
theses represent  the  number  of  \\  yman's  family 
grou])s.  He  places  before  the  name  of  Kettell 
one  of  those  peculiar  indexes  with  which  he 
introduces  a  family  of  large  numbers,  but  there 
are  several  families  ec|ually  as  large  as  that  one 
covered  by  the  matter  in  his  book. 

C.\mhkiim;e. — Authority  :  Paige's  "History  of 
Cambridge."  The  families  most  numerously 
rejiresented  in  this  work  are  Bordman  (15), 
Bowman  ( 11  ),  Bradish  (ji ),  Champney  (20), 
Cook  (20),  Cooper  (11),  Cutler  (11),  Cutter 
(52),  Dana  (2^).  Dickson  (15),  Fessenden 
(15),  Fillebrown  (ifi),  Frost  (35).  Goddard 
(xi),  Gookin  (15),  Green  (17).  Hall  (15), 
Hancock  (12),  Hastings  (29),  Hill  (29), 
Holden  (16),  Hovey  (14).  Kidder  (14),  Man- 
ning (  16),  Mason  (21  ),  Moore  (  13),  Munroe 
(16),  Oliver  (11),  Parker  (11),  Prentice  (  48 ) , 
Reed  (14).  Robbins  (25),  Russell  (41),  Smith 
(16),  Sparhawk  (16),  Stone  (18),  Swan  (14), 
Watson  (17),  W'ellington  (15),  Whitmore 
(11),  W'hittemore  (36),  Winshii^  (36),  and 
Wyeth  (26).  For  the  .Xrlington  jiart  of  Cam- 
bridge. Authorities:  Cutter's  "History  of 
Arlington," and  the  jjrinted  vital  records.  Adams 
(23),  P>utterfield  (14),  Cook  and  Cooke  (13), 
Cutter  (77).  Dickson  (14),  Fillebrown  ('14), 
Frost  (40),  Hall  (13).  Hill  (22),  Locke  (38), 
Peirce  (12),  Prentice  (16),  Robbins  (13), 
Russell  (■38),  Swan  (27),  Wellington  (12). 
Wliittemore    (24),   and    Winship    (30).      For 


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MASSACIirSETTS. 


the  Newton  part  of  Cambridge.  Authorities : 
Jackson's  "History  of  Newton,"  and  the  printed 
vital  records.  Bartlett  (24),  Cooke  (22),  Clark 
(23),  Fuller  (71  ),  Greenwood  (21  ),  Hall  {22), 
Hammond  (38),  Hyde  (81),  Jackson  (93), 
Murdock  (22),  Park  (28),  Parker  (51  ),  Pren- 
tice (23),  Richards  (21),  Stone  (28,  Trow- 
bridge "(29),  Ward  (40),  Williams  (21  ),  Wis- 
vvall  (24),  W'oodward  (22).  The  numbers  in 
parentheses  represent  tlic  number  of  family 
groups. 

Watertown. — Many  families  of  Watertown 
which  fill  much  space  in  ]:?ond's  work  are  ex- 
tended greatly  into  the  limits  of  other  towns; 
but  after  careful  consideration  the  following 
list  is  suljmitted  for  what  it  is  worth.  .Author- 
ity:  P.ond's  "History  of  Watertown."  Allen, 
Bemis,  P>igelow,  Bond,  Bowman,  Bright,  Brooks, 
Brown,  Coolidge,  Fiske,  Flagg,  Fuller,  God- 
dard,  Hammond,  Flarrington,  Hastings,  Jenni- 
son,  Jones,  Lawrence,  Livermore,  Mason, 
Pierce,  Phillips,  Saltonstall,  Sanderson,  Smith, 
Spring,  Stearns,  Stone,  Stratton,  Warren,  Well- 
ington, White,  Whitney,  and  Woodward. 

SuDiu'RV. — Authority  :  The  printed  vital  rec- 
ond>.  The  family  names  most  numerously 
rejiresented  in  this  town  are  those  of  Brown, 
Goodenow,  Haynes,  Hunt,  Maynard,  Moore, 
Parmenter,  Rice,  Smith  and  Willis. 

CoNCOKD. — The  names  of  families  most 
numerously  represented  in  Concord,  according 
to  the  vital  records  and  Shattuck's  "History  of 
Concord,"  are  Adams  (11),  Ball  di),  Barrett 
(25),  Blood  (15),  Brooks  (33),  Brown  (39), 
Buttrick  (T4),Dakin  (10),  Davis  (2i),Farrar 
(14).  Fletcher  (11),  Hoar  (io),Hosmer  (24), 
Hubbard  (12),  Hunt  (13),  Melvin  (16),  Mer- 
iam  (14),  Miles  (12),  Taylor  (12),  Wheeler 
(51),  Wood  (15).  The  figures  in  parentheses 
represent  the  number  of  heads  of  families. 

WoBrK>f. — .Authority  :Johnson"sprinted  vital 
record.  The  following  statement  is  based  ujjon 
the  birth  rate  in  that  work.  The  family  names 
most  numerously  represented  are  Brooks,  Car- 
ter, Converse,  Fowle,  Johnson,  Kendall,  Pierce, 
Reed,  Richardson,  Simonds,  Thompson,  and 
W'yman.  The  three  most  numerous  families 
are  those  nf  |i)lins(in,  Richardson,  and  Wvman, 
and  the  name  of  Richardson  is  represented  in 
the  binh  list  ("to  1873)  by  nearly  900  entries. 

Medkoki). — The  printed  vital  records  to  1850 
give  as  the  most  numerously  rejjresented  names, 
those  of  Brooks,  Hall  and  Tufts.  The  genea- 
logical records  in  Brooks's  "History  of  Med- 
ford"  add  to  these  those  of  Blanchard,  Francis, 
Reeves,  Wade,  Whitmorc  and  Willis. 

Reading. — The  vital  records  of  this  munici- 


pality are  not  printed.  From  Eaton's  "History 
of  Reading"  a  very  general  estimate  is  made, 
which  includes  among  the  most  numerous 
family  names  those  of  Bancroft.  Boutwell, 
P.rowne,  Bryant.  Cowdry.  Damon,  Eaton,  Em- 
erson, Evans,  I'~itch,  Flint.  Green,  Hartshorne, 
Nichols.  Parker.  Poole.  Pratt.  Smith,  Stimpson, 
Swain,  Temi)le.  Wakefield.  Walton.  Weston 
and  Wiley. 

ESSEX  COUNTY. 

The  original  eight  towns  of  Essex  county  in 
1643  were  Salem,  Lynn,  Wenliam.  Ipswich. 
Rowley,  Newbury,  Gloucester  and  Andover. 

S.\LEM. — Salem,  like  its  companion  seaport, 
Boston,  is  an  interesting  jjlace  to  genealogists. 
But  it  is  doubtful  if  in  spite  of  earnest  en- 
deavors in  that  direction,  on  the  part  of  a  num- 
ber that  the  work  is  nearer  accom]3lisliment  gen- 
erally than  that  of  Boston,  as  described  by 
Whitniore  in  the  first  part  of  this  article.  In 
a  place  so  genealogically  important  as  Salem, 
the  vital  records  have  been  collected  from  vari- 
ous sources,  and  in  relation  to  the  entire  subject 
are  doubtless  only  fragmentary.  The  eighteenth 
century  baptisms  in  Salem,  as  published  by 
Emmerton,  show  for  the  most  numerously 
represented  families  in  that  century  the  names 
of  .Andrew  and  Andrews,  Archer,  Ashbv,  Ash- 
ton,  P.abbidge,  Barr,  Bickford,  Bowditch,  Bray, 
Brookhouse,  Brown  and  Brov.ne.  Bullock.  Bur- 
rill,  Chaiiman,  Cheever.  Clark,  Clough,  Clout- 
man.  Collins,  Cook.  Cox,  Dami)ney.  Daniel  or 
Daniels,  Derby.  Dodge,  Driver.  Emmerton,  Felt. 
Fisher,  Forrester,  Foster,  Fowler,  Frye,  Gale. 
Gardner,  Gavitt,  Gerrish,  ( iiles.  Glover,  Goodale, 
Goodhue,  Gould,  Grafton,  Grant,  Gray,  Hall, 
Hathorne.  Henderson,  Hill.  Hodges,  Holman, 
Horton,  Howard,  Hunt,  Ingalls.  Ingersoll,  Jef- 
frey. Josephs,  King.  I^amb.  Lambert.  Lander, 
Lane,  I^oring,  I^awrence.  Leach,  Lee,  Lefavor. 
I,iscomb  and  Luscomb.  Mackintire,  Manning. 
Mansfield,  Marston,  Mason,  Mas'sey,  Masurj', 
Mayberry,  Millett,  Morgan.  Morong,  Moses, 
Motey,  Neal,  Needham,  Nichols,  Oliver,  Orne, 
Osgood,  Palfrey,  Palmer,  Parker,  Patterson, 
Peale,  1  'ease.  I  'eirce  and  Pierce,  Phelps,  Phippen, 
Pickering,  Pickman,  Pitman,  Prince.  Proctor, 
Pnnchard,  Putnam.  Richardson.  Ropes.  Rowell, 
Rust.  Sage.  .Sanders  and  Saunders,  .'-^aunder- 
son.  Savage,  Sil.sbec.  Skerry,  .'-^mith,  Smithers, 
Southard,  Stone.  Swase\'.  Simonds  and  .Sy- 
monds.  Teague.  Townsend,  Trask.  Tucker, 
\'alpy.  Wry.  Ward,  Waters,  Webb,  Wellman, 
West.  White,  Williams.  Woodhridge.  Wood- 
btuy  and  Yell,  and  many  others  who  are  possi- 
bly entitled  to  a  ])lace  in  the  list.     In  the  pub- 


MASSACH  L'SETTS. 


XV. 


lislied  records  of  the  parish  hst  of  deaths,  kept 
hy  WilHam  IJentley.  jjastor  of  the  East  Cluirch, 
Salem,  covering  tlie  period  between  1783  and 
1819,  the  following  family  names  are  most 
numerous:  Allen,  Archer,  IJabbidge,  Becket, 
lirown  and  iirowne,  Cheever,  Collins,  and 
Crowninshield,  Dean,  Derby,  Fairfield,  Hodges, 
King,  Lambert,  Lane,  Manning,  Masury.  Millet, 
Mnrray,  I'alfrey,  Patterson,  Peele,  Perkins, 
Phipijen,  Richardson,  Ropes.  Silsbee,  Smith, 
Swasey,  Townsend,  Ward.  ^X'aters,  Webb,  Well- 
man,  \\'hite.  Wliitlemore  and  Williams.  In- 
dividuals having  large  families  are  very  inter- 
esting genealogically,  and  important  sociologi- 
cally and  physiologically ;  and  next  in  interest 
to  these  facts  are  those  of  longevity ;  closely 
akin  to  which  subject  is  that  of  fatalities,  in 
which  acciilents,  war  and  pestilence  or  epidem- 
ical disease,  bear  an  important  j^art,  events 
which  are  more  likely  to  affect  a  sea])ort  like 
.Salem,  with  a  large  floating  element  in  its  i)opu- 
lation,  than  the  more  inland  country  districts. 

Lynn. — .Authority  :  The  printed  vital  records. 
The  most  numerous  families  to  1850  are  those 
bearing  the  names  of  Alley,  Bachellor,  Breed, 
Brown.  Burrill,  Chase,  Collins,  Fuller,  Hawkes, 
Ingalls,  Johnson,  Lewis,  Mansfield,  Mudge, 
Xewhall.  Oliver,  Parrott.  I'hillips,  Ramsdell, 
Rhodes,  Smith  and  Tarbox.  Of  these  Breed 
and  Xewhall  are  by  far  the  most  numerous. 

\\'enh.\m. — Authority  :  The  printed  vital  rec- 
ords. The  most  numerous  families  to  1850  are 
those  bearing  the  names  of  Bacheller,  Dodge, 
Fairfield,  Fiske,  Kimball,  Perkins  and  Porter. 
r)f  these  Dodge  and  Kimball  are  the  most 
numerous. 

Ipswich. — .Authority  :  Felt,  "History  of  Ips- 
wich." Andrews,  .Appleton,  Baker,  Brown, 
Thirnham,  Choate,  Cogswell,  Dodge,  Emerson, 
Farley,  Foster,  Giddings,  Goodhue,  How,  Hub- 
bard, Killam,  Kimball.  Knowlton,  Lord,  Low, 
Manning,  Norton,  Perkins,  Potter, Rogers, Rust, 
Smith,  Staniford.  Story,  Symonds,  Treadwell, 
Wade,  \\'ainwright.  Ward,  Warner,  Whi|)ple, 
Whittingham,  \Viggles\vorth,  Wise.  .\  late 
authority  on  the  subject  of  the  most  numerously 
represented  names,  of  which  the  above  are  a 
number  in  this  ancient  town  is  Waters's  "His- 
tory of  Ipswich." 

Rowley. — Authority :  Blodgette,  "Early  Set- 
tlers of  Rowley,"  in  this  work  the  family  names 
most  numerously  represented  arc  Bailey,  Boyn- 
ton,  Burpee,  Clarke,  Dickinson,  Dresser,  Ells- 
worth, Harriman,  Harris,  Hidden,  Hobson, 
Hopkinson.  Jackson,  Jewett  (numerously  so), 
Johnson,  Kilbourne,  Mighill,  Kelson.  Palmer, 


Pearson,  Pickard,  Plaits,  Scott,  Tenne\-,  Todd 
and  Wood. 

Nkwuikv. — Xewbury,  better  known  from 
the  city  part  as  Xewbury|)ort,  is  a  very  old 
settlement,  and  the  list  of  the  mo^l  lumierous 
family  names,  as  interpreted  iwnu  Coffin's 
"Xewbury,"  from  1635  to  1700,  contains  those 
of  -Ayer,  Badger.  Bailey,  l!artlett,P>rown, Chase, 
Cheney,  Clark,  Coffin,  Davis,  Dole.  Dummer, 
luner)-,  Goodridge,  Greenleaf,  Hale,  llsley, 
Kelley,  Knight,  Kent,  Lowell,  Lunt,  March, 
Merrill,  Moody,  Aiorse,  Xoyes,  Ordway,  Pet- 
tingell,  Pike,  Pillsbury,  Poore,  Plummer,  Rolfe, 
St)merby,  Swett,  Titcomb,  Toppan,  Wheeler 
and  Woodman.  Whether  these  names  were  con- 
tinued in  the  same  proportion  in  the  eighteenth 
century  is  a  matter  of  doubt,  in  the  absence  of 
])rinted  vital  records.  I'oore's  "Merrimac  Val- 
ley Researches"  niaj'  furnish  sufficient  names 
to  form  a  partial  substitute. 

( ii.oucESTER. — Authority :  Babson's  "History 
of  Gloucester."  Numerous  family  names  in 
(iloucester  have  been  those  of  Andrews,  Bab- 
son,  Bennett,  Bray,  Brown,  Chandler,  Collins, 
Davis,  Day.  Ellery,  Elwell,  Eveleth,  (jard- 
ner,  ("liddings,  Harraden,  Haskell,  Ingersoll, 
Lane,  Low,  Lufkin,  Millet,  Xorwood,  Parsons, 
Pool,  Riggs,  Robinson,  Sargent,  Sawyer,  Smith, 
Somes.  Stanwood,  Stevens,  Tarr,  White,  Wit- 
ham.  Woodbury,  York. 

.\xuovEK. — This  histcjric  old  town,  originally 
embracing  the  present  towns  of  Andover  and 
North  .\ndover,  and  the  .south  portion  of  the 
city  of  Lawrence,  was  first  settled  in  the  north- 
erly part,  now  North  Andover,  wdiere  the  first 
meeting-house  of  the  town  was  built  near  the 
old  burying  ground  lliere  ;  and  here  the  larger 
number  of  the  inhabitants  dwelt  for  several 
years  after  the  first  settlement  of  the  town  as  a 
whole.  By  1707,  however,  it  was  found  that 
the  bidk  of  the  population  had  changed  to  the 
s(nitherly  part,  and  so  a  new  meeting-house, 
then  needed,  was  jjlanned  to  be  built  in  that 
])art.  The  agitation  resulted  in  two  parishes 
l)eing  formed,  one  being  the  North  and  tlie 
other  the  South  Precinct  of  the  town,  and  two 
meeting  places  for  the  religious  societies  of 
that  day  were  built.  Thus  the  town  of  Cochi- 
chewick,  its  name  when  it  became  a  part  of  the 
county  of  Essex  in  1643,  became  eventually  to 
be  known  as  Andover,  the  southerly  part  espe- 
cially being  noted  as  an  intellectual  centre  the 
world  over.  In  this  parish  there  were  between 
the  years  1711  and  1809  the  number  of  3392 
baptisms,  or  eighty-ninetieths  infant  baptisms. 
From   the   "Historical    Manual   of   the   South 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


C'lnirch  in  Andover,"  j)nblislic<l  in  1859.  whicli 
a)3]jears  to  be  tlie  jjrincipal  authority  on  the 
subject  of  the  size  of  famiUes  in  general,  are 
taken  the  following  names,  which  appear  to  be 
those  most  numerously  represented  in  the  town 
itself:  Abbot,  Hlanchard,  Chandler,  Dane,  Fos- 
ter, Holt.  Johnson,  Lovejoy,  (Jsgood,  Phelps, 
Kussell.  Stevens  and  W'ardwell.  In  1859  the 
name  of  Abbtjt  preponderates.  The  publica- 
tion of  the  vital  records  of  Andover  was  begun 
in  the  newspaj)ers  several  years  ago. 

SUFFOLK  COUNTY. 

The  original  eight  towns  of  Suffolk  county 
in  1643  were  Bo.ston.  Roxbury,  Dotchester, 
Dedham.  I'.raintree, Weymouth, llingham, Hull. 
Omitting  lioston,  Roxbury  and  Dorchester,  all 
now  parts  of  the  one  city  of  r.oston,  we  have 
left  Dedham,  l!raintree,  \\'eymouth.  now  parts 
of  the  new  cmuity  of  Norfolk,  and  Hingham 
and  Hull,  nnw  i)arts  of  the  present  county  of 
riymouth. 

PRESENT  PI.Y.MOUTll  CUUNTV. 

llixciiAM. — The  family  names  most  numer- 
ouslv  represented  in  Hingham,  according  to  the 
])rinted  history  of  that  town,  are  first  those  of 
Cushing  (  123  family  groujis),  Hersey  (III), 
and  Lincoln  (  178)  ;  followed  closely  in  number 
by  P.eal  (89),  Gardner  (84).  Sprague  (74), 
S'todder  (92),  and  Whiton  (80).  Next  to  these 
in  number  by  Barnes  (35),  Bates  (47),  Burr 
(33),  Dunbar  (36),  Fearing  (45),  French 
(25),  Gill  {22).  Hobart  (53),  Humphrey  (31), 
Jacob  (28),  Jones  (30),  Lane  (43),  Leavitt 
(39),  Lewis  (26),  Loring  (46).  Marsh  (26  I, 
Nichols  (22  1.  Kijiley  (25),  Souther  (21),  Sto- 
well  (28),  Thaxter  (30),  Tower  (53),  and 
Wilder  (63). 

Hri.i.. —  In  1740  the  Loring  family  was  jirom- 
inent  in  1  lull,  which  territorily  and  numerically 
has  been  one  of  the  smallest  towns  in  the  State. 

PRESENT  NORl'OLK  COINTY. 

Dedh.\m. — Authority:  \'ital  records  of  the 
town  of  Dedham,  as  printed  under  the  sn])er- 
vision  of  Dun  Gleasou  Hill,  town  clerk.  The 
most  numerously  re])resented  names  on  these 
rec(irds  are  .Mien  (AUin.  .Mleyne).  liacon. 
Baker,  Battle,  1  iullard,  Chickering,  Clapp,  Clark, 
Colburn,  Dean.  Drajier,  i-Iaton,  I£llis,  Ever- 
ett. I'airbanks,  b'ales  (and  X'ales),  Farrington, 
b'isher,  b'uUer.  (iay.  Guild,  llawes.  Herring, 
Holmes,  Kingsbury,  Lewis,  .Mason,  Metcalf, 
Morse,  Newell,  ( )nion.  Pond,  Rhoads,  I\ich- 
ards.  Smith  (and  Smytli),  .Sumner,  Weather- 
bee,  While,  Whiting  and  Wight. 


Br.\i.n"tki:i:. — The  vital  records  of  this  town 
have  been  published  through  the  efforts  of  a 
citizen,  .\uthority:  "Records  of  the  Town  of 
Braintree,  1640  to  1793,"  edited  by  Samuel  A. 
Bates.  The  families  most  numerously  repre- 
sented in  the  index  to  the  vital  records  of  births 
as  printed  in  this  work  are  .\dams,  Allen,  Bass, 
Belcher,  Copeland,  Fa.xon,  French,  Hayden, 
llayward,  Niles,  Spear,  Thayer,  X'eazie,  Wales 
and  Webb. 

WEVMorrii. — .\uthorit\- :  Nash,  "Histt)rical 
Sketch  of  the  Town  of  Weymouth."  The  in- 
crease in  po]nUation  in  the  town  of  \\  eymouth 
was  small  for  its  first  century — about  1000 
being  the  estimate  for  1643.  About  1675  an 
official  estimate  sets  the  number  of  houses  in 
round  numbers  at  250 ;  which  allowing  five  per- 
sons to  a  house  would  give  a  population  of 
1250.  In  1750  the  estimate  was  1200.  A 
census  of  1765  showed  1258:  1776.  indicated 
1471  :  and  in  1790  a  declension  to  1469.  In 
1800  it  had  gained,  the  total  being  1803.  The 
more  numerously  represented  names  in  Mr. 
Nashs's  lists  are  Bates,  Bayley,  Beals,  Bicknell, 
Pilanchard,  Burrell, Cushing,  French,  Holbrook, 
Humphrey,  Hunt,  Loud,  Lovell,  Nash,  Porter, 
Pratt,  Reed,  Richards,  Shaw,  Smith,  Thacher, 
Thayer,  Thomas,  Tirrell,  Torrey,  Tufts,  \'in- 
ing.  White,  XX'hitmarsh. 

OLD  NORFOLK,COUNTY. 

In  1643  the  county  called  Norfolk  embraced 
six  towns,  four  of  which  afterwards  became  a 
part  of  New  Hampshire,  and  two  remained  a 
jiart  of  j)resent  Esse.x  county.  These  two  were 
-Salisbury  and  Haverhill. 

S.ALISHL'RV. — Authority  :  I  loyt,  "Old  Fami- 
lies of  Salisbury  and  .Ameshury."  The  names 
noticed  to  the  greatest  extent  in  this  book  may 
show  with  accuracy  those  families  most  numer- 
ously represented,  certainly  before  1700.  .Vniong 
these  are  the  names  of  Allen.  .Vyer  or  .Avers, 
Bailey  or  liayley,  Barnard,  Bartlett,  Blaisdell, 
Bradbury,  Brown,  Buswell,  Carr,  Chase,  Clem- 
ent, Colby,  Currier,  Davis,  Dow.  Eastman, 
luiton.  l'"owler,  I'Vench,  (ireenleaf.  Hoyt,  Kelly, 
Kimball.  .Merrill.  Morrill,  Morse, Osgood,  Page, 
Pike.  Rolfe,  Rowell,  Stevens,  True.  Webster, 
Wee.l  and  Wells. 

1  l.wiCRini.L. — In  this  city  the  names  of  Ayer, 
Chase,  Emerson,  Johnson,  Alarsh,  Page,  .Sar- 
gent or  .Sargeant.  \\'ebster  and  Whittier  appear 
to  he  among  those  most  numerously  rejiresent- 
ed.  Badger.  Bartlett.  P.radley.  Brickett,  lirown. 
Chase.  Cogswell.  Corliss.  I)uncan,  Emerson, 
How,  Johnson,  Marsh,  Saltonstall  and  White 
arc  among  tlie  more  prominent  names. 


MASSACIirSl'.TTS. 


jlSriCES  OK  THE  ITLACK. 

Of  the  civil  officers  in  the  pruvincial  period 
the  justices  of  the  peace  were  electetl  more 
generally  perhaps  than  any  other  from  the  mass 
of  the  common  people.  As  a  class  they  repre- 
sent the  more  active  and  intelligent  members 
of  tJie  country  districts.  There  were  very  few 
regular  lawyers  then,  and  their  places  were 
taken  in  cases  of  necessity  by  average  citizens. 
I'.etween  1692  and  1774,  therefore,  the  honor 
attached  to  this  office  was  far  greater  than  that 
attached  to  it  now.  In  the  single  instance  cited 
the  county  of  Esse.x  is  selected,  and  the  names 
are  taken  from  W'hitmore's  "Civil  List.'  As 
presented,  the  year  preceding  the  surname 
shows  the  first  time  that  name  was  mentioned. 

ESSEX  COUXTY. 
Period  from  1692  to  1774. 

1692  :  Brown  ;  W'oodbridge  ;  Appleton  ;  Epps 
orEpes  :  Pierce  ;  Higginson  ;  Bradstreet ;  Wade  ; 
W'ainwright.  1700:  Xoyes  ;  Legg ;  Xorden. 
1701  :  Burrill.  1702:  Saltonstall ;  Pike;  Hirst; 
Hale  ;  Wolcott.  1704:  Sewall.  i7o6:Xewman. 
i707:Jewett.  i7i4:Dummer.  1715  :  Hathorne  ; 
Corwin  ;Turner  ;  White  ;  Brattle  ;Cawley.  1717  : 
Rogers.  1719:  Bradbury  ;  Kent :  Stevens  ;  Gale. 
1720:  Lindall ;  Sargeant.  1722:  Currier;  Ged- 
ney.  1723:  Berry.  1726  :  Price  :  Oulton.  1727: 
Whipple:  Bagley.  1728:  Minot;  Orne ;  Ger- 
rish :  Rolie.  1729:  Lynde ;  .Atkins.  1733: 
I'.arton:  Bayley;  Plaisted ;  Lambert:  Howard; 
I'.laney;  Fairfa.x :  Barnard;  March;  Cogswell; 
iSaker.  1734:  Choate :  Lee;  Osgood;  Wise; 
Kimball.  1 73^  :  Burleigh  :  .Alien  ;  Wood.  1737: 
Kitchen  :  I  loljson  :  Marston  ;  ( ireenleaf.  1738 : 
Moo(h:  Skinner.  1739:  Frost.  1741  :  Rowell. 
1744:  Mansfield.  1745  :  Sw-ett :  Gushing.  1746: 
Pickman: Collins.  i747:Tasker.  1748:  Hooper; 
I'owle.  1749:  Moseley;  Bowditch  ;  Peaslee  ; 
Xorton.  1752 :  Gibbs  ;  Farnham  ;  Phillips.  1753  : 
Pool.  1755  :  Jones  ;  Stevens  ;  Davis  ;  Saunders ; 
Leach.  175^:  Lechmere  ;  Curwin  ;  Xutting; 
Bourn:  Dalton:  Morrill  or  Merrill;  McHard. 
1758:  Gardner.  1759:  Xewhall.  1761:  Ropes; 
(  )]]\vr  :  Whitham  :  Prcscott :  Coffin  ;  Potter  ; 
(iage;  Mulliken  ;  Henchman;  Holyoke;  Chip- 
man;  Pynchon  ;  .Athearn  :  Fairfield.  1762: 
Bowers  ;' Gilbert ;  Bowen  ;  Vans.  1763  :  f^lum- 
mer:  Cockle.  1764:  Geary.  1765  :  Frye  ;  Emery ; 
Putnam.  1766:  Gallison.  1768:  Dowse  ;  Story  ; 
Cabot.  I7''i9:  Cotnam :  Lowell.  1770:  Roby. 
1771:  Derby;  Calef.  1772:  Harris;  C'arter ; 
.Sawyer  ;  Jewett :  Barker  :  Cheever. 

.A  few  of  the  above  named  were  judges: 
Samuel  .Appleton.  one  of  the  earliest  appointed, 


was  born  in  England  and  resided  in  Jpswich, 
and  held  office  till  his  death  in  1690.  He  was 
a  military  man  of  considerable  note,  and  com- 
manded one  of  the  companies  engaged  in  1675 
in  the  desperate  Xarragansett  fight.  Bartho- 
lomew Gedney,  of  Salem,  was  a  physician,  born 
in  i()40  and  died  in  i(>99.  John  Hathorne,  of 
.Salem,  was  born  in  1641  ;  he  continueil  in  office 
until  his  resignation  in  1712,  and  died  in  1717. 
He  was  appointed  to  the  superior  court.  Jona- 
than L'orwin,  or  Curwin,  of  Salem,  was  born 
in  j(i4o,  and  died  in  office,  1718.  He  was 
appointed  to  the  su])erior  court  1715.  William 
Browne  died  while  in  office  1716.  He  was  suc- 
ceeded by  his  son  Samuel  Brown,  who  con- 
tinued until  his  death  in  1731.  Daniel  Peirce, 
or  Pierce,  appointed  in  iCkj8,  held  his  position 
until  his  death,  1704.  .A  man  of  greater  note 
than  most  of  the  preceding  was  Xathaniel  Sal- 
tonstall, of  Haverhill,  who  was  graduated  at 
Harvard  1659.  He  resigned  from  the  position 
of  judge  in  1692.  because  of  his  distaste  for 
the  witchcraft  trials.  "1  le  w'as  not  bred  to  the 
law.  but  he  was  a  man  of  strong  mind  and 
sound  sense" — not  induenced  by  bigotry  and 
fanaticism.  He  died  in  1707,  aged  about  68. 
He  was  appointed  judge  of  the  inferior  court 
of  conimon  pleas  for  Essex  in  1702,  and  held 
the  office  till  his  death  about  five  years  after- 
ward. (  For  a  full  notice  of  his  life,  see  Sibley, 
I  larv.  (iard.,  vol.  ii.). 

John  .Appleton,  ajipointed  1704,  was  also 
judge  of  probate  after  1732,  which  office  he 
held  until  his  death  in  1739.  He  was  a  nephew 
of  Samuel  Appleton.  Thomas  Noyes,  appoint- 
ed 1707,  died,  when  very  old,  in  1730.  John 
Higginson,  appointed  1708,  was  a  merchant. 
He  held  office  until  his  death  in  1720.  John 
r.urrill.  of  Lynn,  for  ten  years  speaker  of  the 
house  of  re]iresentatives.  was  appointed  in  1720, 
but  died  in  1721.  Josiah  Wolcott,  appointed  in 
1722,  was  a  Salem  merchant,  and  died  in  office, 
1729.  Timothy  Lindall,  appointed  in  1729,  was 
a  graduate  of  Harvard  College  in  1695,  and  at 
one  time  speaker  of  the  house  of  representa- 
tives (1720).  He  held  his  seat  as  judge  until 
1754.  and  died  in  i7rio.  John  Wainwright, 
ai)])ointed  1729,  graduate  at  Harvard  1709, 
was  a  merchant  of  Ijjswich,  and  died  in  office, 
1739.  Theophilus  Burrill  (a  ne])hew  of  John 
Burriin  was  appointed  in  1733,  and  died  in 
office  1737.  Thomas  P>crry.  appointed  1733, 
was  a  graduate  of  Harvard  1712,  and  died  in 
office  1756.  Tfe  was  a  native  of  Boston,  and  a 
l)hvsician  of  Ipswich.  He  was  also  judge  of 
prf>bate  for  Esse.x  comity.  ^ 7.S0- ' 7.S''>.  Ben- 
jamin Marston,  appointed  1739,  wasagraduate 


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MASSAC  IIL'SETTS. 


of  Harvard  1715.  and  also  sheriff;  he  was  a 
resident  of  Salem  and  afterwards  of  Man- 
chester. 1  le  died  while  holding  the  office  of  a 
judge,  in  1754,  aged  37. 

Benjamin  Lynde,  Jr.,  appointed  1739,  was  a 
graduate  of  Harvard  in  1718;  son  of  Judge 
Benjamin  Lynde.  He  was  not  a  lawyer  when 
appointed.  He  was  appointed  to  the  bench  of 
the  superior  court.  He  resigned  in  1772  and 
became  judge  of  probate,  which  office  he  held 
when  he  died  in  1781.  His  father  was  a  grad- 
uate of  Harvard  in  1686,  and  studied  law  in 
London,  and  was  the  first  regularly  educated 
lawyer  appointed  to  the  bench  in  Massachu- 
setts; the  father  died  in  1745,  aged  78.  He 
married  his  wife  in  Salem,  where  he  had  re- 
moved from  Boston.  He  was  a  barrister  or 
advocate  and  judge  of  the  superior  court  17 12, 
and  chief-justice  from  1728  till  his  death.  (Sib- 
ley. Harv.  Grad.  iii.  356). 

John  Clioate,  appointed  1746,  was  of  Ips- 
wich, became  chief-justice,  and  died  while  in 
office.  1766.  Henry  Gibbs.  ap]:)ointed  1754,  died 
in  office.  1759.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Harvard 
in  1726.  and  a  Salem  merchant.  John  Tasker. 
appointed  1754,  was  of  Marblehead  ;  and  died 
in  office  in  1 761.  Benjamin  I'ickman,  appoint- 
ed 1756.  held  office  till  1761.  He  was  a  Salem 
merchant,  and  died  in  1774.  Caleb  Gushing, 
appointed  1759.  became  chief-justice  after  the 
Revolutiiin.  He  was  of  Salisbury.  Stephen 
Higginson.  appointed  1761,  died  1761,  aged 
45.  Nathaniel  Ropes,  appointed  1761,  was  a 
graduate  of  Harvard  in  1745,  and  judge  of 
])robatc;  died  1774.  x\ndrew  Oliver,  appoint- 
ed 1761,  graduated  at  Harvard  1749.  He  held 
office  until  the  Revolution  and  died  in  1799. 
William  B)Ourn,  of  Marblehead. appointed  1766. 
was  a  graduate  of  Harvard  1743.  and  died 
1770.  aged  47.  \\'illiam  l?rowne,  appointed 
1770;  died  in  England.  1802.  He  was  a  grad- 
uate of  Harvard,  1755.  He  was  a  Loyalist  and 
was  made  governor  of  Bermuda,  1781.  Peter 
Fryc,  of  Andover,  appointed  1772.  graduate  of 
Harvard.  1744.  held  office  till  T775,  and  died  in 
England,  1820. 

Essex  county  also  claims  among  the  jud.ges 
of  the  Superior  Court  of  Judicature,  from  if)02 
to  1774,  the  following:  Samuel  Sewall,  John 
Hathorne.  Jonathan  Corwin,  Benjamin  Lynde 
(ist).  Benjamin  Lynde  (2d).  Nathaniel  Ropes 
and  William  Browne.  Stephen  Sewall.  of 
Salem,  graduate  at  Harvard.  1721 ;  was  a]i- 
[lointed  in  1739.  was  chief  justice,  and  died 
1760.  Samuel  White,  of  Haverhill,  graduated 
at  Harvard,  1 731.  was  a  special  justice.  T7.=;8, 
relative  to  will  of  Governor  Bellingham.  Rich- 


ard Saltonstall.  nf  Haverhill,  graduated  at  Har- 
vard, 1722,  was  ajjpdinted  judge  in  1736.  and 
held  his  seat  until  his  death  in  1756.  Before 
the  Revolutionary  W  ar  very  few  of  the  incum- 
bents of  this  nffice  were  educated  in  the  law. 
and  to  that  time  only  four  judges  in  the  higher 
court  were  lawyers.  These  were  Benjamin 
Lynde,  the  first  of  the  tw'o  Lyndes.  Paul  Dud- 
ley, Edmund  Trowbridge  and  William  Gush- 
ing. Few  regular  practitioners  found  their  w'ay 
here  from  across  the  sea.  There  was  a  preju- 
dice against  lawyers  at  that  time  among  the 
Xew  England  people.  The  laws  of  the  colony 
and  province  were  based  on  the  model  made 
abroad  by  skilful  English  lawyers,  and  of  them- 
selves were  well  enough  ;  but  in  unskilled  hands 
here  were  often  improperly  administrated. 

Among  later  judges  of  the  higher  court  were 
Samuel  Sewall.  of  Marblejiead.  a  graduate  of 
Harvard.  i776,member  of  congress,  1797-1800; 
later  a  chief-justice,  1813.  who  died  in  the 
following  year  at  Wiscasset.  Maine.  1814; 
Tlieophilus  Bradbury,  of  Xewbury,  a  graduate 
of  Harvard,  1757.  member  of  congress,  died 
1803.  whose  fame  belongs  mostly  to  the  Dis- 
trict of  Maine. 

There  were  five  barristers  or  advocates  in 
the  province  in  1768.  viz.:  Daniel  Farnham, 
graduate  at  Harvard  College  in  1739,  studied 
law  with  Eilnnuid  Trowbridge,  began  practice 
in  Xewburyport,  became  eminent ;  held  military 
office,  was  a  loyalist,  and  died  in  1776.  W  illiam 
Pynchon,  of  Salem,  graduated  Harvard  Col- 
lege in  1743.  was  a  native  of  Springfield,  be- 
came a  lawyer  and  a  judge,  and  died  1789. 
John  Chipman.  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1738, 
and  died  in  i7()8.  Nathaniel  Paaslee  Sargeant 
graduated  at  Harvard  in  1750.  practiced  law  in 
Haverhill.  In  1776  was  appointed  judge,  and 
in  1789  chief  justice,  holding  the  ])lace  until  his 
death,  1791.  John' Lowell  graduated  at  Har- 
vard. 1760.  was  afterwards  of  Boston,  member 
of  congress,  judge  of  Court  of  Admiralty,  etc.. 
died  1 802. 

.\nother  distinguished  lawyer  of  this  period 
was  Tristram  Dalton,  who  graduated  at  Llar- 
vard,  1735.  studied  law  in  Salem,  was  repre- 
sentative from  Ncwburyport,  speaker  of  the 
house  and  member  of  the  state  senate;  I'nited 
States  senator.  1789-91.  the  first  congress  after 
the  adoption  of  the  constitution.  He  died  in 
P.oston.  1817. 

RUFL'S  CHO.XTI-:. 

In  a  countv  composed  of  many  great  men 
there  is  [)r(ibably  no  man  among  them  all  of 
greater  intellectual  rcinitation  than  the  great 


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lawyer,  Rufus  Choate.  lie  was  born  on  I  log 
Island,  in  the  town  of  Essex,  October  i,  1799, 
and  died  at  Halifax,  Xova  Scotia,  July  13, 
1859.  He  began  his  studies  with  several  clergy- 
men in  succession,  antl  was  afterwards  at 
naini)ton  .\cadcmy  and  at  Uartmouth  College, 
whore  he  was  graduated  in  1819.  He  then 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  \\  illiam  W  irt,  at 
Washington,  and  at  the  Dane  Law  School  at 
Cambridge,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Essex  bar 
at  Salem  in  1823.  He  began  practice  in  Dan- 
vcrs,  where  he  remained  and  in  Salem,  until 
1834.  He  was  state  representative  in  1825, 
state  senator  in  1827,  and  member  of  congress 
from  1832  to  1834,  in  which  year  he  removed 
to  r.oston.  In  1 84 1  he  succeedetl  Daniel  \\  eb- 
ster  in  the  L'nited  ^^tates  Senate.  In  1853  he 
succeeded  John  H.  Clifford  as  attorney-general 
of  Massachusetts.  In  1858.  in  consequence  of 
ill  health,  he  gave  up  professional  labor,  and  in 
1859  sailed  for  Europe.  .\t  that  time  the 
steamer  on  which  he  sailed  touched  at  Halifax. 
On  reaching  that  port  he  was  too  feeble  to  pro- 
ceed, and  landing  there,  his  death  occurred  in 
that  city. 

After  the  death  of  Mr.  Webster  in  1852  he 
was  universally  regarded  as  the  head  of  the 
bar  in  Massachusetts.  As  in  legislative  fields 
he  seemed  out  of  his  element,  so.  in  the  domin- 
ion of  the  law,  he  was  supreme.  An  orator  of 
the  first  class,  his  greatest  forensic  efTorts  were 
before  juries,  and  nothing  ever  exceeded  in 
interest  the  exhibitions  of  logic  and  eloc|uence 
which  he  exhibited  before  a  jury.  Boys  would 
play  truant  from  school  to  go  hear  him.  The 
traditions  of  his  power  to  sway  a  jury  were 
permanent  in  the  memory  of  many  wlm  had 
Iteard  him.  He  was  a  man  of  large  frame, 
broad  shoulders,  and  ujiright  figure,  surround- 
ed by  a  head  and  face  wiiich  it  is  as  impossible 
toclescribe,  as  one  has  said,  as  "the  flash  of  the 
lightning  in  the  cloud  or  the  aurora  in  the  sky."' 

He  was  in  his  procedure  all  activity,  alert- 
ness, swiftness  and  grace.  He  was  much  be- 
loved by  his  fellow  members  of  the  bar.  He 
had  an  office  and  residence  in  Salem  from  1828 
to  1834.  He  coidd  trace  his  ancestry  to  one 
John  Clioate,  an  immigrant  from  ICngland.  who 
settled  in  a  part  of  Ipswich,  afterwards  a  sepa- 
rate town  bv  the  name  of  Essex,  and  whose 
son  Thomas  settled  on  Hog  Island,  a  part  of 
Essex,  whose  son,  known  as  Colonel  John,  born 
in  1697,  died  in  1766.  This  Colonel  John  was 
at  one  time  elected  speaker  of  the  general  court. 
and  his  brf)ther  Erancis.  born  in  1 70 1,  and  died 
in  1777,  was  the  father  of  William,  the  father 
of  David  Choate,  born  upon  Hog  Island,  who 


was  the  father  of  Rufus.  David  Choate  had 
no  children  by  a  first  wife,  but  by  a  second 
wife.  .Miriam,  daughter  of  Captain  Aaron  Fos- 
ter, he  had  two  daughters  and  four  sons,  one 
of  whom  was  Rufus.  (  )ne  of  the  brothers  of 
Rufus  Choate  was  Washington  Choate,  born 
1803.  died  1822.  while  a  member  of  the  junior 
class  in  Dartmouth  College.  Rufus  spent  his 
biivhood  by  the  sea,  and  his  most  i)rilliant  and 
beaiUiful  lecture.  '"The  Romance  of  the  Sea" — 
in  which  he  had  incorjiorated  much  that  he  had 
seen  and  thought  of  about  the  ocean,  its  won- 
ders and  its  mysteries — was  lost  or  stolen  after 
its  delivery  in  New  York,  and  never  reapi^eared. 
His  father  died  when  Rufus  was  only  eight 
years  old.  and  his  mother  died  in  1833.  at  the 
age  of  eighty-one.  His  early  surroundings 
were  pleasant  and  wholesome,  and  many  pass- 
ages in  his  orations  were  descriptive  of  the 
scenery  of  Ipswich  and  its  vicinity,  with  which 
his  youth  was  familiar.  He  early  disclosed  an 
absorbing  devotion  to  reading,  and  the  mature 
character  of  what  he  read  in  the  few  solid 
books  then  at  his  command,  would  now  be  con- 
sidered remarkable,  liefore  he  was  ten,  he  had 
pretty  nearly  exhausted  the  heavy  histories  of 
the  village  library. 

When  in  college,  afterwards,  he  would  read 
a  chapter  of  the  Bible  just  before  retiring,  and 
on  waking  in  the  morning  could  repeat  it  cor- 
rectly. .-\t  the  age  of  ten  he  commenced  the 
study  of  Latin,  and  he  graduated  from  college 
when  not  quite  twenty.  Before  him,  after  that 
"stretched  aw'ay  forty  years  of  intense  study, 
struggle,  forensic  agony  and  triumph." 

It  is  not  our  intention  here  to  present  more 
than  tiie  salient  features  of  Mr.  Choate's  life, 
with  the  object  of  calling  his  eminence  to  the 
attention  of  the  present  generation.  He  was 
married.  March  29.  1825.  to  Helen  Olcott,  by 
whom  he  had  seven  children.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Mills  Olcott,  Esq..  a  lawyer  of 
Hanover,  New  Hampshire.  Her  death  occurred 
December  8,  1864. 

One  of  his  biograj)hers  says:  "He  threw 
himself  with  as  much  enthusiasm  into  a  trial 
before  a  country  justice  in  a  shoemaker's  shop 
as  if  it  were  before  the  .Supreme  Court.  He 
magnified  every  litigation,  and  each  litigant, 
magistrate  and  juryman.  He  never  hesitated 
to  pour  out  all  his  wealth  of  imagery,  the  pro- 
fusion of  his  classical  allusions,  and  all  the  ex- 
uberance of  his  rhetoric  uj)on  trival  occasions 
and  before  an  illiterate  audience.  .  .  .  Cer- 
tain it  is  that,  as  the  years  went  on,  the  appear- 
ance of  Choate  in  any  cause,  under  any  circum- 
stances,   was    the    signal    for    thronged    court 


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rooms  by  audiences  lifted  higli  and  still  higher 
upon  the  lofty  and  ever  renewed  flights  of 
wuiged  eloquence.  .  .  .  J  t  is  not  necessary 
to  go  farther  with  details.  Such  as  .Mr.  Choate's 
life  had  been,  it  continued  till,  as  was  inevitable, 
his  health  broke  down  finally  in  the  early  sum- 
mer of  1851;.  Determining  to  pass  the  season 
in  England,  he  sailed  from  Boston,  June  29, 
1859;  but,  becoming  worse,  he  left  the  ship  at 
Halifax,  where  he  died  July  13,  nt)t  yet  sixty 
years  old,  worn  out." 

AfXHORiTiiis:  I'lir  authorities  on  the  life 
and  career  of  Rufus  Choate  consult  "The  Life 
of  Rufus  Choate,"  by  I'rofessor  Samuel  (nl- 
nian  Brown.  Edward  (i.  Parker  published  a 
volume  of  "Reminiscences."  Edwin  1'.  Whipple 
wrote  much  anddiscriminately  of  Choate.  James 
T.  Fields  and  others  have  done  likewise  in 
either  essays  or  lectures.  A  comprehensive 
sketch  of  his  life,  by  the  Hon.  John  B.  D.  Cogs- 
well, was  published  in  the  "Memorial  Bio- 
graphies" of  the  New  England  Historic  Gene- 
alogical Society,  vol.  iii,  pp.  383-436. 

Ance.stky. — John  Choate  (ij,  baptized  at 
(iroton,  Bedford,  Colchester,  England,  June  0, 
1624,  died  at  Chebacco,  Ipswich,  Massachu- 
setts, December  4,  1695,  son  of  Robert  and 
Sarah  Choate.  His  wife  Anne  died  at  Che- 
bacco, February  16,  1727.  Children:  i.  John, 
born  June  15,  1661,  died  July  17,  1733,  married 
first,  July  7,  1684,  Elizabeth  (Jraves:  married 
second.  May  19,  1690,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Giddings  ; 
married  third,  July  xj,  1723,  Mrs.  Sarah  Per- 
kins, who  died  November  19,  1728;  and  mar- 
ried fourth,  Mrs.  Prudence  Marshall,  who  died 
June  9,  1732.  2.  Margaret,  died  February  28, 
1692,  married  .\braliam  I'^itts.  3.  Samuel,  died 
about  171 3,  married  Mary  Williams,  of  Rox- 
bury,  Massachusetts;  she  married  second,  1716, 
Samuel  Story,  of  Ipswich.  4.  Mary,  born  Au- 
gust 16,  1666:  died  prior  to  1691.  5.  Thomas, 
see  forward.  6.  Sarah,  married.  .April  13,  1693, 
John  Burnham.  of  Ipswich.  7.  Joseph,  married 
Rebecca.  8.  Benjamin,  died  November  26, 
'753  •  niarried,  June  12,  1707,  .Abigail  Burn- 
ham.     (11.  C.,  1703 ). 

(W)  Thomas  Choate,  son  of  John  Choate 
(  I  ),  born  at  Chebacco,  Ipswich,  Massachusetts, 
1671,  died  March  3.  1745:  married  first,  ifxp, 
Mary  \'arney,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  .Abi- 
gail (Proctor)  \  arney.  of  I])swich,  who  died 
November  19,  1733;  married  second,  Septem- 
ber 24,  1734,  Mrs.  Mary  Calef,  widow  of  Doc- 
tor Joseijh  Calef:  married  third,  November  9, 
1743,  Mrs.  iiaunali  Burnham,  who  died  Octo- 
ber 2,  1782.  lie  was  re])resentative  to  the 
(jeneral  Court  i723-"24-'25-"27.     Children:     i. 


.Anne,  born  May  22,  1 691,  died  August  15,  1759; 
married  October  21,  1710,  John  Burnham.  2. 
Thomas,  born  June  7,  1693,  died  August  2Z, 
1774;  married  first,  Elizabeth  Burnham;  mar- 
ried second,  October  31,  1738,  Mrs.  Sarah  Mar- 
shall ;  married  third.  AJrs.  Rachel  (  Riggsj  Lnf- 
kin.  3.  .Mary,  born  .March  18,  1695,  died 
March  6,  1767;  married,  December,  1716,  Par- 
ker Dodge,  of  Ipswich.  4.  John,  born  July  25, 
1697.  died  December  17,  1765:  married,  March 
3,  1717,  Aleriam  I^ool.  5.  .Abigail,  born  Octo- 
ber 20,  1699;  married  (published  November 
27,  1720)  John  Boardman,  of  Ipswich.  6. 
Francis,  born  September  13,  1701  ;  see  forward. 

7.  Rachel,  born  .November  18,  1703,  died  March 
'5-  ^I'^i'-  niarried  first,  January  16,  1724, 
Josei)h  Rust,  who  died  February  3,  1734;  mar- 
ried second,  March  2,  1737,  Isaac  ^lartin.  8. 
Ebenezer,  born  March  10,  1706;  married,  Sep- 
tember 3,  1730,  Elizabeth  Greenleaf.  9.  Sarah, 
born  July  24,  1708;  married  Reverend  .Amos 
Cheever. 

(HI)  Francis  Choate,  son  (if  Thomas  Choate 
(2),  born  at  Chebacco.  Ipswich,  Massachusetts, 
.September  13,  1701,  died  there  October  15, 
1777;  married.  .April  13,  1727,  Hannah  Per- 
kins, born  at  Boston,  Alassachusetts,  .April  4, 
1708,  died  October  2.  1778,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Mary  (  Pike  )  Perkins  ;  Blacksmith  ;  Ruling 
Ehler,  and  Esquire.  Children:  i.  Francis, 
born  I'ebruary  2J.  1727-8.  died  1 740.  2.  Will- 
iam, born  .Sei)tember  5,  1730;  see  forward.  3. 
.Abraham,  born  Alarch  24.  173 1-2,  died  .April 
23.  1800;  married  Sarah  Potter.  4.  Isaac,  born 
January  31.  1734,  died  May  30,  1813;  married 
Elizabeth  Low.  5.  Jacob,  baptized  .August  17, 
1735.  died  yiiung.  6.  John,  born  March  13, 
1737.  died  July  7,  1791  ;  married  first,  Novem- 
ber 14,  1760,  .Mary  Eveleth,  who  died  August 

8.  1788;  married  second,  .\]iril  i(>,  1789,  .Mrs. 
Sarah  (Johnson  )  .Newman,  who  married  third, 
October  24.  1792.  Bradstreet  Parker.  7.  Han- 
nah, born  .A])ril   1,   1739,  died  .A])ril   18.   1785; 

.married.  November  10.  1757.  Rufus  Lathrop. 
8.  Francis,  born  .September  18.  1743.  "'''^'' 
young. 

(1\'  )  William  t'hoate.  son  of  I'rancis  Clmate 
("3),  born  at  I'hebacco.  Ipswich,  Massachusetts. 
.Se])tember  5,  1730,  died  there.  .April  23.  1785; 
married,  January  16.  1756,  Mary  (".iddings, 
born  March  27.  1732.  died  Novembrr  I.  1810. 
daughter  of  Job  and  Margaret  (  Low  1  (iid- 
dings  ;  sea  cai)tain  ;  schoolmaster.  Children  : 
I.  William,  born  October  18,  1756.  died  No- 
vember, 1756.  2.  David,  born  November  29, 
1757;  see  forward.  3.  William,  born  .August 
10,    1759,   died  January.    1835:   married.   .Au- 


M  ASS  ACHT  SETTS. 


XXI. 


gust  19,  1784.  Su.sannali  Choate,  daughter  of 
Humphrej-  and  Ruth  (Lufkin)  Choate.  4. 
George,  born  February  24.  1762,  died  February 
8.  1826;  married,  January  i.  17S9,  Susanna 
Choate.  dauglUer  of  Stephen  and  Mary  (  Low) 
Choate.  5.  Margaret,  born  Marcli  iS.  lJ(^: 
married.  May  23.  1786,  John  Croeker,  Junior. 
6.  Job.  born  March  I.  1766.  ched  December, 
1813:  married  tirst.  .\pril,  1797,  Ly(Ha  Christo- 
phers :  married  second  Margaret  Adams.  7. 
Mary,  born  Xovember  17.  1767,  died  January, 
1852  :  married.  October  6.  1791,  Thomas  Baker. 
8.  Hannah,  born  Xovember  20,  1770,  died 
Marcli  5.  1810;  married.  January  10,  1793. 
.Samuel  Smitli.  9.  Sarah,  born  September  26, 
1772,  died  December  26,  1801.  10.  Lydia. 
born  September  24,  1774.  died  December  14, 
1839:  married.  February  19.  1801.  John  Per- 
kins. 

(\")  David  Choate.  son  of  WilHam  Choate 
(4).  bom  at  Chebacco,  Ipswich,  Massachusetts, 
Xovember  29,  1757,  died  March  26,  1808:  mar- 
ried first.  June  24.  1784.  Mary  Cogswell,  born 
December  19.  1760.  died  .A.ugust  21,  1784. 
daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (.-Kppleton) 
Cogswell:  married  second,  October  15,  1791, 
Miriam  Foster,  born  Xovember  28.  1771,  died 
January  14,  1853,  daughter  of  Captain  Aaron 
and  Ruth  (Low)  Foster,  of  Ipswich:  school 
teacher.  He  served  in  the  revolutionary  war, 
went  to  sea,  to  Havana  and  Cadiz.  Children: 
I.  Polly,  born  October  3,  1792,  died  March  29, 
1853:  married,  Xovember  28,  1813,  Doctor 
Thomas  Sewall.  2.  Hannah,  born  August  12, 
1794.  died  February  9,  1837:  married,  Septem- 
ber 2,  1822,  Reverend  Robert  Crowell.  3. 
David,  born  Xovember  29,  1796,  died  Decem- 
ber 17.  1872:  married,  January  14,  1828.  Eliza- 
beth Wade.  4.  Hon.  Rufus.  born  October  i. 
T7'Kj:  see  forward.  3.  Washington,  born  Jan- 
uary 17.  1803.  died  February  27.  1822.  6.  Job. 
born  December  25.  1806,  died  ^larcli  lo.  1808. 

(\'V)  Honorable  Rufus  Choate,  son  of  David 
Choate  (5).  born  at  Chebacco,  Ipswich,  now 
Essex.  Essex  county.  Massachusetts.  October 
I.  1799,  died  at  Halifax,  Xova  Scotia.  July  13, 
i83'>:  married,  at  Hanover.  Xew  Haiupshire. 
March  29.  1823.  Helen  Olcott.  born  at  Han- 
over. Xew  Hampshire.  March  29.  1804.  died  at 
Df>rchester.  Massachusetts.  December  8.  1864, 
daughter  of  Mills  and  Sarah  (Porter")  Olcott.* 
Children:      i.   Catherine   Bell,  born   Mav   26, 


•"The  Porter  Gpnpalogry."  p.  28.=).  caUs  MiUs  Olcott 
"Honnrable."  Sarah  Porter,  wife  of  MlUs  Olrott. 
wa.x  a  daughter  of  Asa  Porter,  by  his  wife  Mehit- 
ahle  (Crocker).  A.sa  Porter  was  a  loyalist.  (See 
Sabine,  p.  19SI.  H.  C.  1762.  The  line  of  Asa  is  .lohn 
(1).  Samuel  (2).  .lohn  (3).  Benjamin  (4).  Mo.ses  (51, 
Asa  (6). 


1826.  died  May  24,  1830.  2.  Infant,  born  Octo- 
ber 23,  1828.  died  same  day.  3.  Helen  Olcott, 
born  May  2,  1830;  married,  June  2,  1852, 
Josejih  ^fills  Bell,  of  Boston.  ^lassachusetts. 
4.  Sarah  IMake.  born  December  13,  1831.  died 
March  11.  1875.  3.  Rufus.  horn  May  14,  1834. 
died  January  13.  i86f>.  6.  Miriam  Foster,  born 
( )ctol)er  2.  1833:  married.  September  23,  1836, 
iulward  Ellerton  Pratt,  of  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts. 7.  Caroline,  born  September  13,  1837, 
died  December  12,  1840. 

TIMOTHY   riCKERlXC. 

.Main'  local  characters  in  Esse.x  county  have 
been  famous  in  their  day  and  generation,  and 
perhaps  none  more  so  at  the  time  of  the  Amer- 
ican revolution  than  [  Ion.  Timothy  Pickering. 
1  le  was  born  in  Salem,  July  17,  1743,  and  died 
in  his  native  city.  January  29,  1829.  He  was 
s^raduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1763,  was 
admittcil  to  the  bar  in  1768,  received  a  degree 
from  Xew  Jersey  College  in  1798:  commanded 
a  militia  regiment  at  the  beginning  of  the  revo- 
lution, held  the  office  of  adjutant-general  of 
tlie  army  in  1777,  and  that  of  quartermaster- 
general  in  1780.  After  the  revolutionary  war 
he  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  and  between  1791 
and  1800  was  postmaster-general  of  the  United 
States,  and  secretary  of  war  and  secretary  of 
state.  He  returned  to  Salem,  in  1801.  and  was 
afterwards  chief  justice  of  the  Essex  county 
court  of  common  pleas.  United  States  senator 
from  1803  to  181 1,  and  a  representative  in 
congress  from  1813  to  1817.  His  portrait  by 
Stuart,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three,  shows  a  man 
of  a  strong  face,  indicative  of  a  firm  will.  He 
was  the  father  of  the  famous  scliolar.  John 
Pickering  (  1777-1846),  author  of  the  Creek 
and  English  I.exicon  bearing  his  name.  This 
was  the  first  Greek  lexicon  witli  definitions  in 
English,  and  not  Latin. 

Timothy  Pickering  was  conspicuous  for  the 
force  and  dignity  of  his  character.  From  1774 
when  the  first  colonial  legislature  assembled  in 
Salem,  Pickering  ])olitically  was  at  the  centre 
of  events  that  preceded  and  included  the  revo- 
hitiim.  Eminent  as  he  was  in  public  life,  he 
was  but  one  in  a  group  of  professional  and 
business  men  of  rare  ability  and  great  attain- 
ments. He  was  associated  in  his  native  city 
with  educated  men  wlio  were  not  only  familiar 
with  affairs  in  tlieir  own  country,  but  also  were 
;il  home  in  foreign  lands,  having  much  of  the 
culture  gained  by  travel  after  the  usual  course 
of  educati(jn  was  finished.  They  were  not 
])rovincial  in  the  narrow  sense. 

It  is  remembered  of  Timothy  Pickering  that 


-MASSACHUSETTS. 


he  was  near-sigliicd  and  wcirc  glasses  at  a 
])erio(l  in  the  history  of  the  country  when  such 
articles  were  uncommon,  and  near-sighted  peo- 
ple having  no  glasses  were  relegated  to  the 
limbo  of  old  age  and  to  the  realms  of  prema- 
ture uselessness.  At  home  he  was  president  of 
the  county  agricultural  society  and  one  of  the 
school  committee.  About  1770  he  published 
a  manual  of  military  tactics  which  he  used  in 
drill  before  the  lireaking  out  of  the  following 
war  and  which  he  applied  later  in  a  critical 
way  to  the  instruction  of  ofificers  superior  to 
him  in  rank  as  the  w-ar  progressed.  He  pub- 
lished an  exhaustive  letter  on  the  "Conduct  of 
the  -American  Government  towards  Great  Brit- 
ain and  France,"  and  a  "Review  of  the  Corre- 
spondence between  President  John  Adams  and 
W.  Cunningham,"  besides  other  ]iapers  con- 
nected with  his  varied  official  service.  The 
late  George  llailey  Loring  says  of  him:  "Col- 
onel Pickering  was  not  only  governed  by  a 
high  sense  of  duty  throughout  his  long  career, 
and  by  strong  convictions,  but  he  also  expressed 
himself  in  a  nervous,  vigorous  style,  and  in 
controversial  correspondence  was  a  most  for- 
midable foe.  To  no  man  is  this  country  more 
indebted  for  its  independent  nationality  and 
the  strength  of  its  instituti«ins.  He  performed 
his  service  with  such  fearlessness  and  honesty 
that  be  was  at  times  placed  on  the  defensive: 
but  be  now  stands  in  the  front  rank  of  the 
great  and  pure  men  of  the  revolutionary  and 
constitutional  period  in  our  history.  In  a  liter- 
ary point  of  view,  be  has  left  for  the  imitation 
of  those  statesmen  who  come  after  him  a  clear 
and  imjiressive  style  and  great  power  of  state- 
ment. " 

He  is  sometimes  criticized  for  his  marching 
from  .Salem,  with  his  regiment  of  three  hun- 
dred men,  on  .\pril  ig.  1775.  in  pursuit  of  the 
Piritisb  troo]js  retreating  from  Lexington,  and 
failing  to  come  up  with  them  near  Charles- 
town,  from  win'ch  he  threatened  to  cut  of?  their 
retreat.  .An  observer  on  l'ros])ect  Hill,  in  ]jrcs- 
ent  Somerville,  saw  Colonel  Pickering's  regi- 
ment on  the  top  of  Winter  Hill,  nearby,  and 
the  enemy  being  very  near  in  Charlestown  road. 
And  Washington  wrote:  "For  they  (the  P.rit- 
ish)  Jiad  not  arrived  in  Charlestown,  under 
cover  of  their  shi])s,  half  an  hour,  before  a 
jiowerful  body  of  men  from  Marblehead  and 
Salem  was  at  their  heels,  and  must,  if  they  had 
happened  to  be  up  one  hour  sooner,  inevitably 
have  interce])ted  their  retreat  to  Charlestown."* 

.ANcicsrKv. — John  Pickering  (  i  ),  born  in 
I'jigland,  about  1615,  died  in  .Salem,  Massa- 
chu-^etts,  i'')57,  married,  about   i<^t,(\  F.lizabcth 


:    she    married    second,    December    25, 

^^^57'  John  Deacon,  and  died  August  8,  1662. 
According  to  the  Aspinwall  Notarial  Records, 
under  date  of  1650,  John  Pickering  of  Salem 
owned  a  house  near  the  Xewgate  in  Coventry, 
county  Warwick,  England,  which  leads  to  the 
belief  that  he  came  from  there  or  near  there. 
Children:  I.  John,  see  forward.  2.  Jonathan, 
died  1729:  married.  March  19,  1665,  Jane 
Cromwell.  3.  Elizabeth,  baptized  March  3, 
1644,  died  young,  4.  Elizabeth,  baptized  .Au- 
gust 31,  1645,  died  young. 

(  II )  John  Pickering,  son  of  John  Pickering 
(I  ),  Ixjrn  at  Salem,  AIas,sachusetts,  1637,  died 
.May  5,  1694,  married  Alice  (Flint)  Bullock, 
widow  of  Henry  P>ullock,  Junior,  and  daughter 
of  William  and  Alice  Mint.  He  was  a  lieuten- 
ant in  Captain  .Samuel  Ap])leton"s  companv  in 
1675-6,  and  under  Captain  Moselcy  went  to 
the  rescue  of  Captain  Latbroji's  company  at 
nioody  Brook,  1675.  Children:  i.  John,  born 
1658:  see  forward.  2.  Jonathan,  born  Sep- 
tember 27,  1660,  died  young.  3.  Joseph,  born 
.September  9,  1663,  died  young.  4.  Benjamin, 
born  January  15,  1665-6,  died  1718:  married, 
.April  27,  1693,  Jane  Hobby.  5.  Sarah,  born 
.September  7,  1668.  died  before  1692:  married 
John  lluttnlpli.  6.  Edward,  birth  unrecorded. 
7.  William,  born  January  11,  1670-1 :  married, 
June  19,  1695,  Hannah  Browne.  8.  Elizabeth, 
born  September  7,  1674:  married  first,  before 
|6);6,  Samuel  Nichols;  married  second,  Febru- 
ary 22.  1698-9,  James  Browne.  9.  Hannah, 
))orn  July  2,  1677,  died  before  July  29,  1714; 
married  first,  Daniel  King:  married  second, 
1701.  Nathaniel  Beadle:  married  third,  Octo- 
lier  2(),  1706,  Richard  Palmer. 

(HI)   John  I'ickering,  son  ni  John  Picker- 

*On  Felirvi;tr\'  \^.  177.5.  he  was  elected  colonel  of 
the  First  F^cKintent  of  Essex  county  mUitia.  an<l 
received  liis  commission  from  the  royal  grovern- 
ment.  He  held  this  office  sometime  after  lie  had 
joined  the  nrni,\'  of  the  I'nited  States  in  1777.  It  is 
generally  understood  that  he  was  present  at  the 
North  Rrid^e  when  Colonel  I..eslie  attempted  to 
c.ipturc  the  cannon  that  were  stored  on  the  North 
Kield.  Salem:  and  the  accounts  of  the  affair  printed 
in  the  "Kssex  Gazette''  have  been  attributed  t(t  him. 

April  11).  177!t.  lie  led  his  regiment  to  assist  the 
colonists  on  that  eventful  d.i>'.  but  arrived  loo  late, 
'rile  affray  at  T-.e\ingrton  had  already  taken  place, 
and  the  ilritish  were  on  their  retvirn  tct  Roston. 
win  n  t'ohinel  rickcrinK  ami  his  men  reached  Med- 
ford.  Colonel  I*i<'kprinK's  l.iehavior  on  tilis  occasion 
has  !>een  the  subject  of  adverse  criticism;  but  a 
c.-irtful  in<iuir>'  into  the  facts  shows  clearly  that  his 
<-onduct  was  all  that  could  be  desired  from  a  brave 
and  cai'cful  otlicer.  December  .5.  1770,  he  ctdlected  a 
i-tKitnent  of  se\-cn  hundred  men.  wlui  marched  under 
his  conmiftnd.  and  went  throuj^h  the  canip.iiKn  in 
.New  York  and  New  .lersev.  The  campaign  ended 
April    1.   1777. 

Colonel  Pickering's  reputation  and  his  fre(iuent 
visits  at  headijuarters  made  so  favorable  impres- 
sion on  (Jeneral  Washington  that  he  wrote  lilni  an 
ur».rent  letter  dated  March  .'10.  1777.  I'ffering  him  the 
post  of  adjulant-tceneral.  which  he  declined  at  first, 
I'Ut   aftirwaids  accepted. 


MASSAClU'SKTiS. 


iiig  (2),  born  at  Salem,  Massaclnisetts.  Seji- 
tember  lo.  ir)58,  died  there  June  ly.  1722:  mar- 
ried. June  14.  if>83.  Sarah  lUirrell.  born  May 

16.  ifiji,  died  December  2-j.  1747.  daughter  of 
John  and  Lois  (Ivory)  Burrell.  of  Lynn,  ^lass- 
aclnisetts.  Cliildren  :  Lois,  born  May  i.  1684  ; 
died  I-'ebruary  12.  1754:  married.  A])ril  1^, 
1709.  Timothy  ( )rne.  2.  Sarah,  born  July  25. 
i(>86.  died   December  20.   1744:  married.  July 

17.  1707.  Joseph  Hardy.  3.  John,  born  (jcto- 
ber  2'^.  i()88,  died  September  to.  17 12.  4. 
Mary,  born  !NLiy  11.  1691.  died  July  8.  1702. 
5.  Ruth,  born  October  10.  1693.  died  July  2-j, 
1702.  6.  Joseph,  born  November  29.  1695, 
died  July  22.  1702.  7.  Lydia.  bom  Marcli  17. 
1698.  died  October  10.  1702.  8.  Theophilus. 
born  .Se]nember  28.  1700.  died  October  7.  1747. 
9.  Timotliv,  born  February  10.  1702-3;  see  for- 
ward. 10.  liunicc,  born  October  3,  1705,  died 
October  8.  1783:  married  first.  December  10. 
1724.  Jose])h  .Xeal ;  married  second.  April  6, 
1738.  \\  illiam  Pickering. 

(  \\  )  Timothy  Pickering,  son  of  John  Pick- 
ering (3).  born  at  Salem.  Massachusetts,  bap- 
tized I'ebruary  14.  1702-3,  died  there.  June  7, 
1778,  married,  November  21,  \'J2'^.  Mary  ^^'in- 
gate,  born  at  Hampton.  New  Hampshire.  June 
14,  1708,  died  at  Salem,  Massachusetts.  Decem- 
ber 12.  1784.  daughter  of  Colonel  Joshua  and 
Mary  (  Lunt )  W'ingate.  Children:  i.  Sarah, 
born  January  2%.  1730,  died  November  21. 
1826:  married  John  Clarke.  2.  Mary,  born 
March  29.  1733.  died  January  30.  1805.  3. 
Lydia.  born  l-\bruary  2"/.  173').  died  October 
21.  1824;  married.  Nlarcli  r  5,  1758.  George 
Williams.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  November  12. 
1737.  died  October  12.  1823;  married.  Novem- 
ber 7,  1757.  John  Gardner.  5.  John,  born 
March  2.  1740,  died  August  20.  181 1.  6.  Lois, 
horn  April  19,  1742,  died  February  4,  1815: 
married,  1772,  John  Gooll.  7.  Eunice,  born 
April  19.  1742.  died  January  14,  1843,  '"  't^*" 
one  hundred  and  first  year :  married.  May  23, 
1765.  her  cousin,  Paine  W'ingate,  who  died  in 
bis  one  hundredth  year.  8.  Timothy,  born  July 
(^.  1743:  see  forward.  9.  Lucia,  born  Novem- 
ber 12.  1747.  died  October  31.  1822:  married. 
June  17.  I77''>.  Israel  Dodtre. 

(  \")  Colonel  Timothy  I'ickering.  son  of  Tim- 
fthy  Pickering  (4).  born  at  .Salem.  Massaclni- 
sctts.  July  6.  1745.  died  tliere  January  29.  1829  ; 
married.  .April  8.  1776.  Rebecca  White,  born  at 
I'.ristol.  England.  July  18.  1754.  died  at  Salem. 
Massachusetts^,  August  14,  1828,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  and  l-".lizabeth  (Miller)  White.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John,  born  I''ebruary  2.  1777.  died 
May  5.  i84''>:  married.  .March  3.  1803,  Sarah 


Wliile.  2.  rimothy.  born  October  i,  1779, 
died  .Ma\  14.  1807;  married,  December  29, 
1804,  Lurena  Cole.  3.  I  lenry,  born  October  8, 
1781.  died  May  8,  1838.  4.  Charles,  born  May 
23.  1784.  died  May  12.  179C).  3.  William,  born 
l'ehruar\-  16,  1786,  died  June  16,  1814.  f).  Ed- 
ward, born  .September  12,  1787,  died  Octolier 
'O-  ^'i'')J>-  7-  George,  born  .\ugust  7,  1789,  died 
.\])ril  2}^.  1826.  8.  ( Jctavius,  born  September  2, 
17<)|.  died  October  29,  i8(')8;  married,  Decem- 
Ikt  21;,  1836,  Jane  Pratt.  9.  Mary,  born  No- 
vember 2!.  1793,  died  March  22.  1863;  mar- 
ried, A])ril  12.  1813.  P>enjamin  Ropes  Nichols. 
10.  I'^lizabeth,  born  .November  21.  1793.  died 
-August  II.  1819:  married.  August  12.  1816. 
I  (ammond  Dorsey. 

NATHANIEL  lU  )WDiTCII. 

Natlianiel  Powditch  was  born  in  Salem.  March 
2(1.  1773.  and  died  in  lioston,  March  iC),  1838. 
He  began  life  in  the  forecastle  of  an  East 
Indiaman,  and  a  recent  writer  has  said  of  him: 
"Nathaniel  Bowditch  everybody  has  heard  of 
who  ever  smelled  salt  water.  He  was  famous 
both  on  sea  and  shore.  His  fame  was  so  ex- 
tensive and  stable  that  even  his  contemporaries 
who  used  his  ".Navigator,"  and  worked  out 
their  problems  by  use  of  his  tables,  often 
thought  of  him  as  being  as  ancient  and  famous 
as  Sir  Isaac  Newton.  After  his  marine  experi- 
ence was  over  he  lived  as  a  quiet  business  man 
in  .Salem,  not  especially  conspicuous  in  a  place 
and  at  a  time  wlien  firstrate  attainments  and 
achievements  were  exjiected  of  many  men  in 
manv  modes  of  action."  In  Salem  he  w-as 
])resident  of  the  Essex  Fire  and  .Marine  Insur- 
ance Com]]aii\-.  Therefore  in  an  intellectual 
[loint  of  view  his  career  is  one  of  the  most  re- 
markable and  admirable  records  in  history. 

The  present  writer  holds  in  his  hand  a  bound 
volume  gf  [jamjihlets.  entitled  by  its  former 
owner  "Bowditch's  Fuilogies."  The  volume  was 
formerly  the  property  of  Eliza  S.  Ouincy.  a 
ilaugl  ter  of  an  eminent  ])resident  of  Harvard 
Cniversity.  and  contains  her  autograjih.  Their 
titles  are  ".A  Discourse  on  the  Life  and  Char- 
acter" of  Dr.  P.owditch.  by  .Alexander  Young 
(  r.oston.  18381,  I  14  PI'.  A  "Eulogy."  by  John 
Pickering  (Boston,  1838),  101  pj). :  and  another 
"Eulogy"  by  Daniel  .Appleton  \\'hite  (Salem, 
1838),  72  jip. 

His  parents  were  Habakkuk  and  Mary  fn- 
gersoll  Bowditch.  His  ancestors  for  three  gen- 
erations w-ere  shipmasters,  and  his  father  on 
retiring  from  that  mode  of  hard  industry,  car- 
ried on  the  trade  of  a  cooper,  by  which  he 
gained  a  precarious  subsistence  for  a  family  of 


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seven  cliildreii.  of  which  Nathaniel  was  the 
fourtli.  lie  sailed  on  his  first  vo_vage,  at  the 
age  of  twenty-two.  on  January  1 1,  1795,  in  the 
capacity  of  captain's  clerk,  and  was  absent  a 
year.  In  1800.  at  the  age  of  twenty-three,  he 
issued  the  first  edition  of  his  "Xew  American 
r'ractical  Xavigator,"'  a  work  which  has  been 
of  immense  service  to  the  nautical  and  com- 
luercial  interests  of  this  country.  By  this 
single  act.  without  doing  anything  more,  he 
would  have  conferred  a  lasting  obligation  upon 
his  native  land.  "The  Practical  Navigator,"  to 
the  time  of  his  death,  was  never  superseded 
1  le  learned  the  French  and  Spanish  languages 
without  any  instructor.  Subsef|uentlv  in  life 
he  acquired  the  Cierman  and  the  Italian.  In 
1790  he  began  to  study  Latin  in  order  to  read 
mathemetical  works  in  that  language.  I  laving 
(|uitted  the  sea  in  1840  he  became  the  president 
of  the  marine  insurance  company  in  Salem, 
which  we  have  already  mentioned,  and  retained 
that  office  until  1823,  when  he  was  elected  to  a 
high  position  in  another  insurance  company, 
and  removed  to  Boston  at  the  age  of  fifty,  and 
spent  in  that  city  the  last  fifteen  years  of  his 
life.  He  was  eminently  a  self-taught  and  self- 
made  man.  He  became  one  of  the  greatest 
scientific  men  of  his  age.  fie  was  a  contempla- 
tive, recluse  student,  and,  at  the  same  time,  an 
active  public  man.  At  the  same  time  he  was 
one  of  the  most  skilful  of  financiers.  He  trans- 
lated and  commented  on  LaPlace  "Mecanique 
Celeste:"  the  first  volume  in  182Q,  the  second 
volume  in  1832,  and  the  third  volume  in  1S34; 
of  about  one  thousand  pages  each,  quarto ;  the 
fourth  and  last  was  incomplete  at  his  decease. 

On  October  28.  1800.  he  married  his  cousin. 
Mary  Tngersoll,  as  his  second  wife,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Mary  Hodges  Ingersoll ;  she  was 
born  December  4,  1781,  and  died  in  Boston, 
April  17,  1S34.  By  his  second  marriage  he  had 
eight  children,  si.x  of  whom  (four  sons  and 
two  daughters)  survived  him.  His  first  wife 
was  Elizabeth  Boardman,  daughter  of  Francis 
r>oardman.  married,  March  23.  1708:  she  died 
while  he  was  absent  on  a  voyage,  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  years. 

Nine  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  live  voy- 
ages upon  the  sea  (four  of  tliem  to  the  East 
Indies).  He  was  the  autlior  of  many  scientific 
articles  described  by  John  Bickering,  who  ven- 
tures the  remark  that  the  mere  mechanical  bulk 
of  Dr.  Bow(litch"s  work  exhibits  an  amount  nf 
actual  labor  "that  astonishes  us." 

Daniel  Apjileton  White  (in  1S38)  speaking 
to  the  inhabitants  of  .Salem,  states,  that  "some 
of  you  rrmember  him  at  schiuil,  as  an  active, 


bright  buy,  and  unctjmmonly  fond  of  the  study 
of  arithmetic his  genius  for  the  mathe- 
matics then  began  to  manifest  itself." 

and  this  before  the  age  of  ten,  when  he  quitted 
the  school,  because  of  the  obligation  to  go  to 
work.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  made  a  manu- 
script almanac  for  the  \ear  1790,  comjilete  in 
afl  its  [larts ;  and  so  onward." 

The  names  of  Dr.  ISowditch's  brothers  and 
sisters  were  Mary  (who  married),  Habakkuk, 
Elizabeth,  William  (who  died  in  1799,  aged 
23),  Samuel  and  Lois  (the  last  named  was  un- 
married, and  died  about  1808).  Five  of  this 
number  died  before  the  age  of  twenty-three, 
and  the  eldest  of  them  died  in  1808,  at  the  age 
of  forty-two.  The  mother  of  Dr.  I'.owditch 
was  a  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Ingersoll,  and  his 
ancestors  were  all  inhabitants  of  Salem,  where 
the  first  was  William  Bowditch,  who,  with  his 
wife  Sarah,  came  from  England  among  the 
early  settlers.  Their  son  W^illiam  w^as  collector 
of  the  port  of  Salem  for  the  colonial  govern- 
ment. He  died  suddenly  in  if)8i,  leaving  a 
widow  named  Sarah,  and  an  only  son  named 
\\  illiam.  who  was  married  to  Marv.  a  daughter 
of  Thomas  Gardner.  This  third  William  was 
a  res[)ectable  merchant,  and  for  many  years  a 
representative  to  the  general  court.  He  had 
been  a  shi])master.  .\mong  his  children  was 
Josc]3h,  who  was  a  man  of  note  in  his  day,  and 
Ebenezer,  the  grandfather  of  Dr.  Bowditch, 
who  in  1723  married  Mary,  daughter  of  John 
Turner,  an  opulent  merchant,  long  a  member  of 
the  Province  Council.  Dr.  Nathaniel  Bow- 
ditch's  father  and  grandfather  were  lx)th  re- 
spectable shipmasters.     (  D.  .\.  White). 

AxcE.sTRV. — William  Bowditch  (i),  was  ad- 
mitted an  inhabitant  of  Salem.  Massachusetts, 
November  20,  1639.  His  wife  Sarah  joined 
the  church  at  Salem.  May  10.  1640.  Mr.  Bow- 
ditch had  a  grant  of  ten  acres  of  land,  January 
23,  1642.  and  had  another  grant  of  thirty  acres, 
on  October  13,  1649.  Mr.  liowditch  is  said  to 
have  come  to  Salem  from  Devonshire,  Eng- 
land, Children:  t.  William,  born  about  1640; 
see  forward.  2.  Nathaniel,  baptized  I'ebruarx 
12.  i'')42-3.  Nathaniel  I'.owditch,  of  Newport, 
Rhode  Island,  sold  land  in  Salem,  in  1674. 

(  II »  William  P.owditch,  son  of  William  Bow- 
ditch (  T  ),  born  at  Salem,  Massachusetts,  about 
i''i40.  died  bef(jre  November  12,  1681  :  was  a 
merchant  at  .^alem,  and  collector  of  customs  at 
the  port  of  .'^alem  :  married  Sarah  — — — :  she 
was  living  in  1703.  t'liild:  1.  William,  see 
forward. 

(Ill)  Captain  William  r.dwditch.  son  of 
William  Bowditch  (2),  born  at  Salem.  Massa- 


iMASSACllL  SETTS. 


cluisetts,  Sci)tcml)er.  1663.  died  May  28,  172S, 
married.  August  30.  1688.  Mary  Gardner,  born 
I-'ebrnary  14.  1609-70.  died  1724,  daughter  of 
Lieutenant  Thomas  and  Mary  (I'orierj  Gartl- 
ner,  of  Salem.  He  was  a  sea  captain  and  a 
merchant,  a  selectman,  deputy  to  the  general 
court,  1712-13.  and  held  other  offices  of  trust, 
and  was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Salem.  He  and 
his  wife  are  hotli  burie<l  in  the  Charter  street 
burying  ground.  Children:  I.  Mary,  born 
.August  2,  1^)89.  died  October  2.  1689.  2.  Will- 
iam, born  October  31.  1690.  died  October  12, 
1706.  3.  Mary,  born  December  18,  i(>93.  died 
February,  1724:  married  first,  September  8. 
1715,  James  Butler,  of  Boston.  Massachusetts; 
second,  December  26.  1723.  Captain  Sanuiel 
Barton,  of  Salem.  4.  Sarah,  born  January  10, 
1696,  died  March.  1761  ;  married,  June  30, 
1715,  Joseph  Hatborn,  of  Salem,  who  died 
June  3.  1760.  5.  Thomas,  born  June  5,  1698, 
died  Xovember  30.  1702.  6.  Joseph,  born  Au- 
gust 21,  1700,  died  October  6,  1780;  married. 
July  25,  1725,  Elizabeth  Hunt,  who  died  May 
7.  1743.  in  her  thirty-ninth  year.  7.  Ebenezer, 
born  April  26,  1703;  see  forward.  8.  Eunice, 
born  June  8.  1705.  died  July  2,  1705.  9.  Eunice, 
born  March  22,  1707;  married.  December  12. 
1728,  \\'illiam  Hunt,  of  Salem.  10.  Daniel, 
born  June  19.  1709.  died  about  1730.  11.  Will- 
iam, born  February  i.  171 3.  died  Xovctuher  i, 

1715- 

dV)  Captain  Ebenezer  Bowditch.  son  of 
Cai)tain  William  Bowditch  ('3),  born  at  Salem, 
Massachusetts.  .April  26,  1703,  died  February 
2.  1768.  aged  sixty-four;  married,  .August  15, 
1728,  Marv  Turner,  born  Xovember  i.  1706, 
died  May  i.  1785.  daughter  of  Colonel  John 
and  Mary  (Kitchen)  Turner,  of  Salem.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Ebenezer,  born  September  28,  1729, 
died  -August  3.  1771  :  married.  July  17,  1755, 
Elizabeth  Cilman,  of  Ipswich.  Massachusetts, 
who  died  February  11.  1824,  aged  ninety-two 
years.  2.  John,  born  April  3.  1732:  married, 
July  12.  1759.  Mary  Carlton,  of  Salem.  3. 
Thomas,  horn  about  1734,  died  July  29,  1808, 
aged  .seventy-four  years;  married.  .April  21. 
1760,  Sarah  P.ancroft,  of  Lynn.  Alassachusetts, 
who  died  February  26.  1808,  aged  sixty-six 
years.  4.  William,  died  December  29.  1752. 
aged  eighteen  years.  5.  Habakkuk.  baptized 
March  5.  1737-8:  see  forward.  A.  Mary,  died 
April  22.  1757,  aged  fifteen  years. 

(V")  Captain  Habakkuk  tlowflitch,  son  of 
Captain  Ebenezer  r)Owditch  C 4),  born  at  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  baptized  March  5,  1737-8,  died 
July  28.  1798:  married.  July  23.  I7f>5.  Mary 
Ingersoll.  daughter  of  Captaiil  Xathaniel  and 


I'.ethia  (  Gardner  )  Inger^()ll.  of  .Salem.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Mary,  bajitized  March  30,  1766,  died 
iSoS:  married  Captain  David  Alartin.  2.  Ha- 
bakkuk. baptized  May  15,  1708.  3.  Elizabeth, 
baptized  .\Iay  19,  177 1.  4.  Xathaniel,  born 
March  26,  1773:  see  forward.  5.  Samuel  In- 
gersoll, baptized  September  u.  ijj').  (>.  \\  ill- 
iam,  ba])tized  September  12,  1779,  died  1799. 
7.  Lois,  bai)tized  .April  i,  1781  ;  married  Cap- 
tain jd^eph  Bowditch. 

(\1)  Xathaniel  Biiwditcli,  son  of  C'aptain 
1  laijakkuk  Bowditch  (  5  ),  born  at  Salem,  Mass- 
achusetts. March  26,  1773,  died  at  Boston. 
Massachusetts,  March  if),  1838:  married  first, 
March  25.  1798,  Elizabeth  l>oardman,  daughter 
of  Captain  Francis  and  Mary  (  Hodges)  Board- 
man,  who  died  October  18,  1798,  aged  nineteen 
\ears :  marrieil  second,  October  28,  1800,  his 
cousin,  Mary  Ingersoll,  born  December  4,  1781, 
died  April  17,  1834,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and 
Marv  (Hoflges)  Ingersoll.  of  Windsor,  \'er- 
mont.  Children  by  second  wife:  I.  Xathaniel 
Ingersoll.  born  at  Salem,  January  17,  r8o3, 
died  in  Brookline,  Massachusetts,  April  16, 
i8tii.  (  H.  C.  1822).  Married.  Ajiril  23,  1835, 
Elizabeth  B.  Francis.  2.  Jonathan  Ingersoll. 
married  Lucy  Orne  Xichols.  3.  1  lenry  Ingcr- 
si>ll.  burn  at  Salem,  .\ugust  <).  1808,  died  Janu- 
ary 14.  1892.  (H.  C,  1828).  4.  Charles  Inger- 
soll. died  February  21,  1820.  5.  Son,  died 
voung.  Ck  Marv  Ingersoll.  7.  William  Inger- 
soll. '  (H.  C,  1838  >•  8.  Elizabeth  Boardman 
IngerMill. 

X  ATM  AX  DAXE. 

Xathan  Dane  was  born  at  Ipswich,  in  the 
parish  of  that  town  called  the  Hamlet,  now  the 
separate  town  of  Hamilton,  December  29, 1752. 
His  ancestor  John  Dane  came  from  England 
before  1641  and  from  him  Xathan  was  de- 
scended by  John  (2).  John  (3).  Daniel  (4), 
Daniel  (5).  the  last  of  whom  married  .Abigail 
Burnham,  the  mother  of  Xathan. 

He  worked  on  a  farm  until  he  was  twenty- 
iiue,  when  he  prepared  himself  for  college,  and 
entered  Harvard,  and  was  graduated  there  in 
1778.  He  then  taught  school  and  studied  law, 
and  began  practice  in  Beverly,  where  he  resided 
imtil  his  death.  February  15,  1835.  He  was  a 
representative  to  the  general  court  of  Massa- 
chusetts, 1782-85;  metnljer  of  Congress,  1785- 
87;  and  of  the  Massachusetts  senate  five  years 
between  1790  and  1798.  He  held  other  honors, 
including  an  ai)])ointment  as  justice  of  the 
court  of  common  j)leas,  but  resigned  the  place 
very  soon.  In  181 4  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Hartford  convention.     He  was  a  member  of 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


several  liistorical  societies.  In  1829  he  founded 
the  Dane  law  professorship  in  Harvard  Col- 
lege. He  was  the  author  of  "' A  General  Abridg- 
ment and  Digest  of  American  Law."  a  work 
which  gave  him  a  permanent  fame.  But  he  is 
still  better  known  for  the  connection  of  his 
name  with  the  Ordinance  of  1787,  drafted  by 
him  for  the  government  of  the  Northwest 
Territory  of  Ohio.  In  this  document  the  spread 
and  power  of  the  institution  of  slavery  was 
checked. 

Daniel  Webster  in  his  famous  "Reply  to 
Hayne"  eulogized  him  thus  :  "1  paid  a  passing 
tribute  of  respect  to  a  very  worthy  man.  Mr. 
Dane,  of  Massachusetts.  It  so  happens  that  he 
drew  the  ordinance  of  1787  for  the  govern- 
ment of  the  northwest  territory.  A  man  of  so 
much  ability  and  so  little  pretence,  of  so  great 
a  capacity  to  do  good  and  so  unmixed  a  disposi- 
tion to  do  it  for  its  own  salce,  a  gentleman  who 
had  acted  an  important  part  forty  years  ago,  in 
a  measure  the  influence  of  which  is  still  deeply 
felt,  should  be  remembered."  W'eb.ster  further 
said:  "It  fi.xed  forever  the  character  of  the 
population  in  the  vast  regions  northwest  of  the 
Ohio,  by  excluding  from  them  involuntary 
servitude.  It  impressed  upon  the  soil  itself, 
while  it  was  yet  a  wilderness,  an  incapacity  to 
bear  up  any  other  than  freeman.  It  laid  the 
interdict  against  personal  servitude,  in  original 
c<im])act,  not  only  deejjer  than  all  local  law,  but 
deeper,  also,  than  all  local  constitution." 

He  was  notable  above  all  his  professional 
brethren  of  that  time.  He  ac(|uired  in  his 
youth  a  physical  stamina  by  work  on  the  farm 
which  su]iporte<l  him  through  the  unremitted 
labors  of  a  long  life,  during  sixty  of  which  he 
pursued  his  studies. 

.•\  notice  by  a  contempdvary,  Uev.  Christo- 
])her  T.  .Aver.  i>;  jirinted  in  Stones  "History  of 
Beverly."  from  which  are  made  these  extracts: 
"His  father  was  a  worthy  and  substantial 
farmer,  and  his  ])arents  resjiectable  and  excel- 
lent ]iersons,  of  whom  he  always  spoke  with 
veneration  and  affection.  They  had  a  numer- 
ous family — six  .sons  and  six  daughters — of 
whom  two  daughters  were  living  (  1843  )  one  in 
her  102(1  vear.  He  was  remarkable  for  his 
power  of  long  continued  api)lication  to  .study. 
His  advantages  of  education  before  he  was 
twenty-one  were  very  small.  He  prepared 
himself  for  college  in  the  short  s])ace  of  eight 
months.  He  studied  law  under  the  well  known 
judge  W'etmore.*  His  jiractice  from  the  first 
was  extensive  and  profitable.     Through  grow- 

•WlMiam  Wetmore.  of  Salem,  Haivanl  1770.  was 
admlttod  to  the  bar  1780.  He  died  1S30.  and  his 
daupliter   was    the    wife   of   .ludpe   Joseph    Story. 


ing  deafness  he  was  induced  gradually,  and  at 
lengtli  wholly  to  retire  from  it.  He  was  ap- 
])ointed  on  a  committee  to  revise  the  laws  of 
the  State  in  1795.  and  again  to  a  smiliar  duty 
in  1811  and  1812.  He  was  an  elector  of  presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  in  1812,  and  chosen 
in  1820  a  member  of  the  convention  loY  revis- 
ing the  State  constitution,  but  on  account  of 
deafness  did  not  take  his  seat.  He  was  dis- 
tinguished by  his  ability  in  debate,  knowledge 
of  puljlic  business  and  capacity  for  discharging 
it."  "We  are  accustomed,"  said  Mr.  Webster 
(in  1830),  "to  praise  the  lawgivers  of  antic]- 
uity :  we  help  to  per])etuate  the  fame  of  Solon 
and  Lvcurgus ;  but  I  doubt  whether  one  single 
law  of  any  lawgiver,  ancient  or  modern,  has 
produced  elTects  of  a  more  distinct  and  marked 
and  lasting  character  than  the  ordinance  of  '87. 
That  instrument  was  drawn  by  Nathan  Dane, 
then  and  now  a  citizen  of  Massachusetts.  It 
was  ado]ited,  as  I  think  I  have  understood, 
without  the  slightest  alteration  ;  and  certainly 
it  has  happened  to  few  men,  to  be  the  author 
of  a  ]ioliticaI  measure  of  more  large  and  endur- 
ing consetjuence." 

He  bestowed  in  his  lifetime  the  sum  of  $15.- 
003  to  the  Law  College  of  Harvard  University. 
He  was  also  a  donor  to  the  Dane  Law  Library 
of  Ohio.  His  "General  Abridgement  and  Digest 
of  American  Law,  with  Occasional  Notes  and 
Comments,"  is  in  nine  volumes.  It  w^as  pub- 
lished in  1823  and  1829,  and  is  regarded  a 
monument  of  immense  industry  and  learning. 
He  completed  another  of  nearly  equal  extent 
in  manuscript,  entitled,  ".\  Moral  and  Political 
.Survey  of  .\merica."  He  could  study  and 
write  as  least  twelye  lunirs  a  day  and  neither, 
as  he  said  himself,  the  care  of  children,  nor  the 
cares  or  want  of  property  have  interfered  with 
his  "studies.  .\t  the  time  when  he  commenced 
this  and  his  law  works  (in  1782)  there  were 
only  fragments  in  the  country  on  either  sub- 
ject. His  writings  are  marked  with  a  neglect 
i)f  stvle.  liis  object,  when  composing,  being  to 
])ursue  the  thought  before  him.  and  simply  to 
make  his  views  intelligible  to  others.  He  had 
no  graces  of  style,  either  native  or  borrowed  : 
neither  did  he  .seek  for  such.  To  instruct  and 
convince  was  his  aim. 

He  was  rigidly  simiile  in  hi>  habit.-  and  man- 
ners, and  in  all  that  he  did.  His  eloc|uence  was 
that  of  fact  and  argument.  His  life  through- 
out was  one  of  constant  and  wonderful  dili- 
gence. He  was  never  before  his  last  illness 
confined  to  his  house  by  sickness  more  than 
two  davs  at  a  time,  and  that  very  rarely.  He 
took  regular  rather  than  a  great  deal  of  e.xer- 


MASSACIIISI-.TTS. 


cise,  and  that  was  walking  chiitly.  'I'lie  (|uali- 
ties  of  his  intellect  were  altogether  of  tlie  solid 
kind.  He  had  little  acquaintance  with  the 
lighter  hranches  of  literature.  His  judgment 
was  .singularly  discriminating  and  well  balanced. 
Few  ever  lived  w-ho  were  less  biased  by  passion 
or  prejudice.  In  the  management  of  ])ub!ic 
affairs  he  was  cautious,  firm,  sagacious  and 
able,  and  he  was  correspondingly  skilful  in  con- 
ducting his  jjrivate  business.  .Mthough  he  was 
long  in  the  jiractice  of  loaning  money  to  many 
different  individuals,  he  never  incurred  pecuni- 
ary loss  in  this  way.  He  was  remarkably  free 
from  the  indulgence  of  resentful  or  vindictive 
feelings.  To  the  excellent  partner  of  his  life 
lie  was  united  for  fifty-five  years,  and  she  sur- 
vived him.  Without  children  of  Jiis  own,  he 
was  as  a  father  to  many.  He  assisted  several 
of  his  relatives  to  a  liberal  education,  and  others 
he  aided  to  establish  in  life.  If  a  prudent 
economy  reigned  in  his  family,  so  did  also  a 
ready  hospitality.  Few  laymen  have  spent  so 
much  tme  in  the  study  of  theology.  Rarely 
has  there  been  one  that  had  proposed  to  him- 
.self  so  much,  who  lived  to  see  his  objects  so 
fully  accomplished. 

His  widow  died  April  14.  1S40.  aged  ninety 
years. 

Ancestry. — John  Dane  (  i ),  of  Berkham- 
sted.  Bishop's  Stortford,  Herts,  England,  and 
of  Ipswich  and  Roxbury.  Massachusetts,  died 
at  Ro.xbury,  Se])tember  14,  1658.  married  first, 

;  married  second,  July  2.  1643,  .\gnes 

Chandler,  widow  of  William  Chandler,  of  Rox- 
bury :  she  married  third,  August  9.  1660,  John 
Farniinter,  of  Sudbury.  .Massachusetts.  Chil- 
dren: 1.  John,  see  forward.  2.  Elizabeth, 
died  at  Ip.swMch,  Mas.sachusetts.  January  21, 
1693:  married  James  How,  who  died  at  Ips- 
wich. May  17,  1702.  3.  Francis,  minister  at 
Andover.  Massachusetts,  died  there  February 
17.  1696-7:  married  first,  Elizabeth  Ingalls, 
who  died  at  .Vndover.  June  9,  1676;  married 
second.  September  21.  1677.  ^Irs.  Mary  Thomas 
who  died  February  18.  1688-9:  married  third. 
1690,  Mrs.  Hannah  (Chandler)  .\bbot,  who 
(lied  June  2,  171 1. 

(II)  John  I)ane.  son  of  John  Dane  (i). 
died  at  i])swich,  Massachusetts,  September  29, 
1684:  married  fir.st,   Eleanor  Clark:   married 

second.   .Mice  ,   who  after   his   decease 

married  Jeremiah  Meacham,  of  .Salem.  Massa- 
chusetts, and  died  before  May  4.  1704.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Mary,  born  about  1636,  died  May 
10,  1679:  married.  August  24.  1658.  William 
Chandler,  of  Andover.  Massachusetts.  2.  John, 
born  at  Ipswich  about   1644:  see  forwanl.     3. 


.'■^arah.  born  about  H145.  died  Dict'inber  28, 
1702:  married,  Sejitember  23,  i6<>8,  Daniel 
\Varner,  Jr.,  of  Ti^swich,  Massachusetts,  who 
died  November  24,  ifx/i.  4.  rhilemon,  born 
about  1646,  died  October  18,  1716;  married 
fir>t.  ( )ctober  7.  1683,  .Mary  Thom])S(]n:  luar- 
ried  second.  Decemt)er  25.  t(K;o,  Kuth  Con- 
verse, of  Wdliurn.  -Massachusetts,  who  died 
January  12,  1735-*'.  5.  Rebecca,  married  James 
1  lovev.    6.  Elizabeth,  inarried  Reginald  Foster, 

(Ill)  Idhn  Dane,  son  of  John  Dane  (2), 
died  December  23,  1707,  "in  ye  65lh  year  of 
his  age."  (Gravestone  at  Hamilton  I.  Married, 
December  27.  1671,  Abigail  Warner,  daughter 
of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (  Denne  )  Warner,  of 
I|iswich,  Massachusetts.  Children:  i.  John, 
born  November  29,  1681.  2.  Daniel,  born  about 
1689;  see  forward.  3.  Susannah,  born  March 
6,  1^)85-6,  buried  Alarch  24,  1687.  4.  Na- 
thaniel, born  June  2"/.  1691.  died  June,  1760; 
married  first,  1712,  Elizabeth  Potter:  married 
second,  March,  1 716-17,  .\nna  Low,  who  died 
February,  1730-1  :  married  third,  December  23, 
1732.  Esther  Kimball,  of  Wenham,  Mas.sachu- 
setts. 5.  .Abigail,  born  December  13.  1673: 
luarried,  March  27.  1703,  Jo.seph  Crackbone, 
of  Canil)ridge.  6.  I-Icbecca,  born  Sejiteniber 
18.  1676.    7.  lilizabeth,  born  March  6,  1678-9. 

(  I\')  Daniel  Dane,  son  of  John  Dane  (3), 
born  at  Ipswich,  Massachu.setts,  about  1689, 
died  there  January  22,  1730- 1  ;  married  first, 
March  16,  1714,  Lydia  I3ay,  born  October  27, 
i6i)4 :  ruarried  second,  Mary  .Annable.  widow 
of  .Matthew  .'\nnable,  of  Ipswich.  Children:  I. 
Daniel,  born  about  1716:  see  forward.  2.  John, 
bf)rn  about  1719.  died  at  Cdoucester,  Massachu- 
setts. July  21.  1793,  in  the  74th  year  of  his  age. 
3.  Mary,  born  about  1721.  4.  Eydia,  born 
about  1723.     5.  Nathan,  born  about  1727. 

(  \')  Danief  Dane,  son  of  Daniel  Dane  (4), 
born  at  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  about  1716, 
died  (  )ctober  13,  1768:  married  (  ]niblished 
January  3,  1739-40)  .Abigail  Durnham,  born 
.•\ugust  31,  1717,  died  September  3,  1799, 
daughter"  of  David  and  Elizabeth  (Perkins) 
lUu-nham.  of  Ipswich.  His  will  dated  October 
3.  1728.  proved  .November  28,  1768,  names 
wife  .Abigail,  six  .sons  and  six  daughters,  whose 
names  appear  in  the  list  of  his  children  here 
given.  Children:  i.  Daniel,  married  (pub- 
lished January  12,  1771  )  Sarah  Coodliue.  2. 
Nathan,  born  December  27,  1732:  see  forward. 
3.  Samuel,  married  Hannah  Ellingwood.  4. 
John,  died  at  Beverly.  Massachusetts,  March  5, 
1829.  aged  eighty  years;  married  (iniblished 
lannarv  2.  1773)  Jemima  I'ellows,  who  died  at 


MASSAC  rU'SETTS. 


Beverly.  April  28,  1827.  5.  Benjamin.  6. 
Joseph.  7.  Abigail.  8.  I.ydia.  died  .\ugust  23, 
1845.  aged  one  hundred  years  eight  months 
five  days:  married,  October  19,  1773,  Thomas 
.-Vppleton,  of  Beverly.  Massacliusetts.  who  dieri 
September  14,  1830,  aged  ninety  years.  9.  Eliz- 
abeth.    10.  Sarah,  married  (published  January 

26.  1771  )  Ebenezer  Ellingwood,  of  Beverly, 
Massachusetts.  11.  Lucy.  12.  Molly,  married 
(published  June  15.  1776)  William  Ellingwood, 
of  Beverly.  IVrassachusetts. 

(\'I)  Kathan  Dane,  son  of  Daniel  Dane 
(5),  born  at  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  December 

27,  1752,  died  at  Beverly,  Massachusetts.  I"eb- 
ruary  15,  1833:  married,  November  14,  1799, 
Polly  Brown,  who  died  April  14,  or  April  24, 
1840,  aged  ninety  years.  The  wHl  of  Hon. 
Nathan  Dane,  of  Beverly,  dated  August  17, 
1830,  probated  April  7,  1835,  names  his  wife 
Polly,  and  mentions  bequests  to  a  large  number 
of  relatives,  viz. :  Nathan  Dane,  of  Kennebunk, 
Maine;  Nathan  D.  Applcton.  Alfred,  Maine; 
nephew  Joseph  T'atch  and  his  sister  Leafe 
Patch:  nei^hew  Daniel  Appleton  and  his  sister 
L\-dia  Lamson,  with  proviso  regarding  their 
aged  mother ;  nephew  Samuel  Dane  and  his 
brother  John  G.  Dane,  and  their  nephew  Na- 
than Dane  :  besides  bequests  to  the  four  sisters 
of  said  Samuel  and  John,  daughters  of  "my 
brother  Daniel  Dane,  deceased ;"  and  to  the 
children  of  his  (laughter  Sally,  deceased:  niece 
l^lizal)eth  Dodge  and  her  son  Nathan  D.  Dodge, 
she  being  the  widow  of  Andrew  Dodge — her 
sons  Samuel  and  Nathan  ;  niece  Harriet  Tuck : 
Ezra  Cleaves.  Jr.,  and  his  two  sisters,  Nancy 
Sargent  and  .Sally  Glidden  :  grandnephew  N.  D. 
Ellingwood ;  Samuel  \V.  Cox :  Sarah  W.  Cox 
and  Lucv  W.  Cox,  "daughters  of  my  niece 
Xabby  Cox,"  their  sister  Deborah  Cox,  their 
brother  Ebenezer  Cox :  his  nephew  William 
Whi])ple,  to  whf)m  he  gave  a  farm  in  Dunbar- 
ton.  New  Hampshire,  said  Whipple  sup|)orting 
his  mother:  and  he  gave  legacies  to  her  five 
daughters,  and  to  the  children  of  her  daughter 
Sally,  deceased ;  niece  Esther  Stanly :  Sally 
Clarke ;  nephew  Joseph  Dane,  of  Kennebunk, 
Maine,  to  be  residuary  legatee,  .\fter  the  death 
of  his  wife  a  certain  sum  was  devised  to  Har- 
vard College. 

JOSEPH  STORY. 

Josejih  .Story,  son  of  Dr.  Elisha  Story,  was 
born  in  Marblehead.  Septeml)er  18,  1779.  and 
died  in  Cambridge,  .September  10.  1845. 

It  is  .said  of  him  that  he  made  "no  delays  in 
his  youth  :"  and  lie  was  graduated  at  Harvard 
\n  1798. received  degrees  of  EI-.  D.  from  Brown. 


1815:  Harvard.  1821  ;  and  Dartmouth.  1824. 
His  education  before  entering  college  was  re- 
ceived under  the  direction  of  William  Harris, 
afterwards  [iresirlent  of  Columbia  College.  He 
studied  law  with  Chief  Justice  Samuel  Sewall. 
in  Marblehead.  and  later  with  Judge  .Samuel 
Putnam,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1801. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  and  as  such  was 
almost  alone  among  the  lawyers  of  his  county. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  house  of  representa- 
tives in  Massachusetts  in  1805,  i8o5  and  1807; 
a  member  of  congress  in  1808 ;  again  a  member 
of  the  legislature  from  1809  to  18 1 2,  and  was 
speaker  of  the  house  in  181 1.  In  181 1  he  was 
api)ointed  associate  justice  of  the  supreme  court 
of  the  United  States.  He  was  then  only  thirty- 
two  years  old.  He  was  appointed  Dane  pro- 
fessor of  law  at  Harvard  University  in  1829, 
and  in  the  same  year  removed  from  Salem  to 
Cambridge.  Here  he  resided  until  his  death. 
He  was  learned  in  the  law,  and  had  a  wonder- 
ful Huency  in  the  use  of  language,  both  spoken 
and  written,  and  nothing  distinguished  him 
more  than  his  industry. 

Among  his  law  ])ublications  were  "Selection 
of  Pleadings  in  Civil  Actions,  with  .\nnota- 
tions,"  1805  :  "The  Public  and  General  Statutes 
passed  by  Congress  from  1789  to  1827,"  and  in 
1836  and  1845,  supplements  to  these,  were 
edited  by  him ;  "Commentaries  on  the  Paw  of 
Bailments,  with  Illustrations  from  the  Civil  and 
Foreign  Law,"  1832 :  "Commentaries  on  the 
Constitution,"  1833  :"Commentaries  on  theCon- 
flict  of  Laws,  Foreign  and  Domestic,  in  regard 
to  Contracts.  Rights  and  Remedies,  and  espe- 
cially in  Regard  to  Marriages,  Divorces,  Wills, 
Successions  and  Judgments,"  1834:  "Commen- 
taries on  Equity  jurisiM-udence  as  Administered 
in  luigland  and"  .\merica."  1833  and  1836; 
"Commentaries  on  Ec|uity  Pleadings  and  the 
Incidents  Thereto,  according  to  the  Practice  of 
the  Courts  of  Ec|uity  in  England  and  America," 
1838;  "Commentaries  on  the  Law  of  Agency 
as  a  Branch  of  Commercial  and  Maritime  Juris- 
jirudence,  with  Occasional  Illustrations  from 
the  Civil  and  Foreign  Law."  1839:  also  in  1841. 
1843  and  1843.  "Commentaries  on  the  Law  of 
Partnershi])."  on  the  "Law  of  Bills  of  Ex- 
change," on  the  "Law  of  Promissory  Notes." 

Judge  Story,  amid  vast  and  constant  labor  as 
a  lawver,  professor,  jurist  and  author,  found 
time  for  a  long  and  interesting  nuiuber  of  pro- 
ductions from  his  pen  of  a  purely  literary  char- 
acter. He  delivered  in  Salem  a  eulogy  of 
George  Washington.  1800:  a  eulogy  on  Cap- 
tain tames  Lawrence  and  Lieutenant  .\.  C. 
Ludlow.  1813:  a  sketch  of  the  life  of  Samuel 


MASSAC]  11  Sll'l'TS. 


Dexter,  1816;  a  charge  to  the  grand  juries  of 
the  circuit  courts  at  Boston  and  I'rovidence, 
i8iy;  a  charge  to  the  grand  jury  of  the  circuit 
court  of  I'ortland,  1.S29:  an  address  before  the 
members  of  tlie  Suffolk  bar.  1821  ;  another 
befivre  tlie  I 'hi  lieta  Kapjia  Society  of  Har- 
vard. 1820;  another  before  tlie  l^ssex  Historical 
Society.  1828;  another  on  his  inauguration  as 
Dane  Professor  of  Law  at  1  larvard  L"niversit\ , 
1829:  another  on  the  dedication  of  the  ceme- 
tery at  Mount  Auburn.  i8:;i  ;  on  the  funeral 
obsecjuies  of  jdhn  llcHiktr  \--hmun,  1833;  on 
the  life,  character  and  services  of  John  ^ilar- 
sliall.  LL.  D.,  1835:  lectures  on  the  science  of 
government.  1838;  and  a  discourse  before  the 
alumni  of  Harvard  College.  1842;  a  charge  to 
the  grand  jury  of  Rhode  Island  on  treason. 
1845:  and  many  other  occasional  sjieeches  and 
])ami)hlets. 

(leorge  IJailey  Loring.  in  his  estimate  of  the 
character  of  Jose])h  Story,  from  which  the 
above  items  are  taken,  says,  "America  has  pro- 
duced but  few  men  ecjual  in  all  respect  to  Judge 
Story.  As  a  student  he  combined  ])atience,  dili- 
gence, comprehension  and  enthusiasm  to  a  most 
extraordinary  degree.  He  turned  his  atten- 
tion in  his  early  life  to  the  hardest  of  all 
sciences,  in  which  dispassionate  judgment  and 
cold  deliberation  are  essentially  rec|uired.  And 
yet  he  filled  the  temple  of  the  law  with  a  genial 
warmth  and  a  radiant  glow  which  could  not  be 
sur])assed  by  any  work  of  taste  and  imagina- 
tion, and  has  rarely  been  equalled  in  those 
spheres  which  are  dedicated  to  fervor  and  de- 
votion. .  .  His  mind,  with  its  vast  grasp 
and  broad  understanding,  worked  on  with  the 
rajiidity  of  light.  .  .  He  was  a  great  law  ver, 
a  great  author,  a  great  citizen." 

His  decisions.  1812-15.  are  in  "Gallison's  Re- 
])orts  ;"  1816-30.  in  "Mason's  ReiJort^;"  1830- 
39,  in  "Sumner's  Reports;"  and  1839-45,  in 
"Story's  Reports."  Three  uni)rinted  manu- 
script volumes  were  finished  just  before  his 
death,  and  were  deposited  in  the  Harvard  Col- 
le.ge  Library.  These  vohunes  were  entitled 
"Digest  (jf   Law   .Supplementary  to  Comyns." 

The  mere  reca])itulation  of  his  jxiblished 
literary  labor  is  alone  enough  to  a])])all  an  ordi- 
nary mind.  The  judgments  <lelivered  by  him 
on  his  circuit  comprehend  thirteen  volumes. 
The  Reports  of  the  Supreme  Court  during  his 
judicial  life  occupy  thirty-five  volumes,  of 
which  he  wrote  a  full  share.  His  various 
treatises  on  legal  subjects  cover  thirteen  vol- 
umes, besides  a  volume  of  Pleadings,  i  le  edited 
and  annotated  three  different  treatises,  with 
copious  notes, and  iniblished  a  volume  of  Poems. 


The  above,  and  much  else,  is  mentioned  in  an 
emmieration  by  liis  .son  and  biographer. 

Dr.  Francis  Lieber,  in  a  letter  dated  1857, 
writes,  "His  name  will  forever  grace  the  list  of 
leading  men  in  a  period  of  our  country  which 
we  fear  was  greater  than  that  in  which  we 
live."  Eminent  contemi)t)raries,  such  as  Chan- 
cellor Kent  and  Lord  lirougham,  ])ronounced 
judgments  upon  him,  in  effect,  that  he  was  "the 
first  jurist  living." 

AxcK.STKV. — Elisha  Story  (i),  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  died  there  September  20,  1725, 
aged  forty-two  years  ;  married  first,  October  17, 
ijob,  Lydia  Itmmons,  born  1(185,  died  July  27, 
1713,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  lum- 
inous, of  Boston;  married  second,  October  1, 

1713,  Mrs.  Sarah  (Slockerj  Renouf,  of  Bos- 
ton, who  died  June  28,  1741,  aged  fifty-eight 
years.  Mr.  Story  was  a  cordwainer  by  occupa- 
tion, and  his  homestead  was  on  the  spot  where 
the  Revere  House  now  stands.  The  will  of 
h^lisha  Story,  dated  January  6,  1723,  probated 
September  30,  1725,  mentions  wife  Sarah,  and 
her  two  children,  Clement  Renouf  and  Rebecca 
Renouf,  whom  she  had  by  her  former  husband, 
to  whom  were  given  lands  in  Nottingham,  New 
Hampshire;  and  bis  only  son,  William  Story, 
ami  his  only  daughter,  Lydia  itox,  were  given 
his  real  estate  in  Boston.  He  was  admitted  a 
member  of  the  Old  South  Church,  lioston, 
April  18,  1705.  Child  by  first  wife:  i.  I-^lisha, 
born  July  19,  1713,  died  young.  Children  by 
second   wife :     2.    .Sarah,   born    September   8, 

17 1 4,  died  young.  3.  Elisha,  born  March  3, 
1717-18,  died  young.  4.  Lydia,  born  March  26, 
1718-19;  married  John  l.o.x.  5.  William,  see 
forward. 

ill)  William  .Story,  son  of  Elisha  Story 
(II.  born  at  Lioston,  .Massachusetts.  April  25, 
1720,  died  at  Marblehead,  Massachusetts,  No- 
vember 24,  1799,  aged  eighty  years;  married 
first,  .\ugust  13,  1741,  Elizabeth  Marion,  born 
Se])tember  22,  1721,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Elinor  (P)ridge)  Marion,  of  Boston;  mairied 
.second,  April  11,  1747,  Joanna  .AiJijleton,  ba])- 
tized  November  17,  1717,  died  July  16,  1775, 
daughter  of  Major  Isaac  and  Priscilla  (Baker) 
.\ppleton,  of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts;  married 
lliird,  February  29,  1776,  .Abigail  .Marshall. 
W  illiam  .Story  was  deputy-register  of  the  court 
of  vice-admiralty  at  Boston.  Children  by  fir.st 
wife:  1.  Ellen,  born  May  8,  1742.  2.  Elisha, 
born  December  3,  1743;  sec  forward.  3.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  September  9.  1745.  Children  by 
second  wife:  4.  William,  born  .March  17, 
1747-8.  5.  Isaac,  born  Sei)tember  O).  1749,  died 
at  Marblehead,  October  2^.  1816,  aged  sixty- 


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seven  years;  married.  December  19,  i/Jf,  Re- 
becca Bradstreet,  of  Alarblehead ;  he  was  pas- 
tor of  the  Unitarian  church  in  Marblehead,  and 
his  father-in-law  was  his  predecessor.  6.  John, 
born  August  6.  1754.  7.  Sarah,  born  July  28, 
1756.  8.  Eljcnczer.  born  August  7.  i/S/-  9- 
Daniel,  died  at  Marietta.  Ohio.  December  30, 
1804.  pastor  of  church  there  :  graduate  of  Dart- 
mouth College. 

(  111  )  Doctor  Elisha  Story,  son  of  William 
Story  (2).  born  at  Boston.  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 3,  1743,  died  at  Marblehead,  Massachu- 
setts, August  2j,  T805,  aged  sixty-two  years; 
married  first  ( published  at  lioston.  May  14, 
1767).  Ruth  Ruddock,  born  at  Boston.  March 

5.  1745-^),  died  at  Marblehead.  March  21.  1778, 
aged  thirty-two  years,  daughter  of  John  and 
Tabitha  (  Drinker )  Ruddock,  of  lioston  ;  mar- 
ried second,  November  29,  1778,  Mehitable 
Pedrick.  bajJtized  June  4.  1758.  died  at  Boston. 
1847.  daughter  of  John  and  Mehitable  (Stacy) 
I'edrick.  of  Marblehead.  He  was  a  pupil  of 
John  Lovell  at  the  Boston  Latin  School,  and 
later  studied  medicine.  In  1774  he  removed  to 
Maiden.  Massachusetts,  with  his  family,  and 
took  an  active  ])art  in  the  affairs  of  the  town, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  committee  of  corre- 
•spondence  there  in  1775- 1776,  and  later  re- 
moved with  his  family  to  Marblehead.  He  was 
a  surgeon  in  Colonel  Little's  regiment  in  the 
Revolutionary  War.  He  was  present  at  the 
battle  of  Lexington  and  at  Bunker  Hill,  was  in 
the  cam]iaign  around  New  York  and  at  battles 
of  White  Plains  and  Trenton.  Early  in  his  life 
he  had  joined  the  Sons  of  Liberty,  and  was  one 
of  the  members  of  the  Boston  Tea  Party.  He 
is  notable  as  the  father  of  eighteen  children, 
seven  by  his  first  wife,  of  whom  we  only  find 
the  names  of  five,  and  eleven  by  second  wife. 
Children  by  first  wife:  i.  John.  2.  Tabitha. 
married  November  4.  1792.  Nathaniel  King 
Deverenx.  of  Marblehead.  3.  .\biel.  died  De- 
cember 12.  1829;  married.  Eebruary  2,  1799. 
Iluldah  Clough.  of  Marblehead.  4.  Elisha.  5. 
William,  married,  August  6,  1797,  Betsey  Pat- 
ten, of  Marblehead.   Children  by  .second  wife: 

6.  Joseph,  born  September  18.  1779;  see  for- 
ward. 7.  Isaac.  ba|)tizcd  March  2,  1783.  8. 
lietsey,  baptized  December  5,  1784;  married, 
January  19.  1808.  Captain  Joseph  White,  of 
Salem.  9.  Charlotte,  baptized  October  19,  1788; 
married,  October  23.  1810,  John  Forrester,  of 
Salem.  10.  Caroline,  baptized  October  31, 1790. 
II.  Hoace  Cullen,  baptized  November  4.  1792. 
died  at  New  Orleans.  Louisiana.  1823.  12. 
I'ranklin  Howard,  baptized  March  22,  I79.=i- 
13.   I'Vederick  Washington  Chatham,  baptized 


April  5,  1797.  14.  Eloisa  .\daline.  baptized 
October  20.  1799:  married.  I'ebruary  20.  1820, 
John  Tucker  Mansfield,  of  Salem.  15.  Hitty. 
married.  June  17.  1804,  Captain  William  Fetty- 
jilace.  of  Marblehead.  16.  Harriet,  married. 
.August  9.  1808.  Captain  .Stephen  White,  of 
Salem. 

(  W  )  Judge  Josejjh  Story,  son  of  Dr.  Elisha 
Stor\-  (  3  ),  born  at  Marblehead.  Massachusetts. 
•September  18.  1779,  died  at  Cambridge.  Massa- 
chusetts, Sei)tember  10.  1845 ;  married  first. 
December  9.  1804,  Mary  Lynde  Oliver,  born  at 
Marblehead.  I^ecember  20.  1781,  died  at  Salem, 
[une  22.  1805.  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  Fitch 
and  Sarah  (  Pynchon  )  Oliver,  of  Marblehead ; 
married  second,  at  Boston,  .August  28.  1808, 
Sarah  Wetmore,  born  at  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
Mav  24.  1784.  died  at  Boston,  Massachusetts. 
.August  22,  1855.  daughter  of  William  and 
Sarah  (  Waldo )  \\'etmore.  Children,  all  by 
second  wife:  i.  Caroline,  born  June,  1810, 
died  February  28,  181 1.  2.  Joseph,  born  June, 
181 1,  died  October  19,  1815.  3.  Caroline  Wet- 
more,  born  April  4.  1813,  died  .April  i.  1819. 
4.  Mary,  born  April  9,  1814.  died  March  28, 
1813.  '5.  Mary  Oliver,  born  March  10.  1817. 
died  .April  28,  1848.  6.  William  Wetmore. 
born  February  19.  1819,  died  at  Vallambrosa. 
Italy.  October  7.  1895;  married,  October  31. 
1843.  Emelyn  Eldridge,  of  Boston.  7.  Louisa, 
born  May,  1821,  died  May  10,  1831. 

EDWARD  .AUGUSTUS  HOLYOKE. 

Dr.  Edward  Augustus  Holyoke.  a  physician 
of  Salem,  was  born  in  ALirblehead,  .August  i, 
(old  style,  eighteenth  century;  new  style.  .Au- 
gust 12  1.  1728.  and  died  in  Salem,  Alarch  31. 
1829,  in  his  one  hundred  and  first  year.  His 
funeral  took  jilace  .April  4  following,  at  the 
North  Church,  and  the  Rev.  John  Brazier  de- 
livered an  ai)]iropriate  and  interestingdiscourse. 

He  was  noted  for  his  various  excellencies, 
as  well  as  for  his  longevity.  His  father  was  a 
president  of  Harvard  College,  and  the  son  was 
a  graduate  of  that  college  in  1746.  He  was  a 
diarist,  and  preserved  in  handwriting  many 
interesting  things  regarding  the  customs  and 
peculiarities  of  a  very  early  generation.  His 
record  is  al.so  valuable  as  an  account  of  the 
weather.  He  recorded  the  fact  that  in  1732 
"very  broad-brimmed  hats  were  worn ;"  his 
father  had  a  beaver  whose  brims  were  at  least 
seven  inches  ;  they  were  all  cocked  triangularly. 
Pulling  them  off.  by  way  of  salutation,  was 
the  invariable  fashion  of  all  who  had  any 
breeding.  In  1748  he  notes  the  fact  of  a  deep 
snow.    In  1738,  "s(|uare-toed  shoes  were  going 


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out  of  fashion."  lie  began  practice  in  1749. 
In  1755  he  gives  an  account  of  the  notable 
cartli(|uake  of  November  18.  In  1757,  he 
records  the  event  of  "very  cold  weather."  He 
had  a  case  of  "spotted  fever"  in  his  cliarge, 
1761.  In  1768  he  records,  "Points  put  up;" 
referring  to  earl\-  lightning  rods.  In  1783  he 
was  elected  a  ruling  elder  of  the  Xorth  Church. 
In  1788  he  received  information  from  Dr. 
Priestly  about  the  manufacture  of  saleratus. 

He  rememi)ered  a  temporary  monument  to 
Lady  Arbella  Johnson,  who  deceased  in  1630. 
which  once  stood  in  a  later  neglected  cemeterv 
in  Salem.  In  1801  he  was  interested  in  the 
new  enterprise  of  building  a  turniMke.  In  1827 
President  Adams  (ex-President  John  O. 
Adams)  visited  him.  In  1828  the  centennial  of 
the  event  of  his  birth  was  observed  in  Salem, 
on  August  13,  by  about  fifty  physicians,  who 
had  a  public  dinner  in  his  honor,  of  which  one 
has  said :  "Though  one  hundred  years  old  he 
appeared  among  them  with  a  firm  step  and  a 
cheerful  look;"  and  "the  compliment  (so 
intended  for  him  I  was  richly  deserved." 

In  conclusion  it  may  be  remarked  that  he 
was  the  son  of  President  Edward  Holyoke,  of 
Harvard  College.  He  was  the  first  person  on 
whom  the  degree  of  doctor  of  medicine  was 
conferred  by  that  eollege,  and  he  afterwards 
received  the  degree  of  doctor  of  laws.  He 
was  the  first  president  of  the  Massachusetts 
Medical  Society,  amwng  the  original  members 
of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sci- 
ences, and  at  one  time  its  president.  He  was 
at  the  time  of  his  death  the  president  of  the 
Salem  Athenaeum,  the  Essex  Historical  Soci- 
ety, of  the  Salem  Savings  Bank,  and  of  the 
Salem  Dispensary. 

He  was  still  so  vigorous  on  his  one  lumdredth 
birthday  that  when  the  morning  came  he  rose, 
dressed,  shaved  himself  without  assistance, 
and  walked  to  the  Esse.x  House,  where  the 
dinner  was  given.  He  published  many  medical 
articles  in  the  reviews  of  his  profession,  and 
scientific  papers  in  the  "Memoirs  of  the  .Amer- 
ican Academy  of  .Arts  and  Sciences."  "He 
possessed  great  repose  of  body  and  spirit,  and 
that  balance  of  powers  which  usually  attends 
longevity." — (G.  V>.  Loring.) 

.•\xcESTRY. — Edward  Holyoke  (i),  formerly 
of  Tamvvorth,  Warwickshire,  England,  died  at 
Rumney  Marsh,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  May 
4,  1660;  married  June  18,  1612,  Prudence 
Stockton,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Stockton, 
rector  of  Kinkolt,  in  Leicestershire,  England. 
Children:  i.  I'^lizabeth,  married  George  Kezar. 
of  Salem,   Massachusetts.     2.   Anne,  married 


October  17.  1643,  'rii(ima>  Putnam,  of  Salem, 
Massachusetts.  3.  John,  died  in  Lngland, 
March  5,  1635-6,  unmarried.  4.  h^Iizur ;  see 
forward.  5.  Sarah,  married  Andres,  of  Salem, 
Massachusetts.  0.  Mary,  married  February 
10,  1646,  John  Tuttle,  of  Rumney  Marsh.  Bos- 
ton,    Massachusetts.       7.     Susanna,     married 

Martyn.     8.  luhvard.  died  in  England, 

December  20,  1631,  aged  thirteen  years. 

(11)  Captain  Elizur  Holyoke,  son  of  Ed- 
ward Holyoke  (i).  born  at  Tamvvorth,  War- 
wickshire, England,  died  at  Springfield,  Mass- 
achusetts, February  6,  1676:  married  first,  No- 
vember 20,  1640,  Mary  Pynchon,  died  October 
20,  1657,  daughter  of  V\'illiam  Pynchon,  of 
Ro.xbury  and  Springfield,  Massachusetts:  mar- 
ried second,  1658,  Mrs.  Editha  (Stebbins- 
Day)  Maynard,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut.  He 
was  one  of  the  most  distinguished  inhabitants 
of  Springfield,  whence  he  removed  from  Lynn  ; 
recorder  of  all  the  courts  of  the  new  county  of 
Hampshire,  captain  of  the  military  company, 
member  of  the  general  court,  and  the  one  from 
whom  Mount  Holyoke.  on  the  noi-th  cif 
Springfield,  was  named.  Children:  i.  John, 
born  August  2y.  1641,  died  October  8,  1641.  2. 
John,  born  September  5,  1642,  died  February 
6,  1711-12,  unmarried.  3.  Hannah,  born  June 
9,  1(144,  <Ii*-'d  February  i,  1677:  married  Sam- 
uel Talcott,  of  Wcathersfield,  Connecticut.  4. 
Child,  born  May  21,  1646,  died  same  day.  5. 
Samuel,  born  June  9,  1647,  died  October  31, 
1676.  6.  Edward,  born  August  8,  1649,  died 
June  16,  1708.  7.  Elizur,  born  October  13, 
165 1  ;  see  forward.  8.  Mary,  born  November 
14.  1656,  died  January  14,  1678;  married  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1676-7,  James  Russell,  Esq.,  of 
Charlestown,  Massachusetts. 

(  HI)  Elizur  Holyoke,  son  of  Captain  Elizur 
Holyoke  (2),  born  at  Springfield.  Massachu- 
setts, October  13,  1651,  died  August  11,  171 1  ; 
married  January  2,  1677,  Mary  Eliot,  born 
October  6,  1655,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Mary 
(Powell-Wilcox)  Eliot,  of  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts. He  went  to  Boston,  became  a  brazier; 
was  a  man  of  influence  and  wealth,  and  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  old  South  Church. 
Children:  1.  F.lizur,  born  March  28,  i67(;, 
died  l~el)ruary,  1701.  2.  Edward,  born  Se|)- 
tember  30,  1680,  died  November  30,  1680.  3. 
Mary,  born  September  i,  1681,  married  Sep- 
tember 17,  1713,  William  Arnold,  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts.  4.  John,  born  I'ebruary  lo, 
1683,  married  January  9,  1727,  Mrs.  Joanna 
(Cireen)  Walker.  5.  Hannah,  born  October 
12,  1685,  died  September  4,  1686.  6.  Hannah, 
born  February  15,  1686-7;  married  first,  Jan- 


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nary  27.  1 720,  Captain  John  Charnock.  of  Bos- 
ton. Massachusetts:  married  second,  intention 
dated  November  9.  1727.  Tlieophilns  Burril,  of 
Lynn,  Massachusetts.  7,  Edward,  born  June 
23.  1689:  see  forward.  8.  Samuel,  born  June 
25,  1689.  drowned  March,  1692.  9.  .Samuel, 
born  March  21,  1693.  died  March  16.  1768; 
married  January  14.  1724.  Elizabeth  Brigham, 
of  Boston,  Massachusetts.  10.  Sarah,  born 
February  2.  1695,  died  September  6,  i;^5; 
married  April  3,  1723.  John  Eliot,  of  Boston, 
-Massachusetts.  11.  Jacob,  born  November  6, 
1(197.  died  Se])tember  19,  1768;  married 
.August  13,  1730,  Susanna  Martin,  of  Ijoston, 
Massachusetts. 

(IV)  Reverend  Edward  Holyoke.  son  of 
Elizur  Holyoke  (3),  born  at  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts. June  25,  1689,  died  June  I.  1769; 
married  first,  August  8,  1717.  Elizabeth 
Browne,  baptized  February  21,  1691-2,  died 
August  15,  1719.  daughter  of  Captain  John 
and  Elizabctli  (  Legg)  Browne,  of  Marblehead, 
Massachusetts;  married  secftnd,  August  16, 
1723,  .Margaret  Appleton,  burn  March  19, 
1701,  died  June  25,  1740,  daugliter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Rogers)  Appleton,  of  Ipswich, 
!\lassachusetts  :  married  third,  March  17,  1742. 

]\Irs.  Mary  ( )  Epes,  widow  of  Samuel 

Epes,  of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts;  she  died 
March  23,  1790,  ae.  92  years.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  Harvard  College.  1737,  until  his  death. 
Ordained  minister  at  Marblehead.  April  23, 
1716.  Cliildren  by  first  wife:  I.  Elizabeth, 
born  June  12.  1718,  died  July  5,  1718.  2.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  May  20,  1719.  died  January  2, 
1720.  Children  by  second  wife:  3.  Margaret, 
born  September  22,  1726,  died  December  21. 
1792;  married,  intention  May  28,  1750,  John 
Mascarene.  4.  Edward  Augustus,  born  August 
I,  1728:  see  forward.  5.  Mary,  born  April  30, 
1730,  died  Dctober  i,  1741.  6.  Elizabctli,  born 
.•\])ril  23,  1732,  died  September  13.  1821  :  mar- 
ried William  Kneeland.  7.  John,  born  Febru- 
ary 18,  1734,  died  December  30,  1753.  H.  C. 
1 75 1.  8.  Anna,  born  November  26,  1733,  died 
March  28,  1812:  married  1762,  Samuel  Cults, 
of  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire.  9.  William, 
born  1737,  died  June  23.  1740.  10.  Priscilla, 
horn  July  29.  1739.  died  March  29.  1782;  mar- 
ried Rev.  ivliphalct  Pearson,  1).  I).  Child  by 
third  wife:  11.  Mary,  born  necember  ij, 
1742.  died  .\ovcmber  13.  1733. 

I  \' )  ICdward  .Augustus  llnlvdke,  smi  nf 
Reverend  Edward  Holycjke  (4),  burn  at  I'.ds- 
ton,  Massachusetts,  August  i,  1728.  died  at 
Salem,  Massachusetts,  5Tarch  31,  1829.  He 
married   first.  June   i,    1755,  Judith    Pickman, 


died  November  19,  1736,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin Pickman:  married  second.  November 
22,  1759,  Mary  Vial,  born  December  19,  1737. 
died  April  15.  1802.  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and 
Mary  (Simpson)  \"ial.  of  Boston.  Child  by 
first  wife:  i.  Juditli,  born  October,  died 
November,  1736.  Children  by  second  wife:  2. 
Mary,  born  September  14,  1760,  died  January 
13.  I7f')4.  3.  ]\Iargaret,  born  March  4,  1763, 
died  January  23,  1825.  4.  Mary,  born  January 
9,  1763,  died  October  31,  1765.  3.  Edward 
-Augustus,  born  -August  12,  1763,  died  Novem- 
ber 3,  1766.  6.  Mary,  born  September  3,  1767, 
died  September  9,  1767.  7.  -Anna,  born  Octo- 
ber 12.  1768.  died  October  31,  1768.  8.  Son, 
born  May  17,  1770,  died  Alay  21,  1770.  9. 
Elizabeth,  born  September  11,  1771,  died 
Alarch  26,  1789.  10.  Judith,  born  January  20, 
1774.  died  February  3.  1841  :  married,  inten- 
tion dated.  October  13.  1795.  William  Turner. 
II.  Henrietta,  born  December  3,  1776,  died 
December  27,  1776.  12.  Susanna,  born  -April 
21.  1779,  died  February  3,  i860:  married 
-August  7,  1799.  Joshua  Ward,  of  Salem.  13. 
Edward  -Augustus,  born  March  8,  1782,  died 
October,  1782. 

CALEB  CUSHING. 

Caleb  Cushing.  of  Newburyport,  was  born 
in  Salisbury,  Massachusetts,  January  17,  1800, 
and  died  in   Newburyport,  January  2.    1879. 

Mr.  Cushing  graduated  in  1817  at  Harvard 
College,  where  he  was  a  tutor  1820-21.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1822.  He  began  the 
practice  of  the  law  in  Newliuryport :  was  a 
representative  in  the  Alassachusetts  legislature 
in  i823,-'26.-'33,-'34,-"50,-'38,-"59;  and  a  rep- 
resentative in  congress  from  1835  to  1843. 
From  1843  ''^  ^'^^45  he  was  United  States  min- 
ister to  China,  where  he  negotiated  the  famous 
treaty  with  the  nation:  from  1832  to  1833  he 
was  judge  of  the  supreme  judicial  court  of 
Massachusetts:  and  from  1833  to  1857  attor- 
ney-general (if  the  United  States.  In  1873  he 
was  counsel  for  the  United  States  before  the 
Ceneva  arbitration.  From  1874-1877  he  was 
Minister  to  Siiain.  On  the  13th  day  of  Jan- 
uarv,  1847.  he  was  commissioned  colonel  of 
the  -Massachusetts  regiment,  and  led  it  to  Mex- 
ico While  serving  there.  .April  14.  1847.  he 
\\a^  made  brigadier-general,  and  held  the  otifice 
ilirdugh  the  war  till  July  20.  1848.  He  was 
the  first  ma\ur  of   .\ewburyport.   1831-32. 

I  le  was  the  author  of  "I  listory  of  Newhury- 
|)ort."  182(1:  "Principles  of  Political  Econ- 
diiu,"  182I1:  "Reminiscences  of  Spain.''  1833; 
"Review  of  the   Late  Revolution  in   France," 


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1833:  "Life  of  William  H.  Harrison."  1840: 
"The  Treaty  of  Washington."  1S73:  and  num- 
erous orations  and  speeches  and  other  works. 
His  wife.  Caroline  W.  Cusliing.  was  author  of 
"Letters  on  Public  Monuments.  Manners,  etc., 
in  France  and  Spain.'"  two  volumes,  1832. 

Mr.  Gushing  married,  November  23,  1824. 
Caroline  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the  Hon. 
."-^amuel  .S.  Wilde,  judge  of  the  supreme  court 
of  Massachusetts.  She  was  born  April  26, 
1802.  and  died  without  issue.  August  28,  1832. 

In  his  death  his  native  state  and  the  nation 
lost  a  man  who  for  more  than  half  a  century 
was  distinguished  for  his  learning  and  elo- 
<|uence.  As  legislator  and  diplomatist  and  man 
of  letters,  he  contributed  largely  to  the  liter- 
ature of  his  time.  He  was  noted  for  his  con- 
versational ])owers  and  forensic  talents  ;  and 
the  knowledge  of  modern  languages ;  and 
probably  "no  other  man  in  this  country,  with 
the  exception  of  John  Ouincy  Adams,  ever 
brought  so  much  real  knowledge  to  the  trans- 
action of  business,  while  his  versatility  and 
readiness  were  equal  to  his  attainments." 

Another  estimate  of  his  character  by  a  local 
biographical  writer  will  be  read  with  interest  in 
connection  with  the  above  notice,  since  in  it  a 
very  pertinent  account  is  given  of  the  peculiar 
nature  of  his  attainments.  He  was  one.  it 
says,  who  in  his  varied  acquirements  and 
duties  made  himself  easily  the  leader  in  this 
respect  in  the  place  of  his  birth  and  residence, 
which  from  the  first  was  a  town,  whose  sons, 
daughters  and  citizens  were  eminent  in  letters 
and  active  life  as  statesmen,  orators,  poets, 
jurists,  clergymen,  inventors,  and  merchants. 
It  was  one  of  the  least  of  Massachusetts  cities 
in  territory  and  population,  and  Cushing's 
career  from  its  beginning  to  its  close  presented 
so  many  sides  and  angles,  so  many  lights  and 
shadows,  so  much  skill  and  genius,  that  it  has 
been  comi)ared  to  the  geometrical  figure  called 
a  ixilygon  :  and  he  in  deeds  and  words  through 
a  long  life  and  under  varied  circumstances 
verified  the  adage,  not  always  true  as  a  general 
rule. that  he  was  great  in  everything — a  scholar 
of  lofty  attainments;  an  author  and  an  orator 
e(jually  expert  with  pen  or  voice ;  a  lawyer, 
profound  on  the  bench,  attractive  at  the  bar, 
and  celebrated  as  a  minister  of  justice;  as 
attorney-general  for  the  country  uttering  opin- 
ions which  nations  were  bound  to  res])ect :  the 
contemporary  of  Webster.  John  Ouincy 
Adams  and  Charles  Sumner,  and  bv  many 
regarded  as  their  compeer ;  a  diijlomatist  of 
high  rank — before  the  Geneva  tribunal  to  arbi- 
trate the  .Mabama  claims,  no  matter  where  he 
'—3 


was  placed,  or  what  he  was  to  do,  he  was  equal 
to  the  occasion. 

We  must  omit  here  the  account  of  his  carlv 
life:  must  say  only,  in  passing,  that  he  sur- 
prised the  King  of  Spain  by  his  facility  in 
sjieaking  the  Spanish  language ;  that  he  spent 
months  in  the  practice  of  the  pronunciation  of 
foreign  tongues,  in  order  that  he  might  be  per- 
fect ;  that  he  entered  the  army  actively  engaged 
in  the  war  with  Mexico,  luider  a  wave  of  un- 
jMipularity  on  the  part  of  his  Northern  fellow- 
citizens,  but  this  he  lived  down ;  that  he 
believed  in  the  extension  of  the  natural  bound- 
ary of  the  United  States  to  the  Pacific  Ocean, 
at  a  time  when  that  idea  was  new.  He  has 
been  called  a  living  enc\cloi)edia  ;  travel  and 
intercourse  had  made  him  familiar  with  facts 
of  a  very  extensive  range.  It  is  also  said  of 
him  that  he  astonished  foreigners  by  his 
knowledge  of  their  language.  His  knowledge 
of  books  and  their  contents  was  extraordinary. 
He  read  Webster's  Unabridged  Dictionary 
through  when  it  first  appeared,  marked  the 
errors  and  mistakes,  and  this  as  a  labor  of 
love.  He  read,  on  one  occasion  to  inform  him- 
self, fifty-seven  volumes  of  Massachusetts 
Law  Reports :  and  this  he  finished  in  nineteen 
consecutive  days.  These  statements  illustrate 
to  some  extent  the  amount  of  labor  of  which 
he  was  capable,  and  his  energy  in  fitting  him- 
self for  his  duties,  legal  or  secular. 

Ancestry. — Matthew  Gushing  (i),  son  of 
Peter  and  Susan  (Howes)  Gushing,  baptized 
at  Hardingham,  county  Norfolk,  England, 
March  2,  1589,  died  at'llingham.  Massachu- 
setts, September  30,  1660,  married  August  s. 
1613,  Nazareth  Pitcher,  baptized  October  30, 
1586,  died  at  Hingham,  Massachusetts.  Janu- 
ary 6.  1682.  daughter  of  Henry  Pitcher.  For 
the  first  fifty  years  of  his  life  his  home  was  at 
Hardingiiam  and  Hingham.  countv  Norfolk, 
England,  and  in  1638  he  emigrated  with  his 
family  to  New  England  and  settled  at  Hing- 
ham. where  he  was  prominently  engaged  in  the 
I)ublic  affairs  of  the  town  and  a  deacon  in  the 
church.  The  regular  Gushing  genealogy  traces 
the  family  back  to  the  fourteenth  century,  and 
mentions  it  as  an  armorial  family.  Children, 
all  born  in  England:  i.  Daniel,  baptized  April' 
20,  1619.  died  at  Hingham.  December  3.  170(3, 
married  first.  January  19.  1645,  Lydia  Gilman. 
who  died  March  12,  1689 ;  Quarried  second, 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Jacob)  Thaxter.  who  died 
November  24,  1725.  2.  Jeremiah,  baptized 
July,  1621,  lost  at  sea,  sea  captain,  married 
March  11,  1662,  Mr.s.  Elizabeth  Wilkie.  3. 
Matthew,  baptized  April  5,  1623,  died  January 


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().  i/Oi,  married  February  25.  1653.  Sarah 
Jacob  of  J  lingliani.  4.  Deborah,  baptized  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1625,  died  September  25.  1700,  mar- 
ried May  9.  1648.  Matthias  Briggs,  of  Hing- 
ham.    5.  John,  born  1627,  see  forward. 

(II)  Honorable  John  Gushing,  son  of  Mat- 
thew Cusiiing  (  I  ).  born  in  England,  1627.  died 
at  Scituate,  Massachusetts.  March  31.  1708. 
married  at  Hingham.  Massachusetts.  January 
20.  1658,  Sarah  Hawke.  baptized  at  Hingham, 
Massachusetts.  August  i.  1641.  died  at  Scitu- 
ate. Massachusetts.  March  9.  1679.  daughter  of 
Matthew  and  Margaret  Hawke.  He  was  a 
selectman ;  county  magistrate ;  an  assistant  in 
the  Old  Colony  of  Plymouth,  1689  to  1691  ; 
representative  to  the  general  court  at  lioston, 
1692.  and  for  several  following  years  ;  member 
of  the  council.  1706-1707;  and  colonel  of  the 
Plymouth  County  regiment.  Children,  except 
first,  born  at  Scituate:  i.  John,  born  at  Hing- 
ham. April  28.  1662,  died  at  Scituate.  January 
19.  1737.  married  first.  May  20,  1668.  Deborali 
Loring.  of  Hull,  who  died  June  8.  1713.  mar- 
ried second.  March  18,  1714.  Mrs.  Sarah 
(Thaxter)  Holmes.  2.  Thomas,  born  Decem- 
ber 26,  1663.  died  at  Boston.  Massachusetts, 
October  3.  1740,  married  first  Deborah  Thax- 
ter. of  Hingham.  who  died  February  16,  1712, 
married  second.  December  18.  1712,  Mrs. 
Mercy  iWensIey)  ISrigham.  wlin  died  .\pril. 
1746.  3.  Matthew,  born  l''ebruary.  i6f)S.  died 
.Mav  iS.  1715:  married,  at  Hingham.  De- 
cember 27,  1694.  Deborali  Jacob,  who  married 
second,  September  13.  1726.  Benjamin  Loring. 
of  Hull,  Massachusetts,  and  died  November 
30,  1755.  4.  Jeremiah,  born  July  13,  1666, 
died  May  30,  1710.  married  April  12,  1693. 
Judith  Parmenter.  5.  James,  born  January  27. 
1668,  married  first.  January  18.  171 1,  Sarah 
lU)Usc.  who  died  May  2.  1712.  married  second. 
December  10.  1713,  Mary  Barrell.  6.  Joshua, 
born  August  27,  1670,  died  at  Pembroke, 
Massachusetts.  May  26,  1750.  married  May  31. 
1699,  Mary  I'acon,  of  Marshfield,  Massachu- 
setts. 7.  Sarah,  born  August  26,  1671,  died 
August  8,  1701.  married  at  .Scituate,  Decem- 
ber. 1689,  David  Jacob,  who  died  [•"ebruary  10. 
1748.  8.  Caleb,  born  January,  i^>73,  see  for- 
ward. 9.  Deborah,  born  1674.  bajitized  Octo- 
ber 4,  1675.  died  October  18.  1770.  married 
first,  April  19.  1699.  Lieutenant  Thomas 
Loring.  who  died  at  Duxbury,  Massachusetts, 
December  5,  1717,  and  married  second,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1727,  Sylvester  Richmond,  Esquire, 
of  Little  Compton,  Massachusetts,  now  Rhode 
Island.  10.  Alary,  born  August  30.  1676.  died 
March,    1698.    unmarried.      11.    Joseph,    born 


September  2;t,.  \(>/j.  married  January  i,  171 1. 
]\Iary  C.  Pickels.  who  died  November  30.  1711. 
12.  Benjamin,  born  February  4.  1679.  of  P.ar- 
badoes.  1702. 

(HI)  Rev.  Caleb  Cushing.  son  of  Hon. 
Jnhn  Cushing  (2).  born  at  Scituate.  Massa- 
chusetts. January.  1673.  baptized  May  11. 
1673.  died  at  .Salisbury.  Massachusetts.  Janu- 
ary 25.  1752,  married  March  14.  1698.  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  (Cotton)  Ailing,  daughter  of  Rev. 
John  and  Joanna  (Rossiter)  Cotton,  of  Ply- 
mouth. Massachusetts,  and  widow  of  Rev. 
James  Ailing,  of  Salisbury.  Massachusetts. 
He  was  the  fourth  pastor  of  the  first  Salisbury 
church,  ordained  November  9,  1698.  (H.  C. 
1092.)  Children:  i.  Caleb,  born  October  10. 
1703,  see  forward.  2.  Rev.  James.  ( H.  C. 
1725)  born  November  25.  1705.  died  May  13, 
1764.  married  October  16.  1730.  Anna  \\'ain- 
wright.  who  died  February  12.  1810.  99  years. 
Resided  at  Plaistow,  New  Hampshire.  3.  Rev. 
John  (H.  C.  1729).  born  April  10.  1709.  died 
at  I'oxford.  Massachusetts,  January  25,  1772, 
married  .Xjiril  8,  1734.  Elizabeth  Martin,  of 
Boston.  Massachusetts,  who  died  at  Durham. 
Maine.  October  18.  1789.  Resided  at  Boxford. 
Massachusetts. 

(IV)  Honorable  Caleb  Cushing.  son  of 
Rev.  Caleb  Cushing  (3).  born  at  Salisbury, 
Massachusetts.  October  10,  1703,  married  No- 
vember 12.   1730.  Mary  Newmarch.  daughter 

of  Rev.  John  and  Mary  ( )   (Hunking) 

Newmarch.  of  Kittery.  Maine.  He  was  a 
magistrate  in  .Salisbury  for  upwards  of  fifty 
years ;  for  a  long  time  judge  for  the  county  of 
Essex ;  and  for  twenty-seven  years  represen- 
tative to  the  general  court.  He  was  also  a 
deacon  of  the  church,  colonel  of  Essex  county 
regiment,  from  which  in  1756  men  were 
enlisted  for  the  expedition  against  the  Frencii 
at  Crown  Point.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
(iovernor's  council,  1771-1774;  chief  justice  of 
the  court  of  common  ])leas.  delegate  in  1778  to 
the  constitutional  convention,  and  served  in  the 
l)rovincial  congress.  Children  born  in  Salis- 
bury: I.  Benjamin,  born  January  20.  1739, 
see  forward.  2.  (_'aleb.  baptized  September  2^. 
1730.  died  unmarried. 

(\')  Benjamin  Cushing.  son  of  Hon.  Caleb 
Cushing  (4 1,  born  at  Salisbury.  Massachu- 
setts, baptized  there.  January  20.  1731).  married 
December  17.  17()7.  Hannah  llaseliine,  born  at 
Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  December  12.  1732, 
daughter  of  .\athaniel  and  .Abigail  (Teiiney) 
Haseltine.  lie  resided  at  Salisbury  and  later 
removed  to  Newburyport.  Children,  all  except 
first,  bom  at  Salisbury:     1.  Haiuiah,  born  at 


MASSACHLSliTTS. 


Haverhill.  Xcw  Tlampshirc-.  March  30.  1769. 
(Hcd  young.  2.  Caleb,  born  .May  Ji,  1770.  died 
at  l'hiladeli)hia.  Pennsylvania.  December  4, 
1820.  married  December  14.  iji)^,.  .Margaret 
Hoover,  of  I'liiladelphia.  Pennsylvania,  wlm 
died  July  18.  1847.  3.  .Mary,  born  May  11. 
1772.  died  young.  4.  Benjamin,  born  June  21. 
1776,  died  young.  5.  John  Xewmarch,  born 
May  18,  1779.  see  forward.  (1.  Nathaniel,  born 
July  29.  1782.  died  at  sea.  7.  Mary,  born 
March  22.  1789.  died  June  13.  i83().  married 
Benjamin  Bodily. 

(\'l,i  John  Xewmarch  Lushing,  son  of  Ben- 
jamin Gushing  (5),  born  at  Salisbury.  Massa- 
chusetts, May  18,  1779.  died  at  Xewburyport. 
Massachusetts.  January  5,  1849.  niarried  first. 
.Vpril  I.  1799.  Lydia  Dow.  of  Salisbury,  died 
November  6.  1810.  married  second.  Elizabeth 
Johnson,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Johnson,  of 
Xewburyport.  Massachusetts:  shipmaster. 
shipowner,  and  merchant.  Children  by  first 
wife:  I.  Caleb,  born  January  17,  1800,  see 
forward.  2.  Lydia,  born  August  13,  1805,  died 
April  21,  1851.  Children  by  SQpond  wife:  3. 
Mary  Ann,  born  March  4,  1816,  died  .August 
31,  1831.  4.  Philip  Johnson,  born  December 
II,  1818.  died  September  29,  1846.  5.  John 
Xewmarch,  born  October  21,  1820,  married, 
^fay  16,  1843,  '^lary  Lawrence,  who  died 
August  2,  1898.  6.  \Villiam,  born  August  10, 
1823,  died  October  16,  1875.  married  first. 
September  23.  1847,  Sarah  Moody  Stone,  of 
Xewburyjiort,  who  died  June  26,  1863:  mar- 
ried second.  .May  29.  1866,  Ellen  M.  Holbrook, 
of  Jamaica  Plain.  7.  Sarah  Chickering,  born 
.\ugust  10,  1823.  died  May  9.  1826.  8.  Eliza- 
beth, born  lulv  25,  1S26.  died  .September  19. 
1828. 

(\'II)  Honorable  Caleb  Gushing,  son  of 
John  Newmarch  Gushing  (6),  born  at  Salis- 
bury. Massachusetts,  January  17,  1800,  died 
January  2,  1879,  married  November  23.  1824, 
Caroline  Elizabeth  Wilde,  born  .April  26,  1802, 
died  .August  28,  1832,  daughter  of  Judge  Sam- 
uel S.  and  Eunice  (Cobb)  Wilde.  H.  C. 
1817. 

NATHAN  I  EL  HAWTHORNE. 

Whatever  charm  the  career  of  Nathaniel 
Hawthorne  may  offer  to  the  public  as  a  master 
of  romance  in  the  field  of  literary  art  almost 
exclusively  his  own,  it  is  ccjnceded  universally 
that  the  facts  of  his  life  offer  little  ripjjortunity 
for  the  biographer.  He  was  a  native  of  the 
old  town  of  Salem,  was  born  on  lndc[)endence 
Day,  July  4,  1804,  and  died  at  Plymouth,  New 
Hampshire.  May  18.  1864.     One  well  known 


biographer  considers  that  his  work  is  tlierefore 
his  record,  and  the  i)rocession  of  his  ideas  as 
successfully  formed  in  the  jjages  of  his  books 
are  his  only  satisfactory  and  everlasting  mon- 
ument. His  character  owes  much  to  heredity. 
His  ancestors  were  of  the  established  Puritan 
stock  in  an  ancient  seaport  town,  and  some  of 
them  as  a  matter  of  course  were  seafaring 
men.  His  early  days  were  particularlv  nn- 
eventful.  His  education  was  obtained  at  his 
birthplace  and  at  liowdoin  College,  Maine, 
where  in  1825  he  was  graduated.  Among  his 
early  instructors  and  his  classmates  were  sev- 
eral distinguished  men:  Dr.  Joseph  E.  Wor- 
cester, the  lexicographer,  John  S.  C.  .Abbott. 
George  P..  Cheever.  Jonathan  Gillev.  Henry 
Wadsworth  Longfellow,  President '  Eranklin 
Pierce,  Calvin  b'Jlis  Stowe,  and  others.  In 
early  life  he  lived  with  his  mother  in  the 
woods  of  Raymond,  Maine,  for  a  period  of 
one  year,  but  after  he  left  college  he  returned 
to  Salem  to  live.  For  twelve  years  following  he 
was  a  recluse,  and  read  or  wrote  bv  night  or 
day  as  suited  his  fancy.  He  published  his  first 
story  at  his  own  e.xpense,  and  only  a  few 
hundred  copies  of  this  early  i)roduction  were 
sold.  He  did  considerable  stated  work  for 
various  imblications  anonymously  between 
1830  and  1836,  but  in  1837  he  collected  the 
first  series  of  "Twice-Told  Tales,"  followed  in 
.1845  by  the  second,  both  in  185 1  being  re- 
issued together.  After  1850  his  works  and  his 
popularity  increased.  In  1850  his  second 
novel.  "The  Scarlet  Letter,"  was  issued,  and 
undoubtedly  it  is  the  best  known  and  remark- 
able work  of  his  wonderful  genius.  The  anal- 
ysis of  his  writings  and  their  titles  is  not  the 
object  of  this  article.  As  a  distinguished 
writer  has  .said,  they  all  bear  the  mark  in  com- 
mon of  being  early  products  of  the  dry  New 
England  air:  incorporating  myths  and  mys- 
teries of  old  Massachusetts,  including  chapters 
of  the  fanciful,  bathed  in  a  misty  moonshiny 
light,  completely  neglecting  the  lisual  .sources 
of  emotion.  His  most  touching  peculiarity 
was  his  aloofness;  he  was  outside  of  every- 
thing, an  alien  everywhere — on  the  surface— 
the  surface  of  the  soul  and  the  edge  of  the 
tragedy — he  preferred  to  remain. 

His  life  is  very  briefly  written.  In  iS^c;  he 
received  through  influential  friends  an  appoint- 
ment to  a  small  place  in  the  Boston  custom 
house.  In  1841  he  spent  a  few  months  in 
the  Brook  i-'arm  c(jnimunity.  He  was  married 
in  1842,  and  lived  at  Concord  till  1846,  when 
he  obtained  a  position  in  the  Salem  custom 
house,   and   returned   Ihcix-   in   li\e.      He   also 


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MASSACHISI'.TTS. 


resided  fur  tun  years  at  Lenox.  Massachu- 
setts. In  1S53  he  was  appointed  consul  to 
Liverpool,  and  lie  resided  afterwards  for  about 
seven  years  in  England.  France  and  Italy.  He 
returned  to  the  United  States  in  i860  and 
resided  again  at  Concord.  Early  in  the  year 
1864  his  health  began  rapidly  to  fail,  and  in 
May.  1864.  he  went  with  ex-President  Pierce 
to  the  White  Mountains,  and  when  they 
reached  Plymouth.  Xew  Hampshire.  May  18. 
Hawthorne  died  in  his  sleep. 

The  impressions  of  his  contemporaries  in 
Salem  regarding  him  are  interesting.  He  led 
among  thcni  a  quiet  and  secluded  life,  charac- 
terized by  shyness  in  school,  and  inconsjjicu- 
ousness  in  college.  His  earliest  literar\-  work 
was  anonymous,  and  he  was  first  supposed  by 
his  readers  to  be  a  woman,  who  possessed 
among  other  qualities,  great  delicacy  of  fancy. 
The  volume  of  "Twice-Told  Tales"  first 
brought  him  a  recognized  position  in  the  liter- 
ary world  and  an  enthusiastic  welcome.  His 
various  official  positions  were  conferred  solely 
for  his  merit  as  an  author.  The  supernatural 
element  in  his  work  he  allowed  nothing  to 
interfere  with.  His  love  for  personal  solitude 
was  his  ruling  ])assinn.  IK-  liad  no  fondness 
for  social  pleasures,  and  never  entered  into 
them. 

"These  our  aclors. 
As  I  foretold  you.  were  all  spirits,  and 
Are  melted  into  air.  into  thin  air; 
And,  like  the  baseless  fabric  of  this  vision. 
The  cloud-capped  towers,  the  gorgeous  palaces, 
The  solemn  temples,  the  great  globe  itself. 
Yea,  all  which  it  inherit,  shall  dissolve. 
And,   like  this  insubstantial  pageant  faded. 
Leave  not  a   rack   behind." 

AxcE.STRV. — William  Hathorne  (i),  of 
Salem,  Massachusetts,  was  a  son  of  William 
and  Sara  Hathorn  of  [iinfield.  Rerkshire.  Eng- 
land;  he  was  horn  about  1607.  died  at  .Salem. 
Massachusetts.  1681.  in  his  seventy-fourth 
year;  wife  Anne.  He  came  to  this  country 
with  the  Winthrop  company  in  1630.  and  set- 
tled first  at  Dorchester,  where  he  appears 
prominently  until  1636.  when  he  removed  tn 
.Salem.  He  was  for  many  years  a  deputy,  was 
elected  speaker  a  number  of  times,  and  elected 
assistant  from  1662  to  1679,  He  was  rine  of 
the  most  able,  energetic,  and  widely  influential 
men  in  New  England  in  his  day ;  was  commis- 
sioned captain  in  1646.  and  major  before  1656. 
His  will  dated  February  17.  1679-80.  probated 
June  28.  1681,  mentions  .Ann  as  sole  executrix  ; 
names  William  and  .^amuel  and  .Abigail,  chil- 
dren of  his  son  I'.leazer  Hathorne.  late  (lerca^- 


ed  :  his  son  John,  of  Salcni ;  his  son  William, 
w  ho  was  then  lately  deceased,  to  whom  he  con- 
firms a  bequest  to  William's  widow  Sarah ;  his 
grandchild  Jervice  Hehvyde.  then  in  Europe; 
hi>  daughter  Sarah  Coaker's  two  eldest  sons 
by  JKT  husband  Coaker.  the  remainder  of  his 
grandchildren;  his  son-in-law.  Israel  Porter, 
was  also  mentioned.   Children:  1.    .\  daughter, 

married I  lelwise.   2.  Sarah,  born  March 

II.  1634-5.  died  b'ebruary  8.  1688;  married 
.\pril  13.  1665.  Joseph  Coker,  of  Newbury. 
Massachusetts.  3.  Eleazer.  born  August  i. 
1637.  married  .August  2ii.  1663,  Abigail 
Curwen.     4.  Nathaniel,  born  August  II.  1630, 

5.  John,  born  .\ugust  5.  1641.  see  forward.  6. 
.\nna.  born  December  12,  1643,  married  Janu- 
ary 2~.  1664-5.  Jose])h  Porter,  of  Salem,  who 
died  December  u,  1714.  7.  William.  l)orn 
April  I,  1643.  died  July  14.  1070;  married 
Sarah  Ruck,  who  married  second,  Rev.  George 
PiinToughs,  of  Salem.  8.  Elizabeth,  born  July 
3.  1649,  married  November  20.  1(172.  Israel 
Porter,  of  Salem,  who  died  November,  1706. 

(H  )  Colonel  John  Hathorn,  son  of  Captain 
William  Hathorn  (i),  born  at  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts, .August  5,  1641,  died  May  10,  1717, 
aged  seventy-six  years;  married  March  22, 
1674-5.  Ruth  Gardner,  baptized  .Ai)ril  2,  1665. 
daughter  of  Lieutenant  George  and  Elizabeth 
<  lardner,  of  Salem.  He  was  distinguished  both 
in  civil  and  military  affairs ;  a  captain  in  the 
war  with  the  eastern  Indians,  colonel  of  a  reg- 
iment, and  chief  commander  of  a  military 
expedition  in  1696;  deputy.  1683;  assistant, 
with  one  brief  exception,  from  1684  to  171 1; 
judge,  etc.  Children:  i.  John,  born  January 
10.    1675.     2.   Nathaniel,  born   November  25. 

i<>j8.  died  before  1712,  married  Sarah ■'; 

he  removed  to  Gosport,  England.  His  widow- 
married  second,  Nathaniel  .Satall  of  ("losport. 
luigland.  3.  Ebenezer,  of  London,  England, 
172').  4.  Joseph,  baptized  June,  i6f)i  ;  see  for- 
\\:ir(l.  5.  Ruth,  baptized  .Se[)teniber.  1694, 
maiiied  James  Putnam  :  died  at  Daiivcrs,  Feb- 
ruary 20,   1769,  ill   the  75th  year  of  Iier  age. 

6.  lienjamin. 

Mill  Joseph  llathorne.  <(<u  nf  Jolm  Hat- 
horne (2).  born  at  .Salem.  Massachusetts.  l)a[)- 
tized  June.  1691.  died  1762:  married  June  30, 
1715,  Sarah  ISowditch.  born  January  10. 
U<)^-(),  died  .March.  1761.  daughter  of  Captain 
William  and  Maiv  KiarchK'r)  P.owditch,  of 
.Salem.  Children:  1.  William,  born  Feliruary 
20.  1715-16,  married  March  29.  1741,  Mary 
Touzell.  2.  Joseph,  baptized  May  4,  1718.  3. 
John,  baptized  May  22,  1719.  died  I'ebruary  6. 
1750;    married    Su--aiHia     Tousell.      4.    Sarah. 


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baptized  June  27.  1722,  married  Daniel 
Cheever.  of  Salem.  5.  Ebenezer,  baptized  De- 
cember 26.  1725.  6.  Daniel,  see  forward.  7. 
Ruth,  died  June,  1801,  married  September  30, 
1762,  Captain  David  Ropes,  of  Salem,  wlio 
died  May  28,  1782. 

(]\')  Daniel  Hatliorne,  son  of  Joseph  Hat- 
horne  (31,  born  at  Salem,  Massachusetts,  died 
1795;  married  October  21.  1756,  Rachel 
Phelps,  born  June  i,  1734,  daughter  of  Jona- 
than and  Judith  (Cox)  Phelps,  of  Beverly. 
Children  :  I.  Rachel,  born  July  25.  1757.  mar- 
ried Simon  l-'orrester.  2.  Daniel,  born  June 
23.  I759.  died  March  13.  1763.  3.  Sarah,  born 
Alay  II,  I7'^>3,  married  John  Crowninshield.  4. 
Eunice,  born  October  4,  1766,  married  Febru- 
ary 5.  1788,  Aaron  Porter,  who  died  at  Dan- 
vers,  Massachusetts,  December  3,  1843.  3. 
Daniel,  born  July  25.  1768,  died  at  sea,  1805, 
unmarried;  6.  Judith,  born  April  17,  1770, 
married  Alarch  2,  1792,  George  Archer.  7. 
Xathaniel,  born  May  19,  1775,  see  forward.  8. 
Ruth,  born  January  20.  1778. 

(V)  Ca])tain  Xathaniel  Hathorne.  son  of 
Daniel  Hathorne  (4),  born  at  Salem,  Massa- 
chusetts, May  19,  1775,  died  at  Surinam,  i8o8; 
married  Elizabeth  Clark  Manning,  born  Sep- 
tember 6,  1780,  died  July  31,  1849,  daughter  of 
Richard  and  Miriam  (Lord)  Manning,  of 
Ipswich.  Children:  i.  EIizal)eth  Manning,  born 
March  7,  1802.  2.  Xathaniel.  born  July  4. 
1804,  see  forward.  3.  Maria  Louisa,  born  Jan- 
uary 9,  1808,  lost  in  steamer  "Henry  Clay," 
burned  on  the  Hudson  river,  July  27,  1832. 

(V'l)  Xathaniel  Hawthorne,  son  of  Captain 
Xathaniel  Hathorne  (5),  born  at  Salem.  Mass- 
achusetts, July  4,  1804,  died  at  I'lymouth,  New 
Hamiishire,  I^Iay  19,  1864;  married  at  Salem, 
July  9,  1842,  Sophia  Amelia  Peabody,  born 
.Sejitember  21.  1809.  died  at  Enndon.  England. 
I'ebruary  26.  1871.  daughter  of  Dr.  Xathaniel 
and  ICiizabeth  (Palmer)  Peabody.  of  ."-^alem 
and  I'oston,  Massachusetts.  Children:  I. 
Una.  born  at  Concord,  Massachusetts,  March 
3,  1844,  died  in  England,  1887,  unmarried.  2. 
Julian,  born  at  Hoston,  Massachusetts,  June 
22.  1846.  3.  Rose,  born  at  Leno.x,  Massachu- 
setts, May,  1830.  married  Ceorge  Parsons 
Lathrop. 

joiix  <;r|'.i-.xi.]':.\i'  w  hi  irii-.R. 

John  (Ireenleaf  W'hittier.  of  .Amesbury. 
Massachusetts,  was  born  in  llaverlitll,  Massa- 
chusetts, December  17,  1807.  and  died  m 
Hainpton  I'alls,  Xew  llamjishire.  September 
7,    1892.       He    was    descended     from    Tlionias 


\\  hitlier  (or  Whittle)  of  Salisbury.  Xewbury, 
and  flaverhill,  Massachusetts,  through  Joseph 
2,  Joseph  3,  and  John  4  W'hittier,  his  father, 
who  married  Abigail  Hussey,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Hussey,  of  .Somersworth,  Xew  Hamp- 
shire. 

1  le  was  a  famous  .American  poet.  "A  Quaker 
in  religion,  he  was  remarkable  for  his  consist- 
ency and  the  purity  of  his  life;  he  was  one  of 
the  earliest  and  most  influential  .Abolitionists, 
several  times  mobbed  for  his  opinions.  He 
was  at  different  periods  editor  of  several  jour- 
nals, among  them  (  1838-40)  the  Pciinsylrania 
Fiu  ciiian.  an  .Abolition  publication,  and  the 
leading  contributor  to  the  tl'ashiiitjton  Xational 
Era.  1847-59.  Us  was  a  memlier  of  the  Mass- 
achusetts legislature,  1835-36,  and  one  of  the 
secretaries  of  the  .American  Anti-Slavery  Soci- 
ety, 1836.  He  took  great  interest  in  politics. 
His  home,  after  1840,  was  at  Amesbury.  Mass- 
achusetts. 

.Among  his  best-known  iioems  are:  "Skip- 
per ]reson"s  Ride."  i860:  "My  Playmate," 
i860;  "liarbara  Frietchie."  1863;  "Pans  Deo," 
1863;  "My  P.irthday."  ".Snowbound,"  1866; 
"Maud  Aluller,"  1866;  "The  Tent  on  the 
Beach,"  1867,  and  "The  Eternal  Goodness." 
"Perhaps  no  other  of  our  ])oets,  not  even 
Longfellow,  has  so  reached  the  popular  heart." 
(  Library  of  the  World's  Best  Literature.) 

An  estimate  by  a  writer  in  the  above  work 
states:  His  work  depends  for  its  aiijireciation 
to  an  unusual  degree  on  an  understanding  of 
his  life  and  character.  Others  of  his  contem- 
poraries need  little  explanation.  W'hittier  was 
born  of  simple  farming  folk;  his  formal  edu- 
cation was  merely  that  of  the  district  school 
and  country  academy  and  he  had  ik>  experi- 
ence of  foreign  travel.  He  sprang  from  the 
soil  of  Xew  England,  and  possessed  to  the  full 
the  virtues  and  defects  of  his  ancestry  and 
environment,  and  he  rejiresents,  and  with  suc- 
cess, the  most  winning  side  of  country  life  in 
his  native  district.  L'ntil  he  was  twenty  his 
educational  advantages  were  very  ordinary. 
He  attended  for  a  short  time  the  Haverhill 
.Academv.  I'"or  a  \ear  he  was  emjiloyed  in  a 
P)OSton  printing  house,  and  there  edited  a 
I)aper.  I'or  another  year  he  was  editor  of  a 
jomnal  in  Hartford.  The  pa|)ers  with  which 
he  was  connected  were  not  those  of  the  gen- 
eral sort,  but  were  speci.il  |)ublications  devoted 
to  such  subjects  as  lemi)erance  and  anti-slav- 
erv.  With  very  few  exceptions  his  days  were 
si)ent  in  Essex  County,  and  his  early  life,  as 
well  as  his  later,   \\a-   free    from  affectation. 


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and  in  tlie  first  of  it  full  of  ctidrt  and  disci- 
pline, a  life  in  which  the  outer  world  of  cities 
was  unrealized. 

The  birthplace  of  Mr.  W'hittier  is  standing 
in  that  part  of  Haverhill,  which  is  near  the 
boundary  line  of  the  present  town  of  Merri- 
mac.  Its  antiquity,  aside  from  its  connection 
with  the  notable  poet,  is  its  principal  attraction. 
The  front  of  the  house  remains  as  originally 
built,  with  unimportant  changes  in  the  way  of 
repairs.  The  house  was  built  about  the  year 
1688.  by  Thomas  W'hittier.  the  ancestor  who 
left  England  in  1638,  at  the  age  of  eighteen, 
and  settled  in  Salisbury  about  1640,  and 
thence  removed  to  Haverhill  in  1648,  first 
living  in  a  log  hut  which  he  built  and  occupied 
until  the  erection  of  the  house  above  men- 
tioned, which  was  about  half  a  mile  distant 
from  his  former  residence. 

AxcESTRV. — Thomas  ^^l^ittier  ( i ),  of  Salis- 
bury and  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  born  about 
1620  or  1622.  died  at  Haverhill,  November  zS^. 
1696;  married  Ruth  Green  (alias  Rolfe?)  who 
died  his  widow,  July,  1710.  He  was  of  Haver- 
hill in  1647.  Among  those,  who  came  with 
him  to  this  country  were  his  uncles  John  and 
Henry  Rolfe,  and  a  distant  relative,  Ruth 
Green,  whom  he  afterwards  married,  and 
whose  name  appears  in  every  subsequent  gen- 
eration. Children:  I.  Mary,  born  October  9, 
1647,  died  July  29,  1698;  married  September 

21.  1666,  Benjamin  Page,  of  Haverhill.  2. 
John,  born  December  23,  1649;  married  Jan- 
uary 14,  1685-6,  Mary  Hoyt.  of  Haverhill  3. 
Ruth,  born  November  6,  165 1,  died  December 
i6,  1719;  married  .April  20,  1675.  Joseph  True, 
of  Salisbury.  4.  Thomas,  born  January  12, 
1653-4,  died  October  17,  1728.  5.  Susamia, 
born  March  27,  1656.  died  I-'ebruary  15, 
1726-7;  married  July  15,  1674,  Jacob  Morrill, 
of  Salisbury.  6.  Nathaniel,  born  .August  11, 
1658,  died  July  18,  1722:  married  first,  .-\ugust 
26,  1685,  Mrs.  Mary  Osgood,  who  died  .\Ia\- 
II,  1705;  married  second,  June,  1710.  widow 
Alary  Ring,  who  died  July  19,  1742.  7.  Han- 
nah, born  Sei)tember  10,  1760;  married  May 
30,  1683,  Edward  'S'oung.  8.  Richard,  born 
June  27,  1663,  died  March  3,  1725-6.  9.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  November  21,  1666;  married  June 

22,  1699,  James  Sanders,  Jr.,  of  .\mesbury. 
Massachusetts.  10.  Joseph,  born  May  8,  1669, 
see   forward. 

(H)  Joseph  Whittier.  son  (it  Tlinuias  \\  hit- 
tier  (i),  born  in  .Massachusetts,  .May  8,  1669, 
died  December  25,  1740:  married  ?>Iay  24, 
i('kj4,  Mary  Peasley,  born  July  14,  1672, 
daughfcr   of    Joseph     and     Ruth    (Barnard) 


Peasley.  For  four  generations  nearly  all  of 
his  descendants  retained  their  connection  more 
or  less  closely  with  the  Society  of  Friends. 
Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  September  19. 
1695;  niarried  November  24,  1721.  .\bn'er 
Chase.  2.  Green,  born  March  13,  1696-7;  mar- 
ried (published  November  3.  1719)  Hannah 
Chase.  3.  Joseph,  born  April  2,  1699.  died 
young.  4.  Ruth,  born  July  31,  1701  ;  married 
January  I,  ij22.t^.  Benjamin  Greeley.  5.  Rich- 
ard, born  September  20,  1703.  6.  Ebenezcr, 
born  December  29,  1704;  married  June  23, 
1730,  Judith  W'illett.  7.  Hannah,  born  June  2, 
1707,  married  November  25,  1725,  Stephen 
Badger.  8.  Susannah,  born  July  25,  1709; 
presumably  niarried.  May  8,  1734,  Joseph 
Weed,  Jr.  9.  Joseph,  born  March  21,  1716-17, 
see  forward. 

(HP)  Joseph  \\'hittier,  son  of  Joseph  \\'hit- 
tier  (2),  born  at  Haverhill,  Massachusetts, 
March  21,  1716-17,  died  October  10.  1796; 
married  July  12,  1739,  Sarah  Greenleaf,  born 
March  5.  1716,  died  at  Haverhill,  Massachu- 
setts, March  17,  1807,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Judith  (Coffin)  Greenleaf,  of  Newbury. 
Massachusetts.  He  remained  on  the  ancestral 
farm  of  his  ancestors,  which  passed  to  the  son 
John.  Children:  I.  Stephen,  born  April  6, 
1740,  died  .April  17,  1740.  2.  Thomas,  born 
July  29,  1742,  died  August  13,  1742,  3.  Ruth, 
born  December  26,  1743,  died  December  27, 
1743.  4.  Obadiah,  born  January  22,  1745,  died 
October  3,  1754.  5.  Mary,  born  February  2, 
1747,  died  September  5,  1S02,  unmarried.  6. 
Joseph,  born  .September  14,  1750.  died  i~-ei)tem- 
ber  21,  1754.  7.  Nathaniel,  born  July  13,  1753. 
died  at  Mollis,  Maine,  January,  1839,  unmar- 
ried. 8.  Josejih,  born  September  20,  1755.  died 
I-"ebruary  20,  1833;  married  Mary  Chas- .  ot 
Dcering,  New  I  fampshire,  who  married 
second,  1835.  Jonathan  Taylor,  of  Biddeford, 

Maine,  and  married  third, Hanson,    9. 

Obadiah,  born  Sejjtember  2,  1758,  died  at 
Dover,  New  llampshire,  July  28,  1814:  mar- 
ried December  17,  1786,  .^arah  .Austin,  of 
Dover,  .New  llampshire.  10.  John,  born  No- 
vember 22.  i/i^:  see  forward.  11.  Moses, 
born  December  20,  1762,  died  January  23. 
1824,  unmarried. 

(I\')  John  Whittier.  son  of  Joseph  Whit- 
tier (3).  born  at  llaverhill,  November  22, 
1760.  died  June  11,  1830:  married  October  3, 
1804.  .\bigail  Hussey,  born  September  3.  1779. 
died  December  2/.  1857.  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  .Mercy  (Evans)  Hussey,  of  .'-lomersworth, 
now  Rollinsford,  New  Hampshire.  He  was 
several  times  elected  a  selectman  of  the  town 


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of  Haverhill.  This  point  is  of  interest  in 
reference  to  the  male  line  of  the  ancestry  of 
the  Poet.  Thomas  ( i )  Whittier  was  49  years 
old  when  his  son  Joseph  was  born,  and  he  lived 
to  be  seventy-si.x.  Joseph  (2)  was  forty-seven 
years  old  when  his  son  Joseph  (3),  was  born, 
and  he  died  at  the  age  of  seventy.  The  second 
Joseph  or  Joseph  (3)  was  forty-five  years  old 
when  John  (4)  was  born,  and  he  lived  to  be 
eighty.  John  (4)  was  in  his  forty-eighth  year 
when  John  Greenleaf  (5)  the  Poet,  was  born, 
and  he  lived  to  be  nearly  seventy,  .\lthough 
each  Whittier  in  this  list  lived  to  a  good  old 
age,  they  passed  away  without  having  seen 
their  grandsons  in  this  particular  line.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Mary,  born  September  3,  1806,  died 
January  17,  i860;  married  Jacob  Caldwell.  2. 
John  Greenleaf.  born  December  17.  1807.  died 
at  Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  September  7, 
1892.  3.  Matthew  Franklin,  born  July  4,  1812, 
died  January  7,  1883:  married  first,  August  4, 
1836,  Abigail  R.  Poyen,  who  died  at  Portland, 
Maine,  March  ij ,  1841  ;  chiklren:  i.  Joseph 
Poyen,  died  August  15,  1838.  ii.  Sarah,  died 
March  13.  1841.  .Married  second,  Jane  E. 
V'auglian.  of  St.  John.  Xew  Brunswick,  born 
April  27.  i8iy;  children:  iii.  Charles  Frank- 
lin, born  December  8,  1843.  iv.  Elizabeth  Hus- 
sey,  born  .\ugust  10.  1845  •  niarried  Samuel  T. 
Pickard.  v.  Alice  Creenkaf,  born  February 
19,  1848:  married  Wilbur  licrry.  4.  Elizabeth 
Ihissey.  born  December  7. 
bury,  Se])teniber  3,  1864. 


1815,  died  at  .\nies- 


AXXE  RRADSTREET. 

.Anne  I'radstreet.  distinguished  as  the  earliest 
poet  of  her  se.x  in  .America,  though  a  native  of 
England,  was  a  person  who  by  reputation  and 
residence  conferred  honor  upon  the  New 
I-'ngland  county  of  Essex,  and  is  worthy  of  a 
brief  notice  in  these  pages.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  (iovernor  Thomas  Dudley  and  the 
wife  of  Governor  Simon  Bradstreet.  She  was 
born  in  the  year  1612-13,  probably  at  North- 
ampton. England.  Of  her  youth  but  little  is 
known,  and  from  what  is  left  in  her  own 
writing  leads  to  the  belief  that  she  was  relig- 
iously brought  up  according  to  the  Puritan 
standards  of  that  time.  W  hen  she  was  about 
si.xteen  she  had  the  small  ]5ox.  ."^he  was  mar- 
ried at  about  that  age,  and  came  to  this  coim- 
try.  1  ler  husband  was  the  son  of  a  minister  of 
the  nonconformist  order  in  the  old  country. 
In  1635  she  became  a  resident  of  Ipswich,  but 
there  are  no  particulars  of  importance  regard- 
ing her  sta\   in  that  tnwii,  and  the  exact  vear 


when  she  removed  to  .Andover  is  not  known, 
but  it  is  presumable  that  the  latter  removal  was 
before  the  year  1644.  The  portion  of  the  town 
where  she  settled  was  that  now  called  bytlie 
name  of  North  .\ndover.  Her  husband's 
house  there  was  burned  to  the  ground  in  July, 
1666;  and  it  is  supposed  to  have  been  fol- 
lowed by  a  second,  in  which  she  died  in  Sep- 
tember, 1672.  This  house,  which  was  the 
residence  of  her  son.  Dudley  P)radstreet.  is 
still  standing. 

Her  poems  were  first  published  in  London, 
in  1650,  under  the  title  of  "The  Tenth  Muse 
Eately  Sprung  U])  in  America."  She  appears 
to  have  had  from  her  birth  a  very  delicate 
constitution,  and  was  troubled  at  one  time  with 
lameness  and  subject  to  frequent  attacks  of 
sickness,  to  fevers,  and  fits  of  fainting.  She 
was  the  mother  of  eight  children,  four  sons 
and  four  daughters,  all  but  one  of  whom  sur- 
vived her.  Of  her  opinions,  she  regarded 
health  as  the  reward  of  virtue,  and  her  various 
maladies  as  tokens  of  the  divine  displeasure. 
She  says  her  religious  belief  was  at  times 
shaken ;  but  she  believed  that  her  doubts  and 
fears  w-ere  exaggerated  by  her  tender  con- 
science. Her  children  were  constantly  in  her 
mind :  and  for  them  she  committed  to  writing 
many  of  her  thoughts  and  experiences,  espec- 
ially religions.  Her  jioetic  similes  refer  much 
to  domestic  life  and  the  bringing  up  of  chil- 
dren, and  among  her  own  o(Ts|)ring  she  notes 
the  most  diverse  traits  of  character ;  some  of 
them  were  obedient  and  easily  governed,  while 
others  were  unruly  and  headstrong.  She 
derived  satisfaction  from  the  virtues  of  some, 
and  deplored  the  failings  of  others.  Her  mar- 
ried life  was  hai)])y.  but  she  continuously  dwelt 
in  her  thoughts  on  the  great  ills  to  which 
hinnanity  is  subject.  By  the  burning  of  her 
house  at  Andover.  in  July.  U)''/).  her  papers, 
books,  and  other  things  of  great  value,  were 
destroyed.  Her  son  wrote  that  his  father's 
loss  by  this  fire  was  over  eight  himdred  books, 
including  those  of  the  son  and  many  of  the 
son's  clothes,  in  his  case  to  at  least  the  value 
of  fifty  or  si.xty  ])ounds. 

Thus  from  what  is  derived  from  Mrs.  lirad- 
strect's  works,  one  can  see  that  the  world  of 
1666  was  not  much  different  from  that  of  1908 
in  its  experience  of  domestic  trials.  The  fact 
oi  her  being  able  to  compose  anything  of  a  lit- 
erary order,  was  in  her  day  a  wonder  com- 
pared with  such  things  now.  She  was,  how- 
ever, living  in  a  new  country,  scarcely  yet  set- 
tled, and  that  she  even  was  exposed  to  criti- 


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cism  on  the  part  of  lier  neighbors  for  studying 
and  writing  so  much,  is  evident  from  these 
hnes  of  hers : 

••  I  am  obnoxious  to  each  carping  tongue 
Who  .<=ays  my  hand  a  needle  better  fits." 

She  died  of  a  consumption,  and  a  statement 
of  her  sad  condition  in  the  last  stages  of  tlie 
disease  is  preserved  in  tlie  handwriting  of  her 
son.  It  is  supposed,  as  her  burial  place  is  not 
known  at  Andover.  that  siie  may  have  been 
buried  in  her  father's  tomb  at  Roxbury. 

In  1678.  after  her  death,  a  second  edition  of 
her  "Poems"  was  brought  out  in  I'oston.  Her 
descendants  have  been  very  numerous,  "and 
many  of  them  have  more  than  made  up  by  the 
excellence  of  their  writings  for  whatever 
beauty  or  spirit  hers  may  have  lacked."  Among 
these  were  Dr.  William  E.  Channing;  Rev. 
Joseph  Buckminster.  of  Portsmouth:  his  son. 
Rev.  I.  S.  lUickniinster :  and  his  daughter, 
Mrs.  Eliza  P..  Lee:  Richard  H.  Dana,  the 
poet,  and  his  son  R.  H.  Dana.  Jr.:  Dr.  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes:  Wendell  Phillips:  and  Mrs. 
Eliza  G.  Thornton,  of  Saco,  Elaine,  whose 
verses  were  once  esteemed.  Her  husband  mar- 
ried a  second  wife,  and  his  death  occurred  at 
i^alem,  March  27.  1697,  at  the  age  of  ninety- 
four. 

An  example  of  Mrs.  Bradstreet's  style  in 
her  lighter  mood  is  given  in  some  lines  niton 
the  burning  of  her  house,  July  10,  i6(')6. 

■When  by  (he  I^nincs  oft  I  past. 
My  sorrowing  eyes  aside  did  cast. 
.\nd  here  and  there  the  places  spye 
\Vliere  oft  I  sate,  and  long  did  lye. 

"Here  stood  that  Trunk,  and   there  that  chest; 

There  lay  that  store  I  counted  best: 

.My  pleasant   tilings  in  ashes  lye. 

And  thtm  behold  no  more  shall  I. 

Under  thy  roof  no  guest  shall  sitt. 

Nor  at  Thy  Table  eat  a  bitt. 

"No  plea.sant  tale  shall  'ere  be  told 

Nor  things  recounted  done  of  old. 

No  Candle  'ere  shall  shine  in  Thee. 

Nor  bridegroom's  voice  ere  heard  shall  be. 

In  silence  ever  shalt  thou  lye; 

Adieu.  Adieu;  All's  vanity." 

.\uTHORiTV. — "The  Works  of  .\nne  Brad- 
street  in  Prose  and  Verse,"  edited  by  John 
Harvard  Ellis.  Charlestown :  .Miram  E.  Cut- 
ter.    1867. 

A.N'CESTRV. — Thomas  Dudley  li),(;(>vernor 
of  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  Xorthamptun. 
in  England  in  1576  or  1577  (the  only  son  of 
Captain  Roger  Dudley,  who  was  killed  in  bat- 
tle about  1586).  He  was  thus  early  in  life  an 
or])han.  having  a  sister,  concerning  whom,  as 


well  as  his  mother,  nothing  is  known.  His 
mother  was  probably  of  a  religious  family  and 
he  became  a  noted  Puritan.  He  was  sent  to 
school  bv  a  charitable  lady,  and  while  still 
voung  became  a  page  in  the  family  of  William 
Lord  Compton,  afterwards  Earl  of  Xorthamp- 
ton.  The  further  career  of  Governor  Thomas 
Dudley  is  a  matter  of  general  history.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Samuel,  bom  in  Xorthamptonshirc, 
England,  about  1610.  died  February  10,  1683. 
He  was  married  three  times,  became  the  settled 
minister  at  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  and  had 
in  all  eighteen  children.  He  married  first 
Mary,  daughter  of  Governor  John  Winthrop; 
second.  Marv  P.vlev,  si.ster  of  Henry  Byley ; 
and  third,  Elizabeth  .  2.  Anne,  mar- 
ried Governor  Bradstreet :  see  forward.  3. 
Patience:  died  February  8.  1690:  married 
Major-Gcneral  Daniel  Denison :  and  had  two 
children.  4.  Sarah,  baptized  July  23.  1620.  at 
Sempringham,  England :  died  Xovember  3, 
1659;  married  before  June  9,  1639,  P.enjamin 
Keavne,  of  Boston  (son  of  Ca])tain  Robert 
Keavne)  from  whom  she  was  divorced  in 
1647.  and  had  a  daughter  named  .Anna,  the 
wife  of  Edward  Lane,  and  later  of  Xicholas 
Paige.  The  mother  afterwards  married 
Thomas  Pacy.  5.  Mercy,  born  September  27. 
1621.  died  July  1,  i<)<)i  :  married  Rev.  John 
Woodhridge  and  had  twelve  children.  _  6. 
Dorothy:  died  February  2-j.  1643.  His  first 
wife  Dorothy,  a  gentlewoman  of  good  family 
and  estate,  died  December  27,  1643,  and  was 
buried  in  the  family  tomb  at  Roxbury.  Her 
familv  name  and  pedigree  have  not  been  pre- 
served. She  was  sixty-one  years  old.  and  had 
had  five  children,  one  son  and  four  daughters, 
all  of  whom  married  and  had  children  before 
her  decease.  It  is  remarkalile  that  so  little 
should  be  definitely  known  concerning  a  family 
so  distinguished. 

Bv  his  second  wife  Governor  Dudley  had: 
7.  iV-borah.  born  I-'ebruary  i-j .  i<>44-5:  died 
unmarried.  Xovember  I.  iri83.  8.  Joseph,  born 
Se[)tember  2^,.  1647:  died  April  2.  1720.  He 
married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Edward  Tyng, 
became  Governor  of  Massachusetts,  Lieuten- 
ant-Ciovernor  of  the  Isle  of  Wight,  and  first 
chief-justice  of  Xew  York.  He  had  thirteen 
children,  one  of  whom.  Paul,  was  attorney- 
general,  and  afterwards  chief-justice  of  Mass- 
achusetts, fellow  of  the  Royal  Society,  and 
founder  of  the  Dudleian  Lectures  at  Harvard 
College.  9.  i'aul,  bom  Sei)tcnil)er  8,  1650,  died 
December  i.  1681  :  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Governor  John  Leverett.  and  had  ihree  chil- 
dren. 


MASSAC  liL'SETTS. 


(Ill  Aline  (Dudley)  Dradstreet.  the  popu- 
lar poetess  of  her  time,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Dudley  (i).  was  born  1612-13;  was  married 
when  about  sixteen  to  Simon  Bradstreet.  and 
died  September  16.  1672.  Eight  children:  i. 
Samuel,  ( 11.  C.  1653),  and  died  August,  1682. 
He  was  in  England,  1657- 1661,  a  physician  in 
Boston;  and  removed  afterwards  to  the  island 
of  Jamaica,  where  he  died.  1  le  was  twice  mar- 
ried ;  first  to  Mercy,  daughter  of  William  Tyiig 
by  whom  he  had  five  children,  only  one  of 
whom  survived  him,  and  second  to  a  wife, 
whose  name  is  unknown.  Her  three  children 
were  living  with  their  grandfather  Governor 
Bradstreet,  at  the  time  of  the  latter's  death.  2. 
Dorothy,  died  February  26,  1672;  married, 
June  25,  1654,  Rev.  Seaborn  Cotton  (son  of 
Rev.  John  Cotton,  of  Boston)  and  had  nine 
children.  Her  husband  w^as  pastor  of  the 
church  at  Hamilton,  Xew  1  Iam])shire.  3.  Sarah, 
married  first  Richard  Hubbard,  of  Ipswich,  by 
whom  she  had  five  children,  and  second  Major 
Samuel  Ward,  of  Marblehead.  4.  Simon,  born 
at  Ipswich,  September  28,  1640  (H.  C,  1660), 
diecl  1683.  Went  to  Xew  London.  Connecti- 
cut, in  1666.  and  was  ordained  pastor  of  the 
church  there  October  5,  1670;  married,  at  New- 
bury, CJctober  2,  1667.  Lucy  (his  cousin), 
daughter  of  Rev.  John  \\'oodbridge,  and  had 
five  children.  5.  Hannah,  died  1707:  married, 
June  14,  1659,  Andrew  Wiggin,  of  Exeter, 
New  Ham])shire,  and  had  five  sons  and  five 
daughters.  (>.  Mercy,  died  October  5,  1715 
(68th  year)  ;  married  October  31,  1672,  Major 
Nathaniel  Wade,  of  Medford,  and  had  eight 

children.     7.   Dudley,  born  ,  1648,  died 

November  13,  1702:  married,  November  12, 
1673,  Ann  \\'ood,  widow  of  Tlieodore  Price. 
He  was  a  prominent  man  in  Andover,  and  had 
three  children.  8.  John,  born  July  22,  1652, 
died  January  11,  1718;  married.  June  11.  iC)77, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  Perkins,  lie 
was  a  resident  of  Topsfu'ld.  and  had  five  chil- 
dren. 

.M  A.XASSl'.ll   CL"l"l.h:R. 

Manasseh  Cutler,  third  child  and  elder  son 
of  1  lezekiah  Cutler,  a  farmer  of  Kiliingly,  Con- 
necticut, and  grandson  of  John  and  Haimah 
(Snow)  Cutler,  of  Lexington,  Massachusetts, 
and  Kiliingly,  was  born  in  what  is  now  Tliomi)- 
son.  on  May  28,  1742.  and  baptized  on  May  30 
at  the  Th()m])son  church.  His  mother  was 
Susanna,  daughter  of  Deacon  liaimiel  Clark, 
of  Kiliingly.  He  was  ])repared  for  college  by 
the  Rev.  .\aron  Itrown,  of  Nortli  Killingl)-. 

During  the  winter  after  graduating  he  taught 


school  in  Dedham.  Massachusetts,  where  he 
became  engaged  to  Mary,  eldest  daughter  of 
the  Rev.  Thoinas  Balch,  of  that  town,  and  of 
Mary  (Sumner)  Balch.  He  then  accepted  a 
proposal  from  an  aunt  of  Miss  Balch's  whohad 
been  recently  left  a  widow,  to  go  to  Edgartown, 
on  Martha's  Vineyard,  and  take  charge  of  a 
business  which  she  owned  there. 

On  September  7,  1766,  he  was  married,  and 
at  once  removed  to  Edgartown,  and  contiiuied 
as  a  merchant  for  three  years.  In  the  mean- 
time he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  1767,  but  sub- 
sequently he  began  the  study  of  theology  by 
himself,  and  in  November,  1769,  he  removed 
with  his  family  to  Dedham,  to  continue  his 
studies  under  his  father-in-law's  direction.  In 
May.  1770,  he  was  called  to  settle  in  Douglas, 
in  Worcester  county,  where  he  had  been  preach- 
ing for  some  time,  but  this  call  he  declined.  In 
February .  1 77 1,  he  began  to  preach  in  the 
Third  Parish  of  Ipswich,  -Massachusetts,  called 
Ipswich  Mamlet,  and  in  May  he  was  invited  to 
settle  as  their  pastor.  He  accepted  the  call  on 
June  9,  and  was  ordained  on  September  II, 
Mr.  Balch  ])reaching  the  sermon. 

During  the  revolution  his  work  was  twice 
interrupted  by  invitations  to  serve  in  the  army 
as  chaplain  :  and  he  was  thus  absent  for  four 
months  in  1775,  and  for  one  month  in  1778. 
In  the  latter  part  of  1778  he  undertook  the 
study  of  medicine  with  Dr.  Elisha  Whitney, 
one  of  his  parishioners,  and  was  able  thereby  to 
add  .somewhat  to  a  scanty  income.  .Vs  earlyas  his 
college  days  he  had  begun  to  take  a  deep  interest 
in  natural  science,  and  about  1780  he  ap])lieil 
himst'lf  esi)ecially  to  the  studv  of  botany,  in 
which  he  became  a  proficient.  From  the  time  of 
his  settlement  in  l]iswich  he  had  had  occasional 
pupils  in  his  house,  and  in  1782  he  opened  a 
broading-school  which  was  continued  (except 
during  temporary  absences)  with  success  for 
thirty-five  years. 

(  )wing  to  the  ditficulties  of  jiroviding  for  his 
family,  in  the  ilistnrbed  state  of  things  after 
the  revolution,  he  had  serious  thoughts  of  re- 
moving to  the  West ;  and  it  thus  came  about 
that  in  March,  1786,  he  united  with  other 
Massachusetts  citizens  in  the  formation  of  the 
Ohio  Company,  to  promote  a  settlement  in  the 
Western  territory.  He  threw  himself  with  such 
ardor  into  the  business  of  stvuring  subscrij)- 
tions,  that  he  was  a])pointed  at  theaiunial  meet- 
ing in  March,  1787,  one  of  three  directors  who 
were  instructed  to  ai)iily-  to  Congress  for  the 
]nu"ciiase  of  lands.  His  success  in  inducing 
Congress  to  ])ass  tiie  memorable  ordinance 
under  which  the  Northwest  Territorv  was  set- 


MASSACH  L-SKTTS. 


tied  is  a  part  of  llie  history  of  the  nation.  For 
tlie  next  five  or  six  years  he  was  much  engross- 
ed in  ])romoting  the  development  of  the  Ohio 
Comjjany.  In  1793  he  was  the  chairman  of  a 
committee  which  obtained  from  the  State  gov- 
ernment the  incorporation  of  Ipswich  Hamlet 
as  tlie  town  of  Hamilton.  He  was  an  ardent 
l-'ederalist,  and  as  such  was  sent  as  a  repre- 
sentative to  the  general  court  of  Massachu.setts 
in  the  spring  of  1800.  In  November.  1800.  he 
was  elected  a  representative  in  the  L'nited 
.States  congress.  He  held  this  office  for  four 
years,  and  then  tleclined  a  second  re-election  on 
account  of  long-continued  and  increasing  ill- 
health.  .After  his  retirement  he  devoted  him- 
self exclusively  to  his  ministerial  duties  which 
he  retained  until  his  death. 

In  person  he  was  tall  and  portly,  and  in 
manners  courtly  and  dignified.  His  portrait, 
])aintcd  by  Frothingham  in  1820,  is  engraved  in 
his  published  life.  The  honorary  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Laws  was  conferred  on  him  by  Vale 
College  in  1791.  .Vftcr  twenty-four  years  of 
suffering  from  asthma,  which  finally  terminated 
in  consumption,  he  died  in  Hamilton,  on  July 
28,  1823.  in  his  eighty-second  year.  The  dis- 
course delivered  at  his  funeral  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
r.etijamin  W'adsworth.  of  Danvers,  was  pub- 
lished .  His  wife  died  sufldenly  in  Hamilton  on 
November  2,  1815.  in  her  sevent\'-fifth  year. 
Tliey  iiad  five  sons  (one  of  whom  died  in 
infancy)  and  three  daughters.  The  third  son 
was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1793. 
The  Rev.  Rufus  P.  Cutler  was  a  grandson. 

One  has  said  of  him  that  his  mind  was  alto- 
gether of  the  practical  cast,  and  that  in  matters 
of  mere  theory  and  speculation  he  tor)k  but  little 
interest.  He  himself  published  a  number  of 
works  and  his  life,  journals,  and  correspond- 
ence have  been  i)ublished  in  two  volumes  by 
his  grandchildren,  William  Parker  Cutler  and 
Julia  Perkins  Cutler,  at  Cincinnati,  1888.''' 

AxcESTRV. — James  Cutler  (  i  ),  of  Water- 
town,  and  Cambridge  Farms,  now  Lexington, 
-Massachusetts,  died  at  the  latter  ])lace  July  17, 
1694,   aged    eighty-eight    years:    married    first 

.\nna  ,  who  was  buried  .Sejiteniber  30, 

1644;  married  secoiul.  March  9,  i'')45,  Mrs. 
Mary  King,  widow  of  Thomas  King,  of  Water- 
town,  who  died  December  7.  1654;  and  mar- 
ried third,  about  1662,  Phebe  Page,  daughter 
of  John  Page,  of  Watertown.  Children:  i. 
James,  born  at  W'atertown.  November  f>.  i(')35  ; 
see  forward.  2.  Hannah,  born  at  W'atertown, 
July  26,  1638:  married  John  Winter,  who  died 


•The    above     sketch     is     abridged     from     Dexter's 
"Vale   Biographies."   vol.    ill.   pp.    112-117. 


at  Cambridge  l-'arms.  December  15,  1(190.  3. 
Flizabeth.  born  at  W'atertown,  January  11, 
if)40,  died  December  30,  1O44.  4.  .Mary,  born 
:it  W'atertown,  .April  29.  i(>44,  married  John 
Collar.  5,  Flizabeth,  born  at  W'atertown,  July 
20,  iC)4r):  married  John  Parmenter,  third,  of 
Sudbury,  .Massachusetts.  (>.  Thomas,  born  about 
i(>48,  died  at  Le.xington.  July  13,  1722;  mar- 
ried Abigail .    7.  .Sarah,  died  at  Weston, 

Massachusetts,  Januar}'  17.  1744,  aged  eighty- 
nine  years.    Married,  1673,  Thomas  Waite.  of 

Cambridge   Farms.     8.  Joanna,  born  , 

died  .November  26,  1703:  married,  June  19, 
i<i8o.  i'liilij)  Russell,  of  Cambridge  Farms.  0. 
Jdhn.  burn  at  Cambridge  Farms,  March  19, 
i(>()3.  died  .September  21,  1714:  married,  Janu- 
ary I,  i()94,  Mary  Stearns,  who  died  February 
24,  1733-4.  ID.  Samuel,  born  at  Cambridge 
P'arms,  .November  8,  \(%4.  :i.  Jemima,  died 
March  15,  1744:  married,  September  22,  1697, 
Zerubbabel  Snow,  of  Wnburn,  Massachusetts. 
12.  Pliebe. 

(II)  James  Cutler,  son  of  James  Cutler  (T  ), 
born  at  W'atertown,  ?^Iassachusetts,  November 
6,  1635,  died  at  Cambridge  Farms,  now  Lex- 
ington, Massachusetts,  July  31,  1685:  married, 
June  15,  Uif)5.  .Mrs.  Lydia  (Moore)  Wright, 
born  June  24,  1643,  died  at  Sudbury,  Massa- 
chusetts, November  2^.  1723,  daughter  of  John 
and  Flizabeth  Moore,  and  widow  of  Samuel 
Wright,  of  Sudbury,  Massachusetts.  Children  : 
I.  James,  born  July  12,  1666,  died  February  i, 
1690-1.  2.  Ann,  born  .April  20,  l6Cx);  married, 
September  26,  1688,  Richard  Bloss,  of  Water- 
town.  3.  Joseph,  born  .May  2,  1672,  died  at 
Waltham,  Massachusetts,  1715:  married  Han- 
nah — .  who  married  second,  Josejih  Smith  ;  . 

she  died  at  Waltham,  I'ebruary  26.  1735.  4. 
Samuel,  born  May  2,  1672,  was  living  in  1727. 
5.  John,  born  .April  14,  1675;  see  forward.  6. 
Thomas,  born  December  15,  1677,  died  at 
Western,  now  Warren.  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber 23,  1759,  aged  eighty-two  years,  married 
first,  Sarah  .Stone,  of  Lexington,  who  died  Jan- 
uary 10.  1750,  aged  sixty-nine,  and  married 
secoiKl.  .April  10.  1751,  Mrs.  Lydia  (Ijowman) 
.Simonds,  of  Lexington.  7.  Flizabeth,  born 
March  14,  if)8i.  8.  Isaac,  born  1684,  died  at 
Killingly,  Connecticut,  June  18,  1758,  aged 
seventy- four  years,  gravestone  :  married,  Sarah 

,  who  died  June,  I7'')3,  aged  seventy-five 

years. 

(HI)  J(jhn  Cutler,  son  of  James  Cutler  (2), 
born  at  Cambridge  I'arms,  now  Lexington, 
Massachusetts,  .April  14,  1675.  died  at  Killingly, 
Connecticut,  after  1727:  married.  Pebruary  6, 
1700,  Hannah  .Snow,  born  at  Wob'urn,  Massa- 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


chusetts.  June  6.  1677,  daughter  of  Jolin  and 
Hannah  ((ireen)  Snow;  she  presumably  mar- 
ried second.  Xinember  2.  173'),  Eleazer  15atc- 
man,  of  Killinj^ly,  Connecticut.  Children:  i. 
llainiah.  ba])lized  at  Lexington.  .Xoveniber, 
1701  ;  married  Doctor  Holmes,  of  Wofidstock, 
Connecticut.  2.  Mary,  bajnized  at  Lexington. 
July  4,  1703  ;  married.  October  29,  1730,  Josejjh 
liacon.  Jr.,  of  Woodstock,  Connecticut.  3. 
Seth.  baptized  at  Lexington.  July  7,  1705,  died 
at  Windham.  C(Jnnecticut.  l-"ebruary  y.  1751  : 
married.  (  )ctobcr  22.  1734.  Elizabeth  I'abcock. 
4.  Timothy,  baptized  at  i^exington.  July  7,  1705, 
died  at  Windham,  Connecticut,  about  1736; 
married.  .March  17.  1733.  IClizal)eth  Leavens, 
of  Killingly,  Connecticut.  5.  Hezekiah.  bap- 
tized at  Lexington,  .\pril  20,  1707  ;  see  forward. 
6.  Dinah,  jjaptized  at  Lexington,  September  4, 
1709.  7.  Jemima,  baptized  at  Lexington.  .May 
27,  1711:  iriarried.  .April  19.  1731,  Benjamin 
Corbin,  of  Woodstock,  Connecticut.  8.  Criah. 
i)a|)tized  at  Lexington,  March  29,  17 1 3,  died  at 
Morristown.  Xew  Jersey,  1793:  married  first. 
Miss  Caulficld :  married  second,  about  1772, 
Mrs.  Wiiitehead.  9.  .Abigail,  baptized  at  Kill- 
ingly. July  22,  1716.  10.  .Sarah,  bajitized  at 
Killingly,  July  22,  1716.  11.  Hannah,  bajitizcd 
at  Killingly.  July  22.  1716.  12.  Patience,  bap- 
tized at  Killingly,  September  i,  1717.  13. 
Keziah,  baptized  at  Killingly,  July  19,  1719. 

(IN)  Hezekiah  Cutler,  son  of  John  Cutler 
(3),  born  at  Lexington,  Massachusetts,  ba])- 
tized  there,  April  20,  1707,  died  at  Killingl\-, 
Connecticut,  October  4,  1792:  married,  De- 
cember 5,  1734,  Susanna  Clark,  who  died  .\])ril 
8,  1774.  in  her  sixty-second  year;  married  sec- 
ond, Mrs.  .Abigail  Robbins.  who  was  buried  at 
Killingly.  Connecticut,  1791,  aged  seventy-two 
years.  Children,  born  at  Killingly.  Comiecti- 
cut.  were:  i.  Mehitable.  born  .\pril  1.  1737; 
married.  ( )ctobcr  10,  1758,  Simeon  Lee.  2. 
Hainiah.  baptized  December  24.  1738.  died 
young.  3.  Manasseh,  born  May  3,  1742;  see 
forward.  4.  Ephraim,  born  November  13.  1744, 
died  May  21.  1766;  unmarried.  5.  Hannah, 
born    December   5,    1747,   died    December   25, 

(  \  )  Reverend  .Manasseh  Cutler,  son  of  1  leze- 
kiali  Cutler  (4),  born  at  Killingly,  Connecticut, 
May  13,  1742,  died  at  llamilton,  Massaclui- 
.■^etts,  July  28,  1823:  married,  (  )ct<>ber  8,  I7()(), 
Mary  Italch.  who  <lied  at  Hamilton,  November 
3,  1815,  aged  .seventy-three  years,  daughter  of 
Rev.  Thomas  and  Mary  ( Sumner )  Raich,  of 
Dedham.  Massachusetts.  Children:  i.  Eph- 
raim, bi^rn  at  Edgartown,  Massachusetts,  April 
13.  I7'>7.  <licd  at  Warren,  (>liii>.  Jnlv  8.  1853; 


married  first.  April  8.  1787,  Leah  Atwood,  of 
Killingly,  Connecticut,  who  died  November  4. 
1807  ;  and  married  second.  Ajiril  13.  1808.  Sally 
I'arker.  a  native  of  .Newburyport.  Massachu- 
setts, who  died  June  30.  1846.  2.  Jervis.  born 
at  Martha's  X'ineyard.  ^lassaehusetts.  Septem- 
ber 19,  1768,  died  at  Evansville,  Indiana,  June 
25,  1846;  married  first,  March  22,  1794,  Phila- 
delphia Cargill,  of  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  who 
died  October  6,  1820;  married  second,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  S.  (  l-'razier )  Chandler,  of  Evans- 
ville, Indiana.  3.  Mary,  born  May  3,  1771. 
died  September.  1836:  married.  1794.  Doctor 
Josejjh  Torrey.  4.  Charles,  born  Alarcli  26. 
177^.  clied  in  (Jhio,  -September  17,  1805;  un- 
married, ( H.  C,  1793).  5.  Lavinia,  born  Au- 
gust 6,  1775.  died  Alarch.  1823;  married.  Octo- 
ber 9,  1800.  Captain  Jacob  llerry,  who  died 
Eebruary  7.  1812;  resided  at  IJeverly,  Massa- 
chusetts. 6.  Temple,  born  .\])ril  10.  1778.  died 
same  year.  7.  I-llizabeth.  born  July  4.  1779, 
died  .April  22.  1854;  married.  June  13.  1802. 
h'itch  Poole,  of  Daiivers.  Massachusetts,  who 
died  January  28,  1838.  8.  Temple,  born  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1782,  died  at  Hamilton.  Massachu- 
setts. November  5.  1857;  married  first,  Octo- 
ber 7.  1805,  .Sophia  I'.rown,  who  died  Septem- 
ber 4,  1822,  and  married  second,  1823,  Airs. 
Hannah  ( .Ajipleton  )  .'-Imith. 

GEORGE  1)(  )\\  XING. 

-Sir  George  Downing  was  the  son  of  Eman- 
uel Downing.  t)f  Salem.  Massachusetts,  who 
married.  April  10.  1622,  Lucy,  sister  of  Gov- 
erlior  John  Winthrop.  He  was  jirobably  born 
in  London,  England,  in  1625.  In  1636  he  was 
at  school  '"at  .Maidstone  in  Kent."  He  arrived 
in  Xew  England  with  his  parents  in  1638,  prob- 
ably early  in  October.  He  pursued  his  studies 
under  the  Rev.  John  l-'iske.  for  many  years  an 
instructor  in  Salem.  He  was  also  under  the 
inrtuence  of  Hugh  Peters,  who  married  his 
aunt,  and  to  whose  church  in  Salem  his  parents 
belonged.  L'pham  says  he  "spent  his  later 
youth  and  opening  manhood  on  Salem  Farms." 
He  was  the  first  .graduate  from  Salem,  after 
which  he  engaged  in  leaching,  anil  pursued  the 
study  of  divinity.  In  the  summer  of  1645.  at 
the  age  of  twenty,  he  "went  in  a  ship  to  the 
West  Indies  to  instruct  the  seamen."  Probably 
he  took  this  method  to  ])ay  the  ex])ense  of  his 
voyage.  He  proceeded  Iiy  way  of  "Xewfoinid- 
land.  and  to  Christoi>hers.  and  P.arbadoes.  and 
Nevis,"  and  was  re(|uested  to  preach  in  all 
these  ]ilaces,  but  continued  to  England,  where 
he  was  called  to  be  a  |)reacher  in  Colonel  John 
Okcy's  regiment,  in  the  army  of  Sir  Thoiuas 


MASSACHLSIITTS. 


xlvii. 


Fairfax.  When  not  mure  than  twenty-tivc 
years  of  age,  Downing  liad  risen  so  fast  as  to 
have  become  a  confidential  member  of  Crom- 
well's statt,  and  one  of  the  most  imjiortant 
correspondents  and  advisers  of  Parliament. 
September  3.  1651.  he  was  at  the  battle  of  Wor- 
cester. As  early  as  .April  13.  if^tsa.  he  held  the 
important  position  of  scoutmaster-general  to 
the  army  in  Scotland.  In  1655,  being  secretary 
to  Thnrloe,  who  was  Cromwell's  secretary  ot 
state,  he  was  sent  to  the  Duke  of  Savoy  to 
remonstrate  against  the  ])ersecution  of  the  W'al- 
denses  in  t'iedmont.  1  le  was  chosen  member  of 
Parliament  in  iC)56  for  the  Protector's  pur- 
poses, llesides  engaging  in  all  other  important 
business  of  the  House,  he  took  the  lead  in  ques- 
tions of  revenue  and  trade. 

'■.■\  Narrative  of  the  Late  Parliament."  pub- 
lished in  1657.  records  him  as  receiving  £365 
per  annum  as  scoutmaster-general,  £500  as  one 
of  the  tellers  in  the  exche(|uer :  in  all  £865  jier 
annum.  It  is  said  he  hail  the  pay  of  a  troop  of 
horse  captain.  In  1657  he  was  apjjointed  by 
Cromwell  minister  to  Holland,  with  a  salary 
of  £1,100.  He  was  elected  burgess  for  Mor- 
peth, in  Xorthumberland.  to  serve  in  the  parlia- 
ment which  convened  at  Westminster,  Alay  8. 
1661.  In  the  intervals  of  parliament  he  re- 
turned to  his  employments  at  the  Hague.  In 
March.  1662.  he  procured  the  arrest  of  John 
Okey.  Miles  Corbet,  and  John  Barkstead.  three 
of  the  judges  who  had  condemned  Charles  the 
First.  There  are  rea.sons  for  supposing  him  to 
have  been  the  author  of  the  policy  developed 
in  the  British  Navigation  .\ct.  which  was  initi- 
ated October  9.  1651,  and  advanced  by  another 
act  in  1660.  This  act  made  England  the  great 
naval  power  of  the  world. 

July  I.  1663.  Downing  was  created  a  baronet 
by  the  title  of  -Sir  (jeorge  Downing  of  F.ast 
Hatley,  Cambridgeshire,  knight,  where  his  estate 
was  called  the  largest  in  the  county.  In  1667, 
he  was  chosen  secretary  of  the  new  commis- 
sioners of  the  treasury.  He  labored  indus- 
triously to  increase  the  revenue  and  enlarge  the 
resources  of  the  country.  In  1671  he  went  to 
Holland,  to  take  the  place  of  Sir  William 
Temple.  He  returned  from  Holland,  where  he 
was  sent  as  ambas.sador,  before  his  time,  and 
accordingly  was  sent  to  the  Tower :  but  was 
soon  released  and  restored  to  royal  favor.  He 
was  one  of  the  three  commissioners  of  the  cus- 
toms in  London,  who,  under  date  of  July 
9,  1678,  prepared  the  rigid  instructions  for 
"Edward  Randoljih,  Collector.  Surveyor,  and 
Searcher,  of  his  Majestie's  Customs  in  New 
England."    He  died  in  1684. 


Downing  married  in  1(154,  i'rances  Howard, 
who  was  desceniled  from  the  fourth  Duke  of 
Norfolk,  who  was  beheaded  by  Oueen  Eliza- 
beth for  tenderness  to  Mary  (Jueen  of  Scots. 
She  (lied  July  10,  1(183.  Their  eldest  son,  Ceorge, 
was  teller  in  the  Exchequer  in  1680. 

Downing  Street.  Whitehall,  was  named  after 
.Sir  George  Downing,  secretary  of  the  treasury, 
when  the  office  of  K^rd  treasurer  was  put  in 
commission  (  May,  i(i''i7  ),  on  tiie  death  of  Lord 
.'"Southampton. 

Sir  (icorge  Downing  was  a  member  of  the 
class  of  1642,  the  first  class  which  was  grad- 
uated from  Harvaril  College,  llis  grandson, 
who  (lied  in  1749,  a  little  more  than  a  hundred 
years  after  this  time.  bei|ueathed  a  large  estate, 
first  to  relatives,  and  afterwards,  if  tliey  died 
without  lawful  issue,  for  the  building  of  a  col- 
lege at  Cambridge,  .\fter  a  half  century's 
opposition  and  litigation,  it  was  chartered  Se])- 
tember  22.  1800,  and  the  magnificent  Downing 
College  was  erected  with  funds  which  were 
said  to  amount  to  one  hundred  and  fift\'  thous- 
and ])ountls.'-' 

ELP.RIDGE  GERRY. 

Elbridge  Gerry,  who  was  governor  of  Mass- 
achusetts from  May  1810.  to  May,  1812.  and 
\ice-president  of  the  United  States  from  March 
4.  1813,  until  N(.)vember  2},.  1814,  when  he 
suddenly  e.\]5ired,  as  he  was  aboiU  to  enter  the 
senate  chamber  at  Washington  for  the  ])erform- 
ance  of  his  (ifficial  duties,  was  a  native  of 
Marblehead,  where  his  birth  is  recorded  as 
(iccurring  on  the  17th  of  July,  1744,  son  of 
Thomas  and  Elizabeth.  The  son,  Elbridge  CJerry, 
was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  I7()2.and 
later  was  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence. 

l-'or  man}-  _\ears  he  was  a  resident  of  the 
town  of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
was  respected  as  one  of  the  most  eminent  citi- 
zens, in  spite  of  differences  of  political  opinion 
between  himself  and  the  majority  of  his  fellow 
citizens.  The  embargo  of  i(So9.  followed  by  an 
open  declaration  of  war  against  Great  llritian 
in  June  1812.  caused  t^ambridge  to  sufl'er  dur- 
ing the  next  two  or  three  years  its  full  |)roi)or- 
tion  in  the  general  stagnation  of  business;  as  a 
new  port  it  did  not  recover  from  the  blight 
which  had  fallen  upon  it — the  name  of  Cam- 
bridgeport  (now  anything  but  a  port)  coming 
as  a  relic  of  this  i)eriod.  Hence  grass  grew  in 
the  streets  of  the  seaports,  and  shi|)s  rotted  at 
the  wharves.     .A  very  decided  majority  of  the 


•The  ahovp  notice  \»  ahriilped  from  SUik'v'.s  "H.-ir- 
vari]  CJraduates."  vol.  i.  pp.  2S-.'>1. 


.\l\iii. 


MASSACllL"  SETTS. 


voters  1)1  Camliridj^e  ( if  not  elsewhere  in  New 
iingland  i  were  i)olitic;iily  ojjposed  to  the  war 
and  smarted  under  the  losses  and  inconven- 
iences resnlting  from  it.  but  notwithstanding 
the  lack  of  enthn>iasm  for  its  support,  com- 
panies when  called  into  service  for  the  defence 
of  the  state  responded  punctually  to  ih^;  call. 
Thus,  in  the  case  of  Mr.  Gerry,  it  is  said,  that 
neither  their  atifection  for  the  man,  nor  their 
regard  for  his  high  political  position,  could 
overcome  their  detastation  of  the  war,  of  which 
he  was  an  advocate  and  defender,  nor  induce 
them  to  volunteer  tlieir  jiersons  or  their  prop- 
erty in  its  behalf.  (See  Paige's  "History  of 
Cambri  ge,"  pp.  192-193). 

llis  earliest  revolutionary  experience  with 
Cambridge  appears  to  have  been  on  the  night 
of  the  eighteenth  of  .April,  1775.  when  as  a 
member  of  the  different  committees  of  safety 
and  supjjlies  in  session  at  Wetherby's  tavern, 
in  what  was  later  West  Cambridge  or  now  is 
.Arlington,  he.  with  two  others  of  the  members, 
Orne  and  Lee,  remained  to  pass  the  night.  As 
the  IJritish  in  perfect  stillness,  passed  the  tavern 
where  he  was  lodging,  on  their  midnight  march 
to  Concord,  derry,  Orne  and  Lee  rose  from 
their  beds  to  gaze  on  the  unwonted  spectacle; 
the  three  were  discovered  by  the  British,  and 
when  a  party  of  the  latter  was  detached  to  sur- 
round the  tavern,  and  make  prisoners  of  the 
distinguished  inmates,  the  three  members  of 
the  committee  of  safety  hastily  escaped  to  an 
adjoining  field. 

.■\s  early  as  1775  Gerry  was  actively  interest- 
ed in  fitting  out  a  provincial  naval  armanient 
and  by  November  13  a  law  was  passe<l  by  the 
assembly  of  Massachusetts — and  draughted  by 
C.erry — which  authorized  the  employment  of 
])rivateers  and  established  a  court  for  the  trial 
ami  condemnation  of  |)rizes.  J  le  was  then  a 
resident  of  Marl)lehead.  and  was  emphatically 
at  the  bottom  of  this  movement. 

lie  was  a  great  jjolitical  organizer.  It  was 
he  who  after  the  .\ew  England  colonies  had 
borne  the  contest  for  several  months,  almost 
alone,  sought  to  reconcile  the  conflicting  jeal- 
ousies of  the  north  and  the  south,  and  to  aid 
Washington  to  supplant  local  jealousy  by  a 
union  of  s])irit.  I  lis  letters  show  this.  In  one 
of  them  he  says  (under  date  of  October  9. 
1775).  "Let  it  be  remenibered  that  the  first 
attack  was  made  on  this  colony  ;  that  we  had  to 
keep  a  regular  force  without  the  advantage  of 
a  regular  government :  that  we  had  to  support 
in  the  field  from  12.000  to  14,000  men.  when 
the  whole  forces  vote<l  by  the  other  Xew  Eng- 
land governments  amounted  to  8.500  oidy." 


In  political  ability  Gerr\'  was  classed  with 
such  men  as  Washington.  Hamilton,  I-'ranklin, 
.Morris,  and  others,  and  he  was  a  delegate 
from  Massachusetts,  with  others,  in  1787,  to 
the  convention  at  l'hiladel])hia  on  the  adoption 
of  the  I'ederal  constitution.  Uy  the  adoption 
of  the  constitution  of  the  United  States,  the 
citizens  of  .Massachusetts,  as  well  as  of  the  rest 
of  the  Union  were  divided  into  two  parties, 
known  at  that  time  as  federalists  and  anti- 
federalist.  The  former  were  the  friends  of  the 
new  constitution,  and  ( lerry's  symjiathies  were 
with  tlie  latter.  The  federalists  were  inclined 
to  the  establishment  of  a  (privileged  order,  while 
the  anti- federalists  were  more  re])nblican  in 
their  tendencies:  or  in  other  words,  more  dem- 
ocratic, or  nearer  to  the  lower  class  of  the 
])eople. 

lie  was  a  commissioner  to  the  court  of 
l"rance  in  1797.  He  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Adams,  a  federalist,  contrary  to  the  opin- 
ion of  a  portion  of  his  cabinet,  because  Gerry 
was  a  gentleman  distinguished  throughout  the 
country  lor  his  intellectual  ability,  even  though 
he  was  attached  to  the  opposition,  or,  as  it  was 
then  called,  the  republican  party.  His  as.sociates 
on  this  mission  were  Charles  Cotesworth  Pinck- 
ney,  the  head  of  the  federal  party,  and  John 
Marshall,  of  Virginia,  the  later  biogra])her  of 
Washington. 

In  May,  1800,  he  was  the  candidate  of  the 
republican  i)arty  for  governor  of  Massachu- 
setts, and  the  people  had  confidence  in  his  in- 
tegrity, and  gave  him  a  large  vote,  but  not 
enough  to  elect  him.  In  May,  1810,  he  was 
elected,  and  the  democratic  party  was  tri- 
umphant in  the  slate.  It  was  considered  a 
critical  period.  In  public  ( lovernment  Gerry 
api)roved  the  course  of  the  national  adminis- 
tration, which  was  republican  or  democratic, 
and  confined  his  favors  to  such  as  were  its  su])- 
porlers.  For  this  he  received  several  threats 
of  assassination  from  anonymous  correspond- 
ents. He  was  reflected  upon  severely  in  the 
federal  press,  and  he  made  an  attempt  to  de- 
clare them  libellous.  In  the  midst  of  this  ex- 
citement a  new  election  occurred  and  Caleb 
.Strong  was  elected  governor.  Poth  i)arties 
were  active,  but  his  friends  could  not  overcome 
the  prejudices  against  Gerry.  It  is  saiil  that 
his  conduct  in  districting  the  State  for  the  elec- 
tion of  senators  had  some  intluence  in  defeat- 
ing him.  From  the  ])eculiar  manner  in  which 
he  did  this,  was  acijuired  the  term  "Gerry- 
mandering :"  a  term  now  familiar  to  all  who 
have  dealings  with  that  particular  way  of 
engineering  elections  to  the  advantage  of  the 


MASSAC! I  rsi:rrs. 


xlix. 


parly  in  [xiwcr.  A  deftnci'  <it  lii^  pulicx  in 
this  respect  was  iniblished  at  the  time,  to  tlie 
effect  that  the  constitution  did  not  restrict  to 
county  Hues  in  forming  districts,  ili^  last 
districting  was  conformable  to  the  rule  of 
taxes.  Previous  legislatures  had  districted  the 
State  regardless  of  comities,  as  ( lerry  had  done, 
etc.  .\  convention  was  called  at  this  time 
which  api)roved  of  the  governors  course.  I'in- 
ally,  he  was  elected  to  the  vice-jiresidency.  as 
the  candidate  of  his  ])arty. 

.As  an  example  of  his  style  of  wr.t.ng.  the 
following  extract  is  given  from  nne  of  Mr. 
(ierry's  letters.  The  subject  is  the  I'.ritish 
evacuation  of  Boston  in  March,  ij/*^)-  lie 
writes  on  .March  2C).  "What  an  occurrence  is 
this  to  be  known  in  Kurojie!  How  are  parlia- 
mentary pretensions  to  be  reconciled  ?  lught 
or  ten  thousand  British  troops,  it  has  been  said, 
are  sufficient  to  overun  .America ;  and  yet  that 
number  of  their  veterans,  posted  in  Boston  (a 
penisula  fortified  by  nature,  defended  by  works 
the  i)roduct  of  two  years"  industry,  surrounded 
by  navigable  waters.  sup|)orted  by  ships  of 
war.  and  commanded  by  their  best  generals). 
are  driven  off  by  about  one-thirtieth  of  the 
I'ower  of  .America.  Surely  the  invincible  vet- 
erans labored  under  some  great  disadvantage 
from  want  of  provisions  or  military  .stores, 
which  the  .Americans  were  am|)ly  jjrovided  with. 
Directly  the  reverse.  They  had  ])rovisions 
enough :  ammunition,  muskets  and  accoutre- 
ments, for  every  man.  and  a  i)iece  of  ordnance 
for  every  fifteen:  while  the  .Americans  were 
almost  destitute  of  all  these,  and  after  twelve 
months'  collection  had  only  a  sufficiency  of 
])owder  to  time  their  cannon  for  si.x  or  eight 
<!ays.  I  am  at  a  loss  to  know  how  (jreat  Brit- 
ian  will  recnncile  all  this  to  her  military  glory." 

.\s  thus  ably  predicted  by  this  keen  observer, 
the  news  did  excite  great  astonishment  in  ling- 
land,  and  the  reigning  ministry  were  deeply 
mf)rtificd. 

.A.vcicsrkv. — CajJlain  Thomas  (ierrv  (  1  ),  of 
.\ewton  Bushel,  (ireat  I'ritian,  born  at  .\'ew- 
ton  .Abbot,  Devonshire,  England,  March  15, 
1702,  died  at  Marblehead,  Massachusetts,  July 
13.  1774.  aged  seventy-two  years  four  months; 
married  first,  December  16,  17.^4,  I-'lizabelh 
(Ireenleaf,  born  at  Marblehead.  June  i.  171'^). 
died  there.  .Se])teniber  2.  1771.  aged  fifty-five 
years,  daughter  of  F.noch  and  Rebecca  (  Rus- 
sell) Cireenleaf :  married  second.  May  6,  1773, 
Mrs.  F.lizabeth  Lenimon.  presumably  widow 
of  Dr.  Jose])li  Eemnion.  of  Marblehead.  who 
died  in  1772.  Thomas  Gerry  came  to  .America 
in   17,^0  as  caj)tain   of  a   trading  vessel    from 


Loudcin.  Alter  niaiiiage  be  relin(|ui^lied  the 
sea  and  became  a  merchant  at  .Marblehead.  I  lis 
father  was  Daniel  (ierry.of  Newton  .\l)bot,  l)o- 
\iiii>liire.  I'Jigland,  who  married  a  wife  named 
1,\<1ki.  In  wlinni  he  had  three  children — Daniel 
and  |i  hn  wlio  remained  in  I'.ngland.  and  the 
alxivc  riiiiina'-.  who  emigrated  to  .\merica. 
Children:  1.  Thomas,  born  .Se])tember  \(). 
1735:  married,  Sei)tember  27.  175'^  Tabitha 
.Skinner.  2.  Samuel,  born  July  3.  17,^.  died 
August  26.  17.^8.  3.  I'-lizabeth.  born  .\lay  24, 
1740,  died  -September  3,  1740.  4.  John,  born 
(  ctober  8.  1741,  buried  Januarx  12,  178'):  mar- 
ried, Xovember  S,  }y(\7,.  Sarali  Wendell,  who 
m;irrieil  ^icnncl,  June  iS,  1786,  John  h'isk,  l{s(|.. 
of  Salem.  5.  Elliridge,  born  July  17,  1744:  see 
forward.     (1.  Samuel,  born  May  30,  174(^1,  died 


.May    14.    1730, 


l*:iizal)eth, 


.MaN 


1748:  married,  .\]>r\\  22.  \yjS-  Ihirrell  Dev- 
ereux,  8.  .Samuel  Russell,  born  July  27,  1750, 
died  February  1.  or  22,  1807,  aged  fifty-six 
years:  married  first,  July  22,  1773,  Hannah 
("dover,  who  died  .May  30,  1785;  married  sec- 
ond, July  31,  1783,  -Sarah  Thompson,  who  died 
his  widow.  July  22,  1830,  aged  seventy  years. 
9.  Daniel,  born  l'"ebruary  4,  1754,  died  May  29, 
1754.  10.  Daniel.  Imrn  June  22,  1738,  died 
.M.ay   17.  1739. 

(11)  lion.  Elbridge  (  .erry,  -on  cif  C  ajitain 
riiomas  (ierry  (T  ).  born  at  .Marbleheatl,  Mass- 
achusetts, July  17,  1744,  died  at  Washington, 
District  of  Columbia,  Xovember  23.  1814  :  mar- 
ried .Ann  Thompson, daughter  of  James  Thomp- 
son, of  Xew  \'ork,  who  died  his  widow,  at 
New  Haven,  Connecticut,  .March  17,  1849,  aged 
eighty-five  years.  He  was  survived,  besides 
his  widow,  by  three  sons  aiul  six  daughters, 
(hie  daughter,  Catherine,  married,  October  2, 
18011,  James  Trecolhick  .Austin.  Fs(|.,  of  Cam- 
bridge: her  husband  was  a  graduate  of  Har- 
vard College,  1802,  received  the  ilegree  of  LL. 
I).,  and  was  attorney-general  of  .Massachusetts. 
The  eldest  son,  Flbridge  C.erry  (  II.  C,  1813) 
died  in  .Xew  "\'ork,  .May  18,  1867:  he  was  at 
one  period  surveyor  of  the  ])ort  of  I'.oston, 
Thomas  Russell  derry,  another  son,  (H,  C, 
1 814)  born  in  Cambridge,  December  8,  1794, 
died  at  Xew  Roclielle,  Xew  A^ork,  October  6, 
1843:  midshi])nian  in  Cnited  .States  .Xavy,  ap- 
pointed December  6,  1814,  and  resigned  .August 
-/•  ''^.^.^-  Jauics  T.  Cierry,  another  son,  was 
a))()ointed  midshipman,  U.  .S.  N..  I^ecember  20, 
1813:  lieutenant,  .April  28.  1826:  commander, 
.Ajiril  17,  1842,  and  was  lost  on  the  ".Albany," 
September  28,  1834. 

The  name  of  Rlbridge  <  Ierrv  was  obtained 
from  a  relative  in  this  w'ay.     His  great-grand- 


1. 


MASSAClll'SETTS. 


niotlicr.  I'",li/.al)i.-lli  l'',lbriilgc.  married  Saimiel 
Russell,  wlio  was  bom  in  1645.  she  being  liorn 
Iniic  ig.  i''>5,V  This  Rebecca  Russell  married 
ImkicIi  (Ircenleaf.  and  their  daughter  i'llizalieth 
married  Thomas  (ierry.  The  l-llbridge  family 
belonged  in   I'-ristol.  I'jigland.  where  an  uncle. 


liihn  [•'.ihridge.  a  merchant  of  that  place,  died 
and  left  them  a  large  property,  and  in  memory 
of  this  family  filbridge  (ierry  derived  his  name. 
(See  X.  \'..  II.  &  (j.  Register,  vol.  u.  p.  112, 
further  I. 


WHITNEY  COAT-OF-ARMS. 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


Tlie    surname    Whitney   was 

W'PIITXEY  originally  a  place  name.  The 
parish  from  which  the  family 
takes  its  name  is  located  in  county  Hereford, 
England,  upon  the  extreme  western  border, 
adjoining  U'ales  and  is  traversed  by  the  lovely 
Wye  river.  The  name  of  the  place  doubtless 
comes  from  the  appearance  of  the  river,  mean- 
ing in  Sa.xon,  white  water,  from  Im'it,  white, 
and  ey,  water.  The  coat-of-arms  of  the  Whit- 
ney family  of  Whitney  is :  Azure,  a  cross 
chequy  or  and  gules.  Crest :  A  bull's  head 
couped  sable,  armed  argent,  the  points  gules. 
The  English  ancestry  of  John  Whitney,  the 
immigrant  who  settled  at  \\atertown,  Massa- 
chusetts, has  been  established  by  Henry  Mel- 
ville and  presented  in  an  exquisitely  printed 
and  illustrated  volume.  Very  few  American 
families  have  their  English  genealogy  in  such 
well  authenticated  and  satisfactory  form.  An 
abstract  of  the  English  ancestry  is  given  below. 

(I)  Turstin,  "the  Fleming,"  otherwise 
known  as  Turstin  de  Wigmore,  probably  also 
as  Turstin,  son  of  Rolf,  and  Turstin  "the 
White,"  was  a  follower  of  William  the  Con- 
queror. He  was  mentioned  in  the  Domesday 
book  as  an  extensive  land  holder  in  Hereford- 
shire and  the  Marches  of  Wales.  He  married 
.Agnes,  daughter  of  .-Mured  de  Merleberge,  a 
Norman  baron  of  Ewias  Castle,  in  the  Marches 
of  Wales. 

(H)  Eustace,  son  of  Turstin,  was  a  bene- 
factor of  the  monastery  of  St.  Peter  in  Glou- 
cester. He  or  one  of  his  immediate  descend- 
ants took  the  surname  De  Whitney  from 
Whitney  of  the  Wye,  in  the  Marches  of 
Wales,  where  his  principal  castle  was  located. 
The  estate  comprised  over  two  thousand  acres, 
and  remained  in  the  family  until  1893.  when 
it  was  sold,  there  being  no  member  of  the 
family  to  hold  it.  The  castle  has  entirely  dis- 
appeared, but  it  is  believed  to  be  in  ruins  under 
the  Wye,  which  has  in  the  course  of  years 
changed  its  path.  The  castle  was  probably 
built  on  an  artificial  mound,  surrounded  by  a 
moat  fed  by  the  river,  which  gradually  under- 
mined the  castle,  which  was  at  last  disinte- 
grated. 

(HI)   Sir  Robert  de  Whitney,  a  direct  de- 


scendant of  Eustace,  was  livng  in  1242  and 
was  mentioned  in  the  "Testa  de  Nevill." 
Three  or  four  intervening  generations  cannot 
be  stated  with  certainty. 

(IV)  Sir  Eustace  de  Whitney,  son  of  Sir 
Robert,  gave  deed  to  the  monastery  of  St. 
Peter  in  1280,  referring  to  and  confirming  the 
deed  of  his  ancestors  above  mentioned.  lie 
was  Lord  of  Pencombe,  Little  Co  warn  and 
Whitney  in  1 281 ;  was  granted  free  warren 
by  Edward  I  in  1284;  summoned  to  wars 
beyond  the  seas  in  1297;  tenant  of  part  of  the 
manor  of  Huntington  in  1299;  in  Scotch  war 
in  1 301.  He  was  possibly  grandson  instead 
of  son  of  Sir  Robert. 

(V)  Sir  Eustace  de  WHiitney,  son  of  Sir 
Eustace,  was  knighted  by  Edward  I  in  1306, 
and  was  a  member  of  parliament  for  Here- 
fordshire in  1313  and  1352. 

(\T)  Sir  Robert  de  Whitney,  son  of  Sir 
Eustace,  was  one  of  two  hundred  gentle- 
men who  went  to  Milan  in  the  retinue  of  the 
Duke  of  Clarence  on  the  occasion  of  the  hit- 
ter's marriage  in  1368.  He  was  a  member  of 
parliament  for  Herefordshire  in  1377,  1379 
and  1380  and  sheriff  in  1377. 

(VHj  Sir  Robert  Whitney,  son  of  Sir  Rob- 
ert, was  sent  abroad  to  negotiate  treaty  with 
the  Count  of  Flanders  in  1388;  member 
of  parliament  for  Herefordshire  in  1391.  He 
was  sent  to  France  to  deliver  the  castle  and 
town  of  Cherbourg  to  the  King  of  Navarre 
in  1393;  was  knight  marshal  in  the  court  of 
Richard  H ;  sent  on  King's  business  to  Ire- 
land in  1394.  He  was  killed,  together  with  his 
brother  and  most  of  his  relatives,  at  the  battle 
of  Pillcth,  1402. 

f\TH)  .Sir  Robert  Whitney,  son  of  Sir 
Robert,  was  granted  the  castle  of  Clif- 
ford and  lordships  of  Clifford  and  Glas- 
bury  by  Henry  IV  in  1404,  on  account 
of  the  services  of  his  father.  He  was 
sheriff  of  Herefordshire  in  1413-28-33-37; 
member  of  parliament.  1416-22.  He  fought 
in  the  French  war  under  Henry  V,  and  was 
cajjtain  of  the  castle  and  town  of  Vire  in  1420. 
He  was  named  as  one  of  the  five  knights  in 
Herefordshire  in  1433,  and  died  March  12, 
1441. 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


(  IX  j  Sir  Eustace  dc  Whitney,  son  of  Sir 
Robert,  was  born  in  141 1.  He  was  head 
of  a  commission  sent  t(j  Wales  by  Henry  \T 
in  1455  and  was  a  member  of  parhament  for 
Herefordshire  in  1468.  He  married  Jenett 
I^nssell:  second.  Jane  Clifford. 

( X )  Robert  VVhitney.  son  of  Sir  Eustace 
(9).  was  pnjbably  a  knight  and  was  an  active 
I)articipant  in  the  War  of  the  Roses,  and  was 
attainted  as  a  Yorkist  in  1459.  He  was  prob- 
ably at  the  battle  of  Mortimer's  Cross  in  1461. 
He  was  the  subject  of  a  poem  by  Lewis  Glyn 
Cothi,  on  the  occasion  of  his  marriage  to  Alice, 
the  great-granddaughter  of  Sir  David  Gam. 
He  married  first,  .Mice,  daughter  of  Thomas 
\'aughan ;  second,  Constance  Touchett,  who 
was  the  mother  of  his  sons.  She  was  descended 
from  William  the  Conc|ueror,  th  rough  the 
second  wife  of  Edward  I,  King  of  England. 

(XI)  James  Whitney,  son  of  Robert,  was 
appointed  receiver  of  Newport,  part  of  the 
estate  of  the  Duke  of  Buckingham,  con- 
fiscated by  Jlenry  \TI  in  1522.  He  married 
Blanche,  daughter  and  an  heir  of  Simon  Mil- 
bourne. 

(XH)  Robert  Whitney,  .son  of  James 
Whitney,  was  of  Iconib,  and  in  charge  of 
other  confiscated  estates.  He  was  sherifif 
of  Gloucestershire,  1527-28-29-30.  He  was 
nominated  Knight  of  the  Bath  by  Henry  VHI 
at  the  coronation  of  Anne  Boleyn  in  1531  ; 
was  granted  jjart  of  income  of  monastery  of 
Brewern  in  1535:  furnished  forty  men  to  ]nit 
down  rebellion  in  1536.  He  was  named  to 
attend  upon  the  king's  person.  He  died  in 
1541,  and  his  will  was  jjrovcd  June  11.  1541. 
He  married  Margaret  Wye. 

(XHI)  Sir  Robert  Whitney,  son  of  Robert, 
was  knighted  the  day  after  Queen  Mary's 
coronation  in  October,  1553.  He  was  sum- 
moned before  the  privy  council  in  1555  and 
1559.  He  was  member  of  jjarliament  for 
Herefordshire  in  1559,  and  died  .Vugust  5, 
1567.  He  married  Sybil  Baskerville,  a  de- 
scendant of  W^illiam  the  Conqueror  through 
the  first  wife  of  Edward  I. 

(XIV)  Robert  Whitney,  son  of  Sir  Robert, 
was  mentioned  in  tlie  will  of  his  father, 
and  also  in  an  inquisition  taken  after  the  lat- 
ter's  death.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Morgan  (Juillims,  or  Duglim. 

(XV)  Thomas  W'hitney,  son  of  Robert, 
was  of  W^estminster,  Gentleman.  He  was 
buried  at  St.  Margaret's,  Ajiril  14.  1637. 
He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  IBray,  of 
W'estminster  ;  she  was  buried  at  St.  Margaret's, 
September  25,  1629.     Children:     i.  John,  the 


.\merican  emigrant,  settled  at  Watertown, 
Massachusetts.  2.  Xicholas.  3.  William.  4. 
Richard.     5.  Margaret.     6.  Anne. 

(The  Baskerville  Line). 

(I)  William  I,  Duke  of  Xormandy,  com- 
monly called  William  the  Conqueror,  married 
Matilda,  daughter  of  Baldwin.  Earl  of  1-dand- 
ers,  and  granddaughter  of  Robert,  King  of 
France. 

(II)  Henry  I,  son  of  William  the  Con- 
queror, was  King  of  England  1100-1135. 
He  was  born  1069,  died  1135;  married  Ma- 
tilda, daughter  of  Malcolm  HI.  King  of  Scot- 
land, granddaughter  of  Edmund  Ironside,  the 
last  of  the  West  Saxon  Kings. 

(III)  GeofTrey  Plantagenet,  Earl  of  An- 
jou.  was  son  of  Henry  I.  He  married  Ma- 
tilda   . 

(TV)  Henry  II,  son  of  Geoiifrey,  was  born 
1 133,  died  1 189.  He  was  King  of  Eng- 
land 1154-89;  married  Eleanor,  daughter  and 
heir  of  William,  Duke  of  Aquitaine.  and 
divorced  wife  of  Louis  \'1I,  King  of  France. 

(\')  John,  son  of  Henry  II,  w'as  born 
1167,  died  1216;  King  of  England,  1169-1216. 
He  married  Isabella,  daughter  of  Aymer, 
Count  of  Angouleme. 

(\T)  Henry  HI,  son  of  John,  was  born 
1207,  died  1272;  King  of  England  1216- 
72 ;  married  Eleanor,  daughter  of  the  Count 
of  Provence. 

f\II)  Edward  I,  son  of  Henry  HI,  was 
born  1239,  died  1307;  King  of  England 
1272-1307;  married  first,  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Ferdinand  HI,  King  of  Castile;  second,  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Philip  III,  King  of  France. 

(\TII)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward  I, 
and  Eleanor,  married  Humphrey  de  Bohun. 
Earl  of  Hereford  and  Essex,  Lord  High 
Constable.  He  was  killed  at  the  battle  of 
Boroughbridge,   March   16,   1321. 

fIX)  Agnes,  daughter  of  Humphrey  and 
Elizabeth,  married  Robert  de  Ferrers,  sec- 
ond Baron  Ferrers,  of  Chartley.  He  was 
son  of  John,  first  Baron,  and  grandson  of 
Robert,  eighth  Earl  of  Derby.  He  was  sum- 
moned to  parliament  February  25,  1342,  and 
was  at  the  battle  of  Crecy.    134^.     He  died 

1347- 

(X)  John  de  Ferrers,  son  of  Robert,  was 
third  Baron  of  Chartley.  He  was  in  the 
wars  of  Gascony  in  1350,  and  died  April  2, 
1367.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Rolf,  first  Earl  of  Stafford,  who  had  a  prin- 
cipal command  in  the  van  at  Crecy. 

(XI)  R<ibcrt    de     Ferrers,    son    of     John, 


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3 


was  fourth  Baron  of  Chartlcy.  He  died 
March  13.  1413.  He  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Edward.  Lord  de  Despenser. 

(Xn )  Edmund  de  Ferrers,  son  of  Rob- 
ert, was  fifth  Baron  of  Chartlej'.  and  a 
participant  in  most  of  the  great  victories  of 
Henry  \'.  He  died  1436.  He  married 
Eleanor,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Thomas, 
Lord  Roche. 

(XHI)  WiUiam  de  Ferrers,  son  of  Edmund, 
was  sixth  Baron  of  Chartlcy,  died  1450. 
He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Hamon 
Belknap,  Knight. 

(XIV)  Anne,  daughter  and  only  child  of 
William,  married  Sir  Walter  Devereaux. 
Knight.  He  was  Baron  Ferrers  in  the  right 
of  his  wife,  and  was  killed  at  Bosworth  Field, 
August  22,  1485. 

(X\')  Katherine,  daughter  of  Walter,  mar- 
ried Sir  James  Baskerville.  of  Eardisley, 
Knight.  He  was  several  times  sheriff  of  Here- 
fordshire. He  was  Knight  lianncret  on  the 
battlefield  of  Stoke.  1487.  and  Knight  of  the 
Bath  at  the  coronation  of  Henry  \TL 

(X\T)  Sir  Walter  Baskerville,  son  of  Sir 
James,  was  of  Eardisley,  Knight.  He  was 
sheriff  of  Herefordshire,  and  Knight  of  the 
Bath  in  1501.  He  married  .Anne,  daugh- 
ter of  Morgan  ap  Jenkyn  ap  Philipp  of  Pen- 
coyd. 

(XVH)  Sir  James  Baskerville,  son  of  Sir 
Walter,  was  of  Eardisley,  Knight.  He  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John 
Breynton  and  Sybil,  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Simon  ^lilbourne. 

(X\'ni)  Sybil,  daughter  of  Sir  James 
Baskerville,  married  Sir  Robert  Whitney 
(Xni)  mentioned  above. 

(The  American  Line). 

(I)  John  Whitney,  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  born  in  England  in  1589.  son  of  Thomas 
and  grandson  of  Robert  Whitney.  He  re- 
ceived for  his  day  a  good  education  in  the 
Westminster  school,  now  St.  Peter's  College. 
He  was  apprenticed  at  the  age  of  fourteen  by 
his  father  to  William  Pring,  of  the  Old  Bailey, 
London,  a  freeman  of  the  Merchant  Tailors' 
Company,  then  the  most  famous  and  pros- 
perous of  all  the  great  trade  guilds,  number- 
ing in  its  membership  distinguishcfl  men  of 
all  professions,  many  of  the  nobility  and  the 
Prince  of  Wales.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one, 
John  Whitney  became  a  full-fledged  member 
and  his  apprenticeship  expired.  He  made  his 
home  in  Isleworth-on-Thames,  eight  miles 
from  Westminster,  and  there  three  of  his  chil- 


dren were  born.  There,  too,  his  father  ap- 
I)renticed  to  him  his  younger  brother,  Robert, 
who  also  served  his  seven  years.  Soon  after- 
ward John  \\'hitney  left  Isleworth  and  doubt- 
less returned  to  London  and  lived  in  Bow 
Lane,  near  Bow  Church,  where  his  son 
Thomas  was  born.  In  September,  163 1,  he 
l)Iaced  his  eldest  son,  John  Jr.,  in  the  Merchant 
Tailors'  School,  where  according  to  the  regis- 
ter, he  remained  as  long  as  the  family  was  in 
England.  Early  in  April,  1635,  John  Whit- 
ney registered  with  his  wife  Eleanor  and  sons 
John.  Richard,  Nathaniel,  Thomas  and  Jona- 
than, as  ]3assengers  of  the  ship  "Elizabeth  and 
.\nn,"  Roger  Cooper,  master,  landing  a  few 
weeks  later  in  New  England.  He  settled  in 
Watertown  in  June  and  bought  the  sixteen 
acre  homestall  of  John  Strickland  at  what  is 
now  Belmont  and  East  Common  streets.  This 
homestead  descended  to  his  son  Joshua  Whit- 
ney of  Groton,  who  sold  it  October  29,  1697, 
to  Nathan  Fiske.  Whitney  was  admitted  a 
freeman  March  3,  1635-36,  and  was  appointed 
constable  June  i,  1641 ;  was  selectman  1638  to 
1655,  inclusive,  and  town  clerk  in  1655.  He 
was  one  of  the  foremost  citizens  for  many 
years.  He  was  grantee  of  eight  lots  in  Water- 
town.     He  died  June   i,    1673.     He  married 

(first)  in  England,  Elinor  ,  born  1599, 

died  in  Watertown.  r\Iay  11.  1659;  (second)  in 
Watertown.  September  29,  1659,  Judith  Clem- 
ent, who  died  before  her  husband.  His  will 
was  dated  April  3,  1673.  Children:  i.  Mary, 
baptized  in  England,  May  23,  1619;  died 
young.  2.  John ;  see  forward.  3.  Richard, 
ba])tized  in  Isleworth,  January  6,  1623-24; 
married  Martha  Coldam.  4.  Nathaniel,  bap- 
tized 1627.  5.  Thomas,  born  in  England, 
1629 :  married  Mary  Kettell.  6.  Jonathan, 
born  in  England.  1634;  married  Lydia  Jones. 
7.  Joshua,  born  in  \Vatertown,  July  5,  1635; 
married  thrice.  8.  Caleb,  born  in  Watertown, 
July  12,  1640;  died  1640.  9.  Benjamin,  born 
in  Watertown,  June  6,  1643. 

(II)  John  (2),  .son  of  John  (i)  Whit- 
ney, was  born  in  England,  and  baptized  at 
Isleworth,  September  14,  162 1.  He  came 
with  his  ]jarents  to  New  England  and  settled 
in  Watertown.  He  married,  1642,  Ruth 
Reynolds,  daughter  of  Robert  Reynolds,  of 
Wethersfield,  Watertown  and  Boston.  He 
lived  on  a  three-acre  lot  on  the  east  side  of 
Lexington  street,  on  land  granted  to  E.  How, 
next  the  homestead  of  the  Phillips  family. 
He  was  admitted  a  freeman,  May  26,  1647, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-three;  was  selectman 
from  1673  to  1680,  inclusive;  was  a  soldier  in 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


1673  in  King  Philip's  war.  He  died  October 
12,  1692.  Children:  i.  John,  born  Septem- 
ber 12,  1643;  married  Elizabeth  Harris.  2. 
Ruth,  born  April  15,  1645;  married  June  20, 
1664,  John  Shattuck.  3.  Nathaniel,  born  Feb- 
ruary I.  1646;  married  Sarah  Hagar.  4. 
Samuel,  born  July  26,  1648;  married  Mary 
Bemis.  5.  Mary,  born  April  29,  1650;  died 
unmarried,  and  after  1693.  6.  Joseph,  born 
January  15,  1651  ;  married  iMartha  Beach.  7. 
Sarah,  born  March  17,  1653;  married  Octo- 
ber  18,   1681,  Daniel   Harrington;  died  June 

8,  1720.  8.  Elizabeth,  born  June  9,  1656; 
married  December   19,   1678,  Daniel  Warren. 

9.  Hannah.  10.  Benjamin,  mentioned  below. 
(HI)  Benjamin,  son  of  John  (2)  Whit- 
ney, was  born  in  Watertown,  June  28,  1660. 
He'married  March  30,  1687,  Abigail,  daugh- 
ter  of   William   and    Mary    (Bemis)    Hagar; 

(second)     Elizabeth    .       He    died    m 

1736.  Children:  i.  Abigail,  born  March  3, 
1688;  married  March  18,  1717,  Richard  Saw- 
tel.     2.  Benjamin,    baptized    July    10,    1698; 

married   Rebecca   .     3-  ^^"th,  baptized 

July  10,  1(198;  married  July  7,  1715,  John 
Bond.  4.  John,  born  June  15,  1694;  men- 
tioned below.  5.  David,  born  June  16.  iCv^J. 
6.  Daniel,  born  July  17,  1700;  married  Dor- 
othy Tainter. 

(IV)  John  (3),  son  of  Benjamin  Whitney, 
was  born  in  Watertown,  June  15,  1694,  and 
died    in    1776.      He    resided    in    Watertown. 

He  married    (first)    Susan ;    (second) 

October  6,  1737,  Bethia  Cutter,  born  July  9, 
1714:  (third)  November  28,  1754.  Mrs. 
Bcriah  (Bemis)  Child,  widow  of  Joseph 
Pierce,  and  formerly  widow  of  Daniel  Child, 
and  daughter  of  John  Bemis.  She  was  born 
June  23,  1681,  and  died  in  Weston,  in  1768. 
Children  of  first  wife:  I.  Su.sanna,  baptized 
May  31,  1730;  married  John  Dean.  2.  John, 
baptized  March  17,  1731':  married  Mary  Ben- 
jamin. 3.  Jonathan,  baptized  April  30,  1732. 
4.  Amo.s",  baptized  November  10,  1734.  5- 
•Abraham,  born  December  7,  1735;  married 
Elizabeth  Whitney.  Children  of  second  wife: 
6.  Moses,  baptized  September  3,  1738.  7. 
l-:zekiel,  mentioned  below.  8.  Stephen,  born 
A])ril  2-1,.  1743;  married  Relief  Stearns.  9. 
Aaron,  "baptized  April  12,  174C).  10.  Ruth, 
baptized  Julv  6,  1748;  died  April  5,  1751. 

(V)  Ezekiel,  son  of  John  (3)  Whitney, 
was  baptized  .Vpril  12,  T741,  and  died  in 
1801.  He  resided  in  Watertown,  and  was 
a  cordwainer  by  trade.  He  served  in  the 
revolution,  in  Captain  Barnard's  Watertown 
companv.     He  became  one  of  the  grantees  of 


land  at  Paris,  Maine,  in  the  right  of  his  uncle. 
Ensign  David  Whitney.  He  married  (first) 
December  6,  1763.  Catherine  Draper,  of  Rox- 
bury;  (second)  May  19,  1769,  Catherine  An- 
son' Child  of  first  wife:  i.  Ezekiel,  born  AprH 
13.  1768,  mentioned  below.  Children  of  sec- 
ond wife:  2.  Francis,  born  September  23, 
1771.  3.  Amasa,  born  May  4,  1774-  4-  Cath- 
erine, born  March  4,  1777;  married  February 
17,  1803,  Francis  S.  Hooker,  of  Rutland.  5. 
Aaron,  born  June  20,  1780. 

(\T)  Ezekiel  (2),  son  of  Ezekiel  (i) 
Whitney,  was  born  April  13,  1768,  and  died 
in  December,  1830.  He  resided  at  Roxbury 
and  at  Watertown,  where  he  entered  into  the 
manufacture   of   paper.      He   married    (first) 

Lydia ;  (second)  .   Children:  i. 

Frank,  baptized  June  2,  1793;  he  became  an 
ancestor  of  Minetta  Josephine  (Osgood) 
Whitney.  2.  Leonard,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Abigail,  baptized  September  14,  1794.  4- 
Otis,  baptized  August  12,  1798.  5.  George 
W.,  born  August  26,  1812;  married  Elizabeth 
Cook.  6.  Cromwell.  7.  Alvares.  8.  Jeremiah. 
9.  James.  10.  Nahum  P.  u.  Lydia,  mar- 
ried   Hyde.     12.  Walter  H.,  born  1819; 

married  Lydia  E.  Doyle. 

(VH)  Leonard,  son  of  Ezekiel  (2)  ^\■hit- 
ney,  was  born  in  Watertown,  March  3, 
1793,  and  baptized  June  2,  1793.  He  in- 
herited from  his  father  the  small  paper  mills 
situated  on  the  Charles  river,  at  Watertown. 
He  was  the  first  manufacturer  of  paper  bags 
in  the  United  States  and  was  the  inventor  of 
machines  for  making  paper  bags.  He  was  an 
officer  in  the  war  of  18 12  and  a  prominent 
Mason.  He  married,  August  30,  1817,  Ruth 
Richards  Larrabee,  born  June  5,  1797,  at 
Charlestown,  who  founded  St.  John's  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church  at  Watertown,  Massa- 
chusetts. Children:  i.  Ruth  Ann,  born  Sep- 
tember 5,  1822:  married  Learned.     2. 

Thomas  Francis,  born  September  i,  1S23.  3. 
Abigail  IL,  January  13,  1823;  died  young.  4. 
Solomon  \Vecks,  September  4.  1825.  5. 
Hiram,  February  i,  1828.  6.  .Abigail  H.,  Oc- 
tober 29,  1829.  7.  Leonard  Jr.,  mentioned 
below. 

(VHI)  Leonard  (2"),  son  of  Leonard  (i) 
Whitnev,  was  born  at  Sudbury,  June  15, 
1S19,  and  died  at  Watertown,  July  5.  1881. 
lie  removed  when  a  young  man  to  \\  atertown. 
where  he  later  purchased  the  old.  historical 
Whitnev  mansion,  built  in  1710.  known  as 
"The  Elms,"  which  is  still  held  in  the  family. 
Like  his  father  and  grandfather  he  was  a 
manufacturer  of  jiaper,  and  fmuulcd  the  well- 


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known  Hollingsworth  &  Whitney  Company. 
He  was  a  prominent  director  in  many  banks 
and  railroads,  and  was  one  of  the  original 
directors  of  Boston  University.  He  was  a 
prominent  Mason.  He  married,  April  2, 
1843.  Caroline  Isabel  Russell,  born  at  Wes- 
ton, January  12,  1826,  died  May  30,  1889. 
Children:  i.  Emily,  born  May  4,  1848,  died 
Aug^ist  12,  1849.  2.  Charles  Elmore,  born 
December  27.  1850.  at  Watertown ;  married 
Alice  G.  Xoah ;  children :  i.  Emily  Frances, 
born  September  3,  1888;  ii.  Helen  Cole,  born 
.\ugust  30.  1890.  3.  Emily  Frances,  born  at 
Watertown,  August  19,  1852,  died  Jaiuiary 
26,  1885 :  married  Andrew  S.  Brownell.  and 
had  Arge  W.  Brownell.  4.  Arthur  tierbert, 
born  October  12,  1859;  mentioned  below.  5. 
Frederick  Adelbert,  born  December  22,  1861, 
unmarried ;  he  was  educated  in  Chauncey  Hall 
School,  and  afterwards  at  the  University  of 
Berlin,  Leipzig  and  Munich,  Germany. 

(IX)  Arthur  Herbert,  son  of  Leonard 
(2)  Whitney,  was  born  at  Watertown,  Octo- 
ber 12,  1859.  He  spent  his  youth  in  the 
old  family  mansion,  '"The  Elms,"  at  Water- 
town,  where  he  now  lives.  He  was  educated 
at  Chauncey  Hall  -School,  Boston,  at  the 
Swedenborgian  School  at  Waltham,  and  at 
Wilbraham  Academy.  For  a  time  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  furniture  business  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Charles  E.  Osgood,  but  after 
a  few  years  he  withdrew  from  business  to 
devote  his  time  to  the  management  of  his 
property  interests.  He  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  has  served  three  years  on  the 
board  of  selectmen  of  the  town  of  Watertown, 
being  chairman  of  the  board  the  third  year. 
He  married  October  12,  1880,  Minetta  Jose- 
phine Osgood,  born  December  13,  1861,  daugh- 
ter of  Freeman  David  and  Hannah  Faxon 
(Perrv)  Osgood.  Children,  born  at  Water- 
town:  I.  Isabel  Minetta,  born  July  22,  1882; 
died  May  17,  1906.  2.  Hamld  Osgood,  born 
April  9,  1893. 


(For  ancestry  see  preceding  sketch). 

(II)   Richard,    son   of    John 
WlilTXEY     \\'hitney,  was  born   in   Eng- 
land,   and    baptized    at    Isle- 
worth-on-Thames.  January  5.  1623-24.  He  was 
admitted  a  freeman  May  7,  1 651,  and  wasapro- 
)rietor  of  Stow,  June  3,  1680.     He  probably 
removed  there  when  it  was  a  part  of  Concord. 
He  married,  March  19,  1650,  Martha  Coldam. 
On  April  7,  1697,  he  was  released  from  mili- 
tary training,   being  over   seventy  years   old. 
"hildren,     Ijoni     at     Watertown:     I.  Sarah, 


March  17,  1652.  2.  Moses,  August  i,  1655; 
see  forward.  3.  Johannah,  January  16,  1656. 
4.  Deborah,  October  12,  1658.  5.  Rebecca, 
December  15,  1659;  died  February,  1660.  6. 
Richard,  January  13,  i6()0.  7.  Elisha,  August 
26,  i6()2.  8.  Ebenezer,  June  30,  1672;  mar- 
rieti  Anna . 

( III )  Moses,  son  of  Richard  Whitney,  was 
born  in  Concord,  Massachusetts,  August  i, 
1655.  He  served  as  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's 
war  in  1676.  He  had  land  granted  to  him  at 
Stow  in  1681  and  June  4,  1708,  he  bought 
thirtv  acres  more  in  Stow.  He  owned  land 
in  Sudbury  which  he  sold  in  1692.  He  resided 
in  Stow  and  Sudbury.  He  married,  Septem- 
ber 30,  1686,  Sarah  Knight,  of  Stow,  who 
died  "March  23,  1755.  Children:  i.  Sarah, 
born  July  2,  1687.  2.  Moses.  1690,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Abraham,  May  29,  16^2, 
married       (first)       Mary      Stone;      (second) 

Elizabeth .     4.  John,  married  Rebecca 

Whitney.  5.  F|)hraim,  died  May  4,  1723.  6. 
Jonas,  born  February  i,  1699,  married  (first) 
Dorcas   Wood;    (second)    Margaret   Stratton. 

7.  Jason,  born  1704,  married  Arabella . 

8.  Lemuel,  born  August  i,  17 14,  married 
Sybil . 

(IV)  Moses  (2),  son  of  Moses  (i)  Whit- 
ney, was  born  in  1690,  and  died  in  May,  1778. 
He  resided  at  Littleton  and  Lunenburg.  His 
will  was  dated  July  12,  1774,  proved  June  3, 

1778.     He  married   (first)   Elizabeth  ; 

(second)  November  20,  1766,  Sarah  Gary. 
Children:     I.  Salmon,  born  January  8,   1712, 

married  Sarah .     2.  Aaron,  March   14. 

1714,  mentioned  below.  3.  Sarah,  September 
29,  1716.  married,  June  11.  1734.  Jonathan 
Wood.  4.  Barnabas,  January  22,  1721,  died 
young.  5.  Ephraim,  March  i,  1723,  married 
Jane  Bancroft.  6.  Bazaleel,  November  29, 
1726.  7.  Lydia,  Lancaster,  married  Deacon 
Samuel  Taylor.  8.  Mary,  Lancaster,  married 
February  22,  1753,  John  White. 

(V)  Rev.  Aaron,  .son  of  Moses  (2)  Whit- 
ney, was  born  March  14,  1714,  in  Littleton, 
Massachusetts,  died  September  8,  1779.  He 
was  ordained  the  first  minister  of  the  Peter- 
sham church  in  December,  1738.  From  the 
first  he  was  an  unciimpromising  Tory,  and 
po])ular  indignation  rose  to  such  a  pitch  that 
in  1774  he  was  dismissed  from  his  parish. 
He  refused,  however,  to  accei)t  his  papers,  and 
by  vote  of  the  town,  Peter  Gore,  a  half-breed 
Indian,  was  stationed  at  the  meeting  house 
door  with  a  musket  to  keep  the  Tory  preacher 
from  entering.  He  afterwards  preached  at 
his  own  house  regularly  to  those  who  sympa- 


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thized  with  the  royal  cause,  and  claimed  to  be 
the  minister  of  the  town  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death  in  1779.  His  will  was  dated  July  15, 
1779,  and  the  estate  was  settled  by  agreement 
of  heirs,  November  12,1779.  Iletnarried  (first) 
July  12,  1739,  Alice  Baker,  of  Phillipston, 
born  1718,  died  August  26,  1767.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  November  6,  1768,  Mrs.  Ruth 
(Hubbard)  Stearns,  born  1716,  died  Novem- 
ber I,  1788,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Hubbard, 
of  Lunenburg,  and  widow  of  Rev.  David 
Stearns.  Children:  i.  Abel,  born  at  Little- 
ton, July  7,  1740,  died  March  15,  1756,  while 
attending  Harvard  College,  and  was  buried  in 
Cambridge,  where  his  stone  with  a  Latin  in- 
scription still  stands.  2.  Charles,  May  14, 
1742-  3-  Peter,  September  6,  1744,  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Aaron,  September  5,  1746, 
married  (first)  Hannah  Stearns;  (second) 
]  lannah  W'illard.  5.  .-Mice.  September  23, 
1748,  married,  August  19,  1773,  Ensign  Mann. 
6.  Lucy,  April  9,  1751,  married  Rev.  Dr. 
Samuel  Kendall.  7.  Paul,  Alarch  23,  1753, 
married  Charlotte  Clapp.  8.  .\bel,  March  15, 
1 756,  married  Clarissa  Dwight.  9.  Richard, 
February  23,  1757. 

(\T)  Rev.  Peter,  son  of  Rev.  Aaron  Whit- 
ney, was  born  in  Petersham,  Sejjtember  6, 
1744,  died  February  19,  1816.  .\fter  attend- 
ing the  schools  of  his  native  town,  he  entered 
Harvard  College  and  graduated  in  1762.  He 
was  settled  as  minister  first  in  Fitchburg  in 
1764,  preaching  in  the  tavern  of  Thomas 
Cow^lin  for  a  year.  He  was  ordained  minis- 
ter at  Xorthborough.  November  4.  1767,  where 
he  remained  until  his  death.  He  was  the 
author  of  an  excellent  history  of  Worcester 
county  (1793),  and  of  sermons  and  papers 
in  the  Memoirs  of  the  American  Academy. 
He  was  a  very  methodical  man,  always  walk- 
ing with  his  wife  to  meeting,  followed  by  his 
ten  children,  always  in  the  exact  order  of 
their  age.  .1  family  in  his  ])arisli  invited  Dr. 
Puffer,  of  I'lerlin,  to  attend  a  funeral  of  one 
of  the  family,  whereupon  Rev.  Mr.  Whitney, 
minister  of  the  town,  wrote  that  unless  the 
matter  was  satisfactorily  explained,  all  min- 
isterial intercourse  must  cease.  Dr.  Puffer 
was  able  and  willing  to  explain,  and  their 
amicable  relations  continued.  The  correspond- 
ence in  the  case  is  a  fine  specimen  of  precise, 
dignified  and  cdurtcous  composition.  The 
iiistiiry  of  Xorthbortntgh  says  of  him:  "Dis- 
tinguished for  the  urbanity  of  his  manners, 
easy  and  familiar  in  his  intercourse  with  his 
people :  hospitable  to  strangers,  and  always 
ready  to  give  a  hearty  welcome  to  his  numer- 


ous friends;  punctual  to  his  engagements, 
observing  an  exact  method  in  the  distribution 
of  his  time :  having  a  time  for  everything,  and 
doing  everything  in  its  time  without  hurry  or 
confusion ;  conscientious  in  the  discharge  of 
his  duties  as  a  Christian  minister;  catholic  in 
his  principles  and  in  his  conduct ;  always  tak- 
ing an  interest  in  whatever  concerned  the 
prosperity  of  the  town  and  the  interests  of 
religion — he  was  for  many  years  the  happy 
minister  of  a  kind  and  affectionate  people." 
His  will  was  proved  September  28,  1813.  He 
married,  March  11.  1768,  Julia  Lambert,  born 
April  9,  1742,  daughter  of  W'illiam  Lambert, 
of  Reading.  Children:  I.  Thomas  L.,  born 
December  10,  1768.  married  Mary  Lincoln; 
died  June,  1812.  2.  Peter,  January  19,  1770, 
married,  Jane  Lambert  Lincoln.  3.  Julia, 
August  25,  1772,  married,  1799,  Captain  Anti- 
pas  Brigham ;  died  November  29,  1800.  4. 
Margaret,  February  12,  1774,  died  February 
3.  1849;  married  Dr.  Josiah  Adams.  5.  Eliza- 
beth, September  6,  i775;  died  September  26, 
1856;  married  Ebenezer  Adams.  6.  William, 
December  14,  1776,  married  Zilpah  Eager.  7. 
.Aaron.  .August  17,  1778,  went  west.  8.  Julia, 
died  young.  9.  Abel.  November  3.  1781.  men- 
tioned below.  10.  Sally  (twin),  November  3, 
1 78 1,  married,  January  6,  1806,  Lemuel 
Brackett;  died  May  3,  1864. 

(VH)  Deacon  Abel,  son  of  Rev.  Peter 
Whitney,  was  born  at  Northborough,  Novem- 
ber 3,  1 78 1,  died  at  Cambridge.  February  22, 
1833.  He  was  educated  in  the  district  school, 
and  learned  his  trade  in  Boston  of  .Stephen 
Bass,  cabinetmaker.  After  his  marriage  he 
went  to  live  on  the  estate  inherited  by  his 
wife  at  Porter  s(|uare  on  North  avenue  (now 
Massachusetts  avenue)  adjoining  .Arlington 
street  and  the  Fitchburg  railroad.  He  fol- 
lowed his  trade  in  Cambridge,  having  his  shop 
at  what  is  now  the  corner  of  Massachusetts 
avenue  and  Mount  X'ernon  street.  He  made 
cases  for  .Aaron  Willard,  the  celebrated  clock- 
maker,  and  furniture  for  many  of  the  best 
families  of  the  vicinity.  In  later  years  his 
three  sons,  William  L..,  Augustus  A.  and  Ben- 
jamin W.  Whitney,  learned  their  trade  in  his 
shop  and  were  associated  with  him  in  the  busi- 
ness. He  retired  from  active  labor  a  few 
years  before  his  death.  He  was  a  Whig  in 
jiolitics  and  was  -electman  of  the  town  of 
Cambridge  in  1838-39  and  chairman  of  the 
board.  He  held  other  offices  of  trust  and 
honor.  In  the  First  L'nitarian  Church  at 
Harvard  Sc|uare,  of  wdiich  he  was  a  faithful 
member  for  manv  vears.  he  was  deacon  for  a 


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period  of  eighteen  years,  during  the  pastor- 
ate of  Rev.  Mr.  Holmes,  father  of  Dr.  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes.  He  was  highly  respected 
and  honored  by  his  townsmen.  He  was  of 
kindly  nature,  sympathetic  and  helpful  in  his 
relations  to  others,  and  charitable  in  speech 
and  gifts  to  the  unfortunate.  He  married, 
December  21,  1809,  at  Brookline,  Susannah 
White,  died  December  14.  iSC^j.  daughter  of 
Benjamin  and  Thankful  (White)  White. 
Children:  I.  William  Lambert,  born  March 
II,  181 1,  mentioned  below.  2.  Augustus  A., 
December  4,  1812,  deacon  of  the  First  Church, 
Cambridge,  from  1833  until  his  death,  July 
29,  1891  ;  had  no  children.  3.  Benjamin  W., 
August  9,  1815.  died  December  19,  1879; 
graduate  of  Harvard  College  in  1838  and  a 
lawyer.  4.  Susan  E.,  February  20,  1817, 
married,  January  31.  1856,  James  Brackett ; 
had  no  children.  5  Abigail  W.,  April  10, 
1827,  lived  at  Cambridge,  married  Moses  G. 
Howe. 

(VHI)  William  Lambert,  son  of  Deacon 
Abel  Whitney,  was  born  at  Cambridge,  March 
II,  i8n,  died  there  May  29,  1900.  He  was 
educated  in  the  juiblic  schools  of  Cambridge 
and  at  Bradford  Academy,  Massachusetts. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  cabinetmaker  in  his 
father's  shop.  In  1833  he  entered  into  part- 
nership with  James  Brackett.  his  brother-in- 
law,  and  under  the  firm  name  of  Whitney  & 
Brackett,  engaged  in  the  furniture  business. 
Afterward  his  brother,  Augustus  A.  Whitney, 
was  admitted  to  the  firm,  the  name  of  which 
then  became  Whitney,  Brackett  &  Company. 
In  1850  Mr.  Whitney  sold  his  interests  to  Mr. 
Brackett  and  the  name  of  Whitney  &  Brackett 
was  resumed.  This  firm  sold  the  business 
finally  to  Worcester  Brothers,  who  are  still  in 
active  business  in  Cambridge.  In  1850  Mr. 
Whitney  established  his  insurance  business, 
opening  an  office  in  the  building  in  which  the 
furniture  store  was  located.  His  brother 
Benjamin  W.  had  a  law  office  in  the  same 
building.  In  1857  he  became  treasurer  of  the 
Cambridge  .Savings  Bank,  which  occupied  his 
office  originally.  He  filled  this  res])onsible 
office  faithfully  and  creditably  until  1866, 
when  he  resigned  and  retirefl  from  active 
business.  He  was  one  of  the  prime  movers 
in  the  building  of  the  Harvard  branch  rail- 
road in  1849  and  a  director  of  the  company. 
The  road  did  not  pay  and  in  1855  was  aban- 
doned and  the  land  sold.  His  residence  was 
at  31  Hawthorne  street,  near  Brattle  stjuare, 
Cambridge.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Church  of  Cambridge   (L'nitarian  ),  and   was 


a  director  of  the  .American  L'nitarian  Associa- 
tion for  ten  years,  resigning  in  October,  1888, 
on  account  of  impaired  hearing.  He  was 
originally  a  ^^"hig  in  pdlitics.  but  voted  the 
first  Republican  ticket,  and  was  a  leading  and 
influential  Republican  for  many  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  first  common  council  of 
the  city  of  Cambridge,  and  in  1846-47  he  was 
elected  to  the  board  of  aldermen  for  1848-71- 
72-74-73,  and  took  a  lively  interest  in  muni- 
cipal affairs.  He  was  chairman  and  clerk  of 
the  board  of  assessors  in  1850-31-52.  When  a 
young  man  he  belonged  to  the  Cambridge  City 
Guards,  and  in  1837  was  a  member  of  the 
Friends  Fire  Society.  "He  was  an  intense 
lover  of  his  country  and  a  diligent  student  of 
its  early  history  and  he  cherished  the  recol- 
lection of  the  early  struggles  of  its  founders 
in  their  endeavors  to  make  secure  the  blessings 
of  civil  and  religious  freedom.  In  his  inter- 
course with  friends  and  neighbors  he  bore  him- 
self with  a  dignity  of  manner  gentle  and  win- 
ning and  he  upheld  a  stately  courtesy  towards 
all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact,  thus  ever 
unconsciously  vindicating  his  title  to  the  grand 
old  name  of  gentleman.  Though  in  the  latter 
portion  of  his  life  his  physical  activity  had 
greatly  lessened,  he  nevertheless  maintained 
his  interest  in  general  affairs  and  his  devotion 
to  a  high  ideal  of  right  was  undiminished." 
He  married  (first)  October  18,  1836,  Lucy 
.Ann  Jones,  born  June  9,  181 2,  died  August  10, 
1838.  He  married  (second)  at  Quincy,  Mas- 
sachusetts, July  28,  1840,  Rebecca  Richardson 
Brackett,  born  March  2(\  1809,  died  December 
8,  i88t,  daughter  of  Lemuel  and  Sally  (Whit- 
ney) Brackett.  Her  father  was  president  of 
the  Quincy  Granite  Bank.  Children,  born  at 
Cambridge:  1.  Lucy  Ann,  August  14,1841. 
2.  William  Lambert,  February  i,  1844,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Julia  Ann,  August  I,  1847, 
married,  October  4,  1876,  Rev.  James  Ivlward 
Wriglit.  born  July  9,  1831; ;  children:  i. 
Chester  Wright,  born  May  2j,  1879,  graduate 
of  Harvard  College  in  1901,  teacher  in  the 
I'niversity  of  Chicago;  ii.  Rebecca  Whitney 
Wright.  July  Ti.  1880,  graduate  of  Radcliffe 
College  in  190^;  iii.  Sibvl  Wright.  .August  12, 
1883. 

(IX  )  William  Lambert  (2),  son  of  William 
Lambert  (  i  )  Whitney,  was  born  at  Cambridge, 
February  i,  1844.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  fitted  for  col- 
lege at  the  private  school  of  E.  S.  Dixwell, 
Boston.  Lie  was  clerk  in  the  Cambridge  Sav- 
ings Bank,  of  which  liis  father  was  treasurer, 
uiUil  he  enlisted  in  .August,   1862,  in  the  civil 


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war  for  nine  months  in  Company  E,  Forty- 
fourth      Massachusetts      Regiment,      Captain 
Spencer  W.  Richardson,  Colonel  Francis  Lee. 
The  regiment  left  Camp  Meigs  at  Readville, 
October   15,  was  reviewed  by  Governor  An- 
drew in   i'>oston,  and  sailed  on  the  transport 
"Merrimac"  to   Morehcad  City.   North  Caro- 
lina, near   I'.eaufort.  landing  October  26,  pro- 
ceeding thence  to  Newbcni,   North  Carolina, 
on  platform  cars  in  a  terrific  rainstorm.   They 
went  into  camp  with  part  of  the  brigade  under 
Colonel   Tiiomas  G.    Stevenson   of  the   Eigh- 
teenth  Army  Corps.      Under  General   Foster 
they  sailed  on  the  transijort  down  the  Neuse 
river  to  Pamlico  Sound  and  thence  up  the  Tar 
river  to  Washington.  North  Carolina,  whence 
they  marchetl  on   November  2  to  the  north- 
ward twenty  miles  and  engaged  the  Rebels  at 
Rawle's  Mills,  near  Williamston.    The  follow- 
ing day  they  marched  by  way  of  Hamilton 
towards  Tarboro.     On  the  fifth  they  retraced 
their    steps    towards    Hamilton,    marched    to 
Plymouth  and  took  transjMirts  back  to  New- 
bern.  where  they  remained  until  December  11. 
Four    brigades    including    his    regiment    left 
Newbern  at  that  time  and   fought  in  an  en- 
gagement, December  14,  at  Kinston.  two  days 
later  at  Whitehall  and  one  day  later  at  Golds- 
boro,  returning  to  camp  at  Newbern,  Decem- 
ber 20.     The  regiment  marched  to  Plymouth, 
I'ebruary    I.    1863,   and   was  engaged   in    for- 
aging in   that   section   until   Marcli    10,    1863. 
Five   days   later  the   regiment  reinforced   the 
garrison  at  Washington,   North   Carolina,  on 
the  Tar  and  Pamlico  rivers  and  on  the  thir- 
tieth    weri'    besieged    by    the    Confederates. 
Numerous  engagements  were  fought  between 
April  I  and   15  and  the  enemy  finally  had  to 
retire.      The   regiment  did  service  as  provost 
guard  at   Newbern  from  .\])ril  23  to  June  6. 
then  went  by  rail  to  Morehead  City,  embarking 
on  the   steamers   "Guide"  and  "George   Pea- 
body"  for  Boston,  reaching  port  June  10,  1863, 
after  a  rough  passage  and  was  mustered  out 
at  Readville,  June  19.    Mr.  Whitney  spent  the 
next  thirteen  months  as  clerk  in  the  dry  goods 
store  of   Houghton.   Sawyer  &  Com])any,  28 
Pearl  street,   Boston.     He  was  then  commis- 
sioned   second    lieutenant    by    Governor    .An- 
drew   and    assigned    to    Com])any    G,    I*'ifty- 
fourth  Massachusetts  Regiment.  December  3, 
1864,  then  at  Devau.x  Neck,  South  Carolina, 
under  Colonel  Edward  N.  Hallowell.    He  took 
jiart  in  engagements  about  Pocotaligo  and  later 
occupied  Charleston  and  Savannah.     In  .\pril, 
18(15,  he  took  part  in   l^ltter's  raid  and   was 
acting     adjutant     at     th;it     time.      He     took 


[jart  in  the  engagement  at  Eppes'  Bridge, 
April  7,  at  Dingle  Mill,  April  9,  at  Boykins 
Mills,  April  18,  at  Big  Rafting  Creek,  April 
19,  and  at  Statesburg,  April  19.  He  was 
ordered  to  Fort  Johnson  in  command  of  Com- 
panv  K  to  dismount  guns  on  James  Island 
and  was  thus  employed  until  August.  The 
regiment  was  stationed  at  Mount  Pleasant 
where  it  was  mustered  out  .\ugust  20.  1865. 
He  then  ranked  as  first  lieutenant.  This  regi- 
ment was  the  historic  command  of  Colonel 
Robert  Gould  Shaw,  of  Boston,  who  was 
killed  at  Fort  Wagner  at  the  head  of  his 
regiment.  The  memorial  to  Shaw  and  the 
negro  regiment  he  raised — the  Fifty-fourth — 
stands  on  Boston  Common  opposite  the  state 
house.  Lieutenant  Whitney  returned  to  Bos- 
ton on  board  the  steamer  "C.  F.  Thomas"  with 
the  regiment  and  remained  on  Gallop's  Island 
until  September  2,  1865.  He  has  in  his  pos- 
session carefully  preserved  and  framed  a  piece 
of  the  old  regimental  flag.  The  history  of 
this  regiment  entitled  ".\  Brave  Black  Regi- 
ment" was  written  by  one  of  the  captains. 

Mr.  Whitney  entered  partnership,  after  the 
war.  with  Charles  E.  Tucker  and  Thomas  L. 
Appleton,  under  the  firm  name  of  Tucker. 
Appleton  &  Whitney,  in  the  retail  hardware 
business  at  the  corner  of  Union  and  Friend 
streets,  Boston,  but  two  years  later  he  sold  his 
interests  to  his  partners  and  removed  to  Coun- 
cil Bluft's.  Iowa,  to  engage  in  the  china,  glass- 
ware and  house  furnishing  trade.  He  entered 
partnership  in  February,  1868.  with  Elijah 
C.  Lawrence  under  the  firm  name  of  Lawrence 
&  Whitue\-  in  a  store  at  409  Broadway.  Coun- 
cil Blufl:'s.  Iowa.  Mr.  Lawrence  retired  from 
the  firm  in  .August,  1871,  and  Mr.  Whitney 
continued  until  1881.  when  owing  to  the  ill 
health  of  his  mother  he  disposed  of  his  busi- 
ness and  returned  to  Cambridge.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1881,  he  purchased  the  Jewett  homestead 
at  74  Waban  Park,  Newton,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  After  five  years  of  retirement, 
Mr.  Whitney  entered  the  employ  of  the  Bos- 
ton Safe  lieposit  &  Trust  Company,  Milk 
street,  in  a  clerical  cai)acity.  He  was  con- 
nected with  this  institution  for  twenty-one 
years,  filling  various  positions  of  trust  and 
responsibility.  lie  had  charge  of  the  trust 
dejiartment  for  a  munber  of  years,  and  in  19OO 
became  assistant  treasurer.  He  resigned  in 
1907  and  since  then  has  been  living  a  quiet 
and  retired  life  at  his  home  in  Waban  Park. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  a  Linitarian 
in  religion.  He  joined  the  Massachusetts 
Comiiianderv.    Military    (")rcler    oi    the    Loyal 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


Legion,  May  i,  1S89,  and  was  a  member  of 
John  A.  Anilrew  Post,  No.  15,  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic.  He  married,  at  Montpelier, 
Vermont,  November  12,  1872,  Ali)a  Matilda 
Nutt,  born  at  Montpelier,  July  27,  1848, 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Asenath  (Wheeler) 
Nutt.  (See  Nutt).  Children:  Lambert 
Nutt.  bom  November  15.  1873.  graduate  of 
the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technologj' ; 
electrical  engineer  formerly  with  the  .American 
Telephone  &  Telegraph  Company,  now  divi- 
sion superintendent  of  the  Central  Union  Tele- 
graph Company  at  Indianapolis,  Indiana.  2- 
George  Brackett,  May  12,  1875,  mechanical 
engineer  in  the  employ  of  the  General  Electric 
Company  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts ;  married, 
March  21,  1902,  Ethelyn  M.  Morris,  of  Ra- 
cine. Wisconsin.  3.  William  Richardson,  May 
I.  1877,  died  February  16,  1878.  4.  Philip 
Richardson,  December  31,  1878,  married,  April 
17,  1906,  Helen  Reed  Jones,  of  Brookline; 
children:  Reed,  born  April  11,  1907;  Alpa, 
January  10.  1909. 

(The  Nutt  Line) 

William  Xutt,  immigrant  ancestor,  was  born 
in  or  near  Londonderry,  Ireland.  He  came  to 
this  country  when  a  young  man  with  the  first 
body  of  Scotch-Irish  who  settled  at  Nutfield, 
later  Londonderry,  New  Hampshire.  His 
family  seems  to  have  been  in  Ireland  among 
the  Scotch  Presbyterians  but  a  short  time. 
The  name  is  English,  of  Danish  origin,  dating 
back  to  the  days  of  King  Canute  or  Knut 
(meaning  knot  in  English),  as  the  name  was 
spelled  originally.  The  name  of  this  branch 
of  the  family  has  been  spelled  Nutt  since  about 
1500  and  the  principal  home  of  the  family 
was  Kent,  England.  William  Nutt  was  mayor 
of  Canterbury  in  1533  and  it  is  likely  that  the 
family  in  Ireland  belongs  to  the  Kent  family, 
for  in  the  present  generation  a  branch  of  the 
family  lived  across  the  Irish  Sea  in  Barn- 
staple, Devonshire,  and  the  writer  has  knowl- 
edge of  the  English  origin  of  one  other  Pro- 
testant family  of  this  name  in  Ireland. 

William  Xutt  was  a  fuller  by  trade,  and  was 
in  the  employ  of  Captain  Davifl  Cargill,  who 
established  the  first  fulling  mill  in  London- 
derry. Nutt's  homestead  lot  was  drawn  Sep- 
tember 26,  1720,  sixty  acres,  east  of  Exeliel 
Pond.  He  married,  at  Bradford,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  his  former  pastor.  Rev. 
Thomas  Symmes,  was  located,  Jean  Colbath 
(Colbreath  or  Galbraith),  May  29,  1723,  the 
marriage  being  recorded  at  Londonderry.  She 
was  sister  of  the  progenitor  of  V^ice-President 


Henry  Wilson,  whose  name  was  originally 
John  Jeremiah  Colbalh.  William  Nutt  worked 
for  Cargill  until  the  latter's  death,  when  he 
bought  the  mill,  August  15,  1733.  In  1739 
he  sold  out  his  mill  and  farm  in  Londonderry 
and  became  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  the  ad- 
joining town  of  Chester,  .\bout  1740  he  and 
his  son,  John  Nutt,  built  their  saw  mill  at 
Chester.  William  Xutt  died  intestate  Octo- 
ber 26,  1 75 1.  His  widow  Jean  was  adminis- 
tratrix. She  died  at  St.  Georges,  Eastward 
(near  Thomaston,  Maine),  in  1771.  She 
probably  lived  there  with  her  son,  Colonel 
David  Nutt.  Her  son  William,  of  Derryfield, 
New  Hampshire,  was  administrator.  Children  : 
I.  John,  born  1724,  died  1757;  soldier  in  the 
French  war.  2.  Samuel,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Colonel  David,  1728;  in  French  war  and 
revoli'.tion.  4.  William,  1730.  5.  Robert.  6. 
Nathaniel.  7.  Benjamin.  8.  Jean.  9.  Mary, 
died  young.     10.  James,  died  young. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  William  Nutt,  was 
born  in  Londonderry.  New  Hampshire.  He 
was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  worked  with 
his  father  in  the  saw  mill  at  Chester.  He 
bought  the  interests  of  the  other  heirs  after 
his  father's  death.  He  bought  a  farm  in 
Weare,  New  Hampshire,  July  6,  1763,  lived 
there  a  few  years,  and  was  a  town  officer  in 
1765.  He  moved  a  few  miles  to  what  is  now 
Francestown,  adjoining  Xew  Boston,  in  1767, 
and  was  the  seventh  settler  of  Francestown, 
one  of  its  incorporators,  and  its  first  town 
clerk.  He  was  constable,  t\i:hingman,  and  on 
various  town  committees.  He  served  in  1774 
on  the  committee  of  safety,  and  was  for  a 
short  time  in  the  revolution.  In  1780  he  was 
called  ensign  on  the  records.  He  was  on  the 
committee  for  Francestown  to  consider  the 
state  constitution  in  1788.  His  house  on  the 
old  road  from  Francestown  to  New  Boston 
now  constitutes  the  ell  part  of  a  brick  farm 
house.  His  farm  is  known  as  the  Pettee  place 
and  is  marked  by  magnificent  elms  which  he 
is  said  to  have  planted.  Samuel  Nutt  sold  his 
farm  in  1797  and  removed  to  Topsham,  \'er- 
mont,    where    his    sons   and    sons-in-law    also 

located.     He  married   (first) Gordon, 

who  died  without  issue.  He  married  (second) 
in  1759,  Elizabeth  Dickey,  daughter  of  Adam 
and  Elizabeth  (MacPherson)  Dickey,  all  of 
Londonderry,  and  all  Scotch  pioneers  there. 
His  wife  died  September  13.  1801,  aged  sixty- 
one  years,  and  is  buried  at  Newport,  New 
Hampshire.  He  died  July  5,  1808,  aged  sev- 
enty-nine, probably  at  Tojjsham.  Children : 
I.  William,    born    March    14,    i7(K),    married 


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Mary  Brewster.  2.  Elizabeth,  September  3, 
1 761',  married  Alexander  Thompson;  died 
May  27.  1 818.  3.  Eleanor,  July  3,  1763, 
died  September  23,  1843.  4.  James,  March 
29,  17C4,  (lied  1765.  5.  Samuel,  June  4,  1766, 
died  1782.  6.  John,  February  29,  1768,  men- 
tioned below.  7.  Joseph,  November  13,  1769. 
died  1813.  8.  Benjamin,  July  10,  1771,  died 
1792.  9.  Adam,  December  13,  1772.  10. 
Jenny,  September  23,  1774,  died  1792.  11. 
Ann  Wilson,  February  14,  1776,  died  1862; 
married  John  Brewster.     12.  jean,  September 

3.  1777,  died  1793.  13.  David,  July  6,  1779, 
died  August  10,  1845.  14-  Margaret,  April 
24,  1781,  died  August  9,  1864;  married  Joseph 
Towner.  15.  Infant,  June  16,  1783.  died  same 
day.  16.  Samuel,  December  16,  1784,  black- 
smith by  trade;  became  minister  of  Christian 
church  and  a  famous  evangelist;  died  1872. 
17.  James  Dickey,  September  14,  1788,  died 
1833,  settled  in  New  York. 

illl)  John,  son  of  Samuel  Nutt.  was  born 
February  29,  1768.  He  settled  in  West  Top- 
sham,  \'ermont,  in  1801,  where  some  of  his 
descendants  are  still  living.  He  was  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  that  place.  He  married 
(first)  Sarah  Bagley.  and  (second)  Elizabeth 
Rogers,  who  died  .Vugust  10,  1847.  Children: 
I.  Samuel,  born  December  23,  1791.  2.  Anna 
Willson,  February  15,  1793,  died  1793.  3. 
John,  July  23,  1794,  died  at  St.  Helena,  1816. 

4.  Sally,  September  16,  1795,  died  same  day. 

5.  David  Burnett,  March  24,  1797.  6.  Ira, 
May  29,  1-798.  7.  Mehitable.  Se]5tember  2, 
1799.  8.  Elizabeth,  January  19,  1801.  9. 
Hiram,  May  19,  1802.  10.  Eevi,  January  12, 
1804.      II.  Thomas    Rogers,    June    20,    1805. 

12.  Henry,   May  26,   1807,  mentioned  below. 

13.  Ora,  October  29,  1808.  14.  Esther,  Oc- 
tober 18,  1810,  died  January  13,  1833.  15. 
Sarah,  June  20,  1812,  married,  January  14, 
1836,  Stephen  Ives.  16.  Daniel,  September 
13,  1814.     17.  Nancy.  June  13,  1816,  married 

Elliott.     18.  Mary,  October   11,   181 8, 

died  October  20,  1828. 

(IV)  Henry,  son  of  John  Nutt,  was  Iwrn 
May  26,  1807,  died  at  Montpelier,  X'ermont, 
November  30,  1890.  He  was  a  most  respected 
citizen  and  a  pillar  of  the  Methodist  church. 
He  married.  May  28,  1828,  .Asenath  Wheeler, 
born  at  Montpelier,  July  4,  1807,  died  there 
May  18,  1882.  Children:  i.  Edwin  Delorme, 
born  .Xliril  4,  1829,  died  July  I,  1834.  2. 
Sophia  Wheeler,  June  24.  1831.  died  Jidy  5, 
1832.  3.  Henry  Clay,  June  28.  1833,  died 
August  15,  1892.  4.  Wheeler.  August  11, 
1834,    died    November    18,    1834.      5.  Fannie 


Wheeler,  March  2,  1836,  died  November  8, 
1864.  6.  Hulda  French,  May  29,  1837,  died 
August  18,  1868.  7.  Asenath  Maria,  June  30, 
1839,  died  Augu.st  31,  1864.  8.  John,  Decem- 
ber 28,  1840,  died  October  28,  1841.  9.  Jo- 
seph (twin),  December  28,  1840,  died  January 
I,  1 84 1.  10.  Mary  Lucinda,  November  11, 
1842.  II.  David  Wing,  .August  30,  1845,  died 
September  6,  1845.  12.  Alpa  Matilda,  July 
27.  1848,  married  W.  L.  Whitney.  (See 
Whitney).    13.  Edwin  Alonzo,  March  17, 1851. 

(For  first  generation  see  John  Whitney  i). 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  John 
WHITNEY  and  Elinor  Whitney,  was 
born  in  England,  1629,  came 
to  New  England  with  his  father  in  1635,  was 
made  freeman  in  Watertown  in  1690,  died 
September  20,  17 19  He  lived  in  Watertown 
and  Stow.  He  married,  January  11,  1654-55, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Kettell.  who  had 
six  pieces  of  common  land  granted  to  him  in 
1642.  Children:  i.  Thomas,  born  August 
24,  1656;  married  Elizabeth  Lawrence.  2. 
John,  born  May  9,  1659,  died  May  16,  1659. 
3.  John,  born  .August  22,  1660,  died  August 
26,  1660.  4.  Eleazer,  born  September  2.1662. 
5.  Elnathan,  twin  with  Eleazer,  died  March 
8,  1727.  6.  Mary,  born  December  22,  1663, 
died  young.  7.  Bezaleel.  born  September  16, 
1665.  8.  Sarah,  born  March  2;^,.  1667,  mar- 
ried Charles  Chadwick.  9.  Mary,  born 
August  6,  1668.  died  September  6,  1669.  10. 
Isaiah,  born  September  16,  1671,  married 
Sarah  (Woodward)  Eddy.  11.  Martha,  born 
Jainiary  30,  1673. 

(Ill)  Eleazer,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(  Kettell)  Whitney,  was  born  in  Watertown, 
September  2,  1662.  He  was  a  wheelwright  by 
trade,  and  probaljly  spent  the  greater  part  of 
his  life  in  Sudiniry.  where  he  was  living  in 
1693.  He  married,  .\pril  11.  1687.  Dorothy, 
(laughter  of  James  Ross,  of  Sudbury.  She 
(lied  lune  22,  1 73 1.  Children,  all  baptized  in 
Second  Church  in  Watertown  :    I.   Sarah,  born 

in   Sudbury,    May  29,    1688,   married 

I'.all.  2.  '  Eleazer,  born  March  5,  1690, 
died  voung.  3.  James,  born  February  12, 
1697,  died  November  20,  1697.  4.  Mary,  born 
November  20,  1697,  baptized  January  28,  1699  ; 
married  Abraham  Chamberlain,  of  Roxbury. 
5.  Thomas,  baptized  January  28,  1699.  6. 
"lames,  baptized  January  28,  1699,  died  young. 
7.  Dorothv,  borii  .Xjiril' 24,  1700.  8.  Eleazer, 
born  April  15,  1702.  q.  Elnathan.  born  May 
5.  1705.  10.  James,  baptized  June  i,  1708. 
II.  Jonas,  born  1709. 


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II 


(R)  Jonas,  youngest  son  and  child  of 
Eleazer  and  Dorothy  (Ross)  Whitney,  was 
born  in  1709,  baptized  July  14,  1723,  and  lived 
in  Roxbury.  Little  else  is  known  of  him 
except  that  he  married,  in  Roxbury,  May  8, 
1735.  Sarah  Perry.  Children,  all  born  in  Rox- 
bury:    I.  Isaac,  .\pril  11,  1736,  died  January 

4.  1777.  2.  Jacob,  July  24.  1737,  see  forward. 
3.  Jonas,  November  28,  1739.  4.  Sarah,  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1741,  died  September  28,  1824;  mar- 
ried, 1775,  Nehemiah  Ward.  5.  .\bner,  No- 
vember 17,  1744.  6.  Desire,  October  31,  1749, 
died  Tune  2^,.  1778;  married,  1769,  Edward 
Ward. 

(V)  Sergeant  Jacob,  son  of  Jonas  and  Sarah 
(Perry)  Whitney,  was  born  in  Roxbury,  July 
24,  1737,  and  died  in  West  Roxbury,  January 
14,  1803.  He  was  with  the  British  troops  at 
the  capture  of  Louisburg,  Canada.  He  was  a 
soldier  of  the  revolution,  serving  as  orderly 
sergeant  in  Cajjtain  Corey's  company  of  Rox- 
bury men.  He  married,  November  15,  1759, 
Rachel  Whiting.  Children,  all  born  in  Spring 
street.  West  Roxbury:  i.  Prudence,  July  25, 
1760;  married  Lewis  Jones.  2.  Reuben,  No- 
vember 6,  1762 ;  served  three  years  during  the 
revolutionary  war  in  First  Alassachusetts  artil- 
lery company,  with  General  Kno.x.  3.  Lemuel, 
.■\pril  29.  1765.    4.  Jabez,  November  30,  1767. 

5.  Hannah,  April  8,  1772,  died  July  14,  1789. 

6.  Moses,  January  20,  1775. 

(\T)  General  Moses,  youngest  son  and 
child  of  Sergeant  Jacob  and  Rachel  (Whiting) 
Whitney,  was  born  in  West  Roxbury,  January 
20,  1775,  and  died  in  Milton,  Massachusetts, 
December  24,  1859.  In  1787  he  went  to  Blue 
Hill,  Milton,  and  there  served  an  apprentice- 
ship with  Joseph  Billings  to  the  trade  of  tanner, 
currier  and  leather  dresser.  For  a  time  after- 
ward he  worked  at  the  bench,  but  in  1796 
established  himself  in  business  in  Milton,  re- 
moving thence  to  Dorchester  in  1797,  but  re- 
turning to  Milton  in  1805.  In  the  following 
year  he  purchased  what  was  called  the  "Rising 
Sun"  estate,  and  in  1809  acquired  the  Nancy 
Paine  estate,  thus  becoming  owner  of  a  large 
property  in  lands  extending  from  the  old 
Plymouth  road  to  Neponset  river.  He  extended 
the  wharf,  and  in  1810  built  a  large  tan  house. 
General  Whitney  was  one  of  the  foremost  men 
of  Milton  in  his  time  and  carried  on  extensive 
operations,  having  engaged  in  the  leather  busi- 
ness for  a  i)eriod  of  sixty-three  years,  exclu- 
sive of  the  time  served  as  an  apprentice.  In 
1819  he  built  the  Whitney  mansion  on  Milton 
Hill,  and  about  the  same  time  bought  Swift's 
wharf,  which  he  enlarged,  and  for  the  follow- 


ing twenty  years  dealt  extensively  in  lumber 
and  wool  in  addition  to  his  leather  business. 
He  was  appointed  postmaster  of  Milton,  De- 
cember 19,  1805,  succeeding  Dr.  Samuel  R. 
Glover,  and  served  until  1816.  He  was  com- 
missioned captain  of  militia  in  1816,  colonel 
in  1 82 1,  and  afterward  was  made  brigadier- 
general  of  the  first  brigade,  first  division, 
Massachusetts  militia.  General  Whitney  mar- 
ried (first)  .April  14,  1797,  Rebecca  Dunbar, 
of  Cohasset,  Massachusetts,  who  died  Febru- 
ary 4,  1824;  (second)  at  Andover,  Massachu- 
setts, Mary  P.,  widow  of  Dr.  Thomas  Kittredge, 
of  Gloucester.  She  survived  him  and  died  in 
Milton  in  1865.  Children,  all  born  of  his  first 
marriage:      i.    Hannah,    November    19,    1797. 

died  1832:  married  Holbrook,  of  Bill- 

ingham,  Massachusetts.  2.  Moses,  October  7, 
i8\d2,  married  Elizabeth  G.  Sander.son.  3. 
Marv,  .\pril  17,  1805;  married  George  Bat- 
son  Jones,  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania  ;  died 
in  1890.  4.  Seth  Dunbar,  September  13,  1807. 
S.  Warren  Tacob,  1811,  died  1891. 

(VH)  Seth  Dunbar,  .son  of  General  Moses 
and  Rebecca  (Dunbar)  Whitney,  was  born  in 
Milton,  Massachusetts,  September  13,  1807, 
and  died  there  October  4,  1890.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  town  and  the  academy  at  Bridge- 
water,  and  after  leaving  school  at  once  began 
his  business  career  in  association  with  his 
father,  as  wool  dealer  and  manufacturer  of 
morocco  leather.  In  1839,  with  a  partner,  he 
purchased  the  long  lease  of  a  wharf  adjoining 
the  Whitney  property,  and  for  several  years 
carried  on  the  lumber  business  which  had 
previously  been  established  by  his  father.  In 
1843  lie  again  became  interested  in  the  wool 
business  with  his  father,  continued  it  about 
ten  years,  and  then  became  senior  partner 
of  the  Boston  firm  of  Whitney,  Kendall  & 
Company,  wholesale  dealers  in  hides  and 
leather.  However,  upon  the  death  of  his  father 
in  1859,  Mr.  Whitney  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness connections  of  all  kinds.  His  comfort- 
able residence  on  Milton  Hill  was  erected  .soon 
after  his  marriage,  on  lands  formerly  of  the 
Russell  estate  and  on  the  corner  o])i)osite  to 
that  on  which  in  1819  his  father  built  the  Whit- 
ney house,  and  there  he  continued  to  live  until 
1861,  when  he  purchased  the  old  Vose  mansion 
house  at  Elm  Corner,  Milton  Centre,  moved 
it  to  a  new  site  on  lands  across  the  street  which 
he  inherited  from  his  father,  and  there  made 
his  home  so  long  as  he  lived,  although  he  left 
it  in  intervals  of  travel  and  temporary  resi- 
dence elsewhere.    Besides  Whitney  homestead 


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on  the  old  estate,  Mrs.  Whitney  buiU  a  resi- 
dence for  her  own  occupancy,  but  nearly  all  of 
her  literary  work  was  done  at  the  "Elm 
Corner." 

Mr.  Whitney  was  a  very  capable  and  active 
business  man,  of  strong  character,  conserva- 
tive habits,  (|uict  in  his  social  life,  and  de- 
votedly loyal  in  his  domestic  attachments.  Dur- 
ing the  earlier  part  of  his  business  career  he 
took  an  earnest  part  in  public  affairs,  and  was 
strongly  allied  to  the  principles  of  the  old  Whig 
party,  although  he  did  not  at  any  time  become 
ambitious  of  public  office.  About  the  time  of 
the  disintegration  of  the  Whig  party  and  the 
organization  of  the  Republican  jiarty  which 
grew  out  of  it,  he  had  become  partially  deaf, 
and  this  affliction  was  the  chief  cause  of  his 
withdrawal  from  all  outside  affairs.  In  speak- 
ing of  this  period  and  the  later  years  of  his 
own  life  and  that  of  his  wife,  Mrs.  Whitney 
said :  "We  were  both  for  a  long  time  occu- 
pied with  our  family — our  children's  marriages 
and  our  frequent  adaptation  of  our  plans  to 
theirs,  in  the  temporary  absence  I  have  men- 
tioned, and  the  last  years  were  spent  in  a  very 
unbroken  c|uiet  at  the  home  in  Milton." 

At  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  November  7, 
1843,  Mr.  Whitney  married  Adeline  Dutton 
Train,  born  in  Boston,  September  15,  1824, 
daughter  of  Enoch  Train,  founder  of  a  line 
of  packet  ships  between  Boston  and  I^iverpool, 
cousin  of  George  Francis  Train,  author,  trav- 
eller and  jiolitical  economist,  a  brilliant  man, 
of  splendid  mind  and  worldwide  celebrity. 
Enoch  Train,  born  about  1800,  was  son  of 
Enoch  Train,  born  February  10,  1763,  married 
(published)  May  5,  1791,  Hannah  Ewing, 
whose  father  was  a  Scotchman  and  chaplain  in 
the  British  army.  Enoch  Train  was  son  of 
Samuel  Train,  of  Weston,  Massachusetts,  born 
December  22,  171 1,  died  1806:  married  (first) 
April,  1738,  Mary  Holding,  of  Concord;  (sec- 
ond) December  31,  1741,  Rachel  Allen. 
Samuel  Train  was  son  of  John  Train,  of 
Watertown,  born  October  31,  1662;  married, 
May  5,  1705,  Lydia  Jennison.  John  Train  was 
son  of  John  Train,  of  Watertown.  born  May 
23,  1651,  died  February  IQ,  1717-1S:  married, 
March  24,  1674-75,  Mary  Stubbs.  John  Train, 
last  mentioned,  was  son  of  John  Traine,  or 
Trayne,  who  came  over  in  the  "Susan  and 
Ellen"  in  1635.  being  then  twenty-five  years 
old.  In  the  same  shij)  came  Margaret  Dix, 
whom  he  married,  probably  after  their  arrival 
in  New  England.  She  died  December  18, 
1660,  aged  forty-four  years,  and  he  married 
(second)  October  12,  1675,  Abigail  Bent,  who 


died  August  17,  1691.  John  Traine  took  the 
oath  of  fidelity  in  1662,  and  died  January  29, 
1680-81,  leaving  an  estate  of  the  value  of  two 
hundred  and  sixty-eight  pounds.  He  was  an 
early  settler  at  Watertown  farms,  now  Weston, 
Massachusetts. 

Mrs.  Adeline  Dutton  (Train)  Whitney  was 
a  woman  of  rare  culture  and  literary  genius. 
She  was  educated  chiefly  in  Boston,  and  was 
nineteen  years  old  at  the  time  of  her  marriage 
with  Seth  Dunbar  Whitney.  Her  writings 
always  have  been  of  the  most  useful  character, 
designed  especially  to  instruct  young  persons 
and  at  the  same  time  to  aft'ord  such  interest  to 
persons  of  maturer  years.  Her  famous  "Alpha- 
bet Blocks"  are  patented,  and  readily  found 
their  way  into  general  use.  Besides  her  many 
contributions  to  current  literature  in  our 
domestic  magazines,  she  is  author  of  the  poem, 
"Footsteps  on  the  Seas,"  Boston,  1857; 
"Mother  Goose  for  Grown  Folks."  New  York, 
i860,  second  editions,  Boston,  1870  and  1882: 
"Boys  at  Chequassett,"  Boston,  1862;  "Faith 
Carlney's  Girlhood,"  Boston,  1863 ;  "The  Gay- 
worthys,"  1865;  "A  Summer  in  Leslie  Gold- 
thwaite's  Life,"  1866:  "Patience  Strong's  Out- 
ings," 1868:  "Hitherto,"  1869;  "We  Girls," 
1870;  "Real  Folks."  1871 :  "Pansies"  (poem), 
1872;  "The  Other  Girls,"  1873;  "Sights  and 
Insights,"  1876;  "Just  How.  A  Kevnote  to 
the  Cook  Books,"  1878:  "Odd  or  Even,"  1880; 
"Bonnvborough,"  1885;  "Homespun  Yarns," 
"Holy 'Tides,"  1886;  "Daftodils."  Bird  Talk." 
1887.  The  last  three  are  volumes  of  verse. 
"Ascutney  Street,"  1890;  "Golden  Gossip," 
1892 :  "Friendly  Letters  to  Girl  Friends,"  i8i)6 ; 
"The  Open  Mystery,"  1897:  "Biddy's  Epi- 
sodes," 1904. 

Children  of  Seth  Dunbar  and  .\deline  Dut- 
ton (Train)  \\'hitney :  I.  Mary  Adeline,  born 
September  27,  1844,  died  at  St.  Paul.  Minne- 
sota, December  16,  1867;  married.  February 
17,  1867,  Colonel  Charles  Russell  Suter.  L^nited 
States  Engineers,  and  had  Charles  Russell  Jr., 
died  December,  1867.  2.  Theodore  Train,  born 
.'\pril  26,  1846.  3.  Maria  Caroline,  born  Au- 
gust 25,  1848,  died  in  infancy.  4.  Caroline 
Leslie,  born  November  10.  1853.  married, 
October  13,  1875.  James  A.  Field,  of  Beloit. 
NN'isconsin.  born  August  8.  1847.  died  January 
17,  1884.  Mr.  Field  was  born  in  Beloit.  and 
was  educated  first  at  an  acailemy  in  New 
Jersey,  later  in  the  Boston  (Massachusetts) 
Institute  of  Technolog\-,  and  still  later  at  the 
L'niversity  of  Munich,  Bavaria,  Germany.  He 
was  a  mechanical  engineer,  and  after  marriage 
went   with   his  wife  to   Beloit.   where  he  had 


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interests  in  iron  works.  Subse(|uently  they 
made  their  home  in  New  Jersey.  Their  chil- 
dren:  WilH^m  Lusk  Webster,  born  July  17, 
1876;  James  Alfred,  May  26,  1880;  Douglas 
Grahame,  October  i.  1882. 

(\II1)  Theodore  Train,  only  son  of  Seth 
Dunbar  and  Adeline  Dutton  (Train)  Whitney, 
was  born  in  Milton.  Massachusetts,  April  26, 
1846.  He  married  (first)  in  Framingham, 
Massachusetts,  October  6,  1880,  Annie  Caro- 
line Mann  ;  children :  i.  Theodore  Train,  born 
in  Carondelet.  Missouri,  July  22,  1881.  2. 
Seth  Dunbar,  born  Lakewood,  New  Jersey, 
March  17,  1883.  died  March  30,  1885.  3. 
Marv  Adeline,  born  April  13,  1885.  4.  Annie 
Leslie,  born  July  9.  1887.  5.  Elinor,  born 
December  27,  '1889.  The  mother  of  these  chil- 
dren died  January  30,  1893.  Mr.  Whitney 
married  (second)  April  17,  1895,  IMinnie  S. 
Kerr,  of  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  born  January  4, 
1868.  daughter  of  Andrew  L.  and  Mary  W. 
(In.slee)  Kerr. 

(For  ancestry  see  preceding  Whitney  sketches). 

(HI)  Nathaniel,  son  of  John 
WHITNEY  (2)  Whitney,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary I,  1646,  died  in  Weston, 
January  7.  1732.  He  owned  a  farm  in  Weston 
"and  built  the  "first  Whitney  house,  which  stood 
for  many  generations.  He  married,  March  12, 
1673,  Sarah  Hagar,  born  September  3,  1651, 
died  May  7,  1746.  Children:  i.  Nathaniel, 
born  March  5,  1675,  married  Mercy  Robinson. 

2.  Sarah,  February  12,  1678,  married,  January 
5.  1709,  Jonathan  Ball.  3.  William,  May  6, 
1683.  mentioned  below.  4.  Samuel,  baptized 
July  17,  1687,  married  Ann  Laboree.  5.  Han- 
nah,  baptized    March.    1688.   married   

Billings.  f\  Elizabeth,  born  December  15,  1692. 
7.  Grace,  bom  1700,  died  March  23,  1719-  8. 
Mercy,  married Greaves. 

(IV)  William,  son  of  Nathaniel  Whitney, 
was  born  in  Weston,  May  6,  1683,  died  Janu- 
ary 24.  1720.  He  lived  at  Weston  and  mar- 
ried. May  17.  170C),  Martha  Pierce,  born  De- 
cember 24,  1681.  Children:  I.  William,  born 
January  11,  1707,  married  (first)  Hannah 
Harrington;  (second)  Mrs.  Mary  Pierce; 
(third)  Margaret  Spring;  (fourth)  Mrs. 
Sarah  Davis.     2.  Judith,  November  15,  1712. 

3.  Amity,  October  6,  1714.     4.  Martha,  April 

4.  1716,' married.  February  26,  1734,  Timothy 
Mossman.  5.  Samuel,  May  23,  1719,  men- 
tioned below. 

(V)  Lieutenant  Samuel,  son  of  William 
Whitney,  was  born  in  Weston,  May  23,  1719, 
died  January  i,  1782.    He  was  a  leading  man 


in  the  settlement  of  Westminster,  whither  he 
went  soon  after  his  marriage,  probably  in  1742. 
liis  farm  there  was  in  1859  owned  by  Mr. 
Hartwell,  and  the  old  cellar  was  at  last  accounts 
still  visible.  His  lot  was  No.  51,  near  the 
north  common.  He  was  frequently  selectman, 
and  served  as  surveyor  of  highways  and 
assessor,  and  on  the  standing  committee  of 
the  town.  He  was  on  the  committee  to  build 
the  schoolhouse  and  to  lay  out  the  highways 
of  the  town.  In  1759  he  was  one  of  the  largest 
owners  of  real  estate  and  one  of  the  twelve 
large  taxpayers.  He  served  in  the  revolution 
in  Captain  Noah  Miles'  company  of  minute- 
men.  Colonel  John  Whitcomb's  regiment,  and 
marched  on  the  alarm  at  Lexington,  April  19, 
1775.  He  held  a  commission  as  lieutenant  in 
the  militia.  He  gave  to  each  of  his  sons  land 
for  a  farm,,  either  before  or  at  his  death.  He 
married,  October  20,  1741,  Abigail  Fletcher. 
Children:  i.  Abigail,  born  August  27,  1742. 
2.  Mary,  May  29,  1744,  married  (first)  Elijah 
Gibson;  (second)  Edward  Scott.  3.  Samuel, 
February  11,  174^),  married  Thankful  Wilder. 
4.  .Abner.  May  18,  1748,  married  (first)  Eliz- 
abeth Glazier;  (second)  Levina  (Glazier) 
Ward.  5.  Achsah,  September  30,  1750,  died 
May  14,  1772.  6.  Silas.  October  20,  1752,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Withington.  7.  Martha,  November 
26,  1755.  died  young.  8.  Elisha,  July  2,  1757, 
marrieff  Eunice  Seaver.  9.  Alpheus,  February 
23.  1759.  married  Esther  Hartwell.  10. 
Phinehas,  January  16,  1761,  married  Elizabeth 
Rand.  1 1.  Hananiah,  December  18,  1762,  men- 
tioned below.  12.  Martha,  September  18, 
1764,  married  (first)  Benjamin  Seaver;  (sec- 
ond) Isaac  Seaver.  13.  Susannah,  February 
9,  1767,  died  young. 

(\T)  Hananiah,  son  of  Lieutenant  .Samuel 
Whitney,  was  born  at  Westminster,  December 
18,  1762,  died  in  1835.  He  lived  first  at  West- 
minster and  removed  to  Winchendon,  where 
he  served  as  tythingman.  His  farm  was  in 
that  part  of  Winchendon  known  as  Royalston 
Leg,  on  the  road  to  Rindge.  He  was  select- 
man of  Winchendon  in  1803-04-05,  and 
assessor  in  1804-06.  He  w^as  in  tlie  revolution 
in  Captain  Timothy  Boutelle's  company,  Col- 
onel John  Rand's  regiment,  in  1780,  to  rein- 
force the  Continental  army  at  the  north.  In 
1814  he  was  ensign  of  his  company  in  the  fifth 
regiment,  second  brigafle.  He  married,  at 
Ashburnham,  October  10,  1787,  Azubah  Kcyes, 
born  June  5,  1767,  in  Westminster,  died  in 
Winchendon.  daughter  of  Eli  and  Hannah 
(Howe)  Keyes,  of  Westminster.  Her  father 
was   a   farmer,   a   soldier   in   the    French   and 


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Indian  war  and  in  the  revolution,  dying  in  the 
service.  Children:  i.  Moses,  born  November 
28,  1789,  married  Sophia  Cutler.  2.  Hananiah, 
May  29,  1792,  married  Mary  L.  Beals  and 
Sarah  Beaman.  3.  Alpheus  B.,  March  8,  1794. 
4.  Azubah  B.,  August  25,  1796,  married  Henry 
Rand ;  resided  in  W'inchendon  and  Madison, 
Wisconsin.  5.  Artemas  B.,  September  5,  1798. 
6.  Stacy.  7.  Berina,  February  4,  1801.  8. 
Esther  B.,June  13,  1803.  9.  Silas  Stacy,  June 
27,  1805,  married  Mary  B.  Cate.  10.  Levi  P., 
August  19,  1807.  II.  Samuel  A.,  November 
10,  1809.  12.  Abby  Fletcher,  December  27, 
i8r2. 

(\'n)  Captain  Hananiah  (2),  son  of  Han- 
aniah ( I )  Whitney,  was  born  in  Winchendon, 
May  29,  1792.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  W'inchendon,  helped  his  father  on 
the  farm  in  his  youth,  and  afterward  followed 
farming  in  his  native  town  until  1830,  when  he 
went  to  Lowell.  Massachusetts,  where  he  engag- 
ed in  business,  as  a  dealer  in  trunks,  leather  bags 
and  leather  goods.  Subsequently  he  had  a 
retail  boot  and  shoe  store  there,  and  in  his 
later  years  was  in  the  wholesale  fruit  commis- 
sion business.  He  bought  produce  of  the 
farmers  in  the  vicinity  of  Lowell  and  shipped 
it  to  the  New  York  market  for  about  ten  years. 
He  was  well  known  and  highly  respected  in 
business  circles,  and  one  of  the  leading  citizens 
of  the  town.  He  made  a  fortune  and  lost  it, 
but  always  paid  his  debts  in  full,  scorning  to 
compromise.  His  credit  was  always  good  and 
his  losses  were  largely  due  to  his  lending  his 
endorsement  to  help  friends  in  business.  When 
a  young  man  he  was  lieutenant  in  the  Fifth 
Massachusetts  Regiment,  commissioned  in 
1816.  In  1818  he  was  commissioned  captain 
by  Governor  Hancock.  He  was  always  popu- 
lar and  had  many  friends.  On  one  occasion 
when  drilling  his  command  he  was  annoyed  by 
the  mischievous  interference  of  spectators  who 
wished  to  confuse  the  troops.  The  captain 
quickly  stO[)pcd  the  disorder  by  forming  a 
hollow  sc|uare  and  charging  the  crowd  with 
fixed  bayonets.  He  was  a  Republican  in  his 
later  years.  He  died  at  Lowell  in  March,  1867. 
He  bought  a  theatre  in  Lowell  and  organized 
a  free  church  on  Lowell  street.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Kirk  Street  Congregational 
Church,  later  of  the  High  Street  Church  and 
of  John  .Street  Church  and  was  deacon  to  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  married  (first)  Novem- 
ber 26,  1816,  Mary  Leavitt  Beals,  born  Sep- 
tember 4,  1796,  died  July  10,  1819,  daughter 
of  Stowers  and  Mary  (Leavitt)  Beals.  He 
married    (second)    October    19,    1820,    Sarah 


Turner  Beaman,  born  September  29,  1802, 
died  May  18,  1891,  at  Lowell,  daughter  of 
David  and  Polly  (Carter)  Beaman.  Child  of 
first  wife:  i.  George  Leavitt,  born  December 
if).  1817,  married  Harriet  Mears;  children: 
Clara,  George.  Children  of  second  wife :  2. Mary 
Beaman,  July  17,  1821,  died  December,  1892; 
married,  September,  1850,  Gordon  Reed,  who 
died  September  16,  1872;  children:  i.  Lizzie 
Jane  Reed,  born  August  11,  1851,  died  October 
5,  1851 ;  ii.  Frank  Sumner  Reed,  born  July  30, 
1853;  iii.  Josephine  Frances  Reed,  born  May 
26,  i860,  married,  December  19,  1883,  Fred- 
erick Conant,  and  have  daughter,  Maud 
Conant.  3.  Alartha,  November  8,  1822,  died 
February,  1899;  married.  May  21,  1851, 
Joseph  White  ;  children  :  i.  Joseph  Frederick 
White,  born  June  18.  1854,  died  May  12,  1857; 
ii.  Luther  \Vhite,  born  December  30,  1856, 
married,  February,  1886,  Mamie  S.  Files:  iii. 
Anna  Bertha  White,  born  January  28,  1859, 
married,  June  i,  1882,  Frank  A.  Libby.  4. 
John  Milton,  September  21,  1824,  mentioned 
IdcIow.  5.  William  ^leelus,  May  15.  1826.  b. 
Henry  Martyn,  August  21,  1828,  died  Decem- 
ber 2,  1903;  married  (first)  April  25,  1854, 
Harriet  Bagley,  born  August  24,  1829,  died 
July  4,  1876;  (second)  January  30,  1879, 
Mary  ^\■heatland  Bemis.  7.  Charles  N.,  June 
14.  1831,  died  June  12,  1832.  8.  Sarah  Ann, 
]\Iay  15,  1833.  married  (first)  February  24, 
1859,  Cornelius  Daniel  Smith;  (second)  No- 
vember 18,  i8()9.  William  Henry  Flagg;  child 
by  her  first  husband,  Frederick  Smith,  born 
December  8,  1839,  died  December,  1859;  chil- 
dren of  her  second  husband :  ii.  Edith  Naomi 
Flagg,  born  December  5.  1870.  died  May  8, 
1886:  iii.  William  Edson  Flagg,  born  JMarch 
II,  1873,  married  Harriet  \Y.  Parker;  iv. 
Howland  Whitney  Flagg,  born  July  14,  1875. 
9.  Elizabeth  J.,  December  15,  1836,  married 
(first)  July  II.  i860,  Josc])h  A.  Bailey,  born 
December  i,  1826,  died  March  18.  1873;  (sec- 
ond) .\pril  18.  1874,  Captain  Spooner  Jenkins, 
horn  September  11,  1829.  10.  Harriet  .A.nn, 
September  13,  1838.  11.  Abby  Amelia,  Au- 
gust 20,  1843.  12.  Charles  Edwards.  May  15, 
1846. 

(VHI)  John  Milton,  son  of  Hananiah  (2) 
Whitney,  was  born  in  Winchendon.  .'September 
21,  1824.  He  began  his  schooling  in  his  native 
town,  and  after  1830,  when  his  ]iarents  moved 
to  Lowell,  he  attended  the  ])ublic  schools 
there.  He  served  an  apprenticeship  in  the 
shops  of  the  Lowell  Machine  Company  and 
worked  in  Lowell  as  a  journeyman  for  a  time. 
Then  he  went  to  Springfield,   Massachusetts, 


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to  work  in  ihc  machine  shops  of  the  Boston 
&  Albany  railroad.  He  was  promoted  from 
time  to  time  and  became  a  passenger  con- 
ductor, a  position  he  filled  for  many  years.  In 
later  life  he  was  a  stockholder  of  the  railroad 
company.  He  died  December  3,  1882,  at 
Mount  Dora,  Florida,  whither  he  had  gone 
on  account  of  ill  health.  Mr.  Whitney  was  a 
Republican  in  politics,  antl  an  active  member 
of  the  Congregational  church.  He  was  a  per- 
fect gentleman  in  manner  and  thought,  of 
genial  disposition,  of  tender  heart  and  full  of 
sympathy  towards  those  in  trouble,  of  exem- 
plary christian  character.  Though  largely 
self-educated  he  possessed  unusual  intellectual 
attainments  and  his  reading  covered  a  wide 
range  of  subjects  and  was  both  thorough  and 
extensive.  He  married,  January  3,  1849,  Mary 
Leavitt  Beals,  born  November  21,  1827,  died 
May  14,  1883,  daughter  of  George  Leavitt  and 
Nancy  (Xorcross)  Beals.  Children:  i.  John, 
died  in  infancy.  2.  Charles  Leavitt  Beals, 
born  October  21,  1850.  mentioned  below. 

(IX)  Charles  Leavitt  Beals,  son  of  John 
Milton  Whitney,  was  born  at  Springfield,  Octo- 
ber 21,  1850,  died  at  Brookline,  Massachusetts, 
September  14,  1892.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  city,  graduating  from  the 
Springfield  high  school  in  the  class  of  1867. 
He  entered  Harvard  College  from  which  he 
was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Arts  in  the  class  of  1871.  He  took  high  rank 
in  scholarship  and  was  appointed  to  a  resident 
fellowship  and  in  1873  received  his  doctor's 
degree  from  Harvard.  He  studied  six  months 
at  the  university  of  Leipsic,  Germany,  and 
returning,  entered  Harvard  Law  School,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1876.  He  was 
clerk  for  a  time  in  the  law  office  of  Jewell,  Field 
&  Shepard  and  ac(|uired  valuable  experience 
both  in  the  jjreparation  and  trial  of  cases  and 
in  the  work  of  the  city  solicitor  of  Boston  and 
of  the  L'nited  States  district  attorney.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  Suffolk  bar  May  11,  1877. 
His  liberal  education  and  scholarship,  long 
training  and  natural  aptitude  for  the  law 
secured  for  him  a  position  of  imi)ortance  in 
his  profession  from  the  outset.  He  became 
the  law  paj-tner  of  Governor  W'illiam  Gaston, 
September  25,  1879,  when  he  resumed  practice 
after  the  close  of  his  term  as  governor,  under 
the  name  of  Gaston  &  Whitney.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1883,  his  partner's  son,  \\'illiam  Alex- 
ander Gaston,  was  admitted  to  the  firm,  the 
name  remaining  the  same.  The  firm  took  rank 
among  the  first  in  the  Commonwealth.  Mr. 
Whitney    continued    in    active    practice    until 


July  I,  1890,  when  on  account  of  ill  health  he 
retired.  He  was  a  Rejiublican  in  politics, 
tliough  decidedly  independent  in  his  views  and 
voting  in  later  years.  He  was  a  lifelong  stud- 
ent and  scholar,  of  profound  learning  and 
wisdom.  His  mind  was  analytical  and  logical 
and  he  was  a  clear,  forcible  and  convincing 
speaker.  He  was  as  graceful  in  ex|)ression  as 
he  was  accurate  in  statement.  He  was  a  very 
successful  advocate.  He  possessed  high  ideals 
and  absolute  integrity.  He  was  a  member  of 
Harvard  Congregational  Church  of  Brookline, 
Massachusetts.  He  married,  October  18,  1882, 
Lottie  Jane  Byam,  born  at  Charlestown.  Massa- 
chusetts, September  19,  1854,  daughter  of 
Ezekiel  George  and  Lydia  Jane  (Woodbridge) 
Byam,  of  Charlestown.  Her  father  was  a 
manufacturer  of  friction  matches,  the  head  of 
the  Diamond  Match  Company  of  Boston.  Mrs. 
Whitney  resides  at  186  Gardner  Road,  Brook- 
line. Children,  born  at  Brookline :  i.  Charles 
Beals,  July  9,  1883,  graduate  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege in  1907 :  associated  with  the  banking  firm 
of  Estabrook  &  Company,  Boston.  2.  Mary 
Leavitt,  June  13,  1885.  3.  Byam,  March  15, 
1887,  student  at  Harvard  University,  class  of 
1910. 

(For  early  generations    see  John  Wliitney  i). 

(IV)  Ensign  David,  son  of 
WHITNEY     Benjamin  Whitney,  was  born 

in  \Vatertown,  June  16,  1697, 
(lied  in  1745.  He  was  one  of  the  original  pro- 
prieors  of  land  at  Paris_,  Maine,  but  never 
lived  there.  He  lived  at  Watertown  and  Wal- 
tham.  He  married,  in  1720,  Rebecca  Fille- 
brown,  born  in  Cambridge,  November  6,  1695, 
died  1749.  Children:  i.  Rebecca,  born  No- 
vember 2,  1 721,  married,  July  18,  1745. 
Thomas  Stowell.  2.  David,  September  25, 
1723,  married  Mary  Merriam.  3.  Anna, 
.-\ugust  8,  1725,  married,  June  4,  1752,  Samuel 
Merriam.  4.  Nathan,  March  12,  1726,  mar- 
ried Tabitha  Merriam.  5.  Ruth,  February 
23,  1728,  died  April  23,  1757.  6.  Josiah,  No- 
vember 22,  1730,  mentioned  below.  7.  Jonas, 
June  25,  1733,  married  Sarah  Whittemore.  8. 
Jonathan,    February    10,    1735,   died   April   9, 

I7S7- 

(V)  Josiah,  son  of  Ensign  David  Whitney, 
was  born  November  22,  1730,  died  December 
3,  1800,  at  Ashby.  He  removed  to  Ashby  in 
1797  from  Acton  and  bought  land  there,  hav- 
ing sold  his  Acton  farm  two  years  jirevious. 
He  died  intestate  and  his  widow  administered 
the  estate.  He  served  in  the  French  and 
Indian  war,  enlisting  at  Boston,   February  4, 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


1757,  in  Captain  Timothy  Houghton's  com- 
pany, and  was  in  the  Crown  Point  expedition. 
The  year  before,  in  1756,  he  was  in  the  same 
company  under  Colonel  Jonathan  Bagley  at 
Fort  William  Henry,  having  been  transferred 
from  Colonel  Brattle's  regiment.  He  served  also 
in  the  revolution  in  Captain  Abraham  Pierce's 
W'altham  company,  Colonel  Thomas  Gardner's 
regiment,  and  answered  the  Lexington  alarm, 
April  19,  1775,  doing  guard  duty  around  Con- 
cord after  the  fight  there;  also  in  Captain 
Abraham  Pierce's  company,  Colonel  Samuel 
Thatcher's  regiment  in  1776,  and  marched  to 
Dorchester  Heights  on  command  of  General 
Washington.  He  married,  June  15,  1762, 
Sarah  Laurence,  born  July  21,  1737,  died  Sep- 
tember 14,  1794.  Children:  i.  Sarah,  born 
April  18,  1763.  2.  Josiah,  June  23,  1765,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Rhoda,  August  22,  1768, 
married.  May  8,  1794,  Amos  Smith;  died  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1817.  4.  Jonathan,  May  8,  1772, 
married  Sarah  Child.  5.  Anna,  baptized 
.'\pril  2,  1775.  6.  Lucy,  baptized  July  28, 
1776.    7.  Nancy. 

(\T)  Josiah  (2),  son  of  Josiah  (i)  Whit- 
ney, was  born  at  Waltham,  June  23,  1765, 
died  at  Ashby,  December  24,  1842.  He  set- 
tled first  in  Watertown,  where  the  first  four 
children  were  born,  and  about  1799  removed 
to  Ashby,  where  he  lived  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  was  a  prosperous  farmer,  highly  re- 
spected in  the  community.  He  and  his  wife 
were  dismissed  from  the  Watertown  to  the 
Ashby  church,  November  24,  1799.  By  his 
father's  will  he  received  one-half  his  wearing 
apparel  and  ten  dollars.  He  married  (inten- 
tions dated  January  10,  1790)  Mary  Barrett, 
born  1768,  died  August  23,  1841.  Children: 
I.  Josiah,  born  March  20,  1791,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Sally,  March  19,  1792,  married, 
December  16,  1814,  Oliver  Kendall;  died  No- 
vember 23,  1889.  3.  Jonas  Prescott,  Septem- 
ber 22,  1793,  married  (first)  Rebecca  Pijser; 
(second)  Louisa  Wheeler.  4.  Mary,  Septem- 
ber 14,  1796,  died  July  5,  1888;  married,  July 
17,  1817,  Oliver  L.  Wheeler.  5.  William,  July 
20,  1798,  married  Fanny  Lincoln.  6.  John  B., 
April  7,  1801,  married  Harriet  Gushing.  7. 
Nancy,  March  29.  1803,  married,  February  8, 
1825,  Asa  Holt;  died  Alay  20,  1851.  8.  Alice, 
December  17,  1806,  died  September  19,  1858; 
married,  1837,  Calvin  J.  Tyler. 

(VH)  Josiah  (3),  son  of  Josiah  (2)  Whit- 
ney, was  born  at  Watertown,  March  20,  1791. 
died  at  Ashby,  September  4,  1818.  He  was  a 
farmer,  aiul  lesided  at  .'\shby.  His  farm  con- 
sisted of  eighty  acres  with  buildings.    He  died 


mtestate,  and  as  his  wife  declined  to  adminis- 
ter the  estate  Amos  Wellington  was  appointed 
a<lministrator.  On  March  19,  1833,  Luke 
Wellington  was  appointed  guardian  of  the  two 
children.  He  married,  January  i,  1816,  Re- 
becca Rice,  born  at  Ashby,  December,  1793, 
died  there  in  December,  1859,  daughter  of 
John  Rice,  of  Ashby.  Children:  i.  Lucy 
.Ann,  born  September,  181 6,  died  June  13, 
1844.  2.  John  Milton,  March  i,  1818,  men- 
tioned below. 

(VHI)  John  Milton,  son  of  Josiah  (3) 
W'hitney,  was  born  at  Ashby,  March  i,  1818, 
died  at  Boston,  June  3,  1886.  His  father  died 
when  he  was  an  infant,  and  his  boyhood  was 
spent  in  Ashby  working  for  different  farmers 
and  getting  his  education  as  opportunity 
offered  during  the  winter.  He  served  an  ap- 
prenticeship at  the  carpenter's  trade  which 
he  followed  at  Ashby,  and  about  1840  he  re- 
moved to  Groton.  Here  he  built  a  home  and 
worked  at  his  trade,  but  later  removed  to 
I'itchburg  and  was  employed  as  an  expert 
cabinetmaker  in  the  Page  piano-case  factory. 
After  a  number  of  years  he  removed  to  Bos- 
ton and  entered  the  employ  of  his  cousin,  Milo 
Whitney,  a  piano-case  maker,  remaining  in 
his  employ  until  his  health  failed,  compelling 
him  to  give  up  work.  In  politics  he  was  a 
Republican,  and  in  religion  an  Orthodox  Con- 
gregationalist.  A  man  of  quiet  tastes  and 
habits  he  was  devoted  to  his  family.  His 
ability  as  a  fine  workman  was  due  largely  to 
his  fondness  for  mechanics.  He  married,  at 
.•\shby.  March  24,  1840,  Emma  .Augusta  Wil- 
lard,  born  October  15,  1814,  died  November 
23,  1 88 1,  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Tyler 
(bakes)  Willard,  of  Ashby.  Children:  i. 
George  Frederick,  born  November  20,  1841, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Sarah  Jane,  July  18, 
1844,  married,  March  26,  1864,  Lyman  Law- 
rence (see  Lawrence).  3.  Charles  Henry, 
June  28,  1848,  died  September  23,  1872.  4. 
Frank  Herbert,  December  24,  185 1. 

(IX)  George  Frederick,  son  of  John  Mil- 
ton Whitney,  was  born  at  Ashby,  November 
20,  1841,  died  at  ArHngton,  December  23, 
1899.  At  an  early  age  he  removed  with  his 
parents  to  Groton,  and  later  to  Fitchburg.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  supple- 
menting his  high  school  course  by  a  course  in 
the  Bryant  &  Stratton  Commercial  School  at 
Troy.  New  York.  He  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Heywood  Chair  Company  at  Fitchburg, 
and  later  did  their  ornamental  decoration.  In 
1 8^)4  he  went  to  East  Boston  and  became  clerk 
and  bookkeeper  for  the  Eastern  railroad,  and 


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was  paymaster  for  over  seven  hundred  men. 
He  made  his  home  on  the  corner  of  Webster 
and  Maverick  streets.  After  a  time  he  started 
in  the  manufacture  of  a  harness  soap,  estab- 
lishing the  business  in  Lexington.  The  soap 
was  known  as  Xeatsfoot  Harness  Soap,  and 
met  with  a  ready  sale  in  and  about  Boston. 
It  proved  the  nucleus  of  his  future  success. 
About  1870  he  took  as  a  partner  H.  S.  Mer- 
rill, the  firm  being  George  F.  Whitney  &  Com- 
pany, at  59  Milk  street,  Boston,  and  in  1875 
the  business  removed  to  2028  Washington 
street,  while  Mr.  Whitney  removed  his  family 
from  Lexington  to  Xewtonville.  The  business 
was  carried  on  most  successfully  until  1883 
when  it  was  removed  again  to  20  Norfolk  ave- 
nue, continuing  until  1890.  when  he  began  the 
manufacture  of  soap  products,  including  wax 
and  later  starch,  at  59  Long  wharf.  He 
lived  for  a  time  at  20  Forest  street,  but 
soon  removed  to  Arlington,  where  he  died. 
Mr.  Whitney  inherited  his  father's  taste  for 
mechanics  and  was  resourceful  and  energetic. 
.Although  remarkably  successful,  he  never 
wished  to  display  his  wealth.  He  was  fond  of 
music,  and  a  good  violinist.  His  high  ideals 
made  him  respected  and  his  pleasing  person- 
ality won  him  many  friends.  He  loved  the 
beauties  of  nature,  being  very  fond  of  flowers. 
In  politics  he  was  Republican,  and  in  religion 
a  Congregationalist.  He  married,  at  Xewton- 
ville, June  18,  1874.  Josephine  Isabella  Bry- 
ant, daughter  of  Xathaniei  and (Had- 

ley)  Bryant.  Children:  i.  Ellery  Waldo, 
born  August  12,  1876,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Erving  Bryant,  April  14,  1879,  died  August 
24,  1882. 

(X)  Ellery  Waldo,  son  of  George  Fred- 
erick Whitney,  was  born  at  Xewtonville, 
.August  12,  1876.  At  the  age  of  six  months  he 
removed  with  his  parents  to  Boston.  He  at- 
tended fir.st  the  private  school  of  Miss  Maud 
Hunneman  and  afterward  the  Dearborn  pub- 
lic school.  When  he  was  thirteen  his  parents 
removed  to  .Arlington  and  he  went  to  the 
Russell  and  Cotting  high  school.  .After  a 
course  in  Burdett's  Business  College  he  en- 
tered the  employ  of  his  father  on  Long  wharf 
to  learn  the  soap-making  business.  .After  the 
death  of  his  father  in  1899  the  business  was 
incorporated  with  James  B.  Williams  as  presi- 
dent, Mr.  W'hitney  as  vice-president  and  Ches- 
ter J.  Williams  as  treasurer.  The  firm  makes 
a  specialty  of  mill  soaps  and  harness  soap. 
soap  for  tanneries,  automobile  oils  and  mill 
supplies.  Mr.  Whitney  is  superintendent  of 
the  works  at  59  Long  wharf  and  devotes  his 


whole  time  and  energy  to  the  business.  He  is 
a  man  of  engaging  i)ersonality.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  a  Congregationalist 
in  relitrion.     He  is  unmarried. 


(For  preceding  generations    see  John  Whitney   i). 

(V)   Abraham,  son  of  J(5hn 
WIHTXEY     Whitney,  was  born  December 

7.  1735,  at  Watertown,  and 
resided  there  until  after  his  marriage  when  he 
made  his  home  in  Weston,  the  town  adjoin- 
ing. He  was  a  farmer.  With  his  brothers  he 
served  in  the  company  of  Captain  Samuel 
Barnard  of  Watertown  in  Colonel  Th.onias 
Gardner's  regiment  and  marched  to  Lexing- 
ton on  the  alarm  of  .April  19,  1775.  Paul 
Revere  was  ably  assisted  in  spreading  the 
alarm  by  Abraham  Whitney.  The  night  before 
the  battle  Abraham  started  for  Lynn  on  horse- 
back with  panniers  filled  with  shoes  which  his 
brother  desired  to  have  delivered  in  the  morn- 
ing, and  when  he  reached  Charlestown  he  was 
startled  by  a  voice  asking  him  stealthily  "if 
he  knew  the  regulars  were  landing."  He  re- 
plied that  he  did  not  and  was  told  the  particu- 
lars. Relieving  the  horse  of  the  load  of  shoes 
he  galloped  him  back  to  Watertown  and  gave 
the  alarm  agreed  upon  in  case  of  the  expected 
invasion.  By  sunrise  the  company  was  ready 
to  march  from  the  rendezvous  on  the  village 
green  in  front  of  the  old  meeting  house. 
-Abraham  Whitney  was  also  in  the  company  of 
Captain  Phinenhas  .Stearns  which  marched 
from  Watertown  by  order  of  General  Wash- 
ington and  took  part  in  the  fortification  of 
Dorchester  Heights  in  March,  1776.  He  en- 
listed July  2.  1778,  for  six  months  and  served 
guard  duty  over  the  powder  magazine  and 
again  in  1779  under  command  of  Jonathan 
Brown  Esq.  He  removed  to  West  ford  and 
later  to  Concord,  Massachusetts.  He  married 
f first)  July  10,  1766,  Elizabeth  Whitney,  bap- 
tized November  23,  1746.  died  July  10,  1770, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Whitney.  He 
married  (second)  at  Watertown,  December  3. 
1772.  Mary  Mead,  born  May  i.  1753,  died 
August  29,  1820.  Children  of  first  wife:  i. 
Abraham,  died  ,before  1813.  2.  Elizabeth 
married,  October  20,  1793,  Isaac  Taylor,  of 
.Acton.  3.  Lois,  died  at  Concord.  September 
14.  1794.  4.  Joshua,  died  young.  Children  of 
second  wife:  5.  Mary  .Ann,  died  before  1813. 
6.  Moses,  born  1774.  died  June  15.  1827:  mar- 
ried. .September  it.  1796.  Jane  Polly.  7.  Lucy, 
horn  1775.  died  Xovcmber  25.  1848.  8. 
Esther,  born  February  4.  1779.  <l'cd  June  i. 
1861  ;    married,    October    9,    1806,    Zaccheus 


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Pond.  9.  Elisha,  died  before  1813.  10. 
Lydia,  born  1782,  died  January  27,  1844.  11. 
Susanna,  born  1783.  died  July  4,  1849;  "i^''- 
ricd  Jeremiah  Knowlton.  12.  Maria,  married, 
March,  1807,  Joel  Smith.  13.  Amos,  born 
1786,  mentioned  below.  14.  Mary,  born  Jan- 
uary 21,  1792,  died  July  26,  1828;  married, 
July  2,  181 5,  Adam  Goodnow. 

(  \T)  Amos,  son  of  Abraham  Whitney,  was 
born  at  Waltham  in  1786,  died  there  June  10, 
1824.  He  and  John  Kimball  bought  the  mill 
privilege  and  land  at  Weston  of  Thomas  and 
William  Parker  in  1813  for  $3,000.  He  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  paper  in  partner- 
ship with  Kimball  until  1817.  His  home  was 
on  Main  street,  Waltham.  He  married,  Jan- 
uary 17,  181 1,  Martha  Priest,  baptized  July 
4,  1784,  died  i860,  daughter  of  James  and 
Abigail  (Lawrence)  Priest.  Children:  i. 
Charles,  born  February  11,  1812,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Amos,  January  30,  1814,  died 
March,  1884;  married  Sophia  Waterman  Pot- 
ter ;  children :  i.  Amos  Priest,  married  Mary 
Thurston ;  ii.  Walter  H.,  married  S.  Ella 
Brown ;  iii.  Mary  Robbins.  3.  James,  April 
9,  1816,  died  August  23,  1881 ;  married,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1857.  Mary  Frances  Parker;  chil- 
dren: i.  Henry  Patrick,  died  April,  1896;  ii. 
James  F.  4.  Walter,  December  2,  1818,  died 
November  12,  1893,  foreman  of  the  cloth 
room  in  the  R.  M.  F.  Co.  mill  at  W'altham. 

(VH)  Charles,  son  of  Amos  Whitney,  was 
born  at  Waltham,  February  11,  1812,  died  at 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  July  29,  1850.  He 
attended  the  winter  terms  of  the  district  school 
and  wi irked  during  the  summer  in  his  boyhood. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  blacksmith  in  his 
native  town,  serving  his  apprenticeship  under 
Mr.  Emerson,  who  made  and  repaired  wagons 
and  carried  on  a  general  blacksmith  business. 
Afterward  Mr.  Whitney  entered  partnership 
with  Charles  Davenport,  of  Cambridge,  under 
tiie  firm  name  of  Davenjwrt  &  Whitney,  mak- 
ing the  iron  work  for  railway  cars.  Mr.  Dav- 
enport was  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Davenport 
&  Bridge,  Main  street.  Cambridge,  manufac- 
turers of  railway  cars.  The  failure  of  the  firm 
of  Davenport  &  Bridge  involved  the  other 
firm  and  caused  its  failure  also.  The  business 
of  these  two  firms,  however,  forms  an  inter- 
esting chapter  in  the  early  history  of  the  rail- 
way industry  of  the  country.  Mr.  Whitney 
died  July  29.  1830.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  church  at  Cambridge  and  active  in  the 
work  of  the  church.  He  was  devoted  to  his 
family,  of  strict  integrity  and  honor  in  all  his 
dealings,  progressive  and  enterprising  in  busi- 


ness. In  politics  he  was  a  Whig.  He  mar- 
ried, January  26,  1839,  Caroline  Fuller  Stimp- 
son,  born  at  Needham,  Massachusetts,  August 
20,  1816,  died  at  Cambridge,  April  24,  1872, 
daughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Elizabeth  (Fuller) 
Stimpson,  of  Weston.  Children:  i.  Charles 
Edward,  born  January  5,  1840,  drowned  April 
5,  i860,  in  the  Charles  river  in  sight  of  his 
home ;  was  bookkeeper  for  the  New  England 
Glass  Company,  Boston.  2.  William  Henry, 
January  3,  1843,  mentioned  below.  3.  Clara 
Maria,  January  4,  1845,  ^^'^d  September  29, 
1847.  4.  Ella  Caroline,  March  15,  1847,  died 
January  17,  1907;  graduate  of  the  Art  School 
of  the  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  Boston ;  teacher 
in  the  Rindge  Manual  Training  School,  Cam- 
bridge. 5.  Frank  Erving,  October  28,  1850, 
mentioned  below. 

(V'HI)  William  Henry,  son  of  Charles 
Whitney,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  January  3, 
1843,  died  May  4,  1909.  He  graduated  from 
the  Cambridge  high  school  and  took  a  course 
in  the  Lawrence  Scientific  School  of  Harvard 
University.  He  enlisted  at  Cambridge,  July 
14,  1862,  and  served  three  years  in  the  civil 
war.  He  was  commissioned  captain  of  his 
company  and  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major 
of  his  regiment.  He  was  wounded  once.  He 
was  a  prominent  civil  engineer  in  Boston  after 
the  war,  retiring  from  active  business  a  few 
years  ago.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics 
and  served  the  city  of  Cambridge  in  the  board 
of  alderman  and  on  the  board  of  health.  He 
was  an  active  member  and  for  many  years 
deacon  of  the  Cambridge  Baptist  church.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Watertown  Historical 
Societv  and  of  the  New  England  Historic 
Genealogical  Society.  He  married,  February 
18.  1868,  Emma  Sargent  Barber,  daughter  of 
John  Barber.  Children,  born  at  Cambridge : 
I.  Clara  Mabel,  February  22,  1871,  married, 
June  8.  1898,  Arthur  S.  Pevear,  of  Cambridge, 
and  had  Dorothy  Whitney  Pevear,  born  July 
22.  1902.  2.  Chester,  June  29,  1874,  died  July 
31,  1874.  3.  Charles  Fuller,  January  22.  1879, 
married,  June  10,  1903,  Ethel  Putnam  Sar- 
gent, born  May  12,  1881,  dietl  December  31, 
1905  ;  child,  Horace  Sargent,  born  June  29, 
1905,  died  October  12,  1905.  4.  Alice  Emma, 
August  4.  1880,  died  .'\ugust  13,  1880. 

(\TH)  Frank  Erving,  son  of  Charles 
Whitney,  was  born  at  Cambridge,  October 
28.  1850.  in  his  father's  home  on  Auburn 
street.  He  attended  the  Webster  grammar 
school  and  graduated  from  the  Cambridge 
high  school  in  the  class  of  1868  with  honors. 
He  learned  the  carpenter's  trade  in  the  employ 


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of  John  &  Joseph  Kelley  of  Cambridge,  and 
afterward  served  an  apprenticeship  of  three 
years  in  the  machinist's  trade  under  Aloore  & 
W'jTnan,  76  Sudbury  street,  Boston.  He 
worked  for  this  firm  also  as  journeyman  for 
five  years  and  then  embarked  in  business  on 
his  own  account  at  13  Bowker  street,  Boston. 
After  seven  years  at  that  location  he  removed 
to  his  present  place  of  business,  65  Sudbury 
street,  Boston.  He  manufacutres  water  mo- 
tors, ice  cream  freezers,  etc.  He  builds  water 
motors  for  e.\i)ort  and  also  deals  extensively 
in  gas  and  gasoline  engines.  Mr.  Whitney 
attends  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Maiden. 
While  living  at  Melrose  he  was  for  eighteen 
years  the  collector  of  the  Baptist  church,  mem- 
ber of  the  music  committee,  the  finance  com- 
mittee and  the  standing  committee  and  an  effi- 
cient worker  in  the  Sunday  school  of  the  same. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Wyoming  Lodge  of  Free  Masons; 
of  the  Waverly  Chapter  of  Royal  Arch 
Masons  and  is  treasurer  of  same ;  and  of  Mel- 
rose Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters,  of 
Ma'den,  and  trustee  of  the  permanent  fund  of 
the  body.  He  is  associate  prelate  of  Hugh  De 
Payens  Commandery.  Knights  Templar,  of 
Melrose ;  member  of  Bethlehem  Council, 
Royal  Arcanum ;  and  a  charter  member  of  the 
Anii)hion  Club,  a  musical  organization  estab- 
lished in  1892.  He  is  gifted  musically  and 
has  been  bass  soloist  in  the  Melrose  Baptist 
church  choir.  He  married.  October  7,  1880, 
Isabel  Esther  Billnian.  born  in  Boston,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Mary  (Hurd)  Billman.  Her 
father  was  a  traveling  salesman.  Their  only 
child.  Caroline  Gertrude,  is  a  student  in  Rad- 
cliffe  College,  class  of  1909. 


(For  early  generations  see    John    Whitney    i). 

(VII)  George  Washington, 
WHITNEY  son  of  Ezekiel  Whitney,  was 
born  at  Watertown,  August 
26.  1812,  died  at  Brighton.  Massachusetts, 
March  17.  1863.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town.  During  his  youth 
he  was  employed  as  coachman  for  the  Stearns 
family  in  Boston.  Even  then  he  was  an  ex- 
cellent judge  of  horses  and  skillful  in  hand- 
ling them.  Soon  after  the  Boston  &  Worcester 
railroad  was  built  he  began  to  work  for  the 
railroad  company,  and  was  soon  placed  in  the 
position  of  section  master  by  Superintendent 
Twitchell,  who  knew  Mr.  Whitney's  ability 
and  judgment  through  personal  acquaintance. 
His  section  was  that  from  Boston  to  Allston 
and  his  success  in  this  position  brought  him 


liromotion  to  the  position  of  superintendent  of 
the  road  from  Boston  to  Worcester.  The 
reputation  of  the  Boston  &  Worcester  rail- 
road, later  known  as  the  Boston  &  Albany, 
was  in  no  small  part  due  to  his  good  judg- 
ment, industry  and  faithfulness  to  duty.  He 
took  high  rank  among  the  pioneers  in  railroad 
construction  and  maintenance.  He  always 
kept  abreast  of  the  times.  He  resided  in  Bos- 
ton and  Brighton.  Though  kindly  and  cheer- 
ful in  his  nature,  he  believed  in  discipline  in 
business  and  expected  from  his  men  the  same 
indefatigable  industry  that  he  himself  gave 
to  his  daily  work,  and  he  was  not  disap- 
pointed. No  superintendent  was  ever  served 
more  faithfully  and  none  had  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  his  men  to  a  greater  degree.  Fie 
believed  in  total  abstinence  and  did  much  for 
the  cause  of  temperance.  He  took  great  pleas- 
ure in  driving  and  owned  many  fine  horses 
and  belonged  to  the  best  sporting  clubs  of 
Brighton.  He  was  witty  himself  and  fond  of 
a  joke  and  his  good  humor  attracted  many 
friends  to  him.  To  his  family  he  was  greatly 
endeared.  He  attended  the  Baptist  church  of 
Brighton,  of  which  his  wife  was  a  member. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Boston  Lancers, 
which  for  many  years  has  been  the  pet  cav- 
alry organization  of  Massachusetts.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  a  Democrat.  He  married,  No- 
vember 28,  1833,  Elizabeth  Cook,  born  No- 
vember 10,  1815,  died  November  i,  i860. 
Children:  i.  George  Bradford,  born  Janu- 
ary 13,  1835,  died  September,  1907;  was  chief 
of  police  at  Bayonne,  New  Jersey,  superin- 
tendent of  the  Ninth  Avenue  Elevated  Rail- 
road of  New  York  City;  married  Eliezer 
Jones,  of  Sudbury,  Massachusetts  ;  children  : 
George.  Edward,  Abbie.  2.  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Charles  Griggs  ;  children  :  i.  Ella  Griggs, 
married  Theodore  Gordon,  of  Acton  ;  ii.  Ger- 
trude Griggs;  iii.  Charles  Griggs,  died  young. 

3.   l)el[)hine.    married Gilpatrick.      4. 

Anna  Amelia,  died  young.     5.  Arabella,  died 

at  Dedliam ;  married Brockctt  and  had 

Gertrude  Brockett.  6.  William  Ezekiel,  died 
.August  2,  1908;  married,  March  18,  1862, 
Margaret  Kinder,  born  December  12,  1842; 
children :  i.  Nellie  L.,  born  February  14, 
1864.,  married.  August  6.  1884,  John  E.  Felch 
("Children:  Marguerita  .May  Felch,  born  May 
20,  1889;  Gladys  Felch,  I'"ebruary  28,  1898'; 
Emma  Whitney  Felch,  December  6,  1901); 
ii.  Bella  Lurena,  born  February  25,  1872,  died 
November  25,  1872.  7.  F>ank  Nain,„,  ^orn 
March  28,  1844.  died  August,  1907;  married 
Sarah  .Xdams.    8.  Alonzo  Driscoll,  born  1847, 


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died  April  6,  1876;  married,  May  18,  1870, 
Zelaphine  Juliette  Gilliheon ;  children:  i. 
George  Washington,  born  June  12,  1 87 1,  mar- 
ried, July  II,  1894,  Mary  J.  Garside  (Chil- 
dren :  Walter  Theodore,  born  May  25,  1895 ; 
Arthur  Harrison,  June  4,  1897;  Mildred,  July 
23,  1902,  died  February  9,  1906;  Ernest  Win- 
field,  January  24,  1904)  ;  ii.  Zelia  Jenette, 
born  January  29,  1874,  died  January  17,  1877. 
9.   Edward,  born   1850.  mentioned  below. 

(VHI)  Edward,  son  of  George  Washington 
Whitney,  was  born  at  Brighton,  now  part  of 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  in  1850.  died  at  Cam- 
bridge, July  22,  1879.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools.  \\'hen  a  young  man  he  was 
employed  for  a  number  of  years  by  H.  D. 
Smith,  who  owned  a  livery  stable  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Second  and  Gore  streets,  Cambridge. 
During  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life  he  w-as  a 
faithful  and  trusted  assistant  of  Charles  E. 
Daley  in  the  livery  stable  business,  Cambridge 
street.  His  gentle  nature,  courtesy  and  faith- 
fulness won  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  both 
employer  and  customers.  He  was  a  most 
valued  and  valuable  man  for  Mr.  Daley.  At 
the  time  of  his  death,  one  of  his  employers 
said  of  him:  "He  was  a  man  out  of  place  in 
life,  worthy  of  a  large  share  of  the  world's 
goods."  He  was  handicapped  by  lameness 
caused  early  in  life  by  an  attack  of  rheumatic 
fever.  He  died  of  typhoid  fever  when  but 
twenty-nine  yars  of  age.  In  religion  he  was  a 
Methodist;  in  politics  a  Republican.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Order  of  J"oresters.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Cambridge,  Elizabeth  Healy,  born 
1848,  daughter  of  John  and  Ellen  (Dwyer) 
Healy,  of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  Chil- 
dren: I.  George  Edward,  born  July  i,  1870, 
married,  November  27,  1896,  Margaret 
Theresa  Ford,  of  Cambridge.  2.  Ellen  Ger- 
trude, January  i,  1872,  married,  ]\Tay  14,  i8()i, 
Charles  A.  Chapman ;  children  :  i.  William 
John  Cha|)nian,  born  June  24,  1892;  ii. 
Charles  Chapman,  October  30,  1893;  iii.  Ed- 
ward Chapman,  September  30,  1895  '■  i^- 
Alice  Chapman,  March  29.  1897:  v.  John 
Chapman,  December  14,  1898,  died  December 
15.  1898.  3.  John  William,  January  i,  1875. 
mentioned  below.  4.  Katherine,  married 
Charles  Messer ;  children:  i.  Elizabeth  Mes- 
ser.  born  June  C).  1900;  ii.  Helen  Messer,  July 
31,  1902.  3.  Mary  F.lizabeth.  February  4, 
1877.  married  Ralph  Reardon. 

(IX)  John  William,  son  of  Edward  Whit- 
ney, was  born  at  Cambridge,  January  i,  1875. 
He  attended  the  public  schools,  but  his  father 
died  when  he  was  hut  six  vears  old  and  he  was 


obliged  to  contribute  as  much  as  possible  from 
early  boyhood  to  support  the  family.  At  the 
age  of  thirteen  he  found  employment  in  the 
laboratory  of  Henry  Thayer,  a  manufacturing 
chemist,  of  Cambridge.  After  si.x  years  in 
this  position  he  was  employed  by  Korth's 
Packing  Company  as  a  teamster  for  eight 
years.  He  started  in  business  in  1902  at  9 
Chestnut  street.  East  Somerville,  in  the  man- 
ufacture of  barrels.  He  had  but  little  capital, 
the  modest  savings  of  many  years  of  hard 
work,  but  he  displayed  a  natural  aptitude  for 
business  and  a  skill  in  his  special  line  of  re- 
pairing and  making  all  kinds  of  barrels.  His 
business  flourished  from  the  start.  In  three 
years  he  had  to  find  larger  quarters,  and  he 
bought  a  large  building  with  stable,  etc.,  at  the 
rear  at  113  Lpnwood  street.  His  best  custom- 
ers are  the  large  packing  houses  in  Cambridge 
and  Somerville  and  the  wholesale  merchants 
in  Boston.  Air.  W'hitney  is  reckoned  among 
the  most  successful  of  the  younger  manufac- 
turers of  Somerville.  He  resides  at  64  Wash- 
ington street,  Somerville.  He  and  his  family 
attend  St.  Joseph's  Roman  Catholic  Church 
in  that  city.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics. 
He  is  a  member  of  Cambridge  Council,  No. 
74,  Knights  of  Columbus,  of  Cambridge,  and 
of  Somerville  Lodge,  No.  917,  Benevolent 
and  l^rotective  Order  of  Elks.  He  married, 
January  5,  1898,  at  Cambridge,  Alary  Mag- 
dalen Carroll,  daughter  of  John  and  Nora 
(McLaughlin)  Carroll,  of  Somerville.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John  Edward,  born  .Vovember  22, 
1898.  2.  Francis,  August  5,  1900.  3.  Naomi, 
January  i,  1903.  4.  Estelle  Margaret,  Janu- 
ary I,  1906.  5.  Edward  Carroll,  April  25, 
1908. 

(For  preceding  generations   see  Richard  Whitney  II). 

(HI)   Richard,  son  of  Rich- 
WIIITNEY     ard    Whitney,    was    born    at 
\\'atertown,       Jainiary       13, 


1660, 


died     December     15,     1723.     He 


resided  at  .Stow,  where  he  had  a  grant 
of  land  (October  24,  1682.  His  will  was 
dated  December  22,  1723.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth .Sawtell,  widow,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Sawtell,  of  Groton.  She  was  born  I'ebruary 
3,  1668,  died  November  24,  1723.  and  married 
(first)  1691,  Jose])h  Morse;  (second)  lienja- 
min  Nurse:  (third)  Richard  NN'hitncy.  Chil- 
dren of  Richard  and  l-!Iizal)eth :  I.  Richard, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Jonatlian.  horn  I'ebruary 
26,  1699;  married  .-Mice  Willard.  3.  Joshua, 
born  1706;  married  Zerviah .  4.  Han- 
nah, married  Samuel  I-'rirr.    =;.   Elizabetli.  mar- 


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ried,  December  29.  1722,  John  Wctherhy.  fi. 
Sarah,  born  1703;  married,  1723.  Captain 
Hezekiah  Hajjgood.  7.  Ruhamah.  born  1705. 
8.  Hepzibah,  born  1710:  married,  October  12, 
1732,  Seth  Sawyer. 

(IV)  Richard,  son  of  Richard  Whitney, 
was  born  in  Stow,  in  1694.  and  died  April  27. 
1775.  He  resided  in  Stow.  He  married  (  first) 
Hannah  W'hitcomb.  born  1693.  died  November 
17.  1743,  daughter  of  Josiah  W'hitcomb.  of 
Lancaster:  (second)  intentions  dated  Octo- 
ber 26.  1745.  Hannah  Ayres.  widow,  born 
1704.  died  September  27.  1775.  Children:  i. 
Mary,    born    November    24.    171 5;    married 

Gates.      2.  Dorothy,    born    April    13, 

1718:     married     Taylor.     3.  Daniel, 

born  February  13.  1720:  see  forward.  4. 
Hannah,  born  May  29.  1723:  married 


Wetherbee.  5.  Richard,  born  July  31.  1725: 
married  Mary  Berry.  6.  Elizabeth,  born  July 
23,  1728:  married,  1748,  Joseph  Wetherbee. 
7.  Josiah.  born  October  12.  1731.  8.  Sarah, 
married  December  23.  1769.  Ca]itain  Heze- 
kiah Whitcomb. 

( \' )  Sergeant  Daniel,  eldest  son  of  Rich- 
ard Whitney,  was  born  in  Stow,  Massachu- 
setts, February  13.  1720.  died  in  1782.  He 
served  in  the  revolution  as  sergeant  in  Cap- 
tain Jonathan  Rice's  company.  Colonel  Samuel 
Bullard"s  regiment,  in  1777  to  reinforce  the 
army  at  the  north.  His  will  was  dated  Janu- 
ary 23.  1782.  and  the  inventory  was  made 
March  4,  1783.  All  his  children  except  Eph- 
raim  were  mentioned  in  the  will.  He  married 
(intentions  dated  November  9,  1744),  Dor- 
othy Goss,  of  Lancaster,  who  died  October 
11,1813.  Children:  i.  Hannah,  born  in  Har- 
vard, April  29,   1746.  married Weth- 

erbee.  2.  John.  November  24,  1747,  married 
Mary  Farnsworth.  3.  Daniel,  December  11, 
1749,  married  .Sarah  Durant.  4.  Dorothy,  De- 
cember 12,  175 1,  married,  1774,  Nathan  Put- 
nam.    5.  Silas.  January,   13,   1754.  died  May 

25.  1756.  6.  Ephraim.  September,  29.  1755, 
married    Sarah    Rurgess.     7.   Silas,    February 

26,  1758.  mentioned  below.  8.  Elizabeth. 
August  4.  ij(>o.  married.  .April  10.  1782. 
Ebenezer  Parks.  9.  Katherine.  April  12. 
1763.  married.  April  23.  1783,  Lemuel 
Wheeler.  10.  Susannah.  October  ir.  1766, 
married,  March  31,  1784,  Stephen  Weston. 
II.  Mary,  February  9,  1769,  married.  March 
20.  1787.  F'cter  Chapin. 

(\T)  Silas,  son  of  Daniel  Whitney,  was 
born  February  26.  1758,  in  Stow,  died  at 
Charlestown  in  1838.  He  was  a  blacksmith 
and   farmer  and   was  noted   for  his  strength. 


He  lived  for  a  time  at  Ashby,  and  later  re- 
moved to  Boston,  where  he  made  his  home 
with  his  son,  Captain  Silas  Whitney.  He  was 
in  the  revolution  in  Captain  Amasa  Cranston's 
company,  Colonel  Eleazer  Brooks'  regiment, 
and  was  in  the  battle  of  White  Plains.  He 
married  Patience  Goodnow.  of  Stow,  who  died 
in  Charlestown  in  February,  1842.  Children : 
I.  Silas,  born  January  26,  1781.  mentioned 
below.  2.  John,  November  22,  1782,  married 
Susannah   \'ilas.      3.  James.     4.  Samuel.      5. 

Ephraim,  married  Eunice  — ■ .     6.   Susan, 

July  I.  1792,  married  Joseph  Whitney  and 
died  1884,  aged  ninety-two.  7.  Betsey,  mar- 
ried    Bates.     8.   Polly,  married  

Gault.  9.  Dolly.  April  i.  1797,  married  No- 
vember 20,  1814.  William  Beals. 

(VH)  Captain  Silas,  son  of  Silas  WHiitney, 
was  born  January  26,  1781,  at  Stow,  died  at 
Charlestown,  January  20,  1824.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  and  when  a  young 
man  went  to  Boston.  A  few  years  later  he 
and  his  brothers.  John  and  Ephraim  Whitney, 
entered  partnershij)  as  general  contractors. 
The  first  permanent  railway  in  .'\merica  was 
constructed  at  Ouincy.  Massachusetts,  in  1827, 
but  the  Whitney  firm  built  and  operated  a 
gravity  railroad  on  Beacon  Hill  several  years 
earlier  to  facilitate  the  work  of  cutting  down 
Beacon  Hill  and  grading  Charles  street,  for 
which  the  firm  had  the  contract.  A  train 
loaded  with  gravel  at  the  top  would  by  its 
weight  in  descending  pull  an  empty  train  to 
the  top.  thus  saving  the  use  of  horses  alto- 
gether in  the  work.  This  labor-saving  de- 
vice is  still  used  in  mining  operations  and  con- 
struction work  when  possible.  The  Whitney 
firm  had  the  contract  to  build  Central  Wharf 
and  many  other  imjiortant  railroad  and  con- 
struction contracts.  Later  in  life  Silas  Whit- 
ney was  proprietor  of  the  Middlesex  Hotel, 
then  situated  between  Warren  avenue  and  the 
old  bridge  road  in  Charlestown.  The  hotel 
was  destroyed  by  fire  in  1836.  He  was  cap- 
tain of  a  Boston  company  of  the  state  militia. 
.At  one  time  Captain  \Vhitney  owned  the  brick 
dwelling  house  at  34  Charles  street  and  a 
three-story  house  on  Morton  street.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Waltham,  in  1800,  Abigail  M.  Shedd, 
who  died  September  21,  1854.  Children:  i. 
.'^ilas  Gore,  born  .August  9.  1800,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Mary.  October  8.  1801,  died  April 
3,  1803.  3.  Mary,  September  28,  1803,  died 
July  7,  1837.  4.  Charles.  September  15.  1805. 
5.  .Abigail.  May  21.  1808,  died  January  4, 
1870:  married  Thomas  R.  Speare.  and  had 
Henrietta    Speare.    who    died    aged    two.      6. 


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Eliza  A.,  April  15,  1809,  died  June  6,   1894; 

married     (first) Hinckley;     (second) 

David  O'Brien.  7.  Ephraim,  August,  1816, 
married   (first)  Johanna  A.  Hook;   (second) 

;  children:    i.  William  H.,  born  Alarch 

II,  1846,  married  Clara  E.  Snowdill ;  ii.  Eph- 
raim, died  young;  iii.  Ophelia  \'.,  born 
1850,  married  William  I.  Hatch.  8.  William 
Henry,  June  2,  1818,  lost  at  sea  1830.  9. 
John  Francis,  February  27,  1819,  married 
(first)  January  18,  1844,  Julia  Ann  Andrews; 
(second)  July  7,  1846,  Maria  Hook,  children: 
i.  Julia  F.,  born  1848,  married  W.  W.  Palmer; 
ii.  John  Prescott,  November  2,  1849,  married 
Annie  M.  Williams;  iii.  Josiah  O.,  July  10, 
1853,  died  May  31,  1878;  iv.  Silas  Gore, 
March  26,  1855;  v.  Alice  G.,  July  3,  1857, 
married  John  W.  Munce;  vi.  Everett  C,  July 
4,  1859;  vii.  Theodore  H.,  February  17,  1861 ; 
viii.  George  A.,  December  15,  1868,  died  April 
II.  1888;  ix.  Helen  Maria. 

(\'ni)  Silas  Gore,  son  of  Silas  Whitney, 
was  born  in  Boston,  August  9,  1800,  died 
there  July  15,  1854.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  and  was  associated  with  his  father 
until  the  latter's  death  in  1824.  He  then  went 
by  sailing  vessel  to  \'enezuela,  and  settled  at 
Puerto  Cabelo  where  he  entered  the  commis- 
sion house  of  Franklin  Litchfield,  then  one  of 
the  largest  mercantile  houses  in  the  vicinity. 
By  his  energy,  probity  and  strict  attention  to 
business  in  all  its  details,  he  gained  for  himself 
such  favor  with  his  employer  that  he  was  pro- 
moted to  positions  of  greater  responsibility 
and  was  looked  upon  as  a  factor  in  the  busi- 
ness. His  command  of  the  Spanish  language 
made  him  invaluable  to  his  employer  and  he 
soon  became  a  partner  of  this  large  concern. 
The  firm  was  known  as  Litchfield  &  Whitney, 
and  all  business  of  exchange,  banking,  etc., 
was  also  done  through  them.  In  the  height 
of  his  success,  he  returned  to  Boston  and 
married  Sarah  Susan  Penniman,  daughter  of 
Amasa  and  Eunice  (Soper)  Penniman,  of 
P.raintree.  He  returned  to  Venezuela  with  his 
bride,  and  their  first  two  children  were  born 
there.  His  business  duties  became  more 
arduous,  the  correspondence  of  the  firm  de- 
volving u])on  him.  Through  the  efforts  of 
Mr.  Litchfield  he  was  appointed  United  States 
vice  consul  of  the  port,  which  position  he 
held  while  there.  Upon  the  death  of  Mr. 
Litchfield,  and  owing  to  his  own  impaired 
health,  he  closed  u])  the  affairs  of  the  firm  and 
in  1842  returned  with  his  family  to  Boston. 
Here  he  became  associated  with  Timothy  W. 
Hoxsie  at  25  Commercial  Wharf,  under  the 


firm  name  of  T.  W.  Hoxsie  &  Co.,  dealers  in 
lime,  cement  and  builders'  supplies.  The  busi- 
ness was  later  moved  to  46  Long  Wharf.  He 
lived  first  at  5  Kingston  street,  removing  in 
1846  to  36  Porter  street.  The  firm  became 
one  of  the  largest  of  its  kind  in  Boston.  About 
1848  he  was  appointed  United  States  consul 
of  Venezuela  for  the  port  of  Boston,  which 
office  he  held  in  conection  with  his  business 
until  his  death.  From  1848  to  1852  he  re- 
sided on  Ash  street,  and  from  then  until 
his  death  at  12  Dover  street,  then  one  of  the 
select  residence  streets  of  Boston.  He  was  a 
man  of  strict  integrity,  and  discharged  with 
signal  ability  all  the  duties  of  citizenship,  of 
business,  and  of  his  offices  of  trust.  He  was 
of  high  moral  character  and  of  gentle  and 
kindly  nature.  He  attended  while  in  Boston 
the  Church  of  the  Messiah  (Episcopal),  but 
was  broad-minded,  and  often  attended 
Theodore  Parker's  (L'nitarian)  church.  He 
was  a  great  admirer  of  Theodore  Parker.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Whig.  Children:  i.  Mary 
Litchfield,  born  at  Puerto  Cabelo,  May  9, 
1837.  married,  June  10,  1855,  James  Morse 
Williams,  of  Xewburyport ;  children:  i. 
Anna  Waldron  Williams,  born  May  8,  1856; 
ii.  Mary  Louise  Williams,  March  3,  185 — .  2. 
Henry  Franklin,  November  i,  1838.  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Sarah  Mrginia,  July.  1841, 
died  December  4,  1899:  married  (first)  1859, 
Abraham  Holland,  of  Boston:  (second)  Sep- 
tember 14.  1875.  Forest  G.  Hawes,  of  Bos- 
ton; had  Sarah  Eddy  Holland,  born  July  17, 
1862,  married,  October  30,  1879,  Charles 
Henry  West.  4.  Jose  Antonio  Paez,  1842, 
married,  1861,  Emma  D.  Bills;  children:  i. 
Linwood  Gore,  born  1869;  ii.  Florence  W., 
^^77-     5-  Georgianna,  died  young. 

( IX  )  Henry  Franklin,  son  of  Silas  Gore 
\\  hitney,  was  born  at  Puerto  Cabelo, 
\enezuela,  November  i,  1838.  He  came 
to  Boston  when  six  years  old  with  his 
parents  and  attended  the  Quincy  school 
in  that  city.  .Xfter  this  school  was  de- 
stroyed by  fire  he  attended  the  Brimmer 
school.  .At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  became  a 
clerk  in  the  employ  of  Russell  &  Tilton,  fish 
dealers  on  Long  Wharf,  Boston.  '  After  two 
years  in  this  position  he  became  clerk  in  the 
office  of  I.  F.  Dobson,  insurance  broker  at 
40  State  street.  Boston,  remaining  there  until 
he  enlisted  in  October,  1862,  at  Cambridge,  in 
Company  G.  Forty-fourth  Regiment,  ^Iassa- 
cluisetts  \'olunteer  Militia,  Colonel  Francis  L. 
Lee,  of  Newton,  commanding.  His  regiment 
left   Camp   Meigs,   Readvillc,   Massachusetts, 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


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October  15,  and  after  being  reviewed  by  Gov- 
ernor Andrew,  sailed  on  the  transport  "Mer- 
rimac"  to  Morehead  City,  North  Carolina, 
whence  it  proceeded  on  platform  cars  during 
a  terrific  thunder  storm  to  Xcwbern,  North 
Carolina,  and  encamped  north  of  the  city,  with 
part  of  the  brigade  under  Colonel  Thomas  G. 
Stevenson  in  the  Eighteenth  Army  Corps. 
I'nder  General  Foster  they  sailed  October  30 
down  the  Neuse  river  into  Pamlico  sound,  up 
the  Tar  river  to  Washington,  North  Carolina, 
debarking,  and  on  November  2  marched  north- 
ward twenty  miles  and  engaged  the  Confed- 
erate forces  at  Rawle's  Mills,  near  \\'illiams- 
ton.  On  the  following  morning  they  marched 
by  w'ay  of  Hamilton  towar<ls  Tarboro,  return- 
ing to  Plymouth  and  thence  by  transports  to 
Newbern.  They  took  part  in  an  engagement 
at  Kingston,  December  14,  at  Whitehall,  De- 
cember 16,  and  in  the  battle  of  Goldsboro,  De- 
cember 18.  1862,  returning  to  Newbern,  De- 
cember 20.  The  regiment  encamped  for  the 
winter  there  and  on  February  i,  1863,  marched 
to  Plymouth  foraging  in  the  vicinity  until 
March  10.  They  reinforced  the  garrison  at 
Washington,  North  Carolina,  Alarch  15.  The 
fort  was  besieged  March  30  and  numerous 
engagements  followed  until  April  14,  when  the 
Rebels  were  forced  to  retire.  The  command 
was  sent  to  Newbern  April  23,  as  provost 
guard,  until  June  6,  w'hen  the  regiment  em- 
barked in  the  steamers  "Guide"  and  "George 
Peabody"  at  Morehead  City  and  after  a  rough 
passage  reached  Boston,  June  10,  being  mus- 
tered out  June  19  at  Readville.  Mr.  Whitney 
resumed  his  position  in  the  insurance  office. 
A  year  later  his  employer  failed  and  he  became 
clerk  in  the  insurance  ofiice  of  Burge  &  Lane 
and  continued  there  for  ten  years.  He  then 
became  special  agent  for  the  People's  Fire 
Insurance  Company  of  New  Hampshire  for 
eight  years  with  offices  at  55  Kilby  street.  He 
was  in  the  insurance  business  for  a  year  at 
New  Orleans,  Mississippi,  and  at  Galveston, 
Texas,  but  the  business  was  not  satisfactory 
and  he  returned  to  Boston,  becoming  a  special 
agent  of  the  Farmers'  Insurance  Company, 
with  offices  at  44  Kilby  street.  Since  iQoi  he 
has  been  employed  as  an  independent  fire  in- 
surance adjuster  for  all  the  companies  having 
agencies  in  Boston  on  losses  in  all  parts  of 
New  England.  He  is  the  oldest  insurance  man 
on  Kilby  street,  the  center  of  the  fire  insur- 
ance business  of  New  England,  and  has  been  in 
the  business  longer  than  any  other  man  there. 
He  has  resided  since  1888,  in  the  house  which 
lie  owns  rt  16  Meacham  road,  Cambridge.     In 


religion  he  is  an  Episcopalian ;  in  politics  a 
Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  Charity  Lodge 
of  Free  Masons,  of  Cambridge ;  of  Cambridge 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  of  Mount  Sinai 
Lodge,  No.  169,  C)dd  Fellows,  of  North  Cam- 
bridge, ct  which  he  has  been  noble  grand.  He 
was  formerly  a  member  of  Charles  River 
Enc'cmpment  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  of  the 
Newtcwne  Club  of  Cambridge.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Francis  Gould  Post,  No.  36,  Grand  Army 
(  f  the  Ivppublic.  W'hen  a  young  man  he  was 
in  the  Fourth  Battalion,  Massachusetts  Volun- 
teer Militia,  before  the  war.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  i'loston  Insurance  Exchange.  lie  mar- 
ried, Apr'A  I,  1858,  Sarah  Henrietta  Holland, 
born  .September  ().  1842.  daughter  of  Thomas 
H.  1  loiland.  Children:  i.  Cora  Virginia, 
born  August  20,  1859,  married  Augustus  L. 
Smith :  child,  Carleton  Whitney  Smith.  2. 
Emma  Henrietta,  August  11,  1861,  married, 
August  10,  1880,  Harry  Elwood  Mason,  of 
Cambiidge.  3.  Harrie  Holland,  March  15, 
181J8,  married,  October  i,  1895,  Mabel  Louise 
Wheeier,  of  Boston,  born  March  15,  1873, 
daughter  of  Charles  Louis  and  Maria  Frances 
(  Smith  )  Wheeler,  of  Boston  ;  children  :  Ruth 
Marirlta,  born  August  14,  1897;  Harrie  Hol- 
land, May  3,  1900.  4.  Kittie  Ivaloe,  April  29, 
1869,  married,  January  9,  1889,  Nat.  Frank 
Dadmun,  of  Boston ;  children :  Henrietta 
Whitney  Dadmun,  born  July  27,  1892;  Harrie 
Holland  Dadmun,  June  25,  1894.  5.  Chester 
Winfield,  December  14,  1880. 


(For   ancestry    see    preceding    sketches). 

(YIU)  Charles  Whitney, 
WHITNEY  son  of  Silas  Whitney,  was 
born  at  Boston,  September 
15,  1805,  died  at  Melrose,  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 27,  1884.  He  was  educated  in  the 
IHiblic  schools  of  that  city  and  was  associated 
in  business  with  his  father  in  the  old  Middle- 
sex Hotel  to  the  time  of  his  marriage.  After- 
ward he  was  a  hotel  keeper  on  his  own  ac- 
count. In  1843-44  he  kept  the  Boston  Hotel 
and  later  the  Whitney  I  fotel  on  Lincoln  street, 
near  P.each,  Boston,  from  1845  to  1858.  He 
was  employed  for  a  time  in  a  store  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Devonshire  and  Summer  streets,  and  in 
1860-61  was  bookkeeper  for  a  concern  at  the 
corner  of  Portland  street  and  Sudbury  street. 
In  1856  and  for  a  ntunber  of  years  afterward 
he  resided  in  .Auburndale,  Massachusetts,  and 
afterward  at  Melrose.  He  w^as  one  of  the 
most  popular  hotel  jjroprietors  of  his  day  in 
Iloston.  His  courtesy  anrl  sunny  disposition 
attracted  many  friends.     He  married,  at  Con- 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


cord,  New  Hampshire,  June  6,  1826,  Lydia 
Maria  Emery,  born  at  Concord,  February  24, 
1808,  died  at  Medford,  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 12,  1884.  They  lived  to  celebrate  the 
fifty-eighth  anniversary  of  their  marriage.  A 
newspaper  account  of  the  wedding  published 
at  the  time  of  Mr.  Whitney's  death  follows: 
"Mr.  Whitney  started  from  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts,  June  5,  1826,  at  sunrise  and 
arrived  at  Chichester,  New  Hampshire,  at 
sundown  in  a  chaise — a  distance  of  about 
seventy  miles.  The  following  morning  he  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Lydia  Maria  Emery, 
having  seen  her  but  twice,  their  courtship 
being  done  mostly  by  proxy.  That  they  lived 
together  as  long  and  happily  proved  that  long 
courtships  are  not  always  necessary.  Mr. 
Charles  Whitney,  a  gentleman  highly  es- 
teemed by  all  who  knew  him,  died  at  his  home 
in  Melrose  Highlands  aged  seventy-nine  years. 
It  was  only  sixteen  days  after  the  death  of  his 
wife,  with  whom  he  had  been  wedded  nearly 
fifty-nine  years.  It  seemed  a  beautiful  mercy 
of  the  Almighty  that  death  should  not  long 
divide  them  and  although  their  departure  left 
the  mourners  bereft,  yet  they  were  sheaves 
fully  ripe  and  God  has  garnered  them."  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Louisa  M.,  born  September  16, 
1827,  married  Benjamin  I'.  I'eakes.  2. 
Augusta  G.,  August  20,  1829,  died  April  22, 
i860.  3.  Mary  Eliza,  November  5,  1830,  died 
April  23,  1874;  married  Edgar  B.  Fox;  chil- 
dren :  i.  E(lgar  Augustus  Fox,  born  June  7, 
1852,  married  Bertha  Sweet:  ii.  Harold  Sum- 
ner Fox,  June  6,  1856,  married  Addie  Easton : 
iii.  George  Julian  I'^ox,  May  4,  1858,  married 
Emma  Seelye ;  iv.  I""annie  Louise  Fox,  Febru- 
ary 14,  1S64,  married  Frank  C.  Roberts:  v. 
Annie  Alice  Lydia  Fox,  September  7,  1868, 
married  A.  .Adelbert  Doty ;  vi.  Edgar  Bernard 
Fox,  December  9,  1872.  4.  Helen  S.,  April 
2,  1834,  died  1843.  5.  Fannie  E.,  May  14, 
1837,  married  Henry  G.  Washburn.  6. 
Charles  Jose{)h,  January  15,  1839,  died  Febru- 
ary, 1839.  7.  Charles  Joseph,  January  11, 
1840,  died  1842.  8.  Charles  Joseph,  May  15, 
1843,  mentioned  below.  9.  Helen  .S..  July  18, 
1849,  resides  in  Dorchester. 

(IX)  Charles  Joseph,  son  of  Charles 
Wliitney,  was  born  at  Boston,  May  15,  1843, 
dicfl  there  June  22,  1893.  ^^^  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  that  city,  and  began  life 
as  a  clerk  in  various  Boston  stores.  In  1859- 
60  he  lived  in  .Auburndale,  but  worked  at  104 
Court  street,  Boston.  He  enlisted  for  one 
hundred  days,  July  4,  1864,  and  was  mustered 


into  t!ie  Union  service,  July  14.  1864,  in  Cap- 
tain Philip  J.  Cooley's  company  (F)  in  the 
Fifth  Massachusetts  Regiment,  commanded 
by  Colonel  (Jeorge  H.  Peirson.  From  the 
camp  in  Readville,  Massachusetts,  the  regi- 
ment proceeded  to  P>altimore,  halting  for  a 
short  time  at  Soldiers'  Rest,  Philadelphia,  and 
marching  by  night  to  Baltimore,  where  they 
went  into  camp,  four  miles  north  of  the  city 
at  Mankin's  Woods.  Thence  they  went  to 
Fort  McHenry  and  Company  F,  with  other 
companies  under  Lieutenant  Colonel  \\'orces- 
ter  proceeded  to  Federal  Hill.  After  two 
weeks  of  garrison  duty  and  escorting  recruits 
to  the  front,  Company  F  was  detailed  to  guard 
the  polls  at  election.  Though  the  company 
was  never  in  battle  it  performed  difficult  and 
hazardous  duty  faithfully  and  maintained  the 
reputation  of  the  regiment.  They  were  mus- 
tered out  at  Readville.  November  16,  1864. 
Mr.  Whitney  entered  the  employ  of  the  Metro- 
politan Horse  Railroad  Company  in  Boston 
as  a  conductor  and  driver  and  was  thus  em- 
ployed from  1864  until  1871.  From  1871  to 
1873  li^  worked  at  the  trade  of  baker  at  1146 
Shawmut  avenue  and  then  returned  to  work 
for  the  hor.se  railroad.  PVom  1886  to  1888  he 
was  clerk  in  the  postoffice,  Boston.  He  re- 
turned to  the  bakery  business  and  was  for  a 
time  foreman  for  the  Aerated  Bread  Company. 
He  was  in  business  as  baker  on  his  own  ac- 
count for  a  time.  Later  he  became  foreman 
for  the  Fleischman  Yeast  Company  at  40 
Beach  street.  Boston,  and  continued  with  this 
concern  the  remainder  of  his  life.  In  his  later 
years  he  lived  at  Hotel  Waterford,  Boston. 
He  was  of  a  pleasing  and  attractive  dis])osition, 
making  friends  readily,  loving  the  society  of 
cheerful  friends,  of  which  he  had  many,  and 
very  popular  in  business  as  well  as  social  life. 
He  was  active,  enterprising  and  energetic, 
highly  respected  for  his  uprightness  and 
ability.  He  attended  the  Harvard  Baptist 
Church,  Harrison  avenue,  Boston.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Rejiublican,  He  was  a  member  of 
Post  26,  Grand  .\rmy  of  the  Re])ublic,  Rox- 
bury.  He  married  (first)  1865,  Mary  Eliza- 
beth Dunbar,  born  .April  10,  1843,  at  Roxbury, 
Massachusetts,  died  October  17.  1874,  daugh- 
ter of  Calvin  Copeland  Dunbar,  born  at  North 
Easton,  I\Iassachusetts,  May  10.  181 1.  died  in 
Roxbury,  June  10,  1890:  he  was  engaged  in 
the  milk  business;  he  married  .\deline  .-Mice 
Lunt  at  Roxbury ;  she  was  born  in  Newbury- 
port,  Massachusetts,  1813.  died  at  Ro.xbury  in 
December.   1863.     He  married   (second)   Sep- 


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tember  12,  1885,  Helen  E.  EuUer,  horn  Octo- 
ber 7,  1858.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Charles 
Henry,  born  December  i,  1866,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Edith  Lillian.  March  3,  1871,  mar- 
ried (first)  October  12.  1898,  John  Dale,  born 
January  14,  1845,  '1'^^'  ^I<iy  3-  1904:  (second) 
June  6,  1906,  John  Christopher  Dorey,  of  Old 
Town,  Maine,  son  of  William  and  Mary  Eliza- 
beth (Ellis)  Dorey.  3.  .Mice  C,  January  5, 
1874,  died  April  4,  1874. 

(X)  Charles  Henry,  son  of  Charles  Joseph 
Whitney,  was  born  in  Boston,  December  i, 
1866.  At  the  age  of  six  he  removed  to  Rox- 
bury  with  his  parents  and  attended  the  public 
schools  there,  graduating  from  the  Lewis 
grammar  school  in  1882.  He  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  wholesale  dry  goods  commission 
firm  of  Rrown,  Wood  &  Kingman,  31  Bedford 
street,  as  clerk  and  was  promoted  from  time 
to  time  to  positions  of  responsibility.  The 
firm  retired  from  business  January  i,  1888, 
and  he  became  confidential  clerk  and  private 
secretary  of  Lyman  Nichols,  ca])italist  and  real 
estate  owner,  and  remained  in  this  position 
until  1900,  when  he  accepted  a  position  as 
clerk  and  bookkeeper  in  the  office  of  the  Con- 
tinental Mills  at  31  Bedford  street.  Boston, 
manufacturer  of  cotton  goods,  with  mills  at 
Lewiston,  Maine.  In  1905  Mr.  Whitney  be- 
came selling  agent  for  this  corporation,  hav- 
ing entire  charge  of  selling  the  output  of  the 
mills,  dividing  his  time  between  Boston  and 
New  York.  The  company  operates  one  hun- 
dred thousand  spindles  and  takes  rank  among 
the  larger  mills  of  New  England.  Twelve 
hundred  hands  are  employed.  Mr.  Whitney 
resides  at  32  Prospect  avenue,  Winthrop, 
Massachusetts.  He  and  his  wife  attend  the 
Union  Congregational  Church  at  Winthrop. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  and  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Republican  town  committee  of 
Winthrop  in  1904.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Winthrop  Lodge  of  Eree  Masons:  of  Win- 
throj)  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons:  of  Win- 
throp Camp,  Sons  of  Veterans  :  of  the  Win- 
throp Yacht  Club;  the  Framingham  Country 
Club,  the  Woodland  Golf  Club  of  Auburndale  : 
the  Arkwright  Club  of  New  York  City  and  of 
the  \Mnthro])  Improvement  Association.  He 
married,  at  Boston,  June  3,  1895,  Harriet  Ann 
Booth,  born  at  Holbeck  (Leeds),  Yorkshire, 
England,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Harriet 
(Stansfield)  Booth.  Mrs.  Whitney  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Colonial  Chapter,  No.  96,  Order  of  the 
Eastern  Star  of  Winthrop.  Their  only  child 
was  Retta  Dunbar,  born  January,  1897,  died 
January,   1897. 


(For    ancestry    see    preceding    sketclies). 

(VIII)  William  Meelus.son 
WHITNEY  of  Captain  Hananiah  Whit- 
ney, was  born  at  Winchen- 
don.  May  15,  1826,  died  at  Xecdham,  Massa- 
chusetts. August  7,  1904.  He  was  four  years 
old  when  his  parents  went  to  Lowell  and  he 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
town.  He  was  apprenticed  to  the  trade  of 
machinist  in  the  Lowell  Machine  Company 
shops  and  for  several  years  followed  his  trade. 
Soon  after  1840  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Cheshire  railroad,  then  recently  built,  and  in 
a  few  years  became  a  locomotive  engineer  on 
that  road.  He  removed  to  Keene,  New  I  lamp- 
shire,  in  1848,  and  in  1854  to  Bellows  Falls, 
Vermont,  to  Manchester,  New  Hampshire, 
two  years  later,  and  to  Fitchburg,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1857,  where  he  was  employed  as 
machinist  in  the  railroad  shops,  having  re- 
signed his  position  as  engineer.  In  1863  he 
became  master  mechanic  for  the  New  Eng- 
land railroad  and  made  his  home  at  Needham, 
Massachusetts,  having  charge  of  the  small  re- 
pair shops  at  Needham  and  the  large  shops 
in  Boston.  Afterward  he  was  for  eleven  years 
a  passenger  conductor  on  the  New  England 
railroad.  In  1878  he  accepted  a  position  as 
l^assenger  conductor  on  the  Atchinson,  Topeka 
&  Santc  F"e  railroad  having  a  three  hundred 
mile  run  between  Trinidad  and  Santa  Fe.  He 
made  his  home  at  Sante  Fe.  After  five  years 
he  resigned  to  engage  in  the  fruit  and  produce 
business  on  his  own  account.  His  store  was  at 
Santa  Fe  and  his  stock  came  largely  from  Cali- 
fornia. In  1888  he  returned  to  Needham, 
Massachusetts,  having  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness. For  several  years  he  was  custodian  of  the 
high  sc1k5o1  building  at  Needham.  He  was  seri- 
ou.sly  injured  before  1850  in  an  accident.  While 
working  in  the  railroad  machine  shops  he  was 
caught  between  a  locomotive  and  a  po.st  and 
crushed  badly.  He  was  incapacitated  for  service 
in  the  civil  war  though  eager  to  do  his  part.  He 
was  a  I'nitarian  in  religion,  a  Republican  in 
politics.  He  was  a  life  member  of  Aurora 
Lodge  of  Free  Masons  of  Fitchburg,  and  was 
an  honorary  member  of  Norfolk  Lodge  of 
Needham.  Mr.  Whitney  was  an  earnest,  honor- 
able and  upright  citizen  of  sound  judgment 
an<l  sterling  common  sense.  He  was  (|uiet  and 
domestic  in  his  habits,  but  fond  of  social  life 
and  enjoying  the  friendshi])  of  many.  He  mar- 
ried, Sei)tembcr  12.  1850,  Emeline  Cole,  of 
Westmoreland,  New  Hampshire,  born  there 
September  i,  1830.  died  at  Needham,  I'ebruary 
10,    1903,   daughter   of    lleber   and    Prudence 


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(Walker)  Cole,  of  Westmoreland.  Her  father 
was  a  leading  and  representative  citizen,  was 
successful  as  a  farmer,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  left  an  ample  competence  to  his  family. 
Children:  i.  Willie  Henry,  born  September 
30,  1854,  died  January  27,  1878.  2.  Frank 
Cole,  September  25,  1856,  mentioned  below. 

(IX)  Frank  Cole,  son  of  William  Meelus 
Whitney,  was  born  in  Manchester,  New  Hamp- 
shire, September  25,  1856.  His  parents 
removed  to  Fitchbiirg  when  he  was  a  year  old 
and  he  was  educated  there  in  the  public  schools. 
In  1865  he  and  his  mother  removed  to  Need- 
ham  where  his  father  was  living.  He  attended 
the  Needham  grammar  school  and  the  English 
high  school  in  Boston.  In  1875  he  became  clerk 
in  the  store  of  E.  Allen  &  Company,  wholesale 
dealers  in  woolens,  50  Franklin  street,  Boston. 
A  year  later  he  became  timekeeper  and  pay- 
master of  the  South  Boston  Iron  Company, 
which  made  heavy  ordnance  for  the  United 
States  government.  In  1880  he  went  west  and 
engaged  in  mining  for  a  short  time.  For  five 
years  he  was  manager  of  the  Santa  Fe 
National  Bank  at  Sante  Fe,  New  Mexico.  In 
1885  he  returned  east  to  become  teller  of  the 
Lincoln  National  P>ank  of  Boston.  This  bank 
and  the  Central  National  Bank  were  consoli- 
dated in  1896  and  he  remained  with  the  con- 
cern until  its  failure  in  1903.  He  has  since 
been  bookkeeper  of  the  Faneuil  Hall  National 
Bank  of  Boston.  He  resides  in  Needham.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  First  Unitarian  Church  of 
Needham,  of  which  he  was  treasurer  for  ten 
years,  serving  from  time  to  time  on  church 
committees.  He  is  a  Re])ublican  and  has  been 
town  auditor.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Boston 
Bank  Officers'  Association.  He  married,  at 
Needham,  June  Q,  1896,  Susie  Gay  Mackin- 
tosh, born  at  Needham.  February  14,  1875, 
daughter  of  Curtis  and  Mary  (Mason)  Mack- 
intosh. Her  father  was  a  farmer  at  Needham  ; 
was  town  assessor.  Children,  born  at  Need- 
ham: I.  Helen,  December  18,  1897.  2.  Mar- 
jorie.  .April  15,  1905,  died  April  22,  1905.  3. 
Mason.  February  25,  1907,  died  March  2, 
1907.     3.  Ruth,  May  3,  1908. 


The  Cary  family  in  England  is  one 

CARY     of  the  oldest   as  it   is  one  of  the 

most  illustrious  and  honored  in  the 

kingdom  of  Great  Britain.     The  name  existed 

in  England  before  the  Conquest  and  must  have 

been  as  old  as  the  time  of  the  Saxons. 

(I)  Adam  de  Kari  (Cary)  was  lord  of  the 
Castle  Kari  in  1 198  according  to  Sir  William 
Pole.     He  was  born  about   11 70  and  married 


Ann,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Trevett,  Knight. 
The  castle  no  longer  exists,  but  the  town  is 
called  Castle  Cary  still.  It  is  in  Somersetshire. 
During  the  reign  of  King  Stephen  the  Lord  of 
Cary  was  opposed  to  him;  the  king  assaulted 
and  took  the  castle.  In  11 53  it  was  again 
besieged  and  nearly  ruined.  The  site  of  the 
old  castle  is  very  interesting  to  antiquarians. 

(II)  John  de  Kary,  son  of  Adam,  was  born 
about  1200:  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
Richard  Stapleton,  Knight. 

fill)  William  de  Kary  or  Karry,  son  of  Sir 
John,  was  born  about  1230;  married  .-Mice, 
daughter  of  Sir  William  Beaumont,  Knight. 

(IV)  John  de  Karry,  of  Castle  Karry,  son 
of  William,  was  born  about  1270;  married 
F'hillippa,  daughter  of  Sir  Warren  Archdeacon, 
Knight.  Sometimes  the  "de"  was  used,  some- 
times not. 

(X)  Sir  John  Cary.  son  of  John,  was  born 
about  1300:  married  Margaret  Boxon,  of 
Bozume  of  Clovelly  in  Devon. 

(\T)  Sir  John  Cary,  Knight,  son  of  Sir 
John,  was  born  about  1325;  married  Agnes, 
daughter  of  Lord  Stafford,  and  (second)  Jane, 
daughter  of  Sir  Guy  de  Bryen.  Knight.  Since 
the  reign  of  Edward  II  the  spelling  has  been 
Cary. 

(VH)  Sir  John  Cary,  Knight,  son  of  Sir 
John,  was  born  in  1350  at  Holway,  in  north- 
west Devon  ;  married  Margaret  Holway :  was 
very  noted,  chief  baron  of  the  exchequer, 
judge.  .After  King  Richard  II  was  put  to 
death  by  Henry  I\',  Sir  John  was  banished 
and  all  his  goods  and  lands  confiscated  to  the 
crown.  He  died  at  Water  ford,  Ireland,  four 
years  later,  1404. 

(VHI)  Sir  Robert  Cary,  son  of  Sir  John, 
was  born  about  1375.  He  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Philip  Courtenay,  Knight.  He 
married  (second)  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  Will- 
iam Mancliford,  Knight.  He  defeated  in  single 
combat  a  Knight  of  Arragon.  for  which  Henry 
\'  restored  to  him  a  good  part  of  his  father's 
land,  and  at  the  same  time  Robert  took  the 
coat-of-arms  of  his  opponent,  which  he  and 
his  successors  have  since  borne  :  Argent  on  bend 
sable  three  roses  argent.  Before  that  the  arms 
were  :  Gules,  chevron  entre  three  swans  argent. 
The  motto  is:    "X'irtute  excer])tae." 

(  IX )  Sir  Philip  Cary.  son  of  Sir  Robert, 
was  born  about  1400.  He  married  Christian 
Orchard  and  died  1437. 

(X)  Sir  William  Cary,  Knight,  son  of  Sir 
Philip,  was  born  1437.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Paulett.  He  was  known  as  the  knight  of 
Cockington.     He  took  part  in  the  war  of  the 


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Roses  on  the  Lancaster  side.  His  side  suffered 
defeat  at  the  battle  of  Tewksbury,  May  4, 
1471,  and  Gary  with  others  took  refuge  in  the 
Abbey  Church,  a  sanctuary  where  according  to 
the  custom  of  the  times  they  could  not  be 
molested.  They  were  enticed  out  on  promise 
of  pardon  and  two  days  later  were  beheaded. 
His  property  was  confiscated,  but  Henry  VH 
restored  it  to  his  son  later.  William  left  two 
•sons:  I.  Robert,  born  1460.  mentioned  below. 
2.  Thomas,  born  1466. 

(XI)  Robert  Cary,  son  of  Sir  William,  was 
born  about  1460.  He  inherited  Clovelly  from 
his  father.  He  married  (first)  Jane  Carew, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Carew,  and  they  had 
two  sons — John  de  Cary,  born  about  1485,  and 
Thomas  de  Cary,  born  about  1495.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Agnes,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Hody,  and  they  had  one  son,  William,  born 
about  1500,  mentioned  below.  He  married 
(third)  Margaret  Fulkeram,  and  had  a  son 
Robert,  born  about  1510.  He  died  in  1540, 
and  has  a  monument  in  Clovelly  church. 

(XH)  William  Cary,  son  of  Robert,  was 
born  about  1500.  He  was  sheriff  of  Somerset- 
shire in  1532,  residing  at  Bristol.  He  was 
mayor  of  that  city  in  1546.    He  died  March  28, 

1572. 

(XHI)  Robert  Cary,  eldest  son  of  William 
Cary.  was  born  in  Bristol,  in  1525,  and  died 
in  1670. 

(XIV)  William  Cary,  eldest  son  of  Robert 
Cary,  was  born  October  3,  1560.  He  was 
sheriff  of  Bristol  in  1599  and  mayor  in  161 1. 
He  had  eight  sons,  three  of  whom  came  to 
America  in  1634-35-40  respectively. 

(X\")  James  Cary,  son  of  William  Cary, 
born  in  Bristol,  Somersetshire,  England,  came 
to  America  with  two  brothers,  of  whom  Miles 
settled  in  Virginia  and  John  in  Bridgewater, 
Massachusetts.  James  settled  in  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the 
church.  May  3.  1647.  He  was  a  draper  and 
merchant,  clerk  of  the  writs  in  1650.  His 
wife  Eleanor  was  admitted  to  the  Charlestown 
church,  November  30,  1642,  and  died  Novem- 
ber 9,  1697,  aged  eighty  years.  James  Cary 
died  November  2,  1681,  aged  eighty-one.  His 
will  was  proved  .April  4,  1682,  bequeathing  to 
wife  and  five  children.  Children:  i.  Mehitable, 
married  William  Welstead.  2.  John,  born 
July  29,  1642.  3.  James,  born  and  died  in 
1644.  4.  Nathaniel,  born  March  7,  1645.  5. 
Jonathan,  born  January  15,  1646.  6.  Elizal^eth, 
born  September  23,  1648.  7.  Joanna,  married 
a  Mr.  Wyman. 

From  these  three  brothers  John,  James  and 


Miles  have  descended  a  large  family  which  are 
located  all  over  the  United  States  and  their 
genealogical  records  will  be  found  in  the  Cary 
Memorials  by  General  Samuel  F.  Gary,  Cin- 
cinnati, 1874;  American  Family  Antiquity  by 
Albert  Wells,  New  York,  1880;  and  in  "The 
Cary  Family  in  America"  by  Rev.  Seth  Gooley 
Cary,  Dorchester,  Boston,  1907,  but  the  narra- 
tive from  this  point  will  treat  of  Jonathan 
Cary  Ye  Third,  and  his  descendants. 

Jonathan  Gary,  shipwright,  of  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts,  was  born  in  England  about 
A.  D.  1700.  He  is  called  "Tertius"  in  the 
records. 

(1)  Jonathan  Cary  and  James,  his  brother, 
were  undoubtedly  nearly  related  to  John  Cary, 
of  Plymouth,  and  James  Cary,  of  Charlestown, 
who  came  to  Massachusetts  eighty  odd  years 
before ;  but  as  the  e.xact  connection  cannot  be 
traced  authentically  in  this  country,  and  as  no 
relationship  has  ever  been  claimed,  their 
descendants  prefer  that  they  should  be  con- 
sidered as  the  head  of  a  separate  and  distinct 
family  in  .America.  The  connecting  link  can 
be  found  only  in  the  mother  country,  and  will 
be  an  interesting  study  for  some  of  their 
descendants.  We  know  they  all  came  from 
Bristol,  England,  or  its  immediate  vicinity.  It 
has  always  been  the  tradition  in  that  branch  of 
the  Cary  family  of  which  Jonathan  Cary  "ye 
third"  was  the  progenitor,  that  he,  with  his 
brother  James,  came  from  the  West  of  Eng- 
land (where  the  best  of  broadcloth  was  made) 
aged  about  twenty-five  years.  The  two  brothers 
landed  at  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  prob- 
ably about  the  years  1722-23.  The  first  records 
we  find  of  them  are  in  the  minutes  of  the  Old 
First  Church,  Rev.  Simeon  Bradstreet,  pastor, 
where  we  find  that  Jonathan  and  his  brother 
James  were  baptized  adults,  February  7, 
1724-25.  Jonathan  was  entered  as  "Jonathan 
Tertius"  (third),  probably  to  distinguish  him 
from  the  Garys  of  the  same  given  name  then 
living  in  Charlestown.  The  Garys  have  firmly 
stood  by  the  country  of  their  adoption,  having 
assisted'  in  its  welfare  in  various  ways  to  the 
extent  of  their  means  and  abilities.  In  those 
dark  days  of  the  war  of  the  revolution,  we  find 
John  Cary,  .son  of  Jonathan  Gary,  "ye  third" 
after  having  been  burned  out  at  Charlestown, 
and  having  removed  his  family  to  a  place  of 
safety,  building  boats  for  Wasliington's  army 
at  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  The  war  of 
1812  finds  Jonathan  Cary  (grandson  of  Jona- 
than "ye  3rd")  enrolled  in  Boston  to  defend 
that  city  against  English  invasion.  The  great 
rebellion  of   1861-65  finds  descendants  of  all 


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branches  of  the  family  at  the  front  in  the 
interest  of  freedom  and  the  Union.  The 
knowledge  of  the  fact  that  the  early  Carys 
both  in  England  and  America  were  a  worthy 
people  should  be  and  is  a  matter  of  pride  to 
their  descendants. 

In  1739  Jonathan  Gary  bought  land  of 
Henry  Pownall  at  Charlestown  for  one  liun- 
dred  and  ten  pounds  and  part  of  this  land  he 
conveyed  later  to  his  son  John  in  1772.  When 
Charlestown  was  burned  by  the  British  in 
1775  he  and  his  aged  wife  found  refuge  in 
Reading  and  their  names  are  on  the  list  of 
refugees  to  whom  aid  was  given.  His  last 
years  were  doubtless  sjjent  with  his  children. 
His  brother  James  married,  in  1729,  Rebecca 
French,  of  Concord,  Massachusetts,  and  their 
only  son  died  young.  Jonathan  married  (first') 
at  Charlestown,  October  30,  1724,  Sarah  Ray, 
born  1699,  baptized  August  5,  1700.  daughter 
of  David  and  Hannah  Ray.  Her  father  owned 
the  covenant  in  the  Charlestown  church,  Sep- 
tember 26,  1696.  He  was  born  at  Forfarshire, 
Scotland,  and  baptizerl  there.  Jonatlian  married 
(second)  .August  15,  1733,  Sarah  Edmunds, 
born  January  10,  1699-1700,  daughter  of  John 
Edmunds  of  an  old  Charlestown  family.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Jonathan,  born  July  6,  1725,  died 
young.  2.  Hannah,  .April  17,  1728,  married 
Timothy  Pike,  of  Bedford.  3.  Samuel,  Charles- 
town. July  26,  1730,  died  unmarried,  October 
23,  1815.  4.  Sarah,  1731,  died  unmarried  1784. 
Children  of  the  second  wife:  5.  Thomas, 
Xnvcmber  22.  1734.  died  .April  28,  1748.  6. 
John,  May  29.  1736,  mentioned  below.  7. 
James,  May  21.  1739,  died  unmarried  1764.  8. 
Nathaniel,  March  lo,  1741,  dicfl  unmarried  at 
Charlestown. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Jonathan  Cary,  was  born 
at  Charlestown,  May  29,  i~^Ci.  died  May  12, 
1790.  He  was  a  shipwright  by  trade  and  a 
mast  and  spar  maker  in  Cliarlestown.  When 
the  British  burned  Charlestown  he  lost  his 
house  on  .Maudlin  street  and  removed  tem- 
l)orarily  to  the  malt  hou.se  near  the  river, 
thence  to  Reading,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
occupied  half  a  house  with  a  Bowman  family. 
He  was  employed  by  the  goverimient  to  built 
boats  at  Cambridge.  Later  he  returned  to 
Charlestown  and  lived  in  the  old  fort  that  the 
P>ritish  evacuated.  He  built  a  new  house  on 
Maudlin  street  of  timber  hauled  from  Lexing- 
ton. His  family  Bible,  printed  in  1739,  by 
Tiiomas  Basket,  of  Oxford.  England,  is'in  the 
possession  of  his  descendants.  He  married, 
September  27,  1759.  at  Charlestown.  Hannah 
Edmunds,  who  died  May  15.  1821.  aged  eighty- 


six,  daughter  of  David  and  Hannah  Edmunds, 
of  Charlestown.  John  Cary  an<l  his  wife  were 
both  buried  in  Charlestown.  Children,  born  in 
Charlestown:  i.  Hannah,  October  14,  1760, 
married  Benjamin  W'est.     2.  John,  March  27, 

1763,  died  July  2,    1763.     3.   Sarah,   June  9, 

1764,  married  Jacob  Farnsworth.  4.  Mary, 
October  17,  1766,  married  Elias  Farnsworth. 
5.  Jonathan,  .Vovember  3,  1768,  mentioned 
below.  6.  Elizabeth,  October  4,  1771,  died 
May  26,  1853.  7.  Rebecca,  October  14,  1773. 
married  Samuel  Burdett.  8.  Nancy.  Reading, 
February  8,  1776,  died  at  Boston,  October  30, 
181 1.  9.  John,  November  6,  1778,  died  Alav 
8,  1828. 

(HI)  Jonathan  (2).  son  of  John  Cary,  was 
born  in  Charlestown,  November  3.  1768.  died 
.April  17.  1855.  at  Lexington,  Massachusetts. 
He  was  apprenticed  in  his  youth  to  Samuel 
Harris,  spar-maker,  who  afterward  admitted 
him  to  partnership.  He  bought  a  lot  of  land 
on  Henchman's  lane  and  built  his  house,  work- 
ing with  his  own  hand  and  making  use  of  spars 
and  ship  timber  in  the  frame.  Later  he  was 
in  jjartnershi])  with  Samuel  Browne,  owning  a 
mast-yard  at  Wheeler's  Wharf.  North  Square. 
He  was  enrolled  in  the  war  of  1812  for  the 
defence  of  Boston  and  the  musket  he  carried 
is  preserved  by  his  descendants.  In  1827  he 
bought  a  small  farm  at  Lexington.  He  mar- 
ried (  first  I  November  25.  1791,  Jemima  Green, 
of  Groton.  who  died  February  27,  1797,  aged 
thirty-three.  He  married  (second)  December 
31,  1797.  Mary  Harris,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Lydia  (Thornton)  Harris.  He  married 
(third)  December  9,  1821,  .Abigail  Hastings, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Mary  Hastings.  His 
widow  died  July  25.  1877,  aged  eighty-nine. 
Children,  born  in  Boston :  i.  John,  born  Janu- 
ary 14,  1793.  died  May  11,  181 1.  agetl  nine- 
teen. 2.  Alaria,  born  July  13.  1794,  died  March 
4.  1808.  3.  Sally,  born  1795.  died  171)7.  4- 
William  Harris,  born  in  the  house  on  Hench- 
man's lane,  December  23,  1798,  engaged  in 
business  as  partner  of  his  brother  Isaac  Harris 
in  Boston  and  later  took  charge  of  the  New 
A'ork  branch  of  the  firm's  business:  when  the 
business  was  divided  he  took  the  New  A'ork 
store:  the  firm  of  W.  II.  Cary  &  Company  was 
established  at  243-5  Pearl  street:  in  1857  the 
firm  of  Cary.  Iloward,  Sanger  &  Company 
built  the  Cary  Building  at  105  and  107  Cham- 
bers street,  one  of  the  first  iron  front  buildings 
in  New  A^ork  :  the  business  became  one  of  the 
largest  among  importers  of  fancy  goods  in  the 
country ;  Mr.  Cary  resided  in  Brooklyn ;  was 
a  director  of  tiie   Nassau    Bank,   the   Nassau 


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Fire  Insurance  Company,  the  Mimiauk  I'ire 
Insurance  CoiTii)any,  the  Firemens'  Trust 
Company,  the  Home  Life  Insurance  Company, 
the  Brooklyn  City  Railroad  Company;  he 
bought  the  old  Hastings  homestead  at  Lexing- 
ton and  remodeled  the  house  for  a  summer 
home.  He  married,  March  4.  1828,  Maria 
Hastings,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Mary  Hast- 
ings. 5.  Samuel  Harris,  born  July  22,  1800. 
was  a  student  in  Munroe's  law  office.  State 
street,  Bo.ston.  when  he  was  killed  by  a  fall 
from  his  horse,  December  3,  1814.  6.  Nathaniel 
Harris,  born  February  22,  1802,  married  (first) 
1826.  Sarah  P..  Floyd,  who  died  October  3, 
1835;  (second!  November  16.  1836.  .Xnn  Eliza 
Wdson.  of  Portsmouth.  New  Ham])shire,  who 
died  August,  1840;  (third)  Mercy  L.  Bolton, 
of  Dover,  Maine,  July  2,  1844;  child  of  first 
wife:  i.  Maria,  born  July  13,  1827,  married 
David  S.  T.  Hardy;  she  died  December  15, 
1871  ;  children  of  third  wife:  ii.  Isaac  Harris, 
born  May  27.  1845  :  iii.  Jonathan  George,  born 
December  3.  1846.  died  October  4.  1869.  7. 
Isaac  Harris,  born  November  3.  1803.  men- 
t'oned  below.  8.  George  Singleton,  born  Sep- 
tember 15.  1807.  was  associated  with  his  brother 
William  II.  in  business  and  member  of  the 
firm  for  many  years,  having  charge  of  the 
custom  house  dej^artment :  resided  in  Brook- 
lyn and  Babylon.  Long  Island :  married.  Octo- 
ber 29.  1840.  Mary  \\'ellington.  daughter  of 
Deacon  David  and  Rebecca  Wellington ;  chil- 
dren :  i.  William  Harris,  born  September  5. 
1841.  died  .March  9,  1859;  ii.  Mary  Adelia, 
born  March  22,  1846,  married,  October  14. 
1869,  Nelson  G.  Carman,  of  Brooklyn.  9. 
Mary  Maria,  born  March  4.  1810.  married, 
.August  28.  1862.  John  Hastings,  of  Lexington  ; 
she  died  .August  22,   1887. 

(IV)  Isaac  Harris,  son  of  Jonathan  (2) 
Cary.  was  bom  in  the  old  homestead  on  Hench- 
man's Lane.  North  End,  Boston,  November  3, 
1803.  He  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools.  When  a  youth  he  was  "bound  out" 
as  an  apprentice,  but  before  he  came  of  age 
he  bought  his  time,  and  started  in  business  for 
himself  as  a  dealer  in  horn  and  ivory,  Wash- 
ington street,  Boston.  He  worked  energetically 
and  tirelessly  in  his  business,  often  .starting  as 
early  as  one  o'clock  in  the  morning  for  Salem 
where  he  bought  goods  of  the  importers  in  the 
East  Indian  and  .African  trade.  A  few  years 
later,  in  1824.  he  and  his  brother.  William  H. 
Cary,  formed  a  partnership  and  engaged  in  the 
dry  and  fancy  goods  business  at  50  Washing- 
ton street,  Boston.  As  their  business  increased 
and  prospered  they  built  a  granite  front  build- 


ing on  Washington  street  for  the  store.  In 
1827  a  branch  of  the  business  was  established 
at  the  corner  of  Wall  and  Pearl  streets.  New 
York  City,  and  this  branch  was  the  nucleus  of 
the  great  business  developed  by  his  brother 
who  took  charge  of  it  from  the  beginning. 
Isaac  was  interested  in  the  New  York  business 
for  several  years,  devoting  his  time  exclusively 
to  the  Boston  concern.  He  finally  sold  his 
business,  and  for  several  years  conducted  a 
similar  store  in  New  Orleans,  but  disliking  the 
climate  and  other  conditions  there,  he  returned 
to  Boston  and  devoted  his  time  and  capital  to 
real  estate.  He  bought  large  tracts  of  land 
in  the  \\'est  Roxbury  or  Jamaica  Plain  district 
of  Boston,  and  develoi)e(l  the  i)roperty,  build- 
ing houses  and  selling  building  lots.  His  home 
in  Jamaica  Plain  was  an  extensive  estate 
among  the  famous  pudding  stone  rocks  of  that 
section  and  he  derived  much  pleasure  in  laying 
out  and  cultivating  his  place.  He  had  many 
drives  built  through  the  spacious  estate  and 
took  pleasure  in  naming  them  and  even  the 
prominent  ledges  he  designated  by  names  such 
as  Sunset,  Jerusalem  and  Philippines.  His 
house  was  on  Forest  Hill  street,  attractive  in 
architecture  and  beautiful  in  its  appointments. 
The  improvement  and  landscape  work  in 
Franklin  Park,  near  his  home,  was  due  in  large 
measure  to  his  efforts  and  influence. 

He  was  a  typical  self-made  man.  starting 
without  means  and  building  up  a  large  fortune; 
having  a  common  school  education  and  becom- 
ing a  man  of  great  learning  and  intellectual 
attainments.  He  was  upright  as  well  as  ener- 
getic, of  sterling  character  and  extraordinary 
cajjacitv  for  work,  of  strong  will,  sound  judg- 
ment and  pleasing  manners.  He  was  a  natural 
leader  of  men  and  his  advice  was  sought  by 
all  classes  and  conditions  of  men.  especially 
in  his  later  years  of  ripened  wisdom  and 
lengthened  experience.  He  was  a  useful  and 
influential  citizen,  especially  interested  in  the 
affairs  of  his  own  section  of  the  city.  In  early 
life  he  was  a  Whig  in  iKilitics,  but  became  a 
Repnlilican  when  the  |)arty  was  organized  and 
continued  one  until  his  death.  He  was  a  promi- 
nent member  of  the  Unitarian  church  and  his 
home  was  often  the  place  of  meeting  for  min- 
isters and  prominent  laymen  of  this  faith.  He 
was  an  intimate  friend  of  the  pa.stor,  Rev. 
Robert  Waterson,  and  a  liberal  contributor  to 
the  supiKirt  and  work  of  the  society. 

He  married,  I'ebruary  22,  1831,  Phebe  P. 
Pratt,  born  .August  15,  1803.  daughter  of  W^ill- 
iam  and  Mary  (Wvman)  Pratt,  of  Roxbury. 
1  K-r  father  was  a  currier.     Mrs.  Cary  survived 


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her  hushaiid  a  number  of  years,  dying  in  her 
ninetieth  year  at  the  homestead  in  Jamaica 
Plain.  She  was  sympathetic  and  generous  by 
nature,  and  tliroughout  her  hfe  active  and 
liberal  in  benevolence.  She  was  a  friend  of  all 
the  poor  and  needy  in  the  vicinity.  She  was  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Unitarian  church. 
Children,  born  in  Boston:  i.  Susanna  Eliza- 
beth, born  July  28,  1832,  was  educated  in 
I)ub!ic  and  private  schools  in  Boston ;  now 
owns  and  occupies  the  homestead  in  Jamaica 
Plain  where  she  is  well  known  and  highly 
respected ;  an  active  member  of  the  Unitarian 
church;  a  zealous  promoter  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Women's  and  Children's  Hospital,  of 
which  she  is  a  director  and  member  of  the 
executive  committees ;  interested  in  various 
other  charities  and  charitable  organizations.  2. 
Eliza  I'rentiss,  born  August  15,  1834,  married, 
September  22.  1882,  Dr.  Horace  P.  Farnham, 
of  Xew  York  City,  a  noted  specialist  in  diseases 
of  the  throat  and  lungs ;  now  deceased ;  his 
widow  now  resides  in  the  city  of  New  York, 
and  is  well  known  in  society  there ;  she  has  no 
children.  3.  William  George,  born  August  3, 
1836,  died  August  22,  1837.  Later  descend- 
ants of  the  Cary  family  reside  in  Brooklyn. 


Captain  Edward  Johnson, 
JOHNSON      immigrant  ancestor,  was  born 

in  Canterbury,  county  Kent, 
England,  and  baptized  there  September  16  or 
17,  1598,  he  was  .son  of  William  Johnson.  He 
came  to  Charlestown  with  the  first  immigrants, 
but  soon  returned  to  England,  and  about  1635 
or  1637  brought  his  wife,  seven  children  and 
three  servants,  to  New  England.  He  was  a 
man  of  influence  in  the  colony,  and  resided  in 
Woburn,  where  he  held  many  important  offices. 
At  the  first  meeting  of  the  commissioners  for 
the  settlement  of  the  new  town,  he  presented 
a  plan  of  the  territory  to  be  included  within 
the  limits,  and  was  appointed  the  first  recorder 
or  town  clerk.  He  was  active  in  founding  the 
first  church,  and  commanded  the  first  military 
company  in  Woburn.  I  Ic  was  the  author  of 
some  uni(|ue  lines  at  the  beginning  of  the  first 
volume  of  the  Woburn  town  records,  and  also 
of  "Wonderworking  Providences  of  Sion's 
Savior  in  New  England."  first  printed  in  Lon- 
don in  1653.  He  was  famous  as  a  surveyor 
and  early  explorer,  and  was  appointed  in  1665 
by  the  general  court  to  make  a  map  of  the 
colony,  in  conjunction  with  William  Stevens. 
In  1672,  after  his  death,  the  general  court 
passed  an  order  regarding  the  chronicle  of  the 
early  history  of  the  colony,   which   reads   as 


follows :  "The  court  considering  how  many 
ways  the  providences  of  God  hath  mercifully 
appeared  in  behalf  of  his  people  in  these  parts, 
since  their  coming  into  this  wilderness,  and  us 
of  the  colony  in  particular,  do  judge  it  our 
duty  to  endeavor  that  a  register  or  Chronicle 
may  be  made  of  the  several  passages  of  God's 
providence,  protecting  of  and  saving  from 
many  eminent  dangers,  as  well  in  transporta- 
tion, as  in  our  abode  here  making  provision 
beyond  what  could,  in  reason,  have  been 
expected,  and  preventing  our  fears  many  a 
time :  so  that  our  posterity  and  the  generation 
that  shall  survive,  taking  view  of  the  kindness 
of  God  to  their  fathers,  it  may  remain  as  an 
obligation  upon  them  to  serve  the  Lord  their 
God  with  all  their  hearts  and  souls."  The 
court,  therefore,  appointed  a  committee  "to 
make  diligent  inquiry  in  the  several  parts  of 
the  jurisdiction  concerning  anything  of  moment 
that  has  passed,  and  in  particular  of  what  has 
been  collected  by  Mr.  John  Winthrop  Sen., 
^Ir.  Thomas  Dudley,  Mr.  John  Wilson  Sen., 
Captain  Edward  Johnson,  or  any  other ;  that 
so,  matter  being  prepared,  some  meet  person 
may  be  appointed  by  this  court  to  put  the 
same  into  form;  that  so,  after  perusal  of  the 
same,  it  may  be  put  to  press."  No  fuller 
account  of  the  origin  and  settlement  of  a  town 
of  equal  age  in  New  England  has  been  given 
than  that  by  Captain  Johnson  in  his  "Wonder- 
working Providence."  He  died  in  Woburn, 
April  23,  1672.  His  will  was  dated  ]\Iay  15, 
1671.  and  the  inventory,  returned  May  11, 
1673,  gives  the  account  of  the  estate  as  seven 
hundred  and  five  pounds,  five  shillings  and  six 
pence.  Of  this  amount  about  half  was  for 
property  in  England.     He  married  Susan  or 

Su.^anna ,  who  died  March  7,  1689-90. 

Her  will  was  dated  December  14,  1689,  and 
])roved  March  2,  1690-91.  Her  son  John.w^ith 
wiiom  she  dwelt  after  her  husband  died,  was 
the  sole  beneficiary.  Children:  i.  Edward, 
baptized  November  7,  1619.  married,  February 
10,  1649-50,  Katherine  P>akcr.  2.  George,  bap- 
tized April  3,  1625,  married  Katherine . 

3.  Susan,  baptized  .April  i.  1627,  married 
James  Prentice.  4.  William,  baptized  March 
22,  1628-29,  mentioned  below.  5.  Martha, 
baptized  May  i.  1631.  married,  March  18, 
1649-50,  John  .\mes.  6.  Matthew,  baptized 
March  30,  1633.  married  (first)  November  12, 
1656.  liaiuiah  Palfrey;  (second)  October  23, 
1662,  Rebecca  Wiswall.  7.  John,  baptized 
Mav  10.  16^5,  married.  April  26,  1657,  Bethia 
Reed.  "  '  j 

(II)   W^illiam.  son  of  Captain  Edward  John- 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


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son,  was  baptized  in  Canterbury,  county  Kent, 
England,  ^larch  22.  1628-29,  and  came  with 
his  parents  to  New  England.  He  was  a  promi- 
nent citizen  of  W'oburn,  and  was  the  second 
recorder,  succeeding  his  father.  He  attained 
to  high  civic  otfice  and  was  assistant  of  the 
colony.  He  was  a  military  officer  of  several 
ranks,  from  ensign  to  major.  He  was  one  of 
those  who  resisted  the  policies  of  Governor 
Andros.  At  one  time  he  was  in  active  service 
in  command  against  the  Indians.  He  died 
May  22,  1704.  His  will  was  dated  May  10, 
1695,  and  proved  September  11,  1704.  He 
married.  May  16,  1655,  Esther  W'iswall,  who 
died  December  27,  1707,  daughter  of  Elder 
Thomas  Wiswall,  of  Dorchester  and  Newton. 
Children,  born  in  W'oburn:  i.  William,  Feb- 
ruary 26.  1656.  2.  Edward,  March  19,  1658, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Ebenezer,  March  29, 
1660.  4.  Esther,  April  13,  1662,  married, 
December  17,  1685,  Lieutenant  Seth  Wyman ; 
died  March  31.  1742.  5.  Joseph,  June  14, 
1664.  6.  Benjamin,  October  15,  1666.  7. 
Josiah,  January  15,  1669.  8.  Susanna,  June 
29,  1671,  married,  June  6,  1704,  Daniel  Reed. 
9.  Abigail,  October  4,  1674,  married  June  14, 
1705,  Samuel  Pierce. 

(HI)  Captain  Edward  (2),  son  of  William 
Johnson,  was  born  in  Woburn,  March  19, 1658, 
died  there  August  7,  1725.  He  was  deacon  of 
the  church.  He  was  ensign,  lieutenant  and 
captain  of  the  Woburn  military  company  from 
1693  to  1724.  He  was  in  active  service  against 
the  Indians  in  the  winter  of  1704  and  com- 
manded the  company.  His  will  was  dated 
August  5,  1725,  and  proved  September  3,  1725. 
He  married  (first)  January  12,  1687,  Sarah 
Walker,  died  May  31,  1704,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Sarah  (Reed  )  Walker.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Abigail  (Gardner)  Thompson, 
widow  of  James  Thompson,  anrl  daughter  of 
Richard  and  Anna  ( Blanchard )  Gardner. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Edward,  born  Octo- 
ber 12,  1687,  died  January  3,  1688.  2.  Edward, 
May  4,  1689,  mentioned  below.  3.  Sarah,  mar- 
ried (first)  John  Simonds :  (second)  Samuel 
Richarrlson.  4.  Esther,  January  26,  1694.  mar- 
ried, 1716,  John  Stearns.  5.  Samuel,  Febru- 
ary 21,  1696.  6.  Abigail,  married,  December 
II,  1717,  Timothy  Richardson.  7.  Susanna, 
January  14,  1701,  married,  May  23,  1722, 
Samuel  Jones.  8.  Ichabod,  April  22,  1703, 
killed  May  8,  1725,  in  Lovewell's  fight.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:  9.  Elizabeth.  November 
6,  1705.  married,  January  I,  1723,  Joseph 
Winn.     10.  Joseph,  June  22,  1708. 

(IV)   Deacon  Edward  (3),  son  of  Captain 


Edward  (2)  Johnson,  was  born  in  Woburn, 
May  4,  1689,  died  October  5,  1774.  He  was 
cor[)oral  in  1715:  ensign  from  1716  to  1732; 
lieutenant  from  1733  to  1740.  He  was  deacon 
of  the  Woburn  second  parish  church  from 
1741  to  1774,  when  he  died.  He  married 
(first)  Rebecca  Reed,  daughter  of  Captain 
William  and  Abigail  (Kendall)  Reed,  of  Lex- 
ington. He  married  (second)  December  13, 
1750,  Esther  (  Mason  )  Coolidge,  widow  of  Cap- 
tain Joseph  Coolidge,  and  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Mary  (Fisk)  Mason,  of  Watertovvn.  He 
married  (third)  February  19,  1755,  Sarah 
(Simonds)  Wilson,  widow  of  Samuel  Wilson, 
and  daughter  of  James  and  Susanna  (Blogget) 
Simonds,  of  Woburn.  She  died  March  12, 
1775,  aged  eighty  years.  Children,  all  by  first 
wife:  I.  Rebecca,  born  April  22,  1712,  mar- 
ried, February  24,  1736,  Ebenezer  Wyman.  2. 
Mary,  October  26,  1713,  married,  June  3,  1735, 
Enoch  Richardson.  3.  Edward,  September  28, 
1715.  4.  Joshua,  February  16,  1717.  5. 
Eleazer,  February  27,  1719.  6.  Jonathan,  June 
13,  1720,  mentioned  below.  7.  Nathan,  Novem- 
ber II.  1 72 1,  married,  1749,  Abigail  Walker. 
8.  Abigail,  July  15,  1723,  married  (first)  June 
5.  1744,  Samuel  Wilson;  (second)  November 
10,  1 76 1,  Simeon  Spaulding.  9.  Ichabod, 
December  23,  1724,  died  about  1758.  10.  Lucy, 
January  3,  1726.  11.  Jonas,  January  17,  1728, 
died  in  the  army  at  Lake  George,  1755.  12. 
Asa,  February  16.  1729,  married,  February 
22,  1753,  Tamar  Whitcomb.  13.  Susanna, 
October  23.  1730,  married.  May  2,  1753, 
Josiuia  Kendall. 

(V)  Jonathan,  son  of  Deacon  Edward  (3) 
Johnson,  was  born  June  13,  1720,  died  Novem- 
ber 30,  1793.  He  resided  in  Leominster  at  the 
time  of  his  marriage.  In  1759  he  was  a  soldier 
in  the  French  war.  He  was  one  of  the  alarm 
list  in  Walker's  company  and  went  to  Lexing- 
ton on  the  alarm,  April  19,  1775.  He  married 
(intention  dated  September  12,  1748)  Sarah 
Wilson,  who  died  in  Burlington,  Massachu- 
setts, October  20,  1805,  aged  eighty-three  years, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Simonds) 
Wilson,  of  Woburn.  Children:  i.  Jonathan, 
born  February  i.  1751.  2.  Jotham,  November 
28,  1753,  mentioned  below.  3.  Sarah,  baptized 
August  8,  1756.  4.  Sarah,  born  May  24,  1759. 
5.  Lucy,  November  4,  1761,  married,  January 
22,  1784,  General  John  Walker.  6.  Ichabod, 
September  6,  1764. 

(\T)  Jotham,  son  of  Jonathan  Johnson, 
was  born  November  28.  1753.  clied  about  1827. 
lie  resided  in  liurlington,  Massachusetts, 
removing  there  from  the  south  school  district 


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of  the  second  parish  of  W'obiirn.  where  he  was 
living  as  late  as  1798.     He  was  in  the  revolu- 
tion in  Walker's  company,  and  answered  the 
Lexington  alarm,  .\pril   19.   1775.  and  was  a 
nuniljer  of  the  third  foot  comjjany  in  Woburn 
under  Captain  Timothy  Winn  in   May,   1775. 
He  was  a  fifer   in  the  militia   from    1780  to 
1782.    He  served  five  months  in  the  ex])e(lition 
to  Canada  in  1776.     He  married,  February  23, 
1775,  Eunice  Reed,  daughter  of  Deacon  Samuel 
and  Eunice  (Stone)  Reed,  of  Woburn.     Chil- 
dren:     I.   Eunice,  born   September  29,    1775, 
married.   Mav  8,   1796,   Samuel  Caldwell.     2. 
lotham.   May  C).    1778.   mentioned  below.     3. 
Surviah.  July  2.  1780  (baptized  Sophia"),  mar- 
ried.   January    7,    1810,    Thomas    Conn.      4. 
Alpheus,  Jan'uaiv  i,  1783,  died  unmarried.     5. 
Lucv.  March  8,  '1785.  married,  .\]ni\  10,  1808, 
Samuel   Kent.     6.   Susanna,  August  9,    1787, 
married,  January  11,  1810,  James  Reed  Jr.   7. 
Lucy,  March  6,  1790,  married,  April  15,  1818, 
Moses   Hastings.     8.  Edward,  July   12,   1794, 
married.  October    14,    1824,   Hannah   Gibson. 
9.  Elbridge,  baptized  May  7.  1797.  died  Novem- 
ber 7,   1799.     10.  Elbridge.  baptized  Jujie  29, 
1800,  died  unmarried. 

(\II)  Jotham  (2),  son  of  Jotham  (i) 
Johnson,  was  born  May  6.  1778,  and  resided  in 
Charlestown.  He  married,  October  14,  1802, 
Susan  Tufts,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mar- 
tha (.A.dams)  Tufts,  of  Medford  and  Charles- 
town.  Children,  born  in  Charlestown:  i. 
Charles  Berkeley,  April  12,  1805,  married. 
April  10.  1831,  Elizabeth  M.  Jones.  2. 
George,  February  (>.  1807,  married  Hepzibah 
Frothingham.  3'.  Jotham,  July  25,  1809.  4. 
Martha  Tufts.  September  22,  1811.  5.  Samuel 
Tufts,  February  i,  1814.  6.  Henry,  Novem- 
ber 27.  181 5,  died  1817.  7.  Henry  A.,  March 
18.  1818, '  mentioned  below.  8.  William, 
March  20.  1820.  9.  John  Barrett,  April  2, 
1822. 

(\'lil)  Henry  Augustus,  son  of  Jotham 
(2)  Johnson,  was  born  at  Charlestown.  March 
18,  1818,  died  at  his  Glen  Road  home  in 
Jamaica  Plain,  Boston,  in  1895.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  jniblic  schools.  He  engaged  in 
business  as  a  ]iroduce  dealer  and  was  very 
successful.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics 
and  took  a  prominent  part  in  iniblic  afiairs. 
While  living  in  Charlestown  he  was  town  clerk 
and  held  other  ])ositions  of  trust  and  responsi- 
bilitv.  In  i878-7<;  he  re|iresented  his  district 
in  the  general  court  and  demonstrated  unusual 
ability  as  a  legislator,  serving  on  important 
committees  and  attending  zealously  to  the 
interests  of  his  constituents.    1  le  was  a  promi- 


nent member  of  the  Unitarian  church  for 
many  years.  He  made  his  home  in  his  later 
year's  in  Jamaica  Plain.  Boston.  Of  strict 
integrity  and  sterling  character  he  won  the 
respect  and  esteem  of  all  who  knew  him.  He 
married,  June  5,  185 1.  Caroline  Weld  Dudley, 
born  Julv  25,  1830,  daughter  of  David  and 
Hannah  '(Davis)  Dudley.  (See  Dudley  XVI). 
Children:  I.  David  Dudley,  born  in  Jamaica 
Plain,  April  8,  1852,  died  unmarried  March  8, 
1902.  2.  Caroline  Louise,  March  24.  1857,  in 
Newton,  married  Elbridge  Gerry  Dudley,  a 
di.stant  relative,  now  a  dry  goods  commission 
merchant  in  New  York  City,  residing  at 
Orange,  New  Jersey:  children:  i.  Davis 
Thomas,  born  July  18,  1892,  at  Jamaica  Plain  ; 
ii.  Elbridge  Gerry  Jr. ;  iii.  Caroline  Weld.  3. 
Marv  Leslie.  .August  22,  1861,  in  Newton, 
resides  with  her  mother  in  the  home  at  Ja- 
maica Plain.  4.  .Mice  Maud.  .August  29.  1863, 
died  May  12,  1877.  5.  Henry  Weld,  Decem- 
ber 2S,  1867,  mentioned  below. 

(IX)  Henry  Weld,  son  of  Henry  Augustus 
Johnson,  was  born  in  Jamaica  Plain,  Boston, 
December  25.  1867.  He  was  educated  in  the 
iniblic  schools.  He  was  for  a  number  of  years 
clerk  in  a  mercantile  house  in  Boston.  At 
present  he  is  in  charge  of  a  large  farm  owned 
by  his  mother  in  Townsend,  Massachusetts, 
devoting  his  time  to  the  care  of  this  and  other 
property  of  his  mother.  In  politics  he  is  a 
Democrat,  and  in  religion  a  Unitarian.  His 
only  child,  Edith  Leslie,  born  January  i,  1898, 
resides  with  her  aunt  at  the  homestead  in 
Jamaica  Plain. 

(The  Dudley   Line). 

Hugh  de  Sutton,  progenitor  of  the  Barons 
of  Dudley  was  a  native  of  Nottinghamshire, 
England.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  and 
heir  of  William  Patrick.  Lord  of  the  moiety 
of  the  Barony  of  Malpas.  county  Chester. 

(II)  Richard  de  Sutton,  son  of  Hugh  de 
Sutton,  married  Isabel,  only  daughter  and 
heir  of  Rotherick  the  son  of  Griffin. 

(III)  Sir  John  de  Sutton,  Knight,  son  of 
Richard  de  Sutton,  was  the  first  Baron  of 
Dudley.  He  married  Margaretta  De  Somerie, 
sister  and  co-heir  of  John  De  Somerie;  Lord 
Dudley  probably  liveil  and  died  in  the  town  of 
Dudley.  England. 

(I\')  John  de  Sutton,  son  of  Sir  John  de 
.Sutton,  was  the  second  Baron  of  Dudley.  He 
married  Isabel,  daughter  of  John  de  Charlton, 
Lord  Powis.     He  died  at  Dudley  in  1376. 

(V)  John  de  Sutton,  son  of  John  de  Sut- 
ton, was  the  third  Baron  of  Dudley.    lie  mar- 


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ried  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Lord  StafYord. 
He  died  at  Dudley  in  1406. 

(\'I)  John  de  Sutton,  son  of  John  dc 
Sutton,  was  the  fourth  Baron  of  Dudley  and 
Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland.  He  was  born  in 
1 40 1  and  died  in  the  earlv  part  of  the  reign 
of  Henry  \T. 

(\T1 )  John  dc  Sutton,  son  of  John  de  Sut- 
ton, was  the  fifth  Haron  of  Dudley  and  Knight 
of  the  most  noble  Order  of  the  Garter,  and 
treasurer  of  the  King's  household.  He  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Berkley,  widow  of  Sir  Edward 
Charlton,  and  daughter  of  Sir  John  Berkley, 
of  Beverston.  county  Gloucester. 

(VHI)  Sir  Edmund  Sutton.  Lord  Dudley, 
son  of  John  de  Sutton,  married  (first)  Joice 
Ti])loft.  sister  and  co-heir  of  John  Tiploft, 
Earl  of  Worcester. 

( IX  )  Thomas  Dudley,  son  of  Sir  Edmund 
Sutton,  married  the  daughter  and  co-heir  of 
Launcelot  Threkeld,  Esq..  of  Tornorth. 

( X )  Captain  Roger,  believed  to  be  son  of 
Thomas  Dudley,  was  killed  in  the  wars  in 
early  life,  about  1586.  He  left  two  children, 
Thomas,  mentioned  below,  and  a  daughter 
who  doubtless  died  in  England. 

(XI)  Thomas,  son  of  Captain  Roger  Dud- 
ley, was  born  at  Northampton,  England.  He 
was  a  clerk  to  his  mother's  kinsman.  Judge 
Nichols,  and  a  captain  in  the  low  countries. 
He  was  a  steward  to  the  Earl  of  Lincoln 
and  for  some  time  resided  in  Boston,  England. 
He  was  one  of  the  projectors,  and  later,  De- 
cember I,  1629,  an  undertaker  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Colony.  He  was  assistant  March 
18.  1629,  deputy  governor  March  23,  1629-30, 
at  the  last  court  held  in  England.  He  came  in 
the  ship  ".Arabella"  to  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
and  then  in  company  with  Governor  Winthrop 
to  Charlestown.  He  was  governor,  deputy 
governor  or  assistant  every  year  of  his  life 
afterwards.  He  died  July  31,  1653,  aged 
seventy-six.     He  married   (first)   in  England, 

Dorothy .  who  died  December  27.  1643. 

at  Roxbury.  aged  sixty-one  years.  He  married 
(second)  "  Katherine  (Deighton)  Ilagborn, 
widow  of  Samuel  Hagborn.  She  had  two  sons 
and  two  daughters  by  her  first  husband,  and 
two  sons  and  a  daughter  by  her  second.  She 
married  (third)  Rev.  John  Allen,  of  Dedham, 
and  died  August  29,  1671.  Governor  Dudley 
made  his  will  .April  23,  1652,  with  additions 
.April  13.  May  28  and  July  8,  1653.  It  ex- 
presses his  desire  to  be  buried  in  the  grave  of 
his  first  w^ife:  bequeathing  to  all  his  children 
bv  both  wives  and  to  grandchildren,  Thrmias 
aiid    fohn   Dudley,  whom  he  had  brought  up. 


Children  of  first  wife:  I.  Rev.  Sanniel,  horn 
lOio,  in  luigland,  married  Mary  Winthrop. 
2.  Ann.  about  1612,  in  h'ngland,  married  Gov- 
ernor Simon  Bradstreet.  3.  Patience,  Eng- 
land, died  February  8,  1689-90,  at  Ipswich ; 
married  Major  Daniel  Denison,  at  Cambridge. 
4.  Sarah,  baptized  July  23,  1620,  at  Sempring- 
ham.  England,  died  1659  at  Roxbury;  married 
Major  Benjamin  Keane;  (second)  Thomas 
Macy,  of  Boston.  5.  Mercy,  born  September 
27.  1621,  in  England,  died  July  i,  1691,  at 
Newbury,  iMassachusetts ;  married  Rev.  John 
Woodbridge.  Children  of  second  wife:  6. 
Deborah,  born  February  27,  1645,  died  No- 
vember I,  1683:  married  Jonathan  Wade,  of 
Medford.  7.  Joseph,  September  23,  1647, 
mentioned  below.  8.  Paul,  September  8,  1650, 
died  December  l,  1681,  married  Mary  Lev- 
erett,  daughter  of  Governor  John  Leverett. 

(XII)  Governor  Joseph,  son  of  Governor 
Thomas  Dudley,  was  born  at  Roxbury,  Sep- 
tember 23,  1647.  when  his  father  was  seventy- 
two  years  old.  W'hen  he  was  about  five  years 
old  his  father  died,  and  he  removed  at  the  age 
of  six  with  his  mother  and  step-father  to  Ded- 
ham. He  attended  the  school  of  Master  Corlet 
at  Cambridge,  and  at  the  age  of  thirteen  en- 
tered Harvard  College  graduating  in  1665. 
He  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1672  and  was 
deputy  to  the  general  court  in  1673-74-75,  and 
assistant  in  1676  and  each  year  but  one  until 
1685.  In  1675  he  was  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners who  treated  with  the  Indians  in  King 
Philip's  war,  and  was  present  at  the  battle 
with  the  Narragansetts  in  December,  1675. 
In  1677  he  became  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
and  Honorable  Artillery  Company,  and  the 
same  year  was  chosen  commissioner  for  the 
I'nited  Colonies,  and  served  until  i68r,  when 
he  was  elected  as  agent  to  the  Court  of  St. 
James.  In  1677  he  was  assistant  and  held 
court  in  New  Hampshire.  Soon  after  he  went 
to  England  on  political  business.  In  1685  he 
was  appointed  governor  or  president  of  the 
new  government  instituted  by  James  II.  serv- 
ing until  Governor  .Andros  took  control  in 
December.  1686.  In  1687  he  was  apjiointed 
justice.  He  sufTered  with  .Andros  at  the 
overthrow  of  his  administration,  and  was  con- 
fined in  prison  several  months,  being  finally 
removed  to  his  house,  and  guarded  there  under 
heavy  bonds.  Three  hours  later  a  mob  seized 
him  at  midnight  and  carried  him  to  the  jail 
where  the  keeper  refused  to  receive  him.  and 
he  was  carried  to  the  house  of  a  niece,  which 
the  crowd  forcibly  entered.  At  the  request 
of  Governor  Bradstreet.  he  returned  to  prison 


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to  allay  the  fury  of  the  mob.  He  was  sent  to 
England  for  trial  in  1690,  returning  later  in 
the  year,  having  conciliated  the  king,  and  was 
apiiointcd  chief  justice  of  New  York,  being 
removed  from  office  on  account  of  being  a 
non-resident.  He  went  to  England  again  and 
stayed  from  1693  till  1702,  where  he  was 
deputy  governor  of  the  Isle  of  Wight.  He  was 
very  popular  in  England.  In  1702  he  was  ap- 
pointed governor  of  the  provinces  of  Massa- 
chusetts and  New  Hampshire,  and  came  to 
New  England  to  assume  his  office.  He  died 
April  2,  1720,  at  Roxbury.  He  married  Re- 
becca Tyng,  who  died  September  21,  1722, 
daughter  of  Judge  Edward  Tyng.  Children  : 
I.  Thomas,  born  February  26,  1670,  gradu- 
ated at  Harvard,  1685;  died  unmarried.  2. 
Edward,  September  4,  167 1,  died  young.  3. 
Joseph,  November  8,  1673,  died  young.  4. 
Paul,  September  3,  1675,  married  Lucy  Wain- 
wright;  died  1751.  5.  Samuel,  September  7, 
1677,  died  young.  6.  John,  February,  1679, 
died  young.  7.  Rebecca,  May  16,  1681,  mar- 
ried Samuel  Scwall  Jr.  8.  Catharine,  January 
7,  1683,  died  young.  9.  Ann,  August  27, 
1684,  married  (first)  John  Winthrop ;  (sec- 
ond) Jeremiah  Miller;  died  1776.  10.  Will- 
iam, C3ctober  20,  1686,  mentioned  below.  11. 
Daniel.  February  4.  1689,  died  young.  12. 
Catherine.  January  5,  1690.  married  Lieuten- 
ant Governor  William  Wainvvright.  13.  Mary, 
November  2.  1692,  married  (first)  F'rancis 
\\'ain\vright :  (second)  Captain  Joseph  At- 
kins: died  November  19,  1774. 

(XHI)  Hon.  William,  son  of  Governor 
Joseph  Dudley,  was  born  October  20,  1686, 
died  in  1740.  He  married  Elizabeth  Daven- 
port, daughter  of  Judge  Addington  Davenport. 
Children:  I.  Elizabeth,  born  May  16,  1724, 
married  (first)  Dr.  Joseph  Richards,  March 
24,  1749;  (second)  June  27,  1765,  Samuel 
Scarborough:  died  November  i,  1805.  2. 
Rebecca.  May  28,  1726,  married  (first)  Benja- 
min Gerrish;  (second)  October  14,  1775,  John 
P.urbigc.  died  January  30,  1809.  3.  Lucy, 
February  15.  1728.  married.  February  23, 
1740,  Dr.  Simon  Tufts;  died  November  18, 
I7()8.  4.  Catherine.  December  27,  1729,  mar- 
ried Peter  Johonnot :  died  June  28,  i76<).  5. 
Thomas,  September  9,  1731,  mentioned  below. 

6.  Joseph,    1732,    married    Lucy   .      7. 

Mary.  .August  10,  1736,  marrietl  John  Cotton; 
died  February  6,  1796.  8.  .\nn.  married  John 
Lovell:  died  .\pril,   1775. 

(XIV)  Thomas  (2),  .son  of  William  Dud- 
ley, was  born  .September  9.  1731.  died  at  Rox- 
bury, November  <),  1769.     lie  married,  .\pril 


26.  1753,  Hannah  Whiting.  She  married  (sec- 
ond) in  1770.  Colonel  Joseph  Williams.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Roxbury:  i.  William.  Decem- 
bgr  25.  17.53.  married,  February  2,  1774.  Sarah 
Williams;  died  October  4,  1786.  2.  Lieuten- 
ant Thomas.  October  27,  1755,  mentioned 
below.    3.  Paul.  July  29,  1757,  married,  April 

27.  1779.  Martha  Foster;  died  February  22, 
1847.  4.  Lucy,  April  27,  1759,  married.  Sep- 
tember II,  1783,  Seth  T.  Whiting.  5.  Cath- 
arine. March  20.  1761.  married,  December  27, 
1779,  Nehemiah  Davis.  6.  Rebecca,  June  10, 
1763,  married.  June  i,  1788,  Major  Nathaniel 
Parker :  died  September  10,  1834.  7.  Joseph, 
.Al^ril  29.   1765,  died  unmarried. 

( X\" )  Lieutenant  Thomas  (3),  son  of 
Thomas  (2)  Dudley,  was  born  at  Roxbury, 
October  27,  1755.  died  there.  He  married, 
May  14.  1778,  Abigail  Weld.  Children,  born 
at  Roxbury:  i.  Hannah.  April  11,  1781.  2. 
Thomas.  March  5.  1783,  married  Mary  Bur- 
rill  :  died  February  23,  1826.  3.  Abigail 
(twin).  ^larch  11.  1785.  died  young.  4. 
Samuel  C.  March  11.  1785.  died  at  sea.  5. 
David.  August  23.   1787.  mentioned  below. 

(  X\'I )  David,  son  of  Lieutenant  Thomas 
(3)  Dudley,  was  born  at  Roxbury,  August 
-3-  1787.  died  there  April  i,  1841.  He  was 
president  of  the  Traders'  Bank  at  Boston. 
He  married,  in  1814.  Hannah  Davis,  died  Feb- 
ruary 26.  1886.  daughter  of  Moses  Davis,  of 
Roxbury.  Children,  born  at  Roxbury:  i. 
Rebecca  D.,  .April  27,  181 5,  died  October  26, 
1815.  2.  Sarah  W..  November  19.  i8r6,  died 
January  12,  181 7.  3.  Abigail  W.,  October  28, 
i8r8.  died  young.  4.  Mary  A.  D.,  August  9, 
182 1,  married,  October  13,  1841,  William  G. 
Lewis.  5.  Charles  D.,  October  2.  1822.  died 
July  15.  1840.  6.  Abigail  W..  November  27, 
1824.  7.  Julia  M..  February  2.  1827.  died 
March  16.  1827.  8.  Caroline'  Weld.  July  25, 
1830.  married.  June  5.  1851,  Henry  A.  John- 
son. (See  Johnson  \TII).  9.  Hannah  M., 
September  5.  1832.  10.  George  F.,  January 
14.  1835.      '       ^ 

James  Johnson,  immigrant 
JOHNSON      ancestor,    born    in    England. 

was  an  early  settler  in  Bos- 
ton, where  land  was  allotted  him  November 
30.  1633.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  Colony.  May  25,  1636. 
He  was  a  leather  dresser  or  glover  by  trade. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honor- 
able .Artillery  Company  in  1638:  was  chosen 
third  sergeant  in  i^H4-  lieutenant  in  1658,  cap- 
tain in  train  band  in  i6s6.     He  was  admitted 


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to  the  church,  April  lo.  i^^ri,  and  was  chosen 
deacon  in  1655.  He  was  found  Xovemlier  20. 
1637,  among  the  followers  of  Wheelwright 
and  Ann  Hutchinson,  for  which  he  and  others 
were  disarmed.  He  received  the  thanks  of 
the  general  court  for  his  past  services  when 
he  resigned  his  commission  as  captain  on  ac- 
count of  physical  w-eakness.  He  was  approved 
to  sell  coffee  and  chocolate  April  24,  1671,  and 
in  1674  was  given  an  additional  privilege  of 
selling  cider  at  his  jniblic  house.  He  was 
entrusted  with  the  settlement  of  many  estates 
as  administrator  and  was  one  of  the  execu- 
tors of  the  will  of  Major  Robert  Keayne.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  committee  of  the  militia 
in  1664.  He  died  about  1674.  His  house  lot, 
where  he  first  lived,  was  at  the  corner  of  Court 
and  Sudburv  streets,  Boston.  He  had  a  garden 
lot  on  the  Common,  which  then  went  to  the 
line  of  the  present  Mason  street,  between  Tre- 
mont  and  \\ashington  streets.  It  w'as  in  the 
rear  of  the  houses  facing  Washington  street, 
on  that  part  later  known  as  N'ewbury  street. 
On  this  lot  he  built  his  second  house  in  which 
he  lived  during  the  latter  part  of  his  life.  Pie 
had  on  the  lot  also  a  barn  and  a  slaughter 
house  in  which  he  carried  on  his  business  as 
glover.  The  lot  was  situated  between  West 
and  Winter  streets  and  was  famous  during  the 
early  part  of  the  nineteenth  century  as  the 
site  of  the  Washington  Gardens.  Johnson  had 
a  third  lot.  pasture  land  on  the  north  side  of 
Beacon  Hill,  situated  at  or  near  the  junction 
of  West  Cedar  and  Cambridge  streets.  He  had 
another  lot  of  land  near  the  mill  cove,  and  in 
the  rear  of  Middle  or  Hanover  street,  and  later 
a  part  of  the  estate  on  which  stood  the  Green 
Dragon  tavern.  On  January  3,  1637-38,  he 
received  a  grant  of  eight  acres  of  land  at 
Muddy  River  fBrookline).  agreeable  to  the 
consent  at  a  general  meeting  for  allotments 
December  14,  1735:  February  23,  1656,  he 
was  leased  wa.ste  lands  of  the  town  on  the 
south  side  of  the  creek,  paying  four  pounds 
ten  shillings  i)er  annum  to  the  school  as  rent. 
He  took  a  mortgage  July  23.  1654,  on  an  acre 
and  a  half  of  land  on  which  now  stands  the 
Adams  House,  and  also  on  three  acres  at  the 
east  end  of  Spectacle  Island,  in  Boston  Har- 
bor. In  May,  1659,  the  general  court  granted 
him  a  tract  of  land  on  the  north  side  of  the 
^ferrimac  river  at  Naumkeag,  and  he  ex- 
changed it  in  1664  for  a  warehouse  at  Oliver's 
Dock.  His  first  wife  Margaret  died  in  P.os- 
ton,  in  March,  1643,  and  soon  afterward  he 
married  ("second)  Abigail,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Oliver.    Children,  all  bv  second  wife: 


I.  Joseph,  born  September  27,  ir)44,  died  Sep- 
tember 30,  1644.  2.  Abigail,  November  25, 
1643,  died  young.  3.  Abigail.  February  12, 
1646.  4.  Elizabeth.  Ajiril  21,  164Q,  died  No- 
vember II,  1653.  5.  Samuel,  baptized  March 
16,  1651,  mentioned  below.  6.  James,  twin, 
born  March  7,  1653.  7.  John,  twin,  March  7, 
1653.  8.  Elizabeth,  April  12,  1655,  died  Jan- 
uary 23,  1663-64.  9.  Mary,  March  27,  1657. 
10.  Hannah,  November  23,  1659,  died  August 
3,  1660.     II.  Hannah,  June  12,  1661. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  James  Johnson,  was 
baptized  March  16,  1651,  died  November  18, 
1697.  He  learned  his  father's  trade  as  glover, 
and  settled  in  Boston,  later  in  Lynn.  He  mar- 
ried Phebe  Burton,  baptized  at  Hingham,  May 
12,  1644,  daughter  of  Edward  Burton,  of 
Hingham.  In  his  will  he  mentions  children : 
Sanniel.  Edward,  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth,  and 
his  wife,  who  was  executrix  and  principal 
legatee.  In  a  deed  lib.  25,  Suffolk  county, 
mention  is  made  of  Edward  Johnson,  mariner ; 
Jonathan  Johnson,  chairmaker ;  Richard  Rich- 
ardson, of  Lynn,  shipwright,  and  the  only 
surviving  sons  and  daughters  of  Samuel  and 
Phebe  Johnson,  of  Boston.  Children:  i. 
Phebe,  born  August  31,  1670,  died  young.  2. 
Sarah,  June  10,  1672,  died  young.  3.  Samuel, 
December  15,  1676.  '4.  Edward,  August  i, 
1679.  5.  Jonathan,  August  i,  1683,  men- 
tioned below.  6.  Elizabeth,  married  Richard 
Richardson. 

(HI)  Jonathan,  son  of  Samuel  Johnson, 
was  born  in  Boston,  August  i,  1683.  He  was 
mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  aunt,  Hannah 
Handley,  who  also  speaks  of  her  sister,  Phebe 
Johnson.  His  sister  Elizabeth  married  Rich- 
ard Richardson,  of  Boston,  shipwright,  son  of 
Richard  Richardson,  of  Lynn,  and  they  re- 
moved to  Lynn  probably  after  their  marriage. 
Jonathan  Johnson  also  settled  in  Lynn,  prob- 
abl_\-  from  the  fact  that  his  sister  lived  there. 
Abfnit  171 8  Richardson  went  to  Falmouth, 
now  Portland,  Maine,  but  returned  to  Boston 
in  1723.  Jonathan  Johnson  married,  May  30, 
1710,  at  Lynn,  .Sarah  Mansfield,  born  Novem- 
ber 6,  1676,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
(Barsham)     Mansfield;     (second)     Susannah 

.  who  survived  him.     He  died  May  8, 

1741,  in  his  fifty-eighth  year,  and  his  grave 
is  marked  with  a  stone.  II is  will  was  jjroved 
June  14.  1741.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born  De- 
cember 12,  1 7 12.  2.  Phebe,  December  15, 
1714.  3.  Sarah,  January  26,  1718-19.  4.  Ed- 
ward, August  16,  1721,  mentioned  below.  5. 
Jonathan,  December  3,  1725.  6.  Elizabeth, 
September  14.  1726. 


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(IV)  Edward,  son  of  Jonathan  Johnson, 
was  born  in  Lvnn,  August  i6,  1721.  He  mar- 
ried, October"  3.  1744.  Bethia,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Potter)  Newhall,  of 
Lynn.  He  resided  in  Lynn  all  his  life.  His 
will  was  proved  March  26,  1799.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  provincial  con- 
gress in  1755  and  served  on  several  important 
committeesVwas  deputy  to  the  general  court, 
1776-77.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  Aug- 
ust 6,  1745.  married Talbot.    2.  Sarah, 

March  i,  1746-47,  married Burrill.     3. 

Martha.  July  23,  1749.  4-  Edward,  August 
7.  "75 1-  5-  Joseph,  January  8,  1753.  6. 
William.  October  13.  1754,  mentioned  below. 
7.  Ik-thia.  November  15,  1756.  8.  Jedcdiah, 
October  14,  1758.  9.  Micajah.  February  I, 
1761,  died  young.  10.  Micajah,  January  24, 
1764. 

(  \' )  William,  son  of  Edward  Johnson,  was 
born  in  Lynn.  October  13.  1754.  He  married, 
October  4',  1781,  Mary  r'uller.  born  in  Lynn, 
December  3.  1758.  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and 
Hannah  (Alansfield)  Fuller.  He  settled  in 
Salem,  where  he  died  in  1800.  He  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  revolution,  in  Captain  Enoch  Put- 
nam's company.  Colonel  John  Mansfield's 
regiment,  during  the  '^iege  of  Boston,  and  was 
on  the  list  of  those  entitled  to  "bounty  coats" 
October  27,  1775.  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls.)  Chil- 
dren: Hannah'  Lydia,  Samuel,  mentioned 
below,  Nathaniel. 

(\T)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  William  Johnson. 
was  born  in  Salem.  March  12,  1792,  died 
Augu.st  22,  1869,  at  I'.rooktield.  He  married, 
June  30.  1825,  Charlotte  Abigail,  daughter  of 
William  and'  .Abigail  (Crosby)  Howe,  of 
Brook-field.  (See  Howe  VII).  The  following 
sketch  of  Mr.  Johnson  is  from  the  Bosto)i 
.Idvcriiscr  the  day  following  his  death: 

"He  was  a  resident  of  Boston  for  sixty 
years.  Many  of  our  older  citizens  will  re- 
member him  as  a  partner  of  Mr.  Thomas 
Brewer  half  a  century  ago.  and  subsesciuently 
of  the  firm  of  Johnson  &  Mayo,  Johnson  & 
Curtis,  J.  C.  Howe  &  Company.  He  was  dis- 
tinguished by  a  singular  union  of  shrewd  judg- 
ment and  methodical  habits  in  business,  with 
the  energy  of  an  impulsive  temperament.  His 
career  was  marked  In-  the  success  which  com- 
monlv  attends  such  (|ualities,  when  combined 
as  in  bis  case  with  that  scrupulous  integrity 
which  sjjrings  from  a  keen  sense  of  duties  as 
of  rights.  He  was  a  man  of  rare  tuitions.  He 
saw  the  exjiodient.  the  right  and  true,  and 
acted  upon  them  wiiile  many  other  men  were 
deliberating.      Results    seldom    dis])roved    his 


conclusions.     The  mercantile  history  of  Bos- 
ton  has   furnished    few   if  any   more   worthy 
specimens  of  the  honorable,  liberal.  Christian 
merchant.      Mr.   Johnson    retired    from  busi- 
ness with  an  ample  fortune  twenty-five  years 
ago.     Since  that  time  he  has  been  largely  en- 
eaged  in  the  works  of  cliaritv.     The  extent  of 
his  benevolence  can  never  fully  be  known.  The 
benevolent    institutions    of    Boston — the    col- 
leges and  seminaries  of  New  England  and  the 
West ;  the  large  circle  of  religious  organiza- 
tions supported  by  the  Congregational  churches 
of  the  country,  all  found  in  him  a  constant  and 
liberal   friend.     But  probably  the  largest  ex- 
penditure in  the  aggregate  was  in  the  personal 
care  of  a  multitude  of  persons  whose  wants  he 
sought  out  and  relieved — not  only  dependant 
relatives,   but    young   men    beginning    in    life, 
widows  who  had  seen  better  days,  reformed 
inebriates    struggling  back   to   manhood,   and 
multitudes  of  those  whom  Dickens  describes 
as    the    'cjuiet   poor,'    received    his   unostenta- 
tious and  often  secret  bounty.     His  last  illness 
was  long  and  depressing,  and  withdrew   him 
from  his  accustomed   routine  of  activity   for 
two  years.     Its  chastening  influence  was  very 
obvious  in  maturing  his  character  and  deep- 
ening his  interest  in  the  work  of  charity  which 
had  been  so  large  a  part  of  his  life.     He  was 
for   fifty  years  an   habitual   attendant  at  the 
services  of  the  Old  South  Church.  Boston,  and 
a  firm  believer  in  the   faith  there  preached." 
Children:      I.   .Samuel,    mentioned   below.      2. 
Charlotte  A.,  twin,  March  20,   1826,  married, 
June  6,  1849.  Rev.  James  Howard  Means,  of 
Boston.    3.  George  William,  mentioned  below. 
4.   Mary  A.,  December  8,  1829.  married,  June 
10.  1858,  Professor  .\ustin  Phelps,  D.  D.,  of 
.Andover    Theological    .Seminary,    author    of 
"The  Still  Hour;"  graduate  of  the  University 
of    I'ennsylvania    and    of    Yale    Theological 
Seminary :    ]irofessor   of    Sacred    Rhetoric   at 
.•\ndover.     5.  Dr.     .\mos     Howe,     mentioned 
below.    6.  Rev.  Francis  H,.  mentioned  below. 
7.   Edward  Crosby,  mentioned  below. 

(\"H)  Samuel  (3),  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
Johnson,  was  born  in  Boston.  March  20.  1826. 
died  August  13,  1899.  "^  ^^'•''^  ^  prominent 
merchant  of  Boston.  The  P.oston  Ei'diitHi 
Transcript  of  Monday.  .August  14,  1899.  said 
of  him:  "Samuel  Johnson,  of  the  firm  of  C. 
F.  Hovey  &  Company,  died  suddenly  at  his 
home  at  Nahant.  Sunday  morning,  aged 
seventy-three.  While  Mr.  Johnson  was  for 
some  time  unable  to  be  at  business,  his  death 
vesterdav  came  as  a  great  surprise  even  to  his 
most  intimate  friends.     Mr.  Johnson  liad  just 


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returned  from  a  visit  to  his  sister,  Mrs.  Austin 
I^helps,  at  liar  Harbor.  He  met  liis  end  peace- 
fully and  without  pain,  due  to  weakness  of  the 
heart." 

Samuel  Johnson  received  his  education  at 
the  Chauncey  Hall  School,  and  at  the  age  of 
sixteen  entered  the  store  of  Messrs.  Hovey, 
Williams  &  Company,  dealers  in  dry  goods,  in 
Water  street,  and  having  admitted  John 
Chandler  and  Richard  C.  Creeideaf  as  part- 
ners, established  there  the  retail  business  which 
still  continues.  The  firm  name  changed  in 
1848  to  C.  F.  Hovey  &  Company.  In  1850 
Mr.  Johnson  was  admitted  as  a  partner  with 
Henry  Woods  and  William  Endicott  Jr.  This 
connection  has  been  unbroken  for  half  a  cen- 
tury. .Always  giving  strictest  attention  to 
business,  he  gave  twenty  years  of  his  time  and 
attention  to  engagements  of  fiduciary  and 
semi-public  character.  He  was  one  of  the  trus- 
tees of  several  of  the  largest  estates  in  the 
cit}',  and  administered  these  important  func- 
tions with  conscientious  fidelity.  He  justly  con- 
sidered the  most  successful  feat  of  his  life  to 
be  his  financing  of  the  great  Payson  estate, 
valued  at  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars, 
and  which  .seemed  doomed  to  entire  dissipation. 
Mr.  Johnson,  as  receiver  and  trustee,  success- 
fully managed  its  affairs,  bringing  order  out 
of  chaos,  paid  to  the  creditors  every  dollar 
due,  and  saved  to  the  widow  a  handsome  re- 
mainder. He  also  had  charge  of  numerous 
smaller  trusts,  and  by  excellent  judgment  and 
absolute  integrity  lifted  burdens  from  many 
who  were  unable  to  care  for  themselves. 
Among  the  public  duties  confided  to  him  may 
be  named  the  many  years  of  the  chairmanship 
of  the  standing  committee  of  the  Old  South 
Church,  and  subse(|uently  its  treasurership  for 
twelve  years.  In  the  former  cajjacity  he  con- 
ducted the  transference  of  the  old  property 
to  the  new  location,  under  decision  of  the 
supreme  court,  which  provides  that  all  monies 
accruing  from  the  sale  of  the  Old  South 
Church  be  transferred  for  the  erection  of  the 
new  Old  South  Church.  So  devoted  was  his 
service  to  his  church  and  society  that  its  mem- 
bers with  one  accord  will  surely  say  that  to 
no  one  among  their  number  is  the  society  more 
indebted  than  to  Mr.  Johnson  for  its  present 
prominent  and  creditable  position  among  the 
churches  of  Boston.  He  was  long  a  trustee 
of  the  Massachusetts  Hospital  Life  Insurance 
Company,  the  Proviflent  Institution  of  Sav- 
ings, the  Boston  '^'oung  Men's  Christian  .Asso- 
ciation, Mount  .Auburn  Cemetery,  and  Whea- 
ton    Seminarv.     He    was    a    director    of    the 


Webster  .Xational  Bank,  member  of  the  cor- 
])or&tion  of  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology,  president  of  the  Massachusetts 
Congregational  Charitable  Society,  and  of  the 
Boston  Dispensary,  and  vice-president  of  the 
Home  for  Aged  \\onien.  To  all  his  various 
duties  he  was  faithful,  devoting  the  energies 
of  a  warm  heart  and  a  well  balanced  mind  to 
afl'airs  always  important,  and  often  compli- 
cated, with  the  same  attention  he  would  give 
to  his  private  interests. 

I  le  married,  March  29,  1859,  Mary  A.  Stod- 
dard, who  died  in  1891,  daughter  of  Deacon 
Charles  Stoddard.  Mr.  Johnson's  funeral  was 
held  in  Old  South  Church,  the  house  of  wor- 
ship he  loved  so  well,  and  a  great  congregation 
assisted  in  paying  a  last  tribute  to  one  they 
loved.  President  William  J.  Tucker,  of  Dart- 
mouth College,  conducted  the  services,  in  the 
absence  of  the  pastor  of  the  church.  He  was 
buried  in  Mount  .Auburn  cemetery,  in  the  fam- 
ilv  lot.  All  the  large  dry  goods  houses  of  Bos- 
ton were  closed  during  the  funeral  out  of  re- 
spect to  his  memory,  and  the  services  were 
attended  by  representatives  from  all  the  many 
societies  with  which  he  was  connected,  as  well 
as  by  hundreds  of  friends  and  neighbors. 
Children:  i.  Wolcott  Howe,  mentioned 
below.    2.   .Arthur  Stoddard,  mentioned  below. 

I  \'11I)  Wolcott  Howe,  .son  of  Samuel  (3) 
Johnson,  was  born  .April  9,  i860.  He  attended 
Noble's  school,  Boston,  where  he  fitted  for 
college,  and  graduated  from  W^illiams  Col- 
lege in  the  class  of  1883  with  the  degree  of  A. 

B.  After  several  months  spent  in  travel,  he 
started  in  business,  October  29,  1883,  working 
up  from  office  boy  to  partner  in  the  firm  of 

C.  F.  Hovey  &  Company,  having  been  admit- 
ted a  member  of  the  firm  on  August  i,  1899. 
He  is  a  director  and  one  of  the  managers  of 
the  P.oston  Dispensary.  He  is  a  memljer  of 
the  Old  South  Congregational  Church,  and  a 
member  of  the  standing  committee  of  the  Old 
South  Society,  and  a  Republican  in  jwlitics. 
He  hol-ls  membership  in  the  University  Club 
of  Xew  York:  University  Club  of  Boston; 
Country  Club  of  Brookline;  Xew  Boston 
Riding  Club:  Kappa  .Alpha  fraternity,  tlie  old- 
est Greek  letter  society  in  America,  lie  mar- 
ried Fanny  J.  Bctts,  born  January  29,  1867, 
daughter. of  George  Frederic  and  Ellen  (Por- 
ter) Betts  fsee  Betts  ATI).  Children: 
Samuel,  born  December  7,  1896;  George  F., 
July  9,  1898;  Rosamonci,  May  16,  1900; 
Beatrice.  July  5,  1903. 

(A'HI)   Arthur    Stoddard,    son    of    Samuel 
(3)    Johnson,   was   born   in    Boston,   June   4, 


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1863.  He  attended  the  Xoble  school  on  Win- 
ter street,  Boston,  and  fitted  for  college  there. 
He  entered  Harvard  in  1881,  and  graduated 
in  the  class  of  1885  with  the  degree  of  A.  B. 
He  traveled  extensively  during  the  next  two 
years.  He  has  been  occupied  in  the  manage- 
ment of  his  father's  estate  and  other  trusts. 
In  1887  he  was  elected  director  of  the  Boston 
Young  Men's  Christian  .Association,  was  after- 
ward treasurer  for  two  years,  and  since  1897 
has  been  president.  He  has  served  on  the 
board  of  management  of  the  Home  for  Little 
Wanderers  since  1887;  as  member  of  the 
board  of  management  of  the  Home  for  .Aged 
Women;  vice-president  of  the  City  Mission- 
ary Society.  He  is  a  member  of  the  University 
Club  and  the  Boston  .Art  Club,  and  trustee  of 
the  General  Theological  Library.  He  is  an 
officer  of  the  Old  South  Congregational 
Church  of  Boston.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican. He  married,  .April  26,  1895,  Jennie 
Maria  Blake,  born  .April  29,  1869,  graduate  of 
Radcliffe  College,  .A.  B.,  class  of  1891,  daugh- 
ter of  George  F.  and  Martha  Jane  Blake. 
(See  Blake  VII).  Her  father  was  a  native 
of  Farmington,  Maine;  her  mother  of  Med- 
ford,  Massachusetts.  Children:  i.  Mary 
Stoddard,  born  March  3,  1896.  2.  .Arthur 
Stoddard  Jr.,  May  11,  1899.  3.  Alice  Blake, 
February  23,  1901,  died  February  27.  1901.  4. 
George  Blake.  June  18.  1902. 

("VIIj  Hon.  George  William,  son  of 
Samuel  (2)  Johnson,  was  born  in  Boston, 
December  27,  1827.  He  was  educated  in  the 
famous  old  Chauncy  Hall  school  and  at  the 
Boston  Latin  school.  In  his  seventeenth  year 
he  entered  the  importing  and  jobbing  house 
of  Deane  &  Davis,  Boston,  and  upon  attaining 
his  majority  became  a  partner  in  the  firm,  the 
name  becoming  Deane,  Davis  &  Comjiany, 
and  later  Davis.  Johnson  &  Company.  In  1850 
this  partnershi]j  was  dissolved,  Mr.  Johnson 
having  accepted  a  proposition  to  engage  in  the 
Mediterranean  trade;  and  soon  afterward  he 
sailed  for  Smyrna  and  other  parts  of  the 
Levant.  Upon  his  return  eight  months  later 
he  found  the  firm  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected had  become  insolvent,  and  he  was 
obliged  to  change  his  plans.  During  the  next 
five  years  he  was  abroad  the  greater  part  of 
the  time,  partly  for  pleasure,  partly  for  busi- 
ness, visiting  Englanfl,  China  and  South 
America.  In  April.  1856,  he  went  to  Brook- 
field,  the  home  of  his  maternal  ancestors,  to 
which  he  was  much  attached,  for  a  temporary 
residence;  and  the  following  year,  after  his 
marriage,  he  decided  to  make  his  jjermanent 


home  there.  In  i860  he  decided  to  study  law 
and  for  that  purpose  entered  the  law  office  of 
J.  Evarts  Greene,  of  North  Brookfield,  late 
the  editor  of  the  Worcester  Spy,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  postmaster  at  Worcester. 
Mr.  Johnson  completed  his  studies  in  the  office 
of  that  distinguished  Boston  lawyer,  Peleg  W. 
Chandler,  was  admitted  to  the  Suffolk  bar  in 
1863,  and  immediately  ojjened  his  office  in 
Brookfield.  To  his  law  business  he  added 
that  of  negotiating  loans  for  eastern  capitalists 
on  real  estate  in  Chicago.  For  a  time  the  two 
branches  of  his  business  were  conducted  to- 
gether comfortably,  but  in  course  of  time  his 
frequent  absence  from  home  to  attend  to  Chi- 
cago matters  interfered  with  his  law  practice, 
and  in  1868  he  closed  his  Brorjkfield  law  office 
and  devoted  all  his  attention  to  financial  oper- 
ations. In  1870  he  entered  the  manufacturing 
field,  engaging  in  the  manufacturing  of  shoes 
and  boots  in  Brookfield,  in  partnership  with 
Levi  Davis,  under  the  firm  name  of  Johnson 
&  Davis.  Two  years  later  the  firm  name  was 
changed  to  Johnson,  Davis  &  Forbes.  The 
business  was  continued  until  1878,  when  the 
factory  having  been  destroyed  by  fire  and  the 
shoe  trade  depressed,  the  firm  was  dissolved 
and  its  affairs  wound  up.  Mr.  Johnson  re- 
sumed his  law  ])ractice  and  the  Chicago  loan 
business.  .A  few  years  later  he  retired  from 
professional  work,  and  has  since  then  lived  in 
the  enjoyment  of  a  well  earned  ease.  In  the 
local  affairs  of  Brookfield  Mr.  Johnson  has 
always  taken  an  active  part,  and  was  for  many 
years  prominent  in  state  affairs.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  board  of  selectinen  of  Brook- 
field and  of  the  school  committee  for  a  long 
|)eriod.  He  has  been  one  of  the  trustees  of 
the  Merrick  Library  since  its  f(jundation.  In 
1868  he  was  a  d?:legate  to  the  Republican  Na- 
tional convention  in  Chicago  and  twelve  years 
later  was  an  alternate  to  the  convention  which 
nominated  Garfield.  He  has  served  in  both 
branches  of  the  state  legislature,  beginning 
as  a  senator  for  the  third  Wrjrcester  district 
in  1870.  and  was  member  of  the  house  in  1877 
and  r88o.  In  the  senate  he  was  a  member  of 
the  committees  on  probate  and  chancery,  on 
the  library,  on  woman  suffrage ;  and  was 
especially  active  in  ojijtosing  the  state  grant 
to  the  old  Hartford  &  Erie  railroad,  later  the 
New  York  &  New  England,  now  ojierated  by 
the  New  York,  Xew  Haven  &  Hartford  com- 
pany. In  the  house  during  his  first  term  he 
served  on  the  committee  on  finance,  and  in  his 
second  term  on  finance,  and  also  on  rules  and 
orders,  and  as  house  chairman  of  the  commit- 


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tee  on  fisheries.  In  1877,  by  ap]Kiintment  of 
Governor  Rice,  lie  became  one  of  the  inspect- 
ors of  the  state  primary  school  at  Monson. 
and  under  the  act  of  1879.  organizing  the 
board  of  state  charities,  he  was  appointed  a 
trustee  of  the  state  primary  and  reform 
schools,  and  served  several  years  as  chairman 
of  the  board.  Tn  1887  he  was  a  member  of  the 
executive  council,  and  was  twice  re-elected 
(  for  1888  and  1889),  and  served  the  entire 
lengtli  of  ( idvernor  Ames's  term  in  the  govern- 
orship, taking  a  leading  hand  in  a  number  of 
important  matters.  lie  was  on  the  committee 
on  pardons  and  on  the  special  committee  for 
the  purchase  of  land  and  making  plans  and 
estimates  for  tjie  state  house  extension,  since 
carried  into  effect.  On  tiie  latter  committee 
his  services  were  especially  efficient.  Owing 
to  the  illness  of  the  governor,  who  was  on  the 
committee,  and  the  earl}-  retirement  of  the 
third  member,  the  entire  work  of  carrying 
through  a  number  of  delicate  business  trans- 
actions fell  upon  him :  and  all  interested  bore 
testimony  to  his  satisfactory  conduct  of  them. 
Every  purchase  made  without  the  intervention 
of  brokers,  thus  saving  to  the  state  the  cost 
of  commissions.  In  1889  he  was  a  leading 
candidate  in  the  Republican  state  convention 
for  the  nomination  for  lieutenant  governor, 
with  the  endorsement  of  a  strong  list  of  sup- 
porters, and  on  the  first  ballot  received  three 
hundred  and  thirty-seven  votes,  a  good  por- 
tion of  them  coming  from  Roston  delegates, 
but  the  choice  of  the  convention  finally  fell 
on  another  candidate,  and  in  the  campaign 
following  he  gave  his  successful  competitor 
the  heartiest  support.  In  December,  1889,  he 
was  appointed  to  the  state  board  of  lunacy 
and  charity,  on  which  he  has  served  faithfully 
for  many  years,  occupying  the  position  of 
chairman  since  1892,  which  he  resigned  on 
account  of  sickness.  In  the  presidential  elec- 
tion of  1892  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  presi- 
dential electors,  and  as  a  member  of  the  elec- 
toral college  cast  his  vote  for  P.enjamin  Har- 
rison. 

Mr.  Johnson  married.  February  24,  1857, 
Mary  Ellen,  daughter  of  E.  C.  and  Mary 
C.Abbott)  Stowell.  of  Chicago,  Illinois.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Clara  S.,  born  June  7,  i860,  edu- 
cated at  home,  in  high  school  of  Brookfield  and 
Abbott  Academy;  married.  Jime  7,  1882, 
I.oammi  C.  Thompson,  of  Si)ringficld ;  chil- 
dren:  i.  Philip  .S.,  born  Sejitember  14.  1883, 
died  August  following:  ii.  Abbot  Howe,  born 
July  5,  1885,  attended  Massachusetts  Institute 
of  Technology,  and  is  now  connected  with  F. 


r>.  Holmes's  shoe  factory  in  Chelsea ;  iii. 
(ieorge  William,  born  December  6,  1886,  died 
January  21,  190^1.  2.  Mary,  born  October  22, 
i8()2,  died  August  I,  1864.  3.  George  II., 
born  September  15,  1864,  see  forward.  4. 
.Mice  R.,  born  March  9,  1867,  attended  Brook- 
field  high  school,  Mrs.  Ouincy  Shaw's  school, 
Boston,  and  Smith  College,  from  which  she 
was  graduated  with  tlie  class  of  1899;  studied 
in  Berlin,  Germany:  married,  September  30, 
1897,  William  A.  Clark,  of  Northampton, 
Massachusetts:  children  :  i.  Alan  R.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1900;  ii.  Alarion,  March  25,  1903. 
5.  V^thel,  born  March  14,  1869,  educated  at 
home  and  attended  Brookfield  high  school  two 
years ;  Mrs.  Ouincy  Shaw's  school,  Boston, 
three  years ;  went  abroad  and  studied  lan- 
guages in  Berlin.  6.  Harold  .^.,  born  Septem- 
ber 15.  1873.  '^^^  forward.  7.  Marion  P.,  born 
.-\ugust  26,  1875,  attended  Brookfield  high 
school  and  Miss  Capen's  school  at  North- 
ampton for  two  years ;  entered  Smith  College, 
leaving  it  in  his  senior  year  on  account  of  ill 
iicalth,  and  spent  the  winter  months  in  Florida 
and  Colorado ;  died  at  lirnokfield,  [une  22, 
1899. 

( \  111 )  George  H.,  son  of  Hon.  George 
William  Johnson,  was  born  in  Brookfield, 
September  15,  1864,  died  of  typhoid  fever  in 
C'lilumhia,  Mississijipi,  December  6,  1903.  He 
attended  the  public  and  high  schools  of  his 
native  town,  and  Phillijis  Academy  at  An- 
dover  for  three  years  He  then  entered  the 
employ  of  his  uncle,  John  Roper,  of  Chicago, 
wholesale  dealer  in  groceries  After  about 
three  years  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business 
in  Arkansas.  He  remained  there  and  in  Louis- 
iana several  years,  going  to  McHenry,  Mis- 
sissijjpi,  as  general  manager  for  the  Fullerton 
I'rothers,  remaining  about  four  years,  then  one 
year  in  Columbia,  Mississipjii,  where  he  died. 
In  these  several  ]ilaces  he  was  general  man- 
ager of  the  saw  mills  connected  with  the  lum- 
ber business  of  the  Chicago  Lumber  and  Coal 
Company.  He  married  Mrs.  Eliza  Amsdcn 
I'letcher.  widow  of  William  Fletcher,  daugh- 
ter of  l'"rancis  and  I^lizabetii  Cotton  Amsden, 
(:(  Mansfield,  Lfuiisiana.  .She  had  three  chil- 
dren by  her  first  and  three  daughters  by  her 
second  marriage,  namely:  i.  Mary  Ellen, 
born  .\]^r\]  14,  1899.  2.  Clara  S.,  August  17, 
1900.     3.   Ethel,   November  8,   1902. 

(VIII)  Dr.  Harold  A.,  .son  of  Hon.  George 
William  Johnson,  was  born  in  Brookfield, 
Massachusetts,  September  15,  1873.  He  at- 
tended the  public  and  high  schools  of  that 
town,    fitted    for    college    in    Phillips    Exeter 


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Academy,  and  entered  Williams  College,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  the  class  of  1895  with 
the  degree  of  A.  P..  He  then  took  up  the  study 
of  medicine  in  Harvard  ^ledical  School,  and 
was  graduated  in  1899  with  the  degree  of  AT. 
D.  He  volunteered  during  the  Spanish- 
American  war  and  was  made  assistant  sur- 
geon of  the  L'nited  States  navy.  He  has  made 
a  specialty  of  surgery  and  was  surgical  house 
ofificer  at  Massachusetts  General  Hosi)ital.  He 
was  resident  surgeon  at  the  Lakeside  Hospital, 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  one  year,  and  then  took  up 
tiie  practice  of  his  profession  in  San  Francisco, 
California,  removing  after  two  years  to  Lynn, 
where  he  has  his  office  at  70  Broad  street.  He 
is  a  successful  practitioner.  He  married  Cora 
V.  Meyerstein.  They  have  one  child.  Harold 
Stowell,  born  January  21,  1905. 

^  VH)  Dr.  Amos  Howe,  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
Johnson,  was  born  August  4,  1831.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  at  the  Chauncy  Hall 
school,  in  Boston,  and  at  l'hilli])s  Academy  at 
Andover  from  1847  to  1849.  '^^  graduated 
at  Harvard  College  in  1853.  and  from  the  An- 
dover Tlieological  Seminary  in  1856.  He  was 
five  years  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church 
at  Middleton,  Massachusetts,  and  then  studied 
medicine  at  the  Harvard  Medical  School  from 
1862  to  1865.  He  settled  in  Salem  as  a  medical 
practitioner,  and  studied  at  Berlin  and  \"iemia 
in  i86(;-7o.  lie  was  secretary  many  years  and 
president  two  years  of  the  ICssex  .Soutli  Di>trict 
Medical  Society.  He  has  written  many  medical 
papers  for  the  learned  societies,  and  was 
orator  of  the  Massachusetts  I^ledical  Society 
for  its  anniversary  in  June,  1883,  and  was 
president  of  the  society  for  two  years.  He 
served  two  years  in  the  general  court,  and 
three  years  on  the  Salem  school  board.  He 
was  secretary  of  the  Essex  Institute,  deacon 
of  the  Congregational  church,  and  former 
president  of  the  Essex  Congregational  Club. 
He  was  vice-president  of  the  Harvard  Alumni 
Association  in  1892-93.  He  married,  Sei)tem- 
ber  22.  1859.  Frances  Seymour,  daughter  of 
Nathan,  of  Williamstown,  and  Mary  A. 
(Wheeler)  Benjamin,  of  New  York,  mission- 
aries to  .Athens.  Creece  and  Constantinojile. 
Children:  i.  Samuel,  born  July  16,  i860,  see 
forward.  2.  Meta  Benjamin.  May  7,  1862. 
married  l'"rancis  II.  I'.ergen.  of  Staten  Island, 
Xcw  ^'ork.  3.  ,\my  H.,  July  23,  1865.  4. 
Cajjtain  Charles  A.,  July  13,  1868,  resides  in 
rienver;  member  of  National  Guard:  real 
estate  and  rental  broker.  5.  Philip  S.,  Febru- 
ary 26.  1872.  see  forward.  6.  Ralph  S.,  May 
iTi,    1878.   died   ."September    1898,   in   Spanish- 


.\merican  war;  enlisted  in  Denver  City  Troop, 
which  later  became  Troop  B,  Second  United 
States  Volunteer  Cavalry,  and  attached  to 
"Torrey's  Rough  Riders." 

(VHI)  Samuel,  eldest  child  of  Dr.  Amos 
Howe  Johnson,  was  born  July  16,  i860.  He 
was  a  student  in  the  Salem  grammar  and  high 
schools,  and  took  a  three  years' course  at  Will- 
iams College.  He  entered  the  cmi^loy  of  C. 
F".  Hovcy  &  Company,  in  the  capacity  of  clerk, 
and  in  1S99  became  a  member  of  the  firm. 
He  married  Josephine,  daughter  of  Edward 
W.  Forbush   (see  Forbusb  \'H). 

(\'I11)  Philip  Seymour,  son  of  Dr.  Amos 
Howe  Johnson,  was  born  February  26,  1872. 
He  graduated  from  the  Salem  high  school 
with  the  class  of  1890.  entered  Harvard  Col- 
lege with  the  class  of  1894,  leaving  in  1895  to 
go  into  business  with  the  Francis  A.  Foster 
Company,  with  whom  he  remained  nine  years 
as  traveling  and  local  salesman,  and  was  with 
the  same  company  in  Chicago  for  a  year  and 
a  half,  afterward  with  C.  W.  \\'hittier  & 
Brother,  Boston,  and  now  (1908)  with  Sar- 
gent &  Fairfield.  He  is  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics. He  married,  February  19,  1905,  Edith, 
daughter  of  George  E.  Atherton,  of  Brook- 
line. 

(\'ll)  Rev.  Francis  Howe,  clergyman  and 
author,  son  of  Samuel  {2)  Johnson,  was 
horn  in  Boston.  January  15,  1835.  He 
was  graduated  from  Philliiis  .\ndover  Acad- 
emy in  1852,  from  Harvard  in  1856,  and 
from  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  i860. 
.\fter  a  somewhat  brief  pastorate  in  Hamilton, 
Massachusetts,  he  spent  a  year  abroad,  travel- 
ing in  Euro])e  and  the  East;  and  in  1867  went 
to  live  at  .Andover,  which  he  made  his  home. 
From  that  time  on  he  devoted  himself  to  the 
interests  of  country  life,  interspersed  with 
study,  and  occasional  preaching  and  writing, 
mainly  on  ]jhilosophical  subjects.  In  1882-83 
he  contributed  to  Bibliothcca  Sacra  a  series 
of  articles  entitled  "Positivism  as  a  Working 
System,"  and  from  1883  to  1891  be  was  on  the 
editorial  staff  of  the  Andover  Rcviciv,  to  which 
he  contributed  eighteen  articles.  In  1891  he 
publi-;hed  a  volume  (  Houghton  &  Mililin.  pp. 
510)  entitled  "What  is  Reality — .\n  Inquiry 
as  to  the  Reasonableness  of  Natural  Religion, 
and  the  Naturalness  of  Revealed  Religion," 
Since  1880  bis  summer  home  has  been  Bar 
Harbor,  Maine,  and  during  the  last  ten  years 
be  has  spent  many  of  his  winters  in  Rome. 
He  married.  June  6,  1867.  Mary  .A.  Dove, 
daughter  of  John  and  Helen  (McLaggan) 
Dove,     of     .Andover.     He     ha>     two     sons: 


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Grahame  Dove  Johnson,  and  Reginald  Mans- 
field Johnson.  His  second  marriage  was  Oc- 
tober 24,  1894.  to  Mary  Beach,  daughter  of 
Hiinn  Carrington  and  Alary  C.  de  Koven 
Beach,  of  Xew  York. 

(VHI)  Grahame  Dove,  eldest  son  of  Rev. 
Francis  Howe  [ohnson,  was  born  in  Leaming- 
ton. England,  October  8,  1870.  He  was  gradu- 
ated from  Phillips  Andovcr  Academy  in  1888; 
was  with  the  1892  class  of  Harvard  till  the 
senior  year,  when  he  entered  the  Harvard 
Medical  School,  from  which  he  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  AI.  D.  After  practicing  a  short 
time  in  Xew  York,  he  went  with  his  wife  to 
Europe,  where  he  spent  some  five  years,  study- 
ing some  of  that  time  in  Berlin  and  \"ienna. 
In  1907  he  returned  and  established  himself  in 
Andover,  Massachusetts,  where  he  became 
much  interested  in  farming.  He  married,  June 
28,  1894,  Julia  Keim,  daughter  of  Murray  (M. 
D.)  and  Mary  (  Keim)  \Veidman,  of  Reading, 
Pennsylvania. 

(  \'1II )  Reginald  Mansfield,  son  of  Rev. 
Francis  Howe  Johnson,  was  born  February  5, 
1876,  in  .Vndover,  Massachusetts.  He  gradu- 
ated at  Phillips  Andover  Academy  in  1894; 
from  Harvard  College,  1898,  A.  B.,  and  Har- 
vard Law  School,  LL.  B.  in  1891.  He  spent 
one  year  after  graduation  in  the  law  office  of 
Messrs.  Ropes.  Gray  &  Gorham,  Boston,  and 
there,  October,  1902.  formed  a  partnership 
with  Theodore  Hogue  (Hogue  &  Johnson),  60 
State  street,  iJoston.  This  continued  till  July 
I,  1908,  when  he  took  an  office,  in  the  same 
building,  on  his  own  account.  He  married, 
July  2,  1902,  Julia  Pierrepont,  daughter  of  J. 
Pierrepont  and  .Antoinette  Livingston  (  \\'ater- 
bury)  Edwards,  of  Xew  York.  His  children 
are:  Helen  I'ierrepont,  born  April  13,  1903; 
Elsie  Livingston,  October  23,  1904;  Reginald 
F'rancis,  April  5,  1907.  Since  his  marriage  his 
residence  has  been  ililton,  Massachusetts. 

(VH)  Edward  Crosby,  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
Joiinson,  was  born  Xovember  i,  1839.  He 
attended  the  Boston  I^atin  school,  graduating 
in  1856,  and  from  Harvard  College  in  i860 
with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  He  entered  the  store 
of  C.  F.  Hovey  &  Company  as  clerk  in  Sep- 
tember, i860,  and  about  1869  was  admitted 
to  the  firm^  of  which  he  has  been  a  member 
since.  He  enlisted  in  the  civil  war  as  first 
lieutenant  in  Comjjany  H.  Forty-fourth  Mas- 
sachusetts X'olunteer  Militia,  in  August,  1862, 
served  full  time  with  his  regiment,  and  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  adjutant  in  May, 
1863.  For  fifteen  years  he  was  trustee  of  the 
Suffolk  Savings  Bank,  resigning  in  1905.     He 


is  director  of  the  Home  for  Aged  Men,  and 
the  Home  for  Tntemperate  Women.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  has  been  treasurer  of  the 
Old  South  Society,  of  which  he  is  a  zealous 
member.  He  married,  October  14,  1864,  Alice 
T.  Robbins,  born  April  29.  1842,  died  Febru- 
ary 3.  1 891,  daughter  of  Rev.  Chandler,  D.  D., 
and  Mary  Eliza  ( Frothingham)  Robbins. 
Children:  i.  Charlotte  Howe,  married  Gov- 
ernor Curtis  Ciuild  Jr.  2.  Alice  Cornelia, 
married  John  Lavalle,  two  children :  John  ; 
.Mice,  died  aged  one  year  ten  months.  3. 
Mary  Frothingham,  married  \'ittorio  Or- 
landini,  child.  Edward,  born  August,  1907, 


Thomas  Faxon,  immigrant  ances- 
F.\XOX  tor,  was  born  in  England  about 
1601.  He  came  to  Xew  England 
with  his  wife  Jeane  and  three  children,  before 
1647.  His  name  first  appears  at  Dedham,  when 
his  daughter  Joanna  was  married  to  Anthony 
Fisher  Jr.,  September  7,  1647.  He  settled  at 
Braintree.  Massachusetts,  and  was  a  prominent 
citizen  there.  He  was  selectman  in  1670-72 
and  deputy  to  the  general  court  from  Brain- 
tree  in  i66g.  He  married  (second)  September 
5,  1670,  Sarah  Savill,  widow  of  William  Savill, 
of  Braintree.  He  died  Xovember  23,  1680. 
Children:  I.  Joanna,  born  about  1626  in  Eng- 
land, married,  September  7,  1647,  Anthony 
Fisher  Jr.  2.  Thomas,  born  about  1628-29  i" 
England,  married,  April  11,  1653,  Deborah 
Thayer,  daughter  of  Richard  Thayer.  3.  Rich- 
ard, mentioned  below. 

(H)  Richard,  son  of  Thomas  Faxon,  was 
born  in  England  about  1630.  He  came  with 
his  parents  to  Xew  England  and  married  Eliza- 
beth    .      He   died    December   20.    1674. 

Children:  I.  Elizabeth,  born  March  26,  1655, 
died  .\pril  3.  1673.  2.  Mary,  September  7, 
1656,  died  "September  14,  1657.  3.  Mary. 
December  19,  1657.  4.  Sarah,  March  13,  1659. 
5.  Josiah,  September  8,  1660.  6.  Thomas, 
.August  2,  1662,  mentioned  below.  7.  Lydia, 
September  i.  1663,  died  1663.  8.  Hannah, 
September  I,  1663  (twin).  9.  Ebenezer,  De- 
cember 15,  i664,\lied  March  27,  1665.  10. 
Richard,  June  21.  1666.  11.  John,  April,  1667, 
died  .April  12,  1668.  12.  Joseph,  August  26, 
1669.     IT,.  Abigail,  September  18.  1670. 

(IH)  Sergeant  Thomas  (2).  son  of  Richard 
I'axon.  was  born  in  Braintree.  .August  2.  1662, 
died  in  1690,  and  was  buried  at  Weymouth. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  inherited  part  of  the 
estate  of  his  grandfather.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Phipps  expedition  to  Canada,  and  was 
a  victim  of  small  pox,  which  broke  out  before 


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the  expedition  sailed.  His  will  was  dated 
.'\iigiist  4,  1690,  and  bequeaths  to  his  two  minor 
children  all  his  property ;  but  if  they  die  before 
tliey  come  of  age.  he  bequeaths  "to  my  Honored 
Mother  Elizabeth  Hubbard"  and  to  "my  hon- 
ored mother  Basse — Mrs.  Susanna  Basse ;"  to 
sisters  Mary,  .Abigail  and  Hannah  Faxon;  to 
"Benjamin  Hubbard,  my  loving  brother"  and 
to  others.  He  married  ^lary  Blanchard,  born 
December  i,  1662,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and 
Susanna  (Bates)  Blanchard.  She  must  have 
died  before  1690,  as  she  is  not  mentioned  in 
the  will.  Children,  born  in  Braintree :  I. 
Richard,  September  4,  i6<S6,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Mary.  1689,  married.  May  7,  1707,  Joseph 
Deane. 

(I\')  Richard  (2),  son  of  Sergeant  Thomas 
(2)  Faxon,  was  born  in  Braintree,  September 
4,  1686,  died  May  5,  1768.  He  was  chosen 
town  clerk  of  Braintree  Alarch  7,  1736,  and 
held  the  office  seventeen  years.  He  was  cap- 
tain in  the  militia,  town  treasurer,  justice  of 
the  ])eace.  He  and  his  wife  were  members  of 
of  the  Mid<llc  I'recinct  Church,  and  he  was 
called  "Qentleman"  in  the  records.  He  and 
his  wife  are  buried  in  the  graveyard  near  the 
church.  He  married,  December  29,  1709,  -Anna 
Brackett,  born  July  18,  1687,  died  October  16, 
\jC^().  daughter  of  James  and  Sarah  Brackett. 
Children,  born  in  Braintree:  I.  Thomas,  Octo- 
ber 29,  1 710.  married  (first)  Sejitember  22, 
1746,  Elizabeth  Hobart ;  (second)  September 
14,  1753,  Mrs.  .Anna  (Porter)  Clark;  (third) 
December  26,  1756,  Phebe  Hayden.  2.  Mary, 
March  8.  1712,  married,  .\pril  3,  1735, 
Nathaniel  Thayer.  3.  .Abigail,  July  26,  1715, 
married,  February  20,  i74r).  Caleb  Thayer.  4. 
Richard,  November  2.  1718.  5.  James,  Novem- 
ber 7,  1720.  mentioned  below.  6.  Sarah,  .April 
12,  1724.  died  unmarried  November  2,  1748. 
7.  .Anna,  June  3,  1726.  died  umnarried  Novem- 
ber 2.  1748.  8.  .Azariah,  March  23,  1731,  mar- 
ried, November  i,  1753,  Dorcas  Penniman. 

(V)  James,  son  of  Richard  (2)  Faxon,  was 
born  in  Braintree,  November  7,  1720,  died 
June  21.  1797.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  militia, 
a  man  of  inlhience.  high  social  position,  and 
independent  character.  He  was  refused  admis- 
sion to  the  Middle  Precinct  Church  at  a  time 
when  tliere  was  trouble  in  the  parish,  on 
account  of  some  difference  with  a  neighbor. 
The  following  sentiment  on  his  gravestone 
expresses  his  feelings  regarding  the  slight : 

"Blest  In  the  promised  Seed,  supremely  blest. 
His  ransomed  soul  httlh  entered  into  rest; 
Now  insolence  of  pride,  and  priestly  spite, 
Shall  strive  in  vain  to  rob  him  of  his  right." 


He  married  (fir.st)  March  15,  1744.  Relief 
Thayer,  born  March  11,  1723,  died  1774, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Relief  (Hyde) 
Thayer.  He  married  (second)  August  19, 
1775,  Mary  Denton,  widow,  who  died  April  3, 
1805,  aged  seventy-three.  She  was  a  school 
teacher  and  taught  school  in  Braintree  after 
her  marriage,  in  1765-72-75-77.  Children,  born 
in  Braintree:  i.  James,  October  6,  17-14.  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Richard,  November  10,  1746, 
married,  September  3,  1771,  Susanna  Spear. 
3.  Nathaniel,  February,  1750,  married,  Decem- 
ber 31,  1770,  Mary  Vose.  4.  Relief,  January, 
1752,  married,  July  9,  1784,  Caleb  French.  5. 
Eleb,  January  9,  1756,  married,  November  28, 
1782,  Ruth  Ann  Hathaway.  6.  Caleb,  October 
6,  1758,  married,  January  14,  1794,  Lydia 
Hathaway.  7.  Alary,  August  29,  1760,  died 
unmarried  1827.  8.  Elizabeth,  July  26,  1763, 
married,  February  3,  1791,  Caleb  Hobart.  9. 
Eunice,  June  19,  1765,  married,  March  25, 
1792,  James  Gridley. 

(\T)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  Faxon, 
was  born  in  Braintree,  October  6,  1744,  died 
October  5,  1829.  He  was  in  the  revolution  in 
Captain  Moses  French's  company,  Colonel  Pal- 
mer's regiment,  in  1776,  and  in  the  company 
of  Hon.  Thomas  Cushing  for  the  defense  of 
the  Castle  and  Governor's  islands  from  July 
26,  1783,  to  January  24,  1784,  and  probably 
saw  other  service.  He  was  a  shoemaker  by 
trade.  He  married  (intentions  dated  May  20, 
1775)  Mary  Field,  born  1754.  died  May  6, 
1839.  daughter  of  Joseph  and  .Abigail  (New- 
comb)  Field.  Children,  born  in  Braintree  :  i. 
Nathaniel,  F""ebruary  17,  1777, mentioned  below. 
2.  Joseph,  January  21,  1779,  married,  April  9, 
1806.  Hepsy  .Adams.  3.  Job,  September  5, 
1780.  married,  October  25,  1812,  Judith  B. 
Hardwick.  4.  Charles.  March  I.  1783,  married, 
1805,  Rhoda  .Morrill.  5.  William,  February 
22,  1784,  married.  hVbruary  18,  181 1,  Martha 
.Adams.  6.  Mary,  March  2/.  1787,  unmarried. 
7.  James,  1788,'  died  October  14,  1807,  by 
falling  from  a  tree.  8.  John,  January  17,  1791, 
married,  April  13,  1822,  Lucy  Hardwick.  9. 
George,  September  15,  1796.  married,  June 
5,  1820,  .Abigail  IJaxter. 

(\'ll)  Nathaniel,  son  of  James  (2)  F'axon, 
was  born  in  Braintree,  February  17,  1777.  died 
.August  17,  1861.  He  went  to  Boston  in  1800 
and  engaged  in  the  boot  and  shoe  trade  which 
he  continued  until  1836.  and  then  resigned  to 
his  eldest  .son.  The  sign  of  the  "big  boot" 
was  a  prominent  object  over  the  door  of  his 
store  at  the  corner  of  Alerchant's  Row  and 
Market  Square,  and  afterwards  at  53  North 


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Market  street,  lie  ac(|nirecl  wealth  but  was 
always  modest  and  unassuming,  esteemed  for 
his  high  character  and  blameless  life.  He  mar- 
ried, October  1-5.  1801.  Eunice  Bass,  baptized 
November  3.  1782.  died  January  26,  1855, 
daughter  of  Seth  and  Mary  (Jones)  Bass,  of 
Onincy.  Children:  I.  George  N.,  born  No- 
vember 8,  1803.  married,  October  18,  1855, 
Cornelia  T.  Cutter.  2.  Francis  E..  October  5, 
1807,  married,  December  20,  1837.  Lois  M. 
Knox.  3.  Eunice  Maria,  February  11,  1810, 
mentioned  below.  4.  James  O.,  August  3. 
1812.  married,  October  17,  18^7.  Harriet  Fair- 
field. 

(XTH)  Eunice  Maria,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
Faxon,  was  born  February  11.  1810,  in  Boston. 
She  married  ( first )  October  5,  1827,  Dr.  Will- 
iam Grigg,  born  May  30,  1805,  died  1836,  son 
of  John  and  Maria  ( Pell )  Grigg.  She  mar- 
ried (second)  May  31,  1838.  William  A.  Weeks, 
born  in  Portsmouth.  New  Hampshire,  January 
30.  181 2,  died  June  20,  1854.  son  of  William 
and  .Abigail  (Hubbard)  Weeks.  She  married 
(third)  June  25.  1856,  James  H.  Weeks,  bom 
in  Portsmouth,  May  5.  1810,  brother  of  her 
second  hu.sband.  Children,  born  in  Boston : 
I.  Mary  Pell  Grigg,  born  May  31, 1834,  adopted 
by  her  grandfather,  Nathaniel  Faxon,  and  her 
name  changed  to  Mary  Josephine  Faxon  :  mar- 
ried Edward  W.  P'orbush.  (.See  Forbush  and 
Johnson).  2.  Eunice  Maria  Weeks,  born  July 
28,  1839.  married  Horace  H.  Coolidge ;  chil- 
dren :     William  W.  Coolidge,  married  

Mills;  Lulie,  married  Alfred  Hurd  ;  two  chil- 
dren :  Marjorie,  graduate  of  Radcliffc  College, 
and  John,  now  at  Harvard  College ;  Alice, 
unmarried :  Charles  H.,  deceased. 

(The    Forbush    Line). 

Daniel  Forbush,  immigrant  ancestor,  is  be- 
lieved to  have  come  from  Kinellar,  Scotland, 
the  son  of  Daniel  Forbush.  w-ho  died  there  in 
1624.  He  was  born  about  1620  and  was  prob- 
ably one  of  the  .Scotch  soldiers  defeated  by 
Cromwell  at  the  battle  of  Dunbar,  and  sent  by 
him  to  the  .American  colonies,  where  he  escaped 
with  his  brother  William  to  Maine.  The  first 
record  of  Daniel  Forbush  (Forbes  or  Farra- 
bus)  in  this  country  is  found  in  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts,  when  he  married,  March  26, 
1660,  Rebecca  Perriman.  who  is  supposed  to 
have  been  a  sister  of  Thomas  Perriman,  of 
Weymouth,  an  apprentice  in  1652  of  Mrs. 
Dorothy  Hunt,  and  of  l-'rances  Perriman,  who 
married,  June  8,  1654,  Isaac  .Andrew,  of  Cam- 
bridge. On  February  27,  1664.  and  March  17, 
1665,    Daniel    Forbush    was   granted    land    af 


Cambridge  which  he  sdd  March  19,  1671,  and 
removed  to  Marlborough,  His  name  is  spelled 
"Farrabus"  in  the  deed.  He  could  not  write  / 
and  probably  could  not  spell  better  than  many  / 
of  his  neighbors.  The  early  records  give  a 
multitude  of  variations  in  the  spelling  of  the 
name,  which  in  later  generations  has  been 
spelled  generally  P^orbush  or  Forbes, 

Daniel  Forbush  settled  in  Marlborough  not 
far  from  1681.  His  wife  died  May  3,  1677, 
and  he  married  (second)  May  23,  1679,  Deb- 
orah Rcdiat,  of  Concord,  daughter  of  John 
and  .Ann  Rediat,  of  Sudbury.  He  died  Octo- 
ber, 1687,  at  Marlborough,  and  his  widow  mar- 
ried (second)  Alay  22,  1688,  .Alexander 
Stewart.  Children  of  first  wife,  born  at  Cam- 
bridge; I.  Daniel,  March  20,  1664.  married 
Dorothy  Pray.  2.  Thomas.  March  6,  1667, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Elizabeth,  March  16, 
1669.  4.  Rebecca.  Concord,  February  15, 
1672.  married  Josej^h  Byles ;  died  January  28, 
1/68.  5.  Samuel,  1674.  Children  of  second 
wife;  6.  John,  1681,  married  Martha  Bowker. 
7.  Isaac.  October  30,  1682.  8.  Jonathan,  March 
12,  1684.  married  Hannah  Holloway ;  died 
March  24,  1768. 

(II)  Deacon  Thomas,  son  of  Daniel  For- 
bush. was  born  in  Cambridge.  March  6,  1667, 
died  in  May,  1738.  He  removed  to  Marl- 
borough and  resided  probably  in  that  part  of 
the  town  which  was  later  set  off  as  West- 
borough.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Westborough  church,  chosen  deacon  October 
28,  1724,  and  signed  the  covenant  next  after 
Ebenezer  Parkman,  the  minister.  His  wife 
was  dismissed  from  the  Marlborough  to  the 
Westborough  church,  July  25,  1725.  His  will 
was  dated  July  17,  1733,  and  allowefl  Alay  11, 
1738.  He  was  elected  one  of  the  first  selectman 
of  Westborough  in  1718,  was  moderator  of 
the  town  meeting;  in  1721  was  town  treasurer; 
in  1729  was  one  of  the  trustees  to  receive 
paper  money  for  the  colony  and  to  loan  it  to 
the  citizens.  He  married  Dorcas  Rice,  born 
January  29^,  1664,  died  March  24,  1753,  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  and  Anna  Rice,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Edmund  Rice,  the  immigrant. 
Children;  i.  Aaron,  born  April  3,  1693,  mar- 
ried Susanna  Morse,  2,  Thomas,  October  14, 
1695.  mentioned  below,  3.  Tabitha,  April  6, 
1699,  married,  February  2,  1727,  Samuel 
Hardy.  4.  Rebecca,  February  25,  1701,  mar- 
ried, January  29,  1720,  .Simeon  Howard,  5, 
Eunice,  February  13,  1705,  married,  August 
22,  1727,  Cornelius  Cook, 

(III)  Deacon  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Deacon 
Thomas    ( i )    Forbush,    was    born    in    Marl- 


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borougli,  October  14,  1695,  and  resided  in 
W'esthoroiigh.  He  died  intestate  before  1783, 
when  the  heirs  agreed  to  a  division  of  the 
estate.  He  was  a  leading  man  of  the  town, 
selectman  many  years,  and  town  clerk  several 
years.  He  was  admitted  to  the  church  De- 
cember II,  1726,  and  his  wife  December  21, 
1727.  He  married,  January  6,  1719,  Hannah 
Bellows.     Children:     i.  Samuel,  born  October 

30,  1 7 19,  married  Margaret .    2.  David, 

June  20,  1720,  died  young.  3.  David,  October 
20,  1721,  mentioned  below.  4.  James.  5. 
Hannah,  August  4,  1723,  married,  June  19, 
1746,  Jonas  Warren.  6.  Thomas,  April  23, 
1725,  died  December  5,  1726.  7.  Dorcas,  Feb- 
ruary 28.  1727,  married,  December  18,  1749, 
Oliver  Whitney.  8.  Thomas,  ]\Iarch  27,  1729, 
died  February  22,  1731.  9.  Ebenezer,  April 
27,  1 73 1,  married  Lucy  Bowker.  10.  Hepzibah, 
June  3.  1733,  died  July  15,  1734.  n.  Eliza- 
beth, June  4,  1735,  died  August  i,  1736.  12. 
John.  .May  2,  1737,  died  November  24,  1743. 
13.  .Abigail.  July  27,  1739,  died  October  2.  1740, 
(I\')  David,  son  of  Deacon  Thomas  (2) 
Forbush,  was  born  October  20,  1721,  died  in 
Sejitember,  1787.  He  was  Ijrought  up  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Westborough,  and  soon  after 
his  marriage  settled  in  Grafton  where  he 
bought  the  Ebenezer  Flagg  house  on  George 
Hill.  In  1784  he  erected  a  new  house.  During 
the  revolution  he  was  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee of  safety.  He  was  in  the  train  band  in 
1757,  and  .April  19,  1775,  was  in  Captain 
.Aaron  Kimball's  com[)any.  Colonel  Artemas 
Ward's  regiment,  which  marched  to  Lexington 
on  the  alarm.  His  will  was  proved  March  4, 
1788.  He  married  in  Westborough,  May  4, 
1749,  .Anna  Whitney,  baptized  March  29,  1730, 
died  January  4,  1785,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Mary  Whitney,  and  sister  of  Eli  Whitney, 
the  inventor  of  the  cotton-gin.  Children:  i. 
Annali.  born  July  7.  1750.  married,  October  28, 
1779,  John  \\'arren.  2.  John,  L'pton,  Decem- 
ber 20,  1 75 1,  died  September  7.  1757.  3.  David, 
.April  18,  1754,  married  Deliverance  Goodell. 
4.  Jacob,  I'ebruary  20,  1756.  died  March  3, 
175^-  5-  Abigail,  May  2,  1757,  married  l^eon- 
ard  I'righam.  6.  Lois.  September  27,  1759, 
married  \\'right.  7.  Jonathan.  Febru- 
ary 22,  1762.  married  Betsey  Hayden.  8. 
Jemima,  May  21,  17(14.  married.  May  5,  1791, 
Sylvanus  Morse.  9.  Silas,  May  19,  1766.  men- 
tioned below.  10.  Joel,  July  29,  1768,  died 
September  20,  1776.  11.  Ruth.  November  15, 
1770,  died  young.  12.  Benlah,  married,  April 
25.  17*)').  Silas  Hardy.  13.  Mary,  born  Sep- 
tember 2.  1776,  married  Daniel  Leland. 


(V)  Silas,  son  of  David  Forbush,  was  born 
in  L'pton.  May  19.  1766,  died  July  5,  1840. 
Lie  resided  on  George  Hill,  Grafton.  In  1804- 
05  he  was  a  member  of  Captain  Joseph  Merri- 
man's  company  of  foot  of  the  second  regi- 
ment. He  married.  May  14,  1788,  Rhoda  Fisk, 
born  1767,  died  September  26,  1825,  daughter 
of  William  and  Jemima  (Adams)  Fisk.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Prudence,  born  October  26,  1789, 
died  unmarried  April  13.  1865.  2.  Joel,  Octo- 
ber 29.  1 79 1,  married  Ruth  Eames.  3.  Rhoda, 
October  20,  1793,  married.  May  31,  1819,  Jud- 
son  Southland.  4.  Silas.  November  17,  1795. 
married  Clarissa  Eames.  5.  Nancy,  Novem- 
ber 15,  1798,  married,  February  3,  1824, 
Nathaniel  Smith.  6.  Jonathan.  March  10, 
1802.  mentioned  below.  7.  Calvin  W.,  Sep- 
tember 8.  1805,  married  Elizabeth  Fisk.  8. 
Mary  Ann,  July  8,  1810,  married,  September 
21,   1832,  Leland   Bacheller. 

I  \'I )  Jonathan,  .son  of  Silas  Forbush,  was 
born  in  Grafton,  March  10,  1802,  died  July 
1 1,  1882.  He  was  brought  up  on  the  farm  and 
atten<Ied  the  district  school.  Before  the  age 
of  twenty  he  went  south  and  was  for  some 
vcars  engaged  in  business  at  Charleston,  South 
Carolina.  In  1828  he  was  engaged  in  the  shoe 
and  leather  trade  in  Boston  at  12  North  Market 
street.  He  remained  in  Boston  in  this  business 
for  more  than  twenty  years,  being  located  in 
turn  at  i  \'ernon  street,  2  Blackstone  street, 
and  residing  at  23  Bowdoin  street.  He  was 
one  of  the  original  directors  and  managers  of 
the  Shoe  and  Leather  Dealers'  Bank  which 
was  formed  in  1836.  He  was  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Bowdoin  Street  Congregational 
Church.  In  1848  he  purchased  a  large  estate 
at  Bolton  from  S.  \".  S.  Wilder,  and  carried 
on  this  estate  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He 
was  a  man  honored  in  the  community  for  his 
high  principles  and  strict  integrity.  He  mar- 
ried ifiist)  September  7,  1829,  Louisa  Wood, 
who  died  May  11,  1837.  He  married  (second) 
June  13,  1855,  Carrie  Waters,  born  January 
17,  1826,  died  Augu.st  7.  1886.  ChiUlren :  i. 
Theodore  Llenrv.  bom  October  15,  1831,  died 
October  5,  1886.  2.  Edward  W.,  October  6, 
1833,  mentioned  below.  3.  Walter  J.,  June  8, 
1856,  died  June  16,  i860.  4.  Caroline  Louise, 
October  7,1.  i860.  5.  Harriet  W.,  June  10, 
1865. 

(\'ll)  Edward  W..  son  of  Jonathan  bor- 
bush,  was  born  October  6.  1833,  died  Decem- 
ber 18,  1880.  He  resided  in  Boston.  He 
graduated  at  Harvard  in  1854  and  subsequently 
engaged  in  business  until  1872.  He  was  some- 
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several  newspapers  were  scholarly  i)roductions. 
He  married.  November  8,  1858.  Mary  Jose- 
phine Faxon.  (See  Faxon  \  111).  Children: 
I.  Ada.  born  August  28,  1859.  2.  Josephine, 
March  3.  1864,  married  Samuel  Johnson  (see 
Johnson  Mil).  3.  Katherine.  November  23, 
1865,  died  November  2,  i8f)G.  4.  Maria.  Octo- 
ber 7,   1867. 

Samuel  Stowell.  immigrant 
STOW  ELL  ancestor,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land about  1620.  He  was 
mentioned  in  the  famous  Hobart  Diary  as  liv- 
ing in  Hingham.  Massachusetts,  as  early  as 
1649.  and  was  then  a  proprietor  of  that  town. 
He  married.  October  25.  1649,  at  Hingham, 
Mary  Farrow,  daughter  of  John  and  Frances 
Farrow.  He  died  November  9.  1683,  and  she 
married  (second)  October  10.  1689,  Joshua 
Beal.  Samuel  Stowell's  will  was  dated  Octo- 
ber 27.  1683.  and  proved  June  30,  1684.  The 
inventory  sliowed  property  valued  at  one  hun- 
dred and  eighty-five  pounds.  His  home  was 
on  F"ort  Hill  street.  (Children:  i.  :\Iary,  born 
October  16,  1653,  married.  February  25.  1682- 
83.  John  Garnet.  2.  Samuel.  July  8,  1655, 
resided  at  Hingham.  3.  John.  March  15,  1657- 
58,  resided  in  Hingham.  4.  David.  April  8. 
1660.  mentioned  below.  5.  Remember,  April 
22,  1662.  married.  March  16,  1687-88.  Thomas 
Remington.  6.  Child,  September  5.  1664.  died 
September  21  following.  7.  William.  Janu- 
ary 23,  1665-66.  8.  Israel,  April  27,  1668,  died 
November  15,  1669.  9.  Israel,  August  10, 
1670,  settled  in  Newton:  died  1725:  weaver. 
10.  Elizabeth.  June  7.  1673.  married,  December 
14.  1699,  George  Lane.  11.  Benjamin.  June 
3  or  8,  1676,  resided  in  Hingham. 

( II )  David,  son  of  .Samuel  Stowell,  was 
born  in  Hingham.  April  8.  1660.     He  married 

there  December  4,  1684. ,  and  removed 

to  Cambridge.  Lie  married  (second)  at  Cam- 
bridge. .April  7.  1695.  Mary  Stedman.  who 
died  September  27,  1724.  He  afterwards  set- 
tled in  Newton,  where  he  was  known  as  "Old 
Stowell."  and  where  he  died.  Children:  i. 
David,  married  (first)  Elizabeth ;  (sec- 
ond) Patience ;  died  at  Newton,  Octo- 
ber I  or  21.  1724.  2.  Benjamin,  died  at  New- 
ton, November  29,  1729.  unmarried.  3.  Samuel, 
clothier:  resided  at  Watertown  ;  died  1748.  4. 
Ruth,  married Osborne.  5.  John,  men- 
tioned below.    6.  Mary,  married King. 

(HI)  John,  son  of  David  Stowell.  was  born 
probably  in  Watertown,  where  his  father  lived, 
about  1690.  He  married,  November  i.  1722, 
Sarah    Ford,   of    Weymouth.      He    settled    at 


^\"atertown  and  was  a  constable  there  in  1737. 
He  lived  at  Newton  earlier  and  bought  land  on 
the  lioston  road  at  Newton  of  Obadiah 
Coolidge.  March  5,  1718-19,  removing  to 
Watertown  after  1723.  Apparently  he  hesi- 
tated between  Sturbridge  and  Worchester, 
about  174X).  John  Stowell.  of  Watertown,  sold 
land  at  Sturbridge,  December  2.  1742.  to  Amos 
Shumway ;  also  to  John  Rion  (Ryan)  of  Stur- 
bridge. (October  26,  1742.  In  1744  he  was  of 
Worcester  and  sold  more  land  at  Sturbridge 
to  his  son-in-law,  David  Curtis,  of  Sturbridge. 
November  26.  1744.  He  bought  his  first  land  in 
\\'orcester  in  1743  of  Abisha  Rice,  who  inherit- 
ed it  from  Thomas  Rice.  He  mortgaged  land 
to  Elizabeth  Dudley,  widow  of  William  Dud- 
ley. January  28,  1746,  part  of  his  Worcester 
property.  He  mortgaged  land  to  John  Chand- 
ler, April  13,  1754,  at  Worcester.  Another 
deed  or  mortgage  to  John  Chandler  is  dated  at 
W'orcester,  July  23,  1757.  The  homestead  at 
Worcester  was  deeded  to  his  son  Benjamin, 
who  contracted  to  support  and  care  for  his 
father  the  remainder  of  his  life  for  the  prop- 
erty, July  18,  1759.  John  Stowell  and  Thomas 
Rice  joined  in  a  deed  of  ninety  acres  of  land 
which  they  bought  of  John  Barber,  November 
28,  1752.  The  land  was  in  Worcester  and  was 
sold  to  Francis  Cutting,  of  Shrewsbury.  John 
Stowell  was  of  Worcester  when  he  died  in 
1762  and  his  eldest  son.  John,  of  Petersham, 
was  administrator  of  the  estate.  The  inventory 
was  made  by  Nathaniel  Moore,  Cornelius 
Stowell  and  Nathan  Perry,  December  3,  1762. 
As  he  had  given  away  most  of  his  property, 
the  estate  was  small.  Children,  born  at  Water- 
town,  except  the  eldest:  1.  Sarah,  born  at 
Newton.  August  14,  1723,  married,  at  Stur- 
bridge, 1744.  David  Curtis.  2.  John  (not  given 
by  Bond),  1726,  settled  in  Petersham;  mar- 
ried Sarah .    3.  James,  born  and  died  at 

Watertown.  July.  1728.  4.  Benjamin,  May  4, 
1730,  married,  at  Worcester.  October  23,  1755- 
Elizabeth  Parker.  5.  Hezekiah.  December  25. 
1732,  mentioned  below.  6.  Jerusha,  February 
I,  1734-35.  7-  Jemima,  baptized  March  6, 
1736-37.     8.  David,  bajitized  Ai)ril  6,  1740. 

(IV)  Hezekiah,  son  of  John  Stowell,  was 
born  at  W'atertown,  December  25,  1732.  He 
married  Persis  Rice.  Children:  i.  Levi,  born 
at  Worcester.  January  8,  1759.  2.  Elijah, 
Petersham,  February  2,  1764.  3.  Persis, 
Petersham.  .April  2.  1766.  4.  Luther  (perhaps 
at  Brookfield),  mentioned  below. 

(  \')  Luther,  son  of  Hezekiah  Stowell,  was 
living  in  Woodstock,  Connecticut,  at  the  time 
of  his   marriajre.      .'\   branch    of   the    Stowell 


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family  lived  f(jr  several  generations  at  Pom- 
fret,  but  Luther  probably  lived  near  the  Stur- 
bridge  line.  lie  bought  of  Joseph  Hyde,  Jan- 
uary 12,  1 80 1,  a  farm  located  jjarlly  in  Stur- 
bridge,  partly  in  the  adjoining  town  of  Brook- 
field.  He  was  called  of  Brookfield,  April  3, 
1809,  when  he  bought  land  of  Amos  Rice,  of 
Brookfield,  and  May  9,  1809,  when  he  bought 
of  Daniel  Hathaway,  of  Sutton,  (mortgage) 
land  on  the  west  side  of  South  pond.  Luther 
Stovvell  deeded  his  farm  to  his  son  Luther  Jr. 
in  1823  and  1839.  He  built  the  house  on  the 
homestead  which  is  still  owned  by  the  family 
and  the  house  kept  in  good  repair.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  a  leading  citizen  of  the  town.  He 
died  in  1854.  His  will  was  dated  May  28,  and 
allowed  June  6,  1854.  He  married,  March  12, 
1796,  Lucy  Richardson,  at  Sturbridge.  Chil- 
dren: I.  O'.Shea,  born  at  Sturbridge,  Febru- 
ary 19,  1797.  2.  Luther  Jr.,  born  December 
22,  1798,  at  Sturbridge,  "died  at  Brookfield, 
.•\ugust  5,  1865;  a  prosperous  farmer;  repre- 
sentative to  the  general  court  in  1840  and  i860 
and  selectman  of  the  town;  married.  May  11, 
1827,  So])hia  Barret,  of  Brookfield;  he  left  no 
children  and  his  large  estate  went  to  his 
brothers  and  sisters.  3.  Ephraim  Childs,  born 
June  17,  1802,  mentioned  below.  4.  Edward 
T.,  born  in  Brookfield.  5.  Lucy  A.,  born  in 
Brookfield,  married  John  Jennings.  6.  Harriet 
N.,  born  in  Brookfield,  married  William  Mason. 
(VI)  Ephraim  Childs,  son  of  Luther  Stowell, 
was  born  on  the  homestead  at  Brookfield,  June 
17,  1802.  He  was  educated  there  m  the  public 
schools,  and  followetl  farming  during  his  youth 
and  early  manhood.  He  removed  to  Chicago 
in  1839,  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  that 
city.  He  bought  a  tract  of  land  a  few  years 
later  in  what  was  then  considered  as  the  south- 
ern limit  of  the  town,  located  on  a  canal  con- 
necting with  the  Chicago  river  and  upon  this 
stream  he  built  a  saw  mill  and  conducted  an 
extensive  lumber  business.  '  He  bought  real 
estate  in  other  sections  of  the  city  and  the 
increase  in  its  value  as  the  city  grew  made  him 
wealthy.  His  business  was  prosperous  also, 
and  lie  continued  until  1854,  when  failing 
health  compelled  his  retirement.  He  then 
returned  to  Brookfield  where  he  died  March  i, 
1855.  'f^  was  a  very  active  and  prominent 
member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Chicago,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  fcniiiders 
and  to  which  he  gave  generously  until  the  time 
of  the  anti-slavery  agitation  when  the  pastor, 
Rev.  Dr.  Curtiss,  declared  his  pro-slavery 
views  in  a  sermon  which  caused  a  great  sensa- 
tion   nmnng   his    parishioners,    an<l    caused    a 


large  section  of  those  holding  anti-slavery 
views  to  leave  the  church  and  form  a  new 
society.  This  new  society — Plymouth  Church 
— was  the  first  Congregational  church  of  Chi- 
cago, and  Mr.  Stowell  was  one  of  the  prime 
movers  in  its  organization.  He  was  foremost 
in  the  controversy  that  followed  the  pro-slavery 
sermon  and  he  published  a  reply  to  Dr.  Curtiss. 
The  effect  of  this  movement,  which  resulted 
in  the  establishment  of  Plymouth  Church,  was 
far-reaching  in  its  effeets  upon  public  senti- 
ment. It  helped  greatly  to  crystallize  the 
views  of  anti-slavery  men.  Mr.  Stowell  was 
equally  prominent  in  the  great  temperance 
movement  that  swept  over  the  country  in  the 
middle  of  the  nineteenth  century.  He  was 
zealous  but  never  offensive  in  the  support  of 
his  principles.  He  was  respected  by  all  who 
knew  him,  and  especially  by  those  associated 
in  business  with  him.  Of  sterling  integrity, 
upright  character,  sound  judgment,  attractive 
personality,  he  was  an  eminently  capable  and 
useful  citizen.  And  in  the  family  he  was 
honored  and  loved  as  a  kind,  indulgent  father. 
This  is  the  heritage  he  left  to  his  children,  and 
they  cherish  his  memory. 

He  married.  May  29,  1828.  at  Brookfield, 
Mary  Abbott,  daughter  of  Captain  Lewis  and 
Polly  (Nichols)  Abbott.  Children,  born  at 
Brookfield:  i.  Charles  Abbott,  born  March 
15,  1830,  died  in  Shasta,  California,  January  i, 
1855.  2.  Jane,  born  in  Worcester,  ^larch  13, 
1832,  married,  October  4,  1854.  Dr.  Samuel 
Rush  Haven,  surgeon  in  the  civil  war,  of  Chi- 
cago. 3.  ^[ary  Ellen,  born  October  4,  1834, 
died  June,  1838.  4.  Mary  Ellen,  born  at 
Maiden,  August  23,  1838,  married  Hon.  George 
W.  Johnson,  of  Brookfield  (see  Johnson  VII). 
5.  Clara,  born  in  Chicago,  March  13,  1844, 
died  October  29.  1880:  married  S.  G.  W. 
Benjamin,  an  artist  and  writer,  son  of  Rev. 
Xatlian  and  Mary  (Wheeler)  Benjamin,  first 
minister  ajjpointed  to  Persia  by  the  Ignited 
States;  one  child,  Edith,  born  in  Salem,  Mass- 
achusetts, October  20,  1869.  6.  Edward  Le 
Roy,  born  March  29,  1846,  mentioned  below. 

7.  Adelyn,  born  December  12,  1848.  married 
John  Roper,  of  Chicago :  children :  i.  John 
Jr.,  cofTee  grower  in  Orizaba,  Mexico;  ii. 
I'^leanor,  librarian  at  College  Point,  New  York; 
catalogurcr  in  Crerar  Library,  Chicago,  many 
years ;  iii.  Julia  Avery,  an  artist  in  New  York 
City :  iv.  Thomas  .-\very.  student  in  Massachu- 
setts  Institute  of  Technology,  class  of    1910. 

8.  Frederick  B.,  born  June  27,  1850,  married 
Nellie  Collar:  six  children,  two  of  whom  sur- 
vive, namely:    i.  William,  married  Marguerite 


MASSACilL'SETTS. 


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White;  one  child,  Jane  Haven,  born  1905;  ii. 
Helen,  married  A.  Bertram  Garcelon ;  one 
child,  Glenda  Gay,  born  January  8,  1909 ; 
resides  at  North  Lovell.  Maine. 

(VH)  Edward  Le  Roy,  son  of  Ephraim 
Childs  Stowell,  was  born  March  29,  1846, 
died  July  18,  1899.  H*-'  attended  the  schools 
of  Andover,  Wilbraham  and  Westfield,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  was  with  his  uncle,  Hanson 
Abbott,  in  Milwaukee  when  the  civil  war  broke 
out  and  he  enlisted  at  Madison,  Wisconsin, 
September  8,  1864,  in  Company  A,  Thirty- 
eighth  Regiment  of  Wisconsin,  as  a  private 
soldier.  lie  married,  March  31,  1870,  Jennie 
Cook,  of  Brookfield.  They  sailed  almost 
immediately  for  Germany  and  lived  in  Tiibinzen 
nearly  three  years,  during  which  time  he 
studied  medicine,  but  never  practiced  it.  He 
was  also  a  writer  of  some  ability.  Previous 
to  this  he  had  traveled  some  in  Switzerland, 
Gennany  and  England.  Susequently  Mr. 
Stowell  purchased  an  orange  grove  in  Anona, 
Florida,  and  cultivated  it  with  great  success ; 
his  death  occurred  there,  and  shortly  after- 
ward his  widow,  three  daughters  and  youngest 
son,  removed  to  Tampa,  where  they  now 
(1909)  reside.  Children:  i.  Faith  Haven, 
born  in  Tubingen,  Germany.  2.  Hanson 
Abbott,  born  in  Tiibingen,  Germany,  is  an 
Episcopal  clergyman  and  is  settled  at  Bates- 
ville,  Arkansas.  3.  Jennie,  born  in  London, 
England.  4.  Mar)-,  born  in  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, May  6,  1874,  married  Asa  Lowe  and 
they  reside  in  Tarpon  Springs.  Florida ;  chil- 
dren :  Earl  and  Marion  Lowe.  5.  Edward, 
born  in  Xorristown,  Pennsylvania.  September 
25.  1875,  'I'^fl  the  following  July.  6.  Charles 
Edward,  born  at  Maywood,  Illinois,  October 
14,  1882,  where  his  parents  resided  for  five 
years,  removing  to  Florida  in  January,  1883.  7. 
Katharine,  born  in  Florida.  December  26.  1887. 


John  How  Esq.,  of  W'arwickshire, 
HOWE     h'ngland,  was  the  ancestor  of  this 
branch    of   the    Howe    family    in 
America,      .'\ccnrding   to   Hudson,   the   Marl- 
borough  historian,  the   English  ancestor  was 


descended   from 


How,  of  Hodinhall, 


England,  and  related  to  Sir  Charles  How,  of 
Lancaster,  Lancashire,  England,  of  the  days 
of  Charles  I.  The  family  name  is  certainly 
English,  and  the  family  itself  very  numerous 
and  distinguished  in  the  old  country. 

CIT)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  How,  was 
the  immigrant  ancestor  and  settled  in  Sudbury, 
Massachusetts,  as  early  as  1639.  For  several 
generations  the  name  was  spelled  without  the 


final  "e,"  but  the  common  spelling  now  is 
Howe.  John  How  was  selectman  of  Sudbury 
in  1642  and  in  1655  was  appointed  by  the 
minister  and  selectmen  of  that  town  "to  see 
to  the  restraining  of  the  youth  on  the  Lord's 
Day."  He  lived  in  Sudbury  nearly  twenty 
years.  He  was  one  of  the  petitioners  for  the 
grant  which  constituted  Marlborough,  in  1755, 
and  sent  there  to  live  in  1657,  the  first  white 
man  to  make  his  home  within  the  present 
cit}-  limits  of  Marlborough.  His  cabin 
was  near  the  Indian  Plantation,  and  as 
a  neighbor  he  became  well  acquainted  with 
the  natives.  Hudson  states  that  he  used  to 
serve  as  arbitrator  for  them  in  cases  of  dis- 
agreement and  dispute.  He  opened  the  first 
public  house  in  Marlborough  in  1670.  He 
died  there  in  1687  and  in  his  will  bequeathed 
to  his  son  Thomas  among  other  items,  "the 
horse  he  troops  on."  His  dwelling  house  was 
situated  a  hundred  rods  from  the  Spring  Hill 
meeting  house,  a  little  east  of  the  present  road 
from  -Spring  Hill  to  Feltonville.  His  wife 
Mary  died  about  1687.  Children:  i.  John, 
born  about   1640,  married,  January  22,   1662, 


Elizabeth 


killed  bv  Indians  in  King 


Philip's  war.  2.  Samuel,  October  20,  1642, 
married.  June  5,  1663,  Martha  Bent.  3.  Sarah, 
September  25,  1644,  ■  married,  June,  1667, 
Samuel  Ward.  4.  Mary,  June  18,  1646,  died 
young.  5.  Isaac,  August  8,  1648,  married, 
June  17,  1671,  Frances  Wood,  6.  Josiah,  1650, 
mentioned  below.  7.  Mary,  June  18,  1651, 
married,  September  18,  1672,  John  Witherby. 

8.  Thomas,  June  12.  1656,  married  (first) 
Sarah  Hosmer ;  (second)  Mrs.  Mary  Barron, 

9.  Daniel,  June  3,  1658,  died  1661.  10.  Alex- 
ander, December  29,  1661,  died  January  fol- 
lowing. II.  Captain  Eleazer,  January  18, 
1662,  in  Marlborough, 

(HI)  Josiah  Howe,  son  of  John  (2)  How, 
burn  in  1650  in  Sudbury,  Massachusetts,  and 
died  in  171 1.  His  estate  was  administered  by 
his  widow.  He  was  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's 
war,  and  was  one  of  those  who  rallied  in  the 
defense  of  the  town  when  attacked  by  the 
Indians.  He  married,  March  18,  1672,  Mary 
Haynes,  daughter  of  Deacon  John  Haynes. 
She  married  (second)  John  Prescott.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Mary,  born  1672,  died  young.  2. 
Mary,  May  4,  1674,  died  young.  3.  Josiah, 
1678,  mentioned  below.  4.  Daniel,  May  5, 
1681.  5.  Ruth,  January  6,  1684,  married 
Bowker. 

(IV)  Josiah  (2),  son  of  Josiah  (i)  Howe, 
was  born  in  1678  in  Marlborough  and  settled 
tliere.      He    married    (first)    June    14,    1706, 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


Sarah  Bigelow.  He  married  (second)  No- 
vember 22,  1713,  Mary  ^klarble.  Children  of 
first  wife:  i.  Phineas,  born  December  4, 
1707.  2.  Abraham,  April  6,  1709,  mentioned 
below.  3.  Rachel.  Xovember  30,  1710.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:  4.  Sarah,  December  24, 
1714.  5.  .Mary,  May  22.  1716.  6.  Josiah,  De- 
cember 22,  1720,  married  .Mary  Goodale.  7. 
Jacob,  November  25,  1724.  married  Ruth 
Svvinerton. 

(V)  .\braham,  son  of  Josiah  (2)  Howe, 
was  born  in  Marlborough,  .April  6,  1709, 
died  May  12,  1790.  He  settled  in  Brook- 
field,  lie  married  Martha  Potter,  born 
at  Marlborough.  171 1.  died  at  Brookfield, 
December  20,  1791.  Children,  born  at  Brook- 
field:  I.  F.phraim,  .XoveiiibLT  23.  1733, 
mentioned     below.       2.     .Mjraham,     January 

4.  1735'  flied  January  20,  1756.  3.  .A.bner, 
June  28.   1736.     4.   Sarah,  October  24,   1738. 

5.  Rachel,  March  19,  1741-  6.  Martha,  May 
15,  1744.  7.  Persis,  July  23,  1749,  died  Febru- 
ary 7,  1760.  8.  Eli,  March  18,  1752.  9.  .\bra- 
ham.  March  4,  1758,  died  October  19,  1779. 

(\T  )  Ejjhraim,  son  of  .Vbraham  Howe,  was 
born  at  Brookfield,  November  23,  1733.  He 
married,  September.  1757,  Sarah  Gilbert,  of 
Brookfield.  Children,  born  at  Brookfield:  i. 
William,  .November  15,  .1759,  mentioned  below. 

2.  Molly,  .\ugust  13,  1761.  3.  Rachel,  Octo- 
ber 6.  1763.  4.  Sarah.  January  11,  1766,  mar- 
ried Simon  Crosby.  5.  Martha,  February  15, 
1768.  Ch  Eucy,  September  24,  1769,  married 
Flavel  Crosby.  7.  Josiah,  January  25,  1774, 
died  in  Maine. 

(\'I1 )  William,  son  of  Ephraim  Howe,  was 
bom  in  Brookfield,  November  15,  1759,  died 
there  December  15,  1843.  He  was  a  trader. 
His  house  was  burned  in  January,  1798.  He 
married,  November  2,  1780,  .Abigail  Crosby, 
born  1764,  died  February  14,  1816.  daughter 
of  Jabez  and  Mary  Cro.sby,  of  Brookfield. 
Children,  born  at  Brookfield  :    i.  Sally,  .August 

3,  1782.  2.  Nancy,  November  5,  1784.  3. 
Jabez  C,  February  5,  1787,  married  Eucretia 
Pope;  died  September  7,  i8Cv).  4.  Otis,  Octo- 
ber 27,  1788,  died  young.  5.  Otis,  January  10, 
1790.  6.  William,  November  20,  1792.  7. 
George,  .April  9,  1795.  8.  .Amos.  April  27, 
1797,  married  Nancy  Pope:  died  November 
23,  1828.  9.  Francis,  March  14,  1799.  10. 
C)liver,  .August  22,  i8oi,  died  November  3, 
1872,  unmarried.  11.  Charlotte  .Abigail,  Sc]j- 
tember  2y,  1804,  died  September  16,  1803.  12. 
Ciiarlotle  .Abigail,  January  19,  1807.  married, 
June  30,  1825,  Samuel  Johnson.  (Sec  John- 
son \T). 


\\'i!liam  Blake,  immigrant  ances- 
BL.AKE      tor,  was  baptized  at  Pitminster, 
England,  July   10,   1594,  son  of 
William    Blake    of   that    place.      He    married 
there,  September  23, 161 7,  Agnes  Band,  widow. 
Jt  is  thought  that  she  may  have  been  widow  of 
Richard  Band  and  daughter  of  Hugh  Thorne, 
of  Pitminster.  baptized  January  12,  1594.     In 
the  same  parish  in  England  four  of  the  chil- 
dren of  William  Blake  were  baptized,  but  from 
1624  to  1636  his  place  of  residence  is  unknown. 
He  is  believed  to  have  come  to  America  in  the 
fall  of   1635  or  early  in   1636,  and  remained 
at     Dorchester     or     Roxbury,     making     the 
acc|uaintance  there  of  William   Pynchon  and 
others  who  were  considering  a  plan  of  settle- 
ment in  the  Connecticut  valley.     .At  any  rate 
he  was  with   Pynchon  and  his  associates  on 
May  14  to  16,  1636,  when  they  drew  up  and 
signed  the  articles  of  the  association  at  -Aga- 
wam,  now  Springfield,  and  he  was  one  of  five 
to  assign  the  lots  and  manage  the  affairs  of 
the  colony.  He  drew  land  there,  but  apparently 
decided   to   return   to   Dorchester    and    settle. 
He    drew    land    in    South    Boston    in    Alarch, 
1637-38,  and  was  admitted  a  freeman,  Alarch 
14,  1638-39.     He  was  a  man  of  integrity  and 
ability.     He  was  constable  in  1641,  selectman 
in  1645-47,  and  in  165 1  was  on  the  committee 
to  build  the  new  meeting  house.     In  1656  he 
was  elected  town  clerk  and  "clerk  of  the  writs" 
for  the  county  of  Suft'olk.     These  offices  he 
held  until  within  si.x  weeks  of  his  death,  Octo- 
ber 25,  1663.     He  was  also  clerk  of  the  train 
band.     In  his  will  he  made  a  bequest  for  the 
repairing  of  the  burying  ground.     Soon  after 
his  death  his  widow  .Agnes  removed  to  Boston, 
probably  to  live  with  her  son  John  or  her  only 
daughter.    .Anne    Eeager.      She   died   in   Dor- 
chester.   William  Blake's  estate  was  appraised 
at  two  hundred  and  twenty-four  pounds.   Chil- 
dren :     I.  John,  baptized  at   Pitminster,  Eng- 
land, September  6,  1620,  died  at  Boston,  Jan- 
uary 25,   1688-89.     2.  .Anne,  baptized  at  Pit- 
minster. August  30.  1618.  died  at  Boston,  July 
12,  1681.     3".  William,  baptized  at  I'itminster, 
September  6,  1620,  died  at  Milton.  Massachu- 
.setts,  September  3,  1703.     4.  James,  baptized 
.April  27,  1624,  mentioned  below.     3.  Edward, 
sujjposed   to   be   the   youngest   child:   died   at 
Milton,  September  3,  1692. 

(II)  James,  son  of  William  Blake,  was 
born  in  "England  and  baptized  at  Pitminster, 
.April  27.  1624.  He  came  to  New  England 
with  his  father  and  married  (first)  about  165 1, 
Elizabeth  Clap,  daughter  of  Deacon  Edward 
and  Prudence  (Clap)  Clap.    He  married  (sec- 


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oiul)  in  Rehoboth,  September  17,  1695,  Eliza- 
beth (Smith)  Hunt,  widow  of  Peter  Hunt  and 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Judith  Smith,  from 
county  Norfolk,  England.  James  Blake  lived 
in  the  north  part  of  Dorchester.  His  house, 
built  about  1650,  was  of  such  substantial  char- 
acter that  the  town  voted  to  model  the  par- 
sonagQ  after  it  in  1669  and  it  remained  in  the 
Blake  family  until  1825.  In  1895  it  was 
removed  from  the  original  location  on  Cottage 
street  to  Richardson  Park,  and  the  Dorchester 
Historical  Society  secured  possession  of  it 
and  have  fitted  it  up  for  their  purposes.  Mr. 
Blake  was  a  busy  man.  From  1658  to  1685 
there  is  scarcely  a  year  that  he  did  not  serve 
the  town  in  some  official  capacity.  He  was 
selectman  thirteen  years,  later  constable,  deputy 
to  the  general  court,  clerk  of  the  writs,  recorder, 
sergeant  of  the  militia.  He  was  deacon  of  the 
Dorchester  church  for  fourteen  years,  and 
ruling  elder  the  same  length  of  time.  He 
was  often  called  upon  as  administrator  and  to 
settle  estates.  He  died  June  28,  1700,  leaving 
a  will  dated  two  days  before  his  death.  His 
estate  was  valued  at  four  hundred  and  sev- 
enty-three pounds.  He  and  his  wife  are 
buried  in  the  old  graveyard  at  Dorchester, 
and  the  stones  that  mark  their  graves  are  in 
excellent  condition.  Children:  i.  James,  born 
August  15,  1652,  mentioned  below.  2.  John, 
IMarch  16,  1656-57.  3.  Elizabeth,  October  3, 
1658.  4.  Jonathan,  July  12,  1660,  died  No- 
vember 10,  1660.  5.  Sarah,  February  28,  1665, 
died  May  22,  1666.  Joseph,  August  27,  1667. 
(HI)  James  (2),  son  of  James  ( i )  Blake, 
was  born  at  Dorchester,  August  15,  1652,  died 
October  22,  1732.  He  married  (first)  Febru- 
ary 6,  1681.  Hannah  ^lacey,  who  died  June  i, 
1683,  aged  twenty-three  years,  daughter  of 
George  and  Susannah  Macey,  of  Taunton.  He 
married  (second  )  July  8.  1684,  Ruth  Bachellor, 
born  in  Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  May  9, 
1662,  died  in  Dorchester,  January  11,  1752, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Deborah  (Smith) 
Bachellor.  There  has  long  been  a  tradition 
in  the  family  that  the  first  house  upon  Dor- 
chester Neck  (now  South  Boston)  was  erected 
by  James  Blake.  An  investigation  made  a  few 
years  ago  brought  to  light  evidence  that  Cap- 
tain James  Foster  had  a  dwelling  there  as  early 
as  1676,  but  Blake's  hou.se  was  witliout  doubt 
the  second,  built  on  the  peninsula  about  1681. 
Although  isolated  from  the  village  of  Dor- 
chester the  hou.se  was  beautifully  situated  to 
command  a  view  of  the  harbor  and  shore.  It 
was  on  the  road  to  Castle  William,  later  Fort 
Independence,  and  at  times  it  became  a  sort  of 


house  of  entertainment  for  the  English  officers 
at  the  fort.  His  new  house  was  almost  entirely 
destroyed  by  the  British  troops,  February  13, 
1776.  Mr.  Blake  was  a  farmer.  He  was 
deacon  of  the  Dorchester  church  twenty-three 
years.  Children:  i.  Hannah,  born  Septem- 
ber 16,  1685.  died  October  2,  1686.  2.  James, 
April  29,  1688,  married  Wait  Simpson ;  died 
December  4,  1750 ;  author  of  "Blake's  Annals," 
the  original  of  which  is  in  posession  of  the 
New  England  Historic  Genealogical  Society. 
3.  Increase,  June  8,  1699,  mentioned  below. 

(I\')  Increase,  son  of  James  (2)  Blake, 
was  born  at  Dorchester,  June  8,  1699.  He 
married,  in  Boston,  July  23,  1724,  Anne  Gray, 
born  March  16,  1704-05,  died  June  20,  1751, 
daughter  of  Edward  and  Susanna  (Harrison) 
Gray.  He  shared  with  his  only  brother  James 
in  his  father's  estate  in  1732,  but  soon  after- 
ward sold  all  his  share  of  the  real  estate.  He 
resided  in  Boston  where  all  his  sixteen  chil- 
dren were  born,  probably  in  the  vicinity  of 
;\lilk  and  Batterymarch  streets.  He  was  a 
tin  plate  worker,  and  his  trade  was  followed 
by  several  of  his  sons  and  grandsons.  He  was 
an  innholder  on  Merchant's  Row  in  1740. 
I'roni  1734  to  1748  he  was  sealer  of  weights 
and  measures.  In  1737  he  leased  of  the  town 
of  Boston  one  of  the  shops  on  the  town  dock 
at  an  annual  rental  of  thirty  pounds,  and  in 
1744  requested  a  renewal.  He  died  probably 
in  1770.  It  is  stated  that  he  was  buried  in  the 
(iray  and  Blake  tomb.  No.  74,  at  the  Granary 
buryitig  grounds.  Children:  i.  Ann,  born 
May  8,  1725,  married  Thomas  Andrews;  died 
June  2,  1752  (Granary  burying'  ground 
inscription).  2.  Increase,  October  28,  1726, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Edward,  July  9,  1728, 
married  Rebecca  Ilallowell.  4.  James,  March 
20,  1730.  5.  Harrison,  September  10,  1731. 
6.  \\'illiam,  September  14,  1732,  married 
Dorcas  Ward.  7.  Hannah,  September  9,  1733, 
married  Colonel  Thomas  Dawes.  8.  Susannah, 
October  14.  1734,  married  Ca|)tain  Caleb 
Prince.  9.  John,  June  22,  1736,  married  .Anne 
Clarage.  10.  Thomas,  January  14,  1737-38. 
II.  Benjamin.  May  9,  1739,  married  Elizabeth 
Harris.  12.  Joseph,  July  5,  1740,  married 
Sarah  Dawes.  13.  Nathaniel,  .September  28, 
1741,  died  October  15,  1741.  14.  Ellis  Gray, 
.Sei)tcmber  9,  1743,  married  Jane  Cook.  15. 
Mary,  August  17,  1745,  married  Simon  Whip- 
ple. 16.  -Sarah,  August  18,  1746,  married 
Joseph  Bachelder. 

(V)  Increase  (2),  son  of  Increase  (i) 
Blake,  was  born  in  Boston,  October  28,  1726, 
and  married  there,  April  18,  1754,  Anne  Crafts, 


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born  January  lo,  1734.  died  March  21,  1762, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Anne  (White) 
Crafts.  A  few  years  ago  a  gravestone  with 
her  name  and  date  of  death  was  found  on 
Boston  Common.  He  married  (second)  De- 
cember 7,  1762,  EHzabeth  Bridge,  born  1731, 
I)orliaps  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Mary 
I '.ridge,  of  J'.oston.  She  died  of  small  pox  in 
Worcester,  November  22,  1792,  aged  sixty- 
one  years,  and  was  buried  in  a  pasture  in  the 
northern  i)art  of  the  city,  near  what  is  now 
Nelson  place.  An  obituary  notice  in  the  Spy 
of  December,  1792,  refers  to  her  as  "one  of 
the  noblest  women  earth  was  ever  blessed 
with."  ".A  living  Christian."  Mr.  Blake  was  a 
tin  plate  worker  in  Boston,  having  a  shop  on 
King  street,  now  State  street,  near  the  old 
Stale  I  louse.  He  is  said  to  have  supplied  the 
Provincial  troops  with  canteens,  cartridge 
boxes  and  the  like,  but  on  refusing  to  make 
them  for  the  British  troops  was  driven  from 
town.  His  wife  was  equally  patriotic.  Her 
Bible,  which  is  owned  by  Mrs.  E.  A.  Knowl- 
ton,  of  Rochester,  Minnesota,  gives  evidence 
of  an  encounter  she  had  with  a  British  soldier. 
One  day  when  sitting  in  front  of  her  door 
reading  her  15ible,  she  was  asked  by  a  soldier 
as  he  passed  what  she  was  reading.  She 
re])lied,  "the  story  of  the  cross,"  upon  which 
he  answered  that  he  would  fix  her  Bible  so 
she  would  always  remember  the  cross ;  and 
with  his  sword  he  made  a  deej)  cut  across 
the  page  through  many  leaves.  The  story  has 
several  forms  as  it  has  been  handed  down, 
but  the  Bible,  the  cut  and  the  sword  of  the 
British  soldier  are  undoubtedly  realities.  When 
forced  to  leave  Boston,  just  after  the  battle 
of  iUmker  Hill,  he  removed  his  wife  and  seven 
children  to  Worcester,  sacrificing  nearly  all  of 
his  F.oston  projjerty.  He  opened  a  shop  in 
Worcester  at  Lincoln  Square  and  worked  at 
his  trade.  In  1780  and  for  a  number  of  years 
he  was  jailer.  He  died  in  Worcester,  Febru- 
ary 28,  1795.  His  'estate  was  appraised  for 
forty-two  pounds  and  proved  to  be  insolvent. 
The  claims  amounted  to  $91.49,  the  net  assets 
were  only  eleven  shillings,  six  and  a  half 
pence — $1.92 — to  be  divided.  Twelve  of  his 
children  were  born  in  Boston,  the  thirteenth 
at  Worcester.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Anne, 
born  August  9,  1755,  died  December  G.  \~C)0. 

2.  Thomas.  December   20,    175'').  died  young. 

3.  William.  March  12,  1758,  died  September  7, 
1759.  4.  Elizabeth,  died  March  7,  1760.  3. 
James,  died  January  22,  1762.  6.  James,  born 
January  29,  1762,  married,  July  14,  1784, 
Rebecca    Cuimingham.      Children    of    second 


wife:  7.  Mary,  November  5,  1763,  married, 
September  15,  1797,  Andrew  Tufts.  8.  Persis, 
March  31,  1765,  married,  December  8,  1790, 
Samuel  Case.  9.  Thomas  Dawes,  October  23, 
1768,  mentioned  below.  10.  Ebenezer,  May 
31,  1 77 1,  supposed  to  have  been  lost  at  sea. 
II.  Sarah,  November  25,  1772.  12.  Susanna, 
April  4,  1774,  married,  August  3,  1800,  George 
Anson  Howes.     13.  Dorothy,  June  15,  1781. 

(\T)  Dr.  Thomas  Dawes,  son  of  Increase 
(2)  Blake,  was  born  in  Boston,  October  23, 
1768,  died  in  Farmington,  Maine,  November 
20,  1849.  He  spent  his  early  days  in  Wor- 
cester and  attended  Dr.  Payson's  celebrated 
school  from  which  he  graduated  with  the  high- 
est honors  of  his  class.  He  practiced  for  a 
short  time  as  a  physician  at  Petersham,  ]\Iass- 
achusetts,  but  in  1799  settled  in  Farmington 
Falls,  Maine.  He  was  a  ripe  scholar,  and  to 
quote  the  history  of  Farmington,  "possessed 
of  those  strong  virtues  acquired  during  the 
troublous  times  in  which  his  early  life  was 
spent."  He  married,  January  3,  1802,  ]\Iartha 
Norton,  born  May  i,  1786,  died  September  30, 
1873,  daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Lydia  (Clag- 
horn)  Norton,  of  \'ineyard  Haven.  Massachu- 
setts. Children,  all  born  in  Farmington:  i. 
Cordelia,  April  19,  1804,  died  May  24.  1808. 
2.  Adeline,  September  16,  1806,  married,  April 
9.  1835,  John  F.  \\'.  Gould.  3.  Martha,  No- 
vember 12,  1808,  married,  .April  27,  1828, 
David  C.  Morrill.  4.  Thomas  Dawes,  Febru- 
ary 4,  181 1,  married.  ^lay  13.  1841.  Hannah 
D.  Norton.  5.  Increase,  December  8,  1812, 
married,  September  26,  1844,  Sarah  Farns- 
worth.  6.  Cornelius  N.,  February  8.  181 5,  died 
August  29,  1827.  7.  Ebenezer  Norton,  July 
30,  1817,  married,  February  16,  1843,  Harriet 
Cummings.  8.  George  Fordyce.  May  20,  1819, 
mentioned  below.  9.  Jotham  Sewall,  February 
6,  1821,  died  March  5,  1881.  10.  Freeman 
Norton,  June  i,  1822.  married  Helen  S.  Baker. 

(\TI)  George  Fordyce.  son  of  Dr.  Thomas 
D.  Blake,  was  born  May  20.  1819,  at  Farming- 
ton.  Maine,  died  in  Boston.  July  22,  1905.  He 
began  his  business  career  at  an  early  age,  and 
before  he  was  thirty  held  a  responsible  posi- 
tion as  mechanical  engineer  at  the  Cambridge 
brick-yards.  His  mechanical  skill  led  him  to 
devise  several  useful  inventions,  among  which 
was  a  water  meter  which  brought  his  name 
into  public  prominence.  His  greatest  achieve- 
ment, however,  was  the  Blake  steam  pump, 
which  he  devised  originally  for  use  in  his  own 
business.  This  pumj)  was  so  successful  that 
he  devoted  most  of  his  time  and  energies  to  its 
manufacture  and  improvement.     He  must  be 


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counted  as  one  of  the  great  mechanical 
inventors  of  the  nineteenth  century.  LJnhke 
many  of  them  he  reaped  richly  of  the  fruit  of 
his  invention.  Tlie  lilake  pump  is  now  manu- 
factured by  a  corporation  known  as  the  George 
F.  Blake  Manufacturing  Company.  Mr.  Blake 
made  his  home  at  various  times  in  Cambridge, 
Medford.  Belmont,  and  lastly  in  Boston.  He 
married  (first)  at  Lynnfield,  Massachusetts, 
January  i,  1845,  Sarah  Silver  Skinner,  born 
in  Lynnfield,  June  18,  1821,  died  in  Boston, 
October  14,  1856,  daughter  of  William  and 
Lucy  (Aborn)  Skinner.  He  married  (second) 
at  North  Sandwich,  December  24,  1857,  Mar- 
tha J.  Skinner,  born  June  24,  1835,  died  June 
2, 1897,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife.  Children  of  first 
wife:  I.  Thomas  Dawes,  born  at  Cambridge 
October  25,  1847,  married.  May  18,  1870,  Susan 
P.  Symounds.  2.  Sara  Augusta,  Cambridge, 
December  6,  1853,  married,  October  21,  1885, 
Roland  H.  Boutwell ;  died  February  27,  1891. 
Children  of  second  wife:  3.  George  Fordyce, 
Medfortl,  February  9,  1859,  married,  April 
29,  1885,  Carrie  H.  Turner.  4.  Grace  Bertha, 
IMedford,  August  30,  1863,  died  there  Feb- 
ruary 29,  1868.  5.  Jennie  Maria,  Medford, 
April  29,  1869,  married  Arthur  Stoddard  John- 
son. (See  Johnson  VHI).  6.  Alice  Norton, 
Belmont,  July  6,  1872,  married  James  M. 
Newell,  June  6,  1901. 


The    Atherton    familv    of 

ATHERTON  England  had  its  seat  in 
Lancashire,  and  in  their 
manorial  estate  the  town  of  Atherton  lies  ten 
miles  northwest  of  Manchester.  Their  lands 
included  rich  coal  mines  and  quarries,  iron 
works,  and  is  the  wealthiest  cotton  manufac- 
turing district  in  the  world.  The  family  had 
immense  possessions,  and  was  one  of  the 
wealthiest  of  the  commoners  of  England.  The 
coat-of-arms  of  the  family  were :  (jules,  three 
sparrow-hawks,  argent.  Crest :  a  swan  argent. 
.Another  crest :  on  a  perch  a  hawk  billed  proper. 
These  arms  hang  in  the  private  chapel  of  the 
Athertons  in  Leigh,  in  the  family  vault. 

(I)  Robert  de  Atherton  lived  from  1199  to 
r2i6,  and  was  high  sheriff  of  the  county  under 
King  John.  He  held  the  manor  of  Atherton 
of  the  Barons  of  Warrington. 

(H)  William  de  .Atherton  held  the  manors 
of  .Atherton  and  Pennington  in  1251.  By  inter- 
marriage with  the  Derby  family  the  title  is  now 
vestefl  in  that  line. 

(HL)  William  Atherton  of  .Atherton  in 
13 12,  married  Agnes . 


(IV)  Henry  Atherton  of  Atherton  from 
1 3 16  to  1330,  married,  in  1387,  Agnes . 

(  \  )  -Sir  William  .\therton,  knight,  married 
(first )  Jane,  daughter  of  William  and  sister  of 
Sir  Ralphe,  Woberly,  knight;  (second)  Mar- 
gtrie,  a  widow,  in  1396. 

(\T)  Sir  William  Atherton,  knight,  born 
1381,  died  1416,  married  Agnes,  only  daugh- 
ter and  heiress  of  Ralphe  \'ernon.  Baron  of 
Shipbroke. 

(X'H)  Sir  William  Atherton  married  (first) 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Pilkinton,  knight. 

(  \  HI)  Sir  William  Atherton  married  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Sir  John  Byron,  knight, 
and  died  1441. 

(IX)  John  Atherton  had  a  son  George, 
mentioned  below. 

(X)  George  Atherton  was  born  1487,  and 
married  Anne  Ashton. 

(XI)  Sir  John  Atherton,  knight,  was  born 
1541,  and  married  (first)  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Sir  Alexander  Ratclifte,  knight.  The  mar- 
riage was  recorded  in  the  visitation  of  1533, 
where  the  arms  were  also  entered.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Margaret,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Caterall.  He  was  high  .sheriff'  under  three 
sovereigns,  in  1551,  1555,  and  1561,  and  com- 
mander of  the  i\Iilitary  Hundred  in  1553. 

(XII)  John  .Atherton  Esq.  was  born  1556. 
He  was  high  sheriff  in  1583,  and  married 
(first)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Byron, 
knight;  (second)  Katherine,  daughter  and 
co-heiress  of  John,  Lord  Convers,  of  Hornby 
Castle. 

(  XIH  )  John  .Atherton  was  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  Atherton.  He  had  a  half  brother 
John,  daughter  of  Katherine. 

(XI\')  John  Atherton,  son  of  Jnlm  the 
elder,  died  1646.  He  married  Eleanor,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Thomas  Ireland,  of  Beansey,  knight. 

(  I )  General  Humphrey  Atherton,  son  of 
I'Mmund  Atherton,  was  undoubtedly  of  the 
ancient  English  family  whose  pedigree  is  given 
above.  He  is  the  first  in  the  American  line. 
He  was  born  about  1607-8,  and  lived  in  Win- 
wick,  Lancashire,  England.  He  came  to  New 
England  in  1635  in  the  ship  "James,"  with  his 
wife  and  three  children,  and  settled  in  Dor- 
chester. He  signed  the  covenant  of  the  Dor- 
chester church  in  1636,  and  was  admitted  a 
freeman  May  2,  1638.  He  was  deputy  to  the 
general  court  that  year,  also  from  1639  to 
1641,  and  in  1653  from  Springfield,  when  he 
was  chosen  speaker.  The  ne.xt  year  he  was 
chosen  assistant,  and  soon  after  major-general. 
He  was  much  employed  in  negotiations  with 


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the  Jiidians,  and  made  use  of  his  influence 
with  them  in  a  great  ])urchase  in  Rhode  Island. 
He  was  thrown  from  his  horse,  by  riding  over 
a  cow,  and  died  the  next  day,  at  Boston,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1661.  The  manner  of  his  death  is 
made  a  matter  of  comment  by  Hubbard  as  one 
of  the  judgments  of  God.  He  was  captain  of 
the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company 
in  1650.  He  married  Mary,  sister  of  Nathaniel 
Wales,  and  probably  daughter  of  John  Wales, 
of  Idle.  England.  She  died  in  1672.  He  is 
buried  in  the  old  Dorchester  cemetery.  His 
epitaph  reads : 

"Here  lies  our  Captain  &  Major  of  Suffolk  was  withal; 

A  godly  magistrate  was  he,  and   Major   General; 

Two  troop  horse  with  him  here  conies,  snch   worth  his  love 

did  crave 
Ten  companies  of  foot  also  mourning  march   to  his  grave. 
Let  all  that  read  be  sure  to  keep  the   faith  as  he  has  done 
With   Christ   he  lives  now  around   his  name   was   Humphrey 

Athcrton." 

Children:  I.  Elizabeth,  baptized  at  Win- 
wick,  England,  September  28,  1628;  married, 
1650,  Timothy  Mather.  2.  John,  baptized  at 
Winwick,  December  26,  1629.  3.  Isabel,  bap- 
tized at  Winwick,  January  23,  1630:  married 
Nathaniel  Wales  Jr.  4.  Jonathan,  soldier  in 
King  rhili])'s  war.  5.  Consider,  mentioned 
below.  6.  Mary,  born  about  i(<47,  married, 
April  9,  1667,  Joseph  Weeks.  7.  Margaret, 
married.  December  30,  1659,  James  Trow- 
bridge. 8.  Re.st,  baptized.  May  26,  1639;  mar- 
ried, March  15.,  1661,  Obadiah  Swift.  9.  In- 
crease, born  January  2,  1641-2;  lost  at  sea 
about  1675.  10.  Thankful,  born  April  29, 
1644;  married,  February  2,  1665,  Thomas 
Bird,  of  Dorchester.  11.  Hope,  baptized  Au- 
gust 30,  1646;  graduated  at  Harvard  1665; 
married  Sarah  Hollister.  12.  \\'atching.  bap- 
tized August  24,  1651  ;  married,  January  23, 
1677.  Elizabeth  Rigby.  13.  Patience,  born 
.•\pril  2,  1654;  married  July  7,  1685,  Isaac 
I  lumpliri'vs. 

(II)  Consider,  son  of  Humphrey  .\therton, 
was  born  in  Dorchester,  and  married  there, 
December  19,   1671,  Ann   .\nnablc ;    (second) 

Hannah ,    who    died    .\pril    26,    1687. 

Children,  born  at  Dorchester:  1.  Humphrey, 
horn  January  26,  1672;  mentioned  below.  2. 
John,  born  May  5,  1677;  died  June  22,  1679. 
3.  .'\nna,  born  February  17,  1679.  4.  Sarah, 
born  May  8.  1683. 

(III)  Humphrey,  son  of  Consider  .\ther- 
ton,  was  born  January  26,  1672,  and  died  at 
Stoughton,    February   2,    1748.      lie   married 

Elizabeth  ,  who  died  at  her  son's  house 

in  Diircliester.  December  24,  1765.  in  her  nine- 


tieth year.  Children,  born  at  Dorchester:  i. 
Elizabeth,  April  14,  1701.  2.  Captain  Humph- 
rey, June  5,   1707;  died  November   17,   1786. 

3.  Anna,  May  3,  1710.  4.  John,  May  13,  1714, 
mentioned  below.  5.  Considerj  February  g, 
1716-17. 

(IV)  Deacon  John,  son  of  Humphrey  Ather- 
ton,  was  born  May  13,  1714.  He  married,  Jan- 
uary 26,  1 74 1,  (intentions  dated  October  10, 
1740),  Rachel  Wentworth,  of  Stoughton,  born 
March  13,  1714-5,  died  August  11,  1798.  He 
died  at  Stoughton,  October  4,  1785.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Elizabeth,  born  May  20,  1744;  mar- 
ried   Tucker,  of  Alilton.    2.  John,  born 

July  21.  1747:  mentioned  below.     3.  William. 

4.  Samuel. 

(\')  Deacon  John  (2),  son  of  Deacon  John 
(i)  Atherton,  was  born  at  Stoughton.  July  21, 
1747,  and  died  there  July  3,  1825.  He  mar- 
ried there,  July  2j.  1768.  ^iary  .-\dams,  born 
February  21,  1751,  died  June  26,  1843,  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  Jedediah  Adams,  and  second  cousin 
to  President  John  Adams.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution,  sergeant  in  Captain  Peter 
Talbot's  company.  Colonel  Lemuel  Robinson's 
regiment,  answered  the  alarm  at  Lexington, 
April  19,  1775  ;  also  corporal  in  Captain  Robert 
Swan's  company,  Colonel  Benjamin  Gill's 
regiment,  in  1777.  on  duty  at  Squantum  when 
the  British  fleet  left  Boston  harbor.  Children : 
I.  John,  born  December  2,  1769;  married  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1797,  Sally  Bird;  died  at  Savannah, 
Georgia.  .September  21,  1824.  2.  Jedediah, 
born  .March  3,  1772;  married  Hannah  Drake. 
3.  Hum])hrey,  born  January  20,  1774;  died 
August  31,  1778.  4.  Mary,  born  ]\Iarch  21, 
1776;  died  August  20,  1778.  5.  Rachel,  born 
May  3,  1778;  married  .Abraham  Capen.  6. 
Elijah,  born  July  25,  1780;  married  April  19, 
1803,  Ruth  Tisdale;  (second)  Harriet'Crane ; 
(third)  Laura  Gilmore.  7.  Samuel,  born  Sep- 
tember 19.  1784:  mentioned  below.  8.  Alary, 
born  December  i,  1786:  married  May  29,  1810, 
.Xbiezer  Packard;  died  June  17,  1840.  9. 
-Nathan,  born  October  25.  1788;  married  July 
6,  1823,  Amity  Morton;  died  1858. 

(^T)  Samuel,  son  of  Deacon  John  (2) 
.\therton,  was  born  September  19,  1784,  and 
lived  on  the  homestead  at  Stoughton.  He 
married.  February  28.  1811.  .Abigail  Poih\  born 
December  3.  1785,  died  March  19.  i8ri8,daugli- 
ter  of  Raljih  and  .Abigail  (Soran)  Po]ie.  of 
.Stoughton.  He  was  of  an  energetic  tempera- 
ment, cheerful  dis])osition.  and  a  good  con- 
versationalist when  impediment  in  his  speech 
permitted,  being  afflicted  with  stammering,  and 
as  he   had   a  good   voice   and   ear   for   music. 


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often  sang  \v]iat  he  wished  to  say,  when  he 
foimd  himself  unable  to  talk  well.  He  took 
an  active  part  in  politics,  and  was  selectman 
of  the  town.  He  voted  at  every  election  from 
1805  until  1876,  when  his  last  vote  was  for 
the  Hayes  electoral  ticket.  He  was  a  success- 
ful farmer,  and  at  one  time  owned  the  largest 
amount  of  land  in  the  town.  He  and  his 
brother  Nathan  were  among  the  founders  of 
the  Stoughton  Musical  Society.  Children:  i. 
T^Iary,  married  William  Balcher.  2.  \'ashti, 
married  James  Swan.  3.  Samuel,  born  Janu- 
ary 26,  181 5;  mentioned  below.  4.  Abigail, 
married  Joseph  Swan.  5.  James,  born  May  6, 
1819;  mentioned  below.    6.  William. 

(VH)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i) 
Atherton,  was  born  in  Stoughton,  January  26, 
1815,  and  was  educated  in  the  common  schools. 
Until  twenty  years  of  age  he  remained  on  the 
homestead,  and  in  1835  went  to  Boston  as 
clerk  for  William  Capen,  shoe  and  leather 
dealer.  Two  years  later  he  took  a  position  as 
bookkeeper  with  Prouty  &  Company,  Com- 
mercial street,  wholesale  hardware,  for  one 
year.  Pie  then  established  himself  in  business 
as  a  retail  dealer  in  boots  and  shoes  on  Wash- 
ington street,  in  company  with  Edwin  Battles, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Battles  &  Atherton. 
The  firm  was  dissolved  the  next  year  and  Mr. 
Atherton  was  employed  by  Caleb  Stetson, 
wholesale  shoe  and  leather  dealer,  corner  of 
Broad  and  Central  streets.  On  January  i, 
1842,  he  was  admitted  into  partnership,  the 
new  firm  being  C.  Stetson  &  Company.  Three 
years  later  Mr.  Stetson  retired  from  the  firm, 
still  being  a  special  partner,  however,  and  the 
business  was  conducted  under  the  name  of 
Samuel  .\therton.  Three  years  later  Mr. Stet- 
son again  took  an  active  interest,  the  name 
being  S.  Atherton  &  Company,  and  two  years 
later,  .Atherton,  .Stetson  &  Company.  In  1852 
James  and  William  .Xtherton  were  admitted 
as  partners,  and  continued  the  Stoughton  man- 
ufactury  as  their  part  of  the  work.  In  1861 
Samuel  and  James  Atherton  withdrew  from 
the  firm,  and  soon  afterward  George  E.  Ather- 
ton, son  of  Samuel,  was  taken  into  the  firm. 
The  business  was  one  of  the  most  successful 
in  its  line  in  Boston.  Mr.  .Atherton  married 
(first)  .September  16,  1841,  Tenii)erance  Hol- 
brook,  w^ho  died  February  24,  1849,  daughter 
of  Colonel  Joseph  and  Mary  (Rich)  Ilolbrook, 
of  Boston.  He  married  (second)  July  3,  1856, 
Susan  Baker,  died  May  18,  1858,  daughter 
of  Captain  Richard  and  Jerusha  (Rich)  Baker. 
He  married  (third )  October  6,  1869,  Mrs. 
Susan    M.    Holton.    daughter   of   Joseph    and 


Margaret  (Richardson)  Bassett.  He  resided 
a  part  of  his  married  life  in  Charlestown,  and 
removed  to  Dorchester,  where  he  occupied  a 
beautiful  residence.  He  was  director  in  the 
New  England  Bank,  Prescott  Insurance  Com- 
pany, Massachusetts  Loan  aitd  Trust  Com- 
pany, president  of  the  Dorchester  Gas-Light 
Company,  and  connected  with  various  other 
corporations.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican, 
and  a  member  of  the  legislature  of  the  state 
in  1 8' '17-70-77.  In  religion  he  was  a  Unitarian. 
He  was  a  man  of  eminently  social  qualities, 
and  had  many  warm  friends.  By  his  enter- 
prise and  business  sagacity  he  won  a  high 
place  in  the  financial  circles  of  Boston.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:  i.  Thomas  H.  2.  George 
Edward,  born  May  2,  1845  ;  mentioned  below. 
3.  Charles  Francis,  born  May  2,  1847.  4. 
Sarah  Ann,  born  November  6,  1848;  married 
George  P.  Sewall,  of  Boston,  and  had  Ather- 
ton and  Mabel  A.  Sewall.  Children  of  sec- 
ond wife :  5.  Helen  L.,  married  Edward  H. 
Hawes,  of  Boston.  6.  Susan  H.,  married  W. 
Morton  Robinson,  of  Lynn. 

(\TII)  George  Edward,  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
Atherton,  was  born  May  2,  1845  and  died 
October  29.  1905.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
firm  with  his  uncles  and  father.  He  married 
(first)  Emma  Coffin:  (second)  Isabelle 
(King)  Ray.  Children  of  first  wife:  i. 
George  Edward  Jr.,  married  Corinne  Mack : 
resided  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  2. 
Edith,  married,  February  19,  1906,  Philip  S. 
Johnson  (see  Johnson).  3.  Emma,  married 
"juhn  S.  Lawrence,  nei^hew  of  Bishop  Lawrence, 
and  had  Eloise  Lawrence. 

(VH)  James,  son  of  Samuel  Atherton,  was 
born  at  Stoughton,  May  6,  1819.  He  had  a 
common  school  and  academic  education,  and 
remained  with  his  father  until  he  was  of  age, 
teaching  several  winter  terms  in  the  village 
schonl.  Soon  after  marriage  he  began  the  manu- 
facture of  boots  and  shoes  with  his  brother 
William,  under  the  firm  name  of  J.  &  W. 
AthertDU.  This  firm  was  finally  merged  with 
the  firm  of  Atherton,  Stetson  &  Company,  the 
.\thcrtons  being  the  brothers  James,  William 
and  Samuel.  On  account  of  failing  health  he 
retired  from  active  business  in  1867,  his  con- 
nection with  the  company  ceasing  in  1861. 
.Mthough  his  health  was  never  robust,  he  was 
a  man  of  energy,  and  devoted  his  time  to  his 
business  with  zeal.  He  was  a  quick  and  ready 
speaker,  and  in  early  life  took  great  interest 
in  debating  societies.  He  was  a  great  reader, 
and  kept  abreast  of  the  times.  In  politics  he 
was    a    Whig    and    later    a    Republican.      He 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


attended  the  Universalist  cliurch.  His  business 
was  conducted  with  system  and  order,  and  all 
his  dealings  were  characterized  by  honesty  and 
justice.  He  married  (tir.st)  May  5,  1853,  Phebe 
Reed,  born  February  9,  1831,  died  March  11, 
1868,  daughter  of  John  and  I'hcbe  Reed,  of 
Boston.  Her  father  was  a  civil  engineer  of 
Boston  for  many  years.  He  married  (second) 
June  I,  i86y,  Mary  B.  Marshall,  of  Boston, 
who  died  l-'cbruary  5,  1880.  Children,  all  by 
first  wife:  I.  James,  born  July  26,  1854;  edu- 
cated at  public  schools  and  Dean  Academy.  2. 
William,  born  April  30,  1859;  educated  in 
public  schools  and  commercial  college.  3. 
Walter,  born  March  18,  1863;  educated  in 
public  schools  and  Philliiis  .\ndover  Academy  ; 
graduated  at  Harvard  1885;  took  degree  of 
C.  E.  in  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology, 
1886;  then  s])ecial  course  in  architecture; 
w^orkcd  as  draughtsman  five  years,  then  studied 
architecture  in  Europe  two  years ;  started  to 
practice  his  profession  in  1895;  is  a  Republi- 
can in  politics  and  Unitarian  in  religion. 

(VH)  William,  son  of  Samuel  (i)  Ather- 
ton,  married  Mary  Edwa'ds  Dwight.  She 
resides  at  144  Commonwealth  avenue.  Boston. 
Children:  I.  .Mary  Louise,  died  June.  1908.  2. 
Frederick  William,  graduated  at  Andover, 
1882;  Harvard,  1886;  resides  in  New  York.  3. 
Edward  Dwight,  resides  at  Pottstown,  Penn- 
sylvania :  musician  ;  studied  theory  and  compo- 
.sition  in  Munich  and  Berlin,  Germany,  three 
years,  and  ]niblished  many  vocal  and  instru- 
mental selections.  4.  Percy  Lee,  graduate  of 
Boston  Latin  .School,  Phillips  .Andover  (1899) 
and  Harvard  (1903). 

Thomas  Betts.  immigrant  ances- 
BETTS  tor,  was  born  in  England  in  1618, 
and  came  to  New  England  as 
early  as  1639.  He  w^as  one  of  the  founders  of 
Ciuilford.  Coiniecticut.  He  was  given  a  home 
lot  of  an  acre  and  a  half,  in  the  first  division 
of  laufl  in  1640.  one  of  the  most  desirable  lots 
in  the  town,  being  situated  ne.xt  that  of  the 
minister,  Mr.  Whitfield,  on  a  rising  ground, 
before  which  the  plain  stretched  as  far  as  the 
sound.  I  ic  had  also  seven  other  tracts  of  land 
containing  aliout  fifty  acres.  He  took  the 
freeman's  oath.  August  14.  1645.     He  married 

Mary .    Opinions  differ  as  to  whether 

he  came  to  C.uilford  from  Mil  ford  or  Weilurs- 
field.  Connecticut.  On  November  17,  id.sj. 
he  sold  his  "out  lands"  to  Henry  Kingsnortli, 
and  three  days  later  he  sold  his  home  lot  to 
George  Highland.  He  removed  to  Milford, 
Connecticut,   where   he  lived   until    1660.      In 


that  vear  he  purchased  the  home  lots  of 
Nathaniel  Eli  and  Ralph  Keeler,  in  Norwalk, 
on  the  east  side  of  the  Norwalk  river,  later 
selling  half  of  it.  He  is  called  a  planter.  He 
was  admitted  a  freeman,  October  13,  1664, 
and  received  a  grant  of  land  in  Norwalk.  In 
February,  1672,  he  appears  in  the  census  as 
having  the  largest  family-  in  the  town.  His 
name  is  prominent  in  certain  church  contro- 
versies in  1678.  .\ppealing  to  the  general 
court  to  decide  for  them  on  the  location  of 
the  new  meeting  house,  they  being  unable  to 
settle  the  matter,  the  court  recommended  that 
they  "solemnly  commit  the  decision  of  this  con- 
troversy to  the  wise  dispose  of  the  Most  High, 
bv  a  fott."  He  was  one  of  the  petitioners 
for  the  town  of  Wilton,  in  1672,  but  may  have 
never  lived  there.  He  occupied  the  "Round 
seat"  in  the  meeting  house.  He  died  in  1688, 
aged  seventy  years.  His  will  was  dated  May 
4"  1688.  Among  his  possessions  were  "four 
boxes  of  books."  Children,  born  in  Guilford: 
I.  Thomas,  1644,  died  1717.     2.  Mary.   1646. 

3.  John,  June  20,  1650.  married  Sarah ; 

died  about  1730.  4.  Hannah.  November  22, 
1652.  5.  .Ste])hen,  May  10,  1633.  6.  Daniel. 
October  4,  i''>57.  mentioned  below.  Born  in 
.Milford:  7.  Samuel,  .\pril  4.  1660.  S.James, 
born  in  Norwalk  early  in  1663,  died  July  6, 
1753,  "aged  ninety  years  and  some  months." 
ii.'Sarah.  married,  March  5,  1695-96,  Joseph 
St.  John. 

( 1  h  Daniel,  son  of  Thomas  Betts,  was  born 
in  (iuilford,  Connecticut.  October  4,  1657.  died 
at  Wilton,  Connecticut.  February  8,  1758.  He 
received  a  part  of  his  father's  estate  by  will, 
and  purchased.  January  11.  1683,  the  home 
lot  and  house  of  John  Hoyt.  He  made  other 
purchases  later  in  \\'ilton.  He  was  one  of  a 
committee  in  1726  to  choose  the  minister,  and 
occupied  the  "forelong  seat"  in  the  meeting 
house.  He  married.  December,  1692.  Deborah 
Taylor,  born  June  i.  1671.  died  about  1731, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Rebecca  (  Ketcham) 
Tavlor.  Children:  i.  Deborah,  born  October 
24.  i(y)T,.  2.  Rebecca.  August  4,  1(196.  married, 
January  10.  1721-22,  Samuel  Crumman.  3. 
Daniel.  May  2.  1699.  mentioned  below. 

(HI)  Daniel  (2).  son  of  Daniel  (i)  Betts, 
was  born  in  Norwalk.  Connecticut,  May  2, 
1699.  died  in  Wilton.  July  10.  1783.  .A  stone 
marks  his  grave  in  the  Wilton  cemetery.  He 
lived  in  the  south  ])art  of  the  "Kent  farm" 
which  had  been  bought  by  his  father,  and  con- 
veyed to  the  son  by  deed  .April  7,  1748.  He 
married  Sarah  Comstock.  born  March  25, 
1707.  died  January  18,  1781.  daughter  of  Cap- 


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tain  Samuel  Conistuck,  and  gramklaughtcr  of 
Hon.  Christopher  Comstock.  and  also  of  Rev. 
Thomas  Han  ford,  the  first  clergyman  of  Nor- 
walk.  She  and  her  husband  were  admitted  to 
the  church  February  13,  1732.  He  served  on 
the  school  committee  in  1762,  and  was  also 
moderator  of  town  meeting  in  1777.  During 
the  march  of  the  British  forces  upon  Danbury 
in  1777  he  was  taken  prisoner,  but  was  soon 
released.  Children:  i.  Josiah.  born  March  8, 
1726.  2.  Sarah,  March  8,  1726  (twin),  mar- 
ried Josiah  lUirchard.  3.  Daniel,  June  28, 
I728."died  October  8,  1820.     4.  Hannah.  ;\Iay 

12,  1730,  married,  Xovember  20.  1750,  Ezra 
Gregory.  3.  Samuel  Comstock.  March  2.  1732, 
mentioned  below.  6.  Elizabeth,  married.  Jan- 
uary 25.  1764,  Zachariah  ?^Iead ;  died  I^larch, 
1818.  7.  Jesse,  born  December,  1734.  died 
October  6,  1742.  8.  Ruth.  February,  1737, 
died  October  2,  1742.    9.  Abijah,  baptized  July 

13,  1740,  married  Mary  Betts :  died  December 
30,  1817.  10.  Timothy,  baptized  May  8,  1743. 
"11.  Lydia.  baptized  June  29.  1745,  died  174O. 
12.  Deborah,  baptized  June  5.  1748,  died  April 
15.  1774.  unmarried.  13.  Reuben,  baptized 
July  I.  1753.     14.  Elijah. 

(  I\' )  Samuel  Comstock.  son  of  Daniel  Betts, 
was  bom  at  .\orwalk.  March  2,  1732.  died  in 
Richmond,  Massachusetts.  May  16,  1823.  He 
lived  in  Wilton  until  he  was  thirty-five  years 
old.  and  he  and  his  wife  were  admitted  to  the 
church  there  March  9,  1755.  He  generally 
signed  his  name  Comstock  Betts.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  second  company  of  the  ninth 
regiment  of  foot  companies,  in  September, 
1767.  In  October,  1767,  he  removed  to  Rich- 
mond, Berkshire  county,  Massachusetts,  arriv- 
ing there  Xovember  2.  He  owned  a  large 
amount  of  land  in  that  town.  It  is  related  of 
him  that  even  in  his  latter  years  it  was  his 
custom  to  ride  about  his  farms  on  horseback, 
overseeing  the  work,  still  wearing  the  costume 
of  revolutionary  jjcriod.  He  was  of  command- 
ing figure,  over  six  feet  tall.  He  was  ninety- 
two  years  old  when  he  died.  His  will  was 
dated  March  8,  1823.  His  son,  Comstock.  was 
excluded  from  the  will  on  account  of  his  be- 
coming a  Quaker.  He  married  (first)  June  5, 
1754,  Mary  Taylor,  born  December  3,  1731, 
died  September  11.  1807,  daughter  of  Reuben 
Taylor.  He  married  (  second  )  lier  sister,  .\dali, 
widow  of  Elijah  Betts.  She  died  February 
9.  1 83 1,  aged  eighty- four.  Children,  all  by 
first  wife:     r.  Mary,  born  May  i.  1755.  died 

December    11,    1831  :   married    (first)    

W'atrous :    (second)    .\sa   Parmelee.     2.  Joel, 
May  4,   1756,  died  .April  5,   1790,  unmarried. 


3.  Aaron.  September  16,  1757,  died  April  3, 
1833.  4.  Preserved,  .\ugust  12,  1759.  married, 
January  16,  1791,  Elizabeth  Eliot;  died  bY'bru- 
ary  I,'i8i8.  5.  Uriah,  February  25,  1761, 
mentioned  below.  6.  Comstock,  November  19, 
1762,  died  December  18,  1845,  unmarried.  7. 
Zebulon.  .\ugust  12,  1764,  died  November  27, 
1828.  8.  Lydia,  August  2,  ij(>C\  died  Novem- 
ber 22,  1861.  9.  Enoch,  May  4,  i~(>ii.  died 
lune  C),  1822.  10.  .\mos,  September  25,  1770, 
died  unmarried  (  )ctober,  1793.  II.  Daniel, 
.August  22,  1772,  died  March  8,  1792.  unmar- 
ried. 

(  \' )  I'riah.  son  of  Samuel  Comstock  lietts, 
was  born  February  25.  1761,  died  August  10, 
1 84 1.  He  was  in  the  revolution,  serving  in 
nearly  the  whole  of  the  war.  He  was  in  Cap- 
tain Nathan  Gilbert's  company,  Colonel  John 
Mead's  regiment,  in  1777;  also  a  member  of 
Colonel  Samuel  W'haley's  regiment.  Four  of 
his  brothers  were  in  the  revolution  also.  A 
IKirtrait  of  Uriah  lietts  from  an  oil  painting 
iiv  Catlin.  the  Indian  jiainter,  is  in  the  ])osses- 
sion  of  his  descendants,  .\bout  1840  he  re- 
moveil  to  Xewburgh,  New  York,  where  he 
died.  He  married  (first)  October  14,  1783, 
Sarah  Rosseter,  born  .Xugust  28,  1763,  died 
June  II,  1796.  daughter  of  Hon.  Nathan 
Rosseter.  of  Richmond,  and  granddaughter  of 
lion.  losiah  Rosseter,  of  Guilford,  Connecti- 
cut. He  married  (second)  September  22, 
1796,  Rebecca  Rosseter,  U<vn  June  2<),  1774. 
sister  of  his  first  wife,  lie  married  (third) 
at  Wilton,  .April  21.  1833,  Lucy  Betts,  born 
October  22,  1787,  died  July,  1882,  daughter  of 
Elijah  Betts.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Juliana 
I  twin),  born  September  5,  1784.  2.  Julia 
( twin  ),  September  5,  1784.  3.  Samuel  Rosseter, 
June  8,  1786,  mentioned  below.  4.  Son,  born 
and  died  December  7,  1790.  4.  Sarah  Maria, 
March  29,  1796.  Children  of  second  wife: 
5.  Amanda  E.,  February  5,  1799,  died  October 
"17.  1857.  6.  Frederic  j..  July  2,  1803.  7. 
Nathan  Comstock,  Xovember  18,  1809,  died 
July,  1882. 

(\'I)  Judge  Samuel  Rosseter.  son  of  Uriah 
Betts,  was  born  June  8.  1786,  died  November 
3.  iSfiS.  He  attended  the  public  schools  and 
jirepared  for  college  at  Lenox  Academy,  Lenox, 
Massachusetts,  and  he  was  the  first  graduate  of 
this  academv  to  graduate  from  college.  He  en- 
tered Williams  College  in  1802  and  graduated  in 
i8(/).  In  1830  he  received  the  honorary  degree 
of  LL.  I),  from  his  alma  mater.  Soon  after 
graduating  from  college  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  and  began  to  ])ractice  law  at  Monti- 
cello,  Sullivan  count\-,  New  A^irk.     lie  took  a 


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leading  place  among  the  lawyers  of  that  county 
and  was  i)rominent  in  public  life.  In  1815  he 
was  elected  to  congress  and  served  one  term. 
Afterward  he  removed  to  Xcvvburgh,  Orange 
county.  New  ^'ork.  In  1823  he  was  appointed 
circuit  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  New 
York  and  held  that  office  until  1827  when  he 
was  appointed  by  President  John  Quincy 
Adams,  judge  of  the  United  States  district 
court  for  the  southern  district  of  New  York, 
and  continued  in  that  office  until  1867,  when 
being  nearly  eighty-three  years  of  age  he  re- 
signed, removing  to  New  Haven,  Connecticut, 
where  he  died  November  3.  1868.  Through- 
out his  long  term  of  service  on  the  bench  he 
presided  with  such  dignity,  courtesy,  pro- 
fundity of  legal  knowledge  and  patience  of 
investigation  that  he  came  to  be  regarded  as 
almost  infallible  in  his  decisions.  To  him  be- 
longs the  high  honor  of  having  in  a  great 
degree  fornuilated  and  codified  the  maritime 
laws  of  the  United  States.  The  complicated 
rules  of  salvage,  general  arrearages,  wages  of 
seamen,  freighting  contracts,  charts,  insur- 
ance, and  prizes,  owe  their  present  well- 
ordered  system  to  Judge  Betts.  During  the 
first  twenty  years  of  his  connection  with  the 
district  court  there  was  never  an  appeal  from 
his  decisions,  and  his  opinions  in  his  own  court 
on  maritime  questions  and  in  the  circuit  court 
on  i)atents,  have  been  uniformly  upheld.  In 
1838  he  published  a  standard  work  on  ".Ad- 
miralty Practice." 

The  following  tribute  to  Judge  Betts  was 
|)aid  in  court  November  5.  1868,  by  Hon.  E.  C. 
jiencdict:  "He  came  to  this  city  from  the 
country,  where  he  had  been  eminent  at  the 
bar,  and  for  some  years  Circuit  Judge.  He 
came,  therefore,  with  great  familiarity  with 
the  legal  c|uestions  which  occupied  courts  of 
common  law',  but  with  little  acc|uaintance  with 
those  which  an  .Admiralty  Court  must  feel. 
When  he  came  here  there  was  almost  no  busi- 
ness in  the  court.  It  did  no!  then  sit  a  week, 
where  it  now  sits  a  month.  Thus  he  had  leisure 
to  familiarize  himself  with  the  law  of  Ad- 
miralty, and  he  soon  became  one  of  the  most 
learned  judges  of  that  branch  of  the  law.  .\s 
time  went  on  the  business  of  the  court  in- 
creased, and  his  business  in  .Admiralty  becanii- 
far  more  e.vtended  than  tiiat  of  any  other  judge 
that  ever  sat  on  the  bench.  He,  more  than 
any  otiier  man,  formed  the  admiralty  system 
of  the  United  States.  When  he  came  to  the 
bench  the  British  view  of  jurisdiction  of  the 
Admiralty  prevailed.  He  devoted  himself  to 
that  branch  of  the  law  in  the  spirit  which  be- 


longed U>  it  of  old.  and  which  has  since  been 
adopted  by  the  jurists  and  courts  of  this  coun- 
try, and  his  views  have  prevailed  everywhere, 
though  at  first  they  were  a  novelty.  His  deci- 
sions were  always  characterized  by  acuteness, 
learning  and  research.  If  they  had  been  care- 
fully reported  they  would  have  built  up  for 
him  a  reputation  wdiich  would  have  been  like 
that  which  the  Chancery  decisions  gave  to 
Lord  Stowell.  But  in  those  days  the  news- 
papers were  not  as  they  are  now  volumes  of 
report,  and  Judge  Betts  always  seemed  not 
entirely  satisfied  with  the  form  of  his  deci- 
sions, and  was  reluctant  to  publish  them  until 
he  had  given  them  a  more  perfect  finish,  and 
after  I  was  appointed  reporter  of  the  Court, 
many  \ears  ago,  I  did  not  succeed  in  getting 
him  to  prepare  them,  before  his  greatly  in- 
creased labors  by  the  bankrupt  Act  of  1840 
prevented  his  giving  any  attention  to  it,  and 
the  idea  was  abandoned,  until  its  importance 
was  destroyed  by  reports  of  other  Courts. 
Judge  Betts  was  a  man  of  urbanity  and  kind- 
ness to  all  who  practiced  before  him.  All  who 
practiced  in  his  Court,  j'oung  or  old.  always 
felt  that  they  had  had  full  opportunity  to  be 
heard,  and  that  they  had  been  treated  with 
uniform  kindness  and  courtesy — an  excellent 
(|uality  in  a  judge.  We  can  hardly  realize  in 
these  days,  when  changes  of  judges  are  so 
frequent,  wdiat  it  was  to  have  a  judge  upon 
the  bench  forty  years,  as  he  was.  He  reached 
great  age  and  gave  to  us  all  of  the  results  of 
a  quiet  and  uniformly  industrious  life,  of 
moral  and  domestic  virtue." 

He  married,  .November  4.  1816.  Caroline  A. 
Dewey,  daughter  of  Hon.  Daniel  Dewey,  of 
Northampton.  Children:  i.  Maria  Caroline, 
born  .August  15,  1818.  married,  July  12,  1842, 
James  W.   Aletcalf.     2.  Charles  Dew'ey,  July 

6,  1820.  died  unmarried  January  16,  1845.  3. 
{"ranees  Julia,  November  28,  1822,  married 
William  Ifillhouse.  4.  George  Frederic.  June 
14,  1S27.  mentioned  below.     3.  Emily,  October 

7.  1830. 

(\II)  (ieorge  I'rederic,  son  of  Judge 
Samuel  R.  Betts.  was  born  June  14,  1827.  He 
graduated  from  Williams  College  in  1844  and 
studied  at  the  Harvard  Law  School  the  next 
two  years.  He  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
his  profession  in  N'ewburgh.  New  ^'ork,  in 
1S50.  lie  was  a|)pointed  clerk  of  the  United 
."-^tate-^  district  court  in  1855  and  held  that 
office  until  1873.  He  was  lieutenant  colonel  of 
llawkin's  Zouaves  in  the  civil  war.  and  was 
with  that  regiment  at  the  capture  of  Roanoke 
Uland.    l-'ebruarv  8.   1862.      He  married.   No- 


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vember  19,  185 1,  Ellen  Porter,  step-daughter 
of  Hon.  Charles  Stoddard,  of  Boston.  Chil- 
dren: I.  ^lary.  born  March  23,  1853,  died 
July  7.  1855.  2.  Samuel  Rosseter,  November 
5,  1854,  member  of  the  firm  of  Betts,  Shefifield 
Bentley  &  Betts.  patent  lawyers,  120  Broad- 
way, New  York  City.  3.  Amy  Ellen,  Septem- 
ber 6,  1858,  married,  December  22,  1883,  John 
Addison  I'orter:  three  children:  Constance 
l-llaine  Porter,  born  August  25,  1885;  Agnes; 
Joseiihine  Earl.  4.  Fanny  Johnson,  January 
29,  1867,  married  \\  olcott  Howe  Johnson  (see 
Johnson  \IHl.  5.  Georgiana.  November  i  ^, 
1868. 


This  name  has  been  spelled  Ex- 
DEXTER  cester,  Dexcestre,  Dexetier, 
Dectier,  deExon,  deExonia,  de 
Exter.  In  England  it  was  a  family  of  great 
antiquity  and  of  the  peerage.  It  was  a  Devon- 
shire family,  its  chief  seat  being  at  Carrick- 
de.xter.  Richard  de  Excester  was  governor 
general  and  chief  justice  of  Ireland  in  1269. 
The  heraldic  bearings  were:  Or  a  tree,  pend- 
ant therefrom  two  weights.  The  leading  Dex- 
ters  in  America  have  been  Samuel  Dexter,  the 
colonial  statesman ;  Franklin  B.  De.xter,  edu- 
cator and  author  ;  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  M.  Dexter ; 
Henry  Dexter,  the  sculptor. 

(I)  The  Rev.  Gregory  Dexter  was  born  at 
Olney,  Northamptonshire,  in  1610,  learned 
the  printer's  trade  in  London  and  with  a 
printer  by  the  name  of  Coleman  kept  a  sta- 
tioner's store.  He  was  a  Baptist  preacher  and 
the  first  transatlantic  correspondent  of  Roger 
Williams  of  the  Providence  plantations.  Greg- 
ory printed  the  first  edition  of  "Roger's  Dic- 
tionary of  the  Indian  Language"  in  1643,  a 
report  of  which  is  in  the  first  volume  of  the 
Rhode  Island  Historical  Societies  reports.  On 
Roger  William's  second  visit  to  .America  Greg- 
ory Dexter  came  with  him.  He  was  one  of 
the  parties  named  in  the  charter  and  an  assist- 
ant under  authority  granted  in  the  charter. 
He  was  town  clerk.  He  was  the  fourth  pastor 
of  the  Bajjtist  church  and  was  very  successful 
in  this  field  of  labor.  He  did  not  receive  any 
salary  for  his  services,  but  earned  his  living 
by  the  cultivation  of  land  and  the  sweat  of  his 
brow  as  the  liible  enjoins.  He  was  the  best 
l)rinter  in  New  England  tlunigh  he  did  not 
regularly  persuc  this  calling;  he  nevertheless 
assisterl  ^Ir.  Samuel  Greene  in  Boston  about 
some  printing  at  the  young  college  at  Cam- 
bridge, Harvard.  Mr.  Dexter  printed  with 
his  own  hands  the  first  almanac  for  Rhode 
Island.    He  was  a  very  devout  man,  connected 


every  day  events  with  an  over  ruling  Provi- 
dence, lie  was  never  known  to  laugh  and 
rarely  smiled,  lie  was  a  good  penman,  had  a 
fair  knowledge  of  Latin  and  his  services  were 
much  in  demand  in  the  young  colony  where 
mediocrity  prevailed  and  few  could  write  their 
own  name.  His  advice  was  frequently  sought 
in  the  stormy  period  of  the  struggling  planta- 
tion. He  attcm])te<l  nothing  in  which  he  did 
not  succeed.  His  first  house  was  built  of  logs 
anil  was  destroyed  by  the  Indians,  and  the 
second  one  was  near  where  William  Rea  after- 
wards lived.  He  died  in  1700  and  was  interred 
a  short  distance  from  the  junction  of  North 
Main  and  Benefit  streets  on  Constitution  Hill. 
The  name  of  his  wife  was  Abigail.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  Stejihen,  born  1647,  James,  1650, 
John  (mentioned  below),  Abigail,  1655  ;  Peleg, 
1658. 

(II)  John,  third  son  of  Rev.  Gregory  and 
.-\bigail  Dexter,  was  born  in  Providence,  1652. 
He  settled  on  land  owned  by  his  father  on 
what  is  now  the  Pawtucket  turnpike,  a  little 
north  of  Ham]3ton  lane.  It  was  owned  by  his 
descendants  up  to  fifty  years  ago.  He  was  the 
mainstay  of  his  father  in  his  old  age  of  depend- 
ence and  feebleness.  He  filled  many  public 
stations  and  always  acceptably.  He  was  elected 
twenty-one  times  to  the  general  assembly  and 
held  some  military  commissions.  After  his 
death  his  widow  married  Governor  Joseph 
Jencks.  The  name  of  his  wife  was  Alice  and 
they  hatl  the  following  children  :  Stephen,  born 
1689;  James  (mentioned  below)  ;  John,  1692; 
Mary,  1694  ;  Abigail,  1696  ;  Sarah,  1698  ;  Phebe, 
1700;  Anna,  1702;  Alice,  1705. 

(III)  James,  the  second  son  of  John  and 
Alice  Dexter,  was  born  in  Providence,  1691. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  resided  on  the  east  side 
of  Scott's  pond  now  Smithfield.  He  was  a 
man  of  good  abilities  and  considerable  influ- 
ence. He  was  in  the  general  assembly  in  171 1- 
13-17,  and  was  the  youngest  member  ever 
elected  thereto.  1  le  married  Mary  Whipple, 
born  in  Providence,  1692,  and  she  was  the 
mother  of  John,  born  1718;  James  (men- 
tioned below);  David,  1722;  Anna,  1723; 
Mary,  1725;  Hopestill,  1727. 

(IV)  James  (2),  second  .son  of  James  (i) 
and  Alary  (Whipple)  Dexter,  was  born  in 
Cumberland,  Rhode  Island,  1720.  He  was  a 
farmer.  He  married  .\lthea,  daughter  of  T. 
Walker,  of  Seekonk,  Massachusetts.  Chil- 
dren by  this  union:  Hope,  born  1747;  James, 
1749;  Huldah,  1750;  Olive,  1752;  Marcy, 
1754;  Simeon,  1756;  Eseck,  1758;  Benjamin 
G.,  1760;  Nancy,  1761;  .Althea,  17^)4;  Lucina, 


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1766:  Timothy  W'.,  who  is  the  subject  of  the 
next  paragra])h. 

(V)  Timothy  W.,  youngest  son  of  James 
(2)  and  Althea  (Walker)  Dexter,  was  born 
in  Cumberland,  1768.  He  was  a  farmer.  He 
married  Sarah  Messenger,  of  Wrentham, 
IMassachusetts,  born  in  1770.  Their  children 
were:  James  AL,  born  1804;  Benjamin  G., 
1805;  Eseck  (referred  to  in  the  next  para- 
grai)h)  :  Sarah  Ann,  1814. 

(\T)  Eseck.  third  son  of  Timothy  W.  and 
Sarah  (Messenger)  Dexter,  was  born  in  Cum- 
berland. 1807,  died  in  Fond  du  Lac,  Wiscon- 
sin. He  lived  in  Boston  and  Brookfield.  Mass- 
achusetts, Troy,  New  Hampshire,  and  at  Fond 
du  Lac.  He  married  Elizabeth  F.  Hammond, 
of  Seckonk.  Their  children  were:  Francis 
and  Ferdinand  A. 

(VH)  Ferdinand  A.,  son  of  Eseck  and 
Elizabeth  F.  (Hammond)  Dexter,  was  born 
in  Boston,  and  went  to  Fond  du  Lac  with  his 
parents  when  a  mere  child.  After  the  death 
of  his  father  he  came  east  and  lived  in  Brook- 
field.  He  was  a  painter  by  trade.  He  served 
in  the  civil  war  and  was  killed  at  the  battle  of 
Ball's  Bluff.  The  grand  army  post  of  Brook- 
field  was  named  after  him.  He  married  Ros- 
etta  Sophronia  Kendall.  Their  children  were : 
Albert  Ferdinand,  who  lives  in  Madison,  Wis- 
consin ;  Luzerne  Halburg,  who  lives  at  Sun 
IVarie,  Wisconsin  ;  Jenness  K..  who  is  the  sub- 
ject of  further  notice. 

(VHI)  Colonel  Jenness  Kendall,  youngest 
son  of  Ferdinand  A.  and  Rosetta  S.  (Ken- 
dall )  Dexter,  was  born  in  North  Brookfield. 
He  lived  at  P'ond  du  Lac,  Wisconsin,  and  at 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota.  He  was  educated  at 
a  Philadelphia  military  school  and  the  Naval 
Academy  at  Annapolis  to  which  he  was 
apjiointed  by  President  Grant.  He  came  to 
S])ringficld,  ALissachusetts,  and  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Dexter  &  Bowles,  who  deal 
in  paper  makers  supplies.  He  is  a  Republican 
and  served  on  Governor  Bates  military  staff 
with  the  rank  of  lieutenant  colonel,  after- 
wards colonel.  He  served  in  the  navy  during 
the  S])anish-.\mcrican  war,  having  been  one 
of  the  first  to  enter  the  service,  having  been 
called  by  the  government  with  three  others,  all 
naval  graduates,  to  go  to  Philadeljihia  to 
inspect  some  vessels,  among  which  was  the  old 
"Monitor."  desired  for  use  in  the  apjiroaching 
war.  This  was  in  the  beginning  of  .Xpril.  1898; 
he  served  until  October  following,  being  one 
of  the  last  to  retire  from  the  service.  He  is 
one  of  the  governor's  trustees  of  the  Hospital 
Cottage  for  Children  at  Baldwinsville,  Massa- 


chusetts. He  was  the  founder  and  for  twelve 
years  the  commander  of  Company  H,  Massa- 
chusetts Naval  Brigade.  He  is  president  of 
the  Republican  Club,  vice-president  of  Nayas- 
set  Club,  having  been  the  prime  mover  in  the 
erection  of  its  present  beautiful  home,  and 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trade.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  South  Congregational  Church,  and 
masonically  related.  He  is  one  of  the  most 
enterprising  citizens  of  Springfield,  always 
ready  to  jjromote  anything  for  the  welfare  of 
the  city.  He  married  Henrietta  Bailey,  daugh- 
ter of  Philip  Wilcox,  whose  ancestry  is  traced 
herein.  Children:  i.  Ernest  Jenness.  born  in 
Holyoke,  August  21,  1876,  a  graduate  of  the 
high  school,  now  general  agent  for  western 
Massachusetts  of  the  Fidelity  and  Casualty 
Insurance  Company  of  New  York  ;  he  married, 
June  17.  1908,  Margery  .\ugusta,  daughter  of 
Dexter  Cooley.  of  Wets  Warren,  Alassachu- 
setts.  2.  Philip  Wilcox,  born  August  6,  1880, 
died  in  infancy.  3.  Courtland  W'.,  born  No- 
vember 6,  1883,  died  March  3,  1902. 

(The    Wilcox     Line). 

Here  is  a  family  that  has  always  exerted  a 
large  influence  in  public  affairs  in  the  nation, 
state  and  municipality.  It  runs  to  politicians, 
statesmen  and  jurists.  The  motherland  of  the 
Wilcox  family  is  around  Berlin,  Meriden, 
Middletown  and  Farmington  in  the  state  of 
Connecticut,  and  about  every  Wilcox  in  the 
L'nited  States  traces  his  line  back  to  that  spot 
of  earth  which  to  them  is  a  mecca.  The  grave- 
yards there  are  dotted  thick  with  Wilcox  head- 
stones. Among  those  of  distinction  may  be 
mentioned  Llovd  Wheaton  Bowers,  solicitor 
general  of  the  United  States  under  President 
Taft.  Others  of  note  were  the  Hon.  Leonard 
Wilcox,  chief  justice  of  New  Hampshire,  and 
the  Hon.  Preston  B.  Plumb,  United  States 
senator  from  Kansas. 

(I)  Daniel  Wilcox  came  from  England  in 
1632  and  settled  first  at  Middletown,  Connecti- 
cut, moving  thence  to  Berlin,  that  state. 

(in  Daniel  ( 2).  .son  of  Daniel  (i)  Wilcox, 
lived  at  Berlin.  He  had  nineteen  children  and 
at  his  death  left  two  hundred  and  eighty-two 
children,  grandchildren  and  great-grandchil- 
dren. He  died  a  nonagenarian  and  on  his 
tombstone  is  this  inscription. 

•I  gave  this  ground.  I  am  laid  here  first. 
Soon  my  remains  will  turn  to  dust; 
A  stranger  pavise  as  you  pass  by 
As  I  am  now  soon  you  must  be." 

(IV)  Stephen,  grandson  of  Daniel  (2)  Wil- 
cox, gave  each  of  his  sons  a  farm  and  built  a 


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house  on  each.  These  farms  are  now  in  pos- 
session of  his  descendants.  Me  was  in  the 
revolution. 

(V)   Stephen  (2),  son  of  Stephen  (i)  Wil--^ 
cox,  married  Lucy  Phimb;  child,  Philip. 

(\T)  Philii).  .son  of  Stephen  (2)  and  Lucy 
(Plumb)  W'ilco.K,  was  born  in  East  Berlin, 
Connecticut,  September  21,  1800,  died  in 
Sprins^ficld  in  1842.  lie  came  to  Springfield 
in  1823  and  started  a  tinware  store  on  State 
street.  The  Wilco.xs  were  the  first  to  manu- 
facture stoves  in  Springfield.  Mr.  \\'ilco.x  was 
very  much  interested  in  the  construction  of 
the  Boston  and  Albany  railroad.  He  was 
interested  in  all  enterprises  tending  to  build 
up  and  beautify  Springfield.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Hampden  Mechanics'  Association, 
and  of  the  South  Congregational  Church  of 
which  he  was  one  of  the  original  trustees  and 
to  which  he  gave  liberally  for  the  erection  of 
the  church  edifice  and  to  other  eleemosynary 
work.  In  his  death  in  middle  life  Springfield 
lost  one  of  its  enterprising  and  esteemed  citi- 
zens, a  man  of  the  strictest  integrity  in  all  his 
business  relations  and  uniformly  respected  by 
all  who  knew  him.  He  married  Eliza,  daugh- 
ter of  Bani  Parmalee,  of  Middletown,  Con- 
necticut. Her  grandmother  was  Esther  Burr 
whose  line  is  taken  up  in  this  work.  Children : 
I.  William  L..  married  Emily  Collins.  2.  Eliza 
P..  married  Charles  ^L  Lee.  3.  John  P.,  mar- 
ried (first)  Hattie.  Russell ;  (second)  Nettie 
Willis.  4.  Henrietta  Bailey,  married  Jenness 
K.  Dexter. 

(The    Burr    Line). 

Pride  of  lineage  is  most  commendatory.  It 
is  old  as  the  race  itself.  The.genesical  record 
is  full  of  filial  references.  Mohammed  and 
Confucius  inculcate  the  principle  repeatedly  of 
respecting  ones  forebears.  One  of  the  most 
solemn  oaths  taken  in  the  East  is  that  sworn 
to  by  the  tombs  of  ancestors.  A  Scotch  loves 
to  boast  that  his  fathers  fed  their  "flocks  on 
the  grampian  hills."  It  is  from  such  feelings 
of  reverence  for  the  past  that  genealogy  has 
become  an  applied  science.  Names  imprisoned 
in  Domesda)-  Book,  known  only  to  the  monkisli 
antiquary,  or  names  relegated  to  the  cobvvebbed 
sanctums  of  the  vital  statician,  are  now  circu- 
lated as  popular  literature.  It  is  said  that 
there  is  not  a  village  in  Normandy  that  has 
not  surnamed  a  family  in  England.  To  the 
village  of  Beur  in  the  Netherlands  the  family 
of  Burr  owes  its  name.  It  is  an  imijortant  and 
honored  family  and  has  played  a  conspicious 
part  in  the  political,  ecclesiastical  and  educa- 
tional afifairs  of  the  nation. 


(!)  With  Winthrojj's  fleet  early  in  1630 
came  to  the  New  World  Jehue  Burr  and  he 
was  the  first  of  his  race  in  this  country.  He 
settled  first  at  Roxbury,  Mas.sachusetts,  and 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1632.  In  1O35  he 
a!id  his  wife  were  made  members  of  the  church 
in  Ro.xbury  and  in  the  same  year  he  was 
appointed  overseer  of  roads  and  bridges  be-- 
tween  Boston  and  Roxbury.  The  same  year 
he  was  appointed  one  of  a  committee  to  make 
a  cart-bridge  over  Muddy  river  and  over  Stony 
river.  The  settlers  had  often  heard  from  their 
friends,  the  Indians,  of  the  rich  valley  lands 
of  the  Connecticut,  several  days  journey,  and 
early  in  the  spring  of  1636  William  Pynchon, 
Jeluie  Burr  and  others  with  their  families  and 
efifects  set  out  on  a  journey  through  the  wilder- 
ness to  this  land  of  promise.  The  women  and 
children  performed  the  journey  on  horseback 
and  the  men  on  foot.  They  followed  a  blazed 
path  through  the  forests  until  at  last  they 
issued  forth  upon  the  banks  of  the  welcome 
Connecticut.  Here  they  built  their  village 
which  they  called  Agawam  and  which  in  our 
day  has  expanded  into  the  flourishing  city  of 
S]5ringfield,  and  of  this  city  Jehue  Burr  was  a 
founder,  C)n  June  15,  1636,  the  Indian  deed 
of  the  land  signed  by  the  chiefs  was  given  to 
Pynchon,  Burr  and  Smith,  and  to  this  instru- 
ment lUirr's  name  is  affi.xed  and  the  same  may 
be  seen  at  the  city  records.  Burr  was  a  lead- 
ing spirit  in  the  community  and  was  probably 
the  first  tax  gatherer  in  the  Connecticut  valley. 
In  1644  he  removed  to  Fairfield,  Connecticut, 
and  the  next  year  was  elected  to  represent 
that  town  in  the  general  court  and  again  in 
1646.  In  1643  he  was  appointed  a  commis- 
sioner to  collect  funds  in  Fairfield  for  poor 
scholars  at  Cambridge  College.  In  i66o  he 
was  grand  juror.  No  record  of  his  marriage 
or  fleath  has  been  found.  He  left  four  sons: 
Jehue.  John,  Daniel  and  Nathaniel. 

(II)  Jehue  (2),  eldest  sou  of  Jehue  (i) 
Burr,  was  born  in  England  about  1625,  died 
in  Fairfield  in  1692.  His  first  imjiortant  ven- 
ture was  the  purchase  of  Weantenock,  an  ex- 
tensive tract  of  land  lying  on  both  sides  of  the 
Ilousatonic  river  and  comprising  the  present 
townshij)  of  New  Milford.  In  1670  he  was 
returned  as  deputy  from  Fairfield  to  the  gen- 
eral court  and  again  in  1673.  Early  in  the 
simimer  of  this  year  occurred  the  seizure  of 
New  York  and  adjacent  territory  by  the  Dutch 
and  their  threatened  demonstration  on  Con- 
necticut. The  Connecticuters  stoutly  prepared 
to  defend  themselves  from  this  invasion  and 
Ichue   Burr   was   commissioned   lieutenant   in 


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the  Fairfield  train  band  raised  for  this  purpose. 
In  i6gi  he  was  deputy  from  Fairfield.  He 
was  appointed  commissioner  for  Fairfield  in 
1678-79-80-81-82-83-84-85-86-87-89.  At  the 
general  court  in  1691  he  introduced  a  bill 
which  shows  him  to  have  been  a  patron  of 
learning  and  keenly  alive  to  the  imjjortance 
of  schooling.  He  was  really  the  originator  of 
the  present  school  system  in  Connecticut.  He 
married  (first)  Mary,  daughter  of  Andrew 
Ward,  of  Fairfield,  and  they  have  two  chil- 
dren: Daniel  (mentioned  hereafter)  and 
Esther.  He  married  (second)  Esther,  widow 
of  Joseph  Pioosey,  of  West  Chester,  Connec- 
ticut. Their  children  were:  Peter,  Samuel, 
ElizaJjeth.  Sarah,  Joanna,  .\bigail  and   Mary. 

(HI)  Daniel,  .son  of  Jehue  (2)  and  Mary 
(Ward)  P.urr,  was  born  in  Fairfield,  Connecti- 
cut;  died  there  in  1722.  The  name  of  his  wife 
is  unknown.  Children :  Jehue,  Stephen 
(mentioned  hereafter),  Peter,  Elizabeth,  Han- 
nah, Jane,  Mary,  David,  Moses.  Aaron,  who 
was  the  founder  of  Princeton  University  and 
the  father  of  X'ice-President  .\aron  lUirr. 

(I\')  Stephen,  second  son  of  Daniel  lUirr, 
was  born  in  Fairfield,  and  baptized  October 
3.  1698.  He  early  settled  in  Redding,  Con- 
necticut. .At  a  society  meeting  held  there 
October  11,  1730,  he  was  elected  one  of  the 
committee  for  that  year  and  chosen  deacon  in 
1733.  In  1749  he  was  made  lieutenant  of  the 
military  company,  and  in  1751  appointed  by 
the  general  court  on  a  committee  to  repair  to 
New  Milford  on  the  memorial  of  Isaac  Bar- 
num  and  others  asking  for  parish  privileges. 
He  married  Elizabeth  Hull,  June  8,  1721.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Grace,  born  December  12,  1724.  2. 
Elizabeth,  January  17,  1728.  3.  Hezekiah, 
Se])tembir  i.  1730.  4.  Sarah,  November  9, 
1732.  5.  Martha,  March  24.  1735.  6.  Reuben, 
November  2.  1739.  7.  Esther.  February  5. 
1743.  8.  Rebecca.  Esther,  the  seventh  ciiilil, 
married  .Anthony  .Angcvinc.  Their  daughter. 
Charity  .\ngevine,  married  Deacon  P)ani  Par- 
melee,  and  their  daughter,  Eliza  Parmelee, 
married  Philip  Wilcox  and  became  the  mother 
of  Henrietta  P>ailey  Wilcox,  now  Mrs.  Jen- 
ness  K.  Dexter. 


John  Frink,  immigrant  ancestor, 
FRINK      was  bom  in  England  and  was  an 

early  settler  in  Ipswich,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  was  doubtless  a  mariner  and  we 
know  Init  little  of  him.  He  died  early,  leaving  a 
will  in  which  he  made  be(|nests  to  his  two  sons, 
George  and    ]<>]m.  and  wife  Marv.     Children, 


probably  born  in  England  :     i .  John,  mentioned 
below.    2.  George. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Frink,  was 
born  about  1635,  probably  in  England,  and  as 
early  as  1666  settled  at  Stonington,  Connecti- 
cut, and  bought  a  tract  of  land  at  Taubwonk 
in  Stonington  and  erected  a  dwelling  house 
for  himself  and  family.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
King  Philip's  war.  Pie  married,  in  Taunton, 
1657,  Grace  Stevens,  and  presumably  lived 
there  for  a  time.  He  had  three  daughters  when 
he  came  to  Stonington.  Children:  i.  Grace, 
born  1658,  married,  June,  1677,  James  Willet. 
2.  Hannah.  1661,  married,  December  30,  1684, 
William  Park.  3.  Deborah,  1'665,  married, 
1686,  (iershom  Lambert.  Born  at  Stonington: 
4.  -Samuel.  P'ebruary  14,  1668-69,  married 
Hannah  Miner.  5.  John,  May  18,  1671,  men- 
tioned below.  6.  Thomas,  May  25,  1674,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Noj'es.  7.  Judith,  baptized  .Vjjril 
15,  1680. 

(III)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Frink, 
was  born  in  Stonington.  May  18,  1671,  died 
there  March  2.  1 7 18.  He  married,  February 
15,  1694,  Hannah  Prentice.  Children,  born  at 
Stonington:  i.  John,  October  7,  1694.  2. 
Nicholas.  December  17,  1696,  married  Deborah 
Pendleton.  3.  Thomas,  January  15,  1700.  4. 
Hannah.  November  27.  1701.  5.  Zachariah, 
November,  1702,  married  Flizabeth  Ciallup.  6. 
Mary,  1705,  Ijajitized  .Ajiril  19,  1705.  7.  Joseph, 
baptized  June  6.  1708,  married,  June  12.  1732. 
Judith  Palmer.  8.  Picnjamin,  born  January 
25,  1710.  mentioned  below.  9.  ^^'illiam.  baji- 
tized  March  10,  1714.  10.  Thankful,  bajjtized 
February  8.  1716.  11.  Esther,  baptized  Janu- 
ary 23,  1717-.     ' 

(IV)  P.enjamin.  son  of  John  (3)  Frink, 
was  born  in  Stonington,  January  25,  1710.  He 
married,  January  12,  1732,  Tacy  Burdiek,  of 
\\'esterly,  Rhode  Island.  Children,  born  at 
Stonington:  i.  John,  October  26.  1732,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Samuel,  October  24,  1734, 
married.  July  27,  1756,  Prudence  Wilcox.  3. 
Amos,  January  i,  1737,  married  Mary  Fitch. 
4.  Joseph.  June  20,  1739.  5.  Prentice,  July 
31.  1 741.  married  Desire  Frink.  6.  Prudence, 
March  18,  1744.  7.  Tacy  or  Tracy  (twin), 
September  22,  1748.  8.  .Ann  (twin),  Sep- 
tember   22,    1748.      9.    Oliver,    September    4, 

1751- 

(V)  John  (4),  son  of  Benjamin  Frink.  was 
born  at  Stonington,  October  26,  1732.  He  mar- 
ried. November  22.  1750,  .Anna  Pendleton.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Stonington:  I.  John,  Septem- 
ber I  J,  1 75 1,  mentioned  belmv.     2.  Giles,  May 


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12,  1753,  was  of  Sjiringfiekl  according  to  the 
census  of  1790  and  had  four  sons  under  six- 
teen and  three  females  in  his  family.  3.  Sarah, 
December  9.  1755.  4.  Thomas,  lived  in  Spring- 
field in  1790.  I'erhaps  other  children.  John 
Frink.  presumably  John  (5),  was  of  West 
Springfield  in  1790  and  had  two  males  over 
sixteen  and  two  females  in  his  family. 

(XT)  John  (5  ),  son  of  John  (4)  h'rink,  was 
born  at  Stonington.  September  12.  1751.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution  in  Captain 
Robert  Oliver's  company.  Colonel  Greaton's 
(First  Hampshire  County)  regiment  in  1777- 
80.  He  was  in  the  Major's  company  in  1780. 
In  1790  the  census  gives  him  one  son  under 
sixteen  and  five  females  in  his  family. 

(MI)  Luther,  son  or  nephew  of  John  (5) 
Frink,  was  born  about  1772.  He  was  living 
,-it  XN'est  Springfield  when  he  married  (inten- 
tion dated  February  21,  1794)  Phebe  Morgan, 
April  9,  1794.  He  was  a  prominent  citizen  of 
West  Springfield,  now  Holyoke.  and  for 
several  terms  served  in  the  general  court.  He 
represented  his  district  in  state  legislature.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  his  dwelling  house  on  the 
old  homestead  was  on  the  present  site  of  the 
Parsons  Paper  Mill,  now  Holyoke,  Massachu- 
setts. Children:  i.  Orra,  born  October  5, 
1795.  2.  Cyrus,  mentioned  below.  3.  Sarah. 
4.  Mary.     5.  James.    6.  Henry. 

(N'lil)  Cyrus,  son  of  Luther  Frink,  was 
born  in  West  Springfield,  .August  14,  1802. 
He  succeeded  to  the  farm  of  his  father  in  his 
native  town.  He  organized  the  first  stock 
company  to  erect  and  operate  paper  mills  at 
Holyoke.  and  was  also  very  prominent  in 
public  affairs.  He  married  Louisa  Ely,  born 
in  West  Springfield,  now  Holyoke.  Children  : 
Orra  L.  and  Cyrus  L.  Orra  L.  married  Carlos 
P.ardwell,  lived  in  South  Hadley  Falls,  and  had 
three  children :  Hattie  Louisa,  .'\lonzo  F., 
Mabel  E. 

(IX)  Cyrus  Luther,  son  of  Cyrus  Frink, 
was  born  in  West  Springfield,  on  the  home- 
stead, October  26,  1838,  and  died  in  Holyoke, 
September  2,  1900.  He  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town 
and  at  Suffield,  Connecticut.  After  leaving 
•school,  he  learned  the  business  of  manufac- 
turing paper  in  the  mills  of  the  Parsons  Paper 
Company  at  Holyoke.  He  began  the  manufac- 
ture of  envelopes  on  his  own  account  and 
established  an  excellent  business.  He  received 
an  attractive  offer  and  sold  this  business,  then 
began  the  manufacture  of  tissue  pa])er  in  the 
old  Mount  Tom  mill,  but  after  a  time  he  dis- 
covered   the    opportunities    for    profit    rather 


limited  and  sold  his  business.  He  was  made 
selling  agent  for  a  number  of  chemicals  and 
other  materials  connected  with  the  ])aper  mills 
and  he  found  this  employment  both  agreeable 
and  profitable,  continuing  in  it  until  his  final 
retirement  from  active  business.  He  was  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  a  member  of  the 
l'.a])tist  church,  in  which  he  exhibited  the  same 
energy  and  interest  that  he  displayed  in  busi- 
ness, serving  in  the  capacity  of  trustee,  treas- 
urer and  clerk  at  various  times,  and  for  many 
years  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school  and 
leader  of  the  choir.  He  took  active  interest  in 
all  matters  of  public  welfare,  and  was  an  influ- 
ential citizen  in  every  sense  of  the  word,  and 
n:>  man  was  more  highly  respected  than  he. 
He  was  generous  and  charitable,  contributing 
of  his  substance  to  those  in  need  and  distress, 
and  his  memory  will  be  held  in  grateful  remem- 
brance by  many  whom  he  assisted  in  a  sub- 
stantial manner.  He  married,  June  4,  1862, 
Emily  Parks,  born  December  18,  1839,  daugh- 
ter of  Nathan  and  Helen  J.  (Hadley)  Parks. 
She  survives  her  husband. 

{Tlie   Morgan   Line). 

The  genealogy  of  the  Morgan  family  has  been 
traced  recently  by  George  T.  Clark,  antiquary, 
from  remote  Welsh  ancestors.  He  gives  six- 
teen generations  of  Morgan  ancestors  of  Miles 
Morgan,  of  Springfield,  the  immigrant.  It  is 
so  seldom  that  English  and  American  genea- 
logies can  be  so  successfully  united,  that  Amer- 
ican Morgans  may  well  take  pri<le  in  their 
Welsh  ancestry. 

(I)  Cadivor-Fawr  married  Elcn,  daughter 
and  heir  to  Llwch  Llawen. 

(II)  Bleddri,  third  .son,  witnessed  a  Berk- 
erolles  grant  of  Bassalleg  to  Glastonbury  and 
was  probably  a  land  owner  in  those  parts.  He 
bore  arms  :  .Argent  three  bull's  heads  cabossed 
sable.  The  ordinary  coat-of-arms  of  the  Mor- 
gans has  long  been :  Or,  a  griffin  sergeant 
sable,  but  some  branches  have  used  Cadivor 
and  others  Bleddri.  Morgans  of  Pencoyd 
bore :  Argent  a  lion  rampant  gardant  sable 
between  two  cantons ;  the  dexter,  or,  a  griffin 
sergeant  sable ;  the  sinister,  Bleddri.  The 
Llaiitarnam  Morgans  bore  the  griffin  on  a  field 
argent.  The  descendants  of  Ivor  llowel  used 
I'deddri  but  inserted  a  chevron  between  the 
bull's  heads.  The  Lewises  of  St.  Pierre  used 
the  Dadivor  lion,  and  the  griffin  for  a  crest, 
Bleddri  is  said  to  have  married  Clydwen, 
daughter  of  Griffith  ap  Cydrich  ap  Gwaeth- 
fned-fawr. 

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Caradoc  ap  Modoc  ap  Idnerth  ap  Cadwganap 
Elystan  Gloddrydd. 

(IV)  Llewelyn,  married  Lleici,  daughter  of 
Griffith  ap  Beli. 

(V)  Ivor,  married  Tanglvvsy,  daughter  of 
Homel  Sais  ap  Arglwydd. 

(VI)  Llewelyn  Lleia,  married  Susan,  daugh- 
ter of  Howel  Sais,  a  first  cousin. 

(VII)  Ivor. 

(VIII)  Llewelyn  ap  Ivor,  of  Tredegar, 
Lord  of  St.  Clear,  married  Angharad,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Morgan  ap  Meredith,  from  the 
Welsh  lords  of  Carleon  ap  Griffith  ap  Mere- 
dith ap  Rhys,  who  bore  arms :  Argent,  a  lion 
rampant  sable.  Sir  Morgan  died  1332,  when 
Angharad  was  aged  thirty-two  years.  Chil- 
dren: I.Morgan.  2.  Ivor  Hael,  whence  Mor- 
gan of  Gwern-y-Cleppa.  3.  Philip,  whence 
Lewis  of  St.  Pierre. 

(IX)  Morgan,  of  Tredegar  and  St.  Clear, 
married  Maud,  daughter  of  Rhun  ap  Grono  ap 
Llvvarch,  Lord  of  Cibwr.  lie  died  before  1384. 
Children:  I.  Llewelyn.  2.  Philip,  whence 
Morgan  of  Langstone.  3.  John,  father  of 
(iwenllian,  who  married  David  Goch  ap  David. 

4.  Christian,  married  Jevan  ap  Jenkins  Kemeys. 

5.  Ann,  married  David  Gwilim  David,  of  Rhiw- 
perra.  6.  Margaret,  married  Traherne  ap 
Meyric,  of  Merthyr.  7.  Daughter,  married 
Thomas  ap  Gwillim,  of  Carnllwyd.  8.  Elenor, 
married  Grono  ap  Howel  Bennet. 

(X)  Llewelyn  ap  Morgan,  of  Tredegar  and 
St.  Clear,  living  1387.  married  Jenet.  daughter 
and  heir  of  David-vychan  ap  David  of  Rhy- 
dodyn,  1384-87.  Children:  I.  Jevan.  2. 
Christy,  married  Madic  ap  Jevan,  of  Gelligaer. 
3.  Daughter,  married  Roger  ap  Adam,  of  St. 
Mellon's.  4.  Daughter,  married  Madoc.  of 
Piassalleg.  5.  Daughter,  married  Thomas 
Llewelyn.     6.  Ann,  married  John  ap  Jenkin. 

7.   married ,    of    Raglan.      8. 

married Bulith. 

(XI)  Jevan  Morgan,  1415-48.  married 
Denise  or  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  ap 
Llcwelyn-vychan,  of  Llan  gattog-on-Usk.  Chil- 
dren :     I.John.    2.  David.  1442-48.    3.  Jenkin. 

1434- 

(XII)  Sir  John  Morgan,  Knight  of  the 
Sepulchre,  1448.  stewart  of  GwentUoog,  mar- 
ried Jenet,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John  ap 
David  Mathew,  of  LlandalT.  Children:  i. 
Morgan.  2.  Thomas,  whence  Morgan  of 
Machen  and  Tredegar.  3.  John,  whence  a 
branch.  4.  Lewis,  1491.  5.  William  Morgan, 
coroner.  1301.  father  of  John  of  New- 
port, died  1541.  father  of  William,  1541-1559. 
ft.  Philip.    1491.     7-   Elizabeth,   married  John 


Fiennes,  Lord  Clinton  and  Say.  8.  Jane,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Llewelyn-vychan,  of  Rhiwperra. 
10.  Isabella,  married  James  Kemeys'  of  Began, 
died  1 59 1. 

(XIII)  Thomas  ^lorgan,  second  son,  was 
of  Machen  ;  esquire  of  the  body  to  Henry  VH  ; 
living  1538:  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Roger  \'aughan,  of  Borthaml.  Children:  i. 
Rowland  Reymold,  whence  Morgan  of  Llan- 
vedw.  2.  John,  whence  Morgan  of  Bassalleg. 
3.  Edmond,  whence  Morgan  of  Penllw)-n- 
Sarth.  4.  Margaret,  married  John  Kemeys 
and  William  Edmunds.  5.  Barbara,  married 
Sir  Henry  Seymour.  6.  Maud,  married  John 
ap  Rosser.  7.  Jane,  married  William  Gunter, 
Richard  ap  Jenkins,  and  William  \'aughan,  of 
Magor.  8.  Constance,  married  William  Jones,  * 
of  Treoen.  9.  Mary,  married  Edward  Will- 
iams and  Richard  Herbert.  10.  Elizabeth, 
married  Edward  James. 

(XIV)  Rowland  Morgan,  of  Machen,  1517- 
yy,  married  Blanch,  daughter  of  John  Thomas, 
of  Llanarth.  Settlement,  November  11,  1517; 
sheriff,  1557.  Children:  i.  Thomas.  2.  Henry, 
wdience  Morgan  of  St.  Mellons.  3.  Catherine, 
married  Thomas  Mathew  and  Miles  Morgan 
and  Henry  Jones.  4.  Ann,  married  Philip 
]\lorgan,  of  ("iwern-y-Cleppa.  5.  Mary,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Lewis,  of  Rhiwperra.  6.  Eliza- 
beth, married  Edward  Kemeys,  of  Cefn  Mably. 

(XV)  Thomas  Morgan,  of  Machen  and 
Tredegar  and  of  the  Middle  Temple,  1567-77; 
sheriff,  1581  :  M.  P.  for  county  in  1589;  will, 
1663;  married  Elizabeth  Bodcnham,  daughter 
of  Roger.  Children:  i.  Sir  William.  2.  Ed- 
ward, 1586.  married  Elizabeth  Thomas.  3. 
Sir  John,  died  before  1610;  married  Florence 
Morgan,  daughter  and  eventual  heir  of  Will- 
iam Morgan,  of  the  Friars.  4.  David  Morgan, 
whence  a  branch.  5.  Blanch,  married  Edward 
Lewis,  of  \'an.  6.  Catherine,  married  William 
Herbert,  of  Coldbrook.  7.  Elizabeth,  married 
William  Jones,  of  .\bergavenny.  8.  Jane,  mar- 
ried Rowlan.l  .Morgan,' of  P.assalleg.  9.  Eliz- 
abeth, married  William  P.lcthyn,  of  Dynham. 
10.  Margaret,  married  Henry  Williams,  of 
Matbern. 

(X\T)  Sir  William  Morgan,  of  Tredegar, 
knighted  1633:  M.  P.  for  the  county  1623-25; 
will  made  1650.  proved  1653;  sheriff  1612; 
aged  ninetv-three  at  death.  He  received 
Charles  T  at  Tredegar,  July  16  and  17.  1645; 
married  (first)  Elizabeth  VVinter,  daughter  of 
Sir  William  Winter,  of  Lidney :  (second) 
Bridget  Morgan,  daughter  of  .\nthony  Mor- 
gan, of  Heyford,  county  Northampton,  widow 
of  .\nthouv  Morgan,  of  Llanvibangel  Crucor- 


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ney.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Thomas.  2. 
Edward,  of  Kilfcngan,  will  proved  February, 
1661  :  married  Elizabeth  James.  3.  W'illiani, 
whence  ilorgan  of  Rhymy.  4.  Rowland  of 
Risca,  will  proved  February,  1661  ;  married 
Honora and  had  Colonel  William  Mor- 
gan ;  buried  at  Bassallcg,  October  27,  1679.  5. 
John  of  the  Temple.  1652.  6.  Mary,  married 
George  Lewis,  of  St.  Pierre.  7.  lUancli,  mar- 
ried John  Carne,  of  Ewenny.  8.  Frances,  mar- 
ried Charles  Williams,  of  Llangibby.  9.  JMary, 
single;  will  1687.  10.  Elizabeth,  married  Will- 
iam ^Morgan,  and  died  1638.  By  the  second 
wife:      II.    Sir   Anthony,  of  Kilfengan,   died 

s.  p.     12.  Mar\-,  married  Farmer,  of 

London. 

(X\TI)  Elizabeth  Morgan,  daughter  of  Sir 
William  Morgan,  of  Tredegar,  married  Will- 
iam Morgan,  merchant  of  Diveru ;  went  to 
Bristol,  England,  in  1616.  She  died  1638  and 
her  husband  in  1648.  Both  are  buried  in 
Bristol.  Child:  Miles,  born  1616;  mentioned 
below. 

(X\'III)  Miles  Morgan,  the  immigrant  an- 
cestor, was  born  probably  in  IJandorff,  Gla- 
morgan county.  \\'ales,  in  1616.  He  was  named 
perhaps  after  Miles  Morgan,  captain  of  Brit- 
ish army  who  perished  with  Sir  Humphrey 
Gilbert,  half  brother  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh. 
He  removed  to  Bristol,  England,  a  few  years 
before  he  came  to  America.  He  came  to  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  in  April,  1636,  with  his 
two  brothers.  The  eldest,  James,  settled  in 
New  London,  Connecticut;  John  went  to  Vir- 
ginia and  Miles  joined  the  colonists  and  became 
one  of  the  founders  of  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts. Next  to  Colonel  Pynchon,  he  was  the 
most  important  and  useful  man  in  the  .Spring- 
fielfl  colony.  He  was  made  second  in  com- 
mand though  he  was  the  youngest  of  the  com- 
pany. He  was  the  only  pioneer,  in  fact,  who 
was  less  than  twenty-one  years  of  age  when 
admitted.  He  drew  land  for  his  home  lot  on 
the  south  side  of  the  Ferry  lane.  At  present 
the  site  of  the  original  Morgan  dwelling  house 
is  occupied  by  the  repair  shop  of  the  Connecti- 
cut River  railroad.  He  was  a  brave  and 
intrepid  Indian  fighter  in  the  frequent  conflicts 
on  the  frontiers.  In  1675,  in  King  Philip's 
war,  the  Morgan  house  was  attacked  by  the 
Inrlians,  but  so  bravely  was  it  defended  by 
Miles  Morgan  and  his  sons,  that  the  Indians 
retired  after  an  unsuccessful  siege.  Peletiah 
Morgan,  one  of  these  sons,  was  killed  the 
following  year  at  what  is  now  Chicopee.  In 
civil  life  Colonel  Pynchon  was  the  grocer  and 
Miles  Morgan  the  butcher.     He  was  a  wise 


counsellor  and  a  sturdy  tiller  of  the  soil.  A 
handsome  monument  was  erected  at  Spring- 
field in  1879  in  testimony  of  the  services  of 
Miles  Morgan  in  settling  the  town,  govern- 
ing the  colony,  fighting  the  Indians  in  1675 
when  SiJringfield  was  sacked  and  burned  and 
many  of  the  little  colony  killed.  He  died  May 
28,  1699,  aged  eighty-four.  He  married,  about 
1643.  Prudence  Gilbert,  who  died  November 
14,  1660.  He  married  (second)  i'ebruary  15, 
1669,  Elizabeth  Bliss.  Children:  i.  Alary, 
born  December  14,  1644.  2.  Jonathan,  Sep- 
tember 16,  1646.  3.  David,  July  23,  1648.  4. 
Peletiah,  May  17,  1650,  killed  1675;  unmar- 
ried. 5.  Isaac,  March  12,  1652.  6.  Lydia, 
February  8,  1654.  7.  Hannah,  February  11, 
1656.  8.  Mercy,  May  18,  1658.  Child  of 
second  wife:  9.  Nathaniel,  June  14,  1671, 
mentioned  below. 

(XIX)  Nathaniel  Morgan,  son  of  Miles 
Morgan,  was  born  June  14,  1671,  in  Spring- 
field. At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  married,  Jan- 
uary 19,  1691,  Hannah  ]jond,  who  died  June 
7,  1 75 1.  He  lived  on  the  west  side  of  the 
river,  in  West  Springfield,  on  what  is  now 
Chicopee  street.  The  lot  is  at  present  owned 
by  N.  Loomis,  on  the  east  side  of  the  street. 
He  died  August  30,  1752,  aged  eighty-one 
years.  Children:  i.  Nathaniel,  born  Febru- 
ary 16,  1692.  2.  Samuel,  1694,  died  December, 
1699.  3.  Ebenezer,  1696.  4.  Hannah,  1698. 
5.  Miles,  1700.  6.  Joseph,  December  3,  1702, 
mentioned  below.  7.  James,  1705.  8.  Isaac, 
1708,  died  November  7,  1796.  9.  Elizabeth, 
1710. 

(XX)  Joseph  Morgan,  son  of  Nathaniel 
Morgan,  was  born  at  Springfield,  December 
3.  1702,  died  November  7,  1773.  In  1751  he 
removed  to  West  Springfield,  when  there  were 
but  seven  or  eight  families  there,  and  cleared 
land  for  a  farm.  He  married,  in  May,  1735, 
Mary  .Stcbbins,  born  July  6,  1712,  died  De- 
cember 7,  1798,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Steb- 
bins.  Children:  i.  Josej)h,  born  February  19, 
1736.  married  Experience  Smith,  ancestor  of 
James  Pierpont  Morgan  through  Captain 
Jose])h,  Joseph,  Junius  -Silencer,  J.  Pierpont. 
2.  Titus,  died  young.  3.  Titus,  July  19,  1740, 
married  Sarah  Morgan.  4.  Lucas,  February 
26,  1743,  mentioned  below.  5.  Elizabeth,  De- 
cember 23,  1745.  married  Thomas  White.  6. 
Judali  ftwin).  Alarch  22,  1749,  married  Eliz- 
abeth .Sliway.  7.  Jesse  (twin),  March  22, 
1749,  married  Mercy  Stebbins.  8.  Hannah, 
November  29,  1751,  married  John  Lcgg. 

fXXI)  Lucas  Morgan,  son  of  Joscj)!!  Mor- 
gan, was  born  February  26,  1743,  and  married 


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(first)     Tryphena    Smith;     (second)     Betsey 

.     Children  of  first   wife:      i.   Electa, 

born  January  30,  1770,  married,  January,  1793, 
Titus  Wells  Tuttle;  (second)  November,  1800, 
Lemuel  Fairfield.  2.  Rosvvell,  November  15, 
1 77 1.  3.  Phebe,  July  27,  1774,  married,  .\pril 
9,  1794,  Luther  Frink  (see  Frink  family).  4. 
Theodore,  November  19,  1778,  married  Abi- 
.<;ail  Manning,  of  Salem.  5.  Alexander,  Au- 
gust 21,  1780.  6.  Sophia,  June  i,  1784.  died 
February  25,  1787.  7.  Luther,  July  23,  1786, 
died  January  29,  1808.  8.  Mary  Theodosia, 
September  15,  1790,  died  September  6.  1804. 
Children  of  second  wife:  9.  Betsey,  Septem- 
ber 24,  1795.     10.  Lucas,  August  3,  1798. 

John  L.  Hobbs  was  born  at  Sulli- 
IKJBBS  van's  Island,  South  Carolina,  of 
English  parentage,  soon  after  his 
father  and  mother  came  to  this  country.  He 
lived  in  South  Carolina  in  his  youth,  but 
removed  to  East  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
when  a  young  man.  He  was  by  occupation  a 
glass  manufacturer  and  in  1845  established  a 
glass  factory  at  Wheeling,  West  Virginia.  He 
married  Mary  Paige,  of  Cambridge.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John  Henry,  bom  at  East  Cambridge, 
October  17,  1827,  mentioned  below.  2.  Mary, 
1829,  married  Dr.  Robert  Hazlett ;  children: 
Howard,  Robert,  Samuel,  Edward,  Katherine 
Hazlett.  3.  Catherine,  East  Cambridge,  1831, 
married  on  the  same  day  as  her  sister  ALiry 
a  cousin  of  Dr.  Hazlett.  Dr.  James  Cummings  ; 
she  died  soon  after  the  birth  of  her  only  child, 
who  also  died.  4.  Eliza,  East  Cambridge.  1833, 
married  John  Rinehart ;  children:  Walter, 
Frank.   Etta,  married  Jasper   Baum ;  Louisa, 

married  Hinckley.     5.  John,  killed  by 

accidental  discharge  of  a  gun  while  at  target 
practice. 

(H)  John  Henry,  son  of  John  L.  Hobbs, 
was  born  at  East  Cambridge.  October  17,  1827. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  went 
to  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  with  his  father 
to  engage  in  the  manufacture  of  glass.  The 
business  was  successful  and  has  continued  to 
the  present  time  under  the  firm  name  of  Hobbs, 
Brockunier  &  Comjiany.  The  concern  manu- 
factured fancy  glass  of  all  kinds  and  took  out 
some  twenty  valuable  patents,  mainly  on 
designs.  Mr.  Hobbs  himself  patented  various 
chandelier  designs  etc.  The  i)lant  consists  of 
four  large  btiildings  containing  the  various  de- 
partments of  the  business.  The  glass  house 
was  a  hundred  by  a  hundred  and  fifty  feet  in 
dimensions.        .Anotlier     building     was      the 


machinery  department  where  the  iron  moulds 
were  made,  forty  by  fifty  feet.     The  cutting 
shop  where  the  glass  was  worked  into  shape 
was  fifty  by  one  hundred,  two  stories  high.  The 
office  building  is  three  stories  in  height.     The 
plant  is  alongside  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  rail- 
road, and  has  a  practically  inexhaustible  supply 
of  bituminous  coal  on  the  premises.     Indeed, 
the  location  was  originally  chosen  because  of 
the    coal    deposits    within    thirty    feet    of   the 
factory.      Tlie    goods    manufactured    in    this 
factory  were  shipped  to  all  parts  of  the  world 
and  for  many  years  the  house  had  the  largest 
business  in  its  line  in  the  country,  and  was 
known    to   the   trade    throughout   the    world. 
This  concern  won  diplomas  and  medals  at  the 
exposition  at  Sydney,  Australia,  and  later  at 
Melbourne,    in    competition    with    the    whole 
world.     The  firm  also  won  premiums  at  the 
Centennial    Exhibition   at   Philadelphia.     The 
firm  always  enjoyed  the  highest  reputation  for 
the  quality  of  their  goods  and  for  fair  deal- 
ing and  integrity.    Mr.  Hobbs  retired  from  the 
business  in    1895.  after  fifty  years  of  active 
and  industrious  application  to  business.    Since 
1895  he  has  resided  in  Dorchester,  Massachu- 
setts.   In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat ;  in  religion 
a   Cniversalist.     He   married.  July    14,    185 1, 
Mary  A.  Leech,  born  at  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
February    17,    1831,    daughter    of    John    and 
Jennie  (Thompson)  Leech.    Children,  born  at 
"Wheeling:     i.  Helen  F.,  April  14,  1852,  mar- 
ried  Theodore    Phinney,   son   of   Major   Syl- 
vanus  B.  Phinney  (see  Phinney  family  here- 
with).    2.  John  Henry  Jr.,  March  24,   1863, 
married  .Annie  Moore  ;  ed"ucatcd  at  the  Lindsey 
Institute;   now   in   the   hardware   business   at 
Louisville,    Kentucky,    where   he    resides.      3. 
Charles  L.,  November,  1864,  graduate  of  the 
Lindsey  Institute,  \M)eeling;  engaged  in  the 
glass  business   at    Wheeling:   married    Bessie 
Hamilton;    child,    lohn    Hamilton,    born   July 
10,  1889. 

(Tlic  Phinney  Line). 

John  Phinney.  immigrant  ancestor,  was  born 
in  England.  He  came  to  Plymouth  in  New 
England  in  1638.  In  the  early  records  his 
name  is  spelled  Finney,  Fenney,  Fennye  and 
Phinney.  He  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of 
the  town  of  Plymouth,  December  2,  1639,  and 
was  admitted  a  freeman,  .Xugust  20.  1644.  He 
removed  to  liarnstable,  where  his  descendants 
have  been  ])roniinent  to  the  jirescnt  time.  His 
wife  Christian  died  September  9,  1649,  and  he 
married  (second)  at  Barnstable,  July  9  or 
June  10.  1650,  Abigail  Coggin  (or  Cogan), 
widow  of  Henry  Coggin.    She  was  buried  May 


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7,  1653.  He  received  a  letter,  dated  at  Burd- 
port  (  Bridport),  England,  April  10,  1654,  from 
his  father-in-law,  Thomas  Bishop,  asking  him 
to  send  to  him  Abigail  Coggin,  his  grandchild, 
to  Weymouth  to  his  daughter  Mrs.  Sarah 
Lydds  in  Milcomb  and  requesting  him  to  care 
for  the  other  grandchildren,  Thomas  and 
Henry  Coggin.  Henry  Coggin  was  a  wealthy 
merchant  and  "adventurer"  (promoter).  Mr. 
Phinney  married  (third)  June  26,  1654,  Eliza- 
beth Bayley,  of  Branstable.  He  was  constable 
at  Barnstable.  He  became  interested  in  that 
fertile  region  about  Mount  Hope  and  thither 
he  removed  in  his  later  years.  'Mother 
Phinney,"  doubtless  his  mother,  died  at 
Plymouth,  April  22,  1650,  aged  upwards  of 
eighty.  His  brother  Robert  settled  also  at 
Plymouth,  where  he  was  a  town  officer  and 
deacon;  married,  September  i,  1641,  Phebe 
Ripley;  died  January  7,  1687-88,  aged  eighty, 
and  in  his  will  bei|ueathed  to  the  children  of 
his  brother  John  and  others,  having  no  sur- 
viving children.  Child  of  first  wife:  i.  John, 
born  at  Plymouth,  December  24,  1638,  men- 
tioned below-.  Children  of  third  wife:  2. 
Jonathan,  August  14,  1655.  3.  Robert,  August 
"13,  1656,  lost  his  life  in  (Governor  Phipps  expe- 
dition in  i6qo.  4.  Hannah.  September  2,  1657, 
married  E])hraim  Morton.  5.  Elizabeth,  ]\Iarch 
15,  1659.  6.  Josiah.  January  11,  1661,  mar- 
ried, January  19.  1688,  Elizabeth  Warren.  7. 
Jeremiah.  .August  15,  1662.  8.  Joshua,  Decem- 
ber, 1665. 

(H)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Phinney, 
was  born  in  Plymouth.  December  24,  1638, 
and  was  baptized  in  Barnstable,  July  31,  1653. 
He  marriecl,  at  Barnstable.  .August  10,  1664, 
Mary  Rogers.     Children,  born  at  Barnstable : 

I.  John,  May  5,  1665.  2.  Melatiah.  October, 
1666,  died  1667.  3.  Joseph,  January  28,  1668. 
4.  Thomas,  January,  1672.  5.  Ebenezer,  Feb- 
ruary 8,  1674.  6.  Samuel,  November  4,  1676. 
7.  Mary,  September  3,  1678.  8.  Mercy,  July 
10,  1679.  9.  Reliance.  August  27,  1681.  10. 
Benjamin,   June    t8,    1682.   mentioned   below. 

II.  Jonathan.  July  30,  1684.  12.  Hannah, 
March  28.  1687,  died  young.  13.  Elizabeth, 
baptized  May  10,  1691. 

(HI)  Benjamin,  son  of  John  (2)  Phinney, 
was  born  at  Barnstable,  June  18,  1682.  He 
married  Martha  Crocker.  Children,  born  at 
Barnstable:  i.  Temperance,  born  1710.  2. 
Melatiah,  1712.  3.  Barnabas,  1715.  4.  Silas, 
>.    Zaccheus,    1720,   mentioned   below. 


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6.  Seth,  1723. 

(IV)   Zaccheus,  son  of  Benjamin  Phinney. 
was  born  at  Barnstable  in  1720.     He  married 


Susanna  Davis.  Children,  born  at  Barnstable: 
1.  Benjamin,  1744,  died  1843;  father  of  Dr. 
I'-lias  Phinney  who  settled  in  Lexington,  Mass- 
achusetts, noted  agriculturist  and  author,  clerk 
of  courts  in  Middlesex  county.  2.  Timothy, 
1746,   mentioned   below.     3.    I3arnabas,    1748. 

(\')  Deacon  Timothy,  son  of  Zaccheus 
Phinney,  was  born  in  Barnstable  in  1746.  Dur- 
ing his  long  life,  extending  beyond  fourscore 
years  and  ten.  Deacon  Phinney  was  prominent 
in  civil  and  church  affairs.  He  held  for  a 
time  the  office  of  high  sheriff  of  Barnstable 
ciiunty  and  was  deputy  sheriff'  many  years.  He 
was  state  senator  in  181 1.  He  built  the  house 
lately  owned  by  the  heirs  of  Ebenezer  liacon. 
George  Phinney,  his  grandson,  wrote:  "His 
grave  and  dignified  bearing  is  still  among  the 
recollections  of  some  now  living,  whose 
memories  yet  retain  the  picture  of  the  high 
pulpit  with  its  souilding  board,  the  church 
official  seated  below  facing  the  audience,  and 
the  square  pews,  while  they  still  hear  in  imagi- 
nation the  bang  of  the  hinge-swinging  wooden 
seats,  raised  for  the  convenience  of  a  standing 
position  during  prayer.  To  him  was  given 
length  of  days  and,  the  respect  of  his  towns- 
men, which  he  held  to  the  close  of  life."  He 
married  Temperance  Hinckley,  a  descendant 
of  Thomas  Hinckley,  of  Barnstable,  for  years 
governor  of  Plymouth  colony  and  subsequently 
elevated  to  the  same  office  after  the  annexation 
of  Plymouth  to  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  first  lieu- 
tenant in  Captain  Ebenezer  Lothrop's  com- 
])any.  commissioned  A])ril  21,  1776,  later  under 
Colonel  Nathaniel  Freeman.  This  was  an 
artillery  company  (Matrosses).  Children, 
born  at  Barnstable:  i.  Timothy,  June  13, 
1784,  mentioned  below.  2.  Nancy,  married 
Deacon  John  Alunroe;  she  died  in  1881  in  her 
eighty-eighth  year. 

(\'T)  Timothy  (2),  son  of  Deacon  Timo- 
thy (  I  )  I'liinney,  was  born  at  Barnstable,  June 
13,  1784,  died  September  28,,  1883,  lacking  but 
a  few  months  of  a  century.  Pie  was  buried  in 
the  burying  ground  just  west  of  the  church 
on  Meeting-house  hill  in  his  native  town.  He 
lived  in  Barnstable  all  his  life,  a  farmer.  He 
married  Olive  Gorham  Bourne,  oi  Barnstable, 
daughter  of  Melatiah  and  Olive  (Gorham) 
Bourne,  granddaughter  of  Melatiah  and  Mary 
(Bayard)  Bourne.  The  family  has  preserved 
a  certificate  signed  by  John  Hancock  and  six 
other  selectmen  of  Boston  testifying  that 
Melatiah  Bourne  Sr.  "is  a  gentleman  of  char- 
acter and  has  lived  in  this  town  from  his 
voutli  and  is  esteemed   for  his  attachment  to 


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the  civil  and  religious  liberties  of  his  country." 
The  town  of  Bourne  is  named  for  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Bourne  family.  Children  of 
Timothy  and  Olive  Gorham  (Bourne)  Phin- 
ney:  i.  Sylvanus  1?.,  born  October  27,  1808, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Mary  Bourne,  married 
Josiah  VValcott,  of  Roxbury,  Massachusetts. 
3.  George,  editor  of  the  Waltham  Free-Press, 
\\'altham,  Massachusetts.  4.  T.  Warren,  set- 
tled in   I'olinas,  California. 

(VH)  Alajor  Sylvanus  Bourne,  son  of 
Timothy  (2)  Phinney,  was  born  in  Barnstable, 
October  27,  1808.  in  the  building  later  occu- 
pied by  the  Sturgis  library.  He  died  at  the 
age  of  ninety-two.  Before  the  close  of  the 
\\AT  of  18 1 2  he  was  a  passenger  with  his  father 
on  board  a  packet  sloop  commanded  by  Cap- 
tain Howes,  plying  between  Barnstable  and 
Boston  in  1814.  when  the  packet  was  fired 
upon  by  the  British  frigate  "Nymph"  in  Mass- 
achu-setts  Bay,  captured  and  burned  with  all 
the  cargo.  He  was  taken  prisoner  with  the 
others  and  confined  for  some  time.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
his  native  town,  and  at  an  early  age  served  an 
a])i)reuticeship  in  the  i)rinting  office  of  Hon. 
Nathan  Hale,  publishers  of  the  Boston  Adver- 
tiser. Rev.  Dr.  Edward  Everett  Hale,  son  of 
Nathan,  wrote  an  interesting  letter  for  publi- 
cation in  a  brief  biography  of  Major  Phinney 
published  on  the  occasion  of  his  eightieth 
birthday.  Jn  this  letter  he  has  the  kindest 
words  to  say  of  his  father's  api)rentice  who 
had  continued  his  life-long  friend.  "Indeed"' 
he  says  "my  first  association  with  a  world 
larger  than  the  nursery  is  connected  with  "Syl- 
vanus," as  we  used  to  call  you  in  those  days ; 
and  from  that  hour  to  this,  the  name  Sylvanus, 
and,  strange  to  say,  the  name  Sylvester,  has 
always  been  a  pleasant  name.  I  owe  it  to  you, 
that  1  have  always  tried  to  make  out  the  popes 
of  the  name  of  Sylvester  a  better  series  of 
popes  than  the  general  series  which  surrounded 
them.  H  any  of  them  take  any  comfort  from 
my  good  opinion,  they  owe  it  to  you.  *  ^ 
In  after-days,  our  home  associations  with 
Barnstable  were  all  connected  with  yourself. 
I  dare  say  you  have  forgotten,  but  I  have  not, 
that  you  and  Mrs.  Phinney  interested  your- 
selves in  the  ladies'  movement  for  the  com- 
pletion of  Bunker  Hill  Monument,  which 
began,  I  think,  about  the  year  1835.  But. 
indeed,  my  dear  Major  Phinney.  you  know 
perfectly  well,  though  you  will  be  too  modest 
to  say  so.,  that  you  have  interested  yourself  in 
every  good  tiling  which  has  been  done  in  the 


Old  Colony  from  the  time  when  the  English 
took  you  prisoner  down  to  this  present  day." 
On  completion  of  his  apprenticeship.  Major 
Phinney  look  charge  of  the  Barnstable  Journal, 
the  first  number  of  which  was  published  by 
N.  S.  Simpkins,  October  10.  1828,  and  con- 
tinued in  this  position  until  June,  1830,  when 
he  established  the  Barnstable  Patriot.  While 
foreman  of  the  Journal  printing  office  he 
printed  from  stereotype  plates  two  large  edi- 
tions of  the  English  Reader.  The  first  num- 
ber of  the  Patriot  was  dated  June  26,  1830, 
and  he  continued  its  editor  and  proprietor  for 
nearly  forty  years.  His  valedictory  was  pub- 
lished January  26,  1869.  The  history  of  that 
forty  years  was  written  in  the  Barnstable 
Patriot.  Pie  planned  an  independent  newspaper 
devoted  to  the  interests  of  Cape  Cod  and  open 
for  the  free  discussion  of  religion,  politics  and 
other  public  questions.  "Though  obliged  to 
contend  against  weighty  and  angry  odds,  w^e 
made  steady  headway  from  the  first ;  and 
increasing  confidence  in  ourself  was  warranted 
by  the  public  good-will  which  gathered  to  our 
aid,  and  cheered  us  on  to  what  years  ago,  we 
counted  as  absolute  success.  But  the  vicissi- 
tudes of  such  a  career!  How  great  and  how 
varied!  How  gratifying  and  joyous,  how 
sad — oh,  sometimes  how  sad — even  amidst  suc- 
cess, is  the  forty  years'  life  of  an  editor  and 
publisher  in  its  current  passing!  How  inde- 
scribable the  retrospect  from  its  close !  But 
the  friendships  we  have  made  and  enjoyed 
through  our  regular  calling,  they  have  been 
and  remain  a  ho.st,  thank  God!  The  oppo- 
nents political,  with  whom  we  have  exchanged 
the  common,  and  sometimes  uncommon  severi- 
ties of  our  profession,  we  believe,  with  very 
few.  and  those  insignificant,  exceptions,  have 
left  nothing  rankling  to  disturb  their  good-will 
towards  us.  "^^  *  "The  second-hand  press 
and  old  font  of  type  with  which  we  published 
the  first  Patriot,  loanetl  us  by  our  old  master, 
the  Hon.  Nathan  Hale  of  blessed  memory, 
were  brought  to  us  by  packet  from  Boston ; 
and  our  paper  to  print  upon,  the  first  winter, 
was  transported  therefrom  upon  stagecoach 
top.  *  *  And  may  we  not  claim  that  in  the 
enlightenment  of  the  public  sentiment,  the 
diflusion  of  liberal  ideas,  the  softening  of 
religious  asperities,  and  the  inculcation  of 
Democratic  principles  in  the  county,  the 
Patriot  has  been  pre-eminently  a  pioneer  and 
co-worker?  In  the  cause  of  our  country,  in 
contest  with  her  foreign  foe  or  later,  in  that 
for  her  own  unity  and  integrity,  the  Patriot 


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was  ever  true  to  its  name  and  its  professions. 
And  to  the  Democratic  princi]:)les  of  govern- 
ment it  has  given  constant  support  with  all  the 
efficiency  it  could  command."  Even  to  the 
present  time  the  Patriot  has  continued  the 
leading  newspaper  of  Cape  Cod  and  one  of 
the  best  weeklies  of  the  state. 

Major  Phinney  began  his  military  career 
early  in  life,  and  when  he  was  but  twenty-two 
years  old  was  commissioned  major  of  the 
First  Regiment  of  Massachusetts  militia.  He 
took  part  in  the  regimental  reviews  of  1832 
and  1833.  During  the  civil  war  he  supported 
the  government  heartily.  He  was  appointed 
by  (jovernor  John  A.  .\ndrew  a  member  of  the 
committee  of  One  Hundred  and  presented  the 
.Sandwich  Guards.  Company  D,  Third  Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts  Battalion,  with  a  costly 
flag  upon  which  was  inscribed  :  "Uur  flag  floats 
to-day  not  for  party  but  for  country."  On 
visiting  that  regiment  at  Fortress  Monroe  in 
March.  1862.  Alajor  Phinney  was  present  at 
the  memorable  battle  between  the  "Monitor"' 
and  "^lerrimac."  He  cast  his  first  vote  for 
Andrew  Jackson  and  remained  a  Democrat 
throughout  his  long  life.  He  represented  the 
town  of  Chatham  in  the  constitutional  conven- 
tion of  1853 :  was  Democratic  candidate  for 
congress  and  councillor  of  the  first  district. 
He  represented  the  first  district  in  the  Demo- 
cratic National  conventions  of  1844-53-57.  He 
was  elected  councillor  by  the  state  senate  to 
fill  a  vacancy.  When  he  was  candidate  for 
councillor  in  1882  he  polled  9,922  votes,  the 
largest  Democratic  vote  ever  before  cast  in 
that  district.  He  was  appointed  collector  of 
customs  for  the  P>arnstable  district  by  Presi- 
dent Polk  and  held  office  through  the  adminis- 
trations of  I'olk,  Pierce,  Piuchanan  and  John- 
son. During  that  time  he  disbursed  for  the 
government  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars 
to  the  fishermen  of  Cape  Cod  under  the  Cod 
Fishing  Bounty  act  of  1819  and  was  instru- 
mental in  procuring  from  Congress  an  appro- 
priation of  $30,000  for  building  the  custom 
house  and  postoffice  at  Barnstable.  He  raised 
by  subscription  a  sufficient  amount  of  money 
for  purchasing  the  grounds  and  builcling  the 
Agricultural  Hall,  while  president  of  the  Barn- 
stable County  Agricultural  Society,  in  which 
he  was  always  greatly  interested.  He  repre- 
.sented  the  society  for  twelve  years  in  the  state 
board  of  agriculture.  For  many  years  he  held 
the  office  of  vice-president  of  the  Xew  Eng- 
land Society.  He  was  a  pioneer  in  cranberry 
culture,  the  leading  agricultural  product  of  the 
Cape  to-day.     And  he  began  the  planting  of 


])ine  trees  to  make  use  of  the  sandy  and  uncul- 
ti\ateil  lanils  of  that  section,  furnishing  an 
example  that  has  been  followed  by  many  enter- 
prising farmers  and  land-owners. 

He  was  for  seventeen  years  president  and 
for  twenty-five  years  a  director  of  the  Hyannis 
National  and  Yarmouth  banks.  He  was  secre- 
tary for  many  years  of  the  Barnstable  Savings 
Institution  in  the  days  of  its  prosperity,  and  in 
1870  was  elected  ])resident  of  the  Hyannis 
Savings  Bank.  lie  was  prominent  in  the 
Unitarian  church  and  for  more  than  a  score 
of  years  president  of  the  Cape  Cod  Unitarian 
Conference.  He  was  active  in  charity  and 
good  works  to  the  extent  of  his  means.  In 
1883  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Benja- 
min F.  Butler  on  the  state  board  of  health, 
lunacy  and  charity.  He  was  in  1875  elected 
a  trustee  of  Humboldt  College  (Iowa).  The 
esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  those  closely 
associated  with  him  in  office  and  business  is 
shown  by  the  presentation  of  a  valuable  silver 
service  in  1 86 1  when  he  retired  as  collector, 
and  the  occasion  was  taken  by  the  speakers 
and  afterward  by  the  press  to  commend  his 
able,  efficient  and  satisfactory  administration 
of  his  office.  He  was  clerk  of  the  Cape  Cod 
Central  railroad  from  its  organization  to  the 
time  of  its  consolidation  with  the  Old  Colony 
railroad  in  1872,  when  he  presided  at  a  notable 
meeting  of  directors  and  leading  citizens  at 
Masonic  Hall,  Hyannis,  at  which  a  testimonial 
was  presented  to  the  retiring  superintendent, 
Ephraim  N.  Winslow.  Again,  upon  the  re- 
tirement of  Hon.  Nymphas  Marston  as  judge 
of  ]irobate,  Major  Phinney  presided  at  a  pre- 
sentation of  a  similar  testimonial.  In  1862  he 
was  chosen  at  a  citizens'  meeting  of  the  town 
of  Provincetown  to  represent  its  interests  at 
a  hearing  in  Washington  on  the  fishery  treaty 
then  under  consideration. 

Major  Sylvanus  B.  Phinney  married  (first) 
in  1832,  Eliza  Cordelia  Hildreth,  daughter  of 
Colonel  Jonathan  Hildreth,  of  Concord,  Mass- 
achusetts. She  died  July,  1865,  and  he  mar- 
ried (second)  in  October,  1866,  Lucia  Green, 
of  Barnstable,  youngest  daughter  of  lion. 
Isaiah  L.  Green,  of  Barnstable,  who  repre- 
sented the  Barnstable  district  in  congress  and 
voted  for  the  war  of  18 r 2.  Children  of  first 
wife,  born  at  Barnstable:  i.  Theodore,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Robert,  married  Sarah  Clough. 
3.  Gorham.  married  F.Uen  Jane  Oakes  Pratt, 
whose  father  was  the  largest  iron  manufac- 
turer in  Boston  :  they  reside  at  Allston  in  Bos- 
ton ;  children:  Harry,  Leslie,  Nellie,  married 
Dr.  Taylor  and  has  two  children.    4.  Cordelia. 


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(VIII)  Theodore,  son  of  Major  Sylvanus 
Bourne  Phinney,  was  born  in  Barnstable.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Barn- 
stable; was  engaged  with  his  father  on  the 
I'atriot  from  i860  to  1868;  then  went  to 
Chicago  where  for  one  year  he  was  engaged  in 
the  auction  and  commission  business ;  then  went 
to  Wheeling  and  was  engaged  in  the  iron 
manufacturing  business  until  1892;  then  went 
to  Boston  and  was  engaged  in  the  brokerage 
business  until  1906;  now  (1909)  a  traveling 
salesman.  He  is  a  member  of  Barnstable 
Lodge.  Free  and  .Accepted  Masons,  a  Uni- 
tarian in  religion  and  a  Republican  in  politics. 
He  married,  June,  1873.  Helen  F.  Hobbs,  born 
at  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  April  14.  1852, 
daughter  of  John  Henry  and  Mary  A.  (Leech  ) 
Hobbs  (see  Hobbs  family).  Mrs.  Phin- 
ney is  a  graduate  of  Mt.  De  Chantal  Con- 
vent, Wheeling,  class  of  1870.  They  reside  at 
79  Maple  street,  Maiden.  They  have  one 
child,  Mary,  born  at  W'heeling,  May  30,  1881, 
educated  in  private  schools;  married  J.  Elliot 
Knowlton,  born  at  Maiden,  graduate  of  Maiden 
iiigh  school,  class  of  1893;  in  September.  1893, 
entered  First  National  Bank  at  Maiden,  and 
in  I'^ebruary,  1908,  was  advanced  to  receiving 
teller,  having  served  from  1898  to  1908  as 
bookkeeper;  he  served  as  treasurer  of  Trin- 
itarian Congregational  Society,  which  society 
is  over  two  hundred  and  sixty  years  old,  and 
is  serving  on  several  important  committees  in 
the  church;  he  is  a  member  of  the  Amphion 
Musical  Club  of  .Melrose  and  of  the  Kern- 
wood  Club.  During  his  spare  moments  he 
studied  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  August 
21,  1898,  and  is  now  practicing  law.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Knowdton  has  one  child,  Warren  Put- 
nam, born  at  Maiden,  May  4,  1908. 


The  early  records  of  the  New 
WKLLS  England  colonies  contain  men- 
tion of  many  persons  of  this 
name,  who  were  settled  at  Boston,  Lynn,  Hat- 
field, Haddam,  Ipswich,  New  London  and 
Hartford.  PVom  the  early  progenitors 
descended  a  manly  race  who  made  records  in 
the  revolution.  Nine  who  spelled  their  names 
Welles  were  patriot  soldiers  in  the  revolution 
in  Massachusetts  regiments,  and  one  hundred 
and  sixty  whose  name  is  spelled  W^ells.  In  the 
Connecticut  organizations  were  five  of  the 
Welles  branch  and  forty-seven  of  the  Wells 
branch  of  the  family.  Other  spelling  of  the 
name  in  revolutionary  records  are:  Wailles, 
Wails,  Wcalls,  Weels,  Well,  Walles,  Wcls. 
W'ills  and  Wolle.     Prominent  among  the  men 


of  this  name  (W'elles)  was  Governor  Thomas 
of  this  sketch,  Gideon,  once  secretary  of  the 
navy,  and  Edward  R..  an  .A^merican  bishop. 
.Among  those  who  use  the  simpler  spelling  of 
the  name  (Wells)  are  Henry  T.,  a  painter; 
H.  G.,  a  novelist ;  and  Sir  Thomas  A.,  Baronet, 
a  surgeon  of  note,  all  of  England.  In  Amer- 
ica Horace  and  John  D.,  men  of  rank  in  med- 
icine. 

(I)  Governor  Thomas  Welles.  Of  this 
prominent  colonist  of  Connecticut,  Savage 
savs :  "It  is  (juite  vmcertain  when  he  came 
from  England,  though  satisfactorily  known 
that  he  brought  three  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters; ecjually  certain  is  the  name  of  his  wife, 
though  we  can  hardly  doubt  w-hether  he 
brought  one  ;  and,  stranger  still,  is  the  uncer- 
tainty of  his  prior  residence  in  Massachusetts. 
He  had  good  proportion  of  the  patents  from 
Swampscott  and  Dover,  which  he  sold,  .August, 
1648.  to  Christopher  Lawson.  We  may  then 
safely  conclude  that  a  person  of  his  education 
and  good  estate  had  not  come  over  the  water 
before  1636,  and  that  he  staid  so  short  a  time 
at  Boston,  or  Cambridge,  as  to  leave  no  trace 
of  himself  at  either,  and  he  was  established 
at  Hartford  before  Governor  Haynes  left  Cam- 
bridge. There  is,  indeed,  a  very  precise  tradi- 
tion of  his  coming  with  his  father  Nathaniel, 
in  the  fleet  with  Higginson,  1629.  to  Salem; 
but  that  is  merely  ridiculous."  He  is  said  to 
have  been  born  at  Essex,  England,  1598.  "He 
came  to  Boston,  or  vicinity,  probably  about 
1636 ;  then,  perhaps  to  Saybrook,  Connecticut, 
thence  1637  or  earlier  to  Hartford,  thence 
1643  to  W'ethersfield,"  says  Henry  R.  Stiles, 
in  his  excellent  "History  of  Ancient  W'ethers- 
field,  Connecticut."  upon  whom  we  have  relied 
for  much  that  is  found  in  this  sketch.  Con- 
tinuing he  says:  "His  name  first  appears  in 
the  Connecticut  Colonial  Records,  as  a  mem- 
ber of  that  Court  of  Magistrates  held  at  Hart- 
ford 28  March,  1636-7.  which  declared  war 
against  the  Pecjuots ;  and  he  was  a  magistrate 
'from  that  time  till  his  death.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Court  w-hich  issued  the  Funda- 
mental Orders,  or  Constitution,  of  1639.  the 
cojjy  of  which  in  the  original  manuscript 
volume  of  the  Colonial  Records,  is  in  his 
handwriting.  He  was  an  original  proprietor 
at  Hartfonl — where  his  houselot  was  on  the 
east  side  of  the  street  now  known  as  Governor 
street ;  he  was  appointed  treasurer  of  the  col- 
ony II  April,  1639.  held  the  office  two  years 
and  was  re-appointcd  17  May,  1649,  ''"fl  'i^l^ 
it  three  years:  from  1646  to  1649  "lie  w-as 
secretary  of  the  colony  ;  deinity  governor  1654- 


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6-7-9,  acting  governor  in  1654,  during  Gov- 
ernor Hopkins"  and  also  during  Governor 
Winthrop's  abesences  in  England ;  and  gov- 
ernor in  1655  and  1658.  He  was  frequently 
associated  on  important  committees  and  in 
public  affairs  with  Haynes,  Ludlow,  Mason 
and  the  other  foremost  men  of  the  colony; 
rendered  conspicuous  services  also,  as  a  com- 
missioner I (549- 1 659,  of  the  I'nited  Colonies, 
in  effecting  the  union  of  the  Connecticut  and 
Xew  Haven  colonies,  in  1643,  for  mutual  pro- 
tection and  benefit."  At  the  last  meeting  of 
this  body,  at  Hartford,  1659,  -Mr.  Welles  was 
requested  "For  the  encouragement  of  the 
Indians  at  W'ethersfield  that  attend  Mr.  Pier- 
son  and  refrain  from  Pawauging  (pow-wow- 
ing)  and  from  labor  on  the  Lord's  day.  Mr. 
Lusher  was  ordered  to  deliver  to  Mr.  Welles, 
Deputy  Governor  of  Connecticut,  six  yards  of 
trading  cloth  to  be  distributed  to  the  principal 
Indians  amongst  them."  In  every  detail  of 
his  public  service  he  was  distinguished  for  his 
uniform  attention  to  his  duties  and  the  public 
interest.  On  the  Hartford  town  records  his 
name  early  appears;  in  1639-40.  among  the 
inhabitants  who  had  rights  in  the  undivided 
lands,  was  frequently  on  town  committees  for 
the  division  of  lands  and  determining  the  pro- 
portions and  bounds  of  the  same;  the  settle- 
ment by  boundary  differences,  and  the  division 
among  the  Hartford  people  of  the  lands  east 
of  the  Great  river.  About  1643  or  1645  li^ 
removed  to  W'ethersficld  and  bought  Mr.  John 
Plum's  eighteen  acre  homestead.  Later  he 
bought  the  Swayne  homestead  (latterly  occu- 
pied by  General  L.  R.  Welles)  and  which  he 
gave  to  his  grandson.  Captain  Robert  Welles. 
He  also  bought,  1655.  from  Robert  Foote,  the 
James  Boosey  homestead ;  but  he  resided  on 
the  Plum  homestead.  Thomas  Welles  died 
January  14,  1660.  Governor  Winthrop  refers 
in  a  letter  to  Mr.  W'elles  as  "being  very  well 
at  supper  and  dead  before  midnight."  His 
remains  now  rest  at  Hartford.  His  will  dated 
November  7.  1659,  was  probated  -April  11, 
1660.  The  inventory  amounted  to  £1069  and 
two  pence,  and  included  books,  English  and 
Latin.  Governor  Welles  married  (first)  in 
England,  but  nothing  is  known  of  the  wife. 
He  married  (second)  about  1646,  Elizabeth 
Deming,  widow  of  Nathaniel  Foote,  also  first 
settler  of  Wethersfield.  She  died  July  28, 
1683.  aged  about  eighty-eight  years.  The 
children,  all  by  first  marriage  were :  .Xnne, 
John,  Robert,  Thomas,  -Samuel,  Sarah,  Mary 
and  Joseph. 

(II)   John,  eldest  son  of  Governor  Thomas 


Welles,  was  born  about  1621,  died  at  .Strat- 
ford, Connecticut,  August  7,  U^yj.  He  re- 
moved to  Stratford  in  1647,  where  he  was 
admitted  a  freeman  at  the  general  court  of 
elections,  April  10,  1645  (O.  S.).  He  was  a 
deputy  to  the  general  court.  May  15,  1656,  and 
the  court  of  October  2,  1656 ;  also  at  those  held 
May  21,  and  October  i,  1657.  At  court  of 
March  11,  1658,  he  was  among  those  nomi- 
nated "to  be  prepoundcd  at  the  ne.xt  General 
Court  for  choice  to  be  magistrates  in  this  juris- 
ilictinn,"  and  at  the  said  court  he  was  so 
elected,  his  father  at  the  same  time  being 
chosen  governor.  In  October,  1658,  he  was 
one  of  those  persons  appointed  by  the  court  to 
assist  in  the  work  of  the  probate  court  of  Fair- 
field. He  was  also  a  magistrate  in  the  general 
court  of  March  9,  1659.,  and  was  re-elected  in 
May,  1659.  His  will,  dated  August  7,  1659, 
was  proved  October  19,  1659.  Pie  married,  in 
Stratford.  1647,  Elizabeth  Bourne,  who  mar- 
ried (second)  March,  1663,  John  Wilcoxson, 
of  Stratford,  The  children  of  John  and  Eliz- 
abeth were :  John,  Thomas  and  Robert 
(twins),  Temperance,  Samuel  and  Sarah, 

(  HI )  Captain  Robert,  son  of  John  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Bourne)  Welles,  was  born  in  165 1  in 
Stratford,  died  in  Wethersfield,  June  22,  1714. 
He  was  taken  by  his  grandfather,  the  governor, 
to  Wethersfield,  when  young,  and  there  he  was 
educated  and  became  the  heir  to  his  grand- 
father. He  (|uarrelled  with  his  step-grand- 
mother, and  in  1676  it  was  ordered  by  the 
court  that  whereas  he  "both  dammyfied  her 
Barne,  by  parting  with  the  other  part  of  the 
Rarne  that  did  adjoin  to  itt,"  he  should  repair 
it,  and  "Make  up  yhe  amiuity  of  £12  per 
annum,"  which  by  his  grandfather's  will  he 
was  to  pay  her.  He  was  made  a  freeman 
October,  168 1  ;  was  chosen  captain  of  the 
train  band,  September,  1689;  was  deputy  for 
Wethersfield  to  the  general  court,  1690- 
91-92-93-94-97-98-99-1700-01-04-05,  He  was 
appointed  commissioner  for  W^ethersfield  1692- 
93-94;  appointed  justice  of  the  peace.  May, 
1702-04-05-06;  served  as  member  of  the  coun- 
cil. 1697-98;  was  dei)uty  t(5  the  general  court, 
1708  to  1714,  inclusive:  was  appointed  justice' 
i)f  the  peace  and  ni  the  f|uorum,  1707  to  171 1, 
and  1714;  was  one  of  the  patentees  to  whom 
the  patent  of  Wethersfield  was  granted  Feb- 
ruary 17.  1686;  and  when,  in  June,  1704,  in 
consec|uence  of  threatened  Indian  hostilities, 
si.\-  houses  were  ordered  to  be  fortified  in 
Wethersfield,  his  residence  was  one  of  the 
tnmiber.  Captain  Robert  Welles  was  a  man 
of  large  estate   and   much   [iromiuence.     The 


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invt-ntory  of  his  property  mentions  among 
other  things  a  negro  slave  I'hibe.  a  silver 
tankard,  silver  spoons,  valued  at  £4  6s.  02d. ; 
a  silver  beaker  valued  at  £4  is.  4d. :  a  silver 
tankard,  valued  £8.  6s.  3d.,  a  great  looking 
glass,  valued  at  £4.  His  clothing  likewise 
listed  was  rich  and  valuable :  and  all  goes  to 
show  that  he  was  a  man  whose  house  was 
finely  furnisjied,  and  whose  a]i])arel  was  con- 
spicuous for  its  quality.  His  inventory  footed 
£3,667  13s.  3d.  His  sons  Joseph,  Robert  and 
Gideon,  and'  his  grandson  Robert  were  given 
houses  as  well  as  lands.  Captain  Welles  mar- 
ried (first)  June  9,  1675,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Ensign  William  and  Sarah  (Marvin)  Good- 
rich, of  Wethersfield.  She  died  February  17, 
i6(j8.  lie  married  (second)  in  Boston,  Octo- 
ber 13,  i6(j8,  Mary  Stoddard,  who  survived 
him.  The  children,  all  by  first  marriage,  were: 
Thomas,  John,  Joseph,  rrudcnce,  Robert  and 
Gideon. 

(1\')  J(ise])li,  son  of  Captain  Robert  and 
Elizabeth  (  (Joodrich  )  Welles,  was  l)orn  Se])tem- 
ber,  1680,  settled  at  Wetliersfield,  and  died  in 
1744.  lie  was  a  lister  in  1712  and  collector 
in  171 3.  but  never  was  as  prominent  a  man  as 
his  father.  1  le  married,  January  6,  1709.  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Captain  Joshua  Robbins,  of 
Wethersfield.  Their  children  were:  John, 
Prudence.  Esther,  Hannah.  Joseph,  Eunice 
and  Christopher. 

(V)  Joshua,  son  of  Jose|>h  and  Hannah 
(Robbins)  Welles,  was  born  September.  1726. 
He  married,  in  1757,  Ex])erience  Dickinson, 
who  died  June  27.  1773.  Their  children  were: 
Iv.xperience,  Ilannah,  Joshua,  Levi,  Gideon, 
Prudence,  Pamelia,  Abigail  and  Daniel. 

(N'l)  Gideon,  .son  of  Joshua  and  Experi- 
ence (Dickinson)  Welles,  was  born  July  15, 
1764,  died  March  19,  1810.  He  married,  Feb- 
ruary 28.  1790.  Emily  Hart,  by  whom  he  had 
nine  children,  as  follows:  Slnmian,  ^\■illiam 
Hart,  Emily,  Sally,  Romania.  Dudley.  Mary, 
Pamela  and  Prudence. 

(N'H)  Romanta,  son  of  Gideon  and  Emily 
(Mart)  Welles,  was  baptized  July  22,  1798. 
He  was  a  resident  of  Wethersfield,  Connecti- 
cut, lie  married,  September  25,  1830,  Mari- 
anne Morgan,  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
Ste])ben,  I'-mily,  Gideon,  Dudley  and  i\omanta. 
(N'lH)  Judge  Gideon,  son  of  Romanta  and 
Marianne  (Morgan)  Wells,  was  born  in 
Wethersfield.  Connecticut,  .August  16,  1835, 
died  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  March  26, 
1898.  His  boyhood  life  was  that  of  the  farm, 
lie  was  fitted  for  college  at  tiie  East  Windsor 
Hill  .school  and  at  Williston  Seuiinar\-  in  F,a-~t- 


hampton,    and    then    entered    Yale,    where    he 
was    graduated    in    1858.      Among    the    best 
known  of  his  classmates  were  Dr.  William  T. 
Harris,   national   commissioner   of   education ; 
Judge  George  P.  Andrews,  of  the  New  York 
supreme  court ;  and  P>ishop  E.  T.  Thomas,  of 
Kansas.    Gideon  Wells  went  to  Springfield  on 
leaving  college,  and  read  law  in  the  office  of 
Chapman  &  Chamberlain,  the  late  T.  M.  Brown, 
who  had  graduated  at  Williams  the  same  year, 
being  a  fellow  student  in  the  office.    Mr.  Wells 
was  admitted  to  the  Hampden  county  bar  in 
i860  and  at  once  became  associated  in  practice 
with    the    late    Nehemiah    .A.    Leonard,    with 
George  Ashmun  at  the  head  of  the  firm.  When 
the  Forty-fifth  Regiment  went  out  for  its  nine 
months'    service    soon    after    the   war   began. 
Gideon  Wells  was  a  member  of  Company  A 
of  Springfield.     He  served  as  first  lieutenant 
under   Captain    L.    -A..   Tifift,   and   also   in   the 
same  capacity  in  the   Eighth   Regiment.     He 
was   always   loyal   to   the   association   of   this 
period  of  his  life  and  the  festivities  of  Com- 
panv  A  never  failed  to  appeal  to  him.  Memory 
of   the    strong   and    long   maintained    firm   of 
Leonard   &   Wells   is  yet    fresh   in  the  public 
mind.     In  it  were  always  preserved  the  most 
honorable  traditions  of  the  Hampden  Society 
bar ;  it  took  high  rank  and  kejit  it :  it  became 
distinguished    for   ability   and   high  principles 
and  the  non-litigious  character  of  its  advice, 
which  tended  to  the  reasonable  settlement  of 
the  inflaming  of  them.     This  characterization 
will  be  recognized  by  lawyers  as  a  just  one. 
The  firm  rendered  valuable  i)ublic  service  in 
training   young   lawyers.      While    Leonard   & 
Wells  had  much  and  important  court  practice, 
they  built  up  a  greater  reputation  as  advisers 
in  business  affairs.     From  1869  to  1876  Mr. 
Wells  served  as  regi.ster  in  bankruptcy.     His 
readiness   of   apprehension   gave   him   speedy 
masterv  of  this  position  and  it  was  not  easy 
for  fraudulent  operations  to  escape  his  notice. 
In  1876  Gideon  Wells  succeeded  Judge  Mor- 
ton at  the  head  of  the  local  police  court,  which 
position  he  held  until  1890.    During  this  period 
the  outside  duties  of  Judge  Wells  had  steadily 
multiplied  to  an  cxtciit  which  led  to  his  resig- 
nation   and    the   appointment    of   Judge    Bos- 
worth   to  the   vacancy.     This  released  Judge 
Wells  from  duties  which  had  grown  irksome 
to  enter   more   absorbingly   into   the   business 
relationships  his  professional  work  had  brought 
him.     After  Mr.  Leonard  took  the  presidency 
of  the  Connecticut  River  railroad  the  weight 
I  if  the  legal  business  of  Leonard  &  Wells  had 
fallen  on  Judge  Wells.     To  his  duties  as  attor- 


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ney  for  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Lite  In- 
surance Company  and  for  the  SpringtieUl 
Street  Railway  Company  was  then  added  the 
presidency  of  the  Holyoke  Water  Power  Com- 
pany. This  was  an  important  place,  carrying 
with  it  a  large  salary,  and  more  and  more  the 
insurance  company  came  to  rely  upon  Judge 
\\'ells  in  its  large  transactions  and  interests 
widely  scattered  over  the  country.  He  was 
hither  and  yon  in  its  service,  the  one  man 
seemingly  indispensable  because  of  his  legal 
knowledge  and  business  ability.  The  years 
more  nearly  preceding  the  death  of  Judge 
Wells  his  time  had  been  given  to  these  inter- 
ests and  to  the  service  of  individuals  and  com- 
panies that  insisted  upon  having  his  advice. 
Most  large  enterprises  in  Springfield  felt  his 
shaping  hand.  He  was  the  attorney  for  the 
First,  Second  and  Third  National  Banks  of 
that  city.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts' Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  of 
the  Third  and  John  Hancock  National  Banks, 
and  in  a  variety  of  enterprises  in  which  local 
interests  wanted  his  oversight.  Judge  Wells 
delighted  in  that  form  of  recreation  which  took 
him  farthest  from  the  toil  of  his  profession. 
In  the  earlier  years  of  his  professional  career 
he  greatly  enjoyed  a  horseback  ride  before 
breakfast,  and  to  assume  the  care  of  the 
animal  him.self,  to  exploit  his  choice  of  garden 
roses,  as  more  recently  he  gloried  in  raising 
the  best  melons  of  the  region  on  his  Agavvam 
estate. 

The  Springfield  Republican,  from  which  the 
part  of  this  article  referring  to  Judge  Wells  is 
chiefly  taken,  further  says  of  him:  "The 
keen  intuitive  (|uality  of  his  mind  was  joined 
to  sound  native  sense,  and  he  had  a  knack  of 
doing  things,  of  seizing  the  essentials  in  any 
given  situation  and  producing  results.  He  had 
a  most  retentive  memory,  and  knew  where  to 
go  for  his  fine  points  of  law.  That  is  some- 
times better  than  profound  closest  knowledge 
,  of  the  law.  He  seemed  to  lack  interest  in  cer- 
tain directions,  and  yet  the  end  of  his  under- 
takings usually  justified  his  way  of  doing  a 
thing.  Back  of  brusque  manner,  and  cynicism 
which  Judge  Wells  loved  to  affect,  lay  the 
kindest  of  hearts  and  a  wealth  of  neighborli- 
ness  and  friendliness  that  bound  peojile  to  him 
bv  the  strongest  ties.  He  was  resjiected  in 
every  relation  for  his  strengtii  and  force. 
Scores  of  people  leaned  on  him  in  this  enter- 
prise or  that  one.  Then  there  was  the  social 
side  of  the  man — and  very  delightful  and 
entertaining  and  informing  he  was,  whether 
in   the   casual   chat,   in   the   gatherings   of  the 


literary  club,  the  game  of  whist  or  the  social 
call.  He  always  gave  richly  and  was  ready 
in  the  thrust  and  parry  of  social  interchange. 
His  fund  of  stories  was  varied  and  seemingly 
inexhaustible.  No  man  in  our  profession  and 
circles  was  nearer  to  the  homely  life  of  New 
England  or  caught  its  humor  or  flavor  more 
accurately  or  with  fuller  appreciation.  There 
never  was  a  more  genuine  New  Englander. 
It  was  the  dream  of  his  life  to  have  a  farm, 
to  grow  fruits,  vegetables  and  flowers,  not  to 
self  but  to  joy  in  and  dower  his  friends  with — 
and  the  satisfaction  which  he  got  out  of  his 
fine  Agawam  farm  during  those  recent  years 
was  immense.  He  was  hospitable,  in  a  myriad 
of  ways,  a  caretaker  for  others,  and  the  void 
which  his  going  leaves  in  the  life  of  this  com- 
munity win  be'keenly  felt  today."  The  mem- 
bers of  the  Hampden  County  Bar  Association 
assembled  at  a  special  sitting  of  the  supreme 
court,  June  6,  1898,  to  do  honor  to  the  mem- 
ory of  Mr.  Wells  and  passed  resolutions  prais- 
ing him  as  a  lawyer  and  a  citizen,  which  are 
omitted  here  to  give  room  for  portions  of  the 
remarks  of  some  of  the  lawyers  present  which 
illustrate  the  qualities  of  the  man  whom  they 
mourned. 

Edward  H.  Lathrop  said:  "Among  the  large 
accomplishments  of  his  later  life,  few  men 
with  whom  he  came  in  contact  felt  the  warmth 
and  the  richness  of  his  real  life  and  self. 
Brother  Wells  was  not  a  man  who  opened  the 
sunshine  of  his  heart  to  every  casual  acquaint- 
cnce  or  to  the  ordinary  man  of  business.  He 
kept  the  seclusions  of  the  real  sweetness  of 
his  nature  perhaps  somewhat  too  rigidly.  In 
the  pathways  of  daily  life  he  took  and  gave 
his  full  measure  of  the  attritions  of  experience 
and  of  performance.  His  habit  was  that  of 
isolation,  and  not  to  criticise,  but  to  review  him, 
he  has  too  much  of  isolation  and  of  seclusion. 
He  had  forgotten  in  the  later  years  how  to 
jilay.  The  grind  of  business  was  upon  him, 
and  unconsciously  to  himself  he  was  a  prisoner 
to  implicable  and  inescajiable  demands.  The 
humor  of  his  nature  had  little  oi)i)ortunity  to 
play  the  relieving  interludes  that  I  believe 
would  have  saved  him  for  many  more  and 
larger  years.  Grim  and  abrupt  of  speech  he 
sometimes  was  to  his  best  friends,  but  he  was 
unconscious  of  it.  lie  had  his  affections,  and 
we  all  recognized  and  enjoyed  them  and  I 
think  he  did.  He  used  to  say  startling  things 
sometimes  on  sober  and  sedate  occasions,  not, 
perhaps,  because  he  believed  them,  but  jiossibly 
on  occasion  to  relieve  the  dullness  of  conver- 
sational resTiectahilitv  and  at  other  times  be- 


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cause  he  enjoyed  the  effect.  He  had  no  rever- 
ence for  the  platitudes  of  place,  or  the  affected 
profundity  that  sometinies  goes  with  all  our 
professions,  and  he  hated  the  Uriah  Heeps  of 
society  and  of  business.  He  was  always  a 
cool  breeze  in  a  stifling  conventional  atmos- 
phere. He  had  few  intimacies  but  many 
friends.  He  had  friends  whom  he  never  knew, 
because  he  was  unconscious  of  or  had  for- 
gotten the  occasions  that  made  them  friends, 
llehind  all  his  brusqueness  of  manner  and 
speech  lay  the  largeness  and  sweetness  of  a 
most  kindly  character.  Bold  in  speech  and 
criticism  of  men  and  measures,  he  never 
obtruded  his  opinion  and  never  sought  occa- 
sion to  say  an  unkind  thing  of  any  one.  His 
word  was  always  as  good  as  his  bond,  and  his 
bond  was  as  good  as  gold.  We  all  felt  safe  in 
resting  upon  an  agreement  made  with  "Gid" 
Wells.  He  had  a  rare  philosojjhy  in  life.  He 
never  fretted  at  matters  going  wrong,  but  with 
redoubled  reserve  and  a  more  fixed  purpose 
set  his  face  to  the  accom])lishment  of  his 
clients'  interests.  H  disturbed  he  concealed 
his  fear;  if  unhorsed,  he  climbed  into  the 
saddle  again  without  pause.  His  courage  and 
his  calmness,  his  philosophy  and  his  imper- 
turbality  in  meeting  life's  eventualities,  were 
all  illustrated  in  the  serenity  with  which  he 
met  at  the  end  an  ultimate  and  visibly  ajjproach- 
ing  fate." 

On  the  same  occasion  Charles  C.  Spellman 
spoke  in  part  as  follows :  "Upon  the  death 
of  Judge  Morton,  Judge  Wells  received  the 
ajjpointmcnt  as  justice  of  the  police  courts,  and 
during  the  first  six  years  of  his  administration 
as  judge,  1  was  clerk  of  that  court.  This 
brought  us  into  daily  intercourse  with  each 
other  and  established  a  frienclship  between  us 
which  continued  until  his  death.  During  the 
six  years  I  was  so  closely  associated  with  him 
I  had  many  opportunities  to.  witness  exhibi- 
tions of  his  character.  Ko  single  instance  of 
(iift'erence,  no  imjiatient  work  or  hasty  action, 
severed  for  one  moment  our  friendship.  He 
had  a  generous  sympathetic  heart,  always 
ready  to  relieve  the  necessities  of  others,  and 
many  a  friend  in  financial  and  other  trouble, 
to  my  knowledge,  has  not  in  vain  appealed  to 
him  for  aid.  I  have  seen  him  amid  the  per- 
plexing and  embarrassing  c|uestions  which  con- 
tinually arise  upon  the  criminal  side  of  that 
court,  the  (lersistent  and  aliuost  annoying  de- 
mands which  could  not  even  be  considered,  in 
wiiich  the  i)atience  of  the  most  indulgent  luan 
would  be  put  to  the  severest  test.  H  he  erred 
at  all.  it  wa-;  in  not  always  courteously  listen- 


ing. He  had  an  impulsive  nature.  He  was 
affected  with  indignation — which  feeling  he 
could  hardly  repress — when  he  witnessed  any 
act  which  was  mean  and  sordid.  He  could 
not  tolerate  the  witness  which  he  believed  was 
giving  false  testimony  before  his  court,  and 
very  often  would  give  a  hasty  expression  to  his 
own  feelings  if  he  felt  that  all  was  not  as  it 
should  be.  He  decided  all  cases  upon  evidence 
as  it  seemed  to  him,  without  fear  or  favor. 
The  wishes  of  the  prosecuting  officer,  the  argu- 
ments of  attorneys,  the  prominence  or  position 
of  the  parties  interested,  or  the  comments  of 
the  flaily  press,  had  no  effect  on  his  decision. 
He  held'  the  attorneys  strictly  to  the  required 
evidence,  and  any  failure  in  essential  testi- 
mony was  fatal.  He  was  faithful  and  punctual 
in  the  performance  of  his  duties,  and  believed 
that  no  one  should  undertake  what  he  could 
not  do  and  that  he  should  do  what  he  had 
undertaken.  He  resigned  the  judgeship  to 
assume  other  duties  more  to  his  liking.  Those 
best  acquainted  with  the  manner  in  which  he 
performed  all  his  ])ublic  duties  will  bear  wit- 
ness to  the  integrity  and  moral  soundness  of 
his  life.  His  business  ability  can  best  be  meas- 
ured by  his  successful  management  of  large 
corporate  interests  which  from  time  to  time 
was  reposed  in  him." 

Cddeon  Wells  married,  October  13.  1875, 
Marietta  Gilbert,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut, 
who  survives  him.  She  was  born  at  Norwich, 
daughter  of  Merit  S.  and  Esther  (Jones)  Gil- 
bert. Thev  had  one  child,  Gilbert,  born  May 
7.  i'^77- 


This  surname  was  evidently  a 
STREET  place  name,  doubtless  derived 
from  the  military  roads  or 
streets  which  were  built  by  the  Romans  in 
England.  As  early  as  1300  the  name  of  Alice 
le  Strete  is  found  in  the  Domesday  Book.  The 
coat-of-arms  of  the  family  contains  three 
horses  on  a  shield  divided  by  a  bar.  The  crest  _ 
is  a  man's  arm  ujjraised  holding  a  bell  in  his 
hand.     .Motto:     Xon  nobis  solum  nati. 

( I )  Richard  Street  was  of  Stogumber,  Som- 
ersetshire. England,  and  was  a  clothier.  His 
will  is  dated  September  10.  1591,  and  proved 
September  30,  1592.  Children:  Michael,  died 
1507;  Robert.  Thomas,  John.  Nicholas,  men- 
tioned below. 

(H)  Nicholas,  son  of  Richard  Street,  left 
a  will   which  was  proved   May  3.   1610.     He 

married  Mary .  who  was  living  in  1609 

and    who    left   a    will.      Children:      Nicholas, 
mentioned  below.    2.  Mary,  baptized  at  Taun- 


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ton,  England,  March  22,  1578;  married.  Janu- 
ary 17.  1602,  Josn  Gilbcrd.  3.  Thomas,  bap- 
tized at  Taunton,  March  28,  1593;  of  Stogum- 
ber  and  Rawdrip,  by  gift  of  his  father.  4. 
Jane,  baptized  June  22,  1593;  buried  at  Bridge- 
water.  England. 

(Ill)  Nicholas  (2),  gentleman,  son  of 
Xicholas  (i)  Street,  was  of  Bridgewater, 
Somersetshire,  England.  His  will  was  dated 
November  i,  1616,  and  proved  February  13, 
1617.  He  married,  at  Bridgewater,  January 
16,  1602,  Susanna  Gilberd,  who  was  buried 
February    22,    1603.      He    married    (second) 

Mary ,  whose  will  was  dated  July  16, 

1625.  and  proved  February  6,  1626.  Child 
of  first  wife:  i.  Nicholas,  baptized  January 
29.  1603.  mentioned  below.  Children  of  sec- 
ond wife  :  2.  Edward,  baptized  at  Bridgewater 
May  I,  1607,  buried  November  23,  1616.  3. 
John.     4.  ^latthew.     5.  William.     6.  Francis. 

7.  Mary,  baptized  June  10.  1614.  buried  May 

8.  1615.  8.  Philip,  baptized  June  23.  1616. 
buried  November  23,  1616. 

(I\')  Rev.  Nicholas  (3).  son  of  Nicholas 
(2)  Street,  was  baptized  at  Bridgewater,  Eng- 
land. January  29,  1603.  His  father  died  when 
Nicholas  was  thirteen  years  old.  leaving  his 
"antient  estate  of  Rowberton  neare  Taunton, 
and  also  my  lease  of  Huntesbell  in  the  Marsh." 
The  estate  of  Rowberton  belonged  to  the 
Manor  of  Canon  Street  Priory  of  Taunton. 
He  matriculated  at  Oxford.  November  2,  1621, 
at  the  age  of  eighteen,  and  received  his  degree 
February  21,  1624-25.  The  first  record  of 
him  in  New  England  is  his  ordination  as  assist- 
ant-of  Rev.  Mr.  Hooke,  as  teacher  of  the 
church  at  Taunton.  Massachusetts,  in  1637-38. 
Seven  years  later  Mr.  Hooke  went  to  New 
Haven,  and  Mr.  Street  continued  as  sole  pas- 
tor fifteen  years.  He  followed  Mr.  Hooke  to 
New  Haven  and  took  his  place  as  colleague 
of  Rev.  John  Davenport,  September  26,  1659. 
From  1667  until  his  death,  April  22,  1674,  he 
was  pastor  of  the  First  Church.  He  lived  on 
what  is  now  College  street,  on  the  spot  where 
College  Street  Church  now  stands.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  ,  and  (second)   Mrs.  Mary 

Newman,  widow  of  (jovernor  Francis  New- 
man, of  New  Haven.  She  married  (third) 
Governor  Leete,  and  died  December  13.  1683. 
Children:      I.   Samuel,  born    1635,  mentioned 

below.     2.   Susanna,  married Mason. 

3.  Sarah,  married  James  Heaton.  4.  Abiah, 
married  Daniel  Sherman. 

(V)  Rev.  Samuel,  son  of  Rev.  Nicholas  (3) 
Street,  was  born  in  1635.  He  graduated  at 
Harvard   College  in   1664.  one  of  a  class  of 


seven,  all  of  whom  he  outlived  by  six  years. 
He  lived  in  New  Haven  and  taught  in  the 
school  Rev.  Mr.  Davenport  had  founded,  and 
in  which  his  father  also  taught.  After  teach- 
ing here  with  his  father  for  ten  years,  he  was 
installed  April  22,  1674,  the  first  settled  clergy- 
man at  \\'allingford,  Connecticut,  and  re- 
mained there  pastor  forty-five  years.  In  168 1 
he  was  granted  two  hundred  acres  of  land,  and 
in  16S6  a  house  lot  of  six  acres,  later  other 
grants.  He  was  one  of  the  original  signers 
of  the  Plantation  Covenant  of  W'allingford  in 
1710.  He  died  January  16,  1717,  aged  eighty- 
two.  He  married,  November  3,  1664,  in  New 
T  laven,  .\nna  Miles,  who  died  in  Wallingford, 
April  II,  1687,  aged  ninety-five,  daughter  of 
Richard  and  Katherine  (Constable)  Miles. 
Children:  I.  Anna,  born  in  New  Haven,  Au- 
gust 17,  1665.  2.  Samuel,  July  27,  1667,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Mary,  September  6,  1670. 
4.  Susanna.  Wallingford,  June  15,  1675,  mar- 
ried Deacon  John  Peck.  5.  Nicholas.  July  14, 
1677,  married  Jerusha  Morgan.  6.  Katherine, 
November  19,  1679.  7.  Sarah,  January  15, 
1681.  married  Theophilus  Yale. 

(  \'l  )  Lieutenant  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Rev. 
Samuel  ( i )  Street,  was  born  in  New  Haven, 
July  27,  1667.  He  was  made  lieutenant  of  the 
train  band.  May  10,  1716,  in  Wallingford.  His 
estate  was  administered  February  18,  1719-20. 
He  married  (first)  July  14,  1690,  Hannah 
(Hover,  born  October  10,  1672,  died  July  8, 
171 5,  daughter  of  John  Glover,  of  New  Haven. 
He  married  (second)  December  20,  1716,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  (Brown)  Todd,  daughter  of  Eleazer 
and  Sarah  (Bulkley)  Brown,  and  widow  of 
Michael  Todd.  She  married  (third)  Captain 
John  Merrinian.  Children:  i.  Eleanor,  born 
December  3,  1 691.  2.  Nathaniel,  January  19, 
1693.  married  ]\Iary  Raymond.  3.  Elnathan, 
Se]>tember  2,  1695,  married  Damaris  Hull.  4. 
Mary,  April  16,  1698,  married  John  Hall.  5. 
Mehitable,  February  15,  1699,  married  Abra- 
ham Bassctt.  6.  John.  October  25,  1703,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Hall.  7.  Sanniel,  May  10.  1707, 
nunlidned  below. 

(\'II)  Samuel  (3),.  son  of  Lieutenant  .Sam- 
uel (2)  Street,  was  born  May  10,  1707,  died 
in  Wallingford,  October  13,  1792.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  November  12,  1734,  Keziah  Mun- 
son,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Elizabeth  (Her- 
mon)  Munson.  He  married  (second)  Sarah 
.\t water,  born  November  28.  1727,  died  Octo- 
ber I,  1795,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Mehitable 
I  Mix  I  .Atwater.  Child  of  first  wife:  I. 
(ilover.  born  May  28,  1735,  mentioned  below. 
Children  of  second  wife:     2.   Titus,  June  4, 


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1758,  married  Lydia  Allen.     3.  Caleb,  Octo- 
ber 26,  1763. 

(VIII)  Glover,  son  of  Samuel  (3)  Street, 
was  born  May  28,  1735,  dierl  Xovember  28, 
1826.  Me  was  taken  pri.soner  by  the  French 
(luring  the  French  and  Indian  war,  while  sail- 
ing in  a  merchant  ship  from  New  Haven  to 
the  West  Indies,  carried  to  Gua<laloupe  a  pris- 
oner and  confined  there  a  number  of  months. 
He  married,  in  1755,  Lydia  Allen,  of  North 
Haven,  wlm  died  February  13.  1817.  aged 
eighty.  Children:  I.  Esther,  born  February 
24,  1757.  2.  Maujiah,  October  iS,  1738,  mar- 
ried Jehiel  Todd.  3.  Keziah,  March  7,  1761, 
died  young.  4.  Samuel,  October  2.  1762,  men- 
tioned below.  5.  Glover,  May  7,  1764,  mar- 
ried Deborah  Bradley.  6.  Caleb  Munson,  July 
13,  1766,  married  Bathsheba  Chapin.  7.  Keziah, 
[lily  23,  1768,  married  Zenas  Hastings.  8. 
George",  lanuarv  2.  1771,  died  September  23, 
1836:  married,'  October  17,  1808,  Miriam 
Munson.  9.  Joshua,  November  24,  1772.  10. 
Elizabeth,  July  30,  1775,  married  Elijah  Mor- 
gan. II.  John,  May  29,  1778.  married  Sally 
Williams. 

(I.\)  Samuel  (4),  son  of  Glover  Street, 
was  born  October  2,  1762.  died  February  20, 
1 818.  He  removed  in  1800  to  West  Spring- 
field, and  thence  to  Holyoke,  Massachusetts. 
He  married.  May  10,  1785,  Anna  Munson, 
born  June  28,  1760,  died  1829.  Children:  i. 
Orren,  born  August  25,  1786,  married  Rox- 
anna  liassett.  2.  Eunecia.  .'\ugust  28,  1 790, 
married  Ichabod  Howe.  3.  Manly,  1792.  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Lydia,  1797.  married  Will- 
iam .Ardvvay.  5.  Anna,  1800.  died  June  9, 
1 82 1.  6.  .Atwater,  West  Springfield,  April  7, 
1803. 

(X)  Manly,  son  of  Samuel  (4)  Street,  was 
born  at  Wallingford,  Connecticut,  1792,  died 
February  14.  1856.  He  married,  in  1818,  Sus- 
anna Clark,  of  Easlhamjjton,  wlio  died  .Ajjril 
28.  1854.  aged  fifty-nine.  It  is  a  singular  fact 
that  all  his  children  except  I'riel  were  born 
on  Saturday.  Children:  i.  Sydenham,  born 
1820  died  1870;  married  Sarali  W'aterman.  2. 
Samuel  J.,  1822,  married,  1856,  Elizabeth  E. 
Lanckton.  3.  Austin  Dwight.  July  15,  1825, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Uriel,  May.  1827,  died 
June  2,  1852,  unmarried.  5.  Edwin,  .•\ugust 
6,  1828,  died  November  4,  1889.  6.  .\nn,  1832, 
unmarried.     7.  W'illiam,  1838.  unmarried. 

(XI)  .'\ustin  Dwight,  son  of  Manly  Street, 
was  born  at  West  Springfield,  July  15,  1825, 
died  December  25,  1896.  He  was  a  farmer  in 
Holyoke,  a  c|uict,  honest,  upright  citizen.  He 
married,  October   m,   18^6,  .'^oiihia   Dickinson 


(see  Dickinson  family).  He  resided  at 
Holyoke.  Children:  i.  .Austin  Dickinson, 
born  Tune  14,  1862.  2.  Franklin  Manly,  April 
9,  i8'69,  married  Jennie  E.  Sears,  and  they 
have  one  child.  Florence  Street,  born  March 
4.  1897. 

(The  Dickinson  Line). 

Eleven  centuries  ago  a  soldier  of  fortune 
made  his  appearance  at  the  court  of  Halfdan 
Huilbein.  King  of  Norway.  His  name  was 
Ivar.  He  had  been  a  shepherd  and  had  been 
captured  by  the  Northmen  and  carried  to  sea. 
He  drifted  into  a  life  of  adventure.  He  be- 
came a  favorite  at  the  Norwegian  court.  The 
King  made  him  general  of  his  army  and  in 
725  gave  him  his  daughter  Eurithea  in  mar- 
riage. He  was  called  Prince  of  the  Uplands. 
When  the  king  died  the  son  of  Ivar  became 
heir  to  the  throne  and  during  his  minority  Ivar 
was  regent.  This  son,  Eystein.  reigned  until 
755.  He  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Harold 
Flarfager.  Rollo,  a  Prince  of  this  line,  over- 
ran Norway  in  910.  His  sixth  and  youngest 
son,  Walter,  received  the  castle  and  town  of 
Caen  as  an  inheritance.  His  great-grandson, 
Walter  de  Caen,  accompanied  William  the 
Norman  to  England  at  the  time  of  the  Con- 
quest. To  this  nobleman  the  line  of  Dickinsons 
descended  from  the  first  American  jiioneer, 
Nathaniel,  may  be  traced. 

( I )  Walter  de  Caen,  later  de  Kenson,  tak- 
ing the  name  from  his  manor  in  Yorkshire. 

( II  I  Johnne  Dykonson.  freeholder  of  Kings- 
ton upon  Hull,  Yorkshire;  married.  1260,  Mar- 
garet Lambert  and  died  1316. 

(Ill)  William  Dykenson.  freeholder  as 
above,  died  1330. 

(I\')  Hugh  Dykensonne.  freeholder  as 
above,  died  1376. 

(  \' )  .Xnthoync  Dickensonne.  freeholder  as 
above,  married.  1376.  Catherine  De  La  Pole 
and  died  1396. 

(\1)  Richard  Dickerson,  freeholder  as 
abdve,  married,  139O.  Margaret  Cooper  and 
died  1 44 1. 

(\'II)  Thomas  Dickinson,  freeholder  as 
above,  married.  1470,  Margaret  Lambert ; 
alderman  of  Hull,  1443-44:  mayor  1444-45; 
died  1475. 

(XTII)  Hugh  Dickinson,  freeholder  as 
aliove,  married,  1451,  .Vgnes  Swillington ;  re- 
moved 1475  to  Kenson  manor.  Yorkshire ; 
died  1509. 

(IX)  William  Dickinson,  freeholder  of 
Kenson  Manor,  died  1546;  married,  1475, 
Isabel  Langton. 

(  X"!    Tohn  Dickinson  settled  in  Leeds,  York- 


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shire:  married,  1499.  Elizabeth  Danby ;  alder- 
man 1525-54;  died  1554. 

(XI)  William  Dickinson  settled  at  Brindley 
Hall.  Staffordshire;  married.  1520.  Rachel 
Kinge  :  died  1 580. 

(XII)  Richard  Dickinson,  of  liradlcy  Hall. 
married.   1540,   Elizabeth  P.agnall ;  died   1605. 

(XIIIl  Tiiomas  Dickinson,  clerk  in  the 
Portsmouth  navy  yard.  1567  to  1587;  removed 
to  Cambridge,  1587:  married,  I5(')7,  Judith 
Carey;  died  1590. 

(XI\')  William  Dickinson  settled  in  Ely, 
Cambridge,  and  married.  1594.  Sarah  .'^tacey, 
of  Ely:  died  1628. 

(X\")  Xathaniel,  son  of  William  Dickinson, 
was  born  in  Ely,  Cambridge,  in  1600.  He 
married,  in  January,  1630,  at  East  Bergolat, 
county  Suffolk,  Anna  Gull,  widow  of  William 
Gull.  They  came  to  Wethersfield,  Connecti- 
cut, in  1636  or  1637.  He  was  one  of  the 
leaders  of  the  colony.  He  was  town  clerk  in 
1645.  deputy  to  the  general  court  in  1646-47. 
He  removed  to  Hadley.  Massachusetts,  in  1659, 
and  was  admitted  a  freeman  there  in  1661. 
He  was  chosen  deacon  of  the  church  and  first 
recorder  of  the  town.  He  was  selectman, 
assessor,  and  town  magistrate.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Hampshire  Troop,  and  on  the 
first  board  of  trustees  of  Hopkins  .Academy. 
He  resided  a  few  years  at  Hatfield.  He  died 
at  Hadley.  June  16,  1676.  He  married  (sec- 
ond )  .Anne  ,  when  he  went  to  Hadley. 

Children  of  first  wife:  i.  John,  born  1630, 
killed  in  King  Philip's  war.  2.  Joseph,  1632, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Thomas,  1634,  married 
Hannah  Crow.  4.  .\nna,  1636,  married  (first) 
John  Clary:  (second)  Enos  Kingsley.  5. 
.Samuel,  July,  1638.  6.  Obadiah,  .April  15, 
1641.  7.  Xathaniel.  .August.  1643.  8.  Xehe- 
miah.  about  1644.  9.  Hezekiah,  February, 
1645-46.  10.  -Azariah,  October  4.  1648.  killed 
in  Swamp  fight.  .August  25,  1675. 

(X\'I)  Joseph,  son  of  Xathaniel  Dickinson, 
was  born  in  1632.  He  lived  in  Xnrthampton 
from  1664  to  1674  and  then  removed  to  Xorth- 
field.  He  was  slain  with  Cajitain  Beers,  Sep- 
tember 4,  1675,  in  King  Philip's  war.  He 
married  Phebe  Bracy,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Mar- 
tin. Children:  i.  Samuel,  born  May  24,  1666, 
died  in  Hatfield,  1690-91.  2.  Joseph,  April  2^. 
1668.  3.  Xathaniel.  May  20.  1670.  mentioned 
below.  4.  John.  May  2.  1672.  5.  Azariah, 
May  15,  1674,  settled  in  Haddam,  Connecticut. 

(X\'H)  Deacon  Xathaniel.  son  of  Joseph 
Dickin.son,  was  born  May  20,  1670,  died  in 
1745.  He  resided  in  Hatfield,  and  married 
Tlannah  \\''hite.  daughter  of  Daniel  White,  of 


that  town.  Children:  i.  Jonathan,  born  Xo- 
vcmber  7,  1699,  mentioned  below.  2.  Martha, 
December  25,  1701,  married,  March  2,  1727, 
Rlnathan  Graves.  3.  Obadiah,  July  28,  1704. 
4.  Xathan,  .April.  1707,  died  May  10,  1707.  5. 
Joshua.  February  7,  1709.  6.  Elijah,  Febru- 
ary 24,  1712.  died  June  8,  1714.  7.  F.lijah. 
Seiitember  20,  1714,  died  May  28,  1715.  8. 
Joel.  March  23,  1716.  9.  Lucy,  September  9, 
1718,  died  December  24,  17 18. 

(X\TII)  Jonathan,  son  of  Deacon  Xathaniel 
Dickinson,  was  born  in  Hatfield,  Xovember  7, 
1699,  and  settled  first  in  Hadley  on  School 
Meadows.  .About  1748  he  removed  to  Am- 
herst, where  he  died  December  11,  1787.  He 
married.  April  2.  1724,  Mary  Smith,  who  died 
April  13.  1763,  daughter  of  Xathaniel  Smith, 
of  Hatfield.  Children:  i.  Simeon,  born  about 
1726.     2.  Noah,  about  1729,  mentioned  below. 

3.  Jonathan.  4.  Mary,  married,  April  16,  1752, 
Hezekiah  Belding.  5.  Martha,  married  Joseph 
Dickinson,  of  .Amherst,  and  died  .August   12, 

I779- 

(XIX)  Noah,  son  of  Jonathan  Dickinson, 
was  born  about  1729  and  died  March  28,  1815. 
He  served  in  the  revolution  as  first  lieutenant 
in  Captain  Reuben  Dickinson's  company, 
F'ourth  .Amherst.  Fourth  Hampshire  county 
regiment,  in  1776;  as  lieutenant  in  Captain 
Tohn  Thompson's  company.  Colonel  Leonard's 
regiment  in  1777,  with  the  army  of  the  north 
for  two  months  ;  also  as  lieutenant  in  command 
of  a  company  in  Colonel  Elisha  Porter's  regi- 
ment in  .August,  1777;  in  Captain  Reuben 
Dickinson's  company.  Colonel  Porter's  regi- 
ment at  the  Stillwater  alarm  in  September  and 
October.  1777.  and  in  the  same  company  in 
1778.  He  resigned  .April  18.  1780.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  .April  28,  1757.  Mary  Dickinson, 
who  died  June  i,  1791.  aged  fifty- four,  daugh- 
ter of  Deacon  Ebenezer  Dickinson,  lie  mar- 
ried (second)  March  22,  1792,  Susan  Ward. 
Children:  Mary,  born  about  1758,  married. 
Inly  7,  1779,  Hon.  Ebenezer  Mattoon,  of  Am- 
herst; died  July  30.  1835.  Son  by  second 
wife:  Jonathan,  baptized  June  7,  1795,  men- 
tioned below. 

(XX)  Jonathan,  son  of  Xoah  Dickinson, 
was  baptized  June  7,  1795,  died  October  2, 
1840.  Tie  married.  September  19,  1816,  Amy 
Stougliton  Dickinson,  daughter  of  John  and 
Lydia  (Eastman)  Dickinson.  Her  father  was 
biirii  in  Shutsbury,  Massachusetts,  in  1757,  son 
of  Xehemiah  and  .\nnie  \\.  Dickinson,  and  was 
a  soldier  at  Bunker  Hill.  Children,  all  born 
in  .Amherst:     i.  John.     2.  Noah.     3.  Charles. 

4,  Martin.     5.  Rebecca.     6.  Susan.     7.  Sophia, 


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born  February  5,  1832,  graduate  from  Ripley 
College  at  Poultney,  Vermont,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  aiul  taught  school  at  Amherst, 
Holyoke  and  Springfield.  Massachusetts ;  mar- 
ried, October  15,  1856,  Austin  Dwight  Street. 
(Sec  Street  family). 

Tradition  says  that  three 
SAWA'ER  brothers  emigrated  to  America 
from  Lincolnshire,  England, 
sailing  in  a  ship  commanded  by  Captain  Parker, 
and  that  their  names  were  William,  Edmund  and 
Thomas.  They  arrived  1636,  although  Savage 
does  not  find  \\'illiam  and  Thomas  until  1643. 
The  fact  that  the  Rowley  records  show  Edward 
instead  of  Edmund,  as  shown  that  a  tract  of 
land  was  set  off  to  Thomas  Sawyer  and 
another  to  Edward  Sawyer  in  1643,  one  of 
the  boundaries  of  each  lot  being  upon  the 
ocean  side,  thus  showing  that  the  three 
brothers  were  \\'illiam.  Edward  and  Thomas, 
and  that  they  came  early  in  1643  or  just  previ- 
ous. Edmund  came  over  seven  years  earlier 
and  whether  he  w^as  a  brother  of  the  others 
cannot  be  ascertained,  but  all  agree  that 
Thomas  Sawyer  was  in  Lancaster  a  few  years 
after  living  at  Rowley,  and  has  descendants 
multijilicd  by  the  thousands. 

Thomas  Sawyer  was  among  the  first  emi- 
grants to  Lancaster.  Richard  Linton,  Law- 
rence Waters  and  Thomas  Bell  had  gifts  of  land 
in  what  was  afterward  Lancaster  as  an  induce- 
ment to  settle  there,  Thomas  Sawyer  coming 
later.  lie  was  one  of  the  nine  persons  in  1653 
who  organized  the  town,  and  gave  it  the  name 
of  Lancaster.  He  was  a  blacksmith  and  tiller 
of  the  soil,  and  one  of  the  most  conspicuous 
of  the  citizens.  His  farm  was  in  the  present 
grounds  of  the  Seventh  Day  Adventists,  be- 
tween North  Lancaster  and  Clinton.  His  house 
was  just  behind  the  house  now  or  lately  owned 
by  John  A.  Rice,  of  Lancaster.  There  is  a 
stone  to  mark  his  grave  in  the  old  graveyard 
at  Lancaster.  This  house  was  in  the  most 
central  jiart  of  the  Indian  raid.  He  seems  to 
have  escaped  with  all  his  numerous  family, 
witli  the  exception  of  his  son  E])hraim,  who 
was  killed  at  or  near  the  house  of  his  grand- 
father, John  Prescott.  Thomas  Sawyer's 
garrison  proved  a  safe  defense  against  the 
I'rench  and  Indians.  There  was  among  their 
nunibcrs  a  high  I'rench  officer  who  it  is  said 
was  mortally  wounded  while  in  the  fight  which 
nnicl)  cxasjierated  them.  Lancaster  remained 
desolate  for  some  three  years,  and  where  the 
family  of  Sawyer  resided  during  that  time 
is  not  evident  but  it  is  certain  that  they  soon 


reappeared  and  helped  rebuild  the  town,  and 
he  took  a  prominent  part  in  its  growth  and 
prosperity  during  the  next  thirty  years.  It  is 
now  believed  that  John  Sawyer,  of  Lanca- 
shire, England,  was  the  fathe'r  of  these  three 
brothers  who  came  to  America. 

(I)  Thomas  Sawyer  took  the  oath  of  allegi- 
ance in  1647,  and  was  on  the  list  of  proprietors 
in  Lancaster  in  1648.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
six  settlers  and  one  of  the  prudential  managers 
of  the  town  in  1647.  He  was  admitted  a  free- 
man in  1654.  He  was  a  blacksmith  by  trade, 
and  his  house  was  on  the  east  side  of  what  is 
now  Main  street.  South  Lancaster,  next  south 
of  the  home  of  his  father-in-law,  John  Pres- 
cott. He  was  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the 
town  all  his  life.  He  had  command  of  one 
of  the  garrisons  at  the  time  of  King  Philip's 
war.  There  were  only  five  full-fledged  free- 
men in  the  town  of  Lancaster  in  1654 — Ed- 
ward Pireck,  Richard  Smith,  William  Kerley, 
John  Whitcomb  and  Thomas  Sawyer.  He 
(lied  September  12,  1706,  aged  about  ninety 
years.  His  will  was  dated  March  6,  1705-06, 
and  proved  April  12,  1720.  He  bequeathed 
to  wife  Mary,  sons  Thomas,  Joshua,  James, 
Caleb  and  Nathaniel,  and  daughter  Mary 
\\'ilder.  The  latter  testified  that  she  had  her 
father  and  mother  during  eight  or  nine  months 
while  her  brother  Thomas  was  in  captivity. 
Her  name  and  that  of  her  mother  was  gen- 
erally spelled  Marie.  Thomas  Sawyer  mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  John  Prescott,  a  black- 
smith, who  came  from  Sowerby  in  the  parish 
of  Halifax,  England,  West  Riding  of  York- 
shire, where  he  married  Mary  P>latts,  a  York- 
shire girl.  He  was  born  in  Lancashire,  and 
came  to  Lancaster,  Massachusetts,  in  1645-46, 
for  the  purpose  of  building  up  the  town.  He 
took  the  oath  of  allegiance  in  1652.  His  family 
escaped  the  massacre  and  returned  to  the  town 
in  1682.  Children:  I.  Thomas,  born  July  2, 
1649.  mentioned  below.  2.  Ephraim,  January 
16,  1650-51,  died  I'ebruary  10.  1676.  killed  by 
Indians  at  Prescott  garrison.  3.  Mary,  No- 
vember 4.  1652-53.  married,  1673,  Nathaniel 
Wilder  :  children. born  at  Sudbury :  i.  Nathaniel, 
born  1675:  ii.  Ephraim,  1677;  iii.  Mary.  1679; 
iv.  Elizabeth.  i68i  ;  v.  Dorothy,  1686:  vi. 
Nathaniel,  iCiSS:  vii.  Eunice,  1690;  viii.  Oliver, 
161)4.  4.  Elizabeth,  January.  1654,  died  young. 
5.  Joshua.  March  13.  1655,  died  July  14.  1738; 
married,  January  2.  1677-78,  Sarah  Potter; 
cliildren  :  i.  .Abigail,  born  1679  :  ii.  Joshua.  i(V^4: 
iii.  .^arali,  1687:  iv.  Hannali,  1689;  v.  Martha, 
1692;  vi.  ElizalK'th.  1698.  6.  James,  Janu- 
ary 22,  1657,  married  (first)  February  4,  1677, 


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Mary  Marble;  (second)  Mary  Prescott,  of 
Pomfret,  Connecticut ;  children  :  i.  Ephraim, 
born  December,  1678:  ii.  James,  Jnly  12,  1686; 
iii.  Mary,  September  17,  1696;  iv.  Benjamin, 
February  11,  1697-98.  7.  Caleb,  February  20, 
1659,  mentioned  below.  8.  John.  April,  1661, 
married,  January  16,  1686,  Mary  Hull,  of 
Worcester;  children:  i.  Edward,  born  1687; 
ii.  Jacob;  iii.  Joseph:  iv.  .Moses,  1722,  died 
1729;  V.  Oliver;  vi.  Mercy.  9.  Elizabeth,  bap- 
tized January  5,  1663-64,  married  James  Hos- 
mer,  of  Marlboro.  10.  Deborah,  born  1666, 
died  young,     11.  Xathaniel.  born  October  24, 

1670,  married  (fir.st)  Mary  ;  (second) 

1695,   Elizabeth ;  children:     i.   Amos, 

born  June  20,  1693:  ii.  Samuel,  1698,  died 
1784;  iii.  John,  1700,  died  October  2,  1731  ; 
iv.  Ezra,  1702,  died  1765;  v.  Nathaniel;  vi. 
Thomas,  171 1.  died  1727;  vii.  Phinehas  ;  viii. 
Mary;  ix.  Ephraim, 

(II)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i) 
Sawyer,  was  born  July  2,  1649,  died  Septem- 
ber 5,  1736,  at  Lancaster.  His  will  bequeathed 
to  four  .sons  and  two  daughters,  and  twelve 
pounds  to  purchase  a  communion  vessel  for 
the  Lancaster  church.  He  was  the  first  white 
child  born  in  Lancaster.  His  capture  by  the 
Indians  forms  one  of  the  most  familiar  stories 
of  the  colonial  period  in  Massachusetts.  At 
the  time  of  his  capture  he  was  living  in  the 
garrison  with  his  father's  family.  Queen 
Anne's  war  was  making  the  lives  of  the  col- 
onists unsafe,  especially  on  the  frontier.  Indians 
made  frequent  attacks  and  massacred  men, 
women  and  children.  On  October  16,  1695, 
Thomas  Sawyer  Jr.,  his  son  Elias,  and  John 
Rigelow,  of  Marlboro.,  were  at  work  in  his 
saw  mill  where  they  were  surprised  and  cap- 
tured by  the  Indians.  They  were  taken  to 
Canada  and  Bigelow  and  young  Sawyer  were 
turned  over  to  the  French  to  ransom  but  they 
kept  Thomas  Sawyer  to  put  to  death  by  tor- 
ture. Sawyer  proposed  to  the  French  gov- 
ernor that  he  should  build  a  saw  mill  on  the 
Chamblay  river  in  consideration  of  saving  his 
life  from  the  Indians  and  giving  the  three 
captives  their  freedom.  The  French  needed 
the  mill  and  were  glad  of  the  opportunity. 
But  the  Indians  had  to  be  reckoned  with.  They 
insisted  on  burning  Thomas  Sawyer  at  the 
stake.  They  knew  him  and  knew  he  was  a 
brave  man,  not  afraid  of  torture  and  death. 
The  crafty  French  governor  defeated  their 
purpose  by  a  ruse  to  the  church.  When  Sawyer 
was  tied  to  the  stake  a  French  friar  appeared 
with  a  key  in  his  hand  and  so  terrible  did  he 
])aint  the  tortures  of  purgatory,  the  key  of  which 


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he  told  them  he  had  in  his  hand  ready  to  un- 
lock, that  they  gave  up  their  victim.  Indians 
fear  the  unseen  more  than  the  real  dangers 
and  doubtless  the  friar  took  care  not  to  specify 
what  he  would  do  in  case  the  auto-de-fe  was 
carried  out.  Sawyer  built  the  mill  successfully, 
the  first  in  Canada  it  is  said.  He  and  Bigelow 
came  home  after  seven  or  eight  months  of 
captivity  to  their  delighted  people.  Elias  Saw- 
yer was  kept  a  year  longer  to  run  the  mil!  and 
teach  the  others  to  run  it.  The  captives  were 
treated  well  after  the  French  found  them  use- 
ful to  them.     Thomas  Sawyer  married  (first) 

1670,  Sarah  :   (second)    1672,  Hannah 

:  (third)  1718,  Mary  White.   Children: 

I.  Mary,  born  December,  1671,  married 
Joshua  Rice,  of  Marlboro.  2.  Hannah,  1675, 
married  Jonathan  Moore,  of  Marlboro.  3. 
William,  1679,  died  in  Bolton,  1740;  married 

Mary  ,     4.  Joseph,  1682,  died  July  10, 

1737;  married  (first)  Sarah ,  who  died 

March  17,  1717;  married  (second)  March  10, 
1718,  .Abigail  \\'ilder.  5.  Bazalcel,  born  May 
685,  died  April  5,  1760;  married  Judith 
— ,  who  died  March  24,  1774.  6.  Elias, 
see  forward. 

(HI)  Elias,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  Sawyer, 
was  born  in  1690  in  Lancaster.  He  was  taken 
I)risoner  by  the  Indians  with  his  father,  as 
related  above,  and  taken  to  Canada.  .After 
remaining  in  Canada  a  year,  teaching  the 
French  to  run  the  saw  mil!  that  his  father 
built  as  the  price  of  their  ransom,  he  returned 
to  his  home  in  Lancaster.  He  and  his  wife 
I'eatrix  owned  the  covenant  in  the  F"irst 
Church  of  Lancaster,  March  24.  1716-17,  and 
at  that  time  their  two  eldest  children  were  bap- 
tized. By  deed  dated  December  2,  1735  (Wor- 
cester deeds  Book  27,  page  510),  he  received 
from  his  father  Thomas  .Sawyer,  of  Lancaster, 
land  on  the  ea.st  side  of  the  Still  river  in  the 
"Intervale  Hollcra"  and  elsewhere  in  Lan- 
caster. This  deed  refers  to  land  given  to  his 
brother  Bezaleel  by  their  father.  Before  his 
death  he  deeded  his  property  in  large  part  if 
not  wholly  to  his  children.  Elias  Sawyer,  of 
Bolton,  deeded  to  Elijah  Sawyer,  of  Bolton, 
the  west  part  of  the  homestead  where  he  was 
then  living  May  31,  1749,  for  two  hundred  and 
seventy-si.x  pounds  or  ecjuivalent ;  he  deeded 
to  Elijah,  May  31,  1749,  half  his  dwelling 
house  in  Bolton  on  Still  river  adjoining  land  of 
Ephraim  Houghton  on  the  Still  river  road ; 
land  at  Ilalloway  Ontervale.  "Intervale  Hol- 
lera"  mentioned  above,  and  on  Kerley's  plain 
etc. ;  also  half  his  town  right.  On  the  same 
day   Elias  gave  a   farm  of  two  hundred  and 


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nineteen  acres  to  son  Elislia  in  Lancaster.  He 
(liefl  in  Bolton.  November  20.  1752,  aged  si.xty- 
three  years,  or  according  to  his  gravestone  in 
tlic  old  Lancaster  burial  ground  in  his  sixty- 
third  year.  His  widow  Beatrix  ("Batrice"  in 
this  paper)  was  appointed  administratrix.  Jan- 
uary 29,  1753,  her  sons  Elijah  and  Elisha  being 
the  sureties  on  her  bond,  Elijah  then  of  Bolton 
as  well  as  his  mother,  while  Elisha  was  of 
Lancaster.  Children  baptized  in  the  First 
Church  of  Lancaster:  I.  Elijah,  baptized 
March  24,  1716-17,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Thankful,  baptized  March  24,  1716-17.  3. 
Elisha,  born  .August   17.   17 18,  married  Ruth 

:   had   Jotham,   born    April   27,    1745; 

Thankful,  August  i,  1747  (twin  )  ;  Elias,  Au- 
gust I,  1747  (twin).  4.  Betty,  baptized  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1721-22.  5.  Prudence,  September 
26,  1726,  baptized  December  18,  1726. 

(IV)  Elijah,  son  of  Elias  Sawyer,  was  born 
in  Bolton  about  1715,  baptized  in  the  First 
Lancaster  Church,  March  24,  1716-17.  He 
and  his  brother  Elisha,  Nathaniel  Carter,  of 
Leominster,  and  Thomas  Carter,  of  Lunen- 
burg, deeded  land  to  Nathaniel  Wyman,  of 
Lancaster,  December  30,  1753.  Elijah  himself 
deeded  land  to  this  Nathaniel  Carter  (perhaps 
his  brother-in-law),  and  Thomas  Carter,  of 
Lunenburg.  June  2,  1753.  He  had  the  home- 
stead, as  told  in  the  sketch  of  his  father,  and 
lived  in  Bolton  all  his  life.  He  deeded  prop- 
erty valued  at  six  thousand  pounds  to  his  son 
Elias.  a  blacksmith  of  Bolton,  April  8,  1784. 
He  had  previously  deeded  to  his  son  Calvin 
property  valued  at  the  same  sum  in  Bolton.  He 
married    (first)    July    18,    1740,    Ruth   White. 

He  married  (second)  Ldyia ,  who  died, 

his  widow.  May  5,  1799,  aged  seventy-two 
years,  six  months  and  one  day.  She  was  buried 
on  the  Old  Common  and  her  gravestone  still 
stands.  He  died  intestate  at  Bolton  before 
I7()9.  Children:  Calvin,  born  1750;  Elias; 
Luther:  probalily  several  daughters. 

(  \'  )  Calvin,  son  of  Fdijah  Sawyer,  was 
born  in  Bolton  in  1750.  He  was  educated 
tlicre  in  the  public  schools.  He  received  half 
of  his  father's  homestead,  as  stated,  .\bijah 
Thelps  deeded  land  in  Lancaster  of  the  late 
Edward  Plielps  to  Calvin  Sawyer,  December 
10,  1784.  John  Barnard  deeded  a  parcel  of 
laud  near  \'an's  Hill,  Bolton,  to  Calvin  Sawyer, 
Octnljer  23,  1786.  Calvin  bought  fifty  acres 
of  Daniel  (jage.  of  Hubbardston,  in  that  town 
in  1798.  This  transfer  may  belong  to  Calvin 
Jr..  however.  Calvin  died  in  1802  intestate. 
I  lis  wife  .Abigail  was  born  .August  19,  1753, 
died    Novemlx'r    i,    1839.     Children,   born   in 


Bolton  (records  from  family)  :  i.  Elijah, 
January  25,  1773,  blacksmith.  2.  Calvin,  Octo- 
ber 25,  1775.  owned  land  in  Hubbardston  and 
lived  there  for  a  time;  deeded  fifty  acres  in 
Hubbardston  to  brother,  Luther  Sawyer,  of 
Bolton,  January  2,  1800.  3.  Luther,  February 
I,  1777,  died  May  28,  1826;  lived  at  Bolton; 
deeded  to  brothers,  Elijah  and  Calvin,  land  in 
Hubbardston,  April  11,  1801  ;  married  Keziah 

— ■ .     4.  Nathan,  November  4,   1779,  died 

January  18,  1817.  5.  Daniel,  November  i, 
1782,  mentioned  b;.dow.  6.  Oliver,  February 
4,  1784,  died  March  24,  1836.  7.  Abigail.  .Au- 
gust 12.  1787.  8.  Catharine,  October  27,  1789, 
died  F"ebruary  6,  1808.  9.  Elias,  August  19, 
1791,  died  February,  1849.  lO-  Silas,  Novem- 
ber 26,  1793,  died  Alarch  24.  1856.  Guardians 
of  Elias  and  Silas  appointed  in  181 1. 

(\'I)  Daniel,  son  of  Calvin  Sawyer,  was 
born  in  r>olton.  November  i.  1782,  died 
November  4,  1847.  H*^  lived  in  Bolton 
where  he  was  deacon  of  the  church  main- 
years.  He  was  known  for  his  mechanical 
ability,  being  a  wheelwright  of  the  old  school, 
as  was  his  brother.  Alajor  Oliver  Sawj-er.  They 
were  of  the  family  of  the  famous  mechanical 
Sawyers  spoken  of  in  many  of  the  town  his- 
tories. Deacon  Sawyer,  being  a  wood  worker, 
made  all  the  cofifins  used  in  the  town  for  many 
years.  He  lived  on  a  great  stage  route,  and 
became  well  known  for  his  fine  pick  handles 
and  general  wheelwright  work.  In  those  days 
all  commodities  were  teamed  over  the  road, 
heavy  loaded  wagons  constantly  passing  his 
door  on  their  way  to  or  from  Boston,  many 
going  to  Brattleboro,  A'ermont.  or  beyond.  .As 
he  had  the  opportunity  to  get  the  very  best 
hickory  timber  grown  in  Massachusetts,  his 
name  spread  among  the  teamsters  from  Ver- 
mont where  such  timber  did  not  grow,  and  he 
had  a  large  business  with  these  people.  He 
married  (first)  I-iachel  Jewett.  born  in  Bolton, 
February  21,  1783,  died  November  12,  1843. 
He  married  (second)  Mary  .  who  sur- 
vived him.  Edwin  .A.  W'hitcomb  was  appoint- 
ed administrator  of  his  estate  by  request  of 
the  heirs.  He  was  a  well-to-do  farmer.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Bolton,  by  first  wife:  1.  Cath- 
arine, .August  29.  1810.  died  October  7,  1862: 
married.  June  7,  1838,  Jonathan  W'hitcomb, 
born  at  Slow,  March  11,  1793.  died  May  7, 
1856:  children:  i.  Emily  .A.  \\'hitconib,  born 
.Ajiril  2.  1839,  died  December  12,  1867,  mar- 
ried. May  8,  1867.  Edmond  Stow,  of  Stow; 
ii.  Mary  E.  W'hitcomb,  born  .August  8.  1841, 
married.  May  19,  1862,  Francis  Gates,  of  Stow 
(children:     Elliott  W'.  Gates,  born  February 


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25,  1863,  married.  November  24.  1891,  Eliza- 
beth Burkill,  of  Hudson,  Massachusetts;  Ervin 
F.  Gates,  born  April  25,  1864,  married,  No- 
vember 27,  1894,  Sarah  Clark,  of  Hudson; 
Sarah  C.  Gates,  born  September  10,  1865,  mar- 
ried E.  W.  Van  Deusen,  of  New  York ;  iv. 
Florence  E.  Gates,  born  March  28,  1878,  mar- 
ried, October  5,  1895.  Walter  H.  White,  of 
Hudson)  :  iii.  Ellen  C.  Wliitcomb,  born  Au- 
gust 13.  1846;  iv.  Henry  S.  Wliitcomb,  born 
November  13,  1848,  married,  May  i,  1878, 
Hattie  Wadhaus,  of  Ypsilanti,  Michigan,  and 
had  .\da  Frances,  born  in  Chicago,  May  31, 
1879.  2.  Alfred,  January  27,  1812,  died  De- 
cember 27,  1897;  married,  }ilay  17,  1837,  Alar- 
garet  Hendry,  of  Peacham,  \'ermont :  chil- 
dren :  Amory,  Laura,  Lucien,  all  residing  in 
the  west.  3.  Emily,  June  26,  1815,  died  De- 
cember 15,  1874;  married,  April  28,  1841, 
Reuben  Xewton.  4.  Edwin,  July  20,  1817, 
mentioned  below.  Child  of  second  wife:  5. 
Margaret  H.  (mentioned  as  heir  in  settlement 
of  estate). 

(XH)  Edwin,  son  of  Daniel  Sawyer,  was 
born  at  Bolton,  Massachusetts,  July  20,  1817, 
died  at  Watertown,  Massachusetts,  July  20, 
1885.  He  received  his  educational  training  in 
the  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  upon  tak- 
ing up  the  practical  duties  of  life  learned  the 
wheelwright  trade,  which  line  he  pursued 
throughout  the  active  years  of  his  life.  He 
removed  to  Watertown  in  1856  and  here  also 
became  known  as  a  skillful  and  reliable  wagon 
maker;  he  was  scrupulously  just  and  con- 
scientious in  all  his  affairs,  and  was  regarded 
as  a  useful  and  good  citizen.  He  married,  at 
Stow.  Massachusetts,  March  3.  1850,  Sarah 
P..  Wright,  of  P)Oxboro,  Massachusetts,  daugh- 
ter of  Joel  and  Dolly  (  Reid  )  Wright,  she  died 
at  Watertown,  February  8,  1902.  Of  this  mar- 
riage was  born  one  child,  Herbert  1 1.,  born 
July  6,  1857,  mentioned  below. 

(X'ni)  Herbert  H.,  son  of  Edwin  Sawyer, 
was  born  in  Watertown,  July  6,  1857.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town.  -After  leaving  school  he  at  once  engaged 
in  a  commercial  life,  eventually  becoming  a 
proprietor  and  owner  of  the  largest  manu- 
facturing industry  of  its  kind  in  New  England. 
He  was  a  prominent  citizen,  holding  many 
offices  of  resjjonsibility  and  trust  of  both  public 
and  private  nature.  He  married,  June  18, 
1883,  Alice  Jane  Tourtellottc.  born  .April  22, 
1855,  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Mercy  Jane 
(Comstock)  Tourtellotte.  They  have  one 
child,  Minnie  T.,  born  October  26,  1884.     (See 


sketches  of  Tourtellotte  and  Comstock   fami- 
lies). 

'The  Tourtellotte  Line). 

(I)  Abraham  Tourtellotte,  (name  also 
spelled  Turtelotte,  Turtellot,  Turtelott,  Tour- 
tellott )  immigrant  ancestor,  was  a  native  of 
I^.ordeau.x,  France,  and  was  a  merchant  and 
mariner,  lie  arrived  in  Boston  in  the  ship, 
■'I'"ricnd>hip,"  John  Ware,  master,  from  Lon- 
don in  1087.  In  1688  he  was  appointed  admin- 
istrator of  the  estate  of  his  brother  Benjamin, 
who  died  September  25,  1687,  on  the  voyage 
from  London.  He  settled  first  in  Ro.xbury, 
Massachusetts,  and  removed  in  1697  to  New- 
port, Rhode  Island.  Me  sold  his  mansion  house 
at  Ro.xbury,  and  two  and  one  half  acres  of 
land,  to  Prudence  Thompson,  June  i,  1699. 
Both  he  and  his  son  Gabriel  were  lost  at  sea 
while  on  the  way  to  Newport  on  a  vessel  of 
which  he  was  master.  His  widow  died  at  the 
home  of  her  son,  .-Abraham,  in  Gloucester, 
Rhode  Island.  He  married,  in  Roxbury,  1692- 
93,  Marie  Bernon,  daughter  of  Gabriel  and 
Esther  (  LeRoy  )  Bernon.  Gabriel  Bernon  was 
of  noble  descent  according  to  the  French  stand- 
ards of  nobility.  The  family  claimed  affilia- 
tion with  the  house  of  the  Dukes  of  Burgundy, 
and  it  seems  very  probable  that  that  claim  was 
well  founded,  but  by  documentary  evidence 
they  were  descendants  of  Raoul  de  Bernon, 
who  fought  in  the  Crusades  and  who  had  a 
coat-of-arms  which  he  was  entitled  to  trans- 
mit to  his  descendants,  of  whom  Gabriel  was 
certainly  one.  Two  mayors  of  Rochelle  in 
successive  generations  were  elected  from  this 
family  and  this  under  French  law  and  the 
charter  of  the  city  ennobled  them  and  their 
descendants.  He  may  have  made  an  earlier 
marriage  and  had  children  by  his  first  wife, 
but  if  so,  they  did  not  come  to  America.  He 
was  a  Huguenot  in  religion.  Children:  i. 
Gabriel,  born  .September  24,  1694,  in  Roxbury, 
lost  at  sea;  unmarried.  2.  Esther.  Jime  12, 
1696,  married,  January  19,  1 716,  Israel  Hard- 
ing, son  of  John  I  larding.  3.  .\braham,  about 
1698,   mcnticinefl  below. 

ill)  .Abraham  (2)  ,son  of  Abraham  ( i )  Tour- 
tellotte, was  born  in  September  or  October, 
1698,  probably  in  Newport,  Rhode  Island, 
{ some  family  authorities  .say  Roxbury,  Massa- 
chusetts) died  .November  23,  1762.  He  was 
a  joiner  by  trade.  1  le  was  admitted  a  freeman 
in  1722  and  that  year  bought  of  Joseph  Hop- 
kins sixty-seven  acres  of  land  with  house,  in 
Providence.  On  January  29,  1724,  he  bought 
of  Samuel   Inman  a  house  and  twenty  acres 


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for  sixty  pounds,  and  the  same  date  sold  to 
William'  Hates  for  forty  pounds  twenty  acres 
"where   Samuel   Inman   dvvelleth.  with  house 
etc."  He  removed  to  Gloucester,  Rhode  Island, 
and  March  14,  1743,  was  granted  a  license  to 
keep  a  tavern  in  the  house  where  he  dwelt. 
On  Sejjtember  8  following  his  wife,  Hannah, 
brought  in  an  account  of  her  first  husband's 
estate,  being  Jeremiah  Corpe,  innholder,  who 
was  drowned  by   falling   from  a  sloop  April 
22,   1741.     The  inn  kept  by  Abraham  Tour- 
tellotte  may  have  been  and  probably  was  the 
same  kept  by  Jeremiah  Corpe.     Abraham  was 
deputy  to  the  general  court  in  1747.     His  will 
was  dated  November  19,   1757,  proved  April 
13,  1763,  and  bequeathed  to  wife  and  children, 
and  was  quite  complicated.     There  was  a  dis- 
pute as  to  its  validity  on  account  of  the  condi- 
tion of  mind  of  the  maker,  and  his  sons  Abra- 
ham and  Denjamin  appealed  to  the  governor 
and  council.    The  executors  named  refusing  to 
take  administration,  it  was  granted  to  his  son 
Abraham.     The   inventory   amounted   to   one 
thousand  three  hundred  and  eighty-five  pounds, 
eighteen  shillings,  and  included  a  large  amount 
of  household  goods.    Abraham  married  (first) 
Lydia   I'.allard,  born  March  29,  1700,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  and  Dorothy  (Hearnden)  Ballard. 
He  married  (second)  January  29,  1743,  Han- 
nah Corpe,  born  November  6,  1713,  widow  of 
Tercmiah  Corpe,  and  daughter  of  William  and 
Elizabctli     (Stafford)     Case.       He     married 
(third  )  Welthian  Williams,  daughter  of  Nehe- 
miah  and  Rachel  (Mann)  Sheldon.     She  mar- 
ried  (third)   May  27,  1770,  Samuel  Thurber. 
Children  of  first  wife:     l.  Mary,  born  March 
20,    1721.      2.    Lydia,   January    24,    1723.      3. 
Esther,  January  24,    1723    (twin).     4.  Abra- 
ham, February  27,   1725.     5.  Jonathan,  Sep- 
tember 15.  1728.    6.  Benjamin.  November  30, 
1730.     7.  Sarah,  April  22.  1735.     Children  of 
second  wife:     8.   Stephen.     9.   Williain.      10. 
Jesse,  mentioned  below.   11.  Daniel.     12.  Anne. 
(Ill)   Jesse,  son  of  .'\braham  Tourtellotte, 
was  born  about  1740.     He  settled  in  Mendon, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  a  soldier  in  the  revo- 
lution  from  that  town,  a  private  in  Captain 
Peter   Penniman's  company.   Lieutenant   Col- 
onel  Nathan   Tyler's   regiment    from   Decem- 
ber 8.  1776,  to  January  2,  1777,  at  Providence, 
Rhode  Island:  also  in  Captain  P..  Read's  com- 
pany. Colonel  Nathan  Tyler's  regiment  in  1780. 
(See  p.   200;  \^ol.   X\T   Mass.   Soldiers  and 
Sailors).    His  will  is  in  the  Worcester  records, 
dated  August  29,  1837,  and  proved  April  26, 
1841.     He  bequeathed  to  wife  Lydia  and  to 
children     mentioned    below.       Ciiildren :       i. 


Levina,   married   Benson.     2.    Lydia, 

married  Warfield.     3.  Betsey,  married 

Albee.    4.  Stephen.    5.  John.  6.  Ethan. 


7.  Jesse.     8.  Daniel,  born  1771    (probably  not 
the  youngest,  however),  mentioned  below. 

(iV)  Daniel,  son  of  Jesse  Tourtellotte,  was 
born  at  Mendon,  Massachusetts,  1771,  died  at 
Sutton,  August  17,  1844.  Some  of  his  descend- 
ants have  not  used  the  final  vowel  in  the  sur- 
name. He  settled  in  Sutton,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  bought  his  homestead  of  Colonel 
Jason  Waters.  It  was  originally  a  wheel- 
wright shop  owned  by  Reuben  Chase  and 
Origen  Harback  and  in  the  present  generation 
was  owned  by  the  late  George  C.  Earle.  Daniel 
was  a  very  prominent  man  in  his  day  in  Sut- 
ton, deputy  sheriff  several  years  and  justice 
of  the  peace.  He  married  Freelove  Angell, 
born  in  Smithfield.  Rhode  Island,  February 
28,  1779,  died  at  Millbury,  Massachusetts,  No- 
vember 16,  1869.  Children,  born  at  Sutton : 
I.  Paris,  May  14,  1797.  2.  George  Angell,  Au- 
gust 30,  1800,  died  at  Worcester,  February 
16,  1847,  buried  at  Sutton.  3.  Daniel  Comar, 
August  25,  1804,  mentioned  below.  4.  Samuel, 
August  5,  1806.  5.  Charles  Angell,  March  21, 
1810.  6.  Maria.  August  5.  1812,  married  John 
Gleason,  of  W'orcester.  (See  New  England 
Register,  July,  1908).  7.  Stephen  Decatur, 
October  I,  1815.  8.  Ruth  Angell,  June  16, 
1 82 1,  died  November  25,  1839. 

(V)  Colonel  Daniel  Comar,  son  of  Daniel 
Tourtellotte,  was  born  August  25,  1804,  at 
Sutton.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  his  native  town.  He  was  colonel 
of  his  militia  regiment,  and  one  of  the  leading 
citizens.  He  bought  a  house,  the  Parley 
Waters  House,  as  it  has  been  called  in  late 
years.  His  brothers,  Paris  and  George  A. 
Tourtellotte,  succeeded  Colonel  George  C 
Earle  as  ]jroprietors  of  the  tavern  at  Sutton. 
Charles  A.  Tourtellotte  succeeded  George  A. 
as  owner  of  the  old  hotel  stand  and  George 
A.  kept  a  hotel  afterward  at  Templeton  where 
he  died.  Charles  .■\.  Tourtellotte  kept  a  hotel 
at  Millbury,  still  known  by  the  older  citzens 
by  his  name.  Daniel  C.  Tourtellotte  learned 
the  trade  of  blacksmith  and  wheelwright  and 
had  a  shop  a  little  north  of  the  tavern  equipped 
with  water  power  and  he  did  an  e.xtensive 
wheelwright  business  for  many  years.  About 
1845  he  removed  to  Worcester.  He  married 
(first)  (intention  dated  October  6,  1827) 
Sarah  Sibley,  born  1807,  died  December  28, 
1843,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Sarah  Sibley. 
He  "married  (second)  Huldah  Sarepta  Stock- 
well,  born  July  i.  1818,  died  .August  13,  1846, 


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daughter  of  Peter  and  Huldali  Stockwell.  lie 
married  (third)  Elizabeth  Lyons.  Children 
of  first  wife,  born  at  Sutton  :     i.  Helen  Maria, 

born  January  15.  1829,  married  (first)  

Burden;  (second)  Dexter  Sanders;  children, 
Herbert  and  Clarence.  2.  William  Henry, 
November  15,  1831,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Daniel  H.,  October  23,  1833.  4.  Ruth  Angell, 
December  15,  1835.  5.  Sarah  Sibley,  Decem- 
ber 18,  1837.  6.  John,  December  10,  1839.  7. 
Frances  Cornelia,  October  29,   1841,  married 

Kirby.      Child    of    second    wife:      8. 

Sarepta,  born  and  died  April  13,  1846,  at 
Worcester.  Children  of  third  wife,  born  in 
Worcester:  9.  Edward,  married  Belle  Kins- 
ley.    10.  Louisa.     II.  Sarepta,  unmarried. 

(\'I)  William  Henry,  son  of  Colonel  Daniel 
Comar  Tourtellotte,  was  born  in  Sutton,  No- 
vember 15,  1831.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Worcester.  He  married 
Mercy  Jane  Comstock.  born  JNIarch  22,  1834, 
daughter  of  John  and  Sabra  (Needham)  Com- 
stock. (See  Comstock  family).  Children:  i. 
Alice  Jane,  born  April  22.  1853,  married  Her- 
bert H.  Sawyer,  born  July  6,  1857,  (see  Saw- 
yer family).  2.  Minnie  D.,  August  13,  1857, 
died  June  15,  1872. 

(The  Comstock  Line). 

The  name  Komstock  is  frequently  found  in 
Germany,  but  the  name  is  there  uniformly 
spelled  with  a  K.  In  the  ]\Iuniment  Office  at 
Frank fort-on-the-Main  in  Germany  is  a  pedi- 
gree of  the  family  of  Comstock  which  gives 
nine  generations  previous  to  1547  when  Charles 
\'on  Komstohk,  a  baron  of  the  Roman  Empire, 
was  implicated  in  Von  Benedict  treason,  and 
escaped  into  England  with  several  noblemen  of 
Austria  and  Silesia.  The  arms  are  or  (gold) 
two  bears  rampant  sable  (black)  muzzled,  gules 
(red)  in  chief:  and  in  base  a  sword  issuing 
from  Crescent,  the  point  downward ;  all  the 
last  gules  (red).  L'pon  the  arms  a  Baronial 
helmet  of  the  German  Empire  mantled  or  and 
gules  (gold  and  red)  surmounted  by  a  Baron's 
Coronet  jewelled  proper,  issuing  therefrom  an 
Elephant  proper  and  rampant.  The  Bears 
imply  Courage.  The  sword  issuing  from  the 
Crescent  shows  that  the  family  had  fought 
against  the  Turks.  The  Elcpliant  rampant  in 
the  Crest  was  given  as  an  indication  of  per- 
sonal prowess  and  sagacity. 

(I)  William  Comstock,  immigrant  ancestor, 
came  from  England  with  his  wife  Elizabeth 
and  settled  first  in  Wethersfield,  Connecticut. 
He  subser|uently  removed  to  New  London. 
Children :      i.    Samuel,  mentioned  below.     2. 

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\\  illiam  Jr.  3.  Daniel,  died  in  New  London 
in  1683,  aged  about  fifty-three.  4.  Probably 
Christo})her,  of  Fairfield  in  1661. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  William  Comstock,  was 
born  probably  in  England,  and  died  about  1660. 
He  married  Ann ,  who  married  (sec- 
ond) John  Smith,  a  stone  mason,  and  died 
after  1661.  The  name  of  Samuel  Comstock 
appears  frequently  on  the  court  records  both 
as  plaintiff  and  defendant.  He  removed  to 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  March  i,  1654, 
bought  of  John  Smith,  who  afterwards  liccame 
Ann  Comstock's  second  husband,  his  house 
and  lot,  comprising  four  acres  of  land,  in  the 
north  part  of  Providence.  Children:  i. 
Samuel,  mentioned  below.  2.  Daniel,  born  in 
May,  1665. 

(III)  Captain  Samuel  (2),  son  of  .Samuel 
(i)  Comstock,  was  born  in  1654,  died  May 
27,  1727.  He  resided  in  Providence,  Rhode 
Island.  He  was  deputy  to  the  general  assembly 
in  1 699- 1 702-07-08-1 1.  He  was  appointed 
May  6,  1702,  on  a  committee  by  the  assembly 
to  audit  the  general  treasurer's  accounts  and 
other  colony  debts.  He  deposed  March  22, 
1717,  that  he  was  sixty-three  years  old.  His 
will  dated  December  21,  1726,  proved  Septem- 
ber 18,  1727,  bequeathed  to  wife  Elizabeth  his 
negro  woman  Effie  and  all  the  rest  of  movable 
estate  for  life,  at  her  death  to  be  given  to  the 
children.  He  married,  November  22,  1678, 
Elizabeth  Arnold,  who  died  October  20,  1747, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Phebe  (Parkhurst) 
Arnold.  Children:  i.  Samuel,  born  April  16, 
1680,  died  April  i,  1727;  married  Anne  Innian. 

2.  Hazadiah.   April    1(1,    1682,   died    February 

21,  1764;  married  (first)  Catherine  Pray; 
(second)    August    10,    1730,   Martha   Balcom. 

3.  Thomas,  November  7,  1684,  died  1761 ;  mar- 
ried. July  9,  1713,  Mercy  Jenckes.  4.  Daniel, 
July  9,  1686,  died  December  22,  1768;  married 

(first) ;  (second)  August  2,  1750,  Eliz- 

alieth  Ruffum.  5.  Elizabeth,  December  18, 
1690,  married,  December  i,  17 17,  John  Sayles. 
6.  John,  March  26,  1693,  mentioned  below.  7. 
Ichabod,  June  9,  1696,  died  January  26,  1773  ; 
married  (first)  September  13,  1722,  Zibiah 
Wilkinson;  (second)  March  26,  1747,  Eliza- 
beth Boyce.  8.  Job,  April  4,  1699,  married 
(first)    Phebe   Jenckes;    (second)    November 

22,  1735,  Phebe  Balcom. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  Captain  Samuel  (2) 
Comstock,  was  born  March  26,  1693,  died  Jan- 
nary  12,  1750.  He  resided  in  Providence,  was 
a  blacksmith,  and  a  very  wealthy  man  for  his 
day.  He  de.eded  much  of  his  property  to  his 
sons  before  he  died.    To  his  son  Samuel  thirty 


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acres,  dwelling  house  and  barn ;  to  son  Joseph 
seventeen  acres  and  dwelling  house;  to  son 
Jeremiah  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres;  to  son 
John,  a  quarter  of  forge  adjoining  to  corn  mill 
etc;  to  sons  John,  Jonathan,  James,  Nathan 
and  Ichabod  "my  homestead  farm  and  dwell- 
ing house  in  which  I  now  dwell,  about  170 
acres,  and  also  land  in  the  neck  I  bought  of 
Sam,  an  Indian,  and  other  lots."  Adminis- 
tration of  his  estate  was  granted  to  his  sons 
Samuel  and  John,  February  12,  1750,  and  the 
inventory  was  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and 
sixty-eight  pounds,  two  shillings.  He  was 
buried  in  the  North  Burial  ground.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Esther  Jenckes,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam and  Patience  (Sprague)  Jenckes.  He 
married  (second)  Sarah  De.xter,  born  June 
27,  1698,  died  1773,  daughter  of  John  and 
Alice  (Smith)  Dexter.  Children:  i.  Samuel, 
born  1715.  died  January  16,  1755;  married, 
January  i,  1738,  Anne  Brown.  2.  Joseph, 
married,  June  7,  1747,  Anne  Comstock :  died 
March  2,  1800.  3.  Jeremiah,  mentioned  below. 
4.  John,  died  1813;  married,  April  4,  1751, 
MaVy  r.allou.  5.  Jonathan,  married,  April  9, 
1750,  Sarah  Comstock.  6.  James,  born  De- 
cember 12,  1733,  married  Esther  Comstock; 
died  March  7,  1791.  7.  Nathan,  born  Decem- 
ber 5,  1735,  died  1816;  married,  March  29, 
1764'  Mary  Staples.  8.  Ichabod,  died  De- 
cember 19.  1800;  married,  .April  11,  1760, 
Sarah  Jenckes. 

(V)  Jeremiah,  son  of  John  Comstock,  mar- 
ried, October  25,  1749,  Pliebe  Arnold,  born 
November  18,  1729.  Children:  i.  Esek,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  David,  born  at  (iloucester, 
Rhode  Island;  married,  1780,  Rachel  Harring- 
ton, and  removed  to  Danby,  Connecticut.  3. 
Lavina,  married,  JNIarch  19,  1780,  Amos  Brown. 

(\'I)  Esek,  son  of  Jeremiah  Comstock, 
married,  March  22,  1770,  Hannah  Carey, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Carey,  of  U.xbridge, 
Massachusetts.  She  died  August  30,  1839, 
aged  ninety-seven  years.  He  lived  in  Glou- 
cester and  Burrillville,  Rhode  Island.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John,  born  October  10,  1786,  men- 
tioned below.     2.  Jesse,  born  at  Burrillville, 

married,  September  25.  1810,  Rachel  , 

and  removed  to  Michigan  in  1S22.  3.  Caleb, 
died  1849;  married,  September  13,  1844, 
Waity  \Vhii)ple.  4.  David,  died  about  1851  ; 
married  Mary  Lasure.  5.  Ruth.  6.  Rhoda. 
7.  Europa.     8.  Deborah. 

(\'II)  John,  son  of  Esek  Comstock.  was 
born  October  10,  1786.  died  September  25, 
1834.  He  resided  in  Burrillville.  He  married, 
in  1816.  Sabra  Ncedham,  of  Charlton,  Massa- 


chusetts, who  died  .August  21,  1868.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Jesse,  born  May  10,  1818,  died  Octo- 
ber 3,  1893 :  married,  August  26,  1840,  Hannah 
Bushnell.  2.  William,  July  14,  1820,  married 
Elizabeth  Talbot.  3.  Clarissa,  October  17, 
1822,  married  Otis  Lamb.  4.  John,  Septem- 
ber 7,  1824,  married  _Dorcas  Ward.  5.  Ruth, 
November  13,  1826.  6.  Hiram,  January  i, 
1829,  married  (first)  August  15,  1854.  Sarah 
Talbot:  (second)  December  20,  1856,  Ellen 
Talbot;  (third)  September  23,  1864,  Mary 
M.  Wood.  7.  Susan  Enieline,  July  25.  1831. 
8.  Mercy  Jane,  March  22,  1834,  married  Will- 
iam Henry  Tourtellotte  (see  sketch  of  Tour- 
tellotte  family). 


{ For  first  generation  see  Thomas  Saw>*er  .)• 

(II)  Caleb,  son  of  Thomas 
S.AWVER  I  I )  Sawyer,  was  born  in  Lan- 
caster, February  20,  1659,  died 
February  13,  1755.  He  had  a  grant  of  thirty 
acres  on  the  east  side  of  Bare  Hill,  now  Har- 
vard. He  probably  built  his  house  soon  after 
the  massacre  of  1697,  and  he  was  in  the  Bare 
Hill  garrison  in  1704.  Near  his  home  was  the 
famous  "rendezvous  tree"  often  mentioned  in 
the  old  records.  Sawyer  outlived  all  the  other 
pioneer  settlers  of  Harvard.  His  old  house, 
now  or  lately  owned  by  James  Ford,  is  still 
known  as  the  Washington  Warner  place. 
Before  his  death  Caleb  Sawyer  divided  his 
farm  between  his  sons  Seth  and  Jonathan. 
Seth  lived  in  the  old  house  with  his  father ; 
Jonathan  built  a  new  house  to  the  northward. 
Caleb  Sawyer  was  selectman  in  1737.  He 
married,  December  28,  1687,  Sarah  Houghton, 
whose  brother  James  went  to  Harvard  to  settle 
with  him,  and  is  ancestor  of  the  Houghtons 
of  Harvard.  Children:  i.  Jonathan,  born 
1690,  mentioned  below.  2.  Seth,  1705,  died 
May  29.  1768;  married  (first)  January  11, 
1726.  Dinah  Farrar,  who  died  October  25, 
1727;  (second)  October  12,  1732,  Hepsibah 
\Vhitney,  of  Harvard ;  children :  i.  Betsey, 
born  November  15,  1741  ;  ii.  John;  iii.  Caleb; 
iv.  Phinehas,  July  25,  1746:  v.  Dinah,  April 
25,  1749.  3.  Abigail,  1706.  died  August  6, 
1760:  married,  November  18,  1729,  Thomas 
AVright ;  children:  i.  Thomas,  born  May  18, 
1730:  ii.  Abel.  1749.  4.  Hepsibah,  1708.  mar- 
ried, February  25.  1724.  William  W  hitcomb ; 
children:  i.  Mary,  born  1730;  ii.  .Abigail,  1731  ; 
iii.  Thankful,  1734;  iv.  ReHef,  1735;  v.  Han- 
nah. 1738:  vi.  Hepsibah,  1740.     5.  John. 

( III)  Captain  Jonathan,  son  of  Caleb  Saw- 
yer, was  born  at  Lancaster.  1690.  died  Sep- 
tember 30,  1746.     He  removed  with  his  par- 


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ents  to  Harvard  when  a  lad  and  lived  there 
all  his  life.  He  was  selectman  in  1734,  and  on 
the  building  committee  of  the  church  in  1732. 
He  was  in  the  Lancaster  troop,  and  in  1737 
succeeded  Captain  Thomas  Carter  as  captain 
under  Colonel  Samuel  W'illard.  He  married 
Elizabeth  W'heelock,  born  itkjg,  died  Novem- 
ber 14.  1791.  Children:  i.  Jonathan,  born 
1716,  married,  September  30,  1740,  Betty 
\Vhiting:  child,  Luke.     2.  Elizabeth,  1717.     3. 

Caleb.  June   19.   1720,  married  Reed; 

children  :  i.  .Abigail ;  ii.  Caleb,  born  March  2, 
1754;  iii.  Ephraim;  iv.  Manassah,  born  !\Iarch 

2,  1739,  a  revolutionary  soldier;  v.  Jonathan. 
4.  Olive,  1726.  5.  Sarah.  June,  1727.  6. 
Manasseh,  bajjtized  April  10,  1729,  mentioned 
below.     7.  Lois,  baptized  March  8,  1732. 

(R')  Manasseh,  son  of  Captain  Jonathan 
Sawyer,  was  born  in  Harvard,  Massachusetts, 
and  bai)tized  in  the  First  Church  at  Lancaster, 
April  10,  1729.  He  had  half  his  father's  home- 
stead, upon  which  he  built  his  house.  He  be- 
queathed his  home  to  his  son  Luther,  who  in 
turn  left  it  to  his  son  Arad,  and  all  three  gen- 
erations spent  their  lives  on  this  farm.  He 
had  the  third  seat  in  the  meeting  house  in 
I775-  He  marched  to  Cambridge  on  the  alarm, 
April  19,  1775,  under  Captain  Joseph  Fair- 
banks, doubtless  his  brother-in-law.  Colonel 
•Vsa  Whitcomb's  regiment.  Left  place  of 
rendezvous  April  20,  1775,  service  two  days. 
He  was  too  old  to  enter  the  Continental  army, 
being  above  the  age  limit,  but  on  the  Rhode 
Island  alarm,  July  22,  1777,  served  again  under 
Captain  Hezekiah  Whitney,  Colonel  Josiah 
^^'hitney's  regiment,  service  two  days.  He 
married,  at  Harvard,  February  18,  1756,  Lydia 
Fairbanks,  born  August  16,  1731,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Mary  (Brown)  Fairbanks, descend- 
ant of  Jonathan  Fairbanks,  of  Dedham.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Harvard:  i.  Jonathan,  born 
March  9,  1758,  killed  in  the  revolution.  2. 
Jabcz,  December  24,   1759,  mentioned  below. 

3.  L\'dia,  November  30,  1761.  4.  Rhoda, 
March  30,  1764.  5.  Abijah,  August  12,  1766. 
6.  Manasseh  Jr.,  .September  6,  1768,  married 
Mercy  Mead  ;  children  :  i.  Jonathan,  July  26, 
1789;  ii.  Manasseh,  July  28,  1791 ;  iii.  Rebecca, 
March  14,  1793;  iv.  Nathaniel,  December  10, 
1795  :  ^'-  Mercy,  December  26,  179S  :  vi.  Josiah, 
December  9,  1802.  7.  Josejjh,  .April  4,  1771, 
died  young.  8.  Luther,  April  8,  1773,  died 
April  2,  1824.  married,  December  30,  1797, 
Achsa  Burnham  ;  children  :  i.  Luke,  born  De- 
cember 7,  1798;  ii.  Luther,  January  18,  1802; 
iii.  Sophia,  December  27,  1803:  iv.  Nahum, 
January  i,  1805;  v.  Mary,  June  13,  1S06;  vi. 


Arad,  July  13,  1808;  vii.  Cephas,  March  16, 
1810;  viii.  Lydia,  December  4,  1811 ;  i.x.  Abner, 
October  9,  1813;  .x.  Jabez,  January  4,  1819; 
xi.  Achsa. 

(V)  Jabcz,  son  of  Manasseh  Sawyer,  was 
born  at  Harvard,  I\Iassachusetts,  December  24, 
1759,  died  at  Fitchburg,  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 21,  1 84 1.  He  was  brought  up  on  his 
father's  farm,  acquiring  the  usual  common 
school  education  of  a  farmer's  son  at  that 
period.  He  remained  on  the  farm  until  after 
the  war  of  the  revolution,  and  after  that  up 
to  the  time  of  his  marriage.  He  served  as  a  pri- 
vate in  Captain  Samuel  Hill's  company.  Colonel, 
Josiah  W'hitney's  regiment,  and  marched  from 
Harvard,  October  2,  1777,  under  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Ephraim  Sawyer  on  a  thirty  days  ex- 
pedition with  the  northern  army  under  General 
Gates;  service  to  October  26,  1777,  twenty- 
fourdays.  (Alass.  Rolls,  vol. xiii,p.870).  Previ- 
ous to  his  marriage  in  1787  he  removed  to 
West  Fitchburg  and  bought  a  farm  on  the  old 
road  to  Ashburnham,  near  the  Cowden  farm. 
On  Alarch  3,  1800,  he  was  voted  school  com- 
mitteeman in  District  No.  6,  also  March  5, 
1810,  and  February  14,  1816.  He  was  chosen 
highway  surveyor,  March,  1803,  March  6,  i8o<), 
March  4,  181 1.  He  was  chosen  fence  viewer 
March  6,  181 5.  He  is  buried  in  the  old  South 
Street  cemetery.  He  was  a  man  of  a  kindly  and 
amiable  disposition,  beloved  by  all  who  knew 
him.  He  married,  1787,  (intentions  dated  Au- 
gust 18,  1787)  LL-mnah  Brooks,  born  May  17, 
1766,  died  December  15,  1846,  daughter  of 
John  and  Eunice  (Darby)  Brooks,  of  West- 
minster, who  were  married  January  i,  1734. 
Children:  i.  Lydia,  born  August  16,  1788, 
married,  September  17,  1812,  Ebenezer  Thurs- 
ton, of  Fitchburg.  2.  Levi,  August  2,  1790, 
died  .August  3,  1790.  3.  Jabez,  born  Septem- 
ber 10,  1792,  died  July  28,  1824;  married,  April 
8,  1819,  Susan  O.  Thurston:  children:  i. 
Samuel  Thurston,  born  December  22,  1819; 
ii.  ]\Lary;  iii.  Jabez,  October  5,  1824.  4.  Asa, 
October  22,  1794,  died  1881;  married  (first) 
Nancy  Thurston ;  child,  Nancy,  born  October 
6,  1819,  married  J.  B.  Davis;  married  (sec- 
ond) Betsey  Keyes  ;  children  :  i.  Joseph  Henry, 
born  March  26,  1823;  ii.  Henry  Edwin,  Feb- 
ruary 19.  1827,  married  RLiry  E.  Wil.son;  chil- 
dren: Franklin  and  George;  iii.  Evelyn  Eliz- 
abeth, November  3,  1828,  married  Titus  C. 
Waters;  iv.  Lydia  Elvira,  August  14,  1830; 
v.  Ephraim,  July  21,  1832,  married  Francis  F. 
Farrar :  vi.  Charles  K.,  July  14,  1833,  married 
F.lizabcth  L.  Russell ;  child,  Fannie  E. ;  vii. 
-Alvin    Manasseh,    .August    8,    1839,    married 


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Sarah  A.  Collins.  5.  Manasseh,  December  26, 
1796,  mentioned  befow.  6.  John,  December  2, 
1798,  married  Maria  Lincoln.  7.  Edward, 
May  7,  1804.  married,  1824,  Mary  Lincoln; 
children :  i.  Charles ;  ii.  Mary;  iii.  Henry;  iv. 
Laura.  8.  Charles  B.,  May  3,  1808,  married 
Elizabeth  Haskell,  of  Fitchburg;  children:  i. 
Charlotte;  ii.  Fannie,  married  Charles  Dean; 
iii.  Anna. 

(VI)  Manasseh  (2).  son  of  Jabez  Sawyer, 
was  born  at  Fitchburg,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber 26,  1796,  died  at  Fitchburg,  October  30, 
'  1836.  His  educational  training  was  limited  to 
the  public  schools.  During  his  early  manhood 
years  he  was  taught  habits  of  industry  and 
economy.  He  early  learned  the  trade  of  shoe- 
maker, and  later  with  his  brother,  John  Saw- 
yer, entered  into  partnership  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  shoes  and  occupied  for  a  number  of 
years  a  shop  in  the  main  street.  They  dis- 
solved partnership  in  the  latter  part  of  the 
twenties,  and  he  became  associated  with  affairs 
of  the  town  and  continued  as  a  town  officer  up 
to  his  death.  He  was  elected  hog  reeve,  March 
3,  1823 ;  highway  surveyor  and  constable,  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1826;  assessor  and  selectman,  March 
3,  1828;  collector,  March  7,  1831 ;  was  on  the 
school  committee  and  had  the  hiring  of 
teachers  and  general  school  business.  He  built 
a  house  on  Main  street  later  owned  by  Walter 
Haywood,  and  he  and  his  brother  John  resided 
at  one  time  on  Mechanic  street.  He  was  a 
man  of  good  judgment  and  a  leader  of  affairs. 
He  was  a  proficient  scholar  and  kept  in  touch 
with  the  aft'airs  of  the  world  at  large  by  con- 
stant reading.  He  was  strong  in  principles, 
especially  on  the  temperance  question.  He 
married  Dolly  Lincoln,  of  Leominster,  died  at 
Cambridge,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  .'Xbigail 
(Gibbs)  Lincoln.  Children:  i.  Abigail  Laura, 
born  August  23,  1824,  died  August  22,   1825. 

2.  Thomas  Lincoln,  June  6,   1826,  died   1847. 

3.  John  Snow,  September  6,  1831,  mentioned 
below. 

(VH)  John  Snow,  son  of  Manasseh  (2) 
Sawyer,  was  born  at  Fitchburg,  Massachusetts, 
September  6,  1831.  He  was  educated  n  the 
puljlic  schools,  at  Stephen  Holman's  Academy 
and  at  Lawrence  Academy  of  Groton,  Massa- 
chusetts. He  stood  at  the  head  of  his  class  in 
the  Fitchburg  high  school.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  years  he  began  work  in  the  scythe 
factory  at  West  Fitchburg.  After  a  year  in 
this  trade  he  became  clerk  in  the  general  store 
of  Crehore  &  Smith.  He  was  in  that  position 
one  year,  then  clerk  for  a  year  in  the  Union 


Store  of  Fitchburg,  and  for  three  years  in  the 
grocery  store  of  Abel  Stevens.  In  1852  he 
was  clerk  in  the  store  of  John  Gove,  dealer  in 
furnishing  goods.  Merchants'  Row,  Boston, 
later  clerk  in  a  commission  house  on  India 
wharf  and  for  the  American  Powder  Company 
at  the  same  location.  He  embarked  in  business 
as  a  grocer  in  Syracuse.  In  1859  he  bought 
a  patent  right  for  roofing  and  engaged  in  the 
roofing  and  contracting  business  throughout 
New  England,  with  his  place  of  business  at 
Cambridge,  JMassachusetts.  He  also  established 
a  fire  insurance  agency  with  an  office  on  IMass- 
achusetts  avenue,  Cambridge,  and  has  built  up 
an  extensive  business,  representing  the  Ger- 
mania  Fire  Insurance  Company,  National  Fire 
Insurance  Company  of  Hartford,  German 
Alliance  and  the  ^liddlesex  Mutual  Fire  In- 
surance Company  of  Concord,  Massachusetts, 
of  which  he  has  been  a  director  for  many 
years.  Since  1890  Mr.  Sawyer  has  manufac- 
tured cement  under  the  firm  name  of  W.  F. 
Webster  Cement  Company,  at  Cambridgeport, 
the  product  of  the  concern  finding  a  market 
in  all  parts  of  the  country.  The  United  States 
government  uses  large  Cjuantities  of  this  cement 
in  the  construction  of  fortifications,  etc.  In 
the  early  part  of  the  civil  war  he  held  the 
rank  of  lieutenant  of  a  local  company  of  home 
guards.  In  September,  1862,  he  raised  a  com- 
pany in  the  Fifth  Alassachusetts  Regiment, 
assigned  later  to  the  Sixth  Regiment,  and  he 
was  commissioned  captain  September  6,  1862, 
Colonel  FoUansbee,  of  Lowell,  commanding 
the  regiment.  They  left  for  \'irginia  soon 
afterward,  going  to  Washington,  thence  to 
Norfolk  by  steamer  and  twenty  miles  by  rail 
to  Suffolk  where  they  went  into  camp.  The 
regiment  was  assigned  to  the  Seventh  Corps, 
under  General  Halleck's  command,  and  while 
not  engaged  in  severe  fighting  took  part  in 
many  minor  engagements.  In  politics  Mr. 
Sawyer  is  a  Republican  and  he  was  a  member 
of  the  common  council  of  Cambridge  in  1866- 
67.  He  was  made  a  member  of  Mizpah  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  November  g, 
1868,  and  was  worshipful  master  in  1878-79. 
He  was  director  of  the  Cambridge  Masonic 
Hall  Association  for  a  time.  He  is  charter 
member  of  the  Cambridge  Trade  .Association. 
Mr.  Sawyer  is  fond  of  nnisic  and  has  an  excel- 
lent bass  voice.  For  many  years  he  sang  in 
various  choirs  in  Boston,  and  he  is  the  oldest 
living  member  of  the  famous  Handel  and 
Haydn  Society  of  Boston,  a  member  of  its 
board  of  government.    He  is  a  member  of  the 


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New  England  Rating  Exchange  and  of  the 
Boston  Rating  Exchange,  two  important  fire 
insurance  organizations. 

He  married.  December  29,  1857,  Sarah,  born 
December  29,  1833,  daughter  of  Captain  Levi 
and  Emily  (Euller)  Pratt.  Tier  father  was  a 
prominent  business  man  in  Fitchburg,  owner 
of  saw  and  grist  mills.  Children:  i.  Ralph 
Hovey,  born  March  5.  i860,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Emma  Maria,  June  21,  1865,  married,  April 
2,  1896,  George  Edward  McOuesten,  of  Bos- 
ton, born  in  Nashua,  New  Hampshire,  May  i, 
1868,  son  of  George  and  Theodora  Tilden 
(Campbell)  McOuesten;  children:  i.  Bar- 
bara, born  April  7,  1905;  ii.  George,  December 
21,  1906.  3.  Harriet  Lincoln,  August  21,  1867, 
married.  June  i.  1892,  \\'endell  Francis  Brown, 
of  Cambridge,  born  November  2,  1867,  son  of 
Crawford  and  Mary  Richmond  (Babcock) 
Brown,  of  Cambridge ;  child,  Ralph  Sawyer, 
born  October  30.  1899.  4.  Anna  Gertrude, 
August  8,  1870,  married.  May  i,  1893,  Ather- 
ton  Loring,  of  Boston,  born  August  10,  1869, 
son  of  Harrison  and  Margaret  (Gardner) 
Loring;  children:  i.  Atherton  Jr.,  born  No- 
vember 6,  1900;  ii.  Anna,  Alay  13,  1906. 

(VHI)  Ralph  Hovey,  son  of  John  Snow 
Sawyer,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  March  5, 
i860,  died  April  17,  1890.  His  elementary 
education  was  gained  in  the  public  schools  of 
Cambridge ;  he  graduated  from  the  high  school 
in  1878,  and  subsequently  pursued  a  course  in 
a  Boston  business  college.  He  then  entered 
the  well  known  banking  house  of  Richardson, 
Hill  <H:  Company  at  Boston,  starting  as  office 
boy.  and  by  his  energy  and  strict  attention  to 
business  soon  gained  for  himself  such  favor 
with  his  employers  that  he  was  promoted  to 
a  position  of  greater  responsibility  and  remun- 
eration and  was  looked  upon  as  a  valuable  and 
promising  factor  for  the  firm.  A  short  time 
prior  to  his  unfortunate  death  he  acr|uired  an 
interest  in  the  business,  and  for  two  years  he 
was  the  firm's  representative  on  the  floor  of 
the  stock  exchange,  a  very  responsible  and 
active  position.  He  was  an  indefatigable 
worker  and  was  considered  their  most  valuable 
man.  implicitly  trusted,  highly  esteemed  by  his 
firm  and  business  associates.  His  thorough 
unselfishness,  so  charmingly  manifested  in  his 
home  circle,  was  a  leading  characteristic  of 
his  business  and  social  life  and  drew  to  him  a 
large  circle  of  devoted  friends.  His  christian 
st>irit  was  always  manifest  to  those  with 
whom  he  came  in  contact,  and  in  Cambridge 
society  he  was  first  among  his  equals.  He  was 
fond  of  his  horse  and  a  devotee  to  the  saddle, 


being  an  expert  horseman,  and  it  was  while 
riding  with  two  of  his  most  intimate  friends 
that  the  sad  and  unfortunate  event  of  his 
death  hajjpcned,  being  thrown  from  his  horse, 
receiving  injuries  that  were  fatal  in  a  few 
hours.  He  was  an  attendant  of  the  Unitarian 
church  of  Cambridge,  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  a  member  of  Mizpah  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  of  Cambridge. 


The  Evans  family  is  of  ancient 
E\'ANS      Welsh  origin.     The  surname  is 

spelled  Evan  and  Evins  in  early 
records.  Among  the  early  settlers  was  Eliza- 
beth Evans,  who  lived  in  the  family  of  Rev. 
John  Wheelwright,  of  Boston  and  Exeter.  She 
came  from  Bridgend,  Glamorganshire,  Wales. 
David  Evans  was  1  merchant  of  Boston  before 
1650;  Henry  Ev-ns,  also  of  Boston,  as  early 
as  1643,  was  drowned  March,  1666-67.  Rich- 
ard Evans  came  to  Dorchester  before  1640. 
Thomas  Evans  died  in  I'lymouth,  January  27, 
1634.  There  was  one  or  more  of  the  name 
William  Evans  in  Massachusetts  before  1650. 
Some  of  the  settlers  came  from  England  and 
were  of  English  ancestry.  Others  were  Welsh, 
like  the  family  of  this  sketch,  and  doubtless 
related.  A  Benoni  Evans,  called  Welsh  on  the 
records,  and  either  father  or  son  of  Nicholas 
Evans  (i),  died  at  Windsor.  Connecticut,  May 
7,  1689.    Nothing  further  is  known  of  him. 

(I)  Nicholas  Evans,  immigrant  ancestor, 
possibly  son  of  Benoni  Evans,  was  probably 
born  in  Wales.  He  came  to  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut, and  settled  in  Simsbury,  Connecticut. 
He  died  August,  1689.  The  names  of  his  chil- 
dren appear  in  the  probate  records  in  the 
settlement  of  the  estate  and  the  ages  of  each 

are   given.      He   married   Mary  ,   who 

married  (second)  Robert  Westland.  Children, 
recorded  as  born  at  Simsbury:  i.  Mercy, 
October  4,  1673.  2.  Samuel,  January  18,  1675- 
76,  mentioned  below.  3.  Nicholas,  January  2, 
1677.  4.  Hannah,  January  21,  1679.  5.  Joseph, 
November  22,  1681.  6.  Thomas,  June  6,  1684. 
7.  Abigail.  December  8,  1686.  8.  Benoni,  Sep- 
tember 16.  1689  (posthumous). 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  Nicholas  Evans,  was 
born  at  Simsbury,  January  18,  1675-76,  and 
died  ])robably  at  Windsor.  Children,  born  at 
Windsor:  i.  Martha,  1699.  2.  Samuel,  De- 
cember 10,  1703,  mentioned  below.  3.  Joseph, 
July  19,  1706.  4.  Thomas,  January,  1708.  5. 
Nicholas,  July,  1710.  6.  Thankful,  March  31, 
1712.  7.  Ebenezer,  July  17,  1714.  8.  John, 
September  26,  17 16. 

(III)  Samuel  (2),. son  of  Samuel  (i)  Evans, 


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MASSACHUSET'JS. 


was  born  in  Windsor,  December  lo.  1703.  He 
died  at  Hartford  about  1754  and  from  deeds 
of  his  cliildren  we  have  the  names  of  several. 
Isaac  Sheldon  bought  the  interests  of  Samuel, 
Benoni,  Deborah  and  Moses  Evans  in  the 
estate  of  their  father  Samuel,  from  Samuel, 
February  5.  1754,  from  Benoni,  April  20, 1760, 
from  Deborah,  April  20, 1760,  and  from  Closes, 
February  5.  1754.  Moses  deeded  land  to 
Alexander  keeney,  January  21,  1754.  in  Hart- 
ford county.  Moses,  David,  Benoni  and 
Samuel  were  grantees  in  a  deed  of  distribution, 
February  18,  1754,  and  the  deeds  mentioned 
to  Sheldon  quitclaimed  their  shares.  Children : 
Samuel,  Deborah,  Benoni,  Moses,  mentioned 
below;  David.  Perhaps  others  died  before  the 
father. 

(I\')  Moses,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  Evans, 
was  born  at  Hartford  about  1730.  He  deeded 
land  at  Hartford  to  Alexander  Keeney,  Janu- 
ary 21,  1754.  He  served  in  Captain  John 
Patterson's  company  at  Havana,  Cuba,  in  1762. 
\'cry  few  of  the  provincial  soldiers  who  fought 
against  the  Spaniards  in  Cuba  lived  to  return 
home.  The  date  of  his  death  has  not  been 
found. 

(\')  Moses  (2),  son  of  Moses  (i)  Evans, 
was  born  in  Hartford  about  1755.  He  was  a 
soldier  in  the  revolution,  a  private  in  Captain 
Charles  Ellsworth's  company,  of  East  Wind- 
sor, from  July  6  to  December  18,  1775,  under 
Colonel  Jcdediah  Huntington,  of  Norwich.  He 
was  also  in  Cai)tain  Darrow's  company.  Col- 
onel Huntington's  regiment  ( I-'irst  Connecti- 
cut), enlisting  February  15,  1777,  for  the  war. 
During  the  entire  year  of  1781  he  was  in  Cap- 
tain Selah  Pjcnton's  company  of  Stratford  and 
vicinity.  Colonel  Huntington's  regiment.  In 
1790  he  and  David  Evans  were  heads  of 
families  at  East  Hartford,  now  Manchester, 
Connecticut,  and  Moses  had  two  sons  under 
sixteen  and  two  females  in  his  family.  David 
had  a  son  over  sixteen,  two  under  that  age  and 
two  females  in  his  family.  They  were  prob- 
ably brothers.  Moses  c|uitclaimed  real  estate 
to  S.  Talcott.  November  8,  1792,  Hartford 
county.  In  1888  he  was  a  I'nited  States  pen- 
sioner under  the  first  pension  law  allowing 
pensions  to  disabled  veterans  who  had  served 
nine  months  or  more  in  the  revolution.  His 
ap])lication  for  a  pension  is  still  to  be  seen  in 
the  files  of  the  county  clerk's  office,  Hartford. 
In  1840,  according  to  the  federal  census  of 
revolutionary  pensioners,  he  was  still  living  at 
Manchcsler,  Connecticut.  He  married  and 
among  his  children  was  John  Carpenter,  nun- 
(ioned  below. 


(VI)  John  Carpenter,  son  of  ^Moses  (2) 
Evans,  was  born  about  1775  in  East  Hartford, 
now  Manchester,  Connecticut.  He  was  a  glass 
blower  by  trade.  After  his  marriage  he  re- 
moved to  Peterborough  and  Smithfield,  Dutch- 
ess county.  New  York,  and  he  and  his  wife 
died  in  Smithfield.  He  married  Penelope 
Wood,  also  a  native  of  East  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut. He  was  active  in  the  militia  and  on 
the  occasion  of  the  visit  of  General  Lafayette 
to  this  country  in  1824-25  he  served  for  a  time 
in  his  body-guard.  Children  :  Carolina,  Emily, 
William,  mentioned  below ;  Pamelia,  Horatio, 
Sarah. 

(VH)  \\'illiam,  son  of  John  Carpenter 
Evans,  was  born  September  3,  181 1,  in  Smith- 
field  or  Peterborough,  New  York,  died  in 
Jamaica  Plain,  December  8,  1876.  His  four 
sisters  all  died  in  New  York.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  district  schools  of  his  native  place, 
but  when  still  very  young,  he  left  home  and 
made  his  own  way  in  the  world.  He  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade  and  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Boston  &  Providence  Railroad  Com- 
[lany,  remaining  for  some  time  in  various  posi- 
tions recjuiring  special  mechanical  ability.  He 
resided  at  Jamaica  Plain.  In  later  years  he 
was  a  very  successful  general  contractor.  He 
built  the  Evans  House  and  invested  exten- 
sively in  real  estate.  He  was  a  man  of  wealth 
and  influence  in  the  community.  uf)right,  in- 
dustrious and  enterprising.  In  politics  he  was 
a  Republican,  in  religion  a  Unitarian.  He 
married,  September  30,  1834,  Hepzibah  W. 
Weld,  born  at  Forest  Hills,  Boston,  May  31, 
1812,  and  died  at  the  old  Evans  homestead  on 
the  corner  of  Lamartine  and  Green  streets, 
Jamaica  Plain,  December  28.  1905.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Deacon  Joseph  and  Lucy 
Strattcn  (Richards)  Weld.  Her  father  was 
a  prominent  citizen  and  extensive  land-owner 
at  Forest  Hills;  was  deacon  for  many  years 
in  the  Unitarian  church  while  Dr.  Gray  was 
the  pastor;  died  at  the  age  of  ninety-three 
years.  Her  mother  was  born  in  Dedham  and 
lived  to  the  age  of  seventy.  Children  i.  Lucy 
P.,  born  .August  9.  1835.  died  in  1838.  2. 
William  Jonathan  Richards,  July  21.  1837, 
mentioned  below.  3.  h^rancisco  W.,  August 
31,  1840,  died  April  25,  1867;  married  Caro- 
line Wadsworth  Adams,  now  resident  of 
Jamaica  Plain.  4.  Eugene  H.,  May  9,  1844, 
died  March  4,  1848.  5.  Emma  Wood,  March 
19,  1850,  died  August  27.  1874;  unmarried.  6. 
Thomas,  Augui^t  13,  1852,  died  December  24, 
i()0^.  unmarried. 

(\TH)   William  Jonathan  Richards,  son  of 


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William  Evans,  was  born  in  Forest  ?lills,  Bos- 
ton, July  21,  1837,  died  April  2,  1895,  at  the 
home  on  South  street.  Jamaica  Plain.    He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools.  For  some  years 
he  was  clerk  in  a  crockery  store  in  Boston. 
Then  he  became  associated  with  his  father  as 
a  general  contractor.    They  had  contracts  with 
the  city  of  Boston  for  filling  a  large  section  of 
the  marshes  known  as  the   South  Back  Bay, 
now  entirely  tilled,  and  the  finest  residential 
and  business  section  of  Boston,  almost  entirely 
built  up.    The  large  real  estate  interests  of  his 
father  reijuired  all  his  attention  in  later  years. 
They  included  the  Evans  House  on  Tremont 
street.  Boston :  Washington  Market  on  Wash- 
ington street.  Boston.  During  a  long  and  active 
life  he  was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  real  estate 
world.     He  resided  on  South  street,  Jamaica 
Plain,  and  was  one  of  the  best  known  citizens 
in  that  section  of  Boston.     He  was  a  member 
of  the  Elliot  Lodge  of  Free  Masons  and  other 
local  societies.     In  politics  he  was  a  Repub- 
lican, in  religion  a  Unitarian.    He  was  a  mem- 
ber  of   the    First    Congregational    Society   of 
Jamaica   Plain.     He   married.  July    16,    i860, 
in   Jamaica    Plain,    Ellen    Seaver,   born   there 
October    21.    1837,    daughter   of    Robert    and 
Abigail  (Patch  )  Seaver.    Her  father  was  born 
in  Jamaica  Plain  and  her  mother  in  Ashburn- 
ham.  Massachusetts.  Mr.  Seaver  was  a  promi- 
nent grocer,  conducting  the  old  Seaver  grocery 
established  befoie  1800  by  his  father.  Joshua 
Seaver.    Joshua  Seaver  married  Ann  Sumner, 
a  kinswoman  of  Senator  Charles  Sumner.  They 
were  prominent  in  social  life  and  in  the  Uni- 
tarian church  of  Jamaica  Plain.     (See  Seaver 
family).   Mrs.  Evans  resides  at  320  Lamartine 
street.  Jamaica  Plain. and  is  active  in  church  and 
social  life.     She  is  a  member  of  the  Unitarian 
church  and  of  the  Tuesday  Club.    Children  :   i. 
Francisco    W.,    born    August    20,    1861,    died 
April  21,   1875.     2.  Eleanor  S.,  February  10, 
1864,  married.  October  28,  1889,  Edward  W. 
Beemer.  and  they  have  five  children :     Doro- 
thy,  Edward  W.,  Madeline,   William  E.  and 
Eleanor.      3.    Alice,    February    5.    1867,    died 
May  II,  1867.     4.  \\'illiam  E..  April  4,  1869, 
and  is  a  mill  engineer.    He  married  Agness  W. 
Emerson,  of  Waterloo,  New  Brunswick,  Sep- 
tember 23,  1903,  and  has  two  children :     Eu- 
gene E.,  born  September  4,  1904;  Louise,  born 
March  10.  1907. 

(The  Seaver  Line). 

According  to  tradition  the  earliest  member 
of  the  Seaver  family  came  in  Cromweirs  army 
into  Ireland.     He  settled  in  the  Townland  of 


Trea,  near  Armagh,  which  he  led  under  the 
Primate  of  diat  See,  and  his  name  was  Charles 
Seaver.  The  coat-of-arms  borne  by  the  branch 
of  the  family  in  Ireland  is  the  only  one  known, 
and  is  as  follows:  Argent  a  chevron  gules 
between  three  doves  pecking  sheaves  of  wheat, 
proper.  Crest:  A  hand  and  arm,  holding  a 
sword  erect,  encircled  by  a  laurel  wreath,  all 
jjroper.  Motto:  Sume  superbiam  quaesitam 
mcritis. 

(I)  Robert  Seaver,  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
born  about  1608,  probably  in  England.  On 
March  24,  1633-34,  at  the  age  of  about  twenty- 
five,  he  took  the  oath  of  supremacy  and  allegi- 
ance to  pass  for  New  England  in  the  ship 
'•Mary  and  John"  of  London,  Robert  Sayres, 
master.  In  the  same  ship  came  William  Bal- 
lar<1,  and  in  1633  also  came  Elizabeth  Ballard, 
"a  maide  servant  she  came  in  the  year  1633 
and  soone  after  joyned  to  the  church,  she  was 
afterwards  married  to  Robert  Sever  of  this 
church,  where  she  led  a  godly  conversation" 
(church  records).  She  died  June  6,  1657.  He 
settled  in  Roxbury  and  was  admitted  a  free- 
man April  18,  1637.  His  name  was  spelled 
variously  in  the  records  Sever,  Seavers,  Civer, 

Seaver.     He  married    (second)   ,  who 

was  buried  December  18.  1669.  Pope  says  his 
first  wife  was  Elizabeth  AUard,  and  lii.?  sec- 
ond wife  Elizabeth  Ballard.  He  married  a- 
third  wife,  who  is  mentioned  in  the  will, 
though  not  by  name.  His  will  was  dated  Janu- 
ary 16,  1681,  and  proved  July  5,  1683.  Accord- 
ing to  the  town  records,  he  died  May  13,  1683, 
aged  about  seventy-five.  The  church  records 
say  he  was  buried  June  6,  1683.  Children:  i. 
Shubael,  born  January  31,  1639,  died  January 
18,  1729-30.  2.  Caleb,  August  30,  1641,  died 
March  6,  1713.  3.  Joshua  (twin),  August  30, 
1641,  mentioned  below.  4.  Elizabeth,  Novem- 
ber 19,  1643,  married  Samuel  Crafts,  of  Rox- 
bury, 1661.  5.  Nathaniel.  January  8,  1645, 
killed  by  the  Indians  at  Sudbury,  April  21, 
1676.  6.  Hannah.  February  14,  1647,  died 
June  3,  1647.  7.  Hannah,  October  13,  1650, 
buried  March  3,  1653. 

(II)  Joshua,  son  of  Robert  Seaver,  was 
born  at  Roxbury,  .August  30.  164 1,  and  lived 
at  Roxbury.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman 
March  22,  1689-90.  His  will  was  proved  in 
1730,  and  the  inventory  was  filed  August  25, 
of  that  year.  He  married,  February  28,  1677, 
Mary  Pepper,  widow  of  Joseph  Pepper.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Joshua,  born  February  18,  1678, 
died   intestate    1739;   married   Mercy  . 

2.  Mary,  March  29,  1683,  died  May  22,  1683. 

3.  Mary,  August   15,   1684,  married.  May  30, 


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1728,  Samuel  Paine,  and  removed  to  Pom  fret, 
Connecticut.  4.  Ebenezer,  August  i,  1687, 
mentioned  below.  5.  John,  baptized  August  7, 
1687,  probably  a  twin.  6.  Sarah.  7.  Jemima, 
married,  December  3,  1713,  John  Woods.  8. 
Robert,  born  December  30,  1697,  died  young. 
9.  Robert,  December  30,  1698.  10.  Jonathan, 
November  8,  1700. 

(Ill)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Joshua  Seaver,  was 
born  in  Roxbury,  August  i,  1687,  and  died 
May  8,  1773.  He  married,  December  2,  1714, 
Margaret  Heath,  who  died  November  30,  1765. 
Children:  I.  Hannah,  born  April  24,  1716, 
married,  November  23,  1732,  Peter  Seaver, 
son  of  Shubael  Seaver.  2.  Sarah,  August  13, 
1718,  married,  October  15,  1741,  John  Newell, 
of  Brookline.  3.  Ebenezer,  April  26,  1721, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Mary,  February  11,  1725, 
estate  administered  May  26,  1769.  5.  Joshua, 
September  11,  1728,  died  September  4,  1773. 
6.  Susannah,  August  28,  1740,  will  proved 
October  6,  1769. 

(l\  )  Ebenezer  (2),  son  of  Ebenezer  (i) 
Seaver,  was  born  at  Roxbury,  April  26,  1 72 1. 
His  will  was  proved  April  12,  1785.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  November  5,  1755,  Mary  Weld, 
who  died  May  8,  1766.  He  married  (second) 
Tabitha  Davenport,  born  August  g,  1737,  died 
March  i,  1804,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Sub- 
mit Davenport,  of  Dorchester.  Children  of 
first  wife:  i.  Mary,  born  September  i,  1756, 
died  November  19,  1763.  2.  Hannah,  October 
30,  1758,  married.  May  24,  1786,  James  Lewis, 
of  Roxbury.  3.  Jonathan,  May  19,  1761,  died 
March  6,  1763.  4.  Ebenezer,  July  5,  1763, 
died  March  i,  1844.  Children  by  second  wife: 
5.  Margaret,  April  18,  1772,  died  February  20, 
1776.  6.  Joshua,  September  30,  1774,  died 
C)ctober  11,  1774.  7.  Margaret,  October  24, 
1775,  married,  December  11,  1804,  Rnfus  Kel- 
ton ;  died  February  25,  1816.  8.  Joshua,  Janu- 
ary 15,  1779,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Joshua,  son  of  Ebenezer  (2)  Seaver, 
was  born  in  Roxbury,  January  15,  1779,  died 
September  11,  1833.  He  married,  .April  6, 
1803,  Xancy  Sumner,  who  died  October  23, 
1837,  aged  fifty-seven  years,  six  months.  He 
was  a  resident  of  Jamaica  Plain,  and  promi- 
nent in  the  early  history  of  that  town.  He 
kept  a  grocery  store  there.  He  and  his  wife 
were  for  many  years  members  of  the  Uni- 
tarian church.  Children:  i.  Joshua,  born  No- 
vember 15,  1803.  2.  Rufus"  Kelton,  October 
19.  1804,  died  October  5,  1805.  3.  Ann  Taliitha, 
January  31,  1806.  4.  Nathaniel,  December  14, 
1807,  married,  March  3.  1833,  Ann  Jane  Cod- 
man.      5.   John    Prince,   September    11,    1809, 


died  December,  1864.  6.  Robert.  February  23, 
1812,  mentioned  below.    7.  Seth  Sumner,  July 

10,  1816,  died  February  21,  1817.  8.  William, 
March  17,  1818.  9.  Joseph,  December  22, 
1819,  died  March  8,  1821.  10.  Joseph,  Sep- 
tember 7,  1822. 

(YD  Robert,  son  of  Joshua  Seaver,  was 
born  at  Jamaica  Plain,  February  23,  1812,  died 
July  18,  1882.  He  was  a  prominent  citizen  of 
Jamaica  Plain,  and  conducted  the  grocery  store 
which  his  father  had  established.  He  mar- 
ried, November  20,  1834,  in  Boston,  Abigail 
F^airbanks  Patch,  born  in  Phillipston,  Massa- 
chusetts, March  14,  1813,  died  March  29,  1884. 
For  many  years  they  were  active  members  of 
Dr.  Gray's  church.  Children:  i.  N.  .Augusta, 
born  January  28,  1836.  2.  Ellen.  October  21, 
1837,  married,  July  16,  i860,  William  J.  R. 
Evans   (see  Evans  family).     3.  Robert,  July 

11,  1840.  4.  Maria  L.,  September  26,  1842, 
died  January  12,  1899.  5.  Theodore,  July  17, 
1845.  6.  Fred,  July  27,  1848.  7.  Florence, 
November  4,  1851,  died  March  28,  1908.  8. 
Robert,  February  21,  1854. 


The     surname     Eathrop     or 
LATHROP      Lothrop  is  derived  from  the 

parish  Lowthorpe.  Thorpe 
means  village,  so  the  meaning  of  the  word 
literally  is  a  low  village.  Lowthorpe  is  a  small 
parish  in  the  wapentake  of  Dickering,  East 
Riding  of  Yorksliire,  England,  having  only 
about  a  hundred  and  fifty  inhabitants.  Walter 
de  Lowthorpe  was  elected  high  sheriff  of  York- 
shire in  1 2x6  and  the  name  has  been  common 
in  Yorkshire  from  that  time.  Robert  and 
liichard  Lowthorp  lived  at  Whepsted.  Thingoe 
Hundred,  Suffolk,  in  1287.  A  prominent 
family  of  Lathropps  lived  in  Staft'ordshire 
before  1560.  .Arms:  Sable,  an  eagle  dis- 
])layed  argent.  Crest :  .\  Cornish  chough 
proper. 

( L)  John  Lathrop  or  Lowthroppe,  as  the 
name  was  then  spelled,  is  the  first  of  this 
ancient  family  in  England  to  whom  the  .Amer- 
ican line  can  be  definitely  traced.  Early  in  the 
sixteenth  century  he  was  living  in  Cherry  Bur- 
ton, a  parish  about  four  miles  from  Lowthorpe. 
He  was,  though  belonging  to  a  junior  branch 
of  the  family,  a  gentleman  of  quite  extensive 
landed  estates  both  in  Cherry  13urton  and  in 
various  other  parts  of  the  county.  In  1545  his 
name  appears  on  a  subsidy  roll,  assessed  twice 
as  much  as  any  otlier  inhabitant  of  the  parish. 
Of  his  parentage  and  brothers  and  sisters 
notliing  has  been  discovered,  the  early  parish 
records   having  disappeared.      lie   left  a   son 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


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Robert,  mentioned  below,  and  three  daugliters 
whose  names  are  unknown,  though  their  fami- 
Hes  are  mentioned  in  their  brother's  will. 

(II)  Robert  Lathrop,  son  of  John  Lathrop, 
succeeded  to  his  father's  estates  in  Cherry  Bur- 
ton and  during  his  lifetime  made»considerable 
additions  to  them.  He  died  in  1553.  His  will 
is  dated  at  North  Burton  (Sheriburton),  July 
16,  1558,  and  proved  at  York,  October  20, 
1558.  He  was  of  course  a  good  Roman  Cath- 
olic, and  left  bequests  to  the  church  ;  to  various 
friends  and  relatives;  to  wife  Ellen;  children 
John,  Thomas,  Lawrence,  Margaret.  Children  : 
I.  Thomas,  mentioned  below.  2.  John,  died 
without  issue.  3.  Lawrence,  died  before  1572. 
4.  Margaret,  married  Robert  Hodgeson. 

(III)  Thomas  Latlirop,  son  of  Robert 
Lathrop,  was  born  in  Cherry  Burton ;  married 
Elizabeth  Clark,  widow,  who  was  buried  at 
Etton,  July  29,  1574;  married  (second)  Mary 

,  who  was  buried  in  Etton,  January  6, 

1588;  (third)  Jane ,  who  married  after 

his  death Coppendale.    He  removed  to 

Etton  about  1576  and  died  in  1606.  His  will 
is  dated  October  5,  1600.  Neither  of  the  sons 
who  were  educated  were  legatees  in  the  will. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Robert,  married, 
January  27,  1607-08,  Ann  Pattison.  2.  Cath- 
erine, married,  June  12.  1607,  William  Akett, 

of  Leckonfield.     3.    Audrey,   married   

Wickham.  4.  Elizabeth,  married,  February  ig, 
1587-88,  Thomas  Rowood.  5.  Anne,  baptized 
at  Etton,  February  13,  1568-69,  died  young. 
6.  Isabel,  baptized  at  Etton,  July  3,  1570.  7. 
Martin,  baptized  at  Etton,  October  21,  1572, 
died  same  year.  8.  Andrew,  baptized  at  Etton, 
April  23,  1574.  Children  of  second  wife:  9. 
Anne,  baptized  at  Etton,  July  29,  1576.  10. 
Mary.  11.  Thomas,  baptized  at  Etton,  Octo- 
ber 14,  1582.  grafluate  of  Queen's  College, 
1604.  12.  John,  baptized  December  20,  1584, 
mentioned  below.  13.  William,  baptized  May 
24,  1587.  Children  of  third  wife:  14.  Mar- 
garet, baptized  at  Etton,  February  12,  1590-91. 
15.  Isabel,  baptized  September  29,  1592.  16. 
Lucy,  baptized  at  Etton,  January,  1593-94, 
married.  June  16.  1613,  Ralph  Cawnsley.  17. 
Richard,  baptized  October  i,  1595,  married 
Dorothy  Lowden  and  settled  in  Cherry  Burton. 
18.  Mary,  baptized  in  Etton,  September  27, 
1597,  died  in  England.  19.  Lawrence,  baptized 
August  29,  1599.  20.  Jane,  baptized  March  14, 
1600-01.  21.  Joseph,  baiftized  December  31, 
1602.  22.  IJartholomew,  baptized  March  i, 
1604.  All  these  parishes  and  other  places  are 
in  the  same  locality. 

(IV)  Rev.  John  Lathrop,  a  son  of  Thomas 


Lathrop,  was  born  at  Etton,  Yorkshire,  Eng- 
land, and  baptized  there  December  20,  1584. 
He  spelled  his  name  Lothropp.  He  was  eilu- 
catcd  in  Queen's  College.  Cambridge,  graduat- 
ing in  160 1  with  the  degree  of  B.  A.  and  tak- 
ing his  master's  degree  in  1609.  He  became 
curate  of  the  parish  church  in  Egelton  in  the 
Lower  Half  Hundred  of  Calehill,  Lathe  of 
Screy,  county  Kent.  He  was  there  as  early 
as  i(n4,  probably  in  161 1  and  as  late  as  the 
fall  of  1619,  and  it  was  doubtless  his  first  and 
only  parish  as  minister  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
laiifl.  When  he  could  no  longer  subscribe  to 
the  creed  of  that  church,  he  renounced  his 
orders  in  1623  and  allied  himself  with  the 
Puritans.  In  1624  he  was  called  to  succeed 
Rev.  Henry  Jacob,  an  independent  minister  of 
the  First  Independent  Church  of  London,  who 
had  resigned  to  go  to  Virginia.  The  worship 
of  this  church  was  illegal  and  their  meetings 
secret.  The  church  was  discovered  by  a  spy 
named  Tomlinson  and  forty-two  made  pris- 
oners, eighteen  being  allowed  to  escape,  April 
22,  1632.  The  Puritan  prisoners  were  con- 
signed to  the  old  Clink  prison  in  Newgate  and 
in  the  Gatehouse.  In  the  spring  of  1634  all 
were  released  on  bail  except  Mr.  Lathrop.  In 
the  quaint  language  of  Nathaniel  Morton  in 
the  "New  England  Memorial"  (1669)  the 
story  of  his  further  stay  in  England  is  briefly 
tolil :  "His  wife  fell  sick,  of  which  sickness 
she  clied.  He  procured  liberty  of  the  bishop 
to  visit  his  wife  before  her  death,  and  com- 
mended her  to  God  by  prayer,  who  soon  gave 
up  the  ghost.  At  his  return  to  prison  his  poor 
children,  being  many,  repaired  to  the  bishop 
at  Lambeth,  and  made  known  unto  him  their 
miserable  condition,  by  reason  of  their  good 
father's  being  continued  in  close  durance,  who 
commiserated  their  condition  so  far  as  to  grant 
him  liberty  who  soon  after  came  over  into  New 
England."  "He  came  to  Boston  with  part  of 
his  flock  in  the  ship,  "Griffin,"  and  another 
sailing  in  the  fall  of  1634  and  arriving  Sep- 
tember 18,  [jroceeded  to  Scituate,  where  nine 
pioneers  had  already  located,  and  prepared  the 
way  for  others.  He  was  formally  chosen  pas- 
tor January  19,  1634.    He  married  again  Anna 

,  and  was  granted  a  farm  near  the  First 

Plerring  brook  and  had  shares  in  the  salt 
marshes.  He  left  his  home  in  Scituate  after 
some  disagreement  in  the  church,  and  with 
others  from  Scituate  located  at  Barnstable  on 
Cape  Cod.  arriving  October  11,  1639,  bring- 
ing with  them  the  crops  they  had  raised  in 
.Scituate.  Mr.  Lathrop  fearlessly  proclaimes 
in  old  and  New  England  the  great  truth  that 


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man  is  not  responsible  to  his  fellowman  in 
matters  of  faith  and  conscience.  Differences 
of  opinion  he  tolerated.  During  the  fourteen 
years  that  he  was  pastor  of  the  Barnstable 
church,  such  was  his  influence  over  the  people, 
that  the  power  of  a  civil  magistrate  was  not 
neederl  to  restrain  crime.  Xo  pastor  was  ever 
more  beloved  by  his  people,  none  ever  had  a 
greater  influence  for  good.  *  *  *  To 
become  a  member  of  his  church  no  applicant 
was  compelled  to  sign  a  creed  or  confession 
of  faith.  He  retained  his  freedom,  he  pro- 
fessed his  faith  in  God,  and  promised  that  it 
should  be  his  constant  endeavor  to  keep  His 
commandments,  to  live  a  pure  life  and  to  walk 
in  love  with  his  brethren."  He  stood  among 
the  Puritans,  a  Congregational  of  the  Uni- 
tarian denomination,  as  we  now  class  them. 
Morton  says:  "He  was  a  man  of  humble  and 
broken  heart  spirit,  lively  in  Dispensation  of 
the  Word  of  God,  studious  of  peace,  furnished 
with  godly  contentment,  willing  to  spend  and 
he  spent  for  the  cause  of  the  Church  of  Christ." 
Mr.  Lathro])  died  at  Barnstable,  November  8, 
1653.  His  will  was  dated  August  10,  and 
proved  December  6,  1653,  bequeathing  to  son 
Thomas,  the  eldest ;  to  son  John,  who  was  in 
England ;  son  Benjamin,  daughters  Jane  and 
fiarbara;  to  each  of  the  rest  of  his  children, 
both  his  and  his  wife's.  Children:  i.  Jane, 
baptized  at  Egerton,  England,  September  29, 
1614,  married,  April  9,  1635  (by  Captain 
Myles  Standish),  Samuel  Fuller,  son  of  Ed- 
ward who  came  on  the  "Mayflower."  2.  Anne, 
ba])tized  in  Egerton,  May  12,  1616,  buried 
there  .April  30,  1617.  3.  John,  baptized  in 
Egerton,  February  22,  1617-18,  died  young. 
4.  Barbara,  baptized  October  31,  1619,  mar- 
ried John  Emerson.  5.  Thomas,  born  in  Eng- 
land, iirominent  citizen  at  Barnstable.  6. 
.'^amuel,  mentioned  below.  7.  Josejih,  born 
if)24,  married,  December,  1650,  Mary  Anell. 
8.  Benjamin,  born  in  England,  married  Maria 

:  settled  in  Charlcstown.     9.  Barnabas, 

baptized  at  Scituate,  June  6,  1636;  married 
(first)  December  i,  1658,  Susanna  Clark; 
(second)  .Xbigail  Dodson,  widow.  10.  Child, 
born  and  died  July  30,  1638.  11.  .Abigail,  bap- 
tized at  I'.arnstablc,  November  2,  i(')39,  mar- 
ried James  Clark.  12.  I'.athsheba.  bai)tized 
February  2J.  i(m.  married  .\le.\ander  Marsh 
and  lived  at  Braintree.  13.  John,  born  at 
Barnstable,  February  9,  1644,  married,  Janu- 
ary 3,  1671-72,  Mary  Cobb;  (second)  Decem- 
ber 9,  1695,  Hannah  Fuller,  widow  of  Dr. 
Jolin.  14.  Son,  born  and  died  same  day,  buried 
January  25,  1649. 


(Y)  Samuel  Lathrop,  son  of  Rev.  John 
Lathrop,  was  born  in  England  and  came  with 
his  father  to  Scituate  in  1634.  He  removed 
to  Barnstable,  where  he  married,  November 
28,  1644,  Elizabeth  Scudder,  who  had  been 
dismissed  fr'om  the  church  in  Boston,  Novem- 
ber 10,  1644,  to  the  Barnstable  church.  They 
settled  in  Barnstable,  next  the  house  of  John 
Scudder.  Samuel  was  a  house  builrler  and 
farmer.  He  was  on  the  list  of  those  able  to 
bear  arms  in  1643.  His  house  lot  was  the 
third  in  order  from  that  of  John  Winthrop, 
Esq.,  and  his  name  is  among  the  first  eighteen 
to  whom  were  assigned  lands  on  the  east  side 
of  the  "great  river  of  Pequot,  January,  1648- 
49.  He  was  one  of  the  judges  of  the  local 
court  of  Pequot,  organized  in  May,  1649,  and 
served  on  important  committees  of  the  town. 
He  assisted  in  the  defence  against  the  Nara- 
gansett  Indians  in  the  fort  at  the  head  of  the 
Nahantick.  In  1679  he  had  the  contract  to 
build  the  Second  Church  at  New  London.  In 
165 1  he  sold  his  town  house  to  Rev.  Gershom 
Bulkley.  It  stood  beyond  the  bridge  over  the 
mill  brook,  on  the  east  side  of  the  highway 
toward  Nohegan."  In  1668  he  removed  to 
Norwich,  Connecticut,  where  he  was  granted 
a  house  lot  originally  granted  to  John  Elderkin. 
He  built  a  house  on  the  town  street  before 
1670,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his 
days.  The  house  built  by  Dr.  Daniel  Lathrop, 
his  great-grandson,  probably  stands  on  the 
same  site.  He  was  constable  in  1673  and  1682, 
and  townsman  in  1685.  He  married  (second) 
in  1690,  in  Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  Abigail 
Doane,  born  January  29,  1632,  died  1734,  aged 
one  hundred  and  two  years,  daughter  of  Dea- 
con John  Doane,  of  Plymouth.  "On  her  one 
hundredth  birth-day  a  large  audience  assembled 
at  her  house,  and  a  sermon  was  preached  by 
the  pastor  of  the  church."  Samuel  Lathrop 
died  February  29,  1 700,  leaving  a  lumcupative 
will,  proved  in  1701.  Children:  i.  John,  bap- 
tized in  Boston,  December  7,  1645,  married, 
December  15,  i66g,  Ruth  Royce,  daughter  of 
Robert  Royce ;  died  August  25,  1688.  2.  Eliz- 
abeth, March,  1648,  married.  December  16, 
i6Ci(j,  Isaac  Royce;  (second)  Joseph  Thomp- 
son. 3.  .'>amuel,  March.  1(^30.  married  (first) 
November,  1673,  llaimah  .\dgate;  (second) 
December  30,  i'697.  Mary  Edgerton,  and  set- 
tled in  Norwich;  died  December  9,  1732.  4. 
.Sarah,  October,  1655,  married,  .April  21,  1681, 
Nathaniel  Royce,  of  Wallingford.  5.  Martha, 
January.  1637,  married.  1677.  John  Moss.  6. 
Israel.  October,  i63(),  married.  .\i)ril  8,  1686, 
Rebecca  lUiss.    7.  Josei)h,  October,  1661.  men- 


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tiont'd  below.  8.  Abigail,  May  1665,  married, 
December  9.  1686,  John  Huntington.  9.  .Anna. 
August,  1667,  married  Wlliam  llough;  died 
November  19,  1745. 

(VI)  Joseph  Lathrop.son  of  Samuel  Lathrop, 
was  born  October,  1661,  and  died  in  Norwich, 
Connecticut,  July  5.  1740.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  First  Church  there.  He  married  (first) 
April  8.  1686,  Mary  Scudder,  who  died  Sep- 
tember 18.  1695.  He  married  (second)  Feb- 
ruary 2,  1696-7,  Elizabeth  W'atrous,  born 
j\farcb  22,  1661,  died  November  29,  1726, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  Watrous.  He 
married  (third)  November  22,  1727,  Mrs. 
Martha  Perkins,  widow  of  Deacon  Joseph 
Perkins,  of  Newent,  now  Li.sbon,  then  a  part 
of  Norwich.  Children:  i.  Barnabas,  born 
February  4.  1687,  died  May  25,  1710:  mar- 
ried. January  12,  1709-10,  Abigail  Abell.  2. 
Joseph,  September  18,  1688,  mentioned  below. 

3.  Abigail,  September  16,  1693,  inarried  Jacob 
Hazen.  4.  Mehitable,  November  2,  1697,  mar- 
ried (first)  William  Bushnell ;  (second)  Octo- 
ber 3.  1722,  Captain  Thomas  Stoughton  Jr. 
5.  Samuel,  May  23,  1699.  6.  Elizabeth.  Janu- 
ary 17,  1700-01.  7.  Sarah,  October  18,  1702. 
8.  Temperance,  October  6,  1704.  9.  Solomon, 
December  13,  1706,  married,  February  6, 
1728-29,  :\Irs.  Martha  Todd.  10.  Ruth,  De- 
cember II,  1709.  II.  Esther,  November  17, 
1712.  12.  Zerviah,  April  9,  1718,  married, 
1739-  William  Bradford. 

(VII)  Joseph  Lathrop,  son  of  Joseph 
Lathroj),  was  born  in  Norwich,  September  18, 
1688,  married,  April  13,  1735,  Mary  Harts- 
horn. She  united  with  the  church  in  Franklin, 
then  part  of  Norwich,  in  1737.  The  inventory 
of  his  estate  "in  Norwich  and  Waterbnry"  was 
dated  March  i.  1757.  Children:  i.  Jonathan 
John  .Scudder,  "eldest  son,"  married,"  July  27, 
1763,  Mrs.  Priscilla  Wood;  died  March  20, 
1780.  2.  Barnabas.  April  19,  1738,  mentioned 
below.     3.  Joseph,  June  9,   1740,  died  young. 

4.  Zebediah,  "youngest  son,"  died  1783.  5. 
Mary,  "only  daughter." 

(\'III)  Barnabas  Lathrop,  son  of  Joseph 
Lathroj),  was  born  in  Norwich,  April  19,  1738, 
and  married,  July  7,  1757,  Sarah  Davis.  He 
became  a  Baptist  preacher,  and  after  a  some- 
what roving  life  died  in  New  Milford,  Con- 
necticut. Children:  i.  Joseph,  born  Novem- 
ber 20,  1758.  2.  Daniel,  October  23,  1760,  in 
Norwich,  died  July  23,  1761.  3.  Sarah,  Octo- 
ber 20.  1762.  4.  Daniel,  mentioned  below.  5. 
Rufus,  married  Debby  Ackly  and  died  in  South 
Cairo.  New  York.    6.  Anne. 

(IX)   Daniel    Lathrop,    son    of    Barnabas 


Lathrop,  was  born  in  Norwich,  October  23, 
1765.  and  died  in  New  Milford  in  1861.  He 
married  (first)  Grace  Loveredge,  who  was 
burn  in  1768;  (second)  Esther  Taylor.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Lydia,  born  in  Colchester,  Connec- 
ticut. November  12,  1787,  married  Andrew 
Lamson.  2.  Daniel,  Colchester,  February  i, 
1790,  married,  August  15,  1812,  Sarah  Fisher. 
3.  .\masa,  Colchester,  September  30,  1792, 
married  Lucinda  Clark;  died  1872.  4.  Henry, 
Colchester,  June  4,  1794,  married  Angeline 
Owens.  5.  Barnabas,  New  Alilford,  October 
29,  1796,  married  Sarah  Ann  Driskill.  6.  Sally, 
New  Milford,  December  20,  1798,  married 
John  Mann,  of  Becket,  Massachusetts.  7. 
Alanson.  March  22,  1802,  mentioned  below. 
8.  John,  April  23,  1804,  married  (first)  Min- 
erva ISeeman  ;  (second)  Joanna  Cook  ;  (third) 
October  20,  1839,  Anna  ^laria  Way ;  died  July 
18,  1858.  9.  Anna,  June  2,  1806,  married 
James  Stewart.  10.  Laura,  November  25, 
1808,  married  Stephen  Keeler.  11.  Harriet, 
October  13,  1812,  married  Wilsey  Steward. 
12.  .Abigail.     13.  (ieorge,  March  17,  1822. 

(  N  )  .Alanson  Lathrop,  son  of  Daniel  Lathrop, 
was  born  March  22,  1802,  and  settled  in  Becket, 
Massachusetts.  He  married,  January  13,  1825, 
Hannah  Kingsley.     They  had  nine  children. 

(XI)  Lester  Lathrop,  son  of  Alvanson 
Lathrop,  was  born  in  Becket,  July  7,  1826. 
He  was  educated  in  the  jiiublic  schools  of  his 
native  town.  He  learned  the  trade  of  tanner 
and  followed  it  many  years.  He  was  also 
engaged  in  farming.  In  politics  he  was  a 
Republican.  He  attends  the  Baptist  church. 
He  married,  at  Aliddlefield,  Massachusetts, 
November  30,  1848,  Eliza  Ann  Crow,  born 
1825,  daughter  of  William  and  .Abigail  Crow, 
of  Montgomery,  Massachusetts.  Children:  i. 
Ada  E.  2.  Eva,  born  December  3,  1854,  mar- 
ried Fred  W.  Cross.  3.  Etta  A.,  October  2, 
1858,  married  Elmer  D.  Ballon.  4.  William 
Lester,  mentioned  below.  5.  Alice  U.,  June 
3.   1866. 

(XII  )  William  Lester  Lathrop,  son  of  Les- 
ter Lathrop,  was  born  in  AHddlefield,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  15,  i860,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  the  ])ublic  schools  of  Becket  and  in 
Claflin  .Academy.  He  then  learned  the  trade 
of  brass  finisher  and  worked  at  it  for  some 
three  years.  He  came  to  Orange,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1880,  to  work  for  the  New  Home 
Sewing  Machine  Company,  and  he  continued 
in  the  employ  of  that  concern  for  a  period  of 
nineteen  years,  becoming  foreman  of  a  depart- 
ment in  the  works.  He  displayed  unusual  skill 
as  a  mechanic  and  great  executive  ability  as 


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head  of  a  department.  He  resigned  upon 
receiving  his  appointment  as  postmaster  of 
Orange  in  January,  1900,  an  office  he  has  held 
to  the  present  time  and  filled  with  conspicuous 
fidelity  and  efficiency.  He  is  a  member  of 
Orange  Lodge  of  Free  Masons;  of  Crescent 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  of  Orange  Com- 
mandery,  Knights  Templar ;  is  a  past  noble 
grand  of  Social  Lodge,  No.  132,  Odd  Fellows. 
He  also  belongs  to  Fall  Hill  Encampment  and 
Asah  Rebekah  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows ;  to 
Athenian  Lodge,  No.  51,  Knights  of  Pythias, 
and  has  been  captain  of  Canton  Orange, 
Patriarchs  Militant.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican, and  he  attends  the  Universalist 
Society.  He  married,  in  1892,  Stella  M.  Gil- 
more,  born  in  Drange,  died  July  31,  1904, 
daughter  of  Daniel  Gilmore.  Children,  born 
in  Orange:  i.  Lester  Gilmore,  born  Jaiuiary 
30,  1803.  2.  Maxwell  James.  July  17,  1895. 
3.  Victor  William,  jMay  25,  1897.  4.  Doris 
Marion,  May  2,  1902. 


The  surname  W'elling- 
WELLINGTON  ton  is  identical  with 
Willington,  the  more 
common  spelling  in  the  old  country,  though 
both  spellings  were  used  interchangeably  by 
many  families  a  few  generations  ago  in  both 
England  and  .America.  The  history  of  the  family 
extends  back  to  the  Norman  conquest  of  Eng- 
land. The  ancient  baronial  family  of  Willing- 
ton  was  established  at  the  time  of  William  the 
Conqueror,  It  is  a  place-name,  like  that  of 
many  of  the  more  important  English  surnames. 
The  family  of  Willington  took  the  name  of  the 
town.  The  W'illinglon  family  at  L'mberleigh, 
Devonshire;  at  Todenham,  county  Gloucester; 
at  Barchesterm  Brailes  and  Hurley,  county 
Warwick,  all  trace  their  ancestry  to  Sir  Ralph 
de  \\'illington,  who  married  in  the  fourteenth 
century  a  daughter  of  Sir  William  Champer- 
nowne,  of  Umbcrleigh,  inherited  his  estates 
and  assumed  his  coat-of-arms.  omitting  the 
billets:  (kiles  a  saltire  vair.  Crest:  A  moun- 
tain pine  vert,  fructed  or.  John  de  Welling- 
ton (or  Willington)  of  Derbyshire,  lived  at  or 
about  the  time  of  the  conquest,  and  from  him 
descend  the  baronial  family  above  mentioned. 
There  are  parishes  of  this  name  in  county 
Salo]i,  county  Somerset.  Hereford  and  North- 
uiuherland.  The  coats-of-arms  of  the  Well- 
ingtons are  given  by  Burke :  Ermine  a  chevron 
sable ;  also  ermine  a  chevron  sable  a  crescent 
or.  Crest :  A  demi-savage  wreathed  about  the 
head  and  middle  with  laurel  leaves  all  proper. 
Other  Willington  arms:  Sable  a  bend  etigrailed 


cotised  argent ;  also  Ermine  a  chevron  ermine 
(another  sable)  ;  also  Per  pale  endented  argent 
and  sable  a  chief  or;  also  ermine  three  bends 
azure ;  also  sable  a  bend  engr.  argent  cotised 
or;  also  or  a  cross  vair.  The  similarity  of 
arms  such  as  may  be  noted  in  these  cited  is 
the  best  proof  of  relationship  in  old  English 
families. 

(I)  Roger  Willington,  inunigrant  ancestor, 
planter,  born  1609-10,  died  March  11,  1697- 
98,  sailed  from  England,  and  probably  came 
to  Watertown  at  once  on  landing.  The  record 
of  him  is  the  first  entry  of  town  records  of 
Watertown,  showing  an  allotment  of  land 
dated  July  25,  1636,  a  grant  of  the  great 
dividend  allotted  to  the  freemen  and  to  all  the 
townsmen  then  inhabiting,  one  hundred  and 
twenty  in  number.  Roger  Willington  received 
twenty  acres,  now  a  part  of  Mt.  Auburn  ceme- 
tery, on  which  he  built  the  first  Willington 
homestead,  where  he  lived  until  1659.  Other 
references  in  town  records  are  as  follows: 
April  9,  1657,  account  of  men  deputed  by 
towne  to  fee.  To  keeping  of  the  order  of 
hogs  (the  15th)  Roger  \\'illington  is  the  entry 
3  shillings.  "Town  meeting  January  10.  1658, 
chozen  to  looke  after  the  law  and  for  the 
regulating  of  hogs  and  fences  Roger  Welling- 
ton and  Thomas  Straits;  December  6,  1662, 
fined  10  shillings  for  insufficient  fence  Dated 
October  29,  1663."  "Haveing  given  in  an 
account  of  to  rates  to  great  diffiaction  both  to 
pastor  and  selectmen  We  have  appointed  Leife 
Ijurns  \\'il!y  and  Bond  to  deal  with  him  to 
bring  him  to  a  more  tollarable  account  or  else 
to  send  him  to  the  grandiary."  "Att  a  meet- 
ing of  the  selectmen  30th  8th  Month  1662 
agreed  between  the  town  &  Corporall  Willing- 
ton that  a  straight  line  from  the  corner  from 
his  present  fence  att  Eaton's  house  next  the 
highwav  and  so  to  the  line  between  him  and 
Sanniel  Hatchers  land  upon  the  north  side  of 
the  Swamps :  shall  be  the  dividinge  line  be- 
tween him  it  the  Towne  consented  unto  by  the 
Corporall  Willington  owned  before  the  select- 
men by  setting  to  his  hand  Signed  Roger  Will- 
ington." "A  town  meeting  November  2.  1674 
chozen  for  surveyors  Corporall  Willington  and 

John  Traine  Senyear."  "The of  Eaprill 

79.  Corporall  Willington  &  Robt  Hcrington 
with  the  consent  of  the  selectmen  demanded 
the  (Cee)  of  the  schoolhouse  of  Leftenant 
Sherman  but  he  refused  to  deliver  it."  It  is 
interesting  to  note  that  he  was  usually  called 
corporal.  By  deed  dated  April  4,  1657,  Mid- 
dlesex county  registry,  he  purchased  twelve 
acres  of  land  containing  dwelling  house  and 


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barn  which  became  a  part  of  the  family  estate 
in  Lexington  and  the  home  of  all  the  ^\'elling- 
ton  ancestors.  Lexington  was  then  a  part  of 
Watertown  and  later  Cambridge.  He  was 
admitted  a  freeman  April  i8.  1690.  His  will 
is  (lateil  December  17,  1697,  and  was  proved 
.•\l)ril  II,  1698,  "feeble  by  reason  of  age,"  be- 
(|iieathing  to  sons  John,  Joseph,  Benjamin, 
Oliver  and  Palgrave;  grandchild.  John  Alad- 
docks,  Roger  Wellington  and  Mary  Liver- 
more.  He  was  selectman  in  1678-79-81-82-83- 
84-91.  He  married  ]\Iary,  eldest  daughter  of 
Dr.  Richard  Palgrave,  of  Cliarlestown,  date  of 
marriage  not  known.  Children:  i.  John,  bom 
July  25,  1638,  admitted  freeman,  1677,  farmer 
of  Cambridge.  2.  Mary,  February  10,  1641, 
married  (first)  May  21,  1662,  Henry  Mad- 
docks;    (second)    John   Coolidge.     3.  Joseph, 

October  9,  1643.  married  (first)  Sarali ; 

(second)  Elizabeth  Straight.  4.  Benjamin, 
mentioned  below.  5.  Oliver,  November  23, 
1648.  6.  Palgrave,  admitted  freeman,  April 
18,  1690;  followed  the  profession  of  his  grand- 
father for  whom  he  was  named  ;  married  Sarah 
Bond. 

(H)  Benjamin,  fourth  child  of  Roger  Will- 
ington  probably  born  1646.  died  January  8, 
1 7 10.  He  lived  on  the  family  estate  in  Lex- 
ington, and  was  called  yeoman.  December  7, 
1671,  he  married  Elizabeth  Sweetman,  of 
Cambridge.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born 
December  29,  1673,  married  John  Fay,  of 
Marlborough.  2.  Benjamin,  June  21,  1676, 
mentioned  below.  3.  John,  July  26,  1678,  died 
November  30,  171 7.  4.  Ebenezer,  married, 
January  28.  1704.  Deliverance  Bond,  settled  in 
Lexington.  5.  Ruhamah,  married,  November 
15,  1699,  Deacon  Joseph  Brown.  6.  Mehitable, 
baptized  March  4,  1688,  married,  September 
13.  1 71 5.  William  Sherman,  of  Newtown,  and 
was  mother  of  Roger  Sherman,  who  was 
named  after  his  great-grandfather,  Roger 
Willington.  7.  Joseph,  baptized  January  4, 
169 1.    8.  Roger. 

(HI)  Benjamin  (2)  Wellington,  .son  of 
Benjamin  (i)  Wellington,  born  June  21,  1676, 
died  November  15,  1738,  "At  towne  meeting 
were  chosen  survayurs  swine  cattle  &  fences 
Richard  Child  &  Benjamin  Wellington."  He 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  December,  1667. 
The  "History  of  Lexington''  says  of  him:  "He 
was  for  many  years  one  of  the  most  popular 
men  of  the  town ;  was  assessor  sixteen  years, 
town  clerk  fifteen  years,  treasurer  three  years, 
representative  three  years.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  church  at  Lexington,  June  10,  1705.  His 
will,  dated  July   13,   1708,  proved  January  30 


following,  described  him  as  "housewright  and 
carpenter."  He  married  (first)  January  16, 
1698-99,  Lydia  Brown,  and  the  same  year  built 
himself  a  house  on  the  family  estate  at  Lexing- 
ton ;  his  wife  died  May  13,  171 1.  He  married 
(second)  December  25,  1712,  Elizabeth,  widow 

of   Samuel    Pliipps,   and   daughter  of  

Stevens,  of  Charlestown ;  she  died  January  17, 
1729-30,  aged  fifty- four.  He  married  (third) 
Mary  Whitney.  Children  of  first  wife :  i.  Benja- 
min, born  May  21,  1702,  died  November  15, 
1738.  2.  Lydia,  August  24,  1704,  died  August 
ID,  1718.  3.  Kezia,  born  March  28,  1707.  4. 
John,  born  November  12,  1709,  died  Septem- 
ber 22,  1728.  Children  of  second  wife:  5. 
Abigail,  July  14,  1715,  married,  February  19, 
1734,  David  Munroe.  6.  Timothy,  born  July 
27,  1719,  mentioned  below.  Children  of  third 
wife:  7.  Mary,  October  20,  1732.  8.  Oliver, 
April  14,  1735. 

(I\')  Timothy,  son  of  Benjamin  (2)  Well- 
ington, was  born  in  Lexington.  July  27,  1719, 
date  of  death  unknown  ;  his  will  was  jjrobated 
December  23,  1750.  He  was  by  trade  a  wheel- 
wright and  made  (family  traditions  says)  the 
wheels  to  the  gun  carriage  of  the  Cambridge 
cannon  used  in  the  revolution.  He  was  also 
a  farmer,  and  resided  on  the  homestead  in 
Lexington,  which  remained  in  the  family  until 
1895,  when  it  was  sold.  He  married,  Septem- 
ber 23,  1742,  Rebecca  Stone,  born  January  22, 
1 72 1,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Chary 
(Adams)  Stone,  of  Lexington,  a  descendant 
of  Deacon  Gregory  Stone,  of  Watertown.  His 
wife  survived  him,  and  February  14,  1754, 
married  John  Di.x.  of  Waltham.  Children:  i. 
Benjamin,  born  August  7.  1743,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Chary,  July  12,  1745.  3.  Timothy, 
April  15,  1747,  died  April  18,  1809:  was  father 
of  Dr.  Timothy  Wellington.  4.  Abigail,  March 
14,  1750,  married,  December  29,  1768,  Daniel 
Colling,  of  Waltham.  5.  Ruhamon,  Septem- 
ber 4,  1751. 

(V)  Benjamin  (3),  son  of  Timothy  Well- 
ington, born  at  Lexington,  August  7,  1743, 
died  there  September  14,  1812.  He  attended 
the  district  school,  and  early  learned  the  trade 
of  wheelwright,  which  he  followed  many  years. 
His  shop  was  across  the  road,  just  north  of 
the  hnuse.  Tlie  first  house  of  the  Wellingtons 
was  of  the  old  fashioned  type,  where  the  roof 
slants  nearly  to  the  ground  in  the  rear.  In 
1803  he  built  a  new  house.  He  made  many 
of  the  gun  carriages  for  the  Continental  army. 
His  farm  was  inherited  by  his  two  sons,  Peter 
and  Benjamin.  The  milk  raised  on  the  farm 
was  marketed   in    Boston,  and   it   is   said  that 


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Benjamin  Wellington  was  the  first  man  to 
carry  milk  such  a  distance.  Wooden  bottles 
were  used,  and  the  Charles  river  was  crossed 
by  a  ferry.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church,  and  was  beloved  for 
his  kindly  and  charitable  nature.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Democrat,  and  served  as  selectman 
for  many  years.  He  was  one  of  the  gallant 
company  of  minute-men  who  took  part  in  the 
battle  of  Lexington,  and  was  the  first  armed 
])risoner  taken  during  the  war.  On  the  spot 
where  he  was  captured  has  been  erected  a  red 
granite  tablet  commemorating  the  event  and 
his  gallantry.  Elias  Phinney,  in  the  history  of 
the  battle,  describing  the  march  of  the  British 
towards  Lexington  common  on  the  memorable 
morn,  says:  "In  order  to  secure  persons  trav- 
elling upon  the  road  the  British  would  send 
two  soldiers  at  a  considerable  distance  in 
advance  of  the  main  body  with  orders  to 
secrete  themselves  in  each  side  of  the  road  and 
when  any  one  approached  they  would  allow 
him  to  pass  them  so  as  to  get  between  them 
anrl  the  troops  and  then  rise  and  close  in.  As 
Benjamin  Wellington  was  on  his  way  to  Le.x- 
ingtiin  common  that  morning,  having  been 
warned  by  the  summons  of  Paul  Revere,  in 
climbing  over  a  high  stone  wall  into  the  high- 
way at  Lexington  he  found  either  side  of  him 
a  British  soldier.  He  was  taken  prisoner  and 
disarmed.  On  being  asked  where  he  was  going 
he  replied  'Hunting.'  He  promised  to  return 
to  his  home,  and  as  it  was  impossible  for  his 
ca|)tors  to  manage  a  prisoner  he  was  allowed 
to  go  but  his  gun  was  not  returned.  Instead 
of  returning  home  he  took  another  way  to 
the  common  and  arrived  before  the  British  in 
time  to  announce  their  approach  and  take  part 
in  the  fight.  Thus  he  told  a  lie  in  order  to 
fight  in  the  cause  of  freedom."  His  name  is 
given  by  Captain  Parker  in  list  of  his  company. 
'"  1775'  '^'ifl  following  in  Parker's  account 
refers  to  him  in  Twelfth  campaign  to  the  tak- 
ing of  Burgoyne,  Sergeant  Benjamin  Welling- 
ton four  poimds.  He  was  with  Washington's 
army  at  Cambridge.  The  following  used  to 
be  told  by  Hepzibah  (Hastings)  W'cllington : 
"When  Benjamin  ^^'ellington  was  with  \Vasli- 
ington's  army  there  was  a  time  for  several 
days  that  tlie  army  was  i)ractically  without 
food.  During  that  time  Benjamin  \\'cllington 
came  home  to  find  his  family  just  ready  for 
their  dinner,  but  the  army  had  to  be  considered 
so  he  took  not  only  the  family  dinner  but  every 
edible  thing  in  the  place,  and  harnessing  the 
horses  carried  the  provisions  to  the  troops.  For 
two  davs  the  famih-  had  onlv  mush  and  milk, 


but  such  sacrifices  were  willingly  made  by 
them."  He  was  in  Captain  John  Bridge's  com- 
pany. Colonel  Eleazer  Brooks'  regiment,  on 
duty  at  Ro.xbury.  He  was  also  sergeant  in 
Captain  Samuel  Farrar's  company,  Colonel 
Reed's  regiment,  in  1777,  to  reinforce  the  army 
under  General  Gates  and  was  present  at  the 
surrender  of  Burgoyne.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 4,  1766.  :\Iartha  Ball,  of  Waltham  (South- 
borough).  Children:  i.  Mary,  born  Septem- 
ber 22,  1767,  married  (first)  December  31, 
1789,  .\sa  Baldwin  Locke;  (second)  Abijah 
Harrington  ;  children  :  Oliver  Locke,  Bald- 
win Locke,  Abigail  Locke,  ]\Iary  Locke.  2. 
Abigail,  baptized  in  Waltham,  October  i,  1769. 
3.  Benjamin,  baptized  July  13,  1772.  4.  Oliver, 
baptized  November  13,  1774.  5.  Benjamin 
Oliver,  bom  August  23,  1778.  died  November 
10,  1853;  married.  May  20,  1811,  Polly  Hast- 
ings ;  children :  i.  Oliver  Hastings,  born  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1812,  died  March  i,  1813;  ii.  Oliver 
Hastings,  born  August  19,  1813,  married,  Au- 
gust 29,  1838,  Charlotte  Augusta  Kent,  of  Con- 
cord, New  Hampshire,  and  had  Mary  C,  Will- 
iam A.,  .\rthur  M.,  and  Lucy  ]\I.  D. ;  iii.  Mary 
Jane,  born  July  15,  1815,  married,  April  17, 
1845,  James  H.  Dan  forth,  of  Boston;  iv. 
Albert,  born  June  i,  1817;  v.  Ambrose,  born 
-April  II,  1819.  married.  May,  1845,  Eucy  J. 
Kent;  vi.  Martha,  born  April  11,  1821,  died 
January,  1863;  vii.  Benjamin,  born  March  21, 
1823;  viii.  Dorcas  Ann.  born  April  20,  1825, 
married  Dr.  George  H.  Taylor ;  ix.  Laura, 
born  December  30,  1827;  x.  \\lnslow,  born 
May  16,  1829;  xi.  Edward,  born  March  3, 
1831,  drowned  in  Fresh  Pond,  July  6,  1852, 
while  a  member  of  the  Lawrence  Scientific 
School.  6.  Peter,  born  May  31,  178 1.  7.  Rich- 
ard, born  July  14,  1783,  died  December  11, 
1836.  8.  James,  twin  with  Patty,  born  Decem- 
ber 12,  1785,  married,  November  iS,  1821, 
.Susannah  Jacobs,  of  Littleton,  Alassachusetts, 
born  .'Vugust  7,  i8oi  ;  children :  i.  Edwin,  born 
1823;  ii.  .'\ngelina,  born  ]\Iay  20,  1824,  mar- 
ried Darius  Crosby,  and  had  Linda,  Carrie 
IMay,  James  W'cllington  and  Isaac  Wellington 
Crosby ;  iii.  James  Everett,  born  April  27, 
1827,  married,  October  24,  1854,  Frances  Jane 
Kilbournc,  born  June  21,  1829,  and  had  Emma 
Kilbourne,  born  .\ugust  7,  1856.  died  March 
17,  1865,  Maud  Kilbourne,  born  November  29, 
1858,  and  Everetta  Kilbourne,  born  Septem- 
ber 22,  1872;  iv.  Adrianna,  born  May  27,  1829, 
married  James  H.  Kidder,  of  Watertown,  and 
had  Osmer  Wellington  Kidder,  Mary  Welling- 
ton Kidder  (married  Edwin  H.  Baker,  and 
had  Madeline  and  .\tlrianna  Baker).    9.  Patty, 


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twin  with  James,  born  December  12,  1785, 
married,  June  28,  1821,  Charles  Reed,  of  Lex- 
ington, had  Henry,  not  now  living;  she  was 
drowned,  date  unknown.  10.  Isaac,  born  De- 
cember 5,  1787. 

(\T)  Isaac,  youngest  child  of  Benjamin 
(3)  Wellington,  was  born  December  5,  1787. 
He  married,  Xovember  18,  1824,  Mary  W. 
Jacobs ;  children :  Oliver,  Francena,  Mary 
Ann,  Isaac  Baldwin  and  Luther  Brooks. 

(\TI)  Luther  Brooks,  3'oungest  child  of 
Isaac  Wellington,  married  Susan  K.  Blanchard, 
of  Mcdford,  ^ilassachusetts.  He  and  his 
brother  Isaac  Baldwin  were  connected  together 
in  business  in  New  York  City. 

(\"III)  Arthur  W.,  eldest  child  of  Luther 
Brooks  and  .Susan  Kidder  (Blanchard)  Well- 
ington, was  born  at  Catskill,  Xew  York,  Sep- 
tember II,  1868.  He  has  been  connected  with 
the  sole  leather  business  in  Boston  since  a 
young  man.  He  purchased  the  old  Clark  farm 
of  one  hundred  and  six  acres  in  the  town  of 
Weston,  where  he  resides.  He  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  musical  world  since  the  age  of 
si.xteen  years,  being  the  possessor  of  a  fine 
bass  voice.  His  political  affiliations  are  with 
the  Republican  party,  and  he  is  a  member  of 
St.  Botolf  Club  and  Harvard  Musical  Asso- 
ciation. He  was  formerly  a  member  of  the 
Puritan,  Cecelia  and  Apollo  clubs,  singing  in 
all  of  them.  He  married,  September  19,  igo4, 
Evelyn  Jenks.  born  June  27,  1876,  daughter  of 
Robert  and  Xancy  (Jenks)  Lawton,  the  for- 
mer a  merchant  of  Xew  Bedford. 

(VIII)  Louis  Baldwin,  brother  of  the  pre- 
ceding, was  born  in  Brooklyn,  Xew  York* 
October  29,  1870.  In  1888  he  entered  the 
banking  house  of  Kidder,  Peabody  &  Company 
in  the  capacity  of  clerk.  He  remained  with 
this  concern  for  a  period  of  three  years,  then 
entered  the  employ  of  F.  S.  Moseley  &  Com- 
pany, as  clerk,  remaining  with  them  until  Jan- 
uary I,  1902,  when  a  new  firm  was  formed  and 
Mr.  Wellington  was  admitted  to  partnership. 
Mr.  Wellington  is  Republican  in  politics,  a 
member  of  the  Tennis  and  Raccjuet  Club  of 
Boston.  He  married,  July  25,  1895,  Louise 
Lawton,  a  sister  of  the  wife  of  his  brother 
Arthur  W.  Children:  Margaret,  born  May 
21,  1897;  Virginia,  September  23,  1899;  and 
Linda,  March,  1901. 


The  \Mnchesters  are  an 
WIXCHESTER     old   English    family  and 
for     many     generations 
anterior  to  the  seventeenth  century  were  seat- 
ed in  Kent,  from  whence  it  is  supposed  that 


the  American  ancestor  of  the  family  here  con- 
sidered came  to  Xew  England,  .\ccording  to 
well  authenticated  records  the  immigrant  Win- 
chesters were  two  brothers,  both  young  men, 
who  followed  the  tide  of  westw'ard  emigrants 
and  took  up  their  homes  in  the  Plymouth  col- 
ony on  Cape  Cod.  One  of  the  brothers,  Alex- 
ander by  name,  is  said  not  to  have  left  male 
issue,  and  of  the  other  it  is  said  that  he  was 
-the  progenitor  and  ancestor  of  all  who  have 
b(jrne  his  surname  in  this  country.  It  is  with 
this  branch  of  the  ^\'inchester  family  that  we 
have  particularly  to  deal  in  this  narrative,  and 
while  in  some  respects  the  records  of  his 
descendants  is  settled  with  reasonable  certainty, 
there  are  others  of  them  who  are  known  to 
be  among  his  descendants,  yet  by  reason  of 
imperfect  records  the  line  is  difficult  and  in 
some  cases  quite  impossible  to  establish  beyond 
question  of  doubt. 

(I)  John  Winchester,  who  is  mentioned  in 
history  as  "one  of  the  founders  of  Xew  Eng- 
land," and  who  probably  is  entitled  to  the 
distinction  of  having  been  the  ancestor  of  all 
who  bear  his  surname  on  this  side  of  the  Atlan- 
tic ocean,  sailed  from  the  city  of  London  in 
the  "Elizabeth,"  William  Stagg,  master,  in 
April,  1635,  and  then  was  nineteen  3'ears  old. 
From  what  part  of  England  he  came  is  not 
certain,  but  tradition  says  that  he  was  of  the 
\Mnchesters  of  Kent.  In  1636  he  settled  in 
the  i)lantation  at  Hingham,  in  the  colony  of 
JMymouth,  with  his  fellow  voyagers,  the  Bates 
family,  and  in  July  of  that  year  was  allotted 
five  acres  of  farm  land.  He  joined  the  first 
church  in  Boston  in  1636,  was  made  freeman 
in  1637,  and  was  admitted  to  membership  of 
the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company 
in  1638.  Soon  after  1650  he  left  Hingham  and 
went  to  Muddy  River,  that  i)art  of  Boston 
which  now  is  Brookline,  where  he  was  sur- 
veyor in  1664-69-70,  constable  in  1672-73,  and 
tythingman  in  1680.  He  seems  to  have  pros- 
pered at  Muddy  River,  and  at  his  death,  April 
25,  1694,  left  an  estate  which  inventories  as 
of  the  value  of  three  hundred  and  seven  pounds 
ten  shillings,  and  which  was  inherited  by  his 
sons  John  and  Josiah.  John  ^^'inchestcr,  the 
elder,  married,  Oclober  15,  1638,  Hannah 
.Scalis,  daughter  of  Deacon  Richard  Sealis,  of 
Scituate.  She  died  September  18,  1697,  hav- 
ing borne  her  hu.sband  four  children  :  1.  John, 
baptized  June  2,  1644.  2.  Mary,  March  26, 
1648.  3.  Jonathan,  died  Roxbury,  January  8, 
1679.  4.  Josiah.  born  March  20,  1655,  died 
February  22,  1728. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Han- 


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nah  (Sealis)  Winchester,  was  baptized  in  1644 
and  died  in  Brookline,  February  i,  1718.  He 
was  a  i)romincnt  ligure  in  the  early  history  of 
Brookhne  and  by  occupation  was  a  mason 
and  farmer.  He  was  one  of  the  first  signers 
of  the  petition  drawn  by  his  neighbor,  Samuel 
Sewall,  for  the  separation  of  Muddy  River 
from  the  parent  town  of  Boston,  which  peti- 
tion was  granted  November,  1705,  and  from 
that  date  Muddy  River  took  the  name  of 
Brookline.  John  Winchester  Jr.,  was  the  first 
representative  from  Brookline  to  the  colonial 
assembly  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  1709-10,  and 
he  also  served  as  constable,  commissioner, 
selectman,  and  in  1717  was  one  of  the  principal 
founders  of  the  Brookline  church.  During 
King  Philip's  war  he  was  a  soldier  and  is  men- 
tioned as  having  been  stationed  at  the  garri- 
son of  Punkapauque  (now  Canton),  April  24, 
1676.  He  died  in  1718,  leaving  an  estate  which 
inventories  at  one  thousand  and  six  pounds, 
nine   shillings.      He   married    (first)    Hannah 

,  and  after  her  death  married  Joanna 

Stevens,  born  May  28,  1652,  by  whom  he  had 
nine  children:  i.  Joanna,  born  September  6, 
1674.  2.  John,  April  17,  1676.  3.  Mary,  bap- 
tized August  13,  1677.  4.  Benjamin.  5.  Ebe- 
nezer,   died   November  21,    1756.     6.   Henry. 

7.  Stephen,  born  February  8,  1686,  died  1751. 

8.  Mehitable.    9.  Jonathan. 

(HI)  Benjamin,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Han- 
nah Winchester,  was  born  probably  in  Brook- 
line, Massachusetts,  and  is  supposed  to  be  identi- 
cal with  the  Benjamin  Winchester  who  in  1727 
bought  lands  in  I'ramingham,  where  his  brother 
Ebenezer  had  preceded  him  by  about  ten 
years ;  and  he  is  also  supposed  to  be  the  same 
Benjamin  W'inchester  who  afterward  lived 
in  Grafton,  Massachusetts,  and  is  mentioned 
as  one  of  the  "alarm  soldiers  who  remained  in 
the  town  on  duty,  or  who  could  be  called  to- 
gether by  Rev.  Mr.  Hutchinson,  during  the 
French  and  Indian  war."  In  the  Grafton 
records  his  name  is  written  Wintchester,  and 
in  the  same  list  in  which  his  name  appears  are 
the  names  of  Joseph  and  John  Wintchester, 
who  doubtless  were  brothers  of  Benjamin, 
although  the  Joseph  mentioned  in  the  list  may 
have  been  a  son  of  P.enjamin  Winchester. 

(IV)  Joseph,  probably  a  son  of  Benjamin 
Winchester,  lived  in  Grafton,  Massachusetts, 
tuitil  about  1772,  when  he  removed  with  his 
family  to  Alarlboro,  \''ermont,  and  spent  the 
remainder  of  his  days  there.  According  to 
one  private  record  he  had  five  sons  and  one 
daughter,  the  former  of  whom  were  Luther, 
Benjamin,  Joseph,  Asa  and  Joshua.    The  vital 


records  of  Grafton  show,  however,  that  on 
April  15,  1756,  Joseph  Winchester  married 
Lucy  Harrington,  born  Grafton,  May  13,  1730, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Miriam  Harrington,  of 
Grafton;  and  that  their  children  born  in  that 
town  were  as  follows:  i.  Anna,  November 
6,  1757.  2.  Huldah,  September  17,  1758.  3. 
Benjamin,  January  4,  1761.  4.  Asa,  March 
24,  1763.  5.  Joseph,  October  27,  1765.  6. 
Joshua,  March  20,  1768.  7.  Antipas,  Febru- 
ary 9,  1771.  8.  Luther,  August  17,  1773.  From 
this  it  is  evident  that  some  of  the  children  of 
Joseph  and  Lucy  must  have  been  born  after 
the  family  removed  to  Vermont,  and  such  is 
known  to  have  been  the  fact. 

(V)  Luther,  son  of  Joseph  and  Lucy  (Har- 
rington) Winchester,  was  born  in  Marlboro, 
Vermont,  August  17,  1773,  and  for  many 
years  was  one  of  the  foremost  men  of  that 
town.  lie  was  a  farmer,  thrifty  and  energetic, 
and  through  his  own  unaided  efforts  succeeded 
in  accumulating  a  fortune  which  is  said  to  have 
amounted  to  twenty  thousand  dollars.  He 
married,  December  9  (or  19),  1793,  Elizabeth 
\\'arren,  who  died  in  Marlboro,  October  10, 
1853,  aged  seventy-four  years.  He  died  Jan- 
uary 30,  1853.  Children,  all  born  in  Alarl- 
boro:  i.  Antipas,  October  6,  1794.  2.  Clark, 
December  30,  1796,  died  January  11,  1861. 
3.  Betsey,  May  26,  1799,  died  June  9,  1843; 
married  Willad  Snow.  4.  William  Ward,  Au- 
gust 16,  1801,  died  May  20,  1881.  5.  Hannah, 
October  24.  1803,  died  December  27,  1889.  6. 
Luther.  July  6,  1806.  died  July  25,  1874.  7. 
Isaac  Harrington,  December  25,  1809,  died 
September  21,  1876.  8.  John  Ouincy  .Adams, 
1817,  died  October  2,  1877. 

(VI)  Antipas,  son  of  Joseph  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Warren)  Winchester,  was  born  in 
Marlboro,  \'ermont,  October  6,  1794,  died 
May  19,  1 87 1.  Like  his  father  he  was  an 
extensive  and  progressive  farmer  and  a  promi- 
nent man  in  tlie  town.  He  married.  January 
2,  1822,  Lois  Kelsey ;  children:  i.  W'illiston, 
born  September  29,  1822,  died  February  23, 
1902.  2.  Eunice,  November  26,  1823,  married, 
May  13,  1847,  Dolphus  P.  \\'arren.  3.  Reuben, 
January  7,  1825.  4.  Lois,  March  5,  1826,  died 
February  5,  1899;  married,  March  21,  1850, 
Perry  Half,  died  February  5.  1899  (they  died 
within  half  an  hour  of  each  other  and  neither 
knew  of  the  death  of  the  other.  5.  Betsey, 
October  23.  1827,  died  November  30,  1900; 
married.  May  13,  1847,  Ira  Ingram.  6.  Asa, 
February  2,  1829.  died  August  27,  1902;  mar- 
ried, May  5.  1853.  Elizabeth  Houghton.  7. 
A  daughter.  Marcli  8.   1830.  died  in  extreme 


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infancy.  8.  Anthony  Seymour,  May  31,  183 1, 
died  September  20,  1S50.  9.  Clark.  March 
30.  1833.  'I'^'l  September  6,  1835.  10.  Polly 
Ann.  Xoveniber  14.  1834,  died  June  4,  1897; 
married.  February  3.  18O9,  William  B.  Adams. 

11.  A  daughter,  October  9,    1836,  died  soon. 

12.  Sarah  A.,  November  15,  1837,  married, 
April  5,   1855.  Rufus  A.  Houghton. 

(VII)  Reuben,  son  of  Antipas  and  Lois 
(Kelsey)  Winchester,  was  born  in  Marlboro, 
\'ermont,  January  7,  1825.  died  in  Holyoke, 
Masachusetts,  May  26.  igof).  Until  he  attained 
the  age  of  twenty  years  Reuben  Winchester 
lived  at  home  on  his  father's  farm,  and  up  to 
that  time  had  given  all  of  his  earnings  to  his 
father,  for  he  was  an  industrious  and  duti- 
ful son.  The  principles  of  honesty  and  per- 
sonal integrity  were  instilled  in  his  mind  when 
he  was  a  hoy  at  his  mother's  knee,  and  he 
never  forgot  them  and  always  practiced  them 
to  the  last  day  of  his  life.  \\'hen  old  enough 
to  start  out  in  life  for  himself  he  began  dealing 
in  cattle,  buying  and  selling,  later  added  pro- 
duce dealing  to  his  business  interests  and  soon 
became  one  of  the  most  extensive  dealers  in 
that  part  of  the  state.  At  various  times  he 
owned  many  yokes  of  cattle,  and  often  said 
that  he  had  bought  and  sold  more  than  five 
hundred  yokes  of  broken  cattle,  oxen  and 
steers.  He  is  said  to  have  been  an  intelligent 
and  progressive  man  in  every  sense  of  the 
word,  and  his  judgment  on  questions  of  local 
and  general  interest  was  considered  standard 
authority,  .^nd  Mr.  Winchester  was  a  man 
of  the  highest  integrity,  a  firm  believer  in  what 
in  recent  times  has  been  called  the  "square 
deal,"  doing  always  unto  others  as  he  would 
have  them  do  unto  himself.  Such  was  the 
man,  and  such  was  his  character.  His  busi- 
ness life  was  rewarded  with  substantial  suc- 
cess and  he  richly  deserved  the  full  measure 
thereof.  In  politics  a  strong  Democrat,  he 
nevertheless  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  the  peo- 
ple of  his  town  without  distinction  of  party, 
and  he  was  elected  to  the  state  legislature  with 
Republican  votes.  About  1865  Mr.  Winchester 
removed  from  Marlboro  to  W^est  Springfield, 
Masachusetts,  and  purchased  a  farm  in  that 
town,  paying  for  the  same  in  cash  to  the 
amount  of  ■'^'').8oo,  every  dollar  of  which  he 
had  earned  in  business  pursuits.  At  that  time 
the  payment  of  so  great  a  sum  for  farm  land 
was  considered  quite  unusual,  for  then,  just 
at  the  close  of  the  civil  war.  money  was  scarce 
and  gold  at  a  premium.  Mr.  Winchester  was 
not  a  church  member,  but  he  was  an  upright 
man  and  honest  in  his  daily  walk.  lie  mar- 
>— 7 


ried,  February  19,  1850,  Hannah  K.  Brown, 
of  whose  family  mention  is  made  in  these  annals. 
Children:  i.  Samuel  B.,  October  2,  1852,  died 
March  26,  1906;  married,  July  22,  1875,  Emily 
A.  Morse,  and  had  P'lorence  E.,  born  June  21, 
1876,  died  in  infancy,  and  Florida  M.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1878.  2.  Reuben  Clark,  November  10, 
1857.  3.  William  L.,  October  23,  1865,  died 
July  14,  1903;  married,  June  6,  1895,  Addie 
E.  Stockwell.  and  had  Miriam  Stockwell,  born 
March  31,  1896.  and  Reuben  Stockwell,  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1902. 

(  V'lII )  Reuben  Clark,  son  of  Reuben  and 
Hannah  K.  (  Brown  )  Winchester,  was  born  in 
Marlboro,  Vermont,  November  10,  1857,  a"d 
was  a  boy  of  less  than  ten  years  when  his 
father  removed  from  Vermont  and  settled  in 
West  Springfield.  He  received  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  that  town,  Holyoke 
high  school,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1875, 
and  Eastman's  Business  College.  After  leav- 
ing the  latter  institution  he  began  his  business 
career  as  office  boy  in  the  service  of  the  Hol- 
yoke W'ater  Power  Company  and  with  the 
exception  of  a  period  of  about  six  months  he 
has  been  continuously  in  the  employ  of  that 
great  corporation,  in  one  capacity  or  another, 
and  constantly  advancing  until  in  January, 
1903,  he  was  elected  to  treasurer  of  the  com- 
pany, which  office  he  now  holds.  Mr.  Win- 
chester is  a  strict,  careful  business  man,  and 
in  many  respects  possesses  the  same  character- 
istics as  his  father  for  honesty,  integrity,  and 
square  business  dealing.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 22,  iSSo.AIary  A.,  daughter  of  William 
A.  and  Lucy  A.  (Lamb)  Cole.  Children:  i. 
Faustina  Hannan,  September  12,  1881,  died 
November  10,  1883.  2.  Una  May,  October  14, 
1883,  graduated  from  Smith  College,  class  of 
'04;  married,  October  11,  1905,  Henry  C.  War- 
nock,  of  Northampton,  and  has  one  child, 
Eunice  Winchester  Warnock.  3.  Ralph  Cole, 
July  15,  1886,  died  February,  1900. 


(I)  Jethro  Brown  is  said  to 
BROWN  have  been  progenitor  of  a  num- 
erous family  of  .Stonington, 
Connecticut ;  and  more  than  that  he  served 
with  great  credit  to  himself  and  his  descend- 
ants as  a  soldier  and  sailor  in  service  during 
the  French  and  Indian  war  in  1756.  As  a 
soldier  he  frequently  was  on  scout  duty  on  the 
frontier  of  white  settlement,  and  as  a  sailor 
his  service  is  said  to  have  been  on  board  a 
privateer.  After  his  marriage  he  left  Con- 
necticut and  went  to  Keenc,  New  Ham])shire, 
remained  there  a  short  time  and  then  removed 


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to  Putney,  \'ermont,  and  purchased  fifty  acres 
of  land  in  the  Connecticut  valley,  but  in  the 
course  of  a  few  years  he  felt  the  need  of  more 
land  and  then  went  into  the  town  of  Marl- 
boro and  bought  "Right  No.  48,"  in  1787, 
improved  it  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his 
life  in  that  town.  He  died  February  26,  181 3, 
aged  eighty-six  years.  He  married  Molly 
Haynes,  of  Groton,  Connecticut,  who  died 
March  10,  1817,  aged  eighty-four  years.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Harriet,  married  a  Smead  and  lived 
in  Keene.  2.  Molly,  married  John  Irvine.  3. 
Daniel,  married  Lucy  Alexander.  4.  John, 
married  widow  Miner,  of  Putney.  5.  Jere- 
miah. 6.  Benjamin,  married  Abigail  Wilson. 
7.  John,  married  Sally  Wilson,  sister  of  Abi- 
gail. 8.  Lyman.  9.  Charlotte.  10.  Bathsheba. 
(H)  Lyman,  son  of  Jethro  and  Molly 
(Haynes)  Brown,  was  born  March  28,  1767, 
died  February  10,  1854.  He  married  Miriam 
^^'hitney,  born  June  10,  1776  (see  Whitney). 
Children:  i.  Leafy,  born  May  25,  1792,  mar- 
ried Oliver  Halliday.     2.  Daniel,  January  22, 

1794,  died  July  4,  1823:  married  Katherine 
Arnold.     3.   Samuel   Whitney,  November  29, 

1795.  4.  William,  August  3,  1797,  died  Sep- 
tember 8,  1822.  5.  Phebe,  July  10,  1799,  died 
November  13,  1799.     6.  Phebe  H.,  September 

2,  1800,  died  1831  ;  married  George  Gilbert. 
7.  layman  Jr.,  October  2,  1802,  died  Novem- 
ber 27,  1862.  8.  Bathsheba,  November  25, 
1804,  died  March  19,  1848;  married  Luke 
Whitney.  9.  Lucy,  March  16,  1806,  died  April 
10,  1806.  10.  Miriam  W.,  June  7,  1808,  died 
June  13,  1888;  married  Joseph  Rand.  11. 
Hamilton,  May  27,  181 1,  died  December  18, 
1885:  married  (first)  Adelia  Spaulding,  (sec- 
and)  Emily  M.  Walker.  12.  Eliza  P.,  Sep- 
tember 12,  1812,  married  Avery  Holden.  13. 
John  F.,  January  28,  1815.  14.  Diana,  Sep- 
tember 7,  1818,  died  March  28,  1864;  married 
John  Knight. 

(HI)  Samuel  Whitney,  son  of  Lyman  and 
Miriam  (Whitney)  Brown,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 29,  1795,  died  September  6,  1863.  He 
married  Phila  Mather,  born  June  23,  1797, 
died  June  i,  1871.  They  had  five  children: 
I.  Mary  Ann,  born  November  15,  1819,  died 
December  7,  1845:  married  Hearte  H.  Win- 
chester. 2.  Timothy  M.,  May  24,  1821,  died 
November  15,  1872:  married.  May  2,  1848, 
Mary  Ingram,  and  had  George  Albert,  born 
April  14,  1849;  Alice  J.,  January  22,  1851 ; 
Addison  M.,  June  23,  1852,  died  April  10, 
1854,  Ada  M.,  October  23, '1854;  William  M., 
May  18,   1856;  Milo  A.,  December  18,   1858. 

3.  Phila   Mather,    August    16,    1S23.   married 


P.  S.  White.  4.  Lucy  A.,  died  November  17, 
1870;  married,  March  9,  1846,  Wilson  M. 
Winchester,  and  had  Herbert  C.,  born  May 
23,  1847,  died  June  19,  1881 ;  Ella  F.,  June 
16,  1849;  Cora  A.,  April  3,  1852,  died  oMay  8, 
1894 :  Hattie  A.,  July  10,  1853  ;  Lucy  M.,  Octo- 
ber 12,  1854,  died  September  5,  1878.  5.  Han- 
nah K.,  August  8,  1829,  died  April  14,  1878; 
married,  February  19,  1850,  Reuben  Win- 
chester (see  \\'inchester). 

(The  Whitney  Line). 

The  surname  Whitney,  originally  written  de 
Whitney,  is  said  to  have  been  derived  from 
the  name  of  the  parish  where  the  castle  stood. 
Aluard,  a  Saxon,  held  the  land  before  the 
conquest,  but  at  the  tiine  of  "Doomsday  Sur- 
vey," A.  D.,  1086,  it  was  waste,  without  an 
owner,  save  the  king  as  lord  paramount.  A 
grandson  or  great-grandson  of  Sir  Turstin, 
one  of  the  conqueror's  knights,  known  as 
Turstin  of  Fleming,  sometime  between  iioo 
and  1200,  engaging  in  the  border  wars,  built 
a  stronghold  and  took  up  his  abode  at  Whit- 
ney, on  the  banks  of  the  Wye,  and  thus  after 
the  custom  of  the  period  acquired  the  sur- 
names of  de  Whitney.  The  first  mention  of  a 
de  Whitney  in  any  extant  record  is  that  of 
Robert  de  Wytteneye,  in  the  "Testa  de  Nevil," 
A.  D.,  1242. 

(I)  Sir  Robert  Whitney  was  knighted  by 
Queen  Alary  in  1533  and  represented  Here- 
fordshire in  the  parliament. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  Sir  Robert  Whitney, 
was  born  in  Herefordshire,  and  went  to  live 
at  Lambeth  Marsh,  near  the  Surrey  end  of 
Westminster  bridge.  May  10,  1583,  he  secured 
a  license  to  marry  Mary,  daughter  of  John 
Bray.  In  the  license  he  is  described  as  Thomas 
Whylne}-,  of  Lanibeth  Marsh,  gentleman,  and 
on  May  12  the  marriage  ceremony  was  per- 
formed in  St.  Margaret's.  Nine  children  were 
born  of  this  marriage,  but  only  three  of  them 
grew  to  maturity,  John,  Francis  and  Robert. 
Of  these  Francis  died  in  \\'estminster,  1643, 
Robert  in  the  parish  of  St.  Peter's,  Cornhill, 
London,  1662,  and  John  emigrated  to  New 
England  and  settled  down  at  Watertown  in 
the  colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay.  It  is  of 
him  and  one  line  of  his  descendants  that  we 
have  particularly  to  deal  in  this  place. 

(HI)  John,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(Bray)  Whitney,  was  born  in  1589,  receiving 
a  good  education,  i)robably  in  the  famous 
Westminster  School  (now  St.  Peter's  Col- 
lege), and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  was  appren- 
ticed by  his   father  to   William   Pring,  of  the 


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Old  Bailey,  London,  a  freeman  of  the  Mer- 
chant Tailors'  Company,  the  most  prosper- 
ous of  all  of  the  trade  guilds,  including  in  its 
membership  men  of  all  professions  and  many 
of  the  nobility.  ]\Iarch  13,  1614,  being  then 
twenty-one  years  old,  John  \\'hitney  became  a 
member  of  the  company,  soon  afterward  mar- 
ried, and  in  1619  went  to  live  at  Islesworth- 
on-the-Thames,  eight  miles  from  Westminster, 
remained  there  until  1624,  then  went  probably 
to  London  and  lived  in  that  city  until  he  sailed 
for  America.  Early  in  April,  1635,  he  reg- 
istered with  his  wife  Elinor  and  five  sons  as 
passengers  in  the  "Elizabeth  and  Ann,"  and 
sailed  for  Xew  Englanti.  In  June,  1635,  he 
settled  in  Watertown,  was  made  freeman, 
1636,  selectman,  1637,  and  held  the  latter  office 
until  1655,  when  he  was  elected  town  clerk. 
As  early  as  1641  he  was  appointed  by  the  gen- 
eral court  constable  at  Watertown,  an  office 
of  much  dignity  and  the  incumbent  of  which 
then  was  regarded  as  a  man  of  consequence 
and  influence.  He  was  the  grantee  of  eight 
lots  in  Watertown,  the  purchaser  of  sixteen 
other  lots,  and  thus  became  possessed  of  a 
large  estate.  His  wife  Elinor  died  in  1659 
and  in  the  same  year  he  married  Judith  Clem- 
ent. John  Whitney  died  in  June,  1673.  He 
had  nine  children,  all  born  of  his  first  mar- 
riage. 

(IV)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Elinor 
Whitney,  was  born  in  England  in  1620,  died 
in  W'atertown,  Massachusetts,  October  12, 
1692.  He  was  made  freeman  in  1647,  and 
was  a  selectman  in  Watertown  from  1673  '^ 
1680.  The  name  of  John  Whitney  appears  in 
a  list  of  names  of  twenty  men  of  the  town  who 
were  impressed  with  provisions,  arms  and 
ammunition  for  the  defense  of  the  colony  in 
1675,  during  King  Philip's  war.  His  will  was 
drawn  by  himself  in  1685,  signed  it  in  1690, 
and  died  before  October  26,  1692,  when  the 
inventory  of  his  jiroperty  was  made.  In  1642 
he  married  Ruth,  daughter  of  Robert  Reynolds, 
of  Watertown,  and  by  whom  he  had  ten  chil- 
dren. 

(V)  Nathaniel,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Ruth 
(Reynolds)  Whitney,  was  born  in  Watertown, 
Massachusetts,  February  i,  1646,  died  in  Wes- 
ton, Massachusetts,  January  7,  1732.  The 
greater  part  of  his  life  was  spent  in  Weston, 
where  he  was  a  farmer,  and  the  farm  on  which 
he  lived  was  afterward  in  possession  of  his 
descendants  for  five  or  more  generations.  He 
married,  March  12,  1673,  Sarah  Ilagar,  born 
September  3,  1651.  died  May  7,  1746,  having 
borne  her  husband  eight  children. 


(VI)  Nathaniel  (2),  son  of  Nathaniel  (i) 
and  Sarah  (Hagar)  Whitney,  was  born  in 
Weston,  but  did  not  spend  his  life  in  the  town. 

(MI)  Samuel,  son  of  Nathaniel  (2)  Whit- 
ney, was  born  in  Weston  about  171 1  and  died 
in  Shrewsbury,  Alassachusetts.  August  2,  1788. 
He  went  to  Shrewsbury  about  1743  and  joined 
the  church  there  in  1761.  After  his  death  his 
widow  went  to  Marlboro,  \'ermont,  to  live 
with  her  children,  and  she  died  there  at  the 
home  of  her  son.  Deacon  Jonas  Whitney,  Octo- 
ber 23,  1800,  aged  eighty-four  years.  Samuel 
Whitney  went  to  Marlboro  in  1769,  and  in  the 
sjiring  of  the  next  year  made  a  quantity  of 
maple  sugar.  Soon  afterward  he  removed  to 
the  west  part  of  the  town  and  settled  on  a 
farm  which  later  was  in  possession  of  Ira 
Adams,  and  which  farm  is  located  on  the 
easterly  slope  of  Hogback  Mountain.  He 
enjoyed  considerable  local  notoriety  as  a  hunter 
of  large  game,  and  on  one  occasion  with  the 
aid  of  two  of  his  sons  killed  a  bear  which 
dressed  at  four  hundred  and  si.xty-six  pounds, 
said  to  have  been  the  largest  bear  ever  killed 
in  Vermont.  Although  well  on  in  years  Cap- 
tain Whitney  (he  was  known  by  that  title) 
took  a  patriot's  part  in  the  revolutionary  war, 
and  on  the  occasion  of  the  alarm  at  Lexington 
took  his  old  musket  and  with  Captain  Warren 
went  forward  and  offered  his  services  for  the 
common  cause  of  the  country.  At  the  battle 
of  Bennington,  August,  1777,  he  was  present 
and  performed  guard  duty  over  the  captured 
r.ritish.  On  April  7,  1735,  he  married  Eliza- 
beth Hastings,  of  Watertown ;  children : 
Samuel,  James,  Elizabeth,  Lucy,  Lydia,  Lacan- 
nah,  Nathaniel,  Jane,  Sarah,  Eliphalet  and 
Hannah. 

(VIII)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  (Hastings)  Whitney,  was  born 
about  1740,  died  February  i,  181 1.  About  ten 
years  after  his  marriage  he  removed  to  Marl- 
l)oro,  \'ernjont,  and  spent  his  life  on  the  farm 
then  owned  by  Mr.  Adams,  as  is  mentioned  in 
a  ])receding  paragraph.  He  married,  in  1762, 
I'hebe  Harrington,  of  Grafton,  Massachusetts; 
eleven  children,  five  of  whom  were  born  in 
Shrewsbury  and  six  in  Marlboro:  i.  Cath- 
erine, May  5,  1763,  married  S.  C.  Pratt.  2. 
Elizabeth,  August  26,  1764,  married  Alson 
Pratt.  3.  Moses,  October  21,  1765,  died  De- 
cember 14,  1765.  4.  Moses,  January  26,  1767. 
5.  Gilford,  January  2,  1769.  6.  Samuel  C. 
.•\pril  18,  1772.  7.  Miriam,  June  10,  1776, 
married  Lyman  Brown  (see  Brown).  8. 
Zenas,  March  14,  1779.  9.  Simei,  A])ril  10, 
1781.      10.    Phehe,  January   7,    1786,  mawited         Jk 


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Roswell    I'addk-ford.      1 1.    Roswell,   July   27, 
1787,  died  May  3,  1790. 


The  antiquitv  of  the 
HUTCHINSON     Hutchinson     'family     is 

very  great.  Its  origin 
has  been  assigned  to  one  Uitchensis,  said  to 
have  been  a  Norwegian  and  to  have  come  from 
Normandy  with  William  the  Conqueror,  but 
there  is  no  record  of  the  family  after  the  Con- 
c|uest  until  1282.  after  which  the  history  of  the 
family  is  definitely  known.  The  coat-of-arms : 
Per  pale  gules  and  azure  semee  of  cross-cross- 
lets  or,  a  lion  rampant  argent.  Crest :  Out  of 
a  ducal  coronet  or  a  cockatrice  with  wings  en- 
dorsed azure,  beaked  combed  and  wattled  gules. 

(I)  Bernard  Hutchinson,  of  Cowlan,  York- 
shire, England,  was  living  in  1282.  He  bore 
the  coat-of-arms  just  described.  His  wife  was 
the  daughter  of  John  Boyvill,  Esq.,  of  one  of 
the  best  families  of  Yorkshire.  Children:  i. 
John,  mentioned  below.  2.  Robert,  married 
Newcomen,  of  Saltfleetlliy,  Lincoln- 
shire. 3.  Mary,  married  William  Sutton,  of 
Washingborough,  Lincolnshire. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Bernard  Hutchinson,  mar- 
ried Edith  Wouldbie,  of  Wouldbie.    Children  : 

1.  James,  mentioned  below.     2.  Barbara,  mar- 
ried Lewis  Ashton,  of  Spalding,  Lincolnshire. 

3.  Julia,  married  .Allyne  Bruxbie,  of   Shobie. 

4.  Alargaret,  married  William  Champernowne, 
of  Devonshire. 

(III)  James,  only  son  of  John  Hutchinson, 
was  of  Cowlam,  and  married  Ursula  Gregory, 
of  NafFerton,  Yorkshire.  Children:  i.  Will- 
iam, mentioned  below.  2.  John,  married  daugh- 
ter of  John  Conyers.  3.  Barbara,  married 
John   Hathorne.  of  Cransweke    (Cranswick). 

4.  Daughter,   married   John   Ocam,    Es<|.      5. 
Eleanor,  married  Tliomas  I'rown,  Esq. 

(IV)  William,  son  of  James  Hutchinson, 
married  Anne  Bennett,  daughter  of  William 
Bennett,  of  Thackley,  in  the  West  Riding  of 
'S'orkshire.  England.  Children:  i.  Antliony, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Oliver,  married  daughter 
of  John  Tindall.  3.  Mary,  married  Jervas 
ARtost.    4.  Alice,  married  \\'illiam  English. 

(V)  Anthony,  son  of  William  Hutchinson, 
married  (first)  Judith  Crosland,  daughter  of 
Thomas:  (second)  Isabel  Ilarvie,  daughter  of 
Robert.    Children  of  second  wife:    i.  William. 

2.  Thomas,   mentioned   below.     3.   John.     4. 
Richard,  supposed  to  have  settled  in  Ireland, 

5.  Leonard.      6.    Edmund,      7.    Francis.      8. 
Andrew. 

(\T)  Thomas,  son  of  .-Xuthotiv  Hutchinson, 
bought  the  princijial  jiart  of  the  township  of 


Owthorpe,  Nottinghamshire,  the  remaining 
portion  afterwards  coming  into  the  family  of 
his  descendants.  He  lived  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  VHI.  He  owned  also  an  estate  at 
Colston  Bassett,  a  few  miles  east  of  Owthorpe. 
His  actual  residence  was  at  Cropwell  Butler. 
He  was  living  as  late  as  October  9,  1550.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  William.  2.  John.  3.  Lawrence,  men- 
tioned below. 

(\TI)  Lawrence,  son  of  Thomas  Hutchin- 
son, resided  at  Tollertown,  a  town  between 
Owthorpe  and  Nottingham.  He  married  Isa- 
bel   ,  who  survived  him.     His  will  was 

dated  July  2,  1577,  and  proved  at  York  Octo- 
ber 9  following.  Children:  i.  Robert.  2. 
Thomas,  mentioned  below.  3.  Agnes.  4. 
Richard.     5.  William. 

(\'III)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Lawrence 
Hutchinson,  resided  at  Newark  in  Notting- 
hamshire, and  died  in  1598.  His  will  was 
proved  May  11  of  that  year  and  dated  March 
I.  Children:  i.  William,  died  before  his 
father.    2.  Thomas,  mentioned  below.    3.  Joan. 

(IX)  Thomas  (3),  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
Hutchinson,  inherited  his  father's  estate  at 
Newark,  but  removed  to  Arnold,  near  Notting- 
ham,  between    1601    and    1605.     He   married 

.'Mice   ,    who   survived   him.      He   was 

buried  at  Arnold,  .\ugust  17,  1618,  his  will 
being  dated  ]March  4,  preceding.  He  bequeath- 
ed to  all  his  children,  most  of  whom  were 
doubtless  born  at  Newark  before  his  removal 
to  .A.rnold.  Children  :  i.  John,  married  twice  ; 
lived  at  Arnold.  2.  Isabel,  married  Adam 
Barker.  3.  Humphrey,  living  in  1618.  4. 
Elizabeth.  5.  Robert,  baptized  at  Newark, 
Sei)tcmber  6,  1601,  lived  at  Arnold.  6.  Rich- 
ard, mentioneil  below.  7.  Thomas,  baptized  at 
Arnold,  June  16,  1605. 

(X)  Richard,  son  of  Thomas  (3)  Hutchin- 
son, was  born  1602-03.  In  1660  he  deposed 
that  his  age  was  fifty-eight.  He  married,  at 
Cotgrave,  county  Nottingham.  England,  De- 
cember 7,  1627,  Alice  Bos  worth,  probably 
daughter  of  Joseph  Bosworth,  of  Southell, 
otherwise  known  as  the  cathedral  church  of 
Nottinghamshire.  He  was  the  immigrant  an- 
cestor, and  came  to  America  in  1634  with  his 
wife  /Mice  and  four  children,  and  settled  in 
Salem,  Massachusetts.  He  had  a  grant  of 
lanfl  from  Salem  in  1636  and  the  next  year  a 
grant  of  twenty  acres  more,  "provided  he  will 
set  up  a  plough."  It  is  said  that  at  that  time 
there  were  but  thirty-seven  ploughs  in  the 
entire  colony.  In  1664  lie  had  another  parcel" 
of  land  granted  him  and  in  ifrf'>o  still  another. 
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Hathorn's  Hill,  Beaver  Dam  brook,  now  called 
Beaver  brook,  which  runs  through  Middleton 
into  the  Jjjswich  river.  He  and  his  wife  were 
members  of  the  Salem  cliurch  at  early  as  if^.^f'. 
He  bought  a  farm  of  a  hundred  and  fifty  acres 
at  Salem  \"illage,  now  Danvers,  of  Elias  Still- 
man  in  1648.  and  that  was  his  homestead  after- 
wards. He  served  on  a  committee  of  the 
town  to  survey  Jeffreys  creek,  now  Man- 
chester, and  ?ilackerel  cove.  He  married  (sec- 
ond )  in  October.  1668.  Sarah  Standish,  widow 
of  James  Standish  of  whose  estate  Hutchin- 
son was  appointed  administrator,  April  i,  1679. 
His  will  was  dated  January  19,  1679,  and 
proved  September  26,  1682.  His  widow  mar- 
ried (third)  Thomas  Roots,  of  Manchester, 
whom  she  also  survived.  Children  of  first 
wife,  the  first  five  born  in  England:  i.  Alice, 
baptized  at  North  Muskham.  Nottinghamshire, 
September  27,  1628,  died  there  the  same  year. 
2.  Elizabeth,  baptized  at  Arnold,  August  30, 
1629,  married  Deacon  Nathaniel  Putnam,  of 
Danvers.  3.  Mary,  baptized  at  North  Musk- 
ham, December  28,  1630:  married  Thomas 
Hale,  of  Newbury,  Massachusetts,  4.  Re- 
becca, born  1632,  married  James  Hadlock,  of 
Salem.  5.  Joseph,  mentioned  below.  6.  Abi- 
gail, baptized  at  Salem,  December  25,  1636, 
married  .Anthony  Ashby.  7.  Hannah,  baptized 
June  20,  1639,  married,  April  12,  1662,  Daniel 
Boardman.  8.  John,  born  May,  1^143,  married, 
July,  1672,  Sarah  Putnam. 

(XI)  Joseph,  son  of  Richard  Hutchinson, 
was  born  in  England  in  1633.  He  came  to 
America  with  his  father  and  settled  on  part 
of  the  homestead  conveyed  to  him  by  deed  of 
gift  March  16,  1666.  He  also  had  a  grant  of 
land  in  Salem.  In  1673  he  was  one  of  the 
committee  to  build  a  parsonage  at  Danvers, 
and  he  gave  the  land.  He  was  one  of  the  peti- 
tioners for  the  setting  oft'  of  the  town  of  Dan- 
vers. then  called  Salem  Village.  He  conveyed 
most  of  his  real  estate  to  his  sons  before  his 
death,  and  died  intestate.  He- married  (first) 
Abigail  Gedney,  daughter  of  John  Gedney. 
He  married  (second)  February  28, 1678,  Lydia 
(Buxton  )  .Small,  widow  of  Joseph  Small.  She 
was  admitted  to  the  church  at  Danvers,  .-Vpril 
27.  1690,  Children  of  first  wife,  all  ba[)tized 
a:  the  First  Church  in  Salem,  September  26, 
1666:  I.  .\bigail,  died  young.  2.  Bethia,  died 
1690.  3.  Joseph,  died  May,  1751.  4.  John, 
died  1746:  married.  May  7,  1694,  Mary  Gould. 
5.  Benjamin,  mentioned  below.  Children  of 
second  wife:  G.  .Abigail,  born  June  14.  1679. 
7.  Richard.  May  10.  1681.  married,  February 
T'l.  1 7 14,  Rachel  Bunce.     8.  .Samuel,  October 


9,  1682.  9.  Ambrose,  June  4,  1684,  married 
Ruth  Leach.  10.  Lydia,  September  13,  1685, 
married  George  Nourse.  11.  Robert,  Novem- 
ber 3,  1687,  married  Elizabeth  Putnam. 

(XII)  l!enjamin,  son  of  Joseph  Hutchin- 
son, was  baptized  September  26,  1666,  died 
intestate  in  1733.  While  an  infant  he  was 
adopted  into  the  family  of  Deacon  Nathaniel 
Ingersoll,  whose  only  child  had  died,  and 
brought  up  b)'  him  as  a  son.  He  lived  with 
-Mr.  Ingersoll  until  he  was  twenty-one  years 
of  age,  at  which  time  his  foster  father  con- 
veyed to  him  by  deed  of  gift  ten  acres  of 
upland  and  three  of  meadow.  Deacon 
Ingersoll,  in  his  will  made  in  17 19,  bcfiueathed 
to  Benjamin  Hutchinson  "in  consideration  of 
the  great  help  he  had  been  while  living  with 
him,  and  after  he  had  left,"  all  the  remaining 
part  of  his  whole  estate,  real  and  personal, 
after  making  provision  for  the  remainder  of 
his  family.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  lived  on  a 
part  of  the  homestead  which  had  been  his 
father's.  He  gave  away  most  of  his  property 
to  members  of  his  family  before  he  died.  He 
and  his  wife  were  witnesses  in  certain  witch- 
craft cases  in  Salem.  He  married  (first) 
Jane  Phillips,  who  died  171 1,  daughter  of  Wal- 
ter and  Margaret  Phillips.  He  was  received 
into  the  church  May  7,  1699,  and  his  wife  the 
May  following.  He  married  (second),  Jan- 
uary 26,  1714-15,  Abigail  Foster.  Children  of 
first  wife:  i.  Son,  died  young.  2.  Benjamin, 
born  .August  31,  1690,  died  September  18, 
1690.  3.  Hannah,  May  7,  1692,  married, 
March  6,  1717-18,  William  Henfield.  4.  Ben- 
jamin, January  27,  1693-94.  5.  Bethiah,  Janu- 
ary 5,  1695-96.  6.  Nathaniel.  May  3,  1698, 
mentioned  below.  7.  Sarah,  December  26, 
1701,  married,  November  17,  1725,  Cornelius 
Putnam.  8.  Bartholomew,  April  27,  1703.  9. 
Jane,  August  i,  1705,  married,  September  8, 
1726,  Jonathan  Buxton.  10.  Israel,  baptized 
October  5,  1708,  died  young.  II.  John,  died 
before  1733.  Child  of  second  wife:  12.  Jon- 
athan, born  July  18,  1716. 

(XIII)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Benjamin  Hutch- 
inson, was  born  at  Danvers,  May  3,  1698,  died 
at  Sutton.  His  will  was  dated  May  5,  1756, 
and  proved  October  24,  1757.  In  1733  he 
removed  to  Sutton  and  settled  on  the  Joseph 
Severy  place  in  the  northwestern  part  of  the 
town.     He  served  in  the  French  and   Indian 

war.     He  married    (first)    Mary  ,  and 

with  her  united  with  the  church  at  Danvers, 
March  15,  1723-24.  He  married  (second) 
Joaima  Conant,  daughter  of  Lot  and  Elizabeth 
"Conant.     She  was  baptized  in  the  first  church 


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at  Beverly,  November  27,  1709,  and  died  in 
1802.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Mary,  bap- 
tized March  15,  1723-24,  married,  November 
27,  1745,  Jonathan  Fitts.  2.  Susannah,  bap- 
tized November  28,  1725,  died  January  12, 
1797;  married,  Alay  14,  1752,  Daniel  Day.  3. 
Bethia,  baptized  July  14,  1730,  married  Ebe- 
nezer  Fitts.  Children  of  second  wife:  4. 
Bartholomew,  born  June  28.  1734,  mentioned 
below.  5.  Elizabeth,  born  November  i,  1736, 
married,  August  13,  1762,  Israel  Richardson. 

6.  Nathaniel,  died  1755  in  the  French  war.  7. 
Lot,  born  August  i,  1741,  died  March  24, 
1818;  settled  at  Braintree,  Vermont;  married, 
September  25,  1764,  Hannah  Morse.  8.  Ben- 
jamin, born  January  30,   1744,  died  January 

7,  1840;  married,  July  11,  1825,  Judith  Lillie. 

9.  Jonathan,  born  September  2,  1746.  died 
September  i,  1807;  married  Ruth  Underwood. 

10.  Sarah,  born  August,  1752,  died  June  9, 
1834;  married,  October  19,  1813,  Ensign 
Samuel  Rich. 

(XI\')  Lieutenant  Bartholomew,  son  of 
Nathaniel  Hutchinson,  was  born  at  .Sutton, 
June  28,  1734,  died  there  February  18,  1820. 
He  inherited  his  father's  estate  at  Sutton,  and 
added  to  it  by  purchase,  making  it  a  two  hun- 
dred acre  farm.  He  sold  it  later  to  his  son 
Simon,  who  in  turn  conveyed  it  to  his  son, 
Edwin  H.  Hutchinson,  who  owned  it  as  late 
as  1878.  Ilartholomew  Hutchinson  was  a 
lieutenant  in  the  revolution  in  Captain  Barthol- 
omew Woodbury's  eighth  company,  fifth  Wor- 
cester county  regiment,  in  1776:  also  in  Cap- 
tain John  Howard's  company.  Colonel  Jona- 
than Holman's  regiment,  and  marched  from 
Worcester  to  reinforce  the  army  of  the  north 
in  the  fall  of  1777:  also  in  the  same  company 
under  Colonel  Jacob  Davis,  in  1780,  at  the 
Rhode  Island  alarm.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
first  church  of  Sutton.  He  married  (first) 
August  4,  1763,  Ruth  Haven,  born  1742,  died 
September  3,  1796,  daughter  of  Deacon  John 
and  Susannah  Haven.  He  married  (second) 
(intentions  dated  January  26,  1799)  Mrs. 
Phebe  Stockwell.  He  married  (third)  (inten- 
tions dated  July  14,  1799)  Rebecca  Miuiroe, 
who  died  September  26,  1826.  Children,  all 
by  first  wife:  i.  Nathaniel,  born  April  13, 
1764,  died  August  3,  1794;  married,  1786, 
Lucy  Flint.  2.  John,  January  18,  1766,  mar- 
ried, January  4,  1793,  Lucy  Kenney  ;  died  May 
29,  1845.  3.  Asa,  December  24,  1767.  died 
June  6.  1771.  4.  Bartholomew,  January  7, 
1770,  married  (first)  1791,  Lydia  King;  (sec- 
ond) January  23.  1797,  Olive  Kenney;  died 
February  14,  1855.    5.  Lois,  January  18,  I77i, 


died  August  7,  1799;  married.  May  15,  1798, 
Simon  Holbrook.  6.  Timothy  Harden,  July 
31, 1 774.  mentioned  below.  7.  Ruth,  June  7, 1776, 

married Lee.  8.  Simon,  April  26,  1779, 

died  September  11,  1865;  married  (first)  No- 
vember 28.  1806.  \'andalinda  Morse;  children: 
i.  Alaxa  Ann,  born  September  7,  1807,  mar- 
ried. November  i,  1830,  Alanson  A.  Lumbard ; 
ii.  Sylvander,  born  March  7,  1809,  died  June 
15,  1838;  iii.  Dexter,  born  March  14,  181 1, 
died  July  24,  1813;  iv.  Lucy  Morse,  born  Sep- 
tember 24.  1 812  ;  V.  Charles  Dexter  ;  vi.  Horace  ; 
vii.  Hannah  Gibbs,  born  July  23,  1818,  died 
July  16,  1845;  viii.  Bartholomew  II.,  born  Sep- 
tember 3,  1820.  died  September.  1822;  ix.  Ed- 
win Haven,  born  August  22,  1821,  married, 
December  12,  1844,  Mary  Ann  F.  Waters;  x. 
Emcline  Bemis,  born  July  23,  1823,  married, 
August  30,  1853,  Amos  Brown;  xi.  Mary  Lee, 
born  September  23.  1828,  died  July  28,  1844; 
xii.  Margaret,  born  October  12,  1830,  died 
June  3,  1831.  9.  Betsey,  April  22,  1781,  mar- 
ried, October  7,  1804,  Jonas  Cummings.  10. 
Lucy,  April  24,  1784,  married,  November  28, 
1808,  Sylvester  Morse. 

(XV)  Timothy  Harden,  son  of  Lieutenant 
Bartliolomew  Hutchinson,  was  born  at  Sutton, 
July  31,  1774,  died  at  Albany,  Maine,  March 
14.  1867.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
I)ublic  schools,  and  for  twenty  years  taught 
school  a  part  of  the  year,  farming  the  re- 
mainder of  the  year.  He  settled  near  the 
centre  of  the  town  of  Sutton,  in  the  South 
parish.  Between  1808  and  1810  he  removed 
to  Sangerville,  Oxford  county,  Maine,  and 
about  1813  to  Bucksfield.  Maine,  and  in  1818 
was  a  resident  of  Paris,  Alaine.  He  sold  the 
property  in  Sutton  which  was  inherited  by  his 
wife  from  her  father,  Ebenezer  Rawson.  and 
also  land  which  he  inherited  from  John  Haven. 
He  also  sold  his  own  property  in  Sutton  to  his 
brother  Simon.  In  1818  he  removed  to  Albany, 
Maine,  and  bought  a  farm  at  Hunt's  Corner, 
of  two  htmdreJ  acres.  He  became  a  pros- 
perous farmer  and  a  leading  citizen  of  the 
town,  serving  as  justice  of  the  peace  and  in 
other  positions  of  trust  and  honor.  He  was  a 
man  of  strict  temperance  principles,  a  leader 
in  reform  movements,  and  of  earnest  piety. 
Me  was  a  fervid  supporter  of  the  Methodist 
church.  In  politics  he  was  a  Whig.  He  .served 
in  the  militia.  He  married,  March  24,  1797, 
Nizaula  Rawson,  born  April  18.  1777.  died 
Fei)ruary  25.  iSCv).  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and 
Sarah  (Chase)  Rawson,  of  Sutton.  Children: 
I.  Lewis,  born  at  Sutton.  October  3,  1797,  mar- 
ried  (first)  .Abigail  Merrill;  (second)   Febru- 


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ary  21.  1852,  Caroline  Packard:  children:  i. 
Almond,  born  June  10,  1820;  ii.  Angelinc.  born 
May  19,  1825;  iii.  Freeland,  born  August  14, 
1831 ;  iv.  Arvilla,  born  November  24,  1833. 
2.  Galen,  Sutton.  January  8,  1799,  married, 
June  10,  1821,  Olive  Flint;  children:  i.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  December  31,  1822,  died  October 
15,  1839;  ii.  Sullivan,  born  June  10,  1826,  mar- 
ried. January  2.  1850.  Elzina  Eastman  and  had 
Auriii.  born  February  13,  1851,  and  Olive, 
born  February  24,  1853;  iii.  Galen,  born  De- 
cember 31,  1829,  died  January  29,  1831 ;  iv. 
Timothy  W.,  born  November  21,  1832,  mar- 
ried. March  13,  1862,  Anna  E.  Canby  and  had 
Bessie,  born  November  12,  1864,  died  Septem- 
ber 7,  1866,  Richard  C,  born  June  19.  1867, 
and  Parke  S.,  born  October  10,  1869.  3. 
Nizaula,  Sutton,  February  13,  1801,  died  Sep- 
tember 2,  1855;  married,  1822,  Herman 
Towne  ;  children  :  i.  Arabella,  born  December 
7  1824;  ii.  Clarissa  D.,  born  July  26,  1830.  4. 
Marmaduke  Rawson,  Sutton,  February  12, 
1802.  married,  February  28,  1827,  Sophia 
Cummings  :  chiklren  :  i.  Lyman,  born  January 
4.  1828,  married.  May  6.  1855,  Martha  AI. 
Stone  and  had  Fred  R.,  born  November  27, 
1863,  died  October  9,  1865:  ii.  Charles,  born 
May  2.  1831  :  iii.  Daniel,  born  April  19,  1834, 
died  1870;  iv.  Miranda,  born  September  24, 
1837,  married  P.  F.  Wardwell ;  v.  Rowena, 
born  September  9,  1845,  married,  November 
28,  1869,  Ellery  Wheeler  and  had  Lizzie 
Sophia  Wheeler,  born  September  5,  1871.  5. 
James  Sullivan,  Sutton,  November  22,  1804, 
died  November  8.  1806.  6.  Charlotte,  Sutton, 
died  young.  7.  Liberty  Haven,  Sutton,  No- 
vember I,  1808.  married.  December  23,  1834, 
Laurinda  Kimball :  children  :  i.  Horace,  born 
July  22,  1837,  married,  December  3,  1863, 
Harriet  Proctor  and  liad  Ervin,  born  Septem- 
ber 28,  1864,  Laura,  born  May  4,  1867,  died 
1869.  Arthur  and  Archie  (twins),  born  1869; 
ii.  Frederick,  born  December  31,  1842;  iii. 
Austin,  born  November  29,  1846,  married, 
1872,  Lucy  J.  Carter.  8.  Timothy  Harden, 
March  5,  1810.  married,  December  22,  1856. 
Eliza  A.  Hazeltine  ;  resided  at  Gorham,  Maine, 
and  was  an  inventor  of  mill  machinery.  9. 
Arvilla,  1812,  married,  January  29,  1837,  Will- 
iam Evans  ;  children  :  i.  Edwin  F.,  born  Janu- 
ary 29,  1838,  married  Cora  Lumm  and  had 
Wayne  and  Sadie  Evans ;  ii.  Caroline,  born 
August  17,  1839.  died  October  2,  1850;  iii. 
\^irgil,  born  October  28,  1841  ;  iv.  Rawson  S., 
born  August  2,  1845,  married  Nellie  .Seeley; 
V.  Sanford  W.,  born  June  27,  1847;  vi.  Osman 
C,  born   March  21,    1850;   vii.   Clara   Emily, 


born  August  18,  1854.  10.  Clarissa,  January 
8,  1813,  married,  June  20,  1833,  William  H. 
Pingrce ;  children:  i.  Edwin  F.,  born  July  14, 
1834:  ii.  Harriet,  born  January  20,  1836;  iii. 
Rosanna,   born    February   25,    1838,   married, 

1858,  Charles  E.  Dunn:  iv.  Mary  E., 
btirn  April  2,  1840,  married  Thomas 
Smith;  v.  Rowena,  born  January  20,  1843; 
vi.  Caroline,  born  May  4,  1852.  11.  Edwin 
Freeman,  November  16,  1815,  mentioned 
below.  12.  Freeman.  13.  Mary,  February, 
1817,  died  February,  1843;  married,  Septem- 
ber 5,  1839,  Dustin  P.  Ordway  and  had  Sum- 
ner V.  Ordway,  born  March  31,  1842.  14. 
Diantha,  October  12,  1819,  died  July  16,  1868; 
married,  June  8,  1841,  Prescott  Lovering ;  chil- 
dren: i.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  May  6.  1842, 
died  November  12.  1842  :  ii.  Sibra  Rawson, liorn 
February  8,  1845,  married  William  .Staples;  iii. 
Lewis  H.,  born  April  18,  1848;  iv.  Francis 
Hill,  born  January  17,  1850,  married  Abbie 
Bennett  and  had  Chester  B.  and  Stanley  Lover- 
ing ;  v.  Dustin  Ordway,  born  January  5,  185 1, 
died  1853:  vi.  Alma  Adelaide,  born  March  15, 

1859,  married  Frank  A.  O.xnard.  15.  Ebe- 
nezer  Sumner,  Albany,  Maine,  December  i, 
1822,  married,  June  15,  1845,  Betsey  F.  Pin- 
gree ;  children :  i.  Mary  Ursula,  born  Sep- 
tember 30,  1846,  married,  November  29,  1866, 
John  E.  Saunders  and  had  Mary  Annette 
Saunders,  born  December  7,  1867;  ii.  Orinda 
D.,  born  May  28,  1853;  iii.  Luella  Angeline, 
born  June  22,  1857;  iv.  Ambrose  Burnside, 
born  June  2,  1862. 

(N\T)  Edwin  Freeman,  son  of  Timothy 
Harden  Hutchinson,  was  born  at  Albany, 
Maine,  November  16,  1815,  died  1884.  hie 
went  to  live  with  his  sister  when  he  was  eight 
years  old,  helping  on  the  farm  in  summer  and 
attending  the  district  school  in  winter.  At  the 
age  of  fourteen  he  returned  home  and  learned 
the  trade  of  shoemaker,  and  after  the  custom 
of  the  times  followed  his  trade  in  winter  and 
farmed  in  summer.  When  he  came  of  age  he 
engaged  in  the  building  and  e(|uipment  of  saw 
mills  and  grist  mills,  in  partnership  with  his 
brother,  Timothy  Harden  Hutchinson.  They 
built  mills  at  Dixfield.  Buckfield  and  Peru, 
Maine,  and  at  vai-ious  places  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, during  the  next  six  years.  In  1840  he 
removed  to  Milan,  New  Hampshire,  buying  a 
farm  of  tliree  hundred  acres  on  Milan  Hill, 
about  a  mile  from  Milan  Corners.  He  became 
a  jirosperous  farmer.  In  addition  to  farming  he 
carried  on  extensive  lumbering  operations,  cut- 
ting and  sawing  the  timber  from  wood-lots 
tliat  he  bought   in  that   section.     He  had  one 


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tract  of  seven  hundred  acres  of  timber  land  at 
Jericho,  New  Hampshire.  He  kept  some 
thirty-five  head  of  cattle  and  fifty  sheep.  In 
the  last  year  of  his  life  on  the  farm  he  raised 
eight  hundred  bushels  of  potatoes.  He  was  a 
skillful  mechanic  with  all  kinds  of  tools.  He 
built  his  own  house  from  timber  that  he  cut 
on  his  own  land.  About  1867  he  removed  to 
Auburn,  Maine,  selling  his  farm  and  property 
at  Milan,  buying  a  small  place  at  Stevens  Mills 
and  engaged  in  the  building  Ijusiness.  After- 
wards he  lived  for  a  time  with  his  daughter 
at  Auburn.  In  1878,  at  the  time  of  his  second 
marriage,  he  removed  to  North  Norway, 
Maine,  and  settled  on  a  fifty  acre  farm  that 
he  owned,  devoting  himself  to  the  culture  of 
fruit  and  having  one  of  the  best  apple  orchards 
in  that  section.  He  was  an  active,  energetic 
man,  much  respected  in  the  community  in 
which  he  lived.  Early  in  life  he  became  inter- 
ested in  temperance  reform  and  signed  the 
total  abstinence  pledge,  which  he  always  kept. 
He  was  devoted  to  his  family  and  much  beloved 
by  his  children.  He  was  brought  up  in  the 
Methodist  faith,  but  in  later  years  became  a 
Universalist.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican, 
and  was  selectman  of  the  town  of  Milan.  He 
also  held  other  positions  of  trust.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  July  23,  1843,  Elizabeth  Ann  Flint, 
born  at  Norway,  Maine,  April  6,  1821,  died 
April,  1873,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Merrill)  Flint.  Her  father  was  a 
fanner.  He  married  (second)  Mrs.  Eliza 
Hutchins.  Chililren  :  i.  Liberty  Haven,  born 
March  i,  1844,  mentioned  below.  2.  Harlan, 
November  21,  1845,  f''*^''!  August  15,  i8fi3.  3. 
Freedom,  August  6,  1847,  mentioned  below. 
4.  Luella,  June  18,  1849,  died  December  10, 
1854.  5.  Melvin,  August  27,  1851,  mentioned 
below.  6.  Arabella  Libby,  June  26,  1853,  ^''^^ 
July  20,  1863.  7.  Etta,  March  26,  1855,  mar- 
ried, .'Xjiril  13,  1887,  (ieorge  Dexter  Bearce, 
of  .Auburn,  Maine,  who  died  August  26,  1887; 
children:  i.  Winfield  Dexter,  born  .August  16, 
1880,  graduated  from  University  of  Maine  in 
June,  1906,  married,  September  8,  1906,  Mae 
Lora  Cook,  son,  Winfield  Hutchinson  Bearce, 
born  April  19,  1908 ;  ii.  Edwin  Freeman,  born 
February  2,  1882,  graduated  from  University 
of  Maine,  June,  1905;  iii.  Clara  Florence,  born 
January  19,  1884,  died  December  C\  1890;  iv, 
C/eorge  Dunham,  born  December  14.  1887,  he 
is  now  student  at  University  of  Maine,  class 
of  191 1.  8.  Lizzie  Florence,  June  20,  1859, 
married  (first)  Frank  Tarr  "and  (second) 
Millard  F.  Haskell,  of  Poland.  Maine.  9.  Ella 
May,  April  9,  1864. 


(XVH)  Liberty  Haven,  son  of  Edwin  Free- 
man Hutchinson,  was  born  at  Milan,  March  i, 
1844,  died  at  Lewiston,  Maine,  September  9, 
1882.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town,  fitted  for  college  in  the  academy 
at  Lancaster,  New  Hampshire,  and  graduated 
from  Bates  College  in  the  class  of  1871  with 
the  degree  of  A.  B.  He  inherited  strong  intel- 
lectual powers  and  at  acomparativelvearlvage 
displayed  those  sterling  characteristics  that 
later  won  for  him  success  and  honor  in  his  pro- 
fession. He  began  the  study  of  law  in  1871 
in  the  office  of  M.  T.  Ludden  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  the  following  year.  He  began  to 
practice  in  Lewiston  and  continued  with  con- 
stantly increasing  success  and  distinction  until 
his  death.  During  his  later  years  he  was  a 
law  partner  of  Hon.  Albert  R.  Savage,  now 
justice  of  the  Maine  supreme  court,  and  his 
esteem  for  his  partner  is  shown  by  the  fact 
that  he  named  his  eldest  son  for  him.  During 
his  brief  but  brilliant  career  he  had  many 
important  cases.  He  was  especially  gifted  as 
a  public  speaker  and  effective  in  addressing 
juries.  Of  good  judgment,  great  learning, 
keen  intellect,  upright  in  character  and  high 
in  ideals  he  made  this  influence  widely  felt  and 
attained  a  leading  position  in  his  profession 
and  in  public  life.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Lewiston  school  board. 
He  represented  his  district  three  terms  in  the 
state  legislature  and  in  1881,  his  last  year,  was 
speaker  of  the  house  of  representatives,  elected, 
it  should  be  said,  by  a  unanimous  vote.  Just 
before  his  death  he  was  prominently  mentioned 
as  Republican  candidate  for  congress.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Lodge  of  Free  Masons 
of  Lewiston.  He  was  a  member  of  the  L^ni- 
tarian  church  of  Lewiston  and  for  a  time 
superintendent  of  its  Sunday  school.  He  en- 
joyed to  the  fullest  extent  the  respect  and 
esteem  of  his  townsmen  and  the  confidence  of 
the  whole  state.  He  married,  November  20, 
1869.  Mary  Wyatt  Emery,  of  West  Newbury, 
Massachusetts,  born  .-\pril  7,  1850,  daughter  of 
Nehemiah  Follansbee  and  Mary  .\nn  (Wyatt) 
Emery,  of  West  Newbury.  Children,  born  at 
Lewiston:  i.  Annie  Luella.  .August  12,  1870, 
married,  June  29,  1892,  William  Henry  Green, 
of  Lynn,  Massachusetts:  children:  i.  William 
.Albert,  born  August  24,  1893:  ii.  Grace  Kath- 
erine.  born  May  26,  1895;  '•'•  Edwin  Thomas, 
born  December  3,  1903.  2.  Albert  Savage, 
October  27,  1 87 1,  mentioned  below.  3.  Edwin 
Liberty,  November  i,  1872,  married,  Septem- 
ber, 1899.  Mary  Elizabeth  Mower,  of  Lynn; 
child,  Mary  Eleanor,  born  July  21,  1900.     4. 


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Mary  Elizabetli,  November  16,  1874,  died  Jan- 
uary 17,  1899.  5.  Grace  Lyndon,  April  19, 
1879,  died  Sejiteniber  16,  1904. 

(X\"11I)  Albert  Savage,  son  of  Liberty 
Haven  Hutcliinson,  was  born  at  Lewiston, 
October  27,  1871.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  city,  and  graduated  from 
Bowdoin  College  in  the  class  of  1893  ^"''  from 
Harvard  Law  School  in  the  class  of  1899. 
From  1893  to  1896  he  taught  school  at  Pough- 
keepsie.  New  York.  He  was  adniittetl  to  the 
bar  in  January.  1899,  and  has  practiced  since 
then  in  Boston.  He  has  an  office  in  the  Ames 
Building  and  resides  in  Newton  Highlands, 
Newton.  Massachusetts.  He  married,  October 
I.  1904,  \'irginia  Walker  Mellen,  of  Newton 
Highlands,  born  at  Worcester,  Massachusetts. 
May  15.  1878.  (laughter  of  George  Henry  and 
Nora  (Walker)  Mellen.  They  have  one  child, 
\  irginia  Walker,  born  February  10,  1908. 

(X\T1)  Freedom,  son  of  Edwin  Freeman 
Hutchinson,  was  born  at  Milan,  New  Hamp- 
shire. August  6,  1847.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  the  Nichols 
Latin  School  of  Lewiston.  Afaine,  and  entered 
Bates  College  in  that  city.  He  took  high  rank 
in  scholarship  and  had  the  English  oration  at 
Commencement  in  the  class  of  1873.  During 
the  next  two  years  he  was  principal  of  the 
Topsham  high  school,  Topsham,  Alaine.  He 
l)egan  to  read  law  in  the  office  of  his  brother's 
firm.  Hutchinson  &  Savage,  of  Lewiston,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  .\uburn,  Maine, 
in  April.  1876.  He  came  at  once  to  Boston 
where  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Suiifolk 
county.  May  9,  1876,  and  where  he  has  since 
practiced  his  profession  with  uniform  success. 
His  business  has  been  of  a  general  civil  char- 
acter with  a  considerable  specialty  in  corpora- 
tion matters.  He  has  had  charge  of  the  legal 
interests  of  the  Swift  Brothers  of  Chicago  and 
Boston,  now  Swift  and  Company,  meat  packers, 
during  the  past  twenty-five  years.  He  has 
attended  to  the  organizing  and  incorporation 
of  the  numerous  meat-packing,  slaughtering, 
rendering  and  transportation  companies  of  this 
concern,  as  its  attorney..  He  has  represented 
these  clients  also  in  court  in  many  important 
cases  in  Massachusetts  and  other  states.  He 
has  attained  a  distinguished  rank  as  a  lawyer 
and  is  reckoned  among  the  leaders  of  the 
Boston  bar.  He  resided  in  Boston  from  1876 
to  the  fall  of  1892  when  he  removed  to  New- 
ton Highlands.  He  has  lately  removed  from 
Lincoln  street  to  a  handsome  residence  that 
he  built  on  Center  street,  Newton.  In  yjolitics 
he  is  a  Republican.    He  was  a  member  of  the 


comiuon  council  of  Newton  in  1895-96.  He 
was  made  a  Free  Mason  in  Henry  Price  Lodge 
of  Charlestown.  and  is  now  a  member  of 
Columbian  I,odge  of  Boston.  He  belongs  to 
many  clubs  and  social  organizations  of  Boston 
and  Newton.  Among  them  are  the  Middlesex 
Club,  the  Hunnewell  Club  of  Newton ;  the 
Katahdin  Club  of  Maine  composed  largely  of 
Newton  men;  the  Civic  Club  of  Newton;  the 
Braeburn  Country  Club  of  West  Newton  and 
the  .Xewton  Golf  Club.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  I'nitarian  church  of  Newton  Center  and 
for  the  past  thirteen  years  has  been  chairman 
of  the  executive  committee  and  ex-officio  presi- 
dent of  the  society.  He  married,  February  15, 
i88fi,  Abbie  Laighton  Butler,  born  May  9, 
1865,  daughter  of  Dr.  David  Presbury  and 
Eleanor  (Bisbee)  Butler.  Her  father  was  a 
prominent  physician,  a  pioner  in  the  develop- 
ment of  systematic  exercises  for  the  health 
and  development  of  the  body.  Children:  i. 
Eleanor  Butler,  born  October  31.  1887,  student 
at  Smith  College.  2.  Harlan  Freedom,  July 
4.  1893.  t'i^cl  June  24.  1894.  3.  Sumner  Free- 
dom, March  13,  1897. 

(.W'll)  Melvin,  son  of  Edwin  Freeman 
Hutchinson,  was  born  in  Milan,  New  Hamp- 
shire, August  27,  1 85 1.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  of  Auburn, 
Maine,  working  on  the  farm  during  his  boy- 
hood. He  learned  the  carpenter's  trade  of  his 
father  and  worked  with  his  father  until  he 
was  twenty  years  old,  when  he  left  home  and 
during  the  next  seven  years  worked  in  the 
shoe  factory  of  Aloses  Crafts  at  Auburn.  For 
three  years  he  was  employed  in  the  same  busi- 
ness in  the  factory  of  Miller  &  Randall,  also 
of  Auburn.  He  came  to  Lowell,  Massachu- 
setts, in  June,  1882,  in  the  employ  of  a  sewing 
machine  dealer.  After  a  short  time  he  re- 
moved to  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  was 
for  seven  years  with  the  Davis  Sewing 
Machine  Company.  Then  he  was  with  the 
Standard  Sewing  Machine  Company  at  Bos- 
ton eight  years  and  later  with  the  W'heeler 
&  Wilson  Sewing  Machine  Company.  He 
was  engaged  in  the  sewing  machine  busi- 
ness in  various  j)ositions  and  departments 
for  a  period  of  twenty  years.  In  recent  years 
he  has  been  in  charge  of  the  eyelet  department 
of  the  United  Shoe  Machinery  Company  of 
Beverly.  He  is  the  company's  expert  in 
machinery  for  eyeletting  and  has  charge  of 
the  rejiairs  and  setting  up  of  this  kind  of 
machinery  in  all  parts  of  the  country.  His 
headc|uarters  are  at  the  Boston  office,  205  Lin- 
coln street.     In  religion  Mr.  Hutchinson  is  a 


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Universalist ;  in  politics  an  independent  Re- 
publican. He  was  a  delegate  to  the  state  con- 
vention of  the  Greenback  party  in  Maine,  when 
Governor  Harris  M.  Plaisted  was  nominated. 
He  is  a  member  of  Abouben  Adhem  Lodge 
of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Auburn,  Maine,  of  Pejeb- 
scot  Encampment  and  of  Patriarch  Militant. 
He  married.  June  5,  1890,  Anna  Lydia  Raw- 
son,  born  at  Oxford,  Alaine,  November  15, 
1856,  daughter  of  Solon  and  Lydia  Hackett 
(Downing)  Rawson,  of  Oxford.  Her  father 
was  a  contracting  painter  and  farmer ;  also  at 
one  time  a  grocer.    They  have  no  children. 


The  several  attempts  of  gcnealog- 
SEARS  ists  to  trace  the  pre-American  an- 
cestry of  the  Sears  immigrant 
have  met  with  many  discouraging  obstacles 
and  few  satisfactory  results:  and  while  it 
seems  to  be  pretty  well  established  that  the 
family  is  one  of  great  antiquity  there  has 
always  existed  a  doubt  regarding  its  origin, 
and  there  are  those  who  are  disposed  to  place 
it  among  the  old  Holland  families  and  bring 
forth  Dutch  intermarriages  in  support  of  their 
reasoning.  In  these  annals  no  attempt  is  made 
to  investigate  the  subject  of  the  origin  of  the 
family  of  the  Sears  immigrant,  for  it  is  not 
known  where  or  when  he  was  born,  and  noth- 
ing of  liis  parentage,  although  there  are  vari- 
ous traditions  and  vague  conclusions  regard- 
ing his  forebears.  The  family  in  America  is 
full  strong  enough  in  every  material  respect  to 
stand  forever  without  the  warrant  of  distin- 
guished pre-American  lineage.  Rut  in  regard 
to  the  apparent  lack  of  earlier  data  the  Sears 
family  is  only  one  in  the  long  list  of  our  best 
colonial  families  whose  history  back  of  the 
immigrant  is  unknown,  and  the  absence  of 
definite  knowledge  of  his  ancestors  is  not  to 
be  taken  as  evidence  of  doubtful  or  obscure 
origin  ;  for  the  simple  truth  is  that  it  has  been 
found  im])0ssible  to  trace  his  lineage  in  the 
mother  country. 

(I)  Richard  Sares  appears  in  our  New  Eng- 
land colonial  history  with  the  mention  of  his 
name  in  the  records  of  the  Plymouth  colony 
tax  list  in  1633.  when  he  was  one  of  forty-four 
persons  there  assessed  nine  shillings  in  corn  at 
six  shillings  per  bushel.  From  I'lymouth  he 
soon  crossed  over  to  Marblehead,  Massachu- 
setts, and  was  taxed  there,  as  shown  by  the 
Salem  lists,  in  1637-38.  He  also  had  a  grant 
of  four  acres  of  land  "where  he  had  formerly 
planted,"  from  which  it  aiijiears  tiiat  he  may 
have  bc^n  in  that  iilantation  at  some  previous 
time.     In   1639  '1*-'  ji^'iiied  tiie  colonists  under 


Anthony  Thacher  and  went  to  Cape  Cod  and 
founded  the  town  of  Yarmouth.  His  first 
house  was  built  on  Quivet  Neck,  and  after- 
ward built  another  house  a  short  distance  to 
the  northwest  of  his  first  home  there.  In  1643 
the  name  of  Richard  Seeres  appears  in  the 
list  of  inhabitants  of  Yarmouth  "liable  to  bear 
arms."  He  was  made  freeman  in  1652,  took 
the  oath  of  allegiance  and  fidelity  in  1653,  was 
constable  in  1660,  grand  juror  in  1652.  and 
rejiresentative  to  the  court  in  Plymouth  in 
i()f)2.  In  1664  Richard  Sares.  husbandman, 
purchased  for  twenty  pounds  from  Allis, 
widow  of  Governor  William  Bradford,  a  tract 
of  land  at  Sesuit.  He  died  in  August,  1676, 
and  was  buried  on  the  26th  of  that  month.   His 

wife   was   Dorothy   ,   who   was   buried 

March  19,  1678-79;  but  it  is  not  certain  that 
she  was  his  only  wife,  or  the  mother  of  all  or 
even  any  of  his  children.  Indeed,  there  is  a 
presumption  that  he  was  previously  married 
and  that  his  children  may  have  been  born  of 
his  former  wife.  So  far  as  known  his  chil- 
dren were  as  follows:     i.  Paul,  born  1637-38. 

2.  Silas,  died  Yarmouth,  January  13,  1697-98. 

3.  Deborah,  born  Yarmouth,  September,  1639. 
(II)   Captain   Paul   Sears,  son  of  Richard, 

the  immigrant,  is  supposed  to  have  been  born 
in  Marblehead,  Massachusetts,  sometime  after 
February  20,  1637-38.  and  died  at  Yarmouth, 
February  20.  1707-08.  He  took  the  oath  of 
fidelity  in  1657,  held  a  commission  as  captain 
of  the  militia,  and  made  a  claim  for  a  horse 
lost  in  the  war  with  the  Narragansett  Indians; 
but  there  is  no  further  record  of  his  military 
services.  He  was  one  of  the  original  pro- 
prietors of  Harwich,  Massachusetts,  grand 
juror  there  in  1667,  and  appears  to  have  been 
of  considerable  importance  in  the  ])lantation. 
His  estate  was  ajjjiraised  at  the  value  of  four 
hundred  and  sixty-six  pounds,  hence  he  was 
well  possessed  in  lands  and  goods.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Yarmouth,  in  1658,  Deborah  Willard, 
ba])tized  Scituate.  September  14,  1645,  died 
Yarmouth.  May  13.  1721,  daughter  of  George 
\\'illard.  of  Scituate.  They  had  ten  children, 
all  liorn  in  Yarmouth:  I.  Mercy,  July  3.  1659. 
2.  r.ethia,  January  3,  1 66 1,  died  1724.  3. 
Samuel.  January,  1663-64,  4.  A  daughter, 
October  24  i6()6.  ^.  Paul,  June  15,  1669.  6. 
Mary,  or  Margery,  October  24,  1672.  7.  Ann, 
March  27,  1675,  died  November  14,  1745.  8. 
John.  1677-78.  died  April  9,  1738.  9.  Richard, 
16S0-81.  died  May  24,  1718.  10.  Daniel,  1682- 
83,  died  August  10,  1756. 

(ITT)   Captain   Sanniel,  eldest  son  of  Cap- 
tain Paul  and  Deborah  (Willard)  Sears,  was 


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born  in  Yarmouth  "the  last  of  January,"  1663- 
64,  and  (hed  in  Harwich,  Massachusetts,  Jan- 
uary 8.  1741-42.  He  was  one  of  the  first  set- 
tlers in  Harwich,  and  was  constable  there  in 
1702,  lieutenant  in  1706,  and  in  1715,  "Captain 
Sears  granted  liberty  to  build  a  pew  in  the 
meeting-house."  He  married  Mercy  Mayo, 
born  1664.  died  January  20,  1748-49,  daughter 
of  Deacon  Samuel  and  Tamzin  (Lumpkin) 
Mayo,  and  granddaughter  of  Rev.  John  Mayo. 
They  had  eleven  children,  all  born  in  Harwich : 
I.  Hannah,  July  i,  1685,  married  John  Vin- 
cent. 2.  .Samuel.  September  15,  1687.  3. 
Nathaniel,  September  23,  1689.  4.  Tamsen, 
November  13.  1691,  died  July  17,  1761.  5. 
Jonathan,  September  3,  1693.  6.  Captain 
Joseph.  July  15,  1695,  died  .August  25,  1765. 
7.  Joshua,  May  3,  1697.  8.  Judah,  October  29, 
1699.  9.  John,  July  18,  1701.  10.  Seth.  IMay 
27.  1703.     II.  Benjamin,  June  16,  1706. 

(I\')  Jonathan,  son  of  Captain  Samuel  and 
Mercy  (Mayo)  Sears,  was  born  in  Harwich, 
September  3,  1693.  died  September  3,  1738. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  well-to-do  man  in  every 
respect,  leaving  an  estate  which  after  his  death 
inventoried  at  three  hundred  and  seventy-four 
pounds  in  personal  and  five  hundred  and  sev- 
enty-five pounds  in  real  property.  He  married, 
in  Yarmouth.  June  29,  1721.  Elizabeth  Howes, 
born  November  7,  1697.  admitted  to  the  church 
in  Harwich  in  1723.  and  died  January  8,  1748- 
49.  daughter  of  Deacon  Joseph  Howes,  of 
Harwich.  They  had  nine  children,  all  born 
in  Harwich:  i.  David,  September  22,  1722, 
died  in  infancy.  2.  David,  March  26,  1724, 
died  in  infancy.  3.  Jonathan,  September  29, 
1723.  4.  Joseph,  Afay,  1728.  died  March  14, 
1758.  5.  Mary,  baptized  July  12,  1730,  died 
young.  6.  Sarah,  born  July  28,  1731,  died 
December  16.  1749.  7.  Prince,  baptized  July 
30.  1732,  died  October  31,  1732.  8.  Nathan, 
born  September  25,  1733,  died  young.  9. 
Prince,  baptized  .'^pril  13,  1735. 

(V)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
and  Elizabeth  ( Howes )  Sears,  was  born  in 
Harwich.  September  29.  1725,  died  December 
16.  1752.  He  was  a  mariner  and  made  his  will 
March  28,  1752,  "being  then  very  sick."  The 
inventory  of  his  estate  was  filed  February  6, 
1753,  and  amounted  to  one  hundred  and 
twenty-eight  pounds,  twelve  shillings.  He 
married.  June  29,  1749,  Priscilla  Sears,  born 
Harwich.  December  31,  1730.  died  April  12, 
1819,  daughter  of  Seth  and  Priscilla  (Ryder) 
Sears.  She  married  (second)  .'\pril  11,  1754, 
Deacon  John  Sears.  Jonathan  and  Priscilla 
(Sears)  Sears  had  two  children,  both  born  in 


Harwich:  i.  Jonathan,  May  7,  1750.  2.  Eliz- 
abeth, January  4,  1752,  married,  1773,  Samuel 
Hall,  born  March  7,  1752. 

(VI)  Sergeant  Jonathan  (3),  only  son  of 
Jonathan  (2)  and  Priscilla  (Sears)  Sears,  was 
born  in  Harwich,  May  7,  1750,  died  in  Ash- 
field.  Massachusetts,  February  18,  1808.  Dur- 
ing the  early  part  of  his  life  he  went  on  whal- 
ing voyages  and  incidents  of  his  hair-breadth 
escapes  arc  still  narrated  among  his  descend- 
ants. In  1785  he  was  wrecked  off  Harwich 
aufl  barely  escaped  with  his  life.  He  removed 
to  -Vshfield  about  1800,  in  which  year  he  was 
dismissed  from  the  church  in  Harwich  to  that 
in  .Ashfield.  During  the  revolution  he  served 
in  Captain  Thomas  Hamilton's  company  and 
w-as  stationed  in  Barnstable  county  for  six 
months  from  July  10,  1775;  was  sergeant  in 
Captain  Abijah  Bangs'  company  of  Colonel 
Dike's  regiment  for  three  months  to  December 
I,  1776;  marched  on  the  alarm  of  Falmouth 
one  hundred  and  seventy- four  miles;  on  the 
alarm  of  Falmouth  and  Bedford,  in  Captain 
Benjamin  Berry's  company,  September  7,  1778, 
marching  one  hundred  and  twelve  miles  and 
doing  seven  days'  duty.  His  widow  drew  a 
pension  in  1840.  He  married,  September  3, 
1773,  .Abigail  Hall,  born  November  2,  1754, 
died  November  18,  1842,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  .Abigail  (Clarke)  Hall.  They  had  eight 
children,  all  born  in  Harwich:  i.  Barnabas 
Clark,  .August  3,  1774,  died  April  18,  1799.  2. 
Jonathan,  March  19,  1777.  3.  Freeman,  No- 
vember 28,  1779.  4.  Hepzibah  Swan,  Octo- 
ber 16,  1783,  died  February  13,  1814.  5. 
.Azarelah,  July  10,  1789.  6.  Nabby,  January 
I,  1793.  died  February  24.  1881  ;  married  Dr. 
Joseph  Warren.  7.  Clarinda,  July  3,  1795, 
died  May  3,  1824:  married,  November  24, 
1814,  Dr.  Enos  Smith.  8.  Priscilla,  May  16, 
1798,  died  September  7,  1798. 

(VIT)  Jonathan  (4),  son  of  Sergeant  Jon- 
athan (3)  and  Abigail  (Hall)  Sears,  was  born 
in  Harwich,  March  19,  1777,  died  in  .Ashfield, 
.August  2.  1859.  He  went  to  .Ashfield  with 
his  father's  family  and  settled  on  Cape  street, 
where  he  was  a  prosperous  farmer  and  one  of 
the  leading  men  of  the  town.  During  the  early 
years  of  his  life  he  went  with  his  brother 
Barnabas  on  fishing  voyages  to  the  banks  of 
Newfoundland  and  the  Magellan  islands.  Mr. 
Sears  was  a  consistent  member  of  the  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  church,  a  man  of  character 
and  one  who  held  the  respect  of  all  his  fellow 
townsmen.  He  was  selectman  of  Ashfield 
from  1820  to  1822.  from  1824  to  1826  and 
from  1829  to  1831  ;  representative  to  the  gen- 


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eral  court  in  1833  and  again  in  1836.  He 
married,  February  3,  1803,  Hannah  Foster, 
born  Tisbury,  Massachusetts,  August  9,  1782, 
died  Ashfield,  July  30,  1855.  They  had  nine 
children,  all  born  in  i\shfield :  i.  Clark,  Janu- 
ary 31,  1804,  died  West  Hawley,  Massachu- 
setts, November  29,  1879;  married,  Novem- 
ber 27,  1828,  Fmcline  Kelly,  born  January  10, 
1809;  had  eight  children.  2.  Olive,  May  27, 
1806,  married  Heman  Cargill.  3.  William, 
March  28,  1808,  died  November  15,  1875: 
married  Olive  Eldridge  and  had  three  chil- 
dren. 4.  Freeman,  August  30,  1810.  married 
(first)  November  27,  1844,  Eunice  Parsons, 
born  March  18,  1813,  died  August  15,  1850; 
married  (second)  May  28,  1851,  Mrs.  Angeline 
Corey;  lived  in  Goshen,  Massachusetts,  and 
had  ten  children.  5.  Philena,  September  3, 
1812,  died  July  23,  1836;  married  Charles  Car- 
gill.  6.  Stillman,  September  23,  181 5.  7.  Jon- 
athan, October  27,  1818,  married  (first)  March 
20,  1845,  Rhoda  Parsons,  died  July  17,  1850; 
married  (second)  May  28,  1 85 1,  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Benjamin  and  Rebecca  (Eldridge) 
Sears:  had  four  children.  8.  Milton  Foster, 
February  29,  1821,  died  1853;  married  Mercy 
D.  Williams,  born  November  28,  1824,  daugh- 
ter of  Apollas  and  Annis  (Smith)  Williams; 
had  two  children.  9.  Hannah,  November  8, 
1823.  died  1856;  married,  February  10,  1846, 
Henry  EMridge. 

(XTTF)  Stillman,  son  of  Jonathan  (4)  and 
Hannah  (Foster)  Sears,  was  born  in  Ashfield, 
Massachusetts,  September  23,  1815,  died  at 
Shelburne,  Massachusetts,  October  10,  1854. 
He  early  learned  the  importance  of  self-reli- 
ance and  when  only  a  boy  earned  the  means 
'  with  which  to  secure  his  own  education,  work- 
ing out  on  a  farm  during  the  summer  months 
and  attcniling  school  during  the  winter  terms. 
After  leaving  school  he  first  took  to  farming, 
but  as  his  inclinations  lay  in  other  channels  he 
began  contracting  for  excavation  work  in 
company  vi^th  his  brother-in-law,  Henry  Eld- 
ridge. at  Shelburne  Falls.  Eater  on  they  were 
subcontractors  on  the  excavation  work  of  the 
famous  Hoosic  tunnel,  near  North  Adams, 
Massachusetts,  and  while  his  business  gave 
every  promise  of  excellent  success  he  was 
taken  off  in  the  prime  of  manhood,  when 
thirty-nine  years  old.  On  September  27,  1842, 
Mr.  Sears  married  Abigail  Eldridge,  who  died 
November  20,  1854,  having  borne  him  two 
children,  Isabella  and  Henry  G.  Sears.  Isa- 
bella married  Henri  N.  Woods  and  has  four 
children. 

(IX)    Henry  G.,  only  son  of  .Stillman  and 


Abigail  (Eldridge)  Sears,  was  born  in  Shel- 
burne Falls,  Massachusetts,  April  4,  1853,  and 
was  less  than  two  years  old  when  his  father 
died  and  his  mother  died  soon  after.  After 
their  death  the  two  children  were  taken  to  the 
home  of  her  father,  Eli  Eldridge,  where  Henry 
G.  spent  his  young  life.  At  the  age  of  twelve 
he  was  hired  out  for  two  years  to  a  farmer  in 
Conway,  to  work  for  his  board,  clothes,  school- 
ing, and  just  a  mere  pittance  of  money ;  and 
when  his  term  was  up  he  hired  out  to  work  for 
another  farmer  for  seven  months  and  to  re- 
ceive for  his  service  the  sum  of  fourteen 
dollars  per  mouth  and  the  privilege  of  attend- 
ing winter  terms  of  school.  He  afterward 
devoted  another  year  to  work  under  a  similar 
arrangement,  but  this  time  he  received  twenty 
dollars  per  month  for  his  work.  He  prudently 
saved  the  greater  part  of  his  wages  thus  earned 
and  used  it  in  educating  himself  at  the  Powers 
Institute  and  the  Northampton  Academy, 
which  proved  as  good  an  investment  as  he 
ever  made,  for  it  gave  him  a  good  education 
and  in  respect  to  intelligence  it  placed  him  on 
a  footing  equal  to  that  of  other  boys  of  his 
age  and  time.  After  leaving  school  he  went 
to  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  and  for  a  few 
weeks  was  employed  by  Lemuel  Sears,  a  mer- 
chant of  that  city,  but  at  the  end  of  that  short 
period  he  went  west,  to  Dwight,  Illinois.  This 
trip  was  made  at  the  suggestion  of  his  uncle. 
Henrv  Eldridge.  who  believed  it  would  be  best 
for  the  young  man  to  start  out  in  life  for  him- 
self, and  that  in  Illinois  he  could  "grow  up 
with  the  country,"  but  after  a  month  the  young 
man  returned  to  Holyoke  and  was  again  taken 
into  Mr.  Sears'  grocery  store  at  a  moderate 
salary  and  his  board,  and  remained  there  until 
he  was  about  twenty-three  years  old.  when  he 
acfuiircd  a  partnership  interest  in  the  business. 
This  was  the  actual  beginning  of  his  success- 
ful business  career,  and  while  the  elder  Sears 
had  for  years  been  proprietor  of  a  moderately 
profitable  retail  establishment,  the  young  part- 
ner took  such  an  earnest  and  meaning  interest 
in  building  up  and  increasing  the  trade  of  the 
store  that  in  the  course  of  time  it  became  an 
extensive  wholesale  and  jobbing  house  with 
a  large  retail  branch,  while  he  himself  soon 
came  to  be  recognized  as  one  of  the  most  cap- 
able and  straightforward  business  men  in  the 
city :  and  such  is  his  standing  today  in  the 
business  life  of  Holyoke.  And  in  addition  to 
his  immediate  interests  in  the  mercantile  busi- . 
ness  Mr.  .Sears  is  in  many  other  ways  promi- 
ncntlv  identified  with  the  best  institutions  of 
the  citv,  a  trustee  and  member  of  the  invest- 


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ment  committee  of  the  Mechanics'  Savings 
Bank  and  treasurer  of  the  Holyoke  Ice  Com- 
pany. He  holds  membership  in  the  several 
subordinate  Masonic  bodies,  the  lodge,  chapter 
and  council,  is  a  member  of  the  Bay  State, 
Hotyoke,  Mt.  Tom  Golf  and  Holyoke  Canoe 
clubs,  tile  Holyoke  Young  Men"s  Christian 
Association,  the  Congregational  church,  and 
in  politics  is  a  Republican.  He  married,  June 
18.  1884,  Fannie  E.,  daughter  of  Charles  E. 
and  Jane  R.  (Hemenway)  Ford,  of  Minnea- 
polis. Minnesota,  granddaughter  of  Alvah  and 
Betsey  (  Barnes  )  Ford,  and  great-granddaugh- 
ter of  Phineas  Hemenway,  of  Herkimer,  Xew 
York,  who  ran  away  from  his  home  when  six- 
teen years  old  and  entered  the  revolutionary 
service  as  a  drummer  boy.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Sears  have  three  children :  Marion  E.,  Mar- 
guerite, and  Henry  F.,  died  in  infancy. 


(For  earlier  generations  see  Richard  Sares.) 

(HI)  Paul  (2),  second  son  of 
SEARS  Captain  Paul  (i)  and  Deborah 
(Willard)  Sears,  was  born  in 
Yarmouth,  Massachusetts,  June  15,  1669,  died 
February  14,  1739-40.  He  lived  on  Quivet 
Xeck  and  was  prominent  in  the  church  of  the 
east  parish  of  Yarmouth,  to  which  he  was 
admitted  member  June  23,  1728;  and  his  wife 
was  admitted  there  August  6,  1727.  In  1724 
he  was  one  of  the  committee  appointed  to 
inform  Mr.  Taylor  of  his  call  to  the  ministry 
there;  in  1725  was  one  of  the  committee  to 
lay  out  the  meeting-house  floor  for  the  pews ; 
in  1726  was  appointed  to  "receive  Mr.  Dennis' 
answer.''  and  in  March,  1727,  was  one  of  the 
committee  on  Mr.  Dennis'  ordination.  He 
married,  in  Harwich,  1693,  Mercy  Freeman, 
born  Harwich,  October  30,  1674,  died  August 
30.  1747,  daughter  of  Deacon  Thomas  and 
Rebecca  (.Sparrow)  Freeman,  granddaughter 
of  Major  John  and  Mercy  (  Prence  )  Freeman, 
and  great-granddaughter  of  Edmund  Freeman, 
"the  proprietor."  Her  mother,  Rebecca  (Spar- 
row) Freeman,  was  a  daughter  of  Jonathan 
and  Rebecca  (Bangs)  Sparrow,  and  her  great- 
grandmother,  Mercy  (Prence)  Freeman,  was 
a  tlaughter  of  Governor  ThtMiias  and  Patience 
(Brewster)  Prence,  and  great-granddaughter 
of  Elder  William  I'.rcwstcr.  Paul  and  Mercy 
(Freeman  )  .Sears  had  twelve  children,  all  born 
in  Yarmouth:     i.  Ebenezer,  August  15,  1694. 

2.  Paul,  December  21,  1695.  3.  Elizabeth,  Au- 
gust 27,  1697,  died  February  28,  1728-29.  4. 
Thomas,  June  6,  1699.  5.  Rebecca,  April  2, 
1701,  died  1791.    6.  Mercy.  February  7,  1702- 

03,  marriefl  Joseph    Blackmore.     7.   Deborah, 


March  11,  1705-06,  married  Thomas  Howes. 
8.  .Vnn,  December  27,  1706,  married  Ebenezer 
Bangs.  9.  Joshua,  November  20,  1708.  10. 
Daniel,  July  16,  1710.  11.  Edmund,  August 
6,  1712.  12.  Hannah,  March  6,  1714,  married 
Thomas  Howes. 

( I\' )  Daniel,  son  of  Paul  (2)  and  Mercy 
(Freeman)  Sears,  was  born  in  Yarmouth, 
Massachusetts,  July  16,  1710,  died  November 
28,  1 77 1.  He  lived  in  the  east  parish  of  Yar- 
mouth, now  East  Dennis,  and  apjiears  to  have 
been  <|uite  prominently  identified  with  the  his- 
tory of  the  town  and  church,  having  fulfilled 
several  important  offices.  In  1742  he  and  his 
wife  were  admitted  to  membership  in  the 
church  in  East  Dennis,  and  in  1749  he  was 
selected  as  one  of  a  committee  "to  keep  the 
boys  in  order  on  the  Sabbath  day."  In  1760 
he  was  one  of  the  committee  to  locate  a  school 
in  the  town,  in  1762  was  appointed  "to  procure 
wood  for  j\Ir.  Dennis,"  and  in  1765  was 
apjiointed  "to  see  Mr.  Dennis."  He  appears 
to  have  possessed  considerable  means  for  after 
his  death  his  real  estate  was  appraised  at  five 
hundred  and  seventy-eight  pounds,  and  his  per- 
sonal property  at  one  hundred  and  seventy- 
nine  pounds,  thirteen  shillings.  He  married, 
in  Eastham,  Massachusetts,  January  13,  1736- 
37,  Mercy  Snow,  born  September  16,  171 3, 
died  May  8,  1790,  daughter  of  Micajah  Snow, 
of  Eastham.  They  had  seven  children,  all  born 
in  Yarmouth:  i.  Micajah,  April  25,  1738.  2. 
Jerusha,  January  28,  1740,  married  Robert 
Homer.  3.  Hannah,  August  17,  1742.  4. 
Daniel.  June  17,  1744.  5.  Phebe,  March  31, 
1747.  married  John  Sears,  fi.  Paul.  June  2, 
1750.     7.  Enos,  June   11,  1752. 

(V)  Enos,  youngest  son  and  child  of  Daniel 
and  Mercy  (Snow)  Sears,  was  born  in  Yar- 
mouth, June  II,  1752,  died  July  11,  1822,  hav- 
ing suffered  with  a  mental  derangement  for 
many  years  previous  to  his  death.  lie  was  a 
farmer  and  lived  in  Ashfield,  Massachusetts, 
where  part  of  his  children  were  born.  He 
married,  in  Yarmouth,  February  11,  1777,  Re- 
becca, daughter  of  .Sylvanus  Kelly,  and  by  her 
had  six  children:  i.  Daniel,  born  October  6, 
1779.  2.  William,  about  1785.  3.  Hannah, 
married  Barnabas  Fldridge.  4.  Tamsen,  mar- 
ried Josejjh  Hall.     5.   Dinah,  married  

Baldwin.    6.  .Mercy,  died  December  16,  1821. 

(VI)  William,  son  of  Enos  anfl  Rebecca 
(Kelly)  Sears,  was  born  in  Ashfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, about  1785,  and  died  there  in  August, 
1829.  He  was  a  thrifty  farmer  and  spent  his 
whole  life  in  the  town.  He  married  Tamsen 
Eldri.lgc,    liorn     Ashfield,     1786,    dicl     1880, 


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daughter  of  Levi  Eldridge,  who  was  one  of 
the  most  energetic  men  of  Ashfield,  could  turn 
his  hand  to  ahnost  any  kind  of  employment, 
and  whatever  he  did  was  well  done.  William 
and  Tamsen  (Eldridge)  Sears  had  five  chil- 
dren, all  born  in  Ashfield:  i.  Lomina,  about 
1810,  married,  about  1830,  Ephraim  Williams, 
and  lived  in  Ashfield.    2.  Nathan,  about  1813. 

3.  William.  June  20,  1818,  married  in  Albany, 
New  York,  October  16,  1845,  Judith  Adams 
and  had  three  children;  he  died  May  15,  1903. 

4.  Samuel,  July  28,  1820,  married,  in  Winfield, 
New  York,  August  13,  1850,  Amanda  Dodge, 
and  removed  to  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan  ;  he 
died  June  26,  1908.  5.  Stephen,  September 
17,  1822,  married,  November  14,  1850,  Min- 
erva Lilley,  and  had  two  children ;  he  died  in 
1903. 

( VII )  Nathan,  son  of  \\  illiam  and  Tamsen 
(Eldridge)  Sears,  was  born  in  Ashfield,  Mass- 
achusetts, about  1813,  died  in  Ashfield,  to 
which  town  he  removed  about  twenty  years 
before  his  death.  After  the  death  of  his  father 
the  hard  work  of  the  farm  fell  upon  him,  but 
he  managed  the  old  place  to  good  advantage, 
keeping  at  times  as  many  as  four  hundred  and 
fifty  sheep.  Me  also  dealt  in  wood  and  proved 
a  capable  and  fairly  successful  business  man. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church 
and  in  political  preference  was  an  old  line  W  hig. 
He  married  Abigail  Bates,  and  by  her  had 
two  children:  i.  Lemuel,  born  February  17, 
1835.  2.  Eliza,  March  2,  1839,  married  Duane 
Lilly:  she  died  March  23,  1901. 

(Vni)  Lemuel,  only  son  of  Nathan  and 
Abigail  (Bates)  Sears,  was  born  in  Ashfield, 
Massachusetts,  February  17,  1835,  and  for 
almost  half  a  century  has  been  engaged  in 
mercantile  pursuits  in  Holyoke,  Massachusetts. 
He  lived  at  home  on  the  farm  in  Ashfield  until 
he  was  about  twenty  years  old,  and  while  he 
was  brought  up  a  farmer  he  appears  to  have 
been  a  natural  mechanic,  having  inherited  his 
grandfather's  jieculiar  talent  in  that  direction. 
Several  years  before  he  was  of  full  age  he 
rebuilt  an  old  mill  and  built  a  new  sugar  house, 
laying  out  the  frames  and  doing  the  work  him- 
self;  and  when  the  new  meeting  house  in  Ash- 
field was  finished  and  there  yet  remained  the 
horse  sheds  to  be  put  up,  he  laid  out  the 
frames  for  men  far  older  than  himself,  and 
much  to  the  surprise  of  Captain  Chajiin  who, 
observing  the  young  man's  work,  exclaimed 
"Lemuel  can  do  it  as  well  as  L"  When  he 
was  twenty  years  old  Mr.  Sears  began  dealing 
in  wool,  buying  and  selling  (|uitc  extensively, 
and  travelling  over  all  the  surrounding  country 


in  prosecuting  his  business.  When  he  was 
thirty-one  he  went  to  Holyoke  and  bought  a 
small  grocery  and  provision  store,  and  while 
he  was  without  previous  experience  in  that 
line  of  trade  the  venture  proved  a  success  from 
the  beginning,  and  the  large  wholesale  and 
retail  establishment  of  which  he  is  the  head  is 
the  outgrowth  of  the  start  he  made  just  at  the 
close  of  the  civil  war.  During  the  forty-three 
years  of  his  residence  in  Holyoke  Mr.  Sears 
has  been  identified  with  the  business  life  of  the 
city  in  many  ways,  although  he  never  sought 
political  office,  and  frequently  declined  it.  For 
more  than  twenty  years  he  has  been  a  member 
of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  City  Bank  of 
Holyoke,  for  the  last  ten  years  president  of 
the  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank,  and  for  twenty- 
five  years  a  member  of  the  city  sinking  fund 
commission.  On  November  27,  i860,  Mr. 
Sears  married  Martha  ^L,  daughter  of  Dea- 
con Ephraim  Ford,  of  Cummington,  and  by 
whom  he  had  two  children :  i.  Jennie  E.,  mar- 
ried Franklin  ^L  Street  and  have  one  daughter, 
Florence  Street,  born  March  4,  1897.  2. 
Arthur  L.  died  November  9.  1880. 


The  Shumways  are  a  French 
SHUMWAY  family  and  doubtless  of  the 
Protestant  sect  of  Hugue- 
nots. Some  writers  have  said  that  originally 
the  name  was  Chamois  or  Charmois.  In  the 
ancient  records  of  Essex  county,  Massachu- 
setts, the  name  is  frequently  found  written 
Shamway.  Dr.  Baird  is  authority  for  the 
statement  that  a  "Protestant  family  named 
Chamois  is  mentioned  in  a  list  of  fugitives 
from  the  neighborhood  of  St.  Maixent  in  the 
old  province  of  Poitou,  France,  at  the  time  of 
the  revocation  of  the  edict  of  Nantes." 

(I)  Peter  Shumway,  the  immigrant,  was 
settled  in  Topsfield,  Massachusetts,  as  early 
as  the  year  iGTio,  and  it  is  believed  that  he  was 
in  this  country  at  least  ten  years  previous  to 
that  time,  or  about  the  middle  of  the  seven- 
teenth century.  He  was  a  soldier  of  King 
Philiji's  war  and  is  said  to  have  been  present 
at  the  taking  of  the  fort  in  the  memorable 
swamp  fight  of  December  19,  1675,  in  the 
country  of  the  Narragansetts.  On  account  of 
his  services  in  that  war  his  son  afterward  peti- 
tioned for  a  grant  of  land.  Peter  Shumway 
came  into  this  country  at  the  same  time  that 
Peter  Faneuil  and  other  l-'rench  Huguenots 
came,  and  he  lived  for  a  time  at  Salem  \'illage 
(now  Danvers),  Massachusetts,  previous  to 
his  removal  to  Oxford,  Massachusetts,  where 
a  few  years  afterward  his  son  was  a  settler. 


MASSACHL'SETTS. 


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The  baptismal  name  of  his  wife  was  Frances, 
and  by  her  he  had  three  children:  i.  Peter, 
born  at  Topsfield  (see  post).  2.  Dorcas,  born 
Topsfield,  October  i6,  16S3,  married  \'alentine 
Butler.  3.  Joseph,  born  Topsfield,  October  13, 
1686. 

(II)  Peter  (2),  son  of  Peter  (i)  and  Fran- 
ces Shumway,  was  born  in  Topsfield,  June  6, 
1678,  settled  in  Oxford,  not  however  with  the 
original  settlers  and  proprietors  of  that  town, 
but  on  the  land  right  of  Joshua  Chandler, 
which,  he  bought  January  13,  1713.  His  home 
lot  in  Oxford  included  that  now  or  quite  re- 
cently owned  by  Josiah  Russell.  His  family 
has  since  been  one  of  the  best  known  and  most 
highly  respected  in  that  region.  He  married 
(first)  February  11,  1701,  Maria  Smith,  who 
died  January  17,  1739.  It  is  said  that  her 
father  built  the  third  house  having  a  cellar  in 
the  city  of  Boston.  Peter  Shumway  married 
(second)  February  28,  1740.  Mary  Dana.  He 
had  nine  children,  all  born  of  his  first  mar- 
riage: I.  Oliver,  Oxford,  June  8.  1702.  2. 
Jeremiah,  baptized  at  Topsfield.  March  21, 
^7^3-  3-  David,  baptized  December  23,  1705 
(see  post).  4.  Mary,  baptized  Topsfield,  May 
9,  1708.  5.  Samuel,  born  Oxford,  March  6, 
171 1.  6.  John,  born  Oxford,  June  26,  1713. 
7.  Jacob,  born  Oxford,  ^Nlarch  10,  1717.  8. 
Hepzibah,  born  April  i,  1720,  married,  No- 
vember 12,  1741,  Obadiah  Walker.  9.  Amos, 
born  January  31,  1722. 

(III)  David,  son  of  Peter  (2)  and  Maria 
(Smith)  Shumway,  was  baptized  in  Topsfield, 
December  23,  1705,  and  lived  for  some  time  in 
Oxford.  Massachusetts.  In  December,  1733, 
he  bought  one  fiftieth  part  of  the  lands  of 
Sturbridge  and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  that 
town  as  well  as  being  one  of  the  foremost  men 
of  that   region.      He   married    (first)    Esther 

,  and  (second)  Alice .    She  died 

January  12,  1810,  having  survived  her  hus- 
band several  years,  he  having  flicd  May  10, 
1796.  He  had  a  large  family  of  thirteen  chil- 
dren, five  by  his  first  and  eight  by  his  second 
wife:  I.  Esther,  born  April  3,  1736.  2.  Asa, 
October  16,  1739.  3.  Mary,  June  25,  1741.  4. 
David,  May  12,  1743.  5.  Solomon,  April  i, 
1745  (see  post).  6.  Cyril,  May  4,  1752.  7. 
Elijah,  born  July  24,,  1753.  8.  Alice,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1754.  9.  Abigail,  July  8,  1756.  10. 
Lavinia,  August  26,  1759.  11.  Chloe,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1761.  12.  Jemima,  August  9,  1763.  13. 
Dan  forth,  July  18,  1768. 

(IV)  Solomon,  son  of  David  and  Esther 
Shumway,  was  born  April  i,  1745.  He  re- 
moved early   to   Belchertown,   Massachusetts, 


and  was  progenitor  of  tlie  numerous  family  of 
his  surname  in  that  town  and  its  vicinity.  He 
had  a  son,  grandson  and  great-grandson  named 
Solomon,  the  latter  of  whom  was  a  teacher  at 
Belchertown  in  1885  and  who  was  father  of 
Edgar  L.  Shumway,  one  of  the  faculty  of 
Rutgers  College,  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey, 
in  1892.  The  records  furnish  only  a  meagre 
account  of  Solomon  Shumway  and  make  no 
niention  of  the  names  of  any  other  of  his  chil- 
dren than  Solomon,  although  it  is  more  than 
probable  that  he  had  others ;  and  it  may  be 
assumed  that  among  them  there  was  a  son 
Elihu. 

(\')  Elihu,  presumably  a  son  of  Solomon 
Shumway,  was  for  many  years  a  resident  of 
Belchertown  and  may  have  been  born  there. 
He  married  Charlotte  Crittenden,  and  by  her 
had  seven  children:  i.  Leonard  C,  born  No- 
vember 21,  1815.  2.  Samuel  H.,  July  16,  1817. 
3.  Elizabeth  R.,  October  23,  1821.  4.  Lucretia, 
September  23,  1824.  3.  Cynthia,  April  9,  1827. 
6.  ^\'illard,  October  16,  1829.  7.  Austin  L., 
September  13,  1832  (see  post). 

(\'I)  Austin  L.,  youngest  son  and  child  of 
Elilui  and  Charlotte  (Crittenden)  Shumway, 
was  born  in  Belchertown,  September  13,  1832, 
and  while  as  a  boy  he  was  sent  to  the  town 
school  it  became  necessary  that  he  start  out 
early  to  make  his  own  way  in  life.  For  several 
years  he  worked  as  clerk  in  a  store  in  Enfield, 
Massachusetts,  and  after  he  had  gained  a  fair 
understanding  of  business  methods  and  accum- 
ulated sufficient  money  to  make  a  safe  start 
he  opened  a  dry  goods  store  in  Holyoke,  Mass- 
achusetts, and  in  the  course  of  a  few  years 
became  one  of  the  leading  merchants  and  busi- 
ness men  of  that  city.  He  continued  in  active 
pursuits  for  full  thirty-five  years,  and  his 
career  was  one  of  most  gratifying  success 
from  every  point  of  view.  He  was  a  Templar 
Mason,  a  Republican  in  politics  and  a  Congre- 
gationalist  in  religion.  lie  died  March  23, 
1901.  Mr.  Shumway  married,  October  25, 
1859,  Louise  F.  Richards,  born  April  21,  1838, 
daughter  of  James  and  Priscilla  C.  (New- 
comb)  Richards  (see  Richards).  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Shumway  had  nine  children:  i.  Edward  A., 
born  July  22,  1861.  2.  Arthur  R.,  January  16, 
1864,  died  1872.  3.  Mary  L.,  August  28,  1865, 
married  George  S.  Parsons ;  one  daughter, 
Mary  Louise,  born  July  25,  1900.  4.  Char- 
lotte, March  24,  1867,  died  in  1868.  5.  Sarah, 
January  15,  1869,  married  A.  K.  Sibley,  of 
Warren,  Massachusetts,  and  has  one  child, 
Priscilla,  born  December  13,  1905.  6.  William 
R.,  .•\i)ril  20,  1873.  married  Mary  Eraser.     7. 


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Charles,  July  '26,  1875,  died  1875.  8.  Robert, 
Aiit;nst  16,  1876.  married  Adelina  Ritter,  and 
has  two  children,  Helen  E.,  born  April  11, 
1903,  and  Frank  Ritter,  born  March  27,  1906. 
9.  Priscilla,  June  24,  1881,  graduated  from  Mt. 
Holyoke  College,  class  of  1905. 

(The  Richards  Line). 

This  is  one  of  the  numerous  prominent 
names  of  Welsh  origin  which  are  found  largely 
represented  throughout  the  states  of  America, 
and  one  which  has  been  identified  with  pro- 
gress along  the  lines  of  human  endeavor  from 
a  very  early  period  in  the  settlement  of  the 
New  England  colonies.  It  is  one  of  the  names 
which  originated  in  the  Welsh  system  of  mak- 
ing possessive  form  of  the  father's  name  a 
surname,  and  is  e(|uivalent  to  Richard's  son. 
The  name  as  a  christian  name  is  very  ancient 
and  is  found  in  the  early  annals  of  the  present 
English  nation,  and  so  developed  into  a  sur- 
name along  with  others  in  very  common  usage. 
Books  of  heraldry  give  not  less  than  seventeen 
distinct  coats-of-arms  connected  with  the  name 
Richards,  enough  of  which  point  back  to  Wales 
to  justify  the  general  belief  that  here  was  the 
original  hive  from  which  issued  the  founders 
of  illustrious  families  of  that  name  in  different 
countries  of  England.  At  Caernwick,  Mar- 
ioneth  county,  Wales,  is  a  manor  inherited  by 
Sir  Richard  Richards,  president  of  the  house 
of  lords  and  lord  chief  baron  of  the  exchequer, 
and  in  the  annals  his  ancestors,  about  1550, 
are  spoken  of  as  the  ancient  possessors.  They 
claim  the  privilege  of  bearing  the  identical 
arms  of  Richarfl  of  East  Bagborough,  in  the 
county  of  Somerset.  This  was  depicted  on 
the  tablet  of  FEon.  James  Richards,  of  Hart- 
ford, who  died  in  1680,  and  may  be  seen  in 
an  ancient  manuscript  in  the  New  England 
Historic-Genealogical  Societies'  Library  halved 
with  the  arms  of  (Governor  Winthrop,  whose 
daughter  married  a  Richards  in  1692.  Tliere 
arc  at  present  many  clergymen  of  the  name  in 
England  and  Wales,  and  it  has  long  been  illus- 
trious in  Europe. 

(I)  William  Richards,  immigrant,  is  first 
mentioned  March  25,  1633,  when  by  the  court 
of  Plymouth,  comprising  Governor  Bradford, 
Captain  Alyles  Standish.  Jolui  .Mden  and  eight 
others,  he  was  rated  nine  shillings  in  corn  at 
six  shillings  per  bushel,  for  public  use,  to  be 
brought  in  by  the  last  day  of  November,  or 
the  amount  to  be  doubled  if  not  then  paid.  In 
January,  1636-37.  he  removed  to  Scituatc  and 
forfeited  his  lot  at  Plymouth,  whereupon  the 
court  ordered  that  "six  acres  where  \\'illiam 


Richards  dwelt  be  granted  to  Nathaniel  Low- 
ther,  to  belong  to  his  house  at  Plymouth." 
This  indicates  that  he  perhaps  had  removed 
to  Scituate  as  early  as  1635  or  1636.  In  1635 
a  fresh  recruit  of  planters  with  Rev.  Mr.  New- 
man arrived  at  Weymouth.  These,  like  the 
company  previously  settled  there,  were  also 
no  doubt  from  Weymouth,  eight  miles  from 
Dorchester  in  Dorsetshire.  In  this  company 
William  Richards,  of  Scituate,  and  Thomas 
Richards,  of  Dorchester,  are  supposed  to  have 
had  friends  who  attracted  them,  for  both 
joined  them,  Thomas  within  a  few  months  and 
William  within  a  few  years,  and  there  both 
spent  the  remainder  of  their  days. 

William  Richards  appears  to  have  inherited 
the  traditional  traits  of  his  ancestors,  was 
tenacious  of  his  rights,  enterprising,  given  to 
change  and  trade.  In  1640  he  had  a  dispute 
with  John  Turner,  of  Scituate,  and  it  became 
necessary  for  the  general  court  to  appoint  a 
commission  to  settle  it.  Yet  there  is  nothing 
which  appears  to  invalidate  evidence  of  piety 
and  the  most  strict  uprightness,  and  he  is  pre- 
sumed to  have  been  a  member  of  the  church 
and  a  freeman,  although  no  record  of  such 
has  been  found.  In  1645  he  removed  to  Wey- 
mouth, where  a  vote  of  the  townsmen  exempted 
him  from  a  certain  town  order.  In  1650  he 
sold  a  farm  in  Scituate  to  Gowen  White  for 
seventy-five  pounds.  In  1659  he  was  con- 
stable of  ^\'cymouth,  and  as  one  of  the  pro- 
prietors of  tliat  town  received  nineteen  and 
one-half  acres  of  land,  "bounded  east  by  the 
sea.  and  two  acres  of  salt  marsh  in  the  neck ; 
and  soon  after   four  acres  of  upland  on  the 

neck."     He  married  Grace  ,  and  in  his 

will,  dated  January  18,  1680,  proved  July  25, 
1682,  he  gave  her  during  her  life,  or  widow- 
hood, the  income  and  improvement  of  "all  his 
houscing  and  out  houscing.  Orchard,  lands, 
chattels  and  moveables  in  \\'eymouth  or  else- 
where, with  power  in  case  of  need  to  sell  any 
jjart  thereof  for  her  comfortable  subsistence." 
William  and  Grace  Richards  had  five  children : 
I.  John,  born  probably  at  Plymouth  or  Scit- 
uate, died  1695.  2.  Joseph  (see  post).  3. 
James,  born  jtrobably  at  W'eymouth,  died 
March  8,  171 1.  4.  William,  born  2  4mo.  1658, 
at  Weymouth,  died  1683.  5.  F>enjamin,  born 
May  19,  i6(>o,  died  1683. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  William  and  Grace 
Richards,  was  born  probably  in  Plymouth  or 
Scituate,  and  died  in  1695.  In  1674  he  be- 
came one  of  the  proprietors  of  Worcester,  but 
settled  in  Weymouth :  took  the  freeman's  oath 
in  i()8i,  was  fence  viewer  in  1692-93,  and  made 


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his  will  February  24,  1695-96.  His  estate  was 
inventoried  March  9,  1695-96.  at  one  hundred 
and  fifty-six  pounds,  thirty  shillings.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Susan ,  and  (second)  Sarah 

,  who  was  executrix  of  his  will  and  in 


171 2- 1 3,  on  eight  shares,  drew  one  hundred 
and  thirty-five  acres  of  the  common  lands  in 
Weymouth.  His  children:  i.  Joseph,  born 
May  7,  1675,  lived  in  Bridgewater,  Massachu- 
setts. 2.  Susanna,  married,  in  1720,  John  Bur- 
rell.  3.  Sarah,  married,  in  1730,  William 
Davenport,  of  Bridgewater.  4.  James,  born 
September  28,  1680.  5.  Deborah,  October  19, 
1684.     6.  Benjamin,  April  7,  1686  (see  post). 

7.  William,  April  12,  1688.  removed  to  Con- 
necticut.    8.  Mary,  March  6,  1689-90. 

(HI)  Benjamin,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 
Richards,  was  born  in  \\'eymouth,  Massachu- 
setts, April  7,  1686,  died  April  12,  1741.  He 
settled  in  West  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts, 
and  spent  his  life  there.  He  married  (first) 
in  171 1,  Mehitable,  daughter  of  Isaac  Alden, 
and  a  descendant  of  John  Alden,  the  Pilgrim. 
She  died  in  1720  and  he  married  (second) 
November  20.  1722,  Lydia  Faxon,  who  died 
in  1788.  aged  ninety-two  years.  He  had  eleven 
children:  i.  Mehitable,  born  1712,  married 
David  Packard  Jr.  2.  Joseph,  1714,  died  April, 
1793:  married  Mary  Hamlin.  3.  Daniel,  1716, 
died  1789:  married  Mary  Packard.  4.  James, 
1718,  died  young.  5.  Sarah,  1720,  married, 
1740.  William  Packard.  6.  John,  1723  (see 
post).  7.  Deacon  Josiah,  1724,  died  1815; 
married  Anne  Robinson.  8.  Seth,  1726,  died 
young.  9.  Ezra,  1728,  died  1786.  10.  Lydia, 
1732,  died  1823:  married,  1757,  Deacon 
Xathan  Alden.  ir.  Haimah,  1736,  married 
Philip  Bryant,  a  physician. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Lydia 
(Faxon)  Richards,  was  born  in  West  Bridge- 
water,  Massachusetts,  in  1723,  and  spent  his 
life  in  that  town  and  in  the  town  of  Bridge- 
water.  He  was  a  farmer.  lie  married,  in 
1 75 1,  Keziah,  daughter  of  Captain  Israel 
Bailey,  of  Scituate,  and  by  her  had  sixteen 
children:  i.  John,  a  revolutionary  soldier, 
who  died  in  the  service.  2.  Sarah,  born  1752, 
married  (first)  1795,  Joseph  Thayer  Jr.,  of 
Stonington,  Connecticut,  (second)  Deacon 
Zachariah  Thayer,  of  Randolph.  3.  Keziah, 
1755,  married,  1778.  James  Ingalls.  4.  lienja- 
min.  1758,  died  1812:  married,  1783,  Polly 
Bartlett.  5.  Seth.  1763,  died  1837;  married, 
1791,  Mehitable  .Snow.  6.  James,  1766  (.see 
post).     7.  Ezra,  1768,  married  Martha  Nash. 

8.  Tamazin,  1770.  married,  1795,  Joseph  .Snow. 

9.  Lydia,  1773.     10.  Jennet,  1774.     11.  Daniel. 


12.  John.  13.  Luther.  14.  Rhoda.  Besides 
these  there  were  two  other  children  who  died 
in  infancy. 

(  V)  James,  son  of  John  and  Keziah  (Bailey) 
Richards,  was  born  in  Bridgewater,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1766.  In  1796  he  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Deacon  Ebcnezer  Rich,  a  pros- 
perous mill  owner  of  Enfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  soon  afterward  removed  to  that  town  and 
was  a  carpenter  and  builder  there  and  also  in 
Greenwich.  He  built  the  Congregational 
church  in  Greenwich  and  that  ancient  edifice 
still  stands  as  a  monument  of  the  substantial 
character  of  the  man  and  the  work  performed 
by  him.  By  wife  Sarah  he  had  eleven  chil- 
dren :  I.  Sidney,  born  1797,  lived  on  the  home- 
stead in  Enfield.  2.  Joab  R.,  1799,  was  a 
physician  and  a  man  of  high  repute ;  married 
(first)  Sarah  Peak,  of  Virginia,  (second) 
Eliza  Kempton,  (third)  Mrs.  Ellen  Simons. 
Dr.  Richards  was  a  cotton  planter  near  Yazoo, 
Mississippi.  3.  James,  1801  (see  post).  4. 
William,  October  18,  1803,  died  1833:  A.  M., 
Amherst;  married  Lydia,  daughter  of  John 
Gray,  '  Esq.,  of  Yarmouth,  Mississippi.  5. 
Luther,  August  4,  1805,  married  Mary  Pinny 
and  lived  at  Tariffville,  Connecticut.  6.  Ben- 
jamin, July  14,  1807,  died  February  4,  1857, 
at  Council  BlufYs,  Iowa.  7.  Melinda,  Decem- 
ber 31,  1808,  died  1849;  married  Ichabod  Pope. 
8.  Josiah,  October  10,  1810,  married  Sarah 
Jane  Moore.  9.  Seth,  June  9,  1812,  married 
(first)  Mary  Turner  Jones ;  (second)  Cornelia 
Smith.  10.  George  Anson,  July  14,  1814.  11. 
Sarah  Ann,  July  19,  1816,  married  Charles 
Lane. 

(VI)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  and 
Sarah  (Rich)  Richards,  was  born  March  20, 
1801,  in  Enfield,  Massachusetts,  died  February 
16,  1886.  His  young  life  was  spent  at  home 
on  his  father's  farm  in  Enfield  and  he  attended 
the  district  school  of  that  town.  On  attaining 
his  majority  he  purchased  a  farm  and  started 
out  to  make  his  own  way  in  business  life,  and 
in  this  respect  he  was  successful,  for  he  was  a 
thrifty  and  industrious  man  and  exercised  con- 
siderable influence  among  his  fellow  towns- 
men. In  politics  he  was  a  Whig  and  in  relig- 
ious preference  Universalist.  On  August  27, 
1822,  ]\Tr.  Richards  married  Priscilla  C,  daugh- 
ter of  Elisha  and  Rachel  (Collins)  Newcomb. 
Nine  children  were  born  of  this  marriage:  i. 
Maria  P.,  born  March  i,  1823.  2.  Charles,  No- 
vember 18,  1824.  3.  William,  October  27, 
1826.  4.  George,  January  27,  1829.  5.  Jane, 
May  25,  1831.  6.  John,  October  i,  1833.  7. 
Mary.  March  7,  1836.     8.  Louise  F.,  .\|)ril  21, 


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1838,  married.  October  25,  1859,  Austin  L. 
Shumway  (see  Shumway).  9.  Marshall  N., 
November  26,  1840. 

Edmund  Gustin,  the  progenitor 
GUSTIN  of  this  family,  lived  at  St. 
Ouens,  Isle  of  Jersey.  He  mar- 
ried there,  April  25,  1638,  Esther  le  Rossignol. 
The  homestead  at  St.  Ouens  was  sold  by  their 
son  in  1677  to  John  Brock,  of  Reading,  Mass- 
achusetts. The  family  name  is  something  of  a 
puzzle,  however.  The  son,  who  will  be  known 
in  this  sketch  as  John  Gustin,  was  originally 
designated  Augustine  Jean  in  the  records. 
Savage  implies  that  the  name  should  have  been 
Jean  or  John  Augustine,  and  it  certainly  took 
that  form  after  its  owner  came  to  America. 
In  a  few  years  it  was  shortened  to  Gustine, 
and  eventually  most  of  the  family  dipt  ofif  the 
terminal  also,  making  it  Gustin.  Esther,  the 
mother  of  Jean,  had  a  brother,  M.  Augustine 
Rossignol,  of  St.  Ouens,  and  it  is  presumed 
that  both  Jean  and  Augustine  were  given 
names. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Edmund  and  Esther  (le 
Rossignol)  Gustin,  was  born  in  St.  Ouens,  Isle 
of  Jersey,  Jaiuiary  9,  1647.    He  came  to  New 
England'  in    1675   with   Pierre   Baudoin,   Bot- 
nineau,    Bayer    and    le    Breton,    all    of    these 
names  showing  the  French  origin.    He  was  a 
sergeant  in  Captain  Turner's  company  during 
King  Philip's  war,  1676.    He  made  his  home 
in    Reading,    Massachusetts,    and    was    living 
there  in  1677  when  he  sold  his  English  patri- 
mony.    In  1680  he  received  a  grant  of  land  at 
vpalniouth  from  President  Dan  forth,  the  fourth 
lot  on  what  was  Broad  street,  now  India  street, 
Portland,   Maine,  with  the  privilege  of  con- 
ducting a  brick  yard.     He  purchased  a  small 
lot  in  Falmouth  from  Widow  Housing,  on  the 
west  side  of  the  Presumpscot  river,  and  with 
other  settlers  was  driven  from  his  home  by 
the  Indians,  but  returned  in  1719.     lie  was  a 
mariner  a  part  of  the  time  and  was  at  one  time 
captain  of  a  vessel.    He  bought  land  above  the 
falls  on  the  Presumpscot  in  1686  of  Thomas 
Cloice  and  made  his  home  there  until  May  26, 
1690,  when  the  Indians  destroyed  Falmouth, 
and  all  that  Mr.  Gustin  saved  of  his  household 
effects  was  one  chair.    He  married,  at  Water- 
town,  Massachusetts,  January  10,  1678,  Eliz- 
abeth, daughter  of  John  and  Esther   (Make- 
peace) Brown,  and  was  mentioned  in  the  will 
of  his  father-in-law.    Some  of  his  children  did 
not  return  to  Maine,  but  went  trt  Pennsylvania, 
Connecticut  and  elsewhere.     His  descendants 
have  been  traced  in  \'irginia  and  Pennsylvania 


among  the  well  known  families  of  Hamiltons, 
Snowdons  and  Thompsons  of  Philadelphia; 
Clews,  Hunters  and  Greens  of  Virginia.  He 
left  a  widow  and  seven  children:  Samuel, 
John  Jr..  Thomas,  mentioned  below,  Ebenezer, 
David,  Sarah  and  Abigail. 

(Ill)  Thomas,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Brown)  Gustin,  was  born  about  1690.  He  set- 
tled at  Colchester,  Connecticut,  where  June  7, 
1722,  he  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Gates)  Holmes,  of  Colchester.  The 
birth  of  the  eldest  son  is  recorded  there.  Their 
children  were:  Thomas  Jr.,  see  forward; 
Samuel  settled  at  Marlow,  New  Hampshire, 
about  1765;  John,  resided  in  Lyme,  Connecti- 
cut, and  had  a  son,  John  Jr.,  born  there  Sep- 
tember 27,  1768;  Josiah,  born  1749,  also  settled 
at  ^larlow. 

(1\ )  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i)  and 
Sarah  (Holmes)  Gustin,  was  born  in  Col- 
chester, Connecticut,  July  19,  1725.  About 
1765  he  and  his  brother  Samuel  settled  among 
the  first  seven  in  the  grant  of  land  at  Marlow, 
New  Hampshire,  made  October  7,  1761,  to 
men  of  Lyme  and  Colchester.  Samuel  re- 
mained there  and  was  chaimian  of  the  com- 
mittee for  the  towns  of  Marlow,  Alstead  and 
Surrey,  New  Hampshire,  representing  the 
signers  of  a  petition  relative  to  a  representative 
to  the  legislature,  December  11,  1776.  Thomas 
Gustin  was  an  early  settler  at  Claremont,  New 
Hampshire,  where  he  was  a  farmer  and  raised 
large  numbers  of  cattle,  sheep  and  swine.  He 
was  a  member  of  a  committee  to  audit  the 
accounts  of  the  selectmen  in  1768-70;  was 
chosen  town  treasurer,  March  13,  1770;  mod- 
erator in  1772;  selectman,  1771-72-74-75,  and 
on  the  committee  of  safety  in  1775.  He  took 
the  first  steps  to  form  the  church  in  1771  and 
the  first  minister.  Rev.  George  Wheaton,  was 
settled  in  February,  1772.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution  in  Captain  \\'etherbee's  com- 
pany of  militia  from  Claremont,  Colonel  Isaac 
Wvman's  regiment,  roll  dated  at  Mount  Inde- 
pendence. November  5,  1776.  He  was  also  in 
Colonel  P.cnjamin  Bellow's  regiment.  New 
Hampshire,  stale  militia,  that  went  to  reinforce 
the  northern  continental  army  at  Ticonderoga, 
under  General  Gates,  May  7,  1777,  and  was 
discharged,  June  14,  1777,  the  pay  being  five 
pounds  and  fourteen  shillings  per  mouth  in- 
cluding one  hundred  and  three  miles  to  travel. 
His  relatives,  Joel.  Amos  and  Walter  Gustin, 
were  in  Connecticut  regiments  during  the  revo- 
lution. Josiah  and  others  in  New  Hampshire 
regiments.  The  wife  of  Thomas  Gustin  died 
in    Rockingham,    \'ermont,    where    his    son, 


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Elisha,  settled.  Their  children  were:  Edward, 
see  forward ;  Polly,  married  Seth  Deming,  of 
Cornish.  New  Hampshire ;  Elisha,  removed  to 
Rockingham.  \'ermont.  and  was  a  soldier  in 
th.e  revohitionar)'  war ;  Thomas  Jr.,  also  served 
in  Captain  W'etherbee's  company,  Colonel  Isaac 
Wyman's  regiment. 

(V)  Edward,  son  Thomas  (2)  Giistin,  was 
born  probably  in  Colchester,  Connecticut,  in 
1758,  and  died  at  an  advanced  age  in  Hinsdale, 
Xew  Hampshire.  He  made  an  application  for 
a  pension,  August  10,  1832,  when  he  was  sev- 
enty-four years  of  age,  showing  a  service  of 
fourteen  months  as  a  private  and  eight  months 
as  a  sergeant  in  the  Xew  Hampshire  troops. 
He  served  a  part  of  this  time  under  Captain 
Jones,  Colonel  Troop.  He  was  a  petitioner 
from  Claremont  for  a  lottery  to  defray  the 
expenses  of  needed  roads  connecting  with 
\\'inchester  and  other  towns,  after  the  revolu- 
tion. Later  he  settled  in  Hinsdale.  His  chil- 
dren were:  Edward  Jr.,  born  November  12, 
1786-87,  married,  in  181 1,  Fanny  Field,  and 
resided  in  AN'inchester ;  Thomas,  mentioned 
below:  John. 

(VI)  Thomas  (3),  son  of  Edward  Gustin, 
was  born  about  1790,  probably  in  Claremont, 
New  Hampshire.  He  settled  in  Cornish,  be-, 
came  a  prosperous  farmer,  and  was  exten- 
sively engaged  in  raising  sheep  and  cattle.  He 
married  Alice,  daughter  of  John  Vinton,  and 
had  children :  J\liranda,  Elizabeth,  Alice, 
James  Harvey  and  John. 

fVII)  James  Harvey,  son  of  Thomas  (3) 
and  Alice  (Vinton)  Gustin,  was  born  in  Cor- 
nish, New  Hampshire,  May  19,  1815,  and 
died  at  Winchester,  Massachusetts,  September 
3,  1897.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  his  native  town,  working  between 
school  terms  on  the  farm  of  his  father  until 
he  was  eleven  years  of  age,  when  his  father 
died  and  he  was  "put  out"  to  work  until  he 
\yas  twenty  years  old.  He  then  came  to  Brook- 
line,  Massachusetts,  where  he  entered  the  cm- 
ploy  of  his  brother  John,  who  was  a  market 
gardener.  Later  he  worked  for  a  farmer 
named  Derby  whose  produce  he  used  to  sell  in 
Boston.  It  is  said  that  he  was  the  first  pro- 
duce man  to  back  up  his  wagon  to  the  old 
Quincy  market.  After  a  few  years  he  went 
Into  business  as  the  proprietor  of  a  restaurant 
in  Boston  but  the  venture  proving  unsuccess- 
ful he  abandoned  it  and  went  west.  When 
about  twenty-eight  years  old  he  located  in  Fall 
River,  Massachusetts,  and  learned  the  trade 
of  mason,  and  worked  on  the  construction  of 
many  of  the  big  cotton  mills  there.     In   1853 


he  leased  the  Baldwin  place,  at  Hyde  Park, 
Massachusetts,  but  subsequently  became  fore- 
man on  the  Cheevcr  Newhall  farm  at  Milton, 
where  he  remained  for  three  years.  He  then 
leased  the  Clark  farm  at  Waltham,  Massachu- 
setts, and  raised  produce  for  the  Boston 
market.  He  had  the  Bright  farm  at  Belmont 
four  years ;  the  Darling  farm  at  Woburn  five 
years,  selling  the  ten  years"  lease  to  go  into 
the  meat  and  provision  business  in  Joy  street, 
Boston.  He  worked  afterward  in  VVinchester 
at  the  mason's  trade,  and  at  length  bought  the 
Eaton  farm  in  that  town  and  lived  there  until 
his  death,  September  3,  1897.  He  was  a  Bap- 
tist in  religion,  and  a  Republcan  in  politics. 
He  married,  April  3,  1846.  Susan  Crane,  born 
November  3,  1826,  died  at  Winchester,  Decem- 
ber 16,  1888,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Olive 
(Eaton)  French,  of  Berkley,  Alassachusetts, 
where  the  former  was  a  prominent  citizen  and 
a  representative  to  the  general  court.  The 
children  of  James  Harvey  and  Susan  Crane 
(French)  Gustin  were:  i.  William  Henry, 
born  August  15,  1847,  died  October  30,  1848. 
2.  Mary  Adley,  June  7,  1849,  married,  June  i, 

1879,  Alvah  B.  Heald,  of  Woburn.  They  had 
children:      Alvah    Frances,   born    October    i, 

1880,  died  February  24,  1886;  Florence  War- 
ren, born  June  17,  1883,  died  April  24,  1893; 
Bertha  May,  born  August  31,  1884.  3.  Her- 
bert Ervin,  see  forward.  4.  Francis  Edward, 
see  forward.  5.  Clarence  Harvey,  born  Au- 
gust 12,  1857,  married  Annie  F. 'Sinclair,  of 
Florida:  has  had  children:  M}Ttie,  Harvey, 
James,  Eleanor,  Jessie,  Marion,  Mary.  6. 
Susan  Amelia,  born  February  3,  i860,  mar- 
ried, November  27,  1889,  George  H.  New- 
comb,  of  Woburn.  7.  Charles  Henry,  Bel- 
mont. December  30.  1861,  died  December  28, 
1862.  8.  James  Ernest,  Woburn.  December 
2,  1865,  married,  November  4,  1893,  Lena 
Ellis  Thayer,  of  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  and 
has  had  children :  Mildred,  Ernest,  Raymond, 
Marjorie.  9.  George  Oliver,  March  3,  1868, 
married,  February  6.  1890.  Augusta  Branch, 
of  Charlestown:  has  one  child,  Chester  Orville, 
born  March  23,  1891. 

(VIII)  Herbert  Ervin,  second  son  of  James 
Harvey  and  Susan  Crane  (French)  Gustin, 
was  born  in  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  July 
25,  1852.  While  still  an  infant  he  removed 
with  his  parents  to  Milton,  from  thence  to 
Waltham,  and  still  later  to  Belmont,  where 
he  attended  the  public  schools  for  about  five 
lycars,  after  which  the  family  removed  to 
XVoburn.  where  he  was  a  student  at  the  west 
side  schools,  anrl  attended  one  course  at  the 


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Warren  Academy.    He  worked  on  his  father's 
farm  and  as  a  stone  mason  with  his   father 
until  about  eighteen  years  old  and  then  at  the 
latter   trade   for  two  years  in    Peabody   for 
Samuel  Trask,  a  stone  mason,  contractor  and 
brick  layer.    He  then  came  to  Winchester  and 
entered  the  cmiiloy  of  Samuel  Twombley  as  a 
driver  of  the  market  team  and  seller  in  the 
Boston  market.     In  1879  he  accepted  a  posi- 
tion in  the  produce  store  of  A.  L.  Andrews, 
at  No.   104  Clinton  street,  and  conducted  the 
place    for   a  period   of   seven   years    for   Mr. 
Andrews  under  his  name  H.  E.  Gustin.     He 
was  then  admitted  to  partnership  in  the  busi- 
ness, the  firm  name  remaining  unchanged,  and 
at  the  expiration  of  three  years  purchased  the 
interest  of   Mr.  Andrews,  took  Stedman  W. 
Fottler  as  partner,  and  changed  the  firm  name 
to  H.  E.  Gustin  &  Company.     At  the  end  of 
four  years  he  sold  out  to  Mr.  Fottler  and  re- 
moved to   No.    112   Clinton  street,   where  he 
was  in  business   four  years,  also  buying  the 
produce  business  at  No.  no  Clinton  street  and 
admitting  to  partnership  his  brother,  George 
Oliver,  under  the  firm  name  of  H.  E.  Gustin 
&  Company.    After  two  years  he  sold  the  busi- 
ness at  No.  1 10  to  his  brother  George  Oliver, 
and  has  since  conducted  the  one  at  No.   112 
under  his  own  name.  He  does  a  large  and  profit- 
able wholesale  i)roduce  and  commission  trade 
selling  largely  to  the  retail  (jrovision  merchants 
in  Boston  and  within  fifty  miles  of  the  city. 
Mr.  Gustin  is  the  proprietor  of  a  sixty-two  acre 
"farm  known  as  the  E.  S.  Gray  Scotland  Hill 
farm,  and  the  greater  amount  of  the  products 
of  this  place  are  sold  from  the  Clinton  street 
store.     He  has  about  sixteen  head  of  cattle, 
mostly  Jersey  and  Holstein  breeds,  and  dur- 
ing the  summer  resides  on  the  farm.     He  has 
owned  a  city   residence  at  No.  27  Columbus 
avenue,  Somerville,  since  November  3,   1891. 
He  was  educated  in  the  Baptist  denomination 
but  for  many  years  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Prospect    Hill    Congregational    Church.      His 
political   affiliations  are   with   the   Republican 
party.     He   is  associated   with   the    following 
fraternal   and   other   organizations :     William 
Parkman  Lodge.  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
of  Winchester,  since  May  8,  1877;  Somerville 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  .\pril  16,  1896; 
Orient  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters,  of 
Somerville,  June  10.   1896;  De  Alolay  Com- 
mandery.   Knights  Templar,  of   Boston,  July 
I,  1R76;  Aleppo  Temple,  Nobles  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine:  Lafayette  Lodge  of   Perfection,   No. 
140,  Scottish  Rite;  Charles  F.  Yates  Council, 
Princes  of  Jerusalem,  sixteenth  degree  :  Mount 


Olivet  Chapter  of  Rose  Croix,  eighteenth  de- 
gree;  Massachusetts  Consistory,  thirty-second 
degree;  the  Boston  Fruit  and  Produce  Ex- 
change. Mr.  Gustin  married,  at  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts,  October  25,  1881,  Julia  Liv- 
ingston, born  at  Bangor,  Maine,  August  10, 
1857,  daughter  of  John  and  Nancy  Ann 
(Noyes)  Carlisle,  of  Charlestown,  the  former 
a  cabinetmaker.  Their  children  were :  Her- 
bert Irving,  see  forward;  Ernest  Sumner, born 
February  2,  1888,  died  June  15.  i88q;  Lester 
Carlisle,  March  29,  1890.  now  a  student  in  the 
Somerville  English  high  school;  Ralph  Liv- 
ingston, November  27,  1891. 

(IN)   Herbert  Irving,  eldest  child  of  Her- 
bert   Ervin    and   Julia    Livingston    (Carlisle) 
Gustin,   was   born   in    Boston,    Massachusetts, 
August  15,  1882.     He  was  an  infant  when  his 
parents  removed  to  Somerville.  and  received 
his   education    in   the   public   schools   of   that 
town,  was  eight  months  in  the  Somerville  high 
school,  and  this  was  supplemented  by  a  course 
in  Burdett's  Commerical  College.     In  1899  he 
entered  the  employ  of  his  father  in  the  pro- 
duce business,  with  which  he  has  since  been 
associated,  having  traveled  extensively  in  the 
interests  of  the  business.     He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics  and  has  served  his  party  at  conven- 
tions from  his  district.     He  is  associated  with 
the  following  organizations:     King  Solomon 
Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Som- 
erville;    Somerville     Chapter.     Royal     Arch 
Masons  ;  Orient  Council.  Royal  and  Select  Mas- 
ters, of  Somerville;  De  Molay  Commandery. 
Knights  Templar,  of  Boston.  March  28.  1906: 
Lafayette  Lodge  of  Perfection,  Scottish  Rite ; 
Giles  F.  Yates  Council,  Princes  of  Jerusalem, 
sixteenth  degree ;  Mount  Olivet  Chapter,  Rose 
Croix,  eighteenth  degree;  Massachusetts  Con- 
sistory, thirty-second  degree;  .Aleppo  Temple, 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  P.oston ;  I'.oston 
Fruit  and  Produce  Exchange ;  Cape  Cod  Com- 
mercial Travelers.  Mr.  Gustin  married. at  Salis- 
bury. Massachusetts,  October  12.  1904,  Mildred 
Louise,  born  in  Salisbury,  October  26.   1884, 
daughter  of  John  Quincy  Adams  and  Mary 
Evans  (Merrill)  Pettengi'U,  the  first  mentioned 
a  former  school  master  and  an  cx-represcnta- 
tive.     They  have  one  child,  Bertram   I'etten- 
gill,  born  November  15.  1906. 

(VHI)  Francis  Edward,  third  son  and 
fourth  child  of  James  Harvey  and  Susan 
Crane  (French)  Gustin,  was  born  in  Milton, 
Massachusetts.  .-Xugust  28,  1855.  His  parents 
removed  to  Waltham  when  he  was  an  infant 
and  he  began  his  education  tliere  in  the  public 
schools.     When   he  was   seven   years  old  his 


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parents  removed  to  Woburn,  and  he  attended 
the  Woburn  schools  and  the  Warren  Academy 
and  helped  his  father  on  the  farm  until  he  was 
fourteen    years    old.      He    then    learned    the 
mason's  trade  and  worked  at  this  until  he  was 
seventeen  years  of  age.    His  next  employment 
was  for  eighteen  months  on  the  farm  of  \'.  P. 
Locke,  of  "Winchester,  then  twenty  months  in 
charge  of  the  milk  business  of  Henry  Brick. 
at  Xewton,  and  later  he  was  engaged  in  market 
gardening    for   eighteen    months    for    Samuel 
Twombley.    at    \Vinchester.      He    leased    the 
Jacob  Pierce  place  at  Winchester  for  a  period 
of  eight  years  and  later  the  Hanson  place  for 
market  gardening  and  greenhouses.     In   1890 
he  purchased  a   farm  at   Leominster.   Massa- 
chusetts, conducting  it  in  addition  to  his  other 
business  enterprises  for   four  years,  and  also 
owned  and  cultivated  a   farm  in  Maine   for 
eight  years.     In    IQOO  he  bought  his  present 
farm  in  Woburn,  then  known  as  the  old  EUard 
place,    consisting   of   twenty   acres,   to   which 
he  has  added  about  si.xteen  acres  by  further 
purchase.     He  has  prospered  in  business  and 
found  an  excellent  market  for  his  produce  in 
Boston.     He  is  a  Baptist  in  religious  faith,  a 
Republican  in  politics,  but  has  held  only  one 
public   office,   that   of    special   police.      He    is 
affiliated  with  the  following  fraternal  organi- 
zations:     Mount    Horeb    Lodge,    Free    and 
Accepted   Masons,  since  May   17,   1882;  Wo- 
burn  Chapter,   Royal   Arch   Masons,   Novem- 
ber II,  1892;  Hugh  de  Payen's  Commandery, 
Knights    Templar,    June    24.     1894;     Bethel 
Lodge,   No.    12,    Independent   Order   of   Odd 
Fellows,  at  .Arlington,  November  9,  1881.   He 
is  also  a  member  of  the   Market   (jardeners' 
Association  of  Boston.     Mr.  Gustin  married, 
April  8,  1883.  Ellen  Maria,  born  July  25,  1851, 
daughter  of  James  and  Ellen  (Dudley)  Wal- 
ley,  of  Dedham,  Massachu.setts,  the  former  a 
blacksmith  by  trade.     Children :     Francis  Ed- 
ward Jr..  born  February  4,  1884;  Susan  .\nna, 
December  24,   1886;  Charles   Alfred,    July  3, 
1888. 


Robert  Smith,  immigrant  ances- 
SMITH      tor  of  this  family,  was  born  in 

England.  He  was  among  the 
early  settlers  at  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  and 
signed  the  famous  Exeter  combination  in  1639. 
He  removed  to  the  adjacent  town  of  Hamp- 
ton, New  Hampshire,  and  was  living  there  as 
early  as  1657.  He  was  a  tailor  by  trade.  His 
home  was  on  the  site  of  the  residence  of  the 
late  Joseph  Johnson,  of  Hampton.  He  died 
August  30,  ijoft.     Hs  wife  .Susanna  was  killed 


by  lightning.  June  12,  1680.  Children:  i. 
John,  married, "May  14,  ir)75,  Rebecca  .-Xdams ; 
"(.second)  .August  23,  1676,  Rebecca  Marston. 
2.  Meribah.  married"  Francis  Page.  3.  .Asahel. 
4.  Jonathan,  mentioned  below.  5.  Joseph,  col- 
onel;  judge  of  the  superior  court,  1694-99; 
judge  of  the  probate  court,  1703-08;  provincial 
treasurer ;  selectman ;  deputy  to  the  general 
court;  married  Dorothy  Cotton;  (second) 
MaryMoore;  (third)  Elizabeth  Marshall;  he 
died  November  15,  1717. 

(II)  Jonathan,  son  of  Robert  Smith,  was 
born  1645-50,  probably  at  Exeter,  New  Hamp- 
shire. He  was  a  brickmaker  by  trade  and  lived 
at  Exeter.  He  married,  January  15,  1670, 
Mehitable  Ploldred,  He  was  living  in  1698. 
Children,  born  at  Exeter:  i.  Israel,  January 
16,  1671.  2.  Jacob,  .August  10,  1673.  3.  Ithiel, 
mentioned  below,  4.  Abigail,  Hampton,  June 
22.  1678.  5.  Joseph,  February  7,  1680.  6. 
Leah,  April  7,  1683.  7.  IMehitable,  Augu.st  14, 
1683. 

(III)  Ithiel,  son  of  J(-inathan  Smith,  was 
born  during  King  Philip's  war.  proliably  at 
Hampton.  i"675-76.  He  died  about  1732.  He 
lived  at  Exeter  and  Stratham,  New  Hamp- 
shire.    He  married  Mary  .     Children: 

I.  Ithiel,  settled  at  Kingston,  New  Hampshire, 
and  had  sons  Ithiel  and  Peter.  2.  Solomon, 
mentioned  below. 

(I\')  Solomon,  son  of  Ithiel  Smith,  was 
born   1700-10.     He  settled  at  Stratham.     He 

married    Abigail   .      Children,   born   at 

Stratham:  i.  Joseph,  October  12,  1725.  2. 
John,  March  17,  1729.  3.  Solomon,  December 
'29,  1734.  4.  losiah,  June  2,  1736.  5.  Elipha- 
let.  March  5,  "17,39.  (^-  Joseph,  April  25,  1742, 
mentioned  below.  7.  Samuel,  February  7, 
1743-44, 

( \' )  Joseph,  son  of  Solomon  Smith,  was 
born  at  "Stratham,  .April  25,  1742.  He  married 
Esther  Rundlett,  daughter  of  Theophilus 
Rundlett,  granddaughter  of  James  (2)  and 
great-granddaughter  of  Charles  Runlett  (Ran- 
lett  or  Randlett  1.  He  resided  at  Stratham  and 
lapping.  New  Hami)shire,  and  died  January  21, 
1816.  Children:  i.  Theophilus,  born  l-'ebru- 
ary  26,  1765,  mentioned  below,  and  other 
children. 

(\T)  Captain  Theophilus.  son  of  Joseph 
Smith,  was  born  at  Epping,  New  Hampshire, 
February  26,  1765.  According  to  the  census 
of  1790  a  Thcojihilus  Smith  lived  at  Francis- 
borough.  Maine.  He  resided  at  Epping  and 
Newmarket,  .New  I  lampshire,  and  at  Cornish, 
Maine,  and  was  a  farmer.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  brick  mason.  He  married,  March  13,  1788, 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


Sally  Pike,  daughter  of  John  Pike,  of  Epping. 
Children:  i.  Theophilus,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Greenleaf,  married,  July  13,  1816,  Polly 
French,  of  Epping,  Xew  Hampshire.  3.  Sarah. 
4.  Nrincy. 

(\TI)  Theophilus  (2),  son  of  Theophilus 
(l)  Smith,  was  born  about  1785.  He  married 
Mary  Lowell.  He  spent  his  youth  in  Cornish, 
Maine,  and  later  was  a  farmer  and  lumber- 
man in  Denmark,  Maine,  where  he  died.  He 
was  commissioned  captain  in  the  state  militia. 
He  was  a  prominent  citizen  and  held  various 
positions  of  trust  and  honor.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Whig.  Children:  i.  Lucy  Ann,  mar- 
ried Henry  Warren.  2.  Nancy,  died  aged 
eight  years.  3.  Greenleaf  E.,  born  181 6.  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Amanda,  married  Daniel 
Lowell,  of  Denmark. 

(VTH)  Greenleaf  Edmund,  son  of  Theo- 
philus (2)  Smith,  was  born  in  Cornish.  York 
county,  Maine,  1816.  He  was  brought  up  on 
his  father's  farm  and  early  in  life  began  to 
work  on  the  farm.  He  received  a  common 
school  education  in  the  district  schools.  He 
was  engaged  for  a  number  of  years  as  con- 
tractor in  railroad  construction.  He  was 
thirty  years  old  when  he  took  up  the  study  of 
medicine  under  Dr.  Richardson.  He  began 
to  practice  in  his  native  town,  removing  after 
a  time  to  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
enjoyed  a  large  and  successful  practice.  In 
1882  he  removed  to  Denver,  Colorado,  and 
ontinued  to  reside  there  until  his  death  in 
1885.  He  was  a  Republican  in  ])olitics  and 
faithful  to  his  duty  as  a  citizen.  He  never 
sougiit  public  office,  however.  He  was  a  Free 
Mason.  In  religion  he  was  a  Baptist.  Dr. 
Smith  was  a  physician  of  ability,  and  in  many 
respects  a  man  of  remarkable  character. 
Witiiout  the  advantages  of  a  liberal  education, 
he  began  his  jirofessional  career  at  a  time 
wlu-n  most  physicians  are  already  well  estab- 
li^hecl.  He  had  lieen  successful  in  business 
and  few  men  can  turn  to  the  life  of  a  student 
after  once  enjoying  for  a  space  of  years  the 
success  of  an  active  business  career.  He  had 
to  an  e.xceptional  degree  the  gift  of  concentra- 
tion of  mind  and  self-control.  He  achieved 
his  ambition  in  the  world  of  medicine  and  took 
high  rank  as  a  i)]iysician.  His  personal  char- 
acter was  exemplary.  He  inspired  confidence 
in  liis  ]jatients  and  won  their  affection  and 
esteem.  He  married,  in  1847,  Almira  AIoul- 
ton,  one  of  the  thirteen  children  of  Cutting 
and  Mehitable  (Lord)  Moulton,  of  an  old 
Parsonsfield,  Maine,  family.  Children:  i. 
Sarah  P.,  May  17,  1850,  married  (first)  Oscar 


E.  Lowell,  of  Denmark,  Maine;  (second) 
Frank  A.  Pendexter,  of  Mechanics  Falls, 
Maine.  2.  George  Pray,  June  28,  1851,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Lucy  P.,  September  25,  1854, 
married  Frank  Kincaide,  of  Madison,  Maine. 
4.  Henry  R.,  June,  1856,  married  Nellie  Blais- 
dell  and  resides  in  Denmark,  Maine.  5.  Susan 
M.,  December  25,  i860,  died  unmarried  in 
1876. 

(IX)  George  Pray,  son  of  Greenleaf  E. 
Smith,  was  born  in  Northumberland,  New 
Hampshire,  June  28,  1851.  His  father  re- 
turned to  Cornish,  Maine,  and  the  boy  alter- 
nated work  on  his  father's  farm  with  attend- 
ance at  the  district  school  and  academy.  In 
1867  he  left  home  to  study  the  art  of  engrav- 
ing, being  possessed  of  an  ambition  to  make 
art  his  profession.  He  located  in  Worcester, 
where  he  worked  as  an  engraver  up  to  1875, 
when  the  artistic  fever  was  over,  and  he  deter- 
mined to  become  a  miner  and  ranchman  in  the 
far  west.  He  located  in  Nevada,  where  he 
acquired  large  interests,  and  became  the  con- 
trolling owner  of  the  Buck  mountain  gold 
mine,  one  of  the  most  profitable  in  the  terri- 
tory, and  in  1907  he  was  still  in  control  of  the 
property  as  president  and  general  manager  of 
the  Buck  i\Iountain  Gold  Mining  Company. 
He  also  acquired  a  large  cattle  ranch  in  New 
Mexico,  which  he  held  as  an  investment,  the 
property  including  eighty  thousand  acres  of 
land,  all  of  which  he  placed  under  fence,  and 
in  1907  there  were  several  thousand  growing 
cattle  on  the  ranch,  the  matured  stock  produc- 
ing a  large  annual  income.  Besides  his  west- 
ern interests,  Mr.  Smith,  on  locating  in  Mass- 
achusetts, became  interested  in  eastern  enter- 
prises, and  he  organized  and  became  vice- 
president,  treasurer  and  general  manager  of 
the  Boston  Fuel  Company,  with  offices  in  the 
Beacon  building  on  P)eacon  street.  He  also 
organized  the  Beacon  Machinery  Company, 
which  owns  and  controls  the  patented  machin- 
ery used  by  the  Boston  Fuel  Company  in  the 
manufacture  of  peat  into  commercial  fuel. 
The  universal  deposit  of  peat  throughout  every 
state  in  the  I'nited  States  gives  to  their  cor- 
[loration  a  vast  field  for  works.  Continuous 
]iractical  demonstrations  are  being  made  of  the 
value  and  utility  of  the  ]iroperly  prejiared  peat 
for  general  heating  jjurposes  which  has  carried 
the  enteriirise  into  the  region  of  ])racticability, 
and  it  only  needs  the  introduction  of  specially 
])repared  stoves  and  furnaces  to  make  its  use 
universal.  Mr.  Smith  is  one  of  the  owners  of 
a  well  e(|uipped  stock  farm  near  McCords- 
ville,  Indiana,  and  the  pacers  and  trotters  bred 


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upon  this  farm  have  become  familiar  and 
favorite  objects  of  admiration  at  every  trotting 
association  in  the  coimtry,  for  tlieir  peculiar 
grace,  beauty  and  wonderful  iiuelligence. 

Mr.  Smith  has  behind  him  a  genealogical 
record  that  gives  him  reason  for  especial  pride 
in  the  blood  that  runs  in  his  veins.  His  revo- 
lutionary ancestors  were  not  rare  in  the  annals 
of  that  seven  years  effort  to  throw  off  the 
yoke  of  England,  and  he  is  doing  a  duty  to  his 
country  and  to  the  liberty  loving  in  all  the 
world  by  doing  his  part  in  keeping  alive  the 
spirit  of  liberty,  through  encouraging  the  work 
done  by  the  various  patriotic  societies  of 
America.  He  was  instrumental  in  founding 
the  Sons  of  America,  and  as  head  of  that 
patriotic  and  philanthrojjic  order,  he  placed 
the  organization  in  a  commanding  position 
among  the  fraternal  societies  of  the  United 
States,  and  the  Mortuary  Benetit  Fund  sug- 
gested by  him  has  in  the  quarter  century  of 
its  existence  distributed  over  Sioo.ooo  annu- 
ally to  members  in  benefits.  Mr.  Smith  be- 
came peculiarly  prominent  in  this  connection 
at  the  convention  of  the  order  held  at  Wash- 
ington,  D.  C.,  where  in  his  address  to  the  con- 
vention he  touched  upon  the  murder  of  Dr. 
Cronin,  of  Chicago,  in  a  way  that  caused  the 
Associated  Press  to  telegraph  that  portion  of 
his  address  verbatim  to  all  parts  of  the  Eng- 
lish speaking  world.  Mr.  Smith  married,  June 
22,  1880.  Anna  S.  Chapman,  born  in  Charles- 
town,  Massachusetts.  Children:  i.  \V.  Win- 
ford  H.,  born  in  Scarboro,  Maine,  July,  1881, 
graduate  of  Bowdoin  College,  Maine,  Johns 
Hopkins  University  of  Baltimore,  physician 
and  surgeon,  now  managing  physician  of  Belle- 
vue  Hospital,  Xew  York  City.  2.  Mildred  F., 
born  in  Clarion,  Massachusetts,  1882,  married 
Thomas  Oglesby.  3.  Ross  G..  born  in  Scar- 
boro, Maine,  1885,  general  manager  of  the 
Iris  Gold  Mining  Company  of  Fay,  Nevada; 
married  Lillian  Blair,  of  Massachusetts.  4. 
Ethel,  born  1890.  Mr.  Smith  has  a  beautiful 
residence  on  Otis  .street,  Xevvtonville,  that 
charming  suburb  of  Boston,  and  here  with 
the  fine  roads  and  bridle  paths  of  the  neighbor- 
hood, he  with  his  family  enjoy  to  the  fullest 
the  companionship  of  his  intelligent  and  well 
trained  horses.  Mr.  Smith  became  known  all 
over  the  United  States,  and  of  him  the  Nezv 
York  Herald  said,  "A  man  who  wears  his 
heart  upon  his  sleeve"  and  an  author  who  dedi- 
cated a  novel  to  him  which  became  widely 
read,  described  him  as  "a  man  who  loves  a 
horse,  whose  heart  pulsates  in  a  royal  setting. 


whose  fidelity  never  falters,  and  whose  friend- 
ship never  fails." 

Although  no  complete  genealogy 
FOWLE  of  the  Fovvle  family  has  ever 
been  compiled,  sufficient  data 
has  been  discovered  as  the  result  of  tracing 
a  number  of  lineages  to  make  it  appear  almost 
bcyong  doubt  that  all  of  the  name  in  this 
country  have  de'sccnded  from  (ieorge  Fowle, 
who  settled  in  Concord,  Massachusetts,  a  year 
or  two  prior  to  1638,  when  he  was  admitted 
a  freeman,  and  continued  to  reside  in  Con- 
cord until  between  1646  and  1648,  when  he 
removed  to  Charlestown,  Massachusetts.  He 
was  a  tanner  by  trade  and  buying  land  and 
buildings  in  Charlestown,  he  pursued  his  occu- 
pation there  during  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
Tradition  tells  us  that  he  came  from  the 
Highlands  of  Scotland,  where  he  had  been 
active  in  the  Scottish  clans  and  was  obliged 
to  leave  his  native  hills  on  account  of  political 
troubles.  It  is  not  improbable,  however,  that 
when  he  came  to  this  country  it  was  from 
Kent  county,  England,  for  when  he  settled  in 
Concord  several  Kentish  families  were  there 
who  had  preceded  him,  among  them  the  Mer- 
riam  immigrants,  who  it  has  been  discovered 
came  from  Kent  county,  where  the  name  of 
Fowle  has  not  been  uncommon  in  its  history. 
(I)  George  Fowle  brought  with  him  his 
wife  Mary  f maiden  name  unknown),  his 
daughter  Hannah  and  his  son  John.  W'hile 
in  Concord  four  more  children  were  born  to 
him,  and  after  his  removal  to  Charlestown  five 
more  were  added  to  the  family,  making  eleven 
in  all,  seven  sons  and  four  daughters.  Nine 
of  these  children  lived  to  adult  years,  and  six 
of  the  sons  and  one  daughter  were  married 
and  raised  families,  their  descendants  being 
a  numerous  progeny  who  have  become  scat- 
tered over  many  parts  of  the  country,  although 
the  majority  have  remained  near  their  ances- 
tral homes.  George  Fowle  died  in  Charles- 
town, September  19,  1682,  aged  seventy-two 
years  (gravestone),  showing  that  he  was  born 
in  1610.  His  wife  died  there  February  15, 
1676-77,  aged  sixty-three  years  (gravestone 
with  Inisband).  By  his  will  dated  March  11, 
1681-82,  probated  October  3,  1682,  he  devised 
to  his  sons  in  minute  detail  all  his  property, 
the  real  estate  being  inventoried  at  three  hun- 
dred and  twenty-one  pounds.  He  was  pos- 
.'^essed  of  a  military  spirit,  and  joining  a  train 
band  was  chosen  surveyor  of  arms.  This 
spirit  was  transmittefl  to  many  of  his  descend- 


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ants,  particularly  in  the  line  of  his  son  James, 
who  settled  in  \\'oburn,  Massachusetts.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Hannah,  married  lo  (ii)  1654-55, 
Captain  Samuel  Ruggles,  of  Roxbury:  died 
October  2,  1669.  2.  John  (Captain),  married 
25  (u)  1658-59,  Anna  Carter,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Anna  Carter,  of  Charlestown ; 
(lied  at  Charlestown,  October  13,  171 1.  3. 
Mary,  born  24  (9)  1640,  at  Concord,  Massa- 
chusetts; died  there  in  infancy.  4.  Peter,  born 
2  (10)  1641,  at  Concord,  died  at  Woburn,  De- 
cember II,  1721 ;  married  Mary  Carter,  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  John  and  Elizabeth  Carter,  of 
U'oburn;  resided  at  Charlestown  and  Woburn. 
S.James  (Lieutenant),  see  forward.  6.  Mary, 
born  9  (12)  1644,  at  Concord,  died  at  Charles- 
town, July  4,  1667,  unmarried.  7.  Abraham, 
born  at  Charlestown;  married,  July  14,  1679, 
Hannah  Harris.  8.  Zechariah,  born  at  Charles- 
town, died  there  7   (11)    1677-8;  married  24 

(10)  1675, Paine,  daughter  of  Stephen 

and  Elizabeth  (Carrington)  Paine,  of  Charles- 
town. 9.  Isaac,  born  at  Charlestown,  died 
there  October  15,  1718,  in  his  seventieth  year 
(gravestone )  ;  married,  November  30,  1671, 
Beriah  Bright,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Anne 
(Goldstone)  Bright,  of  Watertown,  Massa- 
chusetts. Isaac  and  Beriah  (Bright)  P'owle 
were,  through  their  daughter  Abigail,  great- 
grandparents  of  .\bigail  (  Smith)  Adams,  wife 
of  President  John  .\dams  and  mother  of  Presi- 
dent John  Quincy  .Adams,  second  and  sixth 
presidents,  respectively,  of  the  United  States. 
10.  Jacob,  born  at  Charlestown ;  died  1678,  at 
Boston.  II.  Elizabeth,  born  at  Charlestown, 
January  2-],  1655-56;  died  there  in  infancy, 
March  10,  1656-57. 

(II)  Lieutenant  James,  son  of  George 
Fowlc.  born  at  Concord.  Massachusetts.  12 
(i)  1642,  died  at  Woburn,  Massachu.setts,  De- 
cember 17,  1690,  in  his  forty-ninth  year;  mar- 
ried, about  1666,  Abigail  Carter,  born  at  Wo- 
burn, April  21.  1648,  daughter  of  Captain 
John  and  Elizabeth  Carter,  of  Woburn.  She 
married  (second)  .April  18.  1692,  linsign 
Samuel  Walker,  of  Woburn.  who  was  a  dea- 
con of  the  Mrst  Church  of  Woburn  from  1692 
until  his  death,  January  18.  1703-04.  She 
married  (third)  Deacon  Samuel  Stone,  of 
Cambridge  Farms,  now  Lexington.  Massa- 
chusetts, and  died,  his  widow,  at  Woburn, 
May  II.  1718.  aged  seventy-one  years  (grave- 
stone). Lieutenant  James  Fowle  was  the  fifth 
child  of  George  Fowle  and  settled  in  Woburn 
probably  at  the  time  he  married  .Abigail  Carter, 
for  their  first  child,  a  son.  was  born  in  Woburn, 
March  4,  1667,  and  was  named  lame<  for  his 


father.  As  shown  by  the  records  he  appeared 
first  in  Woburn  in  1666.  and  in  1668  he  had  a 
right  in  the  common  lands  of  the  town.  In 
1672  he  was  a  constable  of  Woburn.  Being 
imbued  with  the  military  .spirit  of  his  father, 
he  became  a  member  of  the  train  band,  first 
as  a  trooper,  later,  sometime  between  1686 
and  1689,  appointed  an  ensign  by  Governor 
Edmund  .Andros  and  afterwards  elected  a 
lieutenant.  .As  Governor  Andros  was  unpopu- 
lar with  the  colonist,  Mr.  Fovvle's  appoint- 
ment met  with  considerable  opposition,  and 
was  the  subject  of  a  number  of  lengthy  docu- 
ments, with  the  result,  however,  that  the 
appointment  was  allowed  to  stand.  Lieuten- 
ant Fowle  gave  evidence  of  his  patriotism  by 
enlisting  in  1690  in  the  Phipps  expedition  to 
Quebec,  Canada,  against  the  French.  Owing 
to  bad  management  and  the  excessive  cold 
weather  in  Canada,  this  expedition  proved 
unsuccessful,  and  many  of  the  soldiers  from 
New  England  died  in  Canada  from  colds  and 
distemper  brought  on  by  exposure.  There  is 
little  doubt  that,  while  Mr.  Fowle  was  able  to 
return  home,  he  was  afflicted  by  the  prevailing 
distemper,  for  he  died  December  19,  that  year. 
Previous  to  this  departure  on  the  expedition, 
he  apparently  thouglit  it  well  to  i)rovide  against 
the  possibility  of  his  death  while  away,  as  on 
July  30.  1690,  he  made  his  will,  in  which  he 
said :  "Being  by  a  call  of  (iod  bound  for 
Canada  in  the  expedition  against  the  French 
Enemy  and  not  knowing  whether  I  shall  ever 
return  home  alive."  then  disposed  of  his  estate 
to  his  wife  and  children. 

Lieutenant  Fowle  was  a  cordwainer  or  shoe- 
maker by  trade,  and  lived  and  had  his  shop  near 
where  the  present  Central  House  stands.  In  1678 
he  was  allowed  by  the  town  to  take  in  "a  little 
piece  of  land  behind  the  Bell  Hill,"  an  eleva- 
tion adjoining  his  estate,  and  so  called  because 
upon  its  summit  was  then  located  the  bell 
whose  voice  summoned  the  people  to  worship 
in  the  church  near  its  base.  Upon  the  westerly 
slope  of  this  hill,  the  town  laid  out  its  first 
buryng  ground,  which  is  still  jireserved  and  in 
which  rest  the  remains  of  Lieutenant  James 
Fowle,  his  son,  Captain  James  I-'owle.  and  a 
number  of  their  descendants,  as  well  as  the 
ancestors  of  many  other  more  distinguished 
men  who  were  given  to  the  world  by  the  early 
sons  and  daughters  of  the  historic  old  town 
of  Woburn.  Here  were  buried  Captain  Ed- 
ward Johnson,  the  "leather  of  Woburn,"  Col- 
onel Loammi  i'.aldwin.  of  revolutionarv  fame, 
and  Moses  Cleveland,  the  emigrant  ancestor 
of  President  Grover  Cleveland,  also  ancestor 


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of  presidents,  Franklin  Pierce  and  \\'illiam  II. 
Harrison.  From  the  time  when  the  town 
erected  one  of  the  old  time  stone  powder 
houses,  so  common  in  the  early  days,  upon 
this  hill,  it  has  been  known  as  Powder  House 
hill.  Lieutenant  Fowle  was  the  ancestor  of 
all  the  members  of  the  well-known  Fowle 
family  which  has  always  been  prominent  and 
distingT.iished  in  \\'oburn.  He  was  evidently 
a  man  of  thrift  during  his  life,  as  shown  by 
his  holdings  of  land  and  buildings  at  the  time 
of  his  death,  which  comi)rised  the  present 
Central  House  lot,  and  more  to  the  northwest 
and  southeast  on  that  side  of  Main  street,  then 
the  country  road  as  well  as  on  the  opposite 
side,  his  estate  showing  an  appraisal  of  seven 
hundred  and  fifteen  pounds,  (juite  a  fortune 
for  that  time.  To  these  lands  his  descendants 
in  the  succeeding  three  or  four  generations 
gradually  added  until  the  Fowles  came  to  be 
among  the  largest  land  proprietors  in  \\'oburn, 
their  possessions  comprising  many  acres  of 
valuable  land,  with  buildings,  right  in  the 
heart  of  the  town,  land  which  is  now  thickly 
settled  with  business  blocks,  stores,  shops  and 
residences. 

Children,  all  born  at  W'oburn :  i.  Captain 
James,  March  4,  1667,  see  forward.  2.  Abi- 
gail, October  15,  1669,  died  at  \\'oburn,  Jan- 
uary 3.  1690;  married,  July  29,  1689,  Cornet 
Jonathan  W'yman,  son  of  Lieutenant  John  and 
Sarah  (Xutt)  W'yman,  of  W'oburn.  3.  John 
(Captain),  March  12,  1671.  died  at  W'oburn, 
June  13,  1744;  married,  July  i,  1696,  Eliza- 
beth Prescott,  born  at  Concord,  November  27, 
1678,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth 
(Hoar)  Prescott,  of  Concord,  Massachusetts. 
4.  Samuel,  September  17,  1674,  was  a  mariner 
and  died  while  on  a  voyage  about  1699  ^'^ 
1700:  married  Susanna  Blaney,  born  June  13, 
1673,  at  Charlestown,  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  (Powell)  P.laney.  5.  Jacob,  .Ajnil  3, 
1677,  married.  November  3,  1701,  Mary 
Ilroughton,  at  W'oburn.  6.  Elizabeth,  Septem- 
ber 28,  1681,  died  at  Medford,  Massachusetts, 
February  3.  1764,  in  her  eighty-fourth  year 
(gravestone)  ;  married  (first)  March  2,  1699, 
Timothy  Walker,  son  of  Deacon  Samuel  and 
Sarah  (Reed)  Walker,  of  W'oburn:  married 
(second)  Lieutenant  .Stephen  Hall,  of  Med- 
ford, born  at  Charlestown,  son  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Green)  Hall.  7.  Hannah,  January 
23,  1683-84,  married,  December  25,  1705, 
Samuel  Trumbull,  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Jones)  Trumbull,  of  Charlestown.  8.  Mary, 
July  18,  1687.  no  further  record  found, 

(HP)   Captain  James   (2),  son  of  Lieuten- 


ant James  (i)  Fowle,  born  at  Wdbnrn,  March 
4,  1667,  died  there  March  19,  1714,  aged  forty- 
seven  years  and  fourteen  days  (gravestone)  ; 
married,  October  2,  1688,  Mary  Richardson, 
born  March  22,  1669,  at  W'oburn,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Hannah  (Green)  Richardson.  She 
married  (second)  Deacon  Samuel  Walker,  of 
W'oburn,  and  died  his  widow  at  Charlestown, 
October  23,  1748,  aged  eighty  years  (grave- 
stone). He  was  the  oldest  child  of  Lieuten- 
ant James  and  Abigail  (Carter)  Fowle,  and 
the  first  native  of  W'oburn  of  that  surname. 
His  homestead  was  on  the  site  of  the  present 
Central  House,  on  Main  street,  W'oburn,  and 
it  is  probable  that  he  built  and  kept  the  old 
Fowle  Tavern,  which  is  supposed  to  have  been 
erected  about  1691,  soon  after  the  death  of  his 
father,  and  was  for  a  century  and  a  half  one 
of  the  most  important  public  houses  in  W'o- 
burn and  always  kept  by  a  Fowle.  It  was 
demolished  in  1840  to  make  way  for  the  Cen- 
tral House,  which  was  built  in  that  year  by 
Joseph  Rollins  and  has  been  W'oburn's  lead- 
ing hotel  to  the  present  day.  The  military 
spirit  was  also  inherited  by  this  James  Fowle, 
and  as  a  member  of  the  W^oburn  Militia  Com- 
pany he  became  a  sergeant,  which  ofiice  he 
held  from  1693  to  1701,  and  was  a  captain 
during  the  last  years  of  his  life.  Further  evi- 
dence of  the  soldierly  temper  possessed  by 
this  family  is  shown  in  the  fact  that  a  brother 
of  Captain  James  (John)  was  also  a  captain 
and  he  in  turn  had  a  son  who  bore  the  title 
of  Cornet  John  Fowle.  Captain  James  also 
had  a  son  John  who  rose  to  the  rank  of  major, 
and  the  latter  had  three  sons,  a  ne])he\v  and 
three  grandsons  who  served  in  the  revolu- 
tionary war.  Captain  James  Fowle  was  for 
thirteen  years  town  clerk  of  Woburn,  from 
1701  tn  1714:  also  selectman  for  fourteen 
years ;  previous  to  and  during  the  time  he  was 
town  clerk  and  was  a  commissioner  in  1703 
to  aid  in  establishing  the  jjmvince  tax  accord- 
ing to  act  of  general  court,  Alarch,  1703.  Cap- 
tain James  and  Mary  (Richardson)  Fowle 
had  twelve  children,  only  three  of  whom  were 
boys  and  all  were  born  in  Woburn.  Children: 
I.  Mary,  born  June  18,  1689,  died  March  9, 
1762,  at  W'oburn,  in  her  seventy- fourth  year 
(gravestone)  :  married,  June  17.  1714,  Lieu- 
tenant James  Simonds,  son  of  James  and  Sus- 
anna (RIodgett)  Simonds,  of  W'oburn.  2. 
James,  July  20,  1691,  died  October  11,  1706, 
(gravestone)  at  Cambridge,  Massachu.setts.  3. 
Abigail,  August  22,  1693,  died  at  Medford, 
Massachusetts,  February  20. 1759 ;  married  Jon-. 
athan  Thompson,  son  of  Jonathan  aiul  I'rances 


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(Whitemore)  Thompson,  of  Woburn.  4.  John 
(Major), November  11, 1695. mentioned  below. 
5.  Hannah,  September  13,  1697,  died  at  Wil- 
mington, Massachusetts,  May  13,  1788,  in 
her  ninety-first  year  (gravestone)  ;  married 
Samuel  \\'alker,  son  of  Deacon  Samuel  and 
Judith  (Howard)  Walker,  of  Woburn.  6. 
Elizabeth,  August  9,  1699,  died  at  Lynn,  ]\Iass- 
achusetts,  January  28,  1760;  married,  Decem- 
ber 28,  1721,  Benjamin  Xewhall,  son  of  Joseph 
and  Susanna  (Farrar)  Newhall,  of  Lynn.  7. 
Ruth,  April  6,  1701,  died  in  childhood  at 
Woburn,  March  3,  1713.  8.  Sarah,  July  29, 
1703,  married,  .September  24,  1728,  James 
Richardson,  son  of  Captain  James  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Arnold)  Richardson,  of  Woburn.  9. 
Samuel,  June  10,  1705,  died  at  Woburn,  Au- 
gust 13,  1793;  married,  September  5,  1727, 
Susanna  Reed,  born  August  18,  1707,  at  Wo- 
burn, daughter  of  Lieutenant  Joseph  and 
Phebe  (Walker)  Reed.  10.  Esther,  May  29, 
1707,  married,  November  2,  1726,  Nathan 
Simonds,  son  of  James  and  Susanna  (Blod- 
gett)  Simonds,  of  \\'oburn,  and  brother  of 
Lieutenant  James  Simonds.  who  married 
Mary,  eldest  sister  of  Esther.  11.  Martha, 
i larch  12,  1709,  died  at  Boston,  September 
5,  1794,  and  was  buried  in  King's  Chapel  bury- 
ing ground :  married  (first)  August  11,  1737, 
Rev.  Supply  Clapp,  son  of  Deacon  Samuel 
and  Mary  (Paul)  Clapp,  of  Dorchester,  Mass- 
achusetts. He  was  a  member  of  the  Second 
Church,  Woburn  Precinct,  now  Burlington, 
Massachusetts,  organized  in  1735.  He  died 
at  Woburn,  December  28,  1747,  and  she  mar- 
ried (second)  Colonel  Nathaniel  Thwing,  of 
Boston.  12.  Catherine,  September  20,  171 1, 
died  at  Charlestown,  December  23.  1790:  mar- 
ried, March  4,  1730,  Josiah  Whittemore,  of 
Charlestown. 

(IV)  Alajor  John,  son  of  Captain  James 
(2)  Fowle,  born  at  Woburn,  November  11, 
1695,  died  there  September  28,  1775,  in  his 
eightieth  year;  married,  December  25.  1718, 
Mary  Converse,  born  January  12,  1702,  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  Josiah  and  Ruth  (Marshall) 
Converse,  of  Woburn.  The  home  of  Major 
John  Fowle  and  family  was  a  large  gambrel 
roof  hou.se,  a  most  imposing  one  for  the  period, 
which  he  erected  on  the  country  road,  now  the 
junction  of  Main,  Salem  and  Broad  streets, 
in  the  business  centre  of  Woburn.  It  was 
built  about  one  hundred  and  eighty  years  ago 
but  its  original  form  and  ajipearance  have 
been  preserved  in  excellent  condition,  although 
it  is  now  occupied  as  a  grocery  store.  In  the 
early  part  of  the  nineteenth  century,  a  John 


Flagg  kept  a  tavern  there  and  for  that  reason 
it  became  known  as  the  Flagg  House.  Major 
John  Fowle  was  captain  of  a  \\'oburn  military 
company  from  1738  to  1748,  when  he  w-as 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  major  and  bore  this 
title  until  his  death.  He  served  as  major  in 
Colonel  Jonathan  Tyng's  regiment  from  Sep- 
tember 9,  1755,  to  January  3,  1756,  during 
the  period  of  the  French  and  Indian  war. 
There  is  in  existence  a  bayonet  roll  at  the 
State  House,  Boston,  of  members  of  the  com- 
pany in  Woburn  of  which  he  was  captain,  the 
East  Company  so  called.  He  was  a  selectman 
of  \\'oburn  in  1741.  this  appearing  to  be  the 
only  civil  office  held  by  him.  He  was  appar- 
ently a  man  of  considerable  energy  and  enter- 
prise and  he  seems  to  have  made  quite  a  for- 
tune by  the  sale  of  the  province  lands,  granted 
to  the  soldiers  of  the  various  wars  and  their 
descendants. 

The  method  of  his  dealings  w-as  to  buy  up 
the  shares  of  these  lands  from  the  soldiers  or 
their  legal  heirs  and  then  dispose  of  them  at 
a  profit  through  the  founding  of  new  towns. 
He  made  investments  in  ditiferent  parts  of  the 
provinces  and  is  know^n  to  have  been  one  of 
the  four  original  proprietors  of  Petersborough, 
New  Hampshire,  the  three  others  being  Jere- 
miah Gridley,  John  Hill  and  Peter  Prescott. 
Gridlev  was  one  of  the  most  eminent  men  and 
the  greatest  lawyer  of  his  time,  termed  at  his 
death  "the  great  lawyer  of  the  province  and 
father  of  the  bar  of  Boston,  master  and  guide 
of  John  Adams  in  his  legal  studies."  Fie  was 
also  a  colonel  of  militia,  and  from  1755  until 
his  death  in  1767  was  grand  master  of  all  the 
Masons  of  America.  John  Hill,  a  prominent 
business  man  of  Boston,  who  held  many  muni- 
cipal offices,  was  a  member  of  the  governor's 
council  for  eight  years  and  was  also  a  colonel 
in  the  militia.  Besides  Petersborough,  he  was 
concerned  either  as  grantee  or  proprietor  in 
the  founding  of  a  number  of  towns  in  New 
Hampshire,  among  them  Hillsborough  which 
was  named  for  him.  Lieutenant  Peter  Pres- 
cott, the  fourth  jiroprietor,  was  the  son  of 
Major  Jonathan  Prescott,  an  eminent  physi- 
cian of  Concord,  Massachusetts,  and  one  of 
the  most  distinguished  men  of  that  town.  Peter 
Prescott  was  from  1735  to  1762  engaged 
mostly  in  military  service,  but  before  and 
after  this  he  was  deeply  immersed  in  land 
speculation,  being  connected  in  the  establish- 
ing of  a  number  of  New  Ham])shire  towns. 
Major  John  l'\)wle  was  a  factor  of  importance 
in  some  fifteen  or  more  enterprises  of  this 
nature,  including  towns  in  both  New  Hamp- 


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shire  and  Maine.  In  his  native  town  of  Wo- 
burn  he  had  an  honorable  name  and  an  un- 
blemished reputation  for  social  and  business 
honor.  Children,  all  born  and  died  in  W'oburn : 

1.  James,  June  13,  1720,  died  April  10,  1793; 
married,  November  28,  1744,  ]\Iary  Reed,  born 
June  24,  1726,  at  W'oburn,  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant  Israel   and    Hannah    (W'yman)    Reed. 

2.  John,  Februarv  i,  1726,  died  October  15, 
1786;  married,  December  28,  1759,  Bridget 
Burbeen,  born  July  17,  1742,  at  W'oburn, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Esther  (Poole)  Bur- 
been.  He  was  an  eminent  school  teacher  of 
his  time,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College  and 
was  distinguislied  by  the  title  of  "Master 
Fowle."  3.  Josiah,  July  14,  1731,  see  forward. 
4.  Mary,  May  12,  1734.  died  November  27, 
1796;  married.  April  24,  1760,  Joshua  W'yman 
Jr.,  son  of  Joshua  and  Mary  Wyman,  of 
W'oburn.  5.  Leonard,  January  8,  1737,  died 
January  16,  1798.    He  was  not  married. 

(\')  Josiah.  son  of  Major  John  Fowle, 
born  July  14,  1731,  at  W'oburn,  died  there 
February  28,  1805;  married,  Alarcli,  1752, 
Margery  Carter,  born  August  3,  1730,  at  W'o- 
burn. daughter  of  Captain  Samuel  and  Mar- 
gery (Dickson)  Carter.  Captain  Carter  was 
a  son  of  Captain  John  Carter,  one  of  Woburn's 
earliest  and  most  distinguished  men.  Ca])tain 
Samuel  Carter  lived  to  the  great  age  of  ninety- 
three  years,  and  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Fowle,  to 
the  age  of  eighty-two  years.  Josiah  Fowle 
was  an  extensive  farmer  with  large  holdings 
of  land,  comprising  between  one  hundred  and 
two  hundred  acres,  in  one  of  the  most  valuable 
and  sightly  portions  of  W'oburn,  extending 
from  the  country  road,  now  Main  street,  at 
the  business  centre  of  the  town,  east  of  Ever- 
ett street,  southerly  to  near  the  Winchester 
line,  west  of  the  then  so-called  English  hills 
and  along  what  is  now  known  as  W'oburn 
Highlands.  His  dwelling  was  beautifully  sit- 
uated on  a  knoll,  on  the  present  fine  estate  of 
Mr.  James  Skinner,  a  retired  leather  manufac- 
turer and  one  of  Woburn's  wealthiest  citizens. 
This  is  on  Montvale  avenue,  which  in  the  early 
days  was  the  Wf)burn  end  of  the  old  W'oburn 
and  Salem  turn])ike.  On  the  morning  of  Ajiril 
19'  1775.  in  response  to  the  alarm  which  called 
the  minute-men  and  others  to  arms  to  oppose 
the  British  soldiers  who  were  on  their  way  to 
Concord,  a  military  company  from  Danvers 
stopped  to  rest  on  the  farm  of  Josiah  Fowle, 
but  being  too  late  to  proceed  to  Lexington 
they  continued  on  to  Menotomy,  now  Arling- 
ton, to  intercept  the  enemy  there  on  their 
return   from  Concord  and   Lexington.     Here 


they  met  the  British  but  were  subjected  to 
great  slaughter  and  many  of  their  bodies  now 
rest  in  the  old  Arlington  burying  ground. 
Josiah  Fowle  was  then  a  member  of  Captain 
Jonathan  Fox's  company,  the  East  Company 
of  W'oburn,  and  at  the  time  of  the  arrival  of 
the  Danvers  soldiers  at  his  home  he  was  in 
Lexing-ton  harassing  the  British  while  on  their 
retreat  through  that  town  to  Cambridge  and 
Charlcslown.  He  continued  in  service  thirty 
days  at  that  time,  and  is  also  credited  with 
considerable  additional  service  before  1777, 
including  five  months  at  Ticonderoga  in  the 
company  of  Captain  Jesse  W'yman,  who  suc- 
ceeded Captain  Fox.  when  the  latter  was  made 
a  colonel,  and  five  months  at  the  lines;  also  in 
Ca])tain  Jonas  Richardson's  company,  Colonel 
James  Frye's  regiment ;  also  in  Captain 
Abishai  Browne's  company,  Colonel  Josiah 
W'hitney's  regiment.  His  record  seems,  how- 
ever, to  be  confused  with  that  of  his  son  ' 
Josiah  Jr.,  who  also  rendered  long  service  in 
the  revolution.  The  farm  of  Josiah  Fowle 
was  divided  after  his  death,  in  accordance  with 
his  will,  between  his  sons,  his  son  W'illiam 
receiving  the  old  homestead  and  about  one 
hundred  acres  of  land  to  the  south,  and  his 
son  John  a  portion  of  the  farm  to  the  north, 
from  the  turnpike  to  the  country  road.  Chil- 
dren, all  born  at  W'oburn:  i.  josiah,  March 
20,  1754,  married,  April  13,  1780,  at  Boston, 
Abigail  Belknap,  born  July  16,  1758.  at  Wo- 
burn,  daughter  of  Captain  Samuel  and  Abigail 
(Lewisj  Belknap.  2.  John  (Deacon),  No- 
vember 10,  1755,  see  forward.  3.  Mary,  Octo- 
ber 9,  1761,  died  November  i,  1835,  at  Wo- 
burn  ;  married  (first)  March  9,  1781,  Sergeant 
Luke  Richardson,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Mary 
Richardson,  of  Woburn ;  (second)  May  12, 
1785.  Dr.  Sylvanus  Plyni]jton,  of  W-'oburn.  4. 
William,  April  25,  1763,  died  July  17,  1850, 
at  Woburn,  aged  eighty-seven  years ;  married, 
November  7,  1782,  Sarah  Richardson,  born 
January  29,  1767,  at  Woburn,  daughter  of 
Jeduthan  and  Mary  (Wright)  Richardson.  5. 
Margery,  October  6,  1767,  died  August  8, 
1799,  at  Woburn;  married.  May  26,  1791,  at 
Woburn,  Colonel  Loammi  Baldwin,  a  distin- 
guished colonel  at  the  battle  of  Lexington  and 
Concord,  April  19,  1775,  and  served  after- 
wards as  lieutenant-colonel  and  colonel  until 
during  the  year  1777;  when  he  resigned  on 
account  of  ill  health.  He  took  a  prominent 
part  in  the  construction  of  the  Middlesex 
canal,  comiileted  in  1803,  one  of  the  earliest 
enterprises  of  the  sort  in  the  United  .States. 
He   discovered   the   apple   which   has   become 


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famous  under  the  name  of  the  Baldwin  apple 
and  cultivated  and  introduced  it  to  public 
notice.  He  was  a  son  of  James  and  Ruth 
(Richardson)  Baldwin,  of  Woburn.  Margery 
I'owle  was  his  second  wife,  he  having  first 
married  Mary  Fowle,  her  cousin,  daughter  of 
James  and  Mary  (Reed)  Fowle,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Major  John  Fowle. 

(\T)  Deacon  John  (2),  son  of  Josiah 
Fowle,  born  November  10,  1755,  at  Woburn, 
died  there  December  29,  1834 ;  married,  Octo- 
ber 18,  1780,  Lois  Richardson,  born  June  10, 
1759,  at  Woburn,  only  child  of  Jesse  and 
Jemima  (Ijrooks)  Richardson.  He  was  one 
of  the  most  prominent  citizens  of  Woburn  in 
his  time,  a  inan  of  the  highest  character,  who 
enjoyed  great  confidence  and  esteem  for  his 
integrity  and  many  virtues.  A  pillar  of  the 
First  liaptist  Church,  he  was  a  deacon  for 
thirty-five  years,  from  1799  vmtil  his  death, 
and  for  a  number  of  years  its  clerk  and  treas- 
urer. Tn  civic  affairs  he  was  honored  by  being 
chosen  a  selectman  for  the  years  1802-03-05- 
06,  and  town  treasurer  during  the  years  1826- 
27-28-31.  He  was  a  cooper  by  trade  and  for 
many  years  made  and  sujjplied  stores  and 
families  with  tubs  and  water  pails.  During 
the  last  years  of  his  life  he  was  a  crip])le, 
caused  [jrimarily  by  rheumatism  in  his  limbs, 
contracted  as  the  result  of  exposure  while  in 
the  revolutionary  war.  He  was  also  a  great 
sufferer  from  eczema  of  the  liml)s,  and  was 
obliged  to  use  crutches  for  more  than  fifteen 
years.  lie  grew  very  stout,  and  for  six  years 
he  was  unable  to  go  up  stairs  to  see  his  young- 
est son  Eldridge,  who  was  bedridden  for  years 
and  until  his  death  in  1832  in  a  room  on  the 
second  floor,  caused  by  a  fall  which  seriously 
injured  his  spine.  If  it  be  true  that  "whom 
the  Lord  loveth  he  chaseneth,"  Deacon  John 
I'^owle  was  surely  one  of  His  well  beloved, 
for  even  in  his  last  hours  he  was  a  terrible 
sufferer,  his  death  being  caused  by  stoppage  of 
the  bowels.  Deacon  John  Fowle  lived  for  a 
time  in  the  westerly  half  of  the  house  built 
by  his  grandfather.  Major  John  Fowle,  and 
one  afternoon,  while  standing  in  his  front 
doorway  during  a  thunder  storm  he  narrowly 
escaped  death,  being  rendered  unconscious  bv 
a  bolt  of  lightning  which  passed  by  him  and 
out  of  the  back  doorway,  by  way  of  the  hall- 
way, both  doors  being  open.  It  continued  on 
to  iiis  pen  of  swine  in  the  rear  of  the  house, 
killing  one  of  their  innnber.  .About  1817  he 
removed  to  a  new  dwelling  which  he  had 
caused  to  be  erected  a  short  distance  down  the 
country  road.     Here  he  lived  until  his  death 


in  1834,  and  his  widow  until  her  death  in 
1840.  This  dwelling  is  now  the  rear  portion 
of  the  building  owned  by  Thomas  Moore,  and 
occupied  by  him  for  a  grocery.  Deacon  John 
Fowle  as  a  soldier  of  the  revolution  is  sup- 
posed to  have  served  at  liunker  Hill.  Charles- 
town,  for  three  months  in  1778.  in  Captain 
Wyman's  company.  Colonel  Jacob  Gerrish's 
regiment  of  guards,  this  company  being  de- 
tached to  guard  General  Burgoyne's  army. 
He  is  also  said  to  have  been  a  volunteer  on 
board  a  privateer  and  also  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  pioneer  corps  of  the  army  near 
Ticonderoga,  being  brought  home  from  there 
on  a  litter,  placed  on  a  wagon  and  exposed  to 
constant  rains  without  change  of  garments, 
this  bringing  on  the  rheumatism  from  which 
he  suft'ered  so  much  in  after  life. 

Deacon  John  and  Lois  (Richardson)  Fowle 
had  eleven  children,  nearly  all  of  Whom  were 
remarkable  for  longevity.  Children:  i.  Lydia 
Richardson,  born  February  4,  1781,  at  Lynn, 
died  December  30,  1859,  at  \\'oburn ;  married, 
January  26,  1802,  at  \\'oburn,  Ezra  Kimball, 
of  I])swich,  Massachusetts.  2.  Mary,  October 
28,  1782,  at  Charlestown,  died  March  13,  1854, 
at  Woburn;  married,  April  28,  1805,  at  Wo- 
burn, Jonathan  Converse,  of  Woburn,  son  of 
Josiah  and  Hepzibah  (Brooks)  Converse.  3. 
John,  June  27,  1784,  at  Lynn,  died  January 
21,  1877,  at  Stoneham :  married  Eleanor  John- 
,son,  of  Boston,  daughter  of  John  and  Eleanor 
Johnson.  4.  Jesse  Richardson,  June  24.  1786, 
at  Lynn,  died  November  10,  1859,  at  Woburn: 
married  (first)  June  5,  1814.  at  Woburn,  Mary 
(Polly)  Bruce,  born  February  19,  1788.  at 
\\'oburn,  died  there  April  5,  1845,  daughter  of 
John  Jr.  and  Sarah  (Johnson)  Bruce.  He 
married  (second)  April  7,  1846,  at  Woburn, 
Mary  (Knight)  Beers,  born  at  Xewburyport, 
w  idnw  of  L'ri  Beers,  of  Woburn.  5.  Mar- 
gery, \\'oburn,  June  7,  1788,  died  there  .Au- 
gust 28,  1847,  aged  fifty-nine  years;  married, 
December  22,  1808,  at  Woburn,  Jonathan 
Thompson,  of  \\'oburn,  son  of  Captain  Jon- 
athan and  Mary  (  Richardson)  Thompson.  6. 
Leonard.  Woburn.  Xovember  21.  1790.  see 
forward.  7.  Lois.  Woburn,  January  6,  1793, 
died  July  10.  1887:  married  George  Cheney 
.\lleu,  of  Sterling.  Massachusetts,  son  of 
Daniel  and  Mary  (Polly)  (Houghton)  .Mien. 
8.  Myra,  Woburn.  March  29.  1795.  died  March 
10,  1873,  3t  Woburn:  married,  June  28,  1821, 
at  Woburn,  William  Flagg.  of  Woburn,  son 
of  John  and  .Abigail  (Thompson)  Flagg.  9. 
josiah,  Woburn.  December  ().  171)7.  died  there 
January   15,   1870:  married,  .August   12,   1827, 


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at  \\'oburn,  Kezia  Dakhvin.  born  May  i.  1806, 
at  Xashua.  New  Hampshire,  daugliter  of  Dea- 
con James  Baldwin,  of  Xaslnia.  10.  Euseba 
H..  \\'obiirn,  December  21.  1800,  died  May, 
1889.  at  Roxbury :  married,  November  20, 
1825,  at  \\'oburn.  Jolin  \inton  Jr.,  of  Boston, 
son  of  John  and  Rebecca  I  Cartwright )  \inton. 
II.  Elbridge.  W'oburn.  March  25,  1803,  died 
there  January  26.   1832,  unmarried. 

(\'II)  Deacon  Leonard,  son  of  Deacon 
John  (2)  Fowle,  born  November  21,  1790, 
died  June  18,  1873,  '^^  W'oburn  ;  married,  De- 
cember 27.  1818,  at  W'oburn.  Ruby  Lucina 
Adams,  born  at  St.  Johnsbury,  N'ermont,  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  and  Olive  Adams.  He  learned 
the  trade  of  cooper  from  his  father,  and  for  a 
number  of  years  during  his  early  manhood 
made  distillers'  barrels,  but  after  a  time  he 
abandoned  this,  mastered  the  carpenter's  trade 
and  became  a  jjrominent  contractor  and 
builder.  He  owned  land  on  the  easterly  side 
of  Main  street,  north  and  south  of  Green 
street,  and  built  a  dozen  or  more  houses  there 
for  sale  and  to  let.  all  of  which  are  still  stand- 
ing. He  also  built  houses  for  others  in  other 
sections  of  the  town.  When  the  Woburn 
branch  of  the  Boston  and  Lowell  railroad  was 
built  in.  the  road  bed  of  the  company  was  laid 
out  through  his  land,  in  the  rear  of  the  houses 
he  had  erected.  He  was  a  very  upright  and 
honorable  man  in  all  his  dealings  and  greatly 
esteemed  by  his  fellowmen.  He  was  a  most 
influential  member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church, 
but  with  other  leading  members  he  became 
dissatisfied  with  certain  policies  and  reforms 
advocated  by  younger  members  who  had  united 
with  the  church  during  a  revival,  and  after  a 
protracted  contention  he  led  a  body  of  forty- 
five  members  in  asking  for  a  dismissal,  which 
was  finally  granted,  and  an  independent  society 
was  formed  of  which  he  was  chosen  a  deacon. 
In  politics  he  was  a  staunch  Democrat  and  a 
believer  in  the  rights  of  the  states.  He  served 
the  town  as  a  selectman  in  1838-39,  and  in 
1838  was  also  a  deputy  to  the  general  court 
of  Massachusetts.  Children:  i.  James  Leon- 
ard, born  September  2,  1820,  see  forward.  2. 
John  Adams,  January  12,  1823,  at  Woburn, 
died  there  April  9,  1832.  3.  Charles  .\dams, 
February  26,  1825,  at  Woburn.  died  there 
June  24.  i8(')4:  married.  May  9.  1850,  at  Lynn, 
Elizabeth  .Amanda  Tngalls,  born  October  4, 
1830,  at  Lynn,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Eliz- 
abeth fCloon)  Ingalls. 

(Vni)  James  Leonard,  son  of  Deacon 
Leonard  and  Ruby  Lucina  CAdams )  Fowle, 
was  born  at  Wriburn.  September  2,  1820,  died 


there  August  30,  1892;  married  (first)  March 
2~,  1845,  Luthera  Tay,  daughter  of  Josiah 
and  Susanna  (Johnson)  Tay,  of  Woburn,  and 
a  lineal  descendant,  through  her  mother's  line, 
of  Captain  Edward  Johnson,  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  town  and  called  the  "Father 
of  \\'oburn."  She  died  at  Woburn,  February 
10.  i860,  and  ho  married  (second)  August  31, 
1876,  .Mrs.  Christina  .Annie  Scantlan,  of  Wo- 
burn. Early  in  life  Mr.  Fowle  learned  the 
tailoring  trade  in  Boston  with  Peter  Fisk,  and 
followed  that  occupation  the  remainder  of  his 
life  or  for  more  than  half  a  century.  In  1842, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-two  years,  he  formed  a 
partnership  in  the  tailoring  business  in  Woburn 
with  Gawin  R.  Gage,  who  had  been  employed 
as  a  cutter  by  Tallman  Seeley  of  that  town. 
The  firm  was  Gage  &  Fowle,  and  they  con- 
tinued in  partnership  until  August,  1853,  when 
Mr.  Fowle  withdrew  but  remained  in  the  em- 
ploy of  Mr.  Gage  and  his  subsec|uent  partner 
and  successor  up  to  the  time  of  his  last  sick- 
ness, yir.  Fowle's  tastes  and  habits  were 
essentially  domestic.  He  belonged  to  no  clubs 
or  fraternal  organizations,  was  wholly  indif- 
ferent to  official  honors,  and  in  consec|uence 
never  held  public  office.  While  exceptionally 
modest  and  retiring,  no  man  was  better  known 
in  the  community  or  enjoyed  a  larger  share 
of  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  fellowmen. 
He  possessed  r^iany  admirable  traits  of  char- 
acter, was  always  courteous,  the  soul  of  honor, 
upright  and  honest,  cheerful,  kind  and  com- 
panionable, and  his  death  was  sincerely 
lamented.  Children  by  fir.st  wife,  all  born  at 
Woburn:  i.  Isabella  Lucina,  December  30, 
1845,  died  at  Woburn,  May  22,  1903;  married, 
June  15,  1871,  Charles  Frederick  Patch,  of 
Lynn,  Massachusetts,  who  died  at  Lynn,  Jan- 
uary 24,  1873.  He  was  then  city  treasurer, 
and  had  been  a  member  of  the  city  council.  2. 
Arthur  Adams,  December  3,  1847,  see  for- 
ward. 3.  Frank  Johnson,  October  22,  1849, 
died  Ajiril  28,  1855.  at  Woburn.  4.  Lena, 
March  26,  1852,  died  June  15,  1854,  at  Wo- 
burn. 5.  Charles  Francis,  January  23,  1858, 
unmarried,  living  at  Woburn.  6.  Freddie, 
October  19,  1863,  died  Jainiary  6,  1869,  at 
Woburn. 

(IX)  Arthur  Adams,  son  of  James  Leon- 
ard and  Luthera  (Tay)  Fowle,  born  at  Wo- 
burn, December  3,  1847,  married,  June  12, 
1877,  Kate  Wallace  Munn,  born  .Augu.st  9. 
1849,  at  Woburn,  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Eliza  Minerva  (Kane)  Munn.  He  is  manag- 
ing editor  of  The  Boston  Globe,  one  of  the 
most  influential  daily  and  Sunday  newspapers 


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in  New  England,  wliich  responsible  position 
he  has  held  since  1884.  Through  his  journal- 
istic training  he  has  become  self-educated  and 
self-mastered,  and  is  in  fact  a  self-made  man 
in  the  best  sense  the  term  implies.  With  a 
singular  definiteness  of  purpose  he  has  de- 
voted himself  exclusively  to  the  work  of  assist- 
ing in  the  building  up  of  the  phenominally 
successful  newspaper  which  is  his  life's  source 
of  satisfaction  and  pride,  and  has  lived  to  see 
it  grow  from  an  unprofitable  enterprise  to  the 
position  of  leadership  in  circulation  and  good 
paying  business  in  New  England.  Mr.  Fowle's 
early  education  was  acquired  in  the  public 
schools  of  Woburn,  after  leaving  which  he 
went  to  learn  the  trade  of  a  currier,  the  tan- 
ning and  currying  of  leather  being  in  those 
days,  as  now,  a  very  important  industry  in 
New  England,  praticularly  north  of  Boston, 
with  Woburn  a  great  centre  of  this  industry. 
But  the  trend  of  the  young  man's  mind  did  not 
lead  towards  a  business  career,  and  the  currying 
shop  proving  distasteful  to  him  after  six  years 
of  experience,  he  turned,  instinctively  it  would 
seem,  to  newspaper  work,  beginning  on  the 
lowest  rung  of  the  ladder,  as  utility  man  on 
The  U'ohurn  Journal,  a  weekly  publication  in 
his  native  town.  While  engaged  on  this  paper 
he  became  local  reporter  for  The  Boston  Globe, 
and  his  talent  in  this  line  being  soon  recog- 
nized, he  was  given  a  position  in  Boston  as 
general  reporter.  His  salary  was  only  the 
modest  sum  of  eight  dollars  per  week,  although 
he  was  then  rising  to  twenty-si.x  years  of  age, 
but  merit  and  faithfulness  were  not  long  in 
bringing  their  reward,  and  once  begun,  his 
promotions  followed  one  another  rapidly. 
During  the  ne.xt  ten  years  he  occupied  succes- 
sively the  editorial  chair  as  city  editor,  day- 
news  editor,  night-news  editor,  sporting  editor, 
assistant  managing  editor,  and  finally  the 
highest  position  in  the  news  di-])artment,  that 
of  managing  editor.  One  of  the  great  achieve- 
ments while  a  reporter,  and  which  stamped 
him  as  being  endowed  with  the  true  newspaper 
instinct,  was  the  obtaining  for  The  Globe  ex- 
clusively the  confession  from  Thomas  H. 
Piper  of  his  murder  of  little  Mabel  Young. 
The  sporting  department  of  The  Globe  was 
organized  by  Mr.  Fowle,  and  he  was  credited 
with  having  been  the  most  successful  sporting 
editor  that  Boston  journalism  had  ever  known, 
although  he  was  not  a  devotee  of  sports,  and 
was  only  interested  in  them  in  connection  with 
his  newspaper  duties. 

Mr.  Fowle  is  quiet  and  unassuming  in  his 
manner,  and  always  approachable,  and  is  popu- 


lar with  and  highly  respected  by  all  liis  co- 
workers for  his  sterling  character  and  the  gen- 
eral friendliness  of  his  relations  with  them. 
This  was  sincerely  demonstrated  on  December 
2,  1897,  on  the  eve  of  his  fiftieth  birthday 
anniversary,  when  the  editors  and  reporters 
of  The  Globe  and  other  employees  tendered 
him  a  banquet  in  the  parlors  of  Young's  Hotel, 
Boston,  on  which  occasion  General  Charles  H. 
Taylor,  editor-in-chief  and  principal  owner  of 
the  paper,  joined  heartily  with  his  subordinates 
in  paying  a  remarkable  tribute  to  the  worth 
and  exceptional  success  of  Mr.  Fowle  in  his 
chosen  vocation,  while  at  the  same  time  they 
presented  him  with  a  substantial  token  of 
their  esteem  in  the  form  of  a  so-called  "Klon- 
dike birthday  cake,"  out  of  which,  "when  the 
cake  was  opened,''  instead  of  "four  and  twenty 
blackbirds,"  as  from  the  pie  set  before  the 
King,  there  came  fifty  gilded  half  eagles  incu- 
bated at  the  mint  of  Uncle  Sam.  For  days 
following  this  event  congratulations  in  letters 
and  newspaper  editorial  expressions  poured 
in  upon  him  from  all  over  the  country.  Mr. 
Fowle  is  partial  to  domestic  life  and  ha«  re- 
cently built  a  dwelling  of  attractive  colonial 
architecture  in  one  of  the  best  sections  of 
Woburn.  Here  he  will  pass  the  remainder  of 
his  days  in  comfort  and  contentment,  the  re- 
ward of  faithfulness  to  duty  well  performed. 
He  is  still  in  the  prime  of  life  and  in  excellent 
health,  and  is  likely  to  be  the  presiding  genius 
over  the  newspaper  department  of  The  Globe 
for  many  years  to  come.  In  religion  Mr. 
Fowle  and  family  are  Unitarians :  he  is  a 
Democrat  in  politics,  although  he  has  never 
been  active  or  held  public  office,  and  belongs 
to  no  societies  or  clubs.  In  his  young  man- 
hood he  was  affiliated  with  the  militia  as  a 
member  of  the  Woburn  Mechanic  Phalanx, 
Company  C,  Fifth  Regiment.  Massachusetts 
Volunteer  ]\lilitia,  from  1869  to  1875. 

Children,  born  at  Woburn:  i.  Leonard 
Munn,  July  27,  1878,  married,  June  10,  1903. 
at  Boston.  Grace  .\gnes  Cummings,  born  De- 
cember 16,  1882,  at  Woburn,  daughter  of  Wil- 
bur Eustace  and  Lizzie  Katharine  (Smith) 
Cummings.  He  was  educated  in  the  Woburn 
public  schools,  at  the  Hoklerness  School, 
Plymouth.  New  Hampshire,  and  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology  in  Boston. 
He  is  now  yachting  editor  of  Tlic  Boston 
Globe.  They  have  one  child,  Leonard  Munn 
Jr.,  born  February  16,  1904,  at  Woburn.  They 
reside  at  Marblehead,  \Iassachusctts.  2. 
Donald  Adams,  May  24.  1889,  at  W^oburn. 
He   attended   the    jiublic   schools   of   Woburn 


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for  a  number  of  years  and  is  now  a  student 
at  the  Rindge  Manual  Training  School,  at 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts. 


The  Gage  family  is  descended 
GAGE     from  the  Xorman  race.     In   1066, 

de  Gaga,  de  Guaga  or  De  Gage,  as 
the  name  is  variously  spelled,  accompanied 
William  Duke  of  Xormandy  in  his  Conquest 
of  England,  and  was  rewarded,  according  to 
the  records  of  the  Domesday  Book,  by  large 
grants  of  land  in  the  forest  of  Dean,  county 
Gloucester.  He  resided  near  that  forest  and 
built  a  mansion  there  in  Cirencester,  called 
Clercnwell  or  Clarewell,  and  his  descendants 
lived  in  that  vicinity  for  centuries,  including 
many  persons  of  wealth  and  some  of  title. 
The  pedigree  of  the  American  family  is  traced 
as  far  back  as  John  Gage,  who  was  living  in 
1408. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Gage,  mar- 
ried Eleanor  St.  Clere. 

(III)  John  13),  son  of  John  (2)  Gage, 
was  knighted  in  14^4  and  died  September  30, 
i486. 

(IV)  William  Esq.,  heir  and  son  of  John 

(3)  Gage,  was  born  1456.  married  Agnes 
Bolne}'. 

(V)  Sir  John  (4),  son  of  William  Gage, 
was  born  1480.  married  Phillijjpa  Guildeford, 
and  was  knighted  May  22,  1541.  He  died 
April  28,  1557. 

(VI)  Sir  Edward,  eldest  son  of  Sir  John 

(4)  Gage,  was  knighted  by  Queen  Mary ;  was 
a  man  of  great  wealth;  father  of  fifteen  chil- 
dren. 

(VII)  Thomas,  son  of  Sir  Edward  Gage, 
had  a  son  John. 

(\TII)  John  (5),  who  inherited  the  estate 
of  his  grandfather  through  his  uncle,  John 
Gage,  was  made  a  baronet  March  26,  1622; 
married  Penelope,  widow  of  Sir  George 
Trenchard.  and  died  October  3,  1633,  leaving 
nine  children. 

(IX)  John  (6),  son  of  John  (5)  Gage, 
was  the  immigrant  ancestor.  It  is  generally 
believed  that  he  came  from  Stoneham,  county 
Suffolk,  England,  though  one  authority  claims 
that  he  was  from  Groton  in  the  same  county. 
He  came  to  America  in  one  of  Winthrop's 
companies.  According  to  his  deposition  made 
in  1659,  he  was  born  in  1609,  but  according 
to  another  made  three  years  later,  he  was 
born  in  1604.  He  settled  first  in  Boston,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  church  there  as  early 
as  1630,  among  the  first.  He  was  admitted 
a  freeman,  March  4.  1633-34.    He  was  one  of 


the  first  settlers  of  Ipswich,  April  i,  1633, 
and  was  dismissed  from  the  Boston  church  to 
that  of  Ipswich,  September  10,  1643.  He  was  a 
town  officer  and  on  the  committee  on  allotments 
i)f  lands  at  Ipswich.  He  is  called  corporal  on 
the  records  of  Ipswich  in  1639.  and  sergeant 
on  those  of  Bradford  in  1670.  In  1664  he 
removed  to  that  part  of  Rowley  which  became 
Bradford,  and  died  there  March  24,  1672-73. 
His  will  was  proved  March  25,  1673,  the  day 
after  his   death.     He   married    (first)    Anna 

or  Amee  ,  who  died  in  June,  1658,  at 

Ipswich.  He  married  (second)  November, 
1658,  Sarah  Keyes,  widow  of  Robert  Keyes. 
She  died  in  Xewbury,  July  7,  1681,  and  her 
estate  was  divided  among  her  three  daughters, 
wives  of  William  Smith,  John  French  and 
Samuel  Buswell,  by  order  of  the  court.  John 
Gage  deeded  a  lot  of  land  to  his  grandson 
John,  son  of  his  son,  Benjamin  Gage,  Decem- 
ber 12,  1672,  having  promised  his  son  Benja- 
min on  his  marriage  to  Prudence  Leaver,  a 
certain  gift  of  land.  Children  by  first  wife, 
born  in  Ipswich:  i.  Samuel,  1638,  married, 
June  16,  1674,  Sarah  Stickney.  2.  Daniel, 
1639,  mentioned  below.  3.  Benjamin,  married, 
October  11,  1671,  Prudence  Leaver.  4. 
Xathaniel,  born  1645.  5.  Jonathan,  married, 
November  12,  1667,  Hester  Chandler.  6. 
Josiah,  born  1648,  married.  May  15,  1669, 
Lydia  Ladd. 

(X)  Daniel,  son  of  John  (6)  Gage,  was 
born  in  1639,  according  to  his  deposition  made 
March  29,  1669.  that  he  was  aged  thirty  years. 
He  died  at  Bradford,  November  8.  1705.  He 
married.  May  4,  1675,  Sarah  Kimball,  born 
about  1654,  died  September  15,  1692,  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  and  Mary  (Wyatt)  Kimball,  of 
Wenham.  Children,  born  at  Bradford:  i. 
Daniel,  IMarch  12,  1676,  mentioned  below.  2. 
John,  January  i,  1677.  3.  Sarah,  April  29, 
died  .August  24,  1679.  4.  Samuel,  May  9, 
1680.  5.  Mary,  February  i,  1681-82,  married 
Samuel  Griffin.  6.  Mehitable,  September  16, 
died  Xovember  6,  1683.  7.  Lydia,  January 
30,  1684-85,  married  Ebenezer  Burbank.  8. 
Sarah,  January  4,  1686-87.  9.  Abigail,  Octo- 
ber 4,  1687,  died  October  2,  1723.  10.  Han- 
nah, February  17,  1690. 

(XI)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (l)  Gage, 
was  born  in  Bradford,  March  12,  1676,  died 
March  14,  1747-48  (gravestone  at  Bradford). 
He  was  a  member  of  the  North  Regiment  in 
Essex,  under  Captain  Heseltine,  of  Bradford, 
in  1710,  the  comijany  which  were  appointed 
to  keej)  snowshoes  and  moccasins.  He 
lived   in   the   northwest   part   of   Bradford   on 


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the  banks  of  the  Merrimac  river,  on  what  was 
then  the  main  road  to  Methuen.  He  owned  a 
ferry  which  was  known  as  Gage's  or  the  L'pper 
Ferry.  On  the  place  where  he  lived  stood,  at 
last  accounts,  the  oldest  house  in  the  town, 
known  as  the  Gage  house.  He  married  (first) 
March  y,  1697-98,  Martha  Burbank,  born  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1679-80,  died  September  8,  1741, 
daughter  of  Caleb  and  Martha  (Smith)  I>ur- 
bank.  lie  married  (second)  Alay  12,  1742, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Harriman, 
and  widow  of  Jonathan  Boynton.  She  mar- 
ried (third)  John  Stewart.  Children  of  first 
wife,  born  in  Bradford:  i.  Mehitab'le,  De- 
cember 20,  1698.  2.  Josiah,  December  3,  1701. 
3.  Martha,  April  7,  1703-04,  married  James 
Wilson.  4.  Lydia,  May  24,  1705.  5.  Moses, 
May  I,  1706.  6.  Daniel,  April  22,  1708.  7. 
Sarah,  February  19,  1709-10,  married.  May 
16,  1731,  Edmund  Hardy.  8.  Jemima,  Decem- 
ber 2,  171 1,  married  (first)  Xovember  8, 
1733,  Richard  Kimball  Jr.;  (second)  John 
Webster.  9.  Xaomi,  February  25,  1714-15, 
married,  September  22,  1737.  David  Hall. 
10.  Esther,  May  15,  1716,  married  Au- 
gust I,  1739,  Jonathan  Currier.  11.  Amos, 
July  28.  1718,  mentioned  below.  12.  Abigail, 
December  22,  1720,  died  young.  13.  Mary, 
August  31,  1722,  married,  November  17,  1744, 
Ebenezer   Goodhue.      14.   Abigail,    March    13, 

1724-25- 

(XH)  Ca]3tain  .Amos,  son  of  Daniel  (2) 
Gage,  was  born  in  Bradford,  July  28,  1718, 
died  September  8,  1792.  He  was  captain  of 
one  of  the  five  companies  raised  by  New 
Hampshire  for  reinforcing  Fort  Edward  dur- 
ing the  French  and  Indian  war,  and  was  sta- 
tioned at  No.  4,  now  Charlestowii,  New  Hamp- 
shire, by  order  of  General  Webb.  He  was  also 
captain  of  a  company  of  volunteers  which 
marched  from  Pelham,  New  Hampshire,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1777,  and  joined  the  Northern 
army  at  .Saratoga,  during  the  revolution. 
He  married,  December  18,  1740,  Mchitable 
Kimball,  born  November  27,  1721,  died  Feb- 
ruary 16.  1794,  daughter  of  John  and  Mar- 
garet (Hutchins)  Kimball.  Children,  born  in 
Pelham,  New  Hampshire:  i.  Daniel,  October 
5,  1741,  died  in  the  French  and   Indian  war. 

2.  Elizabeth,  December  22,  1743,  married 
(first)  March  2.  1765,  Benjamin  Cole:  (sec- 
ond)   September    10,    1778.    Samuel    Kimball. 

3.  Asa,  .\i)ril  3,  1746.  4.  Sarah,  .\ugust  20. 
1748.  married,  .April  29.  1791,  Daniel  Barker. 
5.  Betsey,  1751,  died  Decemlier  28,  1754.  6. 
Deborah.  May  8.  1753,  married,  March  27, 
1790,   Peter  .Austin.     7.   .Abel,   November    18, 


1755,  mentioned  below.  8.  Amos,  August  9, 
1758,  in  the  revolution.  9.  Daniel,  September 
28,  1 76 1,  in  the  revolution. 

(XHl)  Abel,  son  of  Captain  .Amos  Gage, 
was  born  in  Pelham,  New  Hampshire.  Novem- 
ber 18,  1735.  the  day  of  the  great  earthquake, 
and  died  September  3,  1846.  He  served  as  a 
soldier  in  the  revolution  in  1776,  and  received 
a  pension  for  the  last  twenty-eight  years  of 
his  life.  He  kept  school  several  seasons  in 
different  parts  of  the  town,  in  private  houses. 
He  was  prominent  in  town  affairs,  an  esteemed 
citizen.  He  was  elected  selectman  for  more 
than  half  the  years  between  thirty  and  sixty 
of  his  own  age.  He  held  the  office  of  deacon 
of  the  church  for  about  forty-five  years,  until 
the  infirmities  of  age  forced  him  to  resign. 
It  is  claimed  that  he  was  the  first  to  attempt 
stone  quarrying  in  the  country,  and  was  re- 
markably successful,  considering  his  primitive 
methods.  The  centre  meeting  house  in  Dra- 
cut,  built  about  1782,  the  present  town  house 
in  Pelham,  as  it  was  originally,  atford  speci- 
mens of  his  work.     He  married,  January  13, 

1780,  Abigail  Runnels  (see  Runnels  family). 
She  died  August  2,  1825,  aged  seventy.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Pelham;     i.  Sarah,  January  20, 

1781,  married,  Alay  11.  1819,  Henry  March; 
died  September  8,  1827.  2.  Billy  Runnels, 
February  20,  1783,  mentioned  below.  3.  Me- 
hitable,  January  30,  1783,  died  February  5, 
1789.  4.  Hannah,  April  26,  1787.  5.  Alehit- 
able,  February  5,  1789,  died  July  31,  1861. 
6.  Amos,  March  22,  1791,  married  Celinda 
Hovey.  7.  Stephen.  August  4.  1792,  married, 
December  22,  1818,  Olive  Bradford  ;  died  May 
9,  1834.  8.  Deborah,  November  21,  1795; 
married  (first)  .April  8.  1823.  Joel  Butler; 
(second)  Seth  Cutter  Jr..  October  23,  1832; 
died  .September  14,  1864.  9.  Abel,  November' 
23,  1798,  married,  December  6,  1826,  .Anna 
Moodv  Johnson. 

(XiV)  Billy  Runnels,  son  of  .Abel  Gage, 
was  born  in  Pelham,  Xew  Hampshire,  Febru- 
ary 20,  1783,  died  March  7,  1837.  He  resided 
in  Londonderry,  Xew  Hampsliire.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  July  23,  1805,  .Abigail  Hall,  of 
Pelham,  who  died  .April  19,  1808,  aged  twenty- 
three  years,  ten  months.  He  married  (second) 
November  11,  1813.  Rebecca  Wilson,  of  Pel- 
ham, who  died  November  30.  1816,  aged 
thirty-four.  He  married  (third)  Xancy  .Ander- 
son, of  Londonderry,  who  died  .August  19, 
1863,  aged  eighty-one  years,  ten  months.  He 
and  his  three  wives  are  buried  in  Londonderry 
and  gravestones  mark  their  resting  place. 
Child  of  first  wife:     Caleb,  born  October  2, 


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1806,  blacksmith  of  Mancliester,  Xew  Hamp- 
shire; married  Susan  Claggett,  of  London- 
derry. June  25,  1830.  llv  second  wife:  Charles, 
bom  March  5,  1815,  carpenter  of  Bedford, 
New  Hampshire :  married  Mary  Newton,  of 
Henniker.  By  third  wife:  i.  \\'illiam  W'ash- 
ington,  born  December  30,  1818,  dry  goods 
merchant  of  Boston ;  married,  September  27, 
1846.  Sarah  W.  Griffin.  2.  Leander.  October 
2,  1820.  mentioned  below.  3.  Abigail,  June 
20.  1822,  married,  ^lay,  1850,  Charles  Henry 
Hall.  4.  Aaron  Hardy,  November  13,  1824, 
lived  in  Londonderry;  married,  May,  1850, 
Hannah  Humphrey ;  served  in  the  civil  war 
and  removed  to  California.  5.  John  Ander- 
son, June  25,  1827,  boot  and  shoe  maker  of 
Derry.  New  Hamjishire;  married.  May  6, 
1 85 1,  Martha  Tenney. 

(XV)  Leander,  son  of  Billy  Runnels  Gage, 
was  born  October  2,  1820,  in  Londonderry, 
New  Hampshire.  He  was  a  boot  and  shoe 
worker  of  liraintree,  Massachusetts.  He  mar- 
ried there,  June  18,  1844,  Mary  Denton  .Mien, 
of  Braintree,  born  January  8,  1824,  at  East 
Braintree.  died  .^pril  19,  1903.  Leander  Gage 
left  Braintree  about  1872  and  was  not  after- 
ward heard  from.  Children:  i.  William 
Leander,  born  December  20,  1845,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Richard  Allen.  April  2,  1848,  died 
January  30,  1851.  3.  Charles  Henry  Hall, 
June  28.  1850,  died  June  9.  1863.  4.  Richard 
.Allen.  July  16.  1S52.  5.  Elizabeth  Denton, 
July  16,  1854,  died  October  7.  1854.  6.  Fred- 
erick .Allen.  .August  15,  1855,  died  October  11, 

185.V 

(X\T)  William  Leander.  son  of  Leander 
Gage,  was  born  in  Braintree,  Massachusetts, 
December  20,  1845.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town. 
He  began  his  career  as  a  shoe  manufacturer 
associated  with  his  father.  Later  he  was  clerk 
and  superintendent  for  several  large  concerns 
in  Braintree.  At  present  he  is  in  the  office  of  the 
Fore  River  Shi])-l)uilding  Company.  Ouincy. 
He  enlisted  for  three  months  in  the  civil  war, 
serving  in  the  Forty-second  Massachusetts 
Regiment  in  1864.  Tn  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican. In  religion  he  is  a  Christian  Scientist. 
He  is  a  member  of  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public. Post  No.  87,  General  Sylvanus  Thayer. 
He  married,  June  20.  1876,  Mary  Ella  Burr, 
bom  April  15.  1852.  daughter  of  Henry  Dor- 
chester and  Martha  (Packard)  Burr,  of 
Ouincy  Csee  Burr  family).  Children,  born  at 
IJraintree:  i.  Bessie  May.  May  14,  1877.  mar- 
ried Harry  Warren  Bond,  engaged  in  the 
First    National    Bank   of   Boston   as   discount 

i--9 


clerk ;  child,  Marian  Bond,  bom  March  14. 
1902.  2.  Charles  11.,  July  21,  1878,  assistant 
manager  of  the  Fisk  rubber  works  of  Chicopee 
Falls,  Mas.sachusetts.  3.  Nina  Belle,  January 
18,  1880,  married,  June  30,  1908,  H.  Clifton 
Woodsum,  manager  of  the  stock-room  of  the 
Boston  Gear  A\'orks  of  Norfolk  Downs.  4. 
Henry  Chester,  February  8,  1883,  an  elec- 
trician in  Hartford,  Connecticut. 

(The  Burr  Line). 

.Simon  Burr,  immigrant  ancestor,  was  born 
in  England  and  .settled  in  Ilingham,  ALissa- 
chusetts.  His  wife  Rose  died  June  24.  1647. 
He    married    (second)    November    28,    1648, 

Hester ,  who  died  February  3,  1692-93. 

He  died  February  7,  1691-92,  and  his  son 
Simon  was  administrator.  Children:  i.  Esther, 
died  December  20,  1645.  2.  Henry,  died  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1645.  3.  Simon,  baptized  February 
25,  1654-55.  4.  Ilannah,  baptized  February 
25.  1654-55.  5.  John,  born  January  6,  1659. 
6.  Jonathan,  born  June  13,  1665,  died  in  the 
Canadian  Expedition  of  1690. 

(VI)  Timothy,  descendant  of  Simon  Burr, 
was  born  about  1780.  He  died  at  Haverhill, 
Massachusetts.  He  married  Sarah  Fairchild. 
Children:  i.  Samuel.  2.  Henry  Dorchester, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Elizabeth.  4.  Sarah.  5. 
Charlotte.    6.  Mary. 

(A' II)  Henry  Dorchester,  son  of  Timothy 
Burr,  was  born  in  Boston,  April  27,  1810,  died 
March  7,  1893,  ^t  Quincy.  Alassachusetts.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  was  a 
mariner  until  1876,  had  charge  of  the  road 
work  in  Ouincy  for  a  time.  He  was  a  Meth- 
odist in  religion  and  a  Republican  in  politics. 
He  married  ^Martha  Packard,  born  Alay  30, 
1818,  at  Milton,  Maine,  died  July  4,  1880,  at 
Quincy.  Children:  i.  Henry  Dorchester,  born 
September  24,  1837,  married  (first)  Emily 
Leo:  (.second)  Mary  S.  AlcCarthy;  child  of 
first  wife:  Herbert  Willis;  child  of  second 
wife:  Lillian;  he  resides  at  Neponsct,  Massa- 
chusetts. 2.  James,  October  6,  1839,  at  Quincy, 
married  Elizabeth  A.  Clapp;  died  in  1893; 
children :  Elmer  E.,  Fred  L.,  George  S., 
Mabel.  3.  Child,  died  in  infancy.  4.  Alartha 
A.,  1842.  5.  Joseph  .A.,  1847,  married  Jessie 
A.  Jollimore,  of  Brockton.  6.  Mary  Ella, 
1852,  married  William  Leander  Gage  (see 
Gage  family).  7.  Ida  A.,  .August,  1858,  mar- 
ried Walter  Rogers,  of  Marshfield ;  child, 
Lena  Rogers. 

(The    Runnels   Line). 

The  name  Runnels  is  of  Scotch  origin,  from 
Runnels,  meaning  a  small  brook.     It  has  been 


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thought  by  some  that  the  families  of  Runnels 
or  Runnclls  and  Reynolds  were  the  same,  but 
they  were  evidently  distinct.  Many  branches 
of  the  family  have  changed  their  name  to 
Reynolds,  but  there  are  none  of  the  Runnels 
name  among  the  Reynolds  families.  The 
Reynolds  family,  moreover,  is  of  English  origin. 
The  only  coat-of-arms  borne  by  the  Runnels 
family  is:  Argent  masoned  sable  upon  a  chief 
indented  of  the  last,  a  plate  charged  with  a  rose 
gules,  barbed  and  seeded,  between  two  fleur- 
de-lis  or.  Crest:  A  fox  passant  or,  holding 
in  his  mouth  a  rose,  as  in  the  arms  slipped  and 
leaved  vert.  Motto:  Murus  aheneus  esto. 
Underneath,  Runnells. 

(I)  Sergeant  Samuel  Runnels  was  born, 
according  to  family  tradition,  in  1671,  near 
Port  Royal,  Nova  Scotia.  The  tradition  says 
that  he  and  an  elder  brother  escaped  from  an 
attack  of  Indians  or  pirates  on  their  father's 
residence  near  Halifa.x,  and  came  in  an  open 
boat  to  New  England.  He  resided  in  Brad- 
ford, Massachusetts,  where  he  owned  a  farm. 
He  also  owned  land  in  Boxford,  and  erected  a 
house  there,  but  probably  never  lived  in  it.  He 
was  admitted  in  full  communion  in  the  Brad- 
ford church,  November  27,  1709.  His  will 
was  dated  March  6,  1744-45.  and  proved  No- 
vember 25,  1745.  He  died  October  27,  1745- 
He  married,  about  1700,  Abigail  Middleton, 
who  died  October  11,  1753.  Children:  i. 
Stephen,  born  May  14,  1703,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Samuel,  December  17,  1706.  3.  John.  March 
9,  1710,  died  voung.  4.  John,  April  8,  1711, 
died  July  6.  1713.  5.  Job,  June  18,  1712.  6. 
Sarah,  October  31,  1716.  7.  Abigail,  Noveni- 
ber  II,  1722.  8.  Ebenezer,  November  20,  1726. 

(II)  Stephen,  son  of  Samuel  Runnels,  was 
born  May  14,  1703,  died  March  10,  1753.  He 
was  a  cooper  by  trade  and  lived  in  Bradford 
until  January  14,  1735-36,  when  he  bought  of 
Zachariah  1  lardy  land  in  Boxford,  and  settled 
there  as  a  farmer.  He  married,  in  1728,  Esther 
Hovey,  of  Rowley,  who  married  (second) 
Lukc'Hovey.  of  l'.oxford.  Stephen  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Bradford  church  August  3,  1729. 
Children:  i.  Stephen,  born  1729,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Martha,  1732,  probably  died  young. 
3.  Esther,  1734.  4-  Asa,  1737,  died  young.  5. 
William,  January  28,  1740,  in  Boxford.  6. 
Daniel,  September  15,  1742. 

(HI)  Stephen  (2),  son  of  Stephen  (l) 
Runnels,  was  born  in  Bradford  in  1729,  bap- 
tized October  19  of  that  year,  and  inherited 
his  father's  farm  in  Boxford.  Administration 
of  his  estate  was  granted  his  widow  Hannah. 
September  23,   1771.     He  married,  April    11, 


1754,  Hannah  Pearl,  of  Boxford.  Children, 
born  in  Boxford :  i.  Abigail,  August  21,  1755, 
married  Abel  Gage  (see  Gage  family).  2. 
Enos,  February  20,  1757.  3.  Hannah,  Novem- 
ber 29,  1758,  died  young.    4.  Eunice,  January 

6,  1761.  5.  Billy,  January  24,  1763,  in  the 
revolution,  taken  prisoner  and  died,  it  is  sup- 
posed, in  a  prison  ship  in  New  York  in  1781, 
aged  eighteen.  6.  Hannah,  December  30,  1764. 

7.  Phebe,  December  8,  1766.  8.  Esther,  Sep- 
tember, 1768,  died  March  2,  1789.  9.  Sarah, 
November,  1770,  died  August  I,  1789. 


John   Russell,    immigrant    an- 
RUSSELL     cestor,  came  to  New  England 

and  settled  first  at  Cambridge, 
where  he  was  a  proprietor  in  1635.  He  was 
admitted  a  freeman,  March  3.  1635-36,  and 
was  a  town  officer,  and  clerk  of  the  writs.  He 
was  a  subscriber  to  the  orders  drawn  up  for 
the  town  of  Woburn,  at  Charlestown,  in  1640, 
and  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Woburn. 
He  was  a  proprietor  there  in  1640.  He  was 
selectman  of  Woburn  several  years,  and  in 
1644  was  appointed  on  a  committee  for  dis- 
tribution of  land.  He  was  deacon  of  the 
church,  but  afterwards  became  a  Baptist,  and 
about  1669-70  was  admitted  to  the  Baptist 
church  of  Boston,  which  at  that  time  met  for 
worship  at  Noddle's  Island.  He  was  later 
chosen  elder  of  this  church.  For  his  change 
of  faith  he  was  summoned  before  the  court 
at  Charlestown  in  1671  and  sent  to  prison,  but 
was  soon  released.  He  died  June  i,  1676.  His 
will  was  dated   May  27,   1676.     He  married 

(first)   Elizabeth  ,  who  died  December 

16.  1644.  He  married  (second)  May  13,  1645, 
Elizabeth  I'.aker,  who  died  January  17,  1689- 
90.  Children:  i.  Samuel.  2.  John,  mentioned 
below.  3.  Mary,  married,  December  21,  1659. 
Timothy  Brooks. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Russell, 
was  born  about  1640  and  died  December  21, 
1680.  He  settled  first  in  Woburn  and  removed 
to  Boston,  where  he  was  ordained  to  succeed 
Elder  Gould  as  minister  of  the  Baptist  church, 
July  28.  1679.  During  the  short  period  he 
was  in  office,  he  wrote  a  treatise  in  answer  to 
some  harsh  reflections  in  a  publication  by  Rev. 
Dr.  Increa.se  Mather,  asserting  "The  Divine 
Right  of  Infant  Baptism."  The  answer  was 
entitled  "A  Brief  Narrative  of  some  consider- 
able passages  concerning  the  First  Gathering 
and  Further  Progress  of  a  Church  of  Christ 
in  (iospel  Order,  in  Boston,  in  New  England. 
Etc."  It  was  dated  in  Boston.  May  20,  1680. 
and  sent  to  London  for  publication.     He  mar- 


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ried,  October  31.  1661,  Sarah  Champney, 
daughter  of  John  Champney,  of  Cambridge. 
She  died  at  \\"oburii,  April  25,  1696.  He  is 
buried  in  King's  Chapel  burying  ground,  Bos- 
ton. Children:  i.  John,  born  August  i,  i(;)62, 
died  July  26,  1717;  married,  December  21, 
1682,  Elizabeth  Palmer.  2.  Joseph,  January 
15,  1663-64,  mentioned  below.  3.  Samuel, 
Februarj'  3,  1667-68,  died  December  i,  1668. 

4.  Sarah,  February  10.  1670-71.  5.  Elizabeth, 
February  19,  1672-73,  died  June  5,  1743;  mar- 
ried    Pierce.     6.  Jonathan,   August  6, 

167  s.  died  June  20,  1708.    7.  Thomas.  January 

5,  1677-78."    8.  Ruth. 

(III)  Joseph,  .son  of  John  (2)  Russell,  was 
born  at  W'oburn,  January  15,  1663-64,  died  at 
Boston,  March  13,  1713-14.   He  married  Mary 

,  who  died  ^farch  28,  171 5.     Both  are 

buried  in  King's  Chapel  burying  ground  in 
Boston.  Children:  i.  Joseph,  born  December 
12,  1687.  2.  Mary.  3.  Abigail.  4.  Sarah, 
married \\'akefield.  5.  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried Joseph  Hiller.  6.  ]\Iehitable.  7.  Thomas, 
born  July  11,  1705,  mentioned  below.  8.  Skin- 
ner, died  in  Boston,  June,  1752.    9.  Jonathan. 

(IV)  Thomas,  son  of  Joseph  Russell,  was 
born  July  11.  1705,  died  September  i,  1760. 
He  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Condy,  daughter 
of  Jeremiah  Condy,  and  sister  of  Rev.  Jere- 
miah Condy.  She  was  a  well  educated  woman 
and  possessed  many  accomplishments  of  the 
day.  She  constructed  curious  pictures  of  fili- 
gree work,  also  wax  flowers  and  fruit  of  rare 
beauty.  Her  embroidery  attracted  much  atten- 
tion, as  did  also  a  white  Holland  bed-spread 
that  she  made.  While  Boston  was  held  by  the 
British  in  the  war  of  the  revolution,  soldiers 
were  admitted  to  the  house  and  ruined  the 
spread  with  bloodstains.  They  also  carried 
off  her  finest  piece  of  embroidery,  into  which 
she  had  wrought  gold  and  silver  threads.  In 
1878  a  white  silk  apron  embroidered  by  her, 
1710-20,  had  a  prominent  place  in  a  loan  ex- 
hibition in  aid  of  the  Society  of  Decorative 
Art  in  New  York.  A  sampler  of  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Russell,  her  only  daughter,  1775-1776,  is 
still  preserved.  Thomas  Russell  married  (sec- 
ond) Honora  Loud,  who  married  (second) 
Deacon  Philip  Freeman.  He  is  buried  in 
King's  Chapel  burying  ground.  Children:  i. 
Thomas,  died  1752.  2.  Joseph,  born  October 
2.  1732,  died  May  18,  1792;  married  (first) 
Mary  Checkly;  (second)  Amey  Hopkins; 
(third)  Ann  Frances  Lippitt.  3.  Jeremiah 
Condy,  died  August  30,  1759.  4.  John,  born 
April  12,  1737,  died  July  8.  1813;  married, 
October  15,  1761,  Martha  ^^artin.    5.  William, 


born  September  12,  1739,  died  unmarried  Kel)- 
ruary  10,  1825.  6.  Jonathan,  mentioned  below. 
Children  of  second  wife:  7.  Elizabeth,  born 
April  15,  1757.  married,  November  20,  '^TJJ, 
Dr.  Solomon  Drowne.  8.  Thomas,  born  Sep- 
tember 8,  1758,  died  February  19,  1801  ;  mar- 
ried, November  29,  1783,  Ann  Handy. 

(V)  Jonathan,  son  of  Thomas  Russell,  was 
born  in  1741  and  died  February  17,  1788.  He 
was  a  merchant  in  Providence,  engaged  in  the 
importation  of  merchandise  from  London  and 
the  West  Indies.  His  advertisements  appear 
in  the  Providence  Gazette  of  the  period,  his 
place  of  business  being  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Great  Bridge.  During  the  revolution  his  busi- 
ness was  broken  up  by  the  closing  of  the  port. 
He  then  removed  to  Mendon,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  died.  He  married,  January  5,  1769, 
Abigail  Russell,  born  November  24.  1737, 
daughter  of  James  and  Abigail  (Lovett)  Rus- 
sell, of  Holliston,  Massachusetts.  Children: 
I.  James,  born  October  31,  1769,  died  1795; 
married  Hannah  Sherman.  2.  Jonathan,  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1771,  mentioned  below.  3.  Abigail, 
November  25,  1772,  died  August  12,  1854; 
married  Otis  Ammidon,  August  21,  1799.  4. 
Joseph  Warren,  February  6,  1775,  died  young. 
5.  Mary,  August  5,  1778,  died  January  8,  1832; 
married,  August  23,  1800,  Liberty  Bates.  6. 
Henry,  August  27,  1785,  died  May  21,   1863. 

(\T)  Hon.  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan 
(i)  Russell,  was  born  in  Providence,  February 
27,  1771,  died  at  Milton,  ^Massachusetts,  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1832.  He  graduated  at  Rhode  Island 
College,  (now  Brown  University)  in  1791 
with  the  highest  honors  of  his  class.  He 
studied  for  the  law  but  embarked  in  com- 
mercial pursuits  instead  of  practicing  his  pro- 
fession. He  took  great  interest  in  politics  and 
in  1810  acted  as  Charge  d'Affaires  at  Paris.  The 
following  year  he  went  to  England  in  the  same 
capacity;  was  teiujiorary  minister  when  Mr. 
John  Quincy  Adams  went  for  a  time  to  Amer- 
ica. The  notification  of  the  declaration  of  war 
against  Great  Britain  devolved  upon  him  in 
his  ofiRcial  capacity.  On  January  18,  1814,  he 
was  appointed  one  of  the  commissioners  to 
negotiate  and  conclude  a  treaty  of  peace  with 
Great  Britain  at  Giicnt.  .At  this  time  he  was 
made  minister  plenipotentiary  to  Sweden,  and 
went  to  Stockholm  where  he  remained  until 
October  16,  1818.  Upon  his  return  to  America, 
he  settled  at  Mendon,  Massachusetts,  and  was 
soon  a  fter ward  elected  to  congress,  serving  from 
1 82 1  to  1825.  He  was  a  member  of  the  conven- 
tion to  revise  the  laws  of  Massachusetts  in  1820. 
He  was  said  to  have  been  "a  versatile,  forcible, 


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elegant  and  facile  writer,  and  when  the  sub- 
ject permitted,  liandled  his  pen  with  a  caustic 
severity  seldom  surpassed."  i  le  left  no  printed 
evidence  of  his  literary  ability  aside  from  his 
foreign  correspondence,  except  an  oration  de- 
livered in  Providence  of  July  4,  1800:  an  elo- 
quent tribute  to  the  memory  of  Nathan  Hey- 
wood,  a  classmate,  and  a  few  other  addresses. 
The  oration  mentioned  has  been  used  by  gen- 
erations of  American  boys  for  school  declama- 
tion, and  has  been  printed  within  a  few  years 
in  the  Providence  Journal.  He  married  (first) 
April  3,  1/94,  Sylvia  Amidon,  who  died  July 
10,  181 1.  He  married  (second)  at  Boston, 
April  2,  1817,  Lydia  Smith,  daughter  of  Bar- 
ney and  Ann  (Otis)  Smith.  She  lived  several 
years  with  her  brother  abroad,  and  attended 
Madame  Campan's  school  at  St.  Germaine, 
France.  She  was  skilled  in  drawing  and  re- 
ceived a  gold  medal  from  Napoleon  I  in  1807 
for  the  best  copied  drawings.  The  medal  antl 
drawings  are  still  in  the  possession  of  the 
family.  In  London  she  painted  under  West, 
who  gave  her  his  pallette  of  colors,  and  this, 
with  drawings  given  her  by  Horace  Vernet, 
are  still  preserved.  She  died  at  Milton,  De- 
cember 20,  1859.  Children  of  first  wife:  i. 
Amelia  E.,  born  January  3,  1798.  2.  George 
Robert,  May  5,  1800,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Caroline  A..  June  17,  1805,  died  April  8,  1879; 
married  (first)  October  20.  1829,  Jazariah 
Ford;  (second)  June  24,  1842,  Francis  Taft. 
4.  Anna  Matilda,  January  21,  1808,  died  April 
14,  1834;  married,  June  12,  1833,  Philip  Am- 
midon.  Children  of  second  wife:  5.  Ida,  born 
April  10,  i8i8,  at  Stockholm,  Sweden,  died  in 
Milton,  February  20,  1855.  6.  Geraldine  I., 
Mendon,  December  20,  1819,  married  (first) 
October  8.  1839,  George  Rivers;  (second) 
June  22,  1858,  (ieorge  Bruce  ITpton.  7.  Rosalie 
G.,  Mendon,  July  10,  1822,  died  February  2, 
1897.  8.  Jonathan,  Mendon,  September  10, 
1825,  died  September  25,  1875,  unmarried; 
graduated  at  Harvard,  1845;  was  American 
consul  at  Manila  several  years. 

(VH)  George  Robert,  .son  of  Hon.  Jona- 
than (2)  Russell,  was  born  May  5,  1800,  died 
at  Manchester,  Massachusetts.  Augu.st  5,  1866. 
He  graduated  at  Brown  L'niversity  in  1821, 
and  studied  law  in  Philadelphia,  returning  to 
Providence  to  ])ract!ce  his  profession  which, 
jiowever,  he  soon  abandoned.  lie  went  In 
Eima,  South  America ;  tiience  to  China  and 
Manila,  where  he  founded  the  house  of  Russell 
&  Sturgis,  which  soon  became  one  of  the  great- 
est commercial  houses  in  the  east.  Return- 
ing, he  resided  in  West  Roxhur\-.  and  after- 


wards removed  to  Jamaica  Plain.  He  made  a 
trip  to  Europe  on  account  of  ill  health,  and 
on  his  return  resided  in  Boston.  In  1849  ^^ 
delivered  the  oration  before  the  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  Society  of  Brown,  his  subject  being 
"Commerce."  It  was  said  of  the  oration 
"Never  have  we  listened  to  an  oration  which 
was  more  faithful  to  its  subject,  and  united 
more  manly  sense  and  practical  knowledge, 
with  accurate  learning,  pointed  wit,  and  fin- 
ished com])osition."  He  delivered  other  ora- 
tions which  made  an  equally  good  impression. 
At  the  Commencement  of  Brown  University 
in  1849  lis  received  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  In 
January,  1857,  he  was  chosen  a  resident  mem- 
ber of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 
He  married,  December  i,  1835,  Sarah  Park- 
man  Shaw,  daughter  of  Robert  G.  Shaw,  of 
Boston.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  at  La 
Boissiere,  near  Geneva,  Switzerland,  Novem- 
ber 2,  1836,  married,  November  28.  1856, 
Theodore  Lyman.  2.  Henry  Sturgis.  June  21, 
1838,  mentioned  below.  3.  Anna,  West  Rox- 
bury,  April  23,  1840,  died  December  22,  1873; 
married,  November  15,  i860.  Professor  .Alex- 
ander Agassiz.  ( See  sketch  of  Agassiz 
family).  4.  Emily,  January  26,  1843,  married, 
January  19,  1874,  Charles  Lawrence  Peirson. 
5.  Marian,  November  14,  1846.  6.  Robert 
Shaw,  June  10,  1850,  married  IMargaret  P. 
Curtis.  7.  Sarah,  September  22,  1851,  mar- 
ried James  liarr  .\mes,  dean  of  Harvard  Law 
School. 

(VIII)  General  Henry  Sturgis.  son  of  Hon. 
George  Robert  Russell,  was  born  on  Savin  1  lill, 
Dorchester,  June  21,  1838,  died  in  Boston, 
February  16,  1905.  He  attended  several 
schools  during  his  youth,  and  later  studied 
several  years  at  the  private  school  of  Mr.  E.  S. 
Dixwell,  whence  in  1856  he  went  to  Harvard 
College  and  graduated  in  iSfo.  In  1861  he 
was  in  the  office  of  William  Perkins,  a  Boston 
merchant.  .\t  the  opening  of  the  civil  war  he 
joined  the  Fourth  liattalion  and  went  with  it 
to  I'ort  Independence,  in  lioston  harbor.  There, 
for  a  month,  he  was  thoroughly  drilled  by- 
General  Thomas  G.  Stevenson.  He  went  into 
active  service  as  first  lieutenant  in  the  Second 
Massachusetts  N'oJunteer  Infantry,  May  28. 
1861.  He  was  assigned  a  company  December 
31,  1861,  and  his  first  serious  engagement  was 
at  Cedar  Mountain.  When  tiie  regiment  was 
ordered  to  retreat,  he  performed  an  act  of 
loyalty  to  his  friend,  Lieutenant  Colonel  Sav- 
age, which  was  afterwards  thus  narrated  by 
Governor  .Andrews:  "I  know  of  no  incident 
cvf  mc>re  perfect,  of  more  heroic  gentility,  be- 


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speaking  a  noble  nature,  tluui  the  act  per- 
formed by  one  Captain  of  the  2nil  Massachu- 
setts, *  *  *  wlio.  standing  by  the  side  oi 
Lieutenant  Colonel  Savage  *  *  *  fatally 
wounded,  not  believed  by  the  enemy  to  be 
worth  the  saving,  refused  to  surrender  until 
he  had  wrung  from  the  enemy  the  pledge  that 
they  would,  in  capturing  him.  save  also  his 
comrade  and  bear  him  back  to  the  nearest 
hospital:  declaring  that,  if  they  did  not,  he. 
single-hantled  and  alone,  would  fight  it  out, 
and  sell  his  life  at  the  dearest  cost."  Colonel 
Savage  died  of  liis  wounds  a  few  days  after- 
wards, and  Russell  was  confined  in  Libby 
Prison.  He  was  liberated  November  15.  1862, 
and  on  January  22,  1863,  w-as  made  lieutenant 
colonel  of  the  Second  I\Iassachusetts  Cavalry. 
On  .\])ril  5.  1864.  he  was  made  colonel  of  the 
Fifth  Massachusetts  Cavalry,  a  negro  regi- 
ment. It  was  a  position  which  was  then  not 
very  desirable,  but  he  accepted  it.  Between 
him  and  his  cousin,  Colonel  Robert  G.  Shaw, 
there  had  been  a  close  friendship.  Shaw's 
death  had  just  occurred  at  Fort  Wagner  lead- 
ing a  charge  at  the  head  of  his  negro  regiment, 
and  Colf)nel  Russell  said,  in  taking  his  new  com- 
mand :  "Hob  would  have  liked  to  have  me  do 
it."  At  the  head  of  his  regiment  on  June  15, 
1864.  before  Petersburg.  Colonel  Russell  re- 
ceived his  first  wound,  a  severe  one ;  he  also 
received  special  commendation  from  General 
Grant,  which  led  a  year  later  to  his  brevet  as 
brigadier-general  of  volunteers  "for  distin- 
guished gallantry  and  good  conduct." 

In  February.  1865,  by  reason  of  illness  in 
his  family,  he  left  the  army,  and  entered  the 
firm  of  his  father-in-law,  where  he  remained 
three  years.  Xot  having  a  taste  for  business 
pursuits,  he  established  at  West  Roxbury  the 
famous  Home  Farm,  and  two  years  later 
he  removed  to  his  handsome  estate,  midway 
between  .Milton  Hill  and  the  I'.lue  Hills,  where 
he  passed  the  remainder  of  life.  He  built  fine 
stables,  and  kept  some  of  the  most  famous 
trotting  stallions  in  the  country,  notably  among 
W'hom  were  Fearnaught,  Smuggler  and  Edge- 
mark.  Later  he  turned  his  attention  to  Jersey 
cattle. 

In  1878  he  was  appointed  chairman  of  the 
Boston  police  commissioners.  The  board  had 
been  managed  by  an  aldermanic  committee, 
and  had  sunk  into  a  pitiable  condition.  For 
two  years  lie  toiled  hard,  and  brought  the  force 
into  fine  shape.  Then  he  resigned  and  re- 
turned to  bis  farm.  On  January  14.  1895. 
Mayor  Curtis  appointed  him  fire  commissioner 
of   Boston.      This   was   a   single-headed   com- 


niis>ion.  the  commission  having  the  i>rivilege 
of  appointing  two  deputies  and  a  secretary. 
This  Colonel  Russell  never  did.  It  was  a 
long  and  arduous  work  to  bring  the  depart- 
ment up  to  his  ideal,  but  he  left  it  undoubtedly 
the  best  organized  and  the  most  efficient  fire 
department  in  the  country.  ".At  the  beginning 
the  politicians  came  with  their  usual  demands 
for  influence,  but  (|uickly  learned  that  they 
had  al)Milutely  none!  Shocked  and  angry  at 
so  'iHi-.American'  condition,  they  would  fain 
have  ejected  the  colonel,  but  they  found  him 
evenly  indift'erent  to  threats,  gallantly  backed 
by  the  powerful  insurance  interests,  and 
attending  to  business  as  if  politicians  did  not 
e.xist.  In  time  they  appreciated  the  situation, 
and  ceased  from  troulDling ;  and  no  mayor  of 
either  party  ever  disturbed  the  fire  commis- 
sioner. With  his  subalterns  he  was  popular; 
and  even  with  the  rank  and  file,  for  though 
very  rigid  and  a  strict  disciplinarian,  he  was 
not  a  martinet.  During  his  term,  he  made 
short  work  of  disquieting  agitation  concerning 
hours  and  pay  which  meddlesome  politicians 
sought  to  stir;  yet  his  men,  proud  of  being 
parts  of  so  fine  an  organization  as  he  had 
created,  did  not  audibly  murmer.  He  was  a 
strong  commander  and  he  reaped  the  fruits 
of  it."  He  held  the  office  up  to  the  time  of 
his  death.  His  funeral  was,  at  his  own  request, 
closely  private,  and  the  burial  was  in  the 
Milton  cemetery.  Colonel  Russell  held  the 
following  offices  also:  Director  of  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Ouincy  Railroad  Company; 
president  of  Continental  (Bell)  Telephone 
Com]mny ;  member  of  school  committee,  board 
of  assessors,  park  commission,  selectman  of 
Milton,  trustee  of  Westborough  Insane 
A.sylum :  of  Perkins  Institute  for  the  Blind ; 
of  the  Massachusetts  Homeopathic  Hospital; 
Iiresident  of  Bay  State  Agricultural  Company ; 
trustee  of  Massachusetts  Society  for  Promot- 
ing .Xgriculture ;  member  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Republican  State  Committee ;  i)rcsident 
of  the  Second  Massachusetts  Cavalry  .Asso- 
ciation ;  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion. 

Colonel  Russell's  convictions  were  strong 
and  definite,  and  his  judgment  positive;  he 
gave  the  impression  of  reserved  force.  He 
was  modest,  yet  conscious  of  his  power,  con- 
sequently self-reliant.  Fear  of  any  sort  was 
utterly  absent  in  his  make-up :  but  he  was 
affectionate  by  nature,  loyal  and  kindly.  He 
was  domestic  in  his  tastes,  and  loved  his  fire- 
side. Without  being  imperious,  he  was  always 
thoroughly  the  master  of  his  .soldiers,  his 
policemen,  his  firemen,  and  his  employees. 


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He  married,  May  26,  1863,  Mary  Hathaway 
Forbes,  of  Milton,  daughter  of  Hon.  John  M. 
Forbes.  Children:  i.  James  Savage,  born 
March  8,  1864,  mentioned  below.  2.  Ellen 
Forbes,  Milton,  October  30,  1865,  educated  in 
private  schools  in  Milton  and  at  Chestnut  Hill, 
Pennsylvania,  and  passed  the  entrance  e.xami- 
nations  to  Radclifte  College;  married,  Novem- 
ber 15,  1894,  Edward  Williams  Atkinson  ;  chil- 
dren: i.  Edward  Atkinson,  born  October, 
1897;  ii.  Henry  Russell  Atkinson,  born  De- 
cember 12,  1899;  iii.  Mary  Forbes  Atkinson. 

3.  Mary  Forbes,  April  28,  1870,  educated  in 
private  schools  in  Milton  and  Boston  ;  married, 
in  1889,  Copley  Amory ;  children:  i.  Copley 
-Amory  Jr.,  born  November  2,  1890;  ii.  Henry 
Russell  .Amory,  born  October  25,  1892;  iii. 
John  Forbes  Amory,  born  March  8,  1896; 
iv.  Walter  Amory,  born  June  13,  1899;  v. 
Thomas  Chace  Amory,  born  November  30, 
1907:  vi.  Katherine  Amory,  born  April  7,  1908. 

4.  Margaret,  June  24,   187 1,  died  in  infancy. 

5.  Howland  Shaw,  January  27,  1873,  men- 
tioned below.  6.  Anna,  August  29,  1875,  edu- 
cated in  private  schools  in  Milton  and  Boston 
and  passed  the  exminations  for  Radclifife  Col- 
lege;  married,  1896,  Harrison  Otis  .\pthorp, 
head  master  of  Milton  Academy ;  children :  i. 
Harrison  Otis  Apthorp  Jr.,  born  October  i, 
1897:  ii.  .Sarah  Forbes  .\pthorp,  born  May  10, 
1900. 

(IX)  James  Savage,  son  of  Henry  Sturgis 
Russell,  was  born  in  Milton,  March  8,  1864. 
He  attended  private  schools  in  Milton  and 
Boston,  and  entered  Harvard  College,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1887 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  .Arts.  He  was 
a  clerk  for  si.x  years  in  the  banking  house  of 
Lee,  Higginson  &  Company.  Since  then  he 
has  been  a  real  estate  broker  with  offices  in 
l^)OSton.  In  ])olitics  he  is  a  Reiniblican ;  in 
religion  a  Unitarian.  He  is  a  member  of 
Country  Club  of  Brookline,  .Athletic,  Ex- 
change and  City  of  I'lOston  and  Milton  clubs. 
He  married.  May  21.  1902,  Emily  Tyson  Perry, 
daughter  of  Rev.  James  DeWolf  and  Eliza- 
beth (  Tyson  I  Perry,  of  Germantown,  Penn- 
sylvania. Children,  born  at  Milton:  i.  Eliza- 
beth Tyson,  born  January  3,  1904.  2.  George 
Robert,  December  12,  1905. 

(IX)  Howland  Shaw,  son  of  Henry  Sturgis 
Russell,  was  born  in  Milton,  January  27,  1873. 
He  attended  private  schools  in  .Vlilton  and 
Boston  and  entered  Harvard  College  in  which 
he  was  a  student  for  two  years.  He  is  a  broker 
with  offices  in  Boston.  Since  February,  1907, 
he  has  resided  in  California  on  a  ranch.     In 


politics  he  is  a  Republican  ;  in  religion  a  Uni- 
tarian. He  is  a  member  of  Milton  Club  and 
Eastern  Yacht  Club.  He  married,  June  i, 
1904,  Catherine  S.  Thayer,  born  November  2, 
1883,  daughter  of  Eugene  \an  Rensselaer 
and  Susan  (Spring)  Thayer,  of  Lancaster 
and  Boston  ;  child,  Henry  Sturgis,  born  Feb- 
ruary 24,  1905. 


\\  illiam  Stockwell,  immi- 
STOCKW  ELL  grant  ancestor,  was  born 
in  England,  about  1650. 
The  family  tradition  has  it  that  he  was  enticed 
on  board  a  ship  when  a  young  lad,  and  follow- 
ed the  sea  after  serving  his  ap])renticeship  in 
the  old-fashioned  way.  He  finally  made  his 
home  in  Ipswich,  but  his  seafaring  life  prob- 
ably e.xplains  the  absence  of  records  there.  It 
is  said  that  he  was  born  in  Scotland,  but  the 
name  is  un(|uestionably  English,  and  there 
was  another  family  of  Stockwells  in  Massa- 
chusetts before  he  came.  William  Stockwell 
had  a  seat  in  the  meeting  house  at  Ipswich  in 
1700.  He  seems  to  have  been  in  Sutton  for 
several  years  from  1720  to  1731  or  later,  but 
where  he  died  is  unknown.  His  son  \\'illiam 
used  the  "Junior"  as  late  as  1731,  when  he 
sold  land  to  William  Severy  in  Sutton.  He 
sold  ten  parcels  of  land,  according  to  the  rec- 
ords, between  1731  and  1769.  The  only  two 
deeds  in  Worcester  county  given  by  the  immi- 
grant appear  to  be  those  dated  October  19, 
1720-1,  but  his  wife's  name  w^as  Mary  Stock- 
well,  which  was  the  name  of  his  son  William's 
wife.  This  William  Stockwell  sold  land  seven 
rods  wide  and  one  hundred  and  six  rods  long 
to  John  Lilly,  adjoining  land  of  John  Sibley, 
Jonathan  King,  Ebenezer  Stearns  and  Samuel 
Bisco.  He  sold  land  also  in  .March,  1722-3,  to 
John  Sibley,  of  Sutton,  one  and  a-quarter  acres. 
The  first  deed  of  William  Stockwell  Jr., 
according  to  Worcester  records,  was  dated 
April  5,  1727,  acknowledged  1731,  conveying 
land  on  Crooked  ])ond  between  land  of  Benja- 
min Marsh  and  land  of  William  Stockwell  to 
William  Severy.  He  deeded  more  land  in 
1729.  William  married,  at  Ipswich,  .April  14. 
1685,  Sarah  Lambert.  His  children  included 
five  sons,  who  all  settled  in  Sutton,  and  he 
probably  with  them.  Children:  i.  \\'illiam, 
born  about  1686,  married  Mary  ;  set- 
tled in  .Sutton.  2.  Captain  John,  born  about 
if^i^j.  married,  1717,  Mary  Lombard.  3.  Jon- 
athan, married  December  26,  1726:  had  Ste- 
jihen.  et  al.     5.  David,  mentioned  below. 

(II)    David,  son  of  William  Stockwell,  was 
born    in    New    England,    and    married    Marcv 


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.      His    will    was    dated    May    10    and 

proved  August  18,  1743.  He  lived  in  Sutton, 
where  seven  of  his  children  are  recorded. 
Children  :  i.  Jeremiah,  baptized  May  9.  1731  ; 
married.  November  27.  1751.  Mary  Cutler.  2. 
Joseph  (twin),  baptized  May  9,  1731.  3. 
Ephraim.  born  October  16,  1733;  mentioned 
below.  4.  Mary,  baptized  September  7,  1735. 
5.  John,  baptized  November  13.  1737.  6. 
Mercy.  7.  Martha.  8.  Jemima.  9.  Abigail. 
10.  Evens,  baptized  September  6,  1742.  11. 
David,  baptized  May  14,  1750. 

(HI)  Ephraim.  son  of  David  Stockwell, 
was  born  at  Sutton,  Massachusetts,  October 
16,  1733.  He  removed  from  Sutton  to  Peters- 
ham, Worcester  county,  Massachusetts.  He 
bought  a  farm  at  Atliol,  June  26,  1760,  of 
Lydia  Moore,  widow  of  Increase  Moore,  of 
Athol  (Pequoige),  He  bought  land  later  at 
Athol  of  Silas  Conant  in  1792,  and  Daniel 
Duncan  Jr.  in  1793.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
revolution,  lieutenant  in  Captain  Ichabod  Dex- 
ter's  company.  Colonel  Doolittle's  regiment,  on 
the  Lexington  alarm,  April  19.  1775:  also 
first  lieutenant  in  Captain  John  Oliver's  com- 
pany. Colonel  Nathan  Sparhawk's  regiment 
(seventh)  in  1776,  commissioned  April  5, 
1776;  also  captain  of  Twelfth  compan\'.  Col- 
onel Sparhawk"s  regiment  (Seventh  Wor- 
cester county),  commissioned  December  10, 
1776;  also  captain  in  Colonel  Job  Cushing's 
regiment  in  1777,  sent  to  reinforce  General 
Stark  to  the  northward.  He  deeded  jiart  of 
his  land  to  his  son  Ziba.  He  died  at  Phillips- 
ton,  Massachusetts,  where  he  spent  his  last 
years,  July  13,  1802,  aged  sixty-eight  years. 
He  married,  at  Petersham  (intention  dated 
November  8,  1757)  Sarah  Grout,  who  died  at 
Phillipston,  October  27,  1817,  aged  seventy- 
nine  years.  His  will,  dated  April  30,  1802, 
filed  August  3,  1802,  bequeathed  to  wife  Sarah 
and  children.  Children,  born  at  Athol:  i, 
Jesse.  2.  Ziba.  died  January  7,  1849,  at 
"Phillipston,  aged  eighty-six  years  five  months 
six  days.  3.  Lois,  married  at  Petersham  (in- 
tention March  17,  1791)  Joshua  Sprague.  4. 
Phebe,  married,  January  14,  1792,  William 
Howe.     5.  Josiah,  mentioned  below. 

(I\')  Josiah.  son  of  Ephraim  StockwtU. 
was  born  at  .-\thol,  October  14,  1775,  and 
died  at  Phillipston.  in  1853.  His  father  left 
him  fifty  acres  of  land  in  Gerry  (Phillipston) 
bought  of  Silas  Conant,  with  house  and  barn, 
his  then  homestead,  on  condition  that  he  pay 
his  mother  ,$233.33.  Josiah  bought  fifty  acres 
of  land  at  Phillipston.  December  22,  1812,  of 
John  Parker,  of  Lexington.     He  had  already 


moved  to  that  town,  adjacent  to  Athol.  He 
also  bought  land  November  8,  1821,  on  the 
west  side  of  the  county  road,  of  James  Oliver 
and  Luther  Smith.  His  will  was  dated  Janu- 
ary 5,  1850,  with  a  codicil  dated  April  15, 
1850,  and  allowed  October  4,  1853.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Phillipston  (first)  Polly  Moore,  who 
died  December  24,  1818:  (second)  (intention 
dated  July  4,  1819),  at  Worcester,  Isabella 
Doty.  Children,  burn  at  Phillipston  (where 
date's  are  given)  :  i.  Cyrus,  September  16, 
1797;  mentioned  below,  2.  Hannah,  Novem- 
ber 7,   1799:  died  before  her  father;  married 

Bigelow.     3.  Elvira,  February  2,  1802. 

4.  Elmer,  December  31,  1803,  not  mentioned  in 
will.  5.  Leander,  February  9,  1806.  6.  Syl- 
vester,'September  20,  1808.  7.  Harriet,  No- 
vember   I,    1810;   married Jones.     8. 

Mary    Roxana,    October    5.     1812;    married 

'- —  Skinner.     9.   Sophia  Angela,  October 

19,  1814;  married  Clapp.    Children  of 

second  wife:  10.  Isabella.  11.  Josiah  B.  12. 
Orlando. 

(V)  Cyrus,  son  of  Josiah  Stockwell,  was 
born  in  Phillipston,  September  16,  1797,  and 
died  October  13,  1845.  before  his  father.  When 
a  young  man  he  lived  in  Ilardwick,  Worcester 
county,  and  in  May,  1818,  established  a  line 
of  mail  stages  between  Worcester  and  North- 
ampton, the  first  to  pass  through  Hardwick 
and  various  other  towns  along  the  route.  He 
kept  a  tavern  in  Hardwick  in  1822-23,  and 
then  moved  to  Worcester,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  same  line  of  business  until  his 
death.  He  kept  a  hotel  in  St.  John,  New 
Brunswick,  also  for  a  few  years.  He  married, 
Ai)ril  22,  1821,  Elmira  Nickerson,  of  Wor- 
cester, who  died  March  20,  1826,  aged  twenty- 
five :  (second)  May  21,  1827,  Maria  Blair, 
who  died  May  25,  1889.  Children,  born  at 
Worcester:  i.  Adeline,  March  17,  1822,  died 
December  23,  1875:  married,  at  Worcester, 
.\pril  3,  1845,  Alexander  liigelow.  2.  Stephen 
N..  .•\ugust  31,  1823;  mentioned  below.  3. 
F.lniira.  March  12.  1826.  Children  of  second 
wife:  4.  James  C.  born  September  5,  1828. 
5.  Charles  Blair,  Ai)ril  21,  iSp.  6.  Maria  B., 
lanuary    9,    1840.      7.    Henrietta,    August    i, 

1844.  ^     , 

(\I)    Stephen      Nickerson.    son    of    Cyrus 

Stockwell.  was  born  in  Hardwick,  August  31, 

1823.  and  died  .April  8,  1881,  in  Boston.   When 

only  a   few  months  old  he  removed  with  his 

family  to  Worcester,  and  there  spent  his  yoiuh 

with   exception  of  a  short   stay  at  St.  John, 

New    Brunswick.      He   learned   the   trade   of 

j)rintcr  in  the  office  of  the  Worcester  .S"/>_v,  later 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


with  the  Boston  Journal,  and  was  connected 
with  that  newspaper  in  various  positions  all 
his  active  life.  "His  professional  career," 
said  The  Journal  editorially,  "covered  a  term 
of  nearly  forty  years,  and  with  the  exception 
of  brief  periods  of  rest  he  labored  with  great 
zeal  in  the  field  which  he  had  chosen.  From 
compositor  in  his  youth  to  the  editorial  chair, 
he  has  filled  nearly  every  intermediate  position 
with  rare  ability  and  unsurpassed  fidelity.  He 
may  almost  be  said  to  have  originated  many 
departments  of  a  daily  newspaper,  for  his 
development  of  whatever  task  was  assigned 
to  him  was  one  of  his  prominent  character- 
istics. His  interest  in  public  affairs  was  always 
marked  by  an  intelligent  appreciation  of  pass- 
ing events.  In  the  house  of  representatives 
and  state  senate,  in  the  common  council,  and 
as  one  of  the  overseers  of  the  state  prison,  and 
in  many  other  positions  of  religious  and  poli- 
tical trust,  he  performed  his  work  so  thoroughly 
that  he  won  the  esteem  of  his  associates.  He 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Highland 
Church  on  Parker  street,  contributing  gener- 
ously to  build  the  edifice,  and  devoting  a  large 
measure  of  time  and  energy  to  imparting 
vitality  to  the  young  society.  In  the  promo- 
tion of  Sunday  schools  he  gave  of  his 
time  and  influence,  while  the  aid  given  by  him 
to  many  educational  institutions  in  the  west 
will  be  missed  by  the  recipients  of  his  bounty. 
Nowhere,  however,  will  our  friend  and  asso- 
ciate be  more  severely  missed  than  in  his 
family  circle,  which  has  lost  a  faithful  and 
tender  husband  and  kind  father.  It  was  his 
home  which  had  the  greatest  attraction  for 
him  and  the  welfare  of  those  he  loved  was 
nearest  his  heart.  His  whole  life  has  been 
one  of  duty  and  we  who  know  him  best  bear 
willing  testimony  to  his  conscientious  dis- 
charge of  every  responsibility  which  devolved 
u[)()n  him.  So  noble  an  attitude  as  his  when 
the  hand  of  disease  rested  heavily  upon  him 
and  when  the  inevitable  end  ajiproached  was 
only  possible  to  one  who  had  led  an  t-\eniplary 
and  Christian   life." 

His  usefulness  and  ceaseless  labor  in  behalf 
of  The  Journal  induced  the  late  Major  Rogers 
to  make  him  one  of  the  corporators  when  a  spec- 
ial act  for  the  incorporation  of  that  paper  was 
secured.  During  the  last  two  years  of  his  life, 
his  health  failed,  but  still  he  gave  to  his  work 
such  measure  of  strength  as  he  possessed  until 
February  before  he  died.  He  then  retired,  as 
he  fondly  hoped,  and  was  confidently  expected 
by  his  associates  to  regain  his  health  liy  nuich- 
noedcd   rest.      I'.ut  he   failed   rapidly  and  died 


early  in  .\pril,  at  his  home  in  Hillside,  Roxbury. 
The  Boston  newspapers,  on  the  following  day, 
published  this  e.xpression  of  sentiment:  "The 
representatives  of  the  press  of  Boston  desire 
to  express  their  deep  sense  of  bereavement  in 
the  death  of  Stephen  N.  Stockwell.  late  one 
of  the  editors  of  the  Boston  Journal,  and  to 
place  on  record  their  appreciation  of  his  hon- 
orable professional  labors  and  their  respect 
for  his  blameless  life.  They  recognize  espec- 
ially the  zeal  and  fidelity  which  he  displayed 
in  all  the  varied  branches  of  his  calling,  his 
(juick  intelligence  and  great  industry,  his  clear- 
ness of  judgment,  disinterestedness  of  prin- 
ciple in  respect  to  all  public  interests.  In  the 
larger  relations  of  life,  he  avoided  no  respon- 
sibilities and  shirked  no  labor.  He  fulfilled 
every  trust  with  consistent  fidelity  and  was 
thoughtful  and  generous  in  the  performance 
of  every  duty.  The  heartfelt  sympathy  of  his 
business  associates  and  friends  is  heartily  ex- 
tended to  his  afllicted  family." 

He  married,  December  21,  1848,  Amia  B. 
Merritt.  born  January  15,  1822,  in  Scituate, 
Massachusetts,  daughter  of  Xehemiah  and 
Anna  ( Brow'n  )  i\lerritt,  died  April  20.  1872. 
He  married  (second)  Martha  E.  Webb,  born 
March  26,  1840.  in  Newcastle,  Maine,  daugh- 
ter of  Luther  and  Eliza  (Montgomery)  Webb. 
His  widow  survives  him.  and  is  living  in  Bos- 
ton. Children  of  first  wife:  I.  .\nna  E.,  born 
July  30.  1850;  died  .August  12,  1895;  married, 
October.  1872,  George  \\'.  Basforcl.  2.  Elmira 
N.,  born  December  8.  1852;  married  (first) 
May,  1873,  William  F.  Duncan;  (second) 
December,  1891.  John  E.  Jacobs;  she  died 
April  28,  1908.  3.  .Vnielia  \V.,  born  Decem- 
ber 27.  185^;  unmarried.  4.  George  S.,  born 
October  11,  1858:  lives  in  Boston:  unmarried. 
3.  .-Vdeline  L.,  born  September  23.  1861  ;  mar- 
ried, September  29,  1882,  Moses  IT.  Day. 
Chililren  of  second  wife:  6.  Marie  L.,  born 
June  7,  1875.     7.  .Mice  \\".,  Feliruarv  2.  1881. 


Richanl  Truesdell,  the 
TRl'ESDELL      first    of    this     family    in 

.America,  was  born  in 
Boston,  England,  and  came  as  a  servant  in 
the  employ  of  Rev.  John  Cotton,  of  Boston. 
The  name  is  spelled  variously  even  at  the  pres- 
ent time.  We  find  Truesdale,  Trusdall,  Trues- 
(lall,  Trusdel.  Trusdell.  Trusedale,  Trusedell 
and  other  spellings  of  the  same  old  English 
surname,  originally  a  place  name.  Truesdell 
was  admitted  to  the  ciuircli  at  Boston,  July  27, 
1^134,  and  a  freeman.  .March  4.  1634-35.  He 
was  a  butcher  by  trade.     He  was  a  prominent 


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citizen  and  became  deacon  of  the  Boston 
church.  According  to  his  own  deposition 
dated  January  28.  1670,  his  age  was  then 
sixty- four  years.  He  was  one  of  those  who 
revolted  at  the  "disingenuous  management  by 
which  Davenport  was  brought  from  New 
Haven  to  be  the  minister"  and  he  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  Third  or  Old  South 
Church.  In  1639  he  was  a  juror  in  the  in- 
quest on  the  death  of  Peter  Pitcher,  a  suicide ; 
later  on  the  jury  that  tried  Hugh  Bennett  for 
heresy.  His  will  was  dated  September  9,  1669, 
and  orally  amended  before  his  death ;  proved 
January.  1671-72.  He  bequeathed  to  his  wife 
Mary:  to  cousins  (meaning  nephews  and 
nieces  as  we  now  use  the  word)  Samuel,  Re- 
becca, Thomas  and  Richard  Truesdell ;  to  kins- 
man William  Gilbert:  to  Mr.  Cotton's  three 
children :  Seaborn,  John  and  Maria  Mather. 
He  had  no  surviving  children.  His  widow  in 
her  will  proved  November  26,  1674,  bequeath- 
ed to  the  same  persons  and  also  Rebecca  Gil- 
bert, wife  of  her  cousin  William  Gilljcrt  and 
her  son  William  (Gilbert  Jr. :  to  cousin  William 
F.mblin  :  to  brother  John  I  lood's  two  chiklren  : 
to  Mr.  Thomas  Thatcher  and  to  the  first  and 
third  churches  of  Boston. 

(H)  Samuel,  nephew  of  Deacon  Richard 
Truesdell,  was  born  1644-45,  perhaps  in  Eng- 
land. He,  his  sister  Rebecca,  and  brothers 
Thomas  and  Richard  Truesdell,  seem  to  have 
been  in  the  care  of  their  uncle  and  it  is  not 
known  that  their  father  ever  came  to  this 
country.  He  received  fifty  pounds  in  his 
uncle's  will.  He  settled  in  Cambridge  and  was 
admitted  a  freeman  in  1685.  His  home  was 
on  the  south  side  of  Charles  river  in  what  was 
then  Cambridge  \illage,  now  Xewton,  and  he 
was  one  of  the  active  supporters  of  the  move- 
ment for  scijaration  from  Cambridge.  He 
was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  secession  from 
the  first  church  of  Boston  in  1678  and  became 
a  member  of  the  third  church.  He  married 
f  first )  Mary  Jackson,  daughter  of  John  Jack- 
.son  Sr. ;  (second)  Elizabeth  ( Hammond) 
Woodward,  daughter  of  Thomas  Hammond 
Sr.  and  widow  of  George  Woodward,  of 
\\'at(?rtown.  His  will  mentions  a  third  wife 
Mary,  and  children :  Samuel,  Thomas,  Ebe- 
nezer,  Mary,  Mindwell,  Rebecca  and  Experi- 
ence. His  estate  appraised  at  two  hundred 
and  twenty-six  pounds,  six  shillings,  six  pence  : 
the  homestead  containing  one  hundred  and 
twenty  acres.  Children:  i.  Richard,  born 
July  16,  1672,  married,  1697,  Mary  Pairbank. 
2.  Mary.  November  3,   1673,  married  


Foote.  3.  Samuel.  OctolxT  13,  1675.  married 
Elizabeth  Hammond,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
Sr.  4.  Mindwell,  August  31,  1676.  5.  Re- 
becca, March  25,  1678.  6.  Experience.  7. 
Thomas,  April  27,  1682,  married,  1739,  Eliza- 
beth Segar. 

(HI)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Samuel  Truesdell, 
was  born  in  Newton,  Massachusetts,  abt)ut 
1685.  He  joined  the  stream  of  emigration 
from  Roxbury  and  his  native  town  to  New 
Roxbury,  Connecticut,  then  iSIassachusetts, 
now  a  section  of  Windham  county.  After  a 
short  residence  at  Quinebaug  Valley,  he  bought 
land  and  a  house  of  Thomas  Goodell  in  the 
southwest  part  of  the  "Purchase,"  later  Pom- 
fret,  Connecticut,  now  in  Abington,  about 
1710.  lie  married,  according  to  the  Xewton 
church  records,  in  January,  1710,  but  the  name 
of  his  wife  has  been  lost  or  destroyed  in  the 
records,  and  is  not  known.  He  signed  a  peti- 
tion of  the  Mashmuggett  Purchase  f  Pomfret), 
May  14,  17 13.  for  incorporation,  horse  brand 
and  freeflom  from  rates.  The  name  Pomfret 
was  selected  by  the  general  court,  a  large 
Gothic  cajjital  "P"  for  a  horse  brand.  Trues- 
dell was  on  a  committee  February  16,  1714, 
to  locate  the  meeting  house,  and  October  26, 
1 71 3,  on  the  committee  to  provide  dinner  for 
the  oniination  of  the  minister  at  Pomfret, 
( )ctober  26.  1715.  He  was  constable  December, 
1724.  He  is  the  ancestor  of  all  the  old  Con- 
necticut families  of  this  name.  Among  his 
children  were:  i.  Ebenezer.  2.  Ichabod,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Joseph,  a  soldier  in  the 
French  and  Indian  war  in  1757.  Captain 
Eleazer  Fitch's  company,  of  Windham  county. 
Perhaps  others.  A  grandson,  Ebenezer  Trues- 
dell. was  an  ensign  in  the  Sixth  Company  at 
the  siege  of  Boston :  grandsons  Darius  and 
Jedutiian,  of  Woodstock,  responded  to  the 
Lexington  alarm  in  1775:  one  or  both  may 
have  been  sons  of  Ebenezer  instead  of  grand- 
sons, however.  Jeduthan  Truesdell  lived  at 
Pomfret  in  1790  and  had  three  sons  uncler 
sixteen  and  one  female  in  his  family:  Ebe- 
nezer lived  at  Bran  ford  in  1790  and  lia<l  no 
children  in  his  family.  .\  Joel,  prcibably  a 
grandson,  was  living  at   Bristol  in    1790. 

(TV)  Ichabod.  son  of  Ebenezer  Truesdell, 
according  to  family  tradition  was  father  of 
.'\sa,  Darius,  Thomas  and  John.  Asa  was 
living  at  Suffield  in  1790.  Darius  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution  on  the  Lexington  alarm  and 
later  was  wounded  in  the  side,  narrowly  escap- 
ing death  from  a  ball  which  struck  a  large, 
old-fashioned    pocketbook    in     his-    waistcoat 


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pocket;  died  a  few  years  af^er  the  war  from 
the  effects  of  this  wound.  John  settled  in 
Woodstock. 

(V)  Thomas,  son  of  Ichabod  Truesdell, 
was  born  in  Windham  county,  Connecticut,  in 
or  near  Pomfret,  about  1740.  Me  moved  to 
Monson,  Massachusetts,  before  the  revokition 
and  was  a  soldier  from  that  town  on  the  Lex- 
ington call  in  April,  1775.  An  Ebenezer  Trues- 
dell came  from  Pomfret  to  Chesterfield  and 
his  son  Daniel  was  a  soldier  from  Hampshire 
county,  Massachusetts,  in  the  revolution.  Cap- 
tain Benjamin  Bonney's  company,  Colonel 
Elisha  Porter's  regiment.  Children  of  Thomas 
Truesdell:  i.  Perley,  born  1771,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Simeon,  married  (intention  dated 
September  i,  1805,  at  Monson)  Sally  Hitch- 
cock, of  Weston.  3.  Seavius,  married,  August 
II,  1814,  Lorinda  Edgerton.  4.  Ruth,  mar- 
ried, April  3,  181 5,  at  Monson,  Francis  Curtis, 
of  Thompson,  Connecticut.  5.  Rhoda,  mar- 
ried C intention  dated  August  6,  1819)  Nathan 
Warriner.     Perhaps  others. 

(\T)    Perley,  son  of  Thomas  Truesdell,  was 
born  at  Monson,  Massachusetts,  in  1771,  died 
there  October  2,  1843.     He  was  a  farmer.   He 
married   (first)   Anna  ;   (second)    No- 
vember 24.  1805,  Polly  Stimson,  of  Monson. 
Children  of  first  wife,  born  at  Monson:     i. 
Laura,   August    12,    1798,   died   February    15, 
1805.     2.  Cyrus  Stimson,  July  13,  1800,  died 
February  9.  1805.     3.  Serajjta,  June  23,  1802, 
married,  December  6,  1821,  Boystic  .\nderson. 
4.    Marcus,    October    28,    1804,    died    young. 
Children  of  second  wife:     5.  Perley,  October 
14.    1806,   married    (intention   dated  April   7, 
1832)     Samantha    Stimson,    of    Palmer.      6. 
Joseph,  July  21,  1810,  died  March  3,  1827.   7. 
Marcus,    May    29,    181 3.    married    (intention 
dated  August  14,  1838 )  Isabelle  W.  Smith,  of 
Ware.     8.  Cyrus,  August  3,   181 5,  mentioned 
below.     9.  Lucius  E.,  May  18,  1818,  married 
(intention   dated   September  27,    1840)    Lucy 
B.    Perry.      10.   William  Harrison,   April  21, 
1820.     II.  Austin,  April  16,  1822.    12.  Warren, 
.April  16,  1824.      13.  Orren,  December  26.  1826. 
(VH)   Cyrus,  son  of  Perley  Truesdell,  was 
born   in   Monson,   August   3,    181 5.     He   was 
educated   in  the  public   schools  of  his  native 
town,  and  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  and 
propcrous   farmers  of  that  section.     He  was 
an  upright,  earnest,  conscientious  man,  a  use- 
ful   citizen,    member    of    the    Congregational 
church  of  Monson.  He  married  (first)   (inten- 
tions dated  .\pril   14,   1841)    Phebc  W.  Hast- 
ings,   of    Palmer,    died    November    5.    1855. 
daughter    of    Rosal    Hastings.      lie    married 


(second)  Mary  Webber,  of  Holland,  Massa- 
chusetts. She  died  January  12,  1901.  He 
died  December  4,  1885.  Children  of  first 
wife:  I.  Erskine  H.,  born  February  21,  1848, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Merrill,  born  March, 
1846,  died  in  1869.  3.  Estella,  April,  1850. 
Child  of  second  wife:  4.  Charles,  died  in 
childhood. 

(VHI)  Erskine  Hastings,  son  of  Cyrus 
Truesdell,  was  born  in  Monson,  February  21, 
1848.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town  and  Monson  Academy.  At  the 
age  of  twenty-two  he  was  employed  in  the 
meat  and  provision  trade  at  Springfield,  Mass- 
achusetts, and  continued  until  the  winter  of 
1873  when  he  came  to  Palmer,  working  in  the 
same  line  of  business.  In  1889  he  started  in 
business  on  his  own  account  in  Palmer  and 
has  taken  rank  among  the  leading  business 
men  of  the  town.  He  is  a  member  of  Palmer 
Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows,  No.  190,  and  of  the 
Business  Men's  Social  Club  of  Palmer.  He 
is  independent  in  politics.  In  religion  he  is  a 
Unitarian.  He  married,  in  1876,  Jennie  M. 
Angell,  born  at  Ware,  died  May  12,  1901, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Maria  Angell. 

Five  hundred  years  ago,  more 
STEARNS  or  less,  when  the  population 
of  England  had  become  suffi- 
ciently dense  to  make  surnames  necessary, 
some  Englishman  assumed  the  name  of  Sterne. 
He  may  have  taken  it  from  the  sign  of  the 
Sterne,' or  starling,  (which  is  the  symbol  of 
industry),  which  he  displayed  in  front  of  his 
place  of  business,  or  it  may  have  been  taken 
from  some  event  in  which  a  starling  was  con- 
cerned ;  but  of  this  there  is  no  means  or  record 
knowing. 

In  England  the  name  was,  as  it  seems  still 
is,  spelled  Sterne,  two  notable  instances  of 
which  are  Richard  Sterne,  Lord  Archbishop 
of  York,  and  Lawrence  Sterne,  the  distin- 
guished novelist,  author  of  "Tristam  Shandy" 
and  other  works ;  but  in  America  it  is  spelled 
Stearns,  Sternes,  Sterns  or  Starns.  and 
Starnes,  the  last  two  forms  being  distinctly 
southern.  The  changes  probably  commenced 
in  the  pronounciation.  and  extende<l  to  the 
writing  of  the  name,  which  in  Winthrop's 
journal  and  in  the  early  town  and  county 
records  of  Massachusetts  api)ears  as  Sterne.  _ 
In  every  instance  where  the  lineage  of  this 
family  has  been  traced  back,  it  has  been  to 
one  of  the  following:  Isaac,  Charles  or 
Nathaniel.  What  relationship  existed  between 
the  three  is  not  known.     Isaac  in  his  will  calls 


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Charles  "My  kinsman."  It  is  noticeable,  how- 
ever, that  all  three  named  their  sons,  Isaac, 
Samuel  and  John,  while  the  sons  of  Isaac 
named  their  sons  Xathaniel.  The  belief  is 
entertained  by  many  of  the  Stearns  descend- 
ants that  three  Sterne  brothers,  Isaac,  Daniel 
and  Shubael,  came  to  America  together,  that 
Daniel  died  unmarried,  or  without  issue ;  that 
Shubael  and  wife  left  two  sons,  Charles  and 
Xathaniel,  to  the  care  of  their  uncle,  Isaac. 
Research  in  England  has  thus  far  failed  to 
find  parents,  brothers  or  sisters  of  Isaac 
Stearns,  the  emigrant  from  England. 

In  the  genealogy  of  the  Stearns  family,  pub- 
lished in  1901,  over  eleven  thousand  persons 
were  mentioned.  Among  these  were  two  hun- 
dred and  thirty-two  graduates  of  colleges, 
universities,  etc ;  eighty-three  clergvmen. 
eighty  physicians;  fifty-nine  lawyers,  twelve 
I)rincipals  of  academies  and  high  schools; 
twelve  professors  of  colleges ;  one  chancellor 
of  a  state  university;  one  dean  of  a  divinity 
school ;  three  presidents  of  colleges ;  one  sup- 
erintendent of  instruction  (Argentine  Re- 
public) ;  eleven  authors;  five  editors;  one 
bishop  of  Pennsylvania ;  one  general  manager 
of  railroads:  one  jiresident  of  railroads;  one 
president  of  a  telegraph  company ;  twenty 
farmers  ;  two  governors ;  three  lieutenant-gov- 
ernors; two  secretaries  of  .state;  eleven  state 
senators ;  thirty-six  colonial  or  state  repre- 
sentatives ;  two  speakers  of  the  house ;  two 
supreme  court  judges;  five  mayors;  two  gen- 
erals ;  twenty-two  colonels ;  eleven  majors ; 
fifty-six  captains  ;  and  one  hundred  and  eighty- 
two  private  soldiers. 

( I )  Charles  Stearns,  the  immigrant,  was 
admitted  freeman  May  6,  1646,  at  Salem. 
On  March  15,  1648,  he  bought  of  Edward 
Lamb,  of  Watcrtown,  a  house  and  eight  acres 
of  land,  and  three  other  lots.  On  the  same 
day  he  purciiased  of  John  Eiske  six  acres  of 
upland.  Isaac  Stearns,  in  his  will  dated  June 
14.  1661,  mentions  Charles  Stearns  as  "my 
kinsman,"  and  bequeaths  him  ten  pounds. 
Samuel  Hosier  also  bec|ueathed  to  him  ten 
pounds,  but  without  stating  any  relationshi]). 
January  6,  1681,  he  was  elected  constable,  or 
tax  gatherer  of  Watertown,  but  refused  to 
take  the  oath  ;  and  the  same  year  he  sold  his 
land  in  Watertown  to  his  son,  Samuel.  It  is 
supposed  that  soon  after  this,  Charles  Stearns 
with  his  son,  Shubael,  moved  to  that  part  of 
Lynn  called  Lynn  End,  now  the  town  of  Lynn- 
field.  Charles  Stearns  married  Hannah,  whose 
surnames  does  not  appear.  She  died  in  Water- 
town.  June  30,   1651,  and  was  buried  July  2, 


1651.  lie  married  (second)  June  22,  1654, 
Rebecca  Cibson,  daughter  of  John  and  Re- 
becca Gibson,  of  Cambridge.  The  births  of 
the  first  two  children  of  Charles  and  Re- 
becca are  recorded  in  Cambridge,  but  she 
was  a  member  of  the  Watertown  church, 
Eebruary,  1689.  The  seven  children  of  this 
marriage  were  :  Samuel,  Shubael,  John,  Isaac, 
Charles,  Rebecca  and  Martha. 

(Ill  .Shubael.  second  son  of  Charles  and 
Rebecca  (Gibson)  Stearns,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 20,  1655,  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Narragansett  expedi- 
tion. After  marriage  he  settled  in  Lynn,  prob- 
ably near  the  border  of  Reading.  No  record 
of  his  marriage  has  been  discovered,  but 
"Mary  l^pton  of  Reading,  Massachusetts, 
married  Shubael  Stearns  of  Lynn,"  whether 
this  Shubael  or  a  descendant  is  not  known. 
Samuel  Trail,  aged  ninety-five  and  u])wards, 
testified  that  he  remembered  Shubael  Stearns 
of  Lynn,  who  came  from  Watertown,  and  was 
in  the  army.  Shubael's  will  dated  November 
19'  1/33'  was  proved  September  2,  1734.  He 
had  nine  children:  Shubael,  .Samuel,  Hannah, 
Mary,  John.  Ebenezer.  ]\lartha,  Eleanor  and 
Rebecca. 

(HI)  Samuel,  son  of  Shubael  and  Mary 
(Upton)  Stearns,  was  born  September  12, 
1685.  He  removed  about  171 5  to  Sutton, 
where  his  son  Thomas  was  born,  then  he  re- 
turned to  Lynn,  where  he  died  suddenly  De- 
cember 20,  1759,  aged  seventy-four  years.  He 
married  (first)  (intentions  of  marriage  pub- 
lished April  7,  171 1 )  Sarah  Burnap,  daughter 
of  a  Scotch  minister  of  Marblehead.  She  died 
August  6,  1724,  and  he  married  (second) 
April  14,  1725,  Tabitha  Bryant,  of  Reading, 
who  died  December  13.  1758.  Seven  children 
were  born  of  the  first  wife :  Timothy,  Samuel, 
Sarah,  Thomas,  Rebecca,  Isaac  and  Benjamin. 

(IV)  Thomas,  third  son  of  Samuel  and 
Sarah  (Burnap)  Stearns,  was  born  in  Sutton, 
December  22,  171 7.  His  first  and  second  chil- 
dren were  born  in  Lynn,  the  next  seven  in 
Lunenburg.  Leaving  the  latter  place,  he  re- 
sided in  iMtcIibin-g  a  short  lime,  and  then  went 
to  Leominster  where  he  died  h'ebruary  5,  iSii, 
eminent  for  his  christian  virtues.  He  belcjuged 
to  Captain  Samuel  Hunt's  company  from  Au- 
gust 13  to  December  13,  1755.  He  married, 
November  4,  1740,  Lydia  Mansfield,  daughter 
of  Daniel  Mansfield.  She  died  February  26, 
1791.  They  had  eleven  children:  Thomas 
Cdied  young),  Lydia  (died  young),  Sarah, 
Thomas,  Daniel,  Lydia,  Charles,  Sarah,  Re- 
becca, Timothy  and  Anna. 


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(V)  Rev.  Charles  (2),  fourth  son  of 
Thomas  and  Lydia  (Mansfield)  Stearns,  was 
born  July  19,  1753.  in  Lunenburg.  lie  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  College  in  1773;  received 
the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Harvard  in  1810; 
was  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Academy  of 
Arts  and  Sciences ;  was  ordained  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  church  in  Lincoln,  November 
7,  1 78 1,  and  died  there  July  26,  1826.  He 
was  also  preceptor  of  the  noted  Liberal  School 
in  Lincoln,  "Dr.  Charles  Stearns  was  in  the 
University  over  forty-five  years,  preached  his 
last  sermon  the  first  Sunday  in  July,  1826,  and 
died  on  the  twenty-si.xth  of  the  same  month. 
His  monument  was  erected  by  the  town  which 
was  then  one  parish.  He  was  a  man  of  high 
ability,  deeply  reverenced  by  his  people  ;  a  man 
who  refused  to  enter  into  the  controversy  be- 
tween Trinitarian  and  Unitarian  Congrega- 
tionalists,  exchanging  freely  with  those  of  both 
ojiinions  until  his  death.  The  following  ex- 
tract from  'The  Gambrel-roofed  1-Iouse,"  by 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  speaks  for  itself: 

"  "The  middle-aged  and  young  men  have 
left  comparatively  faint  imjjressions  on  my 
memory,  but  how  grandly  the  procession  of 
the  old  clergymen  who  filled  our  pulpit  from 
time  to  time  and  passed  the  day  under  our 
roof,  marches  before  my  closed  eyes!  At 
their  head,  the  most  venerable,  David  O.sgood, 
the  majestic  minister  of  Medford,  with  mas- 
sive front  and  shaggy,  overshadowing  eye- 
brows ;  following  in  the  train,  mild-eyed  John 
Foster  of  Brighton,  with  the  lambent  aurora 
of  a  smile  above  his  pleasant  mouth  which  not 
even  the  "Sabbath"  could  subdue  to  the  true 
Levitical  aspect ;  and  bulky  Charles  Stearns 
of  Lincoln,  author  of  "The  f-adies'  Philosophy 
of  Love."  A  Poem,  1797.  (How  I  stared  at 
him,  he  was  the  first  living  person  ever  pointed 
fiut  to  me  as  a  poet!)  ;  and  Thaddeus  Mason 
Harris  of  Dorchester.'"  Mr.  Stearns  was  a 
scholar  of  high  attainments,  and  was  offered 
the  presidency  of  Harvard  College,  but  de- 
clined it,  regarding  it  as  his  duty  to  remain 
with  his  parish  in  Lincoln,  which  was  then 
paying  him  a  salary  of  four  hundred  dollars 
a  year.  Ho  married,  January  7,  1782,  Sus- 
anna Cowdry,  of  Keacling,  by  whom  he  had 
si.x  sons  and  five  daughters:  Susannah,  Charles, 
Thomas.  Julia.  Sarah.  Flizabeth  Frances.  Will- 
iam Lawrence.  Daniel  .Mansfield.  Rebecca. 
Samuel  and  Edwin. 

(\'I)  Rev.  William  Lawrence,  third  son  of 
Rev.  Charles  (2)  and  Susanna  (Cowdry) 
Stearns,  was  born  October  30,  1793,  at  Lin- 
coln, and  was  a  twin  brother  of  Daniel  Mans- 


field Stearns.  He  graduated  from  Harvard 
University  in  1820;  studied  divinity  with  his 
father,  and  was  licensed  to  preach  in  1823; 
ordained  and  installed  in  Stoughton,  Novem- 
ber, 1827;  dismissed  from  Stoughton  in  1831, 
and  installed  at  Rowe,  January,  1833.  He 
was  also  pastor  of  the  Unitarian  church  at 
Pembroke.  After  his  health  failed,  he  made 
his  home  with  his  son  George  M.  in  Chicopee, 
where  he  died  May  28,  1857.  George  AL 
Stearns  described  his  father  as  a  "fine  scholar 
and  metaphysician.  He  was  abstracted  and 
mild  in  his  nature — a  man  living  much  more  in 
the  world  of  his  thouglits  and  studies  than 
that  of  the  life  close  about  him."  He  married, 
June  5,  1828,  Mary  Monroe,  born  September 
12,  1803,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Grace  (Bige- 
low)  Monroe,  of  Lincoln,  and  sister  of  his 
twin  brother's  wife.  She  died  March  23,  1900. 
She  was  a  very  worthy  woman  and  also  passed 
her  declining  years  an  honored  and  loved  mem- 
ber of  her  son  George's  household,  but  died 
at  the  residence  of  her  son  Albert  B.  at  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts.  Four  children  were 
born  of  this  marriage:  William  Henry, 
George  Monroe.  Mary  Monroe  and  Albert  Bige- 
low. 

(\'II)  Hon.  George  Monroe,  second  son  of 
Rev.  William  L.  and  Mary  (Monroe)  Stearns, 
was  born  April  18,  1831.  at  Stoughton,  and 
died  in  Brookline,  December  31,  1894.  While 
he  was  yet  an  infant  his  father  moved  to 
Rowe.  He  was  a  wide-awake,  active  boy.  full 
of  fun  and  mischief,  the  traditional  minister's 
son,  the  delight  and  torment  of  his  parents. 
He  was  always  a  student  in  spite  of  his 
abounding  S[)irits,  for  which  his  splendid 
health  was  largely  responsible,  and  soon  ab- 
sorbed all  that  the  schools  of  Rowe  could 
teach  him.  He  attended  the  academy  at  Shel- 
burne  Falls,  Massachusetts,  then  attended 
Harvard  Law  School  and  went  from  there 
about  1849,  while  considerably  under  his 
majority,  to  study  law  in  the  Chicopee  office 
of  John  Wells,  a  young  lawyer  only  fairly 
settled  in  ])ractice.  but  afterward  a  justice  of 
the  Massachusetts  sui)reme  court,  and  himself 
from  Rowe.  In  .\pril.  1852,  when  past  his 
twenty-first  birthday.  Mr.  Stearns  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar,  and  at  once  formed  a  part- 
nership with  Judge  Wells  which  lasted  until 
ludge  Wells  mnved  his  office  to  Springfield 
some  years  later.  Mr.  Stearns  continued  his 
office  in  Chicopee  several  years,  and  then  also 
removed  to  Springfield,  where  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  the  late  E.  D.  Beach,  and 
afterward  was  associated  with  Judge   M.    P. 


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Knowlton  for  some  years,  and  also  with 
Charles  L.  Long.  The  office  in  Springfield 
was  continued  until  1878.  when  it  was  removed 
back  to  Chicopee.  where  it  remained  until  Mr. 
Stearns  transferred  his  home  to  Brookline.  a 
few  months  before  his  death.  With  regard 
to  Mr.  Stearns  characteristics  as  a  lawyer,  his 
standing  at  the  bar.  his  method  of  preparing 
cases  and  presenting  them  to  courts  and  jury, 
his  professional  brethren  and  intimate  asso- 
ciates will  be  quoted  farther  on.  It  is  agreed 
among  them  all  that  he  was  easily  at  the 
head  of  the  local  bar,  and  that  his  methods 
were  as  thorough  as  they  were  original.  Xo 
one  could  try  a  case  as  (jeorge  Stearns  could, 
especially  before  a  jury,  and  attem]its  to  imi- 
tate him  usually  ended  in  absurd  and  disastrous 
failures.  He  might  have  sat  upon  the  bench 
of  either  of  our  higher  courts  had  he  chosen, 
for  he  was  offered  a  judgeship  more  than  once. 
Of  the  man  himself,  his  home  life  in  Chicopee, 
and  the  place  he  filled  in  the  affection  and 
regard  of  his  friends  and  townsmen  there  is 
a  great  deal  that  might  be  said.  It  is  within 
the  truth  to  say  that  since  his  marriage,  May 
17,  1855,  to  Emily  C.  Goodnow,  who  was  his 
schoolmate  at  Shelburne  Falls,  in  that  year, 
his  home  life  was  almost  an  idea!  one.  She 
was  horn  in  Princeton,  Massachusetts.  March 
4,  1833.  daughter  of  Erasmus  D.  and  Caroline 
R.  (ISullard)  Goodnow,  both  natives  of  Massa- 
chusetts. ^Ir.  .Stearns'  home  was  the  most 
attractive  place  in  the  world  to  him,  and  the 
home  side  was  the  richest  and  best  side  of  his 
nature,  and  nothing  else  brought  out  the  choicest 
treasures  of  his  mind  and  heart  as  freely  as 
contact  with  his  family  and  intimate  friends. 
He  was  always  kindly,  loyaland  affectionate, 
and  a  courteous  and  considerate  host.  At 
once  after  their  marriage,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Stearns  went  to  live  in  the  house  on  Spring- 
field street  in  Chicopee,  which  was  their  home 
for  .so  man)-  years.  Two  children  were  born 
to  them:  ^Iary  C,  born  December  9,  1855, 
married.  C)ctf)ber  4.  1876,  Frank  E.  Tiittle.  of 
Chicopee,  and  had  one  child.  Emily  Stearns 
Tuttle,  born  July  19,  1878,  an  infant  son  de- 
ceased. Mary  C.  died  January  20,  1883. 
Emily  S.,  the  second  daughter,  died  at  the  age 
of  twelve. 

It  was  with  the  lifjpe  that  a  change  of  scene 
and  surroundings  would  restore  his  health, 
or  at  least  ])rolong  his  life  and  increase  the 
comfort  of  its  added  years,  that  Mr.  Stearns 
gave  up  his  Chicopee  house  and  removed  to 
Brookline.  The  event  proved  that  hope  to 
be  vain,  for  he  steadilv  lost  rather  than  gained 


in  strength,  until  the  end  came  after  months 
of  suffering,  borne  with  ])atiencc  and  courage, 
and  enlivened  by  a  hope  that  was  never 
dimmed.  Mr.  Stearns  was  no  lover  of  society 
in  the  fashionable  sense,  and  as  much  as  he 
cared  for  his  friends  he  preferred  to  have  them 
come  to  his  home  rather  than  to  go  himself  to 
theirs.  His  intimates  came  to  respect  this 
jjrefcrence  of  his,  and  as  a  consequence  the 
Stearns  house  became  a  centre  to  which  they 
were  drawn  by  a  strong  attraction.  These 
informal  gatherings  were  what  Mr.  Stearns 
delighted  in.  With  guests  in  his  house  or  at 
his  table,  he  was  at  his  best.  Then  how  the 
man  would  blossom  out!  Xo  matter  if  the 
day  in  court  had  been  a  hard  one,  and  the  ne-xt 
day  promised  to  be  still  harder,  no  matter  if 
there  were  perplexing  law  questions  unanswer- 
ed, or  refractory  witnesses  unsubdued,  his 
guests  never  knew  it,  nor  did  he  seem  to 
realize  it.  He  gave  himself  to  the  enjoyment 
of  the  hour,  which  meant  making  his  friends 
enjoy  it.  His  wit  would  sparkle,  his  humor 
flow,  story  would  follow  story,  and  once  in  a 
while,  when  the  company  was  suitable  and 
tlie  mood  was  on  him,  he  would  move  it  to 
tears  or  laughter  by  the  paraphrase  of  a  story 
or  novel  he  had  been  reading.  He  was  an 
omnivorous  reader,  but  what  he  read  was  his 
to  call  to  mind  and  use  in  a  case  in  court,  to 
point  an  argument  before  the  supreme  bench, 
or  to  amuse  and  entertain  his  friends.  His 
well-known  familiarity  with  the  Bible  was  only 
in  part  an  inheritance,  or  a  remembrance  of 
compulsory  study  in  boyhood ;  he  never  would 
have  had  that  marvelous  command  of  bibical 
lore  had  it  not  been  for  his  delight  in  it  as 
literature.  W'ithal  there  was  an  undercurrent 
of  reverence  and  religious  sentiment  in  his 
nature,  rarely  given  expression  to,  and  some- 
times covered  by  a  cloud  of  agnosticism,  but 
never  without  its  influence  on  his  relations  to 
his  fellowmen,  and  which  accounts  in  i)art  at 
least,  for  his  love  for  the  Bible.  Such  a  brief 
sketcli  as  there  is  room  for  in  this  book,  would 
not  be  com])lete  without  a  word  of  allusion  to 
the  ability  Mr.  Stearns  always  showed  as  a 
business  man,  and  his  love  for  horses.  As  a 
business  man  he  was  cautious,  far-sighted  and 
honest.  He  could  grasp  the  commercial  bear- 
ings of  a  case,  see  at  once  into  the  intricacies 
of  the  management  of  a  large  manufacturing 
concern  and  deal  intelligently  with  tlie  nrdi- 
nary  problems,  and  some  of  the  more  intri- 
cate ones,  of  financial  institutions.  With  all 
his  caution,  he  had  a  liking  for  a  bit  of  .specula- 
tion now  and  then,  but  never  risking  more  than 


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he  could  well  afford  to  lose.  This  speculative 
tendency  made  him  the  owner  of  all  sorts  of 
things  at  various  times  in  his  life,  as  his  love 
of  horses  made  him  purchase  animals  of  all 
bloods  and  values.  It  is  proverbial  that  Mr. 
Stearns  loved  horses;  he  made  pets  of  them, 
and  happy  was  the  trotter  that  met  his  favor. 
It  was  a  rare  horse  that  was  so  lucky,  for  his 
requirements  were  high,  but  now  and  then 
one,  like  old  "Calamity,"  or  like  the  gray  mare 
"Maud"  that  he  drove  so  long  won  a  perma- 
nent place  in  his  affections. 

Mr.  Stearns  was  always  a  public  man, 
although  he  held  but  few  public  offices,  refus- 
ing over  and  again  nominations  to  congress 
which  were  almost  equivalent  to  an  election, 
and  several  times  declining  to  be  his  party's 
candidate  for  governor,  lie  was  always  a 
Democrat  and  was  elected  by  that  party  to 
represent  Chicopee  in  the  house  of  representa- 
tives in  1859,  and  he  was  a  member  of  the 
committe  which  revised  the  public  statutes  of 
i860.  In  1 879  he  was  a  member  of  the  Senate, 
and  the  next  year  was  chosen  district  attorney 
for  the  western  district  but  resigned  at  the  end 
of  two  years.  The  same  year,  1872.  he  was  a 
delegate  to  the  National  Democratic  conven- 
tion at  Cincinnati,  where  he  favored  the  nomi- 
nation of  Horace  Greeley,  and  he  was  repeat- 
edly a  delegate  to  National  conventions  after- 
wards. He  was  appointed  United  States  attor- 
ney at  Boston  in  1886.  but  resigned  in  about 
two  years.  When  John  Quincy  Adams  was 
nominated  for  governor,  Mr.  Stearns  was 
given  the  second  place  on  the  ticket,  and  later, 
when  the  Democrats  nominated  Charles  Sum- 
ner, was  nominated  lieutenant-governor  with 
him,  also,  but  on  Sumner's  refusal,  Mr. 
Stearns  followed  his  example.  He  was  an 
unflinching  opponent  of  Butler,  and  refused 
to  aid  in  any  way  the  ambitions  of  the  latter 
to  become  governor.  It  was  a  most  unusual 
thing  for  Mr.  Stearns  to  do,  to  refuse  to  make 
at  least  a  single  speech  for  the  candidates  of 
his  party  in  a  campaign,  but  he  felt  that  there 
was  a  principle  at  stake  in  the  Butler  matter 
that  could  be  better  vindicated  by  the  apparent 
defeat  of  his  party  than  by  its  success,  and  so 
he  refused  his  help.  lie  was  a  most  welcome 
and  effective  stump  speaker,  his  wit,  clearness 
of  thought,  and  thorough  grasp  of  his  subject, 
with  the  mastery  of  the  weak  points  of  his 
opponent's  record,  made  him  an  antagonist  to 
be  respected  and  feared.  His  acquaintance 
and  friendship  with  public  men  were  exten- 
sive, and  his  influence  in  the  councils  of  his 
party  was  large.  His  advice  in  ]«)litical  matters 


was  constantly  sought  and  most  highly  valued 
by  party  leaders  and  men  of  position  and  influ- 
ence, and  it  is  well  known  that  few  men  in  the 
country  were  more  cordially  welcomed  at  the 
White  House  during  the  Cleveland  adminis- 
tration than  he.  He  was  a  shrewd  observer,  a 
careful  student  and  an  accurate  judge  of  men 
and  events.  He  had  few  axes  to  grind  and 
his  advice  on  public  matters,  when  given,  was 
given  with  the  public  good  as  its  object,  and 
so  was  always  valuable  and  influential.  George 
M.  Stearns  was  a  large  minded,  large  hearted, 
and  lovable  man.  He  was  strong,  positive  and 
aggressive,  a  man  to  make  his  personality  felt 
wherever  he  went  and  in  whatever  company 
he  found  himself.  He  was  a  full  man.  with  a 
mastery  over  the  lore  and  technique  of 
his  profession,  an  intelligent  grasp  of  a  great 
many  subjects  and  a  rich  store  of  experiences 
gathered  from  close  contact  with  his  fellow- 
men  of  all  conditions  and  under  a  wide  variety 
of  conditions.  The  public  knew  him  as  a  man 
of  most  original  qualities,  an  intense,  brilliant 
and  successful  lawyer,  a  shrewd  and  astute 
political  leader ;  his  friends  knew  him  as  one 
of  the  most  congenial  and  choicest  spirits,  full 
of  wit  and  apt  speech,  and  withal  abounding  in 
a  tenderness  and  fine  feeling  that  in  genuine- 
ness and  grace  was  almost  womanly. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Hampden  Bar  Asso- 
ciation, held  January  i,  1895.  to  take  action 
in  regard  to  the  death  of  Mr.  Stearns.  George 
D.  Robinson,  William  H.  Brooks,  Charles  L. 
Gardner,  James  B.  Carroll,  and  \\'illiam  W. 
McClench  were  appointed  a  committee  to  pre- 
pare resolutions  to  present  to  the  court,  and 
to  make  necessary  arrangements  regarding  a 
memorial  service.  Memorial  exercises  in  the 
supreme  judicial  court  at  Springfield  were  held 
April  15,  1895,  Justice  Knowlton  presiding. 
The  resolutions  prepared  by  the  above  com- 
mittee were  presented  to  the  court,  and  read 
by  Hon.  George  D.  Robinson  of  the  Bar  .Asso- 
ciation as  follows : 

"Whereas,  by  a  decree  of  the  all  wise  judges, 
the  Honorable  "George  M.  Stearns  of  Chicopee 
has  been  called  from  his  earthly  labors  we, 
his  associates  of  the  Hampden  County  Bar, 
desiring  to  place  upon  record  our  sense  of  the 
great  loss  sustained  by  our  association,  do 
hereby  adopt  the  following  resolutions : 

His'  sudden  death,  following  so  soon  after 
his  departure  from  our  midst,  brought  deep 
and  sincere  sorrow  to  us  all.  The  place  he 
held  in  our  regard  and  affection  as  the  leader 
of  this  bar  was  easily  his.  by  reason  of  the 
years  of  honorable  service  spent  in  the  prac- 


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tice  of  his  profession,  by  liis  higli  sense  of  his 
relation  to  the  court,  by  the  ability  and  fidelity 
with  which  he  discharged  his  duties  to  his 
clients,  and  by  the  genial,  kindly,  and  helpful 
spirit  he  ever  manifested  towards  his  asso- 
ciates. Not  onl)'  was  he  esteemed  by  the 
people  of  this  community,  for  his  fame  as  a 
lawyer  outran  city  and  county  and  state  limits ; 
his  legal  opinions  commanded  wide  respect, 
and  his  services  in  the  trial  of  jury  causes 
were  frequently  and  eagerly  sought  by  people 
from  afar. 

In  counsel  wise  and  clear,  in  the  preparation 
of  causes  careful  and  diligent,  and  in  the  trial 
of  them  earnest,  ingenious  and  clo(|uent,  he 
early  established  an  enviable  reinitation,  in  his 
chosen  profession  which  he  ever  afterwards 
maintained  with  credit  to  himself,  and  honor 
to  pur  association. 

In  public  life  he  was  an  honest  and  trusted 
legislator,  a  just  and  fearless  district  attorney 
of  the  State,  and  an  able,  faithful,  and  loyal 
L'nited  States  attorney. 

The  performance  of  the  duties  connected 
with  these  honorable  offices  increased  his  repu- 
tation and  enlarged  his  clientage,  but  his  fame 
will  rest  upon  his  ability  and  his  character  as 
a  lawyer,  upon  his  profound  knowledge  of 
human  nature  and  upon  his  wit  and  his  phil- 
osophy. 

To  all  his  associates  at  the  bar,  his  memory 
will  be  an  inspiration  to  industry,  to  faithful- 
ness, and  to  honorable  professional  conduct. 

Our  warmest  sympathies  go  out  towards 
the  cherished  companions  of  his  life,  whose 
comfort  and  happiness  were  always  his  first 
concern,  and  for  whom  his  heart  beat  with  the 
truest  loyalty  and  the  tenderest  love. 

In  token  of  our  regard  for  him,  we  desire 
these  resolutions  placed  upon  our  records,  pre- 
sented to  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court,  and 
sent  to  Mrs.  Stearns." 

Among  those  who  spoke  on  the  occasion  of 
the  presentation  of  these  resolutions  was  Mr. 
W'ells,  who  spoke  as  follows :  "When  I  came 
to  Springfield,  nearly  thirty-seven  years  ago, 
Mr.  Stearns  had  been  admitted  to  the  bar, 
some  seven  years ;  he  had  then  been  engaged 
in  many  important  trials  and  was  fairly  launch- 
ed upon  the  career  of  a  jury  lawyer  in  which 
he  achieved  such  distinguished  success.  From 
my  admission  to  the  bar  until  he  left  it  last 
fall,  we  have  been  co-workers  here,  sometimes 
together,  much  oftener  on  opposite  sides,  and 
I  esteem  it  a  privilege  to  add  my  tribute  of 
love  and  admiration  to  that  of  other  members 
of  this  bar.    \Vc  gratefully  remember  the  kind 


consideration  and  hearty  friendliness  with 
wiiich  he  treated  his  brethren  in  the  profession 
whether  associated  with  or  contending  against 
him.  We  love  to  recall  those  delightful  hours 
when,  freed  from  the  labors  of  the  courtroom, 
he  entertained  us  with  anecdote  and  reminis- 
cence, illuminated  with  his  inimitable  wit  and 
fancy.  We  also  refiect  thoughtfully  (mi  those 
occasions  when  in  soberer  mood  he  discussed 
with  his  shrewd  philosophy  and  clear  percep- 
tion those  problems  of  life  and  destiny  which 
are  so  close  to  the  thought  of  every  thinking 
man.  It  is,  however,  of  his  work  in  the  pro- 
fession, that  we  would  here  speak.  Liberally 
endowed  by  nature  with  the  keenest  faculty  of 
observation,  and  a  lively  and  most  brilliant 
Imagination  supplemented  by  a  broad  and 
liberal  culture,  he  was  from  the  first  spendidly 
equipped  for  the  work  of  an  advocate,  wherein 
he  won  such  an  eminent  and  enviable  position. 
As  a  lawyer,  however,  Mr.  Stearns  was  more 
than  a  mere  advocate.  His  faculty  of  close 
observation  and  his  wide  experience  gave  to 
him  a  wonderful  insight  into  the  characters 
of  men,  and  accurate  knowledge  of  their  mo- 
tives and  probable  course  of  action  which 
made  him  one  of  the  wisest  and  safest  advisers 
in  those  numerous  and  perplexing  affairs  of 
business  which  are  brought  so  often  to  the 
lawyer,  when  no  question  of  the  law  is  in- 
volved, but  when  so  much  depends  upon  a 
wise  conjecture  and  skillful  forecast  of  the 
conduct  and  activities  of  others.  Without 
being  a  remarkable  student  of  books  and  of 
decided  cases,  his  extensive  and  accurate 
knowledge  of  the  legal  principles,  with  his 
quick  and  ready  faculty  of  applying  them  to 
the  facts  as  developed  in  any  case  in  which  he 
was  employed,  enabled  him  always  to  seize 
upon  and  ])resent  every  law  c|uestion  involved, 
which  he  stated  and  enforced  with  distinguish- 
ed power,  clearness,  and  effectiveness  both 
before  the  trial  judge  and  the  court  of  last 
resort.  He  never  failed  to  find  all  the  flaws 
and  weak  points  in  an  opponents  case.  He 
would  lose  or  omit  nothing  which  could  estab- 
lish or  strengthen  his  own.  It  is,  however,  as 
a  trier  of  jury  cases  that  he  appeared  at  his 
best,  and  by  which  he  will  be  longest  remem- 
bered. When  it  was  known  that  he  was  going 
to  argue  a  case,  the  court  room  would  be 
crowded.  It  made  little  difference  what  the 
case  was.  His  abounding  fancy,  brilliant  and 
sparkling  humor,  biting  sarcasm,  (|uaint  and 
grotes(iue  forms  of  statement,  made  listening 
to  him  always  pleasant  and  entertaining  to 
every   one    not    on    the    opposite    side.      This 


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sparkling  and  wonderful  brilliancy,  however, 
was  only  a  part  and  the  least  important  part 
of  the  wise  and  carefully  studied  method  which 
he  used  in  the  trial  cases.  He  tried  cases  to 
win  them  and  to  this  he  subordinated  every 
other  consideration,  even  himself.  To  this 
single  end,  he  shaped  everything  from  the 
opening  to  the  closing  argument :  he  studied 
with  the  utmost  care  the  eft'ect  upon  the  jury 
of  every  movement,  word,  and  action  of  his 
opponent  as  well  as  his  own.  Just  how  much 
to  say,  just  what  had  best  be  left  unsaid,  what 
profitable  turn  could  be  given  to  an  expression 
or  an  omission  of  the  other  side,  v^diat  sugges- 
tions would  help  what  would  harm  :  he  knew 
when  and  what  to  magnify,  when  and  what  to 
minimize.  If  at  times  he  appeared  less  bril- 
liant than  was  his  wont,  those  who  understood 
him  and  appreciated  the  situation  could  see 
that  there  was  a  deep  and  wise  method  in  his 
seeming  dullness.  In  the  trial  of  a  case  he 
managed  his  facts,  his  arguments,  and  his 
illustrations  with  the  care  and  skill  with  which 
a  great  general  manages  and  disposes  his 
forces.  In  the  preparation  of  his  cases,  Mr. 
Stearns  was  broad  and  general  rather  than 
minute,  not  studious  of  small  detail.  While 
at  times  his  method  of  examining  and  cross- 
examining  witnesses  appeared  careless  and  in- 
different, it  was  really  studied,  methodical  and 
most  carefully  considered.  It  was,  however, 
his  own  way  and  adopted  to  his  presentation 
of  the  case.  He  relied  much  upon  himself 
and  experience  justified  him  in  so  doing,  that 
he  cared  to  offer  in  testimony  or  draw  out  of 
the  other  side  only  so  much  as  he  wanted  to 
use,  and  only  in  such  connection  as  would  best 
serve  his  purpose.  When  so  much  was  ob- 
tained the  rest  was  of  no  importance  and  he 
preferred  that  it  should  lie  left  out.  though  to 
another  it  might  seem  of  great  importance. 
He  could  unfold  or  elaborate  a  chance  word 
or  phrase,  which  a  witness  dropped,  into  a 
most  convincing  statement.  He  could,  how- 
ever, when  the  occasion  seemed  to  call  for  it, 
handle  a  witness  with  wonderful  skill  and 
brilliancy.  The  abimrlance  oi  his  success 
])r<)ve(l  the  wisdom  of  his  methods  and  his 
eminent  ability  in  his  profession.  Fully  con- 
scious of  his  powers  in  this  respect,  and  it  was 
impossible  that  he  should  not  be.  he  was 
wholly  without  any  trace  of  conceit  or  arro- 
gance, and  in  all  things  over-modest,  rather 
distrusting  his  own  judgment,  glad  to  defer 
to  others,  inclined  to  make  suggestions  rather 
than  give  an  o]jinion.  In  all  the  relations  of 
life  he  was  a  man  to  be  esteemed  and  loved; 


as  a  lawyer,  to  be  honored  anrl  admired.  He 
served  his  clients  with  a  mind  single  to  the 
advancement  of  their  best  interests  with  no 
thought  for  his  own.  To  the  cases  committed 
to  his  care,  he  gave  the  best  fruit  of  all  that 
genius,  study,  and  labor  had  brought  him. 
To  us  who  were  his  contemporaries,  he  has 
left  the  memory  of  a  most  genial,  complacent, 
kind,  courteous,  and  friendly  associate ;  to 
those  who  are  to  follow  him  and  take  up  the 
burden  which  he  has  laid  down,  an  example 
of  fruitful,  sincere,  hard  and  untiring  labor, 
rewarded  with  the  largest  honors  which  our 
profession  can  give." 


While  the  Crawford  familv 
CRA^^■FORD      was     well     established     in 

Scotland  before  1200,  we 
are  told  that  it  is  of  Anglo-Xorman  origin 
some  two  centuries  earlier,  and  the  Craw- 
fords  of  Scotland  trace  their  ancestry  to  a 
Norman  noble  of  the  days  of  William  the  Con- 
queror. The  name  is  spelled  sometimes  Craw- 
futt  in  the  early  Scotch  records,  while  Crau- 
ford  was  the  ordinary  spelling  until  later  date. 
.•\  list  of  the  heads  of  important  Scotch  fami- 
lies in  1291  has  been  preserved.  It  is  known 
to  historians  as  the  Ragman's  Roll.  On  this 
list  are  five  Crawfords:  John  de  Crauford 
of  Ayrshire;  John  de  Crauford.  tenant  le  Roi, 
Ayrshire;  Renaud  de  Crawford  of  .Vyrshire ; 
Roger  de  Crauford  and  \^'illiam  de  Crauford. 
The  records  show  families  in  Lanarkshire, 
Renfrewshire  and  Stirlingshire,  as  well  as  Ayr- 
shire, before  the  year  1200.  The  titles  held  in 
.Scotland  by  this  family  were:  The  viscountcy 
of  Mount  Crawford  and  Garnock;  the  earldom 
of  Crawford  belonged  to  the  Lindsey  family. 
A  number  of  Crawfords  were  among  the 
Scotch  who  were  given  grants  of  land  in  the 
province  of  Ulster,  Ireland,  in  1610,  and  later 
by  King  James  I.  Some  of  the  American 
families  trace  their  descent  from  the  first  set- 
tler in  Tyrone,  Ireland,  (ieorge  Crawford. 
Nicholas  Pynnar,  who  made  a  survey  of  the 
Scotch  Irish  settlements  in  \C)\<).  reported  that 
in  the  precinct  of  iMountjoy.  county  Tyrone, 
George  Crawford  had  transferred  his  thous- 
and acre  grant  to  .\lexander  Sanderson.  The 
name  is  common  in  the  T'rotestant  districts 
of  Antrim,  Down,  Londonderry  and  Tyrone 
at  the  present  time. 

f I)  Deacon  John  Crawford,  immigrant  an- 
cestor, was  born  in  Scotland,  in  1717.  He 
was  one  of  the  settlers  pnx-ured  through  the 
efforts  of  General  WaKlo  at  tiie  same  time  that 
his  son  was  in  Germanv  seeking  settlers  for 


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the  extensive  W'akio  lands  in  Maine.  .\  party 
of  settlers  was  formed  from  Stirling  and  Glas- 
gow, Scotland.  Most  of  tlicni  were  poor  bnt 
ambitions.  Some  agreed  to  work  ont  their 
passage  money  by  four  years  of  labor,  while 
most  of  them  agreed  to  pay  their  passage 
money  after  they  had  cleared  their  farms  and 
raised  their  first  crops.  They  came  in  the 
brig  "Df)l])hin,"  Captain  Cooters,  embarking 
at  Greenock  in  the  summer  of  1753.  .\fter 
touching  at  Piscataciua  and  remaining  there  a 
week  or  more,  they  were  landed  on  the  west 
side  of  the  George's  river,  in  the  lower  part 
of  what  is  now  the  town  of  Warren,  Maine. 
Dr.  Robinson  had  contracted  to  build  a  house 
to  shelter  them  during  the  first  season,  and 
had  commenced  work  upon  it  before  they 
arrived,  but  it  was  unfinished  and  the  Scotch- 
men had  to  find  homes  among  the  older  set- 
tlers until  they  could  build  their  own  houses. 
General  Waldo  provided  provisions  for  his 
settlers,  many  of  whom  came  from  city  life, 
ignorant  of  tlic  essential  knowledge  of  pioneer 
life.  They  were  promised  farms  within  two 
miles  of  tidewater,  being  afraid  of  Indian 
hostilities  and  of  wild  beasts  in  the  forests  of 
the  interior.  Among  the  fellow-settlers  of 
Crawford  were  Archibald  Anderson,  a  weaver; 
John  Dickey,  or  Dicke,  a  malster ;  .\ndrew 
Malcolm,  a  weaver;  John  Miller,  delftware 
maker;  Thomas  Johnston,  John  Mucklevee, 
John  Brison,  Andrew  Bird.  John  Kirkpatrick, 
a  cooper,  John  Hodgins,  a  book  binder,  John 

Carswell,  John   Brown,   Robert   Kye,  

Greenlaw,   Wilke,    Beverage, 

-Auchmuty,    slate    maker,    and 


Anderson.  In  1754  Crawford  and  the  others 
took  possession  of  their  half-acre  house  lots 
and  built  log  huts  in  a  continuous  street  be- 
tween the  house  lately  occupied  by  Gilbert 
Anderson  and  school-house  No.  13,  naming 
the  village  Stirling,  from  the  former  home  of 
many  of  them.  They  had  even  to  learn  the 
art  of  cutting  down  trees.  Mrs.  Dickey  was 
daughter  of  I-aird  and  others  had  been  deli- 
cately reared,  suffering  much  from  the  rude 
conditions  they  found  in  this  country.  Craw- 
ford was  a  shepherd  in  Scotland,  a  jiious  and 
devout  man.  W'hile  tending  his  flocks  he  had 
committed  to  memory  the  greater  jjart  of  the 
Bible,  and  was  accustomed  every  .Sunday  to 
recite  portions  of  the  Scriptures  at  the  house 
of  one  or  another  of  the  Scotch  settlers,  accom- 
panying his  words  with  exposition,  exhorta- 
tion and  [)rayer.  "Their  spirits  were  cast 
down  with  disappointmenl."  their  superstitious 
fears  were  aroused  by  the  new  country,  and 


they  "groaned  uiuler  a  load  of  bodily  and 
mental  sufi^ering.  Strange  sights  and  strange 
sounds  assailed  them  ;  fireflies  gleamed  in  the 
woods,  frogs  croaked  in  the  ponds,  and  loons 
uttered  their  unearthly  cries  in  the  evening 
twilight.  They  contended  with  hunger  and 
cold,  witches  and  warlocks,  till  in  the  fall  the 
Indian  war  compelled  them  to  enter  the  fort 
for  jirotection."  lUit  they  became  contented 
and  useful  citizens  in  time,  and  their  descend- 
ants have  taken  liigh  rank  in  business  and 
professional  life.  Crawford  was  deacon  of 
the  church.  He  died  November  10,  1797,  aged 
eighty  years.  He  married,  in  Scotland,  Sarah 
Fisher,  who  died  March  22,  1800,  aged  eighty- 
eight  years,  at  Warren,  Maine.  Children:  i. 
John,  born  in  Scotland,  1751  ;  married  Doro- 
thy Parsons ;  resided  in  Warren,  at  the  I-'rcnch 
and  ]\Iathews  corner;  died  January  9,  18 18; 
had  nine  children.  2.  Ann,  born  in  Scotland ; 
married  John  Nelson ;  removed  to  Reading, 
^lassachusetts.  3.  Captain  James,  born  1758; 
mentioned  below.  4.  Deacon  Archibald,  born 
1760;  died  June  9,  1828;  resided  at  Warren; 
had  his  father's  homestead ;  married  Eleanor 
Parsons ;  had  ten  children.  5.  Alexander,  mar- 
ried    Daggett ;  removed  to  Northport. 

(II)  Captain  James,  son  of  Deacon  John 
Crawford,  was  born  in  Warren,  in  1758,  and 
died  there  August  16,  1825.  He  served  in  the 
revolution,  it  appears  from  the  records,  in  the 
em])!oy  of  the  East  Indian  department,  under 
Colonel  John  Allen,  from  July,  1777,  to  March 
15,  1778,  at  Machias,  Maine;  was  taken  pris- 
oner, but  escaped  March  19,  1778;  was  also 
landsman  on  the  sloop  "Providence,"  Captain 
John  Paul  Jones,  and  received  his  share  of 
prize  money  in  the  ship  "Alexander,"  cap- 
tured Sei)tember  20,  1777.  He  lived  at  War- 
ren, on  the  old  Mero  place.  He  married  Mar- 
garet Rivers.  Children:  I.  James,  removed 
to  New  Brunswick,  thence  to  Little  Rock, 
Arkansas.  2.  Joseph,  flied  January  22,  1820. 
3.  Mary,  born  1798;  resided  at  Warren;  died 
July  30,  1838.  4.  Charles,  born  May  6,  1800; 
mentioned  below.  5.  Captain  George,  born 
April  3,  1802;  married  November  3,  1833, 
Mary  B.  Leeds;  removed  to  Thomaston, 
thence  to  Illinois,  returned  to  Thomaston,  and 
had  iron  foundry  there;  died  May  4,  i860.  6. 
John,  born  about  1804;  married,  November  28, 
1830,  Mahala  Russell ;  resided  in  North  War- 
ren, and  died  there  September  2,  1870. 

(  HI )  Charles,  son  of  James  Crawford,  was 
born  in  Warren,  May  6,  1800,  He  settled  in 
.Searsmont,  Maine,  and  was  a  ])rominent  citi- 
zen,  holding  various   town   offices  and   repre- 


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sentiiig  his  district  in  the  legislature  in  1862. 
Ilerctunicil  to  Warren  to  live  in  1876,  and  made 
his  home  at  Southwest  Harbor.  He  married  Me- 
hitable  Cobb;  (second)  Jane  T.  Daggett  of 
Unity,  Maine.  Children:  i.  Margaret,  married 
Dr.  Ambrose  Woodcock  ;  they  lived  and  died  in 
Levant,  Maine.  2.  Captain  Rufus,  mentioned 
below.  3.  Joseph,  born  December  16,  1823; 
married.  May  30,  1855,  Amanda  M.  Frost; 
he  bought  the  D.  &  A.  Andrews  farm  in  War- 
ren, and  lived  there.  4.  John,  married  Eliza- 
beth Cunningham :  lived  and  died  at  Belmont, 
Maine.  5.  Miles  S.,  married  Celesta  Vaughan, 
of  Unity ;  lived  and  died  in  Boston.  6.  Charles 
A.,  only  one  now  living;  married  Mary  E. 
Cushing,  of  Cohasset.  Children  of  second 
wife:  "7.  Edwin  W.,  resided  at  Medford, 
JMassachusetts.  8.  James  Weston,  lived  at 
Searsmont,  Maine.  9.  Arthur,  lives  at  Natick, 
Massachusetts.  10.  Rev.  William  H.,  married 
Emma  Foy,  of  Wiscasset,  Maine ;  lives  at 
Tremont.  11.  Horatio  H.,  resided  at  Boston. 
'12.  Mehitable  S.,  lives  in  Maine. 

(IV)  Captain  Rufus,  son  of  Charles  Craw- 
ford, was  born  at  Searsmont,  Maine,  about  1821, 
and  was  buried  at  sea  when  twenty-seven 
years  old.  He  was  educated  in  his  native 
town  in  the  public  schools,  and  when  a  youth 
began  to  follow  the  sea,  rose  to  the  command 
of  a  ship,  and  was  a  master  mariner  of  good 
repute.  He  married,  August  7,  1849,  Isabella 
P.  Edgcrton,  born  at  Thomaston,  died  Sep- 
tember 2,  1892.  Children:  i.  Charles  E., 
born  April  29,  1850.  2.  Alfred  O.,  mentioned 
below. 

(V)  Alfred  O.,  son  of  Captain  Rufus  Craw- 
ford, was  born  at  Thomaston,  Maine,  June  6, 
1853.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  town.  He  became  a  clerk  in  a 
drygoods  store  at  Weymouth,  Massachusetts, 
when  he  was  sixteen  years  old.  He  established 
himself  in  the  business  of  making  paper  boxes, 
and  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  box  industry 
of  the  country,  of  the  very  useful  and  po])ular 
folding  designs.  The  business  has  grown  to 
very  large  proportions  and  the  printing  busi- 
ness connected  with  it  is  also  extensive.  He 
has  a  large  factory  at  South  Weymouth,  em- 
ploying a  large  number  of  hands,  and  well 
equipped  for  its  purpose.  The:  firm  name  is 
the  A.  O.  Crawford  Company.  He  is  highly 
respected,  not  only  by  his  associates  and  com- 
petitors in  business,  but  by  his  employees,  and 
townsmen  in  general. 

Mr.  Crawford  is  interested  in  the  welfare 
and  growth  of  Weymouth,  and  always  lends 
his  aid  to  every  project  for  the  good  of  the 


town.  In  ])olitics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Old  South  Church  of  Wey- 
mouth and  of  the  Order  of  the  Golden  Star. 
He  married,  September  22,  1875,  Mary 
Niles  Wade,  born  at  South  Weymouth,  Octo- 
ber 5,  1846,  daughter  of  David  Niles  Wade 
(see  Wade  J.  Children:  i.  David  Niles,  born 
April  20,  1877,  in  Holbrook,  Massachusetts; 
engaged  in  the  printing  business  at  \\'eymouth; 
married  Louise  Clifford  Rockwood,  of  South 
Weymouth  ;  child  :  Allen  Francis,  born  May 
23,  1908.  2.  George  Otis,  born  May  15,  1879; 
associated  in  company  with  his  father  in  man- 
ufacturing pa]5er  boxes  ;  he  is  also  an  inventor, 
invented  several  machines,  one  for  the  use  of 
strips  of  pasteboard  formerly  thrown  away, 
but  now  used  in  egg  crates ;  married,  June, 
1S92,  Mary  Chubbuck,  of  North  Weymouth; 
child :  Charles  Niles.  3.  Frank  W.,  born  No- 
vember 14,  1883;  graduated  from  Tufts  Col- 
lege Medical  School,  class  of  1909. 

(The  Wade  Line). 

(I)  Nicholas  Wade,  the  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  born  in  England,  and  settled  early  in 
Scituate,  Alassachusetts.  He  took  the  oath  of 
fidelity  and  allegiance  in  1638.  His  house  was 
on  the  west  side  of  Brushy  Hill,  northeast  of 
the  road  where  Shadrach  Wade  resided  a  gen- 
eration ago.  In  1657  he  was  licensed  to  keep 
an  inn  in  Scituate.  Jonathan  and  Richard 
\N'ade,  pioneers  to  Massachusetts,  were  prob- 
ably his  brothers.  He  died  in  1683  at  an 
advanced  age.  Children:  i.  John.  2.  Thomas, 
settled  in  Bridgewater ;  married  Elizabeth 
Curtis.  3.  Nathaniel.  4.  Elizabeth,  married 
Marmaduke  Stevens.  5.  Joseph,  killed  in  the 
Rchoboth  battle,  in  King  Phillip's  war.  6. 
Hainiah.  7.  Nicholas,  mentioned  below.  8. 
Jacob,  lived  in  Scituate;  left  no  family. 

(II)  Nicholas  (2),  son  of  Nicholas  (i) 
Wade,  was  born  about  1690.  He  settled  in 
East  Bridgewater,  and  married,  in  171 5,  .Amie 
Latham,  daughter  of  James.  She  died  in 
1770.  aged  seventy-seven  years,  his  widow. 
Children:  i.  John,  married,  1751,  Hannah 
Kingman ;  went  to  Penobscot,  Maine.  2. 
James,  mentioned  below.  3.  Thomas,  born 
1721  ;  married  Susanna  Latham;  lived  in 
Bridgewater.  4.  Amasa,  went  to  A\^eymouth. 
3.  Samuel,  settled  in  Hanson,  and  had  Samuel, 
Isaac,  Levi,  and  other  children.  6.  Nicholas, 
born  1731  ;  married  P.etty  Tomson,  of  Hali- 
fax, had"  John,  P.etty.  James,  Ruth,  Betty  and 
Hannah: "died  in  1780.  7.  Elizabeth,  mar- 
ried. 1739.  Samuel  Harden.  8.  Mary,  mar- 
ried, 1760.  Seth  Mitchell. 


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(III)  James,  son  of  Xicholas  (2)  Wade, 
was  born  in  East  Bridgewater,  about  1720-25. 
He  married,  1754,  Ann  Clark,  of  Plj'moutli. 
He  died  in  1802,  aged  seventy-tlirce  years. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  in  Cajitain 
James  Keith's  company  in  1775,  and  Captain 
James  Ward's  company  in  1780.  His  age 
was  then  given  as  forty-nine  years ;  height 
six  feet.  Children:  i.  .\bigail,  born  1755, 
died  young.  2.  Anne,  born  1757;  married 
1783,  Reuben  Mitchell.  3.  Hannah,  born  1759; 
married,  1784,  Thomas  Osborne.  4.  James, 
born  1 761  ;  mentioned  below.  5.  Abigail,  born 
1763:  married,  1784.  Spencer  Forest.  6.  Re- 
becca, born  1766;  married,  1786,  Israel  Cow- 
ing, of  Scituate. 

fl\')  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  Wade, 
was  born  in  Bridgewater,  probably  in  1761. 
He  settled  in  the  adjacent  town  of  Halifax, 
and  was  a  soldier  from  that  town  in  the  revo- 
lution, a  private  in  Captain  .Samuel  Nelson's 
company.  Colonel  Aaron  AX'illard's  regiment, 
and  traveled  to  Skeensborough,  New  Hamp- 
shire, via  Charlestown,  in  1777.  He  was  also 
in  the  Continental  army  at  West  Point  in  1780, 
five  months  and   fourteen  days. 

(V)  James  (3),  son  of  James  (2)  Wade, 
was  born  .Xi^ril  i,  1783,  at  Ilalifax,  ^lassachu- 
setts.  Melvin  Wade,  probably  a  brother,  also 
lived  in  Halifax.  James  Wade  married,  April 
15.  1803,  (intention  dated  May  3,  1802) 
Sabrina  Lyon,  born  March  28,  1785,  at  Hali- 
fax, daughter  of  Obadiah  and  Lydia  Lyon. 
He  died  at  Halifax  in  1866.  Children,  born 
at  Halifax:  i.  Elvira  C.  December  27,  1805. 
2.  Sophia  L.,  December  31.  1807.  3.  Sabrina 
L.,  December  21,  1810;  married,  February  i, 
1836.  .-\bel  Cushing.  4.  Cynthia,  August  10, 
'813.  5-  James  Jr.,  June  16,  1816.  6.  David 
Xiles,  July  2,  1819;  mentioned  below.  7. 
Martha  L.,  November  28,  1820.  8.  Henry 
Lyon.  September  iT),  1824.  9.  Henrietta  M., 
February  18,   1830. 

(VI)  David  Niles.  son  of  James  (3)  \\'ade, 
was  born  in  Halifa.x,  July  2,  1819,  and  died 
at  South  Weymouth,  in  1907.  He  married 
Mary  E.  Hudson  (intention  dated  September 
22,  1844  at  Halifax),  daughter  of  Isaac  Hud- 
son, of  Halifax.  She  was  born  in  1822,  at  South 
Hanson,  and  died  at  South  Weymouth  in  i8(>2. 
He  was  a  carpenter  in  South  Weymouth.  Chil- 
dren: I. Isaac W., born  1845.  2. !Mary Niles, born 
1846;  married  Alfred  O.  Crawford  (see Craw- 
ford). 3.  David  O.,  born  1849.  4.  Charles 
P.,  born  1858;  married  (first)  Annie  G.  Hall; 
(second)  Sarah  Macelveen  :  children:  Doris 
II.,  John  W. 


Christopher  Wadsworth, 
\\  ADSWORTH  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
born  in  England  and 
from  the  records  in  a  Bible  which  he  brought 
with  him  to  New  England,  and  which  is  now 
owned  by  the  Cowles  family  in  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, he  is  believed  lo  be  the  son  of 
Thomas  Wadsworth.  lie  is  thought  to  have 
come  in  the  same  ship  with  William  Wads- 
worth, who  may  have  been  his  brother.  Will- 
iam came  in  the  ship  "Lion,"  which  sailed 
Sunday,  .September  16,  1832,  with  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-three  passengers,  of  which 
fifty  were  children.  After  a  twelve  weeks 
voyage  the  ship  touched  at  Cape  Ann  and  five 
days  later  landed  at  Boston.  William  settled 
in  Cambridge  and  in  1630  removed  to  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut.  Christopher  lived  and  died 
at  Duxbury.  Massachusetts.  He  was  a  promi- 
nent citizen  in  a  town  where  such  prominent 
men  as  Miles  Standish,  Elder  Brewster  and 
John  -Vlden  lived.  He  married  Grace  Cole. 
He  was  the  first  constable,  elected  January  i, 
1633-34,  and  serving  again  in  1638.  He  was 
admitted  a  freeman  in  1633.  He  served  as 
selectman,  dejuity  to  the  general  court  many 
years,  and  as  highway  surveyor  at  various 
times.  In  1638  he  drew  land  at  Holly  Swamp, 
and  the  site  of  his  house  is  west  of  Captam's 
Hill,  near  the  new  road  to  Kingston.  His 
lands  ran  clear  to  the  bay,  on  what  was  for- 
merly known  as  Morton's  Hole.  The  home- 
stead remained  in  the  family  until  1855,  when 
it  was  sold.  His  will,  dated  July  31,  1677, 
was  filed  in  September,  1678.  His  widow 
Grace  made  a  will  dated  January,  1687-88,  in 
old  age  and  infirmities,  which  was  proved 
June  13,  1688.  Children:  i.  Mary,  married 
.A.ndrews.  2.  Samuel,  mentioned  be- 
low. 3.  Joseph,  born  1636,  died  1689;  married, 

1655,  Abigail  Wait;   (second)    Mary  . 

4.  John,  born  iC)7,H,  died  1700;  married,  1667, 
Abigail  Andrews;  lived  on  the  homestead  and 
was  deacon  of  the  Duxhury  church  many 
years ;  eleven  children. 

(II)  Captain  Samuel,  son  of  Christopher 
Wadsworth,  was  born  jirobablv  in  1630  in 
England,  the  eldest  son.  fie  canK'  to  New 
England  with  bis  father  and  settled  in  Bridge- 
water,  then  Duxbury  plantation,  where  he  was 
a  ta.vpayer  from  1655  to  1665.  He  occupied 
the  land  at  Bridgewater  owned  by  his  father, 
and  had  a  sixty-fourth  interest  in  the  town- 
ship. I  lis  son  Timothy  succeeded  his  grand- 
father as  owner  in  1686.  Captain  Samuel  and 
liis  brother,  Josc|)h  Wadsworth,  owned  land  at 
Bridgewater  longer  than  any  other  of  the  early 


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settlers  after  they  moved  away  from  the  town. 
Captain  Samuel  bought  a  beautiful  tract  of 
land  in  Dorchester  in  what  is  now  Milton, 
about  1660.  The  farm  was  between  the  Blue 
Hills,  Milton  and  Boston.  Some  of  this  prop- 
erty is  still  owned  by  descendants,  having  been 
in  the  family  ever  since  the  first  settlement. 
Captain  Samuel  was  a  man  of  means  and  influ- 
ence, active  in  church  and  state.  His  descend- 
ants of  the  name  of  Wadsworth  are  more 
numerous  than  those  of  any  of  his  brothers. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  war  in  com- 
mand of  the  Milton  company.  In  April,  1676, 
he  was  ordered  to  Marlborough  with  fifty  men 
to  strengthen  the  garrison  in  that  town.  On 
the  way  thither  his  command  passed  through 
Sudbury,  where  the  Indians  were  in  hiding. 
After  Captain  Wadsworth  reached  Marl- 
borough he  learned. that  the  Indians  had  attack- 
ed the  settlement  at  Sudbury  and  burned  the 
houses  on  the  east  side  of  the  Sudbury  river. 
The  Watertown  soldiers  under  Captain  Hugh 
Mason  checked  the  enemy,  but  \\'adsworth 
hurried  to  his  relief  without  waiting  for  his 
men  to  rest,  though  they  had  marched  all  day 
and  the  night  before.  Ca])tain  Brocklebank 
went  with  the  company  and  some  of  the  Marl- 
borough garrison.  Captain  Wadsworth  and 
his  men  were  ambushed  by  about  five  hun- 
dred Indians,  with  the  usual  savage  attack. 
After  a  desperate  struggle  for  five  hours 
Wadsworth  had  lost  five  men ;  the  Indians 
had  lost  more  than  a  hundred.  But  as  night 
approached  the  Indians  set  fire  to  the  dry 
grass,  the  smoke  blinding  the  colonists,  and 
they  were  obliged  to  abandon  their  sheltered 
position  and  were  literally  cut  to  pieces.  Cap- 
tain Wadsworth,  covered  with  wounds,  it  is 
said,  was  one  of  the  last  to  fall.  Thirty  men, 
including  Captain  Brocklebank,  Captain  Wads- 
worth, and  two  other  officers,  were  slain,  and 
were  buried  in  one  grave.  The  twenty  who 
escaped  found  refuge  in  a  mill  that  had  been 
fortified,  and  were  rescued  by  Captain  Pren- 
tice and  Captain  Crowell.  Five  or  six  were 
taken  ])risoncrs  and  tortured  to  death  by  fire. 
The  date  of  this  fight  was  .April,  1676,  some 
authorities  giving  the  1 8th,  others  the  2 1  St. 
Captain  Wadsworth  is  described  as  "that  reso- 
lute stout-hearted  soldier,  one  w'orthy  to  live 
in  our  history  under  the  name  of  a  good  man." 
The  first  monument  to  him  and  his  comrades- 
in-arms  buried  in  the  battle  field  at  Sudbury 
was  erected  by  his  son.  President  Wadsworth, 
of  Harvard  College.  On  November  27,  1852, 
a  moTUunent  built  by  the  joint  action  of  the 
Commonwealth  of  ?iiassachusetts  and  the  town 


of  Sudbury  was  dedicated.  At  that  time  the 
twenty-nine  bodies  were  all  found,  the  marks 
of  the  wounds  showing  in  some  cases  after  a 
lapse  of  nearly  two  hundred  years.  He  mar- 
ried Abigail  Lindall,  of  Marshfield.  Children 
of  Captain   Wadsworth:      i.    Ebenezer,   born 

1660,   died    1717;   married   Mary  .     2. 

Christopher,  1661,  died  unmarried.  1687;  his 
grave  is  marked  by  the  oldest  stone  in  the 
graveyard  at  Milton.  3.  Timothy,  1662.  4. 
Joseph,  1667,  died  1750.  5.  Rev.  Benjamin, 
1670,  graduated  at  Harvard  College,  1690; 
president  of  Harvard,  1725;  died  1734:  mar- 
ried Ruth  Curvvin.  6.  Abigail,  1672,  married 
.Andrew  Boardman.  7.  John,  mentioned  below. 
The  family  met  with  a  severe  loss  a  few  weeks 
before  the  birth  of  Rev.  Benjamin,  before 
mentioned.  The  dwelling  house  in  which  they 
lived  took  fire  in  the  night  time,  burning 
to  the  ground.  .A,  few  articles  of  household 
furniture  and  clothing  were  saved,  and,  as  a 
temporary  shelter  while  a  new  house  was 
being  erected,  the  family  resided  in  the  barn, 
and  here  the  future  college  president  was  born. 

(  III )  Deacon  John,  son  of  Caj^tain  Samuel 
Wadsworth,  was  born  in  Milton  in  1674,  and 
died  in  1734,  leaving  a  large  estate,  valued  at 
seven  thousand  and  eighty-two  pounds.  Among 
his  effects  was  a  negro  slave,  Caesar.  Deacon 
John  Wadsworth  was  a  prominent  man  in  both 
church  and  town  affairs  at  Milton.  He  was 
deputy  to  the  general  court  in  1717-25-26-32- 
33.  He  was  associated  with  Manasseh  Tucker, 
Samuel  Miller  and  Moses  Belcher  in  the  pur- 
chase of  the  Blue  Hill  lands,  fifteen  hundred 
acres  of  which  were  annexed  to  Milton  in 
1712.  He  married  Elizabeth  \'ose,  who  died 
in  1756.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born  1699,  mar- 
ried, 1720,  Robert  Anderson.  2.  .Abigail,  1700, 
married  lienjaniin  Fenno.  3.  liilizabeth,  1701, 
marrieil  T.  Tolman.  4.  Rev.  Ji)hn,  1703,  grad- 
uated at  Harvard,    1723:  died  June   15,   1766. 

5.    Ruth,    1705,    married Parrot.      6. 

Benjamin,  1707,  mentioned  below.  7.  Joseph, 
171 2.  8.  Grace.  171 3,  married  Thomas  Dean, 
of  Dedham.  9.  Margaret.  1714.  married  Ben- 
jamin Fuller.  10.  i  lannaii,  1716.  11.  Ebe- 
nezer, 1718,  married  Patience  Swift.  12.  Sam- 
uel, 1720. 

(I\")  Deacon  I'.enjamin,  s(in  nf  Deacon 
jiihn  Wadsworth,  was  burn  in  Milton  in  1707, 
,-in(l  (lied  October  17,  1771.  lie  built  a  house 
on  Wadsworth  Hill,  Milton,  about  the  time  of 
his  marriage.  The  house  is  still  standing.  He 
was  a  jirominent  man  and  twenty-eight  years 
deacon  of  the  church.  He  married,  in  1735, 
Esther  Tucker,    Children;     i.  Elizabeth,  born 


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1736,  died  1751.  2.  Ruili,  1737,  married  Ralph 
Houghton.  3.  John,  1739.  mentioned  below. 
4.  Abigail.  1741.  5.  Mary.  1743.  6.  Ann.  1745, 
died  yonng.  7.  Sarah.  1747.  married  Ebe- 
nezer  Glover.  8.  Benjamin.  1750.  9.  Esther, 
1752,  married  Nathan  \'ose.  10.  Joseph.  1755. 
died  same  year. 

(\')  John  (2).  son  of  Deacon  Benjamin 
W'adsworth.  was  born  in  Milton  in  1739  and 
died  in  1775.  He  married,  in  1760.  Catherine 
Billiard.  He  was  a  minute-man  and  started 
with  his  company  on  the  Lexington  alarm,  but 
was  obliged  to  give  np  owing  to  ill  health,  and 
died  the  same  year.  His  widow  sent  her  team 
to  transport  the  cassivus  for  the  fortifications 
at  Dorchester  Heights.  Children:  i.  Rebecca, 
born  1 761.  died  young.  2.  Joseph.  1763,  died 
1816.  3.  Benjamin.  1765.  mentioned  below. 
4.  William.  1768.  died  1S24.  5.  John.  1770, 
died  1847. 

(VI)  Benjamin  (  2  ),  son  of  John  (2)  Wads- 
worth,  was  born  in  Milton  in  1765  and  died 
in  1829.  He  was  a  plowmaker  and  resided  at 
Milton.  He  married  Mary  Babcock.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Rebecca,  born  and  died  1790.  2. 
Sarah,  born  and  died  1791.  3.  Isaac,  born 
1792.  4.  Jason.  1794.  died  1870.  5.  Mary. 
1795,  died  1879.  6.  Catherine,  1797,  married 
Thomas  Copeland.  7.  Thomas  Thatcher,  1799, 
mentioned  below.  8.  Benjamin,  born  and  died 
1800. 

("VII)  Thomas  Thatclier.  son  of  Benjamin 
(2)  Wadsworth,  was  born  in  Milton  in  1799 
and  died  there  in  1882.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  and  at  Milton 
Acarlemy.  and  learned  the  trade  of  cabinet 
making.  He  worked  at  his  trade  at  Milton 
for  more  than  twenty-five  years.  He  made 
birch  tables  which  he  sold  in  Boston,  and  also 
made  very  beautiful  mahogany  furniture. 
About  1862  he  gave  up  cabinet  making  and 
conducted  his  farm  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
He  was  a  member  of  Union  Lodge  of  Free 
Masons.  Dorchester,  and  later  of  Macedonian 
Lodge  at  Milton.  He  served  as  selectman  of 
the  town  for  several  years,  and  as  chairman 
of  the  board  a  part  of  the  time,  and  also  as  a 
member  of  the  legislature  two  years.  He 
attended  the  Unitarian  church.  He  married, 
in  1829,  at  Roxbury,  Mary  P.radlee,  daughter 
of  Lemuel  Bradlee.  Child :  Edwin  Dexter, 
born  December  3.  1832.  mentioned  below. 

(\TII)  Captain  Edwin  Dexter,  son  of 
Thomas  Thatcher  W'adsworth.  was  born  in 
Milton  on  the  homestead,  December  3.  1832, 
flied  there  I'^bruary  21,  190 1.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  also 


Milton  .Xcademy.  On  October  31,  1849,  a 
month  before  his  seventeenth  birthday,  he 
accom;ianied  his  father's  cousin,  William  Bab- 
cock, to  California,  going  by  way  of  Cape 
Horn,  arrived  at  San  I'^rancisco  April  6,  1850, 
and  spending  less  than  two  years  in  the  gold 
fields;  returned  on  account  of  sickness.  After 
recovering  his  health  he  entered  the  merchant 
marine  service,  lie  was  engaged  in  foreign 
trade  and  visitetl  the  principal  ports  of  Europe 
and  .South  America,  and  the  far  East.  He 
was  the  chief  officer  of  the  first  American 
merchaiitship  that  traded  in  a  Japanese  port, 
the  ship  "Florence."  Captain  Wadsworth 
was  then  only  twenty-five  years  old.  During 
the  civil  war  he  commanded  a  transport  con- 
veving  soldiers  to  different  points  along  the 
houthern  coast.  Later  he  was  in  command  of 
ste.imshi])s  of  the  Cromwell  and  Black  Star 
lines,  plying  between  New  York  and  New 
Orleans.  In  1868  he  gave  up  a  seafaring  life 
and  settled  in.  Milton,  where  for  five  years  he 
engaged  in  the  coal  business. 

In  politics  he  was  a  Republican  and  was 
active  in  town  affairs.  He  served  as  select- 
man, and  was  on  the  school  committee  six 
years,  part  of  the  time  as  chairman.  He  was 
a  member  and  chairman  of  the  board  of 
assessors,  and  was  trustee  of  the  public  library 
for  eighteen  years,  from  its  foundation.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  water  commis- 
sioners of  Milton  and  did  much  to  aid  in  the 
establishment  of  an  improved  sewerage  system 
in  the  tdwn.  lie  was  treasurer  of  the  lioston 
Marine  Society  for  twelve  years,  up  to  his 
death,  and  secretary  of  the  Society  of  Cali- 
fornia Pioneers  of  New  England  from  1890 
to  1895.  He  was  for  five  years  secretary  of 
the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  and  a  member 
of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  In 
1896  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  county 
commissioners  of  Norfolk  county  for  a  term 
of  three  years,  and  re-elected  for  a  second 
term.  To  the  exacting  duties  of  this  office 
he  l)rf)ugl)t  a  pleasing  personality,  ripe  judg- 
ment, and  zealous  care  and  thought.  He  was 
a  charter  member  and  Past  Master  of  .Mace- 
donian Lodge  of  Free  Masons  of  Milton.  As 
a  public  spirited  citizen  he  was  always  ready 
with  his  influence  to  aid  in  forwarding  all 
measures  calculated  to  l>e  nf  benefit  to  the 
community.  Always  honest  and  upright,  he 
wf)n  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow 
citizens,  and  gave  them  in  return  the  best  that 
was  in  him  in  the  execution  of  the  duties  of 
the  various  offices  which  he  was  calle<l  upon 
to  fill.     He  married,  November  5,  1862,  F.llen 


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Maria  Emerson,  born  in  Milton,  March  24, 
1S40,  daiigiiter  of  Joshua  and  Ann  (iiilliver 
(Babcock)  Emerson,  of  Milton.  Children: 
I.  De.xter  Emer.son,  born  March  7,  1866,  en- 
gaged in  the  dry  goods  business  in  Quincy; 
married,  June  21,  1898,  in  Chicago,  Illinois, 
Kate  Sliumway  Anderson.  2.  .\nnie  Mary, 
-Sejjtembcr  20,  1868,  died  unmarried  June  3, 
1902. 

The  Bush  family  is  of  ancient  Eng- 

BUSII  lish  origin.  The  first  pioneer  of 
the  family  in  this  country  was  Ran- 
dolph or  Reynold  Bush,  who  was  a  proprietor 
of  Cambridge,  Massadnisetts,  in  1641.  He 
mortgaged  land  there  in  1644  and  redeemed 
it  in  1657.  He  doubtless  removed  soon  after- 
ward to  Connecticut. 

(I)  Jonathan  Bush,  probably  a  son  of  Ran- 
dolph Bush,  was  born  in  1650  and  died  in 
1739.  He  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Enfield,  Connecticut,  and  his  name  appears 
on  the  records  as  early  as  1680.  He  owned 
the  fourth  lot  on  the  west  side  at  the  upjier 
end  of  the  town  and  afterwards  lived  north 

of   Freshwater.      He   married    Sarah  . 

Children,  born  at  Enfield:  i.  Jonathan,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  John,  November  22,  1685, 
died  young.  3.  Sarah,  married,  in  1718,  Ben- 
jamin Sittan  and  settled  at  Somers,  Connec- 
ticut, formerly  part  of  Enfield.  4.  Daniel,  born 
November  13,  1689.  5.  Ebenezer,  .\ugust  19, 
1692.  6.  Caleb,  December  27,  1697.  7.  Sarah, 
September  27,  1699. 

(H)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
Busli,  was  born  about  1682,  in  Enfield,  and 
died  February  28,  1746.  His  epitaph  reads: 
"He  fineshed  liis  Pessabel  (peaceable)  and 
exemplary  life  Febry.  ye  28th  in  the  65th  year 
of  his  age."  He  was  a  wheelwright  by  trade. 
His  chililriu  i|uitclaimed  their  rights  in  the 
estate  of  their  grandfather,  Jonathan  Bush, 
lie  married  Rachel  Kibbe,  of  Enfield,  who  died 
in  1786,  aged  ninety-eight  years.  Children, 
born  at  Enfield:  i.  Jonathan,  May  2,  1710, 
lived  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  2.  Joshua, 
August  17,  1712,  married  Experience  French. 
3.  Moses.  1714.  4.  .'\aron,  .-\ugust  t8,  1717, 
mentinncfl  below.  5.  Rachel,  May  30,  1722, 
married  Job  Earkham.  6.  Caleb.  August  7, 
1725,  married  Martha,  daughter  of  Ebenezer 
Pease.    7.  Elizabeth,  January  12,  1727-28. 

(IH)  Aaron,  son  of  Jonathan  (2)  Bush, 
was  lx)rn  August  18,  1717,  died  at  Enfield  in 
1S05.  He  was  a  prominent  citizen  and  for 
many  years  held  offices  of  trust  and  honor  in 
iiis  native  town.     He  was  highway  surveyor 


in  1753,  collector  of  taxes  in  1755,  tj'thing- 
inan  in  1767,  on  the  school  committee  in  1770, 
atid  held  these  offices  and  others  at  diflferent 
limes.  He  married,  September  21,  1743,  .Alice 
French,  born   .\pril  30,   1720,  died  December 

2,  1778.  Their  home  was  on  Terry  Lane. 
Children,  born  at  Enfield:  i.  Alice,  Septem- 
ber 26,  1744.  2.  Aaron,  August  23,  1746.  3. 
Moses,  June  27,  1748.  4.  Oliver,  May  12, 
1750.  5.  Elizabeth,  May  5,  1752.  6.  Rufus, 
Jul)-  16,  1754,  mentioned  below.  7.  Abel.  8. 
Sarah,  November  14,  1756.  9.  Mary,  April 
13.   r75g.     10.  John,  September  25,  1763. 

(  ]\')  Rufus,  son  of  .Aaron  Bush,  was  born 
Jidy  1(3,  1754.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolu- 
tion, ?  ])rivatc  in  the  tenth  company,  Captain 
lie/:ekiah  Parsons,  of  Enfield,  at  the  siege  of 
Boston  in  1775.  He  was  also  in  Captain  .Abbe's 
company  in  the  Connecticut  Line  Regiment, 
1777-81,  and  saw  much  active  service.  Late 
in  life  he  was  a  pensioner  of  the  government 
and  he  was  living  in  1840.  In  1790  he  appears 
in  the  federal  census  as  the  head  of  a  family  at 
I'Znfield,  having  two  sons  under  sixteen  and 
four  females  in  his  family.  He  married  (first) 
March  30,  1780,  Huldah  .Alden,  of  Enfield. 
She  died  there  October  2,  1817,  aged  sixty- 
two  vears.  He  married  (.second)  September 
2.1,.  i'8t8,  Re.sine  Redotha'  of  Enfield.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife,  born  at  Enfield :  i.  Huldah, 
February  10,   1781.     2.  Lydia,  July  28.  1782. 

3.  Rufus,  May  24,  1784,  mentioned  below.  4. 
Porter,  January  18,  1786. 

(\')  Rufus  "(2).  son  of  Rufus  ( i)  Bush, 
was  born  at  Enfield,  May  24,  1784.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Enfield,  March  i,  i8or,  Sally  Allen, 
and  the  town  records  state  that  he  was  "six- 
teen the  last  of  May,  she  fifteen  in  January." 
He  was  a  carjienter  and  builder  and  one  of 
the  leading  contractors  of  that  section  in  his 
day.  He  lived  at  Enfield  during  his  active 
life.     In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat. 

(\'T)  David  .A.,  son  of  Rufus  (2)  Bush, 
was  born  in  Enfield,  Connecticut,  1803,  died 
July  7,  1870.  He  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  was 
employed  by  Potter  &  King,  plow  manufac- 
turers, and  remained  with  them  until  he  went 
to  Chicopee  brails.  Here  he  worked  on  the 
construction  of  the  first  water  wheels  and 
flumes  in  use  there.  While  living  in  Chicopee 
b'alls  he  refused  to  pay  the  church  tax,  as  he 
did  not  believe  in  the  doctrines  taught,  and 
iH'\er  attended  their  services.  The  church 
authorities  seized  his  coat  to  satisfy  the  tax. 
He  was  a  strong  I'niversalist  and  assisted  in 
the  erection  of  the  first  I'niversalist  church  of 


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Springfield.  From  Chicopee  Falls  he  went  to 
Providence  and  later  to  Willimansett  and  in 
1830  removed  to  Springfield,  where  he  bought 
the  plow  and  wagon  manufactory  of  Ebe- 
nezer  Crane.  In  a  comparatively  short  time 
he  succeeded  in  building  up  a  very  extensive 
business.  His  factory  was  at  the  corner  of 
Main  and  Cross  streets.  He  invested  in  real 
estate  and  owned  the  line  of  houses  on  Cross 
street.  Bush  block,  and  other  property.  He 
married,  .-\pril  30.  1827,  Betsey  Williams,  of 
Westfield.  died  February  22.  1879,  at  seventy- 
three  }-ears,  daughter  of  Xaboth  Williams,  who 
died  in  1821.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth  Page, 
died  young.  2.  Austin  B.,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Elizabeth  Page,  married  Dennis  S.  Goff, 
of  Springfield  :  had  one  child,  Jessie  B.,  who 
married  Henry  Saiiford.  of  Springfield.  Mass- 
achusetts. 4.  Melancthon  Whitamore,  died 
young. 

(VH)  .Au.-^tin  B.,  son  of  David  A.  Bush, 
was  born  in  Willimansett.  December  21,  1829. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  and  Clinton  Institute  in  Xew  York. 
sup])lemented  by  a  year  at  the  Norwich  Mili- 
tar\-  .\cademy  of  \"ermont.  under  Captain 
.Alden  Partridge.  He  started  to  learn  wagon 
making  in  his  father's  factory,  but  gave  it  up 
to  go  into  the  grocery  business.  Six  years 
later  he  took  a  position  in  the  United  States 
armory,  where  lie  was  engaged  in  the  stock- 
ing department  until  the  close  of  the  civil  war. 
Since  then  he  has  put  all  his  time  into  the  care 
of  the  large  amount  of  real  estate  left  him  by 
his  father.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat  and 
has  been  clerk  of  the  returning  board  of  ward 
three  and  has  once  received  the  nomination 
for  alderman  in  this  Republican  ward.  For 
some  time  he  was  a  member  of  Cataract 
Engine  Companj'  Xo.  2.  He  has  been  an  ex- 
tensive traveller  in  his  own  country,  and  is 
well-informed.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  F'aul's 
Church  and  its  treasurer,  and  for  many  years 
teacher  in  the  Sunday  school.  He  married 
(first)  January  11,  1854,  Susan  P.  Millard, 
of  Levant.  Maine,  born  November  7,  1832, 
died  August  8,  1891,  daughter  of  David  and 
R(bi-cca  Millard.  He  married  (second)  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1892.  Mrs.  Persis  (Crawford)  Pros- 
ser.  born  October  13,  1844,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam and  .Mmira  (Cheney)  Crawford,  of  Oak- 
han,  Massachusetts,  and  widow  of  Charles  M. 
Pro' ser.  Her  grandfather.  Alexander  Craw- 
ford, worked  in  the  United  States  armory  and 
finished  the  first  rifie  ever  made  in  the  .Sjjring- 
fiei  1  armory.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  James, 
died   voung.      2.    Harry   Dean,   born    .\pril    2, 


1857,  graduated  at  the  Springfield  high  school 
and  in  1879  from  Worcester  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology :  has  held  many  important  positions  on 
the  Pacific  coast  and  has  been  sujjerintendent 
of  the  Dominion  Bridge  Company  of  Canada; 
also  with  George  Morrison,  bridge  builder  of 
Xew  ^'ork.  and  on  the  water  works  of  Port- 
land. Oregon ;  married  Emma  Wetherbec,  of 
Gardner,  Massachusetts.  She  died  December 
7,  1907.  He  married  (second)  Mrs.  Frances 
Davis,  January  21,  1909. 

(The  Crawford  Line). 

.Varon  Crawford,  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
born  in  county  Tyrone  in  1677.  H  George 
Crawford  were  his  ancestor,  the  family  had 
been  there  some  sixty  years  when  he  was  born, 
and  George  would  have  been  his  grandfather 
or  great-grandfather.  He  came  to  New  Eng- 
land with  his  family  in  1713,  some  five  years 
before  the  extensive  emigration  of  the  Scotch- 
Irish  began.  He  arrived  in  Boston  in  the 
spring  or  summer  of  17 13,  and  lived  there 
probably  until  he  settled  in  Rutland,  Massa- 
chusetts, soon  afterward.  A  member  of  the 
Crawford  family  was  elected  to  town  office 
in  Rutland  at  the  first  town-meeting  in  July, 
1722.  and  it  is  believed  that  Aaron  Crawford 
was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  the  town.  He 
married  Agnes  Wilson  in  the  parish  of  Caly, 
county  Tyrone,  Ireland.  She  was  born  1678. 
Three  sons,  Samuel.  John  and  Alexander, 
born  in  the  parish  of  Caly.  Ireland,  were 
brought  over  by  the  jjarents,  also  Martha. 
.Aaron  and  his  wife  both  died  at  Rutland  and 
are  buried  in  the  graveyard  in  the  centre  of 
the  town.  He  died  .August  6.  1754;  she  died 
December  10.  1760.  Children:  i.  Samuel,  born 
1705,  died  October  17.  1760;  married  Margaret 
Montgomery  and  had  no  children.  2.  Martha, 
l7or).died  .September  20.  1795. in  Rutland  ;  mar- 
ried. May  24,  1733,  James  Bell.  3.  Joiin.born 
in  Ireland,  settled  in  Palmer,  died  unmarried. 
4.  .Alexander.  1713,  mentioned  below.  5.  Isa- 
bella, died  young.  6.  Mary,  Rutland,  .April 
15,  1721.  married.  .April  15.  1745,  William 
McCobb.  7.  Mnse--.  died  unmarried  in  Rut- 
land. 

(II)  .Alexander,  son  of  .Aaron  Crawford, 
was  born  in  county  Tyrone,  Ireland,  early  in 
1713,  and  was  but  a  few  months  old  when 
his  parents  came  to  -America.  He  went  to 
Rutland  with  his  family  in  I7r9  and  helped 
his  father  clear  the  farm  during  his  youth. 
He  settled  in  Rutland  and  followed  the  life 
of  a  pioneer  farmer  until  1750.  when  he  re- 
moved to  West  Wing,  now  Oakham,  where  he 


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died  October  ii,  1793,  in  his  eightieth  year. 
He  married,  February  5,  1735-36,  Elizabeth 
Crawford,  who  died  April  27,  1774,  aged 
sixty-two.  She  was  doubtless  also  born  in 
Ireland,  in  Londonderry  county,  emigrating 
with  several  brothers  and  sisters  from  Mag- 
herafelt  of  that  county,  and  settling  in  Xew 
Jersey,  Pennsylvania  and  Mrginia.  She  was 
perhaps  a  distant  relative  of  her  husband. 
Children:  i.  William,  died  young.  2.  John, 
born  January  7,  1739,  captain  in  the  revolu- 
tion; married,  February  9,  1759,  Rachel  Hen- 
derson. 3.  Child,  died  young.  4.  Aaron,  mar- 
ried, January  31,  1768,  Giles  Gill.  5.  William, 
born  October  23,  1745,  mentioned  below. 

(HI)  William,  son  of  Alexander  Crawford, 
was  born  in  Rutland,  October  23,  1745.  He 
removed  to  Oakham  with  hi.s  parents  when 
five  years  of  age  and  was  brought  up  on  the 
farm,  getting  a  meagre  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools.  He  learned  the  trade  of  clock- 
making  and  became  one  of  the  most  skillful 
and  famous  mechanics  in  his  line.  His  home 
was  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  town.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  sergeant  in  Captain 
John  Crawford's  company.  Colonel  James  Con- 
verse's regiment,  enlisting  July  22.  1777,  and 
was  discharged  July  26,  1777,  serving  in  the 
Rhode  Island  campaign.  He  was  under  the 
same  officers  on  the  Bennington  alarm,  from 
August  20  to  August  23,  1777.  He  was  short 
of  stature  and  somewhat  lame  in  consequence 
of  a  fever  sore.  He  became  captain  of  his 
company  in  the  militia  and  was  afterwards 
always  called  Cajitain  Crawford.  lie  married 
Mary  Henderson,  born  July  30.  1748,  died 
November  26,  1838,  of  old  age,  daughter  of 
James  and  Sarah  Henderson,  of  Rutland. 
Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  February  10, 
1774,  died  February  3,  1838;  married.  181 5. 
Jonathan  King.  2.  James,  .August  11,  1775. 
married  Mollie  P.utler.  3.  Lucy.  February  7, 
1778.  4.  William,  February  25,  1780,  died 
March  30,  1781.  5.  Sarah,  January  30,  1782, 
died  February  i,  1798.  6.  \\'illiam,  January 
30,  1782  (twin),  died  February  i.  1798.  7. 
William,  October  5,  1784,  representative  to  the 
general  court;  graduate  of  Dartmouth;  county 
commissioner ;  general  in  the  state  militia.  8. 
Rufus.  November  13.  1785,  married,  1820. 
Clarissa  Cunningham.  9.  Alolly,  October  6, 
1787,  married,  Jime  27,  1812.  Samuel  Tcnney. 
10.  .Alexander.  April  16.  1792,  mentii)ucd  be- 
low. II.  Isabella,  I'cbruary  24.  179^1.  died 
November  16,  1845. 

(IV)    Alexander  (2),  son  of  William  Craw- 
ford,   was  burn    in   Oakham,    .\pril    \fi,    1792. 


He  married,  September  6,  1813,  Mary  Hender- 
son. Children,  born  at  Oakham:  i.  Emeline 
Mariah,  Seiitember  30,  1814.  2.  Anson  Alex- 
ander, January  17,  1817.  3.  William  A.,  Octo- 
ber 7,  1820,  mentioned  below.     4.  Harriet. 

(V)  William  Amory,  son  of  Alexander 
(2)  Crawford,  was  born  at  Oakham,  Octo- 
ber 7,  1820,  and  resided  there.  He  married 
Almira  E.  Cheney.  Children:  1.  Persis  C, 
born  at  Oakham,  October  13,  1844,  who  mar- 
ried (first)  August  30,  1870,  Charles  M.  Pros- 
ser,  of  New  llerlin,  Chenango  county,  New 
York;  he  died  January  15,  1878.  She  married 
(second)  Austin  B.  Bush  (see  Bush  family), 
February  15,  1892;  he  died  December  23, 
1904.  Mrs.  Bush  is  a  member  of  Mercy  War- 
ren Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution, of  Springfield,  ^Massachusetts.  2.  Mary 
L..  born  in  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  July  4, 
1846.  married  Lacell  Jones;  one  child,  Lula 
A.,  who  married  Edward  Lee;  now  resides  in 
Worcester.  Massachusetts. 


Tills   family  is  of  ancient  Eng- 
FISHER     lish    origin    and    the    surname, 
Fisher,  is  taken  from  the  occu- 
pation.    Some  of  the  familes  in  England  bore 
arms,  one  of  which  is  as  follows :     Azure,  a 
dnlphin  cmliinved  naiant  or. 

I  1  )  .Anthony  Fisher,  the  first  of  this  name 
of  whom  there  is  definite  record,  lived  in  the 
latter  part  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  in 
the  parish  of  Syleham.  county  Suffolk,  Eng- 
land, on  the  >outh  bank  of  the  Waveney  river, 
on  a  freehold  estate  called  "W'ignotte."  He 
marrie  I  Mary  Fiske.  daughter  of  William  and 
-Anne  Fiske,  of  St.  James.  South  Elmasham, 
county  Suffolk,  England.  The  Fiske  family 
was  an  old  Puritan  family  of  that  county, 
which  had  suffered  during  the  religious  per- 
secutions of  Queen  Mary's  reign.  Anthony 
Fi.sher  was  buried  .April  11.  1(140-  Children: 
I.  Joshua,  baptized  I'ebruary  24,  1583,  died 
1674    in    Medfield,     Massachusetts;    married 

(first)    ;    (second)    February   7.    1638, 

at  Syleham,  England.  .Anne  Luson.  who  came 
to  New  England  and  settled  at  Dedhani; 
Joshua  came  to  New  England  in  1639  and  set- 
tled first  at  Dedham ;  admitted  a  freeman  May 
13,  1640;  blacksmith  by  trade;  removed  to 
Medfield,  1(150;  was  first  deacon  of  the  Med- 
field church;  selectman  iC>53-55.  2.  Mary, 
twin  sister  of  Joshua,  married  W.  I'rigge,  of 
Deninghani.  county  Suffolk,  England.  3. 
.Anthony,  baptized  April  21,.  1591.  mentioned 
below.  4.  Amos,  married  Anne  Morrise, 
widiiw  of  Daniel  Locke;  resided  at  Eastridge 


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Hall,  parish  of  Wesley,  county  Essex,  England. 
5.   Rev.   Cornelius,   baptized   August  6,    1599, 

married  Elizabeth  ;  had  degree  of  M. 

A.  from  Cambridge  L'niversity  and  resided  at 
Brigholt,  county  Suftolk,  England.  6.  Martha, 
married  John  Ijuckingham,  of  Sylchani,  Eng- 
land. 

(II)  Anthony  (2).  son  of  Anthony  (i) 
Fisher,  was  baptized  at  Syleham,  England, 
April  23,  1 591.  He  was  the  immigrant  ances- 
tor, and  came  to  Xew  England  jirobably  in 
the  shi])  '"Rose,"  arriving  in  Boston,  June  26. 
1637.  He  settled  at  Dedham,  and  subscribed 
to  the  covenant  there  July  18.  1637.  He  was 
admitted  a  freeman  in  May,  1645,  and  was 
selectman  of  Dedham  in  1646-47:  elected 
county  commissioner  September  3,  1660,  and 
deputy  to  the  general  court.  May  2,  1649.  He 
was  woodreeve  in  1653-54-57-58-61-62.  He 
removed  to  Dorchester  and  was  chosen  select- 
man there  December  5,  1664,  and  the  two 
years  following ;  was  commissioner  in  1666. 
He  died  in  Dorchester.  April  18,  1671.  His 
first  wife  Mary  was  admitted  to  the  church 
at  Dedham,  March  ij,  1642,  and  he  on  March 
14,  1645.  He  married  (second)  November  14. 
1663.  Isabel  r.rcck.  widow  of  Edward  lireck, 
of  Dorchester.  Children,  all  by  first  wife:  i. 
Anthony,  mentioned  below.  2.  Cornelius, 
married  (first)  February  23,  1653.  at  Dedham. 
Leah  Heaton,  who  died  at  W'rentham,  January 
12,  1664;  married  (second)  July  25,  1665, 
Sarah  Everett :  he  died  at  Wrcntham,  June  2, 
1699.  3.  Nathaniel,  born,  at  Syleham,  Eng- 
land, came  to  Dedham,  1637,  and  married  there 
December  26,  1649,  Esther  Hunting:  died  at 
Dedham,  May  23,  1676.  4.  Daniel,  born  in 
England,  came  to  Dedham,  1637,  admitted 
freeman,  May  13,  1640;  called  sergeant  in  the 
records:  member  of  .-Xncient  and  Honorable 
.■\rtillery  Comi)any,  1642,  and  sergeant  in  1655: 
mentioned  as  ensign  in  1658-59:  appointed 
captain  of  militia,  October  15.  1673:  about 
1671  two  of  the  regicide  judges  of  Charles  I, 
Colonel  GofTe  and  Colonel  Whalley.  were 
hidden  by  Captain  Daniel  Fisher  in  a  little 
wood  back  of  his  house  on  Lovvdcr  street, 
near  a  pond  :  Cajitain  Daniel's  daughter  Lydia 
supplied  them  with  food :  Goffe  was  sent  dis- 
guised as  a  servingman  on  horseback  to  Had- 
ley,  remaining  a  year  in  the  care  of  friends  of 
Captain  Daniel  Fisher;  Daniel  married,  No- 
vember 16,  1 64 1,  Abigail  Mariott.  5.  Lydia. 
married  Daniel  Morse,  of  Sherborn.  6.  John, 
died  in  Dedham.  .September  5.  1637,  the  first 
death  recorded  in  Dedliam. 

fill)    Anthony    ("3).    son   of   .Anllumy    {2) 


Fisher,  was  born  in  JMigland,  came  with  his 
parents  to  New  England,  and  settled  in  Ded- 
ham in  1637.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Ancient  and  Honorable  .Vrtillery  Company  in 

1644.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman.  May  6, 
1646,  and  joined  the  Dedham  church,  July  20, 

1645.  He  was  chosen  surveyor  of  Dedham 
in  1652-53-54.  He  removed  to  Dorchester 
and  was  selectman  there  in  1666.  He  married, 
in  Dedham.  September  7,  1647,  Joanna  Faxon, 
only  (laughter  of  Thomas  and  Jane  Faxon,  of 
Braintree.  Children:  i.  Mehitable,  born  June 
2"],  1648,  probably  died  young.  2.  Experience, 
baptized  August  11,  1650,  probably  died  young. 

3.  Josiah,  born  May  i,  1654,  mentioned  below. 

4.  Abiah,  baptized  August  3,  1656,  married, 
March  5,  1685,  Benjamin  Colburn,  of  Ded- 
ham; (lied  November  18,  1688.  5.  Sarah, 
October  29,  1658,  married.  May  22,  1677,  John 
Guild.  6.  Deborah,  baptized  February  24, 
1661,  married,  October  20,  1679,  James  F'ales. 
7.  Judith,  baptized  July  5,  1663,  married,  Jan- 
uary 3,  1684,  John  Bullen.  8.  Eleazer,  born 
September    18,     1669,    married,    October    13, 

1698,  Mary  Avery. 

(I\')  Josiah,  son  of  Anthony  (3)  Fisher, 
was  born  in  Dedham,  May  i,  1654,  died  there 
.\pril  12,  1736.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman, 
February   13,  and  served  as  representative  in 

1699.  He  was  selectman  in  1697  and  for  four 
succeeding  years;  coroner  in  1716.  His  will 
was  dated  May  27,  1735.  He  married  (first) 
January  27,  1680,  Meletiah  Bullen,  born  Sep- 
tember 15,  1655,  died  April  23,  1693,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Morse)  Bullen.  He 
married  (second)  September  i,  1693,  Joanna 
Morse,  daughter  of  Ezra  and  Joanna  (Hoare) 
Morse.  He  married  (third)  h'ehruary  15, 
1697,  .Abigail  (ireenwood.  of  Newton,  who 
(lied  at  Dedham,  .September  6,  1708.  He  mar- 
ried (fourth)  October  18,  1716.  Mehitable 
\'eazic,  born  February  17,  1666,  died  May  18, 
1741,  daughter  of  William  and  Elinor  ( Tomp- 
son  )  X'eazie.  Children:  i.  Bethia,  born  De- 
cember 10,  1681,  married  (first)  Benjamin 
Everett,  December  12,  1712;  (second)  Octo- 
ber 18,  1726,  Daniel  Lawrence.  2.  Josiah,  No- 
vember 25,  1683.  mentioned  below.  3.  Joanna, 
Se])teml)er  13.  1686,  married.  May  17,  1716, 
Nathaniel  Dean.  4.  .Abigail,  January  3,  1698, 
married,  October  13.  1723,  Joseph  (niild.  5. 
Experience,  .\pril  14.  1700,  married  (first) 
December  2,  1730,  Cajjtain  Ebenezer  Wood- 
ward: (" second)  .April  16.  1747.  Rev.  Samuel 
Dunbar. 

(  \" )  Captain  josiah  (2),  son  of  Josiah  (i) 
I'isher,   was  born   at    Dedham.    November  25, 


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1683,  died  intestate,  February  24,  1763.  He 
resided  in  Springfield  Parish  (now  Dover)  in 
1732.  He  was  captain  of  militia  and  select- 
man of  the  town  in  1736,  and  for  seven  years. 
He  married,  at  Dedham,  September  25,  1707, 
Elizabeth  Avery,  born  May  16,  1684,  died  Au- 
gust 7,  1747,  daughter  of  Deacon  William  and 
Elizabeth  (White)  Avery.  Children:  i. 
Josiah,  born  August  15,  1708,  died  July  10, 
1745.     2.  Joseph,  May  2,  died  June  15,  1710. 

3.  Joseph,  January  14,  1712,  mentioned  below. 

4.  Jonathan,  August  5,  17 13,  married,  Decem- 
ber 21,  1737,  Mary  Richards.  5.  Samuel,  June 
13,  1715.  6.  Moses,  died  January  17,  1717. 
7.  Moses,  born  September  1,1717.  8.  Aaron, 
Afay  6.  1720,  married  March  21,  1745.  9. 
William,  September  3,  1724,  married,  .■Xpril 
30,  1747,  Mary  Battelle. 

(\'I)  Joseph,  son  of  Captain  Josiah  Fisher, 
was  born  January  14,  1712,  died  in  Dedham, 
July  5,  1759.  His  widow  Mary  was  appointed 
administratrix  of  the  estate,  and  guardian  of 
the  six  youngest  children.  He  married.  May 
ii,  1738.  Mary  Metcalf,  born  February  16. 
1 716,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Gay) 
Metcalf.  Children:  i.  Joseph,  born  May  17, 
1739,  mentioned  below.  2.  Ebenezer,  April  4, 
1741.  3.  Mary,  April  4,  1741,  died  same 
month.  4.  Mary,  December  26.  1742,  married, 
.'\pril  3,  1764,  William  Hart.  5.  Elizabeth, 
August  31,  1745,  married,  1764,  Stephen  Dra- 
per. 6.  Ichabod,  September  22,  1747,  married 
Sibyl  Fisher,  December  6,  1770.  7.  Aaron, 
August  19,  1749,  died  February  29,  1754.  8. 
Experience,  August  7,  1751,  married,  October 
4,  1770,  Moses  Richardson.  9.  Moses,  July  8, 
1754.  died  unmarried. 

(VII)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i) 
Fisher,  was  Ijorn  in  Dedham,  May  17,  1739. 
In  early  life  he  went  to  Keene,  New  Hamp- 
shire, but  returned,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
cliurch  of  Dedham,  recommended  from  the 
church  in  Keene,  March  26,  1758.  He  resided 
in  that  part  of  Dedham  now  Dover,  and  at 
Natick  from  about  1775.  but  returned  to  Dover 
before  1790,  He  was  in  the  revolution  in 
Ca])lain  Joseph  Morse's  com])any.  Colonel 
.Samuel  liullard's  regiment,  on  the  Lexington 
alarm,  April  k),  1775,  marching  from  Natick. 
He  died  at  Dover,  December  2,  1790.  He 
married,  at  Dedham,  March  8,  1764,  Mary 
Everett,  of  Dedham,  who  died  at  Concord, 
October  21,  1822,  aged  eighty-three,  .\mong 
their  children  were:     i.  Jesse,  born  February 

2,  1765.  mentioTicd  below.  2.  Josejih,  baptized 
July  3,  I7'')7.  died  in  Dover,  December  2('),  171)0. 

3.  Chloe,  burn  M.irch  10,  1 771,  married  Joseph 


Richards;  died  December  19,  1825.  4.  Ed- 
ward, born  at  Natick,  February  18,  1781,  mar- 
ried ^lary  Norcross. 

(\'III)  Jesse,  son  of  Joseph  (2)  Fisher, 
was  born  in  Dover,  February  2,  1765.  He  set- 
tled in  Fitzwilliam,  New  Hampshire,  and  his 
name  appears  on  the  ta.x  list  there  from  1793 
to  1.798.  He  lived  on  lot  No.  8,  range  11, 
which  he  sold  to  Peter  Prescott,  and  after- 
ward lived  on  lot  16,  range  12,  which  he 
bought  of  Silas  Wheeler.  About  1798  he  re- 
moved to  what  is  now  the  town  of  Pialtimore, 
Vermont.  He  died  September  20,  1822,  and 
he  and  his  wife  are  buried  at  North  Spring- 
field, \'ermont.  He  married,  September  19, 
1792.  Jerusha  .Vrmsby,  of  Medfield,  who  died 
June  II,  1821,  in  her  fifty-seventh  year.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Joseph,  born  at  Fitzwilliam.  March 
10,  1793,  died  September  25,  1866;  married 
three  times.  2.  Hermon,  born  at  Fitzwilliam, 
November  i,  1794,  died  unmarried  November 
18,  1822.  3.  Ira,  born  .April  12,  1797,  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Lyman,  settled  in  Batavia, 
New  York.  5.  Pitts,  settled  near  Boston.  6. 
Joanna,  died  young. 

(IN)  Ira,  son  of  Jesse  Fisher,  was  born  at 
Fitzwilliam,  New  Hampshire,  April  12,  1797. 
He  left  home  when  a  young  man  and  went  to 
Massachusetts.  He  settled  first  in  Concord, 
later  in  \\'orcester,  Massachusetts.  He  mar- 
ried ( intentions  dated  at  Concord  March  23, 
1831)  Emily  Robbins,  of  Littleton,  born  No- 
vember 25.  i8ii,  daughter  of  .Seth  and  Relief 
(Rice)  Robbins.  Her  mother  was  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Rispah  (\\'ilson)  Rice,  of 
Northborough  and  Grafton,  ATassachusetts. 
Children:  i.  Edward  Everett,  born  at  ^\'or- 
cester,  October  12,  1848,  mentioned  below.  2. 
\\'illiam  Henry,  lives  in  West  Springfield. 

(N)  Edward  Everett,  son  of  Ira  I-'ishcr, 
was  born  in  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  October 
12,  1848.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
public  schools.  He  spent  the  greater  part  of 
his  life  in  Sjiringfield  and  Chicopee,  Massa- 
chusetts. For  eighteen  years  he  was  a  baker 
in  the  employ  of  the  J.  S.  Carr  Company  of 
.Springfield.  The  last  twenty  years  of  his  life 
were  spent  in  Chicopee  where  lie  was  pro- 
prietor of  the  Exchange  street  boarding  house, 
owned  by  the  Dwight  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, and  one  of  the  largest  and  best  in  the 
city.  It  was  for  many  years  known  as  Fisher's 
boarding  house  and  largely  patronized  by  the 
emiiloyces  of  the  Dwight  Manufacturing  Com- 
panv.  Probably  no  man  in  the  city  who  lived 
quietlv  and  unostentatiously  as  he  did.  became 
better  known  nr  more  highlv  esteemed  bv  his 


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townsmen.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Cliico- 
pee  Lodge  of  Free  Ma.soiis,  of  the  Amity 
Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  the  Ancient  Order 
of  L'nited  AX'orkmen.  He  also  belonged  to 
the  W'orkingmen's  Benefit  Association  of 
Chicopee.  He  was  also  member  of  the  Board 
of  Trade.  He  was  a  staunch  and  faithful  Re- 
publican and  at  one  time  was  clerk  of  the  city 
committee  and  influential  in  the  management 
of  the  i)arty.  lie  died  at  his  home  in  Chicopee, 
.•\ugust  16.  1907.  The  interment  was  at  Fair- 
view  cemetery.  He  married  (first)  Xellie 
Cole,  daughter  of  Elvira  Cole.  He  married 
(second)  September  2,  iSSC).  Xancy  .Agnes 
Smith,  born  county  Antrim,  Ireland,  October 
15,  1855,  daughter  of  Major  Smith  and  Mar- 
garet ( Knowles)  Smith,  granddaughter  of 
\\  illiam  and  Elizabeth  (Karl)  Smith.  Eliza- 
beth KarFs  father  was  a  surgeon  in  the  Eng- 
lish army.  Child  of  first  wife:  George  Gar- 
field, born  February  10,  1882,  now  living  in 
W'estficld.  Cliild  of  second  wife:  Ruth  Eliz- 
abeth, born  February  21,  1892,  now  a  student 
of  the  class  of  1912.  New  England  Conserva- 
torv  of  Music.  Boston. 


Richard  Farwell.  believed  to 
F.ARW'ELL  be  the  ancestor  of  the  .Amer- 
ican immigrant,  Henry  Far- 
well,  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Concord,  Alassa- 
chusetts,  was  born  in  England.  He  married, 
about  1280.  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  Elias 
de  Rillestone.  and  brought  that  estate  and 
f>thcrs  into  the  family.  These  continued  in 
the  family  until  about  1500,  when  they  passed 
on  to  the  family  of  Radclifife,  although  some 
portion  of  the  estate  remains  to  this  day  in  a 
Farwell  branch  bearing  the  same  arms  and 
claiming  descent  from  Richard  Farwell. 
.About  the  time  the  estates  jjassed  to  the  Rad- 
clifFes,  Simon  Farwell  migrated  from  York- 
shire to  Somersetshire,  and  built  at  Bishop 
Hall,  near  Taunton,  the  manor  house  on  which 
is  carved  the  Farwell  arms.  r|uartercd  with  de 
Rillestone  and  others. 

(I)  -Simon  Farwell.  mentioned  above,  of 
Hill-Bishop,  married  Julia  Clark  and  died  in 

'545- 

(II)  Simon  (2).  son  of  Simon  (i)  I'ar- 
well,  was  of  Hill-Bishop,  and  married  Doro- 
thy Dyer,  heiress  of  Sir  James  Dyer,  judge 
and  speaker  of  the  house  of  commons.  She 
flied  1580.  Children:  i.  Simon.  2.  John,  of 
Holbrofjk.  3.  George,  born  1533,  mentioned 
bclf)w.  4.  Richard.  5.  Christopher,  founder 
of  the  Devonshire  branch  of  the  family.  Four 
daughters. 


(HI)  George,  son  of  Simon  (2)  Farwell, 
was  born  in  1533,  died  in  1609,  married  Phil- 
lippa  Parker,  who  died  1620,  daughter  of  John 
Parker.  They  lived  at  I  lill-Bishop.  Children: 
r.  Sir  George,  knight  of  Plill-Bishop,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Elizabeth.  3.  Sir  John.  4. 
.\rthur. 

(1\  )  .'-^ir  George  (2),  son  of  George  (i) 
I'^arwell,  was  a  knight  and  lived  at  Hill-Bi.shoj). 
He  died  in  1647;  married  Lady  Mary  Sey- 
mour, daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Seymour,  Duke 
of  Somerset,  and  brought  into  the  family  royal 
Plantaganet  blood.  They  had  twenty  children, 
some  of  whom  were :  Thomas,  John,  men- 
tioned below  ;  George,  Nathaniel,  Edmund  and 
James. 

( \' )  John,  son  of  Sir  George  (2)  Farwell, 
married  Dorothy  Routh,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Routh.  Children:  i.  Henry,  mentioned  below. 
2.  John. 

(\'L)  Henry,  believed  to  be  son  of  John 
I'arwell,  of  Hill-Bishop,  England,  was  one  of 
llie  first  settlers  of  Concord,  Massachusetts, 
and  is  ancestor  of  most  of  the  surname  in 
America.  In  this  connection  it  is  interesting 
to  note  that  Thomas  Farwell  was  in  Taunton, 
Massachusetts,  in  1643,  where  he  made  a  con- 
tract with  his  servant,  James  Bishop.  (The 
name  Bishop  may  have  been  derived  from  the 
place  where  the  Farwells  lived  in  England, 
Hill-Bishop).  Henry  Farwell  was  admitted  a 
freeman.  May  14,  1638-39.  He  served  on  im- 
portant committees  for  the  proprietors  and 
the  town.  He  removed  to  Chelmsford,  Mass- 
achusetts, an  adjoining  town.  His  will  was 
made  July  12,  1670,  just  before  his  death. 
The  inventory  of  his  estate  was  filed  August 
5  following.  He  married  Olive .  Chil- 
dren :  I.  John,  born  at  Concord  about  1639, 
married  (first)  .Sarah  Wheeler;  (second) 
.'^arah  Fisk.  2.  Mary,  December  26,  1640,  mar- 
ried John  Bates.  3.  Joseph.  February  20, 
1642,  mentioned  below.  4.  Olive,  married, 
October   30,    1668,   at   Chelmsford,    Benjamin 

S|)aulding.     5.  Elizabeth,  married  — W'il- 

kins, 

(\'II)  Ensign  Joseph,  son  of  Henry  Far- 
well,  was  born  in  Concord,  Massachusetts.  Feb- 
ruary 20,  T642.  He  removed  with  his  father 
to  Chelmsford.  About  1609  he  bought  the 
Waldo  farm  in  Dunstable,  Massachusetts,  part 
of  which  he  deeded  to  his  son,  Henry  Farwell, 
in  1702.  He  settled  there  in  1699.  and  was 
selectman  in  1 701 -02-05- 10,  ^"<1  highway  sur- 
veyor in  1706.  His  will  was  dated  November 
13.  171 1,  and  he  died  December  31,  1722.  He 
was  deacon  of  the  chiu'ch.      He  married,  De- 


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cembcr  25.  1666,  Hannah  Learned,  born  in 
Woburn,  August  24,  1649,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Mary  (Stearns)  Learned.  Her  father 
was  born  in  England,  son  of  William  and 
Judith  Learned,  who  came  from  England  to 
Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  in  1632.  Her 
mother  was  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Mary 
Stearns,  who  settled  in  Watertown  in  1630. 
Children:  i.  Hannah,  January  20,  1667-68. 
2.  Josc])li,  July  24,  1670,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Elizabeth.  June  9,  1672,  married,  January, 
1693.  John  Richardson.  4.  Henry,  December 
18,  1674,  married  Susannah  Richardson.  5. 
Isaac,  born  at  Chelmsford,  removed  from  Mil- 
ford  to  Mansfield,  Connecticut.  6.  Sarah, 
September  2,  1683.  7.  John,  June  15,  1686. 
8.  William,  January  21,  1688,  settled  in  Gro- 
ton,  Massachusetts.  9.  Oliver,  1689,  killed 
by  the  Indians.     10.  Olive,  November,   1692. 

(VIII)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  Far- 
well,  was  born  at  Chelmsford,  Massachusetts, 
July  24,  1670.  He  removed  to  Groton,  where 
he  died  August  21,  1740.  He  married,  at 
Chelmsford,  Hannah  Coburn.  Children,  born 
at  Chelmsford:  i.  Joseph,  August  5,  1696, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Thomas,  October  11, 
1698,  died  December  16.  1731  ;  married,  De- 
cember 24,  1723,  Elizabeth  Pierce.  Born  at 
Groton:  3.  Hannah,  May  6.  1701,  died  May 
II,  176 — .  4.  Elizabeth,  December  31,  1703. 
5.  Edward,  July  12,  1706.  6.  Mary,  February 
5,  1709.  7.  John,  June  23,  171 1.  8.  Samuel, 
January  14,   1714.     9.  Daniel,  May  20.   1717. 

married  Mary  .      10.   Sarah,  February 

26,  1 72 1. 

(IX)  Joseph  (3).  son  of  Joseph  (2)  Far- 
well,  was  born  in  Chelmsford,  Massachusetts, 
August  5,  1696.  He  married,  December  14, 
1719,  Mary  Gilson,  born  February  8,  1703, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Gilson.  He 
settled  in  Groton  and  was  elected  deacon  of 
the  church  there,  June  20,  1750.  He  served 
on  important  committees  for  the  town  in  1754 
and  1784.  He  was  a  |)rominenl  and  influential 
citizen.  Children,  born  at  Groton:  i.  Anna, 
February    20.    1721,    married,    November    11, 

1741.  Josiah  Brown.  2.  Isaac,  March  16,  1722, 
died  May  10,  1740.  3.  Joseph,  September  20, 
1725,  (lied  .August  27,  1758.  4.  Jonathan,  May 
15,  1726,  died  at  Charlestown,  New  Hamp- 
shire,   November    29.    1761  ;    married    Eunice 

.     5.  Thomas.  July  30,  T733.  mentioned 

below.  6.  Oliver,  June  24,  1735.  7.  Mary, 
September  4,   1738.     8.   Susanna.   August  8, 

1742.  married  John  Cheney,  of  Groton. 

(X)  Thomas,  son  of  Joseph   (3)    Farwell, 


was  born  at  (iroton,  Massachusetts,  July  30, 
1733,  died  February  20,  1825,  at  \\'ashington. 
New  Hampshire.  He  served  in  the  revolution 
as  sergeant  of  Captain  John  Sawtelle"s  com- 
pany. Colonel  John  Prescoit's  regiment,  April 
'9'  1775-  He  was  probably  the  Thomas  Far- 
well  who  was  lieutenant  in  Captain  Asa 
Drury's  company.  Colonel  Turner's  regiment, 
from  July  i  to  December  i,  1781,  in  Rhode 
Island.  He  settled  in  Washington,  New 
Hampshire,  and  lived  west  of  the  village  at 
the  centre  of  the  town,  not  far  from  the  house 
later  of  Jabez  Fisher.  He  was  a  good  citizen 
and  an  influential  member  of  the  church,  in 
which  he  held  the  office  of  deacon.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Davis,  who  died  February  28,  1813, 
aged  seventy  3'ears.  Children,  born  in  Gro- 
ton:  I.  Ephraim,  October  31,  1760,  died  Au- 
gust 15.  1825;  married  Annie ;  removed 

to  Washington  and  was  prominent  in  town 
afifairs.  2.  Thomas,  January  26,  1763,  died 
May  27,  1829 :  married Waite  and  re- 
sided in  Hopkinton.  New  Hampshire.  3. 
Joseph,  May  13,  1765,  resided  in  Concord, 
Massachusetts.  4.  Sarah,  January  9,  1768, 
married  William  Lawrence  and  died  in 
Nashua.  New  Hampshire.  .August  8.  1850.  5. 
Levi.  November  7.  1770.  married  Sarah  Smith  ; 
died  in  Washington,  September  14.  1858.  6. 
William.  March  26,  1780.  mentioned  below. 

(XI)  William,  son  of  Thomas  Farwell,  was 
born  in  Groton,  Massachusetts,  March  26, 
1780.  and  came  to  Washington,  New  Hamp- 
shire, with  his  father.  He  settled  in  Washing- 
ton where  James  Tubbs  afterward  resided,  but 
later  removed  to  Massachusetts.  He  removed 
from  Cambridge  to  Waltham.  Massachusetts. 
He  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  horse 
collars.  He  lived  at  Milton  and  Cambridge 
and  was  in  business  in  Boston.  He  finallj' 
returned  to  Washington,  where  he  died  De- 
cember 21.  1863.  He  married,  in  1803,  Re- 
becca Smith,  who  died  July  4.  1854.  daughter 
of  Captain  .\bijah  Smith,  of  New  Ij)swich, 
Xcw  1  lamjishire.  and  sister  of  -Sarah  Smith, 
who  married  Levi  Farwell.  William's  brother. 
Children,  born  at  Wa.shington :  i.  Juliet.  June 
10.  1S03.  married  Rev.  Cranmore  Wallace  and 
settled  in  Charleston.  South  Carolina.  2.  Re- 
becca. January  18.  1807.  died  in  Waltham. 
Massachusetts.  January  12.  1872.  3.  Emily  Oc- 
tober I.  1808.  resides  in  Waltham.  4.  William, 
December  17,  1809,  mentioned  below.  5.  Mary, 
December  9,  181 1.  married  Deacon  Daniel 
Farrar  and  died  in  Waltham.  Massachusetts, 
.\ugust   3.    1874.     6.   So]ihronia,   October  28. 


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1813.  married  John  Weston,  June  19,  1832. 
7.  Jane,  December  28,  1814,  died  lanuary  11, 
1816. 

(Xll)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (i) 
l-"ar\vell.  was  born  December  17,  i8oy,  at  Alil- 
ton,  Massachusetts.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Washington,  New  Hamp- 
shire, for  the  most  part.  He  operated  for 
many  years  a  stage  line  between  Concord  & 
Boston  and  between  Xashua  and  Lowell. 
W"hen  the  railroad  was  built  he  was  offered  a 
])osition  as  conductor  of  the  first  train,  but  he 
refused.  He  sold  his  business  to  the  railroad 
company,  but  afterward  bought  it  back,  but 
soon  sold  it  again,  and  then  operated  a  line 
from  Nashua  to  Lowell,  which  he  sold.  Then 
he  conducted  a  hack  stable  in  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts. When  he  finallj'  retired  from  busi- 
ness he  made  his  home  in  Charlestown,  re- 
moved thence  to  Somcrville,  later  to  Dor- 
chester, and  finally  in  Chicopee  Falls.  Massa- 
ciiusetts,  where  he  died  at  the  advanced  age 
of  eighty-seven  years.  He  was  a  shrewd  and. 
successful  business  man,  industrious,  enter- 
prising and  capable.  He  was  highly  esteemed 
for  his  hearty  and  genial  disposition,  his  good 
nature  and  integrity.  When  a  young  man  he 
served  in  the  state  militia  in  Concord.  New 
Hampshire.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican 
and  in  religion  a  Congregationalist.  He  mar- 
ried Charlotte  Clark,  born  about  1812,  died  at 
seventy-nine  years  of  age  in  Somerville,  Mass- 
achusetts. Children:  i.  Adelaide,  deceased; 
married  Clark  Smith,  of  P.oston :  she  was 
buried  in  Walthani.  Massachusetts.  2.  Charles 
Frederick,  born  February  11,  1846,  menticjned 
below. 

(Xni)  Charles  Frederick,  son  of  William 
C2)  Farwell,  was  born  in  Lowell,  February  11, 
1846,  and  educated  there  in  the  public  and 
high  schools  and  the  McKoy  jjrivate  school. 
In  1861  he  removed  with  his  father  to  Charles- 
town,  Boston.  In  \W^■^,  he  enlisted  in  the  civil 
war  in  the  Second  Massachusetts  Heavy  .Artil- 
lery at  the  age  of  sixteen  and  served  until  the 
end  of  the  war.  He  engaged  in  the  leather 
business  on  Atlantic  avenue,  Boston,  for  a 
number  of  years,  then  established  himself  in 
his  present  business  at  Chicopee  Falls,  with  the 
firm  of  D.  B.  Griggs  &  Sons,  dealers  in  all 
kinds  of  lumber  and  box  shooks.  They  make 
a  specialty  of  cloth  boards  and  bicycle  crates. 
Mr.  Farwell  has  been  with  this  firm  since  1893. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  belongs  to 
no  clubs  and  is  undenominational  in  religion. 
He  is  unmarried. 


The  surname  Crosby  is  of  very 
CROSBY     ancient    English    origin.      It    is 

derived  from  two  English  words 
Cross  and  By  (bury,  burghor  borough),  mean- 
ing the  town  of  the  cross.  There  are  eight 
old  towns  in  England  named  Crosby.  \\'e 
find  the  name  used  as  a  surname  from  the 
very  beginning  of  the  use  of  surnames  in  Eng- 
land. In  1204  Ode  de  Crosseby  was  constable 
of  Tikehall,  in  Yorkshire,  near  the  Notting- 
ham line,  and  as  early  as  1220  we  find  Simon 
de  Crtjsscby  in  Lancashire.  The  name  Simon 
has  continued  in  frec|uent  use  among  his  cle- 
>cen<lants  to  the  present  day,  and  he  is  un- 
doubtedly the  progenitor  of  the  American 
family.  The  Crosby  coat-of-arms  of  ancient 
but  unknown  history  is :  Per  chevron  a  sable 
and  argent  three  goats  pana,  countercharged. 

(I )  Simon  Crosby,  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
born  in  England  in  1608.  He  was  a  husband- 
man. He  sailed  from  England  in  April,  1635, 
in  the  ship  "'Susan  &  Ellen"  with  his  wife 
.•\inie,  then  aged  twenty-five  years,  and  young 
son  Thomas.  He  settled  in  Cambridge  and 
was  a  proprietor  there  as  early  as  February  8, 
1735-36.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1636 
and  was  selectman  of  the  town.  He  had  sev- 
eral grants  of  land.  His  estate  is  what  was 
known  later  as  the  Brattle  place,  having  passed 
into  the  hands  of  Rev.  William  Brattle,  and 
on  one  of  the  lots  was  erected  the  famous  old 
Brattle  House.  He  died  September,  1639,  aged 
thirty-one  years.  The  inventory  of  his  estate 
was  taken  November  15,  1645,  by  John  Bridge 
and  Richard  Jackson.  W'idow  Anne  yielded  to 
the  three  sons,  Thomas,  Simon  and  Jose])h, 
certain  portions  .September  22,  1745,  and  she 
married  (second)  Rev.  William  Thompson,  of 
Braintree.  Children:  i.  Thomas,  born  1635. 
2.  .Simon.  .August,  1637,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Joseph,  February,   1639-40. 

(II)  Simon  (2),  son  of  Simon  (i)  Crosby, 
was  born  in  .August,  1637,  in  Cambridge,  died 
there  January  22,  1725-26.  He  was  admitted 
a  freeman  in  1668;  was  deputy  to  the  general 
court  in  1692-97-98.  He  settled  in  Billerica 
near  Bare  Hill  to  the  north  and  became  a  large 
land  owner  and  prosperous  inn-keejjer  of  that 
town.  He  was  for  many  years  one  of  the 
foremost  citizens.  His  will  was  proved  in 
1725-26;  sons  Thomas  and  Josiah  executors. 
He  married.  July  15,  1659,  Rachel  Brackett, 
daughter  of  Deacon  Richard  Brackett,  of 
Braintree.  Children,  born  in  Billerica:  i. 
Rachel.  Augu.st  20,  1660,  married,  January  6, 
1685,  Stephen   Kidder,     z.  Sinmn,   1663,  mar- 


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1702-03,  Abigail  Parker.  3.  Thomas,  March 
10,  1665-66.  4.  Joseph,  July  5,  1669.  5.  Han- 
nali,  March  30,  1672,  married  Samuel  Dan- 
forth.  6.  Nathan,  February  9,  1674-75,  men- 
tioned below.  7.  Josiah,  November  11,  1677. 
8.  Mary,  November  23,  1680,  married  John 
Blanchard.  9.  Sarah,  July  27,  1684,  married, 
October  26,   1706,  Rawson. 

(HI)  Nathan,  son  of  Simon  (2)  Crosby, 
was  born  in  Billerica,  February  9,  1674-75, 
died  April  11,  1749.  He  married,  September 
28,  1706,  Sarah  Shed,  who  died  March  8, 
1746-47,  daughter  of  John  Shed,  of  Billerica. 
Children,  born  at  Billerica:  i.  Nathan,  April 
5,  1708.  2.  Rachel,  March  30,  1710,  married 
Peter  Hill.  3.  Dorothy,  April  9,  1712,  mar- 
ried Benjamin  Whiting.  4.  Catherine,  Febru- 
ary 18,  1713-14.  5.  Oliver,  January  21,  1716- 
17,  mentioned  below.  6.  Mary,  May  17,  1722, 
married  John  Parker. 

(I\  )  Oliver,  son  of  Nathan  Crosby,  was 
born  in  Billerica,  January  21,  1716-17,  died 
February  27,  1746-47.  He  married  Rebecca 
.  Children,  born  at  Billerica:  i.  Re- 
becca. April  23,  1743,  married,  April  13,  1786, 
Malachi  .Mien,  of  Carlisle.  2.  Oliver,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1744,  mentioned  below.  3.  Josiah, 
April  20,  1746. 

(V)  Lieutenant  Oliver  (2),  son  of  Oliver 
(i)  Crosby,  was  born  in  Billerica,  September 
17,  1744,  died  there  September  17,  1825.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  lived  on  the  homestead  on 
the  Boston  road.  In  .March,  1777,  he  was 
one  of  a  committee  to  recruit  soldiers  for  the 
continental  army.  He  was  town  clerk  four- 
teen years,  from  1785  to  1796,  and  in  1803-04. 
He  was  selectman  fifteen  years,  1786  to  1796, 
1800-01-03-04;  deputy  to  the  general  court 
in  1799,  1801-04.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
revolution,  lieutenant  of  the  third  Billerica 
company.  Colonel  Green's  regiment,  and 
marched  to  Lexington  on  the  alarm,  April  19, 
1775-  lis  ^^'''*'  St  the  fight  in  Concord  and 
afterwards  was  on  duty  at  Cambridge.  He 
owned  pew  41  in  the  church,  for  which  he 
paid  $120.50,  in  December,  1797.  He  served 
as  deacon  of  the  church.  He  married,  March 
17,  1768,  Rachel  Stickney,  of  T'illerica,  born 
April  I.  1746,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mary 
(Hill)  Stickney.  Her  father  was  captain  dur- 
ing the  Indians  wars.  Children:  i.  Oliver, 
born  March  17,  1769,  died  July  29,  1851  ; 
graduate  of  Harvard  College,  1795;  settled 
in  Dover,  New  Hampshire;  married  Harriet 
Chase.  2.  Michael,  May  3,  1771,  mentioned 
below.    3.  Josiah,  February  8,  1777,  died  July 


27,  1829:  married,  October  16,  1803,  Betsey 
Hartwell.  4.  Rachel,  December  25,  1779,  died 
November  12,  1795.  5.  Elizabeth,  July  30, 
1782.  married,  June  5,  1810,  John  Wheeler. 

(\'I)  Michael,  son  of  Oliver  (2)  Crosby, 
was  born  in  Billerica,  May  3.  1771,  died  at 
Bedford,  February  13,  1836.  He  received  a 
common  school  education  and  remained  at 
home  until  he  was  of  age.  He  removed  to 
Andover  soon  after  his  marriage,  and  con- 
ducted a  farm  about  six  years.  He  then  re- 
moved to  Littleton  and  jnirchased  a  farm  in 
the  south  part  of  the  town,  remaining  about 
five  years,  and  thence  going  to  Bedford  in 
1806.  He  bought  a  four  hundred  acre  farm 
in  what  was  known  as  the  Gookin  grant  in 
the  east  part  of  the  town,  the  Shawsheen  river 
dividing  it.  It  was  formerly  an  Indian  camp, 
and  relics  were  often  found  there.  He  became 
prominent  in  town  and  church.  He  was  elected 
deacon  of  the  orthodox  church  of  Bedford, 
July  15,  1817,  serving  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  \Mien  the  church  controversy  occurred 
he  was  among  those  who  adhered  to  the  Trini- 
tarian faith,  and  did  all  he  could  to  aid  the 
new  church.  He  purchased  pews,  three  on 
the  main  floor  and  one  in  Hie  gallery,  paying 
nearly  four  hundred  dollars.  It  is  said  that 
when  the  controversy  was  at  its  height,  one 
faction  confiscated  the  communion  service  one 
Saturday  night.  Deacon  Crosby  went  to  the 
village  store  and  bought  a  pitcher  and  mugs, 
from  which  communion  was  served  the  follow- 
ing morning.  I  le  was  progressive  and  public- 
spirited  and  held  in  high  esteem  by  his  towns- 
men. He  married,  March  27,  1792,  Asenath 
Blanchard.  of  P.illerica.  born  March  17,  1768. 
died  April  23,  1812,  daughter  of  Simon  and 
Rebecca  (Sheldon)  Blanchard,  of  Billerica. 
He  married  (second)  May  19,  1816,  Lucy 
Swain.  Children,  all  by  first  wife:  i.  Michael, 
born  April  29,  1793,  married,  April  29.  1816. 
Margaret  (Tufts)  Farmer.  2.  Asenath.  An- 
dover, June  6.  1794,  died  June  24,  1811.  3. 
l^'rederick,  Andover,  September  2,  1795.  4- 
Rachel,  July  15.  1797,  married.  May  21.  1818, 
Nathan  Simonds.  5.  Mary,  July  19,  1799, 
married,  November  11,  1823,  Luther  Eaton. 
6.  Loammi,  Littleton,  October  2,  1801,  mar- 
ried Rebecca  Jackson,  and  had  two  daughters: 
Rebecca,  born  1833.  married  S.  S.  Stevens  and 
had  a  son.  Holly  Stevens,  of  Boston;  Eliza, 
married  John  White.  7.  Louisa,  June  18, 
1803,  married,  September  29,  1822,  John 
Powers.  8.  George,  ^L-lrch  6.  1805,  mentioned 
below.  9.  Artemas,  Bedford.  November  27, 
1806,  died  May  27.  1814.     10.  Franklin,  Sep- 


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tember  22,  1808,  died  December  12,  1819.     11. 
Asenath,  April  23,  181 2. 

(VII)  George,  son  of  Michael  Crosby,  was 
bom  at  Littleton,  March  6,  1805,  died  at  Bos- 
ton, April  16,  1870,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five 
years,  ten  days.  He  removed  with  his  parents 
to  Bedforil.  He  had  a  common  school  educa- 
tion, and  on  the  death  of  his  father  purchased 
the  homestead  of  the  other  heirs.  He  con- 
ducted the  farm  and  the  raising  of  milk  was 
the  chief  industry.  In  1837  he  sold  his  farm 
to  his  brother  (Michael)  and  bought  an  ad- 
joining farm  in  Bedford;  he  later  bought  the 
old  Blodgett  mill  property  on  Shawsheen  river  ; 
he  sold  the  latter  in  1845  and  in  1846  bought 
the  Johnson  farm  in  Burlington ;  he  soon  sold 
this  property  to  Rev.  Frothingham,  of  Boston, 
and  the  same  year  he  bought  the  Crosby  home- 
stead farm  residing  on  the  same  for  five  years ; 
when  he  removed  to  Charlestown  and  thence 
to  Boston,  where  he  spent  the  latter  years  of 
his  life.  In  1857  he  purchased  stall  60  in 
Faneuil  Hall  Market,  and  sold  beef  and  pork 
with  David  Simonds  as  partner,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Crosby  &  Simonds.  In  i860  Mr. 
Simonds  retired  from  the  firm,  and  Mr. 
Crosby  bought  his  interests  and  admitted  his 
two  .sons,  Frank  M.  and  William  Crosby,  to 
partnership.  Two  years  later  Frank  M.  was 
succeeded  by  his  brother  William,  and  Fred- 
erick Crosby  bought  his  father's  interests.  Two 
years  later  Mr.  Crosby  retired  from  the  busi- 
ness. He  resided  on  xAllen  street,  Boston, 
until  he  died.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Bed- 
ford Congregational  Orthodox  church,  an 
active  worker  and  liberal  supporter  of  its 
benevolences.  He  was  generous  to  those  in 
need  and  he  had  many  grateful  friends  among 
the  poor  and  unfortunate.  He  was  upright 
and  honorable  in  all  his  dealings  and  never 
allowed  his  personal  gain  or  advantage  to 
deter  him  from  the  course  he  believed  to  be 
right.  He  married,  April  22,  1829,  Abigail 
Harriet  Gleason,  born  January  22,  1808,  died 
October  3,  1884,  daughter  of  William  and 
Sarah  C Bacon)  Gleason,  of  Billerica.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Frank  Michael,  born  January  9, 
1833,  mentioned  below.  2.  George,  March  5, 
1838,  mentioned  below.  3.  William,  July  6, 
1840,  died  February  u,  1880;  married,  Feb- 
ruary 22.  1866.  Florence  Wyman,  of  Arling- 
ton :  harl  William  A\'yman,  born  March  3, 
187 1,  graduate  of  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technolog)-.  4.  Frederick,  December  11,  1842, 
mentioned  below.  5.  Mary  Louise,  August  5, 
1848,  married,  January  i,  1880,  Frank  Sid- 
ney Adams,   of  Derry,   New   Hampshire.     6. 


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1875- 

(VIII)  Frank  Michael,  son  of  George 
Crosby,  was  born  at  Bedford,  January  9,  1833. 
His  education  began  in  the  little  red  school- 
house  some  three  miles  from  the  homestead. 
His  home  training  was  of  the  best.  He  began 
early  in  life  to  work  on  the  farm  and  acquired 
habits  of  economy  and  industry  that  were 
great  factors  in  his  later  career.  When  he 
came  of  age  he  engaged  in  the  milk  business 
for  a  year  at  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  then 
traveled  in  the  west  for  a  season.  On  his 
return  he  entered  the  employ  of  H.  L.  Law- 
rence &  Company,  48  Faneuil  Hall  Market, 
dealers  in  game  and  poultry.  In  i860  he 
entered  partnership  with  his  father  and  brother 
William  in  the  beef  business  at  stall  No.  60, 
Faneuil  Hall  Market,  Boston,  retiring  after 
two  years,  selling  his  interests  to  his  brother 
Frederick.  He  then  embarked  in  the  butter 
and  cheese  business  at  stalls  57  and  59  in  the 
same  historic  building  in  partnership  with 
George  C.  Nichols  and  Charles  H.  Gass  under 
the  firm  name  of  Nichols,  Gass  &  Crosby.  The 
business  was  formerly  owned  by  Howard 
Emerson.  After  two  years  ]\Ir.  Nichols  with- 
drew from  the  firm,  selling  out  to  his  partners 
and  the  firm  name  became  Gass  &  Crosby. 
The  name  was  again  changed  to  Gass,  Crosby 
&  Chapin  when  Edward  D.  Chapin  was  ad- 
mitted to  partnership.  In  1868  Messrs.  Gass 
and  Chapin  retired  and  the  business  was  con- 
tinued by  Mr.  Crosby  and  his  brother  Fred- 
erick under  the  firm  name  of  Crosby  Brothers, 
basement  No.  1 1  being  taken  in  addition  to 
the  two  stalls,  and  then  enjoyed  a  long  period 
of  great  prosperity  and  success.  When  the 
junior  partner  died  in  1899  the  business  was 
continued  by  Mr.  Crosby  alone.  The  business 
was  incorporated  January  8.  1900,  under  the 
laws  of  Massachusetts,  with  Frank  AI.  Crosby 
as  president  and  Charles  H.  Farnsworth  as 
treasurer.  The  company  is  one  of  the  most 
extensive  and  flourishing  concerns  in  this  line 
of  trade  in  Faneuil  Hall  and  has  an  enviable 
reputation  for  fair  dealing  and  wise  manage- 
ment. Mr.  Crosby  is  a  member  of  Park  Street 
Congregational  Church,  Boston.  In  politics 
he  is  a  staunch  Rejiublican.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  Lodge  of  Free  Masons ; 
of  St.  .Andrews  Cha])ter  Royal  Arch  Masons ; 
of  De  Molay  Commandery,  Knights  Templar, 
of  Boston.  He  belongs  to  the  Boston  Athletic 
Association,  the  Boston  Art  Club,  the  Metro- 
politan Driving  Club  of  Boston,  the  Gentle- 
men's Driving  Club  of  Readville,  the  Boston 


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Fruit  and  Produce  Exchange  and  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce.  He  is  popular  socially,  and  in 
business  of  sterling  character  and  attractive 
personality.  He  married,  October  17,  1866, 
Celia  B.  Burnham,  of  Hudson,  Massachusetts, 
born  July  29,  1842,  died  November  25,  1867. 
They  had  one  child,  Harry  Wallace,  born 
October  28,  1867,  died  February  7,  1877. 

(Vni)  George  (2),  son  of  George  (i) 
Crosby,  was  born  at  Bedford,  March  5,  1838. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  .A.n- 
dover,  Massachusetts,  and  at  Rev.  William 
Cushing's  private  school  at  Bedford.  During 
his  boyhood  he  worked  on  his  father's  farm 
and  later  entered  the  employ  of  Merriam  Pear, 
a  grocer  of  Boston,  as  clerk.  He  returned  to 
his  farm  for  a  year  and  a  half  and  then  was 
for  two  years  clerk  in  the  grocery  store  of 
Seavey  Brothers,  Boston.  Then  for  four  years 
he  was  receiver  for  the  Suffolk  Street  railroad, 
after  which  he  spent  a  year  in  travel  and  six 
months  as  clerk  in  a  general  store  at  DeWitt, 
Iowa.  On  his  return  he  was  .appointed  re- 
ceiver of  the  Metropolitan  Street  Railroad 
Com])any.  .A  year  later  he  went  west  again, 
buying  a  farm  at  Oconee,  Illinois,  and  con- 
ducting it  for  six  years.  He  returned  to  Bo.s- 
ton  in  the  s])ring  of  1872  and  was  appointed 
clerk  in  the  P>oston  postoffice.  .\  year  later 
he  was  appointed  letter  carrier  in  the  Charles- 
town  district,  a  position  he  still  holds.  He  is 
one  of  the  oldest  and  most  capable  men  in  the 
service.  For  the  past  eighteen  years  he  has 
resided  in  a  house  that  he  bought  at  17  Madi- 
son street,  Somerville.  He  and  his  family 
attend  the  liroadway  Congregational  Church 
of  Somerville,  of  which  he  is  an  active  mem- 
ber. His  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Winter  Hill 
Baptist  Church  of  Somerville.  He  has  been 
secretary  of  the  Sunday  school  at  Green  Val- 
ley, Oconee,  Illinois,  and  for  several  years  a 
teacher.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re])ublican.  He 
is  a  member  of  Mount  Tabor  Lodge  of  Free 
Masons,  East  Boston:  of  Warren  Council, 
Royal  .\rcanum;  of  the  Knights  of  Honor; 
the  National  Letter  Carriers'  .Association  and 
the  Boston  Letter  Carriers'  Association.  He 
married  (first)  December  25,  1866,  Mary 
Susan  Haynes.  of  Charlestown.  born  January 
12,  1841,  died  May  2,  1876,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam and  Susan  B.  (Nelson)  llaynes.  Her 
father  was  a  carpenter.  He  married  (second) 
May  19,  1879,  Clara  Rosette  Hall,  born  at 
Rockland.  ^Iaine,  July  21.  1854,  daughter  of 
John  and  Cyrcna  (Piersons)  iiall.  Her  father 
was  a  lime  burner  by  trade.    Children  of  first 


wife  I.  Harriet  Louise,  born  March  2,  1869, 
died  January  15,  1909.  2.  Florence,  February 
12,  1871,  died  September  19,  1884.  3.  Georgina, 
April  26,  1876.  Children  of  second  wife:  4. 
Howard  Hall,  March  2,  1887,  graduate  of  the 
United  States  Naval  Academy  at  .\nnapolis, 
class  of  1908.  5.  Marion  Wayland.  January 
28,  1889. 

(VIII)  Frederick,  son  of  George  (i) 
Crosby,  was  born  in  Bedford,  December  11. 
1842,  died  November  15,  1899.  He  attended 
tiic  district  schools  of  his  native  town,  the 
public  schools  of  Charlestown  after  1857  and 
Comer's  Commercial  College,  Boston.  He  was 
clerk  for  a  time  in  a  provision  store  on  Bow- 
doin  street,  Boston.  \\'hen  his  brother  Frank 
M.  went  west,  he  succeeded  to  his  position  in 
the  milk  business  and  continued  there  until 
1862,  when  he  bought  the  interests  of  his 
brother  Frank  M.  in  stall  No.  60  and  became 
a  member  of  the  firm,  engaged  in  the  beef 
trade.  In  1868  he  entered  partnership  with 
his  brother,  Frank  M.  Crosby,  in  the  produce 
trade  in  stalls  57-59.  The  basement  No.  11 
was  added  to  their  store  and  the  firm  of  Crosby 
Brothers  became  one  of  the  most  successful 
in  the  market.  He  was  a  member  of  King 
Solomon  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  Charlestown  ; 
of  St.  .Andrews  Chapter,  Royal  .Arch  Masons ; 
of  De  Molay  Commandery,  Knights  Templar, 
Boston :  of  the  Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
the  Boston  Fruit  and  Produce  E.xchange,  the 
Boston  Athletic  Club,  the  Boston  Art  Club, 
and  was  well  known  and  highly  esteemed  in 
all  these  organizations.  He  was  absolutely 
ui)right  and  square  in  all  his  dealings.  He 
was  kindly,  courteous  and  agreeable  in  his 
manner.  He  possessed  business  ability  and 
good  judgment.  He  married.  May,  1868, 
Georgina  M.  Chase,  of  Boston,  stepdaughter 
of  G.  H.  Roberts,  and  daughter  of  his  wife, 
Georgina  Chase,  by  her  first  husband.  Their 
only  child  was  Bertha  Eugenie,  born  March  2, 
1872,  married,  June  5,  1895,  Frank  E.  Derby- 
shire, of  Concord.  .Vew  Hampshire,  born 
.March  5,   1850. 

"This  surname,"  says  Mark 
MORRIS     .Anthony  Lower,  "which  is,  and 

has  been  variously  written 
Morriss.  Morres,  Morice,  Morrice,  Maurice, 
Morys,  Aloris,  Morrish,  Morse,  *  *  and 
which  is  found  associated  with  various  pre- 
fixe.s,  such  as  Fitz.  Clan,  Mount,  De,  &c..  may 
be  traced  to  various  sources."  "Of  the  Eng- 
lish families  of  that  name,"  observes  Burke, 
"there  are   two  classes,   those   of   native  and 


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those  of  foreign  extraction.  The  latter  came 
over  with  the  Con(|ueror.  Of  the  former  the 
mo.'^t  ancient  are  derived  from  Wales.  One 
section  of  the  foreign  class  had  a  Moorish 
origin,  as  indeed  the  name  expresses,  and 
crossed  over  from  Africa  to  Europe  by  way 
of  Spain.  *  *  With  respect  to  the  second 
class  of  foreign  origin,  their  name  is  stated 
to  be  a  corruption  from  Mars  or  Moors,  the 
god  of  war."  ^Jorris  is  also  the  use  of  the 
personal  name  for  a  surname,  as  is  found  in 
various  other  names.  It  is  also  possible  that 
in  some  cases  the  English  Morris  may  be  a 
corruption  of  the  French  Dumarais,  Dumaresq, 
latinized  De  Marisco.  Jonathan  Flynt  Morris, 
who  compiled  the  Morris  genealogy,  docs  not 
attempt  to  trace  the  name  of  the  family  of 
which  he  writes  to  its  origin  ;  neither  does  he 
trace  the  origin  of  the  American  family  far 
back  into  l-".ngland. 

( 1 )  Lieutenant  Edward  Morris,  the  settler, 
is  believed  to  have  been  the  son  of  Thomas 
and  Grissie  (Hewsone)  Morris,  of  Waltham 
Holy  Cross  Abbey,  in  the  county  of  Sussex, 
England,  and  was  born  in  August,  1630,  and 
baptized  on  the  eighth  day  of  the  same  month, 
in  the  .\hbcy  church,  by  Rev.  Joseph  Hall, 
rector,  afterwards  bishop  of  Norwich.  Xo 
account  of  his  emigration  to  America  or  that 
of  his  parents  is  to  be  found.  It  is  probable 
that  he  was  brought  over  by  them  in  his  early 
childhood,  and  that  they  settled  in  Roxbury, 
Massachusetts,  where  they  had  relationshiii 
with  other  families.  The  earliest  account  we 
have  of  Edward  Morris  in  .Xmerica  is  foimd 
in  the  records  of  Roxbury,  February  23,  1652, 
and  is  a  record  of  the  allotment  to  him  by  the 
town  of  four  acres  of  common  land,  which 
grant  he  subsequently  forfeited,  not  making 
the  improvements  required.  .After  his  mar- 
riage Edward  ^lorris  had  land  in  "the  high- 
way from  Elder  Heath's  pasture  lot  by  Stony 
river  and  Gamblin"s  end,"  now  Armory  and 
.School  streets.  This  locality  was  on  the  south- 
eastern border  of  Jamaica  Plain,  and  there  he 
was  living  in  1663,  when  he  was  ordered  to 
remove  his  fence  to  widen  the  highway.  Jan- 
uary 27,  1661,  he  was  made  chairman  of  a 
committee  to  act  with  selectmen  of  the  town 
in  surveying  "the  common  land  belonging  to 
the  town."  January  19,  1662,  the  town  voted 
that  "no  more  land  should  be  given  away,  but 
be  kept  for  the  town's  use,  and  Edward  Morris 
to  have  an  eye  that  the  common  be  not  dammi- 
field,  and  for  his  services  in  informing  the 
town  of  the  bounds  of  their  common  they  give 
him  fifteen  shillings,  and  that  he  should  have 


half  the  ])ines  for  the  year  for  his  care  of  the 
preservation  of  the  common," — that  is,  Jamaica 
Plain,  i  le  was  chosen  one  of  the  constables  of 
the  town,  January  2,  1(164.  .\fterward  he 
]jerformed  various  duties,  viewing  fences,  run- 
ning lines,  &c,  October  13,  1666,  William 
Hubbard,  of  Ipswich,  sold  to  Isaac  Johnson 
Senior,  William  Davis,  and  Edward  Morris, 
one  hundred  and  eighteen  acres  of  land  in  the 
western  |)art  of  Roxbury,  described  in  the 
deed  as  "the  13th  lot  of  the  .second  allotment 
of  lots  in  the  last  or  second  division  of  land." 
This  purchase  was  equally  divided  among  the 
purchasers.  Edward  Morris's  part  lay  on 
what  is  now  "South  Street,"  about  four  miles 
from  Roxbury  meeting  house.  To  that  land 
he  removed,  and  upon  it  he  lived  until  he  went 
to  Woodstock  in  1686.  He  was  chosen  select- 
man of  the  town  at  "a  full  town  meeting,"  held 
January  11,  1674,  and  was  afterwards  cho.sen 
to  that  office  as  long  as  he  lived  in  Roxbury — a 
period  of  twelve  years,  with  perhaps  the  ex- 
ception of  the  year  1680.  He  had  for  his 
associates  four  other  leading  men  of  the  town; 
but  no  one  of  them  during  this  period  was  so 
long  continued  in  office.  In  1674  he  also  served 
as  juror  to  the  court  of  assistants.  In  1676 
he  was  appointed  one  of  three  trustees  for  the 
high  school  at  Jamaica  Plain,  and  in  1678  he 
was  chosen  deputy  from  Roxbury  to  the  gen- 
eral court,  and  was  thereafter  annually  chosen 
imtil  the  vacation  of  the  colonial  charter  in 
1686,  a  period  of  nine  years.  In  1686  Edward 
Morris  was  one  of  the  comjiany  which  went 
out  from  Roxbury  into  the  "Wappaquassett 
Country,  westward  of  the  Myankesit  River," 
and  formed  the  new  settlement  of  New  Rox- 
bury. now  Woodstock.  There  Edward  Morris 
drew  lot  No.  37,  containing  thirty  acres.  The 
same  day  there  was  granted  Mr.  Edward 
Morris  a  twenty-acre  lot.  November  3  he 
was  one  of  three  ciders  api)ointed  "to  treat 
young  Mr.  John  Wilson  of  Medfield  to  come 
and  preach  to  them  with  a  view  to  settlement." 
and  April  29,  1687,  he  was  one  of  three 
appointed  "to  treat  and  agree  for  the  building 
of  a  corn-mill."  In  1688  he  was  a])[)ointed 
chairman  of  a  committee  of  seven  to  lay  out 
such  highways  as  might  be  considered  then 
necessary  or  needful  in  the  future  for  the 
good  of  the  town.  The  committee  reported 
seventeen  highways  :  their  report  was  accepted 
and  the  highways  laid  out  and  constructed. 
In  1689  Edward  Morris  was  chosen  select- 
man. L'p  to  that  time  he  had  been  mentioned 
in  the  record>s  as  "Mr."  Morris:  but  from  that 
time  forward  lie  was  known  as  "I.ienteuant." 


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In  1690  he  was  chairman  of  a  committee 
chosen  to  get  a  confirmation  of  the  grant  of 
lands  and  to  obtain  a  change  of  name  of  the 
town,  both  of  which  were  secured.  He  was 
chosen  to  the  office  of  selectman  for  the  last 
time  JMay  26,  1690,  and  died  in  September  of 
the  same  year.  The  stone  marking  his  grave 
is  still  standing.  Me  is  believed  to  have  been 
the  first  of  the  Woodstock  settlers  to  die  and 
his  death  is  the  first  mentioned  in  the  records, 
lie  was  the  oldest  of  the  settlers  in  the  town, 
and  for  many  years  a  leading  citizen.  Edward 
Morris  was  married  to  Grace  Belt,  November 
20,  1655,  by  Richard  Bellingham,  deputy  gov- 
ernor. She  died  in  Roxbury,  June  6,  1705. 
Edward  Morris  was  admitted  to  the  church 
in  Roxbury,  September  12,  1658.  His  wife 
was  admitted  May  22,  1659.  Their  children 
were:  Isaac,  Edward,  Grace,  Ebenezer,  Eliz- 
abeth, Margaret,  Samuel  and  Martha. 

(II)  Deacon  Edward  (2),  second  son  of 
Lieutenant  Edward  (i)  and  Grace  (Rett) 
Morris,  was  born  March,  1659,  and  baptized 
at  Roxbury  by  Rev.  John  Eliot,  March  13, 
1659.  He  did  not  remove  to  Woodstock 
until  after  the  death  of  his  father;  but 
soon  after  his  settlement  in  the  town  he 
seems  to  have  taken  his  father's  place  in  public 
affairs.  He  was  chosen  selectman,  November, 
1691,  and  appears  to  have  held  that  office  most 
of  the  time  thereafter  until  1722,  having  been 
chosen  twenty-four  times.  In  1707  he  and 
Benjamin  Griggs  were  appointed  on  behalf  of 
the  town  of  Woodstock  to  act  with  the  sur- 
veyor in  surveying  and  dividing  into  lots  the 
north  half  of  the  town  of  Woodstock  which 
until  then  had  not  been  surveyed.  After  the 
completion  of  the  survey  that  part  of  the  town 
owned  by  Roxbury  was  divided  into  ranges 
and  lots,'  and  the  lots  ofifered  for  sale.  Ed- 
ward Morris  was  appointed  by  Roxbury  to 
receive  the  money  ])aid  for  the  sale  of  the 
lots,  and  he  was  a  purchaser  of  some  of  them. 
In  1 69 1  the  town  appointed  Edward  Morris, 
Jonathan  Peake,  John  Levens  and  John  Chand- 
ler Jr.  a  committee  to  superintend  the  build- 
ing of  a  meeting  house.  Subsequently  (1705) 
he  was  appointed  fourth  deacon  of  the  church. 
He  had  joined  the  Roxbury  church,  May  i. 
1691,  about  the  time  of  his  removal  to  Wood- 
stock. In  1723  Deacon  Morris  was  appointed 
"to  look  after  the  meeting  house,  to  see  that 
it  be  swept,  and  to  keep  the  key,  and  take 
care  of  the  cushing  for  twenty  shillings  a 
year."  He  was  jirobably  chosen  for  this  pur- 
pose for  the  reason  that  his  home  was  nearest 
the  meeting  house,  being  a  few  rods  south  of 


it.  These  duties  were  in  those  days  held  in  no 
little  esteem  or  importance.  Deacon  Morris 
died  August  29,  1727,  aged  sixty-nine.  A  year 
before  his  death  he  settled  his  estate  by  deed 
and  gift,  with  the  exception  of  some  of  his 
lands.  He  married.  May  24,  1683,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Johnson) 
Bowen,  of  Roxbury,  a  descendant  of  Griffith 
Bo  wen  or  .\p  Owen,  who  came  to  Boston 
from  Llanganydd  in  Glamorganshire,  Wales, 
and  who  was  made  a  freeman  in  1638.  He 
lived  some  years  in  Roxbury,  but  returned  to 
England  and  was  living  in  London  in  1670. 
Elizabeth  Johnson  was  daughter  of  Captain 
Isaac  Johnson,  of  Roxbury,  who  came  with 
his  father  to  this  country  in  1630,  and  was 
killed  by  the  Indians  at  the  head  of  his  com- 
pany while  storming  their  stronghold  in  the 
great  Xarragansett  fight.  December  19,  1675, 
Captain  John  Johnson,  father  of  Isaac,  came 
over  with  Winthrop  in  July,  1630,  with  his 
wife  Alargery.  He  was  a  man  of  estate  and 
distinction.  He  was  a  representative  from 
Roxbury  to  the  first  general  court  in  1634, 
was  a  member  of  the  Artillery  Company  in 
1638,  and  surveyor  general  of  arms  and 
ammunition.  He  died  September  27,  1659. 
Elizabeth  Bowen  was  born  in  Roxbury,  Janu- 
ary 26,  1661,  and  baptized  the  next  day.  She 
joined  the  church  October  28,  1688.  She  sur- 
vived her  husband  sixteen  years,  and  died  No- 
vember 20,  1743,  aged  eighty-three.  Their 
children  were:  Elizabeth  (died  young).  Eliz- 
abeth, Edward,  Grace,  Abigail,  Susanna  and 
Prudence. 

(Ill)  Lieutenant  Edward  (3),  only  son  of 
Deacon.  Edward  (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Bowen) 
Morris,  was  born  at  Roxbury,  November  9, 
1688,  and  baptized  by  Rev.  Nehemiah  Walter. 
He  died  in  West  Woodstock,  Connecticut,  Au- 
gust 12,  1769.  He  was  chosen  surveyor  of 
Woodstock  in  1718,  constable  in  1721,  and 
assessor  for  the  years  1738  and  1739.  In  the 
latter  year  he  was  chosen  selectman,  and 
annually  tliereafter  until  1748.  He  lived  with 
his  father  until  the  death  of  the  latter  in  1727, 
and  continued  to  occupy  the  old  homestead 
until  l-'ebruary  22.  1732.  when  he  sold  the 
[ilace  to  Josepli  W'right  for  the  sum  of  £1300. 
The  homestead  was  the  spot  where  his  grand- 
father settled  in  the  beginning  of  the  settle- 
ment in  1686.  and  was  originally  of  thirty 
acres.  It  had  now  become  one  hundred  acres 
through  additions  made  by  his  grandfather, 
his  father,  and  himself.  Immediately  after 
his  purchase  Mr.  Wright  conveyed  the  prop- 
erty to  John  Chan<llcr,  but  continued  to  occupy 


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it.  The  mansion  house  was  burned  a  few 
years  afterward — March  16,  1737,  at  night — 
with  the  furniture  and  provisions  which  it 
contained,  and  Mrs.  Wright,  her  son,  and  a 
negro  servant  perished  in  it.  The  same  day 
on  which  Edward  Morris  sold  the  homestead 
he  bought  for  ii,ioo  a  mansion  house  and 
forty-nine  acres  of  land  adjoining  on  the  east. 
Mere  he  lived  until  February  i,  1748,  when 
he  sold  the  place  with  several  other  parcels 
of  land  containing  in  all  about  one  hundred 
acres,  and  removed  to  West  Woodstock,  and 
settled  about  one  and  one  half  miles  west  of 
the  village  between  Bungee  brook  and  Still 
river,  where  he  had  long  been  in  possession  of 
land — some  two  hundred  acres — half  of  which 
bad  once  been  his  father's.  West  Woodstock 
had  been  made  a  distinct  parish  in  1743.  under 
the  name  of  New  Roxbury.  After  his  re- 
moval there  he  became  active  in  its  affairs. 
April  21,  1745.  it  was  "voted,  that  Edward 
Morris  with  his  wife  and  family  sit  in  the 
pew  which  was  his  fathers."  In  Xoveniber. 
1739.  he  was  appointed  by  the  town  on  a  com- 
mittee of  three  to  act  as  agents  for  and  in 
behalf  of  the  town  to  attend  and  wait  upon 
the  commissioners  appointed  by  the  general 
court  of  the  province  of  Massachusetts  Bay 
and  the  colony  of  Connecticut  to  settle  the 
bounds  of  Woodstock.  September  12,  1749, 
the  town  voted  to  secede  from  Massachusetts 
and  to  go  under  the  jurisdiction  of  Connec- 
ticut. The  freeman's  oath  was  administered 
to  seventy-four  persons,  among  whom  was 
Edward  Alorris.  He  died  and  was  buried  in 
the  cemetery  on  the  west  side  of  Bungee  hill 
in  U'est  \\'oodstock.  His  will  dated  May  26, 
1669.  was  probated  at  Pomfret,  May  i,  1770. 
His  son  Jonathan  was  executor.  Edward 
Morris  was  married  by  John  Chandler  Esq.. 
January  12,  17 15,  to  Bethiah  Peake,  daughter 
of  Jonathan  Peake  Jr.,  and  Hannah  (Eeavens) 
Peake,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Christo- 
pher Peake,  who  was  made  freeman  at  Rox- 
bury. March  4.  1635.  She  was  born  in  Wood- 
stock, February  20.  1698.  Her  father  was  one 
of  the  early  settlers  of  Woodstock  under  the 
grant  of  1683.  Hannah  Leavens  was  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Hannah  (Woods)  Leavens, 
of  Roxbury.  She  was  born  October  17,  1666, 
and  died  at  Woodstock,  October  10,  1756. 
John  Leavens  was  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
Leavens,  who  came  from  England  in  i'')32  in 
the  "William  and  Francis,"  and  settlerl  at 
Roxbury.  His  wife  died  and  was  buried  Octo- 
ber 10,  1638.  He  married  (second)  Rachel 
Wright,    "a   goodly   maid,"    says    the    church 


record.  He  died  Xovcmber  15,  1646.  John 
Leavens  Jr.  was  born  April  27,  1640.  He 
married  Hannah,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
\\'oods,  of  Sudbury,  who  probably  came  from 
ICngland  in  the  "HopewcU"  in  1635.  Edward 
Morris's  wife  survived  him,  but  how  long,  or 
when  or  where  she  died  is  not  known.  Their 
fourteer.  children  were:  Elizalicth,  Hannah 
(died  young),  Edward,  Grace,  Bethiah,  Isaac, 
Asa,  Eunice,  Alartha,  Alary,  Jonathan,  Pris- 
cilla,  Dorothy  and  Hannah. 

(1\')  Lsaac,  second  son  of  Lieutenant  Ed- 
ward (3)  and  Bethiah  f  Peake)  Morris,  was 
horn  on  Woodstock  hill.  March  26,  1725,  died 
January  10,  1778.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  at 
the  time  of  his  marriage  he  lived  at  New  Rox- 
bury, afterwards  West  Woodstock,  to  which 
parish  his  father  had  removed  early  in  the 
year  1748.  Alarch  8  of  that  year  his  father 
gave  him  a  deed  to  one  hundred  acres  of  land 
in  that  parish,  being  a  part  of  what  was  then 
his  homestead.  The  consideration  was  £400 
old  tenor,  and  was  to  be  accounted  as  part  of 
his  portion  of  his  father's  estate.  He  had 
other  land  also.  The  one  hundred  acres  sub- 
sequently appear  as  part  of  his  father's  estate, 
and  was  deeded  to  his  brother  Jonathan.  He 
probably  reconveyed  it  to  his  father  on  his 
removal  from  Woodstock,  Massachusetts, 
1761.  ^^'hile  in  Woodstock,  Isaac  Morris  took 
considerable  interest  in  public  affairs  and  held 
several  parish  offices.  The  locality  to  which 
he  removed  was  an  unorganized  district  not 
belonging  to  any  town,  and  known  as  "Wales." 
which  after  the  organization  of  Wilbraham 
was  annexed  to  that  town.  The  sjjot  where 
he  settled  was  in  the  extreme  southeastern 
part  of  "Wales."  The  probable  cause  of  his 
settlement  was  that  his  wife  might  be  near  her 
mother,  then  a  widow,  who  with  her  husband, 
Joseph  Chaffee,  had  removed  to  this  section 
about  1754.  Joseph  Chaffee  died  in  1760. 
Two  deeds  from  Widow  Hannah  Chaffee  and 
Jose])h  Chaffee,  administrators  of  the  estate  of 
Joseph  Chaffee,  deceased,  dated  August  18, 
1761.  convey  to  Isaac  Morris  ninety-two  acres 
of  land.  He  subsequently  bought  other  land. 
The  spot  where  he  settled  was  a  romantic  one 
at  the  base  of  Rattlesnake  and  Sheep  moun- 
tains, overlooking  the  Scantic  valley  to  Pine 
I'.all  and  South  mountains  on  the  west,  at  the 
foot  of  which  lay  the  farm  of  liis  father-in- 
law.  Isaac  Alorris  was  married  in  1748,  his 
intention  of  marriage  with  .Sarah  Chaffee,  of 
Woodstock,  being  published  October  18,  of 
that  year.  She  was  the  only  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Hannah  (May)  Chaffee,  formerly 


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of  Barrington,  Alassachusetts,  and  was  born 
there  January  i8,  1729.  Joseph  Chaffee  was 
born  in  Swansea,  Massachusetts,  January  17, 
1705.  He  was  a  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
(  Hills)  Chaffee,  and  grandson  of  Josejih  and 
Anne  (  Martin )  Chaft'ee  ;  Joseph  Chaffee  being 
the  son  of  Thomas  Chaffee,  who  settled  in 
I  lingham  in  1637, and  who  removed  to  Swansea 
in  1660.  He  was  living  in  1680.  Joseph 
Chaffee  married  Hannah  May,  daughter  of 
Ejjhraim  May,  of  Rehoboth,  son  of  John  May, 
of  Roxbury,  and  grandson  of  John  May,  of 
Mayfield,  county  of  Essex,  England  ;  born  in 
i3c;o,  and  came  to  New  England  in  1640.  and 
settled  at  Roxbury.  In  1729  Joseph  Chaffee 
removed  from  Barrington  to  ^\'oodstocl<,  and 
settled  in  the  West  Parish.  While  living  there  he 
filled  several  parish  offices.  He  was  an  extensive 
landholder.  He  died  of  small  pox,  March  15, 
1760.  To  him  were  born  ten  children.  His 
widow  married  (second)  Ensign  Joseph  Sex- 
ton, and  died  May  26,  1784,  in  her  eightieth 
year.  Sarah  (Chaft'ee)  JNIorris  after  a  widow- 
liood  of  twenty-six  years  married  (second) 
September  10,  1804,  Hon.  John  Bliss,  whom 
she  survived,  and  died  April  27,  1818,  aged 
eighty-nine.  She  was  a  tall,  fine  looking 
woman,  of  dark  complexion,  hair  and  eyes, 
jirobably  the  features  of  the  Chaffee,  and 
Ijcrliaps  of  the  ]\Iay  family.  The  descendants 
of  Isaac  Morris  of  this  complexion  derive  it 
from  her.  She  joined  the  West  Woodstock 
church,  April  30,  1750.  The  children  of  Isaac 
and  Sarah  were :  Hannah.  Darius,  Isaac, 
Joseph,  Edward,  Elizabeth  (died  young), 
Sarah,  Emiice,  Chester,  Ebenezer,  Elizabeth 
and  Ephraim. 

(V)  Edward  (4),  fourth  son  of  Isaac  and 
Sarah  (Chafl'ee)  Alorris,  was  Ijorn  in  Wood- 
stock. Connecticut.  December  12,  1756,  died 
in  Wilbraham,  Massachusetts,  .\])ril  29,  i8ox. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  lived  on  the  Bliss  home- 
stead in  South  Wilbraham.  He  served  in  the 
revolutionary  war  principally  in  the  army  of 
Canada.  He  and  his  brother  Joseph  were  in 
the  army  on  its  retreat  from  Quebec  mider 
General  Thomas  in  1776.  For  three  days, 
during  the  passage  over  the  lake,  the  only  food 
which  Edward  Morris  had  was  a  bit  of  pork 
as  large  as  one  of  his  fingers,  which  he  found 
in  the  bottom  of  a  boat.  Joseph  was  one  of 
the  sick,  and  died  at  Fort  George  .\ugust  10. 
The  evening  that  Joseph  died  Edward  left  the 
cami)  for  the  purpose  of  getting  some  milk  for 
his  l)rother.  Night  had  fallen  before  he  re- 
turned. On  his  return  to  (|uarters  he  stumbloil 
over  the  body  of  a  man  lying  on  the  ground  ; 


entering  the  tent,  he  found  Joseph  was  not 
tliere ;  taking  a  light,  he  went  in  search  of  him, 
and  found  that  the  body  over  which  he  had 
stumbled  was  that  of  his  brother,  who  was 
(lead.  After  his  marriage  Edward  Morris 
took  u])  his  residence  with  Colonel  Bliss,  his 
father-in-law,  who  had  no  son  living,  and  had 
charge  of  his  farm.  Colonel  Bliss  being  en- 
gaged in  ]niblic  business,  and  being  away  much 
of  the  time.  Mr.  Morris  held  several  offices 
in  Wilbraham,  being  constable,  warden,  high- 
way surveyor,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
coroner.  He  and  his  wife  were  members  of 
the  Congregational  church  in  South  Wilbra- 
ham. He  married,  March  28,  1782,  Lucy, 
daughter  of  Hon.  John  lUiss,  of  ^^'ilbraham, 
a  descendant  of  Thomas  and  Margaret  Bliss, 
of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  1639  (see  Bliss 
\  II).  She  survived  her  husband  thirty-five 
years,  and  died  April  15,  1836.  Children: 
Oliver  Bliss,  Edward,  Isaac,  John  Bliss,  Lucy, 
.Abby,  Thirza,  Richard  Darius.  Lydia  and  Ed- 
ward Alonzo. 

(  \"I  )  Judge  Oliver  Bliss,  eldest  child  nf  I'.d- 
ward  (4)  and  Lucy  (Bliss)  Morris,  was  born 
at  the  Bliss-Morris  homestead  in  South  W'il- 
braham,  September  22,  1782,  died  in  Spring- 
field, April  9,  1S71.  He  fitted  for  college  under 
Rev.  Moses  Warren,  of  South  Wilbraham, 
who  had  married  Lydia  Bliss,  his  mother's 
sister.  He  entered  \\'illiams  College  in  1797. 
at  the  age  of  fifteen,  making  his  journey 
thither  on  horseback.  He  graduated  in  1801. 
He  studied  law  in  S])ringfield  with  Hon.  George 
Bliss,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Hamp- 
shire county  in  1804.  He  entered  upon  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Springfield,  which 
became  large  and  profitable.  He  was  intensely 
interested  in  the  cause  of  his  clients,  and 
labored  for  them  with  imjndsive  eft'orts.  In 
1 81 2.  after  the  formation  of  Hampden  county 
from  Hampshire,  he  was  appointed  prosecut- 
ing attorney,  and  held  that  office  again  from 
1 82 1  to  1832.  In  1813  he  was  appointed  regis- 
ter of  the  court  of  proliate,  and  held  that  office 
until  1829.  when  on  the  death  of  Judge  John 
Hooker  of  that  court,  he  was  appointed  his 
successor.  lie  held  this  office  until  1838 — 
twenty-nine  years — when  the  court  was  re- 
organized. He  represented  Springfield  in  the 
legislature  in  1809-10-1 1-13.  In  1820  he  was 
a  delegate  in  the  convention  called  to  revise  the 
constitution  of  the  state.  He  was  a  Federalist 
until  the  Federal  jiarty  gave  place  to  the  Whig, 
and  thenceforward  he  was  a  \Miig.  In  jwli- 
ticai  matters  he  had  very  decided  views.  He 
was   naturallv   an   anli-sJaverv   man.   although 


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not  an  abolitionist.  When  a  boy  ho  luul  wit- 
nessed a  conflict  between  his  father  and  tlie 
pursuers  of  two  runaway  slaves  from  Con- 
necticut, who  had  sought  refuge  in  his  father's 
house,  and  in  which  bis  father  received  a  seri- 
ous injury.  On  the  passage  of  the  fugitive- 
slave  law  in  1850,  be  did  not  hesitate  to  de- 
nounce it  and  openly  declared  his  purpose  of 
protecting,  with  all  his  power  and  influence, 
any  slave  who  should  appeal  to  him  for  aid. 
He  was  an  advocate  of  the  benevolent  causes 
of  his  time:  especially  those  of  the  Bible  and 
missions.  When  the  temperance  refomiation 
took  its  rise,  about  1826,  under  the  lead  of 
Dr.  Hewit  and  others,  and  spread  rapidly 
through  Connecticut  and  Alassachusetts, 
awakening  in  its  progress  the  consciences  of 
large  numbers  of  people  in  regard  to  the  pre- 
vailing social  custom  in  the  u.se  of  intoxicat- 
ing drinks,  be  at  once  threw  himself  into  the 
cause  with  the  greatest  possible  zeal,  publicly 
advocating  and  speaking  for  it  in  Springfield 
and  the  neighboring  towns.  His  habits  of 
life  were  sinijilc  and  democratic,  and  he  ab- 
horred show  and  ostentation.  Me  was  ex- 
ceedingly social  and  fond  of  comjiany.  and 
thoroughly  enjoyed  the  society  of  a  few 
friends  wdio  were  accustomed  to  assemble  fre- 
quently at  his  house ;  generally  on  Sunday 
evenings :  keeping  up.  as  he  did,  the  time- 
honored  Xew  England  custom  of  observing 
.'^aturday  evening  as  holy  time.  He  was  fond 
of  historical  study,  especially  that  of  local  his- 
tory and  genealogy.  He  delivered  the  address 
on  the  occasion  of  the  celebration  of  the  two 
Iiundredtb  anniversary  of  the  settlement  of 
Springfield.  May  24,  1836.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  and 
also  of  the  Xew  England  Historic-Genealogi- 
cal Society.  He  had  treasured  in  his  memory 
a  vast  number  of  historical  facts  relating  to 
family  history.  He  often  interested  and 
astonished  people  with  his  knowledge  of  their 
ancestral  lines.  He  was  accustomed  to  say : 
"In  my  youth  I  saw  an  aged  man  wdio  remem- 
bered seeing  persons  who  came  over  in  the 
Mayflower."  He  loved  and  revered  the  good 
which  had  come  down  from  the  past.  He 
disliked  innovation  on  many  old  cust(jms.  and 
new  ones  had  little  control  over  him.  It  has 
been  written:  "The  qualifications  of  Judge 
Morris  as  a  public  speaker  are  admitted  by 
all  who  ever  beard  him.  He  had  a  fine  physi- 
que, a  good  voice,  a  nervous  impetuosity  of 
expression  when  in  his  prime,  and  an  unbend- 
ing pertinacity  wiiich  carried  an  audience  with 
him.     When  distinguished  men  visited  Spring- 


field the  judge  was  c|uile  apt  tci  lie  selected  for 
the  speech  of  welcome.  1  le  introduced  John 
Ouincy  Adams  to  the  people  in  the  First 
church,  and  was  also  chosen  to  welcome  Henry 
Clay  at  the  ovation  given  him  at  the  old  town 
hall.  He  was  a  well  read  man,  and  in  his  age 
was  very  fond  of  going  over  his  Virgil  and 
repeating  Greek.  With  all  his  solid  study, 
too,  he  had  time  to  take  in  all  the  current  fic- 
tion which  he  devoured  with  the  greatest  eager- 
ness. His  taste  for  the  classics,  together  with 
an  e.Ktensive  vocabulary  and  ready  diction, 
contributed  to  the  graces  of  his  oratory,  which 
was  so  famous  in  those  days."  Oliver  B. 
Morris  married,  September  15,  1813,  Caro- 
line, daughter  of  lion.  George  and  Hannah 
(Clark)  Bliss,  of  Springfield.  (See  Bliss 
VII).  She  was  born  in  Springfield,  December 
28,  1791,  and  died  February  9,  1842.  Shew-as  a 
woman  of  most  amiable  and  estimable  character 
and  greatly  beloved  by  all  who  knew  her. 
Children :  Henry,  and  George  Bliss,  next 
mentioned. 

(Nil)  George  Bliss,  second  son  of  Hon. 
( Jliver  F>liss  and  Caroline  (Bliss)  Morris,  was 
born  in  Springfield,  November  12,  1818,  died 
July  7,  1872.  He  was  prejiared  for  college  in 
Springfield  and  graduated  from  Amherst  Col- 
lege in  1837.  He  afterward  studied  law  with 
bis  brother,  graduated  from  the  Cambridge 
Law  School,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1840.  After  that  time  he  practiced  law  in 
])artnershi]3  with  his  brother  or  separately 
until  1853,  when  he  was  appointed  clerk  of 
tlie  courts  /to  tcnil'orc  on  account  of  the  ill 
health  of  the  clerk,  Richard  Bliss.  ( )u  the 
resignation  of  Mr.  Bliss,  a  few  months  later, 
Mr.  Morris  was  appointed  by  the  supreme 
court  to  hold  the  office  for  life.  In  1856  the 
office  was  made  elective,  and  Mr.  Morris  was 
chosen  by  popular  election  to  fill  it.  He  was 
three  limes  re-elected,  and  in  1 871  was  elected 
fnr  another  term  of  five  years.  For  a  year 
or  two  before  his  death  his  health  was  not 
good,  although  lie  was  able  until  the  last 
months  before  his  demise  to  attend  most  of 
the  time  to  his  official  duties,  .\bout  the  \^- 
ginnitig  of  1872  be  became  a  victim  of  f|uick 
consumi)tioii.  but  so  lately  as  Wednesday  be- 
fore his  death  on  Sunday  he  was  able  to  re- 
turn from  Bran  ford,  Connecticut,  where  he 
had  spent  a  week  in  the  hope  of  benefit  from 
the  sea  air.  While  eating  breakfast  he  was 
attacked  by  hemorrhage  from  the  lungs,  and 
in  five  minutes  he  was  dead.  His  courtesy 
and  efficiency  in  the  transaction  of  the  business 
of  the  office  made  liim  popular  alike  with  the 


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bar  and  the  ]jcople,  and  his  death  was  the 
county's  loss  of  a  faithful  officer.  Mr.  Morris 
married,  August  23,  1842.  Elizabeth  Lathrop, 
born  in  South  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  April 
28,  1821,  died  in  Springfield,  November  8, 
1894,  daughter  of  Wells  and  Catherine  (Bon- 
tecou)  Lathrop  (see  Lathrop).  Children: 
George  Bliss,  Robert  Oliver  and  Caroline. 
George  Bliss,  born  November  3,  1843,  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  College  in  1864,  studied 
law  at  Cambridge  Law  School,  was  admitted 
to  the  HamjKlen  bar  in  1867,  and  very  soon 
after  removed  to  New  York  City,  where  he 
has  since  practised  his  profession.  Caroline, 
born  September  18,  1848,  married  Thomas 
W.  Fitch  and  resides  in  Summit,  New  Jersey. 
(\'HI)  Robert  Oliver,  second  son  of  George 
Bliss  and  Elizabeth  (Lathrop)  Morris,  was 
born  in  Springfield,  October  18,  1846.  He 
received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Springfield,  and  at  the  age  of  six- 
teen was  sent  to  Wilbraham  Academy.  Dur- 
ing the  second  year  of  his  course  his  health 
became  impaired,  and  after  finishing  the  term 
he  withdrew  from  school  life  and  his  educa- 
tion was  subsequently  carried  on  at  home 
under  a  tutor.  All  through  his  early  manhood 
his  health  was  delicate,  but  at  the  age  of 
twenty  he  had  regained  some  of  his  former 
vigor  and  went  to  Boston  where  he  entered  a 
wholesale  house  as  clerk.  Here  he  remained 
six  months.  He  returned  liome  and  studied 
law  under  his  father's  direction,  with  the 
object  of  being  admitted  to  the  bar,  continuing 
until  the  death  of  his  father,  in  1872.  During 
his  father's  illness  he  acted  as  clerk  of  the 
courts,  pro  tempore,  and  afterward  he  was 
appointed  to  the  vacant  place  by  the  supreme 
court.  He  had  been  admitted  to  the  Hani])- 
den  county  bar  and  at  tlie  next  election  he 
was  chosen  to  the  office.  Although  Mr.  Morris 
is  a  Re[)ublican.  he  has  never  failed  of  nomi- 
nation by  both  Democratic  and  Republican 
parties  ever  since  he  took  the  office,  which  he 
has  now  (1909)  held  thirty-seven  years  con- 
secutively. His  business  (|ualifications  have 
caused  him  to  be  called  to  fill  various  positions 
where  a  man  of  ability  and  principle  was 
needed.  In  1877  he  became  a  trustee  of  the 
F"ive  Cents  Savings  Bank,  and  still  retains  the 
])osition  ;  in  1888  lie  was  elected  vice-president 
and  held  that  position  nine  years,  until  1897, 
when  he  was  made  president  of  the  bank,  a 
position  which  he  still  holds.  He  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  City  Library  .Association,  and 
chairman  of  the  Board  of  .Sinking  Fund  Com- 
missioners of   .'-ipringfield,   and   has  served  as 


park  commissioner.  He  is  a  member  of  Ros- 
well  Lee  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
Morning  Star  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons, 
and  Springfield  Commandery,  Knights  Temp- 
lar, the  Nayasset  and  the  Winthrop  clubs.  He 
is  a  man  whose  urbanity  and  perfect  self- 
command  under  all  circumstances  have  made 
him  a  large  and  ever-widening  circle  of  friends. 
He  is  a  studious,  cultured  gentleman,  an 
enthusiastic  ornithologist,  and  has  a  good 
scientific  library.  He  has  written  numerous 
articles  relating  to  ornithology.  In  1901  he 
published  a  volume  entitled  "The  Birds  of 
Springfield  and  \"icinity."  During  his  long 
association  with  lawyers  he  has  collected  a 
large  (juantity  of  biogra|)hical  matter,  which 
he  contem]ilates  publishing  in  book  form.  He 
is  an  enthusiastic  sportsman  and  is  as  fond 
of  gardening  as  he  is  of  hunting.  Mr.  ]\Iorris 
enjoys  travel  and  has  visited  South  America, 
the  West  Indies,  and  Newfoundland,  and 
made'  a  trip  on  horseback  through  the  Rocky 
Mountains.  While  visiting  the  firstnamed 
countries  he  was  accom])anied  by  ^Irs.  Morris. 
Robert  O.  Morris  married,  November  27. 
1872,  Lizzie,  daughter  of  (ieorge  and  Pamelia 
(Ball)  Cadwell,  of  Springfield. 

(The  Bontecou   Line). 

This  name  is  of  Dutch  or  Flemish  origin, 
and  was  first  spelled  Bontekoe  ( pronounced 
I'.on-te-koo),  and  is  undoubtedly  derived  from 
a  symbolic  representative  of  a  brindled  or 
spotted  cow,  used  by  some  remote  ancestor  as 
his  business  or  house  sign.  An  instance  of 
this  kind  is  found  recorded  in  Rose's  Bio- 
graphical Dictionary,  which  states  that  Cor- 
nelius \'an  Bontekoe,  a  physician,  the  son  of 
a  burglier  of  .\lcmaer,  whose  name  was 
(Johan)  Gerard  Decker,  but  who  obtained  the 
name  of  ISontekoe  from  his  having  appended 
to  his  house  the  sign  of  a  cow  of  many  colors. 
The  hamlet  of  Bontecou  Mountain  in  Ulster 
county.  New  York,  derives  its  name  from  a 
Dutch  tavern  of  early  times  called  Bontekau 
(pronounced  Bontecoo)  from  its  sign,  which 
re])resented  a  brindled  cow.  The  earliest 
known  member  of  the  family  is  \\'illiam 
Isbrant  I'lontekoe.  a  Dutch  navigator,  who  lived 
in  the  early  jiart  of  the  sixteenth  century,  from 
whose  adventures  .Mexandre  Dumas  wrote  a 
tale  entitled  "liontekoe,"  being  the  first  in  the 
volume  "Les  Drames  de  la  Mer."  The  family 
in  France,  which  doubtless  originated  in  Hol- 
land, was  IVotestaut.  and  endured  the  pri- 
vations and  suli'ering  imjiosed  upon  the 
Huguenots  bv  the  Romish  churcli  Iioth  before 


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and  subsequent  to  the  revocation  of  the  Edict 
of  Nantes. 

(I)  "Pierre  Bontecou.  merchant,  his  wife 
(Marguerite  Collinot),  antl  five  children," 
writes  John  E.  Morris,  compiler  of  The  Bon- 
tecou Genealog}',  "were  in  1684  fugitives  from 
the  Isle  of  Re  to  'La  Caroline,'  as  we  are  in- 
formed by  the  records  in  the  Archives  Nat- 
ionales  in  Paris.  The  Ciovernmcnt  of  Louis 
XI\'.  after  placing  all  possible  hindrances  in 
the  way  of  his  escaping  subjects,  and  con- 
demning to  the  galleys  tho.se  who  were  arrested 
in  their  flight,  still  kept  its  eye  upon  those 
whose  efforts  had  terminated  in  success,  and 
their  names  and  destinations  became  a  matter 
of  national  record,  to  which  we  arc  indebted 
for  this  earliest  knowledge  of  our  fugitive  an- 
cestor. Although  his  dejiarture  from  France 
was  made  from  the  Lsle  of  Re,  his  previous 
residence  was  in  La  Rochelle.  hard  by,  a  city 
of  large  commercial  importance,  and  a  strong- 
hold of  Protestantism.  In  this  city  his  son 
Daniel  was  born,  and  doubtless  his  other  chil- 
dren. The  flight  of  the  family  to  'La-Caroline' 
(a  general  term  used  to  designate  the  Conti- 
nent of  Xorth  .America)  was  by  way  of  Eng- 
land, and  it  was  not  until  1689  that  they 
appeared  in  New  York."  Madame  Bontecou 
is  said  to  have  stated  that  she  came  to  New 
York  during  the  time  that  Leisler  had  the  gov- 
ernment, and  that  she  and  her  family  were 
well  received  by  him.  But  little  is  found  of 
record  of  the  early  Bontecnus  in  New  York. 
Tradition  says  the  family  had  a  competence 
in  France,  but  the  records  of  the  French 
church  in  New  York  City  state  that  "Matlanie 
Bondecoux"  for  several  years  accepted  a  pen- 
sion from  that  institution,  which  would  indi- 
cate that  for  a  time  the  family  was  in  poverty. 
In  the  church  records  the  names  of  members 
of  the  family  are  found.  Pierre  Bontecou  was 
probably  a  man  of  some  iironiinencc  among  his 
countrymen  and  in  the  church.  No  date  of 
the  death  of  either  Pierre  or  his  wife  has  been 
found.  We  only  know  that  he  was  alive  in 
1724.  One  church  yard  of  the  old  Huguenot 
Church  in  Pine  street — L'Eglise  du  Saint 
Esprit — undoubtedly  received  their  remains; 
and  in  1 831  they  were  removed  with  .ill  others 
buried  there  to  the  vault  in  St.  Mark's  church 
yard,  Stuyvesant  jjlace  and  Second  avenue, 
where  they  continue  to  repose.  The  children 
of  Pierre  and  Marguerite  (Collinot)  Bontecou 
were :  Marguerite,  Peter,  Sara,  Daniel,  Sus- 
anne,  Marie,  Rachel,  Timothy,  next  mentioned. 

(II)  Timothy,  youngest  child  of  Pierre  and 
Marguerite  ( Collinot j   Bontecou,  was  born  in 


New  York,  June  17,  1693,  and  baptized  in  the 
I'rench  church,  July  2.  When  of  suitalilc  age 
he  went  to  France  to  learn  the  trade  of  silver- 
smith. "From  the  time  of  his  leaving  .Amer- 
ica until  the  year  1735  (a  period  of  probably 
more  than  twenty  years),  we  have  no  posi- 
tive knowledge  of  his  history.  It  is  quite 
likely  that  he  remained  abroad  long  enough  to 
lay  the  foundation  of.  if  not  to  have  fully 
acquired,  the  comfortable  fortune  which  he 
subse(|uently  possessed.  He  probably,  also, 
married  in  France,  for  his  wife  Mary  ilied  in 
New  Haven,  Connecticut,  November  5,  1735, 
at  the  age  of  thirty-three  years.  *  *  He 
again  married,  September  29,  1736,  ^Vlary 
Coodrich,  daughter  of  Colonel  David  and  Pru- 
dence (Churchill)  Goodrich,  of  Wethersfield, 
Comiecticut.  Colonel  Goodrich  was  an  olificer 
in  the  army  during  the  French  and  Indian 
war,  a  prominent  citizen  in  his  town,  and  a 
justice  of  the  peace,  and  in  the  latter  capacity 
performed  the  ceremony  of  his  daughter's 
marriage.  She  was  born  December  15,  1704, 
and  died  about  1760.  Timothy  Bontecou  was 
a  considerable  owner  of  real  estate,  both  in 
New  Haven  and  in  New  York.  His  religious 
affiliations  were  with  the  Church  of  England, 
and  in  the  absence  of  a  church  of  that  denomi- 
nation in  New  Haven  he  became  a  member  of 
the  one  at  .Stratford,  being  registered  there 
October  12,  1735,  and  some  years  later,  when 
a  new  church  was  to  be  erected,  he  contributed 
£15  toward  the  building  of  it  and  became  the 
owner  of  a  pew.  Undoubtedly  he  was  a  regu- 
lar occujiant  of  his  pew  on  the  Sabbath;  the 
distance  of  fourteen  miles  to  Stratford  being 
no  great  obstacle  to  the  privilege  of  worship- 
ing in  his  own  church.  His  wife  Mary  is 
registered  as  a  communicant  there  May  25, 
1740.  When  Trinity  (  Episcopal)  Cliurch  in 
New  Haven  was  established  he  was  one  of  the 
founders,  and  its  first  recorded  warden,  in 
1765.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  committee 
appointed  to  purchase  a  site  for  the  church 
edifice.  I  le  owned  and  occupied  a  large  square 
pew  in  church,  prominently  located.  At  the 
time  of  the  P.ritish  invasion  of  New  Haven, 
in  July,  1779,  he  was  an  old  man  eighty-six 
years  of  age,  a  resident  of  the  household  of 
his  son  Peter,  on  the  corner  of  Olive  and 
Wooster  .streets.  On  this  occasion  he  was  the 
victim  of  outrage  by  the  British  troops.  .\ 
mob  of  soldiers  visited  the  house,  and  the  old 
gentleman  was  robbed  of  his  silver  knee  and 
shoe  buckles,  his  daughter-in-law,  the  wife  of 
Captain  Peter,  being  ordered  to  pull  them  off. 
Personal    violence    was    offered;    and    on    an 


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attempt  by  the  soldiers  to  bayonet  him  she 
interposed  herself  between  them,  and  saved 
his  life.  Infuriated  at  being  baffled  in  their 
murderous  design,  they  were  ripe  for  any  de- 
gree of  iniquity,  and  the  daughter  of  Captain 
I'cter  unfortunately  presenting  herself  at  this 
juncture,  she  was  seized  by  the  soldiers,  and 
her  abduction  attempted :  but  her  mother  with 
great  tact  and  courage  interfered,  and  while 
entertaining  the  soldiers  with  food  and  drink, 
secretly  sent  for  assistance,  which  speedily 
arrived  in  the  form  of  a  guard  of  soldiers, 
obtained  through  the  efforts  of  an  influential 
royalist  neighbor.  This  put  a  stop  to  their 
outrageous  conduct,  but  they  had  well  nigh 
succeeded  in  their  designs  upon  old  Timothy, 
for  he  was  found  by  the  guard  with  a  rope 
around  his  neck,  the  other  end  thrown  over  a 
beam  of  the  house,  and  the  mob  evincing  a 
diabolical  disposition  to  pull  him  up,  which 
was  prevented  by  the  officers  in  charge.  The 
once  ample  estate  of  Timothy  Bontecou  was 
undoubtedl}'  greatly  depreciated  and  diminished 
during  the  war,  and  what  remained  of  it  was 
deeded  by  him  to  his  son  Peter  in  1778,  in 
consideration  of  support  during  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  He  died  in  New  Haven,  February 
14,  1784,  aged  ninety-one  years,  and  was 
buried  beneath  Trinity  Church.  He  is  known 
to  have  been  a  prominent  and  useful  citizen, 
a  zealous  churchman,  and  a  good  man."  The 
children  of  Timothy  and  Mary  (Goodrich) 
Bontecou  were:  Peter,  Daniel,  David.  James 
and  Mary. 

(HI)  Dr.  Daniel,  second  son  of  Timothy 
and  Mary  (Goodrich)  Bontecou,  was  born  in 
New  Haven,  September  g,  1739.  died  .Vugust 
20,  1778.  He  graduated  from  Yale  College 
in  1737;  then  went  to  France  to  pursue  the 
study  of  medicine.  .About  1760  he  was  apjioint- 
cd  surgeon  in  the  French  army,  and  undoubt- 
edly served  in  that  capacity  a  number  of  years. 
He  returned  to  New  Haven  and  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  liis  profession  in  1771.  He 
was  a  prominent  member  of  Trinity  Church, 
New  Haven,  a  vestr\man  in  1774-75.  and 
1777-78,  and  for  the  latter  ]xTiod  clerk  of 
the  vestry.  Like  many  others  who  died  dur- 
ing the  revolution,  he  left  but  little  estate,  the 
principal  item  of  value  in  the  inventory  being 
a  silver  tankard  valued  at£ii  los;  the  next 
being  "one  negro  woman.  Flora,  value  £10.'' 
This  woman  he  had  rescued  from  a  brutal 
master  by  jiurchase.  The  Counccticut  Journal 
of  September  2.  1778,  contained  an  obituary 
notice  of  Dr.  llontecou.  in  which  he  is  s])oken 
of  as  "a  gentleman  of  li1)eral  etlucation  in  his 


profession  to  which  he  was  regularly  bred,  he 
was  truly  respectable,  was  prudent  and  judi- 
cious in  his  practice ;  possessed  many  good 
and  useful  qualities,  was  modest  and  benevo- 
lent and  just;  a  worthy  citizen  and  an  excel- 
lent Christian."  He  married,  September  12, 
1775,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Rohde,  widow  of  Dr.  John 
Rohde,  and  daughter  of  Joseph  and  -Sarah 
(Southmaydj  Starr,  of  Middletown.  She 
was  born  June  8,  1733.  After  the  death  of 
Dr.  Bontecou  she  married,  December  23,  1787, 
Captain  Ephraim  Pease,  of  Enfield,  whither 
she  removed  with  her  children,  and  died  there 
April  6,  1802.  Children:  Rebecca,  and  Daniel, 
next  mentioned. 

(IV)  Daniel  (2),  only  son  of  Dr.  Daniel 
(i)  and  Rebecca  (Starr)  (Rohde)  Bontecou, 
was  born  in  New  Haven.  Connecticut,  April 
20,  1779.  died  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
November  24,  1857.  He  was  not  born  until 
after  the  death  of  his  father.  He  was  princi- 
pally brought  up  under  the  guardianship  of  his 
step-father.  Captain  Ephraim  Pease.  When 
a  young  man  he  engaged  in  mercantile  business 
in  Enfield,  where  he  continued  until  1806, 
when  he  removed  to  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, and  formed  a  partnership  with  Colonel 
Solomon  W'arriner  in  the  dry  goods  business. 
In  1817  this  partnership  was  dissolved,  and 
after  continuing  alone  for  some  years,  Jona- 
than Hunt  was  admitted  as  a  partner,  and  they 
continued  together  until  1835,  when  Mr.  P>on- 
tecou  sold  his  interest  and  retired  from  busi- 
ness and  employed  his  leisure  moments  in  cul- 
tivating several  pieces  of  land  which  he  owned 
in  the  outskirts  of  the  town,  and  took  great 
pleasure  in  the  occupation.  While  in  Enfield 
he  was  active  in  the  militia  and  held  the  rank 
of  sergeant  in  the  Thirty-first  Regiment.  He 
represented  Springfield  in  the  Massachusetts 
general  court  in  1820.  He  was  elected  dea- 
con in  the  First  Congregational  Church,  March 
5.  1833,  continuing  in  that  office  until  May  2, 
1845.  when  he  became  a  member  of  the  South 
Church,  where  he  was  shortly  afterward 
elected  deacon,  and  held  that  office  till  his 
death.  In  181 5  he  b.iught  of  Colonel  W'ar- 
riner a  homestead  on  Main  street,  from  which 
he  removed  in  1846  to  the  corner  of  Main  and 
Howard  streets,  where  he  passeil  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  The  Sf^riiu/ficld  Rc['iiblican  said  of 
him:  "He  has  lived  long,  .sensibly,  and  use- 
fully :  his  name  is  associated  with  no  brilliant 
deeds,  but  honor,  integrity,  and  piety  belong  to 
it.  l^seful  and  faithful  to  his  day  and  genera- 
tion, he  is  called  home  ri]ie  for  its  immortal- 
ity."     He    married    (first)    March    16,    1798, 


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Sybil,  daughter  of  Rev.  Elaiii  and  Sybil 
( Pease )  Potter,  of  Enfield,  Connecticut,  and 
granddaughter  of  liis  step- father.  She  died 
May  5.  1810,  aged  twenty-nine,  lie  married 
(second)  Xoveniber  13.  1816,  Harriet  Bliss, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Moses  and  Abigail  (Met- 
calf)  Bliss,  of  Springfield.  She  was  born 
March  23.  1782,  and  died  November  10.  1853. 
Ciiildren  by  wife  .Sybil:  Catharine  Rhodes, 
a  daughter.  Daniel.  Martha.  Potter.  Sybil 
I'ease.  and  Mary;  by  wife  Harriet:  William 
(died  young  I.  Harriet  and  William  VAy. 

(V)  Catherine  Rhodes,  eldest  child  of 
Daniel  (2)  and  Sybil  (Potter)  Bontecou.  was 
born  in  Enfield.  Connecticut.  December  26, 
1798.  died  December  24.  1832.  She  married. 
Xoveniber  12.  1819,  Wells  Lathrop,  of 
Springfield  (see  Lathrop  X). 

(The    Lothrop    or    Lathrop     Line.       For    preceding 
generations  see  John  Ijowthroppe  1). 

(VI)  Joseph,  fourth  son  of  Samuel  and 
Elizabeth  (Scudder)  Lothrop,  was  born  in 
October,  1661,  died  in  Norwich,  July  5,  1740. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  first  church.  He 
married  (first)  April  8.  1686.  Mary  .Scudder, 
who  died  September  18,  1695.  He  married 
(second)  February  2,  1696,  Elizabeth  "Water- 
house,"  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  Watrous. 
She  was  born  March  22,  1661.  died  November 
29,  1726.  He  married  ( third )  November  22, 
1727,  Martha  F'erkins,  widow  of  Deacon 
Jo.seph  Perkins,  of  Newent.  now  Lisbon,  then 
a  part  of  Norwich.  I  lis  ciiildren  were  :  Barna- 
bas, Joseph,  and  Abigail,  by  wife  Mary;  Me- 
hitable.  Samuel.  Elizabeth.  Sarah.  Temper- 
ance, Solomon,  Ruth,  Esther  and  Zeruiah.  by 
wife  Elizabeth. 

(VII)  Solomon,  second  son  of  Joseph  and 
Elizabeth  (Watrous)  Lothrop.  was  born  in 
Norwich.  December  13.  1706,  died  May  10, 
1733.  He  settled  in  .Norwich.  He  seems  to 
have  been  a  person  of  early  eminent  piety,  of 
good  natural  talents,  and  of  more  than  a  com- 
mon education  of  that  day.  He  married.  Feb- 
ruary 6.  1729,  Martha,  widow  of  Thomas 
Todd,  of  Rowley.  Massachusetts,  and  daugh- 
ter of  Deacon  Joseph  and  .Martha  (Morgan) 
Perkins,  of  Lisbon.  Connecticut,  where  she 
was  born  .August  28.  1705.  .^fter  his  dcatii 
she  married  (third)  May  29,  1739,  Matthew 
Loomis,  of  Bolton,  Connecticut.  The  chil- 
dien  of  Solomon  and  Martha  were:  Martha, 
and  Joseph,  next  mentioned. 

(\TII)  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  (2).  only  son  of 
Solomon  and  Martha  (Perkins)  (Toild)  Loth- 
rop, was  born  in   Norwich.  October  20.   1731. 


died  in  Wot  Springfield.  .Massachusetts.  De- 
cember 31.  1820.  lie  was  left  to  the  care  of 
his  mother  when  only  a  year  and  a  half  old. 
■■.\t  sixteen  he  had  determinccl,  ;it  any  cost 
of  his  little  ])atrimon\',  to  oljtain  a  collegiate 
education,  and  he  was  prepared  for  college 
by  the  Rev.  .Mr.  White  of-  P.olton.  Though 
his  mind  was  already  made  uj)  to  enter  the 
Congregational  ministry,  after  his  graduation 
he  became  a  teacher  at  Springfield,  Massacbu- 
.setts,  meanwhile  pursuing  his  theological 
studies.  In  1756  he  applied  for  admission  to 
the  ministr)-,  and  the  same  year  was  called  to 
the  charge  of  the  Congregational  church  in 
\\'est  Springfield.  He  accepted  the  call  and 
entered  at  once  upon  his  duties.  He  was  found 
admirabh-  qualified  for  his  duties  as  a  minister, 
and  his  parish  grew  and  prospered  under  his 
care.  He  was  faithful  and  painstaking,  a  dili- 
gent preacher,  his  face  was  familiar  in  the 
houses  of  his  flock,  and  he  was  an  illustration 
of  the  truth  that  'a  house-going  parson  makes 
a  church-going  people.' "  His  pastorate  cov- 
ered the  revolutionary  j^eriod  and  the  years 
of  financial  depression  and  general  stagnation 
of  business  that  followed;  his  salary  was 
irregularly  and  partially  paid,  and  he  shared 
the  general  afflictions  of  the  times.  At  times 
he  was  reduced  to  great  straits  for  want  of 
money,  but  he  voluntarily  forgave  the  arrears. 
He  did  not  think  it  misbecame  him  to  eke  out 
his  salary  by  personal  labor  upon  his  little 
farm.  He  had  taken  his  parish,  as  was  com- 
mon in  these  days,  for  better  or  for  worse. 
and  he  cheerfully  shared  their  ill  as  well  as 
their  good  fortune.  In  their  ])rosperity  the 
people  had  willingly  offered  themselves  to  him, 
and  when  in  need  he  was  ready  to  endure  for 
them,  and  so  while  he  followed  the  plough  or 
swung  the  scythe,  he  reaped  lessons  of  spirit- 
ual husbandrv.  No  honors,  no  offers  of 
emolument  could  tempt  him  away.  His  fame 
extended  far  beyond  the  parochial  bounds. 
In  1791  Yale  College  conferred  upon  him  the 
honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity,  as  did 
Harvard  University  in  181 1.  In  1792  he  was 
elected  Fellow  of  the  .American  .Academy  of 
.Arts  and  Science,  and  in  1793  he  was  appoint- 
ed a  profcssr)r  in  divinity  in  Yale  (_^ollege. 
N'ale  was  his  alma  mater;  the  ])osition  was  one 
congenial  to  his  tastes.  Stiulents  in  divinity 
had  come  to  him  in  his  quiet  parish,  at  least 
a  score,  and  among  them  I^r.  A])pleton.  the  late 
j)resident  of  Bowdoin  College ;  he  wotdd  have 
the  advantages  afforded  by  the  conipaiwon- 
ship  of  scholars  and  by  the  college  library;  his 
salarv  would  be  doubled,  and  there  would  be 


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a  hope  that  he  misjlit  make  some  provision 
against  the  infirmities  of  age.  But  none  of 
these  things  moved  him.  Great  as  the  tempta- 
tion was,  he  resisted  it,  and  said  to  his  people, 
"I  shall  not  go;  the  Lord  do  so  to  me  and 
more  also,  if  aught  but  death  part  me  and 
thee."  lie  was  an  industrious  man,  and  his 
ministry  continued  through  many  years,  and 
his  eye  was  not  dim  and  his  natural  force  was 
not  abated.  At  the  age  of  eighty  he  preached 
a  sermon  in  review  of  his  long  ministry,  as  he 
did  five  years  later  at  the  close  of  his  sixtieth 
year.  This  was  in  1816.  At  eighty-eight  he 
was  compelled  to  ask  for  a  colleague  and  Rev. 
William  B.  Sprague  was  given  him.  From 
this  time  he  did  little,  and  on  the  last  day  of 
1820,  full  of  honors  and  of  years  he  entered 
into  rest.  Tradition  states  that  he  wrote  about 
five  thousand  sermons  in  the  course  of  his 
niinistr}-.  Many  of  them  were  in  pamphlet 
form,  and  passed  through  several  editions.  Six 
volumes  of  his  sermons  were  issued  during  his 
lifetime,  and  after  his  death  a  seventh  volume 
with  an  autobiography  was  published  and  sev- 
eral of  these  volumes  came  to  a  second  edition. 
He  was  also  the  author  of  a  volume  of  mis- 
cellany, consisting  of  political,  moral  and  enter- 
taining papers.  It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that 
he  was  the  central  figure  in  the  history  of  West 
Springfield,  and  to  his  teachings  it  owes  much 
of  its  deserved  fame.  His  influence  in  the 
valley  of  the  Connecticut  was  almost  without 
limit.  He  was  ranked  with  the  most  distin- 
guished of  the  New  England  divines.  "He 
was  a  man  of  large  intellect,  a  deep  and  orig- 
inal thinker,  a  ready  writer,  an  impressive 
preacher,  a  faithful  pastor,  with  a  heart  full 
of  virtues,  of  manners  devout  and  dignified, 
and  yet  agreeable,  a  man  who  would  have 
made  his  mark  in  any  age  and  in  any  country, 
and  in  a  family  of  the  notable  sons  of  the 
Pioneers,  it  is  easy  to  regard  him  as  facile 
princcps."  He  married,  Alay  16,  1759,  Eliz- 
abeth Dwight.  Children :  Solomon,  Setli, 
Joseph  (died  young),  Joseph,  Samuel  (died 
young),  Samuel  and  Dwight. 

(IX)  Hon.  Joseph  (3),  fourth  son  of  Rev. 
Joseph  (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Dwight)  Lathrop, 
was  born  in  West  Springfield.  December  24, 
1766,  died  in  Wilbraham,  December  11.  1831. 
He  settled  in  Wilbraham  where  he  became  a 
prominent  citizen,  and  represented  the  town 
in  the  state  legislature.  He  married,  Se])tem- 
ber  9,  1790,  Rowena.  daughter  of  Colonel 
Levi  and  Jerusha  (Clark)  Wells,  of  Col- 
chester, Connecticut.  She  survived  her  hus- 
band  twelve   years,    and    died    .^e|item1)er    28, 


1843,  at  the  home  of  Paoli  Lathrop.  of  South 
Hadley.  Children:  Joseph.  Rowena  (died 
young),  Wells,  Paoli,  Seth,  Rowena.  Ralph 
(died  young),  and  Ralph  Dwight. 

(X)  Wells,  second  son  of  Joseph  (3)  and 
Rowena  (Wells)  Lathrop,  was  born  in  Becket, 
Massachusetts,  February  25,  1795,  died  in 
South  Hadley  Falls,  April  12,  1871.  He  mar- 
ried, in  Springfield,  November  12,  1819,  Cath- 
erine Rhodes  Bontecou  (see  Bontecou  V), 
born  in  Enfield.  Connecticut,  December  26, 
1798,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Sybil  (Potter) 
Bontecou.  She  died  December  24,  1832.  He 
married  (second)  September  12,  1836,  Lydia, 
widow  of  Dr.  Lewis  Washburn,  and  daughter 
of  Benjamin  and  Relief  (Dunbar)  Ayer,  of 
Weymouth,  where  she  was  born  July  30,  1806; 
she  died  July  24,  1896.  Children:  Elizabeth, 
Tames.  Catherine  Bontecou.  Daniel  Bontecou, 
"Wells  and  Mary. 

(XI)  Elizabeth,  eldest  child  of  Wells  and 
Catherine  R.  (Bontecou)  Lathrop.  was  born 
in  Springfield,  April  28,  1821,  and  married, 
August  2^,  1842,  George  Bliss  Morris  (see 
Morris  \\\). 

(The    BlLss    Line.      For    preceding    generations    see 
Thomas  Bliss   1). 

(  HI )  Nathaniel,  second  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
and  Margaret  Bliss,  was  born  in  England, 
came  to  America  with  his  father  in  1635,  and 
removed  to  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  with 
his  mother  in  1643,  about  seven  years  after 
that  place  was  purchased  from  the  Indians  by 
William  Pynchon.  Three  years  later,  when 
they  were  well  settled,  he  married,  November 
20.  1646,  Catharine,  daughter  of  Deacon  Sam- 
uel Chai)in  (see  Chapin  V).  Mr.  Bliss  died 
November  8,  1654.  Widow  Bliss  married  (sec- 
ond) July  31.  1655,  Thomas  Gilbert,  by  whom 
she  had  four  children.  He  died  June  5.  1662, 
and  she  married  (third)  Deceml)er  28,  1664. 
Samuel  Marshfield.  by  whom  she  had  four  chil- 
dren— twelve  in  all.  She  died  I'ebruary  4, 
1712.  The  children  of  Nathaniel  and  Cath- 
arine (  Chajiin  )  Bliss  were  :  Samuel.  Mar- 
garet, Mary  and  Nathaniel. 

(IV)  Samuel,  eldest  child  of  Nathaniel  and 
Catharine  (Chapin  )  Bliss,  was  born  in  Spring- 
field, November  7.  1647,  and  lived  to  the 
remarkable  age  of  one  hundred  and  one  and 
a  half  years,  and  died  Jmie  19,  1749.  He 
married,  January  2.  1672.  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Hannah  Stebbins,  who  was  born 
.\ugust  18,  iC>34,  died  November  6,  1 721.  He 
left  at  iiis  deatii.  according  to  the  Boston  News 
Letter,  six  children,  thirty-eight  grandchildren, 


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i/i 


one  hiindred  and  Unirtecii  great-grandchildren, 
and  ten  great-great-grandchildren,  making  a 
total  of  one  hundred  and  sixty-eight.  Ilis 
children  were:  Samuel  (died  young),  Nathan- 
iel, Sarah,  Margaret.  Thomas,  Hannah,  John, 
Samuel  and  Ebenezer. 

(V)  John,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Steb- 
bins)  Bliss,  was  born  in  Springfield,  Novem- 
ber 4.  1690,  died  in  Longnicadow,  October  8, 
1784.  He  married.  .\])ril  18.  1724.  Lydia 
Field,  of  Sunderland.  Massachusetts.  She 
was  born  in  1695,  died  February  29,  1760. 
Children,  John  and  Aaron. 

(\T)  Hon.  John  (2),  son  of  John  fi)  and 
Lydia  (Field)  Bliss,  was  born  in  Longmeadow, 
February  i,  1727,  died  in  Wilbraham,  Novem- 
ber 3,  1809.  He  was  a  man  of  much  natural 
talent,  self  thought,  and  became  a  citizen  of 
great  influence.  He  was  an  ardent  patriot 
during  the  revolutioii,  and  held  numerous 
offices  of  trust  and  responsibility.  He  was 
representative  from  the  town  of  Springfield 
(which  then  included  Wilbraham)  in  1773; 
and  continued  a  member  of  either  the  house 
of  representatives,  senate  or  executive  council 
of  Massachusetts,  for  thirty  years — two  years 
being  excepted.  He  was  a  member  of  each  of 
the  three  provincial  congresses  held  in  Massa- 
chusetts in  the  early  part  of  the  revolution ; 
was  for  many  years  a  judge  of  the  court  of 
common  pleas  for  the  county  of  Hampshire ; 
and  was  colonel  of  the  First  Regiment  of 
Hampshire  Militia.  In  all  these  stations  he 
was  an  exemiilary  professor  of  the  Christian 
religion.  He  married  (first)  November  8, 
1749,  Abiah  Pease,  daughter  of  Josiah  and 
Margaret  Colton,  of  Enfield,  Connecticut.  She 
was  born  in  1718.  and  died  in  September,  1803. 
He  married  (second)  September  10.  1804, 
Sarah,  widow  of  Isaac  Morris.  His  children. 
all  by  first  wife,  were:  Oliver,  Lydia  (died 
young),  Lydia,  Abiah,  Lucy  (died  young), 
and  Lucy  see  further. 

(VII)  Lucy,  youngest  child  of  Hon.  John 
(2)  and  Abiah  Bliss,  was  born  March  28, 
1762.  and  married  Edward  Morris,  of  Wil- 
braham (see  Morris  V). 

(The    Bliss    Line.       For    preceding    generations    see 
Thomas    Bliss    1). 

(VI)  Hon.  Moses,  eldest  son  of  Jedediah 
and  Rachel  (Sheldon)  Bliss,  was  born  in 
Springfield,  January  i6,  1736,  died  July  4, 
1814.  He  graduated  from  Yale  in  1755.  studied 
divinity,  preached  for  a  time,  and  then  aban- 
doned the  ministry  to  read  law,  and  became 


an  eminent  barrister,  h'or  several  of  the  later 
years  of  his  life  he  was  judge  of  the  court  of 
common  pleas  for  the  county  of  I  Ianii)shire. 
.\  few  years  before  his  death  he  retired  from 
that  office,  greatly  respected  for  his  learning, 
talents  and  piety.  He  was  a  deacon  in  the 
Congregational  church.  He  was  an  eccentric 
man,  and  very  patriotic  withal,  wore  a  pow- 
dered wig,  knee  breeches,  low  shoes,  and  shin- 
ing buckles.  It  is  said  that  he  had  just  brought 
a  load  of  hay  across  the  river  when  he  heard 
that  independence  had  been  declared,  and  not 
being  able  to  elevate  his  continental  heels  and 
cocked  hat  high  enough  to  gratify  his  ex- 
uberant patriotism,  he  immediately  set  fire  to 
the  hay,  in  the  presence  of  a  large  concourse 
of  enthusiastic  and  delighted  spectators,  mak- 
ing it  a  veritable  burnt  offering  upon  the  altar 
of  liberty.  He  married,  July  20,  1763.  Abigail, 
daughter  of  William  and  .\bigail  (  luhvards) 
Metcalf,  of  Lebanon,  Connecticut.  She  was 
born  April  2,  1739,  died  August  29,  1800. 
Children :  George,  Lucy,  Abigail,  William 
Metcalf.  Frances,  Moses,  Edmond.  Emily  and 
I  farrict. 

(XII)  Hon.  George,  eldest  son  of  Hon. 
Moses  and  Abigail  (Metcalf)  Bliss,  was  born 
in  Springfield,  December  13,  1764,  died  March 
8,  1830.  He  graduated  at  Yale  College  in 
1784.  and  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
LL.  D.  from  Harvard  University  in  1823.  He 
was  an  eminent  lawyer,  and  for  many  years 
in  succession  was  a  member  of  the  house  of 
representatives,  senate  or  executive  council  of 
Massachusetts,  and  was  a  member  of  the  fam- 
ous "Hartford  Convention."  He  was  a  dea- 
con of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of 
.Sijringfield,  and  was  an  able  theologian.  He 
married  (first)  May  22,  1789.  Hannah,  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  John  and  Jerusha  (Huntington) 
Clark,  of  Lebanon,  Connecticut.  She  was 
horn  May  19,  1764,  died  September  19,  1795. 
He  married  (second)  May  29,  1799,  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  Lathrop,  of  New  Haven, 
Connecticut.  She  died  without  issue,  May  i, 
7803.  He  married  (third)  November  15, 
1804.  .Abigail  Rowland,  of  Windsor,  Connec- 
ticut, who  died  January  21,  1832.  Children  by 
wife  Hannah:  Delia  (died  young),  Caroline, 
George.  Hannah  Clark.  Children  by  wife 
Abigail :     Delia,  Abigail,   Mary  and  Richard. 

(VIII)  Caroline,  second  daughter  of  Hon. 
George  and  Hannah  (Clark)  Bliss,  was  born 
December  28.  1791,  and  married.  December 
15.  181-^.  Oliver  liliss  Morris  Es<|.  (see  Morris 
VI). 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


John  Heald,  immigrant  ancestor, 
HEAL!)  was  one  of  the  earhest  settlers 
of  Concord,  Massachusetts.  He 
was  from  Berwick-on-Tweed,  England,  and  is 
said  to  have  come  to  New  England  in  1635. 
He  was  admitted  a  freeman  June  2,  1641.  He 
lived  for  some  time  in  Roxbury  and  Cam- 
bridge. He  died  in  Concord.  May  24,  1662. 
His  will  was  made  by  his  own  hand,  dated 
April  19,  1662,  and  proved  June  16,  1662.  He 
bequeathed  to  his  second  wife,  Dorothy;  to 
children  John,  Timothy  and  Hannah  ;  and  to 
five  younger  children,  not  mentioned  by  name. 
Cliildrcn  :  I.  John,  born  in  Plngland :  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Timothy.  3.  Hannah,  mar- 
ried. May  18,  1658.  John  Spaulding ;  died  -Au- 
gust 14,  1689.  4.  Dorcas,  born  May  22,  1645  '• 
died  May  i,  1650.  5.  Gershom,  born  March 
23,  164";  married,  1673,  Anna  Vinton;  died 
at  Stow  1717.  6.  Dorothy,  born  October  16, 
1649.  7.  Thomas,  born  January  19,  1650-1  ; 
married  November  18,  i675'  Priscilla  Mark- 
ham;  (second)  Sarah  (Patch)  Osborn ;  died 
.April  22,  1725.     8.  Isaac,  born  1656;  married 

Elizabeth  ;  died   1717.     9.  Israel,  born 

July  30,  1666;  married  Ivlartha  Wright;  set- 
tled in  Stow;  died  September  8,  1738.  Some 
authorities  give  also:  10.  .Xmos.  11.  Ebe- 
nezer.  12.  Samuel.  13.  Ephraim.  14.  Ben- 
jamin. 

(II)  Sergeant  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i) 
Heald,  was  born  in  England,  and  came  over 
with  his  parents.  He  settled  in  Chelmsford, 
and  married,  June  10,  1661,  Sarah  Dean,  who 
died  July  22,  1689,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Elizaljcth  Dean,  of  Concord.  His  name  is 
mentioned  in  a  list  of  soldiers  in  1*175.  He 
died  at  Concord,  June  22,  i68().  (."hildrcn, 
born  in  Concord:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  .April  15, 
1664.  2.  John,  born  September  19,  i6fi6;  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Gershom,  born  March  i, 
1667-8;  married  February  19,  1689-90.  Han- 
nah Parling;  died  1717.  4.  Sarah,  born  Decem- 
ber 18,  1670.  5.  Eunice,  born  March  15,  1673. 
6.  Hannah,  born  October  10.  1676.  7.  Doro- 
thy, born  July  10,  1679;  married  Joshua 
Fletcher  of  W'estford;  died  August  20,  1770. 
(HI)  Lieutenant  John  (3),  son  of  Ser- 
geant John  (2)  Heald,  was  born  at  Concord, 
September  19,  1666,  and  died  there  November 
25.  1 72 1,  aged  fifty-five  years  (gravestone). 
Ill'  married,  December  18,  1690,  Mary  Chand- 
ler, born  March  3,  1672-3,  died  August  14, 
1759,  in  her  eighty-eighth  year  (gravestone). 
Siie  was  daughter  of  Roger  and  Mary 
(Simonds)  Chandler.  .\t  the  time  of  the 
trouble     with    Governor     .\ndros.     Lieutenant 


Heald  marched  to  Boston  at  the  head  of  his 
company.  Children,  born  in  Concord:  i. 
Mary,  born  August  18,  1691  ;  married  May 
12,  1718,  John  Parling;  died  January  5,  1754. 
2.  John,  born  .August  18,  1693;  mentioned  be- 
low.    3.  Timothy,  born  June  7,  1696;  married 

Hannah   ;    died    March    28,    1736.      4. 

Josiah,  born  February  28,  1698-9;  died  May 
26,  1733.  5.  Elizabeth,  born  December  12, 
1701.  6.  Samuel,  born  Alay  4,  1702;  married 
Rebecca  Fletcher;  died  April  18,  1784.  7. 
.Amos,  born  May  23,  1708;  married  Elizabeth 
Billings;  died  January  4,  1775.  8.  Ephraim, 
horn  F"ebruary   19,    1710-11;  married  Eleanor 

.     9.    Dorcas,  born   .August   22,    1713; 

married  January  28,  1734-5.  William  Fletcher. 
10.  Eunice,  lx)rn  1717;  married  July  16,  1735, 
Samuel  Fellows. 

(IV)  Deacon  John  (4),  son  of  Lieutenant 
John  (3)  Heald,  was  bom  in  Concord,  August 
18,  1693,  and  died  May  16,  1775.  He  lived 
in  that  part  of  Concord  set  off  as  .Acton.  He 
married  (first)  at  Concord.  Mary  Heald,  born 
.April  27,  1698.  died  September  i,  1758,  daugh- 
ter of  Israel  and  Martha  (Wright)  Heald  (or 
Hale)  of  Concord.  He  married  (second) 
(intentions  dated  November  10,  1759)  Eliza- 
beth Wright,  widow  of  Joseph  Wright.  She 
survived  him  and  lived  with  her  daughter,  the 
wife  of  Deacon  Reed,  of  Rutland,  where  she 
died  October  12,  1776.  Children,  born  at 
Concord,  all  by  first  wife:  I.  Martha,  born 
April  4,  1718;  married  May  24,  1738,  John 
Barrett.  2.  Mary,  born  June  14,  1719;  married 
May  24,  1738,  Jonas  Robbins ;  died  .April  6, 
1794.  3.  John,  born  February  14.  i7_'o-!  : 
married  July  18,  1745,  Elizabeth  Barrett;  died 
October  26,  i8to.  4.  Sarah,  born  November 
2.  1722;  married  January  I,  1744-5.  Jonas 
Hildreth.  5.  Josejih,  born  September  t2,  1724; 
killed  by  the  Indians.  6.  Lydia,  bom  Novem- 
ber 12.  1726;  married,  1749,  Jacob  Robbins. 
7.  Oliver,  born  July  24,  1729;  died  September 
23.  1733-  ^-  Dorothy,  born  November  25, 
T731,  married.  1753,  Neheiuiah  Davis;  died 
December  11,  1805.  9.  Oliver,  born  .April  6. 
7734;  married  December  2,  1760.  Lydia 
Spaulding;  died  January  21.  1790.  at  Temple, 
New  Ham])shire.  to.  Israel,  born  .August  16, 
1736;  mentioned  below.  11.  .Asa(?).  12. 
Riith,  born  Alarch  i.  1740.  married.  1750. 
James  Faulkner. 

(\')  Cajitaiu  Israel,  son  of  Deacon  John 
(4)  Heald,  was  born  in  Concord,  .August  16. 
1736.  and  died  October  28,  1815.  He  lived 
on  the  homestead  in  .Acton.  He  served  in  the 
revolution    in     1776    as    captain     in     Eleazer 


MASSACII  L'SKTTS. 


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Brooks"  regiment,  and  was  wounded  in  the 
battle  of  White  Plains.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 30,  1760.  Susanna  Robbins,  born  January 
I.  1737-8,  died  January  8,  1822.  daughter  of 
John  and  Susainia  Robbins.  of  Chelmsford, 
lie  died  intestate,  and  .Augustus  Tower  was 
appointed  administrator  of  the  estate.  Chil- 
ilrcn  :  I.  Timothy,  born  August  7.  1762:  mar- 
ried November  8,  1792,  Hannah  Wilkins  :  died 
May  5.  1813.  2.  I5enjamin,  born  January  25, 
1764,  mentioned  below.  3.  Sarah,  born  July 
28.  1766:  died  uimiarried  June  21,  1847.  4- 
Susannah,  born  September  7.  1768;  married 
July  14.  1789.  David  Ilartwell.  Jr.  5.  Mary. 
born  Se]nember  22.  1770:  married  December 
24,  1795.  DeaccMi  John  Green;  died  October 
26.  1817.  6.  Lucy,  born  November  21,  1772; 
died  Seiitember  22,  1775.  7.  Esther,  born 
1774;  married,  November  5,  1797,  Asa  Green; 
died  September  18,  1826.  8.  Lucy,  born  Sep- 
tember 9.  1786:  married.  December  26,  1814, 
Thomas  Spaulding;  died  March  19.  1844. 

(\'l)  Cajitain  lienjamin.  son  of  Captain 
Isaac  Ileald,  was  born  in  .\cton  (now  Carlisle  ) 
January  25.  1763-4.  and  died  October  12,  1841. 
He  settled  in  Sumner,  Maine,  in  1784,  and 
lived  on  Sumner  Hill,  near  the  present  site 
of  the  Ileald  barn.  He  may  have  been  the 
Benjamin  Heald  who  was  in  Captain  John 
I  layward's  company.  Colonel  \Vebb"s  regnnent. 
for  three  months  in  1781,  to  reinforce  the 
Continental  army.  He  married,  in  1785-6,  Re- 
becca Spaulding,  born  November  10.  1766.  who 
died  June  10,  1858,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
( Leonard  4,  Henry  3,  Andrew  2,  Edward  i ) , 
and  Fatty  (  Barrett)  Spaulding.  Children. born 
at  Sumner.  Maine:  i.  Benjamin,  born  Sep- 
tember 13.  1786;  married  Ach.sah  Hall.  2. 
Susannah,  born  January  29,  1788:  married 
Joshua  Carpenter.  3.  Israel,  born  January  22, 
1793:  married  Jane  Standish.  4.  Charlotte, 
born  March  10,  1795;  died  May  8,  1801.  5. 
Hiram,  born  July  19,  1797;  mentioned  below. 
6.  Harriet,  born  January  14.  1800.  7.  Wash- 
ington, born  July  23.  1802;  married  Eliza  \. 
Allen.  8.  Josei)h  W.,  born  September  28, 
1804.  9.  Jefferson,  born  November  16,  1805: 
married  Jane  Hersey.  10.  Charlotte,  born 
February  23,  1808:  married  January  27,  1829, 
Charles  .\.  Buck.  11.  Columbus,  born  July 
21,  1810:  married.  May  i,  1834.  Nancv  W. 
Buck. 

(\TI)  Hiram,  son  of  CajJtain  lienjamin 
Ileald.  was  born  at  Sumner.  Maine,  July  19, 
1797.  and  lived  at  Sumner.  He  married  Soph- 
ronia  Hersey.  Children:  i.  Marcella,  born 
April  4,   1825.     2.  Lysander,  born   December 


20,  1826;  mentioned  below.  3.  Hiram  H., 
born  November  12,  1828;  married  November 
14,  1852,  Frances  Borne.  4.  .Albert  11..  born 
December  9,  1830;  married  ( (irsl  )  Lottie 
Cook;  (second)  Sarah  Houghtcin.  5.  Abel  S., 
born  February  13.  1833;  married  Mary  C. 
Anderson.  6.  Stephen  C,  born  June  12,  1835; 
married,  September  12,  1858,  ,\l)l>ie  A.  Rowe. 
7.  Emogene  S..  born  April  18.  1837;  married, 
September  12,  1858,  Jacob  M.  Willey.  8. 
James  H.,  born  .April  30,  1839;  died  in 
the  civil  war,  October  10,  1862,  at  .Annapolis, 
a  member  of  the  Twenty-ninth  Massachusetts 
Regiment.  9.  Althca  P..  born  October  2.  1841  ; 
married  Allen  W'eatherhead.  10.  Benjamin 
F..  born  June  23.  1843:  a  member  of  the 
Twentieth  Maine  Regiment  in  the  civil  war. 
II.  Oscar  F.,  born  October  12.  1846;  married, 
December   2^,    1868.   Almatia   Richardson. 

(Mil)  Lysander.  son  of  Hiram  Heald. 
was  born  in  East  Sumner,  Alaine,  December 
20,  1826.  He  came  to  Massachusetts  in  1848. 
eventually  locating  in  Weymouth,  where  he 
engaged  in  the  shoe  business.  He  was  a 
member  of  Company  G  of  the  Fourth  Heavy 
Artillery  in  the  civil  war.  He  married  Mar- 
garet .A.  A'ining.  born  October  22,  1837,  at 
-South  Weymouth,  daughter  of  Adoniram  and 
Lydia  .Shaw  \'ining.  He  died  Alay  28,  1904. 
Children:  i.  .Arthur  Clifton,  born  April  7, 
1861  ;  mentioned  below.  2.  Marion  Mning, 
born  January  29,  1874;  married  Henry  S. 
Stowers,   of  South   Weymouth. 

(IX)  Arthur  Clifton,  son  of  Lysander 
Heald.  was  born  at  South  Weymouth,  Massa- 
chusetts. .A])ril  7,  1 861.  He  was  educated  in 
the  ])ublic  schools  of  South  Weymouth.  For 
five  years  he  was  in  the  employ  of  11.  B.  Reed 
&  Company,  and  left  this  firm  to  organize  and 
become  a  member  of  the  firm  of  E.  II.  Stetson 
&  Company.  Since  the  incorporation  of  this 
concern  as  the  Stetson  Shoe  Company  he  has 
been  its  treasurer.  The  factory  of  the  Stetson 
.Shoe  Company,  one  of  the  largest  concerns 
in  the  country  manufacturing  strictly  high- 
grade  men's  shoes,  is  located  in  South  Wey- 
mouth, a  town  famous  for  the  c|uality  of  its 
workmanship.  It  has  a  weekly  cajiacity  of 
7500  pairs  and  a  regular  force  numbering  350. 

He  married.  December  31,  1883.  Charlotte 
liates  Tower,  born  November  22,  1863.  at 
South  Weymouth,  daughter  of  Charles  Carroll 
and  C'larissa  L.  (Pratt)  Tower.  (Sec  Tower 
family).  Children,  born  at  South  Weymouth: 
I.  Charles  Tower,  born  May  18,  1888;  asso- 
ciated in  business  with  his  father.  2.  Stanley, 
born  June  8,   1891.     3.   Margaret,  born   Sep- 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


tember  13,  1892.  4.  Darthea,  born  February 
10,  1898. 

(The   Tower   Line.      For   preceding   generations   see 
Robert  Tower  1). 

(III)  Ibrook,  son  of  John  Tower,  was  bap- 
tized February  7,  1643-4,  and  died  in  Cohasset, 
November  22,  1732,  aged  eighty-eight  years 
nine  months.  He  lived  in  Cohasset,  on  the 
land  which  his  father  drew  in  the  first  division 
in  1670.  He  was  among  the  earliest  settlers 
of  what  was  then  the  village.  He  was  fre- 
quently in  public  office,  and  in  1699  was  select- 
man. He  was  a  farmer  and  a  cooper.  His 
will  was  made  in  1720,  and  it  was  proved  De- 
cember 31,  1 73 1.  His  homestead  still  remains 
in  possession  of  the  family.  He  married  (fir.st) 
April  24,  1668,  Margaret  Hardin,  of  Brain- 
tree,  born  1647,  died  November  19,  1705, 
daughter  of  John  Hardin.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) August  6,  1712,  Patience,  widow  of 
Daniel  Hobart,  and  previously  of  Benjamin 
Jones.  She  died  December  22,  1747.  Chil- 
dren, all  by  first  wife,  born  in  Hingham:  i. 
Richard.  July  20,  1669.  2.  Daniel,  June  15, 
1671:  died  November,  1690.  3.  John,  born 
]\Iarch  21,  1672-3.  4.  Rachel,  March  16, 
1674-5.  5.  Mary,  August  16,  1677.  6.  Patience, 
March  21,  1678-9.  7.  Hezckiah,  baptized, 
October  9,   1681.     8.  Elizabeth,  born  June  9, 

1682;   married  Merritt.     9.    Content, 

born  February  3,  1683-4.  10.  Nehemiah,  No- 
vember 4,  1685.  II.  Lydia,  November  25, 
1687.      12.    Daniel,   mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Daniel,  son  of  Ibrook  Tower,  was 
born  in  Hingham,  and  baptized  July  24,  1692. 
He  inherited  a  part  of  his  father's  liomestead, 
and  lived  in  Cohasset.  His  will  was  dated 
August  I,  1771,  and  he  died  February  21, 1774, 
aged  eighty-one  years  seven  months.  Fie  mar- 
ried (first)  (intentions  dated  February  25. 
1715-6).  Sarah  Lincoln,  of  Cohasset,  born 
July  14.  1694,  died  July  7.  1754,  daughter  of 
Mordccai  and  Sarah  (Jones)  l.incnln.  He 
married  (second)  February  26,  1755.  Persis 
Curtis,  born  in  Hanover,  1707,  died  there  June 
24,  1787,  aged  eighty.  Children,  born  in  Co- 
hasset: I.  Sarah,  June  24,  1717.  2.  Daniel, 
Tune  23,  1720;  mentioned  below.  3.  Abra- 
ham. January  31,  1722-3;  died  May  9,  1736. 
4.  Jol)',  1)orn  September  8,  1726.  5.  Mordecai, 
.'\ugust  6,  1729;  died  June  10,  1736.  6.  Thank- 
ful, born  September,  1732;  died  May  2,  1733. 
7.  Thankful,  born  October  2,  1734;  died  No- 
vember 18.  1743. 

(V)  Daniel  (2),  Tower,  son  of  Daniel  (i) 
Tower,  was  born  at  Cohasset,  June  23,  1720, 


and  died  there  January  28,  1800.  His  will  was 
dated  October,  1799,  and  proved  April  i,  1800. 
He  married.  January  5,  1741-2,  Bethiah 
Nichols,  born  May  12,  1724,  died  April  27, 
181 3,  daughter  of  Roger  and  Bethiah  ( Wins- 
low  j    Nichols.      Children,   born   in   Cohasset: 

1.  .\braham,  June,  1741  ;  died  March  4,  1741-2. 

2.  Sarah,  May  30,  1743;  married  December  8, 

1763,  James  Cushing,  Jr.  3.  Mordecai,  May 
24,  1745;  drowned  at  sea.  4.  Bethiah.  April 
20,  1747;  married  John  Pratt.  5.  Daniel,  Octo- 
ber 5,  1749;  died  young.  6.  Abraham  (twin), 
.\pril  18,  1752:  mentioned  below.  7.  Isaac 
(twin),  April  18,  1752.  8.  Samuel,  April  30, 
1754.  9.  Levi,  July  25,  1756.  10.  Persis,  Au- 
gust I,  1759.  II.  Mary,  baptized  June  21, 
1761 ;  died  young.     12.  Mary,  baptized  May  27, 

1764.  13.  Bethiah,  baptized  January  24,  1768. 
14.  Daniel,  born  July  29,  1771. 

(VI)  Abraham,  son  of  Daniel  (2)  Tower, 
was  born  at  Cohasset,  April  18,  1752.  Fie 
inherited  the  homestead.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  revolution,  a  corporal  in  Captain  Job  Cush- 
ing's  company,  at  the  siege  of  Boston,  in  1775. 
Tradition  says  he  was  a  member  of  the  Bos- 
ton Tea  Party  in  1773.  Fie  applied  for  a 
pension  August  28,  1832,  saying  that  he  was 
in  the  Continental  army  from  about  May  i, 
1775,  to  January  i,  1776.  He  was  a  farmer 
and' a  mariner.  His  will  was  proved  C)ctober 
27,  1832.  He  died  in  Cohasset,  September  26, 
1832.  aged  eighty.  He  married  (first)  August 
30.  1789,  Elizabeth  Kent,  baptized  February 
4.  1759,  died  December  26,  1797,  daughter  of 
Abel' and  Hannah  (Hobart)  Kent;  (second) 
October  18,  1800,  Flannah  Kent,  sister  of  his 
first  wife,  baptized  Octobfy  29,  1775,  died 
Mav  20,  1806,  aged  thirty  years,  six  months. 
Children:  i.  Abraham  Flobart.  born  October 
20,  1801  ;  mentioned  below.  2.  Elizabeth,  born 
October  10,  1803.  3.  Hannah  Kent,  May  8, 
1806. 

(\TI)  Abraham  Hobart,  son  of  Abraham 
Tower,  was  born  in  Cohasset,  October  20, 
1801,  and  died  there  June  19,  i88i_.  He  in- 
herited the  homestead,  where  he  resided.  He 
married,  April  30,  1826,  Charlotte  Bates,  born 
October  4,  1806,  died  June  11,  1869.  daughter 
of  Newcomb  and  Lydia  (Nichols)  Bates.  He 
was  a  farmer,  and  also  owned  a  number  of 
fishing  boats.  Children:  1.  Mary  Nash,  born 
.August  25,  1827;  died  .Vjiril  3.  1829.  2.  Abra- 
ham H.,  Lorn  Ajn-il  l,  1829.  3.  Henry  Clay, 
April  16,  183 1.  4.  Charles  Carroll,  September 
26,  1833:  mentioned  below.  5.  Charlotte  M. 
B.,  February  28.  1836.  6.  Newcomb  B..  Feb- 
ruary 20, 1840.   7.  Daniel  N..  February  28. 1846. 


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(VIII)  Dr.  Charles  Carroll  Tower,  son  of 
Abraham  H.  Tower,  was  born  September  26, 
1833,  and  died  May  29,  1893.  lie  was  edu- 
cated in  the  schools  of  Cohassct,  was  grad- 
uated from  Harvard  College  in  1856,  and 
from  the  Harvard  Medical  School  in  1859. 
He  settled  in  South  Weymouth,  where  he 
practiced  his  profession  some  thirty-three 
years.  He  served  on  the  school  board,  and  in 
politics  was  a  Republican.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Old  South  Church.  He  married,  No- 
vember 29,  i860.  Clarissa  L.  Pratt,  born  in 
Boston,  January  3,  1834,  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Ruth  Nichols  (Pratt)  Pratt.  Children: 
I.  Daughter,  born  September  15,  1861  ;  died 
next  day.  2.  Carrie  Appleton,  born  July  18, 
1862;  married  Wilson  Tirrell.  3.  Charlotte 
Bates,  born  November  22,  1863 ;  married,  De- 
cember 31,  1883,  .\rthur  Clifton  Heald.  (See 
Heald  family).  4.  Helen  Merriel,  born  Au- 
gust 5.  1868;  married  Eaton  V.  Reed,  of 
Brooklyn,  New  York.  5.  Ruth  Nichols,  born 
November  15,  1873. 


The  immigrant  ancestor  of  the 
TABER  Tabers  and  Tabors  of  New  Eng- 
land was  one  Philip  Taber,  who 
was  born  in  England  in  1605.  He  appeared 
in  Watertown,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  in 
1633-34,  where  he  was  the  proprietor  of  five 
lots  of  land  which  he  sold  to  John  W'oolcot. 
He  married  (first)  Lydia,  daughter  of  John 
and  Jane  Masters,  in  1639  or  1640,  and  she 
became  the  mother  of  five  children.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Jane,  an  elder  sister  of  his  de- 
ceased wife.  John  Masters  was  made  a  free- 
man of  Watertown  in  1631,  and  he  was  also  a 
proprietor  of  Cambridge  (Newe  Town),  and 
became  a  resident  there.  He  died  in  Cam- 
bridge, December  21,  1639,  and  in  his  will  be- 
queathed iio  sterling  to  his  daughter  "Lidya 
Taber;"  his  widow  Jane  died  December  26, 
1639,  five  days  after  her  husband.  Philip  Taber 
was,  under  the  laws  governing  the  towns  of 
the  Massachusetts  Ray  Colony,  made  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Church  at  Watertown  by 
virtue  of  his  oath  of  fidelity  on  being  accorded 
the  rights  of  a  freeman.  May  14,  1634.  Pie 
removed  to  the  town  of  Yarmouth,  Cape  Cod, 
Barnstable  county.  Colony  of  Plymouth,  in 
1639,  and  he  became  a  prominent  person  in 
arranging  for  the  establishment  of  the  town 
January  7,  1639,  out  of  the  common  land  called 
AFattachuset  according  to  the  annals  of  the 
general  court  of  the  colony.  As  early  as  Jan- 
uary 7,  1639,  his  name  appears  with  eight 
others  as  a  candidate  for  freerlom  in  the  new 


town  of  Yarmouth,  and  on  March  5  following 
it  was  ordered  by  the  general  court  of 
Plymouth  Colony  that  the  name  of  I'hilip 
Taber  with  three  other  residents  of  the  town 
of  Yarmouth  be  added  to  an  existing  com- 
mittee of  three  to  make  an  ecjual  division  of 
the  ])lanting  lands  of  the  town.  He  was  sent 
as  a  deputy  to  the  court  at  Plymouth  in  1639 
and  1640.  His  son  John  was  baptized  in  the 
church  at  Yarmouth,  November  8,  1640,  and 
his  sons  Joseph,  Philip  and  Thomas  in  Febru- 
ary, 1646.  He  removed  from  Yarmouth  to 
Martha's  Vineyard,  and  thence  to  New  Lon- 
don, Connecticut,  in  1650,  where  he  was  in 
March,  1655-63,  and  he  was  made  a  freeman 
of  the  town  in  1656.  He  served  as  a  com- 
missioner of  the  town  in  1660-61-63.  He 
recorded  himself  as  of  Newport  on  January 
31,  1664,  and  April  20,  1665,  at  both  of  which 
dates  he  sold  and  conveyed  land  in  Ports- 
mouth. On  June  10,  1669,  he  was  in  Provi- 
dence and  recorded  himself  as  being  at  that 
time  sixty-four  years  of  age.  He  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Tiverton,  Rhode  Island,  soon  after, 
and  died  there  in  1672.  His  second  wife, 
Jane  (Masters)  Taber,  born  1605,  died  1669. 
His  five  children  were  all  by  his  first  wife, 
Lydia  (Masters)  Taber,  and  they  were  born 
as  follows:  i.  John,  baptized  in  Yarmouth, 
November  8,  1640.  died  young.  2.  Thomas. 
3.  Philip,  Jr.  4.  Joseph.  These  sons  were 
ba]3tized  in  Yarmouth  in  February,  1646.  5. 
Lydia,  the  youngest  child,  was  the  second  wife 
of  Rev.  Pardon  Tillinghast  (1622-1718),  and 
was  married  to  that  noted  Baptist  immigrant 
])reacher  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  Febru- 
ary 16,  1665,  and  when  he  died,  January  29, 
1718,  he  was  survived  by  his  widow  and  nine 
cliildren.  Philip,  Jr.,  the  third  child,  lived  in 
Dartmouth,  and  had  eight  children :  Mary, 
1670:  .Sarah,  1671  ;  Lydia,  1673;  Philip,  1676; 
.\bigail,  1678;  Esther,  1681  ;  John,  1684; 
liethia,  1689.  Thomas,  the  second  child,  was 
born  in  Yarmouth,  in  February,  1642 ;  he  was 
a  mason  by  trade,  and  lived  in  Dartmouth ; 
married  Esther,  born  August  16,  1650,  died 
1 67 1,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Warren) 
Cooke,  and  they  had  two  children :  Thomas, 
October  21,  1668;  and  Esther,  April  17,  1671, 
tJic  birth  of  the  second  child  resulting  in  her 
death.  Pie  married  as  his  second  wife,  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  Thomson,  and  niece  of  Rev. 
Jfjlm  Cooke,  iier  mother  being  a  sister  of  this 
last  survivor  of  the  male  passengers  of  the 
"Mayflower."  He  had  by  her  ten  children  as 
follows:  Lydia,  August  8,  1673;  Sarah,  Jan- 
uary 28,  1675;  Mary,  March  18,  1677;  Joseph, 


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March  7,  1678-79,  married  Elizabeth  Spooner  ; 
John.  l'"ebniary  22,  1680-81,  married  Phoebe 
Spooner;  Jacob.  July  26,  1683  ;  Jonathan,  Sep- 
tember 22,  1685;  Bethia,  September  3,  1687; 
Philip,  February  7,  1689,  and  Abigail,  May  3, 
1693.  Thomas,  the  father  of  these  children, 
died  in  Dartmouth,  November  11,  1730,  and 
his  will  was  proved  March  20,  1733,  his  sons 
Joseph,  John,  Jacob  and  Philip  being  the 
executors.  His  widow.  Mary  (Thomson) 
Taber.  died  May  3,  1734.  Thomas  Taber 
was  surveyor  of  highways  1673  ;  fence-viewer  ; 
town  clerk.  1679;  constable,  1679;  was  made 
a  freeman,  1684:  selectman  1688-92-96-99 
and  1700-02;  rate-maker,  1686;  captain  of  the 
town  militia,  1689;  deputy  to  the  general  court 
of  Massachusetts,  1693.  His  first  wife  was 
the  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Cooke,  of  Dart- 
mouth, the  last  surviving  male  member  of  the 
original  "Mayflower"  passengers,  1620,  and 
his  wife,  .Sarah  Warren.,  The  early  records 
I  if  the  town  of  Tiverton,  Rhode  Island,  are 
in  such  an  incomplete  condition  that  it  is  im- 
possible to  fix  the  direct  line  between  Philip 
the  immigrant  and  Ebenezer,  who  married 
Abigail,  and  had  children  born  in  Tiverton. 
As  the  descendants  of  his  sons  Thomas  and 
Philip.  Jr..  are  well  defined  and  established  in 
the  town  and  church  records  of  Dartmouth, 
it  is  reasonable  to  suppose,  in  the  absence  of 
any  record  of  his  death,  that  the  youngest 
son,  Joseph,  went  with  his  father  to  Tiverton, 
Rhode  Island,  and  that  he  was  the  father  of 
Ebenezer  Taber,  of  Tiverton,  which  would 
make  the  line  of  descent  (J)  Philip,  born 
1605;  (H)  Joseph,  born  in  New  Eondon,  Con- 
necticut, or  Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island:  (III) 
I'lbenezer,  mentioned  below. 

(Ill)  Ebenezer,  probably  son  of  Joseph 
Taber  and  grandson  of  Philip  Taber,  the  immi- 
grant, was  born  in  Tiverton,  Rhode  Island, 
about  1694.  He  married,  in  Tiverton,  and  his 
wife's  christian  name  was  .Abigail.  They  had 
nine  children,  all  born  in  Tiverton,  as  follows: 
I.  Paul.  March  30,  1716.  2.  Thomas  (q.  v.). 
October  28,  17 17.  3.  Mary,  .Xugust  24,  1719. 
4.  Joseph,  September  21,  1721.  5.  Hannah, 
September  13,  1723.  6.  Walton,  Sej^tember 
4,  1725.  died  young.  7.  Lydia.  October  24, 
1728.  8.  Walton,  October,  1731.  9.  Jacob, 
October  2,,  1733. 

(1\')  Thomas,  second  child  of  l^benezer 
and  Abigail  Taber,  was  born  in  Tiverton, 
Rhode  Island,  October  28,  171 7.  He  learned 
the  trade  of  blacksmith  and  carried  on  the 
business  in  Tiverton.  He  married  and  his 
wife's  chri'^tian  name  was  Marv.  lint  her  sur- 


name is  not  on  record.  The  date  of  her  birth 
is  January  16,  1722.  They  had  eight  chil- 
dren born  in  Tiverton,  as  follows:  i.  Job. 
March  16,  1741.  2.  (^iideon.  February  2,  1743. 
3.  Mary  (q.  v.),  February  18,  1745.  4.  Phebe, 
February  22,  1747.  5.  Elizabeth,  March  12, 
1749.  6.  Philip,  .April  24,  1752.  7.  Mercy, 
July  13,  1756.    8.  Ruth,  March  3,  1762. 

(\')  Mary,  eldest  daughter  and  third  child 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  Taber.  was  born  in 
Tiverton,  Rhode  Island.  February  18,  1745. 
.She  maried  her  cousin  Pardon,  son  of  Paul 
and  Sarah  Taber.  and  grandson  of  Ebenezer 
and  Abigail  Taber.  He  was  born  July  16, 
1739.  The  children  of  Pardon  and  Mary 
(Taber)  Taber  were:  i.  Edmond  (q.  v.), 
November  18,  1767.  2.  David,  November  21, 
1770.  It  is  very  probable  there  were  other 
children  born  of  this  marriage,  but  no  record 
can  be  obtained. 

(\'I)  Edmond,  eldest  child  of  Pardon  and 
Mary  Taber,  was  born  in  Tiverton,  Rhode 
Island,  November  18,  1767.  He  married 
Patience  Manchester,  born  October  24,  1765. 
and  they  had  nine  children,  all  born  in  Tiver- 
ton, as  follows:  i.  Anissa.  June  5,  1789.  2. 
David  (q.  v.).  .August  18.  1790.  3.  Pardon, 
November  8,  1792.  died  young.  4.  Mercy, 
January  13.  1795.  5.  Charles,  May  11.  1797. 
6,  Joseph.  November  9,  1799.  7.  Pardon, 
May  13.  1802.  8.  Rhoda,  June  22.  1804.  9. 
.\bner.  April  29.  1807.  Edmund  Taber  died 
in  Tiverton.  Rhode  Island.  December  14.  1807, 
and  his  widow  June  11,  1851. 

(\TI)  David,  second  child  of  Edmond  and 
Patience  ( ^fanchester)  Taber,  was  born  in 
Tiverton.  Rhode  Island,  August  18.  1790.  He 
was  by  trade  and  occupation  a  carpenter,  and 
after  his  marriage,  October  26,  181 1,  to  Eliz- 
alieth  Fitch,  who  was  born  at  Bristol,  Rhode 
Island,  July  18,  1790,  and  the  birth  of  their 
first  child,  Lydia,  in  Bristol.  Rhode  Island. 
.August  3,  1813.  he  removed  with  his  family 
to  Thompson,  Connecticut,  where  he  continued 
the  business  of  carpenter  and  house  builder, 
and  where  five  children  were  born.  The  chil- 
dren born  in  Thompson.  Connecticut  were:  2. 
David.  October  29,  1815.  3.  Luther  .Anthony 
(q.  v.),  September  15,  1817.  4.  Eliza  E., 
October  22.  1819.  5.  Erastus  Otis,  December 
5.  1821.  6.  Joseph,  .April  12,  T824.  He  re- 
moved to  Grafton.  New  Hampshire,  after  the 
birth  of  his  sixth  child,  and  his  wife,  Eliza- 
beth (Fitch)  Taber,  died  in  that  place  October 
19.  1826.  On  December  23.  1827,  he  married 
(second)  Harriet  Chamlxrlain,  of  Grafton. 
New    Hamiishire.      .'>he   was  born  January   7. 


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1796,  and  by  this  union  had  C'it,dit  children,  all 
born  in  Cirafton,  Xcw  llanijisliirc  as  follows: 
7.  Harriet  C,  December  14,  1828,  died  unmar- 
ried May  24,  1848.  8.  Mary  M.,  February  16, 
1830.  9.  Emily  P.,  April  22,  1831.  10.  Wil- 
lard  G.,  September  18,  1832.  11.  Frank  W., 
August  22,  1834.  12.  Martha  A.,  May  i!}, 
1836.  13.  Charles  \V.,  March  29,  1839.  14. 
Oren,  October  22,  1840.  Harriet  (Ciiamber- 
lain)  Taber  died  in  Manchester,  New  Hamp- 
shire, to  which  place  they  had  removed  from 
Grafton  after  the  birth  of  their  son  Oren,  the 
date  of  her  death  being  November  23,  1850. 
Mr.  Taber  married  (third)  August  6,  1854, 
Mary  A.  Ross,  born  in  Sheldonville,  Massa- 
chusetts, March  4,  1808,  and  died  without 
issue  in  that  place  Jamiary  29,  1883.  David 
Taber  died  in  Sheldonville,  Massachusetts, 
February  7,  1878. 

(\"ni)  Luther  Anthony,  second  son  of 
David  and  Elizabeth  (Fitch)  Taber,  was  born 
in  Thompson,  Connecticut,  September  15, 
1817,  and  was  brought  up  and  educated  in 
Grafton,  New  Hampshire,  from  his  eighth 
year.  He  worked  on  his  father's  farm  and 
assisted  him  in  the  carpenter  shop  when  not 
attending  the  district  school  and  when  of 
api)rentice  age  entered  the  family  of  Cyrus 
Adams,  in  Grafton,  and  was  taught  the  com- 
bined trades  of  harness  making  and  watch 
and  jewelry  making.  On  reaching  his  majority 
he  went  to  Boston,  where  he  worked  in  a 
watch  maker's  shop  as  a  repairer  of  watches 
and  clocks.  In  1840  he  went  to  New  York 
City  to  fill  a  position  in  a  branch  of  the  United 
States  patent  office.  He  married,  October  22, 
1844,  Lydia  Wheat,  born  June  20,  1823,  daugh- 
ter of  Hezekiah,  Jr.,  and  Mary  (Martin)  Bul- 
lock, of  Grafton,  New  Hampshire  (see  Bul- 
lock forward),  and  built  a  house  and  a  jewelry 
and  harness  making  shop  on  the  main  street 
in  Canaan,  New  Hampshire,  where  he  worked 
at  both  his  trades  and  also  cultivated  a  garden. 
In  1847,  when  the  great  dam  to  furnish  the 
waterpower  for  the  future  manufacturing  city 
of  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  was  in  course  of 
construction  in  West  .Springfield,  he  visited 
the  work  and  criticised  the  workmanship  of 
the  dam,  as  well  as  its  plan  of  construction 
and  prophesied  its  inability,  through  these 
faults,  of  withstanding  the  immense  pressure 
to  which  it  would  be  subjected.  Tliis  i)ro- 
phesy  came  true  soon  after  the  comjjletion  of 
the  dam.  The  opportunities  for  the  growth 
of  a  great  city  were  api)arent  to  Mr.  Taber, 
and  when  on  March  14,  1850,  the  town  of 
Holyoke  was  set  off   from   West   Springfield 


he  had  already  been  on  the  ground  with  his 
family  occupying  the  only  brick  block  on  High 
street  for  two  years.  He  had  removed  to  the 
place  from  Canaan,  New  Hampshire,  in  1848, 
thus  anticipating  the  birth  of  the  town  in  1850, 
and  the  city  in  1873.  He  ke])t  pace  with  the 
progress  of  the  town,  removing  his  business 
first  to  the  E.xchangc  Hall  block,  and  then  to 
the  Hutchings  block,  corner  of  High  and 
HamiMlen  .streets.  Here  the  great  fire  of  1870 
swept  his  business  place  away,  and  he  rebuilt 
the  block  now  No.  181  and  183  High  street. 
His  business  increased  with  the  growth  of  the 
city,  and  when  his  oldest  son  Frank  Luther 
left  school,  he  took  him  in  first  as  an  appren- 
tice and  then  as  a  partner  in  1876,  and  the 
firm  continued  up  to  1882  when  Mr.  Taber 
retired  from  business.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Royal  .'\rch  Masons,  having  johied  the 
Chapter  in  1864,  and  in  1909  he  was  the  second 
oldest  member  of  the  chapter  in  years  of  ser- 
vice. He  also  affiliated  with  the  Second  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Holyoke  as  a  member 
of  the  church  society  organization  although 
not  a  member  of  the  church  itself.  He  was 
elected  a  charter  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Holyoke  Savings  Bank  April 
9,  1856,  and  in  1906  was  the  only  surviving 
nieniber  of  the  original  board.  His  genial 
disposition  and  great  .strength  of  character 
endeared  him  to  all,  and  his  great  love  of 
nature  led  him  to  the  cultivation  of  fruits  and 
flowers,  in  which  occupation  he  found  recrea- 
iion  and  pleasure.  He  was  not  a  politician, 
and  held  himself  free  from  party  restraint  so 
as  to  be  able  to  vote  for  the  best  men  rather 
than  the  accidental  nominees  of  a  party.  The 
children  of  Luther  .Anthony  and  Lydia  Wheat 
(Bullock)  Taber  were:  i.  Frank  Luther 
((|.  v.).  2.  Cyrus  Hezekiah  (q.  v.).  Lydia 
Wheat  Bullock  Taber  died  March  10,  1880, 
and  Mr.  Taber  married  as  his  .second  wife, 
on  October  17,  1881,  Susan  (Kimball)  Eaton, 
of  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  and  ihcy  had 
no  issue. 

(IX)  I'Vank  Luther,  eldest  child  of  Luther 
Anthony  and  Lydia  Wheat  (Bullock)  Taber, 
was  born  in  the  town  of  Holyoke,  Massachu- 
setts, October  13,  1850.  He  was  educated  in 
the  i)ublic  school  and  learned  the  trade  of 
watch  maker  with  his  father.  He  became  his 
partner  in  business  in  1876,  and  in  1882  when 
his  father  retired,  he  assumed  the  entire  busi- 
ness and  continued  to  conduct  it  on  his  own 
account.  He  married  (first)  Sarah  Jane 
Paddclford,  of  Sherburne,  New  York,  and 
they  had   an  only  child,    Pearl.     He  married 


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(second)  Fannie  Maria  Pratt,  of  Holyoke, 
Massachusetts,  October  15,  1879,  and  their 
children  were  Raymond -Frank  and  Earl  Pratt. 
(IX)  Cyrus  Hezekiah,  second  and  youngest 
cliiid  of  Luther  Anthony  and  Lydia  Wheat 
(Bullock)  Taber,  was  born  in  Ilolyoke,  Mass- 
achusetts, September  4,  1857.  He  was  a  pupil 
in  the  public  schools  of  Holyoke,  and  on  leav- 
ing school  engaged  with  his  father  in  the 
watch  making  business.  He  left  this  business, 
however,  after  one  and  one-half  years  to  en- 
gage in  the  printing  business,  which  was  more 
congenial  to  his  tastes  anrl  disposition.  This 
business  he  with  J.  N.  Hubbard  inaugurated 
in  1877,  the  firm  name  being  Hubbard  & 
'J'aber,  and  after  eighteen  years  of  prosperity 
it  had  assumed  such  proportions  as  to  warrant 
its  merging  in  1895  with  the  American  Pad  & 
Paper  Company,  and  Mr.  Taber  was  made 
superintendent  of  their  printing  department, 
and  in  1904  president  of  the  corporation.  His 
successful  business  career  was  the  signal  for 
his  services  in  other  business  and  financial 
institutions,  and  he  became  a  trustee  of  the 
People's  Savings  Bank  of  Holyoke,  and  also 
an  auditor  of  that  institution.  He  held  the 
same  responsible  position  with  the  Home 
National  Bank  of  Holyoke,  and  with  other 
local  corporations.  His  political  affiliation 
was  with  the  Rciniblican  party,  and  as  he  had 
been  brought  up  in  the  Congregational  church 
he  affiliated  as  a  member  and  officer  in  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  Holyoke.  He 
married.  May  12,  1886,  Annie  A.,  daughter  of 
I.  B.  and  Annie  A.  (Streeter)  Lowell,  and 
granddaughter  of  Isaac  Lowell,  of  Orange, 
New  Hampshire.  Their  children,  born  in 
Holyoke,  Massachusetts  :  i.  Elwyn  Lowell,  July 
23.  i88y.  2.  Annie  Justine,  August  16.  1892.  3. 
Paul  Luther,  February  4,  1894,  died  July  7, 
1894.    4.  Donald  Robert,  November  i,  1902. 

(Thij    BiiUork    IJnel. 

This  ancient  name  has  been  traced  to  a  very 
early  period  in  England,  three  hundred  years 
before  the  general  adoption  of  surnames  in 
that  county.  Its  coat-of-arms  is  very  ancient, 
and  is  characterized  by  several  bullocks  amid 
other  figures  and  emblems.  There  is  a  family 
tradition  which  seems  rather  mythical  and  is 
now  sustained  by  records,  regarding  the  find- 
ing of  a  child  in  a  bull's  manger,  as  the  origin 
of  the  name.  This  name  was  very  early  identi- 
fied with  the  history  of  New  Hampsliire  and 
has  been  borne  by  lumicrous  prominent  citi- 
zens in  other  states.    Among  the  distinguished 


men  of  the  name  who  are  descended  from  the 
common  ancestor  may  be  mentioned  Alex- 
ander H.  Bullock,  of  Worcester,  one  time 
governor  of  Massachusetts ;  Stephen  Bullock, 
of  Rehoboth,  member  of  congress  under 
Jefferson's  administration,  and  his  son.  Dr. 
Samuel  Bullock,  a  member  of  the  Massachu- 
setts legislature ;  Richard  Bullock,  a  merchant 
of  means  and  high  standing  in  Providence; 
Nathaniel  Bullock,  lieutenant-governor  of 
Rhode  Island  in  1842;  Jonathan  R.  Bullock, 
lieutenant-governor  of  Rhode  Island  in  i860. 

(I)  Richard  Bullock  was  born  in  1622  in 
Essex  county,  England,  and  died  in  Rehoboth, 
Massachusetts,  November  22,  1667.  He  was 
accompanied  in  his  migration  to  America  by 
two  brothers,  one  of  whom  settled  in  Virginia. 
He  was  in  Rehoboth  as  early  as  1643,  and  left 
the  town  soon  after  1644.  The  Colonial  rec- 
ords show  that  he  was  made  a  freeman  in 
]\Iay,  1646,  but  do  not  indicate  his  residence 
at  that  time.  In  1656  he  removed  to  Newton, 
Long  Island,  but  soon  went  back  to  Rehoboth 
and  resided  there  till  his  death.  He  was  one 
of  the  fifty-eight  landed  proprietors  of  Reho- 
both. June  22,  1658,  "At  a  town-meeting 
lawfully  warned,  lots  were  drawn  for  the 
meadows  that  lie  on  the  north  side  of  the 
town,  in  order  as  followeth,  according  to  per- 
son and  estate."  Richard  Bullock  drew  No. 
19,  and  he  bought  the  governor's  lot  valued  at 
two  hundred  pounds.  His  name  appears  on 
the  records  of  the  town  in  1643,  and  he  came 
there  it  is  said  with  Roger  Williams.  The  town 
record  recites:  "30th  of  the  nth  mo.  (Janu- 
ary) 1650,  quoted  to  agree  with  Richard"  Bul- 
lock to  perform  the  office  of  Town  Clerk;  to 
give  him  i6s.  a  year,  and  to  be  paid  for  births, 
burials  and  marriages  besides."  He  married, 
August  4,  1647,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard Ingraham,  of  Rehoboth,  and  their  chil- 
dren were:  Samuel,  Elizabeth,  Mary,  Mehit- 
able,  .Abigail,  Hopestill,  Israel,  Marcy,  John 
and  Richard. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  Richard  and  F,lizal)cth 
(Ingraham)  Bullock,  was  born  at  Rehoboth, 
Massachusetts,  .\ugust  19.  1648.  He  was  a 
fanner  and  lived  at  Rehoboth.  His  name 
ajjpcars  in  the  list  of  proprietors  of  Rehoboth 
in  1689.  He  was  a  contributor  to  the  fund 
raised  for  defence  in  King  Philip's  war  in 
1675.  He  married  (first)  Mary  Thurber.  No- 
vember 12.  1673.  He  married  (second) 
Thankful  Rouse.  May  26,  1675.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  Mary,  born  October  4,  1674; 
Ebenezer,  February  22,  1676;  Thankful.  June 


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1643,  and  left 


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26,  168 1 ;  Samuel,  November  7,  1683;  Israel, 
April  9,  1687:  Daniel.  1689:  Richard.  July  i, 
1692 :  Seth,  September  26,  1693. 

(Ill)  Seth,  youngest  child  of  Samuel  and 
Thankful  (Rouse)  Bullock,  was  born  in  Reho- 
both,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  September 
26,  1693.  He  married,  probably  in  1718,  Ex- 
perience (her  surname  is  not  recorded),  and 
they  had  children  born  in  Rehoboth  as  fol- 
lows: I.  Cordelia,  November  3.  1719.  2. 
Ilezekiah.  June  13,  1722.  3.  Benjamin  (q.  v.), 
June  26,  1725.  4.  Experience,  June  18,  1728. 
5.  Hannah,  January  4,  1730.  6.  Seth,  May 
26,  1733.  7-  Jonathan,  February  17,  1735.  8. 
Rebecca,  July  7.  1739.  9.  Ann,  November  23, 
1741.  ID.  Carack,  December  9,  1744.  11. 
Sliubel.  I'ebruary  II,  1746.  12.  Patience, 
March  31,  1751. 

("IV)  Benjamin,  second  son  of  Seth  and 
Experience  Bullock,  was  born  in  Rehoboth, 
Massachusetts,  June  26,  1725.  He  married 
Jane  Kelton,  and  they  had  twelve  children 
born  in  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  as  follows : 
I.  Sarah,  February  25.  1752.  2.  Preserved, 
August  18.  1753.  3.  Hezekiah  (q.  v.).  4. 
Simeon.  October  4.  1756.  5.  Ruth,  November 
22,  1758.  6.  Seth.  7.  Ann  (twins),  March 
14.  1761.  8.  Experience,  July  23.  1764.  9. 
Mary,  March  3,  1767.  10.  Benjamin.  Febru- 
ary 22,   1769.     II.  Coomer,  March  22,   1771. 

12.  Jane,  April  26,  1773.  The  family  removed 
from  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts,  to  (jrafton, 
New  Hamjishire,  in  the  fall  of  1773  or  1774. 

(\')  Ilezekiah,  second  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Jane  (Kelton)  Bullock,  was  born  in  Rehoboth, 
Massachusetts,  November  12,  1754.  He  re- 
moved with  his  father's  family  to  Grafton, 
New  Hampshire,  in  1773-74.  He  married 
Abigail  Aldricb,  of  Grafton,  and  they  had 
eight  children,  born  in  Grafton,  as  follows: 
I.  Simeon,  November  21,  1780.  2.  Mary,  July, 
1783.  3.  Hezekiah  Cq.  v.).  4.  Nabby,  No- 
vember, 1788.  5.  Lydia,  May,  1790.  6.  Sally, 
died  1792.  7.  Peter,  March  24,  1796.  8. 
Jesse.  December  23,  1802. 

(\'I)  Hezekiah  (2).  second  son  of  Heze- 
kiah (i)  and  Abigail  (Aldricb)  Bullock,  was 
born  in  Grafton,  New  Hampshire,  November 
22.  1785.  He  married  Mary  Martin,  and  they 
had  seven  children  born  in  Grafton,  New 
Hampshire,  as  follows:     i.  Elsie  E.,  January 

13,  1808.  2.  Aniab  Kendrick,  April  21,  1809. 
3.  Martin,  August  15,  1810.  4.  Pluma,  March 
31,  1815.  5.  Gilbert,  April  25,  1816.  6.  Sabra 
Ann,  December  24.  1819.  7.  Lydia  Wheat 
(q.  v.),  June  20,   1823.  married.  October  22, 


1844,  Luther  Anthony   (q.  v.),  son  of  David 
and  Elizabeth   (Fitch)   Tabcr. 


The  Lee  family  is  ancient  in  Eng- 
LEE     land.      "Sir    Walter   at    Lee    of   ye 

Mannor  of  Lee  of  Lee  Hall,  there 
in  yc  Parish  of  Wibenbury  in  ye  County  Pala- 
tine of  Chester  ye  36  of  King  Edward  ye  3, 
whose  ancestors  bad  been  there  seated  for 
ages.''  The  name  is  s|)ellcd  in  many  ways, 
among  them  Lee,  Lea,  Leigh,  Laigh,  Ley, 
Legh.  Difierent  branches  of  the  family  bore 
arms  and  used  different  ways  of  spelling  the 
name.  It  is  thought  that  Thomas  Lee,  the 
immigrant  mentioned  below,  may  have  been 
related  to  the  Cheshire  family  at  Lee  Manor. 

(I)  Thomas  Lee.  immigrant  ancestor,  sailed 
for  America  in  1641  with  his  wife,  and  his 
wife's  father,  and  three  young  children.  He 
died  on  the  voyage  of  small  pox,  and  was 
buried  at  sea._  His  wife,  Phebe  (Brown)  Lee, 
married    (second)     Greenfield    Larabee,    and 

(third) Cornish.     The   family  settled 

at  Saybrook,  Connecticut,  afterwards  Lyme. 
Children:  I.  Phebe,  married.  1659,  John 
Large,  of  Long  Island.  2.  Jane,  married 
(first)  1659,  Samuel  Hyde;  (second)  John 
Blanchard.     3.  Thomas,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Lieutenant  Thomas  (2), son  of  Thomas 
(i)  Lee,  came  with  his  parents  to  America 
and  inherited  his  father's  property.  He  set- 
tled in  that  part  of  .Saybrook  which  became 
the  town  of  Lyme,  and  was  a  large  landowner. 
At  one  time  it  was  said  he  owned  an  eighth 
part  of  the  town.  He  was  appointed  in  March, 
1701,  ensign  of  the  train  band  at  Lyme,  and 
was  afterwards  lieutenant.  He  was  repre- 
sentative in  1676.  His  will  was  dated  June 
9-  1703-  ^iifl  proved  ]-"cbruary  19.  1704.  He 
married  (first)  Sarah  Kirtland.  of  Saybrook, 
\\'ho  (lied  May  2T,  ifijG,  He  married  (second) 
July  13,  1676,  Maryt  DcWolf.  who  died  Janu- 
ary 5,  1704-05,  daughter  of  Balthazar  DeWolf. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  John,  born  Sep- 
tember 21,  1670,  mentioned  below.  2.  Mary, 
September  21,  1671.  married,  1693.  Thomas 
Lord.  3.  Thomas,  December  10,  1672,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Graham.  4.  Sarah.  January 
14.  1674-75,  married  Daniel  I'.uckingham. 
Children  of  second  wife:  5.  Phebe,  .Xugust 
14,  1677,  married  Captain  Reinold  Marvin. 
6.  Mary,  April  23.  1679,  married  (first)  Joseph 
Beckwith  ;  (^second)  .Sterling.  7.  Eliz- 
abeth. October  20.  1681.  married  Samuel  Peck. 
8.  William.  .April  7.  1684,  married.  November 
I,  1715,   Marv  Griffin,     0.   Stephen,  June  27, 


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1686,  died  young.  10.  Joseph,  May  14,  1688, 
died  January  19,  1704-05.  11.  Benjamin, 
October  8,  1690,  died  young.  12.  Benjamin, 
December  22,  1692.  13.  Hannah,  February 
25,  1694-95,  married,  June  23,  1713,  Judge 
John  Griswold;  died  Way  11,  1773.  14.  Ste- 
phen, January  19,  1698-99,  married  (fir.st) 
December  24,  1719.  Abigail  Lord:  (second) 
January  25,  1742-43,  Mary  Pickett,  widow.  15. 
Lydia.  February  18,  1701-02,  dieil  unmarried. 

(IJI)  John,  son  of  Lieutenant  Thomas  (2) 
Lee,  was  born  September  21.  1670,  died  lan- 
uary  17,  1716.  He  married,  February  8,  1692, 
Ehzabeth  Smith,  of  Lyme,  who  married  (sec- 
ond) 1722,  John  Bates,  of  Groton,  Connec- 
ticut. She  died  in  1761-62.  aged  about  ninety 
years.  Children:  i.  Sarah,  born  November 
12.  1693,  married  John  Lay.  2.  Elizabeth, 
April  30,  1695.  died  unmarried  1720.  3.  Phebe, 
March  2.  1696-97,  married  (first)  James 
EUlerkin ;  (second)  Samuel  Southward.  4. 
Luc}-,  June  20,  1699,  married,  January  17, 
1716-17,  Amos  Tinker.  5.  Jane,  May  20, 
1701,  married  Thomas  Way.  6.  John,  May  17, 
1703.  mentioned  below.  7.  Joseph,  Novem- 
ber 24,  1705,  married,  August  21,  1727,  Mary 
-Allen:  died  August  29,  1779.  8.  Mary.  Jan- 
uary 30,  1707-08,  married  John  Comstock.  9. 
Hepzibah,  ^lay  16,  17 10,  married.  February 
25'  J 735-36,  Eiisha  Lee;  died  1783.  10.  Ben- 
jamin, September  4,  1712.  married,  March  25. 
1736,  J\L-iry  Ely;  died  1777.  11.  Joanna,  April 
28,  171 5,  married  John  Beckwith. 

(IV)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Lee.  was 
born  May  17,  1703,  died  August  26.  1745. 
He  was  a  representative  and  king's  attorney, 
and  was  much  employed  in  public  business. 
He  was  one  who  in  1743  withstood  the  vision- 
ary Rev.  James  Davenport,  when  under  his 
influence  the  people  of  New  London  made  a 
fire  to  burn  their  idols.  John  Lee  said  that 
his  idols  were  his  wife  and  children,  and  that 
he  could  not  burn  them — it  would  l)e  con- 
trary to  the  law  of  God  and  man :  that  it  was 
impossible  to  destroy  idolatry  without  a  change 
of  heart  and  of  the  affections.  He  married 
(first)  March  14.  1723-24,  Lydia  .Allen,  of 
Montville.  Connecticut:  (.second)  February  17. 
1731-32,  his  cousin,  Eunice  I^ee :  (third) 
October  7.  1741.  .\bigail  Tully.  who  married 
(second)  Deacon  Caleb  Chapman,  and  died 
May  2.  1773.  Children  of  first  wife:  t.  Eliz- 
beth,  born  November  2.  1724.  married,  Au- 
gust 13,  1747,  Captain  Abner  Lee;  died  No- 
vember 2.  1 76 1.  2.  Lydia.  .\ugust  13,  1727, 
died  unmarried.  3.  Parthenia,  October  15, 
1730.    Children  of  second  wife:    4.  Dr.  John, 


July  25,  1733,  married  Elizabeth  Griswold. 
5.  -Martin,  July  26,  1735,  died  young.  6.  Giles, 
July  27.   1737,  married   (first')   Delight  Way; 

(^second) Smith;     (third)     Martha 

Crook;  died  1790.  7.  Ann,  .\ugust  i.  1739, 
married,  July  23.  1761,  Ensign  Zechariah 
Marvin;  died  March  i,  1777.  Children  of 
third  wife:  8.  Eunice,  January  14,  1742-43, 
married  Samuel  Hall.  "9.  .Vndrew,  May  7, 
1745.  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Rev.  .Andrew,  son  of  John  (2)  Lee, 
was  born  May  7,  1745,  died  .August  24,  1832. 
He  graduated  from  Yale  College  in  1766  and 
was  settled  as  the  first  minister  at  Hanover, 
the  north  society  of  Lisbon,  Connecticut,  Octo- 
ber 26,  1768.  Fie  was  pastor  of  this  church 
for  more  than  sixty  years.  He  built  his  house 
in  1770.  In  1809  he  received  from  Harvard 
College  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Sacred  Theology.  He  was  a  fellow  of  Yale 
College.  He  was  a  man  of  generous  impulses 
and  candid  and  liberal  in  sentiment.  He  pub- 
lished a  volume  of  sermons  and  various  sep- 
arate discourses  which  display  vigorous 
thought  antl  nice  discrimination.  He  was, 
however,  deficient  in  jnilpit  oratory,  his  de- 
livery being  heavy  and  monotonous.  During 
the  revolution  he  served  from  January  i  to 
October  15,  1777,  in  the  Fourth  Regiment 
Connecticut  Line,  under  Colonel  John  Durkee, 
as  chaplain  in  the  army.  He  was  a  lover  of 
science  and  a  good  classic  scholar  of  his  day. 
His  theology  was  moderately  Calvinistic.  He 
retired  a  few  years  before  he  died.  Rev.  Dr. 
Samuel  Nott  preached  his  funeral  sermon.  He 
married  (first)  December  15,  1768,  Eunice 
Hall,  who  died  October  7,  1800.  She  was  of 
a  fine  complexion,  small  stature,  remarkable 
sprightliness  and  activity.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) October  22,  1801,  Abigail  (Williams) 
Smith,  widow  of  Ebenezer  Smith,  of  Roxbury, 
i\rassachusetts;  she  died  May  2},.  1831.  Chil- 
dren, all  by  first  wife:  i.  Eunice,  born  Octo- 
ber 22.  1769.  married.  January  21.  1796.  Rev. 
Ezra  Witter,  of  Wilbraham.  2.  Mary,  .\pril 
16,  1771.  married,  February  12,  1795.  Hon. 
William  Perkins.  3.  John.  February  21,  1773, 
married.  September  30.  1798.  Mary  Griffin; 
died  July  29.  1814.  4.  Dr.  Tully.  December 
27,  1774.  married.  May  19.  17116.  Lois  .\bell; 
died  May  11.  1806.  5.  .Abigail.  May  23.  1777, 
married.  December.  1799,  (Tharles  Lord:  died 
1817.  6.  .Andrew.  June  2.  1779,  married, 
1807,  Leniira  Bushnell;  died  February  3.  1815. 
7.  Lucy.  June  23.  1781.  married,  June  3,  1802, 
Dr.  Judah  Bliss.  8.  Hon.  Martin.  June  11, 
1783,  died  .April  17,  1868;  married  Ann  Wen- 


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dell.  9.  William,  August  15,  1785,  mentioned 
below.     10.  Betsey.  May  4,  1793,  died  young. 

(VI)  Deacon  William,  son  of  Rev.  .Andrew 
Lee,  was  born  in  Hanover,  Connecticut,  .'Au- 
gust 15,  1785,  died  March  24,  1871.  He  lived 
on  the  homestead  in  Hanover  all  his  life  and 
was  a  farmer.  For  forty-one  years  he  was 
deacon  of  the  church  of  which  his  father  was 
pastor.  He  was  an  earnest  Christian  and  an 
active  temperance  worker,  and  very  much  in 
sympathy  with  the  anti-slavery  movement, 
and  a  zealous  worker  in  that  cause.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  .April  9,  1812,  Nancy  Bingham, 
of  Lisbon,  Connecticut.  .She  died  January  4, 
1825,  aged  thirty-seven,  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond )  Sarah  Storrs,  who  died  December  6, 
1838.  He  married  (third)  May  27,  1840, 
Thankful  .Ayer,  who  died  December  4,  1880. 
Children  of  first  wife:  I.  Eliza  Williams, 
born  March  17.  18 13,  married  .A.aron  Crary. 
2.  Eunice  Hall,  December  4,  181 5.  married 
Levi  P.  Rowland.  3.  Nancy,  September  19, 
18 17.  married  Nathan  P.  Bishop.  4.  Andrew, 
January  25.  1820,  married  Eliza  Hitchcock. 
5.  Talitha  liingham,  July  10,  1822,  married 
Closes  Gallup.  6.  Lucy  Perkins,  January  4. 
1825.  married  Roger  A.  Bishop.  Children  of 
second  wife:  7.  William  Storrs,  December 
15,  1827,  resided  on  the  homestead;  learned 
trade  of  tinsmith  at  Plainfield ;  removed  to 
Springfield  and  settled  alter  marriage  at 
Sprague  on  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  si.xty 
acres  ;  makes  a  specialty  of  peach  raising ;  mar- 
ried. .April  4.  i860,  Frances  .Anna  Calkins, 
daughter  of  Elisha  and  Abby  (Chapman) 
Calkins,  of  East  Lyme;  children:  i.  Abbie 
S.,  died  May  i,  1896;  graduate  of  Normal 
school ;  teacher  of  Workingmen's  school ;  mem- 
ber of  .Society  of  Ethical  Cidture,  Peoj)le's 
singing  classes  and  People's  Choral  l/nion  ;  ii. 
William  Storrs.  Jr.,  who  graduated  at  .Storrs 
-Agricidtural  College:  married,  March  28,  1894, 
Hetty  Chapman,  of  Sprague:  had  three  daugh- 
ters and  one  son.  8.  Samuel  Henry,  mentioned 
below. 

CV'TL)  Rev.  Samuel  Henry,  son  of  William 
Lee,  was  born  in  Hanover,  now,  Si)rague, 
Connecticut,  December  21,  1832.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town,  and  then  attended  the  academy 
at  Plainfield  for  one  winter,  in  1847  entering 
Worcester  Academy  at  Worcester,  Massachu- 
setts. In  the  winter  of  that  year  he  taught 
school  at  Hanover  for  ten  dollars  a  month 
and  his  board,  when  not  seventeen  years  old. 
In  1850,  at  the  close  of  the  harvest  season, 
he  went  to  the  .State  Normal  school  at  New 


Britain,  and  coninicncing  in  December  of  that 
year  taught  in  New  liritain  until  the  sjjring 
of  1851.  continuing  through  the  summer  and 
fall  of  the  same  year  in  the  Normal  school. 
In  the  fall  of  1852  he  taught  a  boy's  prepara- 
torj-  school  in  Farmington,  Connecticut,  teach- 
ing English  and  studying  Latin.  In  the  winter 
of  1851-52  he  was  a  teacher  in  the  Greenwich 
public  scJiool.  He  graduated  from  tlie  Normal 
school  in  the  class  of  1852  and  from  Williston 
Seminary  at  Easthampton  in  1854.  He  then 
entered  Yale  College  and  was  graduated  in 
1858  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  He  received 
the  degree  of  A.  M.  from  his  alma  mater  in 
1904.  He  returned  to  the  normal  school  as 
teacher  of  mathematics  for  two  years.  He 
took  up  the  study  of  theology  and  in  i860 
entered  Yale  Divinity  School,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1862.  He  accepted  a  call 
to  the  pastorate  of  the  Porter  Evangelical 
Church  (Congregational)  of  North  Bridge- 
water,  now  Pirockton,  Massachusetts,  and  was 
ordained  September  17.  1862.  He  was  active 
and  earnest  in  supporting  the  I'nion  both  in 
and  out  of  the  pulpit.  He  resigned  his  pas- 
torate in  February,  1866,  and  the  year  previ- 
ous (1865)  entered  the  service  of  the  Chris- 
tian commission  and  was  in  Sherman's  army, 
then  in  Washington,  waiting  to  be  mustered 
out  of  service.  He  received  a  call  to  the 
Hammond  .Street  Church  in  Bangor,  Maine, 
but  declined  it  and  accepted  the  pastorate  of 
the  Congregational  church  at  (jrecnfield,  Mass- 
achusetts, where  he  was  installed  in  August, 
1866.  Here  he  succeeded  in  uniting  a  divided 
church  and  in  erecting  a  beautiful  stone  edifice. 
In  1872  he  became  pastor  of  the  I'"irst  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and 
he  enjoyed  a  very  successful  pastorate  of  seven 
years.  In  1878  he  accepted  the  professorship 
of  political  economy  in  Oberlin  College,  Ohio, 
and  during  the  five  years  that  he  filled  this 
chair  he  was  active  in  raising  funds  for  the 
institution.  During  the  ne.xt  two  years  he 
had  temporary  charge  of  the  old  parish  in 
Brattleborougli,  \'ermont.  In  December,  1885, 
he  took  up  his  residence  in  New  Haven,  Con- 
necticut, sup]ilying  puljiits  in  that  city  and 
vicinity,  jiarticularly  that  of  the  Ferry  Con- 
gregational Church  of  New  Haven  and  the 
Congregational  cJuirch  of  Georgetown,  Con- 
necticut. In  1884  he  attenfk'fl  a  summer 
school,  coiulucted  by  Professor  W.  R.  Harper, 
at  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  studying  Hebrew. 
He  became  a  great  admirer  of  Professor  Har- 
per and  at  his  instance  Dr.  Noah  Porter,  presi- 
dent of  \\'ile.  secured  his  appointment  as  pro- 


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fessor  of  Semitic  Languages  at  Yale  Univer- 
sity. But  it  was  necessary  to  raise  an  endow- 
ment of  $60,000  to  support  the  chair.  jMr. 
Lee  was  instrumental  in  securing  the  professor- 
ship of  Semitic  languages  at  Yale  for  Dr. 
Harper.  In  the  spring  of  1890  Air.,  Lee 
acepted  the  chair  of  history  and  political  econ- 
omy in  the  French-American  College  at  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  and  from  the  beginning 
of  his  work  there  aided  the  institution,  as  he 
had  Oberlin  and  Yale  by  raising  necessary 
funds  from  time  to  time.  Three  years  later, 
July  12,  1893,  upon  the  resignation  of  Rev. 
C.  E.  Amaron,  he  became  president  of  the 
college.  The  college  flourished  under  his 
leadership,  the  standard  of  instruction  was 
raised,  the  number  of  students  increased  and 
in  1906  the  present  name  was  adopted,  the 
•American  International  College.  In  1893  a 
a  new  dormitory  was  built,  called  Gymnasium 
Hall,  and  in  1898-99  the  woman's  hall  was 
erected.  In  July,  1908,  President  Lee  resigned, 
but  as  president  emeritus  still  takes  a  keen 
interest  in  the  work  and  progress  of  the  col- 
lege to  which  he  has  devoted  so  much  energy 
and  labor.  He  resides  at  106  Wilbraham 
road,  Springfield.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  Club  and  Reality  Club.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

He  married,  August  7, 1861,  Emma  C.  Carter, 
born  January  31,  1835,  daughter  of  Evits  and 
Emma  (Taylor)  Carter,  of  Pleasant  Valley, 
Connecticut.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Society 
of  Mayflower  Decendants.  Children:  i. 
(Jerald  Stanley,  born  October  4,  1862,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Christabel,  .April  30,  1865, 
graduate  of  Wellesley  College  in  1888:  teacher 
one  year  in  the  Ladies  Seminary  at  Rochester, 
New  York;  married,  August  28.  1885,  Philo 
Perry  SafTord,  .son  of  Rev.  John  D.  Safford ; 
graduate  of  Oberlin  College  and  of  Columbia 
Law  School  and  now  practicing  law  in  New 
York  City;  children:  Cenffrey  Lee,  Eliza- 
beth L.,  Alcodore  L.  and  Philip  L.  3.  Grace, 
Greenfield,  December  13,  1867,  student  three 
years  in  Wellesley  College ;  teacher  six  months 
in  the  .American  International  College  at 
Springfield ;  member  of  the  working  force  of 
the  Children's  Aid  Society  of  Boston  three 
years ;  secretary  of  the  Children's  .Aid  Society 
at  Baltimore  in  1900;  died  December  28,  1900. 
4.  Rev.  Theodore  Storrs,  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
IVIay  23,  1873,  educated  at  the  New  Haven 
high  school,  tlie  Willistnn  i^eminary.  and  the 
American  International  College,  but  his  health 
failed  and  he  did  not  take  a  degree ;  after  a 
lirolf)ngcd    visit    in    the    south    lie    graduated 


from  Amherst  College  in  1900  and  from  the 
Union  Theological  Seminary  of  New  York  in 
1903 ;  ordained  pastor  of  the  White  Plains 
Congregational  Church,  October  20,  1903 ; 
now  a  missionary  in  Satara  District,  India; 
married,  October  i,  1903,  Hannah  Hume, 
daughter  of  R.  A.  Hume;  child.  Grace, 
born  in  India. 

(VIII)  Rev.  Gerald  Stanley,  son  of  Rev. 
Samuel  Henry  Lee,  was  born  at  Brockton, 
October  4..  1862.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  and  entered  Oberlin  College,  but  com- 
pleted his  course  and  took  his  degree  at  Mid- 
dlebury  College,  \'ermont,  with  the  class  of 
1885.  He  was  ordained  in  the  Congregational 
church  and  preached  one  year  at  Princeton, 
Minnesota.  For  four  years  he  was  pastor  of 
the  Congregational  church  at  Sharon,  Con- 
necticut. In  1895  he  was  installed  as  pastor 
of  the  Park  Congregational  Church  of  West 
Springfield,  Massachusetts.  He  resigned  his 
pastorate  in  1896  and  since  then  has  been 
engaged  in  literary  work,  making  his  home  in 
Northampton.  "  He  married,  June  25,  1896, 
Jennette  Barbour  Perry,  born  November  10, 
i860.  They  have  one  child,  Geraldine.  born 
April  I,  1897.  Mrs.  Lee  is  a  well-known 
author.  .Among  the  books  she  has  published 
are:  "Kate  Wetherell,"  "Pillar  of  Salt," 
(1901),  "The  Son  of  a  Fiddler"  (1902), 
"Uncle  William"  (1906),  "The  Ibsen  Secret" 
(1906),  "Simeon  Tetlow's  Shadow"  (1908). 
Mrs.  Lee  is  professor  of  English  in  Smith  Col- 
lege, Northampton.  Mr.  Lee  is  one  of  the 
prominent  of  the  younger  American  authors 
and  magazine  writers.  He  is  the  author  of 
the  following  books :  "An  Old  New  England 
Church  by  a  A'oung  New  England  Parson." 
published  by  W.  W.  Knight  Company  in  1891 ; 
"The  Shadow  Christ,"  published  by  the  Cen- 
tury Company  in  1896;  "The  Lost  Art  of 
Reading,"  published  by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons 
in  1902:  "The  X'oice  of  the  Machines;"  "In- 
spired Millionaires."  jniblished  by  Mount  Tom 
Press  in  1908. 


(For  preceding  generations  see  Thomas  Lee  1). 

(IV)  Rev.  Joseph  Lee,  son  of  John 
LEE     Lee.  was  born  in  Lyme.  August  24, 

1705,  died  .August  29.  1779.  He 
married.  .August  21,  1727,  Mary  .Allen,  of 
MoiUville.  He  was  a  lay  preacher,  was  or- 
dained in  the  Presbyterian  church  and  became 
pastor  of  the  church  at  Oyster  Bay,  Long 
Island.  When  the  revolution  broke  out  he  re- 
turned to  Lyme  and  died  there.  He  had  ten 
children.  His  sons:  i. Samuel. mentioned  below. 


MASSACHrSETTS. 


183. 


2.  Dr.  Joseph.  3.  Rev.  Jason,  married,  Janu- 
ary 21,  1762,  Mrs.  .Abiah  l?ro\vn.  The  other 
children  died  before  reaching  maturity. 

{\')  Samuel,  son  of  Rev.  Joseph  Lee,  was 
born  in  1728.  jirobably  in  Lyme,  Connecticut. 
He  settled  in  Middletown,  Connecticut,  where 
he  died  in  1793.  H^  married  Rhoda  Lee. 
( .According  to  the  Bliss  Genealogy  he  married 
her  sister  Lois,  March  28,  1731.  Loi.s  was 
born  April  25.  1728).  Rhoda  Bliss  was  born 
in  1731,  daughter  of  Thnuias  and  Lois  (Cald- 
well) Bliss,  of  AFiddletown,  Connecticut. 
Thomas  Bliss,  a  cooper  by  trade,  was  born 
April  20,  1704,  married.  May  10,  1727.  Lois 
Caldwell,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Hannah 
(Butler)  Caldwell,  of  Hartford.  His  widow, 
born  February  18,  1705,  married  (second) 
January  31.  1754.  Deacon  Joseph  White. 
Thomas  Bliss,  father  of  Thomas,  was  born 
February  or  March,  1668:  married  Hannah 
Caldwell'.  Samuel  Bliss,  father  of  Thomas, 
was  born  in  England  in  1624;  married,  No- 
vember 10,  1664-65.  Mary  Leonard,  daughter 
of  John  and  Sarah  (Heath)  Leonard.  She 
was  born  September  14.  1647,  and  died  in 
1724:  he  died  March  2^^.  1720.  Samuel  Bliss 
.was  the  son  of  Jonathan  Bliss,  of  England, 
and  grandson  of  Thomas  Bliss.  Rhoda  (Bliss) 
Lee  died  in  1815.  Children:  i.  Margaret, 
born  November  16,  1731.  2.  Samuel,  July  26, 
1753.  died  young.  3.  Maribel.  July  28,  1755. 
4.  David,  March  4,  1757.    5.  Rhoda,  November 

3.  1760.  6.  James  \\'ilson,  March  31.  1763. 
7.  John.  February  i.  1766.  8.  Samuel.  June 
23,  1767,  mentioned  below,  g.  Rachel,  De- 
cember II,  1768.  10.  Bliss,  May  4.  1770,  ii. 
Benjamin.  .August  23.  1772. 

(VI)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i  )  Lee, 
was  born  at  Middletown.  June  23.  1767,  mar- 
ried Lucretia  Curtis.  Children,  born  in  Mid- 
dletown:  I.  Samuel  Wilson,  born  September 
14,  1792,  mentioned  below.  2.  James  Wilson. 
3.  Rhoda.      Probably  other  children. 

(VTI)  Samuel  Wilson,  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
Lee.  was  born  in  Middletown.  September  14, 
1792,  died  at  Northampton.  Massachusetts, 
July,  1875.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools.  He  learned  the  trade  of  tinsmith  at 
Berlin,  Connecticut,  and  followed  it  at  flreen- 
field  and  Northam])ton.  Massachusetts.  He 
lived  al.so  at  Conway  and  Northamjjton,  Mass- 
achusetts. He  married,  at  Greenfield.  Novem- 
ber 19.  1820.  Electa  Bacon,  born  at  Conway, 
November  25.  1797.  died  at  Northampton, 
.April  I,  1857,  daughter  of  William  and  Me- 
hitable  (Warren)  Bacon.  Mehitable  died  in 
1844;  daughter  of  William  and   Mary    ( Dal- 


rymple)  Warren.  The  Dalrymple  family  was 
of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  William  Bacon  was 
born  at  Sutton,  Massachusetts.  December  27, 
1756,  son  of  William  and  Mary  Bacon,  of 
Sutton.  His  Uncle  Jonathan  also  lived  in  Sut- 
ton, in  that  part  of  the  town  set  off  to  L'pton. 
W'illiam,  Jr.,  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution  in 
the  Sutton  Company,  Cajjtain  John  Putnam, 
Colonel  Ebenezer  Learned's  regiment  on  the 
Lexington  alarm ;  also  in  Captain  Isaac  Bol- 
ster's company.  He  was  at  the  battle  of  Ticon- 
deroga  and  at  Yorktown.  Once  a  bullet  from 
a  British  gun  cut  the  string  from  which  his 
powder  horn  hung  about  his  neck,  .\fter  the 
revolution  he  moved  to  Conway.  Samuel 
W'ilson  Lee  was  a  member  of  Jerusalem  Lodge 
of  Free  Masons  and  a  past  master.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  November  26.  1857.  Children 
of  Samuel  Wilson  Lee,  the  first  three  born  in 
Conway,  the  others  in  Northampton:  i.  Sam- 
uel Wilson.  Jr..  October  13.  1821.  died  March 
17,  1825.  2.  Electa  Bacon,  September  30, 
1824,  resides  at  227  Locust  street,  Florence 
station,  Northampton.  Massachusetts;  unmar- 
ried. 3.  Cornelia  Frances,  December  7.  1826, 
died  January  18.  1908.  married.  January  8, 
1848. 'Rev.  VN'illiam  Bates:  children:  i.  Will- 
iam Bates.  Jr..  born  March  16.  1849;  ii- Arthur 
Lee  Bates,  born  March  25.  1851  :  iii.  Jane 
Bates,  born  July  6,  1854  ;  iv.  Samuel  Lee  Bates, 
born  February  25,  1857;  v.  Katherine  Lee 
Bates,  born  .August  12.  1859.  professor  in 
Wellesley  College.  4.  Charles  Henry,  Janu- 
ary I.  1830.  died  May  18.  1832.  5.  Katherine 
Elizabeth.  December  11.  1832.  died  unmarried 
at  Grantville,  May  2,  1874.  6.  Samuel  Will- 
iam. .April  14,  1835.  mentioned  below. 

(\TH)  .Samuel  W^illiam,  son  of  Samuel 
Wilson  I.,ce,  was  born  in  Northampton.  April 
14.  1835.  died  there  .Ajiril  22.  1901.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  early  in 
life  learned  the  trade  of  tinsmith  under  his 
father.  He  engaged  in  business  later  as  a 
tinsmith  in  Nortliampton.  He  became  a  part- 
ner in  the  firm  of  William  H.  Todd  &  Com- 
pany.  hardware  dealer.s,  Northampton.  He 
was  a  Rci)ublican  in  ])olitics  and  a  Congrega- 
tionalist  in  religion.  He  was  a  member  of 
Jerusalem  Lodge.  Free  Masons ;  Northam))ton 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons:  William  Par- 
.sons  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ; 
Northampton  Commandery,  Knights  Templar. 
He  married  Hcjizibah  Fisk  .Severance,  born 
July  9,  1833,  daughter  of  Horace  and  Mary 
(Fisk)  Severance.  (.See  .Severance  VI). 
Children:  i.  Samuel  William,  Jr.,  born  Au- 
gust   10,    1857,    mentioned    below.      2.    Grace 


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Angeline,  February  2,  1859,  died  August  26, 
1884:  married  John  W.  Robinson;  child, 
Arthur  Lee  Robinson,  married,  August  10, 
1907,  Mary  Marsh,  of  Amherst.  3.  Arthur 
Bacon,  September  23,  uSfii,  died  December  3, 
1898;  married  Rose  T.  Torrey ;  they  have  no 
cliildren.  4.  PhiHp  Severance,  July  6,  1867, 
died  August  11,  1869. 

(IX)  Samuel  William  (2),  son  of  Samuel 
William  (i)  Lee,  was  born  August  10,  1857,  in 
Northampton.  He  received  his  education  in 
the  common  schools  of  his  native  town,  and 
at  the  age  of  si.xteen  became  a  clerk  in  the 
insurance  office  of  Peck  &  Pierce.  After  four 
years  in  this  position  he  became  bookkeeper 
for  the  Mill  River  Button  Company  at  Leeds, 
Massachusetts.  Afterward  he  was  bookkeeper 
for  the  Nonotuck  Silk  Mills  of  Leeds  and  in 
February,  1902,  was  elected  a  director  of  the 
corporation,  and  manager  of  the  mills  of  this 
company  at  Florence.  .After  the  death  of 
George  H.  Ray,  treasurer  of  the  corporation, 
November  30,  1903,  Mr.  Lee  was  elected  to 
succeed  him  and  since  that  time  has  managed 
the  afTairs  of  the  company  with  ability  and 
success.  This  company  has  for  many  years 
maintained  a  leading  position  in  the  industrial 
world.  It  was  established  in  1838  and  has 
large  mills  at  Florence,  Leeds  and  Hayden- 
ville,  Massachusetts,  and  Hartford,  Connec- 
ticut, manufacturing  the  celebrated  Corticelli 
spool  silk,  Corticelli  machine  twist,  Corticelli 
sewing  silk  and  buttonhole  twist,  Corticelli 
wash  embroidery  silk,  Corticelli  crochet  and 
knitting  silk.  Corticelli  purse  twist,  dental  floss, 
surgeons  silk,  darning  silk,  silk  braids  and 
spun  silk  on  cones  and  tubes  for  manufac- 
turers, worsted  and  mohair  dress  braids,  trim- 
mings, braids  and  bindings.  Mr.  Lee  is  a 
Re|)ublican  and  has  taken  an  active  part  in 
public  affairs.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the 
common  council  of  Northampton,  and  of 
the  school  committee,  of  which  he  was  chair- 
man during  the  last  year  of  his  term.  He 
was  formerly  secretary  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Forbes  Library  and  is  now  a 
trustee.  He  is  a  member  of  Jerusalem  Lodge 
of  Free  Masons;  of  Northampton  Cha|)tcr. 
Royal  Arch  Masons;  of  \\'illiaiu  Parsons 
("ouncil.  Royal  and  Select  Masters:  of  Xorth- 
ami)t(in  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of 
which  he  was  commander  three  years:  Melha 
Temiilc,  Order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  of  Sjiring- 
ficld.  I^Iassachusctts.  He  resides  at  Leeds. 
He  married,  .\pril  20,  1881,  Fmma  L.  Dimock, 
born  in  Hebron,  Connecticut,  daughter  of 
Lucius    and    Flecta    (Jones)    Dimock.      (See 


Dimock  VII).  They  have  one  child,  Harold 
Dimock,  born  March  29,  1882,  educated  at 
Philips  Academy,  Andover,  and  graduated  at 
Yale  College,  class  of  1907;  now  with  his 
father  in  the  Nonotuck  Mills. 

(The    Severance    Line). 

John  Severance,  immigrant  ancestor,  was  a 
resident  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  as  early  as 
1637.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  that  year 
and  in  1640  was  a  member  of  the  .Ancient  and 
Honorable  .Artillery  Company.  He  removed 
to  Salisbury  about  1639,  where  he  had  a  grant 
of  land.  He  was  one  of  the  prudential  com- 
mittee in  1642,  and  in  1645  was  appointed 
highway  surveyor.  On  December  21,  1647, 
he  sold  his  houses,  the  "new  and  old"  to 
Thomas  Bradbury,  and  opened  an  ordinary. 
He  was  afterwards  known  as  a  "victualler 
and  vinter."  He  was  on  a  committee  in  1652 
to  repair  the  meeting  house.  His  will  was 
dated  .April  7,  1682,  and  proved  May  9,  1682. 
He  married  (first)  in  England,  in  1635,  Abi- 
gail Kimball,  who  died  June  19,  1658.  He 
married  (second)  October  27,  1663,  Mrs.  Sus- 
anna Ambrose,  of  Boston,  widow  of  Henry- 
Ambrose.     He  died  April  9,  1682.     Children : 

1.  Samuel,  born  September  19,  1637,  died 
young.  2.  Ebcnezer,  March  7,  1639,  died  un- 
married, September,  1667.  3.  Abigail,  Janu- 
ary 7,  1641,  died  same  day.  4.  .Abigail,  May 
25,  1643,  married,  November  29,  1664,  John 
Church.  5.  Mary,  August  5,  1645,  married, 
November  3,  1663,  James  Coffin.  6.  John, 
November  27,  1647,  mentioned  below.  7. 
Joseph,  February  13,  1650.  8.  Elizabeth,  .April 
8,  1632,  died  1636.  9.  Benjamin.  January  13, 
1634.  10.  Ejihraim,  April  8.  I('i56.  11.  Eliza- 
beth (twin).  June  17,  1638,  married,  1686, 
Samuel  Eastman.  12.  Daughter  (twin),  June 
17,  1638,  died  June  23,  following. 

(H)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Severance, 
was  born  November  27,  1647.  in  Salisbury. 
He  and  his  father  kept  the  inn.  and  about  1672 
he  went  to  Boston,  where  he  settled.  In  1680 
he  removed  to  Suffield.  Connecticut,  and  in 
i^jSo  to  Deerfield.  Massachusetts,  where  he 
settled  on  Lot  No.  i.  He  became  a  large  land 
owner  in  Deerfield.  About  1703  lie  removed 
again  to  Bedford.  \\'estchester  county.  New 
York,  remaining  there  about  twelve  years, 
returning  to  Deerfield  about  T713.  and  living 
the  last  years  of  his  life  with  liis  son  Joseph. 

He  married.  .August    13.   1672.  Mary . 

Children,  first  four  born  in  Boston,  the  others 
in  Suffield :     i.  Ebenezer.  .September  19,  1673. 

2.  .Abigail.  May  3.   1^173.  died  January,   1691. 


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3.  John,  September  22,  1676.  4.  Daniel,  June 
3,  1678,  killed  by  the  Indians,  September  15, 
1694.  5.  Mary,  July  14,  1681.  6.  Joseph, 
October  26,  1682,  mentioned  below. 

(Ill)  Joseph,  son  of  John  (2)  Severance, 
was  born  in  Snffield,  Connecticut,  October  26, 
1682,  died  April  10,  1766.  He  was  a  tailor 
by  trade,  and  resided  first  at  Deerfield,  where 
he  owned  a  house  and  home  lot.  He  was  in 
the  tight  in  the  meadows  in  1704  and  was  a 
soldier  in  the  service  in  1713.  He  was  wound- 
ed by  the  Indians  and  made  a  cripple,  and  was 
compensated  for  this  by  the  general  court, 
which  granted  him  two  hundred  acres  of  land 
east  of  Northfield  on  Mount  Grace.  His  father 
also  gave  him  land  in  Deerfield.  He  lived  also 
at  Northfield,  and  followed  his  trade  there. 
He  was  corporal  in  Captain  Kellogg's  com- 
pany in  1723  and  orderly  in  1747.  He  was 
selectman  in  1722.  A  few  years  before  his 
death  he  divided  his  real  estate  in  Deerfield 
among  his  children,  and  he  and  his  wife  went 
to  live  with  the  youngest  son,  Moses,  in  Mon- 
tague, where  they  both  died  and  were  buried. 
He  married,  November  17,  1712,  Anna  Kel- 
logg, born  July  14.  1689,  died  March  13,  1781, 
daughter  of  Martin  Kellogg,  of  Hadley.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Deerfield:  i.  Joseph,  October 
7,  1713.  2.  Anna,  December  25,  1715,  mar- 
ried, October  21,  1737,  Samuel  P.ordwell.  3. 
Martin,  September  10,  1718.  4.  John,  Decem- 
ber 15,  1720.  5.  Experience,  March  14,  1723, 
married,  July  23.  1749,  Phineas  Nevers.  6. 
Jonathan,  June  12,  1725,  mentioned  below.  7. 
Rebecca,  ]\larch  4,  1728.  married,  November 
29,  1743,  Samuel  Smead.  8.  Moses,  March 
23,  1730.     9.  .Abigail.  November  16,   1732. 

(IV')  Jonathan,  son  of  Joseph  Severance, 
was  born  in  Deerfield,  June  12,  1725,  died 
April  2,  1822.  He  was  a  farmer  and  settled 
in  Greenfield,  where  he  became  a  large  land 
owner.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  French  and 
Indian  war  and  was  a  lieutenant.  He  built 
the  first  grist  mill  in  town,  before  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  revolution.  I  fe  was  selectman 
nine  years.  He  was  tall,  well-formed,  with 
keen,  black  eyes ;  erect  and  somewhat  stern  in 
his  bearing,  yet  of  pleasant  speech.  He  lived 
to  the  great  age  of  ninety-six  years,  nine 
months  and  twenty  days.  He  married,  Au- 
gust 30.  1749,  Thankful  Stebbins,  born  1730, 
died  December  8,  1806,  daughter  of  John 
.Stebbins,  of  Deerfield.  Children:  i.  Jona- 
than, born  April  11,  1750.  2.  Experience, 
January  8,  1752.  married,  .April  11,  1772,  Reu- 
ben Wells.     3.  Thirza,  October  29,  1754,  died 


December  25,  1758.  4.  Thankful,  January  17, 
1756,  died  December  24,  1829;  married,  Jan- 
uary 13,  1774,  Ariel  Hinsdale.  5.  Dorothy, 
October  8,  1758,  died  unmarried  June  4,  1818. 
6.  Joseph,  September  20,  1760,  mentioned  be- 
low. 7,  Solomon,  November  10,  1762.  8. 
Thirza,  November  15,  1764,  died  September 
23,  1827;  married,  April  11,  1782,  Elisha 
Wells.  9.  Elihu,  September  5,  1766.  10.  Abi- 
gail, December  4,  1768,  married,  October  14, 
1785,  Amos  Comwell.  11.  Rufus,  March  28, 
1770.  12.  Cynthia,  December  28,  1772,  died 
September  17,  1858,  unmarried.  13.  Martha, 
February  13,  1774,  died  unmarried  December 
19,  1806. 

(V)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  Sever- 
ance, was  born  September  20,  1760,  died  No- 
vember 27,  1829.  He  married,  September  28, 
1778,  Mercy  Allen,  who  died  August  3,  1801. 
He  resided  in  Greenfield.  Children:  i.  Joseph, 
born  February  i,  1780.  2.  Christina,  March 
9,  1781,  married.  July  5,  1800,  .Xaron  White. 

3.  riiny.  May  27,  "1782.  died  November  7  fol- 
lowing! 4.  Rodney,  November  7,  1783.  5. 
Mercy,  December  27,  1785,  died  May  8,  1848. 
6.  Jemima,  April  2,  17S8.  married  W,  P. 
^^'a^ner.  7.  Susanna,  July  17,  1791,  married, 
May  27,  181 1,  Elisha  Munn.  8.  Horace,  Sep- 
tember 24,  1793,  mentioned  below.  <).  Pliny, 
January  24,  1796,  10.  Henry  (twin),  July  27, 
1798.  II.  Eovina  (twin),  July  27,  1798,  died 
April  3.  1866,  unmarried. 

(VI)Horace,  son  of  Jcseph  (2)  Severance, 
was  born  September  24,  1793,  died  Septem- 
ber II.  1869.  He  married  (first)  August  31, 
1819.  Mary  Fisk.  born  June  9,  1798,  died  May 
9,  1848.  He  married  (second)  A]n\]  9,  1853, 
Mary  Ann  ^McCarthy.  He  resided  in  (jreen- 
field.  Children,  all  by  fir.st  wife:  i.  Sarah 
(twin),  born  .April  2,  1820,  died  young.  2. 
Mary  (twin),  April  2,  1820,  died  young.  3. 
Marv,  January  17,  1821,  died  October  i,  1844. 

4.  Elizabeth,  -April  5.  1823.  married  John  F. 
Polmatier.  ^.  Scth'  Washburn,  January  19, 
1825,  died  lanuary  \Ck  1853.  6.  Catherine 
Mei-cv,  April  13,  '1827,  died  June  11,  1861  ; 
married  Chester  Marsh.  7.  Horace  Henry, 
January  2,  1829,  died  July  uj,  1848.  8.  Joseph 
Fisk,  April  29,  183T.  9.  Hepzibah  Fisk,  July 
9,  1833,  in  Heath,  !\Tassachusetts,  married 
Samuei  W.  Lee.  and  died  in  November,  1890. 
(See  Lee,  ATII  1.  10.  Adaline  Melissa  (twin), 
June  22,  18/).  II.  .Angeline  Theresa  (twin), 
June  22,  i8^f),  died  June  I,  i85r).  12.  Lucy 
Ward,  March  24,  1839,  married  Ephraim 
Clark. 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


(The  Dimock   Line). 

Elder  Thomas  Dimock,  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  horn  in  England.  He  settled  first  at  Dor- 
chester, Massachusetts,  in  1635,  and  was  select- 
man of  the  town  that  year.  He  was  admitted 
a  freeman,  Alay  25,  1636.  He  removed  to 
Hingham  where  he  was  living  in  1638  and  to 
Scitnate  in  1639,  settling  finally  in  Barnstable 
on  Cape  Cod,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
grantees  and  founders,  in  May,  1639.  He 
was  chosen  ordaining  elder  of  Mr.  Lothrop's 
church  there  August  7,  1650.  He  was  deputy 
to  the  general  court  and  freeman  of  the 
Plymouth  colony  in  1639:  magistrate  in  1641 
and  1644,  and  six  times  a  deputy  from  1639 
to    1650;    was    lieutenant    and    drillmaster    in 

1643.  He  married  Ann  (Hammond?)  who 
survived  him.  He  made  a  nuncupative  will 
which  was  proved  June  4,  1658,  leaving  all 
his  estate  to  his  wife,  "for  the  children  were 
hers  as  well  as  his."  Children:  i.  Elizabeth, 
married  Knyvet  Sears.  2.  John  (  ?).  3.  Tim- 
othy, baptized  January   12,   1639,  buried  June 

17,  1640.    4.  and  5.  Twin  sons,  buried  March 

18,  1640-41.  6.  Mehitable,  baptized  .April  18, 
1642.      7.    Shubael,    baptized    September    15, 

1644,  mentioned  below. 

(H)  Ensign  and  Deacon  Shubael,  son  of 
Elder  Thomas  Dimock,  was  baj^tized  in  Barn- 
stable, September  15,  1644.  He  removed  to 
what  is  now  Mansfield,  Connecticut,  among 
the  pioneers  in  1693,  but  he  had  been  a  promi- 
nent citizen  of  Yarmouth  on  Cajje  Cod,  and 
selectman  from  Barnstable ;  ensign  and  deputy 
to  the  general  court  in  1685-86  and  1689.  His 
house  at  Mansfield  is  still  in  good  repair  and 
occupied  at  last  accounts.  The  house  in  which 
Shubael  lived  at  Barnstable  was  the  fortifica- 
tion house  that  his  father  built ;  it  was  taken 
down  in  1800.  It  stood  near  the  house  now 
or  lately  owned  by  Isaac  Davis,  of  Barnstable ; 
was  two  stories  high,  twenty  feet  square,  the 
first  story  of  stone,  the  up]ier  of  wood.  lie 
died  October  29,  1732,  at  Mansfield,  in  bis 
ninety-first  year.  He  married,  .April,  1663, 
Joanna  Bursley.  baptized  March,  1645-46, 
died  at  Mansfield,  May  8,  1727,  daughter  of 
John  Bursley.  Children:  i.  Captain  Thomas, 
born  in  Barnstable,  April,  1664,  killed  Sep- 
tember 9,  1697,  by  Indians  and  Erench ;  mar- 
ried Desire  Sturgis.  2.  John,  June,  1666,  re- 
moved to  Ealmouth  ;  married  Elizabeth  Lom- 
bard. 3.  Timothy,  March,  1668,  mentioned 
below.  4.  .'-^hub.iel,  Jr.,  I'ebruary,  1673,  mar- 
ried Bethia  Chipman :  (second)  Tabitha 
Lothrop.  5.  Joseph,  Sejitember,  1675.  mar- 
ried, May  12,  1699,  Lydia  Fuller.     6.  Mehit- 


able. 1677.  7.  Benjamin,  1680,  resided  at 
Mansfield.  8.  Joanna,  1682,  married  Josiah 
Conant.  9.  Thankful,  Xovember,  1684,  mar- 
ried, June  28,   1706,  Deacon  Edmund  \\'aldo. 

(III)  Timothy,  son  of  Shubael  Dimock, 
was  born  in  Barnstable,  March,  1668,  died  in 
^733-  He  removed  to  Mansfield  and  thence 
to  Ashford,  Connecticut.  He  married  .\bigail 
Doane,  who  died  1718.  Children:  i.  Timothy, 
born  June  2,  1703.  2.  John,  January "3,  1704-05. 

3.  Shubael,  Alay,  1707,  mentioned  below.  4. 
Daniel,  January  28,  1709-10.  5.  Israel,  Decem- 
ber 22,  1712.    6.  Ebenezer,  Xovember  22,  1715. 

(IV)  Shubael  (2),  son  of  Timothy  Dimock, 
was  born  in  May,  1707,  died  June  26,  1788. 
He  married,  January  25,  1739.  Esther  Pierce, 
died  March  10,  1805,  in  her  ninetieth  year, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Pierce.  He  resided  in 
Mansfield  in  1727.  Children:  i.  Jonathan, 
born  December  13,  1739.     2.  Esther,  January 

4,  1743.  3.  Ephraim,  March  2,  1744.  4.  Icha- 
lio'l,  March  13,  1746.  5.  Edward,  June  5, 
1748.  6.  Samuel,  November  29,  1750.  7. 
Eliphalet,  March  12,  1753,  died  young.  8. 
Abigail,  March  12,  1755.  9.  Shubael,  October 
4,  1757,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Shubael  (3),  son  of  Shubael  (2) 
Dimock,  was  born  in  Alansfield,  October  4, 
1757,  died  Alarch  8,  1828.  He  served  in  the 
revolution  and  was  sergeant  in  Captain  Jona- 
than Birge  Button's  company,  (No.  4)  Col- 
onel Sage's  regiment,  third  battalion  of  Gen- 
eral W'adsworth's  brigade,  raised  to  reinforce 
Washington  at  New  York.  He  served  in 
Long  Island  and  Harlem  and  on  the  retreat, 
September  15,  1776,  sufi^ered  some  loss.  He 
was  in  the  battle  of  White  Plains,  and  his 
time  of  service  e-xpired  December  25.  1776. 
He  is  supposed  to  have  been  with  the  troops 
at  \^alley  Forge.  He  was  sergeant  in  Captain 
Paid  Brigham's  comjiany.  Colonel  John  Chand- 
ler's regiment,  the  eighth  Connecticut  line,  to 
March  5,  1778:  and  in  the  same  company 
under  Colonel  Ciiles  Russell  until  October  28, 
1779.  He  was  at  the  battle  of  Germantown, 
October  4,  1777,  and  then  was  assigned  to 
\'arnum's  brigade,  October  16,  a  detachment 
in  defence  of  Fort  Mifflin,  Pennsylvania.  He 
married,  January  23,  1789,  Elizabeth  \\^ight, 
born  July  31,  1769,  daughter  of  Elcazcr  and. 
.Anna  f  Marsha  Wright.  Children:  i.  Ira, 
born  December  31,  1789.  2.  Otis,  .Xugu.st  i, 
1 791,  mentioned  below.  3.  Wealthy,  March  15, 
1703.  4.  Betsey,  January  29,  1795.  5.  Marion, 
I'ebruary  I.  1798.  6.  Shubael,  October  4, 
1801.  7.  Orilla.  December  8,  1803.  8.  Rufus 
M.,  December  14,  1812. 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


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(\'I)  Otis,  son  of  Shubael  (3)  Diinock, 
was  born  August  i,  1 791,  married  Wealthy 
Kinne,  born  August  5.  1790  (see  Kinne  V). 
Children:  i.  Marshall,  married  Jennie  Camp- 
bell, and  had  several  children.  2.  Edwin,  mar- 
ried Jennie  Murjihy.  3.  Olivia,  married 

Preston  and  had  l-"rank  Preston.  4.  Lucius, 
born  August  2,  1825,  mentioned  below.  5. 
Ira,  married  Lenna  L.  DeMott,  and  had  Irving, 
Edith,  Stanley  K.,  Arthur,  Harold,  Irene.  6. 
Tane,  married  Goodrich  Holland  and  had  May 
Holland. 

(\"1I)  Lucius,  son  of  Otis  Dimock,  was 
born  at  Tolland,  Connecticut,  August  2,  1825, 
died  August  13,  1906.  He  married  Electa 
Jones,  born  March  28,  1823,  died  February 
16,  1884,  daughter  of  Eli  and  Eunice  (Rogers) 
Jones.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  died  young. 
2.  Emma  L.,  married  Samuel  W.  Lee.  (See 
Lee  IX).    3.  Kate,  married  George  \\\  Clark. 

(The   Kinne   Line). 

Henr)-  Kiime,  immigrant  ancestor,  was  born 
in  1624,  and  came  from  Holland  to  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  settled  on  a  farm  in 
1651  or  earlier.  His  father  was  probably  Sir 
Thomas  Kine,  who  was  knighted  by  the  gov- 
ernment for  services  rendered.  Henry  Kinne 
served  in  King  I'hilip's  war  and  was  a  pros- 
perous   farmer,    active    in    town    and    church 

affairs.     He  married  Anna .    Children  : 

I.  John,  born  in  .Salem  in  January.  1651.  2. 
Thomas,  born  January,  1656,  mentioned  be- 
low. 3.  Hannah,  January  2,  1658.  4.  Mary, 
May,  1659.  5.  Sarah,  June  20,  1661.  6.  Eliz- 
abeth, baptized  December,  1662.  7.  Lydia, 
baptized  .April,  1666.  8.  Henry,  baptized  May, 
1669. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  Henry  Kinne.  was 
born  in  Salem  in  Jainiary,  1656,  and  married, 
May  22,  1677,  Elizabeth  Knight.  Children : 
I.  Thomas,  born  July  27,  1678,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Joseph,  September  7,  1680.  3. 
Daniel,  Julv  2^.  1683.  4.  Jonathan,  Alay  27, 
1686. 

(III)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i) 
Kinne,  was  born  July  27,  1678,  died  October 
I,  1756.  He  was  a  resident  of  Preston,  Con- 
necticut, and  was  one  of  the  founders  and  the 
first  deacon  of  the  Second  Church  of  Christ 
in  Preston.  He  married  Martha .  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Jeremiah,  born  .\ugust  30,  1702.  2. 
James,  October  14,  1703.  3.  Stephen,  June  i, 
1705.  4.  ,\mos,  September  3,  1708,  mentioned 
below.  5.  Moses,  May  8.  17 10.  6.  Martha, 
June  20,  1712.  7.  Lois.  March  18,  171 3.  8. 
Keziah,  December  31,  1714.    9.  Thomas,  May 


11,  17 1 7.  10.  Huldah,  February  i,  1719.  11. 
Phebc,  July  24,  1720.  12.  Timothy  (twin), 
March  14,  1722.  13.  Jerusha  (twin),  March 
14,  1722.  14.  Gideon,  April  22,  1723.  15. 
Nathan,  March  20,  1727. 

( IV)  Lieutenant  Amos,  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
Kinne,  was  born  September  3,  1708,  died  Sep- 
tember 19,  1795.  He  married,  November  15, 
1732,  in  Preston,  Sarah  Palmer,  born  1708. 
Children:  i.  Simeon,  born  October  8,  1733. 
2.  Elizabeth,  September  15,  1735.  3.  Roger, 
baptized  April  27,  1740.  4.  Amos,  baptized 
July  II,  1742.  5.  Anne,  baptized  September 
29,  1747.  6.  Nathan,  baptized  May  3.  1750, 
mentioned  below.     7.  Freelove,  baptized  April 

12,  1752. 

{  \  )  Nathan,  son  of  Amos  Kinne,  was  bap- 
tized May  3,  1750.  and  married,  June  17,  1773, 
at  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  Deborah  Knight. 
Children:  i.  Phebe,  born  October  29,  1773, 
died  October  14,  1775.  2.  Elias,  April  12, 
1775,  died  October  15,  1775.  3.  Elisha,  Octo- 
ber 14,  1776.  4.  Mary,  December  7,  1778.  5. 
Anne,  March  6,  1781.  6.  Oliver.  7.  Betsey.  8. 
W'ealthv,  August  5,  1790,  married  Otis  Dimock. 
(See  Dimock  VI). 


The  name  Hunt  is  from  the  Saxon 
HUNT      word  "hunti,"  a  wolf.   This  word. 

used  in  connection  with  the  wolf, 
came  to  mean  the  pursuit  of  all  game.  The 
family  probably  took  the  name  on  account  of 
prowess  in  the  hunting  field.  Other  forms 
of  the  name  are  Ilundt,  Huntus,  Hontus, 
Hunding,  Hundings,  Hunte,  Hunter  etc.  An 
-Adam  le  Hunt  lived  in  Nottingham.  England, 
as  early  as  1295. 

(I)  Enoch  Hunt,  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
from  Titenden,  in  the  parish  of  Lee.  two  miles 
from  Wendover,  Buckshire,  England.  He  was 
an  early  settler  in  Rhode  Island  and  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman  in  Newport  in  1638.  He  was 
a  blacksmith  by  trade.  He  removed  to  Wey- 
ninnth,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  living  in 
1(140.  lie  was  a  town  officer  in  iTqi.  and  had 
a  case  in  court  in  1641.  He  died  before  1647, 
when  his  wife's  lands  are  mentioned  in  deeds 
of  abutting  tracts.  Administration  was  grant- 
ed to  his  son  Ephraim,  November  18,  1652. 
The  homestead  consisted  of  twenty-two  acres 
ill  the  Plain  at  Weymouth,  bounded  by  lands 
of  l^ichard  Sylvester.  John  I^pham,  Mr.  Goucr, 
anfl  west  an<l  north  by  the  highway  and  the 
sea.  He  married  (first)  in  England,  name  of 
wife  unknown.  He  married  (second)  Dorothy 
Barker,  widow,  who  survived  him  and  married 
(third)    John    King,   of   W'eymouth,   in    1652. 


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Her  will  was  dated  June  14,  1652,  and  proved 
October  21,  1652.  Children:  i.  Ephraim, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Peter,  born  in  England, 
settled  at  Rehoboth,  Massachusetts ;  married 
Elizabeth  Smith.  3.  Sarah,  born  at  Weymouth, 
July  4,  1640,  married  Matthew  Pratt,  of  Wey- 
mouth ;  she  and  her  husband  were  both  deaf ; 
they  had  a  large  family  of  children. 

( H)  Ephraim,  son  of  Enoch  Hunt,  was  born 
in  England  about  1610,  came  to  Rhode  Island 
and  later  to  Weymouth  with  his  father.  He 
was  a  blacksmith  by  trade.  He  gave  a  letter 
of  attorney  December  5,  1646,  for  the  collec- 
tion of  jjroperty  in  Beaconsfield,  Buckshire, 
England,  formerly  of  John  Hunt,  of  Winch- 
more  Hill,  in  Agmondsham  parish.  Perhaps 
this  John  Hunt  was  his  grandfather.  Ephraim 
settled  at  Weymouth,  and  married  Anna  Rich- 
ards, daughter  of  Thomas  and  Welthea  Rich- 
ards, of  Ebbett  Brinsmead,  England.  She  was 
sister  of  William  Richards,  of  Weymouth.  Her 
will,  dated  April  23,  1708,  and  proved  Sep- 
tember 9,  171 2,  mentions  her  son  William,  of 
Martha's  Vineyard ;  son  Joseph,  with  whom 
she  lived  for  many  years,  and  others.  She 
died  September  9,  1713.  Edmund  Soper  Hunt, 
in  his  "Reminiscences,"  says  that  Ephraim 
Hunt  was  a  knighted  cavalier  of  Prince 
Rupert's  troops  and  that  his  real  name  was 
Colonel  Sir  \Villiam  Hunt.  He  was  a  refugee 
from  the  disastrous  field  of  Marston  Moor, 
and  changed  his  name  to  avoid  detection.  He 
received  his  knighthood  after  the  siege  of 
York,  in  which  he  distinguished  himself.  He 
died  February  22,  1686-87  and  is  buried  near 
the  Soldiers'  monument  in  Weymouth,  on 
Burying  Hill.  Children:  i.  John,  born  1646, 
died  March  18,  1724.  2.  Thomas,  1648,  died 
February  11,  1721-22.  3.  Ephraim,  1650,  men- 
tioned below.  4.  William,  1655.  5.  Enoch, 
1658.  died  October  22,  1667.  6.  Joseph,  1670, 
died  January  18,  1717-18. 

dll)  Colonel  I'^phraim  (2),  son  of  E]ih- 
raim  (i)  Hunt,  was  born  at  Weymouth  in 
1650,  died  there  about  1713.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  luckless  expedition  against  Canada  in 
1690,  captain  in  the  Weymouth  company  ,and 
not  until  1736  was  land  granted  in  ])ayment  of 
the  services  of  these  soldiers.  This  land  was 
laid  out  at  Iluntstown,  which  was  first  settled 
in  T745,  incorporatcrl  1763.  and  now  called 
Ashfield.  He  was  colonel  of  the  expedition 
against  the  Indians  at  Croton  in  i7or)and  1707. 
He  was  governor's  assistant  from  1703  to 
1713.  He  was  a  shipbuilder  by  trade  and 
built  many  ships  at  the  mouth  of  Smelt  brook, 
between  1600  and  1700.     He  married  Joanna 


Alcock,  daughter  of  Dr.  Alcock,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Richard  Palgrave,  of  Charlestown. 
She  died  March  20,  1746,  and  her  grave  at 
Achushnet  is  marked  as  follows:  "Here  lieth 
interred  the  body  of  Joan,  wife  of  ye  Hon. 
Ephraim  Hunt  Esq.  late  of  Weymouth,  young- 
est daughter  of  Dr.  John  Alcock  late  of  Rox- 
bury  who  died  March  ye  20,  1746,  in  ye  eighty 
seventh  year  of  her  age."  Children:  i.  John, 
born  December  11,  1678,  died  young.  2.  Rev. 
Samuel,  February  8,  1681.  3.  Joanna,  about 
1684,  died  young.  4.  John,  buried  Septem- 
ber 4.  1761.  5.  Peter,  March  8,  1690,  died 
1757.  6.  William,  March  14,  1692,  died  April 
19,  1766.  7.  Ebenezer,  April  6,  1694,  men- 
tioned below.  8.  Thomas,  May  6,  1696.  9. 
Elizabeth,  1697,  married  Lemuel  Pope,  of 
Dartmouth.  10.  Sarah,  married,  January  6, 
1725-26,  Deacon  John  Ilolbrook.  11.  Mercy, 
married.  June  4,  1733,  Rev.  Richard  Pierce. 
12.  Ephraim,  died  February  29,  1786;  married 
(first)  Rutii  Allen:  (second)  July  19,  1744, 
Miriam  Spear;  (third)  April  21,  1764.  INIary 
Crane. 

(IV)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Ephraim  (2)  Hunt, 
was  born  at  Weymouth,  April  6,  1694.  He 
married  (first)  October  30,  1718,  MaryLovell, 
who  died  September  20,  1736.  He  married 
(second)  March  or  April  28,  1737,  Bethiah 
Adams,  born  June  13,  1702,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Hannah  (Bass)  Adams.  His  will  was 
dated  September  26  and  proved  October  30, 
1761,  and  mentions  five  sons;  daughters  Hol- 
brook.  Bates,  Bethiah  Hunt,  and  grandson 
Lowhamah  Sylvester.  He  died  October  i, 
1761,  and  a  broken  gravestone  marks  his  grave 
at  the  foot  of  Burial  Hill  at  Weymouth.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife,  born  at  Weymouth:  i. 
Mary,  Augu.st  30,  1719.  2.  Ebenezer,  Febru- 
ary 2,  1721,  died  young.  3.  Micajah,  May  29, 
1722.  died  March  30,  1795.  4.  Enoch,  No- 
vember 7,  1724,  died  September  7,  1791.  5. 
Hannah,  October  4,  1726.     6.  Samuel,  March 


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December  I,  1732.  8.  b'benezer.  May  9.  1735, 
mentioned  below.  Chililren  of  second  wife: 
0.    F.ber,    October    8,    1738,    died    1791.      10. 

Ruth.  January  16.  1741,  married Bates. 

II.  Bethiah.  November  30.  1744.  married,  Jan- 
uary 6,  1767,  Christopher  Thayer. 

(\')  Ebenezer  (2),  son  of  Ebenezer  (i) 
Hunt,  was  born  at  Weymouth,  May  9,  1735, 
died  September  28,  1804.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution,  private  in  Caiitain  Thomas 
Nash's  company.  Colonel  Solomon  Lovell's 
regiment  in  Afarch,  1776;  also  in  Captain  Silas 
\\'ild's  company.  Colonel  Brooks's  regiment  in 


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1777-78,  guarding  the  troops  of  the  convention 
at  Cambridge  ;  also  corporal  in  Captain  Thomas 
Xe\vcomb"s  company.  Colonel  Ebenezer  Thay- 
er's regiment  for  three  months  in  1780  at  West 
Point.  Xew  York,  and  in  Rhode  Island.  He 
married  (intentions  dated  April  9.  1757), 
Rachel  Kingman.  Her  will  was  the  first  on 
the  Norfolk  coimty  records,  dated  February 
9,  1808.  and  proved  Februarj-  11,  1817.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Weymouth:  i.  Samuel,  .April 
7.  1759.  died  May,  1813.  2.  Ebenezer,  1760, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Zachariah,  December  26, 
1761,  died  1821.  4.  I'etsey,  March  17,  1769, 
married  Frederick  Cushing.  5.  Rachel.  July 
15,  1771,  married,  May  10,  1792,  Thomas 
Cushing.  6.  Hannah,  August  25,  1778,  mar- 
ried Josiah  Richards.  7.  Ziba,  October  15, 
1779,  died  August  7,  1802. 

(\T)  Deacon  Ebenezer  (3),  son  of  Ebe- 
nezer (2)  Hunt,  was  born  at  Weymouth  in 
1760,  (lied  November  3,  1832.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  shoemaker.  He  was  prominent 
in  organizing  the  I'nion  Church,  and  was  one 
of  the  first  deacons  and  first  treasurer  of  the 
choir.  His  will  was  dated  .'\ugust  22,  1832, 
proved  November  14,  following.  His  inven- 
tory amounted  to  .$12,955.  He  married  (first) 
(tiie  intention  dated  October  12.  1782)  Sus- 
annah I'owditch,  who  died  March  2,  1806,  aged 
forty-si.x  years,  daughter  of  William  and  Sus- 
anna C.Mlen)  Bowflitch.  Her  father  was  son 
of  William  and  Mary  (Bass)  Bowditch,  and 
grandson  of  Deacon  Samuel  and  Mary 
(.Adams)  Bass.  Deacon  Samuel  Bass  was  son 
of  John  and  Ruth  ('.■\lden)  liass.  and  grand- 
.son  of  John  and  I'riscilla  (  Mullins )  .\lden, 
who  came  in  the  '"Maytlower."  Deacon  Ebe- 
nezer Hunt  married  (second)  January  30, 
1808.  Tirza  Bates,  mother  of  Joshua  Bates, 
of  Baring  &  Company,  bankers,  London.  She 
died  March  4,  1841.  Children,  born  at  Wey- 
mouth: I.  I'"benezer.  July  17,  1783.  died  Jan- 
uary 27.  1823.  2.  William,  July  7.  1786,  died 
.September  24.  1822.  3.  .Susannah,  died  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1862;  married,  December  8,  1820, 
Caleb  Stetson.  4.  Elias,  born  1798,  mentioned 
below.  Child  of  second  wife:  5.  Albert,  May 
6,  1809.  died  July  i.  1810. 

(VH)  Major  E!ia.s,  son  of  Deacon  Ebe- 
nezer (3  )  Hunt,  was  born  in  Weymouth  in  July. 
1798,  died  1889.  He  was  a  shoemaker,  and 
engaged  in  the  business  at  first  with  his 
brothers  Ebenezer  and  William,  and  after- 
wards by  himself.  In  1831  he  built  a  house  in 
Weymouth,  which  he  occupied  a  year,  and  then 
removed  to  Boston.  He  was  a  noted  singer 
of  his  day.  and  was  among  the  organizers  of 


the  choir  of  Union  Church  in  Weymouth,  and 
president  of  the  organization  for  thirteen  years, 
and  vice-president  nine  years.  His  voice  was 
a  clear  and  musical  tenor.  He  sang  in  the 
Old  North  Church  before  Cnion  Church  was 
organized,  and  he  also  in  his  early  years  sang 
in  a  ([uartette  in  old  King's  Chapel,  Boston,  in 
1818,  and  afterwards  in  Trinity  Church.  He 
was  the  first  salaried  church  singer  in  Boston. 
His  voice  retained  its  musical  ([ualities  until 
he  was  advanced  in  age.  In  politics  he  was  a 
JacksdU  Democrat,  and  was  a  candidate  in 
1844  lo'"  representative  to  the  general  court. 
In  1850  the  coalition  of  the  Free  Soilers  and 
Democrats  resulted  in  the  election  of  Charles 
Sumner  to  the  senate.  In  Weymouth,  Mr. 
B.  F.  White,  a  Free  Soiler,  and  Major  Elias 
Hunt,  a  Democrat,  were  elected  representa- 
tives to  the  general  court  over  twenty-three 
other  candidates.  He  married  (intentions 
dated  September  9,  1820)  Eliza  Maria  Theresa 
Soper,  daughter  of  Major  Edmund  Soper,  of 
Braintree.  Children,  born  at  Weymouth:  i. 
Ebenezer  William,  December  4.  1823,  died  De- 
cember. 1900;  married,  February  13,  1849, 
Mary  E.  Richards.  2.  Edmund  Soper,  July 
19,  1827,  mentioned  below.  3.  Nathaniel  Fred- 
erick  Thayer,   January    17,    1831,    died    1835. 

4.  Nathaniel  Frederick  Thayer,  June  30,  1835, 
married,  February  26,  1867,  Florence  T.  Allen. 

5.  Rebecca  Francis,  November  13,  1837,  died 
July,  1901  ;  married  Charles  G.  Thompson. 

(VIII)  Edmund  Soper,  son  of  Major  Elias 
Hunt,  was  born  on  Front  street,  Weymouth, 
lulv  19.  1827.  He  received  his  education  in 
the  I'"ourth  District  school  in  his  native  town, 
and  si.x  months  in  a  private  school.  As  a  boy 
he  worked  at  shoemaking  and  in  1851  began 
the  manufacture  of  shoes,  but  the  work  was 
uncongenial  and  he  sold  the  business  and  went 
to  Boston,  where  he  kept  the  books  for  some 
time  in  the  shoe  store  of  his  brother  Ebenezer 
W.  From  boyhood  he  had  been  interested  in 
the  manufacture  of  fireworks,  and  had  always 
been  experimenting  in  the  uses  of  the  chemi- 
cals of  which  they  were  made.  In  1856  he 
started  in  the  manufacture  of  fireworks  in 
Weymouth,  and  sold  his  goods  through  A.  S. 
&  J.  P.rown,  of  Boston.  The  business  grad- 
ually increased.  He  furnished  the  fireworks 
for  a  great  many  parades  and  among  them  the 
parade  in  Boston  during  the  Lincoln  campaign. 
At  the  opening  of  the  civil  war  the  business 
declined,  and  he  was  obliged  to  take  up  some 
other  line.  He  bought  a  small  embossing  and 
gilding  press  and  did  the  decorating  of  boot 
tops,  which  were  then  in  fashif)n.     In  1865  his 


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firework  business  increased  and  that  year  he 
sold  $50,000  worth  of  goods.  About  that  time 
he  bought  his  farm  and  planted  a  large  orchard 
of  grapes  and  pears,  in  the  cultivation  of  which 
he  took  much  pride.  In  1867  he  made  a  new 
venture  in  the  manufacture  of  ladies'  fans, 
putting  in  a  well  cfjuipped  plant,  and  doing  a 
good  business  for  a  few  years.  Owing  to 
various  circumstances  the  business  met  with 
reverses  and  he  was  obliged  to  give  it  up,  losing 
a  large  amount  of  money.  In  1876  the  cen- 
tennial celebration  revived  the  fireworks  busi- 
ness, and  he  took  this  up  again  with  renewed 
activity.  In  1877  he  made  his  first  experi- 
ments with  life-saving  projectiles,  and  the 
next  year  was  induced  by  the  Massachusetts 
Humane  Society  to  exhibit  the  life-saving 
apparatus  at  the  Mechanic's  Fair  in  Boston. 
He  was  awarded  a  gold  medal  for  the  exhibit. 
About  this  time  Mr.  Hunt  made  several  in- 
ventions in  the  line  of  fireworks,  among  them 
being  the  small  gelatine  lanterns  for  Christmas 
trees,  a  colored  shell  to  fire  from  an  ordinary 
shot  gun,  and  a  dragon  wheel  which  was  a 
good  money  maker,  and  which  is  still  popular. 
The  Humane  Society  voted  him  five  hundred 
dollars  to  be  used  in  perfecting  his  invention 
of  a  life-saving  projectile,  and  requested  him 
to  go  to  England  to  present  to  the  Royal  Life- 
boat Association  of  England  one  of  the  new 
guns.  He  made  this  trip  in  1878,  remaining 
about  six  months.  On  his  return,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Humane  -Society,  he  placed 
several  guns  in  the  life  saving  stations  along 
the  coast  of  Cape  Cod  and  the  New  Jersey 
coast  and  they  proved  a  great  success.  In 
1881  he  received  a  gold  medal  at  the  Mechanics' 
Fair  in  Boston  for  the  best  disi)lay  of  fire- 
works, and  in  the  fall  of  1884  received  the 
contract  to  furnish  the  fireworks  for  the  fair 
at  New  Orleans.  He  made  the  trip  South, 
and  then  made  a  trial  of  the  gun  at  Washing- 
ton before  the  United  States  navy  officials, 
among  whom  was  Commander  Schultz  Clay. 
As  a  result  of  this  he  received  an  order  from 
the  government  for  seventy-five  projectiles 
and  lines.  At  this  time  he  formed  a  ])artner- 
ship  with  John  P.  Lovell,  who  took  charge  of 
the  making  of  the  life-saving  apparatus,  Mr. 
Hunt  looking  after  the  inventions.  At  a  trial 
at  Nantucket  between  Mr.  Hunt's  gun  and  the 
Lyle  gun,  undertaken  by  the  government,  the 
Hunt  gun  was  proved  to  be  far  superior,  and 
lie  received  an  order  to  fit  out  ten  life  saving 
stations.  The  firm  of  E.  S.  Hunt  &  Sons  was 
formed  in  1892  for  tiie  manufacture  of  fire- 
works and  this  has  continued  u[)  to  date.   They 


are  said  to  be  among  the  largest  manufacturers 
of  firecrackers  in  the  world.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Weymouth  fire  company  and  also 
of  the  Weymouth  band,  in  his  early  manhood, 
in  which  he  played  for  a  number  of  years  and 
of  which  he  was  a  charter  member  and  director 
and  took  an  active  interest  for  many  years.  He 
took  his  first  degree  in  the  Old  Colony  Lodge 
of  Free  Masons,  in  1854,  and  the  third  degree 
in  1855.  Afterwards  he  became  a  member  of 
the  Orphans  Hope  Lodge  of  East  Weymouth. 
He  married,  September  13,  1853,  Annie  Maria 
Poole,  daughter  of  Samuel  Poole.  Esq.,  of 
Scituate,  the  ceremony  being  performed  by 
the  venerable  Dr.  Storrs  at  Braintree.  Five 
children:  i.  Edmund  Aubrey,  born  February 
7.  1855,  an  artist^  resides  in  London  where 
lie  has  a  studio  and  is  a  portriat  painter  of 
note ;  he  has  six  children ;  his  eldest  son, 
Aubrey  Edward,  is  in  San  Francisco;  all  the 
others  are  in  London.  2.  Frederick  Thayer, 
September  11,  1857,  a  graduate  of  Harvard, 
has  charge  of  the  correspondence  of  Edmund 
S.  Hunt's  business :  married  Bessie,  daughter 
of  Peter  French,  who  is  a  prominent  man  in 
Weymouth.  3.  Russell  Goddard,  March  23, 
1863,  in  business  with  Edmund  S.  Hunt.  4. 
]\[ary  Gore,  January  25,  1868,  died  same  year. 
5.  James  Turner  Baker,  July  11,  1871,  died 
1005 ;  he  was  educated  in  music  in  which  he 
attained  great  ]iroficiency. 

Mr.  Hunt  published  a  volume  of  tliree  hun- 
dred and  seven  pages  entitled  "W'eymouth 
\\'ays  and  W'eymouth  Peoijle.  Reminiscences 
of  Edmund  Soper  Hunt,"  in  1907.  His  long 
and  intimate  association  with  the  people  of 
\\'eymouth,  his  own  interesting  and  varied  ex- 
periences, his  knowledge  of  men  and  affairs 
and  his  remarkable  memory  have  qualified  him 
admirably  to  write  a  book  of  exceptional  inter- 
est and  entertainment  to  the  people  of  Wey- 
mouth and  of  much  historical  value.  The 
book  is  not  an  autobiography  but  a  close  per- 
sonal account  of  old  Weymouth  for  the  pasr 
scventv  years. 


Haw  comes  from  haeg,  a 
HAWKINS     small  close.     Mr.   Haw  was 

the  one  who  lived  in  the  close. 
Kin  means  child  and  Hawkins  was  the  son  of 
Haw.  From  the  land  of  the  "brown  heath 
and  the  .shaggy  woods"  does  the  Hawkins  line 
trace  its  remote  beginnings.  It  was  then  known 
as  Haw  Clan  on  account  of  a  defective  enuncia- 
tion. During  the  rage  of  a  fierce  battle  with 
a  rival  clan  the  Hawkins  tribe  were  victorious 
over  their  disconcerted  o]iponents  who  at  once 


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made  overtures  of  peace.  The  reply  of  the 
Hawkins  chief,  sententious  as  it  was  mag- 
nanimous is  reported  to  have  been,  "I  am  as 
bold  as  a  lion  but  I  will  hold  out  the  olive 
branch  of  peace."  The  coat-of-arms  of  this 
family  was  a  lion  presenting  an  olive  branch, 
the  motto  of  which  was  ,  "to  be  rather  than  to 
see." 

(I)  Captain  John  Hawkins,  of  Tavistock, 
England,  was  a  gentleman  of  birth  and  edu- 
cation. He  was  a  large  ship  owner  and  cap- 
tain in  the  service  of  his  Majesty  Henry  VHI. 
(H)  Captain  William,  son  of  Captain  John 
Hawkins, lived  in  Plymouth.  England.  He  was  a 
great  favorite  of  the  king  who  showered  upon 
him  many  favors.  He  made  journeys  to  Brazil 
in  the  years  1530-31-32  in  the  good  ship  "Paul 
of  Plymouth." 

(Ill)  Sir  John  (2),  son  of  Captain  Will- 
iam Hawkins,  was  early  bred  to  the  sea,  and 
made  voyages  to  the  Isles  of  the  Canaries,  to 
Africa,  Sierra  Leone,  to  the  coast  of  Florida 
including  the  Saint  John's  river.  He  com- 
manded the  ship  "Victory"  against  the  Spanish 
Armada,  was  a  member  of  the  council  of  war 
and  had  charge  of  the  Sicily  scjuadron.  He 
was  treasurer  of  the  navy,  and  was  entitled 
to  some  credit  for  raising  the  fund  known  as 
"the  Chest  at  Chatham"  for  needy  and  disabled 
seamen.  His  career  was  mixed  up  much  with 
Sir  Francis  Drake,  and  though  perhaps  not  so 
great  a  man  as  his  superior  officer,  he  was  a 
skillful  and  successful  navigator.  He  was 
a  covetous  man.  but  whatever  his  faults  he 
was  one  of  those  fearless,  determined  men  who 
aided  in  breaking  the  power  of  Spain  and 
establishing  Englands  marital  supremacy.  He 
died  while  on  the  expedition  to  the  West  Indies 
and  was  buried  at  sea  off  Porto  Rico.  At  his 
request  a  monument  was  erected  to  his  mem- 
ory in  the  church  of  Saint  Dustan  in-the-East. 
His  life  has  been  written  by  Campbell  and 
Southey.  The  best  likeness  of  him  extant 
hangs  in  the  hospital  for  seamen  at  Chatham 
bearing  his  name. 

CI)  William  (2)  Hawkins,  the  founder  of 
the  American  family,  was  descended  from  the 
above  distinguished  naval  commander,  and 
was  born  in  England  in  160Q,  dying  in  Provi- 
dence. Rhode  Island.  subse(|uently  to  1699. 
He  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  Providence 
plantation  and  received  grants  of  land  there 
in  1638-40.  He  was  made  a  freeman  in  1655 
and  served  in  King  Philip's  w-ar,  receiving  for 
his  service  therein  a  share  in  the  Indian  cap- 
tives of  August  14,  1676.  He  signed  the  agree- 
ment for  establishing  a  better  form  of  govern- 


nienl  for  the  colony.  He  married  Margaret 
Harwood,  born  in  England  in   1612. 

(II)  John  (3),  eldest  son  of  William  (2) 
and  Margaret  (Harwood)  Hawkins,  lived  in 
IVovidencc.  December  29,  1710,  he  deeded 
forty  acres  of  land  to  his  wife.  July  27,  171 1, 
he  confirmed  a  deed  made  by  his  brother  Ed- 
ward, and  October  19,  1715,  he  gave  full  con- 
sent to  his  sons  to  sell  all  their  land  they  had 
of  him.  He  married  the  widow  of  Hum])hrcy 
Damarill  whose  christian  name  was  Sarah. 

(HI)  William  (3),  eldest  son  of  John  (3) 
and  Sarah  Hawkins,  was  born  in  Proviilencc, 
December  14,  1716.  He  sold  land  to  Joshua 
Winsor,  March  6,  1731,  also  land  to  I'llisha 
Knowltcn,  and  in  1744  gave  to  his  son  Job  a 
right  in  lands  west  of  "the  seven  mile  line." 
The  name  of  his  wife  was  Mary.  Children: 
Job,  Rufus,  and  others. 

(I\')  Rufus,  son  of  William  (3)  and  Mary 
Hawkins,    was   born    in    l^rovidence,    died    in 


Johnston,    Rhode    Island,    April,    i; 


He 


served  as  lieutenant  in  Captain  Edward  Shel- 
don's company  in  1746,  connected  with  the 
colonial  militia.  His  will  was  executed  August 
13,  1784,  proved  in  May,  1788.  The  witnesses 
to  the  same  were  Perley  Williams  Junior, 
James  Winsor  and  Noah  Matthewson.  His 
son  Rufus  was  named  executor. 

(\')  Rufus  (2),  son  of  Rufus  (i)  Haw- 
kins, was  born  in  Providence,  1739,  died  in 
Johnston,  February  7,  181 8.  He  located  in 
Johnston  and  built  a  machine  shop  at  a  place 
named  for  him,  Hawkinsville.  In  this  shop 
was  made  the  first  machine  for  carding  woolen 
cloth.  He  was  ensign  in  Captain  Ezekiel 
Olney's  company  in  1783.  He  married,  No- 
vember 7,  1 761,  Martha,  daughter  of  Charles 
Waterman;  she  died  in  Johnston,  February  11, 
1804. 

(VI)  Captain  Nehemiah,  son  of  Rufus  (2) 
and  Martha  (Waterman)  Hawkins,  was  born 
in  Johnston,  July  7,  1762,  died  there  on  Inde- 
pendence day,  1830.  lie  was  commissioned  as 
captain  of  Johnston  Rangers.  He  was  called 
the  niost  skillful  mechanic  in  Rhode  Island  at 
that  time.  He  married.  May  29,  1785,  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  .Samuel  and  Ann  (Winsor) 
Winsor.  She  was  born  February  7,  1762,  died 
September  29,  1845.  Iler  ancestry  is  traced 
herein.  Children  :  Alpheus,  William  H.,  Eph- 
raim,  Martha,  Milley,  Lydia  Ann,  IIo])e  and 
Betsey. 

(VII)  .Mpheus,  eldest  son  of  Captain  Nehe- 
miah and  Hannah  (Winsor)  Hawkins,  was 
born  in  Johnston,  September  4,  1795,  died  in 
Iloboken,  New  Jersey,  October  29,  1847.     He 


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was  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  was  a  locomo- 
tive builder,  working  on  the  first  one  made 
in  this  country.  He  lived  in  Lowell  and 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  and  Baltimore.  He 
married,  June  30,  1825,  Celia  Antis,  daughter 
of  Richard  Rhodes,  of  North  Scituate,  Rhode 
Island,  whose  ancestry  is  traced  herein.  She 
died  in  Springfield,  November  13,  1902,  hav- 
ing attained  the  remarkable  age  of  a  centenar- 
ian. Children :  William  Rhodes,  Elizabeth 
Fenner,  Nehemiah,  Richard  Fenner,  mentioned 
below,  Frank  Porter,  Mary  M.,  deceased,  and 
Mary  M. 

(VHI)   Richard   Fenner,  third  son  of  Al- 
pheus  and  Celia  (Rhodes)  Hawkins,  was  bom 
in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  March  9,  1837.  His 
early  education  was  gained  in  the  Springfield 
public  schools.    At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  began 
working  for  Stone  and  Harris,  railway  bridge 
builders.     In  1862  he  was  taken  into  the  firm 
as  a  partner  and  the  concern  is  now  known  as 
the  Hawkins  Iron  Works.  He  erected  the  New 
Bedford  and  Springfield  jails,  the  Williman- 
set   bridge    near    Holyoke,    the    Northampton 
Iron    bridge    for    the    Massachusetts    Central 
railroad.     He  also  did  the  iron  work  on  the 
stations  of  the  Boston  and  Albany  railroads 
at  Springfield,  that  of  the  New  York  Central 
at   Buffalo  and   Rochester.     He   likewise  ex- 
tended the  pier  on  the  Connecticut  River  road 
for  the  Boston  and  Albany,  and  built  all  the 
bridges  on  the  New  York  and  New  England 
from   W'aterbury   to    Fishkill,   some   of   them 
on  the  Delaware  and  Lackawanna.     In  addi- 
tion, he  built  a  series  of  bridges  over  Lake 
Champlain  for  the  Lamoille  Valley.     To  be  a 
bridge  builder  is  a   far  reaching  accomplish- 
ment uniting  the  commerce  and  interest  of  two 
communities  and  is  a  work  that  withstands  the 
wear  of  centuries.     Thomas  Carlyle   said  he 
had   rather   have   constructed    the   bridge   his 
father  built  at  Ecclcfechan  than  to  have  writ- 
ten  all   his  books.      The   Hawkins   iron   plant 
covers  two  acres  upon  which  are  erected  seven 
spacious   buildings.      Mr.    Hawkins   has   been 
more  or  less  identified  with  current  affairs  of 
interest  in  his  city,  but  prefers  to  devote  his 
immediate  time  to  the  details  of  his  business. 
He  has.  however,  served  in  the  board  of  alder- 
men,  and    was   one   of   the   prime   mfjvers   in 
organizing   the  board   of   trade   of   which   he 
was  for  a  long  time  director.     He  has  been  a 
trustee  of  the  Hampden   Savings  Rank.     He 
married,   in    New   York,   September   3,    1862, 
Cornelia  Morgan,  daughter  of  Amasa  Bemis 
and   Sarah  Fry   (Cadwell)   Howe.     Children: 
Paul  Rhodes,  mentioned  below  ;  Morence,  mar- 


ried Thomas  Dyer,  January   16,   1898;  Edith 
and  Ethel  (twins);  David  Smith. 

(IX)   Colonel   Paul   Rhodes,   eldest   son  of 
Richard  Fenner  and  Cornelia  Morgan  (Howe) 
Hawkins,   was  born   in   Springfield,  June  23, 
1867,  and  educated  at  the  W'orthington  street 
school,   the   old   high   and   the   Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated  in   1887.     Returning  to  Springfield  he 
at  once  took  an  active  part  in  the  social  and 
political  life  of  his  home  city,  and  was  soon 
a  councilman  in  ward  four.     Some  years  later 
he  served  in  the  board  of  aldermen  from  ward 
six.    In  1890  Mr.  Hawkins  entered  the  militia 
as  first  lieutenant  of  Company  B,  Second  Regi- 
ment, and  served  four  years.     Then  he  was 
appointed  on  the  staff  of  Colonel  E.  P.  Clarke 
as  regimental  adjutant,  in  which  position  he 
served  until  January  3,  1900.    On  the  election 
of  Governor  Crane  he  was  made  aide-de-camp 
with  the  rank  of  major  on  the  governor's  staff 
and    remained    throughout   his    term.      When 
Goveror  Bates  assumed  the  gubernatorial  chair 
Major  Hawkins  was  retained  on  the  staff  and 
made  lieutenant-colonel  and  assistant  inspector- 
general.    On  the  declaration  of  war  with  Spain 
Colonel  Hawkins  volunteered   his   services  to 
the  government  and  was  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Wolcott  regimental  adjutant  of  the  Sec- 
ond   Massachusetts    Infantry.    United    States 
\'olunteers,  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant.    The 
colonel   proceeded   with   his   regiment   to   the 
front  and  saw  some  hard  service  at  the  battle 
of  ElCaney  where  the  troops  w-ere  under  fire 
for  twenty-four  hours.     As  the  scene  of  the 
conllict  waged  from  different  points  now  at  El 
Pozo  Hill  where  the  batteries  were  planted, 
now  on  the  banks  of  the  muddy  Aquadares 
river,  or  around  the  demolished  sugar  house, 
or  out  on  the  Marianaje  road  towards  San- 
tiago, the  colonel  on  that  hot  July  day  was  in 
the  thick  of  the  scrimmage  wherever  his  duties 
as  staff'  officer  called  him,  unmindful  of  the 
screeching  Mausers  that  entailed  so  frightful 
a  death-toll  on  the  brave  .Xmerican  boys.     He 
was  also  present  at  the  surrender  of  Santiago. 
Colonel  Hawkins  has  been  commander  of  Gen- 
eral  Lawton   Camp,   Spanish   War   \'eterans, 
and   1903  was  elected  commander-in-chief  of 
the   national    muster   league   of   Spanish    war 
veterans.     In  1908  he  received  his  commission 
from  state  of  Massachusetts  and  went  on  re- 
tired list  as  full  colonel.     He  is  a  member  of 
the  various  Ma.sonic  bodies,  of  Hampden  Lodge 
of  Odd  Fellows.    Also  he  is  a  prominent  club 
man.     He  is  engaged  in  the  iron  business  with 
his  father. 


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(The   Winsor   Line). 

This  name  is  derived  from  local  geography. 
Tlie  town  in  England  was  first  called  W'ind- 
shore  on  account  of  the  many  indentations 
along  the  shore  at  this  point.  The  word  be- 
came corrupted  by  use  to  \\  indsore,  then 
Windsor,  Winsor.  There  was  a  castle  there 
from  time  immemorial  and  Walter  Fitz-Other, 
who  was  a  Xorman  nobleman,  was  made  gov- 
ernor of  the  stronghold,  and  from  then  on 
called  himself  Walter  de  Windsor,  and  he  is 
founder  of  the  race.  We  have  the  English 
successive  generations  in  Robert  (i),  a  Roman 
Catholic  in  Henry  \'Iirs  time,  Samuel  (2), 
John  ("3),  and  Samuel  (4).  Jnstin  Winsor, 
the  Harvard  librarian  and  eminent  historical 
writer,  is  of  this  line. 

fl)  The  American  progenitor  was  Joshua, 
son  of  Samuel  (4)  Winsor,  mentioned  above. 
He  was  in  Providence  in  1637  and  died  there 
in  1679. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  Joshua  \\'insor,  was 
born  in  Providence  in  1644,  died  there  Septem- 
ber 16,  1705.  He  was  a  deputy  in  1674  and 
received  a  share  in  the  Indian  captives,  and 
was  on  the  grand  jury  in  1687.  He  married 
Mercy,  widow  of  Resolved  Waterman,  a 
daughter  of  Roger  Williams.  She  was  the 
mother  of  Samuel,  Hannah  and  Joshua. 

(HI)  The  Rev.  Samuel  (2),  eldest  son  of 
Samuel  d)  and  Mercy  (\\'illiams)  (Water- 
man) Winsor,  was  born  in  Providence,  No- 
vember 18,  1677,  died  November  17,  1758.  He 
was  ordained  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  Providence.  He  always  preached 
gratuitously  and  would  not  accept  an  invita- 
tion to  a  Sunday  dinner  in  the  fear  it  might 
be  interpreted  as  a  pay  for  Sunday  services. 
His  will  was  executed  December  20,  1749. 
He  married  Mercy,  daughter  of  Abraham  and 
Deborah  Harding.  His  wife  was  living  in 
1749.  Qiildren:  Samuel,  Martha,  Mary, 
Lydia,  Hannah,  Deborah,  Mercy  and  Free- 
love. 

(IV)  Rev.  Samuel  (3),  eldest  son  of  Rev. 
Samuel  (2)  and  Mercy  (Harding)  Winsor, 
was  born  in  Providence,  November  11,  1722, 
died  there  January  26,  1803.  He  served  in 
the  revolution  with  the  rank  of  captain.  He 
succeeded  his  father  in  the  pulpit,  being  ordain- 
ed in  1759.  In  the  old  Winsor  burial  ground 
is  this  in.scription  on  his  tombstone  "Sacred  to 
the  memory  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Winsor  who 
departed  this  life  January  26th  .'\.  D.  1803  in 
the  8ist  year  of  his  ministry  as  Pastor  of  the 
ancient  Piaptist  church  in  Providence  &  John- 
ston."    He  married  Lydia  Olncj',  from  which 


line  comes  the  Hon.  Richard  Olney,  the  states- 
man of  Cleveland's  cabinet.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Ann,  daughter  of  Johnna  Winsor.  By 
Ann  he  had  Hannah,  who  married  Xehemiah 
Hawkins,  aiul  was  the  grandmother  of  Rich- 
ard Fenncr  Hawkins,  so  that  he  was  doubly 
descended  from  Roger  Williams. 

(Ttio   Klio(]cs  Line). 

Rhodes  is  an  island  in  the  Mediterranean, 
also  a  town  in  Guienne,  France.  The  Rhodes 
are  a  very  ancient  and  respectable  family  of 
Norman  extraction,  and  the  first  one  we  come 
to  in  historj'  is  William  de  Rhodes  who  accom- 
panied Richard  I  to  Palestine  in  one  of  the 
crusades.  There  was  a  Rhodes  a  pilot  with 
Sebastian  Cabot  in  his  initial  trip  to  America, 
and  from  him  the  little  state  of  Rhode  Island 
was  named,  small  territorially  but  immense 
in  its  influence  over  commerce  and  manufac- 
turing. The  eminent  historian,  James  F. 
Rhodes,  is  of  this  line. 

(I)  We  begin  our  table  with  Zachariah 
Rhodes,  who  was  born  in  England  in  1603. 
He  was  first  of  Rehoboth,  Rhode  Island,  but 
later  removed  to  Providence.  July  3,  1644,  he 
"with  twenty  nine  others  agreed  to  bind  them- 
selves together  under  a  government  of  mine 
persons  chosen  from  the  inhabitants  of  Sea- 
cunk."'  August  21,  1648,  he  was  one  of  a 
committee  sent  to  Massachusetts  to  ascertain 
the  damage  done  to  Poniham  of  \\^arwickcand 
to  demand  redress  for  him.  He  was  of  those 
from  Pawtuxet  who  asked  to  be  dismissed 
from  the  government  of  Massachusetts,  June 
I,  1658.  He  was  a  commissioner  for  several 
years  and  in  1663  was  appointed  to  treat  with 
the  Indians  regarding  a  consideration  for  their 
lands.  He  was  on  the  committee  who  run 
the  boundary  line  between  Rhode  Island  and 
Plymouth  Colony,  also  a  deputy  and  town 
councellor.  He  was  iinprisoned  a  short  time 
in  jail  jn  Boston  for  openly  remarking,  "the 
court  has  naught  to  do  in  matters  of  religion." 

(II)  John,  son  of  Zachariah  Rhodes,  was 
born  in  Providence  in  1668,  died  at  Warwicke, 
.August  14.  1716.  He  was  a  soldier  in  King 
Philip's  war,  receiving  his  share  of  the  Indian 
cai)tives.  He  was  a  man  of  some  parts  and 
possessed  of  legal  knowledge ;  he  was  several 
years  attorney  general  of  Rhode  Island  and 
was  clerk  of  the  assembly.  He  married  Waite, 
daughter  of  Resolved  and  Mercy  (Williams) 
W'aterman.  February  12,  1685.  She  died  sub- 
sequent to  1712.  The  above  Mercy  (Williams) 
Waterman  was  a  daughter  of  the  celebrated 
Roger  Williams. 


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(Ill)  William,  son  of  John  and  Waite 
("Waterman)  Rhodes,  was  born  in  Warwicke, 
July  14,  1695.  He  was  chosen  a  deputy.  His 
will  was  made  July  13,  1772.  He  married, 
December  28,  1722,  ^lary  Sheldon,  of  Provi- 
dence. Children  :  William,  Joseph,  Waitestill, 
Nehemiah  and  Eunice. 

(R")  Captain  William  (2),  son  of  William 
(i)  and  Mary  (Sheldon)  Rhodes,  was  born 
in  Providence,  died  in  Burrillville,  Rhode 
Island.  June  30,  1823.  He  was  a  cooper  and 
worked  at  his  trade  in  the  West  Indies.  He 
made  frequent  trips  there  and  being  a  wide- 
awake fellow,  anxious  to  learn,  and  of  an  in- 
quisitive disposition,  he  thus  acquired  some 
knowledge  of  navigation.  In  1775  two  vessels 
were  fitted  out,  one  of  which  was  commanded 
by  Captain  John  Grimes  with  William  Rhodes 
as  lieutenant.  The  nautical  information  he  had 
gleaned  on  his  West  Indies  trips  now  stood 
him  and  his  government  in  good  stead.  In 
August,  1776,  he  was  granted  letters  of  marque 
by  the  Rhode  Island  government.  He  was  in 
command  of  the  sloop  "Montgomery,"  ten 
guns,  ten  swivels,  and  manned  by  sixty  sea- 
men engaged  in  privateering.  This  vessel 
overhauled  English  ships  on  their  way  from 
the  West  Indies,  laden  with  sugar  and  molasses, 
and  with  the  prizes  thus  secured  he  made  what 
was  then  a  comfortable  fortune.  He  sold  his 
prizes  for  continental  money  which  became 
through  the  depreciation  worthless.  His  wife 
advised  him  to  invest  in  Providence  real  estate. 
This  was  a  case  where  foresight  of  a  woman 
was  worth  heeding,  and  William  observed  that 
his  wife  was  wiser  than  he.  At  the  end  of 
hostilities  he  bought  land  at  Rhodesville  since 
called  Harrisville,  now  Burrillville,  settling 
down  to  the  less  exciting  arts  of  peace.  He 
builded  himself  a  home  in  which  he  lived 
quietly  after  his  stormy  career.  He  was  a 
good  horseback  rider  and  made  trips  to  South 
Carolina  in  that  manner  where  he  had  invest- 
ments. He  was  a  man  of  remarkable  agility 
and  even  in  his  later  years  could  cover  thirty 
feet  in  three  leaps.  He  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Arnold) 
Fenner.  She  died  October  2,  1824.  in  her 
eighty-first  year.  Children :  Elizabeth.  Rich- 
ard (mentioned  below),  Fenner,  and  William, 
who  died  August  15,  1799,  at  Newbern,  North 
Carolina. 

(V)  Captain  Richard,  eldest  son  of  Cap- 
tain William  (2)  and  Elizabeth  (Fenner) 
Rhodes,  was  born  in  Providence,  December 
15,  1776,  died  at  North  Scituate  in  1845.  He 
was  a  revolutionary  soldier  in  Captain  Dexter"s 


company.  Colonel  Green's  regiment.  He  was 
a  sea  captain.  His  farm  was  situated  half-way 
between  Scituate  and  North  Scituate  and  is 
known  as  the  Butler  farm,  now  occupied  by 
Arthur  Steer.  Richard,  both  his  wives,  and 
the  younger  children  are  buried  there  and  their 
tombstones  are  in  a  fair  state  of  preserva- 
tion. He  married  Abigail  (surname  unknown), 
who  died  in  1797.  His  second  wife  was  Tabitha, 
daughter  of  John  Harris.  By  his  first  wife 
was  born  Richard  and  Sarah,  both  of  whom 
died  young.  Tabitha  (Harris)  Rhodes  was 
the  mother  of  Fenner  (died  early),  Thomas 
H.,  George  A.  (twins),  Eliza,  Celia  Antis, 
Mary,  Patience,  Tabitha.  Maria  N.,  Waite  H., 
Richard  and  Emeline  (died  in  infancy).  Celia 
Antis  married  Alpheus  Hawkins  and  became 
the  mother  of  Richard  Fenner  Hawkins,  herein 
mentioned. 

(The    Howe    Line). 

Howe  or  Hoo  as  it  was  once  written  meant 
a  hill.  Da  La  Howe  was  originally  the  name 
of  the  family  when  they  came  over  with  Will- 
iam the  Conquorer  and  it  meant  as  then  written 
literally  "from  the  hills."  So  the  first  Mr. 
Howe  was  the  man  who  lived  on  the  hill.  As 
it  is  the  branch  roads  in  the  vast  network  of 
railways  that  feed  and  make  possible  the  great 
trunk  lines  of  commerce,  so  it  is  the  confluent 
streams  whose  torrents  flood  the  banks  of  the 
mighty  river  in  its  onw-ard  race  to  the  sea ;  so 
it  is  the  subsidiary  lines  commingling  and 
interlacing  from  which  is  realized  the  unit 
denominated  the  family.  In  this  people  we 
are  herein  considering,  beginning  with  the 
first  generation  in  1639.  no  fewer  than  nine- 
teen families  have  contributed  to  the  making 
of  the  brawn  and  brain  of  the  last  or  ninth 
generation.  Among  the  distinguished  men  of 
this  line  have  been  the  Hon.  Timothy  O.  Howe, 
United  States  senator  from  Wisconsin  and 
postmaster-general  in  Arthur's  cabinet,  and 
Major  General  Nathaniel  F.  Banks,  governor 
of  Massachusetts  and  speaker  of  the  National 
house  of  representatives. 

(I)  John  Howe  (3),  was  the  son  of  John 
Howe  (2),  of  Warwickshire.  England,  and 
the  grandson  of  John  Howe  (i).  of  Hodin- 
hull.  a  descendant  of  Lord  Charles  Howe.  John 
Howe  (3)  was  in  Sudbury.  Massachusetts,  in 
1639.  was  made  a  freeman  in  1641.  and  select- 
man in  1643.  The  selectmen  appointed  him 
in  1655  "to  see  to  the  restraining  of  youth  on 
the  Lord's  day."  His  name  was  on  a  petition 
from  the  Sudbury  inhabitants  to  the  general 
court  for  a  grant  of  land  in  1656,  and  on  May 
I  of  that  year  a  tract  six  miles  square  was 


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granted,  with  conditions  of  settlement  "so  as 
to  be  able  to  maintain  a  ministry."  It  was 
then  called  W'hipperpewickc  now  known  as 
Marlborough.  At  the  first  grantees  meeting 
held  September  25,  1656,  he  was  of  a  select 
committee  to  organize  a  new  plantation,  and 
was  the  first  white  settler  there.  His  log  cabin 
was  near  the  Indian  planting  field  and  was 
situated  about  one  hundred  rods  from  the 
Spring  Hill  meeting  house.  For  many  genera- 
tions this  spot  was  the  home  of  the  Howes  and 
later  he  kept  a  tavern.  He  enjoyed  the  friend- 
ship and  good  will  of  the  Aborigines  who 
frequently  referred  their  disputes  to  him.  It 
is  related  that  two  Red  Skins  became  involved 
in  a  quarrel  over  the  possession  of  a  pumpkin. 
Planted  in  one  field  it  grew  over  the  line  into 
an  adjoining  lot.  Learning  each  side  of  the 
story  Mr.  Howe  cut  the  pumpkin  in  two  pieces 
and  divided  it  e(|ually  to  the  infinite  satisfac- 
tion of  both  parties,  a  w^ay  of  settling  involved 
points  w-e  moderns  might  safely  borrow  wis- 
dom from.  The  general  court  referred  to 
Goodman  Howe  and  Goodman  Rice  a  claim 
made  upon  it  by  Thomas  Dan  forth.  The 
following  is  a  copy  of  a  letter  written  by  Mr. 
Howe  which  shows  him  to  have  been  of  fair 
education  and  to  have  had  a  ready  command 
of  forcible  English. 

"Hon"'''  S'' — ,  ^ly  humble  suit  unto  this 
Hon^''  Court  is  that  they  would  be  pleased  to 
grant  me  freedom  from  Training  and  that  my 
License  for  Ordinary  keeping  may  be  renewed 
unto  me.  My  grounds  w-'^''  I  request  the  said 
are  i.The  consideration  of  a  bodily  infirmity 
I  have  had  many  years  upon  me  w*^''  as  I  grow 
in  age  encreaseth  in  tediousness  in  so  much  it 
is  frequently  interruptive  to  me  in  my  calling. 
2.  I  am  also  thick  of  hearing.  3.  I  do  and  am 
like  to  maintain  three  trained  soldiers  in  mv 
family.  S"'  I  trust  you  will  endeavor  that  I 
may  obtain  my  desire  in  the  respects  men- 
tioned though  I  give  you  but  a  hint  of  things 
which  if  you  do,  you  will  hereby  more  abund- 
antly oblige  me  to  subscribe  myself  as  I 
already  do.    Yo'  humble  servant. 

John  Howe 
Marleborough  this  30th  September  1662." 

He  died  in  Marlborough  in  1687,  and  his 
wife  whose  christian  name  was  Mary  about 
two  years  later.  Children :  John,  Samuel, 
Sarah,  Marj',  died  early,  Isaac,  mentioned  be- 
low, Josiah,  Mary,  Thomas,  Daniel,  Alexander, 
Eleazer.  A  grandson  of  John  Howe  (31  by 
the  above  Samuel  whose  name  was  David  built 
the  old  Howe  tavern  on  the  Boston  road  which 


has  been  immortallized  by  Longfellow  as  the 
"\\'ayside  Inn." 

(II)  Isaac,  third  .son  of  John  (3)  and  Mary 
Howe,  was  born  in  .Marlborough.  August  8, 
1648,  died  there  December  9,  1724.  He  was 
in  charge  of  Garrison  number  6  on  the  South- 
borough  road  near  the  present  Newton  rail- 
road station.  He  married  (first)  Frances 
Wood.  January  17,  1671,  who  died  May  14, 
1718.  He  married  (second)  December  2,  1718, 
Susanna  Sibley,  of  Sutton.  Children  :  Eliza- 
beth. Mary.  John,  died  early,  fohn,  mentioned 
below,   r.ethiah,  Hannah,  Thankful. 

(III)  John  (4),  third  son  of  Isaac  and 
Frances  (Wood)  Howe,  was  born  in  Marl- 
borough, September  i6,  1682,  died  May  19, 
1754.  He  resided  on  the  Howe  homestead. 
He  married,  Xovember  3.  1703,  Deliverance, 
daughter  of  John  and  Tabitha  (Stone)  Rice, 
of  Sudbury,  whose  ancestry  is  traced  herein. 
Children :  Jezaniah,  mentioned  below,  Mat- 
thias. Isaac,  Benjamin,  Tabitha,  Patience, 
Paul,  Mary.  Francis  and  Abigail. 

(I\')  Jezaniali,  eldest  son  of  John  (4)  and 
Deliverance  (Rice)  Howe,  was  born  Mav  30, 
1704,  in  Marlborough,  died  in  Leicester,  Mass- 
achusetts, in  1762.  He  resided  both  in  South- 
borough  and  Leicester.  He  married  Damaris, 
daughter  of  Zerubbel  and  Hannah  (Kerley) 
Eager.  Children :  Elijah,  mentioned  below, 
Jacob.  Jezaniah.  (leorge.  Kerley,  Miriam, 
I'ersis  and  Rebecca. 

(V)  Elijah,  eldest  .son  of  Jezaniah  and 
Damaris  (Eager)  Howe,  was  born  in  South- 
bridge,  Massachusetts,  December  7,  1731,  died 
in  Spencer,  same  state,  February  2,  1808.  He 
lived  in  Paxton.  Leicester  and  Spencer.  He 
served  in  Captain  Newhall's  companv  which 
marched  to  Cambridge  on  the  alarm  of  .April 
^9-  1775-  Also  he  served  in  Captain  Josiah 
XVhite's  company,  Lieutenant-Colonel  P.enja- 
niin  Flagg's  division,  and  Colonel  Samuel 
Denny's  regiment  which  marched  August  21, 
1777,  and  was  discharged  .\ugust  23.  1777. 
This  company  marched  to  Hadleyon  the 
alarm.  lie  married  Deborah,  daughter  of 
James  and  Dorcas  (Richardson)  Smith,  of 
Leicester.  Children :  Jael,  Kerley,  Frederick, 
Elijah,  mentioned  below,  Sally.  I-:iizabeth, 
Catherine,  James  and  Lucretia. 

(Vn  Elijah  (2).  third  son  of  Elijah  d) 
and  Deborah  (Smith)  Howe,  was  hnm  in 
Paxton.  November  25,  1768.  died  in  Spencer, 
January  g,  181 6.  He  married  Fanny,  daughter 
of  Joshua  and  Sarah  (White)  Bemis,  whose 
ancestry  is  traced  herein.  .After  Mr.  Howe's 
death    she   married    .Aamn    I'.anister.   and    she 


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died  May  30.  1845.  Children :  Elijah,  Elias, 
mentioned  below,  Liberty,  Tyler,  who  invented 
the  spring  bed ;  William,  who  invented  the 
truss  bridge ;  Alphonso,  Hiram,  Elbridge  and 
Sarah  Ann. 

(VH)  Elias,  second  son  of  Elijah  (2)  and 
Fanny  (Bemis)  Howe,  was  born  at  the  old 
Howe  homestead  at  Howes'  mills  in  Spencer, 
died  in  Cambridge,  IMassachusetts,  December 
28,  1867.  He  married,  October  22,  18 16,  Polly, 
daughter  of  Sylvester  Bemis,  of  Chester,  who 
removed  from  Spencer  there  and  made  a  home 
on  the  mountains.  Polly  ( liemis)  Howe  died 
September  12,  1871,  at  Cambridgeport.  Chil- 
dren :  Amasa  Bemis,  mentioned  below,  Elias, 
mentioned  below,  Mary,  Horace  S.,  Juliet, 
Corinth  and  Fanny. 

(VH)  Amasa  Bemis,  eldest  son  of  Elias 
and  Polly  (Bemis)  Howe,  was  born  in  Spencer, 
November  3,  1817,  died  in  Cambridge,  January 
15,  1868,  while  there  attending  the  funeral  of 
his  father.  In  about  1842  he  went  to  Louis- 
iana. Later  he  came  to  Massachusetts  and 
assisted  his  brother  in  perfecting  the  sewing 
machine.  He  afterward  established  a  sewing 
machine  business  of  his  own  in  New  York. 
He  married,  October  27,  1842,  Sarah  Fry, 
daughter  of  Daniel  and  Almira  (Goodrich) 
Cadwell.  The  marriage  took  place  at  Bayou 
de  Siard,  Louisiana.  She  died  in  Springfield, 
March  24,  1872.  Children:  Cornelia  Morgan 
and  Benjamin  Porter. 

(IX)  Cornelia  Morgan,  only  daughter  of 
Amasa  Bemis  and  Sarah  Fry  (Cadwell)  Howe, 
was  born  in  Monroe,  parish  of  Carroll,  Louis- 
iana, August  29,  1844.  She  was  brought  to 
Massachusetts  when  very  young  by  her  par- 
ents and  educated  in  .Springfield.  She  is  the 
only  Colonial  dame  in  S])ringficld  and  derives 
her  admission  thereto  through  her  ancestor, 
Colonel  Joseph  Buckminster.  She  is  also  a 
member  of  Mercy  Warren  Chapter,  Daughters 
of  the  .American  Revolution.  Colonel  Joseph 
Buckminster  was  in  the  expedition  at  Port 
Royal,  September  10.  1710.  and  was  captain  of 
the  grenadiers  in  Sir  Charles  Hobby's  regi- 
ment and  served  on  the  brigatine  "Henrietta." 
He  was  a  tall  muscular  man  of  indomitable 
character,  a  brave  officer  beloved  of  his  men 
and  resijcctcd  by  his  superiors.  Cornelia  M. 
Howe  married  Richard  Fenner  Hawkins, 
whose  ancestry  is  traced  herein. 

(VHI)  Elias  (2).  second  son  of  F.lias  (i) 
and  Polly  (Bemis)  Howe,  was  born  in  Spencer, 
July  ().  1819,  died  at  lirooklyn.  New  'S'ork, 
October  3.  1867.  .'\t  forty-eight  years  of  age 
lie  worked   with   his  brother  in   sticking  wire 


teeth  into  strips  of  leather  for  cards,  used  in 
the  manufacture  of  cotton.    At  eleven  he  went 
out  to  live  with  a  farmer  of  the  neighborhood 
and  after  an  experience  there  of  one  year  he 
returned  to  his  father's  mill.     In  1835  he  went 
to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  obtained  a  learn- 
er's place  in  a  manufactory  of  cotton  machinery, 
earning  about  fifty  cents  a  day.     In  1837.  the 
panic  year,  he  was  adrift  again  for  work  and 
showed  up  at  Cambridge  where  he  secured  a 
position  in   a   machine   shop.     His   shopmate 
there  was  Nathaniel  P.  Banks,  his  illustrious 
kinsman,    who   afterwards    was   governor   of 
Massachusetts   and   speaker   of   the    National 
house  of   representatives.      In   a   few   months 
he  is  in  Boston  in  another  machine  shop.    Two 
men  came  into  the  shop  one  day  and  brought 
a  knitting  machine  which  they  were  striving  to 
perfect  and  sought  the  proprietor's  aid  whose 
name   was   Davis.     "Why   don't  you  make  a 
sewing  machine  asked  Davis  ?    It  can't  be  done 
said  the  caller."  "O  yes  it  can,"  insisted  Davis. 
Elias   Howe    stood   by   and  heard   the   above 
conversation  and  it  was  the  germ  of  the  idea 
from  which  he  developed  a  sewing  machine, 
abolished  "The  song  of  the  shirt."  and  made 
the  name  of  Howe  famous  the  world  over.  He 
began  to  study  the  idea  at  once.     Never  was 
necessity  more  truly  the  mother  of  invention 
than  in  his  case.     He  had  wife  and  children 
three  to  feed  and  cloth  on  the  pitiable  salary- 
of  nine  dollars  per  week.     It  was  to  provide 
for  this  little  family  he  worked  in  after  hours 
and  in  moments  snatched  from  sleep  and  need- 
ed rest.     One  day  in   1844  the  thought  came 
upon  him  with  the  suddenness  of  a  pistol  shot : 
it  was  necessary  that  the  machine  should  imi- 
tate naturally  the  action  of  the  hand  in  sewing. 
This   was  the  acme  of  the  crisis.     The  idea 
of  using  two  threads  and  forming  a  stitch  by 
the  aid  of  a  shuttle  and  a  curved  needle,  with 
an  eye  near  the  point  soon  occurred  to  him. 
The  tailors  in  Boston  were  opposed  to  the  de- 
vice as  likely  to  hurt  their  business  and  he  was 
nearly  mobbed  at  times.     He  secured  letters 
])atents.     The  income  from  the  invention  was 
practically  nothing  and  he  engaged  himself  as 
a  railroad  engineer  to  support  his  family.     In 
1847  he  sailed  in  the  steerage  for  London  upon 
an  engagement  with  a  machinist  over  there  to 
construct  a  machine  to  sew  corsets.    This  ven- 
ture proved  abortive  and  he  was  wretchedly 
poor.      He    was    obliged    to    pawn    his    first 
sewing    machine    to     secure     ]>assage     home. 
.\rrived  in  .New  York  he  had  a  half  crown  as 
his  sole  possession.     r>v  this  time  the  machine 
was   becoming   utilized    in    the    I'nited    States 


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and  his  long  fight  with  the  infringers  began. 
Litigation  ensued,  followed  by  temporary  de- 
feats and  vexatious  delays ;  but  Elias  won  in 
the  end.  The  court  held :  "there  is  no  evi- 
dence in  this  case  that  leaves  a  shadow  of 
doubt,  that  all  the  benefit  conferred  upon  the 
public  by  the  introduction  of  a  sewing  machine, 
the  public  are  indebted  to  ]\Ir.  Howe."  From 
the  day  of  that  decision  ]\Ir.  Howe's  prospects 
began  to  brighten  and  his  income  was  two 
hundred  thousand  dollars  per  annum.  He 
formed  a  company  for  the  making  of  his 
machines  at  Bridgeport.  Connecticut,  and 
erected  an  immense  plant  there.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  civil  war  he  enlisted  as  a  soldier 
and  fought  in  the  ranks  for  he  came  of  fight- 
ing stock.  On  one  occasion  he  advanced  the 
pay  for  the  whole  regiment  when  the  pay 
master  was  short  of  funds.  He  was  always 
making  contributions  to  the  army. 

(The   CadweU    Line). 

The  history  of  Massachusetts  ancestry  con- 
tains no  name  more  deserving  of  perpetuation 
on  account  of  its  deeds  of  glory  and  renown 
achieved  on  the  battlefield,  and  in  the  civil 
affairs  of  the  community  than  this  one  hereto 
annexed. 

( I )  Thomas  CadweU  was  in  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, in  1632.  That  year.  March  9.  for  a 
consideration  of  forty-five  pounds  he  bought 
land  of  the  Scott  heirs,  situated  on  what  is 
now  Front  street.  He  was  a  chimney  viewer, 
a  constable  and  also  was  a  ferryman.  After 
his  decease,  October  9,  1694.  his  widow  had 
charge  of  the  ferry.  He  married,  in  1668, 
Elizabeth,  widow  of  Robert  Wilson,  of  Farm- 
ington.  and  daughter  of  Edward  Stebbins. 
Children:  Mary,  Edward,  Thomas,  William, 
Matthew  (mentioned  below),  Abigail,  Eliza- 
beth, Samuel,  Hannah  and  Mehitable. 

(H)  Matthew,  fourth  son  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  (Stebbins)  CadweU,  was  born  in 
Hartford,  October  5,  1668,  died  there  April 
22.  1719.  He  owned  land  there  near  the  I-"arm- 
ington  line  but  exchanged  it  with  his  brother 
for  the  old  homestead.  He  married  Abigail, 
daughter  of  John  Reckly,  of  Wethcrsfield, 
Connecticut.  Children:  Matthew,  Abigail 
(died  young),  Ann,  John,  .Abel,  Daniel  (died 
early),  Daniel  ("mentioned  below),  .\bigail  and 
Elias. 

(lU)  Daniel,  fifth  son  of  Matthew  and  .Abi- 
gail CBeckly)  Cadwell,  was  born  in  Hartford, 
^lay  18.  1710,  died  prior  to  1791.  In  early 
life  he  settled  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  as  was  the  custom  of  the  time   followed 


up  the  river  in  seeking  a  new  home.  Later  he 
went  to  Palmer,  Massachusetts,  then  Wilbra- 
ham,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  selectman. 
He  was  committee  of  the  precinct  in  1750,  and 
at  the  outbreak  of  trouble  with  England  was 
appointed  on  a  committee  to  graft  resolution 
representing  sentiments  of  the  town  in  regard 
to  the  mother  country.  He  belonged  to  the  First 
Church  of  Springfield,  and  was  concerned 
actively  in  the  Breck  controversy.  His  will 
was  probated  in  1791.  He  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Ebenezer  \\'arriner.  Children : 
Daniel  (mentioned  below),  Mary,  Ann,  Ebe- 
nezer, Matthew,  Eunice,  Simeon,  Levi,  Ste- 
phen, Joanna,  Aaron  and  Moses. 

(  I\')  Captain  Daniel  (2),  eldest  son  of 
Daniel  (i)  and  Mary  (Warriner)  Cadwell, 
was  born  January  15,  1733,  in  Wilbraham, 
then  a  part  of  Springfield,  and  died  of  small 
po.x  in  the  service  of  his  country  at  Skees- 
borough.  New  York,  March  27,  1777.  He  was 
commissioned  as  sergeant  in  Captain  Luke 
Hitchcock's  company  in  the  French  and  Indian 
war.  and  saw  hard  service  at  the  battle  of  Lake 
(ieorge  with  Baron  Dieskou.  In  October,  1774, 
he  was  appointed  on  the  committee  of  corre- 
spondence and  inspection.  Also  he  served  as 
lieutenant  in  Captain  Paul  Langdon's  com- 
pany of  minute-men  from  Wilbraham,  who 
marched  on  the  alarm,  April  19,  1775.  He 
was  promoted  to  a  captaincy  in  Colonel  C'harles 
Pynchon's  regiment  in  1776.  He  was  with 
Colonel  Danielson's  regiment  at  Ticonderoga 
from  December  5,  1776,  until  his  death.  Cap- 
tain Cadwell  was  a  brave  soldier  and  faith- 
ful officer,  and  his  death  at  this  juncture  of 
aft'airs  was  greatly  to  be  deplored.  He  mar- 
ried Eunice,  daughter  of  Moses  Burt.  She 
died  .August  9,  1816.  Children:  Hannah, 
Louisa,  Eunice,  Daniel  (mentioned  below), 
Pliny  and  Chauncy. 

(V)  Daniel  (3),  fourth  child  of  Daniel  (2) 
ami  Eunice  (Burt)  Cadwell.  was  born  in  Wil- 
braham, January  21,  1768,  died  there  April 
I')-  1839-  i  fe  married  Olive  .Arnold,  who  died 
in  1797.  He  married  (second)  Grace  Beebe, 
of  Monson,  Massachusetts.  Children  by  first 
marriage:  Daniel  (mentioned  below)  and 
Roderick.  Grace  (Beebe)  Cadwell  was  the 
mother  of  George,  Francis,  Olive  and  Marcus. 

f\T)  Daniel  (4},  eldest  son  of  Daniel  (3) 
and  Olive  ( .Arnolcl)  Cadwell,  was  born  in  Wil- 
braham, .April  27,  1793,  died  in  Springfield, 
■August  28,  1826.  He  married  Almira,  daugh- 
ter of  Elijah  Goodrich,  of  West  Springfield, 
whose  ancestry  is  traced  herein.  His  widow 
married   Marcus  Cadwell  and   she  died   April 


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25,  1872.  Children :  Sarah  Frye,  born  No- 
vember 16,  1820.  mairied  Amasa  Bemis  Howe, 
whose  ancestry  is  traced  herein  and  who  be- 
came the  parents  of  Cornelia  Morgan  Howe. 

(The  Goodrich   Line). 

This  family  were  of  fighting  stock  and  main- 
tained in  the  various  wars  that  have  devastated 
our  country  its  prestige  for  martial  affairs. 
The  name  came  from  Goderick,  meaning  rich 
in  God  or  goodness.  Goodman  and  Goodrich 
were  interchangeable  names. 

( I )  William  Goodrich  was  born  in  Suffolk, 
England,  and  emigrated  to  these  shores,  be- 
coming an  inhabitant  of  Wethersfield,  Connec- 
ticut, where  he  died  in  1676.  He  was  made  a 
freeman.  May  15,  1656,  was  a  deputy  from 
the  above  town  to  the  general  court  and  one 
of  the  grand  jury.  He  saw  actual  fighting  in 
the  King  Philip  war  and  bore  the  title  of 
ensign.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Mat- 
thew Marvin,  and  upon  his  death  she  married 
(second)  William  Curtis,  of  Stratford.  She 
died  in  1702.  William  Goodrich  was  the  father 
of  William  (died  early),  Sarah.  Mary,  John, 
Elizabeth,  William  (mentioned  below),  Abi- 
gail, Ephraim  and  David. 

(U)  William  (  2  ),  third  son  of  William  (  I  ) 
and  .Sarah  ( Marvin )  Goodrich,  was  born  in 
Wc'tlier.sfield.  February  8,  1661,  and  died  there 
December  27,  1737.  He  was  lieutenant  in  the 
train  band.  He  married,  November  22,  1680, 
Grace,  daughter  of  John  Riley.  She  died  Octo- 
ber 23,  1712.  He  married  (second)  the  relict 
of  Dr.  Nicholas  Ayrnoult.  Children  by  first 
wife:  William  (died  in  infancy),  William 
(mentioned  below),  l^.enjamin.  Joseph.  Isaac, 
Ann,  Ephraim  and  Ethan. 

(HI)  William  (3),  second  son  of  William 
(2)  and  Grace  (Riley)  Goodrich,  was  born 
in  Wethersfield.  July  2,  1686,  died  in  Sharon, 
Massachusetts,  March  3,  1743.  He  lived  at 
.Sheffield,  Massachusetts,  and  Utchfield.  Con- 
necticut. Children:  Deborah.  Samuel.  Mar- 
garet (wlio  soon  died  ).  William.  Ethan.  Tared. 
Margaret,  Elnatlian  (mentioned  below  ).  David, 
I'^lisha  and   Solomon. 

(I\')  Elnathan.  eighth  child  of  William  (3) 
and  Margaret  (Orvis)  Goodrich,  was  born 
probably  in  .Sheffield,  December  6.  1718.  died 
in  Sharon.  lie  married.  January  I.  1740.  Eliz- 
abeth .Sliowcrs.  Children:  Jared,  Michael 
(mentioned  below),  Sabra.  Isaac,  Joel. 

(V)  Michael,  second  son  of  Ehiathan  and 
Elizabeth  (.Showers)  Goodrich,  was  born  in 
Wethersfield,  March  23,  1747.  died  in  Walton, 
New   ^■ork.   .August    17,    1825.     He   settled   in 


Sharon  and  from  there  moved  to  Delhi,  New 
York.  He  enlisted  in  1775  in  Captain  Samuel 
Elmore's  company,  Colonel  Hinsman  regiment, 
and  served  ten  months.  In  February.  1776,  he 
re-enlisted  in  Captain  Oliver  Parmale's  com- 
])any,  Colonel  Charles  Burrill's  regiment,  and 
was  discharged  at  Fort  George,  November  27, 
1776.  Also  he  saw  active  service  in  the  militia 
and  was  at  the  sacking  of  Danbury.  Connecti- 
cut, by  the  British,  and  joined  in  the  pursuit 
of  the  retreating  enemy.  Also  he  was  present 
at  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne  at  Saratoga. 
The  forename  of  his  first  wife  was  Ann.  The 
christian  name  of  the  second  wife  was  Martha. 
Children:  Michael,  Elijali  (  mentioned  below), 
Sabra,  Anne,  Elnathan.  Harriet,  Elizabeth, 
Miranda  and  Stephen. 

(\T)  Elijah,  second  son  of  Michael  and 
Ann  Goodrich,  was  born  in  Sharon  in  1776, 
died  in  West  Springfield,  December  5,  1835. 
He  lived  in  Delhi  but  removed  to  Springfield 
somewhere  near  1796.  He  married  Rachel, 
daughter  of  John  Lloyd,  September  17,  1783. 
Children :  John,  Francis,  Silas,  and  Almira, 
who  was  born  in  Delhi  and  married  Daniel 
Cadwell,  whose  ancestry  is  traced  herein,  and 
they  were  the  grandparents  of  Cornelia  Mor- 
gan Howe,  whose  ancestry  is  traced  herein. 

(The  Lloyd  Line). 

This  is  not  a  common  name  in  the  L'nited 
States,  but  it  makes  up  in  importance  what  it 
lacks  numerically.  It  is  derived  from  luhyd 
meaning  brown. 

(I)  John  Lloyd  appeared  at  Stamford.  Con- 
necticut, as  early  as  December  17,  1747.  He 
jictitioncd  the  constituted  authorities  to  cart  a 
"parcel  of  small  stone  out  of  his  orchard  on 
to  the  sloughry  place  in  the  road  between  the 
town  and  the  common  landing  place  by  Peter 
Demills  especially  in  the  flat  line  all  along  the 
front  of  my  orchard."  The  name  of  his  wife 
is  ufit  known.  Children:  Henry,  John  (men- 
tioned lielow).  Rebecca.  .Abigail  and  Sara. 

(II)  Major  John  (2),  second  son  of  John 
(i)  Lloyd,  was  born  in  .Stamford.  February 
22,  1744,  died  in  West  Siiringfield.  .August  11, 
1827.  He  removed  to  .Amenia,  Dutchess  county, 
New  York.  He  was  apjiointed  sheriff  there  in 
1774,  and  was  first  lieutenant  in  Captain  In- 
crease Child's  company  of  minute-men.  No- 
vember 25,  1786,  he  was  prf)moted  to  the  Cap- 
taincv  of  the  said  company.  The  name  of 
his  wife  was  Eunice.  Children:  James,  .Annie, 
Rachel  (mentioned  below),  John.  Henry  and 
Anthony. 

(Tin   Rachel,    daughter    of     Major    John 


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Lloyd,  married  Elijah  Goodrich,  whose  an- 
cestry is  traced  herein,  and  tliey  were  the 
great-grandparents  of  Cornelia  Morgan  Howe, 
whose  ancestry  is  traced  herein. 


The  early  generations  of  the 
ROBIXSOX  Robinson  family  in  America 
are  dilTicnlt  to  trace  on 
account  of  the  large  number  of  early  settlers 
of  tliis  name  and  the  incompleteness  of  the 
records.  John  Robinson  was  in  Salem  before 
1637  when  iie  was  admitted  a  member  of  the 
churcli  there;  died  in  1653  leaving  a  will  be- 
queathirg  to  wife  Eleanor  during  her  life, 
then  "to  the  first  one  of  his  kindred  that  shall 
come  to  seek  it." 

William  Robinson,  presumably  brother  of 
John,  settled  also  in  Salem ;  was  admitted  a 
freeman  May  18,  1642;  was  proprietor  as 
early  as  1637;  had  land  granted  to  himself  and 
son  in  1647.  He  sold  land  in  1660.  His  will 
dated  February  9,  1676-77,  proved  November 
29.  1678,  bequeathed  to  son  Joseph  of  the 
Rarbadoes.  sons  Samuel  and  John,  executors ; 
daugh.tcr  Sarah  Xewbury,  and  granflchild  Tim- 
othy Robinson.  Children:  i.  .\nn,  baptized 
December  3,  1637.  2.  Samuel,  baptized  De- 
cember 26.  1639.  3.  Mary,  baptized  March 
12,  1642-43.  4.  Timothy,  baptized  June  28, 
1644.  5.  Mark,  born  and  died  1645.  6.  Esther, 
born  May  28.  1646.  7.  Martha,  born  February 
2.  1647,  lived  fdur  days.  8.  John,  died  in  1678. 
9.  Joseph.  William  Robinson,  of  Lynn,  be- 
lieved to  be  grandson  of  William  Robinson,  of 
Salem,  son  or  nephew  of  John,  had  children : 
I.  William,  born  October  7,  1683.  2.  Aquila, 
September  26.  i686.    3.  John.  June  10.  1688. 

f  I)  Colonel  James  Robinson,  born  at  Lynn, 
Massachusetts.  I'cbruary  27.  1757,  was  a  de- 
scendant of  William  Robinson,  of  Lynn,  with- 
out doubt.  The  surname  was  spelled  Robi- 
son,  Roberson  and  Robertson  in  the  early  rec- 
ords, but  the  later  generations  have  spelled 
the  name  Robinson.  According  to  family  tra- 
dition the  ancestry  is  Scotch.  The  family  set- 
tled in  Salem,  Lynn  and  other  towns  of  the 
vicinity.  James  Robison  was  a  soldier  in  the 
revolution,  first  in  the  company  of  Captain 
Rufus  Mansfield  on  the  Lexington  alarm,  then 
in  May  following  a  fifer  in  Captain  Enoch 
T'utnam's  comi)any.  Colonel  Mansfield's  regi- 
ment. He  was  taken  prisoner  at  Fort  Warren 
and  held  for  a  year.  After  the  war  he  was 
active  in  the  militia  and  was  commissioned 
lieutenant-colonel  of  the  I'orth  Massachusetts 
Regiment.  \'olunteer  Infantry,  May  11,  1801, 
by  Governor  Caleb   Strong ;   resigned    March 


7,  1803.  lie  was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Lynn 
and  was  appointed  first  postmaster  in  1793, 
and  for  a  jjcriod  of  ten  years  afterward,  liis 
commission  being  preserved  by  his  grandson, 
John  Campbell  Robinson.  He  was  a  repre- 
sentative to  the  general  court  from  Lynn  from 
1796  to  1802.  He  died  at  Saugus,  Massachu- 
setts, formerly  part  of  Lynn.  January  21,  1832, 
aged  seventy-five  years.  He  married  ( first )  May 

6.  1779,  Lydia  Newhall.  died  .-\|)ril  13,  1800, 
aged  forty,  daughter  of  James  and  Lois  ( Rur- 
rill )  Xewhall,  of  an  old  and  distinguished  Lynn 
family.  He  married  (second)  August  15, 
1 801.  .Mice  Jane  Gay,  widow  of  Timothy  Gay, 
of  Boston,  at  one  time  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent and  wealthy  citizens  of  Boston.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife,  born  at  Lynn:  i.  James, 
born  March  10,  1780.  2.  Lydia,  December  25, 
1781.  3.  Xabby,  January  8,  1784.  4.  John, 
May  7,  1786,  mentioned  below.  5.  Harriet, 
February  7,   1789.     6.   Lois,  August  8,   1791. 

7.  Janet,  July  12,  1793,  died  May  28,  1795.  8. 
George,  June  29,  1795.  9.  Moses  Gill,  Decem- 
ber 7.  1796.  died  October  23,  1819.  10.  Will- 
iam Charles.  April  14,  1798.  Children  of  sec- 
ond wife:  II.  Hamilton.  12.  Alford.  13. 
Helen. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Colonel  James  Robinson, 
was  born  at  Lynn.  May  7.  1786.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  and  early  in  life  began  to 
follow  the  sea.  He  rose  rapidly  and  became 
a  master  mariner  in  early  life.  He  had  com- 
mand of  a  vessel  largely  engaged  in  importing 
hemp  from  Riga,  a  commercial  port  of  Russia, 
capital  of  Livonia  on  the  Diina.  He  once  hacl 
a  narrow  escape  from  a  mutinous  crew  that 
sought  his  life.  A  faithful  bull-dog  frustrated 
the  plan  by  an  attack  on  the  leader,  seizing  him 
by  throat  and  felling  him  to  the  deck.  Luckily 
for  the  saikir,  ihc  dug's  teeth  were  fastened 
into  the  knot  of  the  tie  at  his  neck,  but  an 
iron  bar  was  necessary  to  pry  apart  the  jaws 
and  release  the  man.  The  captain  restored 
order  promptly,  but  the  dog  paid  for  his  faith- 
fulness with  his  life.  When  the  cargo  was  dis- 
charged the  ca])tain  found  the  remains  of  his 
dog  j)ressed  between  bales  of  hemp,  a  victim  of 
the  mutineers.  Captain  Robinson  was  commis- 
sioned by  the  government  as  a  privateer  in  the 
war  of  1812  and  cruised  with  some  success  in 
the  West  Indies.  Just  before  the  close  of  the 
war  he  was  appointed  sailing  master  in  the 
I'nited  .States  navy,  not  only  in  recognition  of 
his  loyalty  and  efficiency  as  a  privateer,  but 
because  of  his  wide  knowledge  and  experience 
as  a  navigator.  He  served  at  many  marine 
po.sts  until  a  few  years  before  his  death,   .\fter 


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his  retirement  he  made  his  home  at  Jamaica 
Plain,  Boston,  where  he  Hved  during  his  last 
years,  highly  respected  and  esteemed  by  his 
neighbors.  He  died  there  March  17,  1868. 
Cajitain  Robinson  was  upright,  conscientious 
and  straightforward,  of  great  strength  -and 
force  of  character,  a  skillful  seaman,  a  good 
disciplinarian  and  a  natural  leader  of  men. 
Though  religious  by  nature  and  of  high  ideals 
and  sterling  moral  character,  he  was  liberal 
in  his  faith  and  belonged  to  no  denomination. 
In  early  life  he  was  a  Federalist,  then  a  Whig. 
As  a  matter  of  conscience  he  never  voted  after 
becoming  an  officer  of  the  United  States,  be- 
lieving they  should  take  no  part  in  politics. 

He  married,  March  9,  1820,  Sarah  Campbell, 
born  in  New  York  City,  December  5,  1795, 
died  November  10,  1879,  daughter  of  John 
Campbell,  born  at  Glasgow,  Scotland,  May  4, 
1769,  of  distinguished  Scotch  ancestry.  Her 
father  came  to  America  in  1788,  married,  Jan- 
uary 5,  1793,  Sarah  Guest,  of  New  York,  and 
died  October  6,  1801.  After  her  father's  death, 
her  widowed  mother  came  to  Massachusetts 
with  her  three  daughters  and  married  (second) 
Benjamin  Russell,  founder  and  publisher  of 
the  Coiiimbiaii  Sentinel  of  Boston,  a  notable 
newspaper  in  its  day.  Mr.  Russell  was  for 
many  years  a  ])rominent  journalist,  and  a  fig- 
ure in  the  literary  world.  He  was  born  in 
Boston,  September  I2,  1762,  died  there  Janu- 
ary 4,  1845,  son  of  John  and  Johanna  (Rich) 
Russell,  of  Worcester,  Massachusetts.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Lemuel  and  Abi- 
gail Rich.  Children  of  Captain  John  and  Sarah 
Robinson:  i.  John  Campbell,  died  in  infancy. 
2.  Sarah  Campbell,  born  January  25,  1831, 
died  .\pril  4,  1886,  unmarried.  3.  John  Camp- 
bell, January  12,  1835,  mentioned  below. 

(Ill)  John  Camiibcll.  son  of  Cajitain  John 
Robinson,  was  born  January  12.  1835.  He 
was  educated  in  the  various  naval  ports  where 
his  father  was  stationed  during  his  youth. 
When  seventeen  he  entered  the  employ  of 
James  K.  Mills  &  Company,  commission  mer- 
chants of  I'oston,  to  learn  the  business.  Later 
he  clerked  for  Massachusetts  Hospital  Life 
Insurance  Com])any,  and  subse(|uently  was 
clerk  and  purchasing  agent  for  the  Merrimack 
Manufacturing  Company  of  Lowell,  remain- 
ing thirty-seven  years,  after  which  he  retired 
from  active  business,  devoting  his  time  to  the 
care  of  his  real  estate  and  other  investments.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Re|niblican,  though  for  several 
years  he  was  a  ("leveland  Democrat.  Mr.  R(^h- 
inson  is  a  Unitarian  in  religion,  and  Mrs.  Rob- 
inson is  a  member  of  the   I'riends  Clnirch  at 


Swarthmore,  Pennsylvania.  He  married  (  first) 
in  Boston,  October  14,  1869,  Elizabeth  Bangs 
Simpkins,  born  1842,  died  July  11,  1900,  at 
Jamaica  Plain,  daughter  of  John  and  Abi- 
gail (Harris)  .Simpkins.  Married  (second) 
September  12.  1904,  Beatrice  Magill,  born  in 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  March  18,  1859, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Edward  Hicks  and  Sarah  W. 
(Beans)  Magill.  Mrs.  Robinson  was  edu- 
cated under  the  direction  of  her  father  and 
studied  art  in  the  schools  of  Philadelphia  and 
Paris,  and  for  ten  years  was  at  the  head  of 
the  department  of  fine  arts  in  Swarthmore 
College  of  which  her  father  was  president. 
She  continued  to  teach  until  the  time  of  her 
marriage.  .'~'he  has  taken  a  keen  interest  in 
the  atTairs  of  the  community  near  her  home 
in  Jamaica  Plain,  especially  in  charitable  work, 
and  is  a  director  of  the  Friendly  Society  of 
that  section  and  of  the  Neighborhood  House 
Association.  Both  she  and  her  husband  have 
been  generous  in  the  support  of  organized 
charity  and  in  giving  to  the  poor  and  unfor- 
tunate. Mr.  Robinson  had  no  children  by 
either  mariage.  His  kindly  manner,  high  char- 
acter, fine  intellectual  qualities,  the  magnetism 
of  his  face  and  personality,  his  sympathy  and 
earnestness,  have  won  the  hearts  of  his  neigh- 
bors of  his  neighbors  and  made  a  host  of 
friends  for  him. 

Dr.  Magill  was  the  second  president  of 
Swarthmore  College  at  Swarthmore.  Pennsyl- 
vania, near  Philadelphia,  was  connected  with  it 
from  its  beginning,  and  its  ])resident  for  many 
years.  In  his  younger  days  Dr.  Alagill  was  a 
teacher  in  Boston.  He  was  born  in  1825,  son  of 
Jonathan  Paxon  and  Mary  (Watson)  Magill, 
both  natives  of  I'.ucks  county,  Pennsylvania. 
The  Magill  family  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry, 
the  immigrant  ancestor  coming  with  the  great 
tide  of  pioneers  from  the  north  of  Ireland  in  the 
middle  of  the  eighteenth  century  to  Pennsyl- 
vania. The  original  grant  of  land  made  by 
William  Pen  to  the  pioneer  is  still  owned  by 
descendants.  The  family  joined  the  Society 
of  Friends  at  an  early  date  and  most  of  their 
descendants  have  held  to  that  faith  to  the 
]5rescnt  time.  Dr.  Magill  was  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  and  successful  educators  of  his 
day,  and  had  a  world-wide  reputation.  He 
died  December  10,  1007.  .\  full  and  inter- 
esting account  of  his  long  and  useful  career 
is  to  be  found  in  his  autobiography  entitled 
"Sixty-five  Years  in  the  Life  of  a  Teacher.'" 
One  of  the  other  daughters  of  Dr.  Magill, 
Helen,  married  Hon.  Andrew  D.  White,  first 
president  of  Cornell  Cniversity.  late  amliassa- 


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dor  to  Gcrmatiy  and  to  Russia.,  one  of  the 
most  distinguished  educators  and  diplomats  of 
the  country. 

Andrew  Ford,  immigrant  ancestor, 
FORD     settled  in  that  part  of  Weymouth, 

Massachusetts,  which  was  set  off 
to  Hinghani.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  in 
1654  and  purchased  from  the  colony  a  part  of 
the  land  which  was  afterwards  known  as 
Ford's  Farms,  in  what  is  now  Abington,  and 
some  of  which  has  remained  in  the  family  to 
the  present  time.  He  married  Eleanor  Lovell, 
daughter  of  Robert  Lovell.  Her  father  came 
to  Xew  England  from  \\'eymouth,  England, 
before  March  20,  1635,  and  settled  in  Wey- 
mouth, Massachusetts,  where  he  was  a  pro- 
prietor in  1643;  in  his  will,  dated  April  3, 
1652.  proved  June  25,  1672,  he  mentions 
Andrew  Ford.  The  will  of  .Andrew  Ford  was 
dated  February  5,  1692,  and  mentions  the 
following  children  :  i.  Andrew,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Josei)h,  died  1690;  settled  in  New 
Bristol.  3.  Mary.  4.  James.  5.  Samuel,  born 
May  30,  1656,  died  171 1  ;  lived  at  Weymouth. 
6.  Nathaniel,  ]\Iarch  15.  1658,  died  1733  at 
Weymouth.  7.  Ebenezer,  March  18,  1660.  8. 
Silence,  November  13,  1661.  9.  Prudence, 
December  22,  1663,  died  1695;  married  Joseph 
Lincoln,  of  Hingham.  10.  Jacob.  February 
20,  1666.  II.  Elizabeth,  November  2,  1667. 
12.  Israel,  June  7,  1670,  died  1736  at  Wey- 
mouth.    13.  Sarah,  May  25,  1672. 

(II)  Andrew  (2),  son  of  .Andrew  ( i )  Ford, 
was  born  about  1650  and  died  .August  24,  1723. 
He  was  an  original  settler  of  the  town  of  .Ab- 
ington, occupying  the  land  inherited  from  his 
father,  going  there  in  1680.  His  farm  was 
near  that  of  Joseph  Cleverly,  and  it  is  said 
that  he  was  obliged  at  one  time  to  go  away  on 
account  of  Indian  attacks.  He  was  one  of 
the  chief  proprietors  of  the  first  meeting  house 
in  .Abington.  His  will  was  dated  .April  8.  1725, 
and  proved  October  29,  1725.  It  mentions  his 
children,  and  grandchildren  Ruth,  Jacob,  son 
of  Andrew,  and  .Andrew,  son  of  Thankful. 
His  son  Andrew  was  made  executor.  He  mar- 
ried Abiah  Whitman  or  Whitmarsh.  Chil- 
dren: I.  .Andrew,  born  1682,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Hezekiah,  .April  28,  1687,  married 
Mercy  Whitmarsh.  3.  Sarah,  died  1734;  mar- 
ried Joseph  Joslin.  4.  Thankful,  married 

Hersey.  5.  Lydia.  married  Richard  Whit- 
marsh.    6.  .Abiah. 

(III)  Ensign  .Andrew,  son  of  .Andrew  (2) 
Ford,  was  brirn  at  Weymouth  in  1682,  died 
May  12,  1750,  aged  sixty-nine,  at  P.ridgewater. 


He  lived  in  Abington  on  the  homestead.  He 
married,  in  1706,  Mercy  Whitmar.sh,  who  died 
at  .\bington,  February,  1737-38.  Children, 
born  at  .Abington:  i.  Mercy,  1708.  2.  Jacob, 
171 1,  mentioned  below.  3.  Hester,  1714,  mar- 
ried Jacob  Porter.  4.  Mary,  17 19,  married" 
Jacob  Reed.  5.  .Andrew,  1721,  married,  1742, 
Sarah  Shaw. 

(IV)  Jacob,  son  of  Ensign  Andrew  Ford, 
was  born  at  Abington  in  1711,  died  there  June 
9,  1794.  He  married,  in  1733,  Sarah  Poole, 
who  died  1788,  daughter  of  Samuel  Poole. 
Children,  born  at  .Abington:  i.  Jacob,  1738, 
married  (first)  1761.  Rachel  .Agur  ;  (second) 
1793,  .Annas  Ellis.  2.  Sarah,  1739,  married 
Parnabas  Packard.  3.  Mark,  1741,  married, 
1764,  Hannah  Brett.  4.  Luke,  1742,  mar- 
ried. 1766,  Hannah  Reed.  5.  John,  1744, 
marriecl,  1 767,  Lydia  .Agur.  6.  Noah, 
1745.  died  in  the  French  war.  7.  Joseph,  1746, 
married,  ijGfi,  Freelove  Beal.  8.  Mary,  1748. 
9.  Benjamin,   1750,  mentioned  below. 

f  \' )  Benjamin,  son  of  Jacob  Ford,  was  born 
in  Abington  in  1750.  He  served  in  the  revolu- 
tion in  Captain  William  Reed's  company.  Col- 
onel John  Bailey's  regiment,  and  answered  the 
Lexington  alarm,  .April  19.  1775;  also  in  Cap- 
tain Edward  Cobb's  company.  Colonel  Ed- 
ward Mitchell's  regiment,  at  Braintrce  Farms 
ill  1776:  and  in  the  same  company  went  to 
Bristol.  Rhode  Island,  in  1776,  and  under 
Major  Eliphalet  Cary,  marched  in  1780  on  the 
Rhode  Island  alarm.  He  moved  in  1797  from 
.Abington  to  Cummington  or  W'indsor,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  built  a  saw  mill  there.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Brett,  of  Bridgewater.  Children: 
I.  Sarah,  born  1773.  2.  Mehitable,  1775,  mar- 
ried  Samuel   Noyes.     3.   Benjamin,    1777.     4. 

Sarah,  1778.     5.  Patty,  1779,  married 

Hall.  6.  Moses,  1781,  mentioned  below.  7. 
Peter,  1782,  married  Polly  Reed.  8.  Molly, 
1783.    9.  Mark,  1785.     10.  Andrew,  1787.     11. 

.Silvia.    1788.   married  Whitman.      12. 

E])hraim,   1791.     13.  Betsey,  1793. 

(\T)  Ca])tain  .Moses,  son  of  Benjamin 
T'nrrl.  was  born  at  .Abington,  1781.  and  moved 
with  his  parents  to  Cummington,  where  he 
was  a  shoemaker  and  farmer.  He  was  a  cap- 
tain in  the  state  militia.  He  married  Lydia 
Davis,  of  Thompson,  Connecticut.  Children  : 
I.  .Albert,  mentioned  below.  2.  .Marcia.  3. 
Lydia.     .Another  child,  name  unknown. 

(\'II)  Albert,  son  of  Moses  Ford,  was  born 
December  10,  1824,  died  November  2,  1884. 
He  was  a  farmer  in  Winflsor,  Massachusetts, 
all  his  life.  He  married  Harriet  .Adeline  Tir- 
rell,  daughter  of  Sh;iw  ;m<l  F.imice  Tirrell,  f)f 


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Plainfiekl,  Massachusetts.  Children:  i.  Willis 
Albert,  mentioned  below.  2.  Harry  Arthur, 
born  May  16,  1865. 

(VHI)  Willis  Albert,  son  of  Albert  Ford, 
was  born  in  Windsor,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber II,  1854.  He  received  his  education  in 
the  public  schools,  assisted  his  father  on  the 
farm,  and  from  1876  to  1887  engaged  in  the 
produce  business  in  his  native  town.  He  then 
engaged  in  the  same  line  of  business  at  Provi- 
dence. Rhode  Island,  but  a  year  later  removed 
to  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  do  a  large  and  flourishing  business 
until  he  retired  in  1905.  He  made  a  specialty 
of  trading  eggs.  In  February,  1909,  Mr.  Ford 
became  a  member  of  the  firm  known  as  the 
Springfield  Power  Associates,  with  the  posi- 
tion of  treasurer  and  manager,  with  office  at 
33  Lyman  street.  This  concern  owns  and 
rents  buildings,  stores,  offices  and  rooms  for 
manufacturing  purposes ;  they  also  erect  build- 
ing to  suit  tenants.  He  was  gifted  with  ex- 
ceptional business  ability  and  possessed  also 
the  enterprise  and  industry  essential  to  success. 
He  is  well  known  and  highly  respected  among 
the  merchants  of  New  England.  Mr.  Ford 
has  taken  a  prominent  part  in  public  life  and 
iias  held  various  offices  of  trust  and  responsi- 
bility. He  was  on  the  board  of  assessors  and 
the  board  of  selectmen  of  the  town  of  Cum- 
mington  three  years ;  member  of  the  board  of 
aldermen  of  the  city  of  Springfield  from  1902 
to  1907.  He  is  at  present  a  member  of  the 
j)ublic  works  commission  and  in  1905-06  served 
on  the  city  property  commission  that  built  the 
Springfield  Technical  High  .School.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Winthrop  Club  and  of  the 
Springfield  Auto  Club.  He  married,  October 
18,  i88r,  Lizzie  Rebecca  Morris,  born  Febru- 
ary 13,  1858,  daughter  of  Rev.  Ozias  S.  and 
Rebecca  Chamberlain  (French)  Morris.  (See 
Morris  family).  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ford  have  no 
children. 

(The  MorrLs  I>ine). 

The  surname  Morris  is  said  to  be  derived 
from  two  sources;  one  of  native  Welsh  origin, 
the  otluT  from  the  continent  of  Europe.  It  is 
variously  spelled:  Morys,  Morrys,  Moris, 
Morris,  ]\Iorice,  Morrice,  Moryce,  Mawrice, 
Maurice  etc.  and  is  compounded  with  various 
initial  expressions,  as  De  Mont,  Fitz,  Clan,  etc. 
When  these  latter  occur,  and  when  the  name 
is  spelled  Maurice,  it  may  be  considered  of 
continental  origin.  Several  of  the  name 
accompanied  William  the  Conciueror  to  Eng- 
land. The  name  means  warlike  or  powerful, 
and  was  used  to  signify  a  chieftain.     Waltham 


Abbey,  county  Essex,  England,  was  presided 
over  by  Nicholas  Morris,  who  was  abbot  from 
1 37 1  to  1390.  In  1377  John  Morris  gave  the 
abbey  forty  acres  of  land.  This  place  was  the 
scat  of  the  Alorris  family  in  England,  from 
which  the  immigrant  mentioned  below  is  sup- 
posed to  have  sprung. 

(I)  Lieutenant  Edward  Morris,  immigrant 
ancestor,  was  born  in  England  and  baptized 
August  8,  1630,  in  the  Abbey  Church,  Waltham 
Holy  Cross,  by  Rev.  Joseph  Hall,  rector.  He 
was  son  of  Thomas  and  Grissie  (Hewsome) 
Morris,  of  Waltham  Holy  Cross,  county  Essex. 
It  is  probable  that  he  was  brought  over  to 
New  England  by  his  parents  in  his  early  child- 
hood, and  that  tliey  settled  in  Roxbury,  Massa- 
chusetts, but  there  is  no  record  to  prove  this. 
The  first  record  of  him  appears  in  1652  in 
Roxbury,  when  he  was  granted  land  which, 
however,  he  foi.feited.  Later  he  had  land  in 
Roxbury  where  Armory  and  School  streets  are 
now.  In  1661  he  was  on  a  committee  to  sur- 
vey the  common  land,  of  which  in  1662  he  was 
given  charge.  He  was  constable  in  1664,  and 
was  often  on  important  committees  for  run- 
ning boundary  lines,  etc.  He  bought  in  1666 
a  farm  in  the  west  part  of  the  town,  where  he 
removed  and  lived  until  1686.  when  he  re- 
moved to  Woodstock,  Connecticut.  In  1674 
he  was  chosen  selectman  of  Roxbury,  and 
served  in  that  office  as  long  as  he  remained  in 
the  town,  with  the  possible  exception  of  the 
year  1680.  He  served  on  the  jury  in  1674  and 
in  1676  was  chosen  one  of  the  trustees  for 
the  high  school.  In  1678  he  was  deputy  to 
the  general  court,  and  annually  until  16S6.  In 
1683  the  town  of  Roxbury  was  given  leave  to 
make  a  settlement  at  Woodstock,  and  in  1686 
his  name  heads  the  list  of  those  who  settled  in 
the  new  plantation.  His  grant  of  land  there 
was  on  the  east  side  of  Plaine  hill.  He  was 
on  the  committee  to  hire  the  minister,  to  build 
the  corn  mill  and  to  lay  out  highways.  In 
1689  he  was  selectman.  He  was  lieutenant 
in  the  military  company.  He  died  Sciitenibcr, 
1690.  probably  the  first  person  to  die  in  Wood- 
stock. He  married,  November  20.  1655,  Grace 
P.etts,  who  died  at  Roxbury,  June  6,  1705. 
Children,  born  in  Roxbury  and  baptized  by 
Rev.  John  Eliot,  the  Indian  apostle:  i.  Isaac, 
born  September  16,  1656.  2.  Edward,  bap- 
tized Alarch  13,  1638- =!9.  3.  Grace,  born  Feb- 
ruary 7.  1660-61,  married,  March  7,  1682-83, 
Penjamin  Child.  4.  Ebenezer,  born  April  14, 
1664.  5.  Elizabeth,  baptized  March  25.  1666, 
n^arried,  Alarch  9,  1685.  Joshua  Child.  6. 
Margaret,  born   September  25,   1668.  married 


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John  Johnson.  7.  Samuel,  born  March  19, 
1670-71.  mentioned  below.  8.  Martha,  boni 
November  30,  1674,  married  Deacon  William 
Lyon. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  Edward  Morris,  was 
born  March  19,  1670-71,  died  in  Thompson, 
Connecticut,  January  9,  1745.  He  removed 
with  his  father  to  \\'Dodstock  and  at  his 
father's  death  inherited  land  there.  October 
24,  1694,  he  bought  of  the  heirs  his  father's 
estate  in  Roxbury  and  removed  there.  In 
1706-07  he  bought  land  in  Marlborough,  where 
he  was  living  at  that  time.  On  December  18, 
1714,  he  bought  of  Governor  Joseph  Dudley 
a  large  tract  of  land  in  Killingly,  Connecticut, 
and  gave  his  Roxbury  property  in  exchange. 
His  land  was  on  the  west  side  of  the  river, 
where  the  village  of  New  Boston  now  is,  and 
he  built  a  house  with  fortifications.  In  1718 
he  built  the  first  bridge  over  the  Quinnebaug 
river  and  kept  it  in  repair  for  many  years. 
He  also  built  two  other  bridges  over  smaller 
streams,  and  for  these  services  was  exempted 
from  ta.xes.  His  farm  lay  in  what  became  the 
Thompson  parish,  and  he  had  some  trouble 
with  the  church  authorities,  as  he  did  not  wish 
to  pay  church  taxes  in  two  parishes.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Mehitable  Mayo,  born  in  Ro.xbury, 
Januar}'  6,  1669,  died  February  8,  1702-03, 
daughter  of  John  and  Hannah (  Graves)  Mayo. 

He  married    (second)    Dorothy  • ,   who 

died  July  28,  1742.  Children  of  first  wife, 
born  in  Roxbury:  i.  Samuel,  August  13,  1695, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Benjamin,  October  18, 
1696.  3.  Mehitable,  June  25,  1698,  married 
Philip  Newell.  4.  Rebecca,  September  15, 
1699.  5.  Hannah,  November  9,  1700,  married 
Clement  Corbin.  6.  Dorothy,  February  7, 
1701-02,  married  Samuel  Perrin.  7.  Prudence, 
January  31,  1702-03,  married  Moses  Marcy. 
Child  of  second  wife:  8.  .'\bigail,  February, 
1704-05. 

(III)  Samuel  (2),  .son  of  Samuel  (i) 
Morris,  was  born  in  Roxbury,  August  13, 
1695.  ITe  succeeded  his  father  at  "Myanexit 
Farm"  and  established  a  business  as  a  trader. 
His  name  appears  often  in  suits  at  law  to  re- 
cover for  money  owed  him  and  he  also  had 
litigation  in  regard  to  the  settlement  of  his 
father's  estate.  In  1755  he  sold  a  large  part 
of  the  farm  and  removed  to  Smithfield,  Rhode 
Island,  where  he  died  June  13,  1756.  He 
married  ("intentions  dated  September  7,  1728) 
Abigail  Bragg,  of  Bristol,  Rhode  Island.  .After 
his  death  the  widow  went  back  to  Woodstock, 
where  she  died  July  29,  1790.  Children:  i. 
Mehitable,  born  December  25,  1729,  died  Janu- 


ary 7,  1730.  2.  Samuel,  March  18,  1730-31. 
3.  Mehitable,  February  17,  1731-32,  died  May 
17'  1750-  4-  Henry,  A])ril  18,  1734,  mentioned 
below.  5.  John,  September  5,  1735.  6.  Lem- 
uel. July  29,  1737,  7.  Anne,  March  13,  1739, 
married  J.  Bugbee,  8.  William,  November  28, 
1740.  9.  Abigail,  April  29,  1742,  married  E. 
Lillie.  10.  Susanna,  September  i,  1743.  11. 
Edward,  August  19,  1745.  12.  Elizabeth,  May 
16,  1747  (town  record).  13.  Hannah,  bap- 
tized May  31,  1747  (church  record).  14. 
Lucretia,  baptized  June  4,  1749,  died  June, 
1750. 

(I\  )  Henry,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  Morris, 
was  born  April  18,  1734,  in  Thompson.  He 
served  in  the  French  and  Indian  war  as  cor- 
poral in  Colonel  John  Payson's  regiment,  in 
the  same  company  in  which  his  brother  Sam- 
uel was  clerk.  In  1758  he  was  a  sutler  at  Lake 
George.  He  and  one  Cary  contracted  to  supply 
the  troops  under  Colonel  Putnam,  but  in  con- 
sequence of  the  exorbitant  prices  paid  for  food 
in  New  York  they  failed.  On  May  7,  1775, 
he  enlisted  in  the  revolution  and  was  corporal 
in  the  .Seventh  Company,  Third  Regiment  of 
Connecticut  troops,  and  afterwards  sergeant. 
He  had  other  service  in  the  Continental  army. 
He  was  a  great  pedestrian  and  jumper.  It  is 
said  of  him  that  while  in  the  army  he  was  sent 
with  a  message  from  Crown  Point  to  "No.  4" 
(Cbarlestown,  New  Hampshire),  and  accom- 
plished the  feat  in  twenty-four  hours,  a  dis- 
tance of  si.xty-five  miles.  At  the  age  of  seventy 
he  could  clear  an  ordinary  fence  at  a  bound 
without  touching  his  hand.  He  removed  about 
1790  to  Concord,  now  Lisbon,  New  Hamp- 
shire, where  he  died  in  1808.  He  was  a  Con- 
gregationalist.  He  married  ITannah  Frizzell, 
of  Woodstock,  who  died  in  1828.  Children: 
I.  Lucretia,  born  September  2,  1762,  died  at 
the  age  of  thirteen.  2.  Lucinda,  September  27, 
1763,  married  David  Young.  3.  Henry,  died 
a  prisoner  of  war  on  the  ship  "Kersey."'  4. 
Simeon  P.,  a  midshipman  of  the  "Randolph." 

5.  P.enianiin,  disappeared  in  the  war  of  1812. 

6.  William,  died  young.  7.  Adolijhus,  died 
voung.  8.  .Samuel,  born  May  19,  1774.  9. 
Ebenezer,  born  April  19,  1778,  mentioned 
below. 

(V)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Sergeant  Henry 
Morris,  was  born  April  19, 1778,  in  Woodstock, 
(lied  at  Lisbon,  New  Hampshire,  August  16, 
1842.  He  was  a  farmer  at  Lisbon.  He  was 
a  Methodist,  noted  for  his  humble  character, 
purity  of  life  and  devoted  jiiety.  He  married 
(first)  Hannah  Moore;  (second)  December, 
1816,    .Mice    Swan.      Children   of   first    wife: 


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I.  Henry,  born  1811.  2.  I.ucretia,  1813,  mar- 
ried (first)  I'hineas  Titus;  (second)  Pliny 
Bartlett.  3.  Alice,  1814.  4.  Hannah,  married, 
1 841,  C.  C.  Kimball.  Children  of  second  wife: 
5.  Clarissa  (twin),  April  21,  1821,  married  T. 
P.  Frost.  6.  Ozias  S.  (twin),  born  April  21, 
1 82 1,  mentioned  below.  7.  Charles  W.,  De- 
cember 7,  1824. 

(VI)  Rev.  Ozias  S.,  son  of  Ebenezer 
Morris,  was  born  April  21,  1821,  in  Lisbon, 
New  Hampshire,  died  at  Willington.  Connec- 
ticut, December,  1885.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  common  schools,  at  Newbury, 
Vermont,  Seminary,  and  the  Biblical  Insti- 
tute at  Concord.  He  was  admitted  to  trial  at 
the  Vermont  Conference  in  1844  and  ordained 
deacon  by  Bishop  Waugh  at  Springfield,  Ver- 
mont, June  14.  1846,  and  elder  by  Bishop 
Hedding  at  Barre.  Vermont,  July  9.  1848.  For 
ten  years  he  preached  in  the  Methodist  church  ; 
in  Barton  and  Glover,  Vermont,  1844-45  > 
Craftsbury,  Lamoilleville  and  South  Hardwick, 
Vermont,  1846-47 ;  while  at  South  Hardwick 
he  built  the  Betheny  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church;  Randolph,  1848-49;  Brattleboro, 
1S50;  Nevvfane  and  Dover,  1851-52:  Walpole, 
New  Hampshire,  1853-55:  Sunapee,  New 
Hampshire,  1856-57;  Newfane  and  Dover, 
Vermont,  1858-59.  He  then  entered  the  Con- 
gregational ministry,  supplying  from  1863  to 
1867,  and  preached  in  Tunbridge,  Vermont, 
in  1868-71;  Westminster,  \^ermont,  1872; 
West  Cummington,  Massachusetts,  1873-80; 
Ashford,  Connecticut,  1883-85.  He  repre- 
sented Walpole  in  the  New  Hampshire  legisla- 
ture in  1855.  He  engaged  for  some  time  in 
evangelistic  work  for  the  Connecticut  Bible 
Society,  but  his  health  gave  way  under  the 
toils  and  exposure  incident  to  the  service,  and 
he  was  obliged  to  return  to  the  pastorate.  He 
married,  November  8,  1847,  Rebecca  Chamber- 
lain French,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Rebecca 
(Bush)  French,  of  Hardwick,  \'ermont.  Chil- 
dren: I.  O.  Manly,  born  December,  1849.  2. 
Ella  E.,  August.  1851.  3.  Anna  R.,  Septem- 
ber, 1853.  4.  Clara.  December,  1855,  died 
1857.  5.  Lizzie  Rebecca.  February  13,  1858, 
married  Willis  .Mbert  Ford  (see  Ford  family). 
(■>.  C'harles  I'.,  Fcbruar)',   1861. 


Among  the  landed  gentry  in  Ire- 
FORD  land  there  are  families  whose  inter- 
est in  public  affairs  and  local 
matters,  and  whose  devotion  to  the  professions 
and  business  which  they  followed,  have  en- 
abled tiicni  to  be  of  signal  service  to  the  com- 
nuinities  in  which  they  livetl.      Characterized 


b\-  these  trails,  in  their  efforts  to  build  U])  and 
better  their  community,  the  Ford  family  of 
Cork,  Ireland,  is  well  and  favorably  known. 
For  several  centuries  that  family  has  been 
identified  with  county  Cork,  and  well  known 
and  prominent  ever  since  they  came  there.  The 
later  generations  have  been  no  less  prominent. 

(I)  Dennis  Ford  was  born  in  Ballingcollig, 
county  Cork,  Ireland,  about  1800-25.  His  an- 
cestors were  of  pure  Irish  stock  of  the  better 
class,  progressive  and  for  the  most  part  well 
educated.  He  was  a  landowner  in  the  parish 
village  of  Banningcollig.  He  lived  an  indus- 
trious life,  and  brought  up  a  large  family, 
which  became  a  credit  to  the  town.  He  died 
there  at  an  advanced  age.     He  married  Kate 

,  also  of  good  Irish  stock.     She  died 

aged  about  eighty  years,  being  a  little  younger 
than  her  husband.  The  Fords  were  active 
supporters  of  the  church  and  did  much  in  a 
financial  way  to  aid  the  cause  of  religion. 
Children  :  I.  Mary  Ann,  married Car- 
roll, a  business  man  of  Ballingcollig.  now  de- 
ceased:  children:  John  (deceased),  Margaret, 
Elizabeth.  2.  R.  Timothy,  came  to  New  Eng- 
land and  settled  in  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
when  a  young  man  ;  was  the  fir.st  of  this  family 
to  come  to  America ;  removed  to  Hyde  Park, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  now  resides,  with  a 
large  family.  3.  Ellen,  died  unmarried  in  her 
native  town.  4.  Jerry,  came  as  a  young  man 
to  join  his  brother  R.  Timothy  in  America ; 
became  a  painter  by  trade  and  resides  in  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts  ;  married  and  has  a  large 
family,  of  whom  one  son,  J.  D.  M.  Ford,  is 
instructor  of  languages  in  Harvard  University, 
and  another,  Dennis,  returned  to  Ireland  and 
engaged  in  business  with  his  uncle  in  Balling- 
collig. 5.  Patrick  \\'..  mentioned  below.  6. 
Daniel,  resides  in  Ballingcollig  and  is  asso- 
ciated with  his  brother  in  business;  married 
and  has  four  children.  7.  Margaret,  luimar- 
ried ;  resides  in  liallingcollig,  where  she  is 
housekeeper  for  her  brother  Dennis.  8.  Dennis, 
resides  in  his  native  town  where  he  conducts 
a  large  and  prosperous  business  as  a  contractor  ; 
he  is  the  owner  of  a  large  part  of  the  village 
of  Ballingcollig,  and  in  that  part  of  Ireland 
is  known  as  a  man  of  affairs:  he  is  the  wealth- 
iest land  owner  in  that  section,  a  foremost 
citizen,  liberal  to  the  many  in  his  employ,  and 
generous  in  his  gifts  to  the  conuuunity  in  gen- 
eral :  unmarried. 

(in  Patrick  W'..  son  of  Dennis  Ford,  was 
born  in  I')allingcollig.  county  Cork,  Ireland, 
about  1852.  He  received  a  college  education, 
and  when  about  twenty-one  years  of  age  came 


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to  the  United  States.  In  1872  or  1873  '^^ 
landed  and  settled  in  Worcester,  Massachu- 
setts. Here  he  studied  architecture  in  the 
office  of  Elbridge  Boyden  &  Son  (George  E. 
Boyden),  well-known  architects  of  that  city. 
He  secured  a  thorough  knowledge  of  his 
chosen  profession,  and  then  started  in  business 
on  his  own  account,  making  school  buildings, 
churches,  and  other  public  buildings  his  spec- 
ialty. From  the  very  beginning  he  was  suc- 
cessful, and  having  essentially  broad  ideas  and 
a  complete  knowledge  of  the  requirements  of 
his  calling,  he  became  one  of  the  leading  archi- 
tects of  New  England.  He  drew  the  plans 
and  supervised  the  erection  of  five  large  Cath- 
olic churches  in  Worcester,  and  a  great  many 
throughout  New  England.  His  work  was  pro- 
nounced of  the  highest  order,  and  he  soon  had 
all  the  business  it  was  possible  for  him  to 
care  for.  He  removed  to  Boston  and  opened 
an  office  on  School  street,  where  he  remained 
for  many  years,  later  removing  to  more  com- 
modious (|uarters  in  the  Boylston  building.  At 
that  time  there  was  j^robably  no  architect  in 
the  city  of  Boston  better  known  in  his  pro- 
fession than  Mr.  Ford.  He  accumulated  a 
competency,  and  began  to  build  beautiful  pri- 
vate homes  in  Jamaica  Plain.  His  residence 
at  Xo.  48  Peter  Parley  road,  of  his  own  plan- 
ning and  construction,  is  a  perfect  model  of 
beauty  and  convenience.  He  also  built  fine 
houses  at  Xos.  42  and  44  Peter  Parley  road, 
and  the  nearby  houses  at  18  and  23  Armstead 
street,  all  models  of  good  architecture.  These 
are  still  owned  by  his  widow.  He  died  August 
II,  1900.  He  was  always  very  active  in  church 
work,  giving  largely  of  his  means  and  contri- 
buting in  a  most  generous  way  to  the  poor.  He 
was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Charitable 
Irish  As.sociation  of  Boston.  He  married, 
April  22.  1880,  in  Worcester,  Elizabeth  A. 
McKenna,  born  in  Worcester  in  1859,  daugh- 
ter of  Patrick  and  Kate  (Tighe)  McKenna. 
Her  father  and  mother  were  born  in  Ireland 
and  came  to  .\merica  when  young  people,  set- 
tling in  Worcester;  her  father  was  a  promi- 
nent Irishman  in  Worcester,  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  St.  John's  Catholic  Church  in  that 
city,  to  which  he  gave  liberally.  He  died  in 
1870.  Her  mother  died  some  years  ago,  leav- 
ing two  daughters,  Elizabeth  A.,  mentioned 
above,  and  Mary  J.,  who  married  Patrick  Car- 
roll, and  is  living  a  widow  in  Worcester.  Mrs. 
Ford  was  carefully  rearefl  and  well  educated, 
especially  in  music.  Some  years  of  her  early 
womanhood  were  devoted  to  the  teaching  of 
music.    She  was  a  member  of  St.  John's  Cath- 


olic Church  in  Worcester.  Her  interest  in 
church  work  has  never  ceased,  and  she  is  yet  a 
working  member  in  local  church  societies. 
Patrick  W.  and  Elizabeth  A.  Ford  had  one 
child^  Mary  Agnes,  born  1883,  graduated  from 
the  ShurtlefT  School  in  1899  and  entered  the 
Notre  Dame  Academy  at  Boston,  where  she 
graduated  in  1901  with  distinctive  honors  in 
music.  She  received  a  gold  medal  for  her 
high  standing  in  piano  music.  She  is  devoted 
to  music  and  to  her  mother,  whose  care  and 
interests  have  been  uppermost  in  her  desires. 

The  hamlet  of  Pilsbury,  or 
PILLSBURY      Pilsbury  Grange,  is  situated 

between  thirty  or  forty 
miles  southeast  of  Liverpool,  StaiTordshire, 
England.  Pilsbury  is  the  union  of  the  two 
words  "pile"  or  "peel"  and  "burgh"  or 
"borough."  Lower  in  his  "Patronymica  Brit- 
annica,"  states:  "Burgh,  a  component  syllable 
in  many  local  surnames.  It  is  the  Anglo-Saxon 
'burh,'  "bureh,'  etc.,  a  word  common  to  most 
German  dialects.  Its  meaning  appears  to  be 
that  which  Richardson  assigns,  viz:  'A  place 
of  defence  or  security.'  The  word  occurs  very 
largely  in  local  nomenclature  as  a  prefix  or  ter- 
mination, sometimes  in  the  middle  of  a  name, 
and  in  variously  modified  forms,  as  'borough,' 
'berry,'  'bury,'  'barrow,'  etc."  "Pile  or  peel,  a 
fortified  farmhouse  built  on  the  border  for 
securing  the  inhabitants  and  their  cattle  in 
moss — trooping  times."  In  the  reign  of  Ed- 
ward IV  the  inhabitants  of  Britain  were  order- 
ed to  take  surnames,  and  from  Peelsbury, 
Peelsborough,  or  Pillesburie.  the  first  of  the 
Pillsburys  took  his  cognomen. 

(Ij  William  Pillsbury,  the  settler,  came  to 
Boston  from  England,  probably  in  1640  or 
ir)4i.  Tradition  has  it  that  he  left  his  native 
land  to  escape  the  consecjuence  of  a  misde- 
meanor, and  on  his  arrival  in  Boston  let  him- 
self as  a  servant  to  pay  the  expense  of  his 
passage.  In  165 1  he  bought  forty  acres  of 
land  in  Newlniry  on  which  was  a  dwelling 
house,  and  appurtenant  were  meadow  land, 
rights  of  commonage,  etc.  For  this  he  paid 
one  hundred  jiounds,  fifteen  in  hand  and  the 
rest  in  securities  which  family  tradition  says 
consisted  of  real  estate  in  Dorchester.  The 
original  homestead  in  Newbury  has  remained 
in  the  family  and  descencled  from  father  to 
son  for  nearly  two  himdred  and  fifty  years, 
and  though  reduced  in  size  is  now  hekl  and 
occuj)icd  by  members  of  the  ninth  generation. 
The  original  deed  from  Edward  Rawson  is 
still   extant.      William    I'illsbury   and    his    son 


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Job  were  members  of  the  First  Church,  who 
adhered  to  Mr.  Woodman's  party  in  the  dis- 
sentions  which  rent  the  church  in  1671  and 
were  on  the  losing  side.  They  were  fined  a 
noble,  about  $1.63,  each.  William  Pillsbury 
was  made  freeman,  April  29,  1668.  He  made 
his  will  April  22,  1686,  and  died  June  19,  next 
following.  His  inventory  made  July  7,  1686, 
amounted  to  three  hundred  and  six  pounds, 
nineteen  shillings,  ten  pence,  and  there  were 
debts  due  the  estate  of  twelve  pounds.  This 
statement  shows  that  he  was  a  man  of  more 
than  ordinary  wealth.  Tradition  says  that  he 
was  a  lender  of  money  which  he  kept  con- 
cealed under  the  eaves  of  his  thatched  barn. 
Like  many  others  of  his  time  he  was  a  slave- 
holder, one  of  the  items  of  his  inventory  being 
"a  man  servant,"  valued  at  twelve  pounds,  an 
Indian  or  negro,  as  there  were  no  white  slaves 
at  that  time.  William  Pillsbury  and  Dorothy 
Crosby  were  married  between  June  and  July 
29,  1641.  They  had  ten  children,  the  first 
four  of  whom  were  born  in  Dorchester.  Their 
children  were :  Deborah,  Job,  Aloses,  Abel, 
Caleb,  William,  Experience,  Increase,  Thank- 
ful and  Joshua. 

(II)  Job,  eldest  son  of  William  and  Doro- 
thy (Crosby)  Pillsbury,  was  born  in  Dor- 
chester, October  16,  1643,'  died  in  New- 
bury, September  10,  1716.  He  was  the  exe- 
cutor of  his  father's  will,  inherited  the  greater 
part  of  his  father's  estate  and  became  a  per- 
sonal, having  comfortable  means  and  enjoying 
a  good  living.  He  took  a  part  in  the  Newbury 
church  controversy,  as  stated  above.  Pie  mar- 
ried, in  Newbury,  April  5,  1677,  Katherine 
Govett,  who  died  September  i,  1718.  They 
had  two  sons,  Daniel,  Josiah,  next  mentioned. 
By  the  terms  of  his  will  dated  August  30, 
1716,  he  left  his  estate  to  his  two  sons  who 
were  to  assinne  the  support  of  their  mother. 
Job  I'illsbury's  inventory  was:  real  estate, 
five  hundred  and  fifteen  pounds ;  personal,  sev- 
enty-three poimds,  two  shillings ;  total  five  hun- 
dred and  eighty-eight  pounds,  two  shillings. 

CIII)  Josiah.  son  of  Job  and  Katherine 
(Govett)  Pillsbury,  was  born  in  Newbury, 
.April  17,  i6Sn,  died  in  1761.  In  1729  he  sold 
his  share  in  the  homestead  of  his  brother.  He 
was  a  cooper  by  trade,  and  was  evidently  an 
industrious  and  prudent  man,  as  by  the 
terms  of  his  will,  dated  January  26,  1761, 
he  left  a  comfortable  estate  to  his  chil- 
dren. He  married.  May  12,  1720,  Sarah 
Kcllcy.  who  survived  him.  Their  children 
were :    Josiah,  Abiel,  Sarah,  Joseph,  Richard, 


Mary.  John,  Henry,  Jacob,  David,  Edmund, 
Abraham  and  .Abigail. 

(I\'j  David,  son  of  Josiah  and  Sarah 
(Kelley)  Pillsbury,  was  born  in  Newbury, 
July  20,  1737.  He  was  a  blacksmith  by  trade. 
He  received  from  his  father's  estate  "land  by 
Joshua  Pillsbury's  and  two  acres  of  lot  at 
Crane  neck  hill,  he  to  pay  his  sister  Abigail 
six  pounds,  ten  shillings."  He  married,  about 
1757-58,  Anna,  whose  surname  has  not  come 
down  to  us.  Their  children  were  :  Elizabeth, 
Jonathan,  David,  Abby  and  Anna. 

(V)  Jonathan,  eldest  son  of  David  and  Anna 
Pillsbury,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Massachu- 
setts, May  15,  1762,  died  in  Scarborough, 
Maine,  March  14,  1833.  He  was  a  shoemaker 
and  farmer  in  Scarborough,  and  in  religious 
faith  was  a  staunch  Friend  or  Quaker.  He 
always  spelled  his  surname  Pilsbery.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  in  Newburyport,  November  25, 
1787,  Elizabeth  Carl,  who  died  in  Scarborough, 
May  7,  1800,  aged  thirty  years.  He  married 
(second)  in  .Scarborough,  March  2,  1808, 
Shuah  Milliken,  who  died  in  Limington,  Maine, 
November  20,  1864,  aged  eighty-eight  years. 
.She  married  for  her  second  husband  a  Mr. 
Burton,  of  Gorham,  Maine.  Jonathan  was 
the  father  of  fourteen  children,  si.x  by  wife 
Elizabeth  and  eight  by  wife  Shuah,  as  follows, 
the  first  eight  being  born  in  -Scarborough:  i. 
David,  .\ugust  15,  1788,  died  in  Parsonsfield, 
February  14,  1855.  2.  Anna,  October  10,  1790, 
died  in  Waterboro.  Maine,  .\pril,  1859.  3. 
Miriam,  December  8,  1792,  died  in  Saco, 
Maine,  January  12.  1866.  4.  Mary,  January 
20,  1795,  died  in  W^est  Newbury,  Massachu- 
setts, August  21,  1872.  5.  Joseph,  April  26, 
1797,  died  in  Saco,  April  23,  1863.  6.  Mehit- 
ablc,  October  30,  1799,  died  October  30.  1847, 
unmarried.  7.  John,  December  18,  1808,  died 
March  12,  1847.  8.  Charles  C,  November  3, 
18 10,  died  July  28,  1893.  9.  Amos,  November 
29,  1812,  died  in  Saco,  October  31,  1874.  10. 
Noah,  February  5,  1815,  died  March  30,  1838. 
II.  Betsey,  February  6,  1817,  died  in  Bnms- 
wick,  Maine,  October  18,  1874.  12.  William 
C,  see  below.  13.  Tristram.  March  28.  1822, 
died  A])ril  7,  1823.  14.  SaraJi.  born  Julv  28, 
1823. 

(\T)  William  Cobb,  son  of  Jonathan  and 
Shuah  (Milliken)  Pillsbury,  was  born  in  Scar- 
borough, January  9,  1820,  died  at  Limington, 
Maine,  September  15,  1895.  He  was  a  tanner 
and  currier  in  Windham  and  Limington,  dur- 
ing a  large  part  of  his  life,  and  finally  relin- 
C|uishcd  the  tannery  to  settle  on  the  old  Frost 


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farm,  which  had  been  in  the  possession  of  the 
Frost  family  for  over  two  hundred  years.  He 
was  a  man  of  starling  character,  his  motto 
was,  "Owe  no  man  anything;"  his  payments 
were  always  prompt  and  exact,  and  what  was 
due  him  he  required  with  equal  exactitude. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Sect  of  Friends  and  a 
strong  advocate  of  temperance.  He  married 
(first)  in  Limington,  January  i,  1846,  Nancy 
Frost,  who  died  March  23,  1865,  aged  fifty- 
two  years.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Wingate 
and  Anna  (Mitchel)  Frost,  of  Limington,  and 
a  descendant  of  James  Frost,  who  was  the 
owner  of  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Limington  in 
early  times.  The  children  of  this  union  were: 
John  H.,  James  F.,  Anna  and  Alfred  F.  H. 
He  married  (second)  May  20,  1868,  Maria 
N.  Frost,  of  Limington,  who  was  born,  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1835,  daughter  of  James  and  Nancy 
Frost,  James  being  an  older  half-brother  of 
first  wife. 

(ML)  Alfred  Fuller  Howe,  youngest  child 
of  William  Cobb  and  Nancy (  Frost)  Pillsbury, 
was  born  in  Limington,  Alay  18,  1856.  He 
attended  the  Limington  Academy  and  the  high 
school,  and  went  from  the  latter  place  to 
Massachusetts  and  attended  Wilbraham  Acad- 
emy. He  started  in  commercial  life  as  a  clerk 
for  Ginn  &  Heath,  of  Boston,  booksellers.  He 
went  from  there  back  to  the  farm  and  assisted 
his  father  for  a  year  and  then  took  charge  of 
the  office  of  Irving  Blake,  baker,  of  Portland, 
Maine.  He  was  later  with  George  C.  Shaw 
&  Company,  of  Portland,  grocers,  where  he 
was  delivery  clerk.  In  1881  he  went  to  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  to  learn  lithography  with 
Milton  Bradley  Company,  who  there  carried 
on  a  large  business.  He  continued  in  this 
business  fifteen  years,  and  then  not  being  able 
to  purchase  an  interest  in  the  enterprise  he 
left  it  to  engage  in  real  estate  and  insurance 
business,  which  he  has  since  carried  on.  Mr. 
Pillsbury  has  taken  a  lively  interest  in  public 
affairs  and  for  tlie  last  seven  years  has  been  a 
member  of  the  city  council,  and  was  |)resident 
of  the  board  of  aldermen  for  the  two  years  end- 
ing Jainiary,  iQog.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 
He  is  a  Free  Mason  of  the  thirty-second  de- 
gree, a  member  of  Hampden  Lodge,  Ancient 
PVee  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Springfield, 
Massachusetts;  Sf)ringficld  Commandcry, 
Knights  Templar;  ^lassachusetts  Consistory; 
anrl  Malha  Temple,  .Xncient  Arabic  Order 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  County,  the  Wintlrrop,  the  Springfield 
Automobile,  and  the  South  Branch  Fishing 
clubs.     He  attends  the  South  Congregational 


Church.  Mr.  Pillsbury  married,  October  20, 
1887,  ^"^  Augusta  Perkins,  born  in  Spring- 
field, November  18,  1861,  only  child  of  Virgil 
and  Eliza  M.  (Albee)  Perkins,  of  Springfield. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pillsbury  have  two  children: 
Alfred,  born  October  27,  1890,  and  Anna, 
May  7,  1892. 

X'irgil  Perkins  was  born  March  i,  1823,  in 
Rock  Valley,  then  a  part  of  West  Springfield, 
but  now  of  Holyoke.  He  was  the  son  of 
Horace  and  Elmina  (Eggleston)  Perkins, 
being  in  the  fifth  generation  descended  from 
John  Perkins  who  came  here  from  England 
and  settled  in  this  vicinity.  In  the  little  old 
cemetery  on  the  Rock  Valley  road  lie  the  re- 
mains of  the  pioneer  John,  his  son  John,  his 
son  William,  and  William's  wife  Juilith,  and 
their  sons  Horace  and  Dr.  Justin  Perkins, 
who  was  the  first  missionary  sent  by  the  A.  B. 
C.  F.  M.  to  Nestoria  in  1833.  He,  too,  was 
born  in  Rock  Valley,  March  5,  1805.  His  early 
education  was  of  the  most  meagre  sort,  but  he 
early  developed  an  ambition  to  attend  college 
and  enter  the  ministry,  and  in  April,  1823,  he 
began  preparations  for  Amherst  College. 
About  this  time  a  son  was  born  to  his  brother 
Horace  living  in  the  same  neighborhood,  and 
when  the  young  student  called  to  offer  his 
congratulations,  he  was  asked  to  name  the 
child.  He  picked  up  a  piece  of  charred  wood 
from  the  open  fire  and  wrote  over  the  fire- 
place "Virgil"  and  the  boy  was  named.  After- 
ward when  Justin  Perkins  had  graduated  from 
Amherst  with  honor,  been  ordained  as  a  mis- 
sionary in  the  old  Orthodox  church  in  West 
Springfield,  and  become  the  loved  and  honored 
apostle  to  the  Nestorians,  Virgil  Perkins  would 
tell  with  pardonable  pride  how  he  had  received 
his  rather  uncommon  name.  When  eight  years 
of  age  Virgil  Perkins  was  bound  out  to  John 
Wright,  a  farmer  at  Easthampton,  until  his 
majority.  Later  he  located  at  Chicopee  Falls 
and  there  worked  for  a  Mr.  Gleason,  a  grocery- 
man  and  butcher.  While  in  the  village  he 
made  the  acc|uaintance  of  W.  R.  Purple,  and 
together  they  talked  over  business  and  the 
prospects  for  making  a  start  in  Springfield. 
In  1848  their  numerous  talks  culminated  in 
their  removal  to  Springfield  and  purchasing 
the  grocery  and  meat  store  of  H.  Q.  Sander- 
son, at  the  Watershops.  The  firm  continued 
business  in  that  locality  imtil  about  i860,  when 
the  store  was  transferred  to  Sta-te  street.  In 
1864  Mr.  Perkins  bought  out  Mr.  Purple's 
interest  in  the  business  and  continued  alone 
for  a  number  of  years.  In  1871  a  partnership 
was  formed  with  George  Nye,  who  had  been 


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in  Mr.  Perkins's  employ  for  some  time.  Later 
the  firm  moved  on  Main  street,  opposite  Hamp- 
den street,  where  they  remained  for  some  time. 
After  the  removal  of  the  Boston  and  Albany 
railroad's  freight  business  from  its  old  quarters, 
the  firm  occupied  the  building.  After  several 
years  occupancy  of  this  place,  a  new  elevator 
building  located  nearer  Main  street  was  leased 
by  the  firm.  In  1880,  after  a  business  career 
of  eighteen  years,  the  firm  dissolved  partner- 
ship. Mr.  Perkins  was  a  director  in  the  Swift 
Refrigerator  Beef  Transportation  Company, 
also  in  the  Second  National  Bank,  and  a 
trustee  in  the  Five  Cent  Savings  Bank.  He 
was  at  one  time  a  director  in  the  Longmeadow 
railroad.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics ; 
he  was  elected  as  alderman  in  1863-64  from 
ward  seven.  In  the  death  of  Mr.  Perkins  the 
city  of  .Springfield  lost  a  man  of  sterling  char- 
acter, uprightness  and  integrity.  Many  local 
institutions  have  occasion  to  remember  his  life 
with  gratefulness.  The  City  Library,  Chil- 
dren's Home,  School  for  Christian  Workers 
were  objects  of  his  attentions.  Virgil  Perkins 
married  Eliza  M.  .\lbee,  daughter  of  .\lvira 
and  Sally  (  Blanchard )  .-\lbee,  of  Westmore- 
land, New  Hampshire. 


The  .\mory  family  is  said  to  have 
AMORV  descended  from  the  family  of 
Montford  I'.-Vmaury  of  France. 
It  has  been  many  generations  in  England.  The 
name  is  spelled  in  various  ways.  The  arms 
borne  by  the  .'Xmory  family  of  Somersetshire, 
England,  are :  Barry  of  si.x  argent  and  gules 
on  a  chief  of  the  first  a  lion  passant  of  the 
second  armed.    Crest :    Eagle's  head  erased. 

(I)  Hugh  .'\mory  died  in  England  in  1626. 
He  married  Agnes  Young,  widow,  daughter  of 
Nicholas  and  Joane  Young.  Children:  i. 
Hugh,  born  1605.  2.  John,  1606-07,  married 
Mary  Willet.    3.  Thomas,  mentioned  below. 

(H)  Thomas,  son  of  Hugh  .Xmory,  was 
born  in  iCngland,  1608,  died  in  1667.  He 
married,  in  1631,  .Xnne  Elliot,  born  in  1613. 
Children:  i.  Thomas,  married,  l''.lizabeth  Fitz- 
maurice,  and  removed  to  Ireland.  2.  Hugh, 
born  1639,  died  unmarried.  3.  Elizabeth,  died 
unmarried  in  1651.  4.  John,  born  1644,  died 
unmarried,  1730.  5.  .Xnn,  born  1645-46,  mar- 
ried   Chai)])ell.     6.  Robert,  born  1647- 

48,  died  unniarrred,  17 10.  7.  Mary,  born  1649, 
married  William  Hoskins.  8.  Ilenry.  born 
1652,  died  uiuiiarried.  9.  Elizabeth,  married 
Thomas  Coynes,  or  Connies.  10.  Jonathan, 
mentioned  below. 

(Ill)   Jonathan,  son    of    Thomas    .-Xmory, 


was  born  in  England,  in  1653-54.  died  in  1699. 
He  spent  his  youth  with  his  elder  brother  in 
Ireland,  and  became  a  merchant  in  Dublin. 
He  married  (first)  in  1677,  Rebecca,  widow 
of  David  Houston.  He  went  to  the  West 
Indies  with  his  brother  Robert,  and  lived  there 
for  a  time.  His  wife  died  there  in  1685,  and 
soon  afterward  he  removed  to  Charleston, 
.South    Carolina.      He    married    (second)    in 

Charleston,  Martha ,  who  died  in  1699. 

He  acquired  much  land  and  houses,  and  be- 
came a  wealthy  man.  He  was  speaker  of  the 
colonial  legislature,  treasurer  of  the  province, 
and  first  treasurer  of  the  proprietors.  He  died 
in  the  fall  of  1699,  of  yellow  fever,  and  his 
widow  died  three  months  later.  Both  left 
wills.  Children:  i.  Judith,  born  1680,  mar- 
ried Joseph  Groskeys.  2.  Thomas,  mentioned 
below.  3.  Robert,  died  young.  4.  Ann.  mar- 
ried James  Ramsey.  5.  Sarah,  married  Gov- 
ernor Arthur  Middleton. 

(IV)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  .\mory, 
was  born  in  Limerick,  Ireland,  in  1682,  and 
came  to  this  country  with  his  father  in  1685. 
In  1696  he  was  sent  with  his  sister  Ann  to 
England  to  be  educated,  and  placed  in  the  care 
of  liis  cousin.  Counsellor  .Amory,  who  sent 
him  to  Westminster  school.  After  the  death 
of  his  father  he  entered  the  counting  house  of 
M.  Ozell,  a  French  merchant  in  London,  who 
sent  him  in  1709  to  the  Azores  as  supercargo. 
Here  he  established  himself  as  a  merchant.  He 
was  appointed  Dutch  and  English  consul,  and 
remained  here  many  years.  In  1719  he  wound 
up  his  affairs  and  resigned  his  office,  and  June 
4  of  that  year,  at  the  earnest  solicitation  of  his 
relatives,  set  sail  for  Boston,  arriving  there 
July  13.  He  spent  the  following  winter  with 
his  sister  in  South  Carolina,  and  in  the  spring 
travelled  through  Pennsylvania,  New  York, 
and  Rhode  Island.  He  returned  to  Boston, 
and  bought  land  in  South  Boston,  built  a  house 
and  wharves.  He  hired  a  counting  house  on 
Long  Wharf,  of  his  friend,  Governor  Belcher, 
and  engaged  in  commerce  with  England,  the 
.Azores,  and  Carolina.  He  died  in  IViston  in 
1728.  Many  volumes  of  his  letters  and  account 
books,  written  in  English.  French  and  Portu- 
gese, giving  the  story  of  his  life  in  the  Azores, 
are  still  in  c.xi.stcnce  and  are  very  interesting. 
He  married,  in  May,  1721,  Rebecca,  daughter 
of  Francis  Holmes,  who  had  a  summer  home 
in  Boston,  and  spent  his  winters  at  Charleston. 
Mr.  .Amory  met  the  young  woman  on  the  trip 
from  the  .south.  Children:  i.  Thomas,  born 
April  22,  1722,  mentioned  below.  2.  Mary, 
1723.  married  Timothy  Xewell ;  died  in  1804. 


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3.  Rebecca.  1725.  married  Edward  Payne.  4. 
Jonatliaii,  December  19,  1726,  died  1797;  mar- 
ried Abigail  Taylor.  5.  John,  1728,  married 
Caroline  Greene. 

(V)  Thomas  (3),  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
.'\mory,  was  born  April  22,  1722,  died  1784. 
He  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1741,  and 
studied  divinity,  hut  never  took  orders.  As 
the  eldest  son  he  inherited  a  double  portion  of 
his  father's  estate.  He  bought  a  house  built 
by  Governor  Belcher,  at  the  corner  of  Har- 
vard and  Washington  streets,  with  gardens  ex- 
tending to  the  water,  and  resided  there  until 
his  death  in  August,  1784.  He  engaged  in 
commerce  with  England.  In  1776,  at  the  re- 
quest of  the  selectmen  of  Boston,  he  went  with 
his  brother  Jonathan  to  Dorchester  Heights  to 
ask  General  Washington  to  permit  the  British 
troops  to  retire  from  the  place  unmolested,  on 
condition  it  should  be  left  by  them  uninjured. 
No  agreement  was  reached,  however.  As  his 
wife's  relatives  were  refugee  loyalists,  he  was 
regarded  by  many  with  suspicion,  and  was 
obliged  to  live  for  some  time  in  Watertown. 
He  married,  in  1765,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
William  Coffin.  After  his  death  the  house 
was  destroyed  in  the  great  fire  of  1790,  and 
the  widow  removed  to  the  house  on  Franklin 
place,  where  she  died  in  1823.  Portraits  of 
both  him  and  his  wife  by  Copley  are  owned  by 
her  descendants.  Children:  i.  Rebecca,  born 
1766,  married  Dr.  Aaron  Dexter.  2.  Thomas 
C,  1767,  mentioned  below.  3.  Elizabeth,  July 
26,  1768,  married  Stephen  Deblois.  4.  Jon- 
athan. 1770,  mentioned  below.  5.  John,  1771, 
married  Sarah  Gardner.  6.  Mary,  1773,  mar- 
ried Jonathan  Davis.  7.  V\"illiam,  1774.  died 
181 2  in  English  navy.  8.  Nathaniel,  1777,  mar- 
ried Mary  Preble. 

(VI)  Thomas  C,  son  of  Thomas  (3) 
Amory,  was  born  in  Boston  in  1767,  died  in 
1812.  He  married,  in  1795,  Hannah  Rowe 
Linzee,  born  1775,  died  1845.  Children,  bom 
in  Boston:  i.  Thomas  C,  1796,  died  1865; 
marricfl,  1820,  Esther  Sargent;  (second)  1857, 
Almatia  Pinkham.  2.  ^Iary  L.,  1798,  died 
1859.  3.  S.  Linzee,  1800,  died  1829.  4.  Susan, 
1802,  died  1869;  married,  1820,  William  H. 
Prescott.  5.  William,  1804,  mentioned  below. 
6.  Eliza  A.,  1806.  died  1867.  7.  Charles,  1808, 
married,  1832,  Martha  B.  Greene.  8.  Edward 
P..  1810.  died  1812.  9.  II.  Louisa.  1813,  died 
1888;  married,  1836,  Edward  D.  Sohier. 

(Vl)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (3) 
Amory,  was  born  in  1770.  He  graduated  at 
Harvard  in  1787,  and  entered  the  counting 
house  of  his  uncles,  J.  &  J,  .Amory.     Later  he 


went  into  business  with  James  Cutler,  and 
afterwards  entered  into  partnership  with  his 
brother,  Thomas  C.  Amory,  as  a  merchant,  and 
acquired  a  handsome  property.  After  181 1  he 
resided  on  Park  street,  Boston,  in  the  house 
of  the  late  Abbott  Lawrence,  and  died  there 
in  .\ugust,  1828.  He  married  (first)  in  1793, 
Ruth  or  Ann  Wyer,  born  1771,  died  1795.  He 
married  (second)  in  1801,  Mehitable  (Sulli- 
van) Cutler,  born  1772,  and  died  1847;  she 
was  widow  of  his  partner,  James  Cutler,  and 
daughter  of  Governor  James  Sullivan.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Jonathan,  born  1802,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Elizabeth,  1805,  died  1859.  3.  James 
Sullivan,  1809,  mentioned  below.  4.  Frances 
M.,  1807,  died  1886;  married  Samuel  O.  Mere- 
dith. 5.  Rebecca  A.,  181 1,  died  1894.  6. 
Thomas  C,  181 2,  mentioned  below.  7.  Isa- 
bella L.,  181 5,  died  1888. 

(VII)  William,  son  of  Thomas  C.  Amory, 
was  born  in  1804  and  died  in  1888.  He  mar- 
ried, 1832,  Anna  Sears,  born  1813,  died  1895, 
daughter  of  David  Sears.  He  was  educated 
in  Harvard  College,  class  of  1823.  He  was 
a  prominent  manufacturer.  In  1837  he  was 
treasurer  of  the  Jackson  Company  of  Nashua, 
New  Hampshire,  and  the  Amoskeag  Company 
of  Alanchester  made  him  treasurer  that  year. 
It  was  a  period  of  progress  and  expansion  and 
he  carried  out  the  plans  of  the  company  for 
canals  and  extensions  with  marked  ability  and 
success,  conceived  other  plans  and  executed 
them.  From  eight  thousand  spindles  in  opera- 
tion at  the  time  he  took  charge  the  business 
grew  to  one  hundred  and  thirty-nine  thousand 
spindles  in  1876  when  he  resigned.  The  growth 
of  business  was  marvellous :  the  average  divi- 
dends in  that  period  from  1837  to  1876  were 
eleven  ])er  cent  and  the  company  accumulated 
a  capital  of  two  million  dollars  invested  in 
extensions  and  other  property  in  that  time. 
Mr.  Amory  became  president  of  the  corpora- 
tion in  1876  and  was  succeeded  by  T.  Jefferson 
Coolidge  as  treasurer.  Mr.  Amory  was  also 
treasurer  of  the  Stark  Mills,  a  child  of  the 
Amoskeag  Company  of  Manchester.  He  organ- 
ized the  Amory  IVIanufacturing  Company  in 
1879  to  manufacture  fine  and  medium  shirtings 
and  sheetings  and  yarns.  He  was  the  first 
treasurer  of  the  Nashua  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany. He  was  a  director  of  Merchants'  Nat- 
ional Bank,  and  overseer  of  Harvard  College. 
In  religion  he  was  an  Episcopalian ;  in  politics 
a  W  hig  anfl  during  war  and  afterwards  a  Re- 
publican. Children:  i.  William,  born  1833, 
married,  i860,  Ellen  Brewer,  born  1835,  died 
1873;    (second)    1874,    Philomene    Guichard, 


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born  1832,  died  1894;  (third)  Louise  Gaude- 
Ict.  2.  Harriet  S.,  1835,  died  1865;  married, 
i860,  Joseph  P.  Gardner,  born  1828,  died  1875. 
3.  Ellen  S.,  1837,  died  1908;  married  John  F. 
Anderson.  4.  Charles  W.,  1842,  mentioned 
below.     5.  Francis  I.,  1850,  mentioned  below. 

.(VH)  Jonathan  (3),  son  of  Jonathan  (2) 
Amory,  was  born  in  1802,  died  in  1885.  He 
married  Letitia  Austin,  born  1806,  died  1875, 
daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Redding)  Austin. 
Children  :  i.  Jonathan  Austin,  born  1827,  died 
and  buried  in  Japan,  1861.  2.  Thomas  Isaac 
Coffin,  mentioned  below.  3.  Letitia,  born  in 
Isle  of  Wight,  England,  1830,  married  Lucius 
Manlius  Sargent  Jr.,  who  was  killed  at  Belle- 
field,  Virginia,  while  lieutenant  colonel  com- 
manding First  Massachusetts  Cavalry  Regi- 
ment ;  children :  i.  Mary  Turner  Sargent,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Burgess,  son  of  Bishop  Burgess; 
son  Daniel,  deceased ;  ii.  George  Amory  Sar- 
gent, born  in  Roxbury,  July  26,  1854,  attend- 
ed private  schools  in  Boston  and  Jamaica 
Plain,  and  graduated  A.  B.  from  Harvard, 
1876,  and  M.  D.  from  Harvard,  1886;  began 
practice  at  Boston;  assistant  city  physician; 
vaccinator  for  board  of  health  fourteen  years; 
county  jail  physician  about  fourteen  years ; 
member  of  Massachusetts  Medical  Associa- 
tion and  American  Medical  Association ;  an 
Episcopalian  in  religion ;  married  Sally  Prince 
Osgood,  daughter  of  George  Prince  and  Caro- 
line (Perkins)  Osgood;  iii.  Sullivan  Amory 
Sargent,  born  in  Boston.  January  9, 1861, attend- 
ed private  schools  in  Germany  and  Switzerland 
four  years  ;  member  of  Massachusetts  Institute 
of  Technology,  class  of  1880;  studied  archi- 
tecture ;  served  as  draughtsman  at  Newport, 
Rhode  Island,  one  and  one-half  years;  in  1882 
became  bass  of  Arlington  Street  Church  quar- 
tette, which  position  he  still  holds,  a  period  of 
twenty-seven  years  ;  vocal  teacher  ;  teacher  on 
piano  and  cello ;  now  vocal  teacher  in  New 
England  Conservatory ;  memlier  of  Loyal 
Legion ;  married  Grace  Fesscnden,  daughter 
of  Sewall  H.  and  Louisa  Bursley;  children: 
Sullivan  Amory  Jr.,  born  September  30,  1887; 
Lucius  Manlius,  November  10,  1893 ;  Helen 
Bursley,  August  11,  1902;  Grace  Fesscnden, 
January  17,  1904:  iv.  Ellen  B.  Sargent.  4. 
George  Washington,  born  1832,  married  Caro- 
line M.  Bigelow,  daughter  of  Judge  Bigelow, 

1870;  children:  i.  Caroline  M.,  born  1874, 
unmarried  ;  ii.  Constance,  born  1876,  married 
Philip  Wadsworth.  5.  Mary  F.,  born  1833, 
died  1896;  married  Samuel  Haskell,  died  1891 ; 
chiklren :  i.  Child,  died  aged  eight  years;  ii. 
Jonathan  Amory  Haskell,  married   ATargaret 


Riker,  resides  in  New  York  City ;  iii.  Henry 
Garner  Haskell,  born  1870,  resides  in  Wil- 
mington. 6.  Elizabeth,  born  1835,  unmarried. 
7.  Harriet,  born  1837,  married  Thomas  Garner ; 
daughter  Fannie  married  C.  Oliver  Iselin,  of 
New  Rochelle,  New  York;  four  children: 
Nora,  Fannie,  married  Philip  Livermore, 
Adrian  and  Oliver.  8.  William  Appleton,  born 
RIarch,  1839,  resides  in  Chicago,  auditor  of 
expenditure  for  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
railroad  for  thirty  years;  married  Rosalie  G. 
Ernst.  9.  Charles  B.,  born  July  30,  1841,  men- 
tioned below.  10.  R.  Gordon,  born  1847,  men- 
tioned below.  II.  Philip  Dumerescj,  born  1848, 
died  1849. 

(  VH)  James  Sullivan,  son  of  Jonathan  (2) 
Amory,  was  born  in  1809,  died  in  1884.  A 
portrait  of  Governor  James  Sullivan,  ancestor 
and  namesake  of  Mr.  Amory,  painted  by  Gil- 
bert Stuart  in  1807  is  now  in  possession  of  the 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society  of  which 
Governor  Sullivan  was  one  of  the  founders 
and  first  president.  His  house  stood  where 
state  house  now  stands ;  Pemberton  square  was 
part  of  the  garden  when  hill  was  cut  down 
some  thirty  feet;  house  was  razed  after  sale  of 
hill  for  improvement  for  house  lots.  He  mar- 
ried I\Iary  Copley  Greene,  daughter  of  Gardi- 
ner and  Elizabeth  (Copley)  Greene,  the  latter 
of  whom  was  a  daughter  of  a  Royal  Acade- 
mician and  a  sister  of  John  Singleton  Copley 
(Lord  Lyndhurst),  three  times  Lord  High 
Chancellor  of  England.  Gardiner  Greene  was 
a  wealthy  Boston  merchant.  Children  of  Mr. 
and  Airs.  Amory:  i.  James  Appleton,  born 
1839,  died  1861.  2.  .\rthur,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Dr.  Robert,  mentioned  below.  4.  Frances 
M.,  1843,  ^'sd  1844.  5.  Frederick,  1844.  6. 
Gertrude,  1846,  died  1847.  7-  Harold,  1847, 
died  1852.  8.  Mary  C,  1849,  died  1852.  9. 
Mountfort,  1850,  died  1852.  10.  Augu.stine 
Heard,  1852,  graduate  of  Harvard,  1877; 
EjMscopal  clergyman  rector  of  a  church  in 
Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  and  of  a  church  in 
Lynn,  Massachusetts ;  married  Elizabeth  T. 
Snelling,  born  1835  :  children:  James  S.,  born 
1890,  and  Harold,  1893.  ^i-  Harcourt,  1855, 
graduate  of  Harvard,  1876;  married,  1891, 
Gertrude  L.  Chase,  born  1868  ;  chiUlrcn  :  Ger- 
trude I...  and  Harcourt,  born  1894. 

(\'1I  )  Thomas  Coffin,  .^^on  of  Jonathan  (2) 
Amory,  was  born  in  Boston  in  1812.  ."Xt  the 
age  of  eight  he  entered  a  boarding  school  on 
the  shores  of  Jamaica  pond,  and  two  years 
later  went  to  Northampton  to  a  similar  school. 
Leaving  Round  Hill  Seminary  at  the  age  of 
fourteen,   he   studied   with   tutors,  entered   an 


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advanced  class  at  Harvard,  and  took  his  degree 
in  1830.  His  health  being  impaired  he  took 
a  sea  voyage  and  travelled  abroad.  Return- 
ing, he  studied  law  with  his  uncle,  General 
William  Sullivan,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Suf- 
folk bar.  He  practiced  a  short  time,  one  of 
his  cases  being  in  collaboration  with  Rufus 
Choate  against  Riciiard  D.  Fletcher,  and 
Horace  Mann  as  opposing  counsel.  He  soon 
gave  up  the  law,  however,  and  spent  the  winter 
of  184^  in  Cuba,  later  travelling  in  Europe. 
On  his  return  he  took  up  the  study  of  litera- 
ture and  history,  especially  that  of  Massachu- 
setts, contributed  to  periodicals  and  news- 
papers, and  wrote  the  biography  of  his  grand- 
father. Governor  James  Sullivan,  a  two  volume 
book  published  in  1858.  He  was  elected  an 
alderman  of  Boston  in  1858,  and  to  the  legis- 
lature the  following  year.  He  was  five  years 
alderman  and  was  chairman  of  the  overseers 
of  the  poor.  He  was  chairman  of  a  committee 
sent  to  Halifax  to  invite  the  Prince  of  Wales 
to  visit  Boston.  He  was  chairman  of  the 
committee  which  superintended  the  erection  of 
the  Boston  City  Hospital,  and  president  of 
the  first  board  of  trustees  of  that  institution. 
He  delivered  the  address  at  its  dedication  in 
1864.  He  was  in  great  demand  as  an  orator, 
and  delivered  many  addresses.  He  was  chair- 
man of  the  committee  on  police,  and  in  1862, 
during  the  draft-riots,  he  interfered  and  was 
violently  assaulted,  barely  escaping  with  his 
life.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  city 
council  in  1864  and  many  times  afterward,  and 
served  as  chairman  of  the  council.  It  was  due 
largely  to  his  efforts  that  the  Charity  building 
on  Clarendon  street  was  erected.  He  was' 
four  years  on  the  school  committee,  and  was 
a  member  of  numerous  charitalile  organiza- 
tions. Before  the  war  he  was  a  Whig,  after- 
wards a  Democrat.  In  1859  he  was  a  repre- 
sentative to  the  general  court,  and  in  the  fol- 
lowing year  was  nominated  for  the  state  senate 
but  withdrew  in  favor  of  a  rival  candidate. 
He  came  within  one  vote  of  being  nominated 
for  congress.  In  1865  he  was  Democratic 
candidate  for  mayor  of  Boston.  While  chair- 
man of  the  aldcrmanic  committee  on  overseers 
of  the  poor  he  arranged  a  weekly  meeting  of 
the  public  and  private  almoners  during  the 
winter  to  consult  and  systematize  their  work. 
His  report  on  the  work  and  usefulness  of  these 
conferences  resulted  eventually  in  the  adop- 
tion in  Boston  of  one  of  the  best  organiza- 
tions for  the  distribution  of  alms  and  the  pre- 
vention of  pauperism  in  the  state  if  not  in 
the  country.     Among  the  printed  reports  giv- 


ing evidence  of  the  careful  study  and  public 
spirit  of  Mr.  Amory  are  those  on  city  hos- 
pitals, in  which  he  was  especially  interested; 
on  ferries,  which  led  eventually  to  the  pur- 
chase of  the  ferries  by  the  municipality;  on 
county  relations,  law  department,  ordinances 
and  primary  meetings ;  weights  and  measures ; 
the  Hancock  House;  town  criers;  street  widen- 
ing; printing;  city  charities;  amendments  to 
the  city  charter ;  state  aid  to  volunteers ;  public 
instruction;  the  police  force;  methods  of  re- 
cruiting the  army  and  supplying  the  state 
quota.  He  opposed  the  Metropolitan  police 
bill,  and  is  credited  with  defeating  its  passage. 
His  report  on  state  begging  was  a  notable 
document.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  advocate 
the  erection  of  the  Charity  building,  now 
located  on  Chardon  street.  His  report  on 
municipal  questions  in  answer  to  various 
queries  of  the  English  government  was  pub- 
lished by  the  local  government  board  (Eng- 
land) 1878.  He  wrote  the  annual  report  of 
the  Boston  school  board  for  1867.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Charitable  Historical  and 
Scientific  Society,  and  a  founder  of  the  Social 
Science  Association.  Among  the  lectures  that 
he  delivered  from  time  to  time  were:  "Old 
Homes,"  "Old  Cambridge  and  New,"  "Our 
English  Ancestors,"  "Homes  of  the  Olden 
Times,"  "John  Winthrop,"  "The  Siege  of 
Louisburg,"  "The  Siege  of  Newport,"  "Seals 
of  Massachusetts,"  "Street  Nomenclature  of 
Boston."  He  wrote  biographies  and  other 
articles  for  various  publications.  He  wrote 
the  memoir  of  General  Sullivan,  of  revolution- 
ary fame,  and  a  pamphlet  in  answer  to  un- 
truthful asperions  on  the  character  of  General 
Sullivan.  His  letters  from  Europe  in  1871 
were  published.  He  wrote  a  versified  legend 
of  William  Blackstone,  sole  inhabitant  of  Bos- 
ton for  the  Old  South  Fair  ;  also  other  metrical 
productions.  His  most  important  book  was 
perhaps,  "Transfer  of  Ireland,  or  the  Acquisi- 
tion of  Ireland  by  the  English,"  published  first 
in  magazine  form,  then  in  two  volumes.  1878, 
by  Lip])incntt  of  Philadelphia.  He  is  one  of 
the  one  hundred  meml)ers  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Historical  Society  to  which  he  has  con- 
tributed valuable  |)apcrs.  In  religion  he  was 
an  Episcopalian,  member  of  Trinity  Church. 
He  never  married. 

(VHI)  Charles  W.,  son  of  William  Amory, 
was  born  in  P.o.ston,  October  16,  1842.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  in  Pro- 
fessor Wayne  Lovering's  School  and  at  Har- 
vard College  where  he  was  graduated  in  the 
class  of   1863  with  the  degree  of  A.   B.     He 


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enlisted  in  Company  G,  Second  Massachusetts 
Cavalry,  and  was  taken  prisoner  July  6,  1864. 
For  three  weeks  he  was  confined  with  other 
I'nion  prisoners  in  box-cars  at  Macon,  Georgia, 
then  in  the  common  jail  at  Charleston,  South 
Carolina.  He  was  released  on  parole  in  Octo- 
ber, was  exchanged  and  returned  to  his  regi- 
ment in  January,  1865,  in  the  campaign  in  the 
Shenandoah  \'alley,  Virginia.  He  took  part 
in  the  great  review  in  Washington  at  the  close 
of  the  war.  After  the  war  he  went  abroad, 
traveling  for  recreation  and  health  through 
Norway,  Sweden,  (jermany,  Russia,  Italy, 
France  and  Spain.  In  the  autumn  of  1866  he 
came  home  and  entered  the  firm  of  Wain- 
wright  &  Amory,  stock  brokers.  After  seven 
years  in  this  business,  he  retired  on  account 
of  ill  health  and  spent  three  years  in  Europe. 
In  1879,  upon  his  return,  he  became  treasurer 
of  the  Amory  Cotton  Mills,  owned  by  his 
father.  From  1898  to  1905  he  was  treasurer 
of  the  great  Amoskeag  Mills  at  Manchester, 
New  Hampshire.  Since  then  he  has  been  presi- 
dent of  the  Amoskeag  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany. He  married,  iSiSj,  Elizabeth  Gardner, 
born  1843.  Children:  i.  William,  born  Sep- 
tember, 1869,  graduate  of  Harvard  in  1891  ; 
resides  in  Boston ;  married  Mary  Stockton. 
2.  Clara,  1872,  married  T.  Jefferson  Coolidge 
Jr.,  born  1863.  3.  George  Gardner,  1874,  grad- 
uate of  Harvard  in  1896:  resides  at  Boston; 
associated  in  business  with  his  father.  4. 
Dorothy,  married  Frederick  W'inthrop. 

(VHI)  Francis  I.,  son  of  William  Amory, 
was  born  in  Boston,  June  5,  1850.  He  attend- 
ed the  Epes  S.  Dixwell  School  and  fitted  there 
for  Harvard  College,  where  he  was  graduated 
in  the  class  of  1871  with  the  degree  of  A.  B. 
Fie  studied  law  in  the  Harvard  Law  School, 
graduating  in  1875  with  degree  of  LL.  B.  He 
has  not  been  in  active  practice  but  has  spent 
most  of  his  time  in  management  of  trust 
estates.  He  is  an  Episcopalian  in  religion  and 
a  Republican  in  |)olitics.  He  is  a  member  of 
Somerset,  Country  an<l  Essex  County  clubs. 
He  married.  May  12,  188(1,  Grace  J.  Mint)t, 
born  September,  1859,  daughter  of  Charles  H. 
and  Maria  J.  (Grafton)  Minot,  of  Bo.ston. 
Children,  born  in  Boston:  i.  Mary  J.,  June 
27,  1887.  2.  Charles  M.,  December  6,  1890, 
prejiared  for  college  at  Groton  school,  Groton  ; 
student  of  Harvard  College,  class  of  1912.  3. 
Ciiild,  died  young.  4.  Francis  I.  Jr.,  May  16, 
1859,  student  in  the  Noble  Greenough  School. 
(\'III)  Colonel  Thomas  Isaac  Coffin,  son  of 
Jonathan  (3)  Amory,  was  born  in  Boston. 
November  27,   1828.     His  earlier  years  were 


spent  in  boarding  schools,  one  being  at  New- 
port, Rhode  Island.  In  1846  he  was  appointed 
to  the  West  Point  Military  Academy,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1851 
as  brevet  second  lieutenant.  He  served  in  the 
seventh  cavalry,  United  States  army,  until 
i860,  when  he  was  ordered  to  Boston  on  re- 
cruiting service.  He  was  commissioned  sec- 
ond lieutenant  .August  21,  1851  ;  first  lieuten- 
ant August  16,  1855;  captain  May  7,  1861; 
major  Eighth  Infantry,  United  States  army, 
Se])tember  19,  1864.  His  service  with  the 
Seventh  Cavalry  was  mostly  in  the  west  and 
southwest.  He  was  stationed  at  Jefiferson 
Barracks,  Missouri,  at  Fort  .Smith,  .\rkansas, 
and  other  points.  .\t  the  breaking  out  of  the 
rebellion  he  was  for  a  time  the  only  regular 
army  officer  in  Boston,  and  proved  extremely 
useful  to  Governor  Andrew  as  to  advice  in  the 
enlistment  and  equipment  of  state  regiments 
for  the  war,  and  as  acting  commissary  of 
muster,  and  it  was  he  who  mustered  into  the 
service  of  the  United  States  the  first  of  these 
regiments.  On  September  2,  1861,  Governor 
Andrew  commissioned  him  colonel  of  the 
Seventeenth  Regiment,  Massachusetts  \'ohm- 
teers.  He  proved  himself  an  able  and  efficient 
officer,  and  his  service  was  conspicuously 
meritorious  until  his  death  at  Newberne, 
North  Carolina,  in  October,  1864,  from  an 
attack  of  yellow  fever  while  in  the  line  of  his 
duty.  He  married,  in  1853,  Mary  M.  Nolan, 
who  died  a  few  days  before  her  husband,  and 
from  the  same  disease.  Children:  i.  Thomas 
Montford,  died  in  1863  at  Newberne,  North 
Carolina.  2.  Edward  J.,  born  1856,  resides 
'in  Wilmington,  Delaware.  3.  William  N.  4. 
Mary,  died  in  1878,  while  a  student  at  Pelham 
Priory.  5.  Laura  C,  married  Thomas  C. 
Dugan,  of  New  Orleans,  Louisiana ;  resides  in 
New  York  City. 

(VTII)  Major  Charles  Bean,  son  of  Jona- 
than (3)  Amory,  was  born  in  New  York,  July 
30,  1841.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
"schools,  grammar  and  high,  at  Jamaica  Plain. 
He  began  business  life  in  May,  1857,  entering 
the  counting-room  of  P>.  C.  Clark  &  Company, 
Commercial  Wharf,  Boston,  and  remained 
there  until  the  civil  war  period,  when  he 
entered  the  army,  having  previously  served  in 
1860-61  as  a  ])rivate  in  the  New  England 
Guards.  He  was  first  lieutenant  of  the  Twenty- 
fourth  Regiment,  Massaclui.setts  \'olunteers, 
from  September  2,  1 861,  to  July,  1862,  and 
captain  from  the  latter  date  to  May,  1864; 
then  became  captain  and  assistant  adjutant- 
general,    United    States    Volunteers,    staff    of 


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General  William  F.  Martlett :  and  brevet  major 
for  gallantry  in  front  of  F'etersl)urg,  May  13, 
1865.  He  served  with  his  regiment  in  the 
following  engagements:  Burnside  expedition 
to  North  Carolina,  Roanoke  Island,  capture  of 
Newberne,  Tarboro,  Kinston,  Whitehall, 
Goldsboroiigh.  the  siege  of  Morris  Island  and 
Fort  Sumter,  the  charge  on  ritle-pits  in  front 
of  Battery  Wagner,  Drewry's  Bluff,  and  then 
on  the  staff  of  General  W.  F.  Bartlett  in  front 
of  Petersburg,  and  at  the  explosion  of  Peters- 
burg mine.  At  the  latter  he  was  captured  and 
taken  to  Danville,  \'irginia,  thence  to  Rich- 
land jail,  Columbia,  South  Carolina,  and  thence 
to  Charlotte,  Xorth  Carolina,  where  he  escaped 
with  Lieutenant  Iloppin,  Second  Massachu- 
setts Heavy  Artillery.  They  were  out  five 
weeks  tramping  over  the  Blue  Ridge  and  Alle- 
ghany motmtains,  striking  the  pickets  of  Gen- 
eral Thomas's  army  at  Greenville.  East  Tennes- 
see. Then  they  received  leave  of  absence  for 
thirty  days,  at  the  end  of  which  time  Rich- 
mond had  fallen  and  the  war  was  practically 
over.  Consequently  Major  Amory  resigned. 
After  the  war  he  was  for  two  years,  1865-66, 
confidential  clerk  to  Burnham  &  Dexter,  cotton 
buyers  in  Xew  Orleans.  The  next  two  years, 
1867-68,  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Tab- 
ary  &  Amory,  cotton  brokers  in  Xew  Orleans  : 
from  1869  to  1878  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Jno.  A.  Burnham  &  Company,  cotton  buyers; 
from  1878  to  1885  of  the  firm  of  Appleton, 
Amory  &  Company,  in  the  same  business.  Then, 
leaving  Xew  Orleans  and  coming  north,  he 
was  in  1886  elected  treasurer  of  the  Hamil- 
ton Company  of  Lowell,  with  ofifice  in  Boston, 
the  position  he  now  holds.  Mr.  Amory  is  a 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  Military  His- 
torical Society,  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  of 
the  Somerset  and  Country  clubs.  His  resi- 
dence is  in  Milton,  where  he  is  warden  of  the 
Church  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  Mattapan.  He 
married  (first)  June  9,  1867,  Emily  A.  Ferri- 
day,  of  Concordia  Parish,  Louisiana,  who  was 
born  in  1848,  died  July  31,  1879,  daughter  of 

William    and   ("Smith)    h'crriday.    He 

maried  (second)  .April  30,  188 1,  Lilly  Clapp. 
born  in  1856,  daughter  of  Emory  and  Pamela 
(Starr)  Clapp,  of  Xew  Orleans,  Louisiana. 
Children  by  second  marriage:  i.  Charles  B., 
born  1882,  educated  at  Pennsylvania  Military 
College,  graduating  in  1904:  same  year  com- 
missioned second  lieutenant  and  assigned  to 
First  Infantry,  I'nitcd  States  army;  in  1908 
transferred  to  Xinth  Cavalry:  now  (1909) 
serving  his  third  year  in  the  Philippines, 
locatcfl  on   Island  of  Luzon.     2.  Leita   .Mont- 


gomery, born  1883,  married  Charles  E.  Per- 
kins, son  of  Charles  E.  and  Edith  (Forbes) 
Perkins,  of  Boston;  resides  in  Burlington, 
Iowa.  3.  John  Austin,  born  1885,  in  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  graduate  of  Milton  Acad- 
emy and  of  Harvard  College,  class  of  1908; 
now  assistant  secretary  of  State  Street  Trust 
Company.  4.  Roger,  born  in  Boston,  1887, 
attended  private  schools  in  Milton  and  Milton 
Academy ;  student  at  Harvard  College,  class  of 
1910;  enli.sted  in  December,  1907,  for  three 
years  as  private  in  Troop  B,  First  Battalion, 
Massachusetts  \'olunteer  Militia. 

(VIII)  Lieutenant  Robert  Gordon,  son  of 
Jonathan  (3)  xAmory,  was  born  in  Roxbury, 
Ajiril  12,  1847.  He  attended  a  private  school 
at  Jamaica  Plain,  and  a  boarding  school  at 
Xevvton  Center.  He  enlisted  as  a  musician 
in  the  Second  Massachusetts  Artillery,  April 
15,  1863,  and  was  stationed  at  Newberne, 
Xorth  Carolina:  was  transferred  to  Company 
D,  Second  Artillery,  and  made  sergeant ;  was 
commissioned  second  lieutenant,  August,  1864, 
and  remained  in  service  until  September  3, 
1865,  when  he  was  honorably  mustered  out. 
His  .service  was  mostly  in  fortifications  out- 
side of  Xewberne,  and  at  Forts  Macon,  Fisher 
and  Johnson.  After  leaving  the  military  ser- 
vice he  returned  to  Boston,  and  was  associated 
with  his  father  as  clerk.  He  was  afterwards 
ap]iointed  to  a  clerkshi]i  in  the  clearance  de- 
partment of  the  Boston  custom  house,  and 
was  afterward  clerk  to  the  cashier  of  the  cus- 
tom house  until  1876,  when  he  resigned.  He 
then  went  to  New  York,  where  he  remained 
until  1887.  at  that  time  leaving  the  agency  of 
the  Boston  Belting  Company.  He  was  asso- 
ciated with  Nathan  Matthews  in  the  manage- 
ment of  his  mother's  large  estate  for  a  number 
of  years.  Since  1899  he  has  been  in  the  cotton 
business  with  Francis  C.  Stanwood,  at  4  Post 
r)ffice  .Square,  Boston.  He  is  a  companion  of 
the  Massachusetts  Commandery,  Military 
Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  a  comrade  of 
Charles  Ward  Post,  Xo,  62,  Grand  .Army  of 
the  Rei)ublic,  Xewton.  In  religion  he  is  an 
Episco]ialian,  and  in  politics  a  Republican.  He 
married  Annie  Jameson,  daughter  of  Thorn- 
dike  and  Lucinda  L.  (Otis)  Jameson,  of  Bos- 
ton.   They  have  no  children. 

(VIII)  Arthur,  son  of  James  Sullivan 
Amory,  was  born  in  Boston,  Februarv  6,  1841. 
He  fitted  for  college  in  Mr.  Dixwell's  School 
and  graduated  from  Harvard  in  the  class  of 
1862,  a  classmate  of  General  William  F.  Bart- 
lett. He  received  the  degree  of  A,  M.  He 
began    his    business    career   with    the    firm    of 


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Slade  &  Colby,  wholesale  dry  goods  commission 
merchants,  New  York  City,  representatives  of 
Upham,  Tucker  &  Company,  selling  agents  for 
the  Lancaster  Mills,  the  Nashua  Mills,  Jack- 
son Mills  and  other  large  manufacturers  of 
cotton  goods,  etc.  After  three  years  he  was 
admitted  to  the  firm  of  Upham,  Tucker  & 
Company.  He  was  connected  with  the  New 
York  house  of  this  firm  until  1877  when  he 
returned  to  Boston.  The  firm  name  became 
Dana,  Tucker  &  Company,  then  Amory, 
Rrowne  &  Company,  with  Mr.  Amory  at  the 
head  of  the  business,  and  so  continues.  He  is 
a  director  of  the  Old  Boston  National  Bank, 
not  the  largest  bank  of  Boston  but  without 
doubt  tlie  highest  in  standing  and  financial 
reputation.  He  is  president  of  the  Indian 
Head  Mills  of  .Mabama  and  of  the  Nashua 
Manufacturing  Company  of  Nashua,  New 
Hampshire,  and  a  director  of  the  Atlantic 
Mills  of  Lawrence,  Massachusetts.  He  is  an 
Episcopalian  in  religion,  and  a  Republican  in 
politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Somerset 
Club,  Harvard  Club  of  New  York,  one  of  the 
five  founders  of  the  Eastern  Yacht  Club  and 
Wednesday  Evening  Club.  He  married,  June 
6,  1866.  Elizabeth  W.  Ingersoll,  born  in  Phil- 
adelphia, in  which  city  she  inherited  the  family 
plantation,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Susan 
(Brown)  Ingersoll,  the  former  of  whom  was 
a  very  distinguished  barrister  and  a  very  prom- 
inent citizen  of  I'hiladelphia.  Children:  I. 
Arthur,  born  1767,  died  i8g8:  graduate  of 
Harvard,  1802:  married  Mabel  -Sard.  2.  Inger- 
soll. born  1869,  graduate  of  Harvard,  1892.  3. 
Susan,  born  1871,  married  Edwin  B.  Bart- 
lett;  child,  Betty  Bartlett.  4.  Ethel,  born  1873. 
5.  Sullivan,  bom  1878.  died  1881. 

(VHI)  Dr.  Robert,  son  of  James  .Sullivan 
Amory.  was  born  in  Boston,  May  3,  1842.  He 
attended  the  Ejies  Sargent  Di.xwell  .School 
wjicre  he  fitted  for  college,  entered  Harvard 
and  graduate  in  the  class  of  1863  with  the 
degree  of  A.  11.  and  from  the  Medical  School 
in  1866  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  In  the  s])ring 
of  1866  he  was  an  interne  at  the  Massachu- 
setts General  Hosjjital  and  subse(|ucntly 
.studied  in  Professor  Tardieu's  laboratory  at 
Paris  and  at  Dublin  Rotunda  Lying-in-Hos- 
]iital.  In  1867  he  began  to  practice  at  Long- 
wood,  part  of  Brooklinc,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  has  since  resided.  He  was  devoted  to  his 
profession  anrl  became  eminently  successful 
as  a  practitioner.  At  the  same  time,  under 
circumstances  jiarticularly  favorable,  he  prose- 
cuted medical  research.  He  published  a  treatise 
in    1870   entitled    ".Action    of    Nitrous   Oxide" 


and  in  1872  "Bromides  of  Potassitmi  and 
Ammonium."  In  1872  he  wrote  an  article  for 
the  N'czu  York  Medical  Journal  entitled 
"Chloral  Hydrates — E.xperiments  disproving 
Evolution  of  Chloroform  in  the  Organism." 
Later,  he  had  a  paper  in  the  London  Practi- 
tioner on  the  "Pathological  Action  of  Prussia 
Acid."  He  wrote  the  chapter  on  "Poisons"  in 
the  third  edition  of  Wharton  &  Stille's  Medical 
Jurisprudence  published  in  1873  by  Kay  & 
Brother.  In  a  second  edition  of  this  work  he 
and  Professor  E.  S.  Wood  of  the  Harvard 
Medical  School  expanded  the  chapter  into  the 
second  volume  of  the  work.  He  translated 
"Lectures  on  Physiology"  by  Professor  Kiiss 
of  .Strasburg  University  Medical  School,  pub- 
lished in  Boston  in  1875.  and  during  the  same 
year  he  contributed  to  the  .American  .-\cadeniy 
of  Arts  and  Sciences  papers  on  "Photographs 
of  the  Spectrum  and  Other  Subjects."  As 
reporter  on  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal  of 
Boston  on  the  progress  of  therapeutics,  he 
wrote  various  papers  as  to  the  action  of  drugs. 
In  1869  he  was  appointed  annual  lecturer  on 
the  physiological  action  of  drugs  for  that  year 
in  Harvard  Medical  School  and  later  was 
appointed  professor  of  physiology  in  the  Bow- 
doin  College  Medical  School.  He  resigned  in 
1874.  He  was  councillor  and  vice-president  of 
the  Norfolk  County  District  Medical  Society 
and  afterv.ard  president;  councillor  of  the 
Massachusetts  Medical  .Society  and  trial  com- 
mi>sioner.  In  May.  1880.  he  was  delegate 
from  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society  to 
the  si.xth  decennial  con^■ention  of  state  medical 
societies,  colleges  of  physicians  and  surgeons 
and  of  pharmacy,  held  in  Washington,  to  revise 
and  i)ublish  an  official  guide  for  physicians  and 
apotliecaries  of  the  United  States:  was  perma- 
nent president  of  the  convention  and  member 
of  the  general  committee  on  revision  and  pub- 
lication. The  result  of  the  work — The  United 
States  Pharmacopeia — was  published  by  Will- 
iam Wood  &  Company,  New  York,  in  1882. 
He  was  an  early  member  of  the  Boston  Society 
of  Medical  Observation,  treasurer  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Boston  Society  of  Medical  Re- 
search, and  corresponding  member  of  the  New 
York  Therajieutical  Society.  In  1879  with  Dr. 
.Sabine  he  examined  the  causes  of  an  epidemic 
of  typhoid  fever  in  Brookline,  and  their  re- 
port, published  in  a  su]ii)lemcntal  volume  of 
the  Massachusetts  State  Board  of  Health,  was 
highly  commended  for  its  thoroughness  and 
hvgienic  value.  In  1876  he  was  appointed 
medical  director  of  the  Second  Brigade.  Mass- 
achusetts \'o]unteer  Militia,  with  the  rank  of 


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lieutenant-colonel.  When  the  anti(|uated  and 
obectionable  office  of  coroner  was  abolished  in 
Massachusetts.  Dr.  Amory  was  appointed  by 
the  governor  medical  examiner  of  the  eighth 
district  of  Norfolk  county  and  with  Dr.  Alfred 
Hosmer.  another  medical  examiner,  he  organ- 
ized the  Massachusetts  Medico-Legal  Society, 
of  which  he  was  recording  secretary  two  years 
and  afterward  president.  The  membership  of 
this  society  consists  of  all  the  medical  exam- 
iners of  the  state,  the  attorney  general  and  dis- 
trict attorneys,  and  various  legal  and  medical 
men  interested  in  the  subject.  In  18S1  he  built 
a  summer  home  at  Mount  Desert,  Maine,  and 
practised  there  during  the  summer  months, 
resigning  his  office  as  medical  examiner,  his 
commission  in  the  militia  and  as  president  of 
the  Medico-Legal  Society.  His  closing  address 
to  that  society  was  printed  in  the  Medical  and 
Surgical  Journal  in  December,  1881.  He  has 
been  active  in  public  affairs  in  Brookline.  serv- 
ing nine  years  as  member  and  four  as  secre- 
tarj'  of  the  school  committee,  and  six  years  as 
trustee  of  the  public  library.  Since  1871  he 
has  been  a  member  of  the  American  .\cademy 
of  Arts  and  Sciences  and  since  1864  of  the 
National  Historical  Society  of  Boston.  He 
has  been  president  and  manager  of  the  Brook- 
line  Gaslight  Company  and  is  a  member  of  the 
St.  Botolph,  Algonc|uin,  Somerset  and  L'ni- 
versity  clubs  of  Boston  and  the  University 
Club  of  New  York. 

He  married  (first)  in  May,  1864,  Marianne 
Appleton  Lawrence,  born  1843,  'l'*^''  '"  1882. 
He  married  (second)  September,  1884.  Kath- 
erine  Leighton  Crehore,  born  1864.  Child  of 
first  wife:  i.  .Mice,  married,  1892,  .Augustus 
Thorndike.  Children  of  second  wife  :  2.  Rob- 
ert Jr.,  born  1885.  3.  Mary  Copley,  1888.  4. 
Katherine    L..    1891.      5.    Margery    Sullivan, 

1897-  

The  Rev.  lohn  Robinson, 
ROBINSON      the   father  of  the   Puritans 

in  England  in  1620.  pastor 
of  the  Pilgrims  in  Holland  before  they  sailed 
in  the  "Mayflower"  and  landed  at  Plymouth, 
New  England,  is  the  progenitor  of  a  branch  of 
the  Robinsons  of  New  England  who  proudly 
claim  a  heritage  of  brain  and  power  seldom 
vouchsafed  to  a  family  able  to  maintain  through 
successive  generations  so  rich  an  heritage.  To 
Samuel  Robinson,  the  founder  of  Bennington, 
Vermont,  and  his  descendants,  this  honor  be- 
longs. In  a  single  century  his  descendants 
claim  to  have  had  two  representatives  in  the 
chair  of  governor;  two  in  the  United  States 


senate;  six  on  the  bench  of  a  court  of  justice, 
including  the  highest  degree ;  acknowledged 
leaders  of  Democratic  |)arty  in  three  genera- 
tions ;  United  States  marshals,  generals,  col- 
onels, state  attorneys,  town  clerks  and  lesser 
officials  without  number.  Dartmouth  College 
in  1790  had  an  honorary  class  and  conferred 
degrees  on  Josiah  Bartlett,  Samuel  Bass,  Alex- 
ander Hamilton,  Aaron  Hutchinson,  Peter 
Olcott,  Jonathan  and  Moses  Robinson,  of  Ver- 
mont. They  were  allied  with  the  ancestry  of 
(jovernor  Jonathan  Trumbull,  of  Connecticut, 
and  other  notable  New  England   families. 

(I)  William  Robinson,  immigrant  ancestor 
of  this  branch  of  the  Robinson  family,  was 
born  about  1640.  The  first  record  obtainable 
shows  that  he  was  living  in  Watertown,  Mass- 
achusetts, as  early  as  1670.  He  then  had  a 
farm  of  two  hundred  acres  on  the  narrow 
neck  of  land  claimed  by  both  Concord  and 
Watertown.  He  was  a  signer  of  the  original 
petition  for  the  separation  of  Newtowne  and 
Cambridge  in  1678.  He  married  in  Cambridge 
as  early  as  1667,  Elizabeth  Cutter,  born  in 
Cambridge,  July  15,  1645,  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard and  Elizabeth  (W'illiams)  Cutter.  Eliza- 
beth Williams  is  said  to  have  come  with  her 
father,  Robert  Williams,  in  the  ship  "John  and 
Dorothy"  to  Massachusetts,  .\pril  8,  i(>37. 
Robert  Williams  was  born  in  iCxiS,  in  Nor- 
wick,  Norfolk  county,  England,  and  was  a 
cordwainer.  His  wife  Elizabeth  was  born  in 
1G2C).  in  England,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
church  at  Roxbury  in  i()44.  She  died  in  Cam- 
bridge, March  5,  iry')2.  Children:  i.  Eliza- 
beth, born  at  Cambridge,  1669,  married,  De- 
cember 20,  1693,  Daniel  McGregor,  of  Wash- 
ington. 2.  Hannah  (Ann),  Concord,  July  13, 
1671,  died  at  Cambridge,  October  5,  167^.  3. 
William,  July  10,  1673,  married  Elizabeth  Up- 
ham :  died  at  Newton,  1754.  4.  Mercy,  August 
7,  1676.  5.  David,  May  23,  167S,  died  at  the 
age  of  ninety-five,  and  was  "lame  and  help- 
less" in  old  age.  6.  .Samuel  (twin),  .\pril  20, 
1680,  resided  at  Grafton  and  Hardwick,  Mass- 
achusetts, and  was  a  prominent  man.  7.  Jona- 
than (twin),  .'\pril  20,  1680.  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Samuel,  twin  of  Jonathan,  son  of 
William  and  Elizabrtli  (Cutter)  Robinson, 
was  born  in  (_'anibri(lge,  Massachusetts  Bay 
Colony,  .Vpril  20,  1680.  Jonathan  removed  to 
Cambridge  farms  in  1706  and  it  is  probable 
that  about  1735,  on  the  organization  of  the 
town  of  Grafton,  William,  the  father,  with  his 
son  Samuel  and  other  members  of  the  family 
removed  to  the  new  town,  the  place  they  set- 
tled being  .set  off  as  Hardwick  in    1739.     He 


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married  Sarah  Manning.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  French  and  Indian  wars  and  a  founder 
of  Bennington,  Vermont,  with  his  sons,  and  he 
died  there  in  1767. 

(Ill)  Samuel  (2),  the  eldest  son  of  Samuel 
(i)  and  Sarah  (Manning)  Robinson,  was 
born  in  Cambridge,  Middlesex  county,  Massa- 
chusetts. April  I,  1707,  and  was  brought  up 
in  that  place  and  removed  to  Hardwick  in  1735 
and  thence  to  the  disputed  territory  known  as 
New  Hampshire  Grants  (Vermont)  in  1761, 
locating  at  Bennington.  While  in  Massachu- 
setts he  had  been  a  captain  in  the  Massachu- 
setts troop  through  the  several  campaigns  in 
the  vicinity  of  Lakes  George  and  Champlain, 
in  the  French  and  Indian  wars,  and  went  from 
Hardwick  to  the  New  Hampshire  Grants  in 
1 76 1  and  was  made  the  first  justice  of  the 
peace  in  Bennington,  being  commissioned  by 
Governor  W^entworth  of  New  Hampshire. 
This  appointment  brought  him  prominently 
before  the  people  in  the  struggles  between 
New  Hampshire  and  New  York  authorities, 
and  as  an  appointee  of  \Ventworth  he  took 
sides  in  the  case  of  two  claimants  in  Pownal 
and  was  supported  by  Samuel  Ashby,  a  New 
Hampshire  deputy  sheriff,  and  both  men  were 
arrested  by  the  authorities  of  the  state  of  New 
York  and  carried  to  .\lbany  where  they  were 
placed  in  jail,  and  Robinson  and  Ashley  were 
intlicted  for  resisting  the  New  York  officers, 
but  never  brought  to  trial  as  after  an  acrimon- 
ious correspondence  between  the  governors  of 
New  York  and  New  Hampshire  the  affair 
ended  in  a  compromise.  On  his  return  to 
the  grants.  Captain  Robinson  was  deputed  by 
the  settlers  in  1765  to  go  to  .\lbany  and  try  to 
save  the  lands  on  which  they  had  settled,  built 
homes :  and  were  occujiying  from  speculators, 
who  were  obtaining  grants  of  the  very  same 
land  from  the  land  of  Lieutenant-Governor 
Colden,  but  his  efforts  were  unavailing.  He 
was  sent  in  1766  as  an  agent  for  the  settlers 
to  England  to  present  tlicir  claims  to  the 
British  ministry,  and  his  purjiose  was  receiv- 
ing favorable  consideration  and  was  likely  to 
succeed  when  he  was  sto()ped  from  further 
action  by  the  dread  disease,  small-pox,  from 
which  he  died  in  London,  England,  October 
^7<  1767-  His  eldest  son.  Colonel  Samuel 
Robinson,  was  elected  one  of  the  town  com- 
mittee of  B>cnnington  tf)  succeed  his  father. 
Captain  Robinson  married,  while  a  resident  of 
Hardwick,  Massachusetts,  Mercy  Leonard, 
daughter  of  Moses  Leonard,  and  their  chil- 
dren were  all  born  in  that  town.  These  chil- 
dren  were:      i.    Samuel    (q.   v.  1.     2.    Moses, 


born  March  20.  1741,  attended  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege, removed  to  Bennington,  \'ermont.  in 
1761 ;  was  the  first  clerk  of  Bennington  in 
1762  and  served  for  nineteen  years.  As  col- 
onel of  the  militia,  he  was  in  command  of  his 
regiment  on  Mount  Independence,  when  Ticon- 
deroga  was  evacuated  by  St.  Clair,  July  5, 
1777,  and  after  that  disastrous  event  "he  was 
a  member  of  the  committee  of  safety,  in  con- 
tinuous session  for  several  months.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  governor's  council,  1777-85, 
and  during  the  infant  troubles  of  the  new 
state  he  had  the  confidence  of  the  leaders  and 
the  fathers  of  the  movement,  although  his 
official  position  prevented  his  taking  an  active 
part.  He  was  the  first  chief  justice  of  the  new 
state  and  held  the  office  until  1789,  when  he 
was  elected  governor  of  \'ermont,  but  before 
it  was  admitted  as  a  state  and  by  the  legisla- 
ture after  Crittenden  had  received  1263  votes 
from  the  freemen,  Robinson  746,  and  Samuel 
Saftord  378.  He  was  an  agent  from  the  state 
of  the  continental  congress  in  1782  and  one 
of  the  commissioners  to  finally  adjust  the  con- 
troversy with  New  York.  He  received  the 
honorary  degree  of  A.  M.  from  Yale  and 
Dartmouth  in  1790.  In  1791  he  was  chosen  a 
L'nited  States  senator  in  congress  when  he 
approved  the  ratification  of  the  Jay  treatv  and 
not  being  in  accord  with  the  majority  of  his 
party  in  the  state  he  resigned  his  seat  in  the 
L'nited  States  senate  in  October,  1796,  served 
for  one  term  in  the  state  legislature  as  a  repre- 
sentative from  Bennington,  where  he  died  ^lay 
26,  1 81 3.  He  married  (first)  Mary,  daughter 
of  Stephen  Fay,  July  25.  1762.  who  died  in 
1801.  and  by  her  had  six  sons  of  whom  Moses, 
the  eldest  was  a  representative  in  the  state 
council  and  a  member  of  the  general  assembly 
of  Vermont,  and  Aaron,  the  second  child,  was 
town  clerk  for  seven  years,  justice  of  the 
peace  for  twenty-three  years,  representative 
in  state  legislature.  1816-17,  judge  of  probate, 
1835-36:  and  Samuel,  the  third  child,  was  clerk 
of  the  supreme  court  for  the  county,  1794- 
181 5,  and  Nathan,  another  son,  was  a  repre- 
sentative in  the  state  legislature,  a  lawyer,  and 
died  at  the  age  of  forty,  a  member  of  the 
assembly.  Moses  married  (second)  Susannah, 
widow  of  Major  .Xrtemus  Howe,  and  daughter 
of  General  Jonathan  Warner,  of  Hardwick, 
Massachusetts.  3.  Nathan,  born  about  1752, 
had  son.  John  Saniford  Robinson,  who  was 
born  in  Bennington.  November  10.  1804.  He 
was  graduated  at  Williams  College,  A.  B., 
1824,  was  a  state  legislator  in  both  houses  and 
thrice  the  Democratic  candidate  for  governor 


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of  Vermont,  and  was  once  elected.  He  was 
a  delegate  to  the  Democratic  National  conven- 
tion at  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  in  i860, 
where  he  died  April  25,  i860.  He  married 
but  had  no  children.  4.  David,  born  Novem- 
ber 22,  1754,  was  a  major-general  in  the  state 
militia;  United  States  marshal,  1810-18;  pri- 
vate at  the  battle  of  Bennington  and  resigned 
as  major-general  in  1817.  He  was  sheriff  of 
Bennington  county.  1789-1811  ;  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Stephen  I'ay,  who  bore  him  three 
sons;  Steijhen.  a  member  of  the  state  assembly. 
served  several  years  ;  judge  of  the  county  court 
and  member  of  the  council  of  censors  in  1834. 
He  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-one  years  in 
1852.  General  David  Robinson  died  in  Ben- 
nington. \ermont.  December  12,  1842.  at  the 
age  of  eighty-nine  years.  5.  Hon.  Jonathan, 
born  .\ugust  24.  1756.  was  brought  by  his 
father  to  liennington  in  1761,  where  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1796,  and  received  the 
honorary  degree  of  A.  M.  and  A.  B.  from 
Dartmouth  in  1790.  He  served  as  town  clerk 
of  Bennington  for  si.x  years;  as  member  of 
the  general  assembly  thirteen  times  before 
1802;  chief  justice  in  the  supreme  court  of 
the  state.  1801-07;  United  States  senator,  1809- 
13;  judge  of  probate  for  Bennington  county, 
1815-19;  member  of  the  general  assembly. 
1818.  and  he  died  in  I'ennington,  November 
3.  1819.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Job 
Fassett.  and  one  of  his  sons,  Jonathan  E., 
was  a  lawyer ;  town  clerk  for  nine  years ;  was 
elected  judge  of  the  county  court,  1828;  and 
died  in  1831.  .Xnother  son,  Henry,  married 
Harriet  Hayncs,  was  paymaster  in  the  United 
States  army  ;  clerk  in  the  pension  office  ;  briga- 
dier-general of  militia ;  for  ten  years  clerk  of 
the  county  and  supreme  courts.  His  son, 
Charles  Seymour,  (1829-1889)  was  a  noted 
Presbyterian  clergyman  and  author.  Jonathan 
E.  died  in  Bennington.  \'ermont.  in  1856.  and 
Jonathan,  the  father,  died  in  Bennington,  Ver- 
mont. November  3,  1819. 

(IV)  Samuel  (2).  eldest  son  of  Samuel  (i) 
and  Mercy  ("Leonard)  Robinson,  was  born  in 
Hardwick.  Massachusetts.  August  15.  1738. 
He  was  brought  up  in  Bennington.  Vermont, 
and  after  his  father  died  in  London,  England, 
in  1768,  he  was  chosen  by  the  people  of  the 
town  to  succeed  him  as  committeeman  in  the 
controversy  over  the  New  Hampshire  grants. 
He  was  a  captain  early  in  the  war  of  the  Re- 
volution and  was  in  command  of  a  Bennington 
comi)any  in  the  battle  of  licnnington  and  dur- 
ing the  war  rose  to  the  rank  of  colonel.  He 
was    the    "overseer    of    the    Tory    prisoners" 


^777'7^-  represented  the  town  in  the  general 
assembly  of  \"ermont,  1779-80.  and  was  a 
member  of  the  board  of  war.  He  was  the  first 
justice  of  the  peace  of  the  town  of  Bennington, 
ai)pc)inted  under  the  authority  of  the  new  state 
of  \ermont  in  1778,  and  a  justice  of  the  special 
court  for  the  SQUth  shire  of  the  county  and  as 
such  presided  at  the  trial  of  Redding.  "He 
was  a  generous  and  large  minded  man.  upright 
and  enterprising,  and  kindly  in  maimer  and 
of  decided  natural  ability  and  ready  courage." 
says  a  biograjiher  who  was  fully  comjjetent  to 
estimate  his  character.  He  married  Mary  Leon- 
ard and  had  a  son  Marcus  (q.  v.). 

(V)  Marcus,  son  of  Captain  Samuel  (2) 
and  Mary  (Leonard)  Robinson,  was  born  in 
HariKvick,  Massachusetts,  October  3,  1799.  He 
married,  about  1833,  Deborah  Brown,  of 
Hardwick,  Massachusetts,  and  lived  in  that 
town  where  seven  children  were  born  to  them 
as  follows:  William,  Marcus  Franklin  (q  v.), 
Melissa,  Caroline,  Susan,  Louisa,  and  one 
daughter  whose  name  is  unknown. 

(\T)  Marcus  Franklin,  second  son  of  Mar- 
ens  and  Deborah  (Brown)  Robinson,  was  born 
Hardwick,  Massachusetts,  July  2,  1834.  He 
was  educated  in  his  native  town  and  in  Pelham, 
to  which  place  his  parents  removed  during  his 
early  life.  From  this  town,  as  a  young  man, 
he  went  to  .\mherst  where  he  learned  the 
jewelry  trade  and  later  started  a  retail  jewelry 
store  at  Chicopee.  which  he  conducted  until  ill 
health  caused  him  to  return  to  his  old  home 
in  Pelham  and  recuperate.  He  again  started 
in  business,  opening  his  store  on  the  site  of 
the  present  Five  Cent  Savings  Bank.  He 
moved  his  business  several  times  until  April, 
1907.  when  it  was  installed  in  its  present  loca- 
tion, 360  Main  street.  Springfield.  Mr.  Rob- 
inson conducted  business  alone  until  1899, 
when  he  took  into  partnership  his  son,  W.  A. 
Tf.  Robinson,  and  since  then  the  firm  has  been 
known  as  Robinson  &  Son.  For  some  years 
j^rior  to  his  decease  Mr.  Robinson's  health  had 
been  so  poor  that  he  could  not  take  any  active 
l)art  in  the  concern,  which  has  been  practically 
in  the  hands  of  his  son.  Tn  early  life  he  mar- 
ried Mary  A.  Tucker,  daughter  of  Edwin 
Post  and  Mary  Rice  (Dwight) Tucker,  of 
P>elcIiertown.  F'dwin  1'.  Tucker  was  born  in 
Enfield.  Massachusetts;  he  was  a  manufac- 
turer of  straw  bonnets  and  palm  leaf  hats  in 
Belchertown,  Massachusetts,  and  afterwards 
was  a  hotel  keeper  in  New  York.  Philadeljihia, 
.Sjiringfield  and  Palmer,  Massachusetts,  at  the 
latter  place  conducting  the  Nassawanna  Hotel, 
where  he  died  January  21.  1857,  and  his  widow 


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died  January  8,  1887.  Cliildren  of  Marcus 
Franklin  and  Mary  A.  (Tucker)  Robinson 
were  born  in  Springfield,  Massacbusetts,  as 
follows:  I.  Grace  Edna,  April  5,  1867.  2. 
William  Artbur  Hawes,  December  9,  1869, 
succeeded  to  his  father's  business  as  jeweler 
in  Springfield,  1908;  married,  June  23.  1897, 
Grace,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Reilley)  Denver,  born  Sejitember  4,  1871  ; 
one  child,  William  Franklin,  born  July  5,  1898. 
In  the  death  of  Marcus  Franklin  Robinson, 
which  occurred  November  14,  1907,  of  heart 
failure,  at  his  home,  46  Byers  street,  Spring- 
field, the  jewelry  trade  of  Springfield  lost  one 
of  its  oldest,  most  prominent  and  most  re- 
spected members,  he  having  conducted  a  store 
there  for  nearly  forty  years.  His  death  was 
not  unexpected,  as  he  had  been  ill  for  five 
or  six  weeks,  and  in  fact  had  been  in  poor 
health  for  many  years.  His  widow,  a  son  and 
daughter  survive  him. 


The    surname    Bradford    is 
BR.XDFORD     derived  from  the  name  of  a 

place.  Broad  ford  or  Braden- 
ford.  There  are  two  very  ancient  towns  of 
this  name,  one  in  Wiltshire,  England,  near 
Bath,  and  one  in  Yorkshire,  near  Leeds.  Near 
the  latter  was  the  home  of  the  ancestors  of  the 
American  family.  The  family  dates  back  in 
England  doubtless  to  the  beginning  of  sur- 
names in  the  eleventh  or  twelfth  centuries. 
One  of  the  first  martyrs  burned  at  the  stake 
during  the  reign  of  EJloody  Mary  was  John 
Bradford.  Prebend  of  St.  Paul  and  a  cele- 
brated ])reacher.  He  was  born  in  Alanchester, 
Lancasliire,  1510,  and  was  executed  July  i, 
1555.  He  was  a  friend  of  Rogers,  Hooper, 
Saunders,  Latimer,  Cranmer  and  Ridley,  who 
also  died  at  the  stake  about  the  same  time. 
The  Bradford  coat-of-arms  is:  .\rgcnt  on  a 
fesse  sable  three  stags'  heads  erased  or.  Right 
Reverend  Father  in  God,  Samuel  Bradford, 
Lord  Bishop  of  Rochester  and  Dean  of  West- 
minster, bore  these  arms  as  well  as  those  of 
his  E])isco])al  See.  The  ancestry  of  Governor 
William  Bradford  has  not  been  traced  beyond 
his  grandfather,  mentioned  below,  though  it 
is  known  that  the  family  is  ancient. 

(I)  William  Bradford,  grandfather  of  Gov- 
ernor William  Bradford,  lived  at  Austerfield 
(Osterfcldt'),  county  Nottingham.  England, 
and  in  1375  he  and  John  Hanson  were  the  only 
subsidiaries  located  there.  Bradford  was  taxed 
twenty  shillings  on  land:  Hanson  the  same 
amount  on  goods.  His  grandson  William  (gov- 
ernor) lived  with  him  after  the  death  of  Will- 


iam, his  son.  The  date  of  his  burial  at  Auster- 
field was  January  10,  1595-96.  Children:  i. 
William,  mentioned  below.  2.  Thomas,  had 
a  daughter  Margaret,  baptized  March  9,  1578, 
at  .\usterfield.  3.  Robert, baptized  at  Austerfield, 
June  25,  1561,  married.  January  31,  1585,  Alice 
Waingate :  with  him  Governor  Bradford  lived 
after  his  grandfather  died;  in  1598  Robert 
was  the  only  sudsidiar}-  at  Austerfield ;  his 
will  was  dated  April  15,  1609,  and  he  was 
buried  April  23  following ;  children  :  Robert,^ 
Mary.  Elizabeth  and  Margaret.  4.  Elizabeth, 
ba])tized  July   16,   1570,  married,  January  20, 

I5f^5.  ■ 

(U)  William  (2),  son  of  William  ( 1) 
Bradford,  was  born  at  Austerfield.  probably 
about  1560.  and  died  when  yet  a  young  man, 
July  15,  1591.  He  married  Alice  Hanson. 
Children,  born  at  Austerfield:  i.  l\Iargaret, 
baptized  March  8.  1585.  died  young.  2.  Alice, 
baptized  October  30,  1587.  3.  Governor  Will- 
iam, baptized  March  19.  1390.  mentioned 
below. 

(HI)  Governor  William  (3),  son  of  Will- 
iam (21  Bradford,  was  born  in  England  and 
baptized  at  Austerfield  (Osterfeldt),  Alarch 
19,  1590.  After  his  father's  death  he  lived  at 
first  with  his  grandfather:  but  on  his  death 
in  1596.  William  went  to  live  with  his  uncle, 
Robert  Bradford,  who  lived  in  Scrooby,  five 
miles  from  Osterfeldt,  near  the  estate  of  the 
Brewsters.  in  county  Nottingham.  He  joined 
the  church  where  Rev.  Richard  Clifton  and 
Rev.  John  Robinson  preached,  and  soon  be- 
came one  of  the  leading  "separatists."  His 
early  educational  advantages  were  limited,  but 
bv  diligent  study  he  became  very  proficient  in 
Dutch.  Latin,  French  and  Greek,  and  also  de- 
voted himself  to  the  study  of  Hebrew  that  he 
might  read  the  Bible  in  its  original  form.  He 
went  with  the  company  which  migrated  to 
Holland,  and  was  a  most  influential  power 
among  them.  On  his  coming  of  age  he  re- 
ceived considerable  property  from  his  father's 
estate,  but  did  not  succeed  him  in  his  com- 
mercial undertakings.  He  learned  the  art  of 
"fustian  or  frieze  weaving."  On  November 
15.  1613.  he  was  affianced  to  Dorothea  May, 
from  Wisbeach.  Cambridge.  England.  The 
banns  were  published  in  Leyden,  and  they 
were  married  in  .Amsterdam.  Holland.  Decem- 
ber 9.  1613.  His  age  is  given  as  twenty-three. 
hers  as  sixteen.  They  embarked  for  England. 
July  22.  1620.  and  after  many  trials  sailed 
from  Plymouth.  F.ngland.  .September  6,  1620. 
on  the  .ship  "Mayflower."  reaching  Cape  Cod 
harbor  the  November  following.     While  they 


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were  at  anchor,  and  he  was  absent  from  the 
vessel,  Dorothea  fell  overboard  and  was 
drowned.  December  9,  1620.  Soon  after  the 
death  of  Governor  Carver,  William  Bradford 
was  elected  governor  of  the  colony,  which  he 
held  by  annual  election  until  his  death,  with 
the  exception  of  the  years  1633-34-36-38-44. 
He  took  a  prominent  part  in  all  the  councils, 
which  were  held  at  his  house,  and  in  all  civic, 
political  and  military  affairs.  From  his  house 
at  the  foot  of  lUirial  I  lill  each  Sunday  morning 
the  company  of  people  who  assembled  there 
marched  up  to  the  fort  at  its  top,  where  relig- 
ious services  were  held.  The  history  of  the 
times  which  he  left  gives  a  correct  and  valuable 
picture  of  the  events  of  that  time.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Mrs.  Alice  (Carpenter)  South- 
worth,  widow  of  Edward  Southworth,  and 
daughter  of  .Mexander  Carpenter,  of  Wrent- 
ham,  England.  She  died  March  26.  1670,  and 
he  died  May  9,  1657.  Child  of  first  wife:  i. 
John,  of  Duxbury,  1645,  married  Martha 
Bourne:  died  in  Norwich,  Connecticut,  1678, 
s.  p.  Children  of  second  wife:  2.  William, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Mercy,  married  Benja- 
min or  Joseph  \'ermages.  4.  Josei:)h,  born 
1630,  married.  May  25.  1664.  jael  Hobart : 
died  July  10,  1715. 

(IV)  Major  William  (4),  son  of  Governor 
William  (3)  Bradford,  was  born  June  16, 
1624,  in  Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  died  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1703.  He  removed  to  Kingston, 
^lassachusetts.  He  was  assistant  deputy  gov- 
ernor and  was  one  of  Governor  Andros's 
council  in  1687.  He  was  the  chief  military 
officer  of  Plymouth  colony.  His  will  is  dated 
January  29,  1703.  He  married  (first)  .Alice 
Richards,  who  died  at  Plymouth,  December 
12,  1 67 1,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  W'ealtyan 
Richards,  of  Weymouth,  Massachusetts.  He 
married  (second)  the  Widow  Wiswell ;  (third) 
Mrs.  Mary  Holmes,  who  died  June  6.  1714-15, 
widow  of  Rev.  John  Holmes,  of  Duxbury, 
and  daughter  of  John  ."Xtwood,  of  Plymouth. 
Children:  i.  John,  born  P^bruary  20.  1653, 
mentioned  below.  2.  William.  March  11, 
1655,  died  1687:  married  Rebecca  P>artlett.  3. 
Thomas,  of  Norwich.  4.  Samuel.  1668,  died 
April  II,  1714:  married  Hannah  Rogers.  5. 
Alice,  married  Major  James  Fitch.  6.  Hannah, 
married,   November  28,   1683,  Joshua  Ripley. 

7.  Mercy,  married  Steel.     8.  Melatiah, 

married  John  Steel.  9.  Mary.  10.  Sarah, 
married  Kenelm  Baker.  Child  of  second  wife: 
II.  Joseph,  of  Norwich.  By  third  wife:  12. 
Israel,    married    Sarah    Bartlett.      13.    David, 


married,  1714,  Elizabeth  Pinney ;  died  1730. 
14.  E]ihraim.     15.  Hezekiah. 

(\')  Major  John,  son  of  Major  William 
(4)  I'.radford,  was  born  February  20,  1653, 
died  December  8,  1736.  He  resided  in  Kings- 
ton a  few  rods  from  the  landing.  He  was 
the  first  deputy  to  the  general  court  of  Mass- 
achusetts from  I'lymouth,  going  in  1689  and 
1 69 1.  He  married  Mercy  Warren,  who  died 
March,  1747,  aged  ninety-four,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Priscilla  (Faunce)  Warren,  and 
granddaughter  of  Richard  Warren  who  came 
in  the  "Mayflower."  They  lived  together 
si.xty-two /ears.  Children:  i.  John,  born  De- 
cember 25,  1675,  married  Rebecca  Bartlett. 
2.  Alice,  January  28,  1677,  married,  August 
26,  1708,  Edward  Mitchell:  (second)  Joshua 
Hersey,  of  Hingham.  3.  .Abigail,  December 
10,  1779,  married  Gideon  Sampson.  4.  Mercy, 
December  20,  1681,  married  (first)  Jonathan 
Freeman,  of  Hardwick ;  (second)  Lieutenant 
Isaac  Cushman  Jr.  5.  Lieutenant  Samuel,  De- 
cember 23,  1683,  mentioned  below.  6.  Pris- 
cilla, March  10,  1686,  married  Seth  Chipman. 
7.  ^\'illiam,  .April  15,  1688,  married  Hannah 
I'oster. 

(AT)  Samuel,  son  of  Major  John  Bradford, 
was  born  December  23,  1683,  died  March  26, 
1740.  He  lived  in  Plymouth  and  married, 
October  21.  17 14,  Sarah  Gray,  daughter  of 
Edward  Gray,  and  granddaughter  of  Edward 
Gray,  of  Plymouth.  She  married  (second) 
W'ifliam  Hunt,  of  Martha's  A'ineyard,  and 
died  there  in  fX-tober,  1770.  Children:  i. 
John,  born  April  8,  1717,  married  Elizabeth 
Holmes.  2.  Gideon,  October  27,  1718.  men- 
tioned below.  3.  William,  December  16,  1720, 
died  February  15,  1725.  4.  Mary,  October  16, 
1722,  married  Abiel  Cook.  5.  Sarah,  April 
4,  1725,  married  November  15,  1742,  Ephraim 
Paddo'ck.  6.  Dr.  William,  November  4,  1728, 
married  Mary  LeBaron.     7.  Mercy,  .April  12, 

1731,  died  June  3,  1731.     8.  .Abigail,  June  12. 

1732,  died  young.  9.  Phebe,  March  30,  1735, 
married  .Shubael  Norton,  of  Martha's  Vine- 
yard. 10.  Samuel,  .April  13.  1740,  married 
Lydia  Pease. 

(\TI)  Gideon,  son  of  Samuel  Bradford, 
was  born  October  27,  17 18,  died  in  1793.  He 
lived  in  Plympton  and  married,  in  1741,  Jane 
Paddock,  daughter  of  Tchabod  and  Joanna 
(Faunce)  Paddock.  Children:  i.  Levi,  born 
1743,  married  Elizabeth  Lewis.  2.  Joseph, 
1745,  married  Susanna  Weeks.  3.  Sarah, 
1748,  married  Freeman  Ellis.  4.  Samuel,  1750, 
married  (first)  .Susannah  \''aughan  ;  (scconfl) 


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Sarah  ]'"uller.  5.  Gideon,  1752,  mentioned  be- 
low. 6.  Calvin,  1754,  married  Lucy  Pratt.  7. 
Jenny,  1756,  married  Noah  Bisbee. 

(\TII)  Gideon  (2),  son  of  Gideon  (i) 
Bradford,  was  born  in  1752,  died  in  April, 
1805.  He  served  in  the  revolution  in  Captain 
Thomas  Loring's  company  and  answered  the 
Lexington  alarm,  April  19,  1775 ;  also  in  Cap- 
tain Joseph  Stetson's  company.  Colonel  Dyke's 
regiment,  at  Dorchester  Heights;  and  was  a 
drummer  in  Cajitain  James  Harlow's  company 
under  Lieutenant  Elijah  Bisbee  Jr.,  Colonel 
Thomas  Latlirop,  and  General  Joseph  Gush- 
ing, and  marched  to  Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  in 
1777.  He  married  Abigail  Sampson,  daughter 
of  Zabdiel  and  Abiah  (Whitmarsh)  Sampson. 
Children:  i.  Zabdiel,  born  January,  1779, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Gideon.  3.  Abram.  4. 
Abigail.  S-  Isaac.  6.  Elizabeth.  7.  Cynthia. 
8.  Sampson.     9.  William. 

(IX)  Zabdiel,  son  of  Gideon  (2)  Bradford, 
was  born  in  January,  1779,  died  in  May,  1843. 
He  married  Mary  Standish  (see  Standish 
\T).  Children:  i.  Mary,  married  Thomas 
Fish,  of  Pembroke.  2.  Zabdiel,  married  Ann 
Harris,  of  Yarmouth,  Maine.  3.  Shadrach 
Standish,  May  24,  1812,  mentioned  below.  4. 
Martha,  married  Rev.  Francis  Smith,  of  South 
Reading. 

(X)  Shadrach  Standish,  son  of  Zabdiel 
Bradford,  was  born  May  24,  1812,  died  August 
24,  1875.  He  married,  November  2,  1841, 
Dorcas  Brown  Lockwood,  born  February  10, 
1821,  died  July  13,  1872  (see  Lockwood 
family).  Children:  i.  Edward  Standish, born 
December  i,  1842,  mentioned  below.  2.  Alice 
Lockwood,  June  4,  1844,  died  September  8, 
1881.  3.  Mary  Standi.sh,  December  18,  1853. 
4.  Moses  Brown  Lockwood,  February  13, 1856. 

(Xn  Edward  Standish,  son  of  Shadrach 
Standish  Bradford,  was  born  in  North  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island,  December  i,  1842.  He 
prepared  for  college  at  the  University  granimar 
school.  Providence,  but  ill  health  prevented 
him  from  entering  Brown  University.  A  year 
and  a  half  was  spent  in  foreign  travel  but  his 
physical  condition  was  still  so  unsatisfactory 
that  he  was  reluctantly  forced  to  give  up  his 
ambition  for  a  college  education.  He  entered 
the  office  of  Bradford  &  Taft,  manufacturers 
of  woolen  goods.  Providence,  of  which  his 
father  was  the  senior  member,  the  junior  mem- 
ber being  Royal  Chapin  Taft,  afterward  gov- 
ernor of  Rhode  Island.  In  1870  he  accepted 
the  position  of  manager  of  Samuel  Slater  & 
Sons  large  interests  in  Webster,  employing 
from  two  to  three   thousand   operatives,   and 


his  good  business  training  had  equipped  him 
well  for  this  position.  In  1878  he  was  appoint- 
ed treasurer  of  the  Hampden  Cotton  mills  at 
I  lolyoke,  and  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Spring- 
field, where  he  has  made  his  home  since.  In 
1885  he  retired  from  active  business,  though 
he  still  retains  the  office  of  director  of  the 
Chapin  National  Bank,  which  he  has  held  for 
many  years.  His  public  career  has  been  long 
and  useful.  He  was  chairman  of  the  board 
of  selectmen  and  overseers  of  the  poor  in 
W^ebster.  and  after  he  went  to  Springfield  he 
continued  to  take  an  active  interest  in  politics. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  common  council  in 
1886-87-88.  During  this  time  his  ability  was 
recognized,  and  he  was  elected  to  the  office 
of  mayor,  which  he  held  in  1889-90-91.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  house  of  representatives 
in  1894  and  served  on  the  committee  on  cities 
and  on  election  laws.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  state  senate  in  1895-96-97.  and  was  chair- 
man of  the  committee  on  cities,  ways  and 
means,  bills  in  third  reading,  expenditures, 
treasury,  towns,  woman's  sufTrage,  and  rules. 
In  1899  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  W'ol- 
cott  to  the  state  board  of  insanity.  He  served 
as  state  treasurer  and  receiver  general  in  1900- 
01-02-03-04  (constitutional  limit)  and  render- 
ed very  efficient  service  during  those  years. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  RepubUcan  city  com- 
mittee in  1896  and  was  on  the  board  of  park 
commissioners  for  many  years.  Mr.  Bradford 
is  ex-president  of  the  Winthrop  Club  of  Spring- 
field :  of  the  L'nion  Relief  .\ssociation  and  of 
the  Nayasset  Club,  of  which  he  was  the  first 
president.  He  is  ex-manager  and  director  of 
the  Hampden  Musical  Association,  director  of 
the  Connecticut  Valley  Historical  .Association, 
and  was  chairman  of  the  finance  committee 
of  the  Urst  Iiaptist  Society.  He  married, 
April  28,  1868,  ^lary  Slater,  born  February 
17,  1846,  daughter  of  Horatio  Nelson  and 
Sarah  (Tiffany)  Slater,  of  Providence,  and 
granddaughter  of  Samuel  Slater,  the  pioneer 
cotton  manufacturer  of  America.  Children: 
I.  Horatio  Nelson,  born  February  8.  1869, 
married  Rose  Baker,  daughter  of  Henry 
Kingsley  Baker,  of  Springfield :  is  at  the  head 
of  the  Boston  house  of  Samuel  Slater  &  Sons, 
manufacturers,  of  Webster:  child,  Horatio 
Nelson  Slater,  born  Sciitember  19.  1901.  2. 
I-"dward  Standish.  February  10,  1870.  treas- 
urer antl  manager  of  the  .Springfield  Machine 
Screw  Company:  married.  May  16.  1891, 
Sydney  Howe,  daughter  of  James  Henry  and 
Elizabeth  (Slater) "Howe,  of  Webster;  chil- 
dren:    i.  Elizabeth  Howe,  born  May  3.  1892; 


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ii.  .Mary  Slater,  January  jij,  1894;  iii.  l-jlward 
Staiidish,  December  27,  1895  ;  iv.  James  Henry 
Howe,  August  9,  1897;  V.  William,  March  30, 
1899.  3.  Sarah  TitTaiiy.  December  i,  1872, 
died  voung.  4.  Dorcas  Lockwocxl,  May  19, 
1874.' 

(The    Lockwood    Liiif). 

The  surname  Lockwood  is  of  very  ancient 
origin  and  is  mentioned  in  the  Domesday  Book. 
It  is  a  place  name,  and  the  family  has  several 
branches  in  England  in  Staffordshire,  York- 
shire, county  Essex  and  Northampton.  The 
coat-of-arms  borne  by  Rev.  Richard  Lock- 
wood,  rector  of  Dingley,  Xorthampton,  was: 
-Argent,  a  fesse  between  three  martletts  sable. 

(I)  Robert  Lockwood,  immigrant  ancestor, 
came  to  New  England  about  1630  and  settled 
in  W'atertown,  Alassachusetts.  He  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman,  March  9,  1636-37,  and  was 
the  executor  of  the  estate  of  one  Edmund 
Lockwood,  supposed  to  be  his  brother.  He 
removed  to  Eairfield,  Connecticut,  where  he 
was  recorded  as  a  settler  as  early  as  1641,  and 
died  in  1658.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  of 
that  state,  May  20,  1652.  He  was  appointed 
sergeant  at  Fairfield  in  May,  1657.  He  is 
said  to  have  lived  for  a  time  in  Norwalk,  Con- 
necticut.    He  married  Susannah  ,  who 

married  (second  )  Jcft'rey  Ferris,  and  died  at 
Cireenwich,  December  23,  1660.  Children:  i. 
Jonathan,  born  September  10,  1634.  2.  Deb- 
orah, October  12,  .1636.  3.  Joseph,  August 
6.  1638.  4.  Daniel,  March  21,  1640.  5.  Eph- 
raim.  December  i,  1641.  6.  Gershom,  Septem- 
ber 6.  1643,  mentioned  below.  7.  John.  8. 
-Abigail,  married  John  Barlow,  of  Fairfield. 
9.  Sarah.  10.  Mary,  married  Jonathan  Hcusted. 

(II)  Lieutenant  Gershom,  son  of  Sergeant 
Robert  Lockwood,  was  born  September  6, 
1643,  at  \\'atertown,  died  March  12,  1718-19, 
in  Greenwich,  Connecticut.  He  removed  to 
Greenwich  w-ith  his  father  at  the  age  of  nine. 
He  became  one  of  the  tw'cnty-seven  proprietors 
of  Greenwich.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade, 
and  held  many  ])ositions  of  trust  in  the  town. 
His  will  was  dated  November  22,  1692.  The 
plain  blue  slate  stone  which  marks  his  grave 
is  w^ell  preserved.  He  married  Lady  Ann  Mill- 
ington.  from  England,  daughter  of  Lord  Mill- 
ington.  She  came  to  New  England  in  search 
of  her  lover,  a  British  army  officer.  Failing 
to  find  him,  she  taught  school,  and  afterwards 
married  (jershom  Lockwood.  In  1660  her 
parents  sent  her  a  large  oak  chest,  ingeniously 
carved  and  strongly  built.  Tradition  says  it 
contained  a  half  bushel  of  Guineas,  many  fine 
silk  dresses  etc.  The  chest  was  at  last  accounts 


owned  by  Sanuiel  I'Vrris,  of  Greenwich,  who 
married  -Ann  Lockwood,  Ann  (Millington) 
Lockwood's  grandmother.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Elizabeth  Townsend,  daughter  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Montgomery)  Townsend,  and 
widow  of  Gideon  Wright.  Children,  all  by 
first  wife:  I.  Gershom.  2.  William,  died 
young.  3.  Joseph.  4.  Elizabeth,  married  John 
Bates.  4.  Hannah,  born  1667,  married  (first) 
John  Burwell ;  (second)  Thomas  Hanford.  5. 
Sarah  (twin),  born  1669,  received  by  will 
from  her  father  "a  certain  negro  girl  being 
now  in  my  possession."  6.  Abraham  (twin), 
born   1669,  mentioned  below. 

( III)  .Abraham,  son  of  Lieutenant  Gershom 
Lockwood,  was  born  in  1669,  died  in  June, 
1747.  He  removed  to  Old  Warwick,  Rhode 
Island,  and  lived  there  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  married  Sarah  Wescott,  born  1673, 
daughter  of  -Amos  and  Deborah  (Stafford) 
Wescott.  Children:  i.  Deborah,  married,  No- 
vember 29,  1725,  Nathaniel  Cole.  2.  Amos, 
mentionecl  below.  3.  .Adam,  married,  Decem- 
ber 24,  1734,  Sarah  Straight.  4.  Sarah,  mar- 
ried, June  16,  1728,  Abel  Potter.  5.  Abraham, 
married  Mary . 

(  I\')  Captain  Amos,  son  of  .Abraham  Lock- 
wood,  was  born  about  1693  in  Warwick,  Rhode 
Island,  died  March  11,  1772.  He  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman,  -April  30,  1723,  and  went 
as  deputy  to  the  general  court.  May  i,  1749. 
He  married,  December  23,  1725,  Sarah  Utter, 
born  -August  i,  1707,  died  January  4,  1780, 
daughter  of  William  and  Anne  (.Stone)  Utter, 
of  Warwick.     Children:     i.  Amos,  born  April 

25,  1727,  married  Mary  Knight.  2.  Sarah, 
Jaiuiary  26,  1728-29,  married  Siom  Arnold. 
3.  -'\nn,  December  28,  1730,  married  Joseph 
-Arnold.  4.  Benoni,  November  26,  1733,  men- 
tioned below.  5.  -Alice,  October  10,  1735,  mar- 
ried John  Healy.  6.  Marcy,  November  26, 
1737,  married  .Ste])hen  fireenc.  7.  Waitc, 
.September  2,  1742,  married  William  Greene. 
8.  Phebe,  June  20,  1744.  9.  Barbara,  .A.pril  24, 
1747.  10.  -Abraham,  December  26,  1748,  mar- 
ried Patience  Greene.     11.  Millicent,  -April  25, 

(V)  Captain  Benoni,  son  of  Captain  -Amos 
Lockwood,  was  born  in  Warwick,  November 

26,  1733,  died  February  19,  1781.  He  lived 
in  Cranston,  Rhode  Island.  He  married,  April 
5.  1772,  Phebe  Waterman,  born  -April  ri,  1748, 
died  October  19.  i8o8,  daughter  of  Resolved 
and  Sarah  (Carr)  Waterman.  She  married 
(.second)  Moses  Brown.  Children:  i.  Sarah, 
born  April  24,  1773,  married  Bates  Harris.  2. 
.Avis,  December  7,  1774.     3.  Benoni,  April  2, 


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1777,  mentioned  below.     4.  Phebe,  December 

9.  1778. 

(VI)  Captain  Benoni  (2),  son  of  Captain 
Benoni  ( i )  Lock  wood,  was  born  April  2,  1777, 
in  Cranston,  Rhode  Island,  died  April  26,  1852. 
In  his  early  years  he  was  a  sea  captain,  and 
later  a  civil  engineer.  He  married,  April  29, 
1798,  Phebe  Greene,  born  January  20,  1781, 
died  April  30,  1837,  daughter  of  Rhodes  and 
Phebe  (Vaughan)  Greene.  Children:  i.  Rhodes 
Greene,  died  young.  2.  Phebe  Greene.  3. 
Sarah.  4.  Mary.  5.  Benoni,  born  April  26, 
1805,  married  Amelia  Cooley.  6.  Rhodes 
Greene,  married  Sally  M.  Davidson.  7.  Avis 
Waterman,  married  Rhodes  B.  Chapman.  8. 
Amos  De  Forest,  born  October  30,  181 1,  mar- 
ried Sarah  F.  Deming.  9.  Anna  Tucker,  Octo- 
ber 13,  1813,  married  James  Dennis.  10. 
Moses  Brown.     11.  Dorcas  Brown,  February 

10,  1821,  died  July  13,  1872;  married,  No- 
vember 2,  1841,  Shadrach  Standish  Bradford 
(see    liradford.). 

(The    Standi.sh    Line). 

The  surname  Standish  is  derived  from  an 
ancient  parish  of  Lancashire,  England,  still 
known  as  Standish,  the  seat  of  the  family  for 
many  centuries.  The  earliest  recorded  ances- 
tor was  Thurstan  Standish  or  de  Standish  of 
the  reign  of  Henry  III.  He  inherited  lands 
from  his  mother,  Margaret  de  Standish,  daugh- 
ter and  co-heiress  of  Robert  de  Ilulton.  The 
Standish  family  of  Duxbury,  county  Lancaster, 
was  descended  from  Hugh  de  Standish  through 
his  son  Ralph  and  grandson  Hugh,  who  was 
living  in  the  reign  of  Edward  I.  The  coat-of- 
arms  of  tlie  Lancashire  families:  Azure  three 
standing  dishes  two  and  one  argent.  Crest : 
A  cock  argent  combed  and  wattled  g'ules. 
Another  and  perhaps  even  older  coat-of-arms 
is  also  given  in  Burke's  Armory:  Argent  a 
saltire  within  a  bordure  gules.  To  this  Lanca- 
shire family  Mylcs  Standish,  the  immigrant, 
doubtless  belonged  though  his  ancestry  in  Eng- 
land has  not  been  definitely  traced. 

(I)  Captain  Myles  .Standish,  who  came  in 
the  "Mayflower"  in  1620,  with  his  wife  Rose, 
was  born  in  England  about  1586.  He  settled 
first  in  Plymouth,  but  soon  removed  among 
the  early  settlers  of  Duxbury  across  the  bay 
from  Plymouth,  and  the  hill  rising  abruptly 
from  the  waters  of  Plymouth  bay,  upon  whicli 
he  built  his  house  and  lived  the  remainder  of 
his  life,  has  been  called  Captain's  Hill  to  this 
day.  He  signed  the  compact  and  became  one 
of  the  leading  men  of  the  colony.  In  Febru- 
ary,   1621,  at  a  general   meeting  to  establish 


military  arrangements,  he  was  chosen  captain 
and  vested  with  the  command.  He  conducted 
all  the  early  expeditions  against  the  Indians 
and  continued  in  the  military  service  of  the 
colony  his  whole  life.  He  commanded  the 
Plymouth  troops  which  marched  against  the 
Narragansetts  in  1645,  and  when  hostilities 
with  the  Dutch  were  apprehended  in  1653,  he 
was  one  of  the  council  of  war  of  Plymouth, 
and  was  appointed  to  command  troops  which 
the  council  determined  to  raise.  He  was  also 
prominent  in  the  civil  affairs  of  the  colony; 
was  for  many  years  assistant,  or  one  of  the 
governor's  council^  and  when  in  1626  it  became 
necessary  to  send  a  representative  to  England 
to  represent  the  colonists  in  the  business 
arrangements  with  the  merchant  adventurers, 
he  was  selected.  He  was  a  commissioner  of 
the  LTnited  Colonies  and  a  partner  in  the  trad- 
ing company.  He  married  (first)  Rose , 

who  came  with  him,  and  died  January  29, 
1620-21.       He     married     (second)      Barbara 

,  before  1627,  when  she  and  his  children, 

Alexander,  Charles  and  John,  had  shares  of 
cattle  with  him.  His  will  dated  March  7, 
1655,  was  proved  ]\Iay,  1657.  He  desired  to 
be  buried  near  his  deceased  daughter  Lora  and 
daughter-in-law  Mary.  He  be<iueathed  to  his 
wife  Barbara;  eldest  son  Alexander;  sons 
Myles,  Charles  and  Josias :  "to  Marrye  Roben- 
son  whom  I  tenderly  love  for  her  Grand  father's 
sake;"  to  servant  John  Swift  Jr.;  to  son  and 
heir-apparent  (under  the  English  law)  Alex- 
ander, lands  in  Ormsticke  Borsconge,  \Vright- 
ington,  Alaralsley,  W'oodburrow,  Crawston 
and  the  Isle  of  Man,  which  were  detained 
from  him;  his  great-grandfather  being  a 
younger  brother  from  the  house  of  .Standish. 
He  died  October  3.  1656.  An  imposing  monu- 
ment has  been  erected  on  Captain's  Hill,  Dux- 
bury. Captain  Standish  is  one  of  the  Pil- 
grims known  to  every  generation  since  and  to 
the  whole  world  ])artly  because  of  his  military 
prominence,  the  first  in  New  England,  and 
partly,  esijccially  in  the  present  generation, 
from  the  poem  of  Longfellow.  "The  Courtship 
of  Myles  Standish."  Children  :  I.  .Mexander. 
mentioned  below.  2.  Charles,  living  in  1627. 
3.  John,  living  in  1627.  4.  Myles,  settled  in 
P>o.ston,  died  April  5.  1633 :  married  Sarah 
Winslow,  daughter  of  John,  July  19,  1660.  5. 
Lora.    6.  Charles. 

(in  Alexander,  son  of  Captain  Myles 
Standish.  married  (first)  Sarah  .\ldcn.  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Priscilla  (Mullins)  .Mden.  He 
married  (second)  Desire  (Doty)  Sherman. 
daughter  of  Edward  Dotv.  and  widow  first  of 


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Israel  Holmes  and  second  of  William  Sher- 
man. He  was  admitted  to  the  freedom  of  the 
colony  in  1648;  was  third  town  clerk  of  Dux- 
bury  from  1695  to  1700.  He  died  in  Duxbury 
in  1702;  his  widow  Desire  in  1723.  His  will 
was  dated  July  5,  1702,  and  proved  August  10, 
1702.  He  bequeathed  to  his  eldest  son  Mylcs 
his  dwelling  house  and  homestead  at  Duxbury ; 
mentions  also  children  Thomas  Ichabod,  and 
Desire  Standish.  Lorah  Sampson,  Alcrcy  Samp- 
son, Elizabeth  Delano,  Sarah  Soule,  Ebenezer. 
The  estate  in  England  to  which  his  father 
referred  in  his  will  he  devised  also,  stating 
that  he  had  committed  it  into  "ye  hands  of 
Robert  Orchard  to  recover  in  England  by 
letters  of  Attorney  from  under  my  hand  and 
seal ;  and  John  Rogers  of  Boston  in  New  Eng- 
land by  a  letter  of  Attorney  from  under  my 
hand  &  seal."  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Myles, 
married  Experience  Sherman  (or  Holmes), 
died  September  15,  1739.  2.  Ebenezer,  born 
1672,  mentioned  below.  3.  Lorah,  married 
Abraham  Sampson,  of  Duxbury.  4.  Lydia, 
married  Isaac  Sampson,  of  Plympton.  5. 
Mercy,  married  Caleb  Sampson,  of  Duxbury. 
6.  Sarah,  married  Benjamin  Soule,  of  Plymp- 
ton. 7.  Elizabeth,  married  Samuel  Delano,  of 
Duxbury.  Children  of  second  wife:  8. 
Thomas,  born  1687,  married  Mary  Carver.  9. 
Desire,  1689,  married  Nathan  Weston.  10. 
Ichabod,  married  Phebe  Ring  (or  Pring).  11. 
David,  killed  in  Duxbury,  by  the  fall  of  a  tree. 

(III)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Alexander  Standish, 
was  born  in  1672,  died  March  19,  1755.  He 
lived  in  Plympton.  He  married  Hannah 
Sturtevant,  who  died  January  23,  1759,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Sturtevant.  Children:  i.  Zach- 
ariah,  born  October  12,  1698,  mentioned  below. 

2.  Lieutenant  Moses,  August  30,  1701,  mar- 
ried, 1723,  Rachel  Cobb;  died  April  24,  1769, 

3.  Hannah,  March  6,  1704,  married  Seth 
Staples.  4.  Zerviah,  January  8,  1707,  married 
Andrew  Ring,  5.  Sarah,  November  9,  1709, 
married  Jabez  Newland.  •  6.  Ebenezer  (per- 
haps oldest  child).  7.  Mercy,  October  17, 
1710  or  1716,  married  (first)  Ebenezer  Lob- 
dell;  (second)  Benjamin  Weston;  she  died 
1794. 

(IV)  Zachariah,  son  of  Ebenezer  Standish, 
was  born  October  12,  1698,  died  March  or 
May  30,  1780,  in  Plympton.  He  married  Abi- 
gail Whitman,  who  died  August  3,  1778.  aged 
seventy-four,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Whitman, 
of  Brdgewater.  Children:  i.  Ebenezer,  born 
October  16,  1721,  mentioned  below.  2.  Han- 
nah, December  5,  1723,  married  Elkanah  Cush- 
man.  3.  Sarah,  August  5,  1729,  married  Josiah 


Cushman  Jr.  4.  Abigail,  December  16,  1731, 
married,  1752,  Samuel  Wright  Jr.  5.  Peleg, 
January  i,  1734,  died  August  17,  1758.  6. 
Zachariah,  May  30,  1739,  married  (first)  Re- 
becca Pool;  (second)  Olive  Pool. 

(\')  Ebenezer  (2),  son  of  Zachariah  Stand- 
ish, was  born  at  Plympton,  October  16,  1721, 
died  November  28,  1747.  He  married  Avcrick, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Churchill.  Children:  i. 
Mary,  born  July  17,  1740,  died  July  26,  1740. 
2.  Ebenezer,  Alay  6,  1741,  died  January  18, 
1786,  unmarried.  3.  .\verick,  January  15,  1743, 
married  (first)  Zadock  Thomas;  (second) 
Hon.  A.  Parker.  4.  Shadrach,  May  12,  1746, 
mentioned  below. 

(\T)  Shadrach,  son  of  Ebenezer  (2)  Stand- 
ish, was  born  May  12,  1746,  died  in  1837  or 
November  29,  1851.  He  lived  in  Plympton 
antl  was  in  the  revolution,  and  marched  on 
March  21,  1777,  in  Captain  Thomas  Samp- 
son's company,  Colonel  Thomas  Lothrop's 
regiment,  Brigadier-General  Joseph  Cushing's 
brigade,  on  the  alarm  at  Rhode  Island,  and 
again  in  1781  in  the  same  company  to  Rhode 
Island,  in  Colonel  Theodore  Cotton's  regiment 
of  militia.  He  married.,  April  25,  1771,  Mary 
Churchill,  born  July  21,  1754,  died  July  25, 
1827,  daughter  of  David  (4)  Churchill,  de- 
scended from  David  (3),  William  (2),  Will- 
iam (i).  Children:  i,  Averick,  born  May  2, 
1772,  married  John  Avery  Parker,  2.  Ellis, 
1774,  married  Polly  Bradford.    3.  Jane,  1777. 

4.  .Shadrach,    1779,  married   Mehitable  Clark. 

5.  r^evi,  1779,  married  Lucy  Randall.  6.  Abi- 
gail, 1781.  7.  Mary,  1783,  married  Zabdiel 
Bradford  (see  Bradford  IX),    8,  Sarah,  1788. 


The  surname  Castle  or  Castles 
CASTLE      is  English  in  origin.     Most  of 
the  New  England  and  northern 
New  York  families  of  this  name  trace  their 
ancestry  from  the  Woodbury,  Connecticut,  set- 
tler, mentioned  below. 

(I)  Henry  Castle,  immigrant,  was  doubtless 
born  in  England.  He  settled  at  Stratfield,  on 
a  farm  lying  between  Stratford  and  Eairfield, 
Connecticut.  lie  was  one  of  the  early  settlers 
of  the  town  of  Woodbury,  Connecticut,  where 
the  family  was  ])rr)minent  for  many  genera- 
tions.    He  died  there  in   1697-9S.     Children: 

1.  Plenry,  resided  at  Woodbury;  married 
(first)  Hannah  Scjuirc;  (second)  Ruth . 

2.  Samuel.  3.  Isaac.  4.  Abigail.  5.  Mary, 
married.  May  17,  1698,  Joseph  PTurlburt  Jr. 
6.  Mercy,  baptized  with  the  five  already  men- 
tioned September,  1686.  7.  William,  baptized 
at  Woodbury,  July,  1688;  his  son  Jabez,  born 


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May,  1718,  had  a  son  Selah,  baptized  at  Wood- 
bury, February  2,  1755  (born  November  27, 
1754),  died  at  Madison  county,  New  York, 
February  18,  1817,  married,  January  28,  1756, 
Abigail  Jenkins  and  had  children,  Jabez, 
Zyl[)ha,  Abigail,  Selah,  Philo  B.,  Israel  and 
Wealthy  Castle,  some  of  whom  settled  at 
Canaan,  New  York. 

(II)  Isaac,  son  of  Henry  Castle,  was  born 
in  Connecticut,  near  or  in  Woodbury,  about 

1680.     He  married  (first)  Sarah ,  who 

died  at  Woodbury,  February,  1708.  He  mar- 
ried   (second)    Joanna  .      Children   of 

first  wife,  born  at  Woodbury:  i.  Isaac,  bap- 
tized August  9,  1707.  2.  Samuel,  also  baptized 
August  9,  1707.  3.  Sarah,  baptized  March, 
1708.  Children  of  second  wife:  4.  Daniel, 
baptized  October   13,   1717,  mentioned  below. 

5.  Israel,  born  April  18,  1722. 

(III)  Daniel,  son  of  Isaac  Castle,  was  bap- 
tized in  Woodbury,  October  13,  1717.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Woodbury:  i.  Samuel,  born 
January  3,   1740.     2.  Joanna,  baptized  March 

6,  1743.  3.  Gideon,  baptized  July  23,  1745. 
4.  Jerusha.  baptized  November  17,  1752.  5. 
Eunice,  bai)tized  January  5,  1759. 

(IV)  Gideon,  son  of  Daniel  Castle,  was 
baptized  July  23,  1745,  in  Woodbury.  He 
removed  with  others  of  the  family  to  Amenia, 
Dutchess  county,  New  York.  According  to 
the  census  of  1790  he  had  five  males  over  six- 
teen, five  under  that  age  and  six  females  in 
his  family — a  total  of  sixteen  children  living  at 
home  at  that  time.  Daniel,  Lemuel,  Samuel 
and  William  from  Woodbury  also  settled  in 
I3utchess  county,  and  were  heads  of  families 
there  in  1790.  At  this  time  Daniel,  James, 
fohn,  Selah.  and  William  Castle  or  Castles 
were  all  the  other  heads  of  families  in  New 
York  state. 

(V)  Garry,  son  or  grandson  of  Gideon 
Castle,  was  born  in  New  York,  probably  in 
Dutchess  county.  He  was  a  lawyer  and  judge. 
In  his  later  years  he  and  his  son,  DcWitt 
Clinton  Castle,  who  was  also  a  lawyer,  prac- 
ticed in  the  village  of  Central  Square,  Oswego 
county,  New  York.  He  married,  .\j)ril  i,  1831, 
Maranda  Ford.  Children  i.  DcWitt  Clinton, 
a  lawyer  in  New  York  (Oswego  county)  and 
Chicago,  where  he  died ;  left  eight  children, 
all  living.  2.  Henry  M.,  born  July  24,  1833. 
mentioned  below.  3.  Eugene  Davis,  died  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  leaving  two  children,  now 
living  in  .Seattle,  Washington ;  he  was  in  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac  under  Cieneral  McClel- 
lan.  4.  Anna  P.,  married  William  II.  Patter- 
son, of  Augusta,  Maine  ;  resides  in  Providence, 


Rhode  Island,  100  Chapin  avenue.  5.  Clarissa, 
married  Horace  Sawyer,  of  Lafayette,  Indiana, 
where  she  died,  leaving  one  daughter,  Helen 
May,  who  married  Harry  Knight.  6.  Helen 
M.,  resides  in  Seattle ;  married  S.  Merritt 
Allen,  of  Wisconsin  ;  children  :  Eugene  .\llen, 
George  Allen,  Pliny  Allen,  William  Allen, 
Lulu  Allen. 

(VI)  Henry  Munroe,  son  of  Garry  Castle, 
was  born  in  Ctica,  Central  Sfjuare,  Oswego 
county.  New  York,  July  24,  1833.  He  had  a 
common  school  education.  When  a  young 
man  he  came  to  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  found  employment  with  the  firm  of  Chapin 
&  Gould,  paper  manufacturers.  Subsequently 
he  worked  for  a  number  of  years  for  the 
Morgan  Envelope  Company  of  Springfield. 
He  embarked  in  business  on  his  own  account 
as  a  dealer  in  paper  stock  and  continued  until 
his  death  with  the  greatest  success.  He  accu- 
mulated a  substantial  competence  and  became 
one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  the  city. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Free  Masons.  He 
married,  March  29,  1857,  Mary  Augusta  Cut- 
ler, daughter  of  Joseph  and  Susan  P.  (Olm- 
stead)  Cutler,  granddaughter  of  Thomas  Cut- 
ler (see  Cutler  VHI).  His  widow  resides  at 
385  Maple  street,  Springfield.  Children:  1. 
William  Anderson,  born  at  Warren,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1858,  head  of  the  W.  A.  Castle 
Coinpany,  .Sjiringfield ;  married  Adella  Sey- 
mour; have  no  children.  2.  Flora  May,  born 
at  Lafayette,  Indiana,  in  1861,  married  Dr. 
Allis,  D.  D.  S.,  of  Springfield:  child,  Cath- 
erine Hurlburt  Allis,  born  .September  20,  1905. 
3.  George  Hewett,  born  at  Springfield  in  1864, 
married  Flora  Hill,  of  Westfield,  Massachu- 
setts :  children,  Dorothy  and  Kellogg.  4.  .Mice 
Peck,  born  at  Springfield,  died  aged  seventeen 
years.  5.  Alary  Chapin.  died  in  infancy.  6. 
Ida,  died  in  infancy.  7.  Henry  Clark,  born 
at  .Springfield,  October  11,  1875,  married  Edith 
R.  P)ullens  and  lives  in  Brookline,  Massachu- 
setts. 8.  ClifTord  DeWitt,  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  \\'.  A.  Castle  Company,  importers 
and  packers  of  Castle's  cream  olive  oil,  cremoil 
pickles  and  table  delicacies,  49  Lyman  street, 
Springfield ;  this  business  was  established  in 
1870. 

(The  Cutler  Line). 

This  is  an  occupative  surname,  like  Smith, 
Cooper.  Cariienter  and  Gardner.  The  usual 
mutations  have  occurred  in  the  spelling. 
I).inies<!ay  I'.onk  bail  il  1 .0  Coteler.  In  Scot- 
land it  was  written  Cutlar ;  in  Dutch,  De  Mes- 
makcr.  It  was  a  very  respectable  calling,  and 
required  much  skill ;  a  sword-maker  was  honor- 


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ed  above  ordinary  tradesfolk  in  tlie  warring 
times  of  old.  The  father  of  Demosthenes  was 
surnamcd  the  Cutler.  He  was  a  citizen  of 
rank  and  (|uality,  and  left  a  large  estate,  which 
we  know  Demosthenes  frittered  away ;  but  to 
this  fact  we  owe  the  greatest  orator  of  ancient 
times.  Tubal  Cain  was  also  a  cutler.  The 
origin  of  livery  companies  or  guilds  in  London, 
of  which  the  labor  unions  of  today  are  an  out- 
come, began  in  1335.  The  king  ordered  that 
all  artificers  and  mysteries  shall  each  choose 
its  own  mystery,  and,  having  chosen  it,  shall 
henceforth  choose  no  other.  To  raise  the 
estimates  of  trades,  which  were  the  main- 
spring of  the  kingdom.  King  Edward  himself 
joined  some,  and  so  did  others  of  the  nobility. 
The  Cutler  guild  was  incorporated  in  1413, 
and  Cutler's  hall  was  on  the  south  side  of 
Cloke  lane.  Each  guild  had  a  coat-of-arms. 
The  Cutler's  armor  being:  Gules,  six  daggers 
in  three  saltier  crosses  argent,  handled  and 
hiked  or,  pointing  toward  the  chief.  Sup- 
porters two  elephants,  argent.  Crest :  A  third 
castle  on  his  back  or.  Their  motto:  "To 
gain  good  faith."  Our  common  ancestor  in 
England  was  of  this  trade,  but  whom  he  was 
we  are  not  informed.  The  greatest  Cutler  in 
American  history  was  the  Rev.  Manaseh  Cut- 
ler, M.  D.,  LL.  D.,  who  founded  the  Ohio 
company,  out  of  which  was  evolved  the  magni- 
ficent state  bearing  this  name.  He  was  the 
author  of  the  ordinance  of  1787,  restricting 
the  extension  of  slavery,  and  he  labored  assidu- 
ously to  promote  education  and  religion  in  the 
great  state,  of  which  he  was  the  founder.  He 
has  been  called  ne.xt  to  Franklin  in  diplomacy 
and  varied  learning.  He  was  deeply  versed 
in  both  medicine  and  theology,  and  a  great 
naturalist.  He  served  as  chaplain  in  the  revo- 
lutionary war,  and  was  a  member  of  congress. 
( I )  James  Cutler  was  born  in  England  in 
\C)oC\  and  is  commonly  credited  to  S])rovvston, 
a  suburb  of  Norwich.  He  settled  in  W'ater- 
town,  Afassachusetts,  in  1634,  and  was  one 
of  the  original  grantees  of  land  next  to  what 
is  now  Belmont.  He  had  a  house-lot  assigned 
him  in  i'')35.  in  1636  twenty-five  acres,  and  in 
if')42  eighty-two  acres.  Tn  1645  he  was  one 
of  the  petitioners  for  Nashaway  j)lantation, 
now  \\'eston,  Massachusetts.  In  December, 
1649.  he  with  Bowman  bought  for  seventy 
pounds  two  hundred  acres  at  Cambridge  Farms, 
adjoining  Rock  Meadow,  and  near  to  Walt- 
ham.  This  same  year  he  settled  at  Cambridge 
Farms,  now  Lexington,  on  what  is  now  known 
as  Wood  street,  near  where  William  Haskell 
lived,   and  not   far   from   Bedford,     He  built 

i--l5 


the  first  house  in  Lexington,  vestiges  of  the 
cellar  still  remain.  In  October,  1682,  he  signed 
a  [)etition  to  the  general  court  to  have  Lexing- 
ton set  off  as  a  separate  parish,  and  in  1691 
he  gave  one  pound  toward  erecting  a  meeting- 
house there.  The  front  name  of  his  wife  was 
.■\nna.  She,  with  her  sister,  was  so  tantalized 
in  Old  England  for  their  Puritanism,  that  they 
resoh-ed  to  escape  to  America,  and  so  did,  un- 
attended by  parents  or  friends.  She  died  Sep- 
tember 30,  1644.  He  married  (second)  March 
9,  iri45,  Mary,  widow  of  Thomas  King,  and 
she  died  nine  years  later;  for  his  third  wife 
he  contracted  with  Phoebe,  daughter  of  John 
Page,  about  1662.  James  died  May  17,  1694, 
his  will  was  dated  November  24,  1684,  and 
l^roved  .\ugust  20,  1694.  We  thus  find  little 
bits  of  history  which  throw  some  light  on  the 
manner  of  man  our  forbare  was.  That  he  had 
a  fair  reputation  among  his  townsmen,  his  in- 
vestiture with  full  citizenship  shows,  for  only 
churchmen  were  thus  admitted.  That  he  was 
industrious  and  prudent  his  accumulation  of 
property  is  evidence.  Children  by  Anna : 
James,  sketched  below,  Hannah,  Elizabeth  and 
Mary.  Children  by  Mary :  Elizabeth,  Thomas 
and  Sarah.  Children  by  Phoebe:  Joana,  John, 
from  whom  the  Rev.  Manaseh  was  derived ; 
.Samuel,  Jemima  and   Phoebe. 

(H)  James  (2),  eldest  son  of  James  (i) 
and  Anna  Cutler,  was  born  in  Lexington,  Sep- 
tember 9,  1635,  died  there  July  31,  1681.  He 
was  a  planter,  and  resided  near  Concord  line. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  war.  His 
will  was  made  July  28,  1685.  admitted  to  pro- 
bate C)ctober  8,  1685,  his  widow  Lydia  and  son 
Benjamin  being  named  as  executors.  He  mar- 
ried Lydia,  widow  of  Samuel  Wright,  and 
daughter  of  John  Moore,  of  Sudbury.  She 
died  November  23,  1723.  Children:  James, 
Ann,  Samuel,  Joseph,  John,  Thomas,  sketched 
below :  Elizabeth  and  Isaac. 

(Ill)  Thomas,  fifth  son  of  James  (2)  and 
Lydia  (Moore)  Cutler,  was  born  in  Lexington, 
December  2,  1677,  died  in  Warren,  Massachu- 
setts, December  23,  1759.  He  was  a  constable 
in  1719,  and  selectman  in  1729-31-33-34.  He 
owned  the  covenant  on  June  6,  1703,  at  Lex- 
ingtf)!!.  and  was  dismissed  to  the  church  in 
Warren,  March  17,  1752.  He  .sold  to  Josiah 
Wood  sixty-eight  acres  in  Lancaster,  Massa- 
chusetts, for  seventy  pounds ;  November  6, 
I73'5,  lot  III  of  seventy-seven  acres  in  Narra- 
gansett  No.  2,  for  seventy  pounds,  also  in  1750 
a  lot  in  the  same  townshiji  to  Noah  .Ashley,, 
drawn  in  the  right  of  his  father  who  served' 
in   King  Philip's  war.      In    1752  he  moved  to 


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Western,  now  Warren,  Massachusetts.  His 
will  was  drawn  September  15,  1759,  and 
among  his  effects  was  a  negro  slave.  He 
married  Sarali,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Dorcas  (Jones)  Stone.  She  joined  the  church 
in  Lexington,  July  4,  1708,  and  died  January 
10,  1750.  Children:  Abigail,  David,  skx-tched 
below,  Amity,  Sarah,  Alary,  Hannah,  Thomas, 
Mellicent. 

(IV)  David,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  and 
Sarah  (Stone)  Cutler,  was  born  in  Lexington, 
died  in  Warren,  December  5,  1760,  of  small 
pox.  He  joined  the  church  April  14,  1728. 
In  the  reign  of  (icorgc  HI  he  was  surveyor 
of  townslii])s,  a  constable  in  1746,  selectman 
in  1749-50-51.  I  lis  h(jniestead  was  near  the 
ricdfiird  line.     lie  executed  a  will  Se])tember 

3,  1758,  and  among  the  be(|uests  was  that  his 
son  should  supjjly  his  wife  with  three  barrels 
of  cider  annually.  The  a])praisement  of  the 
estate  was  five  hundred  and  seventy-three 
pounds  and  fifteen  shillings.  He  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Tidd. 
He  died  May  25,  1797.  Children :  Abigail, 
David,  Jose|)h,  sketched  below,  Isaac,  Mary, 
Salmon,  Thomas,  IClizabeth  and  Amity. 

(V)  Joseph,  second  son  of  David  and  Mary 
(Tidcl)  Cutler,  was  born  in  Lexington,  March 
31,  1733,  died  at  Warren,  February  7,  1816. 
On  May  6,  1755,  he  married  Rebecca,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Esther  (Prince)  Hoar,  of 
Lincoln,  Massachusetts,  the  family  to  whom 
the  celebrated  statesman  of  that  name  belongs. 
She  was  born  in  July,  1735,  died  September 
16,  1758.  He  married  (second)  September  20, 
1759,  Mary,  daughter  of  Major  Reed,  of  War- 
ren ;  she  was  born  January  30,  1740,  died 
March  28,  1792.  He  married  (third)  Thankful 
(surname  unknown).  Children  by  Rebecca: 
Converse  and  Joseph.  IJy  Mary  he  had 
Rebecca,  Mary,  Anna,  Sally,  Lydia,  Bethia, 
Reuben  and  Nathan  (twins).  Nathan  was 
governor  of  Maine  and  appointed  judge  of  the 
court  of  common  ])leas,  which,  however,  he 
declined. 

(  \T )  Joscijh  (  2),  second  son  of  Joseph  ( i ) 
and  Rebecca  (  Hoar)  Cutler,  was  born  in  Lex- 
ington, died  in  Western,  now  Warren,  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1837.  He  was  a  husbandman,  and 
owned  real  estate  in  Warren,  and  Nelson, 
Madison  county.  New  York.  By  naming  his 
youngest  .son  after  the  Federalist,  Charles  C. 
Pinck-ncy,  Joseph  was  probably  of  that  politi- 
cal faith.  His  will  was  made  .April  26,  1830, 
his  sons  Thomas  and  Newell  were  named  as 
executors.    He  married  Lydia  I^)ascom.  ,\ugust 

4,  1785;  she  died  March  28,  1816.     Chililren : 


Frasier,  to  whom  he  gave  the  New  York  land ; 
Polly,  Thomas,  sketched  below,  Lydia,  Newell 
and  Charles  Coatsworth  Pinckney. 

(VII)  Thomas  (2),  eldest  son  of  Joseph 
(2)  and  Lydia  (Bascom)  Cutler,  was  born  in 
Warren,  November  13,  1789,  the  year  of  the 
famous  Ordinance,  of  whicli  his  namesake 
was  the  author,  and  died  there  after  1853. 
He  married.  May  6,  181 1,  Aurelia  Joslyn,  who 
died  January  3,  1813.  He  married  (second) 
Attossa  Lilly,  who  died  July  4,  1817.  He 
married  (third)  Mary  Stone.  He  married 
(fourth)  Nancy  Stone,  sister  of  Mary  Stone. 
Child  by  Aurelia:  Harriett.  Attossa  was  the 
mother  of  Joseph,  sketched  below,  Attossa  and 
Aurelia. 

(\'HI)  Jtjseijh  (3),  only  son  of  Thomas 
(2)  and  Attossa  (Lilly)  Cutler,  was  born  in 
Warren,  died  there  July  23,  1815.  He  was  a 
farmer.  He  married  Susie  P.  Olmstead. 
Children :  Mary  Augusta,  married  Henry  M. 
Castle,  (see  Castle  \T),  Thomas,  Holton  O., 
Joseph,  Fannie,  Olmstead,  .Susie,  Jennie  and 
Ida  Gertrude. 


Although  the  immigrant  ancestor 
MAYO     of  the  New  England  Mayos  came 

from  England  the  name  is 
believed  to  be  of  ancient  Irish  origin  and  was 
probably  derived  from  county  Mayo  in  the 
province  of  Connaught,  a  section  of  Ireland 
noted  for  its  anti<|uities,  chiefly  ecclesiastical. 
Some  genealogical  writers,  including  Savage, 
are  of  the  opinion  that  Mayo  and  Mayhew 
sprung  from  the  same  source  while  others 
assert  that  there  is  no  positive  evidence  to 
substantiate  this  belief.  Many  of  the  early 
American  Mayos  were  sturdy  mariners 
hailing  from  Cape  Cod. 

(I)  Rev.  John  Mayo,  a  native  of  England 
and  a  graduate  of  an  English  L'niversity, 
emigrated  to  Massachusetts  Bay  about  the 
year  1638  and  settling  in  Barnstable  was  in 
the  following  year  ordained  a  teaching  elder 
of  the  church  presided  over  by  Rev.  John 
Lothrop.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1640 
and  six  j-cars  later  removed  to  Ivistham  where 
he  became  jiastor  of  the  church.  In  1655  he 
was  called  to  the  Second  Church  in  lioston 
as  its  first  pastor,  and  was  long  associated 
with  the  famous  Dr.  Increase  Mather,  who 
succeeded  him  in  the  pastorate.  The  infirm- 
ities of  old  age  compelled  him  to  relin(|uish 
his  activities  in  1673,  and  he  died  in  Yarmouth, 
Massachusetts,  in  May,  1676.  In  1658  he 
delivered  the  aiuuial  election  sermon  in 
Boston.     The   christian    name    of    his    wife, 


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wlioni  he  married  in  England,  was  Tamosin 
or  Tanisin,  and  her  death  occurred  at  Yar- 
mouth in  1682.  Their  children,  all  born  in 
the  mother  country,  were:  i.  Hannah,  who 
became  the  wife  of  Xathaniel  Bacon,  of  Barn- 
stable, in  1642.  2.  Samuel,  became  a  mariner 
and  was  for  some  years  master  of  a  packet 
plying  between  Cape  Cod  and  Boston ;  assisted 
in  establishing  a  settlement  at  Oyster  Bay, 
Long  Island;  finally  settled  in  Boston  and  died 
there  in  1663;  he  married  Thomasine,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Lumpkin,  of  Yarmouth.  3. 
John.  4.  Xathaniel,  who  settled  in  Eastham, 
which  he  represented  in  the  general  court  in 
1660,  and  he  died  in  1662 ;  he  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Governor  Thomas  Prence  of  the 
Plymouth  Colony,  and  reared  a  large  family. 

5.  J'llizabeth,  who  married  Jose])h  Howes,  of 
Yarmouth. 

(IP)  John  (2),  second  son  and  third  child 
of  Rev.  John  (i)  Mayo,  accompanied  his 
father  to  Eastham,  but  subsequently  returned 
to  Barnstable,  as  according  to  the  records  of 
that  town  he  was  residing  there  in  1672.  He 
married  Hannah  Keycroft  or  Lecraft,  and 
was  the  father  of  nine  children  :  i.  John,  born 
December  15,  1652.  2.  William,  October  7, 
1654.  3.  James,  October  3,  1656.  4.  Samuel, 
August  2,  1658.    5.  Elisha,  November  7,  1661. 

6.  Daniel,  January  24,  1664.  7.  Nathaniel, 
April  2,  1667.  8.  Thomas,  June  24,  1670,  died 
in  infancy.    9.  Thomas. 

(HIj  Thomas,  youngest  child  of  John  (2) 
and  Hannah  Mayo,  was  born  in  Barnstable, 
July   15,    1672.      In    1695   he   was   residing  at 

Eastham.     He  married  Mary  and  his 

children  were:  i.  Mary.  2.  Mercy.  3.  Han- 
nah.   4.  Noah. 

(IV)  Noah,  son  of  Thomas  Mayo,  was  re- 
siding in  Truro  at  the  time  of  his  marriage, 
which  took  place  in  1742-43  to  Mary  Cushing, 
anfl  he  subsequently  removed  to  Provincetown. 

(V)  Noah  (2),  eldest  child  of  Noah  (i) 
and  Mary  (Cushing)  Mayo,  was  born  in  1743- 
44.  He  was  reared  in  Truro  and  in  1764  he 
married  Hope  Rich,  who  bore  him  seven  chil- 
dren:  I.  Noah,  born  in  1767,  went  to  Harps- 
well,  Maine,  but  returned  to  Cape  Cod  and 
died  in  Truro  in  1809.  2.  Nehemiah  Doane, 
1769,  married  Malatiah  Rich.  3.  Thomas, 
1772,  married  Sabra  Rich.  4.  Mary,  1774, 
became  the  wife  of  Zoheth  Smith.  5.  John. 
6.  Jane,  1784,  became  the  wife  of  Moses 
Paine.  7.  Samuel,  1787,  married  Tirzah  Wiley, 
of  Wellfleet,  in  1810. 

(VI)  Captain  John  (3),  fourth  son  and 
fifth    child   of    Noah    (2)    and    Hope    (Rich) 


Mayo,  was  horn  in  I77().  Information  at  hand, 
furnished  by  his  grandson,  states  that  his  birth- 
l)lace  was  Truro,  but  Riches  History  of  that 
town  says  that  he  was  probably  born  in  Pro- 
vincetown. At  an  early  age  he  began  to  follow 
the  sea,  and  becoming  a  master  mariner  was  a 
successful  blockade  runner  during  the  war  of 
18 1 2-1 5.  He  subse(|uently  engaged  in  farming 
in  Truro  and  died  there  at  the  age  of  about 
eighty  years.  In  1798  he  married  Hannah 
Rich,  and  she  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of 
ninety-six  years.  P>oth  were  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church.  Their  children 
were:     i.  John.     2.  Alfred.     3.  Timothy.     4. 

Amaziah.     5.  Susan,  married  Atwood, 

of  Truro.     6.  Hannah.     7.  Noah. 

(\T1)  Amaziah,  fourth  child  of  CajHain 
John  (3)  and  Hannah  (Rich)  Mayo,  was  born 
in  Truro.  June  4.  1S12.  I'Vom  the  ])ublic  schools 
of  his  native  town  he  enterecl  Wilbraham 
Academy,  and  after  concluding  his  attendance 
at  that  well-known  school  he  learned  the  car- 
penter's trade,  serving  an  ajiprenticeship  of 
four  years.  Having  acquired  considerable 
practical  experience  as  a  master  carjienter,  he 
established  himself  as  a  contractor  and  builder 
in  Springfield  in  1842,  and  possessing  the 
re(|uisite  amount  of  business  ability  he  soon 
acquired  a  high  reputation  for  competency  and 
reliability  which  served  as  an  excellent  founda- 
tion for  the  substantial  success  he  ultimately 
attained  in  his  useful  calling.  In  addition  to 
numerous  ])rivate  residences  he  constructed 
the  William  Rice  Library  building,  the  .State 
Street  Methodist  Episcojjal  Church  edifice, 
several  intblic  school  buildings,  including  the 
Springfield  high  school,  the  Women's  Re- 
formatory at  Sherborn  etc.  Many  of  the 
streets  in  ward  one  were  laid  out  according 
to  his  ])lans,  and  he  erected  numerous  houses 
in  that  section.  I  laving  acquired  j)osscssion 
of  considerable  real  estate  on  North  Chestnut 
street  he  gave  his  particidar  attention  to  its 
development  and  this  venture  i)roved  a  profit- 
able investment.  In  politics  he  acted  with  the 
Republican  party,  and  although  his  ambition 
did  not  lay  in  the  direction  of  public  office  he, 
nevertheless,  evinced  a  profound  interest  in 
the  general  welfare  of  the  city  of  his  adojjtion, 
and  his  death,  which  occurred  on  January  8, 
1892,  or  1893,  was  sincerely  deplored  by  the 
entire  community.  His  church  affiliations  were 
with  the  Methodists.  On  April  16.  1843,  Mr. 
Mayo  married  Mrs.  Hester  A.  R.  Mayo  (nee 
Nye),  widow  of  his  brother  Alfred,  who  was 
a  shipmaster  and  was  lost  at  sea.  She  was 
born  in  Chatham,  Massachusetts,  August   14, 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


1820,  daughter  of  Isaiah,  of  Sandwich,  Mass- 
achusetts, and  Keziah  (Rider)  Nye,  of  Chat- 
ham. Isaiah  Nye  was  in  his  earlier  years  en- 
gaged in  mercantile  business  in  Chatham,  and 
figured  quite  prominently  in  local  public  affairs. 
He  afterward  served  as  United  States  deputy 
collector  of  customs  and  also  register  of  deeds. 
His  death  occurred  in  May,  1835,  and  his  wife 
died  in  September  of  the  same  year.  Both 
were  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  They  were  the  parents  of  one  son 
and  six  daughters,  of  whom  Hester  A.  R. 
(Mrs.  Mayo)  is  the  only  one  living.  Beside 
a  widow  Mr.  Mayo  is  survived  by  three  sons: 
I.  Alfred  Nye,  who  is  again  referred  to.  2. 
Amaziah  Jr.,  born  in  1846,  now  engaged  in 
the  brick  business  in  Springfield ;  married 
Sarah  White,  of  Peterboro,  New  Hampshire. 
3.  Charles  Sumner,  born  in  1858,  agent  of  the 
Merrimac  Paper  Mill  at  Lawrence,  Massachu- 
setts, and  resides  in  that  city. 

(Vni)  Alfred  Nye,  eldest  son  of  Amaziah 
and  Hester  A.  R.  (Nye)  (Mayo)  Mayo,  was 
born  in  Springfield,  March  19,  1844.  Leaving 
school  in  1862,  the  second  year  of  the  civil 
war,  he  enlisted  for  service  in  that  eventful 
struggle  and  remained  in  the  army  about  one 
year.  Upon  his  return  to  Springfield  he 
accepted  a  position  with  Messrs.  Smith  and 
Dickinson,  dealers  in  paper  stocks,  and  pur- 
chasing Mr.  Smith's  interest  some  three  years 
later  he  became  a  partner  in  the  succeeding 
firm,  which  continued  in  business  about  fifteen 
years.  For  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century 
he  has  carried  on  the  paper  stock  business 
successfully  as  senior  member  of  the  firm  of 
A.  N.  Mayo  and  Campany.  Mr.  Mayo  is 
actively  interested  in  several  important  indus- 
trial enterprises,  being  president  of  the  Dexter 
I'.  Lilley  Company  of  Indian  Orchard,  of  the 
Springfield  I'.rick  Company  and  the  Standard 
Brick  Company  of  that  city  and  Boston;  treas- 
urer of  the  Merrimac  Paper  Company  of 
Lawrence ;  the  Fiske  Rubber  Company  of 
Chicojjcc  Falls,  and  the  Knox  Automobile 
Company  of  Springfield.  He  is  also  stock- 
holder in  the  Union  Trust  Company.  Spring- 
field, and  one  of  its  board  of  directors.  He  is 
quite  active  in  religious  and  benevolent  work, 
being  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  and  of  its  jiarish  committee,  and  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Wesson 
Alemorial  Hospital.  His  club  alWiations  are 
with  the  Nayasset  Club,  of  whicli  he  was  for- 
merly president,  and  the  Springfield  Country 
Club.  lie  is  a  member  of  1'..  K.  Wilcox  Post, 
Grand  .Army  of  the  Republic,  of  Springfield, 


Massachusetts.  On  December  21,  1870,  Mr. 
Mayo  married  Julia  Billings,  of  Springfield, 
daughter  of  Horace  E.  Billings,  granddaughter 
of  Solomon  Billings,  and  great-granddaughter 
of  John  and  Eunice  (Cooley)  Billings.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Mayo  have  three  children:  i.  Alice 
Billings,  born  March,  1872,  wife  of  Harry  G. 
Fiske.  2.  Ada  Frances,  May  13.  1874,  wife  of 
E.  O.  Sutton,  of  Springfield,  and  has  three 
children:  Emily  ]\Iayo,  Alfred  Mayo  and 
Owen  Mayo  Sutton.  3.  Emily  Stebbins,  Octo- 
ber, 1881,  wife  of  Rev.  William  P.  Schell,  of 
Seneca  Falls,  New  York. 


The  surname  Ireland  dates 
IRF.LAXI)  back  to  the  early  days  of  pat- 
ronymics in  England.  The 
family  in  some  unknown  way  took  its  name 
from  the  neighboring  island,  just  as  Wales, 
England,  and  other  place  names  of  this  class. 
In  its  early  form  we  find  the  names  Adam  de 
Irlonde  and  Henry  de  Irlonde.  The  ancient 
coat-of-arms :  (ndes  three  fleur  de  lis  argent 
a  chief  indented  ermine.  Crest :  A  dove  bear- 
ing an  olive  branch  vert.  The  motto  of  a 
Hertfordshire  branch  of  the  Ireland  family  is: 
Amor  et  Pax.  Thomas  Ireland,  who  settled 
in  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  in  1644,  and  Sam- 
uel Ireland,  who  settled  in  Wethersfield  about 
the  same  time,  were  probably  brothers. 

(I)  William  Ireland,  immigrant  ancestor, 
came  from  England  and  settled  first  before 
1648  in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts.  Thence 
he  removed  to  Rumney  jMarsh,  Boston.  He 
was  a  yeoman ;  admitted  freeman.  May  22, 
1650.  He  was  dismissed  from  the  church  in 
Dorchester  to  that  in  Boston,  I-'ebruary  3, 
1660-61.  He  had  a  contract  to  build  highways 
in  1654;  was  witness  with  his  son  William  in 
1681.  He  was  overseer  of  the  will  of  Elias 
Maverick  in  1684.  He  bought  the  \'ane  allot- 
ment at  what  is  now  Chelsea  in  1652.  One 
account  states  that  his  wife  .Miigail  died  in 
1 71 5'  ^gcd  seventy- four  years,  daughter  of 
Jdhn  (ireenland,  at  Maiden.  The  History  of 
Charlestown  assumes  that  Abigail  was  wife  of 
.\braham  Ireland,  because  of  the  statement  in 
the  records:  "Aliraham  Ireland's  mother-in- 
law,  a  widow,  notified  at  .Skinner's,  1721." 
This  date  is  probably  wrong.  Mother-in-law 
was  the  term  used  for  step-mother  and  as  John 
( 'ireenland  mentions  no  wife  in  his  will  we 
conclude  that  .Abigail,  second  wife,  of  Abra- 
ham Ireland's  fatlier  is  the  person  meant  in 
this  record.  William  was  a  constable  of  Dor- 
chester in  1656.  Children:  I.  Rebecca,  bap- 
tized March  10,  1649-50.    2.  Rebecca,  baptized 


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229 


October  20,  1630.  3.  Ann.  baptized  February 
13,  1652.     4.  \VilHam,  baptized  December  16, 

1655  ;  married  Elizabetb  ,  wbo  wben  a 

widow  received  a  gift  of  a  bouse  in  Boston 
from  William  (i);  children:  i.  John,  born 
September  17.  1682;  ii.  Elizabetb.  February 
24.  1687-88;  iii.  Jonathan,  January  5,  1694-95. 
5.  John,  sea  captain,  married,  July  15,  1680, 
Grace  Healy,  who  died  October  2,  1730,  aged 
seventy-seven  years,  five  months,  one  day 
(gravestone  at  Copps  Hill)  ;  children  :  i.  Mar- 
garet, born  August  15.  1681,  died  May  25, 
1685.  at  Boston;  ii.  John,  October  5,  1683; 
iii.  Abiel,  February  17,  1684,  married  Fortune 
Raddock :  iv.  (irace,  April  26.  1688,  married 
William  Sterling ;  v.  Mary,  baptized  March  8, 
1696.  died  November  24.  1721  :  vi.  Nathaniel, 
baptized  July  17,  1698;  all  baptized  at  the  Sec- 
ond Church,  Bo.ston.  6.  Abraham,  mentioned 
below. 

(II)  Abraham,  son  of  William  Ireland,  if 
the  widow  of  William,  was,  as  appears  from 
the  records  of  Chelsea,  Charlestown,  and  Mai- 
den, his  step-mother.  He  died  January  24, 
1753,  in  his  eighty-first  year.  According  to 
the  record  of  his  gravestone,  as  given  in  Wy- 
man's  Charlestown,  "God  brought  him  from  a 
distant  land,"  &c.  He  was  doubtless  a  sea- 
faring man.  What  the  epitaph  means  is  not 
clear.  His  children  or  grandchildren  who 
erected  the  stone  may  have  thought  he  was 
born  in  the  old  country,  but  the  names  in  the 
families  of  William  and  John,  the  apparent 
relationship  and  all  the  evidence  is  against  the 
idea  that  he  was  an  immigrant.     He  married 

Abigail .    He  was  taxed  in  1733-36-37- 

42  at  Charlestown.  He  bought  land  there  first 
in  1708  of  Joseph  Whittemore  and  from  time 
to  time  afterward.  He  lived  also  at  Cambridge. 
Children,  born  at  Charlestown:  i.  Margaret, 
November  25,  1700,  died  January  17,  1721  ; 
gravestone  at  Cambriflge.  2.  .Abigail,  Febru- 
ary 14,  1702-03,  married  Eben  Shed.  3.  John, 
May  25,  1705.  4.  Mary,  February  8,  1707-08, 
married  Thomas  Hutchinson.  5.  Elizabeth, 
July  18,  1710,  married  Fi)hraim  Osborn.  6. 
Abraham,  .\pril  8.  1713,  married,  April  8, 
1736,  at  Dorchester,  Ann  P.ird ;  son  Abraham 
settled  at  I.tuienbnrg,  Massachusetts.  7. 
Thomas,  .August  31,  171 5,  married,  June  4, 
1 741,  Mary  Randolph.  8.  Tamsen,  married 
Nathan  Ward.  9.  Jonathan,  September  24, 
1719,  mentioned  below.  10.  Margaret,  mar- 
ried, 1743,  Thomas  Raymond. 

(Ill)  Jonathan,  son  of  Abraham  Ireland. 
was  born  at  Charlestown,  September  24,  1719. 
He  was  living  in  Roxbury  as  early  as   1747, 


later  at  Chelsea,  where  his  grandfather  settled. 

He  married   Martha  .     He  was  taxed 

in  Charlestown,  1727-32-44-61-66.  He  died 
in  1804  and  administration  was  granted  his 
widow,  August  7,  1804.  His  estate  was  divided 
in  1806  among  his  widow  and  children,  Jona- 
than. Nathaniel,  William,  Martha,  John,  Mary, 
Sarah  and  Eleanor.  At  a  later  date,  1832,  his 
heirs  were  children  of  son  Jonathan,  deceased  ; 
Martha,  wife  of  B.  Hadley,  Charles  Wait's 
children  by  wife  Eleanor,  deceased;  Nathan 
Field's  wife  Mary:  Sally  S.  Ireland;  Mary  E., 
wife  of  Jonathan  Ireland,  deceased.  Children, 
born  in  Charlestown:  1.  Jonathan,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Nathaniel,  lived  at  Boston  and  Cam- 
bridge, blacksmith;  married,  November  18, 
1802,  at  Cambridge,  Sally  Prentice.  3.  John, 
married  Abigail  Withington,  of  Stow,  Janu- 
ary 12  (intention)  1833.  4.  Martha,  married 
r..  Hadley.  5.  William.  6.  Sarah.  7.  James, 
married,  March  2,  1802,  Joanna  Bemis.  8. 
Eleanor,  married  Samuel  Welch.  All  were 
mentioned  in  the  census  of  1789  with  Sarah 
Coolidge.  of  Cambridge,  as  of  Jonathan's 
family. 

(I\')  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
Ireland,  was  born  in  Charlestown.  He  lived 
during  his  youth  probably  on  the  ancestral 
estate  in  what  was  then  Charlestown,  now 
Somerville,  at  the  corner  of  Ireland's  range- 
way  (School  stj-eet)  and  Milk  row  (Somer- 
ville avenue).  He  settled  in  Boston  on  War- 
renton  street,  corner  of  Tremont  street,  and 
followed  his  trade  as  chaise-maker  there.  The 
house  stood  until  recently  when  it  was  taken 
down,  the  land  being  condemned  for  subway 
jiurposes.  He  married,  February  14,  1813,  in 
Boston,  perhaps  his  second  wife,  Mercy  (Pol- 
lard )  Carleton.  widow.  His  will  was  dated  in 
iS^o  and  proved  in  1843.  He  devised  to  wife  ; 
to  children  William  H., "George  W.,  Martha  H., 
Sarah  and  to  Martha  A.,  wife  of  Orr  K. 
Towne,  daughter  of  his  wife  by  her  first  hus- 
band. Children:  i.  William  H.,  born  1812, 
mentioned  below.  2.  George  Washington,  Jan- 
nary  13,  1816,  mentioned  below.  3.  Martha  H. 
4.  Sarah. 

(\')  William  11..  son  of  Jonathan  (2)  Ire- 
land, was  born  in  Charlestown,  November, 
1812,  died  at  his  home,  45  Rutland  s(|uare, 
Boston,  August  18,  1899.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools,  and  had  a  long  and  suc- 
cessful business  career.  He  was  in  partner- 
ship with  his  brother,  George  Washington  Ire- 
land, as  a  manufacturer  and  general  merchant 
in  Stoildard,  New  Hampshire,  and  later  as  a 
manufacturer  of  soda  in  Boston.     y\t  the  time 


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of  his  (Icatli  tlie  Univcrsalist  Leader  said  of 
him  "Anether  landmark  among  the  Univcrsal- 
ist laymen  of  Boston  and  vicinity  has  been 
obliterated  in  the  death  of  William  H.  Ireland 
of  the  Every-day  Church.  His  record  in  the 
church  was  in  some  regards  very  remarkable, 
for  he  was  associated  with  it  during  its  entire 
history  as  the  Warren  Street  Church.  He  was 
present  when  the  union  took  place  between  the 
Warren  Street  Church  and  other  South  End 
Churches  in  1866.  He  has  been  a  member 
during  all  these  years,  and  a  deacon  for  a  great 
many  years.  He  was  buried  from  the  Every- 
day Church  Tuesday.  August  21.  An  invoca- 
tion was  offered  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  J.  K.  Mason 
of  Chicago,  a  former  pastor.  An  address  was 
given  by  the  present  pastor.  In  the  course  of 
his  remarks  Dr.  Perin  declared  that  while 
many  of  us  may  become  saints  by  and  by  in 
heaven,  Mr.  Ireland  was  a  saint  on  earth.  This 
language  is  scarcely  exaggerated,  for  he  was 
indeed  one  of  the  best  of  men.  A  man  of  the 
strictest  integrity  as  guileless  as  a  little  child, 
he  displayed,  under  great  sorrow  and  misfor- 
tune, a  fortitude  like  that  of  St.  I'aul  and  a 
sweetness  and  cheerfulness  like  that  of  the 
Master  himself.  If  Mr.  Ireland  had  lived  till 
November  he  would  have  been  eighty-seven 
years  old.  He  was  preceded  to  his  home  above 
by  nearly  all  his  immediate  relatives.  His 
wife  passed  away  in  1885.  His  only  child, 
Mr.  Carlton  Ireland,  died  several  years  ago, 
since  which  time  he  had  made  his  home  with 
Mrs.  Carlton  Ireland,  who  had  devoted  her- 
self to  him  with  all  the  love  and  fidelity  that 
could  have  characterized  the  ministry  of  an 
own  daughter.  Needless  to  say  Mr.  Ireland 
will  be  greatly  missed  at  the  Every-day 
church." 

(\')  George  Washington,  son  of  Jonathan 
(2)  Ireland,  was  born  on  \\'arrenton  street, 
Boston.  January  13,  1816.  He  received  his 
education  at  Madam  Rider's  private  school, 
the  Franklin  school  and  the  English  high  school 
of  Boston.  He  was  always  true  to  the  friend- 
.ships  of  his  youth  and  made  great  efforts  in 
his  old  age  to  attend  the  reunions  of  the  Bos- 
ton Old  .Schoolboys'  .Association.  He  entered 
the  employ  of  Whittcmore  &  Chamherlin  in 
1833,  attaining  to  the  position  of  chief  clerk  in 
a  few  years,  and  having  the  management  of 
the  business.  In  1837  he  entered  partnership 
with  his  brother,  William  H.  Ireland,  at  Stod- 
dard, New  Hampshire,  conducting  a  general 
.store  and  manufacturing  potash  and  potato 
starch.  In  1S45  this  tirni  licuight  the  soda  m;inu- 


facturing  business  of  Darling  &  Pollard  of 
Boston  and  continued  it  wnth  marked  success. 
George  W.  Ireland  sold  out  his  interests  in 
1853.  built  a  residence  in  Somerville  and  en- 
gaged in  the  real  estate  business  and  in  fruit- 
raising.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
First  Universalist  Church  of  Somerville  and 
was  at  the  time  of  his  death  the  senior  deacon. 
He  was  assessor  for  four  years  and  the  last 
collector  of  taxes  under  the  town  charter  of 
Somerville.  He  died  after  a  long  and  pain- 
ful illness  at  the  home  of  his  daughter,  whom 
he  had  been  visiting.  July  2.  1895.  I"  politics 
he  was  a  Republican.  He  married.  November 
28,  1S41.  Jane  Preston,  of  Windsor,  New 
Hampshire,  daughter  of  Reuben  and  Nancy 
(Dresser)  Preston,  of  Windsor.  Children:  i. 
Emma  Jane,  died  in  infancy.  2.  George  Henry, 
born  April  29,  1844,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Martha  Jane,  married  Dr.  E.  P.  Gerry,  of 
Jamaica  Plain.  Massachusetts. 

(  \T )  George  Henry,  son  of  George  U'a.sh- 
ington  Ireland,  was  born  at  Stoddard.  New 
Hampshire,  Aj)ril  29,  1844,  died  at  West 
Harpswell,  Maine,  July  31.  1900.  His  parents 
removed  to  Somerville,  when  he  was  a  young 
child,  and  he  received  his  education  there  in 
the  public  schools.  He  began  his  business 
career  as  clerk  in  the  store  of  Horace  Part- 
ridge &  Company  of  Boston  and  continued 
with  that  house  for  a  number  of  years.  In 
1872  he  established  himself  in  business  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  having  a  "Ninety- 
nine  Cent"  store  at  the  corner  of  Main  and 
Pynchon  streets.  In  1875  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Milton  Bradley  Company  of  Spring- 
field as  traveling  salesman  for  the  game  de- 
partment, of  which  he  afterward  became  the 
manager.  In  i88()  he  became  clerk  of  the  cor- 
I)oration  and  in  1892  assistant  treasurer  of  the 
Milton  Bradley  Company,  a  position  he  filled  to 
the  time  of  his  death  with  cons])icuous  ability. 
He  had  many  interests  in  social  as  well  as  busi- 
ness life.  He  was  for  many  years  an  active 
member  of  St.  Paul's  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church.  He  was  treasurer  of  the  Roswell 
Lee  Lodge  of  Free  Masons :  member  of  Morn- 
ing Star  Chaiiter,  Royal  .\rch  Masons;  of 
.S|)ringfield  Council.  Royal  and  Select  Masters: 
of  Springfield  Comniandery,  Knights  Templar, 
and  of  Melha  Temple.  Order  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine ;  also  of  Oasis  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows, 
Somerville.  He  had  been  a  member  of  the 
Camera  Club  and  of  the  .Springfield  Improve- 
ment .Association.  In  ])olitics  he  was  a  Republi- 
can.     His  death  was  caused  bv  heart  disease. 


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He  was  spending  a  month  at  the  summer  home 
of  his  friend  and  partner  in  business,  Milton 
Bradley,  when  taken  ill.  The  funeral  was 
held  at  the  home  of  his  sister,  Mrs.  E.  Pea- 
body  Gerry,  in  Jamaica  Plain.  Rev.  Charles  A. 
Skinner  officiating,  and  the  interment  was  in 
the  family  lot  at  ^Ionnt  .\ul)urn  cemetery.  Mr. 
Ireland  was  methodical  and  systematic,  pains- 
taking and  earnest  in  business,  lie  was  pre- 
eminently a  man  of  his  word.  He  never  failed 
a  friend  or  defaulted  in  an  obligation.  He 
performed  all  the  duties  of  life  carefully, 
wiselv  and  conscientiously.  His  wide  experi- 
ence in  business  brought  him  into  close  and 
intimate  relations  with  many  men  and  he  made 
many  friends.  He  was  a  student  all  his  life, 
both  of  men  and  books  and  had  a  vast  fund 
of  general  information  at  his  command.  He 
was  interesting  in  conversation  and  an  attrac- 
tive companion.  He  loved  children  and  made 
friends  with  the  young  as  readily  as  with  men 
of  his  own  age.  lie  demonstrated  his  practical 
knowledge  and  his  literary  ability  a  few  years 
before  his  death  by  winning  a  S;230  prize  for 
an  essay  on  "Sanitary  Improvements  in  Manu- 
facturing Establi.shments." 

Rev.  Flint  M.  P.issell,  pastor  of  the  church 
which  Mr.  Ireland  attended,  paid  a  high  tribute 
to  his  character  in  his  sermon  following  the 
death.  He  said  :  "Mr.  Ireland  was  a  thorough- 
going Christian,  a  generous  giver,  a  loyal 
friend,  a  faithful  attendant ;  but  he  was  chiefly 
distinguished  by  his  eagerness  to  serve.  He 
never  waited  to  be  urged,  but  constantly  sought 
avenues  of  usefulness,  and  without  ostentation 
or  display  delighted  to  give  not  only  money, 
but  time  and  interest  and  personal  work  for 
the  cause  of  the  church  he  loved.  We  may  not 
fill  his  place,  but  our  most  fitting  tribute  to  his 
memory  will  be  a  new  endeavor  to  fill  our 
places  as  throughly  as  he  filled  his."  At  the 
session  of  the  Sunday  school  on  the  same  day, 
a  fine  portrait  of  Mr.  Ireland  was  presented  to 
the  school  by  the  boys  of  his  class  and  was 
hung  on  the  wall  over  the  place  where  the  class 
for  so  many  years  had  met. 

He  married.  May  21.  1873,  Ella  F.  Leland, 
of  Somerville,  daughter  of  John  Murray  and 
Sophronia  Page  (Savage)  Leland.  They  had 
but  one  child,  George  Preston,  born  at  Som- 
erville, March  28, 1873,  graduate  of  the  Spring- 
field high  school  and  of  the  cla?s  of  1894,  Tufts 
College,  taking  the  degree  of  Ph.  B. ;  civil 
engineer  for  a  few  years  with  the  Boston  & 
Albany  railroad,  now  practicing  his  profession 
in  Seattle,  Washington. 


\\'illiam  and  Osmond  Trask  were 
TKASK      probably  brothers.     William  was 

a  very  early  settler  of  Salem, 
perhaps  coming  in  1628  before  Governor  Endi- 
cott.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  October  19, 
1^130.  and  was  commissioner  to  the  general 
court  in  1*^32.  He  was  muster  master  and  ca])- 
tain  of  Militia,  and  deputy  to  the  general  court 
in  1635-36-37-39.  .\ftcr  the  Pecjuot  war  he 
was  granted  two  large  tracts  of  land  compris- 
ing six  hundred  acres.  Me  owned  a  corn 
mill  and  fulling  mill.  He  died  May  15,  1666. 
( I )  Osmond  Trask.  sui)poscd  brother  of 
William,  mentioned  above,  was  the  immigrant 
ancestor  of  one  branch  of  the  family.  He  was 
born  in  England  in  1625-27.  He  stated  his 
age  as  thirty-five  years  in  1660  and  as  thirty- 
eight  years  in  1665.  He  was  a  planter  in  Salem 
!)efore  1649,  and  a  very  prominent  citizen.  It 
ap])ears  from  certain  records  that  the  Trasks 
came  from  the  southwest  of  England,  where 
people  of  that  name  still  reside.  He  removed 
to  Beverly  and  was  constable  there.  He  died 
in  1676,  intestate.  The  inventory  is  dated 
March  5.  1676-77,  filed  by  his  widow  Elizabeth 
in  the  court  at  Ipswich,  March  27  following. 
The  court  made  the  widow  administratrix  and 
placcfl  the  rest  in  her  hands ;  she  to  give  the 
eldest  son  forty  acres  of  land  with  the  house 
upon  it :  the  other  eight  children — Sarah, 
Marv.  .Samuel.  I'.enjamin,  Joseph.  Elizabeth. 
William  and  Jonathan — to  have  fifty  jiounds 
apiece ;  tiie  same  for  the  expected  child.  The 
widow  deeded  land  to  her  five  sons — Samuel, 
Benjamin,  Joseph,  William  and  Edward  Trask 
— March  27.  1679,  to  be  delivered  after  she 
had  paid  legacies  to  daughters — Sarah,  Mary 
and  Elizabeth.  In  the  settlement  of  the  estate 
the  children  of  the  first  wife  are  not  mentioned, 
some  other  i)rovision  having  been  made  for 
them,  doubtless.  The  records  show  conclu- 
sively that  the  son  John  was  living  at  that  time. 
He  married  (first)  January  i,  1650,  Mary 
,  who  died  January  2,  1663.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  May  22.  1663,  Elizabeth  Gaily, 
daughter  of  John  Gaily.  She  married  (sec- 
ond) John  Gyells.  Children  of  first  wife:  i. 
Sarah,  born  September,  1650,  died  yotmg.  2. 
Edward,  June  6,  1652.     3.  Mary.  May,   1657. 

4.  fohn.   August    15,    1658,  mentioned  below. 

5.  William,  July  5,  1660.  died  next  month. 
Children  of  second  wife:  6.  Mary,  died  young. 
7.  Samuel.  8.  Benjamin.  9.  Joseph.  10.  Eliz- 
abeth. II.  William  (the  last  five  baptized  at 
the  same  time.  March  14,  1675-76.  probably 
after  the  father's  death).     12.    [(iiiatiiau.  bap- 


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tized  June  6,  1675.  13.  Edward  (])ostliuinous), 
baptized  November  10,  1677. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Osmond  Trask,  was  born 
in  Salem,  August  15,  1658,  died  in  Beverly, 
May  13,  1720.  He  settled  in  Beverly.  He 
married  (first)  April  9,  1679,  Christian  Wood- 
bury, who  while  temporarily  deranged  killed 
herself  with  a  pair  of  scissors,  June  3,  1689. 
He  married  (second)  October  30,  1690,  Mary 
Dodge.     Married    (third)    1692-93,   Elizabeth 

,  who  died  at  Beverly,   November  26, 

171 5.  Children,  recorded  at  Beverly,  though 
some  may  have  been  born  in  Salem:  i.  Chris- 
tian, born  January  20,  1680,  died  December  2, 
1687.  2.  Edward.  November  14,  1685.  3. 
Elizabeth,  August  25,  1687.  4.  Hannah,  bap- 
tized July  10,  1687.  5.  William,  born  January 
I.  1689.  Child  of  second  wife:  6.  Josiah, 
December  10,  1691.  Children  of  third  wife: 
7.  Jonathan,  June  5,  1694.  8.  Mary,  July  3, 
1697  (parents  called  of  Salem).  9.  Christian, 
May  25,  1701.  10.  Israel,  a  minor  over  four- 
teen in  1720.     II.  Ebenezer,  mentioned  below. 

(III)  Ebenezer,  son  of  John  Trask,  was 
born  in  Salem  or  Beverly.  His  father  died 
May  13,  1720,  and  on  October  3  following 
Jonathan  Trask  was  chosen  guardian  of  Israel 
and  Ebenezer  Trask,  minor  sons  of  the  "late 
John  Trask  of  Salem."  Family  tradition  says 
he  was  in  the  revolution.  An  Ebenezer  Trask 
of  Beverly  was  in  Caleb  Dodge's  company  of 
the  second  parish  at  the  Lexington  alarm,  April 
19-  1775-  il's  estate  was  settled  December  6, 
1779;  in  probate  papers  he  is  called  a  house 
carpenter.  He  married,  March  5,  1729-30,  at 
Beverly,  Mary  Rix.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth, 
born  April  18,  1731,  died  April  8,  1753.  2. 
Ebenezer,  September  23,  1732,  died  young.  3. 
Mary,  September  23,  1732  (twin),  died  young. 
4.  Maiy.  December  12,  1733.  5.  Esther,  De- 
cember 21,  1735.  6.  Miriam,  January  23,  1737. 
7.  Martha,  September  18,  1739.  8.  Ebenezer, 
June  12,  1741,  mentioned  below.  9.  Sarah, 
May  20,  1743.  10.  Hannah,  .Vjiril  3,  1745.  11. 
Israel,  July  31,  1747,  died  January  13.  1754. 
The  father  of  these  children  died  in  1779. 
intestate. 

(IN)  Ebenezer  (2),  son  of  Ebenezer  (i) 
Trask,  was  born  in  Beverly,  June  12,  1741, 
died  there  March  9,  1814.  His  will  was  dated 
June  23,  1814,  ])roved  April  5,  1814.  He  be- 
queathed to  sons  John  and  Israel  the  home- 
stead on  the  north  side  of  the  county  road  at 
I'>everly:  to  Aiui  Phippen.  widow  of  Joshua 
riiippcn  ;  to  (l;inghter  Mary,  wife  of  Epes 
C'oggswell  ;  to  son  Ebenezer;  to  son  Israel  the 
residue  ;  mentions  also  gran(Khildren.     I  le  was 


a  soldier  in  the  revolution  in  Lieutenant  Peter 
Shaw's  comi)an\',  April  19,  1775.  He  married, 
January  31,  1765.  Betty  Dodge,  of  Wenham. 
Children,  born  at  Beverly:  i.  John,  May  2, 
1766.  2.  Israel,  December  7,  1767.  3.  Ebe- 
nezer, July  24,  1769.  4.  Mary,  January  29, 
1 77 1.  5.  Samuel,  November  8,  1772.  6.  Anna, 
.August  17,  1774.  7.  Joseph.  April  21,  1776,  men- 
tioned below.  8.  r^Iary,  April  i,  1778.  9.  Betsey, 
June  19,  1780,  died  young.  10.  Betsey,  Sep- 
tember 9,  1784.     II.  Israel,  Eebruary  i,  1792. 

(V)  Joseph,  son  of  Ebenezer  (2)  Trask, 
was  born  in  Beverly,  April  21,  1776,  and  set- 
tled in  Gloucester.  He  married  (first)  Sarah 
Dodge:  one  child  Joseph.  Married  (second) 
Susanna  Hovey :  children:  Joshua  P..  Sarah 
D.  and  Ebenezer. 

(\T)  Joshua  P.,  son  of  Joseph  Trask,  was 
born  in  Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  July  23, 
1805,  died  September,  1862,  deeply  lamented 
by  the  entire  community.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  Gloucester.  He  was 
in  business  for  a  few  years  at  Hampden, 
Penobscot  county,  Maine,  but  returned  to 
Gloucester  in  1847  and  spent  the  remainder 
of  his  life  in  that  town.  He  was  active  in 
])ublic  affairs,  a  just,  upright,  well-informed 
citizen  of  sterling  character  and  sound  judg- 
ment. He  had  some  legal  education  and  was 
ajipointed  first  judge  of  the  municipal  court 
of  Gloucester,  and  held  this  responsible  office 
until  his  death.  He  was  a  just  and  efficient 
magistrate.  He  was  always  an  earnest  worker 
in  the  cause  of  temperance  and  was  prime 
mover  in  organizing  a  number  of  temperance 
and  toal  ab.stinence  societies.  Through  his 
efforts  a  fund  was  subscribed  for  the  relief  of 
the  widows  and  orj^hans  of  the  seafaring  men 
who  are  drowned.  He  was  an  active  and 
prominent  member  of  the  Congregational 
church.  In  1832  he  wrote  a  series  of  articles 
for  the  village  newspaper  advocating  a  public 
library,  which  as  a  result  of  his  agitation  was 
'  established.  He  took  part  in  every  movement 
for  the  welfare  and  benefit  of  the  town.  No 
man  of  his  day  showed  a  greater  public  spirit; 
he  was  resolute  and  aggressive.  He  married, 
December  14,  1830.  .Mary  I'.Uery  Rogers,  born 
.\pril,  1803.  daughter  of  W'illiaiu  and  Eliza- 
beth (Low)  Rogers.  William  Rogers  was  an 
officer  of  the  port  of  customs,  a  school  teacher 
many  years,  a  soldier  in  the  revolution  and  a 
descendant  of  Rev.  John  Rogers,  president  of 
Harvard  College  in  1684.  Chililren  :  William 
P.,  Charles  A.*^.  Susan  E.,  Elizabeth  R.,  John 
L.  R.  and  Marv  .\.  ftwins). 

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Joshua  r.  Trask,  was  ]h<v\\  in  Hampden, 
Maine.  December  19.  1842.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Gloucester  public  and  high  schools, 
Dummer  Academy  at  Byfield,  Massachusetts, 
Atkinson  Academy,  Xew  Hainpshire,  and  at 
\\'illiams  College,  where  he  was  graduated  in 
the  class  of  1864  with  the  degree  of  A.  B. 
He  began  the  study  of  divinity  at  the  Prince- 
ton Theological  School,  and  received  the  de- 
gree of  A.  M.  in  1867  at  Williams  College. 
After  another  year  of  study  at  .Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  he  was  called  to  the  pastorate 
of  the  Second  Congregational  Church  of 
Holyoke,  was  ordained  there  December  4, 
1867.  and  continued  until  1883.  wlicn  he  re- 
signed on  account  of  ill  health.  During  his 
pastorate  he  raised  funds  for  the  purchase  of 
the  site  of  the  present  edifice,  and  also  for 
the  Holyoke  Public  Library  of  which  he  was 
one  of  the  founders.  .After  resting  and  recov- 
ering his  health  he  accepted  the  i^astorate  of 
Trinity  Congregational  Church  of  Lawrence  in 
1884.  He  spent  the  summer  of  1888  abroad 
and  was  much  benefited  by  his  vacation.  In  No- 
vember of  that  year  he  was  installed  as  pastor 
of  the  Memorial  Church  of  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts. This  church  is  classed  as  union  evan- 
gelical and  is  entirely  unsectarian  in  its  govern- 
ment, being  designed  to  meet  the  spiritual 
needs  of  all  classes  and  denominations.  A  par- 
ish house  was  erected  a  few  years  after  Mr. 
Trask  became  pastor.  It  is  at  the  corner  of 
Church  and  Main  streets  and  is  a  center  of 
good  work.  The  church  has  one  of  the  largest 
Sunday  schools  and  the  largest  Christian  En- 
deavor societies  in  the  city.  Dr.  Trask  is  inter- 
ested in  genealogical  and  historical  research, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Xew  England  His- 
toric Genealogical  Society  of  Boston,  Spring- 
field Historical  Society,  the  Massachusetts 
Society,  Sons  of  the  .American  Revolution, 
Winthrop  Club,  Phi  Beta  Kapj)a  fraternity 
and  Coiniecticut  \'alley  Theological  Club. 
Since  1878  he  has  been  a  trustee  and  secretary 
of  Mount  Holyoke  College.  In  ])olitics  he  is 
a  Republican.  He  married,  .August  I,  1871, 
.Abbie  J.  Parker,  of  Dunbarton,  .\'cw  Hamp- 
shire, born  .September  24,  1846,  daughter  of 
Daniel  Hardy  Parker.  She  was  educated  at 
Adams  .Academy  at  Derry  and  at  Hartford, 
Connecticut.  Children:  i.  Frederick  Parker, 
born  July  14.  1872.  graduate  of  .Amherst  Col- 
lege in  the  class  of  1896;  was  with  the  Equit- 
able Life  Insurance  Company  of  .N'ew  A'ork 
for  many  years ;  married  Kate  Davies ;  one 
child,  Parker.  2.  Elizabeth  Rogers,  born  June 
25,  1875.  graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke  College  in 


the  class  of  1898 ;  was  a  student  in  music  and  the 
German  language  in  Hanover,  Germany;  now 
a  lecturer  on  art.  3.  Mary  Ellery,  born  August 
25,  1877,  graduate  of  Springfield  high  school 
and  of  Smith  College  in  the  class  of  1900; 
married.  November,  1903,  Paul  H.  Loomis  ;  one 
child,  Ellery  Trask  Loomis. 


Before  the  Norman  Conf|uest  in 
DRAKE  io66,tlie  Drake  family  was  estab- 
lished in  county  Devon,  England, 
and  in  the  Domesday  Book  six  places  are  men- 
tioned as  being  owned  by  persons  of  that  name. 
Tile  name  is  said  to  have  come  from  a  family 
named  Draco,  or  Drago,  who  took  possession 
of  an  old  Roman  encampment  in  what  is  now 
Musbury,  county  Devon,  soon  after  the  con- 
(|uest  of  Wesse.x  by  the  Saxons.  The  name 
signifies  "a  leader."  The  coat-of-arms  is :  A 
wivern  displayed.  The  crest  of  the  family 
mentioned  below :  Dexter  arm  erect  proper, 
holding  a  battle-axe  sable,  headed  argent. 
Motto:  Aijnila  iioii  capiat  inuscas.  The  home 
of  the  family  at  Musbury  came  to  be  known 
as  Mount  Drake,  where  there  was  a  fortified 
house  before  the  erection  of  Ashe,  the  ancient 
seat  of  the  family.  This  came  into  the  Drake 
family  through  the  marriage  of  the  first  John 
Drake,  mentioned  below,  anfl  remained  in 
their  possession  about  four  hundred  years. 
.Ashe  House,  part  of  the  old  original  house 
and  chapel  still  existing,  is  the  property  of  an 
.Axminster  grocer,  and  the  estate  of  Mount 
Drake  is  owned  by  Rev.  John  V^aughan  Payne, 
Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Musbury. 

(I)  John  Drake,  Esq.,  of  Mount  Drake  and 
Exmouth,  county  Devon,  "a  man  of  great 
estate,"  married  in  the  time  of  Henry  V  ( 1413- 
22).  Christiana,  daughter  and  heiress  of  John 
P.illett,  of  .Ashe.  He  was  engaged  in  shipping 
in  Exmouth,  and  his  son  and  grandson  suc- 
ceeded him  in  the  trade. 

(II )  John  Drake  was  lumibered  in  the  hun- 
dred of  East  liudleigh.  Devon,  and  settled  at 
Otterton.  about  sixteen  miles  from  .Ashe.  He 
married  Christiana,  daughter  an<l  heiress  of 
John  Antage. 

(III)  John  Drake,  of  Otterton,  married  a 
daughter  of  John  Crews,  or  Cruwys. 

(1\'')  John  Drake,  of  Otterton,  married 
.Agnes,  daughter  of  J(jhn  Kailway.  and  had 
five  sons. 

(V)  John  Drake  was  of  Ashe,  Exmouth, 
comity  Devon,  and  married  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter and  htircss  of  John  Cole.  Children:  i. 
John,  mentioned  below.  2.  John,  second  son, 
buried    November  9,    1554.     3.   .Alice,   second 


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wife  of  Walter  Raleigh,  father  of  Sir  Walter 
Raleigh.     4.  Ciilhert. 

(VT)  John  Drake,  of  Alount  Drake,  .\she 
and  E.xmouth,  was  son  and  heir,  and  high 
sheriff  of  Devon  in  the  time  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beth. He  married,  in  1535,  Amye,  daughter 
of  Roger  Greenville,  of  Stow.  He  died  Octo- 
ber 4,  1558,  and  he  and  his  wife  are  buried  in 
the  parish  church  at  Musbury,  where  may  be 
seen  their  tomb,  bearing  their  effigies.  She 
died  February  18,  1577.  Children:  I.  Sir 
Barnard,  knight ;  mentioned  below.  2.  Robert 
of  Wiscomb ;  married  Elizabeth  Prideaux.  3. 
Richard  of  Esher,  born  1535,  ecjuerry  to  Queen 
Elizabeth  ;  married  Crsula  Stafford ;  died  July 
II,  1603. 

fVH)  Sir  Barnard  Drake,  knight,  of  Mount 
Drake  and  Ashe,  was  knighted  January  9, 
1585,  being  a  favorite  of  Queen  Elizabetli, 
"em]jloyed  in  several  great  offices  at  sea."  He 
went  to  Newfoundland  with  a  commission,  also 
took  many  Portugese  ships,  and  for  his  deeds 
ranked  as  second  among  the  most  famous  sea 
captains  of  his  day.  His  last  exploit  was  while 
England  was  at  war  with  Spain,  when  he  took 
a  large  Portugese  ship  which  had  menaced 
the  luiglish  a  long  time,  and  brought  her  into 
the  harbor  at  Dartmouth,  which  action,  "how 
brave  soever  it  might  be,  proved  fatal  to  him- 
self and  many  other  persons  of  quality."  He 
died  in  his  house  of  Ashe,  April  10,  and  was 
buried  .\pril  12,  1685,  in  the  parish  church, 
where  his  effiigy  still  marks  his  tomb.  He 
married  Certrudc  Eortescue.  Children:  i. 
John.  2.  Hugh,  died  1589.  3.  Marie,  married 
Tynsley.  4.  Mary,  married  John  Sher- 
man.    =;.  Elianor,  married  lohn  Button. 

(Vn'l)  John  Drake,  of"  Mount  Drake  and 
Ashe,  was  buried  A])ril  11,  1628,  in  the  parish 
church  at  Afu.sbury,  and  his  effigy,  with  that 
of  his  wife,  is  there.  His  will  was  dated  Jan- 
uary 16,  1620-21,  and  proved  May  29,  i'i28. 
He  married  Dorothy,  daughter  of  W'illiiuii 
Button,  of  Ashton,  who  was  buried  December 
13,  163 1 -2.  Her  will  was  dated  December  7, 
1631,  and  proved  January  13,  1631-2.  Chil- 
dren: T.  Mary,  married  Sir  Henry  Rouswell ; 
buried  .Xovember  4,  1643.  2.  Sir  John,  died 
August  25,  1636.  3.  William,  mentioned  below. 

(IX)  \\'illiam  of  Yardbury,  in  the  parish 
of  Colyton,  was  buried  in  the  Teiujjle  Clnirch, 
London.  His  will  was  dated  Xovember  2, 
1636,  and  ])rovcd  February  29,  1639-40.  He 
married,  in  1620,  Margrett.  daughter  and 
heiress  of  William  Westofer,  of  Colyton.  She 
was  buried  at  Colyton  .\pril  16,  1635.  Chil- 
dren:     1.   John,  ba])tizcd   March   24,    1621-2; 


buried  .-\pril  12,  1648.  2.  Dorothy,  baptized 
March  26,  1623.  3.  Eleanor,  baptized  Decem- 
ber 15,  1625.  4.  Joan,  bajJtized  June  11,  1628; 
came  to  .\merica  with  her  brother  Thomas 
and  settled  in  Weymouth :  married  Thomas 
Randall,  of  Weymouth.  5.  William,  baptized 
December  22,  1629;  buried  March  6,  1680.  6. 
Elizabeth,  baptized  December  10,  1632;  came 
to  America;  married,  June  8,  1654,  Ezekiel 
Hamlin,  of  Boston.  7.  Endimion,  baptized 
June  25.  1634.     8.  Thomas,  mentioned  below. 

(X)  Thomas,  son  of  William  Drake,  was 
baptized  in  St.  Andrew's  Church,  Colyton, 
county  Devon,  England,  September  13,  1635. 
.•\fter  the  death  of  his  parents  he  followed  his 
relative,  John  Drake,  to  Taunton,  Massachu- 
setts and  Windsor,  Connecticut,  to  America 
about  1653-4.  His  sisters  Jane  and  Elizabeth 
accompanied  him.  He  settled  in  Weymouth, 
Massachusetts,  and  in  1663  owned  lot  Xo.  70, 
six  acres,  in  the  first  division.  He  took  an 
active  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  town,  and  in 
1667  was  a  member  of  the  Suffolk  troopers. 
He  served  in  King  Philip's  war,  and  June  24, 
1676,  was  a  member  of  the  garrison  at  Punck- 
apouge.  He  bought  in  1682  a  large  tract  of 
land  near  the  Taunton  river,  in  Freetown,  half 
of  which  he  sold  in  1688  to  Ralph  Paine,  of 
Rhode  Island.  He  died  in  Weymouth,  in  1691, 
and  his  estate  was  valued  at  237  pounds.  He 
married  (first)  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomas  Hol- 
brook:  (second)  March  9,  1681,  Millicent. 
widow  of  John  Carver  and  daughter  of  Will- 
iam Ford.  Children,  born  at  \\'eymouth  :  i. 
Thomas,  about  1657:  died  .August  19.  1728. 
2.  John,  March  12,  1659.  3.  William,  May  30, 
1661.  4.  Jo.sei)h,  October  28,  1663.  5.  .\my, 
February  3,  1666 ;  married  Joshua  Phillips.  6. 
Elizabeth.  1670:  died  June  14,  1748;  married 
John  Phillii^s.  7.  Benjamin,  January  15,  1677; 
mentioned  Iielow.  8.  Experience,  1683  :  married. 
January  23.  1706,  William  Richards  Jr. 

(  XI  )  Benjamin,  son  of  Thomas  Drake,  was 
born  at  Weymouth,  January  15,  1677.  He 
bought.  June  6,  1700,  fifty  acres  of  land  with 
buildings  thereon,  on  what  is  Church  street. 
South  Easton,  and  settled  there.  He  also 
bought  other  lands  in  Middleborough,  and  the 
estate  of  his  brother  Thomas.  He  was  elected 
the  first  selectman  of  Easton,  1725-6.  and 
served  also  in  1728-31-33-34-35-36-38-43-46.  In 
1731  he  was  town  treasurer  and  moderator. 
He  married,  in  Weymouth,  Sarah  Pool,  born 
about  1678.  died  in  Easton,  December  24,  1775, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Pool,  of  Weymouth.  Chil- 
dren: 1.  Benjamin,  born  December  i,  1700; 
died  .April   iS.   1784.     2.  Sarah,  born  October 


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20,  1703:  married  (first)  May  21.  1728,  Zach- 
ariah  Lyon:  (second)  1759,  Benjamin  Smitli. 
3.  Joseph,  born  April  i,  1706;  died  June  8, 
1791.  4.  Thomas,  born  March,  17CX);  died 
March  7,  1788.  5.  John,  born  December  13, 
1711;  died  June  21,  1804.  6.  WiUiam,  bom 
January,  1715;  died  February  16,  1746;  mar- 
ried, ^iay  27,  1740,  Mary  Smith.  7.  Richard, 
born  ^farch.  1717;  mentioned  below.  8.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  December  21.  1719;  died  Decem- 
ber 25.  1726.  9.  Robert,  born  Xovcmbcr,  1723; 
died  February  2,  1797. 

(Xll)  Richard,  son  of  benjamin  Drake, 
was  born  in  March,  1717,  in  Easton,  and  died 
there  September  26,  1773.  His  will  was  dated 
September  9,  1773.  On  April  7,  1757,  he  was 
exempted  from  military  duty,  except  in  an 
emergency,  on  account  of  deafness.  He  mar- 
ried, December  27,  1742.  in  Easton,  Tamar 
^lanley,  born  March  25,  1724,  died  August  28, 
1772,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Lydia  (Field) 
Manley.  Children:  i.  Jonah,  born  November 
I,  1743,  "fell  and  broke  his  neck"  July  24, 
1817.  2.  Richard,  born  February  7,  1745  ;  died 
in  the  revolution,  about  1777.  3.  Sarah,  born 
.-\ugust  4.  1746:  married.  May  7,  1767,  Joseph 
Randall  Jr.  4.  Zachariah,  born  July  6,  1748; 
died  January  14,  181 8.  5.  Thamer,  born  Au- 
gust 26,  1750;  died  January  17,  1774.  6.  Elijah, 
born  February,  1752;  died  October  3,  1756. 
7.  Isaac,  born  December  7,  1752;  died  April 
7,  1801  :  married,  September  8,  1785,  Bath- 
sheba  Turner.  8.  Anne,  born  April  13.  1755; 
died  C'Ctober  3,  1756.  9.  Zilpha,  born  October 
27.  1757.  married,  March  18,  1779,  Jonathan 
Witherell.  10.  .Adam,  born  F"'ebruary  i,  1761  ; 
died  July  23,  1841.  11.  Edward,  born  July  9, 
1763 ;  mentioned  below. 

ex  HE)  Edward,  son  of  Richard  Drake, 
was  born  in  Easton,  July  9,  1763,  and  died 
February  28,  1830.  He  lived  in  Easton,  about 
eighty  rods  southeast  of  Nathan  Randall's 
place,  and  the  old  cellar  hole  is  still  to  be 
seen.  He  was  in  the  revolution,  in  Captain 
Samuel  Fisher's  company.  General  Godfrey's 
brigade,  in  1779,  in  Rhode  Island:  also  in 
1780,  in  Captain  John  .Mien's  company.  Colonel 
Carpenter's  regiment,  to  assist  Count  Rocham- 
beau's  troojjs  in  Rhode  Island.  He  married,  Sep- 
tember II,  1788,  Hannah  White,  born  No- 
vember 18,  1767,  died  September  11,  1850,  of 
Sharon.  Children:  i.  Edward,  born  .August  27, 
I789.died  .August  24, 1805.  2.  Isaac.born  .August 
■9,  1791  ;  died  June  13,  1879.  3.  Rhoda,  born 
May  29,  1793:  died  November  "18.  1848:  mar- 
ried Samuel  Niles.  4.  Iluldah.  born  Jutic  4, 
'795;  'I'cd  October  24,  1841  ;  married  Reuben 


IVeiich,  5.  Alvin,  born  August  10,  1797  ;  men- 
ikm  below.  6.  Seth,  born  December  18,  1799; 
died  May,  1804.  7.  Zilpha,  born  September 
13,  1802:  died  September  i,  1889:  married 
(first)  Otis  Clark;  (second)  Daniel  Curtis. 
8.  Hannah  W'.,  born  February  3,  1805 ;  died 
July  8,  1861  :  married  May  4,  1835,  James 
Willis.  9.  Edward,  born  .April  12,  1807.  10. 
Seth,  born  July  17,  1809;  died  August  20, 
1845.  ii-  •■^i^'i.  ''orn  .April  13,  1813:  died  un- 
married, November  17,  1885. 

(Xl\')  .Alvin,  son  of  Edward  Drake,  was 
born  .August  10,  1797,  in  Easton,  and  died  No- 
vember 10,  1871.  Fle  married  (first)  Novem- 
ber 24,  1820,  Hannah  Edson,  of  Boston,  born 
March  5,  1798,  died  July  27,  1833,  in  Bos- 
ton. He  married  (second)  January  13,  1836, 
in  Boston,  Belinda  Green,  of  South  Reading, 
born  August  28,  1804,  died  July  8,  1885,  in 
Stoneham,  daughter  of  Nathan  and  Elizabeth 
(Orr)  Green.  Children  of  first  wife:  i. 
Hiram  E..  born  November  27,  1821  :  died  Sep- 
tember II,  1858:  married  Alargaret  E.  Col- 
man.  2.  Levi  Keith,  born  May  6,  1824:  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Elizabeth  J.,  born  January 
15,  1828;  died  February  11,  1874;  married, 
November,  1849,  Caleb  S.  Wiley,  of  Stone- 
ham.  4.  .Adeline  M.,  horn  January  28,  1829; 
married,  November  4,  1852,  William  F.  Cowd- 
rey.  5.  Alvin,  born  October  17,  1831.  6. 
Phares,  born  May  26,  1833  :  killed  in  civil  war. 
September  24,  1862:  unmarried.  Children  of 
second  wife:  7.  Hannah  Augusta,  born  [uly 
19,  1837:  married,  June  9,  1861,  Jacob  Leigh- 
ton.  8.  Caroline  Belinda,  born  December  16, 
1842:  married,  September  15,  1867,  James 
Forrest.    9.  Nathan  Lowell,  born  February  17, 

1847;    .... 

(X\')  Levi  Keith,  son  of  .Alvin  Drake,  was 
born  at  Raynham,  May  G.  1824,  and  died  at 
Stoughton,  1899,  aged  seventy-five.  He  mar- 
ried, Xovember  21.  1852,  Eliza  .A.  Pope,  of 
-Stoughton,  born  May  25,  1828,  died  August 
2y.  1885,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Tyla 
C Holmes)  Pope.  He  resided  at  Stoughton. 
Children:  i.  Irving  Lawrence,  born  June  18, 
1856:  mentioned  below.  2.  Harriet  .Augusta, 
born  .August  15,  1861  ;  died  December  14,  1862. 

3.  Wilton  Everett,  born  May  25,  \SCi6;  mar- 
ried, -November  3,  1892,  Harriet  M.  LaRocque, 
born  in  Bakersfield,  A'ermont,  June  11,  1870, 
daughter  of  Josei)h  and  .Alice  La  Rocque ; 
had  Wilton  Everett,  born  November  29,  1894. 

4.  Eva  E.,  born  December  11,  i8r)8:  resides  on 
the  homestead. 

fXX'I)  Irving  Lawrence,  son  of  Levi  Keith 
Drake,  was  born  in  Stoughton,  June  18,  1856. 


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He  was  educated  in  the  public  and  higli  schools 
of  his  native  town.  For  many  years  he  was  a 
letter  carrier.  Since  1903  he  has  been  in  part- 
nership with  his  brother,  Wilton  Everett, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Orient  Manufacturing 
Company,  in  the  manufacture  of  boxes  for 
jewelry  and  eye  glasses,  formerly  at  East 
Weymouth,  now  of  Boston.  He  resides  at 
East  Weymouth.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republi- 
can, in  religion  a  L'niversalist.  He  was  for- 
merly a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
the  National  .\ssociation  of  Letter  Carriers. 
He  married,  P'ebruary  18.  1903,  Mary  E.  Ken- 
dall, born  October  20.  1872,  at  Canterbury, 
Connecticut,  daughter  of  Horace  Kendall,  who 
was  born  at  Canterbury  and  died  at  Brooklyn, 
Connecticut.  Her  mother  was  Polly  (Chani])- 
lin)  Kendall,  born  in  1839,  at  Exeter,  Rhode 
Island.  Her  grandfather  was  Major  John 
Kendall.  Children  of  Horace  and  Polly  Ken- 
dall:  I.  George  F.  Kendall,  born  1861,  at 
Canterbury.  2.  Mary  E.  Kendall,  born  Octo- 
ber 20,  1872:  married  Irving  L.  Drake.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Drake  have  no  children. 


John  Bryant,  immigrant  ances- 
BRYANT     tor,  was  born  in   England  and 

was  in  Scituate  as  early  as 
1639,  when  he  was  admitted  a  freeman. 
According  to  tradition  be  came  from  county 
Kent,  England,  in  the  ship  ".Ann."  His  farm 
was  on  the  second  Herring  brook,  ten  rods 
east  of  the  mill,  and  an  ancient  orchard  now 
or  lately  marked  the  site.  Fie  was  prominent 
in  the  early  history  of  Plymouth  colony,  and 
throughout  his  life  was  active  in  public  affairs; 
was  a  land  owner  and  actively  engaged  in  sur- 
veying public  lands.  He  was  a  house  caqienter 
by  trade.  1  Ic  was  a  deputy  to  the  genera!  court 
at  I'lymouth  in  1657-77-78.  He  lived  in  Barn- 
stable a  short  time  before  settling  in  Scituate. 
In  1643  he  appears  on  the  list  of  men  able 
to  bear  arms  in  Scituate.  He  married  (first) 
in  1643,  Mary  Lewis,  daughter  of  Ceorge  and 
Mary  (Jenkins)  Lewis,  of  Barnstable.  In 
1657  he  married  (second  )  Elizabeth  W'etlurill. 
daughter  of  Rev.  William  W'etherill,  of  .Scit- 
uate. He  married  (third)  in  1664,  Mary 
Highland,  daughter  of  Thomas  Highland,  of 
Scituate.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  John, 
born  .Xugust  17,  1644.  mentioned  below.  2. 
Hannah,  July  25,  1646,  married,  1665,  John 
.Stodder,  of  Hingliam.  3.  Joseph,  died  June 
16,  1669.    4.  Sarah,  born  September  29,  1648. 

5.  Mary.  February  24,  1650.  died  April  8,  1652. 

6.  Martha,    I'\'bruary   26,    1632.      7.    Samuel, 
I'ebrtiary  8,  1654,  died  1690  in  the  I'hipps  ex- 


pedition to  Canada.  Children  of  third  wife: 
8.  Elizabeth,  August,  1665,  died  December  17, 

1783.    9.  Daniel,  married  Dorothy .    10. 

Mary.  11.  Benjamin,  December.  1669,  died 
1701,  unmarried.  12.  Joseph,  1671.  13.  Jabez, 
I-'ebruary  18,  1672,  died  1697,  unmarried.  14. 
Ruth,  .\ugust  16,  1673,  married  William 
Wanton,  afterward  governor  of  Rhode  Island. 
15.  Thomas,  July  15,  1675,  married  Mary 
Ewell,  daughter  of  Gershom.  16.  Deborah, 
January  22,  1677.  17.  Agatha,  March  12, 
1678.  18.  .\nn,  November  20,  1679.  19. 
Eli.sha. 

(II)  Lieutenant  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i) 
Bryant,  was  born  in  Scituate,  August  17,  1644, 
(lied  at  Scituate.  January  26,  1708,  leaving  a 
will  proved  February  12,  1708.  The  inventory 
shows  an  estate  valued  at  three  hundred  and 
ninety-five  pounds.  He  built  the  first  saw  mill 
on  Herring  brook  in  1690,  and  later  a  grist 
mill  also.  He  and  his  descendants  occupied  a 
large  tract  of  land  from  Spring  brook  to  James 
liowker's  on  which  the  sons  settled.  Joshua 
settled  near  the  place  where  his  descendant. 
Snow  Bryant,  lived  lately.     He  married  Mary 

.     Children:     I.  John,  born  March  27, 

1678,  married,  January  i,  1707,  Deborah  Bars- 
tow.  2.  Jonathan,  January  i,  1679.  3.  Mary, 
September  3,  1682,  married.  May  6,  1707, 
Jabez  Rose.  4.  David,  August  17,  1684,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Church.  5.  Joshua,  November 
14,  1687,  died  June  9.  1709.  6.  Samuel,  Janu- 
ary 15,  1689,  mentioned  below.  7.  Martha, 
August  22,  1 69 1. 

(HI)  Samuel,  son  of  Lieutenant  John  (2) 
Bryant,  was  born  in  Scituate,  January  15, 
1689,  died  there  in  1753.  He  was  a  wheel- 
wright l)y  trade.  He  married,  February  14, 
171 1,  .Miigail  Turner,  of  Scituate,  (by  Rev. 
Nathaniel  Ellis).  Children,  born  in  Scituate: 
I.  Joshua.  January  6,  1713.  2.  Samuel,  bap- 
tized July  29,  1716,  mentioned  below.  3.  John, 
born  December  21.  17 18.  4.  .Abigail,  July  21, 
1723. 

(I\')  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i)  Bryant. 
was  born  in  Scituate  and  baptized  July  29, 
1716.  He  was  a  housewright  by  trade.  He 
married,  in  October,  1745,  Mary  Bucks.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Scituate:  i.  .Abigail,  December 
31,  1747.  2.  Samuel.  December  26,  1748.  3. 
Ira,  .August  28.  1750.  4.  Elijah,  November  8, 
1731.  3.  Molly,  July  23.  1733.  6.  Zina.  Janu- 
ary I.  1735,  married  Eunice  Wade.  7.  Snow, 
October  (),  1758.     Perhaps  others. 

(V)  Zebulon,  son  or  nephew  of  Samuel  (2) 
P.ryant,  settled  in  .Aslitield.  Massachusetts, 
when  a  voung  man.     1  le  was  a  soldier  in  the 


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revolution  from  that  town  on  the  Lexington 
alarm,  April  19,  1775,  a  sergeant  in  Lieutenant 
James  Bartlett's  company.  He  was  also  later 
in  1775  in  Captain  Ebenezer  Webber's  com- 
pany. Colonel  John  Fellows's  regiment  (the 
Eighth  Hampshire),  commissioned  May  3, 
1776.  second  lieutenant,  second  lieutenant  in 
Captain  Elijah  Cranston's  company  (the 
Eleventh)  in  Colonel  D.  Fuller's  regiment 
(Fifth  Llanipshire  County)  ;  also  second  lieu- 
tenant in  Captain  Nathan  Frary's  company  and 
lieutenant  in  Lieutenant  Ephraim  Jennings's 
company.  Colonel  David  Field's  regiment  at 
the  battle  of  Ucmiington.  in  August.  1777. 
According  to  the  federal  census  of  1790  he 
was  the  head  of  the  only  family  of  this  name 
in  Ashfield  and  had  two  males  over  sixteen, 
one  under  that  age  and  five  females  in  his 
family  at  that  time.  Among  his  children  was 
Zebulon.  mentioned  below. 

(\'L)  Zebulon  (2),  son  of  Zebulon  (i) 
Bryant,  was  born  in  Ashfield.  Massachusetts, 
about  1775. 

( \'II  )  Chauncey.  son  of  Zebulon  (2) 
Bryant,  was  born  in  Ashfield  in  1823,  died  in 
Greenfield.  April  14,  1905.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools,  and  for  many  years  car- 
ried on  a  grocery  business  in  Greenfield.  He 
was  a  ilei)uty  sheriff  of  Franklin  county  for 
forty  years  and  was  well  known  in  all  sections 
of  the  county,  esjiecially  to  members  of  the 
bar  and  men  in  public  life.  He  was  a  popular 
and  efficient  public  officer.  He  married  Alehit- 
able  Bassett. 

(\'ni)  Charles  Ashton,  son  of  Chauncey 
I'.ryant.  was  born  in  Greenfield,  Massachusetts, 
185 1,  died  at  Chicopee,  October  24.  1902.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  and 
throughout  his  life  was  in  mercantile  business. 
He  began  as  clerk  for  the  firm  of  S.  Allen  & 
Sons  of  Greenfield,  and  in  1789  bought  a  store 
in  Chicopee  and  engaged  in  trade  on  his  own 
account  with  much  success.  He  had  a  large 
retail  hardware  store  in  Chicopee  and  con- 
tinued in  active  business  until  he  died.  He 
was  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  the  town 
for  many  years.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republi- 
can and  served  as  selectman.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Masonic  order.  He  married  Sarah 
Foss,  born  Biddeford,  ^L'line,  daughter  of 
Cyrus  Foss.  Children:  i.  Walter  Thornton, 
born  June  15,  1879,  mentioned  below.  2.  Jus- 
tin, died  aged  two  years.  3.  Marion  Augusta. 
4.  Louise  fnstina.     5.  Chauncy  Davis. 

(IX)  VValter  Thornton,  .son  of  Charles  .Xsh- 
ton  Bryant,  was  born  in  Chicopee,  June  15, 
1879.    He  attended  the  public  and  high  .schools 


of  his  native  place,  graduating  from  the  Chic- 
ojiee  high  school  in  the  class  of  1898.  He 
entered  .Amherst  College,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1902. 
lie  took  up  his  profession  of  teaching  and  was 
aiijiointed  instructor  in  history  in  the  Quincy 
high  school,  Massachusetts,  but  two  months 
after  he  began  to  teach,  his  father  died  and  he 
resigned  to  return  home  and  take  charge  of 
the  hardware  business  for  the  estate,  and  in 
this  occupation  he  has  continued  since.  The 
high  reputation  of  the  store  has  been  main- 
tained and  the  volume  of  business  constantly 
enlarged  under  his  management.  He  is  a 
member  of  Chicopee  Lodge  of  Free  Masons 
and  of  the  .\mherst  Alumni  Association.  In 
college  he  belonged  to  the  Tlieta  Delta  Chi 
fraternity. 

The  surname  Harding  is  de- 
ILKRDIXG      rived   from  the  very  ancient 

personal  name  Hardin  of 
(iothic  origin,  in  use  at  a  very  early  period  in 
Germany,  Scandinavia  and  Britain,  even  before 
the  coming  of  the  ancient  feudal  system.  Sev- 
eral men  bearing  this  name  are  mentioned  in 
the  Domesday  Book  (1086)  and  several  local- 
ities bearing  this  name  or  its  derivatives,  like 
Harrington.  There  were  no  less  than  six 
immigrants  of  this  surname  in  Massachusetts 
before  1^)50;  .Abraham,  mentioned  below:  Eliz- 
abeth, who  settled  in  P)Oston  :  George,  of  Salem, 
of  whom  nothing  further  is  know-n  ;  John,  of 
Weymouth;  Robert,  of  Boston,  who  left  no 
issue  in  this  country.  Some  connection  existed 
between  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges,  the  patentee 
of  Maine,  and  Captain  Robert  Georges,  and 
the  Harding  family.  Sir  Robert  Georges  mar- 
ried Mary  Harding,  daughter  and  heir  of  Will- 
iam Harding. 

( I  )  Abraham  I  larding,  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  born  in  England,  in  1620,  and  was  son  of 
John  Harding,  of  Boram,  county  Essex,  hus- 
bandman, who  married  .Agnes  Greene,  of  Tarl- 
ing.  .Abraham  came  to  Xew  England  and  set- 
tled first  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  May,  1645.  He 
was  living  there  as  early  as  1640,  when  he 
gave  a  letter  of  attorney  on  August  28  for  the 
collection  of  a  legacy  left  him  by  his  father. 
He  was  a  glover  and  planter.  In  1648  he  was 
living  in  Braintree,  but  sold  his  i)ro])erty  there 
in  1653  and  removed  to  Medfield.  His  house 
was  on  I'.ridge  street,  where  the  Clark  house 
is  now  situated.  He  died  March  22,  1654-55, 
and  his  will  was  proved  April  24  following, 
lie  married  Elizabeth  .Adams,  sister  of  Henry 


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Adams.  She  married  (second)  John  Frary 
Jr.,  and  (third)  Thomas  Dyer,  of  Weymouth, 
and  died  in  1678.  Children,  born  at  Medfield : 
I.  Mary,  May  i,  1653.  2.  Abraham,  August 
15,  1655,  mentioned  below.  3.  John,  died 
March  4,  1719-20.     4.  Elizabeth. 

(11)  .Abraham  (2),  son  of  Abraham  (i) 
Harding,  was  born  in  IMedfield,  August  15, 
1655,  died  there  May  4,  1741.  Soon  after 
1675  he  settled  on  the  old  road  to  Hartford, 
near  the  Bent  bridge  on  the  northeast  bend  of 
the  Charles  river,  one-half  a  mile  east  of  Med- 
way  village.  He  built  his  house  on  the  north 
side  of  the  road,  and  passed  his  days  of  active 
usefulness  in  Medfield.  He  lived  to  see  the 
division  of  the  town  and  to  take  part  in  organ- 
izing the  first  church  in  Medway.  He  was  a 
member  of  a  town  committee  at  the  first  town 
meeting,  November  23,  1713,  and  was  elected 
selectman  in  1715-16.  He  was  moderator  in 
1717  and  one  of  the  committee  to  lay  out  the 
minister's  land.  He  was  himself  fortunate  in 
the  choice  of  his  land,  and  left  a  large  estate 
which  he  gave  to  his  sons.  His  will  was  dated 
December  19,  1718.  He  married  (first)  in 
Medfield,  April  26,  1677,  Mary  Mason,  born 
February  8,  1657-58,  died  1694,  daughter  of 
Thomas    and    Margaret    (Partridge)    Mason. 

He  married   (second)   in   1695,  Sarah  , 

whose  will  is  dated  May  29,  1741,  and  proved 
April  13,  1742.  She  died  January  22,  1741-42. 
Children:  i.  Mehitable,  born  October  17, 
1684.      2.    Marie,    August    25,    1687,    married 

Daniel .    3.  Elizabeth,  January  i,  1689, 

died  April  15,  1708.  4.  Abraham,  April  5, 
1691,  (lied  1734;  married  Ruth  Wight.  5. 
Thomas,  December  15,  1692,  died  October  15, 
1754.  6.  John,  April  6,  1694,  mentioned  below. 
Children  of  second  wife :  7.  Sarah,  February 
22, 1696,  married  ( jeorge  Fairbanks.  8.  Samuel, 
May  15,  1698.  9.  Hannah,  Ja:nuary  18,  1699. 
10.  Lydia,  December  14,  1701,  married,  March 
22,  1728,  Ephraim  Partridge.  11.  Bathsheba, 
February  12,  1703,  died  1732.  12.  Lsaac,  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1705.  13.  Elizabeth,  July  25,  1708. 
14.  Joseph.  March  22,  1710,  died  1731. 

(HI)  John,  son  of  Abraham  (2)  Harding, 
was  born  in  Medfield,  April  6,  1694,  and  was 
a  cordwainer  by  trade.  He  bought  land,  four- 
teen acres,  of  Theophilus  Clark,  of  \\'rentham, 
.'\])ril  29,  1735,  and  more  of  Nathaniel  and 
Mehitable  \Vight.  He  was  selectman  of  Med- 
way in  1740.  His  name  ajipcars  often  in  the 
land  records,  and  he  was  a  citizen  of  influence 
and  substance.  His  will  was  dated  Jinie  3, 
1778,  be(|ueathing  to  wife  Thankful.  lie  died 
August  10,  1782,  aged  eighty-eight  years.    He 


married,  July  2,  1722,  Thankful  Bullard,  born 
1702,  died  March  2,  1793,  daughter  of  John  and 
Abigail  (Leland)  Bullard,  of  Medway,  grand- 
daughter of  Benjamin  and  Martha  (Pidge) 
Bullard.  Children,  born  at  Medway :  I.John, 
January  20,  1723-24,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Abigail,  September  22,  1726,  married  David 
Fisher.  3.  Thankful,  December  17,  1733,  mar- 
ried, December  3,  1755,  James  Boyden,  of 
Wrentham.  4.  Mercy,  December  9,  1737,  mar- 
ried, October  9,  1760,  Seth  Partridge. 

(IV')  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Harding, 
was  born  at  Medway,  January  20,  1723-24, 
(lied  September  7,  1809.  He  inherited  the 
homestead  of  his  father  in  ^vledway  and  Hollis- 
ton.  He  settled  on  the  west  line  of  Medway 
on  the  lots  assigned  in  1659  to  John  Fisher 
and  Nicholas  Rocket.  He  owned  one  hundred 
and  twenty  acres  in  Holliston,  separated  from 
the  home  lot  by  the  road.  In  1747-48  the 
home  lot  was  occupied  by  John  Dewing.  Hard- 
ing was  a  prominent  man  in  the  town.  He 
contributed  a  hundred  dollars  in  1 78 1  for  the 
parsonage  building  fund.  His  will  was  dated 
June  17,  1779,  and  proved  October  3,  1809, 
bequeathing  to  children  and  grandchildren.  His 
sons  Abijah  and  John  were  executors.  He 
married,  January  9,  1745,  Keziah  Pond.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Medway:  i.  Keziah,  December 
12,  1746,  married  — —  Partridge.  2.  Han- 
nah, October  18,  1747,  married  David  Leland. 
3.  Abijah,  captain,  married  Sybil  .\dams.  4. 
Mary,  March  2,  I755,married  Jeremiah  Leland, 
of  HollLston.  5.  John,  February  18,  1757, 
mentioned  below.  6.  .Mpheus.  .'September  22, 
i/C)2.  died  February  9,  1779. 

(V)  Captain  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2) 
Harding,  was  born  in  Medway,  Februarj'  18, 
1757.  died  ^Larch  11,  1833.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution  in  1775  in  Captain  Samuel 
Goff's  company.  Colonel  Joseph  Read's  regi- 
ment ;  lieutenant  in  Captain  Moses  /Vdams's 
company.  Major  Seth  Bullard,  1780.  He 
api)ears  as  lieutenant  on  the  town's  list  of 
soldiers.  April  13,  1778.  He  was  for  many 
\ears  a  leading  citizen  of  Norfolk  county; 
judge  of  the  court  of  comm(^n  ])leas;  state 
senator:  member  of  the  executive  council.  He 
was  amiable,  upright  and  enterprising,  an  ex- 
cellent neighbor  and  valuable  citizen.  He  was 
selectman  of  Medway  several  years.  He 
bought  land  .\ugust  10,  1779.  for  six  hundred 
jiounds,  the  south  half  of  his  father's  home- 
stead, also  the  hundred  and  twenty  acres  in 
llolliston  and  sixty  acres  in  Medway.  His 
will  was  dated  I'ebruary  4,  1827,  bci|ueathing 
to  wife,  children  and  grandchildren.  He  owned 


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a  pew  ill  the  Second  Congregational  Church  of 
Medway.  The  will  was  proved  April  2,  1833. 
He  died  March  11,  1833.  He  married,  Janu- 
ary 3,  1782,  Beulah  Metcalf,  born  March  26, 
1762,  died  March  20.  1839,  daughter  of  Stephen 
Metcalf,  of  Hellingham,  k)ng  a  leading  citizen 
of  Norfolk  county,  judge  of  the  court  of  com- 
mon pleas,  state  senator  and  member  of  the 
executive  council.  Children:  i.  Hepzibah, 
born  March  7,  1785,  married  Alexander  Le- 
land,  of  Holliston.  2.  Alpheus,  April  20,  1787, 
died  1813;  married,  1812,  Abigail  Chamber- 
Iain.  3.  Beulah,  July  23,  1790,  married,  June 
20,  1811,  Lemuel  Litteltield,  of  Holliston.  4. 
Sewall,  March  20.  1793,  mentioned  below. 

(\"I)  Rev.  Sewall,  son  of  Captain  John  (3) 
Harding,  was  born  in  .Medway,  ^Iarch  20, 
1793.  ^Is  graduated  at  L'nion  College  in  the 
class  of  1818  and  studied  theology  under  Rev. 
Dr.  Emmons  and  Rev.  Dr.  Ide.  He  was 
installed  pastor  of  the  Trinitarian  Congrega- 
tional church  of  W'altham  and  in  November, 
1837,  became  pastor  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Medway,  his  native  parish. 
He  was  popular  among  his  people  and  eminently 
successful  as  a  minister.  In  1850  he  was  elect- 
ed secretary  of  the  Congregational  Board  of 
Publication,  Boston.  He  continued  in  this 
office  until  May,  1862,  when  he  resigned  and 
retired  to  i)rivate  life  at  his  home  in  .Auburn- 
dale,  Massachusetts.-  He  was  characterized 
by  an  amiable  and  sprightly  disposition,  high 
rank  as  a  student  and  scholar,  by  his  zeal  and 
activity  as  a  pastor  and  success  in  the  ministry 
and  by  the  consistency  of  his  public  and  private 
life.  He  was  a  clever  writer  and  able  preacher, 
faithful  Christian  and  useful  citizen.  He  mar- 
ried, November  2,  1820,  Eliza  Wheeler,  daugh- 
ter of  Ca])tain  Lewis  and  I'etsey  (Richardson) 
Wheeler,  of  Medway,  and  granddaughter  of 
the  eminent  Dr.  Abijah  Richardson,  of  Med- 
way, who  was  surgeon  on  General  Washing- 
ton's staff  during  the  revolution.  Children:  i. 
John  Wheeler,  born  (October  12,  1821,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Sewall,  December  25,  1823, 
died  -September  19,  1834.  3.  Eliza  Mercy,  De- 
cember 24,  1826,  married  .Augustus  Walker, 
missionary  at  Diarbekir,  Asia.  4.  George  L., 
January  9,  1 830,  died  .August  24,  1849.  5. 
William  Greenough,  .Augu.st  5,  1834,  graduate 
of  Williams  College  in  1857;  manufacturer  at 
Pittsfield,   Massachusetts;    married,   June   27, 

1861,  .     6.  Harriet  B.,   September   15, 

1836,  died  December,  1857.  at  ^Iosul,  .Asia; 
married,  April,  1857,  Rev.  William  F.  Will- 
iams, missionary. 

(VH)   Rev.    John    Wheeler,    son    of    Rev. 


Sewall  Harding,  was  born  October  12,  1821. 
He  graduated  from  Yale  College  with  the 
degree  of  A.  B.  in  the  class  of  1845,  ^"d  was 
a  member  of  the  famous  "Skull  &  Bones" 
Society  there,  and  from  the  Theological  Semi- 
nary at  .\ndover  in  1848.  He  was  ordained 
and  installed  minister  of  the  Congregational 
church  at  Longmeadow,  ^Massachusetts,  in 
1850,  which  pastorate  he  held  for  nearly  fifty 
years.  He  was  a  corporate  member  of  the 
A.  B.  C.  F.  AL  and  a  member  of  the  Christian 
Commission  during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion. 
He  was  a  man  of  great  literary  ability  and 
traveled  extensively  in  many  ct)untries.  He 
was  revered  and  beloved  by  a  large  circle  of 
friends  both  at  home  and  abroatl ;  an  upright 
christian  gentleman.  He  married,  December 
29,  1852,  Mehitable  Pratt  Lane,  born  May  9, 
1831,  daughter  of  Jenkins  I^ane,  of  East  Ab- 
ington.  Massachusetts.  Children:  i.  William 
Colt,  born  June  24,  1854.  2.  Grace,  August 
19,  1857,  married  \\'illiam  Bliss  -Medlicott,  of 
Longmeadow.  3.  John  Putnam,  April  26, 
1861,  mentioned  below.  4.  Mary,  April  17, 
1865,  married  Dr.  Joseph  William  Stickler, 
of  Orange,  New  Jersey.  5.  Paul,  October  27, 
1870,  died  in  infancy. 

(\'HI)  John  Putnam,  son  of  Rev.  John 
Wheeler  Harding,  was  born  in  Longmeadow, 
.April  26,  1861.  He  attended  private  schools 
until  thirteen  years  of  age,  Williston  Seminary 
at  Easthampton  and  Phillips  Academy  at  An- 
dover,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  graduated 
in  1880.  He  entered  Massachusetts  Institute 
of  Technology,  Boston,  and  graduated  in  the 
class  of  1884.  He  began  the  ])ractice  of  his 
])rofession  as  architect  with  H.  II.  Richardson, 
of  Boston,  then  removed  to  Springfield  where 
he  had  an  office  for  a  time.  He  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Springfield  Wood  Work- 
ing Company,  of  which  D.  1!.  Wesson  was 
president,  and  of  which  Mr.  Harding  was 
manager  for  eight  years.  The  concern  then 
combined  with  the  similar  business  of  George 
.A.  Schastey  and  built  several  new  factories, 
Mr.  Harding  being  the  general  manager  for 
several  years  and  finally  succeeding  Mr.  Wes- 
son as  president.  In  1902  he  sold  his  interests 
in  the  business  and  retired.  After  spending  a 
year  abroad,  he  established  his  present  busi- 
ness of  the  interior  decoration  of  homes  in 
Springfield.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Nayasset 
and  Springfield  Country  Clubs  and  of  the 
.Manhattaii  Club  of  New  York.  He  married 
i  ebruary  20,  1907,  Helen  Buck  Walker,  of 
.Aubu.rndale,  daughter  of  Rev.  .Augustu.s 
Walker. 


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The  suriiamt'  Tilley  is  found  in 
TILLEY  England  as  early  as  tlie  Norman 
Con(|uest  and  appears  in  the 
Domesday  Book.  The  name  was  common  also 
in  Erance  and  Holland  at  an  early  date  and  is 
doubtless  of  Norman-French  origin.  The  name 
is  spelled  in  the  ancient  records  Tillie,  Tilly, 
Teley,  Tiley,  Tilee  and  Tely.  We  have  at  the 
present  time  the  surname  Tylee,  probably  of 
the  same  English  stock-. 

Edward  and  John  Tilley  were  among  the 
passengers  of  the  "Mayflower."  Edward  and 
his  wife  Ann  both  died  in  the  spring  of  1620- 
21.  John  brought  his  wife  and  daughter  Eliz- 
abeth, and  he  and  his  wife  also  died  early  in 
1 62 1.  The  only  descendants  of  these  Pilgrim 
Tilleys  are  through  John's  daughter  who  mar- 
ried John  Howland.  No  person  of  the  name 
Tilley  can  claim  descent  through  these  ances- 
tors in  the  male  line.  There  was  another  John 
Tilley  in  Dorchester  who  came  in  1629;  left 
no  issue.  William  Tilley,  of  Barnstable  and 
Boston,  came  from  Little  ]\Iinories,  England, 
in  the  ship  ".Abigail"  in  June,  1635,  left  a 
daughter  Sarah,  but  no  sons  that  have  been 
found  on  record.  Others  of  the  name  came 
later.  George  and  Elizabeth  Tilly  had  children 
in  Boston,  1727- 1748,  George,  Mary,  Eliza- 
beth, Martha,  George,  William  and  John. 
Samuel  and  Eliphal  had  children  in  Boston, 
1712-32,  Samuel,  Eliphal,  Eliza,  Lewis,  Will- 
iam, \\'illiam  and  Sarah.  Thomas  and  Kath- 
erine  Tiley  had  two  children,  Eliza,  born  Eeb- 
ruary  I,  17 iT),  and  Sarah,  August  20,  1724. 
John  and  l^liza  Tiley  had,  1719-27,  Eliza, 
John,  Sarah  and  Lydia.  These  are  probably 
related  to  Thomas  Tilley  who  had  by  wife 
I  laimah  a  son,  Samuel  Tilee,  in  Boston,  May 
I,  1657.  This  .Samuel  Tilee  or  Tiley  had  by 
wife  Sarah:  i.  John,  born  March  2,  1694.  2. 
Hannah,  died  March  15,  1^)1)4.  3.  Sarah,  born 
Sc])tember  I,  1606.  4.  William,  horn  Novem- 
ber 30,  1697.  Whether  this  Boston  family 
just  described  is  related  to  that  given  below 
we  have  not  learned.  The  facts  of  the  early 
generation  of  this  family  are  from  an  old 
genealogy  of  the  Tilley  family. 

(I)  J(jhn  Tilley  lived  at  or  near  ILxcter, 
England.  .Among  his  children  were:  I.  Will- 
iam, mentioned  below.  2.  John;  children:  i. 
John,  who  remained  in  England ;  ii.  Elinor, 
who  remained  in  luigland ;  iii.  William,  the 
rope-maker,  born  in  iuigland  in  164 1,  came  to 
New  England  in  1660  and  resided  on  Milk 
street,  near  Cow  lane;  established  a  large  rope- 
walk,  and  Tilley"s  wharf  and  Tilley's  lane 
were  named    for  him;  his   wife   Labella   died 


January  13,  1702,  and  he  married  (second) 
Abigail  Woodmancy ;  after  his  <leath  she  mar- 
ried (second)  October  19,  1718,  Judge  Samuel 
Sewell ;  John  Tilley  died  at  Boston  in  1717; 
■  daughter  Lsabella  married  EliezerArmitage  and 
Grace  married  Jonas  Clarke.  From  the  similarity 
of  names  and  place  of  residence  of  the  families 
it  is  conjectured  that  Thomas  Tilee  was  closely 
related  to  William,  the  rope-maker. 

(U)  William,  son  of  John  Tilley,  lived  at 
E.xeter,  England.  Children:  I.  William,  born 
about  1685,  came  with  his  two  brothers,  John 
and  James,  to  work  for  their  cousin,  William 
Tilley,  the  rope-maker,  in  Boston ;  married,  in 

1736,   Dorcas  ;   removed  to   Newport, 

Rhode  Lsland ;  son  William,  born  October  19, 
1738.  2.  James,  born  in  1686,  resided  at  New 
London,  Connecticut,  about  17 18;  gave  ten 
pounds  to  the  First  Episcopal  church  of  New 
London;  married.  May  27,  1742,  Hannah 
Savel,  daughter  of  John.  3.  John,  mentioned 
below. 

(HI)  John  (2),  son  of  \\illiam  Tilley,  was 
born  at  Edford,  England,  about  1687-90.  He 
came  to  Boston  with  his  brothers  William  and 
James  to  work  in  the  rope-walk  of  their  cousin, 
William  Tilley.  He  was  in  Boston  about  1720  ; 
removed  to  New  A'ork  state  where  he  married 
and  had  two  sons,  perhaps  other  children.  The 
name  of  his  wife  is  unknown.  Children:  i. 
Leonard,  born  1730-40,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Samuel,  1740,  married  Mary  Morgan,  of 
Brooklyn,  in  1765;  left  New  A'ork  with  other 
Loyalists  in  1783  and  settled  at  Gagetown, 
Oueens  county,  New  Brunswick;  died  in  1820; 
widow  died  at  Portland,  New  Brunswick,  in 
1834,  aged  eighty- four  years. 

(IV)  Leonard,  son  of  John  (2)  Tilley,  was 
born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  where  he  lived 
until  his  marriage,  after  which  he  resided  at 
(iranby.  Massachusetts,  and  was  the  progenitor 
of  all  of  the  name,  it  is  thought  in  western 
Massachusetts.  His  wife  was  probably  of 
Dutch    ancestry.      The    children    known:      i. 

Alexander,  married  Jerusha ;  children: 

i.  Leonard,  had  three  daughters;  ii.  Porter; 
iii.  Orin.  had  eight  children  ;  iv.  George,  had 

seven  children ;  v.  Ruth,  married Bart- 

lett ;  vi.  Jerusha,  married  Thayer ;  vii. 

Mary,  married  Butterfield ;  viii.  Sally. 

married Sheldon.  2.  lAidwig,  mention- 
ed below.    3.  John.    4.  Ruth.     5.  Bridget. 

(\')  Ludwig.  son  of  I,eonard  Tilley,  was 
burn  about  1770-75  in  New  York  or  Granby. 
1  le  made  his  home  in  Granby  and  was  a  farmer 
and  substantial  citizen,  lie  married  in  (iranby. 
Children:      i.    (ieorge,    mentioned    below.      2. 


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(.)rriii.  3.  Porter.  4.  Ruth.  5.  Jcrii.sha.  6. 
Cynthia.    7.  Sally.    8.  Leonard. 

(\'I)  George,  son  of  Liulwig  Tilley,  was 
born  about  1800-05.  on  the  old  homestead  at 
Granby.  He  had  a  common  school  education 
and  followed  farming  for  his  vocation.  In 
politics  he  was  a  \\  hig.  but  he  took  no  active 
part  in  politics.  In  religion  he  was  an  orthodox 
Congregationalist.  He  married,  about  1828, 
Hannah  Sheldon.  Children,  born  at  Granby: 
I.  James.  2.  Xorris.  3.  John,  mentioned  be- 
low. 4.  Maria.  5.  Benjamin.  6.  Eugene.  7. 
Hiram.    8.  Clarence. 

(\'II)  Xorris,  son  of  George  Tilley,  was 
born  at  Ludlow,  Massachusetts,  December  3, 
1 83 1.  When  he  was  very  young,  the  family 
removed  to  Chicopee  Falls,  Massachusetts,  and 
lived  there  until  he  was  four  years  old,  remov- 
ing thence  to  Granby,  Massachusetts,  where 
he  attended  the  public  .schools  until  he  was 
eighteen  years  okl.  He  began  at  an  early  age 
to  learn  the  business  of  manufacturing  reeds, 
working  at  this  trade  in  the  vacation  months 
while  he  was  attending  school  and  later  devot- 
ing all  his  time  to  it.  He  went  to  Chicopee  at 
the  age  of  twenty-two  to  work  in  the  reed  fac- 
tory there.  In  1868  he  embarked  in  business 
as  a  reed  manufacturer  on  his  own  account 
with  a  factory  in  .S])ringfield  and  has  success- 
fully conducted  this  business  to  the  present 
time  with  marked  success.  He  ranks  among 
the  best-known  and  most  substantial  manu- 
facturers of  the  city.  In  politics  he  is  a  Jcffer- 
sonian  Democrat,  but  has  never  accepted  public 
office.  He  is  a  Congregationalist  in  religion. 
He  belongs  to  no  secret  orders.  He  married, 
in  1858.  -Susan  Clark,  born  in  Ludlow,  Massa- 
chusetts, daughter  of  Charles  and  Electa 
(Siieldon)  Clark.  She  died  in  1901.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Ernest,  died  in  infancy.  2.  George, 
died  aged  nine  years.  3.  Grace,  1870,  died 
1904;  married  Frank  .\ldrich,  of  Springfield: 
child.  Grace  .-\ldrich,  born  1904. 

(  \TI)  John  (3),  son  of  George  Tilley,  was 
born  in  Granby,  February  13,  1834,  on  the  old 
homestead,  where  his  childhood  was  spent. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town.  He  left  home  at  the  age  of  seventeen 
to  work  for  a  neighboring  farmer,  receiving 
a  hundred  dollars  for  three  years  work.  When 
he  was  twenty  he  removed  to  Mcdway.  Massa- 
chusetts, to  work  in  a  star-shop  or  "bonnet- 
factory."  Six  months  later  he  went  to  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  and  established  himself  in 
business,  cleaning  and  remodeling  hats  and 
boimets.  He  was  successful  in  this  venture. 
A  few  years  later  he  returned  to  ( Iranby  and 

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in  partnership  with  his  brother  bought  and  car- 
ried on  a  farm  until  the  civil  war.  He  enlisted 
in  Company  H,  Fifty-second  Regiment,  Mass- 
achusetts \'olunteer  Militia,  with  the  rank  of 
corporal.  I'pon  the  exi)iration  of  his  term  of 
enlistment  in  1862  he  located  at  South  lladley 
I'^alls,  remaining  until  1870,  when  he  opened  a 
furniture  store  in  Ilolyoke,  Massachusetts.  He 
enjoyed  a  large  and  successful  business  and 
from  time  to  time  has  been  obliged  to  enlarge 
his  store.  In  1907  he  built  new  (|uartcrs  for 
his  business  in  the  building  in  which  he  is  now 
located  in  many  resi>ects  one  of  the  finest  of 
its  kind  in  New  England.  He  is  counted 
among  the  most  substantial  and  successful 
merchants  of  the  Connecticut  Valley  of  Mass- 
achusetts. He  is  president  of  the  People's 
Savings  Bank,  and  a  mernber  of  the  finance 
committee,  director  of  the  Home  .Saving  Bank, 
and  member  of  the  finance  committee.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Congregational  church.  In 
IKilitics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  when  a  resident 
of  (jranby  was  elected  from  a  Democratic 
district  as  a  Republican  candidate  to  the  gen- 
eral court.  He  married,  November  27,  i860, 
in  Granby,  Mary  A.  Preston,  born  February 
25,  1838,  daughter  of  Joel  L.  and  Esther 
CRust)  Preston  (see  Rust  family).  Chil- 
dren: I.  Clifton  Fowler,  born  ()ctol>er  2, 
1861,  educated  at  South  Hadley  Falls  schools, 
is  associated  with  his  father  in  business.  2. 
Trenor  Preston,  December  8,  1875,  educated 
in  Granby,  Massachusetts,  associated  in  busi- 
ness with  his  father  and  brother. 

(The   Rust   Line) 

The  surname  Rust  is  an  ancient  one,  a  Hugh 
Rust  having  lived  in  England  as  early  as  1312. 
The  name  is  also  common  in  Germany. 

( I  )  Hemy  Rust,  immigrant  ancestor,  came 
from  llingham,  coimty  Norfolk,  England,  and 
settled  in  llingham,  Massachusetts,  in  1633  or 
1635.  He  was  the  first  man  of  the  name  in  the 
coimtry,  and  was  a  glover  by  trade.  I  le  had  a 
grant  of  land  at  llingham  in  June,  i''>35,  and 
other  grants  March  5,  March  23,  and  .Xugustof 
the  .same  year.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  in 
March,  1637-38.  On  February  16,  1638,  he 
was  chosen  to  make  the  rates  and  in  1645  was 
town  clerk  of  llingham.  He  was  admitted  as 
an  inhabitant  of  Boston,  and  on  March  31, 
1651,  bought  property  of  Andrew  Palmer — a 
lK)Use  and  land.  This  land  he  deeded  later  to 
his  son.  Nathaniel  Rust,  and  son-in-law,  Robert 
Earle.  The  site  is  now  occupied  by  Trinity 
church,  corner  of  .Summer  and  Hawlcy  streets, 
then  Bishop's  alley.     The  Seven  Star   Inn,  or 


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Pleiades,  formerly  stood  there.  The  wife  of 
Henry  Rust  was  admitted  to  the  church  with 
him  February  20,  1669.  Children:  i.  Samuel, 
baptized  at  Hingham,  August  5,  1638,  married 
Elizabeth  Rogers.  2.  Nathaniel,  baptized  Feb- 
ruary 2,  1639-40,  married  Mary  Wardell.  3. 
Hannah,  baptized  November  7,  1641,  married 
Robert  Earle.  4.  Israel,  baptized  November  12, 
1643,  mentioned  below.  5.  Benjamin,  baptized 
April  5,  1646.  6.  Benoni,  baptized  October  23, 
1649. 

(H)  Israel,  son  of  Henry  Rust,  was  born  m 
Hingham  and  baptized  November  12,  1643.  He 
removed  to  Nortliampton  when  a  young  man 
and  there  married  December  9,  1669,  Rebecca 
Clark,  daughter  of  William  Clark.  He  took  the 
oath  of  allegiance  December  8,  1678,  and  March 
30,  1690,  he  took  the  freeman's  oath.  He  died 
intestate  November  11,  1712.  Children:  i.  Son, 
born  September  12,  1670,  died  September  29, 
1670.  2.  Nathaniel,  November  17,  1671,  married 
Mercy  Atkinson.  3.  Samuel,  August  6,  1673, 
died  January  i,  1 701,  unmarried.  4.  Sarah, 
May  29,  1675,  married,  February  20,  1699, 
Samuel  Allen  Jr.  5.  Experience,  July  30, 
1677,  married,  April  3,  1704,  Sarah  North.  6. 
Israel,  July  15,  1679,  mentioned  below.  7.  Jon- 
athan, June  II,  1681,  married  Elizabeth  Allen; 
(second)  Anna  Lyman.  8.  Rebecca,  about  1683, 
married,  December  31,  1702,  Robert  Danks  Jr. 
9.  John,  about  1685. 

(III)  I.srael  (2),  son  of  Israel  (i)  Rust, 
was  born  in  Northampton,  July  15,  1679,  died 
December  27,  1759.  His  will  was  dated  January 
16,  1744-45,  and  the  inventory  of  the  estate  was 
filed  May  5,  1760.  He  married,  April  13,  1704, 
Sarah  North.  Children:  I.  Sarah,  born  De- 
cember 23,  1704,  married.  May  24,  1727,  Sam- 
uel Clarke.  2.  Mary,  October  30,  1706,  died 
November  3,  1706.  3.  Lydia,  February  24,  1709, 
married,  January  11,  1730,  Eliakim  Phelps.  4. 
Israel,  February  15,  1712,  mentioned  below.  5. 
Child,  February  4,"  1714,  died  young. 

(IV)  Israel  (3),  son  of  Israel  (2)  Rust, 
was  born  February  15,  1712,  in  Northampton, 
died  November  10,  1779.  He  was  a  lumber- 
man in  Northami)ton.  His  will  was  proved  No- 
vember 12,  1779.  He  married,  .\pril  10,  1735, 
Mary  Warner,  born  171 5,  died  November  10, 
1809,  daughter  of  Mark  and  Lydia  (Phelps) 
Warner.  She  made  her  will  January  10,  1805. 
Children:  i. Elijah, born  March 8, 1736, married 
Miriam  Strong.  2.  Mary,  December  11,  1737, 
died  unmarried  .April  4.  1802.  3.  Sarah,  baptized 
August  19,  1739,  married,  1768,  Nathaniel  Par- 
sons. 4.  Israel,  born  December  4,  1741,  men- 
tioned below.  5.  Daniel,  January  12,  1744,  died 


.August,  1744.  6.  Lydia,  July  18,  1745,  died 
aged  seven  years,  two  months.  7.  Esther,  Octo- 
ber, 1747,  married,  February  28,  1771,  Seth 
Clapp.  8.  Eunice,  October,  1749,  married,  Jan- 
uary 9.  1772,  Nathan  Clark.  9.  Jerusha,  1751, 
married,  1771,  Noah  Edwards.  10.  Daniel,  1753, 
married,  March  14,  1782,  Penelope  Cook.  11. 
Jonathan,  November  2,  1755,  died  March  9, 
"1776. 

(V)  Israel  (4),  son  of  Israel  (3)  Rust,  was 
born  December  4,  1741,  died  October  21,  1816. 
He  was  a  farmer  in  Northampton.  He  married 
there  August  22,  1768,  Esther  Bartlett,  sister  of 
Phebe  Bartlett,  whose  conversion  at  the  age  of 
four  years  and  interest  in  Sunday  school  books 
gave  her  great  notoriety.  Children:  i.  Chester, 
born  February  12,  1769,  married,  1798,  Esther 
Wright.  2.  Electa,  October  7,  1770,  married, 
January  8,  1800,  Jared  Clark.  3.  Seth,  ]\Iarch 
15,  1772,  mentioned  below.  4.  Phineas,  August 
29,  1773,  married  IMeltiah  Everett.  5.  Israel, 
July  9,  1775,  died  March  6,  1800.  6.  Jonathan, 
1777,  married  Fanny  Dickinson.  7.  Esther, 
July  II.  1779.  married.  June  4,  1806,  Colonel 
Josiah  Dickinson. 

(\T)  Seth,  son  of  Israel  (4)  Rust,  was  born 
March  15,  1772,  died  March  17,  1838.  He 
was  a  carpenter  and  joiner.  He  married,  Sep- 
tember 10,  1794,  Jerusha  Starr,  born  1772.  died 
April  4.  1848.  Children:  i.  Daniel,  born  Janu- 
ary 23,  1796,  killed  by  being  run  over  by  a 
team,  August  12,  1812.  2.  Spencer,  February 
4,  1797,  married  Sabra  .\.  Smith.  3.  Theodore, 
September  18,  1798,  married  Elizabeth  Clark. 
4.  Wealthy,  August  22,  1800,  died  August  25, 
1801.  5.  Israel,  .August  11,  1802,  died  Octo- 
ber 25.  1802.  6.  Jerusha  Starr,  November  18, 
1803,  married  Stephen  F.  Knight.  7.  Esther, 
January  29,  1806,  married,  February  10,  1830, 
Joel  Lanson  Preston.  8.  Charles  Clapp,  June 
27,  180Q,  married,  September  10,  1848.  Sybel 
P..  Clark;  died  May  13,  1874.  9.  Samuel 
Chase,  October  17,  1811,  married  Adeline 
Barnes;  (second)  Maria  Van  Ripen.  10. 
Wealthy  Amanda,  July  8, 1816.  married,  March 
3,  1846,  Julius  Lyman  Edwards. 


In  the  Anglo-Saxon,  Danish,  Dutch 
RAND  and  German  languages  the  word 
raiui  signifies  a  border,  margin  or 
edge.  It  first  appears  in  F.ngland  as  a  patrony- 
mic in  the  early  part  of  the  fifteenth  century, 
when  there  were  Rands  at  Rand's  Grange,  a 
small  town  near  Bedalc.  and  al.so  in  A''orkshire 
in  1475.  In  Evelyn's  Diary  he  mentions  "his 
friend^  Dr.  Rand."  The  name  is  found  in  the 
London  records  as  early  as  1633;  in  Ripple, 


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Kent,  in  ifioo;  in  Gatesheail,  county  Durliani, 
in  1578;  in  Northamptonshire,  P>edfordshire, 
Lincohishire,  Essex  and  other  counties,  at  later 
dates.  There  are  numerous  coats-of-arms  borne 
by  branches  of  this  family  in  England.  There 
were  three  early  immigrants  of  this  name  to 
Xew  England.  James  Rand  settled  in  Plymouth, 
coming  in  1623  on  the  ship  ".-Xnn,"  but  prob- 
ably returned  before  1627.  Francis  Rand  came 
to  Rye,  Xew  Hampshire, and  has  many  descend- 
ants.   Robert  Rand  is  mentioned  below. 

(I)  Robert  Rand,  immigrant  ancestor,  came 
from  England,  probably  in  1635.  and  settled  in 
Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  where  his  wife 
.Alice  was  admitted  to  the  church  in  that 
year  and  where,  the  following  year,  their  son 
Nathaniel  was  born.  In  the  town  Book  of 
Possessions,  dated  1638,  mention  is  made  of 
the  property  owned  by  Robert  Rand,  includ- 
ing one  house  on  the  west  side  of  Windmill 
Hill,  si.xty-si.x  acres  and  "three  commons."  He 
died  in  1639  or  1640,  perhaps  at  Lynn,  where 
he  lived  for  a  time.  He  received  a  bequest  in 
the  will  of  Robert  Keayne,  a  former  employer. 
In  1658  his  widow  Alice  Rand  and  her  son 
Thomas,  jointly,  had  a  grant  of  thirty-four 
acres  of  wood  land  and  nine  commons.  She 
was  a  sister  of  Mary,  wife  of  Captain  Richard 
Sprague,  and  said  to  be  a  daughter  of  Nicholas 
.Sharpe.  Both  Captain  Richard  and  his  wife 
left  in  their  wills  legacies  to  members  of  the 
Rand  family.  She  died  August  5,  1691,  at 
the  age  of  ninety-eight  years,  according  to  the 
town  record,  although  given  as  ninety-seven  on 
the  gravestone.  The  will  of  .Alice  Rand  was 
made  .August  22,  1663,  but  not  proved  until 
August  17,  1691.  She  bequeathed  to  her  sons 
Nathaniel  and  Thomas,  grandchildren  John, 
Edmund.  Samuel,  Thomas,  and  the  four  daugh- 
ters of  her  son  Thomas.  Children,  probably 
of  a  first  wife:  i.  Robert,  settled  in  Lynn  as 
early  as  1649  and  died  there  November  8, 
1694;  wife  Elizabeth  died  August  19,  1693, 
leaving  seven  chililren.  2.  Margery,  born  about 
1624,  died  .April  12,  1714.  aged  ninety  ;  married 
Lawrence  Dowse  and  had  nine  children.  Chil- 
dren of  Robert  and  Alice  (probably).  3. 
Thomas,  born  about  1627,  mentioned  below. 
4.  Susanna,  born  about  1630,  married,  Febru- 
ary 8,  1652,  Abraham  Newell,  of  Roxbury.  5. 
Alice,  born  i'')33.  died  August  11,  1721  ;  mar- 
ried. June  26,  1660.  Thomas  Lord.  6.  Nathaniel, 
baptized  November  3,  1636,  sergeant ;  select- 
man :  married  Mary and  (second)  .Abi- 
gail Carter.  7.  Elizabeth,  born  1639,  died  May 
I,  1702;  married,  December  6,  1661,  Nathaniel 
Brewer  in  Roxbury. 


(II)  Thomas,  son  of  Robert  Rand,  was 
born  in  iMigland  about  1627,  died  at  Charles- 
town,  .August  4,  1683.  He  was  a  sergeant  and 
a  cordwainer  by  trade.  He  was  admitted  a 
freeman  in  1660.  He  married,  March  25,  1656, 
Sarah  Edenden,  died  June  26,  1699,  aged  sixty- 
three,  daughter  of  Edmund  and  Eliza  (Whit- 
man) Edenden.  Children,  born  in  Charles- 
town:  I.  Thomas,  February  i,  1657,  married, 
June  17,  167 — ,  Sarah  Longley;  drowned  in 
the  Mystic  river  in  a  canoe  accident,  October 
3,  1695.  2.  John,  October  6,  1659,  died  De- 
cember 19.  1659.  3.  Sarah,  baptized  January 
6.  1661.  died  young.  4.  Elizabeth,  baptized 
February  2,  1662,  married  John  Henry.  5. 
John,  born  May  25,  1664,  mentioned  below.  6. 
Sarah,  August  15,  1666,  married  Thomas 
White.  7.  Robert,  April  18,  1668,  died  of 
small  ])ox,  1678.  8.  Edmund,  January  27, 
i'')7o,  died  1^183.  9.  Hannah,  February  21, 
1672,  married  Nathaniel  Frothingham.  10. 
William,  September  11,  1674.  11.  Deborah, 
Se])tembcr  28,  1676,  died  February  16,  1701. 
12.  Samuel,  May  3,  1679. 

(HI)  John,  son  of  Thomas  Rand,  was  born 
in  Charlestown,  May  25,  1664,  died  September 
24,  1737.  He  was  a  malster  by  trade.  He 
married  (first)  December  2,  1685,  Mehitable 
Call,  died  March  25,  1727,  in  her  fifty-ninth 
year,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  (Kettell) 
Call.  He  married  (second)  October  14,  1730, 
Mary  Randall,  who  died  September  22,  1757, 
aged  eighty-five,  widow  of  Job  Randall.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Charlestown:  i.  Mehitable, 
March  27,  1687,  married  Randolph  Davis.  2. 
.Sarah,  born  and  died  January  5,  1689.  3. 
John,  .March  7,  1690,  mentioned  below.  4. 
Hainiah.  I'ebruary  6,  1692.  5.  Jonathan,  April 
2-j.  \i*)^.  6.  Sarah,  July  19,  1696,  married, 
December  22,  1720,  John  Lamson.  7.  Re- 
becca, November  4,  1698,  died  January  14, 
1699.  8.  Benjamin,  March  17,  1700.  9. 
Thomas,  March  22,  1702,  died  October  23, 
1722.  10.  Caleb,  December  6,  1703.  11.  Isaac 
(twin),  September  4,  1706,  died  October  27, 
1706.  12.  Rebecca  (twin),  September  4,  1706, 
died  October  27,  1 706.  13.  Rebecca,  July  31, 
1708,  died  November  2,  1708.  14.  Edmund, 
July  2,  1710.    15.  Richard,  November  19,  1714. 

{\\ )  John  (2),  .sun  of  John  (i)  Rand, 
was  Ixirn  in  Charlestown,  March  7,  1690,  died 
of  small  pox,  January  28,  1722.  He  and  his 
sons  John  and  James  have  one  gravestone.  He 
married  (first)  June  14,  1711,  Ann  Newell, 
i)orn  August  21,  1693,  daughter  of  John  and 
Hannah  (Hurry)  Newell.  She  married  (sec- 
ond)   Deceinber    19,    1723,   James    Hay.      He 


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was  a  cordwainer  by  trade.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  church  December   ii,   1715.     Children: 

1.  John,  born  June  15,  died  September  8,  1712. 

2.  Ann,  November  26,  died  December  9,  171 3. 

3.  Ann,  February  26,  1715,  died  young.  4. 
John,  December  10,  1716,  died  of  small  pox, 
January  22,  1722.  5.  Hannah  (twin)  Janu- 
ary 6,  1718,  died  January  14,  1718.  6.  Mehit- 
able  (twin),  January  6,  1718,  died  January  11, 
1718.  7.  Isaac,  baptized  January  11,  1719, 
mentioned  below.  8.  James,  baptized  Febru- 
ary 19,  1721.  died  of  small  pox,  January  27, 
1722.  9.  Ann,  bajjtized  I'ebruary  19,  1721, 
married  John  Rayner. 

(V)  Dr.  Isaac,  son  of  John  (2)  Rand,  was 
baptized  January  11,  1719,  and  was  a  noted 
physician  of  Charlestown  and  Cambridge.  He 
was  a  surgeon  in  the  revolutionary  army.  His 
will  was  proved  May  5,  1790.  He  married 
(first)  April  17,  1740,  Margaret  Damon,  died 
January  16.  1753,  aged  thirty-eight,  daughter 
of  John  and  Margaret  Damon.  He  married 
(second)  January  10,  1754,  Elizabeth  Apple- 
ton,  born  December  16,  1726,  died  November 
17,  1756,  daughter  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Apple- 
ton.  He  married  (third)  May  9,  1758.  Jane 
Flucker,  born  January  25,  1723,  died  March 
23,  1805,  daughter  of  Cajitain  James  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Luist)  Mucker.  Children  of  first  wife  : 
I.  Margaret,  born,  May  7,  1741  married 
Nathaniel  Austin.  2.  Isaac,  April  18,  1743. 
3.  John,  February  6,  1745.  4.  Edward,  June 
1747,  died  August  21,  1747.  5.  Edward,  De- 
cember II,  1748.  died  .\pril  11,  1749.  6.  Ed- 
ward, September  4,  1750,  mentioned  below. 
7.  Ann,  January  8,  died  January  13,  1753. 
Child  of  second  wife:  8.  Elizabeth,  baptized 
October  12,  1755,  died  May  18,  1772.  Chil- 
dren'of  third  wife:  9.  Ann,  born  October  30, 
1762,  died  January  15,  1763.  10.  James,  April 
28,  1766,  died  July  30,  1768. 

(\'l)  Edward,  son  of  Dr.  Isaac  Rand,  was 
born  September  4.  1750,  died  December  3, 
1829.  lie  rc'sided  in  Newburyjiort.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  September  20.  1781,  Ruth  Sprague, 
who  died  Se|)tember  5,  1 789.  lie  married  (  sec- 
ond )  October,  1792,  Martha  (Sprague)  Par- 
sons, widow,  who  died  February  27,  1829.  Both 
wives  were  daughters  of  Dr.  John  Sprague. 
Chiklren:  i.  Edward  Sprague,  born  June  2^, 
1782.  mentioned  below.  2.  Isaac,  September 
7,  1784,  died  July  14,  1818;  seaman;  father's 
sole  heir.  3.  John,  1786.  4.  Margaret  D., 
February  3.  1798,  married  John  .Vndrews.  5. 
Jane.  December  17,  1802,  married  David 
Wood. 

(\'H)    Edward    Sprague.    son    of    Edward 


Rand,  was  born  in  Newburyport,  June  23, 
1782,  died  October  22,  1863.  He  was  for 
many  years  a  .successful  merchant  at  New- 
burvport.  He  was  prominent  in  public  life  and 
was  several  years  in  the  legislature.  He  mar- 
ried Hannah  Fcttingill,  who  died  April  8,  1854. 
Children:  I.  Edward  Sprague,  born  March  5. 
1809,  mentioned  below.  2.  Emily  Ruth  Sprague, 
F^ebruary  11,  181 1.  married  Dr.  S.  .Augustus 
Arnold,  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  3. 
Hannah  Pettingill,  November  28,  1813. 

(\'III)  PMward  Sprague  (2),  son  of  Ed- 
ward Sprague  ( I  )  Rand,  was  born  in  New- 
buryport, March  5,  1809,  died  January  18, 
1884.  He  and  his  wife,  his  son,  Rev.  Charles 
A.  Rand,  his  son's  wife  and  little  daughter, 
perished  in  the  wreck  of  the  steamer  "City  of 
Columbus,"  oflf  Gay  Head,  in  Vineyard  sound. 
He  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1828, 
and  Harvard  Law  School  in  1831,  and  was  a 
prominent  lawyer,  filling  high  and  honorable 
])osition  at  the  .Suffolk  bar,  to  which  he  was 
admitted  in  October.  1831.  He  married,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1833,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sal- 
mon .Arnold,  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island. 
Children:  i.  Edward  Sprague,  born  October 
20.  1834.  2.  .Arnold  .Augustus,  March  25, 
1837,  mentioned  below.  3.  Francis  .Arnold, 
.April  30.  1839.  died  July  15,  1840.  4.  Eliza- 
beth .Arnold,  July  29,  1841,  died  May  22,  1852. 
5.  Charles  .Arthur,  November  4,  1843,  first 
lieutenant  Twentieth  Massachusetts  Infantry, 
and  breveted  captain.  6.  Frederick  Henry, 
July  19,  1846,  five  children ;  captain  Fourth 
Mas.sachu setts,  later  Twenty-sixth  New  York 
Cavalry. 

(  IN  )  Colonel  .\rnoId  .Augustus,  son  of  Ed- 
ward Sprague  (2)  Rand,  was  born  March  25, 
1837.  in  P.oston.  His  education  was  obtained 
in  the  jniblic  and  private  schools  of  Boston 
ami  Dedham,  and  was  supplemented  by  a 
course  of  study  abroad.  He  fitted  for  college, 
intending  to  enter  Harvard  with  the  class  of 
1858.  but  instead  entered  ui)on  a  business 
career  in  the  counting  room  of  the  firm  of 
William  B.  Reynolds  iS;  Com]iany,  commission 
merchants,  Boston,  and  was  promoted  from 
time  to  time  until  he  became  the  assistant 
bookkeeper.  He  then  spent  nearly  two  years 
in  study  in  Europe,  and  on  his  return  became 
clerk  and  later  was  ])romote(l  to  cashier  of  the 
banking  house  of  Blake,  1  lowe  &  Company, 
remaining  with  that  firm  and  its  successors, 
Blake  Brothers  &  Comi)any.  until  the  civil 
war.  Before  the  first  call  for  troops  he  was 
private  in  the  I'ourth  Battalion,  .Massachusetts 
\()lunteer  Militia.     His  first  commission  was 


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dated  October  30.  1861,  as  second  lieutenant, 
in  the  First  Massachusetts  Cavalry.  On  Febru- 
ary4. 1862,  he  was  promoted  to  the  captaincy.  In 
June,  1863.  he  was  commissioned  assistant  ad- 
jutant general,  with  the  rank  of  captain,  and 
assigned  to  duty  in  the  Department  of  the 
South.  In  the  fall  of  1863  he  was  recalled  by 
Governor  Andrew  and  assigned  to  the  com- 
mand of  the  Fourth  Regiment  Massachusetts 
Cavalry,  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant  colonel. 
Farlv  in  January.  1864,  he  was  made  colonel, 
and  took  his  regiment  to  join  the  .\rmy  of  the 
James,  and  continued  in  active  service  in  the 
field  until  he  resigned,  February  3,  1865.  Re- 
turning to  Boston,  after  four  years  military 
service,  he  entered  his  father's  office  and  began 
the  study  of  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1874,  and  immediately  began  to  practice.  He 
has  made  a  specialty  of  real  estate  and  probate 
business,  and  is  an  authority  on  these  branches 
of  law.  In  1893  he  was  made  a  director  of  the 
John  Hancock  Life  Insurance  Company  and 
was  elected  a  vice-president  and  counsel  in 
1898,  which  offices  he  still  holds.  Colonel  Rand 
is  an  active  and  ])rominent  member  of  the  Mili- 
tary Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  serving  as 
recorder  of  the  Massachusetts  Commandery 
from  1881  to  i9o6,w4ien  he  declined  re-election. 
He  is  a  member  of  Charles  W.  Carroll  Post, 
No.  144,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  has 
served  on  the  department  staff.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  .Algon(|uin  Club.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  but  has  never  been  active 
in  pui)Iic  life.  Colonel  Rand  married,  in  1877, 
Annie  Eliza  Hrownell,  daughter  of  .Abner  \\'. 
and  Eliza  (Lellarron)  Rrownell,  of  Xew  Bed- 
ford. They  have  no  children.  Their  home  is 
in  Boston. 


Woodbury  is  the  name  of 
WOODBURY  an  ancient  and  widespread 
English  family.  The  name 
occurs  all  over  England,  but  the  family  is  most 
numerous  in  the  county  of  Devon.  The  name 
was  undoubtedly  a  place  name.  An  estate  of 
Wodebergh  has  been  traced  in  Somerset  from 
1304.  In  1216  Will'us  de  Wode-bere  held  a 
knight's  fee  at  I'lymtree.  The  name  occurs  in 
the  Domesday  Book  (A.  D.  10S6),  spelled 
Wodeberie,  and  various  spellings  have  since 
been  used. 

(I)  John  Woodbury,  immigrant  ancestor, 
came  from  Somersetshire,  England,  about 
1624-25,  in  the  interests  of  the  Dorchester 
Company,  which  established  itself  at  Cape  ,\nn, 
now  Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  at  or  shortly 
before    that    period.      Perhaps    no    better    or 


clearer  account  can  be  given  of  his  earlier  con- 
nection with  this  company  as  its  agent  than  to 
give  in  full  the  de])osition  of  his  son  llum])hrey, 
who  accompanied  him  thither  on  his  second 
voyage.  The  deposition  was  given  to  disprove 
Mason's  claim  to  extensive  tracts  of  land  in 
Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire,  under  date 
of  F\'bruary  ifi.  1680-81. 

"llumplirc)-  Woodbury,  Beverly,  aged  sev- 
enty-two. testifies,  tliat  when  I  lived  in  Somer- 
setshire, in  England,  I  remember  that  my  father 
John  Woodbcrye  ( since  deceased )  did  about 
56  years  agoe  remoove  for  New  England  & 
I  then  traveled  with  as  farr  as  Dorchester 
(Eng.)  &  I  understood  that  my  said  father 
came  to  New  England  by  order  o{  a  company 
caled  Dorchester  company  (among  whomemr. 
White  of  Dorchester  in  iMigland  was  an  active 
instrument  )  &  that  my  father  and  the  coni])any 
with  him  brought  cattle  &  other  things  to  Cape 
.\nn  for  plantation  work  &  there  built  an 
house  &  kept  theire  cattle  &  sett  up  fishing  & 
afterwards  some  of  them  removed  to  a  neck  of 
land  afterwards  called  Salem.  And  after  about 
three  years  absence  my  father  returned  to  Eng- 
land li  made  us  ac(|uainted  with  what  settlement 
they  had  made  in  new  England  &  that  he  was 
sent  back  by  some  that  Intended  to  settle  a 
plantation  about  3  leagues  west  of  Cape  Ann, 
to  further  this  designe  after  about  half  a  years 
stay  in  England,  my  father  returned  to  new 
England  iS:  brought  me  with  him ;  wee  arrived 
at  llic  jilace  now  caled  Salem  in  or  about  the 
month  of  June,  1628;  where  wee  foimd  several 
persons  that  said  they  were  servants  to  the 
Dorchester  company  &  had  built  another  house 
for  them  at  Salem  besides  that  at  Cape  Ann, 
The  latter  end  of  that  sumer,  1628:  John  Ende- 
cott  Esq :  came  over  governor,  declaring  his 
power  from  a  comi)any  of  pattentees  in  or 
about  London:  &  that  they  had  bought  the 
houses  boates  &  servants  which  belonged  to 
the  Dorchester  com]jany  and  that  he  sd  luidi- 
cott  had  power  to  receive  them  which  accord- 
ingly he  ('id  take  possession  of ;  when  we  set- 
tled the  Indians  never  then  molested  us  in  our 
im])rovcments  or  sitting  downe  either  on  Salem 
or  licverly  side  of  the  ferry,  but  showed  them- 
selves very  glad  of  our  company  &  came  & 
planted  by  us  &  oftentimes  came  to  us  for 
shelter  saying  they  W'ere  afraid  of  their  enemy 
Indians  up  in  the  country;  &  wee  did  shelter 
them  when  they  fled  to  us  &  wee  had  theire 
free  leave  to  build  &  plant  wdiere  wee  have 
taken  up  lands ;  the  same  year,  or  the  next 
after,  wee  came  to  .Salem  wee  cut  hay  for  the 
cattel   wee  brought  over  on  that  side  of  the 


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ferry  now  caled  Beverly :  &  have  kept  our 
possession  there  ever  since  by  cutting  hay  or 
thatch  or  timber  &  boards  &  by  laying  out  lots 
for  tillage:  &  sometime  after  building  &  dwell- 
ing heere,  where,  with  others  have  lived  about 
40  years :  In  all  this  time  of  my  being  in  new 
England  I  never  heard  that  Mr.  Mason  took 
possession  here,  disbursted  estate  upon,  or  layd 
claim  to  this  place  of  ours,  save  the  discourse 
of  a  claim  within  this  yeare  or  two." 

John  had  a  brother,  William  Woodbury, 
who  came  over  before  1630,  when  the  two 
brothers  settled  in  what  is  now  Beverly,  near 
Woodbury's  Point,  on  Mackerel  Cove.  John 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1630;  was  deputy 
to  the  general  court  from  1635  to  1638.  In 
1635  he  was  apiiointed  one  of  the  committee 
to  lay  out  lands.  In  the  year  in  which  Har- 
vard College  was  established,  1636,  Captain 
Endicott,  in  behalf  of  Colonel  John  Humphries, 
presented  a  motion  to  the  general  court  to  set 
oflf  some  lands  beyond  Forest  river  for  the 
erection  of  a  college  there.  Woodbury  was 
ap])ointed  on  the  committee  of  six  to  view  the 
lands.  In  1^137  he  was  elected  selectman  and 
continued  in  that  office  until  his  death,  being 
present  at  every  meeting.  He  and  his  wife 
-Agnes  were  among  the  original  members  of 
the  First  Church  at  Salem  in  1629.  His  will 
was  proved  February  8,  1642-43,  but  is  not 
preserved.  1  le  was  probably  about  si.xty  years 
old  at  the  time  of  his  death.  Children:  I. 
Humphrey,  born  1609-10,  mentioned  below.  2. 
John,  rcsidi-d  in  l-ieverly,  colled  senior.  3. 
Hannah,  hajitized  December  23,  1636,  married, 
April  26,  1858,  Cornelius  liaker.  4.  Abigail, 
baptized  November  12,  1637,  married  John 
Hill.  3.  Peter,  baptized  Sejjtember  19,  1640 
(born  June  19,  1640,  according  to  Savage). 

(II)  llum])hrey,  son  of  John  Woodbury, 
was  born  in  luigland  in  1609-10.  He  and  six 
others  were  granted  a  half  acre  each  at  Winter 
Harbor  for  fisjiing  trade  and  to  build  upon. 
In  1636  lie  received  a  grant  of  forty  acres  of 
land,  and  January  29,  1636-37,  forty  acres 
more.  He  was  called  "fisherman"  in  the  deeds 
of  various  (larcels  of  land  that  he  bought.    He 

married  I-'.lizabcth  ,  who  made  her  will 

.May  I,  i68<>.  It  was  proved  November  26, 
1689,  mentioning  her  two  grandchildren,  Peter. 
son  of  John  Woodbury,  and  I'eter,  son  of 
William,  to  both  of  whom  she  gave  ten  shillings 
because  they  were  named  for  her  .son  I'eter, 
who  was  killed  by  the  Indians  in  King  Philip's 
war  under  Captain  Lathro|i ;  two  daughters, 
•Susanna  Tenney  and  Christian  Trask.  to  whom 
she  gave  twenty  shillings   each,  and   daughter 


Elizabeth  Walker ;  Peter  Woodbury  and  Cor- 
nelius Baker,  her  friends,  were  named  as  over- 
seers of  her  will.  Children:  i.  John,  bap- 
tized October  24,  1641.  2.  Isaac,  baptized 
February  4,  1643-44,  died  March  11,  1725.  3. 
Humphrey,  baptized  March  8,  1646-47,  died 
.■\pril  9,  1727.  4.  Thomas,  born  about  1639, 
mentioned  below.  5.  Susanna,  born  February 
4,  1648-49,  married,  December  2,  1668,  John 
Tenney.  6.  William,  baptized  May  4,  1651. 
7.  I'eter,  born  March  28,  1653,  killed  1675.  8. 
Richard,  born  February,  1654-55,  died  1690 
on  return  from  Canada  expedition.  9.  Eliza- 
beth,  born    Ajjril    28,    1657,    married    

Walker,  of  Boston.  10.  Christian,  born  April 
20,  1661,  suicide:  married.  .April  9,  1679.  John 
Trask. 

(Ill)  Thomas,  son  of  Humphrey  Wood- 
bury, was  born  about  1639.  His  will  was  dated 
December  11,  1716,  and  proved  April  20,  1719, 
mentioning  widow  Elizabeth ;  sons  W'illiam, 
Jonathan  and  Samuel;  daughters  Hannah,  wife 
of  John  Ober,  and  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Joseph 
Merrick,  and  children  of  his  son  Samuel,  de- 
ceased, viz:  .Samuel,  Keziah,  Mary.  Thomas 
deeded  to  his  son  William  a  house  in  which  Will- 
iam had  been  living.  He  gave  other  heirs  divers 
])arcels  of  land  during  his  lifetime.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Hannah  (Dodge)  Porter,  baptized 
in  the  First  Church  of  Salem,  July  24,  1642, 
died  Tanuary  2,  1688,  daughter  of  William 
and  Elizabeth  Dodge,  and  widow  of  Samuel 
Porter.  He  married  (second)  .\pril  29,  1690. 
I''lizabeth  Ciu-tis.  widow  of  Samuel  Curtis.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:  i.  William,  born  Septem- 
ber 17,  1662,  mentioned  below.  2.  Samuel, 
1665-66,  died  April  18,  1689.  3.  Thomas,  bap- 
tized July  3,  1667.  4.  Israel,  born  May  23, 
1670.  5.  Hannah,  February  25,  1672,  married, 
July  5,  1694,  John  Ober.  6.  Elizabeth,  Febru- 
ary 6,  1676.  married  Joseph  1  lerrick.  7. 
Daughter,  January  20,  1679,  died  young.  8. 
Susanna,  bajitizcd  I\larch  7.  1680,  died  before 
17 16.  9.  Jonathan,  born  Sejjtembcr  12,  1682, 
married  Eleanor  Ellinwood.  10.  Samuel,  Feb- 
ruary 2.  1690-91. 

(  l\)  William,  son  of  Thomas  Woodbury, 
was  born  September  17.  1662.  His  will  was 
dated  November  6,  1725,  and  ])roved  Novem- 
ber 21).  1725.  He  married,  September  29. 
i68().  Joanna  \\  heeler,  of  Concord,  who  died 
.•\l)ril  7,  1748,  aged  seventy-six.  Children:  i. 
Sarah,  born  December  14,  1690,  marrietl,  171 1- 
12,  Raljih  Ellinwood.  2.  Hannah,  January  14, 
1692-93.  married.  1718.  Peter  Groves.  3. 
Israel.  December  26.  i(^k)4.  married  Mary 
Woodbury.     4.   Willi;ini.  July    11.   i6<)7,  men- 


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tioncd  below.  5.  Thomas.  Sciiteniber  5.  1700, 
married,  September  28.  1724.  Priscilla  Wood- 
bury. 6.  Hugh,  Marcli  18,  1703.  7.  I-ois, 
May  I.  1705.  married.  1726.  Ezra  Corning. 
8.  Elisha,  February  21,  1706-07,  died  March 
25,  1751 ;  married,  1728.  Joanna  Ober.  9. 
Mihill.  lanuarx-  iS,  1712-13.  married  Marv 
Balch. 

(\')  William  (2).  son  of  William  (i)  Wood- 
bury, wa.s  born  July  11,  1697,  died  October  18, 
or  .Vovember  16.  1788.  He  wa.s  a  miller.  lie 
married.  September  2,  1720,  ?^Iartha  Wood- 
bury, baptizeil  .August  23.  1702,  died  .\pril  27, 
1775.  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah  W'ood- 
bury.  Children:  i.  William,  born  March  26, 
1721.  died  .April  10.  1789.  2.  Joanna,  March 
I,  1724.  married,  January  20.  1743-44,  Renja- 
min  Harvey.  3.  Israel,  January  4.  1726.  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Ruth,  February  14,  1728, 
died  September  23,  1773:  married,  December 
12,  1 75 1.  Larkin  Thorndike.  5.  Zacharias, 
June  29.  1730.  6.  Jude.  baptized  May  6.  1732. 
7.  Lois,  born  June  23,  1735.  died  September  19. 
1774.  8.  Ebenezer.  October  9.  1737.  9.  Joseph, 
July  3.  1739.  10.  Hannah,  May  16,  1742.  11. 
Elisha,  .August  12,  1744,  married.  1768.  Han- 
nah Raymond. 

(\'I)  Israel,  son  of  William  (2)  Woodbury, 
was  born  January  4.  1726.  He  removed  to 
Salem.  Massachusetts,  before  his  marriage  and 
to  Salem.  Xew  Hampshire,  afterward.  He  was 
a  prominent  citizen  of  Salem,  New  Hamp- 
shire, often  holding  positions  of  trust  and 
honor.  He  was  a  juror  in  1774;  selectman 
several  years.     He  married  (second)  Hannah 

.      Children,    all    recorded    as    born    at 

Salem,  Xew  Hampshire:  i.  Mary,  born  \o- 
vembcr  2,  1751.  2.  Judith,  January  25,  1753. 
3.  Hannah,  Alay  6,  1757.  4.  Israel,  December 
10.  1759,  mentioned  below.  5.  Betty,  Novem- 
ber 15.  1763.  r>.  I'.enjamin,  Alay  29,  1766.  7. 
Martha,  January  \f\  1770.     8.  Esther.  March 

19.  1779- 

evil)  Captain  Israel  (2),  son  of  Israel  (i) 
Woodbury,  was  born  in  .Salem,  New  Hamp- 
shire. December  10,  1759,  died  there  October 
16.  1858.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution, 
enlisting  in  1777  in  the  Continental  army.  Cap- 
tain Robinson's  company.  Colonel  Nathan 
Hale's  regiment,  receiving  a  bounty  of  twenty 
pounds  on  May  6.  In  the  official  recgrds  he 
is  reported  as  missing  after  the  battle  of  Ticon- 
deroga  and  was  thus  described :  freckled,  of 
dark  comiilexion,  dark  hair.  During  1777-78- 
79  he  was  in  the  .Secf)nd  Company,  Second 
Regiment  under  Colonel  Ceorge  Reid.  He 
was    captured    while    in    the    service   and    the 


story  is  told  thus  by  his  grandson,  Levi  Wood- 
bury: "He  was  stationed  in  northern  New 
A'ork.  There  measles  broke  out  in  camp  and 
became  epidemic.  When  he  was  nearly  w-ell, 
the  camp  w^as  surprised  by  a  marauding  band 
of  Indians  and  those  who  tried  to  escape  were 
slain,  but  grandfather  being  too  weak  to  run 
was  taken  prisoner  and  carried  to  the  St.  Law- 
rence River  and  across  to  Canada  where  he 
was  turned  over  to  a  wealthy  Frenchman  who 
held  him  vassal  for  a  long  time,  even  after  the 
war  was  over.  But  by  the  aid  of  a  half-breed 
he  managed  to  escape  and  recross  the  St.  Law- 
rence in  a  canoe  and  wdien  on  our  soil  he 
struck  out  through  the  wilderness  for  Salem. 
His  parents  had  given  him  uj)  for  lost,  suppos- 
ing he  was  dead,  as  the  war  was  over  and  they 
had  heard  nothing  from  him.  He  walked  all 
the  way  to  Salem  and  on  a  Sunday  arrived 
barefooted,  hatless  and  with  but  very  scant 
clothing  at  his  father's  door  with  his  trusty 
gun  u]ion  his  shoulder.  It  was  no  wonder  that 
his  playmate  whom  he  left  at  home  when  he 
went  to  war^  a  lad  by  the  name  of  Amos 
Wheeler  whom  his  parents  raised,  seeing  him 
at  the  door,  fled  in  fright  crying  'Israel's 
ghost.'  But  grandfather  reassured  him  by 
saying  'Amos  ghosts  do  not  carry  guns.'  So 
Amos  came  out  from  his  hiding  place  and  then 
such  handshaking  and  embracing  by  those  two 
fast  friends  was  never  seen  before.  It  seems 
that  great  grandfather  and  mother  had  gone 
to  church  and  left  Amos  at  home  to  guard  the 
house.  After  Amos  explained  the  absence  of 
his  parents  and  had  heard  some  of  his  adven- 
tures related,  they  saw  his  parents  coming  up 
the  road  on  one  horse,  she  on  a  pillion,  as  they 
rode  in  olden  times,  and  what  did  Amos  do 
but  run  to  meet  them,  crying  at  the  top  of  his 
voice  'Israel  has  come!  Israel  has  come!' 
greatly  U)  the  chagrin  and  consternation  of  the 
old  people,  who  upon  that  very  Sunday  had 
listened  tcj  prayers  by  their  good  pastor  for 
their  dear  boy  whom  they  expected  was  surely 
dead.  So  Amos  got  a  sharp  cut  from  the  rid- 
ing whip  with  the  remark  that  it  was  a  sad 
time  for  jokes  (.Amos  had  a  rej)Utation  of  being 
something  of  a  joker).  So  .Amos  ran  and 
brought  granrlfather's  gun  and  said:  'See  his 
gun.  Do  you  believe  me  now  ?'  And  then 
grandfather  came  out  and  his  mother  fell  into 
his  arms  and  his  father  embraced  him  and  all 
were  happy  in  the  reunion.  And  there  was 
great  rejoicing  in  the  whole  town."  He  was 
sold  t(i  the  h'reuchman  for  a  barrel  of  rum. 

The  farm  oi  Israel  and  of  his  father,  bought 
about   1757  of  the  town  of  Londonderry,  was 


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lately  owned  by  Levi  Woodbury.  Israel  was 
later  a  cajnain  of  militia;  on  the  committee 
to  locate  the  boundary  between  Salem  and 
W'indJiani,  Xew  Hampshire;  a  large  taxpayer; 
selectman  i8o4-of)-07-io-i  1-12-14  ;  represent- 
ative to  the  state  legislature,  1817-19.  He 
married,  June  30,  1783,  Mehitable  Hall.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Salem:  i.  Asa,  May  30,  1784, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Retty,  August  28,  1786. 
3.  Lois,  August  II,  1789.  4.  Richard,  March 
22,  1791,  died  February  i.  1869:  had  the  home- 
stead. 5.  Abigail.  November  20,  1792.  6. 
Mehitable,  February  17,  1795.  7.  Israel,  No- 
vember 4,  1796,  died  young.  8.  Ruth,  June  10, 
1798.  9.  Mary,  February  21,  1800.  10.  Israel, 
October  10,  1805. 

(VHI)  Asa,  son  of  Captain  Israel  (2) 
Woodbury,  was  born  at  Salem,  May  30,  1784. 
He  settled  in  his  native  town,  and  in  1835  was 
clerk  of  the  Congregational  church  there. 
Afterward  he  was  deacon  of  the  Methodist 
church.  He  was  lieutenant  of  the  military 
company  in  1822.  In  politics  he  was  a  Whig. 
He  was  a  mason  by  trade.  He  married  Sarah 
Thom.  Children,  iDorn  at  Salem :  i.  Charles. 
2.  George,  born  February  i.  1819.  3.  Eliza- 
beth. 4.  Lsaac,  born  .August  11,  1822.  men- 
tioned below,  only  one  living. 

(IX)  Isaac,  son  of  Asa  Woodbury,  was 
born  at  Salem,  August  11,  1822.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  district  schools  of  .Atkinson,  New 
Hami)shire,  and  succeeded  to  his  father's 
homestead  at  Salem.  He  followed  farming 
during  his  active  life  and  is  still  living  at  an 
advanced  age  in  his  native  town.  In  early  life 
he  was  a  Whig,  but  since  the  organization  of 
the  Reimblican  party  has  supported  its  candi- 
dates and  jjrinciples.  Lie  has  been  elected  to 
many  offices  of  trust  and  honor  in  Salem  and 
servefl  the  town  as  representative  to  the  state 
legislature.  He  is  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Methodist  church,  of  which  be  has  been  a 
deacon.  He  married  Caroline  Willard  Parker, 
daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Lawrence) 
Parker,  of  Cohasset,  Massachusetts.  Children, 
born  at  Salem:  i.  Isaac  Franklin,  born  Octo- 
ber 31,  1849.  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Wood- 
bury iS;  Leighton,  building  contractors:  lives  in 
P.oston.  2.  .'^arah  Fli-zabetb,  1 851.  married 
John  W.  Hall:  they  live  in  Metiuien.  Massa- 
eiiusetts.  3.  Mary  Caroline,  ■■"ebruary  i,  1853, 
mairied  Charles  D.  Austin;  they  live  at  Som- 
erville,  Massachusetts.  4.  Charles  Henry,  De- 
cember II,  1855,  mentioned  below.  5.  John 
Parker,  January,  1858,  died  at  Salem.  1882. 

(X)  Charles  Henry,  son  of  Isaac  W^iod- 
bnry.  was  born  at  Salem,  Deeeniber  11.  1855. 


Lie  attended  the  public  schools  of  Salem  and 
the  iiigh  school  of  Lawrence,  Massachusetts. 
He  began  his  career  as  clerk  in  the  crockery 
store  of  Rogers  &  Company.  Boston.  When 
he  was  but  twenty-three  years  old,  in  1878,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  a  fellow-clerk  and 
established  the  firm  of  Mitchell,  Woodbury  & 
Company,  dealers  in  crockery.  Success  attend- 
ed the  new  concern  and  has  followed  it  to  the 
present  time.  The  store  was  first  at  151  Frank- 
lin street,  then  at  56  Pearl  street,  Boston,  and 
is  now  at  82  Pearl  street.  In  1901  the  business 
was  incorporated  as  the  Mitchell,  Woodbury 
Company  and  since  then  ^Mr.  Woodbury  has 
been  pr^ident  and  general  manager  of  the 
company.  Mr.  Woodbury  is  a  Republican  in 
politics  and  a  Congregationalist  in  religion. 
His  home  is  in  .Allston,  twenty-fifth  ward  of 
Boston.  He  married.  May  26,  1880,  Caroline 
Francis  Partridge,  of  Boston,  born  in  Port- 
land, Maine.  Children,  born  in  Boston:  i. 
Marion  Willard,  January  27,  1883.  2.  Con- 
stance Caroline,  Alay  23,  1896. 


(Fur   first   generation    see  JIatthew   Cusliing"   1  i. 

(II)  Daniel,  son  of  Matthew 
CUSHING     Cushing.  was  baptized  in  Hing- 

liam,  England,  .April  20.  1619, 
died  December  3,  1700.  He  settled  in  Hing- 
ham,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  granted 
land  in  1665.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  in 
1671  and  was  an  active  magistrate  for  many 
years.  He  was  town  clerk  of  Hingham  and 
left  a  valuable  set  of  records  which  are  of 
great  value  to  the  antiquary.  From  1682  for 
many  years  he  kept  a  general  store.  He  was 
selectman  in  1665  and  many  years  after;  in 
1680-82-95,  deputy  to  the  general  court.  .A 
book  called  "Extracts  from  the  Minutes  of 
Daniel  Cushing  of  Hingham,  with  a  photo- 
graph of  his  manuscri])t  etc"  was  printed  in 
1865.  His  will  was  dated  September  11,  1693. 
He  married  (first)  Ja!uiar\-  n),  1645,  Lydia 
(lilman,  born  in  England,  died  in  Hingham, 
March  12,  i68'j.  daughter  of  Edward  and 
Mary  (Clark)  Gilman.  He  married  (second) 
March  23,  1691,  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Captain 
John  Thaxter  and  daughter  of  Nicholas  and 
.Mar\-  Jacob.  Children,  born  in  Hingham:  I. 
Peter.  March  jg,  1640,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Daniel,  July  23,  1(148.  3.  Deliorah,  November 
13.  i()5l,  married  (first)  Se|)tember  25.  1679, 
lienry  Tarleton ;  (second)  August  31,  1686, 
Rev.  Benjamin  Woodbridge :  died  January  15, 
1 7 ID.  4.  Jeremiah,  July  3,  1654.  5.  Theo- 
philus,  June  7,  1657.  6.  Matthew.  July  15, 
i')6o. 


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(III)  Peter,  son  of  Daniel  Ciisliing,  was 
born  in  llingham.  March  29.  1646,  died  Ajjril 
14.  1719.  His  will  was  proved  October  I2 
following.  He  resided  on  East  street,  Hing- 
ham,  and  the  old  house,  built  in  1670,  was 
owned  by  his  descendants  as  late  as  1905.  It 
is  shaded  by  a  fine  old  elm  tree,  transplanted 
in  1729.  This  part  of  East  street  is  often 
called  "Rocky  Xook."  He  was  constable  in 
1688  and  selectman  in  ifiSg  and  1702.  He 
married.  June  4.  1685.  Hannah  Hawke,  bap- 
tized in  Hingham,  July  22.  1655,  died  April 
4-  ^7})7'  daughter  of  Matthew  and  Margaret 
Hawke.  Children:  i.  Peter,  born  March  28, 
1686.  died  March  27,  171 5.  2.  Stephen,  No- 
vember 8.  1687,  mentioned  below.  3.  Jona- 
tlian,  December  20.  1689.  4.  Mary.  March  22, 
1691.  5.  Hannah,  July  i,  i(V)4,  died  unmar- 
ried April  29,  1737.  6.  Lydia,  October  6, 
1695. 

dX  )  Captain  Stephen,  son  of  Peter  Cush- 
ing.  was  born  in  Hingham,  November  8,  1687, 
died  .\pril  3,  1749.  He  was  a  farmer,  resided 
on  the  homestead,  and  owned  a  large  amount 
of  real  estate.  He  was  selectman  in  1740.  He 
married.  February  18,  1719.  Catherine  Kilby, 
of  Boston,  who  died  in  Hingham,  July  23, 
1758.  Children,  born  in  Hingham:  i.  Peter, 
December  9,  1720,  died  June  10,  1736.  2. 
Stephen,  July  13,  1723.  3.  John,  I-\'bruary  26, 
1727,  died  June  5,  1727.  4.  Catherine,  May 
5,  1728.  5.  John,  June  14,  1730,  died  June  13, 
1754.  6.  Lydia.  February  13,  1732,  died  un- 
married July  25,  1770.  7.  Hannah,  May  18, 
1735.  8.  Peter,  May  15,  1737.  died  May  5, 
1739-  9-  Rebecca,  May  27,  1739.  10.  Peter, 
May  3.  1 74 1,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Cajnain  Peter  (2).  son  of  Captain  Ste- 
phen Cushing,  was  born  in  Hingham,  May  3, 
1741,  died  July  12,  1783.  He  was  captain  of 
a  military  comjjany  in  the  revolution.  He 
resided  on  the  homestead  and  was  constable 
in  1772  and  .selectman  in  1780.  He  married, 
August  19.  1762,  Silence  P.urr,  born  in  Hing- 
ham, .April  3.  1742.  died  June  8,  1829,  daughter 
of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Lincoln)  Pmrr.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Hingham:  I.  John,  August  18, 
1763,  mentioned  below.  2.  Peter,  February  15. 
1765,  died  at  Martinico,  St.  Pierre,  May  24, 
1794.  3.  Christopher,  November  18,  1766.  4. 
Catherine,  .April  10,  1769.  married,  January 
2,  1794,  .Samuel  .\ndrews.  5.  Child,  died  Au- 
gust 12.  1 77 1.  (\  Martin.  August  7,  1772,  died 
at  W'inthrop,  Maine,  January  18,  1857.  7. 
Samuel.  September  21.  1774,  died  .September 
27.  1799-  B.  Hannah.  .May  5,  1777.  9.  Lydia, 
October   8,    1779,   married,   January   6,    1802, 


.Martin  Lincoln:  died  April  2,  1863.     10.  Ned, 
-September  1 1,  1783. 

(\'l)  Captain  John,  son  of  Captain  Peter 
Cushing,  was  born  in  Hingham,  .\ugust  18, 
1763,  died  there  March  14,  1803.  He  resided 
on  the  homestead.  He  married  (first)  March 
8,  1785,  Lucy  Tha.xter,  born  in  Hingham,  May 
16,  \~(-^.  died  June  22,  I78(),  daughter  of  Col- 
onel John  and  .Anna  (Quincy)  Thaxter.  He 
married  (  second  )  December  20,  1787,  Christina 
Thaxter,  born  in  llingham,  December  2,  1766, 
(lied  at  Weymouth.  Sejitember  1,  1847,  daughter 
of  Benjamin  and  Susanna  (Joy)  Thaxter.  Child 
of  first  wife:  Lucy  Thaxter,  born  June  21, 
1786,  died  February  14,  1814.  Children  of 
second  wife:  i.  Chrissey  TJiaxter,  born  .April 
26,  1789,  married,  1819,  William  Pomeroy ; 
died  November  22,  1859.  2.  Fanny  Lincoln, 
.April  4,  1791.    3.  Silence  Burr,  June  15,  1792. 

4.  John,  January   13,   1797,  mentioned  below. 

5.  Peter  Hawkes,  .April  16,  1799. 

(VH)  John  (2),  son  of  CaiJtain  John  (i) 
Cushing,  was  born  in  Hingham,  January  13, 
1797.  He  was  a  bookbinder  and  resided  many 
years  on  South  street,  Hingham,  but  after- 
wards removed  to  Weymouth,  where  he  die<l 
May  5,  i860.  He  married  Delia  Kingman,  of 
Boston.  Children:  i.  George  Arms,  married 
Deborah  Wliitmarsh  and  lived  in  Weymouth; 
died  January  25,  1891.  2.  John,  born  Novem- 
ber. 1820.  (lied  at  \\"eymouth,  November  15, 
1844.  3.  Francis  Henry,  mentioned  below.  4. 
Peter,  removed  to  New  S'ork.  5.  Delia  .Amanda. 
(1.  .Adeline  Lincoln.  7.  William  Pomeroy,  died 
at  New  York,  .September  12,   i860. 

(\'II1)  T'>ancis  Henry,  son  of  John  (2) 
Cushing.  was  born  in  Weymouth,  died  at  East 
Weymouth.  He  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools,  and  followed  the  trade  of  shoemaker 
many  years.  1  le  was  superintendent  of  room 
in  a  shoe  factory  at  East  Weymouth.  He 
attended  the  Congregational  church.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  .Anna  Shaw,  born  in  Weymouth. 
Children:  i.  John  I'rancis.  born  March  15, 
1852,  mentioned  below.  2.  William  llenry,  a 
painter  at  Stoitghton.  3.  Weston  11.,  one  of 
firm  of  John  F.  and  Weston  H.  Cushing. 

(IX)  John  I'Vancis,  son  of  h'rancis  Henry 
and  Mary  .Anna  (Shaw)  Cushing,  was  born 
March  15,  1852,  at  North  Weymouth,  died 
February  19,  1903.  at  East  Weymouth.  He 
had  a  common  school  education,  and  began 
when  a  boy  to  learn  the  shoe  business,  begin- 
ning at  the  bottom  and  wimiing  promotion 
from  time  to  tiiue  until  he  became  the  head  of 
one  of  the  departments,  the  treeitig  and  finish- 
ing room,  of  tlic    P.eacon.    later   tlie  John    .A. 


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Holbrook  shoe  factory,  and  held  this  position 
for  fourteen  years.  During  the  last  twenty 
years  of  his  life,  from  1883,  he  was  in  business 
on  his  own  account  in  the  firm  of  J.  F.  &  \V.  H. 
Gushing,  general  contractors  and  ice,  wood, 
coal,  hay  and  grain  merchants.  lie  took  con- 
tracts for  excavation,  grading  and  road  build- 
ing. His  affairs  prospered  and  he  became  one 
of  the  leading  business  men  of  the  town,  a 
trustee  of  East  Weymouth  Savings  Bank.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church. 
He  belonged  to  Orphans  Hope  Lodge  of  Free 
Masons ;  to  Crescent  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows, 
and  has  held  all  the  offices,  and  at  one  time 
was  a  member  of  Wompatuck  Encampment 
and  Steadfast  Rebekah  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows, 
also  a  member  of  Pilgrim  Fathers.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Republican,  and  he  took  an  active 
interest  in  all  the  affairs  of  his  town.  He  mar- 
ried. May  4.  1874,  Elizabeth  Ella  Holbrook, 
born  November  5,  1852,  daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  B.  (Pratt)  Holbrook.  (See  Hol- 
brook family).  Children,  born  at  East  Wey- 
mouth: I.  Lester  Holbrook,  June  26,  1888. 
2.  Francis  Henry,  August  12,  1894,  died  aged 
five  months. 

(The    Holbrook    Line). 

The  family  of  Holbrook  is  ancient  and  dis- 
tinguished in  England.  The  ancient  coat-of- 
arms  is :  A  chevron  between  three  martlets. 
Several  other  coats-of-arms  were  borne  by 
different  branches  of  the  family  in  England. 

(I)  Thomas  Holbrook  or  Holbrooke,  immi- 
grant ancestor,  aged  thirty-four,  of  Broadway, 
England,  with  wife  Jane,  aged  thirty-four,  and 
chiklren — Joim,  aged  eleven:  Thomas,  aged 
ten  ;  .\nne,  aged  five,  and  Elizabeth,  aged  one, 
came  from  \Veyniouth,  England,  about  1628. 
He  settled  at  \Vey mouth  and  in  1640  was  on 
the  committee  to  lay  out  the  way  from  Brain- 
tree  to  Dorchester.  He  was  admitted  a  free- 
man in  May,  1645.  He  was  selectman  several 
years.  His  will  was  dated  December  31,  1668, 
with  codicil  December  31,  1673.  He  died  1674- 
76.  His  widow  Jane  died  before  April  24, 
1677,  when  administration  of  the  estate  was 
granted  to  his  son  John.  Children:  i.  John, 
born  161 7,  mentioned  below.    2.  Thomas,  died 

iCi')'/ :    married    Joanna   .      3.    Captain 

William,  died    1699;  resided  at   Scituate.     4. 

.•\iin,  married  Renolds.     5.   Elizabeth, 

married  Walter  I  latch.  6.  Jane,  married 

Drake. 

(II)  Captain  John,  son  of  Thomas  Hol- 
brook, wa.s  born  in  England  in  1617,  died  No- 
vember 23,  1699.     He  was  a  man  of  inde[)end- 


ence,  courage,  enterprise  and  wealth.  He  re- 
sided at  what  was  known  as  Old  Spain,  Wey- 
mouth. He  took  the  freeman's  oath  in  1640 
and  in  1648  first  served  as  selectman.  He  was 
de])uty  to  the  general  court  several  years.  He 
dealt  largely  in  real  estate  and  loaned  large 
sums  of  money  for  the  times.  He  had  com- 
mand of  a  company  in  King  Philip's  war.  He 
married  (first)  Sarah ,  who  died  Janu- 
ary   14,    1643;    (second)     Elizabeth 


who  died  June  25,  1688,  aged  sixty- four; 
(third)  Sarah  Loring,  widow,  who  survived 
him.  His  will  was  dated  July  12,  1699.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  John,  married  Abigail  Pierce.  2. 
Abiezer,  died  unmarried  1671-72.     3.  Samuel, 

died  1695 ;  married  Lydia .    4.  Hannah, 

married —  Pierce.     5.  Lois  (twin),  born 

May  12,  1658.  6.  Eunice  (twin),  born  May 
12.  1658,  married Ludden.  7.  Experi- 
ence,   born    May    23,    1661,    married    

Edson.  8.  Ichabod,  born  "Slay  20,  1662,  men- 
tioned below. 

(Ill)  Ichabod,  son  of  Captain  John  Hol- 
brook, was  born  in  Weymouth,  May  20,  1662, 
died  December  14,  1718.  He  inherited  the 
homestead  and  married  Sarah  Turner,  who 
died,  a  widow,  December  20,  1739.  Children: 
I.  .\biezer,  born  May  7,  1689,  died  February 
17.  1761  ;  married  Ruth  \'inson.  2.  David, 
.September,  1690,  mentioned  below.  3.  Sarah. 
January  13,  1694,  died  October  10,  1725.  4. 
Elisha.     5.  John,  November  28,  1699. 

( I\')  David,  son  of  Ichabod  Holbrook,  was 
born  in  September,  1690.  He  married,  in  1716, 
Mary  Pittey,  and  settled  in  Weymouth.  Later 
he  removed  to  Braintree.  Children:  i.  David, 
born  June  26.  1717;  married  (first)  Mary 
Hayden ;  (second)  Mary  Jones,  widow.  2. 
Ichabod,  March  12,  1719,  married  Hannah 
Hayden.  3.  Nehemiah,  May  16,  1722,  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Mary,  November  21,  1726, 
married  Zebcdiali  Howard.  5.  Ruth,  baptized 
December  13.   1730. 

(\)  Nehemiah,  son  of  David  Holbrook. 
was  born  May  16,  1722,  died  .\pril  4.  1752, 
intestate.  He  married,  May  10,  1744.  Chris- 
tian Thayer,  and  was  received  with  her  into 
the  second  church  in  Braintree.  Administra- 
tion was  granted  the  widow.  May  15,  1752, 
and  James  Penniman  was  apjiointed,  March  6, 
1753.   guardian   of  the  three  minor  children. 

The  widow  married  (second)  French, 

of  Stoughton.  Children:  I.  Nehemiah.  born 
May  6,  1745.  mentioned  below.  2.  William, 
.\pril  2.  1747.  died  .\i)ril  26,  1808.  at  Stoughton. 
3.  Elizabeth,  December  25,  1749.  died  unmar- 
ried. 


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(\"I)  Xehemiah  (2),  son  of  Xehemiah  (i) 
Holbrook.  was  born  May  6.  1745.  He  received 
of  his  grand  fatlicr.  David  Holbrciok,  April  30, 
1763.  a  deed  of  half  his  house  and  five  acres  in 
Braintree.  I  le  settled  there  and  married,  prob- 
ably. Elizabeth  Hubbard.  Children:  I.  Xehe- 
miah, married  Sarah  Wild.  2.  Caleb,  married 
Susannah  Holbrook.  3.  Joshua,  born  October 
14.  1773,  mentioned  below.  4.  Rebecca,  mar- 
ried Xathaniel  Whiting.  5.  Mary,  married 
John  Tower.  6.  Daughter,  married  Lemuel 
Whiting.     7.  Olive,  married  Luther  Thayer. 

(\'H)  Joshua,  son  of  Xehemiah  (2)  Hol- 
brook. was  born  October  14.  1773.  died  Sep- 
tember 14.  1829.  He  settled  first  at  Braintree 
and  removed  to  South  W'eymouth.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  Read,  born  May  13,  1778.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Mary,  born  March  i,  1797,  married 
Jacob  Shaw.  2.  Joshua,  May  11,  1799,  mar- 
ried Xancy  W.  Bates.  3.  Elizabeth,  August 
26.  1802.  married  Riley  Hayford.  4.  Sarah 
R..  August  10,  1804,  married  Roswell  Trufant. 
5.  Xathaniel  T.,  March  3.  1807,  married,  1831, 
Ann  Whitmarsh.  6.  John.  ]\Iarch  9,  1809. 
mentioned  below.  7.  Elmira,  March  i,  181 1, 
died  unmarried.  February  27.  1829.  8.  Cath- 
erine, Sejiitember  6.  1813.  married  Samuel  Bar- 
rel!. 9.  Rebecca,  June  28.  1815,  married  Jonas 
Bates.  TO.  William,  April  7,  1818,  married 
Maria  P.icknell.  ix.  Priscilla,  Xovember  14, 
1820,  married  Ouincy  Pool. 

(VHI)  John  (2),  son  of  Joshua  Holbrook, 
was  born  March  9.  1809.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth B.  Pratt,  and  resided  in  Weymouth,  on 
the  homestead.  Children:  i.  John  Adams, 
born  May  27,  1837.  2.  Elizabeth  Ella.  Xo- 
vember 5,  1852,  married  J.  F.  Cashing.  (See 
Cushing  family). 


(For  preceding  generations  see  Matthew  Cu.shlng  I ). 

(HI)  Captain  Theopbilus  Cush- 
CUSHIXG  ing,  son  of  Daniel  Cushing,  was 

born  in  Hingham,  Massachu- 
setts, June  7,  1657,  died  January  7,  1717-18. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  selectman  in  1 697- 1707- 
15.  He  was  deputy  to  the  general  court  in 
1702-03-04-07-13.  His  house  was  on  Main 
street.  Flingham.  His  will  was  dated  January 
3,  1717-18,  atid  gives  "to  wife  Mary,  thirty- 
two  shares  in  the  second  part  of  3d  division  in 
Cohasset ;  also  land  at  'Planters'  Hill  :  myc|uick 
stock,  all  my  movables,  and  the  imjirovements 
of  my  whole  estate  while  she  remains  a  widow  ; 
afterwards  to  go  to  sons  Theopbilus  and  Seth 
when  they  become  of  age.  To  daughter  Deb- 
orah one  hundred  potmds ;  to  son  Xehemiah 
land  in  .\bington,  and  the  release  of  a  bond 


for  money  lent  him;  to  son  Adam  land  and 
buildings  formerly  purchased  of  Samuel  Stod- 
der,  also  the  lot  purchased  of  my  brother, 
Samuel  Tha.xter ;  to  son  Abel  house  and  land 
purciiased  of  William  Sprague  Jr.,  lying  near 
Page's  bridge  ;  to  son  Thcophilus  my  dwelling- 
house  and  barn,  and  land  on  the  west  side  of 
the  road,  and  land  at  Wakely's  marsh ;  to  son 
Seth  land  and  other  valuables ;  and  the  sons 
are  to  pay  one  hundred  pounds  each  to  their 
sister  Deborah."  The  widow  was  made  execu- 
trix. He  married,  Xovember  28,  1688,  Mary 
Thaxter,  born  .August  19,  1667,  daughter  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Jacobs)  Thaxter.  She 
married '(second)  January  11,  1721-22,  Captain 
Joseph  Herrick,  of  Beverly.  Children,  born  in 
Hingham:  i.  Xehemiah,  July  18,  1689.  2. 
Mary,  February  9,  1690-91,  died  August  8, 
1699.  3.  Adam,  January  i,  1692-93.  4.  David, 
December,  1694.  5.  Abel,  October  24,  1696, 
mentioned  below.  6.  Rachel,  August  17,  1698, 
died  September  9,  1699.  7.  Mary,  September 
26,  1701,  died  August  30,  1716.  8.  Theopbilus, 
June  16,  1703.  9.  Seth,  December  13,  1705. 
10.  Deborah,  September  26,  1707.  11.  Lydia, 
February  13,   1709-IQ.  died  young. 

(]\')  Captain  Abel,  son  of  Cajitain  Theo- 
])hilus  Cushing,  was  born  in  Hingham,  October 
24,  1696,  died  May  "20,  1750.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  mill  owner^  and  selectman  of  Hingham 
for  many  years.  His  house  was  on  South 
Pleasant  street.  I  le  married,  Xovember  24, 
1720,  Mary  Jacob,  born  .September  29,  1698, 
daughter  of  Peter  and  Hannah  (Allen)  Jacob. 
Children,  born  in  Hingham:  i.  Mary,  August 
12.  1722,  died  October  12,  1726.  2.  David, 
July  12,  1724,  died  October  17,  1726.  3.  David, 
September  7,  1727,  mentioned  below.  4.  Abel, 
January  26,  1729-30,  married,  Januarj'  29, 
1758.  Hannah  Crocker.  5.  Mary,  Jamiary  28, 
1731-32,  married,  March  25,  1753,  Rev.  Daniel 
.Shute.  6.  Laban.  February  21,  1733-34,  died 
.May  18.  1747.  7.  Infant  (twin),  January  21, 
'7,3'^^37-  d't'd  same  day.  8.  Infant  (twin), 
Jainiary  21.  1736-37,  died  same  day.  9.  Lydia, 
.April  23,  1738,  married,  January  3r,  1759, 
Gideon  Hayward.  10.  .Abigail,  June  14,  1741, 
married,  October  2,  1 76 1,  Thomas  Mersey. 

(V)  Colonel  David,  son  of  Captain  Abel 
Cushing,  was  born  in  Hingham,  .Sej)tember  7, 
1727,  died  February  15,  1800.  He  lived  on 
Pleasant  street,  Hingham,  and  was  an  ener- 
getic and  prominent  man  in  town  affairs.  He 
was  selectman  in  1768-69-70-71-75-76.  He 
was  in  the  revf)lution,  fourth  lieutenant  of 
Cai)tain  Jotham  Loring's  company,  on  the 
Lexington  alarm.  .April   19,   1775;  sergeant  in 


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Captain  Pyani  Cushing's  company.  Colonel 
Solomon  Lovcll's  regiment,  at  Hull  and  Dor- 
chester in  1776:  lieutenant  colonel  of  the  same 
regiment,  commissioned  February  7,  1776;  and 
colonel  of  the  Second  Suffolk  Regiment,  in 
I'rigadier  ( ieneral  Lovell's  brigade,  in  1778. 
He  married  (first)  April  9,  1752,  Ruth  Lin- 
coln, baptized  February  25,  1732-33,  died  July 

6,  1761,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Ruth  (Cush- 
ing)  Lincoln,  of  Hingham.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) January  23,  1763,  Mabel  Gardner,  born 
January  6,  1738-39,  died  August  14,  1798, 
daughter  of  Hosea  and  Mary  (Whiting)  Gard- 
ner. Children,  born  in  Hingham,  by  first  wife: 
I.  Ruth,  November  i,  1752,  married,- August 
30,  1770,  Perez  Gushing.  2.  David,  July  2, 
1754.  3.  Molly,  September  26,  1756,  married, 
January  30,  1783,  Joshua  Mann.  4.  Jonathan, 
.\[)ril  13,  1759,  mentioned  below.  5.  Lydia, 
June  2,  1 761,  married,  September  3,  1786, 
.Asa[)h  Tracy.  Children  of  second  wife:  6. 
.•\bel,  born  October  22,  1763,  married,  No- 
vember 14,  1784,  Sarah  \Vilder.  7.  Hosea, 
i\Iay  29,  1765.    8.  Charles  Whiting,  November 

7,  1766.  9.  Russell,  April  24,  1768,  died  Feb- 
ruary 2,  1851.  10.  Nancy,  March  10,  1770, 
died  unmarried,  December  27,  1835.  11.  Jane. 
.April  3,  1772.  married,  November  6,  1796,  I^em- 
uel  Dwelley.  12.  Lucy.  October  18.  1773.  mar- 
ried. May  24,  1798.  David  Lewis.  13.  Chris- 
tina, March  14,  1775,  died  unmarried,  July  i, 
1822.  14.  Elnathan,  April  30,  1777,  removed 
to  Scituate.  15.  Jerusha.  February  3,  1779, 
died  unmarried,  September  18.  1862.  16.  Josiah. 
.April  8,  1781.  17.  Mabel,  March  6,  1783,  mar- 
ried, i8fO.  William  Rouse,  of  Rath,  Alaine. 

(\'I)  Jonathan,  son  of  Colonel  David  Gush- 
ing, was  born  in  Hingham.  .Ajiril  13.  1759.  died 
Jaiuiary  29.  1847.  ^^'^  lived  on  Main  street. 
Hingham.  and  was  a  farmer.  He  was  select- 
man in  1804  and  deputy  to  the  general  court 
frnm  1S08  to  1813  inclusive.  He  married, 
January  15,  1788.  Sarah  Simmons,  of  Scituate. 
who  died  .April  25.  1845,  aged  seventy-eight 
years.  Children:  i.  Jonatiian.  born  January 
16,  1789.  2.  Sarah,  November  10.  1790,  mar- 
ried, December.  1820,  William  Torrey.  3. 
Ruth  Lincoln,  June  9.  1703.  married,  Decem- 
ber 3,  1816,  David  Lane.  4.  .Adam,  Novem- 
ber 30,  1796.  5.  Rowland,  November  9,  1798, 
found  dead  near  Prospect  Hill.  May  13,  1840. 
6.  Clarissa,  March  26,  1805,  married,  Febru- 
ary, 1832.  Henry  Ripley.  7.  William  Gray, 
August  3.  1810.  mentioned  below. 

(\TI)  William  ("iray,  son  of  Jonathan  Gush- 
ing, was  born  in  Hingham.  .August  3.  1810. 
died   December  2,    1872.     He   lived  on   Main 


street.  South  Hingham,  and  was  a  butcher  and 
I)rovision  dealer.  He  married,  December  27, 
1835,  Sarah  Merritt,  of  Hingham,  born  in 
.Scituate.  died  in  1888  in  Brockton.  Children: 
1.  William  Gray,  born  November  7.  1836.  2. 
.Sarah  S.,  December  24,  1837,  married,  .April 
27,  1869,  Caleb  C.  \Miite.  3.  Webster  A., 
October  14,  1839,  married.  May  24,  1868, 
.Amanda  F.  Hobart.  4.  Martha  .A.,  March  14, 
1 841.  5.  George  R.,  INIarch  8.  1842,  died  May 
19,  following.     6.  George  R..  March  9,   1843. 

7.  Infant.  1844,  died  1846.  8.  and  9.  Twins, 
1845.  died  soon.  10.  Ellen  G.,  .August  26, 
1848,  died  April,  1849.  H-  Isabella  G.,  July 
12,  1850,  died  July  16,  1851.  12.  Leona  Parker, 
May  25,  1852,  married,  -April  29,  1877,  Benja- 
min T.  Raymond.  13.  Charles  ^L,  October  8, 
1854,  mentioned  below.     14.  Ida  May,  October 

8,  1856.  married,  September  15,  1881,  Charles 
F.  Severance  ;  died  October  6,  1885.  15.  Infant, 
May  12,  1858,  died  young.  16.  Frank  E.,  De- 
cember. i8(')0.  17.  .Alma  E.,  October  24,  1862, 
diefl  February  6,  1863.  Of  the  above  only 
Webster  .A.,  Leona  Parker  and  Frank  E.  are 
living. 

( A'lH  )  Charles  Melvil,  son  of  William  Gray 
Gushing,  was  born  October  8,  1854.  died  at 
North  Weymouth,  July  8,  1907.  He  was  edu- 
cateil  in  the  public  schools  of  Hingham.  He 
was  employed  for  many  years  in  the  fertilizing 
company  at  Weymouth,  Massachusetts,  filling 
\arious  responsible  positions,  retiring  finally 
upon  the  incorporation  of  the  business.  He 
was  a  well  known  and  highly  respected  citizen, 
keenly  interested  in  public  affairs  though  not 
seeking  ]niblic  honors  for  himself.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Rejiublican.  He  was  a  prominent  mem- 
ber of  the  I'nitarian  church.  He  belonged  to 
Orphans  Hope  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  also 
Council  and  Commandery.  He  married.  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1883,  Jeannette  Augiista  Batchelder, 
born  November  15,  i860,  at  Baldwin,  Maine. 
(.See  liatchelder  sketch).  Their  only  child 
was  Harriet  M..  born  at  Weymouth,  died  aged 
three  vears  and  a  half. 


.Some  disjiarity  has  existed  in  the 
CRANE    manner    of    spelling    this    name. 

Crane,  Gran,  Cranne,  Grain,  Craine 
and  Crayne.  Its  etymological  source  is  from 
the  Gaelic  root  Cran,  meaning  water,  and  the 
fowl  of  the  name  doubtless  received  its  appella- 
tion from  I)eing  a  frequenter  of  watery  places. 
We  find  it  used  frequently  as  a  jilace  name. 
There  is  a  town  of  Craon  on  the  river  Oudin, 
j)rovince  of  Maine.  In  northern  France  is 
Cranne.      Cranae    is    an    island    of    Laconia. 


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Cranamis  is  a  town  of  Caria  and  there  was  a 
king  of  Alliens  bearing  this  name.  Craneus 
was  the  first  king  of  Macedonia.  Crania  was 
tlic  ancient  name  of  Torius  in  CiHcia.  Crane, 
a  city  of  .\rcacha  in  Classic  Creece.  The 
family  in  the  first  instance  is  undoubtedly  of 
Xorman  e.xtraction.  According  to  an  ancient 
record  called  Rotuli  Huntredorum,  William  de 
Crane  is  claimed  to  have  come  over  from 
Craon  in  the  province  of  Maine  and  settled  in 
Saltrey  Moyne,  in  Huntingdonshire,  in  1272. 
According  to  the  Herald's  visitation  in  the 
Harleian  collections  of  SutYolk,  Crane  of  Stow-, 
market  in  Suffolk,  lived  in  the  reign  of  Richard 
n  in  1382.  They  thus  have  an  unobstructed 
line  of  three  hundred  years.  The  male  line  of 
the  Stowmarket  or  Chilton  Cranes  came  to  an 
aliru]5t  end  in  the  person  of  Sir  Robert  in 
1643  wIki  left  only  daughters.  Robert  Crane, 
of  Coggeshall,  count}-  of  Essex,  and  Sir  Robert 
it  is  affirmed  were  kinsmen.  He  was  an  active 
member  of  the  original  comjjany  to  settle  Mass- 
achusetts and  owned  land  there  but  never 
came  over  himself.  His  daughter  Margaret 
married  Rev.  Xathaniel  Rogers.  Their  son 
John  was  the  fifth  to  become  president  of 
Harvard  College.  Owing  to  a  similarity  of 
christian  names  and  other  ear  marks,  it  seems 
probable  that  the  Cranes  who  bore  the  name 
to  America  were  related  to  that  Robert  of 
Coggeshall.  The  coat-of-arms  borne  by  the 
Cranes  was:  .Argent,  a  fesse  between  three 
crosses  crosslet  fitchee  gules.  Crest :  A  Crane 
ppr.  We  have  shown  that  the  Cranes  came 
from  a  good  source,  we  will  now  show  it  has 
been  borne  by  good  people.  It  has  contributed 
to  political  history  in  the  person  of  Governor 
and  Senator  Winthrop  Murray  Crane,  to  litera- 
ture in  the  novelist,  Stephen  Crane,  who  wrote 
the  "Red  ISadge  of  Courage,"  to  high  military 
achievement  in  P.rigadier  (General  Xiron  M. 
Crane  of  the  I'nion  army,  to  the  advancement 
of  woman  in  Rev.  Caroline  V>.  Crane,  of  Wis- 
consin. The  first  in  point  of  time  to  arrive  in 
Xcw  England  was  John,  who  was  in  Boston  in 
1637.  Soon  after  came  the  brothers,  Benja- 
min and  Henry,  of  Wethersfield. 

(I)  P.enjamin  Crane,  who  founded  this 
branch  of  the  family,  was  born  in  1630.  Fiy 
some  he  is  supposed  to  have  been  a  son  of 
John  Crane,  of  the  Muddy  Brook  section  of 
Boston,  now  Brookline.  (Jther  traditions  more 
or  less  substantiated  are  to  the  effect  that  he 
lived  in  Dedham  for  a  time  in  youth  and  then 
up  the  Hudson  river.  He  api)eared  in  Wethers- 
field in  1655  and  was  a  tanner  and  currier.  .At 
that  time  he  was  a  defendant  in  a  civil  suit 


with  John  Sailler.  plaintiff,  in  the  particular 
court  held  at  Hartford.  February  24,  1^56, 
the  town  gave  him  a  house  lot  of  two  and  one- 
half  acres.  He  also  bought  land  on  Mud 
Lane  in  1664.  It  was  there  he  built  his  dwell- 
ing and  tannery.  The  town  also  gave  him 
three  acres  on  Beaver,  now  Tonda  brook  in 
1666.  In  1670  he  was  allotted  more  land  and 
December  8,  1671,  purchased  land  of  Daniel 
Ro.se  and  ac(|uired  other  tracts  in  1680.  He 
was  a  juryman  in  1664;  in  ^fay,  1682,  with 
others  he  petitioned  the  general  court  for 
liberty  to  establish  a  plantation  in  the  Wabay- 
nassit  country,  now  Windham  county.  He 
made  his  mark  in  common  with  the  majority 
of  his  neighbors.  [)enmanship  not  being  a  pre- 
vailing accomplishment  at  that  time.  He  car- 
ried on  his  tannery  about  a  mile  below  the 
village  on  the  Middletown  road  and  it  is  still 
known  as  old  "Crane  Tannery  l^lace."  He 
died  May  3,  1691.  The  inventory  was  five 
hundred  and  fifty-eight  pounds.  He  married, 
in  youth,  Mary,  daughter  of  ^\'illiam  and 
Sarah  (Charles)  Backus,  .April  23,  1655.  She 
died  May  31,  1691.  Children:  Benjamin, 
born  March  i,  1656  (deceased);  Jonathan 
(see  hereafter)  ;  Joseph,  April  i,  1661  ;  John, 
.April  30,  1663,  who  succeeded  to  his  father's 
business  ;  Elijah,  1665  ;  Abraham,  i6(t8  ;  Jacob, 
1670;  Israel,  November  i,   1671 ;  Mary. 

(in  Lieutenant  Jonathan,  second  son  of 
Benjamin  and  Mary  (liackus)  Crane,  was 
born  December  i,  1658,  at  Wethersfield,  died 
in  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  .March  12,  1735.  He 
lived  in  that  part  of  Wethersfield,  afterwards 
set  off  as  Windsor.  At  a  town  meeting  of  the 
inhabitants  thereof,  Jonathan  was  cho.sen  to 
run  the  town  line.  In  Ck-tober,  1691,  he  was 
on  the  petition  for  the  town  charter  which  was 
granted  the  next  year.  Mr.  Crane  was  made 
one  of  the  first  townsmen  and  served  on  a 
committee  to  secure  a  minister.  He  was  of 
the  committee  chosen  "to  set  to  rights  the  lots 
at  the  Ponds,"  also  a  collector  to  levy  and 
gather  rates.  He  served  on  the  committee  to 
locate  the  burying  ground.  In  May,  1695,  he 
received  a  commission  from  the  general  court 
as  ensign  of  a  military  com])any.  He  took  an 
active  part  in  building  the  parsonage  house. 
In  1700  he,  with  Rev.  Mr.  Whiting,  i)urcha.sed 
the  William  Backus  lot  and  gave  to  the  town 
for  a  meeting  house  and  thereon  was  erected 
the  first  church  and  was  long  called  "Windham 
Green."  That  year  he  was  ajjpointed  by  the 
general  cmirt  to  view  Plainfield  and  see  where 
the  best  ])lace  was  to  erect  a  meeting  house, 
ai)pointed  on  a  committee  to  regulate  the  grind- 


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ing  of  com.  In  Oct(jber,  1701,  he  was  on  a 
committee  to  run  the  town  hnes,  in  1702  to 
see  to  coni[)lcting  the  meeting  house,  and  in 

1703  to  assign  the  seating,  in  1704  to  run  the 
town  Hnes  "from  Appaynayz  to  the  southeast 
corner  of  the  town."  In  1705  Lieutenant 
Crane  was  on  the  committee  to  have  charge 
of  the  town  lands,  to  call  meetings  to  vote  on 
matters  necessary  to  be  considered  and  to  sign 
the  acts  to  lay  out  the  highways.  In  1713  he 
was  on  the  committee  to  build  a  new  church 
and  treasurer  of  the  same.  In  171 5  he  served 
on  a  committee  to  settle  the  question  whether 
to  allow  the  North  Parish  (Canada)  to  iorm 
a  separate  society.  In  1726  he  was  chosen  one 
of  the  pillars  of  the  church.  Lieutenant  Crane 
was  the  first  juryman  to  be  impannelled  in  the 
county  of  Windham  at  the  first  court  of  com- 
mon pleas  holden  January  26,  1726.  He  was 
a  miller  and  built  a  grist-mill  on  what  is  now 
known  as  I'irigham  Mills.  He  also  kept  the 
village  tavern  for  the  entertainment  of  trav- 
ellers and  strangers.     In  the   Indian  war  of 

1704  he  was  commissioned  by  the  general 
court  lieutenant  in  Captain  John  Fitch's  com- 
pany. On  his  gravestone  in  the  old  cemetery 
at  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  reads  this  inscrip- 
tion :  "Here  lies  Mp.  Jonathan  Crane,  husband 
of  Mrs.  Deborah  Crane,  who  lives  a  i)ius. 
Godly  life  and  left  y'=  Earth  for  heaven  March 
y'^  1 2th,  Ano"^  1735  on  y^  77th  year  of  his  age." 

From  all  we  can  learn  Lieutenant  Crane  was 
a  man  looked  up  to  by  his  neighbors  and  by 
people  in  general,  and  was  frequently  called 
to  discharge  town  offices.  Capable  men  were 
scarce  in  those  days  and  when  one  was  found 
qualified  to  act  in  times  of  an  emergency,  he 
was  often  pressed  into  service.  He  labored  for 
the  advancement  of  the  church  and  the  cause 
of  christian  religion.  He  was  known  as  an 
enterprising  citizen,  concerned  for  the  develop- 
ment of  bis  town.  He  married  Deborah, 
daughter  of  Francis  Criswold.  She  was  born 
in  May,  1661,  died  about  1704.  This  Mr. 
Criswold  was  of  Windsor  and  later  of  Wind- 
ham. He  erected  the  first  saw  mill  there  and 
was  in  addition  a  blacksmith.  He  was  a  deputy 
to  the  general  court  of  Windham  for  nine 
years.  Children  of  Lieutenant  and  Deborah 
Crane:  Sarah,  born  November  16,  i68o;  Jon- 
athan, February  2,  1684;  John  f  see  hereafter)  ; 
Mary.  October  20,  1689:  Hannah,  March  7, 
1692;  Isaac,  April  6,  1604;  Joseph,  May  17, 
1696;  Elizabeth  and  Deborah  (twins),  Febru- 
ary, 1608;  Abigail. 

(HI)  John,  the  third  son  of  Lieutenant 
Jonathan  and  Deborah  (Griswold)  Crane,  was 


born  in  Windham,  October  i,  1687.  He  lived 
at  a  place  called  Fort  Hill  where  his  father 
gave  him  a  house  and  land,  January  18,  1710. 
He  sold  April  10,  1728,  all  of  his  land  and 
dwelling  to  Joseph  Walden  for  three  hundred 
pounds.  He  resided  in  Coventry,  Connecticut. 
He  married  Sarah  Spencer,  September  16, 
1708,  at  Windham.  She  died  September  15, 
1715.  He  married  (second)  Prudence  Beld- 
ing,  April  18,  1716.  Children  of  this  marriage: 
John  (see  later)  ;  .Mvah,  born  October  12, 
1710;  Eunice,  May  13,  1712;  Elisham,  March 
13,  1718;  Sybil,  .-Vpril  i,  1719;  Hezekiah  (see 
later)  ;  Prudence,  July  24,  1723;  Lemuel,  July 
12,  1725;  Hannah,  March  15,  1727;  Rhoda, 
March  28,  1729;  Adonijah,  May  12,  1731. 

(R)  John  (2),  eldest  of  the  eleven  chil- 
dren of  John  (i)  and  Sarah  (Spencer)  Crane, 
was  born  in  \\'indham,  July  31,  1709.  died  at 
Ikcket,  Massachusetts.  IMarch  9,  1793.  He 
was  given  land  in  Wethersfield,  July  3,  1734- 
by  his  grandfather  Crane,  and  purchased  land 
there  of  Jonathan  and  Stephen  Riley.  He  was 
assessor  in  1757.  His  marriage  to  Rebeckah, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Adgate  Huntington, 
was  solemnized  January  24,  1733.  She  was 
born  in  Windham,  September  18,  1712,  died 
January  23,  1742.  The  second  marriage  was 
with  Sarah  Hutchinson,  November  11,  1742, 
and  the  third  with  Hannah  Bissell,  of  Middle- 
field,  Massachusetts.  Children:  Sarah,  born 
November  30,  1735;  Benjamin,  March  29, 
1738,  died  young;  Benjamin,  March  8,  1740; 
Jolin,  January  12,  1742;  Amos,  .\pril  8,  1744; 
Elijah"  (see  later)  ;  Abel,  Alarch  27,  1748;  Re- 
becca, May  18,  1750;  Samuel,  May  29,  1752; 
Rachel,  January  14.   1755;  Lydia,  August  18, 

1757- 

(V)  Elijah,  the  sixth  of  the  eleven  chddrcn 
of  John  (2)  and  Sarah  (Hutchinson)  Crane, 
was  born  in  Lebanon,  Connecticut,  February 
22.  1746,  died  at  Madrid,  New  York,  January 
15,  1818.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  settle  in 
\Vashington,  Massachusetts,  then  called  Hart- 
wood.  He  was  apiiointed  to  settle  his  brother 
.\nios'  estate  at  Tolland,  Comiecticut.  who  was 
killed  by  the  Redskins.  He  married  Sarah 
Hill,  of  Woburn,  Massachusetts.  She  died  at 
Canton,  St.  Lawrence  county.  New  York.  Sep- 
tember II,  1819.  Children  of  this  marriage: 
b",lijali.  born  December  15,  1771 ;  Sarah,  May 
26,  1773:  .\mos  (see  later);  Lois,  March  2, 
1777:  Jael,  February  17,  1779;  Eunice,  No- 
vember 23,  1780;  Lucy,  .\ngiist  23.  1782;  Sus- 
anna, .•\pril.  1784:  Elijah.  September  28,  r785  ; 
Lucy,  September  18,  1787. 

(VI)  Amos,  the  third  of  the  ten  children  of 


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Elijah  ami  Sarah  (11  ill  J  Crane,  was  born  in 
Washington,  Berkshire  county,  Massachusetts, 
December  17,  1774,  died  there  July  25,  1863,  at 
that  time  the  oldest  inhabitant  of  the  jilace. 
For  thirty-two  years  lie  was  connected  w-ith  the 
Methodist  Episco])al  church.  lie  married 
Martha  Remington,  of  Suffield,  Connecticut, 
October  30,  1799.  She  died  Xovember  16, 
1841,  and  was  a  devoted  cliristian  woman. 
Cliildren:  Martha  R.,  born  February  21,  iSoi  ; 
Amos  S.,  November  5,  1802;  Samuel  R.,  No- 
vember 2"],  1804;  Polly,  October  15,  1806; 
George.  April  17.  1808:  Lucy.  September  30, 
iSio:  John  M.  (see  later)  ;  William  H.,  Feb- 
ruary 12,  18 1 6. 

(\'II)  John  M.,  the  seventh  of  the  eight 
children  of  Amos  and  Martha  (Remington) 
Crane,  was  born  in  W'ashington,  Massachu- 
setts, March  21,  1813.  He  tilled  the  patri- 
monial estate  and  lived  in  the  house  in  Wash- 
ington where  his  grandfather  settled,  long  the 
home  of  the  family,  and  he  was  tlie  last  of 
the  race  to  retain  a  residence  in  the  old  town. 
He  married  Sarah  AI.  Joy  and  (second)  Mary 
C.  Wright,  of  Middlefieki,  Massachusetts,  May 
20,  1846.  She  died  February  5,  1880.  Chil- 
dren: John  W.,  Delia  M.,  Myra  C.  and 
Lester  M. 

(\"1I1)  John  Wright,  the  eldest  of  the  four 
children  of  John  M.  and  Mary  C.  (Wright) 
Crane,  was  born  in  Washington,  Berkshire 
county,  Massachusttts,  May  23,  1847.  He  was 
educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native  town  and 
began  as  a  clerk  in  a  store  at  Middlcfield,  of 
which  he  subsec|uently  became  proprietor.  He 
came  to  Springfield  in  1886  and  bought  out 
the  store  of  P.  D.  Winter  iS:  Sons,  grocers,  on 
u]:)per  State  street.  From  1889  to  1893  he 
was  with  J.  S.  Marsh  &  Son.  Then  one  year 
with  W.  S.  &  Dana  Buxton  and  one  year  with 
the  Whitcomb  Stove  Company.  In  1902  he 
ojiened  the  real  estate  and  insurance  office 
which  lie  still  conducts  and  is  one  of  the 
largest  real  estate  operators  in  the  city.  He 
is  niasonically  related  and  a  member  of  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  He  mar- 
ried Harriet,  daughter  of  Sumner  LT.  Church, 
of  Middlefield.  She  died  December  14,  1905. 
Mrs.  Crane  was  a  woman  of  quiet  nature  and 
of  great  refinement  of  character,  with  warm 
qualities  of  mind  and  heart  which  endeared 
her  to  all  who  knew  her.  .She  had  l)een  from 
childhood  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  of  Middlefield,  and  on  her  removal  to 
Sjiringfield  she  became  connected  with  the 
Hope  Churchy  where  she  was  very  active,  hav- 
ing been  a  teacher  in  the  primary  department 


cif  the  .""Sunday  school.  Children:  xMlred,  born 
in  Middlefield,  January  5,  1880,  a  graduate  of 
the  Springfield  high  school  in  1896,  now  in  the 
real  estate  business  with  his  father ;  he  mar- 
ried Lulu  E.  Rice,  of  Lyndonville,  \'ermont. 
Mary  C,  unmarried,  who  lives  at  home. 

(I\')  Ilezekiah,  the  sixth  of  the  eleven 
children  of  John  and  Prudence  (Belding) 
Crane,  was  born  in  Windham,  March  31,  1721, 
died  in  Bolton,  Connecticut,  January  3,  1805. 
There  was  a  Hezekiah  Crane,  a  private  in  Cap- 
tain Roswell  Grant's  company,  Colonel  Johns- 
ton's regiment,  in  the  service  in  Providence 
and  was  either  he  or  his  son.  His  will  was 
dated  October  20,  1796,  and  admitted  to  pro- 
bate. East  Windsor,  February  i,  1805,  David 
Crane  named  as  executor.  He  married  Rachel 
Rockwell,  April  2,  1746.  She  died  October 
7,  1809.  Children:  Hezekiah  (see  later); 
David,  born  October,  1748;  Rachel,  June  8, 
1751  :  Rhoda,  April  22,  1753;  Rnfus,  1755; 
Aaron,  May  8,  1756;  Anna. 

fV)  Hezekiah  (2),  the  eldest  of  the  seven 
children  of  Hezekiah  (i)  and  Rachel  (Rock- 
well) Crane,  was  born  in  Windsor  and  died  in 
1794.  He  enlisted,  September  7,  1776,  and 
was  honorably  discharged  November  2,  1776, 
serving  as  a  private  in  Captain  Isaac  Sergeant's 
comijany.  Alajor  IJackus'  regiment  of  light 
horse,  and  was  engaged  in  New  York  City. 
As  we  have  stated  it  was  he  or  his  father  who 
was  in  Captain  Grant's  company  and  Colonel 
Johnson's  regiment  in  Rhode  Island.  His 
estate  w-as  administered  as  intestate,  the  son 
Joel  made  administrator.  He  married  Sybil 
Lani])hire.  Children:  Warehani  (see  later)  ; 
Joel,  born  January  19,  1772;  Hezekiah,  1773; 
F.unice;  Abner,  January  3,  1776:  Rhoda,  Jan- 
uary 8,  1783;  Russell  Willis  and  Lucretia. 

(VI)  Wareham,  the  eldest  of  the  eight  chil- 
dren of  Hezekiah  (2)  and  Sybil  (Lamphire) 
Crane,  was  born  in  Windsor,  1770,  died  there 
January  21,  1835.  He  was  a  farmer.  He  mar- 
ried Eunice  Barber;  she  died  October  23,  1854, 
aged  eighty-tliree  years.  Children :  Claris.sa, 
born  July  15,  1792;  Sibil,  January  21,  1794; 
Eunice,  January  3,  170'');  W^areham  Barber, 
January  27,  1798;  Anna,  October  30,  1799; 
Russell  Willis,  January  31,  1802;  Sophronia, 
February  14,  1804:  Oliver  Root,  December  6, 
1806;  Electa  B.,  August  25,  1808;  Hezekiah 
Backus  (see  later)  ;  Charles  Reynolds,  Febru- 
ary 26,  1S17.  ,-iiid  l.nrcnzo  I'.liss,  November  21, 
1818. 

(VII)  Hezekiah  P.ackus,  the  tenth  of  the 
twelve  children  of  Wareham  and  Eunice 
(Barber)   Crane,  was  born  in  Windsor,  Sep- 


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tcmber  12.  181 1,  died  in  East  Longineadow, 
December  19.  1880.  He  was  reared  upon  the 
old  farm,  but  in  early  manhood  entered  the 
dry  goods  trade  in  Hartford,  going  from 
thence  to  Springfield,  where  he  went  into  the 
confectionery  trade.  The  factory  was  on  the 
corner  of  San  ford  and  Market  streets.  Sell- 
ing out  his  interest  therein,  he  removed  to 
Xew  Hritain,  Connecticut,  and  finally  to  East 
Longmeadow.  He  married  Angeline,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  and  Anna  (Henry)  Gowdy,  of 
Somers,  Connecticut. 

(VHI)  Deacon  Roman  A.,  only  child  of 
Hezekiah  P>.  and  Angeline  (Gowdy)  Crane, 
was  born  in  Enfield,  Connecticut,  February  19, 
1842.  He  came  to  Springfield  with  his  father 
and  began  work  in  the  confectionery  shop  at 
the  early  age  of  sixteen.  His  health  failing 
him,  he  went  to  farming.  He  has  been  a  great 
traveller  in  his  own  country.  He  and  his  wife 
are  members  of  the  Congregational  church  of 
East  Longmeadow,  of  which  he  has  been  clerk, 
treasurer,  teacher  in  the  Sunday  school,  dea- 
con and  trustee.  He  is  Republican  in  politics 
and  has  served  on  the  school  committee  and  as 
town  auditor.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Hamp- 
den Agricultural  Society.  He  married,  in  1864, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samuel  T.  Avery,  of 
South  Windsor,  Connecticut.  Children:  i. 
Frank  Albert,  born  September  9,  1865,  mar- 
ried, November  23,  1887,  Rertha  Cadwell,  of 
East  Longmeadow.  2.  Howard  Walton,  born 
AL-iy  8,  1867,  died  January  15,  i8rx).  3.  Arthur 
Gowdy,  born  July  18,  1871,  married,  January 
II,  1893,  Lute  Hanscom,  of  Alfred,  Maine; 
their  children  are :  i.  Marion  Elizabeth,  born 
May  26,  1894;  ii.  Howard  Irving,  February 
15,  1896;  iii.  Helen  Esther,  April  9,  1898;  iv. 
Roland  Arthur,  November  30,  1901.  4.  Walter 
Avery,  born  June  6,  i87f'>,  died  .April  2,  1882. 
5.  Robert  .Samuel,  born  December  6,  1886. 


This  family  inherits  from  many 
HALL     generations  of  ancestry  the  Yankee 

])ropensity  for  business  activity, 
and  the  sound  mind,  body  and  princijiles  neces- 
sary to  usefulness  in  the  world.  The  name  is 
one  of  the  oldest  in  America,  and  was  estab- 
lished at  several  (loints  in  New  England  at 
almost  simultaneous  dates.  The  origin  of  the 
name  has  been  the  subject  of  much  speculation 
among  its  bearers,  and  three  probable  sources 
arc  mentioned.  The  most  probable  is  the  fact 
that  baronial  seats  in  England  were  almost 
always  called  Halls,  with  some  title  annexed. 
When  men  were  obliged  to  take  surnames, 
manv  took  the  name  of  their  estates,  and  thus 


manv  names  were  made  to  end  with  Hall.  The 
Norman  or  .\nglo-Saxon  usage,  "de  la  Hall" 
I  translated,  of  the  Hall),  accounts  for  most  of 
the  occasions  where  this  became  a  surname, 
without  doubt.  One  authority  attributes  it  to 
the  \\'elsh  word  for  .salt,  which  would  be 
attached  to  a  worker  in  salt  or  dweller  near  a 
salt  mine,  .\gain,  it  is  traced  to  the  Norwegian 
word  for  hero,  which  is  hallr,  the  last  letter 
being  silent  and  only  indicative  of  the  nomina- 
tive case.  As  the  Norwegians  overran  Eng- 
land at  one  time,  many  of  their  words  found 
their  way  into  the  language.  Hallett  is  a  dimi- 
nutive of  Flail,  and  was  probably  given  to  a 
dwarfed  or  younger  son,  only  the  eldest  son 
being  entitled  to  the  patronymic  in  earliest 
usage. 

(I)  Gilbert  Hall  resided  in  the  county  of 
Kent,  in  the  southeastern  part  of  England.  No 
record  is  available  as  to  his  wife,  but  the  next 
mentioned  is  known  to  have  been  his  son. 

(  H)  Francis,  son  of  Gilbert  Hall,  born  about 
1608,  with  his  brother,  \\'illiam,  came  from 
Milford,  county  of  Surrey,  England,  in  the 
shi])  with  Rev.  1  lenry  Whitefield  and  his  party, 
which  included  people  from  Kent  and  Surrey. 
They  arrived  at  what  is  now  New  Haven,  Con- 
necticut, in  time  to  praticipate  in  the  meeting 
of  the  colonists  held  in  Newman's  barn,  June 
7.  1639.  In  1640  he  joined  Mr.  Ludlow  in  the 
cnter])rise  of  planting  a  settlement  at  the  head 
of  a  small  inlet  of  Long  Island  sound,  which 
they  named  l-'airfield.  At  that  time  he  had  a 
wife,  Elizabeth,  and  two  sons,  Isaac  and  Sam- 
uel, born  in  England.  The  mother  died  in 
1662,  probably  in  b'airfield,  and  Francis  Hall 
married  (second)  October  30,  1665,  Dorothy, 
widow  of  John  Tilakeman,  and  daughter  of 
Rev.  Henry  Smith,  of  Stratford.  Connecticut, 
who  survived  him.  He  was  a  man  of  some 
])ro]ierty  and  brought  with  him  a  small  stock 
cf  hardware,  carpenter's  tools  and  farming 
implements  for  trade.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Church  of  England,  but  on  his  arrival  in 
.America  adoj)ted  the  Congregational  method 
of  worship.  He  may  have  lived  in  New  Lon- 
don for  a  time.  In  1669  he  held  the  office  of 
constable  in  Stratford  and  was  a  dejiuty  from 
that  town  to  the  general  court  held  at  Hart- 
ford, May  1 1,  1676.  He  was  a  large  owner  of 
lands  in  Fairfield  and  Stratford  and  died  in  the 
latter  town  in  1690.  Besides  his  widow,  he 
was  survived  by  the  following  children  :  Isaac, 
.Samuel,  l-'.lizabcth.  Hannah.  Mary  and  Re- 
bcccah. 

(Ill)  Isaac,  eldest  son  of  Francis  and  Eliza- 
beth Hall,  was  born  about  1629  in  Kent,  Eng- 


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land,  aiul  accompanied  his  father  to  America 
as  above  related,  dying  in  Fairfield,  Connec- 
ticut, in  1714,  in  his  eighty-fifth  year.  He  was 
married  about  1660  to  Lydia  Knap]),  who  sur- 
vived him.  He  qualified  for  the  practice  of 
medicine  and  settled  in  Fairfield  where  he 
became  an  eminent  surgeon  and  physician. 
During  the  Indian  wars  he  was  .surgeon  of  the 
colonial  militia  and  for  this  service  received 
a  grant  of  land  in  the  town  of  Fairfield  from 
the  general  court.  He  had  previously  received 
in  1660  a  large  estate  from  his  father  in  that 
town.  He  subscribed  to  the  oath  of  fidelity  to 
the  colonial  government  in  1059  and  was  prob- 
ably one  of  the  jjroprietors  of  W'allingford  in 
1670.  His  children  were:  Isaac,  Sarah,  Lydia, 
Elizabeth,  Samuel,  Francis,  John  (died  young), 
John,  Mary,  Abigail  and  Jonathan. 

( IV)  Jonathan, youngest  child  of  Dr.  Francis 
and  Lydia  (Knajip)  Hall,  was  born  December 
2.  1684,  and  resided  in  Stratford,  where  he  un- 
doubtedly died.  His  estate  was  distributed  in 
1723,  which  indicates  that  he  died  at  the  age 
of  about  thirty-nine  years.  He  left  sons  Icha- 
bod  and  Jonathan,  who  disappeared  from  the 
records  of  Stratford  after  the  division  of  the 
paternal  estate. 

C\')  Jonathan  (2),  probably  son  of  Jona- 
than (i)  Hall,  was  born  in  1712,  and  settled 
about  1760  in  Walpole,  New  Hampshire,  where 
he  died  .August  26,  1802.  He  brought  with 
him  his  wife,  Mary,  and  eight  children.  His 
wife  died  one  month  after  him,  September  24, 
1802,  aged  eighty-two  years.  Record  is  found 
of  eight  children  who  became  heads  of  families. 
Mrs.  I'hilippi  Hall,  who  died  in  Walpole,  Octo- 
ber 15.  1774,  at  the  age  of  ninety  years,  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  his  widowed  mother.  There 
was  a  Pelatiah  Hall  in  Walpole,  who  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  a  brother  of  Jonathan.  The 
latter's  children  were:  i.  Sarah,  born  1741, 
wife  of  Captain  Levi  Hooper;  lived  in  Wal- 
pole. 2.  Elisha,  1746,  married  Philippi  Smith: 
lived  in  Walpole.  3.  Abraham,  married,  in 
1783,  Polly  Floyd;";  settled  in  Bath,  New 
Hampshire.  4.  Recompense,  married,  in  1775, 
Phoebe  Gerry ;  removed  to  Westminster,  Ver- 
mont. 5.  Jonathan,  subject  of  the  next  para- 
graph. 6.  John,  residcfl  in  Walpole  and  reared 
a  family.  7.  David,  born  1756,  married,  in 
1778,  Lydia  Tlraves;  lived  in  Walpole. 

(\T)  Jonathan  (3),  fourth  son  of  Jonathan 
(2)  and  Mary  Hall,  was  a  youth  when  he  went 
with  his  parents  to  Walpole,  where  he  lived 
and  died.  He  was  a  .soldier  of  the  revolution 
and  at  the  time  of  the  national  census  in  1790 
he  had  three  sons  under  sixteen  years  of  age 


and  four  tlauglilers.  Xo  record  appears  of  his 
birth,  marriage  or  death.  His  sons  were  Sam- 
uel. Jonathan  and  Elisha. 

(  \'H  )  Jonathan  (4),  second  son  of  Jona- 
than (3)  Hall,  was  born  about  1785  in  Wal- 
])ole  and  lived  in  Westmoreland  and  Surry. 
He  married  Phoebe  P.ritton,  probably  daugh- 
ter of  John  lirilton,  and  had  a  large  family. 
The  names  of  three  sons  are  preserved,  namely : 
Henry,  Jonathan  and  John  Britton. 

(\TI1)  John  I'ritton,  son  of  Jonathan  (4) 
and  Phoebe  (Britton)  Hall,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 6,  1 813,  probably  in  Surry,  and  when  a 
young  man  went  to  Saratoga  Springs,  New 
York.  He  was  there  married,  February  20, 
1837,  to  Clarissa  Willard  Hayward,  born 
March  10,  181 1,  in  New  Hampshire,  daughter 
of  Claudius  D.  and  Sallie  (Redding)  Hayward, 
of  Saratoga.  Their  children,  born  in  Saratoga, 
were:  i.  Maria,  June  10,  1838,  died  in  her 
twenty-first  year  unmarried.  2.  John  Alvin, 
subject  of  the  next  paragraph.  3.  Lucella 
Clarissa.  April  15,  1843,  married  Charles  E. 
Rawson.  4.  Sarah,  September  23,  1845,  mar- 
ried Edward  .Augustus  Deuel.  5.  Lewis  Hay- 
ward, March,  1848,  married  Alaria  Olive 
Tompkins.  6.  Edwin  Lucius,  May  29,  1851, 
married  (fir.st)  Rebecca  Wickwire. 

(IX)  John  Alvin,  eldest  son  of  John  Pirit- 
ton  and  Clarissa  W.  (Hayward)  Hall,  was 
born  December  17,  1840,  in  Saratoga,  and 
located  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  July  21, 
1861,  shortly  before  attaining  his  majority. 
During  the  civil  war  he  was  employed  in  the 
I'n'ited  States  armory  at  .Springfield,  and  in 
1865  left  there  to  go  into  the  insurance  busi- 
ness in  Sjiringfield.  .After  a  short  time  he  was 
connected  with  the  (niardian  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  New  York,  and  on  October  i, 
1872,  he  became  general  agent  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of 
Springfield,  whose  headquarters  were  then 
located  on  the  site  of  its  ])rescnt  handsome 
offices.  This  connection  continued  until  Janu- 
ary, 1879.  Early  in  1881  he  was  elected  secre- 
tary of  tiie  company  and  filled  this  position 
most  efficiently  for  a  period  of  fourteen  years, 
initil  his  election  in  1895  to  the  position  of 
president.  This  office  he  held  until  the  clo.se 
of  his  life,  which  occurred  September  3,  1908, 
while  on  a  trip  to  Europe,  <lying  in  the  city  of 
London,  England.  Mr.  Hall  filled  a  large  part 
in  the  business,  social  and  philanthrojiic  life  of 
Springfield,  and  was  identified  with  many  of 
the  leading  interests  of  that  city.  He  was  vice- 
president  and  subsecjuently  ])resident  of  the 
Springfield  Institution  for  Savings,  and  during 


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the  early  years  of  his  career  in  Springfield  he 
served  the  city  as  a  member  of  the  common 
council,  board  of  aldermen  and  on  its  school 
committee.  While  not  a  member  of  any  relig- 
ious organization  he  was  a  regular  attendant 
of  the  Unitarian  church,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Union  League  Club  of  New  York  and 
Nayasset  Club  of  Springfield.  He  married, 
July  21,  1863,  Frances  E.  Fay,  of  Springfield, 
daughter  of  Foster  and  Sarah  (Taft)  Fay,  a 
member  of  an  old  Massachusetts  family.  She 
was  born  January  14,  1843,  in  Mendon^Mass- 
achusetts,  and  died  January  19,  1908,  in  Spring- 
field. Their  children  were  :  Clara  F.,  Blanche 
E.  and  John  Alvin. 

(.For  first   generation  see   John   BaU    1). 

(H)    Nathaniel  Ball,  son  of  John 

BALL      Ball,  was  born  in  England  and  came 

to  New   England  with  his   father. 

He    settled    in    Concord    and    married    Mary 

.    He  was  admitted  a  freeman,  May  22, 

1650,  the  same  day  as  his  father.  Children:  i. 
John,  died  July  27,  1649.  2.  Nathaniel,  born 
September  29,  1649,  died  November  23,  1649. 
3.  Ebenezer.  4.  Eleazer.  5.  Nathaniel,  born 
July  3.  1663,  mentioned  below.  6.  Hannah, 
January  22,  1665. 

(III)  Nathaniel  (2),  son  of  Nathaniel  (i) 
Ball,  was  born  in  Concord,  July  3,  1663,  and 
married,  April  19,  1688,  Mary  Brooks.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Concord:  i.  Susannah,  January 
24.  1689.  2.  Caleb,  August  10,  1690.  3. 
Nathaniel,  April  i,  1692,  married.  May  31, 
171 1,  Sarah  Baker.  4.  Thomas,  February  2, 
1693-94.  5.  Samuel,  March  24,  1696-97.  6. 
Mary,  May  11,  1699.  7.  Jeremiah,  May  i, 
1701,  mentioned  below.  8.  Benjamin,  June  19, 
1704.  9.  Ebenezer,  May  30,  1712.  10.  Sarah, 
April  29,  1714. 

(IV)  Jeremiah,  son  of  Nathaniel  (2)  Ball, 
was  born  at  Concord,  May  i,  i/Oi.  He  settled 
in  Townsend,  Massachusetts,  in  the  east  part 
of  the  town,  in  1726,  near  the  John  Spaulding 
place.  He  married,  in  1727,  Mary  Stevens, 
who  died  February  11,  1764,  aged  sixty-two 
years.  He  died  .April  12,  1780,  aged  seventy- 
nine  years.  Children:  i.  Ebenezer,  born  July 
3,  1729,  mentioned  below.  2.  Lieutenant  Jere- 
miah, August  31,  1731,  died  Marcli  7,  1792; 
married,  January,  1759,  Mary  Stevens.  3. 
Mary,  lune  24,  1733,  died  .Atigust  11,  1822; 
married    (first) Hubbard;    (second) 

Baldwin;  (third)  Jcdediah  Jcwctt.    4. 


Elizabeth.  March  4,  1736.  5.  Susatmah,  March 
IT,   173S,  married  Button.     6.  Benja- 


min, July  26,  1742,  settled  in  Hancock,  New 
Hampshire. 

(\)   Ebenezer,  son  of  Jeremiah  Ball,  was 
born  in  Townsend,  July  3,  1729,  died  April  7, 
1797.     He  served  in  the  revolution  in  Captain 
James    Hasley's    company.    Colonel    William 
Prescott's  regiment,  and  marched  on  the  Lex- 
ington alarm,  April  19,  1775;  also  in  Captain 
Henry  Haskell's  company,  same  regiment,  in 
January,  1776.    He  married,  in  1753,  Rebecca 
Butterfield,  of  Westford,  born  July  31,  1729, 
died    October    21,    1800.      Children,    born    in 
Townsend:      i.    Rebecca,   November  8,   1754, 
died  August  15,  1830;  inarried  (first)  Febru- 
ary 20,  1787,  William  Weston;  (second)  Abel 
Keyes;  (third)  .April  27.  1830,  Rogers  Weston. 
2.    Ebenezer,    September   2,    1756,    mentioned 
below.     3.  Olive,  September  6,  1758,  died  De- 
cember 5,  1838;  married,  November  11,  1784, 
John  Blood.     4.  Susannah,  October  22,   1760, 
died  October  9,  1833;  married.  December  16, 
1788,  Joseph  Heywood.     5.  Hannah,  October 
20,  1762,  died  June  5,   1833;  married.  March 
22,   1786,    Nathaniel   Shatttick.     6.   .Abraham, 
January  26,   1765,  died  September   15,   1840; 
married,  1785,  Deliverance  Perham.     7.  Bath- 
sheba,  June  14,  1769,  died  May  2,  1815;  mar- 
ried, November  16,  1791,  Ilezekiah  Winn.    8. 
Noah,  August  3,  1771,  died  August  28,  1847; 
married,   May  26,    1796.   Betsey  Weston.     9. 
Mary,  May  6.  1773,  died  March  6,  1858;  mar- 
ried, December  20,  1797,  Zaccheus  Richardson. 
(VI)    Ebenezer   (2),  son  of  Ebenezer    (i) 
Ball,   was  born   in    Townsend,   September   2, 
1756,  died  December  5,  1837.     He  was  in  the 
revolution  in  the  saine  companies  as  his  father, 
and  saw  the  same  service.    He  married  (first) 
October  18,  1781,  Sarah  Shattuck,  of  Pepperell, 
born  September  3.  1755,  died  July  8.  1785.  He 
married  (second)  June.  1786,  Hannah  Smith, 
of  Mason,  New  Hampshire,  who  died  April  4, 
1787.     He  married  (third)  October  10,  1787, 
I'liebe  Weston,  of  Townsend,  born  December 
19,  1767,  died  November  2,  1848.     Children: 
I.  .Sarah,  born  November  20,  1782,  died  Janu- 
ary 3.  1854;  married.  November  3,  1808,  Dea- 
con   Samuel   Walker.      2.    Ebenezer,   April   2, 
1787,  mentioned  below.     3.  David,  November 
7,    1788,   died    :March.    1863;   married    Nancy 
\Veston.     4.  Deacon  Levi,  July  7,  1790,  died 
Octoljcr  II.  1849;  married.  January  10,  1813. 
Lucy   Burbank.     5.   Rev.   Hosea,   August   11, 
1792,    married.    September    12,    1817.    Sarah 
Holmes.    6.  Phcbe.  .August  4.  1794,  died  July 
31.  1832;  married.  December  31,  1833,  Captain 
Ednuind  Blood.     7.  Samuel,  August  7,   1796, 


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married  Olive  Nelson.  8.  Hannah,  October 
31,  1800,  died  February  17,  1S40:  niarricd, 
October  10,  1821,  Samuel  W.  lUirbank.  g. 
Roxanna.  born  November  23,  1804,  marrietl, 
December  10,  1834,  Xatlian  Davis.  10.  \"ar- 
num,  June  30,  1807,  married,  September  2, 
1828.  Xancy  Ball,  of  Lunenburg. 

(\'II)  Ebenezer  (3),  son  of  Ebenezer  (2) 
Ball,  was  born  April  2,  1787,  died  December 
31,  1845.  He  married  Sarah  Swift,  of  Ware. 
He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade.  Children:  i. 
William.  May  7,  1815,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Emory,  September  11.  1818.  3.  Amos,  June 
14,  1820,  died  August,  1846.  4.  Hosea,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1822.  5.  Mary  Mariva,  December 
29,  1825. 

(Vni)  William,  son  of  Ebenezer  (3)  Ball, 
was  born  May  7,  181 5.  at  Ware.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  lived  during  his  boyhood  with  his 
parents  in  Ware.  He  began  to  learn  the  trade 
of  carpenter,  working  with  his  father,  but 
became  disgusted  with  the  work  one  day  while 
helping  his  father  shingle  a  house,  threw  down 
his  liamincr  and  (|uit  work.  He  secured  work 
in  a  machine  shop  in  Ware  Center,  and  soon 
became  a  skillful  machinist.  He  developed 
wonderful  ability  as  an  inventor.  He  first 
invented  and  patented  a  machine  for  manu- 
facturing the  wooden  pegs  used  in  making 
shoes,  a  great  labor  saver.  Next  he  produced 
a  device  for  using  horse  power  to  operate 
machinery.  He  removed  to  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  devised  and  matuifactured 
the  machinery  used  in  making  Colt's  pistols 
and  other  fire-arms.  Thence  he  went  to  Whit- 
neyville,  and  invented  a  rifling  machine  that 
rifled  four  gun  barrels  at  the  same  time.  At 
Chicopec  he  invented  the  paper  cap  used  to  fire 
cannon  and  the  friction  primer,  made  of  paper, 
then  the  brass  primer,  and  manufactured  these 
goods  for  a  time.  He  next  devised  the  ingen- 
ious gate  used  to  regulate  the  flow  of  molasses 
from  barrels.  He  invented  the  machine  that 
is  still  in  use  in  the  manufacture  of  pins.  He 
devised  a  machine  to  produce  the  carpet  tack 
with  leather  washer  attached,  formerly  very 
popular.  Through  his  inventions  in  connection 
with  the  manufacture  and  handling  of  fire- 
arms he  met  Commodore  Stockton  of  the 
I'nited  States  ordnance  department,  who  was 
interested  in  mines  and  mining,  and  at  his 
instance,  invented  a  steam  stamp  mill  to  crush 
ore.  Afterward  he  produced  the  first  gold 
washer  and  amalgamator  in  .America.  He  also 
invented  and  built  machinery  for  copper  min- 
ing, including  a  steam  stamp  mill  and  copi)er 


washer  for  the  Copper  Falls  Mine,  built  under 
ills  guarantee  to  do  better  work  than  anytliing 
used  hitherto.  1  lis  business  in  mining  machinery 
became  extensive.  He  built  mills  for  I'ewabic 
and  hranklin  .Mines,  .Sheldon  and  Columl)ian 
-Mills.  South  I'ewabic,  and  he  sold  the  rights 
for  the  Calumet  and  Hecla  and  Osceola  Mines. 
He  was  the  first  man  to  inaugurate  the  system 
of  interchangeable  jsarts  in  the  manufacture 
of  fire-arms.  Considering  the  number,  the  use- 
fulness and  variety  of  his  inventions,  their  efi'ec- 
tiveness  in  saving  labor  and  increasing  the 
production  of  mines  and  factories,  his  career 
as  an  inventor  can  scarcely  be  equalled  in  the 
history  of  American  genius.  He  died  January 
31,  1870.  In  politics  he  was  first  a  Democrat 
and  later  a  Republican.  In  religion  a  Congre- 
gationalist.  He  married  (first)  June  17,  1838, 
his  first  cousin,  Sarah  Shattuck  Walker,  born 
December  18,  1818,  daughter  of  Deacon  Sam- 
uel and  Sarah  (Bali)  \\'alker,  of  Townsend, 
Massachusetts.  Samuel  Walker  was  born 
March  27,  1783,  died  July  19,  1849;  h's  wife 
Sarah  (Ball)  Walker,  was  born  November  20, 
1782,  died  January  3,  1854,  daughter  of  Ebe- 
nezer Ball  (6)  and  sister  of  Ebenezer  Ball 
(7).  Children:  i.  Albina  S.,  born  March  27, 
1841,  married,  January  23,  1862,  John  W. 
Colton,  of  Westfield,  Alassachusetts ;  he  was 
born  June  13,  1832,  died  January  10,  1907; 
had  children:  i.  Helen  Ball,  born  December 
15,  1863,  died  May  10,  1864;  ii.  William  Ball, 
born  July  13.  1868,  died  March  30,  1893;  iii. 
(Icrtrude  W'hitman,  born  Deceiuber  18,  1871, 
married,  Ajjril  21,  1891,  William  J.  I'arton; 
had  .Sidney  Colton,  born  /\pril  21,  1892:  Leota 
.•\lbina,  born  June  29,  1896;  Helen  Ball,  born 
April  15,  1898,  died  March  4,  1899;  Lois,  born 
December  19,  1899,  died  Sei)tember  11,  1900. 
2.  (ieorge  W'..  born  October  18,  1843.  3.  Ivlwin 
Pliny,  luentioned  below.  He  married  (second) 
.\delia  K.  Sonthworth  (nee  Mearl)  and  had 
one  child  who  died  in  infancy. 

(IX)  Edwin  Pliny,  son  of  William  Ball, 
was  born  in  what  is  now  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts, January  26.  1846.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Chicopee  and  attended  the  Chicopee 
high  school  when  Governor  George  D.  Robin- 
son was  princijjal.  He  left  the  high  school 
during  his  fourth  year  to  take  up  draughting 
in  the  office  of  the  .'\mes  Company  of  Chicopee. 
After  a  short  time  he  enterecl  Williston  .Semi- 
nary at  Easthampton.  He  became  associated 
with  his  father  in  business  and  continued  until 
he  died,  .•\fterward  he  carried  on  his  father's 
business  until  the  patents  had  expired.  lie 
became  associated  with  A.  D.  Briggs  &  Com- 


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]iany,    bridge    builders,    and    during   the    nine 
months  he  worked  for  this  concern  Mr.  Ball 
drew  the  plans  for  the  first  iron  drawbridge 
over  the  Connecticut  river,  built  at  Saybroolc 
Junction.    Next  he  went  into  business  for  him- 
self as  a  mill  and  mechanical  engineer.     He 
built  the  first  new  mill  at  Ludlow,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1878:  Mill  No.  i  at  West  Warren  and 
all  the  other  buildings  completed  there  at  that 
time,  1880.  He  built  the  Low?r  Canal  bulkhead 
at  I'.ondsville ;  then  the  Richmond  I'aper  Mills 
at  East  I'rovidence,  Rhoile  Island.    He  rebuilt 
the  woolen  mills  that  had  been  destroyed  by 
fire  at  Saxonville,  ■Massachusetts.     From  1884 
to  1904  he  made  his  home  in  I'almer,  Massa- 
chusetts,   since   then    in    Springfield.      In   the 
meantime  he  constructed  the  Ashcroft  Manu- 
facturing Company  plant  at  Bridgeport,  Con- 
necticut ;  the  plant  of  the  South  Paris  Manu- 
facturing Company  of  Paris,  Maine;  the  plant 
of  the  SufTolk  Cordage  Works,  Chelsea,  Mass- 
achusetts; factories  C,  D,  E,  F,  G,  H,  I,  J  and 
!•?  for  the  General  Electric  Company  at  Lynn. 
Massachusetts,  and  the  plant  of  the  Lynn  Gas 
&  Electric  Company;  the  factory  of  the  Amer- 
ican  Projectile  Company;  the   Electric  Light 
station    at    Elizabeth,    New    Jersey;    electric 
light  plants  at    Poughkeepsie,  New  York;  at 
Hudson,  New  York;  at  Catskill,  New  York; 
at   Palmer,   Massachusetts;  at   Stafford,  Con- 
necticut;   at    New    Britain,    Connecticut;    the 
machine  shop  of  the   New   Hampshire   State 
schools  at  Durham,  New  Hampshire.    He  also 
rebuilt    the    dam    destroyed   by    a    freshet    at 
Jewett  City,  Connecticut ;  built  the  Red  Bridge 
Dam  &  Power  plant  at  Ludlow,  Massachusetts  ; 
Cushman  woolen  mill,  and  dormitory  at  Mon- 
son   Academy.     He  was  the  engineer  of  the 
new    bulkhead,    canal    and    power    house    at 
Turner's  Falls,  Massachusetts.    Few  engineers 
have  so  many  great  works  that  will  serve  as 
monuments  to  their  skill,  ingenuity  and  genius. 
Mr.    Ball   is   a    Reiiublican    in    politics   and   a 
Unitarian  in  religi<in.     He  is  a  member  of  the 
following  clubs  and  societies:    Thomas  Lodge, 
Free  and   .\ccepted   Masons,  of   Palmer,  and 
Palmer  Club.     He  married,  December  2,  1869, 
Ada  I.  Brigham,  born  December  3,  1846,  daugh- 
ter of  Lemuel  Hawley  and  Lucinda  D.  (Bam- 
ford)  P.righani.     Children:     i.  Mina  L.,  born 
September    14,    1870,  married,   Sei)teml)er   28, 
1897,    William    Rodney    Marsh,   a   dentist,   of 
Brandon,  X'ermont ;  had  children:     i.  William 
P..,  born  September  10,  i8(j(),  died  October  23, 
1899:  ii.  Margaret  B.,  born  l-'ebruary  21.  1903; 
iii.   Edwin    B.,  born   November  23,   1904;  iv. 
Elizabeth  S.,  born  October  6,  1908.  2.  Gertrude 


A..  September  14,  1872,  married,  October  10, 
1906,  John  Howard  Willis,  an  architect,  lives 
in  Berkeley,  California.  3.  Edwin  Brigham,  De- 
cember 22.  1876.  4.  Sarah  Walker.  luly  18, 
1883. 


This    name,    which    if    of    very 
CORDIS     rare  occurance  in  the  early  rec- 
ords   of    Massachusetts,    is    evi- 
dently that  of  a  Dutch  immigrant  who  settled 
in  the   Bay  State  after   New  Amsterdam  be- 
came an  English  colony. 

(T)  Cord  Cordis,  born  in  1709,  was  a  mer- 
chant and  lived  in  Boston,  where  he  married, 
November  30,  1733,  Sarah  Eveleigh,  who  died 
in  1740,  and  was  buried  at  King's  Chapel, 
March  28,  1740.  He  married  (second)  at 
Ijoston,  October  2,  1740,  Hannah,  widow  of 
Elnathan  Jones.  He  died  at  Concord.  Massa- 
chusetts, July  29,  1772,  aged  sixty-three  years. 
His  widow  Hannah  died  in  London,  England, 
1779.  Cord  Corilis  had  four  children  by  his 
first  wife  and  two  by  his  second  wife.  They 
were:  1.  John,  born  December  2S.  1733.  2. 
.Sarah,  born  December  29,  1734;  married  John 
Wheelwright.  3.  Frederick,  born  October  28. 
1736.  4.  Catherine,  born  March  18.  1739.  5. 
Thomas,  see  forward.    6.  Joseph. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  Cord  and  Hannah 
(Jones)  Cordis,  was  born  September  5,  1741, 
in  lioston,  died  in  1774.  He  married,  October 
5,  1763,  Elizabeth  X'inton,  who  survived  him 
and  married  (second)  March  16,  1780.  Jonas 
Lee,  of  Concord  and  Ashley.  She  died  March 
9,  1804.  Jonas  Lee  died  in  Ashley,  April  21, 
1 8 19.  Four  children  were  born  to  Thomas 
and  Mlizabeth  (  \inton  )  Cordis:  I.  Thomas, 
see  forward.  2.  Hannah,  married  Thomas 
Oliver  Larkin.  3.  Mary,  born  June  5.  1772, 
married  Abraham  I'.ultertield,  died  .August  22, 
1802.  4.  l'".lizaheth,  born  1773,  died  unmarried, 
August  30,  1779. 

(HI)  Thomas  (2),  eldest  son  of  1  homas 
(  I  I  and  l-'.lizabeth  (\'inton)  Cordis,  was  born 
in  Boston.  1771.  He  was  a  prominent  and 
respected  merchant  of  that  city,  was  of  the 
firm  of  ISellows,  Cordis  (S:  Jones,  imixirters  of 
British  dry  goods,  afterwards  of  the  firm  of 
Scudder  and  Cordis,  importers  of  and  dealers 
in  hardware.  He  was  one  of  the  incorjiorators 
of  the  fifth  bank  of  Boston,  known  as  the  New 
iMigland  r.ank.  which  was  organized  in  181 3. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  board  of  directors 
of  the  City  Bank,  organized  in  1822.  He 
married  .Sarah  S.  Kenible.  December  5, 
I79c>  He  married  (second)  July  22.  1813, 
Ilannah  Cordis,  born  in  Charlestown,  Massa- 


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clnisctts.  Xovembcr  5.  1789,  died  July  25,  1832. 
Cliildreii :  i.  Thomas  Frederick,  born  Xovem- 
bcr 24,  1814,  died  July  19.  1881.  2.  Sarah 
Eliza,  married  Russell  Jarvis ;  was  lost  on  the 
steamer  "Lexington."  with  her  two  children, 
January  13,  1840.  3.  Francis  Temple,  born 
January  16.  1817.  see  forward.  4.  Mary  Ellen, 

born  August  6.  t8i8,  died .    5.  Edward, 

born  March  5,  1821,  died  April  4.  1904.  6. 
Clarence  Russell,  born  December  3,  1822,  died 
November  13.  1859.  7.  Charles,  born  P'ebru- 
ary  11,  1829.  died  February  3,  1831.  Thomas 
Cordis  died  December  8,  1854. 

Hannah  (Cordis)  Cordis  was  the  daughter 
of  Captain  Joseph  and  Rebecca  (Russell) 
Cordis,  and  granddaughter  of  Cord  Cordis. 
Captain  Joseph  Cordis  was  born  June  4,  1740, 
in  Cliarlestown,  and  died  in  181 1.  He  was  a 
man  of  much  prominence,  and  after  1781  a 
large  real  estate  holder.  Cordis  street,  named 
in  his  honor,  was  laid  out  through  his  pasture ; 
an  old  deed  in  possession  of  a  member  of  the 
family  shows  the  transfer  by  Thomas  and 
Mary  Welsh  to  Joseph  Cordis  of  a  house  and 
a  wharf.  fort}--six  feet,  on  Joiner  street.  He 
lost  heavily  through  the  influence  on  Ameri- 
can commerce  of  the  wars  between  France  and 
England,  and  his  losses  are  supposed  to  have 
hastened  his  death.  Captain  Joseph  Cordis 
married,  June  15,  1770,  Rebecca  Russell,  born 
February  2,  1746,  died  at  Reading,  Massachu- 
setts, February  19,  1800.  daughter  of  Richard 
and  Mary  (Cary)  Russell.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Elizabeth  Spear,  in  1803.  Children  of 
first  marriage:  i.  John  Rlake,  born  February 
6.  1772,  died  1818.  2.  Rebecca,  born  June  4, 
1774.  3.  Frances  Temple,  born  December  3, 
1776,  died  April  8,  1815.  4.  Hannah  (istK 
born  .August  3,  1778,  died  March  20,  1780.  5. 
Mary,  born  April  16,  1781,  died  November  23, 
1868.  f>.  Joseph,  born  June  17,  1782,  lost  at 
sea,  in  1805.  7.  Thomas,  born  June  13,  1783, 
died  May  25,  181 5.  8.  An  infant,  born  in 
1784,  died  the  same  day.  9.  Harriet,  born 
February  19,  1785,  died  September  17,  1786. 
10.  Hannah  (2d),  born  November  5,  1817; 
wife  of  Thomas  Cordis,  aforementioned. 

(IV)  Francis  Temple,  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
and  Hannah  (Cordis)  Cordis,  was  born  at  43 
Beacon  street,  P.oston,  January  16.  1817.  He 
was  educated  at  a  jirivate  school  in  Jamaica 
Plain.  Massachusetts,  and  brought  u[)  as  a 
merchant,  being  of  the  firm  of  Horton.  Hall  & 
Comi)any,  114  Milk  street,  Boston,  importers 
and  dealers  in  hardware.  He  was  a  man  of 
wealth,  and  influential  and  highly  respected. 
In  his  youth  he  was  a  member  of  the  P.oston 


Cadets.  In  March.  1843,  he  settled  in  Long- 
meadow,  where  he  resided  the  remainder  of 
his  life,  continuing  in  business  in  Boston  for 
several  years  previous  to  his  retirement.  He 
married,  April  30,  1840,  Ruth  Anna  Prescott, 
born  in  P.oston,  November  i),  1819,  died  July 
I,  i88(),  daughter  of  Jonathan  Prescott,  of 
P.oston.  Children;  i.  Thomas  h'rancis,  born 
July  28,  1843,  St''-'  forward.  2.  Charles  Fred- 
erick, born  April  23,  1849,  died  June  26,  1851. 
I-Vancis  Temple  Cordis  died  April  3,  1890. 

(\')  Colonel  Thomas  Francis,  son  of  Fran- 
cis Temple  and  Ruth  Anna  (Prescott)  Cordis, 
was  born  July  28.  1843,  in  Longmeadow,  Mass- 
achusetts. He  olitained  his  education  in  pri- 
vate schools,  and  at  W'illiston  Seminary,  in 
Easthampton,  Massachusetts.  At  eighteen 
years  of  age  he  responded  to  the  call  for 
troops  in  the  civil  war,  and  enlisted  Septem- 
ber 25,  1862,  in  Company  A,  Forty-sixth  Mass- 
achusetts Regiment  \'olunteer  Infantry,  and 
served  as  a  sergeant  until  July  29,  1863,  when 
he  was  honorabl}-  discharged  on  account  of 
exiMration  of  term  of  service.  The  Forty- 
sixth  Regiment  served  with  credit  under  the 
command  of  Major  General  John  G.  Foster, 
and  was  stationed  most  of  the  time  at  New- 
beru.  North  Carolina.  It  took  part  in  the 
( loldsboro  expedition  ;  a  raid  from  Newbern. 
whicli  began  December  11,  1862,  and  resulted 
in  the  capture  of  Kinston,  the  Confederate 
center  of  operations  in  North  Carolina:  De- 
cember 14,  it  dispersed  a  rebel  force  at  White- 
hall:  December  16,  it  destroyed  a  railroad 
bridge  and  miles  of  track,  besides  defeating 
the  enemy  with  heavy  loss  at  Goldsboro,  De- 
cember 17.  It  also  took  an  active  part  in  the 
operations  about  Newbern  and  Little  Wash- 
ington. North  Carolina,  in  March  and  April, 
1863,  caused  by  Confederate  attacks  upon 
these  ])laces.  Company  A,  in  which  Mr. 
Cordis  served,  while  on  picket  duty  at  Batch- 
elder's  Creek,  North  Carolina,  was  attacked 
1)\-  a  large  force  of  Confederates,  May  13, 
1863.  and  without  other  su])])ort  held  the  enemy 
in  check  for  several  hours  until  reinforce- 
ments came  to  their  relief.  In  1876  he  became 
a  member  of  the  Second  Battallionof  Infantry, 
Massachusetts  Militia.  August  29,  1876,  he 
was  a])])ointed  jiayiuaster  fm  the  stafl"  of  the 
battallion,  with  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant,  and 
served  in  that  capacity  until  .\ugust  20,  1879. 
He  was  elected  ami  coiumissioned  second  lieu- 
tenant of  Company  B  (.Springfield  City 
Guard),  Second  Regiment  Infantry.  .\I.  V. 
M..  and  was  promoted  to  first  lieutenant  of 
the   company    February    11,    1889:    appointed 


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on  the  staff  of  Brigadier  General  Benjamin  F. 
Bridges  as  aide-de-camp.  February  20th,  1889, 
with  the  rank  of  captain ;  promoted  to  be 
assistant  inspector  general  of  rifle  practice, 
January  12,  1894,  with  the  rank  of  major;  was 
retired  with  the  rank  of  major,  August  11, 
1897,  having  served  continuously  for  over 
seventeen  years  in  the  Massachusetts  militia. 
During  the  Spanish-American  war  he  recruit- 
ed and  organized  the  Twenty-seventh  Com- 
pany of  Provisional  Militia,  of  which  he  was 
elected  captain,  July  21,  1898,  and  was  honor- 
ably discharged  April  15,  1899.  He  was  again 
retired  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant  colonel. 
May  27,  1899,  under  provisions  of  Section  i, 
Chapter  302,  Acts  of  1899.  He  is  a  member 
of  E.  K.  Wilcox  Post,  No.  i6.  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic,  of  Springfield.  He  is  very 
much  interested  in  all  matters  concerning  the 
civil  war,  and  has  compiled  a  complete  chrono- 
logical list  of  all  officers  that  were  killed  or 
died  from  wQunds  during  the  war,  giving  the 
regiment,  place,  and  date  of  death,  also  a 
chronological  list  of  all  battles  of  the  civil  war, 
with  a  list  of  regiments  engaged  in  each  battle, 
and  the  losses  of  each,  both  on  the  Union  and 
Confederate  sides,  also  a  list  of  all  officers  of 
Florida  and  \ortli  Carolina  who  were  killed 
while  in  the  Confederate  service. 

Colonel  Cordis  is  a  staunch  Republican, 
takes  an  interest  in  politics,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Alassachusetts  legislature  in  1876.  He 
has  a  villa  at  .Seabreeze,  Florida,  where  he 
spends  his  winters. 

Thomas  I-'rancis  Cordis  married,  in  Philadel- 
])hia,  Pennsylvania,  N'ovember  13,  1867,  Amiie 
Byrd  Colton,  of  Philadelphia,  born  June  11, 
1845,  daughter  of  Simon  and  Mary  (  Flint)  Col- 
ton. Children :  Grace  Temple,  born  May  23, 
1872,  died  February  23. 1875  ;  Thomas  Edwanl, 
born  A.ugu.st  16,  1884. 


The  Colonial  records  give  the 
l^'TTIF^P.S     orthography     of     the     name     as 

P]ii])s,  but  the  family  adojited 
the  spelling  of  Phiiijjs.  Two  immigrants 
appeared  in  America:  James  in  New  England 
in  the  first  half  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
and  Jose])h,  born  in  Reeding.  England,  in 
1640,  as  a  member  of  William  I'enn's  colony, 
that  settled  Pennsylvania  in  1672.  Like  i'enn, 
he  had  embraced  the  (Juaker  faith,  and  their 
descendants,  who  were  very  jjrolific  and  noted 
for  their  longevity,  were  represented  in  1907 
by  a  representative  in  the  sixth  generation. 
I'ennsylvania  continued  to  be  the  home  of 
Joseph  Phipps  antl  his  descendants  up  to  the 


fifth  generation  when  they  began  to  move 
west.  A  careful  compiler  of  genealogical 
records  gives  to  twelve  children  of  the  two 
families  representing  the  second  generation  of 
Phipps  one  hundred  and  eight  of  the  third 
generation  and  eleven  hundred  and  forty-two 
descendants  in  one  hundred  and  ten  years,  and 
three  thousand  in  one  hundred  and  forty  years. 
\\'e  have  to  do  with  the  New  England  branch. 

( I )  James  and  Mary  Phipps,  sturdy  pion- 
eers, founded  Phippsburg,  Maine,  in  the  early 
part  of  the  seventeenth  century.  One  of  their 
sons  was  William  Phipps,  the  first  royal  gov- 
ernor of  the  colony  of  Massachusetts.  Mary 
Phipps  was  still  a  comparatively  young  woman 
when  her  husband  died,  and  she  married  John 
White. 

(H)  Sir  William,  son  of  James  and  Mary 
Phipps,  was  born  in  1651,  on  the  bank  of  the 
Kennebec  river,  in  a  border  settlement  known 
as  Phippsburg,  located  near  Woolwich,  Maine. 
His  father  was  a  husbandman,  extensively 
engaged  in  raising  sheep,  and  young  William 
was  up  to  his  eighteenth  year  occupied  as 
keeper  of  these  flocks  of  sheep,  but  his  ambi- 
tion led  him  to  leave  his  father's  farm  when 
eighteen  years  old.  and  he  learned  the  trade 
of  ship  building,  and  after  mastering  it  he 
found  work  in  the  ship  yards  of  Boston.  He 
first  learned  to  read  and  write  while  living  in 
Pioston.  ?Ie  married  a  widow  with  some  prop- 
erty, and  while  working  at  his  trade  conceived 
the  plan  of  locating  and  fishing  up  the  treasure 
represented  to  be  stored  in  the  S[)anish  galleon 
wrecked  fifty  years  before  in  the  West  Indies. 
J  le  enlisted  the  co-operation  of  the  English 
Admiralty  who  furnished  him  a  frigate  and 
made  him  its  commander,  but  his  quest  was 
fruitless.  The  Duke  of  Albemarle  and  others 
furnished  him  with  a  second  vessel  and  he 
located  a  wreck  and  took  from  it  gold  and 
sih'cr  treasure  estimated  at  a  value  of  three 
I'lnidred  thousand  pounds,  and  as  a  reward  for 
his  services  he  was  allotted  about  one- 
twentieth  of  the  treasure,  making  his  share 
aljout  sixteen  thousand  pound.s.  He  was  also 
knighted  and  made  sherifl^  of  the  province  of 
New  England.  In  1690  the  Colony  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  made  him  commander  of  a  fleet 
(  f  eight  vessels  and  sent  him  against  the 
I'rench  settlement  at  Port  Royal  in  .Acadia, 
and  he  succeeded  in  capturing  tlie  place.  This 
impelled  the  general  court  to  fit  out  a  fleet  of 
thirty-four  vessels  manned  by  two  thousand 
men  .uid  lie  proceeded  against  Quebec,  but  was 
repulsed  by  Count  F'rontenac,  the  French 
commander  of  the   fortress,  and  on  his  way 


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back  to  Boston  he  lost  nine  of  his  ships  by 
shipwrecks.  He  was  made  governor  of 
Massachusetts  under  the  charter  of  1692,  and 
one  of  his  first  popular  movements  was  to 
commission  a  special  court  for  the  trial  of 
those  accused  of  witchcraft,  and  after  a  ses- 
sion of  some  months  the  court  was  suspended, 
the  witchcraft  excitement  having  been  quelled 
by  its  existence.  His  training  as  a  sea  captain 
and  con-;mander  of  fleets  had  cultivated  a  spirit 
of  domineering  and  bluff  action  towards  his 
fellow  officials  in  the  service  of  the  govern- 
ment, and  this  brought  him  to  England  in  1694 
by  summons  to  answer  com])lainers  against 
his  overbearing  and  in  some  instances  brutal 
conduct,  and  while  there  he  died  of  malignant 
fever  in  1695.  For  the  purpose  of  reaching 
Cither  lines  of  the  family  genealogy,  we  begin 
with  the  Hinckley  genealogy  which   follows : 

(])  Samuel  Hinckley,  a  native  of  Tenter- 
den.  Kent,  England,  was  a  passenger  in  the 
ship  "Hercules"  of  .Sandwich.  England,  in 
1634,  and  landed  in  Plymouth  Colony,  settling 
at  Scituate  with  his  wife  Sarah  and  four  chil- 
dren, and  in  1630  he  removed  to  Barnstable 
where  he  died  in  1662. 

( H  )  Thomas  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
Hinckley,  was  born  in  Tenterden.  England, 
about  1618.  and  came  with  his  father  and  fam- 
ily to  Scituate,  Plymouth  Colony,  in  1634,  and 
removed  with  them  to  Barnstable  in  1639.  He 
was  elected  dejiuty  of  Plymouth  Colony  in 
1645.  a  representative  in  the  general  court  in 
1647.  and  was  magistrate  and  assistant,  1658- 
80.  In  1680  he  was  elected  governor  of 
Plvmouth  Colony  as  successor  to  Governor 
W'inslow,  deceased,  and  except  during  Gover- 
nor Andros's  administration.  1687-91,  he  was 
chief  magistrate  of  the  colony  up  to  the  time 
of  its  union  with  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony 
in  1692.  He  served  as  commissioner  of  the 
colony.  1672-93.  and  as  councillor  of  the  gen- 
eral court  of  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  1692- 
1706.  He  collected  valuable  information  on 
the  affairs  of  Plymouth  Colony,  published  in 
three  volumes  in  the  Old  Smith  collection  of 
the  Rev.  Tiiomas  Prince  which  were  placed 
in  the  Boston  Public  Library  in  1866.  Gover- 
nor Hinckley  married  (first)  Mary  Richards; 
("second)  Mary  Glover.  He  died  in  llarn- 
stable.  Massachusetts,  April  25,  1706. 

nil  )  .Samuel,  son  of  Governor  Thoma^  and 
Mary  (Richards)  Hinckley,  was  born  in  Barn- 
stable. Massachusetts,  1652,  died  in  1697.  He 
married,  November  13,  1676.  Sarah,  daughter 
of   Thomas  and    Sarah    (Jenney)     Pope,    of 


Plymouth.  She  was  born  February  14,  1652. 
She  married  (second)  August  17,  1698, 
Thomas  Iluckins ;  she  was  the  mother  of 
twelve  children. 

(  I\'  I  Job,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Pope) 
Hinckley,  was  born  in  Barnstable.  Massachu- 
setts. February  16,  1688.  He  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Cajitain  Peter  and  Mary  (Cotton) 
Tufts,  of  Med  ford,  granddaughter  of  Rev. 
Seaborn  and  Dorothy  (Bradstreet)  Cotton, 
great-granddaughter  of  Governor  Simon  and 
,\nne  (  Dudley)  Bradstreet  and  of  John  Cot- 
ton, born  in  Derby,  England,  1585,  and  great- 
great-granddaughter  of  Governor  Thomas 
Dudley,  born  in  England,  1576.  died  in  Rox- 
biu-y,  Massachusetts,  1653. 

(  V)  Captain  Samuel,  son  of  Job  and  Sarah 
(Tufts)   Hinckley,  married  Abigail  Welch. 

( \'I )  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  and  .Abigail 
(Welch)  flincklcy,  was  born  in  1757.  died  in 
Xortliampton,  Massachusetts,  1840.  He  mar- 
ried Dorothy,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Phoebe 
(Lyman)  Strong,  sister  of  Governor  Caleb 
Strong,  granddaughter  of  Jonathan  and 
Mehitable  (Stebbins)  Strong  and  of  Captain 
Moses  and  Mindwell  (Sheldon)  Lyman,  and 
a  descendant  of  Elder  John  and  Abigail 
(Ford)  .Strong.  Elder  John  Strong  (1(105- 
i6<">0)  was  born  in  Taunton,  England,  arrived 
at  Hull,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  May  30, 
1630,  on  the  "Mary  and  John,"  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  Dorchester,  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony,  and  in  1659  became  one  of  the 
pioneer  settlers  of  Northampton,  Massachu- 
setts. 

( \TI )  Sojihia. daughter  of  Judge  Samuel  and 
Dorothy  (Strong)  Hinckley,  was  born  in 
Northampton,  Afassachusetts,  1787,  died  in 
1839.  She  married  Jonathan  Huntington 
Lyman,  of  Northampton,  who  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Richard  Lyman,  the  immigrant,  who 
came  over  from  High  Ongor,  lissex,  England, 
to  Massachusetts  Ijay  Colony,  on  the  ship 
"Lion"  with  his  wife.  Sarah  (Osborne) 
Lyman,  and  children:  Phillis.  Richard,  Sarah 
and  John,  in  comjjany  with  John  Eliot,  the 
apostle  to  the  Indians,  sailing  from  Bristol, 
England,  in  1631,  and  locating  in  Charles 
Town,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  November 
II,  1631,  but  attending  the  church  at  Rox- 
bury.  to  which  town  he  was  admitted  as  free- 
man, June  II,  1635.  He  joined  the  exodus  to 
the  Connecticut  \'alley  in  1635,  and  was  a 
pioneer  settler  in  Hartford  Colony,  October  15, 
1635.  in  which  place  he  died  in  August.  1640. 
I  lis  line  (jf  descent  is  through  John  and  Dorcas 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


(Plumb)  Lyman,  Moses  and  .M indwell  (Shel- 
don) Lyman.  They  had  a  daughter,  Sophia 
Ann,  mentioned  below. 

(\T1I)  Sophia  Ann,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Huntington  and  Sophia  (Fiinckley)  Lyman, 
was  born  in  Northam[non,  Massachusetts, 
April  4,  1815,  died  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, February  20,  1864.  She  married,  Octo- 
ber I,  1835,  George  W.  l'hi])]is,  who  was  born 
in  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  May  14, 
1808,  died  in  New  York  City,  March  6,  1870. 
Children :  Frank  Huntington,  mentioned 
below,  and  E.  S.  L.,  born  in  Roxbury,  ]\Iassa- 
chusetts,  August  4,  1845. 

(IX)  Frank  Huntington,  son  of  George  W. 
and  Sojihia  .\nn  (  Lyman  )  Phipps,  was  born  in 
Northampton,  Massachusetts,  Augu.st  9,  1843. 
He  attended  school  in  Germantown,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  was  prepared  at  the  Germantown 
Academy  for  matriculation  at  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania.  He  was  appointed  a  cadet 
from  the  state  of  Pennsylvania  to  the  L^nited 
States  Military  Academy  at  West  Point,  New 
York,  in  183Q,  when  sixteen  years  of  age,  and 
he  was  graduated  June  11,  1863,  and  assigned 
to  the  ordnance  department  with  the  commis- 
sion of  first  lieutenant,  United  States  Army. 
He  was  at  once  ordered  to  duty  as  an  officer 
of  the  ordnance  department  and  served  in 
various  L'nited  States  arsenals  in  the  southern 
states,  1863-65,  and  "for  faithful  and  meritor- 
ious service  in  the  ordnance  department"  dur- 
ing the  civil  war  he  was  brevetted  captain, 
March  13,  1865.  His  regular  promotions  in 
the  United  States  army  were :  Captain,  June 
23,  1874;  major,  December  4,  1882;  lieutenant- 
colonel,  July  7,  1898;  colonel.  February  17, 
1903;  he  was  retired  by  reason  of  the  age 
limit  with  the  rank  of  brigadier-general, 
Augu^t  9,  1907,  after  a  record  of  forty-eight 
years  active  military  service,  forty-four  of 
which  were  spent  in  the  ordnance  department. 
He  was  assistant  ordnance  officer  at  Fort 
Monroe  arsenal,  \'irginia,  from  July  11,  to 
December  26,  1863:  at  the  United  States 
arsenal  at  .St.  I-ouis,  Missouri,  from  January 
7,  1864,  to  January  8,  1865  ;  chief  of  ordnance 
of  the  Dei)arlnient  nf  the  Mississip])i  from  Jan- 
uary 10,  to  July  I,  18(15,  and  while  holding 
that  post  he  bad  charge  of  all  the  depots  on 
the  Mississipi)i  river  at  which  ordnance  was 
stored,  from  Cairo,  Illinois,  to  Natchez,  Mis- 
sissippi ;  assistant  ordnance  officer  at  St.  Louis 
arsenal  from  July  3,  1865,  to  .-Vugust  20,  1867, 
during  which  lime  he  was  detached  with  Gen- 
eral John  Pope,  May  24,  to  Sejitember  7, 
1866:    CniU'd    States   arsenal    at    Watertown. 


New  ^'ork,  .\ugust  20,  1867,  to  October  20, 
1868;  L'nited  States  arsenal  at  Washington, 
D.  C,  October  20,  1868,  to  October  25,  1871  ; 
in  temporary  command  of  the  L'nited  States 
arsenal  at  .Augusta,  Georgia,  May  3,  to  June 
22,  1871  ;  L'nited  States  arsenal  at  Frankford, 
Pennsylvania,  October  25,  1871,  to  December 
13.  1875:  chief  ordnance  officer.  Department 
of  the  (_!nlf,  from  December  23,  1875,  to 
-March  16,  1877,  during  which  time  he  served 
on  special  duty  as  a  member  of  the  board  to 
fix  values  of  right  of  way  through  the  L^nited 
States  arsenal  grounds  at  Pittsburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, April  30,  to  June  7,  1875:  recorder  of 
ordnance  board  from  April  7,  1877,  to  Octo- 
ber 31,  1879:  chief  ordnance  officer  of  the 
Department  of  Texas,  commanding  the  L'nited 
States  arsenal  at  San  .\ntonio,  Texas,  from 
November  17,  1879,  to  June  16,  1882;  assist- 
ant at  United  States  arsenal  at  Rock  Island, 
Illinois,  June  28,  1882,  to  April  11,  1883;  com- 
mandant at  L'nited  States  arsenal  at  Kenne- 
bec, Maine,  .\pril  11.  1883,  to  July  13,  1887; 
in  command  of  L'nited  States  powder  depot, 
Dover,  New  Jersey,  from  July  15,  1887,  to 
November  30,  1890;  commandant  of  L'nited 
States  arsenal  at  Pittsburg,  Peimsylvania, 
from  December,  1890,  to  July,  1893;  chief 
ordnance  officer.  Department  of  the  Missouri, 
and  a  member  of  the  stai?  of  Major  General 
Miles  from  July,  1893,  to  May,  1894:  com- 
mandant of  L^nited  States  arsenal  at  Gover- 
nor's Island,  New  York;  president  of  the 
Ordnance  P>oard,  and  ordnance  member  of 
the  Board  of  Ordnance  and  Fortifications 
from  May.  1894,  to  June,  1899:  commandant 
of  the  L'nited  States  arsenal  at  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  from  June  5,  1899,  to  the  date 
of  bis  retirement,  .\ugust  9,  1907.  During  his 
assigimient  to  the  armory  at  Springfield  the 
present  model  rifle  known  as  the  Springfield 
Rific  Mo<lel,  1903,  was  manufactured  to  super- 
sede the  rille  known  as  the  Krag-Jurgeson. 
His  patriotic  aftiliation  by  right  of  inheritance 
is  with  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution 
and  the  .Society  of  Foreign  Wars,  and  by  his 
own  military  services  with  the  Military  Order 
of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  Lnited  States, 
and  the  .\rmy  and  Navy  clubs  of  Washington, 
D.  C.  I  Ic  received  from  the  Sultan  of  Turkey 
a  medal  of  honor. 

Frank  H.  Phipps  married  (first)  June  11, 
1867.  at  St.  Louis.  Missouri,  Louisa  De- 
Hart  Patterson,  who  died  in  1881.  Married 
(second)  November  13.  1884.  .Anna  Lally, 
I)(>rn  May  3,  1851,  daughter  of  Major  FoUiot 
i'liornton     and     Flien     1  F.vans )     Lally,     and 


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granddaiigliter  of  George  Evans  (1797- 1867), 
one  of  the  distinguished  statesmen  of  Maine; 
A.  B.,  liowdoin  College,  1815:  A.  X..  1818; 
lawyer  in  Gardiner ;  representative  in  the  state 
legislature.  1825-28:  speaker  in  1828;  repre- 
sentative in  the  L'nited  States  congress,  serving 
in  the  Twenty-first  and  Twenty-sixth  congress. 
1829-41;  United  States  senator,  1841-47;  a 
candidate  before  the  Whig  convention  for 
vice-president  in  1848:  chairman  of  the  Mexi- 
can claims  commission  by  ajipointment  of 
President  Taylor  in  1849:  attorney  general  of 
Maine.  1853-55.  His  academic  honors  were: 
Overseer  of  Bowdoin  College.  1827-45  :  LL.  D. 
from  Bowdoin,  1847.  and  from  Washington 
College,  Pennsylvania.  1846.  Major  Folliot 
Thornton  Lally  rendered  distinguished  service 
in  the  war  with  Mexico.  Children  of  General 
Frank  Huntington  and  Louisa  DeHart  (Pat- 
terson) Phipps  are:  i.  Henry  Patterson,  born 
in  Washington,  D.  C,  March  25,  1870,  mar- 
ried Emily  Trenholm  Hazzard,  of  South  Car- 
olina, and  have  one  child,  Louisa  DeHart 
Phipps.  2.  Frank  Huntington  Jr.,  born  in  New 
York  City,  June  15,  1879,  married,  September 
15.  1906,  Mary  Yates.  The  only  child  of  Gen- 
eral Frank  Huntington  and  Anna  (Lally) 
Phipps  is  Anita  Evans,  born  in  Augusta, 
Maine,  Jainiary  29,  1886. 


The     Phipps     family     of     this 
PHIPPS     sketch  is  one  of  the  old  colonial 
families  of  this  name  which  has 
furnished  well  known  members  to  the  profes- 
sional,   mercantile,    and    industrial    elements 
which  have  built  up  Xew  England. 

(1)  Dr.  Thomas  Phipps  was  a  leading 
physician  and  prominent  citizen  of  Ouincy, 
Massachusetts. 

(H)   Dr.  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Dr.  Thomas 

( 1 )  Phipps.  graduated  from  I  farvard  College 
and  like  his  father  flistinguished  himself  in 
the  practice  of  medicine  at  Quincy.  He  mar- 
ried Mehitable  .Arnold. 

(HI)   Tliomas  Glover,  son  of  Dr.  Thomas 

(2)  and  Mehitable  (Arnold)  Phipps,  was 
born  in  Quincy,  Massachusetts,  and  died  in 
Hudson,  Xew  York,  1861.  He  was  educated 
in  j)rivate  schools  and  after  completing  his 
studies  went  with  his  uncles,  William  and 
Samuel  Phipps,  wholesale  dry  goods  mer- 
chants, who  resided  at  "Green  Haze"  in  Dor- 
chester, and  carried  on  business  in  Boston. 
Subsequently  he  became  a  dealer  in  lace  in 
Boston,  where  he  conducted  a  large  business. 
About  the  year  1846  he  removerl  to  .Spring- 
field and  established  himself  in  the  dry  goods 


business,  having  a  Mr.  Ellery  as  a  partner, 
the  tirm  taking  the  style  of  Phipps  &  Ellery. 
About  1857  he  sold  his  interest  and  removed 
to  Hudson,  Xew  York,  where  he  died  1861. 
The  family  later  returned  to  Springfield.  He 
was  an  active  and  [irominent  member  of  the 
L'nitarian  church  and  a  personal  friend  of  the 
leading  Unitarian  clergymen  of  New  England, 
and  a  strong  man  in  the  councils  of  his  church. 
1  ie  was  also  a  INLison.  Thomas  G.  Phipps  mar- 
ried, about  1833.  Lucy  Steele,  born  in  I'oston, 
.Massachusetts.  June  17.  1810,  daughter  of 
Guerdon  and  Xancy  (Green)  Steele,  of  Bos- 
ton. She  died  in  Englewood,  New  Jersey, 
Februar}-  14.  1885.  Five  children  were  born 
of  this  union,  who  reached  maturity:  i. 
-Adelaide  Lucy,  born  in  Boston,  died  unmar- 
rietl  January  5,  1894.  2.  Thomas,  born  Bos- 
ton, died  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  at  the  age 
of  twenty-seven.  3.  Caroline  S..  born  in  Bos- 
ton, has  been  a  resident  of  that  city  continu- 
ously since  1862.  4.  Guerdon  Steele,  born 
Huflson.  New  York,  an  active  and  patriotic 
young  man  who  went  into  the  civil  war  as  a 
soldier  and  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Bris- 
tow  .Station.  He  died  in  WashingtcMi  a  year 
later,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one.  5.  Mary 
Augusta,  born  Xew  York  city,  married  Edwin 
D.  Foster,  of  Xew  York,  who  was  head 
cashier  of  the  firm  of  Spencer  Turner  &  Com- 
pany ;  three  children  were  born  of  this  mar- 
riage :  Ernest  Howard,  Ethel  I^.  and  Amy. 
The  latter  married  John  Corbin,  the  well 
known  writer  of  Xew  York. 


(For  preceding  generation  see  Jolin  Webster  1). 

(H)  John  (2),  son  of  John 
WEl'.STER     (  I  )    Webster,    was    born    in 

England  in  1632.  He  was  a 
blacksniilli  and  learned  his  trade  as  an  appren- 
tice to  Daniel  Pierce.  He  removed  to  Haverhill 
in  March,  1653.  and  back  to  Xewbury  in 
spring  of  1657.  He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
at  .Newbury  in  1678.  He  married,  June  13, 
1653.  in  Xewbury,  Ann  Batt.  daughter  of 
Xicholas  and  Lucy  l!att.  Children:  i.  John, 
born  February  11.  i^>55-56,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Mary,  March  29,  1658,  died  May  4  follow- 
ing. 3.  Sarah.  July  i,  1659,  married  Rev. 
Edward  Thompson  :  several  children,  one  of 
whom  .\bigail.  married  Stephen  Longfellow 
and  was  ancestor  of  the  poet  Longfellow  and 
of  Tchabod  Goodwin,  war  governor  of  Xew 
Hami)shire.  4.  .Abigail.  March  16,  ir>62,  died 
Jidy  24,  1723;  married  in  Newbury,  May  27, 
1685,  William  Moulton ;  nine  children.  5. 
Lucy,  December  15.  i''i'')4,  married  John  Mer- 


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rill.  6.  Mary,  May  24,  1667.  7.  Stephen,  May 
8.  1669,  married,  November  i,  1698,  Sarah 
Clark,  three  children.  8.  Anne,  September  2, 
1671.  9.  Rev.  Nicholas,  October  19,  1673, 
graduate  of  Harvard,  1695;  married  Mary 
Woodman.     10.  Jonathan,  May,  1676. 

(HI)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Webster, 
was  born  in  Newbury,  February  11,  1655-56, 
died  in  Salisbury,  Massachusetts.  April  12, 
1737.  He  resided  in  Newbury  and  was  a 
weaver  by  trade.  He  removed  to  Salisbury 
and  was  admitted  to  the  church  there  October 
20,  1706.  His  will  was  dated  at  Salisbury, 
September  20,  1732,  and  proved  May  18,  1737. 
He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  at  Newbury  in 
1678.  He  married  there  March  9,  1680-81, 
Bridget  Huggins,  who  died  before  he  died. 
Children:  i.  Anne,  born  January  9,  1682,  mar- 
ried, 1703,  Philip  Colby.  2.  John,  November 
2,  1683.  mentioned  below.  3.  Sarah,  Decem- 
ber 28,  1685,  died  January  17,  1727:  married, 
February  14,  1710-11,  Thomas  Bartlett.  4. 
Israel,  April  9,  1688,  a  weaver;  married,  No- 
vember 25,  1714,  Susanna  Morrill:  seven  chil- 
dren. 5.  Mary,  married,  October  28,  1712, 
Jacob  Morrill.  6.  Hannah,  October  5,  1692, 
married,  December  18.  1712,  Stephen  Bartlett. 
7.  Stephen,  January  11,  1698,  probably  died 
young. 

(TV)  John  (4),  son  of  John  (3)  Webster, 
was  born  in  Newbury,  November  2,  1683.  He 
lived  in  Salisbury  and  was  a  soldier  in  the  foot 
company  in  1702.  He  married  (intentions 
dated  March  13,  1707-08)  Sarah  Greely,  bap- 
tized January  8,  1709-10  (adult).  Children: 
I.  John,  born  .'Kpril  28,  1709  died  .A.pril  29, 
1788;  married,  November  17,  1730,  Ruth 
Clough ;  married  (second)  Susannah  Snow; 
thirteen  children.  2.  Andrew,  November  12, 
1710,  married  (intentions  recorded  December 
10,  1742)  (first)  Mercy ,  who  died  Jan- 
uary 30,  1742:  married  (second)  Patience  or 
Prudence  W'eare.  3.  Stephen,  October  5,  1712, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Mary,  Soi)tember  30, 
1714.  5.  Daniel,  November  12,  1716.  married, 
.'\pril  28,  1739,  .^bigail  King.  6.  Nathan.  Jan- 
uary   17,    1 7 19,   married   Mary  ,   three 

children.  7.  Sarah,  July  6,  1721.  8.  Nathan- 
iel, March  25,  1724.  9.  Ann,  May  2,  1726, 
married.  October,  1748,  Jacob  True. 

(V)  Stephen,  son  of  John  (4)  Webster, 
was  born  October  5,  1712,  at  Salisbury.  He 
settled  in  the  adjoining  town  of  Newbury, 
Massachusetts.  He  married  (intention  dated 
November  i,  1734)  Hannah  Swett.  Children, 
born  at  Newbury:  i.  Betty,  born  September 
25,  I735>  'liL'd  .September  5,  1753.    2.  Hannah, 


December  4,  1737.  3.  Samuel,  April  i,  1740, 
married  December  24,  1766,  Susanna  Jewell; 
seven  children.  4.  Susanna,  November  8, 
1742,  married  Reuben  Webster.  5.  Stephen, 
February  22,  1744,  mentioned  below.  6.  ."Knne, 
April  23,  1747,  died  May  5,  1747.  7.  Israel, 
March  31,  1748,  died  December  31,  1751.  8. 
Benjamin.  May  2,  1750,  died  May  13,  1750. 
9.  Benjamin,  September  17,  1751.  10.  John, 
November  28,  1754,  died  December  18,  1754. 
(VI)  Stephen  (2),  son  of  Stephen  (i) 
Webster,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Alassachu- 
setts,  February  22,  1744.  died  in  New  Durham, 
New  Hampshire  (testified  to  by  Jonathan 
Choate,  his  wife's  brother)  about  1828.  Prob- 
ably the  correct  date  is  January  20,  1827.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution  in  Captain 
Green's  company.  Colonel  Bedell's  regiment, 
1776,  from  the  town  of  Tamworth.  He  was 
at  Ticonderoga.  He  lived  at  Tamworth,  later 
at  Sandwich.  Stephen  and  Jonathan  Webster 
were  in  Sandwich  in  1786  and  signed  a  peti- 
tion for  an  issue  of  paper  money  that  year. 
In  1790  the  federal  census  shows  that  Stephen 
had  three  males  over  sixteen,  two  under  that 
age  and  three  females  in  his  family.  Besides 
.Stephen  there  were  Jonathan,  Joseph.  William, 
and  Hezekiah  Webster  given  as  heads  of  fam- 
ilies in  Sandwich  in  1790.  There  are  so  many 
Stephen  Websters  that  it  is  almost  impossible 
without  great  care  to  sift  them  out  accurately. 
.•\  "Death  Notice"  in  an  old  New  Hampshire 
paper  reads:  "In  New  Durham,  January  20, 
1827,  Mr.  Stephen  Webster,  aged  eighty-seven 
years,  seven  months,  one  day,"  but  that  might 
not  be  the  same  Stephen.  He  married,  in 
Moultonborough,  New  Hampshire,  1770, 
.■\nna  Choate.  born  in  Kingston,  New  Hamp- 
shire, December  20,  1751,  died  in  Sandwich, 
New  Hampshire,  October  5,  1848,  daughter 
of  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth  (Moody)  Ciioate, 
and  of  the  same  ancestry  as  Hon.  Rufus 
Choate,  the  great  advocate.  They  had  six  chil- 
dren, aniong  whom  were:  i.  Reuben,  born 
1771.  died  in  .\ew  Durham,  New  Hampshire, 
in  Jidy,  1854;  married,  in  New  Duriiam,  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1793,  Lydia  Smith;  seven  children. 
2.  Stephen.    3.  Mary.    4.  Jacob,  born  .April  6, 

I779- 

(\'II)  Jacob,  son  of  Stephen  (2)  Webster, 
was  born  in  Tamworth,  New  Hampshire, 
.'\pril  6,  I77<).  died  in  Sandwich.  New  Hamp- 
shire, May  8,  1858,  of  "Heart  disease"  (N'ital 
Records  of  New  Hampshire).  He  married. 
])robably  in  Sandwich,  .\pril  18.  1802,  Rhoda 
Quimby.  Children,  all  born  in  New  Durham, 
New   1  lani]ishire  :     i.  Josiah,  born  Sejitember 


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20,  1803,  married  Riitli  Atwood.  2.  John,  Au- 
giist  9.  1804.  3.  Mary  Ouimby,  married  Ilosea 
PcttingiU.  4.  Jane,  married  Renben  Rcan.  5. 
Su<an,  married  (first)  John  Carter;  (second) 
John  Kent.    6.  Alpheus.    7.  Horace. 

(\'ni)  John  {•,).  son  of  Jacob  Webster, 
was  born  in  Sandwich,  New  Hampshire,  Au- 
gust 9,  1804,  died  there  July  28.  1888.  He 
married  Polly  Pettingill,  daughter  of  Asa 
Pettingill,  who  was  in  the  war  of  1812.  Chil- 
dren: I.  .Asa  Pettingill,  born  Xovember  16, 
1824.  2.  Susan  Maria,  married  George  Wil- 
son, of  Maiden.  3.  Mary  Ann,  married  John 
X.  Prescott,  who  was  in  the  civil  war.  There 
were  three  other  children,  wlmse  names  are  not 
known. 

(IX)  Asa  Pettingill,  son  of  John  (5) 
Webster,  was  born  in  Sandwich,  Xew  Hamp- 
shire. Xovember  16,  1824,  died  there  February 
16.  185 1.  He  married  in  Tuftonborough,  Xew 
Hampshire,  Mary  Elizabeth  Abbott,  born  in 
Tuftonborough,  1825,  daughter  of  Grafton 
Abbott.  One  child  born  in  Sandwich,  Xew 
Hampshire,  Orrin  .Asa,  born  December  2S, 
1849. 

(X)  Orrin  Asa,  son  of  Asa  Pettingill  \\'eb- 
ster,  was  born  at  Sandwich,  December  25,  1849. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  and 
when  a  young  man  entered  the  railroad  busi- 
ness and  became  a  locomotive  engineer  on  the 
Boston  &  .Albany  railroad.  He  is  now  retired. 
In  religion  he  is  a  Baptist.  He  was  formerly 
a  Democrat,  but  in  recent  years  has  been  a 
Republican.  He  is  a  life  member  of  Dalhousie 
Lodge  of  Free  Masons  of  Xewton,  Massachu- 
setts. He  married,  at  Haverhill,  Massachu- 
setts, May  II,  1869,  Laura  Esther  Varrell, 
born  at  Rye,  Xew  Hampshire,  January  24, 
1848,  died  in  Boston,  .August  2,  1882,  daughter 
of  Robert  Waldron  and  Eliza  E.  fFoss)  Var- 
rell. Children:  i.  Harriet  Joy,  born  March 
12,  1874,  at  Xewton,  Massachusetts,  married, 
May  9,  1906,  at  Somcrville,  Massachusetts, 
.Arthur  Leroy  MacKusick,  of  Cambridge,  son 
of  Leroy  Chase  and  ^Lartha  Eleanor  (Rand) 
MacKusick:  child,  Webster  MacKusick,  born 
September  12,  1907,  at  Boston.  2.  Walter 
Archibald,  December  4,  1875  ;  mentioned  below. 

(XL)  Walter  Archibald,  son  of  Orrin  Asa 
Webster,  was  born  in  .Xewton  Lower  Falls, 
Massachusetts,  December  4,  1875.  When  he 
was  two  years  old  his  parents  moved  to  Boston 
and  he  attended  the  public  schools  of  that  city, 
graduating  from  the  English  high  school  in 
the  classof  1892.  He  entered  Boston  I'niversity 
Law  School,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  the  class  of  1899. 


He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1899  and  imme- 
diately began  to  practice  law  in  Boston.  He 
is  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Webster, 
MacKusick  &  Lyman,  at  ()  Beacon  street,  Bos- 
ton. He  is  a  master  in  chancery.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican,  and  in  1901  was  secretary 
of  the  Republican  committee  of  ward  22,  Bos- 
ton, and  chairman  in  1902-03.  He  was  a  repre- 
sentative to  the  general  court  in  1905-06-07 
from  the  twenty-second  Suffolk  representative 
district,  serving  efficiently  as  a  member  of  the 
committee  on  street  railways  in.  1905-06,  as 
house  chairman  of  the  committee  on  engrossed 
bills  in  1906,  and  house  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee on  metropolitan  affairs,  one  of  the  most 
important  committees  of  the  legislature  in  1907. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  committee  on 
rules  in  1907.  He  was  a  delegate  and  presided 
at  the  Republican  convention  of  the  second 
councillor  district  in  1905,  at  the  Boston  munici- 
pal convention  in  1906  and  at  the  Suffolk 
county  convention  in  1908.  While  in  the  legis- 
lature he  originated  the  idea  of  the  finance 
commission  for  Boston  and  drafted  the  act 
that  created  it.  This  commission  has  attracted 
the  attention  of  the  whole  country  for  its  effec- 
tive work  and  demonstrated  usefulness.  Mr. 
Webster  also  drafted  the  police  and  excise  bill 
which  created  a  single  police  commissioner  in 
place  of  a  board  of  three,  and  a  board  of  three 
excise  commissioners,  providing  also  for  the 
separate  and  independent  powers  of  the  police 
commissioner  and  excise  board.  He  was  the 
Republican  candidate  for  district  attorney  of 
Suffolk  county  in  1907  against  the  late  John  B. 
Moran.  Mr.  Webster  is  a  member  of  Daniel 
Hersey  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows  of  Jamaica 
Plain  ;  of  Boston  Lodge,  Xo.  10,  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks ;  of  Camp  Sted- 
man,  Xo.  51,  Sons  of  Veterans.  Jamaica  Plain  ; 
of  the  Jamaica  Chib  of  Jamaica  Plain;  of  the 
Boston  City  Club  and  the  Old  Boston  Club  of 
Boston.  He  attends  the  Baptist  church.  He 
married,  April  25,  1907,  at  Quincy,  Massachu- 
setts, Florence  iVIabel  Gray,  born  August  19, 
1876,  at  Concar<l,  Massachusetts,  daughter  of 
George  Arthur  and  Martha  Parks  (Pierce) 
Gray. 

The    Tinkham    family    is    of 
TIXKH.AM     ancient    English    origin.      As 
far  as  known  all  the  Ameri- 
can families  are  descendcfl  from  the  first  settler 
mentioned  in  this  sketch. 

( I )  Sergeant  F,])hraim  Tinkham.  immigrant 
ancestor,  came  from  Ashburnham,  near 
Plymouth,  England,  in  April,   1630.     He  was 


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born  about  1606  and  died  June  5,  1685.  He 
probably  came  in  the  service  of  Thomas  Hath- 
erly,  under  indenture  or  contract,  as  many 
young  men  did,  to  pay  their  passage.  Later 
he  was  transferred  to  the  service  of  John 
Winslow,  in  1634.  He  received  a  grant  of 
land  from  the  town  of  Duxbury,  thirty-five 
acres,  and  was  one  of  the  proprietors,  August 
2,  1642.  He  became  a  very  prominent  citizen 
both  in  civil  and  military  life;  and  selectman 
and  sergeant  and  held  other  offices  of  trust 
and  honor.  He  and  his  wife  sold  a  third  part 
of  a  lot  of  land  with  dwelling  and  other  build- 
ings which  had  belonged  to  Peter  Brown,  by 
deed  of  October  2"/.  1647,  to  Henry  Thomp- 
son, of  Duxbury.  Tinkham  was  admitted  a 
freeman  in  1670.  In  1674  he  was  juror  in  a 
murder  case  :  in  1676  member  of  the  grand 
inquest.  He  and  William  Crowell  and  Edward 
Gray  were  a  commission  in  1668  to  settle  the 
bounds  of  the  governor's  lands  at  Plaindealing. 
His  will  was  dated  January  17,  1683.  and 
proved  June  5,  1685,  beciueathing  to  wife  Mary, 
children  Ephraim,  Ebenezer,  Peter,  Elkiah, 
John,  Isaac,  Mary  Tomson.  He  was  one  of 
the  twenty-six  men  who  in  1662  bought  of  the 
Indians  the  territory  comprising  the  town  of 
Middleborough  and  settled  that  town.  He 
married  Mary  Brown,  daughter  of  Peter 
Brown,  who  came  to  Plymouth  in  the  "May- 
flower." Children,  born  at  Plymouth  or  Dux- 
bury:  I.  E]ihraim,  August  I,  1649,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Ebenezer,  September  30,  1651,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Peter,  December  25,  1653.  4. 
Hezekiah,  February  8,  1656-57.  5.  John,  June 
7,  1658.  6.  Mary,  August  5,  1661,  married 
John  Thom])son,  son  of  Lieutenant  Thompson. 
7.  John,  November  15,  1663.  8.  Isaac,  April 
II,  1666,  married  Sarah  King. 

(II)  Ephraim  (2),  son  of  Ephraim  (i) 
Tinkham,  was  I)«rn  in  Duxbury,  August  i, 
1649,  died  at  Middleborough,  October  13,  1714. 
He  settled  in  Middleborough  where  he  was 
proj)oun(led  for  freeman  in  1682 ;  was  con- 
stable in  1681.  He  married  Esther  \\'right, 
born  1649,  (lied  March  28,  1717,  granddaughter 
of  Francis  Cook,  who  came  to  Plymouth  in 
1620  in  the  "Maytlower."  He  inherited  his 
father's  bouse  in  Middleborough.  Children, 
born  at  Middleborough:  i.  John,  .\ugust  23, 
1680;  mentioned  below.    2.  Ephraim,  October 

7,  1682,  died  July  11,  1713:  married,  June  24. 
1708,   Martha  Cf)l)l),  born    i6()i,  died   .\ugust 

8.  1775-  3-  Laac,  June,  1685,  died  .\pril  7, 
1750:  went  to  Halifax  in  1734:  married  .\biah 
\\'ood,  born  1689,  died  December  25,  1777.    4. 


Samuel,  March   19,   1687-88,  died  March   16, 

1775- 

(HI)  John,  son  of  Ephraim  (2)  Tinkham, 
was  born  August  23,  1680,  at  Middleborough, 
died  there  April  14,  1766.  He  also  settled  in 
Middleborough.  He  married,  December  11, 
1716,  Hannah  Howland,  born  1695.  died  March 
25,  1792.  great-granddaughter  of  John  How- 
land  who  came  in  the  "Mayflower."  Children, 
born  at  Middleborough:  i.  Cornelius,  August 
31,  1717.  2.  John,  May  8,  1719,  died  August 
22,  1793  ;  married  Jerusha  Vaughan.  3.  Esther, 
April  26,  1721 ;  married  Elisha  \"aughan.  4. 
Plannah,  April  10,  1723,  died  April  14,  1802; 
married  Josejih  \'aughan,  John  Weston  and 
David  Sears.  5.  Susanna,  March  19,  1724-25. 
died  June  21,  1813;  married  James  Cobb.  6. 
Abishai,  May  23,  1727.  7.  .'Kmos,  July  10, 
1729;  mentioned  below.     8.   Zil])ah,  July  25, 

1737- 

( I\' )  -Amos,  son  of  John  Tinkham,  was 
born  in  Middleborough,  July  10,  1729,  died 
there  April  5,  1776.  He  married  Sarah  Tink- 
ham, born  1735,  died  February  18.  1820,  daugh- 
ter of  Peter  and  Eunice  (Thomas)  Tinkham, 
mentioned  below.  Children,  born  at  Middle- 
borough:  I.  Sarah,  born  1757,  died  September 
20,  1846;  married  Ichabod  Wood.  2.  Squire, 
1772;  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Squire,  son  of  .\mos  Tinkham,  was 
born  at  Middleborotigh,  1772.  died  October  17, 
1851.  He  went  to  Hartland,  X'ermont.  in  1823. 
He  married  .Anna  Wood,  born  1773.  died  Sep- 
tember, 1849,  daughter  of  Israel  and  Priscilla 
(X'augban)  Wood.  Israel  Wood  was  born  in 
1744  and  died  May  12,  1829;  Priscilla  Vaughan, 
born  1749.  died  1808.  Israel  was  the  son  of 
Ichabod  Wood,  burn  1719.  died  .\\i\\\  8,  1787, 
and  wife  Thankful  (Cobb)  \\'ood.  Ichabod 
was  the  son  of  Samuel  Wood,  Jr.,  born  1684, 
died  1754,  and  wife  Elizabeth,  and  grandson 
of  Samuel  Wood,  who  was  born  in  1648,  died 
I'>bruary  3.  1718.  Samuel,  Sn,  was  the  son 
of  1  Icnr'y  \\'ood,  alias  Atwood,  the  immigrant, 
of  Plymouth.  Children  of  Squire  Tinkliam: 
I.  Loranus.  born  .August  15,  1798;  mentioned 
below.  2.  S<|uire,  b'cljruary  9.  1800,  died  Jan- 
uary 25,  1867:  married  Melinda  Iloisington, 
born  November  i,  1807,  died  October  23,  1893; 
children:  i.  Sophronia,  born  I-'ebruary  21, 
1830.  married  Benjamin  Fletcher  and  J.  Q.  A. 
Ditty:  ii.  John  Howland,  born  March  31,  1831, 
(lied  Jamiary  2,  1836:  iii.  Harrison  Gray,  born 
1833;  iv.  Harriet,  born  September,  1838.  mar- 
ried Hosea  'S'oung :  v.  Charlotte,  Ixirn  1841, 
n,arried  W.  11.  Walker, 


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^\T)  Loramis,  son  of  Sciuirc  Tinkhani.  was 
born  at  Middleboroiigh,  August  15,  1798,  died 
at  Xorthampton.  Massachusetts,  December  5, 
1874.  He  was  educated  in  tbe  district  schools 
of  bis  native  town.  In  1823  he  went  with  his 
father  and  brother  to  Hartland.  Vermont, 
where  they  settled.     He  married,  .'\ugust   18, 

1821.  Mary  Rogers,  born  Sejitember  7,  1799, 
died  January  cj,  1885,  daughter  of  Sylvanus 
and  Polly  (Mason)  Rogers.  His  wife  was 
born  September.  1773,  died  August  21,  1862. 
Sylvanus  Rogers,  born  1771.  died  July  13, 
1857,  son  of  John  Rogers.  Children  o"f  Loranus 
Tinkbam:      i.    Horatio   X.,   born   October   3, 

1822,  died  November  28,  1884;  married  Eliza- 
beth Wilson.  2.  Mary  Ann,  married  James 
Goodwin.  3.  Susan,  died  1835.  4.  John,  died 
1837.  5.  Francis  M.,  born  October  11,  1846; 
mentioned  below. 

(\TI)    I'rancis   M.,   son  of   Loranus   Tink- 
bam,   was    born    in    Claremont,    New    Hamp- 
shire.   October    11.    1846.      He    attended    the 
public    schools    of    Claremont    until    fifteen 
years  of  age,   when   he  came  to   Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  completed  his  educa- 
tion in  tbe  high  school.     He  then  became  a 
clerk  in  the  dry  goods  store  of  his  brother, 
Horatio   X.  Tinkbam.     This  was  the  largest 
concern   in   its   line   in   Springfield.     He  con- 
tinued in  tbe  emi)loy  of  his  brother  from  1864 
to  1884,  the  year  of  his  brother's  death,  filling 
positions  of  responsiblity.     He  had  a  carpet 
store  on  his  own  account  in  Springfield  from 
1884  to  1889,  when  he  became  treasurer  and 
general  manager  of  the  United  States  Spring 
Bed  Company,  a  position  he  has  held  to  the 
present  time.     He  is  one  of  the  best  known 
manufacturers  of   the  city.     His  energy,  in- 
dustry and   foresight  have  developed  a  large 
and   flourishing  business.     The    factory  is  at 
lirigbtwood.    The  concern  manufactures  woven 
wire  mattresses,  spiral  s]jring  beds,  iron  bed- 
steads, cots,  etc.,  and  ranks  high  in  the  trade. 
Mr.  Tinkham  joined  the  First  Baptist  Church 
in   1864  and  afterward  became  a  member  of 
the  Highland  Baptist  Church  of  that  city.   He 
has  been  a  deacon   for  many  years  and  is  a 
prominent  member  and  active  worker  in  the 
society.     In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.     He 
married,  November   14,  1878,  Ivlith  M.  Ellis, 
born  in   New   York  City,  July   5,    1848,   died 
March  6,  1903,  daughter  of  Theodore  \V.  and 
Maria  L.    (Van   Boskerck )    Ellis.     They  had 
one  child,  Florence  Louise,  born  .April  6, 1885. 
(H)   Deacon  Ebenezer,  son  of  Ejjhraim  ( i) 
Tinkham,  was  born  at   Plymouth,   September 
30,  1651,  died  at  Middleborough,  .April  8,  1718. 


He  settled  in  Midtlleborough  and  was  town 
treasurer  many  years  and  one  of  the  charter 
members  of  the  church.  He  married,  1678, 
I'.li/'abcth  Liscomb,  who  also  died  April  8, 
1718.  Children:  i.  Ebenezer,  born  March 
-3-  1679-80:  mentioned  below.  2.  Jeremiah, 
.August  7.  1681.  died  .April  5,  1715,  a  farmer; 
married  loanna  liarlow.  3.  Peter,  .April  20, 
1683. 

(III)  Ebenezer  (2),  son  of  Ebenezer  (i) 
Tinkham.  was  born  in  Middleborough,  March 
23,  1670-80.  He  married  Patience  I'ratt,  who 
died  June  5,  1720. 

(IV)  Peter,  son  of  Ebenezer  (2)  Tinkham, 
was  born  in  1709  at  Middleborough,  died  there 
October  10,  1745.  He  married  Eunice  Thomas, 
born  1709,  died  .April  8,  1778.  Children,  born 
at  Middleborough:  i.  Sarah,  1735,  died  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1820;  married  Amos  Tinkham.  men- 
tioned above.  2.  Peter,  married  Mary  Thomp- 
son. 

William  Johnson,  immigrant 
JOHNSON      ancestor,   was  born   in   Eng- 
land.    As   early  as    1634  he 
settled  in  Charlestown  and  followed  the  occu- 
pation of  planter  and  brick-maker  there.     He 
was  admitted  to  the  church  with  his  wife  Eliz- 
abeth, February  13,  1634-35:  was  a  proprietor 
of    the    town    and    was    admitted    a    freeman 
March  4.  1634-35.     He  deposed  December  29, 
1657,  that  he  was  fifty- four  years  old.     He 
was  at  the  time  the  grave-digger  at  Charles- 
town.     He  was  town  constable  in   1657.     He 
died   December  9,   1677,  and  his  widow  Eliz- 
abeth married  (second)  Thomas  Carter.     His 
house  was  on   Middle    Row  and    I'.ack   street, 
where  he  bought  land  in   1651.     His  will  was 
dated  December  7,   1677,  bctiueathing  to  wife 
Elizabeth:    children    John,    Joseph,    Jonathan, 
Nathaniel,    Zachariah,    Isaac,    Elizabeth:    de- 
ceased  daughter   Ruhamah's  daughter,   Eliza- 
beth  Bacon.     The  inventory  of  the  estate  of 
William    and    Elizabeth    Johnson    was    taken 
.April    12,   1686:  John  Johnson,  of  Haverhill, 
and  Zachariah  Johnson,  of  Charlestown,  were 
ajjpointed  administrators  of  the  estate  of  their 
father  William  and  mother   Elizabeth;  made 
division  of  the  real  estate  between  themselves 
and  their  brothers  Jo.seph,  Isaac,  Jonathan  and 
.Nathaniel,  .April  13,  1686.    Children:    I.  John. 
2.  Ruhamab,   baptized    hebruary  21,    1634-35, 
married.   1654,  John   Knight.     3.  Joseph,  bap- 
tized February  13,  1636-37.    4.  Elizabeth,  bap- 
tized   March    17,    1639-40,    married,    1658-59, 
lulward  Wyer;  (second)  William  Moore.     5. 
Jonathan,    baptized     August     14.     1641.       6. 


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Nathaniel.    7.  Zachariah,  born  1646.    8.  Isaac, 
born  1649. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  William  Johnson,  was 
baptized  February  13,  1636-37,  and  with  his 
brotlier  John  was  an  early  settler  in  Haverhill. 
His  house  lot  of  five  acres  and  two  "common- 
ages" adjoined  that  of  his  brother.  His  farm 
was  in  the  northwest  part  of  the  village,  and 
he  and  his  sons  owned  three  hundred  acres 
extending  to  the  North  Parish  meeting  house 
nearly  a  mile  in  length,  mostly  on  the  east  side 
of  the  road,  from  the  south  line  of  the  home- 
stead to  the  north  side  of  a  small  stream  called 
Fishing  river.  Fourteen  years  before  his 
death,  he  gave  by  deed  of  gift,  June  19,  1700, 
to  his  sons,  Thomas,  Joseph  and  William,  the 
north  part  of  ihe  homestead.  He  also  owned 
five  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Amesbury,  and 
was  a  well-to-do  farmer.  He  married  (first) 
April  19,  1664,  Marie  Soatlie,  who  died  March 
22,  1664-65.  He  married  (second)  Hannah 
Tenney.  Children,  born  in  Haverhill:  i. 
Joseph,  October  15,  1667.  2.  William,  Jan- 
uary 15,  1669,  ancestor  of  Colonel  William 
Johnson,  of  Enfield.  3.  Thomas,  December 
II.  1670,  mentioned  below.  4.  Zachariah,  April 
16,  1672,  died  October  27,  1673.  5.  John,  No- 
vember 9,  1673,  died  March  23,  1704-05,  un- 
married. 6.  Hannah,  June  10,  1675,  married, 
December  28,  1704,  Nathaniel  Osgood.  7. 
Mary,  June  4,  1677,  married.  May  16,  1697, 
Lieutenant  John  Johnson.  8.  Jonathan,  April 
24,  1678.  slain  February  8.  1703-04;  unmar- 
ried. 9.  Elizabeth,  February  28,  1680-81,  mar- 
ried, January  31,  1721,  Samuel  Worthen.  10. 
-Vathaniel.  August  15,  1683,  married,  1714, 
Ruth  Gile.  11.  Zaccheus,  August  26,  1687, 
died  unmarried. 

(HI)  Deacon  Thomas,  son  of  Joseph  John- 
son, was  born  in  Haverhill,  December  11. 1670, 
died  February  18,  1742.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  owned  land  in  Haverhill  and  Amesbury, 
in  that  part  set  off  as  Newton,  New  Hamp- 
shire. The  day  before  his  marriage  he  bouglit 
of  Joseph  Bradley  ten  acres  of  land  with  a 
house  thereon,  and  soon  afterward  received 
eleven  acres  from  his  father  by  deed  of  gift, 
being  the  north  part  of  the  homestead.  In 
1728,  when  the  North  Parish  meeting  house 
was  erected,  he  was  elected  deacon  of  the 
church,  and  remained  in  that  office  from  its 
organization  in  1730  until  his  death.  He  held 
various  town  offices,  and  disposed  of  most  of 
his  estate  by  gift  to  his  children  before  his 
death.  He  married.  May  i,  1700,  Elizabeth 
Page,  born  September  14,  1679,  daughter  of 
Cornelius   and    Martha    (Clough)    Page,   and 


granddaughter  of  John  and  Jane  Clough.  She 
died  at  Hampstead,  New  Hampshire,  June  12, 
1752.  Children,  born  at  North  Parish  of 
Haverhill:  i.  Mehitable,  February  26,  1701- 
02.  2.  Cornelius,  January  17,  1703-04,  re- 
moved to  Andover  and  Concord,  New  Hamp- 
shire. 3.  Thomas,  January  6,  1705-06,  farmer 
at  Plaistow.  4.  Abigail,  May  15,  1707.  5. 
Ruth,  August  24,  1709.  6.  John,  November 
15,  171 1,  mentioned  below.  7.  Susannah,  Jan- 
uary 25,  1714-15.  8.  Jabez,  April  24,  1716, 
died  young.  9.  Jeremiah,  June  30,  1717,  mar- 
ried Abigail  \\'right.  10.  Elizabeth,  January 
2,  1720-21. 

(I\')  Hon.  John,  son  of  Deacon  Thomas 
Johnson,  was  born  at  Haverhill,  North  Parish. 
November  15.  171 1.  He  joined  the  church  in 
Haverhill,  February  4,  1727-28,  and  in  No- 
vember. 1730,  became  a  member  of  the  new 
church  in  the  North  Parish  of  which  his  father 
was  the  deacon.  He  bought  five  acres  of  land 
in  the  North  Parish  of  his  brother  Cornelius 
and  settled  on  it  after  his  marriage.  His  father 
gave  him  land  also.  He  was  not  only  a  well- 
to-do  farmer,  but  a  merchant  of  note,  dealing 
much  in  ship  timber.  Incidentally  he  did  much 
convej-ancing  and  legal  work.  He  was  elected 
hog-reeve  in  1732,  the  year  after  his  marriage, 
this  honor  being  facetiously  bestowed  on  young 
married  men.  He  held  many  important  places 
of  trust  and  honor  in  the  town  and  province 
and  was  influential  in  the  town  and  parish. 
He  removed  early  in  1648  to  Haverhill  district 
of  Timberland,  some  si.x  miles  north.  This 
section  was  set  off  from  ^Massachusetts  in  1741 
when  the  line  was  determined  between  the 
provinces.  He  was  delegated  to  represent  his 
neighbors  in  jictitioning  for  a  town  charter 
and  went  to  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire. 
He  was  successful  in  his  mission,  paid  the  ex- 
]ienses  and  on  the  following  month  at  the  first 
town  meeting  was  chosen  first  selectman  of 
the  new  town  of  Hampstead.  The  charter  was 
dated  January  19,  1749;  the  town  organized 
I'ebruary  7,  1749.  He  was  appointed  a  mag- 
istrate and  was  for  many  years  a  member  of 
the  court  of  sessions  for  the  entire  province. 
He  erected  a  sawmill  at  Wash  Pond  outlet. 
1  lis  house  was  near  the  present  or  late  home 
of  Dr.  Knight,  of  Hampstead.  nearly  oppo- 
site George's  Inn.  He  died  intestate  April  i. 
1762,  in  his  fifty-second  year.  He  disposed 
of  most  of  his  real  estate  by  sale  and  deed  of 
gift  to  his  sons  before  his  death.  He  married, 
November  25.  1731,  Sarah  Haines,  born  Janu- 
ary 9.  1710-11.  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Han- 
nah   (Harriman)    Haines,  of  Haverhill,  west 


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precinct.  She  joined  tlie  church  at  Haverhill, 
September  18,  1726.  She  died  September  20, 
1750,  having  liad  ten  children.  lie  married 
(second)  January,  1751,  Sarah  Morse,  sister 
of  Lieutenant  Peter  Morse.  She  removed  to 
Newbury,    \"ermont,    and    married    (second) 

Samuel    Way.      She   married    (third)    

Barnard,  and  died  at  Xewbury  in  1795,  aged 
si.\ty-five.  Children:  i.  Jesse,  born  October 
20,  1732,  administrator  of  his  father's  estate, 
removed  to  Enfield,  New  Hampshire,  where 
he  died  March  11.  1800.  2.  Sarah,  July  9, 
1734,  died  young.  3.  Miriam,  March  22,  1735- 
36.  married,  October  10,  1752,  Ebenezer 
Mudget.  4.  Caleb,  February  3,  1737-38,  re- 
moved to  Caledonia,  Xew  York.  5.  Moses, 
April  13,  1740,  died  November  8,  1748.  6. 
Thomas,  mentioned  below.  7.  Ruth,  Febru- 
ary 3,  1743-44.  8.  Elizabeth,  March  6,  1744- 
45,  died  May  i.  1747.  9.  John,  February  9, 
1746-47,  died  .\ugust  18,  1757.  10.  Haines, 
August  28,  1749,  farmer  in  Newbury,  Ver- 
mont. Children  of  second  wife:  11.  Sarah, 
October  29,  1751,  married  Jacob  Page.  12. 
Ruth  (twin),  .-Xpril  23,  1754,  married  Samuel 
Hoag.  13.  Elizabeth  (twin)  April  23,  1754, 
married  Jacob  Currier.  14.  Peter,  June  7, 
1756,  soldier  in  the  revolution.  15.  Judith, 
April  4,  1758,  married  Jesse  Prescott.  16. 
John.  February  9.  1760.     17.  Tamar,  July  6, 

1761,  married  Joseph  Bonat  or  Bonny. 

CV)  Colonel  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Hon. 
John  Johnson,  was  born  in  Haverhill.  March 
22,  1742,  died  at  Newbury,  Vermont,  January 
4,  1819.     He  was  a  grantee  of  Haverhill  in 

1762,  but  settled  in  Newbury,  Vermont,  on 
the  Ox-Bow.  He  built  his  first  house  in  1766 
and  the  second  in  1775,  which  is  still  standing. 
He  was  an  innkeeper,  farmer  and  merchant. 
His  store  was  at  last  accounts  a  corn  barn 
owned  by  J.  R.  Weed.  He  was  captain  in  the 
militia  and  of  a  company  of  minute-men  in 
May,  1775;  also  of  an  independent  company 
which  marched  to  Ticonderoga  in  1777,  in 
which  campaign  he  acted  as  aid  to  General 
Lincoln.  lie  was  placed  in  charge  of  prisoners 
after  the  surrender.  He  was  cajjtured  Febru- 
ary 18,  1781.  in  Pcacham,  and  taken  to  Canada, 
but  returned  in  October.  After  the  war  he 
became  owner  of  large  tracts  of  land  in  New- 
bury and  elsewhere.  He  rej)resented  New- 
bury in  the  convention  at  Cornish  in  T788; 
w-as  town  representative  in  1786-87-88-89-90- 
95-97-1800-01.  His  journal,  kept  while  a  cap- 
tive in  Canada,  is  now  owned  by  the  sons  of 
A.  G.  Johnson.  He  was  admitted  to  the  first 
church  in  September,  1812.     His  funeral  ser- 


mon was  [jreachcd  by  Rev.  David  Sutherland, 
of  liath.  In  1830  a  brick  tomb  covered  by  a 
single  massive  stone  was  built  over  the  graves 
of  him  and  his  wives,  which  remained  until 
the  present  monument  was  erected  by  the  be- 
quest of  his  grandson,  Hiram  Johnson,  in 
1869.  He  married  (first)  February  12,  1765, 
at  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  Elizabeth 
Lowell,  born  June  30,  1741,  died  September 
19,  1772,  daughter  of  George  Lowell.  He 
married  (second)  November  26,  1772,  Abi- 
gail (Merrill)  Pool,  who  died  December  2, 
1774.  daughter  of  Joseph  Merrill,  and  widow 

of Pool.   He  married  (third)  February 

I/'  I775-  Abigail  Carlcton,  born  March  30, 
1750,  died  March  27,,  1833,  daughter  of  Dudley 
Carleton.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  John, 
born  April  2,  1766,  died  May  9,  1847.  2. 
Moses,  February  29,  1768,  died  May  17,  1840. 
3.  Jessie  (twin),  February  29,  1768,  died  same 
day.  4.  Betsey,  February  28,  1770,  married 
Isaac  Bayley.  5.  Lowell,  August  7,  died  Au- 
gust 17,  1772.  Child  of  second  wife:  6.  Abi- 
gail, November  18,  1773,  died  May  22,  1796. 
Children  of  third  wife:  7.  Haines,  July  29, 
1776.  8.  David,  September  13,  1778,  died 
May  17,  1865.  9.  Hannah,  September  8,  1781, 
died  April  9,  1782.  10.  Hannah,  December  20, 
died  December  28,  1783.  11.  Hannah,  Au- 
gust 4,  1785,  married  David  Sloan ;  died  May 
30,  1861.  12.  Haines,  November  9,  1787,  men- 
tioned below.  13.  Thomas,  October  26,  1790, 
died  July  7,  1792.  14.  Sally,  March  9,  1792, 
died  January  27,  1859 ;  married  Charles  Storey. 
(  \T )  Captain  Haines,  son  of  Colonel  Thomas 
Johnson,  was  born  November  9,  1787,  died 
July  3,  1878.  He  was  a  farmer  and  resided  on 
the  homestead.  He  was  admitted  to  the  first 
church  May  4,  1829,  and  was  captain  in  the 
militia.  He  married,  March  14,  181 3,  Phcbe 
Hazletine.  born  1789,  died  April  10,  1881, 
daughter  of  John  Hazletine  Jr.,  and  grand- 
daughter of  General  Moses  Dow,  of  Haverhill. 
Children:  i.  Thomas,  born  March  27,  1814, 
died  May  2,  Mjor  ;  married,  June  24,  1857, 
Mrs.  .\nn  Austin.  2.  Leonard,  August  19, 
1815,  died  August  14,  1858.  3.  Alfred,  April 
17,  1817,  died  October  14,  1882;  married,  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1845,  Frances  Edson.  4.  Abigail 
Carleton,  September  29,  1818,  died  November 
27,  1861 ;  married  (first)  March  14,  1839, 
Thomas  Brosk :  (second)  October,  1845, 
George  Severance.  5.  Mehitable  Hazletine, 
June  12,  1820,  married,  December  25,  1845, 
John  Nelson  Dewey.  6.  .^.melia  Bailey,  March 
22,  1822,  died  /\pril  16,  1842.  7.  John,  Decem- 
ber I,  1823,  died  May  17,  1861  ;  married,  June 


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26,  1853,  Elizabeth  F.  Stickney.  8.  Mary 
Elizabeth,  October  9,  1825.  married,  December 
19,  1855,  Albion  P.  Maxwell.  9.  Edwin  Haines, 
August  15,  1827,  died  July  11.  1881 ;  married 
Mary  Jane  Galloway.  10.  Perry,  May  28, 
1829,  married,  February  22,  i860,  Sarah  H. 
Daggett.  II.  Richard  Baxter,  April  17,  1831, 
died  February  16,  1834.  12.  Charlotte  Fox- 
croft,  June  29,  1833,  married,  September  4, 
1853,  David  Russell.  13.  Eliza  Smith,  May 
22,  1835,  married,  October  19,  1858,  Newell 
Z.  Tabor.  14.  Baxter.  June  7,  1837,  died  March 
30,  1841.  15.  Sidney.  August  15,  1840,  men- 
tioned below.  16.  Emma  (jrant,  March  31,  1843, 
married,  December  25,  1863,  N.  W.  Johnson. 

( VH)  Deacon  Sidney,  son  of  Captain  Haines 
Johnson,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Vermont,  Au- 
gust 15,  1840,  and  was  chosen  deacon  in  the 
first  church  in  1883.  He  is  a  farmer  and 
resides  on  the  homestead.  He  married,  No- 
vember 16,  1870,  Mary  Elizabeth  Ford,  of 
Lowell,  ;Massachusetts.  Children:  i.  Leonard, 
born  November  26,  1871,  educated  at  Phillips 
Exeter  Academy  and  Dartmouth  Medical  Col- 
lege ;  physician  at  Franconia,  New  Hampshire ; 
married^  July  9,  1896,  Mabel  Laing,  daughter 
of  Robert  G.  Laing.  2.  Ervin  Arthur,  Febru- 
ary 26,  1873,  mentioned  below.  3.  Louise 
Carleton,  March  21,  1882,  married  Frank  N. 
Brock.     4.  Haines  Holden,  January  13,  1884. 

(Vnr)  Dr.  Ervin  Arthur,  son  of  Deacon 
Sidney  Johnson,  was  born  at  Newbury,  Ver- 
mont, February  26,  1873.  He  attended  the 
public  and  high  schools  of  his  native  town, 
graduating  in  the  class  of  1891.  He  became 
bookkeeper  at  the  Dudley  I\lills,  Newton  Lower 
Falls,  Massachusetts.  After  working  two 
years  and  a  half  he  began  to  study  his  profes- 
sion in  the  Boston  Dental  College,  graduating 
in  the  class  of  1897  with  the  degree  of  D.  D.  S. 
Since  then  he  has  practiced  dentistry  at  War- 
ren Chambers,  P.oston,  and  at  176  Federal 
street,  Boston,  where  he  has  had  his  office 
since  1901.  In  1905  he  received  the  degree  of 
D.  M.  D.  from  Tufts  College.  In  politics  he 
is  a  Re])ublican.  in  religion  a  Congrcgationalist. 
He  married,  October  i,  1901,  Laura  Helen 
Chamberlain,  born  January  7,  1877,  daughter 
of  Lieutenant  R.  W.  and  Helen  F.  (Corliss) 
Chamberlain,  of  Newbury,  Vermont  (see 
Chamberlain  VIII).  Children:  i.  Thomas, 
born  July  14.  1904,  died  July  16,1904.  2.  Sid- 
ney Remembrance,  September  12,  1906. 

(The  Chamberlain   Line). 

Richard  Chamberlain,  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  born  in  England.    He  settled  in  Braintree, 


Massachusetts,  as  early  as  1642,  and  removed 
thence  soon  afterward  to  Roxbury,  where  his 
descendants  have  been  numerous.  He  removed 
to  Sudbury  later.  His  will  dated  April  12, 
1673,  and  proved  June  18.  1673,  bequeathed 
to  his  wife  what  she  brought  at  marriage,  etc. ; 
to  eldest  son  Benjamin:  daughters  Rebecca, 
Mehitable.  Elizabeth  Daniels,  Mary  Graves; 
son  Joseph  and  grandson  John  Graves.  He 
married  (second)  Sarah  Bugbee,  daughter  of 
Edward  Bugbee,  of  Roxbury.  Children:  i. 
Richard,  born  December  19.  1642.  died  aged 
six  days.  2.  Benjamin,  baptized  with  the  next 
four  children,  June  4,  1665,  at  Roxbury;  re- 
moved to  Oxford,  Massachusetts,  in  1713  with 
his  brother  Joseph  when  he  was  about  seventy 
years  old ;  sold  land  in  East  Sudbury  adjoin- 
ing land  of  Joseph  in  1696;  children  Daniel 
and  John  removed  in  1720  to  Colchester,  Con- 
necticut;  he  sold  his  home  in  Oxford  in  1723. 
3.  Joseph,  mentioned  below.  4.  Mary.  5.  Re- 
becca. 6.  Ann.  7.  Mehitable.  born  January 
28,  1666.  8.  Elizabeth,  married Daniels. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  Richard  Chamberlain, 
was  born  about  1660  and  baptized  at  Rox- 
bury, June  4,  1665.  He  settled  in  Oxford 
about  1710  with  his  brother  Benjamin.  He 
sold  sixty  acres  of  land  and  rights  of  land  and 
commonage  in  Sudbury.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
King  Philip's  war  and  was  at  Hadleyin  1676. 
His  home  lot  in  Oxford  was  on  Bondet  Hill 
on  lot  H.  38.  He  had  eight  children  and  three 
were  of  age  when  he  went  to  O.xford  and  took 
up  house  lots  there  with  the  first  proprietors. 
Joseph  was  elected  to  the  first  board  of  select- 
men of  Oxford.  In  a  deed  dated  February 
22,  1 73 1,  Ebenezer  Chamberlain.  Joseph 
Rockett  with  wife  Hannah.  Pn-njaniin  Cham- 
berlain and  Simon  Chamberlain  conveyed  to 
their  brother  Jose])h,  of  Keekamoochaug,  all 
their  rights  in  their  father's  lots  laid  out  to 
soldiers  of  the  Narragansett  or  Swamp  fight  in 
1676.  His  will  was  dated  March  4,  1721,  and 
his  inventory  amfnmtcd  to  three  hundred  and 
four  pounds,  nineteen  shillings,  six  pence.  He 
died   August   8,    1721.      He   married    Hannah 

.     Children:      i.   Nathaniel,   mentioned 

below.     2.   Joseph,   settled   in   Oxford    South 

Gore :  married  Patience .    3.  Ebenezer, 

one  of  the  thirty  original  proprietors  of  Ox- 
ford :  married  Sybil  Moore.  4.  Hannah,  mar- 
ried Joseph  Rockett.  5.  Benjamin,  married. 
July  8.  1728,  Mary  .Amidon.  6.  Simon,  mar- 
ried, December  27.  1735.  .\bigail  Taylor.  7. 
Rebecca,  married  Nathan  Kaimie. 

(Ill)  .Nathaniel,  son  of  Joseph  Chamber- 
lain,   was    born    at    Sudbury,    in    the   present 


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village  of  Waylaiid.  in  1(189.  lie  removed  to 
Oxford  in  1713  and  married  Elizabeth  Hun- 
kins,  and  both  were  members  of  the  church 
at  Oxford.  Ik-  removed  to  Hattield  about 
1722.  He  was  a  soldier  in  Father  Rasle's  war 
and  was  taken  i)risoner.  After  his  return  from 
captivity  he  removed  to  Xorthfield,  and  was  a 
soldier  in  the  Crown  Point  expedition  in  1755, 
and  in  Colonel  Williams'  regiment  in  1759. 
He  died  November  7,  1780,  and  the  church 
record  says  "He  left  a  good  name  behind  him." 
Children:  i.  Richard,  born  July  9,  1714.  2. 
Moses,  March  30,  17 16.  mentionetl  below.  3. 
Nathaniel,  January  3,  1718,  died  August  22, 
1745.  4.  Elizabeth,  August  30.  1719,  5.  Sarah, 
May  31,  1721.  at  Oxford.  6.  Mary,  July  13, 
1727,  at  Northfield. 

dV)  Deacon  Moses.,  son  of  Nathaniel 
Chamberlain,  was  born  at  Oxford.  March  30, 
1716.  In  1748  he  bought  land  in  Litchfield, 
Connecticut,  and  was  a  member  of  the  church 
there  at  South  Farms  in  1787.  He  married 
Jemima  Wright,  who  died  July  30,  1801, 
daughter  of  Remembrance  and  Elizabeth 
Wright.  He  died  June  25.  1796.  It  is  said 
that  both  he  and  his  son  Moses  served  in  the 
revolution,  but  it  is  impossible  to  distinguish 
the  service  of  each  from  the  records.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Susanna,  born  at  \\'incbester.  New 
Hampshire,  .August  29,   1740,  married   (first) 

Shepard  ;  (second)  November  25,  1784, 

Captain  Ephraim  Stephens.     2.  Azubah,  No- 
vember 2,   1741.  married  Muncy.     3. 

Jemima.    .August    25,     1743.    married 


Johnson.  4.  Lydia,  January  30,  1746.  married 
Captain  Robert  Hunkins.  5.  Remembrance, 
December  19,  1747,  mentioned  below.  6. 
Moses,  December  10,  1749,  in  the  revolution; 
married  .Abigail  Stevens,  7.  Asher,  .April  14, 
1751.    8.  Wright,  June  14,  1757. 

(V)  Colonel  Remembrance,  son  of  Moses 
Chamberlain,  was  born  at  Litchfield,  Connec- 
ticut, December  19,  1747,  died  January  10, 
1813.  He  owned  the  farm  north  of  Bedel's 
Hridge,  where  he  kept  a  tavern  many  years. 
The  farm  remained  in  the  family  three  gen- 
erations. He  was  in  the  revolution  in  Captain 
Steven's  company  in  1779  and  1781.  He  was 
second  lieutenant  in  Captain  I'Vye  Railey's 
company,  guarding  and  scouting.  His  com- 
mission as  first  lieutenant,  signed  by  Governor 
Chittenden,  is  owned  by  a  descendant,  and  he 
was  made  captain,  major,  and  colonel  in  the 
militia.  He  was  prominent  in  the  town  and 
held  substantial  offices.  He  was  a  kind  and 
generous  man,  but  a  strict  Puritan  in  jirinciple. 
He  married  Elizabeth  Elliot,  widow  of  Ilaynes 

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Johnson,  and  daughter  of  Edmund  and  Mehit- 
able  (Worthen)  ICiliot.  After  the  death  of 
her  first  husband,  she  returned  to  Chester  for 
fear  of  the  Indians  and  Tories,  but  came  back 
to  Newbury  bringing  her  three  children  with 
her  on  the  horse,  fording  streams,  and  some- 
limes  being  comiielled  to  lodge  in  the  woods. 
She  was  born  at  Chester.  1751,  died  February 
8,1829.  Children:  i,  Moses,  born  November 
-5-  I//?'  mentioned  below.  2.  Azubah,  No- 
vember 6,  1779,  married  Joseph  Sawyer.  3. 
I^lizabeth,  December  19,  1781,  married  Joseph 
Kent.  4.  Mehitable,  December  3,  1783,  mar- 
ried (fir.st)  Green  Saunders;  (second)  Octo- 
ber 6,  1831,  Israel  Willard ;  died  March  13, 
1849.  5-  Remembrance,  July  12,  1785,  died 
September  4,  1789.  6.  Moody,  September  12, 
1787,  died  July  12,  1863.  7-  Remembrance, 
December  2.  1789,  married  Mrs.  Mehitable 
Peoples;  (bed  March  4,  1855.  8.  Olive,  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1792,  married  Ephraim  B.  Stevens. 

(\1)  Moses  (2),  son  of  Colonel  Remem- 
brance Chamberlain,  was  born  at  Newbury, 
\'ermont,  November  25,  1777.  died  in  Novem- 
ber, 1854.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Bradford,  Ver- 
mont, on  the  upper  plain,  where  he  bought  the 
farm  of  his  L'ncle  Moses.  He  married  (first) 
Martha  Child,  died  1839,  daughter  of  Cephas 
and  Martha  Child,  of  Woodstock,  Connecticut. 
He  married  (second)  Mrs.  Jemima  Peckett. 
Children,  all  by  first  wife:  i.  John  Elliott, 
born  November  4,  1806.  mentioned  below,  2. 
Cephas  Child,  January  21,  1809,  married,  lune 

3,    1835,    in    Boston,  ' .      3.    Martha    E., 

-\prii  10,  181 1,  married  John  Y.  Cross.  4. 
Mary  C.,  .August  9,  1813!  married  Benjamin 
Chamberlain.  5.  Moses  Remembrance,  April 
20,  1816,  married,  September  24,  1840,  Ruby 
S.  Johnson.  6.  Elizabeth  A..  .August  i.  1818, 
died  young.  7.  Benjamin  F.,  December  21, 
1821,  died  unmarried.  8.  Elizabeth  E.,  .August 
16,  1823,  married  Jarct  M.  Haseltine.  9. 
.Amanda  X.,  May  21,  1826,  married  Henry  E. 
Sawyer.  10.  Azubah  A.,  September  2,  1831, 
married  Luther  S.  (trover. 

(\'I1)  John  Elliott..sonofMo.ses  (2)  Cham- 
berlain, was  born  at  Bradford,  Vermont,  No- 
vember 4,  1806,  died  October  7,  1886.  I  fe  was 
a  farmer  at  South  .Newbury,  WTinont,  and  a 
mcmlx-r  of  the  constitutional  convention  in 
1843.  He  held  mo.st  of  the  town  offices  at 
various  times.  He  was  a  railroad  contractor 
and  with  Robert  Morse  built  the  White  Moun- 
tain railroad  from  Woodsville  to  Littleton,  and 
later,  with  Joseph  .A.  Dodge,  built  the  Boston, 
Concf)rd  &  Montreal  railroad  extension  from 
Littleton  to  the  Fabyan  House.     He  was  also 


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interested  in  other  enterprises.  He  married, 
in  March,  1831,  Laura  Willard,  born  Febru- 
ary 5,  1807,  died  May  16,  1864,  daughter  of 
Israel  Willard,  of  Bradford.  Children:  i. 
George  Willard,  born  March  15,  1832.  2. 
Horace  Elliott,  November  30,  1834.  3.  Re- 
membrance Wright,  March  21,  1836,  mention- 
ed below.  4.  Leona  Eveline,  April  9,  1842, 
married,  November  9.  1865,  John  W.  Currier; 
died  April  27,  1896.  5.  Ella  Amanda,  August 
I.  1845.  married,  September,  1867,  George  B. 
Harriman;  died  June  25,  1901.  6.  Charles 
Wesley,  November  4,  1849. 

(VHI)  Remembrance  Wright,  son  of  John 
Elliott  Chamberlain,  was  born  at  South  New- 
bury, Vermont,  March  21,  1836.  He  served 
in  Company  D,  First  Vermont  Regiment  in 
1861  :  was  first  lieutenant  in  Company  H, 
Twelfth  \'erniont  Regiment  in  1862-63.  He 
was  a  farmer  on  the  homestead  and  in  business 
in  Newbury  Village.  He  was  postmaster  there 
from  1885  to  1891  inclusive.  He  married, 
March  13,  1862,  Helen  V.  Corliss,  of  Bradford. 
Children":  i.  (ieorge  Elliott,  born  February 
12,  1869,  graduated  Dartmouth  Medical  Col- 
lege, 1896;  interne  one  year  in  Mary  Hitch- 
cock Hospital ;  studied  in  New  York ;  began 
practice  at  Lawrence,  Massachusetts;  became 
acting  assistant  surgeon  L^nited  States  Army, 
Second  Division,  Seventh  Army  Corps,  at 
Havana,  Cuba;  now  in  service  in  the  Philip- 
pine Lslands.  2.  Laura  Helen,  January  7,  1877, 
married  Dr.  Ervin  .Arthur  Johnson  (see  John- 
son VIH). 

(For  preceding  generations  see  John  .lohnson  1). 

(HI)  Benjamin  Johnson,  son 
JOILXSON  of  Humiihrcy  Johnson,  was 
born  in  Scituate,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1657,  died  March  26,  1707.  He  re- 
sided in  Ilingham  and  was  a  blacksmith  by 
trade.  lie  was  selectman  in  1698.  He  was 
landlord  and  proprietor  of  the  Pine  Tree 
Tavern,  situated  on  Town  (now  South)  street, 
on  the  site  of  the  residence  owned  by  the 
heirs  of  George  and  Zadoch  Ilersey.  His 
estate,  valued  at  four  hundred  and  forty-five 
pounds,  four  shillings,  was  settled  December 
9,  1712,  his  son  Joshua  being  administrator.  He 
married,  at  Hingham,  June  11,  1683.  Rebecca 
Hcrscy,  born  .August  20,  1663,  died  February 
II,  1711-12,  daughter  of  William  and  Rebecca 
(Chubbuck)  Ilersey.  Children:  I.  Rebecca, 
born  fune  28,  1684,  died  September  28  follow- 
ing. 2.  Benjamin,  July  15,  i(^-,.  died  Decem- 
ber 5.  1695.  3.  Joshua.  .Xugust  9,  1689.  died 
March    21.    1693-94.      4.    Ruth,    January    10, 


1691-92,  died  .March  8,  1712-13.  5.  Sarah, 
February  7,  1693-94,  married,  January  25, 
1715-16,  Nathaniel  Fearing.  6.  Benjamin, 
June  3,  1696,  married,  February  4,  1719-20, 
Ruth  Beal,  and  resided  in  Stoughton  and 
Hingham.  7.  Mary,  July  27,  1699,  married, 
October  11,  1722,  Barnabas  .Seabury.  8. 
Joshua,   1702,  mentioned  below. 

(  I\' )  Joshua,  son  of  Benjamin  Johnson, 
was  born  in  Hingham  in  1702.  He  removed 
to  Stoughton  in  1738  or  1739.  He  married, 
.\pril  29,  1730,  Lydia  (Ward)  Lincoln,  born 
in  Hingham,  June  13,  1705.  daughter  of  Henry 
and  Ruth  (Bailey)  Ward.  Children,  born  at 
Hingham:  i.  John,  January  18,  1731,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Joshua.  C3ctober  25,  1732, 
resided  at  Stoughton.  3.  Jacob,  January  31, 
1734-35  resided  at  Stoughton.  Born  at  Stough- 
ton :  4.  Sarah,  November  6,  1741.  5.  Mary, 
March  4,  1744-45.     Probably  others. 

(  V)  John,  son  of  Joshua  Johnson,  was  born 
in  Hingham.  January  18,  1731.  He  married 
there,  March  8.  1749-50,  Mary  Gushing,  born 
at  Hingham.  May  10,  1730.  daughter  of  Seth 
and  Lydia  (  Fearing )  Gushing,  granddaughter 
of  Theophilus  and  Mary  (Thaxter)  Gushing, 
and  descended  from  Daniel  (2)  and  Lydia 
(Gilman)  Gushing,  and  Matthew  (i)  and 
Nazareth  (Pitcher)  Gushing.  He  removed  to 
.Stoughton  where  he  lived  until  his  death. 
Children,  born  in  Hingham:  i.  John,  October 
17,  1750.  2.  Mary,  .August  3,  1752.  3.  Ezekiel, 
lanuary  21.  1754.  mentioned  below.  Probably 
others. 

( \T )  Ezekiel,  son  of  John  Johnson,  was 
born  in  Hingham,  January  21,  1754,  died  Jan- 
uary 27,  1832.  He  lived  in  the  north  part  of 
Stoughton,  incorporated  in  1797  as  Canton. 
He  was  in  the  revolution  in  Captain  John 
Bradley's  company.  Colonel  Benjamin  Gill's 
regiment,  .\ugu.st  14,  1777.  three  months  and 
tAvcnty-one  days,  and  marched  to  Manchester, 
Vermont,  to  join  the  northern  army.  He  mar- 
r/ed,  June  21,  1785,  Elizabeth  Crosman,  of 
Stoughton.  Children:  i.  Thomas.  2.  Eliza- 
beth. 3.  Betsey,  born  July  12,  1787.  4.  Ezekiel, 
Ai)ril  4.  1795.  mentioned  below.  5.  George. 
6.  Sally  .\..  July  10.  1798. 

(Xl'l)  Ezekiel  (2),  son  of  Ezekiel  (i) 
John.son,  was  born  in  Canton,  April  4,  1795, 
died  December  19,  1850.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  and  then  established  a  pros- 
j)erous  trucking  business.  He  had  the  contract 
for  teaming  for  the  Kinsey  Forge  at  Revere, 
and  other  large  concerns.  He  w-as  active  in 
the  militia,  and  in  religion  was  a  Unitarian.  In 
politics  he   was  a   Republican.     He  married, 


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July  28,  1822,  Louise  Dickerniau.  born  April 
19,  1754.  died  May  21,  1833.  daughter  of  John 
T.  and  Ruth  (  Tolnian )  Dickerman.  Children  : 
I.  Mary  Cushing,  born  December  2,  1824,  mar- 
ried (first)  Ichabod  G.  Jordan;  (second) 
George  L.  French,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
French ;  had  Xoah  Wilbur  Jordan  by  first 
husband,  and  F.lla  and  George  French  by  sec- 
ond husband.  2.  1  liram.  October  9,  1826,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  John  Dickerman.  1828,  mar- 
ried, June  II.  1857,  Ellen  Kendrick.  4.  Louisa 
Adelaide,  February  19,  1830,  married,  Novem- 
ber 2,  1851,  George  Stephen  Russell;  children: 
i.  Harry  J.  Russell ;  ii.  Blanche  A.  Russell, 
married  George  W.  Bowers;  iii.  Helen  Russell, 

married    Hiram    Barnes;   iv.   Russell. 

5.  Ezekiel  Sanford,  January  18,  1832,  died 
June  18.  1884;  married,  December  12,  1854, 
Amanda  D.  Martin,  daughter  of  William  and 
Betsey  Martin  ;  children  :    .Alice  J.,  Charles  S., 

married   ,   had   two   children:      Hiram 

Sanford  and  (irace. 

(\Tn)  Hiram,  son  of  Ezekiel  (2)  John- 
son, was  born  in  Canton,  October  9,  1826.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  embarked  in 
the  retail  grocery  business  as  clerk  at  747 
Washington  street,  corner  of  Northampton 
street,  Boston.  He  later  leased  the  property, 
and  in  1853  Iwuglit  it  from  Samuel  Clapp, 
holding  it  thirteen  years,  and  then  sold  it  to 
the  Penny  Savings  Bank,  his  investment  in- 
creasing about  three  hundred  per  cent.  He 
then  removed  his  business  to  Washington 
street  where  Union  Park  is  now  located. 
Afterward  his  business  was  located  on  Lin- 
coln street,  later  removed  to  Commercial  street 
and  finally  to  State  street.  In  1887  he  formed 
partnership  with  C".  H.  Cummings  &  Company, 
continuing  nineteen  years.  In  1907  he  became 
the  senior  partner  of  the  firm  of  Johnson  & 
Bryden,  millers  agent  and  receivers  of  flour, 
at  168  State  street,  Boston.  This  firm  is  agent 
for  the  great  Washburn  Crosby  Company's 
mills  at  Alinneapolis,  Minnesota.  Mr.  John- 
son was  in  active  business  from  1846  until  his 
fleath  and  was  one  of  the  best  known  men  in 
the  trade.  The  annual  business  of  the  present 
firm  in  flour  amoimts  to  eighty  thousand 
barrels  of  Washburn  &  Cro.sby's  "Gold  Medal" 
flour,  and  a  large  amount  of  other  brands,  and 
is  constantly  increasing.  The  firm  handles  the 
famous  rjoiden  Crown  and  John  .\lden  brands 
of  flour  and  many  other  popular  kinds.  Mr. 
Johnson  was  a  managing  trustee  of  Dr.  Flint's 
estate  for  thirty-four  years,  having  charge  of 
the  property  at  the  corner  of  Washington  and 


Warrenton  streets  and  at  107  and  109  Shaw- 
nnit  avenue,  Boston.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
South  Congregational  Church  (Unitarian)  of 
which  Rev.  Dr.  Edward  Everett  Hale  has  been 
for  many  years  pastor.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Hale  Club  of  the  church.  In  politics  he 
was  Republican.  He  married,  Se])teml)er  9, 
1840,  Catherine  M.  Jordan,  born  January  i, 
1829,  daughter  of  Rishworth  and  Harriet  Jor- 
dan, of  Biddeford,  Maine.  Children,  born  in 
Boston:  i.  Hiram,  September  9,  1852,  died 
September  21,  1852.  2.  Isabel  Louise,  April 
i*^.  1855,,  resides  at  467  Massachusetts  avenue, 
Boston.  3.  Cora  Lincoln,  March  18,  1862, 
married,  ( )ctobcr  23,  1889,  Harry  Johnson 
Kussell,  son  of  George  S.  and  Louise  A.  Rus- 
sell;  he  was  born  May  29,  1857;  they  reside 
at  467  Massachusetts  avenue,  Boston.  For 
nineteen  vears  Mr.  Johnson  lived  at  3  Union 
Park. 


Jaines  Johnson,  immigrant 
JOHN.SON      ancestor,  was  called  Irish  in 

the  town  records  of  Kittery, 
Maine,  where  he  settled.  The  term  was  often 
used  to  designate  the  Scotch-Irish  at  that  time. 
He  married  (first)  in  Kittery,  December  3, 
1727,  Elizabeth  Seavey,  who  died  in  1739. 
.Married  (second)  .'\ugust  6,  1740,  Rebecca 
Penson.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Elizabeth, 
born  July  8,  1728.  2.  John,  February  i,  1730, 
died  June  5,  1736.  3.  Mary,  May  5,  1733.  4. 
James,  June  18,  1735,  died  June  5,  1736.  5. 
Joanna,  May  10,  1737.  6.  John,  September  20, 
1739.  probably  died  in  the  revolution.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:  7.  James,  June  29,  1742, 
married,  .August  22,  1765,  Rebecca  Hutchings; 
served  in  the  revolution.  8,  Lydia,  February 
26.  1746.  9,  Rebecca,  .\pril  I,  1748.  10.  Daniel, 
June  13,  1750,  married,  .April  29,  1773,  Mary 
Green;  served  in  the  revolution.  11.  .Anna, 
.August    13,    1752.      12.    Dennis,   January    19, 

1756,  mentioned  below.     13.  Noah,  March  15, 

1757,  married,  .August  10.  1780,  Sarah  Good- 
win. 14.  Miriam,  July  16,  1759.  15.  .Sarah, 
.August  27,  1762. 

(Jl)  Dennis,  son  of  James  Johnson,  was 
born  in  Kittery,  .Maine,  January  19,  1756.  He 
resided  in  Kittery  for  a  time,  and  the  house 
which  he  occupied  there  was  at  last  accounts 
still  standing.  He  removed  to  \\'aterbf)ro, 
Maine,  in  1799,  and  there  dicfl  in  1838.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution  in  Captain 
h'lisha  Shapleigli's  company.  Colonel  Joseph 
Storer's  regiment,  .August  14  to  November  30, 
1777.  Under  Cajitain  Joseph  I-'icld,  chairman 
of  class  No.  10  in  Kittery,  he  enlisted  to  serve 


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three  years  in  the  Continental  army,  and  was 
assigned  to  Captain  Sylvaniis  Smith's  com- 
pany, the  I'iftli  .Massachusetts,  and  in  Decem- 
ber,' 1782,  he  joined  Captain  Benson's  com- 
jjany.  He  served  in  Captain  Smith's  company, 
Lieutenant  Colonel  David  Cohb's  regiment,  in 
January  and  I-"ebruary,  1783,  but  as  the  war 
closed  he  was  mustered  out  after  but  eleven 
months  of  service;  he  was  afterward  pension- 
ed ;  he  IS  said  to  have  taken  part  in  the  battle 
of  Lak-e  Champlain.  He  married.  May  11, 
1779.   Mary  Carter,  who  died  in    1828.  aged 

seventy.     Children:     i.  T.ucy.  married  — 

Goodale,  one  son  John;  settled  in  New  York. 
2.  Ralph,  settled  in  Seabrook,  New  Hamp- 
shire;  married  Anna  (iove,  one  son  Stephen, 
born  in  Seabrook,  New  Hampshire,  married 
Huldah  Chase,  children:  Sarah  Ann  and 
Amos   Ralph.     3.    William,   settled  in   Hollis, 

Alaine  ;  married Goodwin,  children :   i. 

Lucy,  married  Benjamin  Chadbournc,  chil- 
dren, Colby  and  Austin;  ii.  Ralph,  married 
Dorcas  Hooper,  children,  Sarah,  Frank,  Ralph, 
Colby ;  iii.  Nancy,  married  David  Deering,  died 
March,  1908;  iv.  Mary,  lived  in  Waterboro, 
immarricd  ;  v.  Colby,  married  Georgia  Fabiu  ; 
vi.  William,  married  Julia  Philpot ;  both  de- 
ceased ;  children  :  Mary  Frances,  Seth,  George 
and  Charles ;  vii.  Sarah,  married  .Mbian  Hob- 
s:mi,  one  son  William.  4.  Olive,  died  unmar- 
ried in  Waterboro.  5.  Joseph,  mentioned 
below.  6.  Mariam,  died  unmarried  March  12, 
1858,  aged  sixty-six  years.  7.  Polly,  died 
iinmarried  August  i,  1872,  aged  seventy-five 
_\ears.  8.  Noah,  married  Eunice  Linscitt,  who 
died  October  26.  1851,  aged  forty-seven  years; 
children:  Peltiah.  Jerome,  Oleva.  I'eltiah 
was  born  November  15.  1827,  died  unmarried 
May  24,  1905.  Jerome  married  (first)  Fla- 
vdle  Bagley,  son  John;  married  (second) 
Jennie  Hawkes.  son  Edward. 

(Ill)  Joseph,  son  of  Dennis  Johnson,  was 
born  in  Maine,  1794.  moveil  to  Waterboro 
with  his  parents  in  1799.  and  resided  there 
during  his  active  life.  He  married  Mary 
Batchelder,  who  died  .\pril  28,  1862,  aged 
sixty-seven  years.  Children:  i.  Mary  .Ann, 
married  James  C.  Chadbourne  ;  both  deceased  ; 
children:  Joseph,  John,  Andrew,  lumicc, 
[,evina.  Eliza.  2.  Eunice,  deceased.  3.  Eliza, 
married  John  Roberts,  died  February  16,  1862, 
aged  thirty-nine  years;  children:  Mary.  John, 
.Sarah,  l'"liza.  Charles.  4.  John,  born  May, 
1833,  died  March  22,  1898;  married  Sally 
Hussey,  uow  deceased;  children:  Joseph, 
Cora,  ^^amie,  O.scar,  all  deceased.  5.  Dennis, 
mentioned  belnw. 


(I\")  Dennis  (2),  son  of  Joseph  Johnson, 
was  born  in  Waterboro,  Maine,  April  30,  1839. 
He  was  a  lumberman  and  owned  saw  mills  in 
the  town  of  Waterboro  and  vicinity.  He 
married  Emma  Bean,  a  native  of  Eaton,  New 
]  lampshire.  Children,  born  at  Waterboro  and 
all  living  at  the  present  time  ( 1909)  :  i. 
Charles  W.,  mentioned  below.  2.  Maudlena, 
born  October  26,  1865,  educated  in  the  public 
and  high  schools  of  Waterboro  and  at  Lim- 
erick Academy  and  the  State  Normal  school 
at  Gorham.  Maine ;  taught  school  in  North 
liillerica  and  Chelmsford,  Massachusetts,  about 
six  years ;  entered  the  State  Normal  school  at 
Bridgewater.  Massachusetts,  graduating  there- 
from ;  taught  school  two  years  in  East  Bridge- 
water ;  since  1901  has  been  teaching  on  Luzon 
Island,  in  the  Philippines,  returning  to  her 
home  to  visit  in  the  summers  of  1904  and  1908. 
3.  George  H.,  born  November  16,  1867.  4. 
Nettie  \'..  born  December  26,  1868.  5.  Mark 
T..  born  September  3,  1870.  6.  ]\Ielvin  B., 
born  November  28,  1872.  7.  Laura  E.,  born 
.Vjiril  (;.  1874.  8.  Frank  B.,  born  July  2,  1877. 
().  1.  Willis,  born  July  16,  1881.  10.  Ina  M., 
born   August   25.    1883. 

(  \' I  Charles  W.,  son  of  Dennis  (2)  John- 
son, was  born  in  Waterboro,  Maine,  October 
13,  1863.  He  attended  the  public  and  high 
schools  of  Waterboro,  being  a  student  at  the 
latter  for  one  year.  He  worked  with  his  father 
until  the  age  of  twenty-two,  after  which  he 
came  to  Boston  and  for  five  years  worked  for 
.\.  J.  Woodson.  He  then  entered  into  busi- 
ness at  No.  138  High  .street,  lioston,  continu- 
ing for  twelve  years,  at  the  expiration  of  which 
time  he  sold  out  and  jnirchased  the  business  of 
.\.  J.  Littlefield,  then  at  No.  173  State  street, 
now  at  No.  222  State  street,  a  general  truck- 
ing business,  in  which  he  has  attained  a  large 
degree  of  success.  He  is  a  Baptist  in  religion, 
and  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  married, 
Se]>tenifeer  19,  iSSri,  Carrie  F...  daughter  of 
I'.idredge  and  Lydia  (Scribner)  Sawyer,  of 
Waterboro.  New  llaiupshire.  Children: 
Blanche,  born  lulv,  i8j4,  and  Lena,  June, 
1897. 

llniry  i.init.  immigr. uU  ancestor, 
LCN  r  was  born  in  England,  and  came  in 
the  shi])  "Mary  and  John."  sailing 
-March  26.  1634-35.  He  settled  at  Newbury, 
Massachusetts,  in  1635,  was  admitted  a  free- 
man. May  2.  i''>38,  and  became  a  proprietor  of 
the  town.  He  died  at  Newbury,  July  10,  1662. 
His  will  was  proved  September  30.  1662,  be- 
(|ueathing  to  wife   .\nna :   sons   Daniel.    |ohn 


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and  Henry;  daughters  Sarah.  I'riscilhi.  Mary 
and  Ehzaheth.  The  widow  married  Joseph 
Mills.  Children:  i.  Sarah,  born  November 
8,  1639.  2.  Daniel.  May  17.  1641,  mentioned 
below.  3.  I'riscilla.  February  16.  1646.  4. 
Mar}',  July  13.  1648.  5.  Elizabeth.  December 
29,  1650.     6.  Henry,  February  20.  1653. 

(H)  Daniel,  son  of  Henry  Lunt.  was  born 
at  Xewbury,  May  17,  1641,  and  was  killed  by 
the  Indians.  June  27.  1689,  in  the  garrison 
house  of  Major  Waldron,  at  Dover,  Xew 
Hampshire,  while  in  the  service.  He  was  a 
farmer  at  Xewbury.  He  was  admitted  a  free- 
man in  1685.  He  married  (first)  May  16, 
1664.  Hannah,  daughter  of  Robert  Coker.  She 
died  January  29,  1(^79.  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond) June  29.  1679,  Mary,  widow  of  Samuel 
Moody.  Children  of  first  wife:  t.  Hannah, 
bom  May  17.  1663.  2.  Daniel.  May  i,  1667. 
3.  Henry,  June  23.  1669.  4.  John,  February 
10,  1672.  5.  Sarah.  June  18.  1674.  6.  Mary, 
July  24.  1^177.  Children  of  second  wife:  7. 
Joseph,  March  24.  1680.  8.  Ann.  January  28, 
1683.    9.  lienjamin.  March  15.  1686. 

(TH  )  Iose|)h,  son  of  Daniel  I.mit.  was  born 
in  Xewbury.  March  24.  1680.  He  settled  in 
Xewbury.  where  he  married  (second)  Decem- 
ber 4.  1708,  Joanna  Adams.  He  died  there 
October  14,  1751. 

( I\')  Cutting,  son  of  Joseph  Lunt.  was  born 
in  Xewbury.  January  22.  171 3.  He  married,  at 
Xewbury,  December  16,  1735.  Deborah  Jac- 
Ques,  who  died  February  14,  1788.  He  died 
there  December  29,  1790. 

(V)  Cutting  (2).  son  of  Cutting  f  i  )  Lunt, 
was  born  in  Xewbury,  January  i,  1749-  ^e 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  and  was  cap- 
tured by  the  British  and  confined  in  the 
Plymouth  prison.  After  his  release  he  entered 
the  service  again  on  the  brig  "Dalton,"  was 
again  captured,  and  cast  into  Mill  Prison, 
where  he  was  confined  two  years.  He  was 
sent  on  a  cartel  to  Xantes,  France,  where  he 
enlisted  again  and  was  commissioned  third 
lieutenant  under  Captain  John  Paul  Jones  on 
the  famous  "P>on  Homme  Richard."  He  had 
the  misfortune  to  venture  too  close  to  the 
English  shore,  when  in  command  of  a  detail 
in  search  of  some  deserters,  was  taken  with  all 
his  men.  and  again  thrown  into  prison.  When 
he  regained  his  liberty  he  returned  to  the  ser- 
vice. In  the  privateer  "America."  he  was 
drowned  at  sea.  Lieutenant  Cutting  Lunt  was 
one  of  seventeen  under  Ca|)tain  ( )ffin  P.oard- 
man,  who  surprised  and  captured  the  British 
.supply  ship  "P^riends,"  of  London,  bound  for 
Boston,  off   Xewburyport  bar  under  the  pre- 


tense of  them  wanting  a  ]iilot.  lie  married 
Mary  (ierrish.  daughter  of  William  Cerrish, 
born  at  Xewbury,  Xovember  2C1,  1751.  She 
married  ( seconcj )  John  Stiekney,  and  died 
.\ugust  18,  181 3.  Children  of  Lieutenant  Cut- 
ting and  Mary  ( Gerrish)  Lunt.  born  at  Xew- 
bury: I.  Silas.  .August  26,  1775,  mentioned 
below.    2.  Ebenezer,  June  17,  1781,  died  May 

i\  1)  Silas,  son  of  Lieutenant  (.uttmg  (2) 
Lunt,  was  born  in  Xewbury.  .August  26,  1775. 
He  married.  September  23.  1802.  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Hnssa  Hoague,  a  revolutionary 
soldier  from  Hampton,  Xew  Hampshire,  born 
at  Xewbury,  September  30,  1778,  died  May, 
1858.  He  died  at  Xewbury.  June  2,  1867.  He 
was  a  ship  carpenter  by  trade,  but  ii  early  life 
followed  the  sea.  making  many  voyages  to 
foreign  countries,  including  several  to  the 
Baltic.  Children,  born  in  Xewbury :  i.  Silas, 
July  26.  1803,  died  next  day.  2.  Mary  S., 
October  8.  1804,  married,  Augu.st  2,  1827, 
Philip  Bollman.  3.  Paul  G.,  April  3,  1806, 
married,  February  n.  1841, ;  no  chil- 
dren. 4.  Silas.  October  20.  1807,  married, 
Xovember,  1852-33,  Mary  J.  Hinckley.  5. 
Caroline.  October  31,  1809,  married,  October 
7,  1830,  Robert  S.  Lane.  6.  Abraham,  Octo- 
ber I.  181 1,  married,  .August  30,  1835,  Eliza- 
beth -A.  Kent.  7.  Charles.  January  18.  1814, 
married,  .August  7,  183S.  Sarah  Blake.  8. 
Sarah  F...  January  7.  1817.  married.  October 
23,  1840.  Jeremiah  X.  Jackman.  9.  Enoch  P. 
("twinl.  .August  25,  1820,  mentioned  below. 
10.  William  twin  with  Enoch  P.,  died  .August 
27.  1820. 

(\'I1)  Enoch  !'..  twin  .son  of  Silas  Lunt, 
was  born  at  Xewbury  (now  Xewburyport), 
.August  23.  1820.  died  there  Se|)tember  ().  1908. 
He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools,  and 
learned  the  trade  of  shi!)-buil(ling,  wiiich  so 
u.anv  of  his  ancestors  had  followed.  He  was 
a  skillful  craftsman,  drafted  his  own  designs 
and  built  some  of  the  fastest  vessels  in  his  day. 
He  learned  drafting  with  James  Townsend, 
the  builder  of  the  rli;)per  ship  "Dreadnought," 
whose  sailing  record  is  unbeaten  to  this  day. 
During  the  civil  war  he  was  in  the  govern- 
ment service  as  foreman  in  tlie  yard  and 
draftsman  in  the  Portsmouth  navy  yard,  and 
alwavs  took  pride  in  his  part  of  the  building 
of  the  famous  "Kearsarge"  at  that  yard.  .After- 
ward he  became  a  jiartner  in  the  firm  of  Colby 
&  Lunt,  boat  builders,  at  Xewburyport.  build- 
ing principally  many  vessels  for  fishing  and 
the  fruit  trade  with  the  West  Indies.  He  con- 
tinued in  active  life  to  an  advanced  age,  and 


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when  over  eighty  designed  a  large  four-masted 
schooner,  drafted  the  plans,  made  the  model, 
and  laid  the  lines  in  the  shiploft.  He  was  an 
old  time  Democrat  in  politics,  and  an  Episco- 
palian in  religion.  He  married,  June  6,  1847, 
Mary  E.  Colby,  daughter  of  Captain  John 
Colby.  Children,  born  in  Xewburyport :  I. 
John  E.,  Alay  11,  1854,  married,  April  22, 
1896,  Bertha  P.ingham ;  one  child,  Madelyn 
Louise,  born  June  19,  1897.  2.  George  Colby, 
mentioned  below. 

(V'HI)  George  Colby,  son  of  Enoch  P. 
I-unt,  was  born  in  Xewburyport  (formerly 
Xcwbury),  where  his  paternal  ancestors  had 
lived  from  the  time  of  the  first  settlement. 
He  was  educated  there  in  the  public  schools, 
and  learned  the  trade  of  engraver.  He  worked 
at  this  trade  in  his  native  city  for  nine  years, 
then  came  to  Greenfield,  Massachusetts,  to 
take  charge  of  the  engraving  department  of 
A.  F.  Towle  &  Son.  He  studied  design  and 
modeling  under  Max  IJachman,  the  sculptor, 
and  was  appointed  assistant  to  the  manager 
of  the  firm.  In  1900,  when  the  firm  went  out 
of  business,  Mr.  I,unt  bought  the  tools, 
machinery  and  trademarks  of  the  concern,  and 
formed  the  jjresent  firm  of  Rogers,  Lunt  & 
I'lOwlen,  in  1902.  The  business  is  incorporated 
and  he  holds  the  offices  of  treasurer  and  man- 
ager. The  company  manufacturers  sterling 
silver  table  ware  at  Greenfield,  and  has  been 
very  successful.  Mr.  Lunt  is  a  member  of 
Republican  Lodge  of  Free  Masons ;  of  Frank- 
lin Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  and  the 
ALisonic  Club.  In  religion  he  is  an  Episco- 
jialiau,  and  in  ])olitics  a  Rei)ul)!ican.  He  mar- 
ried, December  16,  1896,  .\nna  M.  Denhain, 
born  June  3,  1808,  daughter  of  Henry  C.  and 
Mary  C.  (Motire)  Denham.  They  have  one 
child,  Denham  Colby,  born  Xovember  19,  1900. 

(The  Ilenhatii   Line). 

The  surname  is  ick'ntical  with  Dunham, 
Donham,  Dunliame  and  is  si)cllcd  in  various 
oilier  ways  in  the  ancient  records.  The  s]iell- 
iug  Dunham  was  ])erhaps  more  common  than 
Denham  initil  later  generations. 

1  1  )  Sir  John  Dunham  or  Denham  was  born 
at  Dunham-on-the-'iVent,  England,  in   1525. 

(II)  Sir  Thomas,  son  of  Sir  John  Denham, 
was  born  in  1560.  Ik-  lived  at  Kirklingtnn, 
England. 

(I in  John  (2).  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Den- 
ham. was  born  in  England  in  1589.  He  came 
from  Lancashire  in  tlic  ship  "lloiic"  in  1630- 
.^l.  He  was  of  riymouth,  Massachusetts,  as 
early  as  i'')^^,  and  was  admitted  a  fret-man  tliat 


year.  He  was  a  weaver  by  trade.  He  was  in 
1639  one  of  the  first  four  deputies  to  the  gen- 
eral court  and  continued  in  that  office  for 
twenty  years.  He  was  deacon  of  the  church, 
lie  was  a  landholder  in  1632.  He  was  a 
member  of  (jovernor  Bradford's  council.  He 
was  upright  and  faithful — "an  appointed  ser- 
vant of  God  and  a  useful  man  in  his  place." 
He  died  at  Plymouth,  March  2.  1668-69,  aged 
about  eighty  years.  His  will  was  dated  Janu- 
ary 25.  1668,  witnessed  by  John  Cotton  and 
Thomas  Cushman,  bequeathing  to  sons  John, 
Benaiah  and  Daniel :  son-in-law  .Stejihen 
Wood  ;  to  "the  rest  of  my  children  that  are 
not  designated  in  this  my  last  will  twelve  pence 
a])iece  if  they  demand  it;"  also  to  wife  Abi- 
gail. Children:  i.  John,  born  1620.  2.  Abi- 
gail, 1623,  married,  November  6,  1644,  Ste- 
phen W'ood.  3.  Samuel,  1623,  married.  June 
2,  1649,  Martha  Falloway.  4.  Thomas,  1627, 
achnitted  freeman  June  i,  1647.  5.  Jonathan, 
1634,  married,  Xovember  29,  1655,  Mary 
Delano:  married  (second)  October  15,  1657, 
Mar}  (^obb.  6.  Joseph,  1637,  mentioned  below. 

7.  P>enaiah,  1640,  removed  to  Eastham,  Mass- 
achusetts, then  in  1671  to  East  New  Jersey; 
married.  October  25,   1660,  Elizabeth  Tilson. 

8.  Persis,  1641.  married,  October  15,  1657, 
lienaiah  Pratt.  <).  Daniel,  iri4f;.  admitted  free- 
man 1671.  10.  Hannah,  married  Giles  Rich- 
ard. 

(  D)  Joseph,  son  of  Deacon  John  (2) 
Denham,  was  born  in  Plymouth  in  1637.  He 
married,  November  18,  1657,  Mercy  Morton, 
daughter  of  Xalhaniel  Morton.  .She  died  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1662,  and  he  married  (second)  .Au- 
gust 20,  1669,  I-".sther  W'orwell.  He  lived  at 
l'l\niouth,  Middlebordugh  and  Eclgartown.  He 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1657.  Children  : 
I.  Elcazer.  mentioned  below.  2.  X'athaniel, 
married  Mary  Tilson.  3.  Micajah.  4.  Joseph 
Jr.     3.  Benaiah.    6.  Daniel.     7.  Mercy. 

(  \  I  Eleazer,  son  of  Joseph  Denham,  was 
biTu  about  1639.  lie  married  Bathsheba 
Pratt.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1689. 
I  ie  was  on  the  committee  apiioiuted  to  arrange 
for  worship  in  the  west  jirecinct  and  secure 
[jreaching.  Children,  born  at  Plymouth:  i. 
i-lleazcr,  born  January  15,  1682.  2.  Xathaniel. 
March  20,  1683,  died  young.  3.  Mercy.  De- 
ciinb'.T  10,  1686.  married  Samuel  Ransom.  4. 
I  iMcl,  (  ictober.  i()8i),  mentioned  below.  3. 
I'lisha.  1(191.  6.  Josiah,  June.  i(^x)4.  7.  Bath- 
sheba. .\])ril  26.  1696.  8.  Susamia.  June.  1698. 
')■  Joshua.  .April   i,  1701. 

(\  1)  Israel,  son  of  Eleazcr  Denham.  was 
hmu  (  )ctober,  1689,  at  Plymouth,  died  .August 


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18.  1726.  He  is  buried  at  PlyniptO!i.  accord- 
ing to  the  town  records,  in  the  burial  ground, 
forty-five  feet  east  and  southeast  from  the 
west  gate  thereof.  He  married,  June  18,  1713. 
Joanna  Richards,  daughter  of  John  Richards, 
of  IMympton.  She  married  (second)  Elisha 
Whitney,  (p.  94,  vol.  3.  Mayflower  Descend- 
ant). Children,  born  at  I'lympton :  I.  Syl- 
vanus,  born  May  26,  1714.  mentioned  below. 
2.  Cornelius,  .August  12,  1716.  3.  Rhenezer, 
February  5,  1718-K9.  4.  Susannah,  July  16, 
1 721,  married  Daniel  Crocker.  5.  James,  De- 
cember g,  1723. 

(\'H)  Sylvanus.  son  of  Israel  Denham,  was 
born  in  Plympton,  May  26,  17 14,  died  179(1. 
He  was  prominent  in  the  town  and  church. 
He  married  Rebecca  Crocker,  daughter  of 
Abel  Crocker.  Children,  born  at  Plympton : 
I.  Pat'ence,  1740,  married  Percy  Shaw.  2. 
Israel,  1741,  mentioned  below.  3.  Sylvanus, 
1744-  4-  Rebecca,  1745.  5.  Simeon,  T747. 
(^.  Silas.  March  28,  1749,  soldier  in  the  revolu- 
tion. 7.  Susanna.  1731.  8.  Elijah,  1753.  9. 
Isaac.  1735.  10.  Molly.  1757.  11.  .\sa,  1759. 
12.  Eleazer.  176 1. 

(\'II1)  Israel  (2),  son  of  Israel  (i)  Den- 
ham. was  born  at  Plympton  in  1741.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  a  private  in  Cap- 
tain John  Bridgham's  company.  Colonel  Theo- 
philus  Cotton's  regiment,  during  1775 ;  also 
in  Captain  F.benczcr  Washburn's  companv. 
Colonel  Eleazer  P.rooks's  regiment,  in  1777-78, 
at  Cambridge :  corporal  in  Captain  Jesse  Har- 
low's company  in  the  defence  of  Plymouth  in 
1776;  also  in  Captain  Benjamin  Rider's  com- 
pany, Colonel  John  Jacobs's  regiment,  in  1780. 
He  married,  about  1770.  Hannah  Whitney. 
.Among  their  children  was  Israel,  mentioned 
below. 

nX)  Israel  (31.  son  of  Israel  (2)  Den- 
ham. was  born  in  Plympton  in  1778.  He  lived 
at  Plympton  and  Carver,  Massachusetts.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Crocker.  .Among  their  chil- 
dren was  Henry,  mentioned  below. 

(X)  Henry,  son  of  Israel  (3)  Denham. 
was  born  at  Carver  in  181 1.  He  tnarrie<l 
Louisa  J.  Pratt.  .Among  their  children  was 
Henry  Crocker,  mentioned  below. 

('XI )  Henry  Crocker,  son  of  Henry  Den- 
ham, was  born  in  Middleborougli,  January  30. 
1836,  married  Mary  C.  Moore,  born  .April  i, 
1832,  daughter  of  Enoch  Moore.  .Among 
their  children  was  .Anna  M.,  born  June  5, 
1868,  at  Bernardston,  Massachusetts,  married, 
December  16,  1896,  George  Colby  Lunt  (see 
Lunt  \III). 


(I)  Richard  Lyman,  the  immi- 
L^  .M.\.\'     grant,  married  Hepzibah , 

(II)  John,  son  of  Richard   Ly- 
man, born  1623,  married  Dorcas  Pltunb. 

(HI)  John  (2),  eldest  son  and  third  cliild 
nf  John  (1)  and  Dorcas  (Plumb)  Lyman,  was 
horn  in  .Xortliampton.  Connecticut  \'alley, 
Massachusetts  Hay  Colony,  .\ugust  i,  1660; 
lived  at  South  Farms,  a  settlement  in  the  town 
of  Xortliampton :  kept  a  ])ublic  house  near 
Smith's  Ferry  and  died  at  South  Farms, 
Northampton,  November  8,  1740.  He  mar- 
ried, .Ai)ril  19.  1687.  Mindwell,  daughter  of 
Mary  Woodford  l-^heldon.  of  Northampton, 
and  widow  of  John  I'omeroy,  to  whom  she 
was  married  April  30,  1684.  She  was  born 
I'ebruary  24,  1666,  died  at  South  Farms, 
XortliamiJton,  .April  8,  1735.  Children  of  John 
and  Mindwell  (.Sheldon)  (Pomeroy)  Lyman 
were  born  in  South  Farms,  Northampton, 
Massachusetts,  as  follows:  i.  Mindwell,  .Au- 
gust 30,  1^)88.  2.  Dorcas,  1690.  3.  Hannah, 
.April  2,  1692.  4.  John  (q.  v.).  5.  Esther, 
February  73,  i()()S.  6.  Cidi-on.  March  m, 
1700.  7.  Elizabeth,  December  8,  1702.  8. 
Phineas.  May,  1706,  died  while  a  student  at 
A'ale  College,  1726.  9.  Elias,  May  10.  1710. 
10.  Cad,  May,  1713. 

(IV)  John  (3),  eldest  son  and  fourth  child 
of  John  (2)  ancl  Mindwell  (.Sheldon)  (Pom- 
eroy) Lyman,  was  born  at  South  b'arms, 
.Xorthamjiton,  Massachusetts,  October  12, 
1693,  died  at  Hockanum,  Connecticut.  Novem- 
ber 9,  1797.  He  lived  for  most  of  his  life  on 
the  so-called  "Plain,"  South  Farms,  North- 
amj)ton,  where  his  children  were  born  and 
where  he  had  erected  a  house  about  the  time 
if  his  marriage  in  1716  to  Abigail  Mosely.  of 
Westfield.  who  died  November  9,  1750,  after 
bearing  him  nine  children.  He  was  known  as 
Ca])tain  John  Lyman  by  reason  of  his  rank 
in  the  military  com])any  raised  for  the  pro- 
tection of  the  early  settlers  from  the  Indians. 
His  home  was  burned  at  midnight  December 
8-9,  1747.  and  all  the  members  of  the  family 
escajied  from  the  bnrm'ng  building  except  two 
of  his  d;uighters,  Hannah,  aged  fourteen  years, 
and  .Abigail,  aged  twenty-two  years,  who  were 
burned  to  death.  This  calamity  determined 
his  removal  to  Hockanum  about  1745,  where 
he  became  a  large  landholder.  .After  the  death 
of  his  first  wife,  the  mother  of  all  his  children, 
he  was  married  to  Widow  Theoda  (Himt) 
.Sheldon.  Children  of  John  and  Abigail 
f. Mosely)  Lyman  were  born  on  the  "Plain," 
South    I'arms,   in   the  town   of    Xorthaiiiplnn, 


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Massachusetts,  as  follows:  i.  Zadoc  (q.  v.). 
2.  Mindwell,  1721,  married  Ebenezer  Pom- 
eroy  and  died  October  9,  1797.  3.  John,  Octo- 
ber 7,  1723,  lived  on  the  homestead,  married 
Hannah,  daiit,diter  of  Jonatiian  Strong,  had 
twelve  children :  his  eldest  son  and  three  of 
his  daughters  were  deaf  mutes;  he  died  No- 
vember 4,  1797.  4.  Abigail,  1725,  was  burned 
to  death.  1747.  5.  Dorcas,  1727,  married 
(first)  Noah  Clapp  and  (second)  'Josiah 
Aloody.  6.  Sarah,  1730,  married  Supply  Clapp. 
7.  Hannah,  1733,  burned  to  death  1747.  8. 
Eleanor,  1735,  married  (first)  Stephen  Pom- 
eroy  and  ( second  )  Oliver  Morton.  9.  Caleb, 
June  21.  1738.  married  Mehitable  Strong,  re- 
moved to  the  state  of  New  York  and  their  son, 
Caleb  Junior,  married  .-Xzubah  Cooley  and  had 
a  daughter  Martha. 

(V)  Zadoc.  eldest  child  of  John  (3)  and 
Abigail  (Mosely)  Lyman,  was  born  on  the 
homestead  at  South  P'arms,  Northampton. 
Massachusetts,  in  1719,  died  in  Hockanum, 
Connecticut,  October  14,  1754.  He  removed 
with  his  father  to  Hockanum,  Hartford  county, 
Connecticut,  about  1745,  where  he  kept  a 
public  house  and  became  a  prominent  citizen 
of  the  town.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Ebenezer  Clark,  and  she  became  the  mother 
of  his  four  children.  After  the  death  of  the 
father  of  these  children,  she  married  (second) 
John  Wright,  of  Northampton.  Massachusetts. 
The  children  of  Zadoc  and  Sarah  (Clark)  Ly- 
man were  born  in  Hockanum,  Connecticut,  as 
follows:  I.  Israel  (<:|.  v.  1.  2.  Azariah,  De- 
cember, 1747.  married  Jemima,  daughter  of 
Sanuu'l  Kingsley,  March  17.  1774;  lived  in 
W'csthampton,  iiad  seven  children  born  be- 
tween I'ebrnary  i<),  1775,  and  March  9.  1789, 
and  died  in  \\estham])ti)n,  October  28,  1833. 
3.  Abigail,  1 75 1,  married  Ejihraim  Wright,  of 
Westhampton.  4.  Luke,  January  8,  1753, 
married  .Susanna,  daughter  of  Joel  TTunt,  De- 
cember 21,  1780,  had  eight  children  born  be- 
tween January  27.  1782,  and  September  4. 
1796,  and  died  January   12,  T825. 

(VI )  Israel,  eldest  child  of  Zadoc  and  Sarah 
(Clark)  Lyman,  was  born  in  Hockanum,  I  lart- 
ford  county,  Connecticut.  I'ebrnary  7,  1746, 
died  there  June  8,  1830.  He  married  Rebecca 
Reals,  January  4.  1770.  She  was  born  June 
8,  1747.  •l'"-"'^'  '"  Hockanum,  Connecticut,  De- 
cember 27,  1824.  Children,  born  in  Hocka- 
num. Connecticut,  as  follows:  i.  Sarah,  .Sep- 
tember 12,  1770,  married  Stephen  Johnson, 
and  di''d  September  19,  1835.  2.  Rachel,  March 
'o.  I7~2,  married  Elijah  ^Iontague  in  1784, 
'■•■'1  tile  following  children  :     Wealthv,  Moses. 


Obed,  Sarah  Montague,  and  these  children 
each  married  and  had  children.  3.  Zadoc 
Samuel,  March  26,  1774,  married  Hannah 
Watson,  of  Windsor,  Connecticut ;  kept  a  tav- 
ern at  Hockanum;  had  nine  children  born  of 
the  marriage  in  Hockanum,  Connecticut,  be- 
tween November  13,  1797,  and  October  3,  1813. 

4.  Israel,  August  9.   1775,  died  the  next  day. 

5.  Israel  (q.  v.),  October  17,  1776.  6.  Achsah, 
April  27,  1778,  married  Chester  Clark,  and 
died  November  21,  1819.  7.  Cynthia,  April 
8,  1780,  married  Aaron  Graves,  fifth  son  of 
Captain  Seth  and  Eunice  (Graves)  Lyman,  of 
Northfield,  and  died  December  2,  1839.  8. 
.Amaziah,  February  13.  1782,  married  Eliza- 
beth .\lvord,  of  South  Hadley,  had  eleven 
children  born  in  Hockanum  between  July  5, 
180^),  and  December  31,  1825.  9.  Hannah, 
October  9,  1783,  married  Perez  Smith,  of 
.South  Hadley,  and  they  had  a  large  family  of 
children,  one  beai-ing  the  name  George  Lyman 
Smith ;  she  died  in  South  Hadley,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1861.  10.  Elijah.  November  13,  1785, 
died  June  30,  1786.  11.  Elijah.  May  2T,.  1787, 
married  Hadassa  Moody,  of  South  Hadley. 
12.  Enos,  January  2,  1790,  married  Lydia 
Watlsworth,  of  Ellington,  Coimecticut,  Janu- 
ary 29,  1817,  and  they  had  eight  children  born 
in  Hockanum,  Connecticut,  between  March 
31.  1820,  and  May  29.  1837;  he  died  Septem- 
ber 22.  1848.  13.  George.  December  13.  1792. 
married  Laura ,  lived  in  Ellington,  Con- 
necticut, and  had  seven  children  between  Sep- 
tember 18,  1820,  and  August  7,  1835;  he  died 
in  Ellington.  April  14,  i8fi6. 

(\'II)  Israel  (2),  third  son  and  fifth  child 
(if  Israel  and  Rebecca  ( Beals )  Lyman,  was 
born  in  Hockanum.  Hartford  county.  Connec- 
ticut. October  17,  I77'^>.  died  there  .August  4, 
1836.  He  was  a  farmer.  May  13,  1802,  he 
married  Sarah  Moody,  born  ^lay  12.  1782, 
died  March  17,  1848.  Children,  born  in  Hock- 
anum. Hartford  county,  Connecticut,  as  fol- 
lows: I.  Alonzo.  March  16,  1803,  married 
.Amelia  Moody,  of  South  Hadley,  Massachu- 
setts, had  five  children  between  .Xovember  13, 
1829,  and  h'ebruary  <),  1839;  died  on  his  farm 
in  South  Hadley,  Sejitember  25,  1840,  leaving 
a  widow  and  four  children :  the  widow  jilaced 
these  four  children  with  the  Shakers  at  En- 
fiel  ',  Connecticut,  to  be  brought  up  by  that 
society.  2.  Keziah  Moody.  January  19.  1805, 
married  Moses  Hubbard,  a  farmer  living  in 
Sunderland.  3.  Maria.  November  2,  1806, 
married.  May  10.  1831.  a  i'.rown.  who  went  to 
.Michigan.  4.  .\lmon.  March  16,  1808.  mar- 
ried Clarissa   Harnett,  of  South   Hadley,  had 


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three  cliiklren  horn  hctwcen  Xcivember  10. 
1830,  and  Septenihcr  14.  1837;  died  in  South 
Hadley.  September  25.  1840.  5.  Israel  Frank- 
hn.  September  11.  1810.  married  (first)  Cath- 
erine A.  Mann,  (  second  )  Marcia  Ann  Lyman, 
and  (third)  Margaret  E.  Harmon;  he  liail 
five  children  born  between  July  27,  1841,  and 
May  26.  1867;  four  by  his  first  wife  and  the 
fifth,  Lizzie  Marcia,  by  his  second  wife,  (x 
A  son  unnamed.  February  8,  1813,  lived  only 
three  days.  7.  Harvey,  .\ugust  26,  1814,  mar- 
ried, June  24.   1854,  Mary  .Ann  ,  while 

an  eUieress  of  the  Shaker  faith,  which  faith  in 
1843  he  with  his  mother  and  brothers.  Elijah 
Austin  and  Edward  Mason,  had  joined ;  on 
announcing  his  intention  of  marriage,  he  was 
an  elder  in  the  Society,  he  was  banished  under 
the  law  of  the  sect  and  was  married  in  Spring- 
field. Massachusetts:  they  had  three  children, 
all  sons,  born  between  April  31.  1855.  and  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1862,  in  Springfield.  Massachusetts, 
named  Charles  Harvey.  George  Edward  and 
John  White.  8.  Hadassah.  October  27.  1816. 
"married  Henry  E.  Bartlett.  of  Hadley.  and 
died  October  11,  1846.  9.  Mary  Pomeroy,  No- 
vember 12.  1 8 19.  died  January  29,  1820.  10. 
A  son.  born  October  21,  182 1,  lived  only  three 
days.  II.  F.lijah  Austin,  February  22,  1823, 
married  Sophronia  Pease,  December  28,  1843, 
and  lived  in  Easthampton,  where  four  children 
were  born  between  September  30.  1847,  and 
March  30.  1862.  12.  Edward  Mason  (q.  v.). 
(\IH)  ICdward  Mason,  youngest  child  of 
Israel  and  Sarah  (Moody)  Lyman,  was  born 
in  South  Hadley,  Massachusetts.  May  13, 
1825.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  South  Hadley,  and  in  1843  removed  with 
his  mother  and  brothers,  Harvey  and  Elisha 
Austin,  to  the  Shaker  settlement  at  Enfield. 
Connecticut,  and  tliey  joined  that  community 
and  he  remained  a  member  up  to  1854,  when 
his  brother  Harvey,  an  elder  in  the  society, 
married  and  the  brothers  left  the  community 
and  settled  in  Springfield.  He  established  the 
seed  business  in  Springfield  as  Lyman  and  Son, 
which  grew  to  large  pro])ortions.  the  firm  both 
importing  and  exporting  seeds  and  supjjlying 
dealers  in  both  the  Xew  England  and  .Middle 
States.  He  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  tem- 
perance and  affiliated  with  both  the  Sons  of 
Temperance  and  the  Good  Templars  organiza- 
tions. He  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  but  withdrew  from  the 
order.  He  established  the  Plymouth  Press 
and  conducted  it  for  a  time,  but  subsequently 
disposed  of  the  i)roi)erty.  He  married  (first), 
on   leaving   the    Shaker   cfininiunity,   Caroline 


lilodgett:  children:  I.  Gilbert  hjlward,  horn 
IVbniary  2.  185').  died  December  2,  1839.  2. 
John  Alonzo.  born  .March  12,  1837.  died  July 
-•  ^^57-  3-  Herbert  .Mason,  born  December 
(>.  1S38,  died  May  30,  1839.  Ivlwanl  Mason 
Lyman  married  (second)  June  9.  i8()S,  Eliza 
M.  I'.ayliss  Hopkins,  daughter  of  John  and 
.Ann  (  i'^isher)  liayliss,  of  I'.irmingham,  Eng- 
land, a  well  known  family  of  manufacturers 
of  military  and  sporting  arms  and  supplies. 
Children:  4.  .Alice  May.  married  Xelson  L. 
Ehuer  and  they  had  two  children.  3.  .Albert 
b-dward.  married  N'alborg  Erichsen  and  they 
had  three  children. 


(For    preceiling    generations    see    John     Hawks    or 
Hawkes    1). 

(V)  Jared,  third  son  of  Joshua 
1 1  AWKS  and  Abigail  I  Hastings  i  llawkes. 
is  claimed  by  tradition  to  have 
been  born  at  h'ort  Pelham.  March  27.  1752. 
He  was  baptized  October  8.  1752,  died  Decem- 
ber 14.  1828,  at  Charlemont.  Sheldon's  "His- 
tory of  Deerficld"  says  he  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Xehemiah  May.  .A  sketch  pub- 
lished by  Herbert  \'.  and  .Martha  O.  (  Hawks) 
Mullock,  states  that  he  married.  Se|)tember  16, 
1773.  Elizabeth  Fales.  who  died  January  I. 
1830.  riiey  had  eleven  children:  Jared,  Cal- 
vin r..,  Eleazer,  Boswell.  James,  Era.stus, 
Horace,  Elizabeth.  Ruth,  Sylvia  and  Harvey. 
(\  h  Calvin  P..  Hawks  (as  he  spelled  the 
name),  second  son  of  Jared  and  Elizabeth 
(  l'"aks)  Hawkes.  was  born  in  Charlemont. 
March  18.  1784.  died  in  Shelbourne  I'alls,  Jan- 
uary 24,  1874.  He  was  engaged  in  farming 
and  lived  at  lUickland.  He  married  (first) 
b'ebruary  26.  181 1,  Clarissa  Hutler,  born  July 
24.  1789,  died  Xovember  3,  1819,  daughter  of 
.Athearn  and  Desire  (.Alien)  P.utler  ;  (second) 
Cordelia,  sister  of  his  first  wife,  September 
28,  1820.  She  was  born  December  12,  1803, 
died  December  13,  1842.  Clarissa  and  Cor- 
delia P.utler  were  descendants  as  follows: 

(I)  Xicholas  P.utler,  of  Dorchester,  Massa- 
chusetts, came  with  his  wife  Joyce,  three  chil- 
dren and  five  servants  from  Eastwell,  in  the 
county  of  Kent.  I'jngland,  in  1636,  as  is  shown 
by  the  records  of  the  custom  house  at  Sand- 
wich, I'jigland.  He  was  a  freeman  .March  14. 
1639.  and  removed  to  Martha's  \incyard.  1651. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Xicholas  and  Joyce  P.ut- 
ler. jHissibly  baptized  Sc|)tember  22,  1645,  died 
July.  1658.  He  married  Mary,  surname  not 
known,  and  left  four  sons  from  whom  are 
descended  all  the  I'ntlcrs  df  Martha's  \'ine- 
yard. 


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(III)  John  (2).  son  of  John  (i)  and  Mary 
Butler,  married  Priscilla  Norton.  They  had 
a  son  Samuel  and  others. 

(IV)  Samuel,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Pris- 
cilla (Norton)  Butler,  lived  on  the  \'ineyard 
and  had  a  family. 

(\')  .Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i)  Butler, 
was  born  in  Edgartown,  December  25,  1727, 
died  in  I'rovidence,  Rhode  Island,  June  29, 
1814.  lie  married  Alary  .Athearn.  born  Sep- 
tember 16.  1731,  died  in  I'rovidence,  January, 
1819,  aged  eighty-eight.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Jethro  and  Alary  xA.tliearn. 

I  \  I  )  .\thearn,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  and  Alary 
(.Athearn  )  I'.utler.  was  born  on  Alartha's  \^ine- 
yard.  July  21.  1763,  died  Alay  6,  1814.  He 
married.  ( )ct(>ber  2,  1788,  Desire  Allen,  born 
in  Alartha's  X'ineyard,  November  7,  1767,  died 
January  13,  1843.  at  Williamsburg,  to  which 
place  they  had  removed.  They  had  seven  chil- 
dren :  Clarissa,  Sophia,  Desire,  Cordelia, 
Mary  Ann  and  Caroline. 

The  children  of  Calvin  B.  and  Clarissa 
(Butler)  Hawks  were:  i.  Athearn  Butler, 
born  Alarch  30,  181 5,  moved  to  .Americus, 
Georgia,  and  died  there  December  13,  1864, 
leaving  a  widow  and  three  sons.  2.  Elizabeth 
Fales,  born  in  Charlemont,  February  12,  1817, 
died  in  Buckland,  June  6,  1830;  married  \\\]\- 
iam  Stearns,  September  26,  1842.  He  died  in 
1845.  .A  daughter  born  to  tiiem  at  \\'illiams- 
burg,  June  8,  1843,  named  Cynthia  Cordelia, 
died  in  Nurthaminon,  July  8,  igofi.  To 
Calvin  1!.  and  Cordelia  (liutler)  Hawks 
were  born  two  sons,  Theron  H.  and  Sereno 
Dwight. 

(\'II|  Thcnin  JlollirdDk.  sun  of  Calvin 
B.  and  Cordelia  (Butler)  Hawks,  was  born  in 
Charlemont.  October  24,  1821.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  a  private  school  at  P)Uckland  and  at 
Williams  College,  graduating  from  the  latter 
institution  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  with  the 
class  of  1844,  and  as  valedictorian.  .After 
graduation  he  assumed  teaching  and  taught  in 
Baltimore,  Maryland.  1845-47:  New  York 
City.  1847-48,  and  then  became  a  student  at 
the  I'nion  Theological  School  in  the  years  1848- 
51.  He  was  instructor  in  S])ingler  Institution. 
New  York  City.  1840-54.  I'rom  1851  till  1854 
he  was  an  instructor  at  Union  Seminary; 
Alarch  7,  1855,  he  was  ordained  pastor  of  the 
Congregational  church  at  West  Si^ringfield  and 
preached  there  from  1855  '<>  1861."  Subse- 
quently he  accepted  a  call  and  became  pastor 
in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  of  Second  Presbyterian 
Church,  i8'')i-r)8,  and  later  in  Marietta!  Ohio, 


of  First  Congregational  Church,  from  1869  to 
1883.  Returning  to  Alassachusetts.  he  was  in- 
structor in  the  School  for  Christian  Workers 
at  Springfield  from  1885  to  1895,  and  in  the 
latter  year  filled  a  similar  position  in  the 
Bible  Normal  College,  a  reorganization  of  the 
former,  and  in  1885-86  in  the  Hartford  Theo- 
logical Seminary.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
school  committee  of  ^^'est  Springfield,  1855- 
61  :  trustee  of  Alount  Holyoke  College,  1858- 
61  :  of  Western  Reserve  College,  1865-69:  cor- 
porate member  of  American  Board  Cominis- 
sioners  Foreign  Missions.  1871-91,  and  mod- 
erator of  the  Ohio  Congregational  Conference. 
1870.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Civics,  the  American  .Academy  of 
Political  and  Social  Science,  and  was  made  D. 
D.  by  Williams  College  in  1864.  He  retired 
in  1900  from  teaching,  full  of  years  and 
honors,  enjoying  the  rest  to  which  a  busy  life 
profitably  spent  entitles  him.  He  married,  June 
5,  1855,  Alary  Oakes  Hoadley,  born  in  New 
York  City,  November  17,  1830,  daughter  of 
David  Hoadley,  president  of  the  .American 
Exchange  Bank,  and  later  of  the  Panama  rail- 
road. Her  mother  was  Alary  (Hotchkiss) 
Hoadley.  They  had  five  children:  i.  Mary 
Hoadley,  born  at  West  Springfield,  Alay  12, 
1856,  married  Oscar  Howard  Alitchell.  pro- 
fessor of  mathematics  in  Alarietta  College, 
who  was  born  C)ctober  4,  185 1.  died  Alarch  29, 
1889.  2.  Winthrop  Butler,  born  .April  13, 
1858,  in  West  S]iringfield,  died  in  Colorado 
Springs,  Alarch  24,  1885.  He  graduated  .A.  B. 
from  Alarietta  College  in  1878.  and  attended 
Yale  Seminary.  1879-1883.  3.  Elizabeth 
.Sprague,  born  in  West  Springfield,  October 
15,  1850,  lives  in  Springfield.  4.  Theron  llol- 
brook.  born  l-"ebruary  i,  1862.  at  Cleveland, 
(  iliio.  received  the  degree  of  A.  B.  from  Alari- 
etta College  in  1882.  He  is  now  in  business 
in  Duluth,  Alinnesota.  He  married  F'lorence 
P.  Curtis,  daughter  of  R.  L.  Curtis,  of  Alari- 
etta, Ohio.  She  was  born  January  25,  i8()6. 
Children:  Russell  Curtis,  born  Sejitember  14, 
i88(),  died  .August  10,  i8<>o,  at  Duluth:  Theron 
II.,  born  Se])tember  10,  1892:  Rollin  Curtis, 
born  May  2,  i8(;5.  both  at  Duluth.  5.  Eleanor 
Russell,  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  November  8, 
1865,  married.  January  14,  1891,  William  G. 
SchaulTler.  AI.  D. ;  she  died  December  23,  1891, 
at  Beirut,  Syria,  leaving  one  son.  William  G., 
born  November  24,  1891.  Rev.  Theron  H. 
Hawks  died  at  his  home  in  .'^])ringfield,  No- 
\enil)er  H),  IQ08.  having  just  passed  his  eighty- 
.sevemh  birthday. 


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This  W'clsli  name  is  derived  from 
ELLIS  "AlecWs."  the  possessive  form 
adopted  in  many  names  of  similar 
origin.  Instead  of  saying  \Villiam"s  David,  the 
W'elsli  used  tlie  expression,  "David.  W'ilham's," 
and  this  usage  gave  rise  to  such  names  as  Evans, 
Jones  (John's).  Edwards,  Harris  (Harry's), 
and  so  through  the  long  category.  Many  immi- 
grants of  the  name  are  found  of  early  record 
in  New  England,  the  first  heing  among  tiie 
Puritans  of  Plymouth.  .AnotJier  family  springs 
from  Dedham.  and  both  sent  out  a  large  pro- 
geny. The  arrival  of  the  family  herein  traced 
dates  at  a  later  period,  hut  it  is  identified  by 
marriage  with  many  of  the  oldest  Xew  Eng- 
land families. 

(I)  The  first  ancestor  in  this  country  was 
Richard  Ellis,  the  son  of  a  Welshman  who 
served  as  an  officer  in  the  P.ritish  army.  Rich- 
ard was  born  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  .August  16, 
1704,  and  S])ent  the  first  thirteen  years  of  his 
life  in  the  various  posts  of  that  island,  as  the 
location  of  the  military  forces  changed.  His 
father  having  died,  his  mother  bought  his 
cabin  passage  to  Virginia,  where  she  expected 
he  would  find  a  home  with  an  uncle  resident 
there.  The  captain  of  the  vessel  in  which  lie 
sailed  was  none  too  honest,  and  upon  landing 
at  a  Masachusetts  i)ort  sold  the  boy's  time  till 
of  age,  according  to  a  custom  of  those  days, 
claiming  that  he  was  a  pauper.  .\t  Easton, 
Bristol  county.  Massachusetts,  in  1728,  Rich- 
ard Ellis  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Captain 
John  Phillips,  a  soldier  of  the  expedition 
against  Quebec,  in  1690,  and  in  1740  Richard 
Ellis  removed  from  Easton  to  Dcerficld.  Mass- 
achusetts, and  shortly  afterward  began  clear- 
ing, and  erected  a  log  cabin  in  .Ashfield  (then 
called  Iluntstown),  whither  he  took  his  family 
in  1745.  This  constituted  the  first  settlement 
of  that  town,  where  a  handsome  monument 
has  been  erected  by  his  descendants.  He  died 
there  in  his  ninety-fourth  year,  and  left  a  large 
posterity,  none  of  whom  have  lived  in  that 
town  for  more  than  half  a  century.  Eight  of 
his  nine  children  grew  to  maturity  and  reared 
large  families.  Ilis  youngest  son,  Caleb,  set- 
tled at  Ellisburg,  Jefiferson  county,  New  York, 
and  a  grandson,  Richard,  settled  a  place  bear- 
ing the  .same  name  in  Potter  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania.- Several  thousand  of  liis  flescendants 
are  known  to  be  now  living,  and  many  of  them 
have  been  pioneers  of  New  \'ork,  Pennsyl- 
vania, Ohio,  Indiana.  W'iscijnsin.  and  all  over 
the  northwestern  states,  reaching  to  Oregon 
and  Texas.  Many  were  soldiers  in  the  revolu- 
tionary war. 


(II)  Reuben,  eldest  child  of  Richard  and 
Jane  (  Phillips)  Ellis,  born  November  5,  1728, 
in  {-".aston,  lived  at  .Xshfield,  Massachusetts.  He 
married,  June  4.  1749,  in  ."^underland,  Mehit- 
able,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  ."^cott, 
early  settlers  of  ."-iiuulerland.  They  became 
parents  of  seven  children. 

(III)  Deacon  David,  youngest  son  of  Reu- 
ben and  Mehitable  (Scott)  Ellis,  was  born 
January  30.  1763,  and  removed  from  .\shfield 
to  Springfield,  Erie  county,  Pennsylvania,  in 
i8i(S:  with  him  went  his  two  sons,  Daviil  and 
William.  Deacon  David  Ellis  was  an  ardent 
P>a])tist.  and  served  many  years  as  deacon  in 
the  church,  sometimes  taking  the  ])ulpit  in  the 
absence  of  a  regular  jiastor.  His  Sabbath 
always  began  at  sunset  Saturday  night,  at 
wliicti  time  all  the  farm  work  must  be  sto])ped 
until  Monday.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Deacon  Samuel  Washburn,  a  jjrominent 
jjioneer  citizen  of  .'\shfield.  She  was  a  woman 
of  unusual  refinement  and,  like  her  husband, 
an  ardent  Pajitist.  Many  interesting  incidents 
in  the  lives  of  these  people  may  be  found  in 
the  V.Wh  Genealogy,  a  volume  of  four  hundred 
eighty-three  pages.  ]niblished  by  Dr.  K.  R. 
Ellis,  of  Detroit,  Michigan. 

(1\')  William,  oldest  son  of  Deacon  David 
and  .Sarah  ( Washburn )  Ellis,  w'as  born  in 
.Xshfield,  March  28,  1787.  He  and  his  brother 
David  were  noted  for  their  skill  in  martial 
music,  and  were  active  members  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania militia.  Their  father  served  through 
the  revolution,  and  after  the  close  of  the 
struggle  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Massachu- 
setts militia.  William  ICllis  married  Rhoda, 
daughter  of  Captain  Lamrock.  granddaughter 
of  .Major  Lamrock  I'lower,  [jrominent  among 
the  early  settlers  of  Ashfield.  She  was  born 
in  .Ashfield,  September  27,  1789,  and  died  Au- 
gust 26,  1864.  W'illiam  Ellis  and  his  wife 
were  both  pious  and  flevoted  P>aptists.  They 
had  ten  children,  nine  of  whom  reached  matur- 
it)"  and  seven  reared  families.  William  ICllis 
died  May   13,   1873. 

f\  I  Charles  Perkins,  second  child  of  Will- 
iam and  Rhoda  (h'lower)  Ellis,  was  born  in 
Ashfield,  Massachusetts,  March  20,  1812,  and 
was  si-x  years  old  when  his  parents  removed 
from  Massachusetts  to  Pennsylvania.  At  the 
age  of  eight  years  he  was  accnstf)med  to  take  a 
light  axe,  provifled  for  that  pur()nse,  anrl  go 
regularly  to  the  wf)ods  to  assist  in  clearing  up 
the  farm.  .Sj)riugfield  was  a  heavily  wooded 
township,  along  tlie  shore  of  Lake  Erie,  and 
affordetl  few  educational  advantages ;  the  set- 
tlers were  poor,  and  the   free  school   system 


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was  not  adopted  in  that  state  until  1840.  For 
three  months  in  the  year  a  school  was  main- 
tained in  a  log  school  house,  with  slabs  for 
seats  and  desks,  light  being  admitted  at  the 
windows  through  greased  paper.  The  prin- 
cipal qualification  exacted  of  the  teacher  was 
ability  to  properly  flog  the  larger  boys. 

On  reaching  manhood,  C.  P.  Ellis  found  em- 
ployment in  tlie  lumber  region,  along  French 
creek,  one  of  the  ])rincipal  tributaries  of  the 
.-Mlegheny  river,  and   continued   to   work   for 
several   winters   at   logging,   going   down   the 
rivers  to  the  mouth  of  the  Ohio  with  rafts  in 
the  spring.     After  leaving  the  raft  he  made 
his  way  northward  through  Indiana  and  Mich- 
igan, w'orking  on  the  farms  along  the  way  as 
the    season    advanced,    and    put    in    several 
autumns  at  car[)entcr  work  in  Michigan.     He 
acquired  eighty  acres  of  fine  timber  and  prairie 
land  in  Cass  county,  Michigan,  which  he  sub- 
sequently   traded    for    property,    including    a 
team  of  horses  and  a  wagon,  with  which  he 
made  the  trip  from  Pennsylvania  to  Walworth 
county,  Wisconsin,  in  1842.     .At  this  time  La- 
(irange,    where    he    located,    was    peopled    by 
about  a  dozen  families,  and  those  several  miles 
away ;    even    people    in    adjoining    townships 
were  considered  neighbors,  and  Indians  were 
numerous  not  far  away.    Here  the  last  thirty- 
nine  years  of  his  life  were  spent.    He  secured 
one  hundred  twenty  acres,  and  at  first  made 
his  home  in  a  log  cabin  on  the  northeast  corner 
(if  .Section  21  :  this  was  re|)lace<l  by  a   frame 
building  in   1848,  which  in  turn  gave  place  to 
a  larger  and  more  jiretentious  dwelling,  on  the 
same  site.    For  several  years  the  second  struc- 
ture served  as  a  hotel,  until  the  construction 
of  a  railroad  six  miles  north  diverted  the  line 
of  travel.     The   wayfarer   was   never   turned 
away,  and  this  was  considered  the  home  of 
any   passing   clergyman,   whatever   his   creed. 
December   15,   1839,  Mr.  Ellis  married  Sarah 
Harris,  who  was  born  May  11,  1816,  in  Hen- 
derson, Jefferson  county.  New  York,  and  died 
January  7,   1894,  at  her  home  in   LaGrange, 
Wisconsin,   in   her   seventy-eighth  year.     She 
was    a    daughter    of    Jeremiah    and    Priscilla 
(Cole)    Harris,    who    settled    in    Springfield, 
Pennsylvania,   in    1824.     The   father  of  Jere- 
miah Harris  was  .Xnthony  Harris,  born  June 
5.    1736,   in    Smithfield,    Rhode   Island,   and   a 
pioneer  settler  in  Richmond,  \ew  Ham]ishire, 
where  Jeremiah  was  born  May  8.  1768.    .Anth- 
ony was  a  son  of  Richard  (2).  son  of  Richard 
f  i),  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  work.     Pris- 
cilla Cole  was  a  daughter  of  P>ariiabas  Cole, 
who    was    b<irn    in    Chatham,    Massachusetts, 


and  is  su])posed  to  have  been  a  descendant  of 
Isaac  Cole,  who  was  born  in  Sandwich,  county 
Kent.  England,  and  settled  in  Massachusetts, 
in  March.  1634.  .Anthony  Harris  was  a 
brother  of  Mercy  IJallou,  wife  of  Rev. 
Alaturin  and  mother  of  Rev.  Hosea  Ballou, 
one  of  the  pioneers  of  Universalism  in  Xew 
England. 

While  Mrs.  Ellis  had  received  but  a  limited 
education  in  the  primitive  schools  of  western 
Pennsylvania,  she  was  an  eager  reader,  and 
secured  a  large  fund  of  general  information. 
She  lived  in  a  realm  above  petty  gossip,  and 
though  her  life  was  a  somewhat  narrow  one, 
her  mind  was  not.  She  never  complained  of 
her  privations  and  disadvantages,  but  patiently 
devoted  herself  to  her  home,  her  husband  and 
chiklren.  A  daughter  and  two  sons  survived 
her — Priscilla  R.,  James  A.  and  Charles  E. 
The  daughter  is  Mrs.  John  E.  Menzie,  of  La- 
Grange.  They  revere  her  memory  as  that  of 
a  sincere  Christian,  whose  life  is  an  inspira- 
tion to  noble  thoughts  and  the  patient,  faith- 
ful performance  of  every  duty  that  may  come 
befi)re  them.  The  following  words  from  the 
pen  of  one  of  her  neighbors  ajjpeared  in  a 
local  journal :  "Charitably  disposed,  of  a  medi- 
tative nature,  she  was  one  of  those  persons 
who  if  they  have  troubles  never  trouble  others 
with  a  recital  of  them,  and  of  whom  it  may 
be  truly  said  the  world  is  better  for  their  hav- 
ing lived  in  it.  She  early  discarded  the  doc- 
trine of  eternal  punishment  for  the  beautiful 
sentiment  that  'The  ways  of  man  are  narrow, 
but  the  gates  of  heaven  are  wide.'  .As  she 
lived,  so  she  died.  Quietly,  under  the  lengthen- 
ing shadows  and  into  the  purple  twilight  she 
crossed  the  dark  river,  to  the  friends  on  the 
other  side,  leaving  to  those  that  follow  the 
noble  legacy  of  a  long  life  well  spent." 

Mr.  Ellis  was  reared  under  strict  Baptist 
teachings,  and  was  often  cautioned  by  his 
grandmother,  Sarah  Washburn  Ellis,  against 
the  danger  of  Universalism,  but  from  the  age 
of  thirty  years  he  steadfa.stly  adhered  to  the 
latter  faith.  He  was  an  active  supporter  of 
religious  services,  and  for  many  years  the  only 
churches  in  LaGrange  were  owned  by  Meth- 
odists. It  was  partly  through  his  influence 
and  efforts  that  the  church  near  his  home, 
which  was  begun  by  the  Methodist  denomina- 
tion and  remained  for  many  years  in  a  partially 
completed  .state,  was  jointly  finished  and  dedi- 
cated hv  the  Methodists  and  L'niversalists  of 
the  neighborhood,  not  as  a  union  church,  but 
free  to  all  Christian  denominations.  From 
carlv  manhood  he  was  an  advocate  of  human 


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liberty,  and  joined  the  Republican  party  at  its 
inception.  He  was  an  active  worker  in  its 
town  and  county  councils,  nearly  all  his  life, 
and  often  served  as  a  town  officer ;  he  never 
sought  any  higher  position.  I  le  was  town 
treasurer  in  1844  and  was  four  times  subse- 
(|uently  elected  to  that  ])osition :  in  1845  he 
was  elected  supervisor,  and  at  different  times 
filled  that  office  for  eight  terms.  In  his  house 
the  first  town  meeting  was  held.  He  never 
signed  a  temperance  ])lcdge.  but  lived  a  most 
temperate  life,  advocating  that  course  because 
it  was  right,  and  not  because  others  did  or  urged 
it.  This  was  his  rule  in  everything,  to  do  right 
from  ])rinciple,  and  not  through  fear  of  punish- 
ment or  hope  of  reward.  1 1  e  died  at  his  home  in 
LaGrange,  January  22,  1881,  and  the  follow- 
ing testimonial  of  his  character  is  taken  from 
an  obituary  published  in  the  JC/nVrti'o/rr  Regis- 
ter, from  the  pen  of  a  prominent  citizen  of 
LaCirange :  "The  writer  of  these  lines  has 
known  the  deceased  for  nearly  thirty-five 
years,  and  for  the  greater  portion  of  that  time 
was  i)rivilcged  to  enjoy  his  friendship.  With 
loving  reverence  for  his  memory,  he  testifies 
to  his  manly  virtues.  He  was  a  man  of  stain- 
less character  and  strict  integrity  and  solid 
worth.  In  his  social  relations  he  was  genial 
and  |)leasant.  being  possessed  of  that  personal 
magnetism  which  wins  friends,  and  of  those 
fine  ([ualities  of  heart  which  retain  them.  He 
was  a  kind  neighbor,  and  a  good  citizen,  a 
faithful  husband  and  indulgent  parent.  He 
was  a  man  who  always  took  the  keenest  inter- 
est in  all  c|uestions  alTecting  the  jniblic  good, 
and  his  opinions  of  men  and  measures  were 
broad  and  liberal.  In  religious  matters  he 
hafl  clear  and  well  defined  views :  he  believed 
in  the  infinite  love  and  compassion  of  God, 
in  the  universal  brotherhood  of  mankind,  and 
in  the  ultimate  salvation  of  all  men.  There 
was  no  doubt  in  his  mind  touching  these 
things,  hence  in  the  hour  of  death  he  was 

'  Sustained  and  soothed 
By  an  unfaltering  trust,  and  approached  the  grave 
Like  one  who  wraps  the  drapery  of  his  coueh 
About  him.  and   lies  down   to  pleasant  dreams.'  " 

(\'])  James  .Mfred,  elder  son  of  Charles 
P.  and  Sarah  f Harris)  Ellis,  was  born  April 
15.  1852.  in  LaGrange.  where  he  grew  to 
maturity.  He  attended  the  district  school  near 
his  home,  and  began  teaching  in  the  schools 
of  the  county  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years. 
.After  teaching  several  years  in  Wisconsin,  he 
entered  the  office  of  the  Green  Ray  Ad7'ocatc. 
where  he  learned  to  set  type,  and  was  soon 


])laced  in  charge  of  its  job  ])rinting  (lei)art- 
ment.  He  had  been  a  contributor  to  various 
newspapers  and  naturally  driftetl  into  help- 
ing in  the  editorial  department  of  the  paper. 
He  was  subse(|ucntly  the  editor  of  ])a]iers  in 
Wisconsin  and  Illinois,  and  was  at  one  time  a 
re])orter  on  the  stafT  of  the  Chicago  Times, 
from  which  position  he  went  to  the  prei)ara- 
tion  of  works  similar  to  this,  January  i,  1883. 
Since  that  time  he  has  given  little  time  to  any- 
thing else,  and  has  been  privileged  to  assist  in 
])rei)aring  this  work.  He  adheres  to  the  relig- 
ious tenets  of  his  parents,  is  an  enthusiastic  Rc- 
I)ublican.  and  an  earnest  working  Odd  Fellow, 
liaving  held  many  honors  in  the  order.  He 
married.  February  8,  1873,  at  Hebron,  Wis- 
consin, Eva  Lucretia  Williams,  born  October 
24,  1855,  in  Cold  S])ring,  Wisconsin,  eldest 
daughter  of  Horace  and  Olive  (Delano)  Will- 
iams, the  latter  a  lineal  descendant  of  Philip 
de  la  Xoyc  (Delano),  who  caiue  on  the  "For- 
tune" to  Plymouth  in  1621.  Children:  Cicero 
Guy.  born  October  31,  1873,  a  postal  clerk 
on  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  rail- 
road; Julia  Maud,  .August  6,  1875,  wife  of 
Edward  E.  Lee,  of  Chicago:  Priscilla  May, 
January  8.  1878,  wife  of  Joshua  Danforth 
.Mallette,  of  Chicago;  Minnie  Madge,  July  26, 
1879,  unmarried:  Charles  Williams.  July  1, 
1881.  a  resident  of  Illiiuiis;  James  Horace, 
November  19,  1882,  residing  in  Chicago;  Will- 
iam David,  .SciJtember  2,  1885,  also  of  Chi- 
cago; Philip  de  la  Xoye,  June  18,  1895.  ^ 
student  in  school. 


John  Ellis,  or  Ellice,  the  immi- 
ELLIS      grant  ancestor  of  this  family  line, 

resided  in  Medfield.  where  he  was 
among  the  thirteen  original  pro|)rietors.  He 
mav  have  been  a  brother  of  Thomas  Ellis,  of 
.Medfield.  and  perhaps  also  of  Richard,  Joseph 
and  .Ann  EUlls.  of  Dedham.  immigrants.  Jolin 
Ellis  was  the  thirtieth  signer  of  the  Deiiham 
Covenant,  and  attended  town  meeting.  He 
was  admitted  a  freeman  June  2,  1641.  He 
married  (first)  at  Dedham.  .Xovember  10. 
1641.  Susanna  Lumber,  who  died  at  Medfield, 
.April  5.  1653;  (second)  June  16,  1655,  Joan, 
widow  of  John  Clap,  of  Dorchester.  .After 
her  marriage  she  was  dismissed  from  the  Dor- 
chester to  the  Medfield  church.  She  died  at 
.Medfield.  March  z.  1703-4.  He  died  April  2. 
1697.  leaving  a  will  dated  September  24,  i''>90, 
])roved  June  24,  1697.  Children  of  first  wife: 
I.  John,  born  .April  2(1,  1646:  mentioned 
below.  2.  Susanna,  married  Matthias  livans. 
3.   Hannah,  born  at   Medfield.  \]^r\\  9,   1651  ; 


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married  Samuel  Rockwood.  Children  of 
second  wife:  4.  Samuel,  born  May  24,  i66o; 
died  March  24,  1684,  unmarried.  4.  Joseph, 
born  October  24.  1662.  6.  Eleazer,  April  24, 
1664. 

(IIj  John  (2),  son  of  John  [i)  Ellis,  was 
born  April  26,  1646,  and  died  in  1716.  He 
settled  on  the  west  side  of  the  Charles  river, 
in  ^ledfield.  He  married  (first)  in  1677,  Mary 
Herring;  (second)  in  i6gS,  Mary  Hill,  of 
Shcrborn,  who  was  living  a  widow  as  late  as 
1729.  Children:  i.  John,  born  1678.  2. 
Joseph,  mentioned  below.  3.  Mary,  born 
1686;  married,  1701,  Zacliary  Partridge; 
(second)  John  Barber.  4.  Sarah,  born  1687, 
died  1705;  married,  1704,  Nathaniel  Wight.  5. 
Hannah,  born  1688;  married  John  Taylor.  6. 
Samuel,  born  1699,  died  1769,  inherited 
father's  estate  in  Aledway. 

(HI)  Joseph,  son  of  John  (2)  Ellis,  was 
born  in  1681,  and  died  at  Medway,  September 
29,  1754,  aged  seventy- four  years.  He  lived 
at  Wrenthani,  near  Medway,  and  his  death  is 
recorded  at  Medway.  He  married,  at  Wrent- 
hani, Catherine ,  who  died  at  Medway, 

January  20,  1760.  Children:  i.  Joseph,  born 
July  14,  1712,  at  Dedham.  2.  Gideon,  born 
June  29,  1714.  3.  John,  baptized  May  7,  1727. 
4.  Asa,  mentioned  Ix-low.  Probably  others  not 
found  on  records. 

(IV)  Asa,  son  of  Joseph  Iillis,  was  born  in 
Medway  or  Wrentham,  in  May,  1730,  and 
baptized  in  the  Aledway  church.  May  3,  1730. 
He  married,  at  Medway,  May  30,  1753,  Mar- 
garet Ihicknam.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revo- 
lution, clerk  of  Caj)tain  Joseph  Lovell's  com- 
pany. Fourth  Regiment ;  marched  to  War- 
wick, Rhode  Island  on  the  alarm  of  December, 
1775;  also  served  in  Rhode  Island  campaign 
of  1778;  his  name  ap|)ears  on  list  returned  by 
committee  of  the  town  of  Medway,  April  15, 
1778,  as  having  served  at  various  times  since 
April  19,  1775.  Children,  bom  at  Medway: 
I.  Hannah,  August  24,  1754.  2.  Elizabeth, 
Xovember  7.  1759.  3.  Charlotte,  September  8, 
1762,  died  May  18,  1768.  4.  Nathan  Buck- 
nam,  October  16,  1764.  5.  Joseph,  October 
31,  1766,  died  November  6,  1666.  6.  Gregory, 
August  19,  1769.  7.  Mina,  born  October  31, 
1771,  died  September  8,  1775.  8.  Nancy,  No- 
vember I,  1774.    9.  Shepard,  mentioned  below. 

(\')  Shepard.  .son  of  .A.sa  I'.llis,  was  born  in 
Medway,  November  16,  1776.  He  lived  at 
Medway  and  Ware.  Massachusetts,  and  Rock- 
ville,  Stafford,  and  Coventry,  Connecticut, 
working  in  the  mills  in  those  towns,  following 
the  trade  of  wool  dyeing.     He  married  Electa 


Johnson,  of  Dana,  Massachusetts.  Children  : 
I.  Dwight  Warren,  born  in  Dana,  mentioned 
below;  Justus  J.,  Stillman.  Matilda,  Clemen- 
tine. Mary,  Isabel,  Susan. 

(VI)  Dwight  Warren,  son  of  Shepard 
Ellis,  was  born  at  Dana,  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 22,  1824.  During  his  boyhood  he  lived 
in  Ware,  Massachusetts,  and  in  Rockville, 
Stafford,  and  Coventry,  Connecticut,  working 
in  the  mills  and  attending  the  public  schools  in 
winter  terms.  He  attended  Monson  Academy 
one  term.  He  learned  the  dyer's  trade  of  his 
father,  continuing  through  all  the  depart- 
ments of  the  woolen  manufacture.  In  1849  'i^ 
accepted  a  position  as  superintendent  in  the 
Shaw  mills  at  Wales,  Massachusetts.  After 
four  years  he  gave  up  this  position  and 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  boots  and 
shoes.  In  two  years  he  lost  all  his  property 
and  returned  to  his  trade,  filling  positions  in 
various  woolen  mills  as  superintendent.  In 
1863  he  rented  a  small  woolen  mill  in  North 
Wilbraham.  Massachusetts,  and  made  a  good 
start,  but  lost  the  mill  by  fire  after  a  year  and 
a  half.  Afterwards  he  considered  this  disaster 
a  blessing  in  disguise,  for  he  bought  the  water 
privilege,  built  a  larger  and  more  modern  mill, 
and  soon  had  a  prosperous  business.  In  1868 
he  became  owner  of  the  Orcuttville  mill  in 
.Stafford,  Connecticut,  in  partnership  with 
Julius  Converse,  in  addition  to  his  mill  at  ^\'il- 
braham.  In  1870  he  purchased  the  water  privi- 
lege and  tenement  houses  in  South  Monson, 
and  built  a  new  mill  in  the  place  of  one 
recently  destroyed  by  fire.  Here  also  he  estab- 
lished a  profitable  industry,  greatly  to  the  ben- 
efit of  the  town  in  which  it  was  located,  as 
well  as  to  himself.  He  made  his  home  in 
South  Monson  and  built  a  handsome  residence 
there.  His  health  failed  as  his  years  advanced, 
and  he  sold  his  interests  in  the  mill  at  Staf- 
ford. Me  tin-iied  over  the  management  of  the 
Wilbraham  mill  to  a  brother  with  whom  he 
entered  iKutnershi]^.  and  the  Monson  mill  to 
his  son  .Arthur,  whom  he  admitted  to  partner- 
shii).  Mr.  Ellis  ranks  among  the  foremost  and 
most  successful  woolen  manufacturers  of 
Hampden  county,  in  his  generation.  His 
determination  and  pertinacity  won  success 
after  a  series  of  losses  and  failures.  He  knew 
the  business  thoroughly  and,  once  in  the  pos- 
session of  sutllicient  cai)ital,  was  uniformly 
successful  in  business.  He  was  highly  hon- 
ored and  respected  in  the  community  in  which 
he  lived  and  in  those  in  which  he  did  business. 
In  politics  Mr.  Ellis  was  a  Republican,  but 
never  sought  office.     In  religion  he  was  a  L'ni- 


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versalist.  ami  tixik  an  active  part  in  church 
work.  He  donateti  one-half  of  the  total  cost 
of  the  building  of  the  First  L'niversalist 
Church  of  Monson.  He  died  February  6,  1889. 
He  married,  March  27,  1849,  ^lary  Puffer, 
born  April  9,  1826,  daughter  of  George  Pufier, 
born  at  Medway  in  1791  (see  Puffer).  Chil- 
dren: I.  Arthur  Dwight,  born  at  Wales, 
Massachusetts,  October  18,  1850;  mentioned 
below.  2.  Frank  P.,  born  August  19,  1852, 
died  November  30,  1875.  3.  l-Vederick  \\'..born 
at  Wales.  April  10,  1857;  graduate  of  Harvard 
Medical  Schcx)l,  class  of  1881.  4.  Milton  G., 
born  March  28,  i860,  died  June  9,  1863. 

(\'H)  Arthur  Dwight, son  of  Dwight  Warren 
Ellis,  was  born  at  \\'ales,  Massachusetts,  Octo- 
ber 18,  1850.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools.  He  began  his  business  career  in  asso- 
ciation with  his  father.  After  a  few  years  he 
was  taken  into  partnership,  and  took  charge  of 
the  mill  in  Monson.  Since  the  death  of  his 
father  he  has  had  charge  of  the  business, 
which  has  been  constantly  extended.  In  igoo 
he  bought  the  Xew  Reynolds  mill,  operated  by 
the  firm  of  Ellis  &  Ricketts,  of  which  he  is 
senior  partner.  In  1905  he  bought  the  old 
Reynolds  mill,  and  after  operating  it  two 
years  demolished  the  old  structure,  and  in 
1908  is  building  a  modern  mill  on  the  old  site. 
Mr.  Ellis  and  his  uncle,  Justus  J.  Ellis,  owned 
mills  in  StafTord,  Connecticut.  Since  the  death 
of  his  uncle  Mr.  Ellis  has  become  the  sole  pro- 
prietor. Mr.  Ellis  is  generous  with  his  wealth, 
and  has  evinced  much  i)ublic  spirit.  He 
co-operated  with  the  town  in  building  the  mag- 
nificent new  stone  bridge  on  Main  street  in 
1907,  giving  a  large  part  of  the  money 
required.  He  is  a  trustee  of  the  Monson  Sav- 
ings Bank,  and  since  1906  has  been  vice-presi- 
dent. In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Universalist  Church, 
of  which  he  is  a  trustee  and  chairman  of  the 
parish  committee. 

He  married,  October  i.  1879,  Martha  Rob- 
inson, born  in  Birmingham,  England,  died 
March.  1888.  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Robinson. 
He  married  (second)  Mrs.  Clara  (Holbrook) 
Ellis.  Children  of  the  first  wife:  i.  Louise, 
born  May  30,  1883;  married  Fritz  W.  Bald- 
win. 2.  Dwight  Warren,  born  November  18, 
1885;  graduate  of  Monson  Academy  and 
Lowell  Textile  School ;  is  associated  with  his 
father  in  the  woolen  business. 

(The  Puffer  Line). 

The  surname  Puffer,  PofTer  or  Pougher, 
seems  to  be  of  German  origin.    The  .\nierican 


immigrant,  (ieorge  Pulf'er,  uni|uestionably 
from  England,  settled  in  lloston  as  early  as 
1639,  among  Englishmen.  The  only  English 
family  found  after  a  careful  search  of  avail- 
able English  records  is  traced  back  to  one 
William  Pougher.  or  Puffer,  born  about  1690, 
died  at  Hart's  Hill,  near  .\therstone,  county 
Warwick,  England.  From  the  fact  that  he 
had  a  grandson  tieorge  and  that  no  other 
family  of  the  name  is  to  be  found,  it  is  reason- 
able to  believe  that  ( ieorge  the  immigrant  was 
related.  The  family  of  Puffer  was  located  in 
Hesse,  Germany,  before  1569,  when  one  of 
the  family  was  ennobled  for  civic  services. 
General  Joseph  Puffer  of  Au.stria,  a  liaroii, 
was  doubtless  of  this  German  family.  I  Fe  was 
born  May  11,  1801  ;  knight  of  the  Order  of 
the  Iron  Crown,  second  class. 

(I)  Cieorge  Puffer,  of  lioslon,  Massachu- 
setts, had  land  granted  him  for  five  heads  at 
Mount  WoUaston,  later  Braintree.  According 
to  iMie  account  he  died  September  27,  1639, 
and  no  record  of  him  as  living  after  lliat  date 
has  been  found.  He  and  his  descendants  lived 
in  old  Braintree  nearly  a  century.  The  orig- 
inal homestead  was  located  about  two  miles 
east  of  the  Old  Colony  railroad  station  (now 
New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford),  in 
Qunicy,  Massachu,setts.  His  widow  died  Feb- 
ruary 12.  1677,  at  Braintree.  Children:  i. 
James,  mentioned  below.  2.  Matthias,  mar- 
ried March  12,  1662,  Rachel  Farnsworth.  3. 
Mary,  died  July  22,  1700. 

(II)  James,  son  of  Cieorge  Puffer,  was  born 
about  1624,  in  England.  He  came  to  Brain- 
tree with  his  father  in  1639,  and  when  his 
father  died  carried  on  the  farm  for  his  mother, 
and  succeeded  to  its  ownershi]).  He  was  also 
a  boatman,  living  at  Shij)  Cove,  now  Quincy 
Neck.  He  also  owned  land  in  what  is  now 
Randi)lph,  Massachusetts.  He  died  at  I'.rain- 
tree,  July  25,  1692,  aged  aljout  si.\t\-eight.  He 
married,  February  14,  1656,  at  Braintree, 
Mary  Ludden.  born  at  Weymouth,  December 
17,  1636,  daughter  of  James  Ludden,  who  was 
a  corporal  and  town  officer  at  Weymouth. 
Children,  born  at  Braintree:  i.  Richard, 
Maich  14,  1657,  mentioned  below.  2.  Martha, 
December  28,  1658  ;  died  unmarried,  March  29, 
1701.  3.  Mary,  I'ebruary  11,  1659-60;  mar- 
ried at  Boston,  November  26,  170a,  Philip 
Blacklcr.  4.  James,  May  5,  1663.  5.  Ruth, 
January  25,  1667,  died  January  29,  1667.  6. 
Rachel,  January  25,  1667  (twin);  married, 
January  7,  1695.  Elea/.er  Isgatc,  of  Braintree. 
7.  Jabez,  February  4,  1672;  married,  Dccem- 
lier  3,  1702,  Mary  Glazier. 


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(Ill)  Richard,  son  of  James  Puffer,  was 
born  at  Uraintree.  March  14.  1657.  He  Hved 
at  Wrentham.  He  deeded  twenty  acres  of  land 
at  Mendon  to  John  W'hitinf,'  in  exchange  for 
twenty  acres  at  Papanuttuck.  March  1.  1702. 
He  married,  at  Dorchester,  March  2t,.  1681, 
Ruth,  daughter  of  Richard  Everett,  of  Ded- 
ham.  He  died  August  3.  1723,  and  his  son 
William  was  appointed  administrator  of  his 
estate  February  21.  1724.  Children:  i.  Ruth, 
born  at  Dedham,  March  17,  1682;  married, 
December  12,  1706,  John  Day,  of  Wrentham; 
married  (second)  John  Hill:  died  March  17. 
1768.  2.  Mary,  born  at  Dedham,  January  21, 
1684:  married,  December  26,  1705,  Ralph 
Day;  died  December  30,  1769.  3.  William, 
born  July  17.  1686;  mentioned  below.  4. 
Richard,  born  at  Wrentham,  July  17,  1689; 
died  February  12,  1758;  married,  July  11, 
1719,  Anna  llawes.  5.  Rachel,  married  June 
14,  1722,  Edward  Gay;  died  May  17,  1754.  6. 
Sarah,  born  about  1696;  married.  May  12, 
1741.  Samuel  Morse;  died  February  8,  1772. 
7.  Benoni,  born  at  ^^'rentham.  January  4, 
1697-8;  died  January  16,  1697-8. 

(I\")  William,  son  of  Richard  Puffer,  was 
tiorn  at  Wrentham,  July  17,  if)86,  and  was 
Hvmg  there  as  late  as  1745.  I  le  married.  May 
25.  1710.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  (Juild, 
of  Wrentham.  I  le  was  a  proprietor  of  Keene, 
New  Hampshire,  and  partner  in  the  Land 
IJank  in  1740.  I  lis  widow  died  at  Canterbury, 
Connecticut,  November  14,  1762.  Children: 
I.  William,  born  March  9,  1712;  mentioned 
lielow.  2.  Timothy,  born  January  17,  1713-14; 
probably  of  Keene,  New  1  lam])shire,  and  later 
of  Swanzey,  New  Hampshire.  3.  Elizabeth, 
born  January  2,  1716;  married,  April  27,  1737, 
John  Hancock,  4,  Richard,  born  April  3, 
1718,  5.  Sarah,  born  June  6,  1719;  married. 
May  6.  1746,  Joshua  Prebel.  6.  Seth.  born 
July  I.  1721.  7.  Esther,  born  1727,  died 
March  15,  1742-3. 

(V)  ^\■illiam  (2).  son  of  William  (i) 
PulTer,  was  born  Nfarch  ().  1712,  and  died 
October  7,  1702.  1  le  was  jiartner  in  the  T.and 
P.ank  in  1740.  lie  resided  in  Wrentham  and 
Norton.  lie  married  August  30,  1733.  Rebecca 
Ware.  He  died  at  Medway  in  1754.  Chil- 
dren, the  first  five  born  at  Wrentham,  the  rest 
at  Norton:  i.  William,  .\pril  24.  1734;  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Flijah.  August  18.  1737.  3. 
John,  Se|)tember  24,  1739,  died  October  8, 
1743.  4.  Rebecca,  November  18,  1741  ;  mar- 
ried, i7f>i,  Moses  Ware,  Jr..  5.  Esther, 
January  14,  1744,  married,  December  3,  1772, 
Jesse  Read.    6.  John.  May  27,  1746.    7.  Timo- 


thy, .\pril  19,  1748;  in  the  revolution.  8. 
Mehitable.  April  i,  1750.  9.  Mary,  February 
21,  1752;  married,  October  24,  1771,  David 
Cobb,  of   Hallowell.      10.   P.enjamin.  July  25. 

1754- 

( \T )  William  (3),  son  of  William  12) 
Puffer,  was  born  at  \\'rentham,  .\\)r\\  24, 
1734,  and  died  at  Monson,  January  15,  1809. 
He  was  in  the  revolution,  in  Captain  Samuel 
r-'isher's  company,  in  1780.  He  was  a  select- 
man of  Mon.son.  He  married  (first)  Feb- 
ruary 2j,  1753,  Mary  Wetherell.  at  Norton, 
Massachusetts;  (second)  intentions  dated  Oc- 
tober 15,  1781.  Mrs.  xAnna  Metcalf;  (third) 
Susannah  Ellis,  of  Foxboro,  born  October  6, 
1742,  died  at  Monson,  July  29.  1823.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Norton:  1.  Molly.  .Augiist  14, 
1754;  married,  January  11.  1787,  Daniel 
\\'ight.  2.  William,  February  2,  1757;  mar- 
ried, April  18,  1799,  Mrs.  Susan  Ellis,  at  Med- 
fiekl.  3.  Timothy.  March  25,  1759.  4-  C,eorge, 
August  3,  1761  (twin).  5.  Chloe,  August  3, 
1 761  (twin).  6.  Phebe,  December  18,  1763; 
married.  1781,  Joseph  Grout,  of  \\'estford.  7. 
Job,  1767;  mentioned  below.  8.  'j'isdale,  born 
about  1 77 1. 

(VH)  Lieutenant  Job.  son  of  William  (3) 
Puffer,  was  born  at  Foxboro,  Se])tember  7. 
1767,  and  died  at  Monson,  June  4.  1836.  He 
married,  December  26,  1787,  Nancy  Knowl- 
ton,  born  at  Medway,  February  17,  1767.  died 
June  4,  1856.  Children,  born  at  ^ledway:  i. 
Elizabeth.  January  21,  1788.  2.  (k-orge,  April 
27,  1791  :  mentioned  below.  3.  Job.  May  14, 
17(^7,  died  at  Charleston,  South  Carolina, 
1831.  4.  Timothy  Metcalf,  .September  5. 
1798;  married.  August  22,  1826,  IJethsheba 
Heals.  5.  \\'illiam  H.,  December  6,  1800,  6. 
Lowell,  resided  at  Dansville,  New  York.  7. 
John,  merchant ;  resided  at  Redfield,  Dallas 
countv.  Texas,  whence  in  1840  he  removed  to 
\\'altham.  \'ermont.  and  thence  to  h'.ssex.  \'cr- 
mont. 

(VTII)  (leorge  (2).  son  of  Lieutenant  Job 
Puflfer,  was  born  at  Medway.  Ai)ril  2J.  1791. 
He  lived  at  Monson  and  P.rimfield.  Massachu- 
setts. He  was  a  mechanic,  and  ran  a  carding 
mill  in  the  west  part  of  the  town  of  Brim- 
field.  He  married  (first)  in  181 1.  Sally  Ferry, 
who  died  in  1814;  (second)  in  181 7,  Sarah 
Gardner,  born  at  Monson,  1794,  died  .Se])tem- 
ber  6.  1830;  (third)  Mrs.  Lucinda  lulson,  who 
died  at  ^lonson,  Se()tember,  1877.  C'hild  of 
first  wife:  i.  Sarah  I-".,  born  1814;  married, 
August  20,  1832.  Asa  Foskett;  died  1842. 
Children  of  second  wife:  2.  George  Metcalf. 
born    November    18.    1818,   at    Brimfield.     3. 


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Miltuii  Gardner,  June  14,  1811;-  4-  Betsey 
Ann,  1822;  married  B.  F.  Hoag;  died  1859. 
5.  Mary  B.,  1826;  married,  March  27,  1849, 
D.  W.  Ellis  (see  Ellis).  6.  Abigail,  1830; 
married,  March  25,  185 1,  Henry  Bodiirtha. 


The  Quincy  family  of  Amer- 
QL'IXCY  ica  and  England  has  had  many 
distinguished  men  in  both 
ancient  and  modern  times.  The  surname  is 
said  to  be  derived  from  the  name  of  a  town 
in  Normandy.  In  the  Roll  of  Battle  .\bbey 
the  name  appears  several  times,  spelled 
Ouanccy,  Ouinci  and  Quincy.  It  is  not  found 
in  Domesday  Book,  and  the  earliest  record  of 
land  titles  of  the  family  is  in  the  Manor  of 
Buckby,  of  Northamptonshire,  being  given  by 
I  lenry  1 1  to  the  famous  Baron  Saber  de 
Quinci,  who  signed  the  Magna  Charta.  His 
son  Roger  became  the  third  Earl  of  Win- 
chester. At  one  time  an  .American  family 
possessed  a  parchment  pedigree  of  the  lineage 
back  to  the  time  of  the  Norman  Conquest, 
but  unfortunately  it  has  been  lost.  The  arms 
used  by  the  family  after  coming  to  .America : 
(Jules  seven  mascles  conjoined  or  three,  three 
and  one.  Motto:  Sine  macula  macla.  These 
arms  are  found  on  the  seal  of  an  unexecuted 
will  of  Edmund  (Juincy,  son  of  the  American 
immigrant,  affixed  about  1695.  .After  coming 
to  .America  the  family  adopted  a  coat-of-arms 
known  as  the  seven  diamonds. 

(I)  Edmund  Quincy,  father  of  the  .Amer- 
ican immigrant,  resided  at  Wigsthorpe,  a 
hamlet  in  the  parish  of  Lilford,  county  North- 
ampton. He  was  buried  at  Lilford,  ^larch  9, 
1627-8.  His  will  was  proved  in  the  district 
court  at  Petersborough,  Alarch  14,  1627-8,  by 
his  widow  .Anne.  His  widow's  will  is  dated 
January  29,  1 630-1.  She  was  then  living  at 
Wigsthorpe.  The  will  was  proved  at  the 
Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury,  .April  6, 
1 63 1,  by  John  Quincy,  son  and  executor.  Ed- 
mund Quincy  was  a  yeoman  of  the  middle 
class,  not  educated,  but  thrifty  and  jirosper- 
ous  and  of  good  social  standing.  He  owned 
the  leaseholds  of  several  farms,  and  the  be- 
quests in  his  will  were  on  the  scale  that  only 
a  man  of  some  wealth  could  afiford.  His  will 
mentions  "a  habitation  or  dwelling  house  to 
be  erected  by  his  son  Edmund  upon  his  free- 
hold at  Thorjje"  (Wigsthorpe).  That  he  stood 
high  in  the  estimation  of  his  neighbors  is 
shown  by  his  two  elections  to  the  office  of 
church  warden,  and  by  the  excellent  marriages 
of  his  daughters. 

Edmund  Quincy  was  baptized  December  21, 

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1559.  He  may  have  been  the  son  of  John, 
Thomas  or  Riciiard  Quincy.  all  of  whom  were 
living  in  that  parish  at  the  time  of  his  birth. 
He  married,  October  15,  1593,  Anne  Palmer, 
at  Lilford.  Children:  i.  .Anne,  baptized  Sep- 
tember 22,  1594;  married,  at  Lilford,  Janu- 
ary 22,  1617-8,  John  Hills.  2.  Elizabeth,  bap- 
tized January  25,  1696;  married  James  IIol- 
ditch,  who  w-as  a  supervisor  of  the  wills  of 
the  parents  of  his  wife.  3.  Hellen,  or  Ellen, 
bajnized  .April  5,  1598;  married,  at  Lilford, 
l-\bruary  9,  1620-1,  Boniface  liing.  4.  .Alice, 
baptized  September  24,  1600;  married,  at  Lil- 
ford, July  14.  1623,  Edward  Rooding;  (sec- 
ond) September  30,  1633,  Rev.  Thomas  Lewis, 
Vicar  of  Lilford.  5.  Edmund,  baptized  May 
30,  1602  ;  mentioned  below.  6.  Denis,  baptized 
February  17,  1604-5:  buried  June  26  follow- 
ing. 7.  Francis,  baptized  November  16,  1606; 
married,  June  25,  1627,  Elizabeth  .Andrew. 
8.  Ciiristian,  married  (labriel  Munnes;  resided 
at  Harold  Park.  I'.edfordshirc,  gentleman.  9. 
John,  baptized  May  16,  1611;  had  by  wife 
Anne  twelve  children,  all  baptized  at  Lilford. 
10.  William,  baptized  January  31,  1612-13,  of 
Wigsthorpe ;  soldier  and  cornet  in  Major 
Henry  Pritte's  command,  (ieneral  Cromwell's 
regiment,  n.  Thomas,  baptized  .August  27, 
1615. 

(II)  Edmund  (2),  son  of  Edmund  (l) 
Quincy,  was  the  immigrant  ancestor.  He  was 
baptized  at  Lilford,  May  30,  1602,  and  married 
there  Judith  Pares  (Paris).  The  children  they 
had  in  England  were  doubtless  baptized  at 
Achurch  (or  Thorpe-.\clnirch),  county  North- 
am])l()n,  England.  About  tlie  time  of  his 
father's  death  in  1628  he  emigrated  to  New 
England,  afterward  returning  to  England  to 
bring  his  family.  He  came  again  with  his 
family  in  company  with  Rev.  John  Cotton, 
from  Lincolnshire,  England,  landing  at  Bos- 
tnn,  .September  4,  1633.  He  was  a  member  of 
a  committee  to  assess  rates  November  10, 
1634.  The  town  of  Boston  voted  that  his 
lands  and  those  of  William  Coddington,  at 
Mount  Wollaston  (Braintree),  should  be 
"bounded  out,"  December  14,  1635.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  committee  to  lay  out  lands 
there  January  4,  1635-6.  "That  he  was  a  man 
of  substance  may  be  inferred  from  the  bring- 
ing six  servants  with  liim  ;  and  tliat  he  was  a 
man  of  weight  among  the  founders  of  the  new 
commonwealth  ai)i)cars  from  his  election  as  a 
representative  of  the  town  of  Boston  in  the 
first  general  court  ever  held  in  Massachusetts 
Bay,  in  1634.  He  was  also  the  first  named  on 
the  committee  ap])ointed   (1634)  by  the  town 


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to  assess  and  raise  the  sum  necessary  to  ex- 
tinguish the  title  of  Mr.  Blackstone  to  the 
])eninsula  on  which  the  city  stands.  In  com- 
pany with  WiUiani  Coddington,  afterwards 
governor  of  Rhode  Island,  he  bought  of  Chick- 
atabut.  Sachem  of  .Mos-Wachuset,  a  tract  of 
land  at  North  Wollaston,  a  part  of  the  present 
town  of  Quincy,  confirmed  to  them  by  the 
town  of  Boston  in  March,  1636.  "He  died 
about  1636,"  immediately  after  he  had  built 
a  part  of  a  house  yet  standing  on  the  estate  in 
Ouincy,  now  owned  by  the  Colonial  Dames. 
His  widow  married  Moses  Paine,  who  died 
in  1643,  a"*:'  ^he  married  (third)  Robert  Hull, 
father  of  her  son-in-law.  John  Hull,  mentioned 
below.  She  was  dismissed  from  Boston  to 
the  Braintree  church  March  30.  1645.  She 
died  November  29.  1654.  Children  of  Ed- 
mund and  Judith  Quincy :  1.  Judith,  born 
September  3,  1626:  married,  May  11,  1647, 
John  Hull;  died  June  22,  1695;  was  one  of 
tlie  sisters  among  the  seceders  from  the  First 
Church  who  united  with  their  husbands  to 
form  the  Third  Church,  or  Old  South:  for  her 
third  husband,  John  Hull,  named  Point  Judith, 
in  the  Narragalisett  country,  where  he  owned 
lands.     2.  Edmund,  mentioned  below. 

(Ill)  Colonel  Edmund  (3),  sonof  Edmund 
(2)  Quincy,  was  baptized  in  England,  March 
13,  1627-8.'  He  married  (first)  July  26,  1648, 
Joanna,  or  Joane.  Hoar,  sister  of  Rev.  Leon- 
ard Hoar  (H.  C.  1650),  third  president  of 
Harvard  College,  whose  grandfather  was 
Charles  Hoar,  of  Gloucester,  England,  and 
whose  father  was  Sheriflf  Charles  Hoare,  of 
the  "Cittie"  of  Gloucester.  The  illustrious 
family  of  Concord,  Massachusetts,  of  whom 
Senator  George  F.  Hoar,  of  Worcester,  was 
one,  were  of  this  Hoar  family.  Mrs.  Joanna 
Hoar  Quincy  died  May  16,  1680,  and  he  mar- 
ried (second)  December  8.  1680,  Elizabeth 
Eliot,  daughter  of  Major  General  Daniel 
Gookin,  and  widow  of  Rev.  John  Eliot,  oldest 
son  of  Rev.  John  Eliot,  the  Apostle  to  the 
Indians.  He  lived  a  private  life  on  his  estate 
at  P.raintree;  was  magistrate,  representative 
to  the  general  court,  and  lieutenant-colonel  of 
the  Suffolk  regiment.  When  (lovernor  Andros 
was  deposed,  Quincy  was  chosen  one  of  the 
committee  of  safety  which  formed  the  provi- 
sional government  until  the  new  charter  of 
William  and  Mary  arrived.  He  died  January 
8,  1697-8,  leaving  his  second  wife,  who  died 
November  30,  1 700.  He  had  a  military  fun- 
eral, and  his  grave  is  marked  by  two  granite 
stones  in  which  his  name  and  arms,  cut  in 
lead,  were  inserted,  but  in  the  revolution  the 


stones    were    robbed    of    the    lead,    and    all 
knowledge  of   their  object   would   have   been 
lost,  had  not   President  John  Adams  remem- 
bered the  engravings  on  the  lead.     The  same 
vandals     broke     the     tablet     on     which     the 
coat-o<-arms    was    inscribed    on    the    Ouincy 
tomb.    The  fragments  of  this  stone  have  been 
preserved   by   the    family.      Children   of   first 
wife:     I.  Mary,  born  March  4,  1650;  married 
Ephraim  Savage  (Harvard  College,  1662).    2. 
Daniel,  born  February'  7,  1651  ;  married  Anna 
Shepard,  daughter  of  Rev.   Thomas  Shepard 
of  Charlestown :  their  son  John  was  speaker 
of  the  house.     3.  John,  born  April  5,    1652. 
4.  Joanna,  born  April  16.  1654;  married  David 
Hobart,  of  Hingham,    5.  Judith,  born  June  25, 
1655  :  married  Rev.  John  Rayner  Jr.    6.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  September  28,  1656;  married  Rev. 
Daniel   Gookin,  of  Sherborn.  son  of  General 
Daniel    Gookin.      7.    Edmund,    born    July    9, 
1657 ;  died  young.     8.  Ruth,  born  October  29, 
1658;    married    John    Hunt,    of   Weymouth, 
October  19,  1686.     9.  Ann,  born  about  1663; 
died  September  3,  1676.     10.  Experience,  born 
March  24,  1(167:  married  William  Savill.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:     11.  Edmund,  mentioned 
below.      12.    Mary,  born    December   7,    1684; 
married,  1714,  Rev.  Daniel  Baker,  of  Sherborn. 
(I\')   Judge  Edmund    (4),  son  of  Colonel 
Edmund   (3)  Quincy,  was  born  in  Braintree, 
October  14,  1681,  and  graduated  at  Harvard 
College  in  1699.     He  was  in  the  public  service 
almost  all  his  life,  as  a  magistrate,  councillor, 
and  justice  of  the   supreme  court.     He   was 
colonel  of  the  Suttolk  regiment,  when  that  was 
a  very  important  military  body.     In  1737  the 
general  court  appointed  him  its  agent  to  repre- 
.'ient   it    in   the    adjudication   of   the   disputed 
boundary  between  Massachusetts  Bay  and  New 
Hampshire.     He    died,    however,    very    soon 
after    his    arrival    in    London,    February    23, 
1737-8,  of  the  small  pox,  which  he  had  taken 
by   inoculation.      He    was    buried    in    Bunhill 
Fields,  where  a  monument  was  erected  to  him 
by  the  general  court,  which  also  made  a  grant 
of  a  thousand  acres  of  land  in  the  town  of 
Lenox  to  his  family  in  further  recognition  of 
his  jHiblic  .services.     Two  jiortraits  of  Judge 
Quincy  were  ])ainted  by  Symbert,  jirobably  in 
7j2ii.  one  of  which  is  deposited  in  the  P.oston 
Art    .Museum,  the  other   is  preserved  by  the 
family  of  the  late  Edmund  Quincy,  of  Ded- 
ham,  mentioned  below. 

He  married,  November  20,  1701,  Dorothy 
Mint,  daughter  of  Rev.  Josiah  Flint  (Harvard 
College  1(164)  of  Dorchester.  Children,  born 
at  Braintree:  i.  Edmund,  born  June  13,  1703; 


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graduated  at  Harvard  1722;  judge  of  court 
of  common  pleas ;  married  Elizabctli.  daugliter 
of  Abrahain  Wendell:  their  daughter  Dorothy, 
born  .May  10,  1747.  married  (first)  Hon.  John 
Hancock,  first  signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  and  afterward  governor  of 
Massachusetts:  (second)  Captain  James  Scott, 
July  27,  1796.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  October  17, 
1706:  married.  November  10,  1724,  John 
\Vendell.  brother  of  the  wife  of  Edmund 
Ouincy.  3.  Dorothy,  born  January  4,  1709; 
married,  December  7,  1738,  Edward  Jackson; 
died  1762.  the  "Dorothy  0"  of  Oliver'W'endell 
Holmes'  poem.  Dorothy  was  an  ancestor  of 
Dr.  Holmes.     4.  Josiah;  see  forward. 

(  \' )  Colonel  Josiah,  son  of  Judge  Edmund 
(41  Ouincy,  was  born  in  liraintree.  .\pril  i, 
1710,  and  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in 
1728.  He  married  (first)  January  11,  1733, 
Hannah  Sturgis,  of  Yarmouth,  daughter  of 
John  Sturgis,  He  married  (second)  in  1756, 
Elizabetli,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  Waldron, 
of  Boston.  He  married  (third)  in  1761,  Ann, 
daughter  of  Rev.  J.  Marsh,  of  I'.raintree.  He 
died  March  3.  1784,  his  widow  in  1805. 

He  accompanied  his  father  to  I,ondon  in 
1737-8,  and  afterwards  visited  England  and 
the  continent  more  than  once.  For  some  years 
he  was  engaged  in  commerce  and  ship  building 
in  Boston,  in  partnership  with  his  brother  and 
brother-in-law,  Edward  Jackson.  .\  rather 
singular  adventure  in  1745  was  the  occasion 
of  his  withdrawing  from  business.  Though 
then  but  about  forty  years  old  he  retired,  and 
for  thirty  years  lived  on  his  share  of  the  home- 
stead at  I'raintrce,  the  life  of  a  country  gentle- 
man. He  was  the  local  magistrate,  and  colonel 
of  the  Suffolk  regiment.  lie  was  sent  by  the 
provincial  govenmient  to  Pennsylvania  in 
1755  as  commissioner  to  ask  the  help  of  that 
colony  in  the  ()ro[)osed  expedition  to  Crown 
Point  in  the  French  and  Indian  War.  He  suc- 
ceeded in  his  mission  by  the  help  of  Benjainin 
Franklin,  who  relates  in  his  autobiography  that 
"a  most  cordial  and  affectionate  friendship  sub- 
sisted between  them  for  the  next  thirty  years."' 
Whenever  he  came  to  Boston,  Dr.  Franklin 
always  visited  Colonel  Quincy  at  Braintree, 
and  an  intimate  correspondence  was  kept  up 
between  them  as  long  as  he  lived.  .A  portrait 
of  Colonel  Quincy  by  Copley  (1769)  is  in  the 
house  of  the  nine  hundred  and  ninety-ninth 
son  Josiah  P.  Quincy.  Children:  i.  Edmund, 
born  October  i,  1733.  (H.  C.  1752);  <lied  at 
sea,  1768,  unmarried.  2.  Samuel,  born  April 
i,3'  1735''  <^H.  C.  1754);  solicitor-general  of 
Massachusetts  under  the    Crown,    succeeding 


Judge  Jonathan  Sewell ;  in  1700  was  engaged 
on  the  popular  side  in  the  trial  of  Captain 
Preston  in  opposition  to  his  patriot  brother, 
Josiah  Quincy,  who  appeared  for  the  defend- 
ants ;  was  in  England  on  business  when  the 
revolution  broke  out,  but  not  approving  the 
idea  of  a  Republic,  stayed  in  England ;  was 
included  in  the  haiiishmeiU  act  of  1778:  was 
appointed  cominroUer  at  Parkin  Bay,  .Antigua, 
and  died  on  his  passage  from  Tortola  to  Eng- 
land, for  his  health,  August  9,  1789;  portraits 
of  him  and  his  wife  by  Copley  are  owned  by 
the  family:  he  married  (fir.st)  Hannah  Hill; 
(second)  Mrs.  M.  A.  Chadwell.  3.  Hannah, 
born  September  11.  1736:  married  (first)  Dr. 
I'.ela  Lincoln;  (second)  Ehenezer  Storer.  4. 
Josiah,  mentioned  below.  Children  of  second 
wife:  5.  Elizabeth,  born  December  27,  1757; 
married,  May  27  1784,  Benjamin  Guild.  Child 
of  third  wife:  6.  .Ann,  born  December  8, 
1763:  married  Rev.  Asa  Packard,  of  Marl- 
borough. 

(\'I )  Josiah  (2),  son  of  Colonel  Josiah  (i) 
Quincy,  was  born  February  23,  1744,  and 
graduated  at  Harvard,  in  1763.  "On  taking 
his  master's  degree,"  says  his  grandson,  "he 
delivered  an  English  oration,  the  first  in  our 
academic  annals,  on  the  characteristic  subject 
of  'Patriotism,'  by  the  rhetorical  merits  and 
graceful  delivery  of  which  he  gained  great 
rei)utation.  *  *  *  He  studied  law  with 
Oxenbridge  Thacher,  one  of  the  principal 
lawyers  of  that  day,  and  succeeded  to  his 
practice  at  his  death,  which  took  place  about 
the  time  he  himself  was  called  to  the  bar.  He 
tf)ok  a  high  rank  at  once  in  his  profession, 
although  his  attention  to  its  demands  was 
continually  interrupted  by  the  .stormy  agita- 
tion in  men's  minds  and  passions  which  pre- 
ce<led  and  annf)unccd  the  revolution,  and 
which  he  actively  ])romoted  by  his  writings 
and  ])ublic  speeches.  On  the  fifth  of  March, 
the  day  of  the  P>oston  Massacre,  he  was 
selected,  together  with  John  .Adams,  by  Cap- 
tain Preston,  who  gave  the  word  of  command 
to  the  soldiers  that  fired  on  the  crowd,  to  con- 
duct his  defence  and  that  of  his  men,  they 
having  been  committed  for  trial  for  murder. 
*  *  *  .At  that  moment  of  fierce  excitement 
it  demanded  personal  and  moral  courage  to 
])erform  this  duty.  *  *  *  He  did  his  duty, 
and  his  prophecy  (that  the  time  would  come 
when  the  people  would  rejoice  that  he  became 
an  advocate  for  the  prisoners)  soon  came  to 
pass.  Notwithstanding  his  youth  Hie  was  but 
twenty-six  at  the  time  of  the  trial),  he  was 
taken   into  the  counsels  of  the  elder  ])atriots 


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and  his  fervid  elociiience.  at  the  popular  meet- 
ings, and  his  ardent  appeals  through  the  press, 
were  of  potent   effect  in  rousing  the  general 
mind  to  resist  the  arbitrary  acts  of  the  British 
ministry.     He  was  one  of  the  first  that  said, 
in   plain   terms,   that   an   appeal   to   arms   was 
inevitable,  and  a  separation  from  the  mother 
country  the  only  security  for  the  future.     In 
1774  he  went  to  England,  partly  for  his  health, 
which   suffered   much    from   his   intense   pro- 
fessional and  political  activity,  but  chiefly  as 
a  confidential  agent  of  the  patriotic  party,  to 
consult   and  advise   with   friends  of   .\merica 
there.     His  presence  in  London,  coming  as  it 
did  at  that  critical  moment,  excited  the  notice 
of   the   ministerial   party,   as    well   as   of   the 
opposition.     *     *     *     He  had  interviews,  by 
their  own   invitation,  with   Lords   North  and 
Dartmouth,  and  was  received  and  treated  in  - 
the  kindest  and  nio.st  confidential  manner  by 
Dr.  Franklin,  Lord  Shelburne,  Colonel  Barry, 
(lovcrnor    Pow-nell,   and   many   others   of   the 
leading  men  in  opposition  at  that  time.     The 
precise  results  of  his  comnnniications  with  the 
English   Whigs  can   never  be  known.     They 
were  important  enough,  however,  to  make  his 
English    friends    urgent    for    his    immediate 
return  to   America,    because    he    could    give 
information  viva  voce  which  could  not  safely 
be      committed     to     writing.     *     *     *     His 
health     failed     seriously     during     the     latter 
nionlhs  of  his  residence  in   England,  and  his 
Ijhy.sician,   Dr.    Fotheringill,    strongly   advised 
against    his    undertaking    a    winter    voyage, 
assuring  him  that  the  Bristol  waters  and  the 
summer  season  would  restore  him  to  perfect 
health.     His   sense  of  public  duty,   however, 
overbore   all   personal   considerations,  and   he 
set  sail  on  the  si.xteenth  of  March,  1775,  and 
died  off  Gloucester,  Massachusetts,  April  26, 
In  his  last  hours  he  repeated  again  and  again 
his  heart's  desire   for  one  hour  with  Samuel 
Adams  or  Joseph  \\'arren.     His  contempor- 
aries always   spoke  of  his  gift  of  elociuence 
as  something  never  to  be  forgotten,  and  as  of 
a  higher  .strain  than  that  of  the  other  famous 
orators  those  times  called  forth.     His  voice  is 
described    as    combining    strength,    sweetness 
and    flexibility    in    an    extraordinary    manner, 
and  old  citizens  have  told  me  that  they  could 
hear  him  at  the  head  of  State  Street  when  he 
was  speaking  \n  the  Old  South  Church.   *   *   * 
Josiah  Ouincy  Jr.  was  barely  thirty-one  years 
of  age  when  he  died,  as  truly  perhajis,  in  the 
cause  of  his  country,  as  his   friend   Warren, 
who  fell,  less  than  two  months  afterwards,  at 
lUinker   Hill.     Their   names  liave  been  com- 


monly  and   not   unjustly   associated,  together 
with  that  of  James  Otis,  who  had  been  already 
removed   from  active  life  by  mental  disease, 
as  tho.se  of  men  to  whom  the  revolution  was 
largely  owing,  though  they  were  not  permitted 
to  assist   in    its    progress,    or    to    witness    its 
triumph."      The    sword   which   he   wore   as   a 
])art  of  his  court  dress  is  now  in  the  possession 
of  his  great-grandson,  Josiah  I'.  Ouincy.     He 
married,   October  26,    1769,   Abigail   Phillips, 
daughter  of  Hon.  William  Phillips,  of  Boston, 
(\TI)    President  Josiah    (3)    Quincy,   only 
cliild  of  Josiah  (2)  Quincy,  was  born  Febru- 
ary 4,  1772.     At  the  age  of  six  years  he  was 
sent  by  his  mother  to  begin  his  education  in 
Phillips  .\cademy,  Andover.  .A.fter  eight  years 
there  he  entered  Harvard  College,  graduating 
in  1790  with  the  highest  honors  of  his  class. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1793.     It  soon 
appeared,  however,  that   he  was  destined  to 
a  more  conspicuous  career  than  that  which  is 
opened  by  the  practice  of  law.    He  was  elected 
to  congress  in    1805  as  the  candidate  of  the 
Federalist    party,   and   stood    from   that   time 
until  1 81 3  a  leading  champion  of  the  founda- 
tion  principles  of    the    Federal    constitution, 
eloquently  expounding  and  enforcing  them  on 
all  (|uesti'ons  of  the  day.     These  included  the 
disposal  to  be  made  of  slaves  surreptitiously 
imported  into  the  United  States  after  the  year 
1808,  the  lunljargo,  the  ]uirchase  of  Louisiana, 
and  the  War  of  1812.     His  party  was  all  this 
time    in    a    minority,    calling    the    more     for 
mingled   discretion  and  courage  on  his   part, 
and  he  jjroved  himself  fully  etiual  to  the  call. 
Mr.  Ouincy  retired  from  congress  of  his  own 
accord,  and  for  ten  years  devoted  his  energies 
to  .scientific  farming  on  his  ancestral  estate  at 
Quincy,    (formerly    Braintree),    and    to    the 
exercise   of   a   large   hospitality   there,   (jartly 
toward  strangers  drawn  to  him  by  the  attrac- 
tions of  his  home  and  personal  character;  and 
to  various  personal  objects  in  which  he  became 
interested  in  his  native  tow^n,  serving  for  seven 
or  eight  years  out  of  the  ten  as  state  senator 
and  representative  to  the  general  court.     For 
about  a  year  he  was  judge  of  the  municipal 
court  at   Boston,  and  in  that  office  had  occa- 
sion to  lav  down  for  the  first  time  a  definition 
of    libel    wliich    has    since    been    universally 
adoi)ted    in    this    country    and    in    England, 
namelv.    "liiat    the    publication    of    the    truth 
from  good  motives  and   for  a  justifiable  end, 
is  not  libellous,"     l->om  1823  to  1828  he  was 
mayor   of    Boston,    an    eminent    example    of 
ofiicial     devotedness,     integrity,     wisdom   and 
taste.      The    next   year    after    his    retirement 


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from  the  mayoralty  he  was  chosen  and  inaug- 
urated president  of  Harvard  College,  the 
finances  of  the  college  were  reiluced  to  order, 
the  lihrary  multiplied,  and  the  new  huilding 
for  its  reception  erected,  the  ohservatory  was 
established,  the  instruction  of  the  college  was 
enlarged  and  extended  in  every  direction,  and 
"in  every  particular  he  left  the  institution  in 
a  more  Hourishing  condition,  both  as  to  pros- 
perity and  usefulness  than  it  had  ever  been 
from  its  foundation."  He  established  new 
relations  with  the  students  of  social  juris- 
prudence, and  administered  the  disci])line  of 
the  college  with  a  firmness,  mingled  with  kind- 
ness, which  secured  him  respect  and  affection. 
After  the  Commencement  of  1845,  when  he 
was  in  his  seventy-fourth  year,  he  took  leave 
of  Cambridge  and  removed  to  r>oston,  between 
which  city  and  his  estate  at  Quincy  he  divided 
his  years  about  equally.  He  took  his  farm 
again  into  his  own  hands  and  amused  himself 
with  conducting  its  economy  for  more  than 
ten  years,  when  he  resigned  it  into  the  hands 
of  his  eldest  son,  and  gave  the  leisure  which 
the  management  of  his  own  private  affairs 
and  of  extensive  trusts  permitted  him,  to  read- 
ing and  his  pen,  and  constant  intercourse  with 
.society  and  his  many  friends.  His  life  thus 
declined  with  gradual  and  almost  unperceivcd 
decay  in  the  society  of  his  children,  grand- 
children and  friends,  the  most  revered  and 
honored  man  of  the  city  where  he  lived, 
rounding  out  a  life  of  singular  frei'dom  from 
misfortunes  by  an  old  age  of  extraordinary 
vigor  and  enjoyment.  His  interest  in  jjublic 
affairs  remained  to  the  last  and  he  was  one  of 
the  few  examples  of  a  man  kee])ing  at  least 
abreast  of  the  times  to  an  extreme  old  age. 
He  was  never  accused  even  by  his  worst 
enemies  of  any  selfseeking.  His  public  spirit 
was  real  and  his  disinterestedness  perfect.  He 
died  luly  2,  1864,  over  ninety-two  years  of 
age:  born  before  the  Revolution,  he  died  soon 
before  the  close  of  the  Civil  War,  he  saw  the 
growth  and  took  part  in  the  making  of  the 
.A.merican  nation.  There  are  two  portraits  of 
President  Quincy  by  Gilbert  .Stuart,  one  of  the 
year  1806,  owned  by  the  heirs  of  Edmund 
Quincy.  of  Dedham.  .\  .statue  by  Story 
stands  in  Memorial  Hall.  Sanders  Theatre,  at 
Harvard  College;  and  another  by  P.all.  pro- 
vided for  in  the  will  of  the  late  Hon.  Jonathan 
Phillips  of  Boston,  is  on  Court  Square, 
Boston. 

President  Quincy  married.  June  ''),  1707, 
Eliza  Susan,  daughter  of  Colonel  John  Mor- 
ton, a  native  of  the  north  of  Ireland,  one  of 


the  most  prominent  and  wealthy  merchants  of 
New  York  city  before  the  revolution,  an 
<'arnest  and  self-sacrificing  patriot  during  the 
struggle  for  independence.  Iter  mother  was 
a  daughter  of  Jacob  Kemjier,  an  immigrant 
from  Germany  to  .Xmerica  in  1741,  born  at 
Bacharach,  a  fortified  town  of  the  Rhine,  of 
which  his  father.  Colonel  Kemjier,  was  mili- 
tary governor,  the  oflice  being  iiereditary  in 
the  male  line  of  the  family.  Of  his  mother 
her  son  writes:  ".She  was  characterized  by 
great  sensibility  of  temperament,  <iualified  by 
sound  judgment  and  infallible  good  sense,  by 
a  refined  taste  and  love  of  literature,  and  man- 
ners at  once  dignified  and  engaging." 

Children:  i.  Eliza  Susan,  born  in  Boston, 
March  15,  1798,  whose  contributions  to  the 
history  of  this  family  have  been  drawn  upon 
freely  in  this  sketch:  she  added  not  a  little  to 
our  knowledge  of  both  private  life  and  ])ublic 
affairs  in  New  England  colonial  and  ])rnvincial 
life ;  she  died  at  the  family  mansion  at  Quincy, 
January  17,  1884.  aged  nearly  eighty-six  years. 
2.  Josiah.  born  January  26,  1802;  mentioned 
below.  3.  .\l)igail  I'hiliipa,  never  married.  4. 
Maria  Sophia,  never  married.  5.  Margaret 
Morton,  married  lienjamin  Daniel  Greene, 
May,  1826:  died  March  16,  1882.  Ci.  Edmund, 
born  February  i.  1808:  married,  October  14, 
1833,  Lucilla  P.  Parker:  graduate  of  Harvard 
1827:  died  April  17.  1877.  7.  .'\nna  Cabot 
Lowell,  married  Rev.  Robert  C.  Watcrston, 
of  Boston,  in  March,  1840:  children:  Helen 
Ruthven  Watcrston.  Robert  Waterston  :  both 
died  young. 

t\'!lli  Hon.  Josiaii  (4)  Quincy,  son  of 
President  Josiah  (3)  Quincy.  was  born  in 
Boston.  January  26,  1802,  and  died  November 
2,  1882.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  at  Harvard  College,  where  he  was 
graduated  in  the  class  of  1821.  He  studied 
law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  October  5, 
1824.  but  preferred  a  business  career.  He  was 
interested  in  various  enterjirises.  and  a  busi- 
ness man  of  great  ability  and  success.  He  was 
for  many  years  treasurer  of  the  Western  rail- 
road, as  that  section  of  the  Boston  &  Albany 
railroad  west  of  Worcester  was  known 
formerly.  He  was  treasurer  of  the  Boston 
.Atluncum.  in  the  work  of  which  he  was 
greatly  interested. 

Like  his  distinguished  father,  he  took  a 
prominent  part  in  public  life.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  common  council  of  lioston,  and  its 
['resident  for  three  years.  He  was  elected 
mayor  in  1845,  serving  the  city  with  signal 
ability   and   distinction   until    1849.    for   three 


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terms.  His  administration  was  notable  for 
the  introduction  of  the  Cochituate  Lake  water 
siipjjly ;  tlie  aboHtion  of  the  liquor  traffic  .under 
the  prohibition  law  of  the  state ;  the  reorgani- 
zation of  the  municipal  police  force ;  the  filling 
of  a  part  of  the  Back  Bay,  which  is  now  com- 
pleted, adding  thousands  of  acres  to  the  most 
valuable  district  of  Boston ;  increasing  the 
school  accommodations  and  the  number  of 
female  teachers  in  the  schools ;  and  the  erec- 
tion of  the  Charles  street  jail.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  the  state  senate  in  1842-44.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Whig.  "His  sprighty  mind  always 
made  him  a  favorite  in  society,  and  even  in 
his  old  age  it  sparkled  with  reminiscences  of 
younger  days."'  He  took  an  active  interest 
in  public  affairs  all  his  life.  In  later  years 
he  devoted  himself  to  the  organization  and 
maintenance  of  co-operative  societies.  In 
religion  he  was  a  Unitarian.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Wednesday  Evening  Club,  a  prom- 
inent social  organization,  and  served  upon 
many  occasions  of  note  as  a  presiding  officer, 
among  them  a  dinner  given  to  Charles 
Dickens,  the  author,  also  a  dinner  given  upon 
the  arrival  in  Boston  of  the  first  Cunard 
steamship,  and  many  other  notable  occasions. 

He  married,  December  18,  1827,  Mary  Jane, 
daughter  of  Samuel  R.  Miller.  Children:  i. 
Josiali  Phillips,  born  November  28,  1829:  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Samuel  Miller,  born  Jime  13, 
1832:  graduated  at  Harvard  College,  1852;  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  January  23,  1836;  became 
editor  of  the  Muiithly  Lmc  Reporter:  was  ca[3- 
tain  in  Sccrnd  Massachusetts  Regiment  in  the 
Civil  War,  enlisting  May  25,  1861  ;  lieutenant- 
colonel  Seventy-second  United  States  Regiment 
men<^  Colored  Troo])s,  commissioned  October 
2^  (8C)3,  promoted  colonel  May  24,  1864,  and 
brevet  brigadier-general  March  13,  1865;  died 
unmarriecl,  at  Keene,  New  I  fam])shire,  April 
24.  1887.  3.  Mary  Ajithorp,  burn  .August, 
1834,  deceased. 

(IX)  Josiah  Phillips  Quincy.  son  of  Josiali 
and  Mary  Jane  (Miller)  Quincy,  was  born  in 
Boston,  November  28,  1829.  He  graduated 
from  Harvard  College  in  the  class  of  1850. 
After  admission  to  the  bar  he  went  into  the 
real  estate  business.  He  removed  his  resi- 
dence to  the  then  town  of  Quincy  in  1858, 
and  there  conducted  a  large  milk  business, 
sending  three  carts  daily  to  Boston.  He 
resumed  his  residence  in  Boston  in  1885.  He 
married.  December  23.  1858.  Helen  Fanny, 
iH.rn  at  \'orthami)ton,  Massacbnsctts.  daugh- 
ter (if  Judge  Charles  Phelps  and  Helen 
(Mills)    Huntington.     He   was  judge  of   the 


superior  court  of  Massachusetts.  Mr.  Quincy 
has  contributed  to  the  daily  and  weekly  press 
and  to  many  magazines.  During  the  civil  war 
he  wrote  for  the  Anti-Slavery  Standard,  both 
in  the  editorial  and  correspondence  depart- 
ments. He  published  "Lyteria,  "  and  ''Chari- 
cles,"  dramatic  poems;  also  "Peckster  Profes- 
sorship," "The  Protection  of  Majorities,'"  and 
other  papers ;  also  several  ()amphlets  upon  cur- 
rent topics  of  discussion,  and  several  memoirs 
of  notable  persons.  At  one  time  he  lectured 
u]jon  Education  and  other  subjects.  His  chil- 
dren are:  i.  Josiah;  see  forward.  2.  Helen, 
wife  of  James  F.  Muirhead ;  children:  Phillips 
Quincy,  Langdon,  Mabel.  3.  Mabel,  mar- 
ried Walter  (\.  Davis,  director  of  the  Mete- 
orological Dejjartment  of  Argentine  Repub- 
lic. 4.  I-'anny  Huntington,  married.  M.  A 
De  Wolfe  Howe,  editor  of  the  Youth's  Com- 
panion: children:  Quincy,  born  August  17. 
1900;  Helen  Frances,  January  11.  1905;  .Mark 
De  Wolfe,  May  22,  1906. 

(X)  Hon.  Josiah  Quincy,  son  of  Josiah 
Phillips  Quincy,  was  born  at  Quincy,  October 
15,  1859.  He  was  fitted  for  college  in  the 
-\dams  Academy  of  Quincy,  when  Dr.  Dimock 
was  head-master,  and  graduated  from  Har- 
vard College  in  the  class  of  i88o,  of  which 
President  Roosevelt  was  also  a  member.  After 
leaving  college  he  sensed  for  a  year  as  instruc- 
tor in  the  academy  in  which  he  had  been  a 
student,  under  Dr.  William  Everett,  then  the 
head-master.  He  studied  law  at  Harvard  Law 
School  without  com]jleting  the  course,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  Suffolk  bar  in  1883,  but  he  has 
never  engaged  in  active  jiractice  in  the  courts. 

Me  has  been  from  his  student  days  inter- 
ested in  public  affairs.  In  1881  he  was  active 
in  the  movement  for  civil  service  reform,  and 
became  secretary  of  the  Civil  Service  Reform 
League  of  Massachusetts.  Two  years  later 
he  was  elected  secretary  of  the  Massachusetts 
Tariff"  Reform  League.  In  the  national  cam- 
paign of  1884  he  was  an  active  member  of 
the  committee  of  one  hundred,  representing 
the  independent  voters  who  supjiorted  Cleve- 
land against  lUaine,  and  since  then  has  been 
a  prdminent  Democrat.  He  was  elected  in 
1886  to  the  general  court  from  the  h'ifth  Nor- 
folk Rejiresentative  district,  comjiosed  of  the 
towns  of  Quincy  and  Weymouth,  and  served 
in  the  house  in  1887  to  1888.  retiring  in  1888 
to  acceijt  the  Democratic  nomination  for  con- 
gress in  a  strong  Republican  district.  He  was 
defeated,  but  was  re-elected  the  next  year  as 
a  member  of  the  house  of  i8<X)  and  again  for 
i8<;i.     During  these  four  years  in  the  general 


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court  he  took  a  leading  part  in  debate  and  was 
active  in  the  work  of  the  committee  rooms, 
serving  on  the  committees  of  labor,  rules, 
cities,  election  laws,  and  woman  suffrage,  and 
also  on  two  special  investigating  committees. 
During  the  last  two  years  he  was  the  recog- 
nized Democratic  leader  of  the  house.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  and  original  mem- 
bers of  the  Young  Men's  Democratic  Club 
of  Massachusetts  in  1888.  In  1890,  the  year 
in  which  (Governor  Russell  was  first  elected, 
lie  was  chosen  secretary  of  the  Democratic 
state  committee:  in  1891  he  became  chairman 
of  the  executive  committee,  and  in  1802  chair- 
man of  the  state  committee,  holding  this  posi- 
tion until  1894.  In  189 1  he  gave  up  his  resi- 
dence at  Quincy  and  became  a  citizen  of  Bos- 
ton. In  1892  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Demo- 
cratic national  convention  at  Chicago,  and  was 
chosen  by  the  delegation  as  the  Massachusetts 
member  of  the  Democratic  national  committee. 
He  was  made  a  member  of  the  camjiaign  com- 
mittee, and  had  charge  of  the  preparation  and 
distribution  of  documents  and  of  the  news- 
paper work  of  the  camjiaign.  Immediately 
after  the  inauguration  of  President  Cleveland 
in  March.  1893.  he  was  oft'ered  the  office  of 
first  assistant  secretary  of  state,  and  accepted 
with  the  understanding  that  he  would  hold  it 
for  a  limited  time  only,  being  unwilling  to 
remain  in  Washington.  As  Secretary  Gres- 
ham  wished  to  devote  his  attention  exclusively 
to  the  diplomatic  service.  Mr.  Quincy  under- 
took the  reorganization  of  the  consular  service 
to  bring  it  into  harmony  with  the  tariff  reform 
ideas  of  the  administration.  .After  serving 
as  assistant  secretary  for  six  months  he 
resigned  and  returned  to  Massachusetts.  In 
the  winter  of  i8<>4  he  was  in  Washington  act- 
ing as  counsel  for  the  Argentine  government 
in  the  preparation  of  its  side  of  the  boundary 
dispute  between  that  country  and  F>ra7.il,  sub- 
mitted to  President  Cleveland  as  arbitrator. 

He  was  a  fre<|uent  and  effective  speaker  in 
■the  .state  campaign  of  1895.  and  in  the  autumn 
of  that  year  was  nominated  by  the  Democratic 
party  for  mayor  of  Boston,  and  elected, 
serving  for  the  first  tw-o  year  term  elections 
to  the  office  having  previously  been  annual. 
He  was  re-elected  in  the  fall  'of  1897.  and 
.served  until  January,  1900.  One  of  his  first 
acts  as  mayor  was  to  appoint  an  advisory 
board  of  leading  business  men  who  were  to  act 
with  him  upon  large  matters  of  business,  tax- 
ation and  finance  afifecting  the  municipality. 
The  wisdom  of  this  action  was  recognized  by 
the  leading  Republican  paper  in  these  words: 


"The  action  of  Mayor  Quincy  in  ajipointing 
.seven  prominent  business  men  as  a  board  of 
consultation  and  advice  in  reference  to 
numici]>al  matters  is  not  a  surjjrise  to  the 
public,  as  the  mayor  during  his  cam])aign 
announced  his  intention  of  organizing  such  a 
board.  It  is,  however,  due  both  to  Mayor 
Quincy  and  to  the  gentlemen  whom  he  has 
selected,  that  some  acknowledgment  of  his 
wisdom  in  the  selection  he  made." 

He  was  the  third  Josiah  Quincy  elected 
mayor  of  Boston,  his  great-grandfather  and 
grandfather,  bearing  the  same  name,  having 
each  filled  the  office  with  distinction  in  his  day. 
His  atlministration  was  signalized  by  the 
building  of  the  South  I'nion  .Station,  uniting 
the  terminals  of  the  various  railroads  enter- 
ing the  city  from  the  south  and  west,  and 
many  other  important  public  improvements, 
lie  w.is  specially  interested  in  the  establish- 
ment of  the  system  of  ]uiblic  baths,  gymnasia 
and  playgrounds  which  have  now  grown  to 
large  dimensions  in  Boston,  and  in  other  pro- 
gressive measures  for  the  benefit  of  the  masses 
of  the  people. 

Mr.  Quincy  was  the  Democratic  candidate 
for  governor  of  Massachusetts  in  1901,  at  a 
time  when  the  Rejiuhlican  party  had  for 
several  years  been  carrying  the  state  by  over- 
whelming majorities,  and  had  named  in  the 
])erson  of  Governor  Crane  a  very  strong  and 
popular  candidate  ;  he  made  an  active  canvass, 
advocating  various  jirogressive  policies,  which 
resulted  in  a  substantial  reduction  of  the 
Republican  plurality  and  in  materially 
strengthening  the  Democratic  party.  In  1906 
he  again  served  as  chairman  of  the  Demo- 
cratic state  committee,  but  resigned  before  the 
ftpening  of  the  fall  cam])aign  to  accept  the 
position,  to  which  he  was  appointed  in  October 
of  that  year,  of  a  member  of  the  Boston  Tran- 
sit Commission,  a  board  of  five  members  con- 
stituted by  the  legislature  in  1894  to  build 
subways  and  tunnels  for  ra])id  transit  ])ur- 
poscs.  and  he  still  continues  to  serve  upon  that 
i)ody.  In  1908  he  sujjported  Mr.  Bryan  for 
the  ((residency,  and  was  a|)pointed  a  member 
of  the  advisory  committee  of  the  Democratic 
national  committee,  of  late  years  he  has 
resumed  the  jjractice  of  law. 

On  I'ebruary  17th.  1000.  he  was  married, 
in  F.ondon.  to  Mrs.  I^llen  f  Curtis  I  Tyler, 
widow  of  William  Royall  Tyler.  Harvard 
1874.  w^ho  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  Novem- 
ber. i8<>7,  was  head-master  of  the  Adams 
.'\cademy  in  Quincy.  I-'rom  that  time  until  the 
death   of    Mrs.    Quincy    which    occurred    at 


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RiarritK,  Prance,  on  Januarj'  16,  1904,  Mr. 
Qiiincy  made  his  home  chierty  in  London  and 
on  the  continent,  Mrs.  Qiiincy's  son,  Royall 
Tyler,  being  a  .student  at  Harrow  and  Oxford. 
A  son  was  born  on  May  15,  1903,  at  Biarritz, 
I'rance,  and  was  given  the  name  of  Edmuird 
after  his  ancestor  ten  generations  removed, 
who  was  the  first  Ouincy  to  come  to  America. 

Mr.  Ouincy  returned  permanently  to  .Amer- 
ica in  the  winter  of  1904,  and  has  since  resided 
in  Boston.  On  November  i,  1905,  he  was 
married,  in  New  York  city,  to  Miss  Mary 
Honey,  daugliter  of  Hon.  Samuel  R.  Honey, 
of  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  and  New  York 
city,  formerly  Captain,  C  S.  .\.,  lieutenant- 
governor  of  Rhode  Island,  mayor  of  New- 
port, and  a  member  of  the  Democratic 
national  committee. 

Mr.  Quincy  is  a  member  of  the  Union  Club, 
the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the  Loyal 
Legion,  the  City  Clubs  of  Boston  and  New 
"S'ork,  and  various  other  organizations. 


I'rom  an  old  manuscript  left  by 
1'R1XCI{     his  great-uncle,  Francis  Prince,  a 

pn  iminent  nierchant  of  his  time  in 
London.  England,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Prince,  for 
many  years  a  distinguished  clergyman  of  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  pastor  of  the  Old  South 
Church. gathered  the  information  that  his  great- 
grandfather was  Rev.  John  Prince,  rector  of 
East  .Sheft'ord,  within  six  miles  of  Xewlnvrv. 
England,  and  about  fiftymiles  from  London.  Tie 
was  born  of  honorable  ])arents,  and  educated 
at  the  I'niver.sity  of  Oxford.  It  is  said  of  him 
that,  though  he  was  one  of  the  conforming 
Puritans  of  the  Church  of  England  of  those 
days  who  greatly  longed  for  a  further  reform- 
ation, he  omitted  the  more  ofTensive  ceremon- 
ies of  the  clntrch  as  long  as  he  lived,  and  in 
doing  so  found  great  friends  to  protect  him. 
He  married,  about  1609,  Elizabeth  Tolder- 
bury,  daughter  of  Dr.  Tolderbury,  D.  D.,  of 
Oxford,  l)y  whom  he  had  four  sons  and 
seven  daughters,  who  all  grew  up,  every  one 
of  them  ])roving  conscientious  nonconformists, 
even  while  their  parents  lived,  but  without 
any  breach  of  amity  or  affection.  .'\nd  thus 
they  continued  pretty  near  together  till  the 
furious  and  cruel  .\rchbishop  Laud  disperseil 
them  and  drove  the  eldest  son.  with  nianv 
others,  into  this  country  in  the  early  days  of 
the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  where,  though 
lie  was  a  young  gentleman  of  liberal  education, 
yet.  thinking  lie  had  not  made  sufficient  pro- 
gress in  learning  for  the  ministry,  hv  a])plied 
himself  to  husbandry. 


(II)  Elder  John  Prince,  of  Hull,  Massa- 
chusetts, eldest  .son  of  Rev.  John  Prince,  of 
England,  was  born  in  East  Shefford,  about 
1610,  and  was,  like  his  father,  educated  at 
the  University  of  Oxford,  where  he  remained 
two  years  with  a  view  to  the  ministry  and  the 
expectancy  of  succeeding  his  father  as  rector 
of  East  Shefford,  he  being  a  young  man  of 
eminent  parts,  talents  and  piety ;  but  the 
licentiousness  of  the  Unix'ersity  was  so 
grievous  to  him  that  he  prevailed  on  his  father 
to  take  him  away  and  put  him  to  a  merchant 
near  London  Bridge  with  whom  he  lived  most 
acceptably  until  1633,  when,  for  the  sake  of 
conscience  aiul  pure  religion,  he  came  over 
to  New  England.  His  ideas  of  church  govern- 
ment were  in  conflict  with  those  of  Arch- 
bishop Laud,  and  it  is  said  that  he  wrote  some- 
thing against  the  church  which  offended  that 
dignitary,  and  was  obliged  to  flee  from  his 
disjileasure  and  jjersecution,  and  being  about 
to  be  apprehended  he  was  conveyed  secretly 
in  a  pannier  on  board  a  ship  bound  for  New 
pjigland.  He  was  one  of  the  first  planters  of 
the  colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  settling  in 
W'atertown,  where  he  married  .Mice  Honour, 
May.  1637.  In  1634  or  1635,  at  the  time  of 
the  general  dispersion  from  Boston,  which  was 
before  he  married,  he  went  to  Hingham,  Mas- 
sachusetts, through  having  fonned  an  acquain- 
tance with  the  Hobarts  of  Charlestown.  Going 
from  Hingham  to  Hull  a  few  years  later, 
he  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Nantascot. 
in  if^38,  and  shared  in  the  first  division  of 
the  lands  of  Hull,  the  name  given  to  succeed 
Nantascot  in  1644  by  the  general  court.  He 
was  urged  by  the  people  there  at  that  time  to 
become  their  pastor  but  compromised  by 
accepting  the  office  of  ruling  elder,  the  first  to 
occupy  this  exalted  position,  and  became  chief 
both  in  the  civil  and  ecclesiastical  aft'airs  of 
the  town.  He  held  the  office  of  ruling  elder 
for  nearly  thirty  years.  The  general  court 
invested  him  with  the  power  of  marrying  peo- 
ple. He  was  beloved  by  all,  and  his  death, 
which  occurred  .Kugust  16,  1676,  in  the  sixty- 
sixth  year  of  his  age,  was  greatly  lamented, 
and  he  was  held  in  grateful  remetnlirance  for 
many  years  thereafter  for  his  abilities,  piety, 
wisdiim  and  behavior.  He  was  a  true  gentle- 
man of  the  old  school,  and  won  his  distinction 
not  merely  from  the  fact  that  his  ancestors 
were  among  the  educated  and  influential,  or 
as  one  who  had  mingled  with  men  of  learning 
and  polished  manners,  but  rather  as  one  whose 
demeanor  was  so  perfectly  and  naturally 
courteous  and  proper  as  to  give  him  a  decided 


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and  marked  preference  among  all  classes.  He 
left  behind  in  the  old  world,  family  intlnence, 
e.xalted  station  and  repose,  and  cast  his  lot 
among  the  wayfarers  in  the  savage  wilderness 
of  the  western  world.  Governor  Thomas 
Prince,  one  of  the  thirty-five  persons  who 
came  over  in  the  "Fortune,"  valued  him  highly 
and  used  to  call  him  cousin.  Elder  Prince 
married  about  1670,  a  second  time,  his  will, 
dated  May  9,  1676,  mentioning  his  wife  .Anna; 
she  was  the  widow  of  William  Barstow.  15y 
his  first  wife  only  he  had  children,  and  while 
his  will  gives  the  names  of  eight,  the  dates  of 
their  births  are  not  recorded,  although  the 
minutes  of  Rev.  Peter  Hobart,  the  first  pastor 
of  llingham,  show  the  dates  of  the  baptisms 
of  all.  The  will  is  probated  in  Boston,  and 
names  his  two  eldest  sons,  John  and  Joseph, 
as  executors,  the  inventory  being  sworn  to  by 
John.  Elder  John  Prince  had  several  tracts 
of  land  granted  to  him  by  the  towns  of  Hing- 
ham  and  Hull,  the  records  showing  in  all 
some  twenty-one  acres.  Fishing  was  the 
means  of  livelihood  of  the  people  of  Hull,  the 
town  being  situated  on  the  coast.  In  a  [leti- 
tion  addressed  "To  the  honoured  Counsell 
now  assembled  at  Boston,"  presented  March 
3,  1675,  and  signed,  with  others,  by  John 
Prince.  Joseph  Prince.  Samuel  Prince  and 
Isaac  Prince,  sons  of  Elder  John,  the  follow- 
ing statement  is  made :  "\Ve  being  ]iersons 
whose  sole  employment  is  fishing,  and  so  at 
.sea,  having  no  lands  nor  cattle  to  maintain 
ourselves  or  families,  but  what  we  must  have 
hitherto  done  by  the  blessing  of  God  on  our 
labors  produced  from  the  sea."  The  sons  as 
they  grew  up  took  to  the  sea  and  became  cap- 
tains of  vessels,  and  most  of  them  died  in 
foreign  parts.  Children  of  Elder  John  Prince: 
I.John,  baptized  May  16,  1638;  see  forward. 

2.  Elizabeth,  baptized  .Vugust  9,  1640.  died 
May  13,  1727:  married,  1662,  Josiah  Loring 
of  Hingham,  who  died  February  17,  1713-14. 

3.  Jo.seph,  baptized  February  26,  1642,  died 
1695;  married,  December  7,  1670.  Joanna, 
rlaughter  of  Secretary'  Xathaniel  Morton,  of 
T'lymonth.  .Massachusetts,  from  1645  to  I''i85. 

4.  Martha,  baptized  August  to,  1645;  married, 
1^)74,  Christopher  Wheaton.  5.  Jf)b.  baptized 
.August  22,  1647,  died  1694:  married  Rebecca 
Phipi)eny,  who  survived  him,  and  married 
Csecond )  John  Clark.  6.  Samuel,  born  May 
16,  1649,  at  Boston,  ba|)tized  .\ugust  19,  1649, 
died  July  3,  1728,  at  Middleboro,  Massachu- 
setts: married  f^first)  December  9.  1674, 
Martha  P.arstow,  of  Hull,  daughter  of 
William    Barstow.     She    died    December    18, 


1684.  and  he  married  f  second  1  Mercy  Hinck- 
ley, born  at  Barnstable,  January  31,  1662-3, 
died  .\pril  25.  1736,  eldest  daughter  of  Hon. 
Thomas  Hinckley,  governor  of  Plymouth 
colony.  7.  Benjamin,  baptized  April  25,  1652, 
8.  Isaac,  bajitized  July  9,  1654,  died  November 
7,  1718:  married.  ^Iay  23,  1679,  Mary  Turner, 
born  December  10,  1658,  daughter  of  John 
Turner,  of  Scituate.  9.  Thomas,  baptized 
July  8.  1658:  married  Ruth  Turner,  ba])tized 
May  17,  1662,  daughter  of  John  Turner,  of 
Scituate.  John,  the  eldest  son,  died  at  Hull; 
Jose])h  died  in  1695,  at  Quebec.  Canada;  Job, 
shi|)-master.  was  lost  at  sea  in  the  English 
Channel  in  1694;  Benjamin  died  at  Jamaica; 
Isaac  at  Boston,  and  Thomas,  the  youngest, 
ship-master,  at  Barhadoes,  in  1704.  Samuel 
lived  first  at  Hull,  and  by  his  first  wife, 
Martha,  had  three  sons  and  two  daughters. 
He  at  first  went  to  coasting,  and  then  applied 
himself  to  domestic  trade  and  merchandise. 
.After  marrying  his  second  wife,  Mercy, 
(laughter  of  Governor  Hinckley,  he  removed 
tf)  Sandwich,  and  by  her  had  seven  sons  and 
three  daughters.  In  1710  he  removed  to 
Rochester,  Massachusetts,  where  the  chief 
])art  of  his  estate  lay,  he  being  the  principal 
l)ro|jrietor  of  the  townshi])  and  its  first  repre- 
sentative. For  Sandwich  and  Rochester  he 
.served  as  representative  in  the  great  and 
general  court  nineteen  times  since  the  revolu- 
tion, and  was  oftener  chosen  but  excused  him- 
self from  serving.  He  was  healthy  and  strong 
in  body,  of  a  vigorous  and  active  spirit,  of  a 
thoughtful  and  penetrating  mind,  religious 
from  youth,  much  improved  in  Scrijjtural 
knowledge,  esteemed  for  his  abilities  and  gifts 
and  especially  for  his  powers  of  arguing.  Rev. 
Thomas  Prince,  who  is  remembered  not  only 
as  one  of  Boston's  most  distinguished  clergy- 
men, but  also  as  an  annalist,  of  whom  Samuel 
G.  Drake,  the  historian,  says:  "Nothing  came 
from  his  pen  that  does  not  now  possess  his- 
torical value,"  was  a  .son  of  .Samuel  Prince. 
Samuel  died  at  Middleboro,  at  the  home  of  his 
daughter  Mary,  wife  of  Rev.  Peter  Thatcher. 
'  HI )  John  Prince,  eldest  son  of  Ekler  John 
Prince,  was  baptized  May  6,  1638:  married 
Rcliecca.  suj)posed  to  be  daughter  of  (Jeorge 
and  Rebecca  f  Phippeny )  Vickery,  of  Hull, 
who  were  the  next  neighbors  to  Elder  John 
Prince  on  the  northwest.  The  vital  records 
of  Hull  previous  to  about  1680  are  very 
meagre,  anil  there  is  no  record  of  either  the 
birth  or  ba|)tism  of  Rebecca  Vickery  or  of  her 
marriage  to  John  Prince  Jr.,  although  there 
are  recorrls  of  the  births  of  two  children  of 


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"John  and  Rebeka  Frince"  after  1685.  In 
the  early  town  records  of  Hull  it  is  shown 
that :  "There  is  given  to  John  Prince,  Junior, 
of  Hull,  by  the  inhabitants  thereof,  one  small 
lott  for  a  house  lott  and  a  garden  in  the  lane 
called  Marsh  lane,  containing  eight  rodd  and 
twelve  feet  more  or  less."  There  was  also 
given  to  "David  Vickree"  a  small  lot  adjoining 
that  of  John  Prince,  Junior,  on  the  east.  He 
was  probably  a  brother  to  Rebecca.  John 
Prince,  Junior,  like  his  brothers,  followed  the 
sea.  Children:  i.  Joseph.  2.  Rebecca ;  mar- 
ried, February  24,  1709,  Jose])h  Benson,  of 
Hull,  and  had  a  daughter  Elizabeth,  bornMay 
5,  1720,  and  twin  boys,  Benjamin  and  John. 
born  Alarch  5.  1724.  both  of  whom  died  the 
same  year.  The  mother  died  March  9,  four 
davs  after  the  birth  of  the  twins.  3.  John, 
born  November  i,  1686  or  87,  (the  last  figure 
is  blurred  and  rather  indistinct),  see  forward. 
4.  Experience,  born  January  11,  1689;  mar- 
ried, first,  (October  17,  171 1,  Benjamin  Benson 
of  Boston.  He  died  in  October,  1714,  and  she 
married  (second)  Xovemher,  1718.  John 
Coombs. 

(IV')  John  Prince,  son  of  John  Prince, 
born  November  i,  1686,  at  Hull,  died  January 
24,  1765,  at  Southold,  Long  Island;  married 
Reliance  Indlcr.  born  September  8,  1691,  at 
liarnstablc.  died  June  5,  1761,  at  Southold, 
Long  Island,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Fuller, 
son  of  Captain  Matthew  Fuller,  who  is 
believed  to  have  been  a  son  of  Edward  Fuller, 
who,  with  his  son  Samuel  and  his  brother, 
Samuel  Fuller,  came  over  in  the  "Mayflower." 
Among  genealogists  of  the  Fuller  family, 
however,  there  is  a  difference  of  opinion,  a 
recent  compiler  denying  that  Captain  Matthew 
was  a  son  of  Edward,  while  at  the  same  time 
he  gives  no  satisfactory  evidence  to  the  con- 
trary. Captain  Matthew  Fuller  was  fir.st  of 
Plymouth  about  1640.  and  removed  to  Barn- 
stable in  1652,  where  he  died  in  1678.  He  was 
ajipointed  surgeon  general  of  the  F'rovincial 
forces  raised  in  Plymouth  colony  in  1673.  He 
was  sergeant  under  Captain  .\Iylcs  Standish 
in  1643:  lieutenant  at  llarnstahle  in  1652;  lieu- 
tenant in  Captain  Slandish's  expedition  against 
Manhattoes  colony  in  i'')54;  chairman  of 
council  of  war  ;  lieutenant  of  the  forces  against 
the  Saconet  Indians  in  1671  and  captain  in 
King  Philip's  war.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
jnirchasers  of  the  town  of  Middleboro  about 
1662.  Children  of  John  and  Reliance  (Fuller) 
Prince:  l.  John,  born  .August  10,  1716;  see 
forward.  2.  Joseph.  Ixun  May  10.  1718.  3. 
Rebecca,    born    September    9,    17 19:    married 


Samuel  Hutton.  of  Stamford,  Connecticut, 
who  died  there  in  T787.  4.  Benjamin.  5. 
Samuel,  born  April  24,  1724.  6.  Hannah,  born 
December  13,  1728;  married  Samuel  (or 
Thomas )  Conklin,  of  Southold.  Long  Island, 
New  York,  born  September  10,  1728,  at 
Southold,  and  died  there  December  6,  1785. 

(  \' )   John  I'rince,  son  of  John  Prince,  bom 
.August  10,   1716,  at  Barnstable,  died  July  23, 
1786,   at    Boston:    married.     May    25,     1749, 
Esther    Guild,   born    September   30,    1721,   at 
W'rentham,  Massachusetts,  died  July  19,  1799, 
at    Boston,    daughter    of    John    and    Mercy 
(P'oster)    Guild  of  Wrentham.     He  was  for 
many  vears  a  merchant  in  Boston.     Children : 
I.  John,  died  in  infancy.     2.  John,  born  July 
22.    1731,   at    Boston,   died   June   7,    1836,   at 
Salem,  aged  eighty-five  years  :  married  (  first) 
April   12,   1780,  Mary  Bayley,  who  died  sud- 
denly   in    December.     1806,    aged    fifty-four 
years,  and  in  November,  1816,  he  married  his 
cousin,     Mrs.     Milly      (Messinger)      Waldo, 
widow  of  Major  Jonathan  Waldo.     She  was 
born  December  18,  1 763,  and  died  at  Boston, 
January   7,    1836,   and  was   carried  to   Salem 
for   interment.      3.   Joseph,   born   August    24, 
1753,   died   November  24,    1828,   at   Mendon, 
Massachusetts,  aged  seventy-five  years ;  mar- 
ried Sarah  Bennett.     4.  Thomas,  born  Febru- 
ary   28,     1756,    died     September    26,     1781  ; 
drowned  olY  the  Capes  of  Delaware.    5.  David, 
born   September     18.    1757.    died    .September, 
1760.     6.   Samuel,  born   December   13,    1760; 
see    forward.      John,     the     eldest     son,     was 
brought  up  a  mechanic,  but  was  later  educated 
to  the   ministry   and   was  graduated   at  Har- 
vard University  in  1776.    He  settled  at  Salem, 
as  pastor  of  the  First  Church  there,  in   1779, 
and    continued    its   pastor    until    his   death,   a 
period  of  fifty-seven  years.     The   University 
conferred  on   him  the  degrees  of   Doctor  of 
Divinity   and   Doctor   of   Laws.     Joseph,   the 
next  younger  son,  went  to  the  western  country 
in  T789,  was  at  Marietta,  Ohio,  in  1792,  and 
at  Cincinnati  about   1794  and  became  one  of 
the  early  settlers  of  that  place,  but  returned 
to   Massachusetts   about     181 2,    purchased    a 
farm  at  Mciidon  and  died  there  in  1822.     His 
wife,   .Sarali    Bennett,    died    there    five    years 
later. 

(  \'I )  Samuel  Prince,  youngest  son  of  John 
Prince,  was  born  in  P)Oston,  December  13, 
1760,  died  there  July  21,  1816:  married,  Octo- 
ber 15,  I78^>,  Sarah  Ingersoll,  born  .August  19. 
I76i.'(lieil  July  13,  i8oc),  daughter  of  Daniel 
and  Bethiah  (Jlaskcll)  Inger.soll.  He  was  a 
merchant   in    Boston.     Children:      I.   Samuel, 


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born  July  11,  1787,  at  Boston,  died  September 
5.  181 1,  unmarried.  2.  Sarali,  born  January 
26.  1789.  at  Boston,  died  June  18,  i860, 
unmarried.  3.  George  Ingersoll,  born  July  9, 
1791,  at  Boston,  died  August  15,  1848,  at 
Buffalo,  New  York,  where  be  bad  resided  ten 
years:  married,  September  8,  i8i(').  Mary  .\nn 
Rogers,  of  Boston,  wbo  died  May  12,  1879. 
They  had  four  sons  and  three  daughters.  He 
was  a  mariner,  and  for  many  years  a  captain 
of  ships  sailing  between  southern  ports  and 
Europe.  4.  Charles  Augustus,  born  December 
5-  '795.  at  Boston:  see  forward.  5.  Caroline 
Matilda,  born  January  5,  1798,  at  Boston,  died 
May  18,  1865:  married  William  II.  Burbeck, 
born  May  3,  1796,  died  May  23.  1823.  6. 
John,  born  February  12,  1800,  died  b'cbruary 
23,  1845.  7.  Elizabeth  Smith,  born  .Vovenibcr 
2,  1803,  at  Boston,  died  November  4.  1803. 

1  \'II )  Charles  .Augustus  Prince,  son  of 
Samuel,  born  December  5.  1795,  died  March 
14,  iSCiS,  at  Boston:  married.  May  15,  1820, 
at  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  Penelope  Min- 
tiirn  (irecne,  born  May  3,  1798.  at  Providence, 
died  .August  25,  1863.  at  Boston:  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  W'aite  (  Comstock )  Cireene.  He 
was  a  prominent  merchant  of  I'.oston,  being 
for  fifty-four  years  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Ballard  &  Prince,  which  succeeded  the  firm  of 
J.  iS:  J.  IJallard,  founded  by  John  and  Joseph 
Ballard,  brothers,  carpet  dealers  at  168  Wash- 
ington street  and  afterwards  at  7  and  9  IJrom- 
field  street.  This  firm  was  the  most  iin])ortant 
in  its  line  during  its  business  career,  being 
large  imjjorters  of  foreign  carpets.  Mr. 
Prince  inherited  the  fine  characteristics  of  his 
ance.stors  and  was  highly  esteemed  in  business 
circles  for  his  straight  forward  dealings  and 
gentlemanly  treatment  of  all  with  whom  he 
came  in  contact.  Socially  he  enjoyed  a  large 
ac(|uaintance  among  the  leading  men  of  his 
time.  Children:  i.  John  Ballard,  born  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1821,  at  Boston;  see  forward.  2. 
Mary  Elizabeth,  born  February  5.  1824.  3. 
Louisa  Frances,  born  .August  2,  1833,  died 
May  8,  1893,  at  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  mar- 
ried (first)  October  27,  1857,  Louis  Camilla 
Lynch,  born  October  7,  1832,  died  May  24, 
1879:  married  (second)  January  8,  1880.  at 
Dedham,  Joseph  .A.  Laforme,  born  July  16, 
1829,  at  Rheine,  Prussia.  By  her  first  hus- 
band she  had  one  son,  George  Ingersoll  Lynch, 
born  Xovembcr  I,  1858,  who  marriefl,  Sep- 
tember. 1884,  Ella  .Amelia  Smith,  of  Wauke- 
gan,  Illinois,  born  .August  27,  1862. 

(\'III)  John  I'jallard  Prince,  only  son  of 
Charles    Augustus    Prince,   born    February   5, 


1821,  at  Boston,  died  there  July  21,  1901  ; 
married  Sarah  Maria  Fowle,  born  .\\)x\\  4, 
1826.  died  March  15,  1905;  daughter  of 
Charles  Sigourney  and  Frances  (Hilton) 
Fowle,  of  Boston.  Charles  Sigourney  Fowle 
was  son  of  John  Fowle  and  Mary  Parker, 
who  was  daughter  of  Jonas  Parker,  the 
martyr  hero  who  was  shot  and  then  bayonetted 
to  death  by  British  soldiers  on  Lexington 
Common  on  the  morning  of  .April  19,  1775, 
and  whose  name  is  inscribed  on  the  monument 
on  Lexington  Green. 

John  Ballard  Prince  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Boston,  graduating  from  the 
English  high  school  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years. 
FVom  the  high  school  he  went  as  clerk  for  the 
firm  of  .Siiaw,  lUake  &  Co,,  one  of  the  oldest 
and  wealtiiiest  firms  of  woolen  merchants  of 
that  time.  .At  twenty-one  years  of  age  he 
became  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  Smith 
&  .Sumner,  and  afterwards  of  the  firm  of 
Dorr,  Balch  &  Prince,  wholesale  <lry  goods 
merchants  on  Milk  street,  lioston.  This  firm 
was  succeeded  by  Ordway,  Prince  &  Co.,  and 
afterwards  by  Prince  &  Post.  I  le  retired 
from  active  btisincss  in  1865.  His  children: 
I.  Charles  John,  born  June  16,  1843,  at  Boston, 
see  forward.  2.  Benjamin  Balch,  born  March 
3,  1846,  at  Boston;  unmarried,  3.  Edward, 
born  January  30,  1849,  at  Boston,  died  there 
July  14,  1859.  4.  Frederick,  born  .August  19, 
185 1,  at  Boston,  died  there  October  24,  1851. 

( L\  I  Charles  John  Prince,  son  of  John 
I'allanl  Prince,  born  June  16,  1843,  at  Boston; 
married  (first)  June  3.  1869,  Justine  DePey- 
ster  Cotton,  daughter  of  Joseph  II.  and  .Arria 
(Coffin)  Cotton,  by  whom  he  had  one  son, 
Charles  Barnard,  born  December  11,  1877; 
married,  June  5,  19a'').  at  P.oston,  Ilalldis 
Mollcr,  of  Christiania,  Norway.  They  reside 
in  Cortland.  New  A'ork.  Mr.  Prince  married 
(second)  December  7,  1905,  at  St.  .Augustine, 
I'lorifla,  Oleonfla  liecker,  born  at  Hamburg, 
(jermany.     They  reside  in  Boston. 

Mr.  Prince  was  educated  at  the  Chauncey 
Hall  School,  following  which  he  was  clerk  for 
a  short  time  for  the  firiu  of  Page.  Richardson 
&  Co.,  shi|)ping  merchants.  During  the  time 
of  the  war  he  entere<l  into  the  firm  of  Lootz 
&  Prince,  commision  merchants,  which  was 
succeeded  by  Mr.  I'rince  in  1869,  under  the 
firm  name  of  C.  J.  Prince  &  Co.,  doing  busi- 
ness on  Milk  street,  Boston.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  F'ir.st  Corps  of  Cadets  of  Boston, 
and  the  Algon(|uin,  Coiuitry,  Eastern  Yacht 
aiifl  Pioston   Athletic  clubs. 

Through  the  marriage  of  his  grandfather, 


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Charles  Augustus  Prince,  to  Penelope  Min- 
turn  Greene,  Mr.  Prince  is  a  direct  descendant 
of  many  of  the  celebrities  of  colonial  times  in 
Rhode '  Island,  including  Governor  Roger 
Williams,  (Jovernor  Caleb  Carr,  Governor 
Joseph  Jenckes,  Major  John  Greene  and  Cap- 
tain Randall  Holden.  He  is  also  descended 
from  Captain  Matthew  Fuller,  (see  above), 
and.  through  his  mother,  of  George  Fowle, 
the  immigiant  ancestor  of  the  well  known 
Fowle  family,  who  settled  in  Concord,  Massa- 
chusetts, about  1637,  his  line  being:  George 
(i),  Lieutenant  James  (2),  Captain  John  (3), 
Cornet  John  (4),  Jonathan  (5),  John  (6), 
Charles  Sigourney  (7),  Sarah  Maria  (8), 
(see  Fowle  family)  ;  also  from  Captain  John 
Carter,  of  Woburn,  a  prominent  man  of  his 
time,  1616-1692,  and  from  Jonas  Parker,  the 
Lexington  hero. 


The  Welsh  custom  of  adding  to 
HARRIS      a    name   the    father's   name    in 

possessive  form  to  distinguish 
one  from  another  of  the  same  Christian  name, 
was  the  origin  of  this  patronymic.  In  the 
short  four  centuries  that  surnames  have  pre- 
vailed in  Great  Britain,  time  has  sufficed  to 
make  many  changes  and  modifications  in  the 
form  of  ail  classes  of  words,  and  names  are 
no  exception  to  the  rule.  In  the  Welsh  ver- 
nacular. William  was  "David's,"  Harry  was 
■■John's,"  and  David  was  "William's,"  and  thus 
we  have  Davy's  (Davis),  John's  (Jones).  Will- 
iams and  Harris,  among  the  most  common  of 
the  Welsh  names.  The  Harris  family,  of  whom 
this  article  gives  some  account,  was  among  the 
earliest  in  Xew  h'ngland,  and  has  contributed 
much  to  the  advancement  of  this  region  and  of 
the  nation,  and  is  now  found  in  connection 
with  all  worthy  endeavor.  It  has  been  espe- 
cially active  in  tlir  fields  of  invention  and 
pioneer  dcvelo|inK-nl.  .'\lmost  every  state  ha-- 
found  the  name  among  those  of  its  ])ioneer 
settlers,  and  it  has  s|)read  from  the  .\tlantic  to 
the  Pacific. 

(1)  Thomas  Harris,  boin  in  Deal.  Kent 
county,  luigland,  died  in  i'rovidence,  Rhode 
Island,  June  7,  ]f-iSf\  He  came  to  America 
with  his  brother  William  in  the  ship  "Lion," 
from  P.ristol,  England.  December  I,  1630.  On 
August  20.  i''>37.  or  a  little  later,  he  and  twelve 
others  signed  the  following  compact :  "We, 
whose  names  are  hereunder,  desirous  to  inhabit 
the  town  of  Providence,  do  promise  to  subject 
ourselves  in  active  or  passive  obedience  to  all 
such  orders  or  agreements  as  shall  be  made 
for  public  good  of  the  body  in  an  orderly  way 


by  the  major  assent  of  the  present  inhabitants, 
members  incorporated  together  into  a  town  of 
fellowship,  and  such  others  whom  they  shall 
admit  unto  themselves,  only  in  civil  things." 

On  July  27,  i'i49,  he  and  thirty-eight  others 
signed  an  agreement  for  a  form  of  govern- 
ment. On  September  2,  1650,  he  was  taxed 
one  pound.  In  1652  to  1657  and  1661  to  1663 
he  was  commissioner;  in  1654,  lieutenant; 
1655.  freeman:  1656,  juryman.  Bishop's  "Xew 
England  fudged."  .  published  in  London,  in 
1703,  has  the  following  with  reference  to  lulv, 
1658: 

"After  these  came  Thomas  Harris  from 
Rhode  Island  into  our  colony,  who  Declaring 
against  your  pride  and  oppression,  as  we  would 
have  liberty  to  speak  in  your  meeting  place  in 
Boston,  after  the  priest  had  ended.  Warning 
the  people  of  the  Dreadful,  terrible  day  of  the 
Lord  God,  which  was  coming  upon  that  Town 
and  Country,  him,  much  unlike  to  Nineveh, 
you  pulled  down  and  liall'd  him  by  the  Hair 
of  his  Head  out  of  your  meeting,  and  a  hand 
was  put  on  his  mouth  to  keep  him  from  speak- 
ing forth,  and  then  had,  before  your  Governor 
and  Deputy,  with  other  Magistrates,  and  com- 
mitted to  Prison  without  warrant  or  mittimus 
that  he  saw,  and  shut  up  in  the  close  room, 
none  suffereil  to  come  to  him,  nor  to  have  pro- 
visions for  his  money  :  and  the  next  day  whipped 
him  with  so  cruel  stripes,  without  shewing  any 
law  that  he  had  broken.  Tho"  he  desired  it  of 
the  Jaylor,  and  then  shut  up  for  Eleven  Days 
more.  Five  of  which  he  was  kept  without  bread 
I  N'our  Javlor  not  suffering  him  to  have  any 
for  his  Money  and  threatened  the  other  Pris- 
oners very  much  for  bringing  him  a  little  water 
on  the  day  of  iiis  sore  wlii])ping)  and  all  this 
because  he  could  not  work  for  the  Jaylor  and 
let  him  have  Eight  Pence  in  Twelve  pence  of 
what  he  could  earn  :  .Vnd  starved  lie  had  been 
ill  all  probability,  had  not  llie  Lord  kept  him 
these  hive  Days  and  ordered  it  so  after  that 
time  that  food  was  so  conveyed  him  by  night 
in  at  a  Window,  by  some  tender  People,  who 
tho'  thev  came  not  in  the  Profesion  of  Truth 
opeuK.  1)\  reason  of  your  Cruelty,  yet  felt  it 
secretly  moving  in  them  and  so  were  made 
Serviceabale  to  keep  the  Servant  of  the  Lord 
from  Perishing,  who  shall  not  go  without  a 
reward.  And  tho'  he  was  in  this  state  of 
Weakness  from  want  of  P.read.  and  by  tortur- 
ing his  body  with  cruel  whippings,  as  aforesaid, 
and  tho'  the  Day  after  he  was  whipix-d,  the 
Jaylor  had  told  him  that  he  had  now  sutTered 
the  Law,  and  that  if  he  would  hire  the  Marshall 
to  carry  him  out  of  the  Country  he  might  l)e 


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s^one  w  lion  lie  would  :  Yet  tlie  next  Sixth  Day 
in  the  .Mt>rning  hetore  the  Sixth  Iltnir,  the 
Ja\lor  again  required  him  to  Work,  which  he 
refusing,  gave  his  weak  and  fainting  body  Two 
and  Twenty  Blows  with  a  ]jilehed  rope ;  and 
tile  ninettenth  of  the  Fifth  Month  following, 
l-'ifteen  cruel  stripes  more  with  a  three- fold- 
corded  whi]i  knotted  as  aforesaid.  Now  upon 
his  .Aijprelieiision,  your  Governor  sought  to 
know  of  him  who  came  with  him  (  as  was  their 
usual  manner  )  that  so  ye  might  find  out  the 
rest  of  the  company,  on  whom  ye  might  Exe- 
cute your  Cruelty  and  Wickedness,  and  your 
governor  said  he  would  make  him  do  it ;  but 
liis  cruelties  could  not.  Xeverthcless  they  soon 
were  found  out  (who  hid  not  themselves  but 
were  bold  in  the  Lord)  viz:  William  I'.rend 
and  William  Ledd.  etc." 

In  1664-66-67,  1670-72-73,  he  was  dejiuty  to 
the  general  court:  in  1664-65-66-61)  member  of 
town  council,  and  February  19,  1665,  drew  lot 
7.  in  division  of  tow-n  lands.  In  May,  1667,  he 
as  surveyor  laid  out  the  lands,  .\ugust  14, 
1676.  he  was  on  a  committee  which  recom- 
mended certain  conditions  under  which  the 
Indian  captives,  who  were  to  be  in  servitude 
for  a  term  of  years,  should  be  disposed  of  by 
the  town.  .April  27.  1683,  he  made  the  state- 
ment that  about  1661,  being  then  a  surveyor, 
he  laid  out  a  three  acre  lot  for  his  son  Thomas, 
at  Pauc|uchance  Hill,  and  a  twenty-five  acre 
lot  on  the  south  side.  etc.  June  3,  1686,  he 
made  his  will,  which  was  proved  July  22,  1686, 
his  son  Thomas  being  appointed  executor,  and 
his  sons-in-law,  Thomas  Field  and  Samuel 
Whipple,  overseers.     Thomas  Harris  married 

I'-lizabeth    ,    who   died    in    Providence, 

Rhode  Island;  children:  Thomas,  William, 
Mary  and  Martha. 

(  II )  Thomas  (  2 ),  son  of  Thomas  (  i  )  and 
Elizabeth  Harris,  died  February  2"/.  1711, 
always  lived  in  Providence,  Rli(xle  Island. 
I'ebruary  19.  1665,  he  hafl  lot  49  in  a  division 
of  lands.  In  1671-79,  1680-81-82-85,  1691-94- 
97,  1702-06-07-08  and  1710,  he  was  deputy  of 
the  general  court ;  and  in  1684-85-86  member 
of  town  council.  July  I,  1679,  he  was  taxed 
eight  pounds  nine  pence  and  .September  i, 
1687,  fourteen  shillings,  nine  pence.  June  21, 
1708,  he  made  his  will  which  was  ])roved  .April 
16,  171 1,  the  executors  being  his  wife  Elantha 
and  his  son  Henry.  He  married.  November  3, 
1664.  Elantha  Tew,  born  October  15,  1644, 
died  January  11.  1718,  daughter  of  Richmond 
and  Mary  CClarke)  Tew.  of  Newport.  Rhode 
Island  ;  citildrcn  :    Thonia.s,  Richard,  Nicholas, 


William,  1  lenrv,  Amit\-.  Flaiulia,  laonb  and 
Mary. 

(Ill)  Richard,  second  son  and  child  of 
Thomas  (2)  and  Elantha  (Tew)  Harris,  was 
born  October  14,  1668,  in  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  and  resided  in  Providence  and  Smith- 
field.  He  deeded  to  his  son  Richard  in  1725 
one  hundred  acres  of  land  in  the  latter  town, 
and  died  there  in  1750.  lie  married  (first)  a 
daughter  of  Clement  and  Elizabeth  I^ing,  and 
liis  second  wife,  Susanna,  born  in  1665,  was 
willow  of  Samuel  Cordon  and  daughter  of 
William  and  Hannah  (Wricks)  Burton.  She 
died  in  1737.  Children,  all  born  of  first  mar- 
riage, were  :  I  'riali,  Richard,  Amaziah,  Jona- 
than, David,  Preserved,  .\mity,  Dinah  and 
l''.lantlia. 

(  1\'  I  Jonathan,  third  son  of  Richard  1  larris, 
was  born  June  12,  1710,  in  Smithlield,  where 
he  died  .September  24,  1785.  These  dates  are 
found  in  the  records  of  the  Quaker  church, 
and  lead  to  the  assumption  that  his  wife  was 
a  Quakeress.  No  record  can  be  found  of  his 
marriage  in  either  town  or  church  records.  He 
resided  in  Providence. 

(\  )  .\bner,  son  of  Jonathan  Harris,  was 
born  before  1740,  and  died  iK'tween  1785  and 
1789.  No  record  can  be  found  of  his  marriage, 
but  the  vital  records  of  Smithficld  show  that 
he  had  sons  David,  Jonathan  and  William. 

(\  I)  William,  .son  of  .Abner  Harris,  was 
undoubtedly  born  in  .Sniithfield :  was  married 
in  that  town,  by  Rev.  Edward  Mitchell.  Octo- 
ber 24,  1789,  to  Barbara,  daughter  of  Water- 
man .Allen,  of  Cumberland.  He  settled  in 
Hiram,  Ohio,  about  1812. 

( \'II )  .Allen,  eldest  son  of  William  and 
Barbara  (.Allen)  Harris, , was  born  in  Smith- 
field,  Rhode  Island,  May  16,  1790,  and  died  in 
Worcester,  Massachusetts,  February  3,  1864, 
aged  seventy-four.  In  iSoohe  moved  with  his 
parents  from  .'sniithfield  to  Plainfield.  He  was 
well  educated  and  when  very  young  taught 
district  school  two  winters,  and  not  far  from 
1810  was  a  clerk  in  a  store  at  Cnion  N'illage, 
Connecticut.  .After  that  came  a  great  prostra- 
tion in  business,  which  left  him  and  his  family 
comparatively  poor.  In  1817,  the  year  after 
his  marriage.  Air.  Harris  removed  to  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island,  and  went  into  ])artner- 
ship  with  a  Mr.  Richmond,  in  the  dry  goods 
business.  .Not  succeeding  in  that,  he  removed 
to  Sterling.  Connecticut,  in  1820,  and  for  sev- 
eral years  was  agent  in  the  old  stone  mill,  on 
a  salary  of  .S600.  In  1824  he  moved  to  Union 
\illage,   Plainfield.  and  afterward  to  Central 


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X'illage,  wluTe  he  built  a  cotton  factory  for 
making  bed  ticking.  He  also  built  a  double 
house,  part  of  which  he  rented.  He  kept  a 
village  variety  store  in  connection  with  his 
factory,  to  supply  the  factory  hands.  In  his 
new  business  he  invested  all  of  his  funds,  so 
that  for  a  few  years  he  had  to  work  hard  and 
practice  the  closest  economy  in  order  to  make 
his  business  successful.  He  was  connected 
with  .Arnold  Fenner  in  the  factory  at  Central 
\illage.  In  1840,  after  manufacturing  became 
very  much  depressed  owing  to  the  condition  of 
the  times,  he  sold  his  interest  to  Mr.  Fenner, 
to  whom  he  gave  two  thousand  dollars  to  be 
released  from  the  debts  of  the  factory  and  the 
obligations  he  had  entered  into  in  connection 
with  the  business.  In  1843  lie  moved  to  Wor- 
cester and  commenced  business  as  a  com- 
mission merchant,  and  in  which  he  continued 
to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1864.  His  son  Will- 
iam H.  was  associated  with  him  for  many 
years.  He  was  successful  and  accumulated 
considerable  property.  He  bought  a  large  and 
substantial  house  at  the  corner  of  Elm  and 
Chestnut  streets,  where  his  widow  continued 
to 'reside  after  his  death.  Allen  Harris  was  a 
dignified,  courteous  gentleman,  conspicuously 
neat  in  personal  appearance,  and  exact  in  every 
business  transaction.  He  had  great  pride  of 
family,  and  s|)ent  money  freely  for  the  edu- 
cation of  his  children  and  for  all  his  relatives. 
He  desired  to  have  all  of  his  relatives  prosper, 
live  in  good  houses,  and  ri.se  to  positions  of 
trust  and  honor.  He  fre(|uently  helped  them 
in  business,  and  in  buy  themselves  homes.  He 
was  fond  of  genealogical  research,  antl  the 
deeds  of  his  ancestors,  from  Thomas  Harris 
down,  were  in  his  possession,  and  he  had  them 
framed  and  kept  as  ])recious  relics  of  the  ]iast. 
He  delighted  in  hunting  after  family  relics  of 
every  description.  His  sister  Sophia,  who  did 
not  share  her  brother's  anticiuarian  spirit,  once 
remarked  of  him :  "There  is  Allen :  he  is 
always  bringing  home  some  old  furniture.  .\s 
for  me,  I  wouldn't  give  him  two  cents  for 
Adam's  old  bureau."  When  the  rebellion  broke 
out  he  was  very  ])atriotic,  and  as  none  of  the 
family  had  gone  to  war  he  enlisted  (at  the  age 
of  seventy-one  years)  in  the  Worcester  State 
Guard,  which  did  escort  duty  on  various  occa- 
sions. Late  in  January.  1864,  he  marched 
about  five  miles  into  the  country  with  his  com- 
pany, to  do  honor  to  the  remains  of  a  soldier 
brought  home  for  burial,  and.  taking  cold,  died 
four  days  afterward,  .\fter  his  death  his  com- 
pany made  his  son  Daniel  an  honc^rary  mem- 
ber.    He   was  a   member  of   the  Old   South 


Church  in  Worcester,  and  at  his  death  its  oldest 
deacon.  He  taught  a  Bible  class  in  its  Sunday 
school  for  many  years,  and  a  member  of  it 
once  said:  "He  was  the  best  teacher  I  ever 
had  ;  he  made  everything  so  plain."  When  the 
Old  South  celebrated  its  one  hundredth  anni- 
versarv  in  1863.  he  was  one  of  the  committee 
of  arrangements  and  chairman  of  the  finance 
committee.  As  the  oldest  deacon  he  was  selected 
to  "line  off  the  hymn."  as  customary  in  the 
olden  time,  which  he  did  with  precision  and 
zest.  A  gentleman  who  had  attended  the  exer- 
cises said  the  next  day:  "It  was  announced 
that  the  oldest  deacon  of  the  church  would 
'line  off  the  hvmn,'  and  I  went  to  hear  him  : 
but  was  surprised  to  find  that  he  was  only  the 
merest  boy."  This  was  related  to  Mr.  Harris, 
who,  on  hearing  it,  drew  himself  up  in  his 
usual  dignified  manner,  and  exclaimed,  "Did 
he!  Did  he!"  His  precision  and  self-possession 
were  not  easily  lost.  Allen  Harris's  letters 
show  that  he  was  high  sheriff,  justice  of  the 
])eace.  and  postmaster  in  Connecticut.  From 
1832  until  1 84 1  he  was  engaged  with  others  in 
manufacturing.  He  was  always  a  very  busy 
man  and  one  who  was  much  looked  up  to  for 
advice.  He  was  full  of  good  Christian  work, 
and  his  many  letters,  which  have  been  ])re- 
served,  abound  in  good  counsel  and  kind  admo- 
nition. He  made  many  loans  and  handsome 
gifts  to  friends,  for  one  who  had  so  many 
cliscouragements  in  business  to  contend  against. 
Rut  with  all  his  business  cares  and  per]>lexities 
he  never  neglected  his  sons,  whom  he  wished 
to  train  to  be  useful  men.  He  had  great  energy. 
and  was  a  verv  close  economist.  He  had  faith 
that  virtue  would  bring  its  reward,  and  he  was 
not  disappointed.  He  .said,  "I  never  will  fail 
in  business  as  long  as  I  have  my  health."  He 
was  very  kind  to  his  sisters,  always  providing 
for  them  when  any  of  them  were  left  widows 
with  children,  and  he  remembered  them  all  in 
his  will,  as  well  as  the  established  benevolent 
associations.  He  was  a  pure,  upright  man,  so 
faithful  to  a  promise  that  an  old  friend  wrote 
of  him,  "T  would  as  .soon  take  .\llen  Harris's 
word  as  a  note  well  indorsed."  He  was  so 
very  conscientious  that  he  thought  every  one 
must  do  what  was  right :  and  he  died  greatly 
beloved  by  all  his  relatives  and  friends.  .Mien 
Harris  married  (first)  May  7.  1816,  at  Plain- 
field.  Hart  Lester,  daughter  of  Colonel  Timo- 
thy Lester,  of  Shepard  Hill.  Plainfteld.  She 
w.is  born  at  that  place.  December  23.  1 780.  and 
died  at  Central  X'illage,  .\ugust  24.  1826.  He 
married  (second)  in  1827,  .Mmira  X'aughn. 
daughter    of    Russell    \'aughn.    of    Plainfield. 


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Children  by  first  wife:  Daniel  Lester,  born 
I-'ebriiary  6.  i8i8:  William  Henry,  in  Sterling, 
Connecticut.  March  7,  1820;  Joel  I'.enedict 
(named  for  the  pastor,  Rev.  Joel  Benedict), 
Plainfield.  November  5,  1822.  By  second  wife: 
Mary  Gladden,  born  in  Plainfield,  .\pril  17, 
1829:  Emma  Colwell.  in  Plainfield.  August  13. 
1S36.  William  lived  in  Brooklyn.  New  York, 
and  Joel  in  Rutland.  X'ermont.  Mary  married 
Edward  Marsh,  of  the  firm  of  Lazell.  Marsh 
&  Cardner,  8  Cold  street.  New  York,  and  died 
July  I.  1854.  Emma,  died  March  12.  1845,  of 
scarlet  fever. 

(\'ni)  Daniel  Lester,  eldest  .son  of  Allen 
and  Hart  (Lester)  Harris,  was  born  in  Provi- 
dence. Rhode  Island.  February  6.  1818.  and 
died  in  .Springfield.  Massachusetts,  July  11. 
1879.  His  birthplace  was  a  brick  house  on 
High  street,  which  was  afterward  bought  by 
(Governor  Knight :  his  residence  in  Springfield 
for  years  before  his  death  was  No.  2  Pearl 
street.  He  worked  in  his  father's  mill  to  secure 
means  of  education,  attended  Plainfield  .Acad- 
emy, and  s])eut  three  years  in  the  scientific  de- 
])artment  of  W'esleyan  L'niversity  at  Middle- 
town,  graduating  August  23.  1837,  delivering 
an  oration  on  "The  Progress  of  E.x])crimental 
Sciences."  He  adopted  the  profession  of  civil 
engineer,  and  was  employed  on  the  Norwich 
&  Worcester  railroad,  with  James  Laurie,  the 
famous  Scotchman,  acting  as  rodman  for  five 
months.  He  also  went  with  Mr.  Laurie  in 
1839  to  take  i)art  in  one  of  the  early  surveys 
of  the  Erie  railroad,  in  the  then  wilderness  of 
Allegany  and  Steuben  counties,  New  York. 
From  1840  to  1843  he  was  assistant  on  the 
Troy  &  Schenectady  railroad,  and  in  the  latter 
year  went  to  Springfield.  Massachusetts,  to 
survey  the  proposed  railroad  to  Hartford.  He 
was  scientific  and  accurate  as  a  civil  engineer, 
ranking  with  the  leaders  of  his  profession  in 
the  Connecticut  \'alley.  He  was  marvclously 
industrious  and  pushing,  and  foresighted 
enough  to  graduate  into  the  wider  and  more 
profitable  field  which  he  came  to  fill.  He  was 
a  "self-made  man."  and  the  professional  civil 
engineer  developed  into  the  railroad  president 
and  infiueutial  aufl  wealthy  citizen  by  force  of 
his  own  ability  and  character.  In  1843  he 
resigned  his  position  as  engineer  and  took  a 
part  in  the  contract  for  building  the  Hartford 
road.  As  railroad  contractor  and  bridge- 
builder  he  made  his  fortune.  He  was  asso- 
ciated in  the  latter  occupatir)n  with  .\masa 
.Stone  and  A.  D.  Rriggs.  continuing  it  up  to 
three  years  before  his  death.  He  built  the 
bridges  on  the  New  London  Northern  railroad, 


and  the  old  wooden  bridges  (Iiefore  the  ])resent 
iron  structures  were  luit  up)  at  Warehouse 
Point.  Coiuiecticut,  and  over  the  Connecticut 
river  in  Springfield.  The  latter  task  was  com- 
pleted without  interrujjting  the  travel  of  the 
road.  Mr.  Harris  was  one  of  the  owners  of 
the  Howe  truss  bridge,  and  was  interested  in 
railroad  and  bridge  contracts  all  over  the  coun- 
try. He  built  twenty-seven  bridges  over  the 
Hartford.  Providence  &  Fishkill  road,  includ- 
ing the  bridge  over  the  Connecticut,  and  one 
of  the  works  in  which  he  always  took  pride 
was  the  great  truss  roof  over  the  depot  in 
Springfield.  He  was  also  instrumental  in  j^ro- 
curing  tiie  imiirovenient  of  Bridge  street,  bv 
raising  the  railroad,  an  enter]>rise  which  he 
rci)eatcdly  urged  ujion  President  I'ishoi).  of 
the  .Soutiieru  road.  He  was  elected  a  director 
of  the  Connecticut  River  Railroad  in  January, 
1855,  and  its  president,  to  succeed  Chester  \\'. 
Chapin,  in  March.  He  was  equipped  for  this 
])osition  by  a  thorough  ac(|uaintaiice  with  the 
tcchni(|ue  of  railroading,  and  brought  to  it  also 
a  mind  broad  cnougli  to  command  its  wider 
office  relations  and  comi)lications.  E.x-Presi- 
(leni  Chester  W.  Cha])in  said  that  in  his  work 
Mr.  Harris  "had  few  ec|uals  and  no  superior," 
and  none  will  dispute  the  claim  that  he  was 
one  of  the  leading  railroad  men  of  the  country. 
President  Harris  was  economical,  foresighted. 
failing,  when  he  failed,  on  the  side  of  caution 
and  conservatism,  rather  than  of  speculation; 
but  his  wise  prudence  was  justified  by  its  fruits. 
When  he  took  the  Connecticut  River  railroad 
its  .stock  was  quoted  at  fifty,  and  at  the  time 
of  his  death  it  sold  for  more  than  any  other 
railroad  stock  in  the  state.  Though  content 
with  the  control  of  the  railroad  from  Spring- 
field to  (irecnficld.  Mr.  Harris  by  no  means 
limited  his  work  to  it.  In  1859  he  was  selected 
to  ins])ect  the  railroads  of  Russia,  which  w-ork 
he  performed  with  such  characteristic  thorotigh- 
ness  and  honesty  as  to  be  made  the  recipient, 
beyond  his  salary,  of  a  valuable  jewel  from 
tile  Czar.  During  the  civil  war  it  will  be  re- 
membered that  at  one  time  the  United  States 
felt  compelled  to  take  possession  of  the  rail- 
roads near  the  seat  of  operations,  and  Mr. 
I  larris  was  selected  as  government  manager,  a 
post  which  he  declined.  His  adiuinistrative 
ability  was  further  recognized  by  General 
Grant,  who  induced  Mr.  Harris,  as  a  personal 
favor,  to  become  a  government  director  of  the 
I'nion  Pacific  railroad.  He  held  the  office  but 
a  short  time,  however,  being  entirely  dissatis- 
fied, as  Charles  I'rancis  Adams  Jr.  afterward 
was,  with  the  hampering  restrictions  put  upon 


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these  representatives  of  the  government.  He 
was  also  a  director  of  tlie  Vermont  \'alley  rail- 
road, and  was  interested  in  the  Ashuelbt  road 
and  (jthcr  local  enterprises.  He  was  a  director 
in  the  Springfield  I'irc  and  Marine  Insurance 
Company,  the  Cha])in  Hank,  the  Holyoke 
Water-Power  Company,  and  other  corpora- 
tions. But  the  highest  service  which  Mr.  Harris 
rendered  to  his  business  associates  over  the 
country,  and  the  best  monument  to  his  catholic 
sagacity  in  railroading,  remains  in  the  Eastern 
Railroad  Association.  This  grew  out  of  a 
conversation  with  lawyer  X.  A.  Leonard,  and 
was  develo]ied  entirely  at  Mr.  Harris's  sugges- 
tion. Railroad  men  were  greatly  annoyed  by 
suits  for  patent  infringements,  brought  against 
individual  corporations :  the  companies  rather 
than  be  put  the  e.xpense  of  fighting  such  suits 
would  yield  to  the  demand  for  a  small  royalty, 
and  great  abuses  were  developed.  Through 
-Mr.  TIarris's  efforts  the  eastern  railroads  com- 
bined into  an  association,  not  only  to  resist 
im])ro]ier  suits,  but  to  introduce  useful  patents. 
The  value  of  such  a  combination  was  seen  by 
the  western  railroads,  and  the  two  associations 
resulted,  one  with  headquarters  in  Springfield 
and  later  in  lloston,  and  the  other  in  Chicago. 
Perhapsthe  crowning  service  of  this  association, 
and  jjcculiarly  the  personal  trium]jh  of  its  long- 
time president,  was  the  defeat  of  the  Tanner 
brake  suit  for  infringement.  This  was  decided 
against  the  ])atent  by  the  United  States 
.Supreme  Court.  Mr.  Harris  organized  the 
opposition  and  carried  the  fight  from  a  defeat 
in  the  lower  court.  How  near  the  railroads 
came  to  yielding  few  know.  When  the  Tanner 
])eople  won  their  case  in  the  court  at  Chicago, 
some  of  the  roads  were  ready  to  make  terms. 
Mr.  Harris  went  to  New  York  and  spent  days 
in  fighting  this  sentiment  in  the  western  man- 
agers. Having  a  few  minutes  on  his  hands 
before  returning,  he  visited  Commodore  Van- 
derbilt  in  the  Grand  Central  Depot,  and  he  too 
was  ready  to  compromise  for  $30,000,  on  the 
ground  that  the  other  roads  were  cutting  to 
get  good  terms.  Mr.  Harris  challenged  the 
statement  in  his  positive  fashion,  hard  words 
were  bandied  for  the  moment,  but  within  ten 
minutes  the  New  York  railroad  magnate  had 
agreed  to  stand  out,  Mr.  Harris  was  on  his 
way  to  Springfield,  and  thirty  millions  were 
saved  to  the  railroads  of  the  United  States. 

The  statement  will  be  made  that  Mr.  Harris, 
in  the  face  of  all  crises,  often  became  heated 
to  the  extent  of  losing  liis  jwwer  of  calm  judg- 
ment. This  is  perhaps  true  in  a  small  sense, 
but  a  candid  survey  of  the  results  of  his  life 


will  not  bear  out  this  estimate.  Mr.  Harris 
was  a  strong  fighter,  who  sought  to  carry  the 
point  in  hand,  but  he  was  possessed  of  powers 
of  penetration  singularly  far-reaching.  He  was 
an  earl_\-  and  always  strong  opponent  of  the 
Hoosac  Tunnel,  and  the  PVanklin  county  idea 
that  the  finger  of  Providence  had  marked  out 
a  great  railway  line  up  to  Hoosac  mountain  via 
the  Deerfield  X'alley  and  beyond  it  along  the 
valley  to  the  Hudson  river,  never  impressed 
him.  He  felt,  with  another  ancient  doubter, 
that  Providence  left  the  greatest  work  undone 
when  it  refrained  from  putting  the  aforesaid 
finger  through  the  mountain.  H  there  was 
any  man  in  the  commonwealth  who  saw  the 
end  of  the  Hoosac  Tunnel  enterprise  from  its 
beginning,  it  was  Mr.  Harris.  Twenty  years 
before  he  died  he  predicted  that  the  great  bore 
would  dissipate  as  many  millions  of  dollars 
before  it  was  available  for  railroading,  .\nother 
saying  of  his  later  had  sterling  verification. 
"\Mien  it  is  done,"  said  he,  "they  may  call  the 
money  spent  on  the  tunnels  sunk,  and  the 
Mtchburg  railroad  cannot  compete  with  the 
well-equipped  and  organized  Boston  &  .Klbany 
road."  President  Stearns  afterward  made  this 
admission  about  his  property,  finding  that  the 
rent  jjaid  Massachusetts  for  the  tunnel  is  just 
about  what  his  road  ran  behind  in  the  year 
1878.  Mr.  Harris  took  a  prominent  i)art  in 
the  contiimous  war  over  the  state  ap])ropria- 
tions  for  the  timnel,  and  not  even  Frank  Bird 
was  so  thoroughly  posted  in  every  phase  of 
the  history  of  the  progress  of  the  great  enter- 
l)rise.  Mr.  Bird  owed  him  the  celebrated  ex- 
])ression  "demoralized  rock,"  which  constituted 
one  of  the  great  difficulties  of  the  work  at  one 
time.  Mr.  Harris,  describing  to  him  the  jiro- 
gress  of  the  enter])rise,  stuck  at  the  word  he 
wanted  (disintegrated),  and  finally  in  an  em- 
jjhatic  way  brought  out  "demoralized  rock,"' 
which  was  hailed  with  delight  by  the  ardent 
pamphleteer  as  just  the  expression  he  wanted, 
Mr.  Harris  is  believed  to  have  bound  every 
document  relating  to  the  timnel.  making  a  valu- 
able collection.  On  all  Xew  luigland  railroad 
matters,  including  the  comi)licated  \ermont 
chancery  questions,  Mr.  Harris  was  good 
antliority.  He  held  his  own  opinions,  but  his 
own  statements  of  fact  were  strictly  accurate. 
.•\s  a  i)leader,  whether  in  private  conver.sation 
or  |)ub!ic  debate,  he  had  a  marvelous  jiower 
of  comiirehension,  clear  statement  and  the  art 
of  ])resenting  his  poiiUs  powerfully.  This  was 
strongly  illustrated  in  the  jilan  before  the  rail- 
road conunittee  of  the  legislature  in  1869,  when 
Mr.   Harris  successfully  opposed  the  petition 


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for  a  charter  for  the  Molyoke  railroad  to 
W'estfielcl.  Mr.  Harris  disdained  the  resort  to 
lobbying,  wliich  was  then  common,  and  reHed 
on  his  presentation  of  the  case  in  person  to 
the  committee,  in  which  he  excelled  all  the 
parliamentary  attorneys.  Intense  in  his  con- 
viction that  a  commnnity  could  support  one 
railroad  more  easily  than  two.  he  over-per- 
suaded both  the  committees  and  himself  of 
the  imi)i)ssibility  of  building  the  completing 
line.  His  understimate  of  tlje  force  arraigned 
against  him  in  this  case  was  ])erha])s  the  most 
striking  error  of  his  railroad  management.  In 
all  his  public  career  as  a  public  man  and  a 
citizen  with  political  duties,  j\lr.  Harris  was 
an  ordainable  representative  of  the  class  of 
men  who  study  to  serve  the  ])eople.  Like  the 
late  Samuel  Bowles,  he  studied  i)ublic  affairs, 
made  up  his  mind  what  ought  to  be  done  for 
the  public  good,  and  went  forward  to  do  it, 
often  in  advance  of  the  suggestion  of  the  peo- 
ple themselves,  careless  whether  he  met  oppo- 
sition or  .sympathy,  never  courting  approval 
deinagogicallv.  and  firm  in  the  consciencious- 
ness  that  he  knew,  better  than  those  whom  he 
would  serve,  what  was  needed  for  their  wel- 
fare. The  peoi)le  never  know  what  such  men 
have  done  for  them  until  long  after  the  strife 
and  controver.sy  of  the  moment,  when  they 
begin  to  reap  the  fruits  of  the  superior  fore- 
sight by  which  they  had  reluctantly  been 
guided.  Mr.  Harris's  services  to  the  ])eople 
were  peculiar  and  various.  Tn  material  inter- 
ests he  always  opposed  the  efforts  of  coal,  oil 
and  telegraph  speculators  to  get  a  hold  in 
Springfield  and  prey  upon  the  community.  He 
was  solicitous  to  give  the  city's  material,  no 
less  than  its  moral,  interests,  a  substantial  char- 
acter. In  ])oIitics  he  was  a  Re])ublican  of  inde- 
pendent breadth.  In  the  early  days  of  the 
party,  he  rendered  efficient  service,  with  his 
partner,  Mr.  Rriggs.  in  the  effort  to  save  Kan- 
sas as  a  free  state,  and  was  an  active  member 
of  the  Kansas  Emigrant  Aid  .Association.  Their 
office  was  at  one  time  the  depot  for  arms  for 
the  Kansas  settlers,  which  were  sent  out  in 
detached  parts,  the  gun-barrels  at  one  time, 
the  locks  at  another,  so  that  if  either  consign- 
ment fell  into  the  hands  of  "border  ruffians" 
the  booty  would  be  useless.  Knowing  the 
Springfield  wool  dealer.  John  Brown.  Mr. 
Harris  was  naturally  one  of  the  first  to  engage 
in  raising  money  for  his  assistance  in  Kansas. 
Mr.  Harris  served  with  credit  in  the  legisla- 
ture of  1859-63-69.  and  as  mayor  of  Spring- 
field in  i8r)0.  "in  1872  he  was  elected  one  of 
the  first  txjard  of  water  commissioners,  and  he 


bore  a  prominent  jiart  in  the  investigations 
relative  to  the  source  of  water  sup|)ly.  as  well 
as  the  final  cluiice  of  the  Ludlow  reservoir,  and 
in  the  carrying  out  of  the  enterprise  by  which 
the  city  secured  its  abundant  and  healthful  sup- 
l)ly  of  water. 

It  was  as  the  great  economist  of  Springfield, 
however,  that  Mr.  Harris  rendered  the  most 
signal  service,  not  only  to  the  community,  but 
to  the  whole  country.  In  1873,  at  the  call  for 
retrenchment.  Mr.  Harris  tot)k  service  in  the 
common  council  from  \N'ard  Four,  and  for 
three  years  and  during  all  the  last  year  of 
Mayor  Wight's  administration  he  carried  the 
government  burden  on  his  soul  day  and  night. 
The  shrinkage  in  values  had  only  then  just 
begun,  and  Mr.  Harris  incessantly  and  upon 
every  occasion,  in  private  and  in  ])ublic  life, 
told  men  they  would  live  to  see  Main  street 
])roperty  selling  for  half  what  it  was  then  held 
at.  and  that  if  taxes  were  not  reduced,  not 
only  Springfield  but  New  York  and  nearly  all 
the  cities  in  the  country  would  decline  into 
repudiation.  He  was  regarded  by  many  as  a 
visionary  and  a  dreamer,  by  others  with  dread, 
as  they  feared  to  face  the  truth :  but  time 
proved  a  cruel  vindicator  of  his  judgment,  so 
far  as  the  valuation  of  jiroperty  is  concerned, 
and  the  retrenchment  which  he  advi.sed  saved 
the  city  from  the  alternative  of  re])U(liation. 
He  devoted  himself  to  the  campaign  of  econ- 
omy with  that  thorough  scholarship  which  was 
his  ready  resource.  He  analyzed  the  appro- 
priations for  successive  years,  showed  pre- 
cisely where  the  increase  had  been,  and  demon- 
strated the  preposterous  fallacy  underlying 
valuations,  by  showing  the  absurdity  of  pre- 
stuning  any  such  increase  in  the  accumulation 
of  wealth  per  capita.  He  pricked  the  bubble 
of  inflation  estimates,  courageously  ajiplied  the 
knife  of  retrenchment  to  the  twinging  nerves 
of  the  public  service,  reduced  e.\penditiu-e  and 
taxation  one-half,  and  placed  the  city  early 
amid  her  contemporaries  on  the  hard-pan, 
ready  to  take  advantage  of  a  new  era  of  pros- 
perity. He  restored  prudence  to  a  spendthrift 
jjeople  and  stayed  the  hand  of  the  tax  gatherer. 
.Mr.  Harris's  labors  were  of  a  thorougldy  pub- 
lic character.  Ife  often  seemed  personal,  and 
there  was  no  respect  in  which  he  was  worse 
misunderstood  or  felt  more  keenly  the  po])idar 
misapprehension.  If  he  was  ever  personal,  it 
was  because  he  made  the  public  cause  his  own. 
He  was  wounded  by  personal  s[)ite  and  malig- 
nity freely  made  against  him  in  connection 
with  the  controversy  over  the  salary  of  an 
official,  who,  in  his  opinion,  forced  his  services 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


upon  the  city  and  then  demanded  compensa- 
tion for  thein.  The  settlement  of  the  right 
principle  involved  was  all  he  ever  contended 
for.  Xot  long  before  his  death,  in  speaking 
of  his  amicable  relationship  with  the  men  he 
had  met  in  the  world,  he  said:  "I  have  been  a 
man  of  fight.  Since  I  was  thirty  years  old  and 
came  to  have  responsibilities  of  my  own.  there 
has  not  been  a  day  in  which  I  have  not  had 
some  controversy  on  my  hands,  some  great 
litigation,  some  railroad,  telegraph  or  insur- 
ance quarrel,  or  some  public  question ;  but, 
fighting  character  as  I  am,  I  never  raised  my 
hand  against  a  man,  or  had  a  hand  raised 
against  me,  never  sued  a  man  nor  have  been 
sued,  nor  had  any  lawsuit  in  my  private 
affairs."  On  jiublic  questions  he  fought  alone 
as  well  as  with  a  regiment,  but  no  one  can  look 
upon  bis  character  and  associate  with  it  any 
rancor  and  selfishness,  and  the  tranquil  flow  of 
his  private  affairs  would  show  that  such  traits 
formed  no  part  of  his  character,  even  if  the 
generosity  of  his  public  bestowals  and  labors 
did  not  richly  justify  a  more  positive  vindica- 
tion. That  he  was  always  solicitous  to  pre- 
serve amicable  personal  relations  with  those 
from  whom  he  differed  most  radically,  has 
been  often  exemplified  by  his  sending  for 
opponents,  after  the  heat  of  the  contest,  to 
meet  him  socially.  He  was  utterly  devoid  of 
the  pai)ish  pretension  which  sometimes  accom- 
panies great  personal  force.  Going  into  the 
Kc publican  office  once  in  the  early  days  of  the 
Wight  administration,  he  was  met  by  Mr. 
Bowles,  in  his  free  and  ea.sy  way,  with  a  jovial 
hail.  "Well,  how  are  you.  Boss  Reformer?" 
Mr.  Harris's  deei)ly  bronzed  and  leonine  fea- 
tures blushed  like  a  girl's  at  the  compliment, 
and  his  mcimentary  embarrassment  revealed 
the  inmate  modesty  and  genuine  self-abnega- 
tion of  the  man. 

Mr.  Harris  was  deeply  concerned  with  the 
city  library,  and  was  president  of  the  corpora- 
tion at  his  death.  When  the  library  building 
had  been  completed  at  an  expense  of  $100,000. 
and  there  still  remained  a  debt  of  $25,000  to 
clear,  the  task  of  raising  the  money  was 
intrusted  to  Mr.  Harris,  and  was  done  with 
his  usual  z.eal  and  jicrsistence.  He  was  able 
to  report  at  the  next  annual  meeting  that  the 
entire  amount  had  been  raised.  He  gave 
$10,500  to  the  library  fund.  He  was  a  liberal 
contributor  also  to  the  Weslcyan  University, 
his  alma  mater,  and  was  never  slow  to  any 
])ul)lic  charity  which  he  was  convinced  was 
doing  g(ind  commensurate  with  the  outlay. 

The  duties  and  responsibilities  of  life  were 


by  no  one  more  deeply  felt  and  considered 
than  by  Mr.  Harris.  He  was  eminently  reli- 
gious in  his  feelings,  without  being  supersti- 
tious and  bigoted.  When  he  went  to  Spring- 
field to  live  he  attended  the  First  Church,  but 
subsequently  joined  the  South  Church,  and 
continued  his  connection  with  it  to  the  close 
of  his  life.  He  was  a  member  of  Judge  Chap- 
man's Bible  class  for  several  years  until  the 
Judge  left  the  city,  and  then  he  became  its 
teacher.  His  exjjlanaiions  of  obscure  passages 
were  always  plain  and  forcible,  and  the  many 
young  and  elderly  people  who  were  at  various 
times  members  of  his  class  look  back  with 
pleasure  upon  their  connection  with  it.  In  the 
latter  part  of  187 1  he  moved  with  others,  for 
a  better  place  of  worshi]),  and  went  earnestly 
iiuo  the  work  of  soliciting  funds  for  a  new 
church  edifice.  He  gave  liberally  of  his  own 
means,  and  was  instrumental  in  securing  many 
subscriptions  to  the  building  fund.  He  was 
appointed  a  member  of  the  building  commit- 
tee :  but  as  a  more  expensive  building  than  to 
him  seemed  wise  was  generally  desired  he 
withdrew  from  it.  He,  however,  continued  to 
give  sucl^  advice  and  assistance  as  was  needed, 
and  maintained  friendly  interest  in  the  work 
until  the  building  was  finished.  In  1874  Mr. 
Harris  made  a  second  trip  to  Europe,  going 
to  London  to  assist  in  the  making  a  sale  of  the 
right  to  use  the  vacuum  brake  upon  English 
railroads.  His  daughter  Lillie  and  his 
daughter-in-law  Ida  accompanied  him.  They 
sailed  from  New  York  on  August  i,  and 
embarked  for  home  on  September  15,  having 
spent  most  of  the  time  in  London  and  Paris. 
His  last  visit  to  the  Old  World  was  in  1877, 
when  he  went  out  to  get  rest  from  business 
cares.  He  sailed  from  Xew  York  on  July  18, 
and  was  accom])anied  by  his  wife,  his  daugh- 
ters Lillie  and  Ktla.  and  Rev.  Dr.  Bucking- 
ham. He  remained  abroad  throughout  the 
summer  months. 

It  seems  hardly  proper  to  close  this  article 
without  cpioting  some  of  the  things  that  have 
been  said  regarding  Mr.  Harris's  traits  of 
character.  To  those  who  met  him  for  a  special 
purpose,  he  ai)i)eared  gifted  as  a  talker.  His 
stalenieuts  were  clothed  in  language  which 
conveyed  his  precise  meaning,  and  were  made 
without  hesitation,  but  in  reality  his  conversa- 
tional powers  were  not  large.  He  could  state 
a  fact  clearly,  and  easily  express  any  conclu- 
sion he  had  drawn  from  it:  but  he  could  not 
entertain  a  comi)any  as  an  after-diimer  talker. 
He  needed  the  inspiration  of  a  great  cause  to 
quicken  his  thoughts.     He  seldom  made  a  set 


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speech  before  a  public  audience,  but  when 
called  out  on  any  question  to  wliicli  he  had 
previously  given  thought,  he  could  talk  well. 
In  this  way  he  often  surprised  his  friends  by 
his  array  of  facts  and  the  diversity  of  his 
information.  His  taste  for  literature  leaned 
strongly  toward  the  substantial,  from  which  he 
could  gain  information.  That  which  served 
only  to  amuse  had  no  interest  to  him.  Scien- 
tific information  he  always  treasured  for  the 
benefit  it  might  be  to  him  in  the  future.  In 
business  he  was  active  and  aggressive,  and 
whatever  he  found  for  his  hands  to  do,  he 
took  hold  of  with  all  his  might.  He  was  ready 
for  a  conflict  whenever  he  considered  the 
occasion  demanded  it,  and  the  determined 
spirit  which  he  manifested  often  misled  his 
opponents  and  the  public,  who  knew  him  only 
through  the  newspapers  or  from  the  reports  of 
those  who  o])posed  his  measures.  It  has  been 
supposed  that  such  a  man  must  of  necessity 
carry  the  same  spirit  to  his  home.  Tn  this 
instance  nothing  could  be  further  from  the 
truth.  Xo  one  enjoyed  his  family  more  than 
he,  or  could  be  more  yielding  to  their  wants 
and  wishes.  The  cares  of  business  were  laid 
aside  when  he  left  his  office,  and  there  came 
that  genial  flow  of  gocjd  feeling  which  made 
his  home  agreeable  and  delightful  to  all.  lie 
entered  heartily  into  whatever  interested  his 
family.  His  wife  bore  this  testimony  of  him: 
"I  lived  with  him  thirty-six  years,  and  until  he 
was  sick  I  do  not  remember  that  I  ever  saw 
him  impatient.  He  never  spoke  a  harsh  word 
to  me.  or  complained  of  anything  which  I  did. 
He  was  often  very  much  in  earnest,  but  I 
should  never  call  him  impulsive.  He  seemed 
to  think  twice  always  before  speaking." 

His  stature  was  five  feet  seven  inches,  and 
his  weight  when  in  good  health  was  one  hun- 
dred fifty  pounds.  His  eyes  were  gray,  and 
his  hair  in  early  manhood  was  dark  brown. 
He  was  always  neatly  and  plainly  dressed,  and 
there  was  never  any  attemi)t  at  display  in  his 
personal  appearance.  He  was  remarkably 
systematic  in  his  affairs.  Papers  relating  to 
every  business  transaction  were  carefully  i)re- 
served,  and  placed  where  he  could  find  them 
at  any  time.  When  he  went  to  college,  he 
made  an  inventory  of  every  article  in  his  pos- 
session, including  clothing,  books,  etc.,  which 
is  still  among  his  papers.  His  accounts  at  that 
time  were  kept  with  strict  accuracy,  and  they 
show  the  nature  of  each  purchase.  He  did  not 
believe  in  charging  even  small  items  as  "Sun- 
dries." He  began  keeping  a  journal  while  in 
college,   entering    only    the    most    important 


occurrences.  This  habit  he  kept  up  to  con- 
siderable extent  through  life.  When  he  went 
on  a  journey  he  kept  a  record  of  all  his 
experiences  and  observations.  Wastefulness, 
wherever  he  saw  it.  even  in  uniin])ortant  mat- 
ters, annoyed  him  exceedingly.  He  was  by  no 
means  penurious.  Whatever  was  necessary 
was  right ;  beyond  that,  all  that  was  used  he 
regarded  as  waste,  and  whoever  showed  waste- 
fulness in  small  things  was  sure  to  in  larger 
ones.  Mr.  Harris  was  not  what  might  be 
called  a  humorous  man,  though  he  appreciated 
keen  wit.  He  could  not  see  any  fun  where 
most  others  could.  He  never  matle  ])uns  or 
jokes;  could  not  bear  mimicry  or  imitation, 
and  never  encouraged  it  in  any  member  of  his 
family.  He  was  choice  in  the  use  of  language, 
and  never  uttered  anything  that  even  sounded 
like  an  oath.  He  never  used  a  by-word  or 
slang  i)hrase,  and  "fudge"  was  the  strongest 
term  he  used  to  express  the  utmost  contempt. 
1  le  never  used  tobacco  in  any  form,  having 
promised  his  father  in  early  youth  that  he 
would  not ;  an<l  he  never  formed  the  habit  of 
taking  intoxicating  drinks.  He  never  spent 
anv  time  idling  in  saloons  and  bar-rooms.  His 
motto  in  regard  to  forming  any  bad  habit  was 
this  :  "It  is  much  easier  not  to  begin  than  it  is 
to  break  off."  He  placed  great  confidence  in 
those  who  had  expressed  friendship  and  given 
evidence  of  sincerity.  Nothing  grieved  him 
more  than  to  find  himself  betrayed  by  one  in 
whom  he  had  confided.  The  true  Puritan 
spirit  was  largely  rei)resented  in  Mr.  Harris's 
life  and  exam])le.  and  the  good  such  men  do 
can  not  be  measured  by  the  generation  familiar 
witii  their  works.  The  world  counts  success 
only  from  immediate  results;  but  the  success 
which  endures  is  that  which  conies  with  the 
maturity  of  time.  His  life  was  full  of  activity 
and  usefulness — a  bright  and  shining  example  ; 
and  his  good  name  will  be  an  inheritance  to 
the  coming  generations  bound  to  him  by  the 
ties  of  kindred. 

Daniel  L.  Harris  and  Harriet  Octavia  Cor- 
son were  married  at  the  .Mansion  House,  in 
Albany,  New  York,  May  25,  1843,  by  Kev. 
J.  N.  Campbell,  pastor  of  the  l-'irst  Presby- 
terian Church.  She  was  born  in  Canastota, 
New  York.  January  18,  1824.  and  died  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  July  10.  i()04,  aged 
eighty  years.  Her  i)arents  were  James  and 
Sarah  (Evans)  Otis  Corson.  ICleven  children 
were  born  of  this  marriage:  i.  Edgar  Lester, 
July  26.  1844,  died  December  ().  1846.  2-3. 
Twin  daughters,  August  9,  1846,  died  .August 
10,  1846.    4.  Corinnc  Lester,  August  31,  1848; 


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married   Edward   S.    Brewer,   of   Springfield, 
liine  2.  1869;  children:    Edith  Clement,  mar- 
ried Franklin  Weston,  of  Dalton,  Massachu- 
setts; Edward  Harris,  married  Amy  Waller, 
of  Chicago;  Maude  Porter,  married  Howard 
Lang,   of    Boston.      5.    Harriet    Buckingham. 
September  15.  1850:  died  November  2,  1852. 
6.  Azariah,  .\iarch  8.  1853,  died  February  7, 
1892;  married  Ida  C.  Kibbec,  of  Springfield, 
Inly  4,  1874:  children:    Harriet  Esther,  mar- 
ried    Edward     Ritzenthaler,     and     lives     in 
Auburn,  New   York;  Anibia  Boody,  married 
James  Hooker,  and  lives  in  Rochester,  New 
York;    Daniel    Lester,    died    aged    fourteen; 
Margaret  Ida,  married  Lsaac  Allison,  and  lives 
in  Elmira,  New  Y'ork.    7.  S.  Jeannie,  April  26, 
1854.    married.    September    24,    1879,    Henry 
Kingsley  I'.aker,  and  lives  in  Springfield;  chil- 
dren :    Corinne  I  larris  :  Kingsley.  died  October 
2<),   1903;  Lester  Harris.     8.   Lillie  Johnston, 
January  26,  1856;  married  Damon  N.  Coats, 
May    16,    1883,   and   died  January   20,    1887; 
child:    Sylvia  Marguerite,  married  Robert  C. 
Fenner.  'February    12,    1908,    and    resides    in 
Brookline,  Massachusetts.     9.  Ambia  Corson. 
May  28,   1859,  resides  in  the  old  homestead. 
10. 'Henrietta  Clark.  June  20,  1861  ;  married, 
October  10,  1883,  William  Allen  Harris,  and 
resides    in    Springfield,    Massachusetts;    chil- 
dren :   Henrietta  Corson,  William  Allen,  Ches- 
ley   Gardner,    Hart    Lester,    Daniel    Lester, 
Anibia  Harris  and  Harriet  Octavia.     11.  Cor- 
nelia Hawkins,  July  10,  1866;  married,  Octo- 
ber  10.   1889,   Edwin  R.   Lancaster;  no  chil- 
dren ;  they  live  in  New  Y'ork  City. 

(For  first  gener.ition  see  preceding  sketch). 

(  11  )  William,  son  of  Thomas 
HARRIS  and  Elizabeth  Harris,  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Charlestown,  Rowley 
and  Middktown.  In  1652  he  sold  John  Green- 
land fifteen  acres  left  by  Deacon  William  Stet- 
son, his  stepfather.  His  wife,  Edith  Harris, 
was  admitted  to  the  church  30  (9)  1642,  and 
died  August  5,  1685.  He  married  (second) 
Lydia,  widow  of  Joseph  Smith.  Wyman  makes 
no  mention  of  this  last.  Savage  says  his  chil- 
dren were:  Hannah.  Mary,  .Martha,  Elizabeth 
and  Patience. 

(HI)  John,  of  Charlestown.  who  may  have 
been  a  son  of  William  and  ICdith  Harris,  has 
left  no  record  of  the  date  of  his  birth,  marriage 
or  death.  The  records  show  that  in  1658  he 
was  granted  fifteen  acres  of  woods  and  two 
and  one-half  acres  of  cow  commons.  He  mar- 
ried .\my,  daughter  of  Joscpli  Hills.    She  was 


admitted  to  the  church  9  (6)  1656.  Their 
children  were :  Samuel,  John,  Thomas  (died 
young  ) ,  Thomas  and  Joseph. 

(IV)  Thomas  (2),  fourth  son  of  John  and 
Amy  (Hills)  Harris,  was  born  March  18,  and 
baptized  29  (3)  1664,  and  died  October  5, 
1747,  in  the  eighty-fourth  year  of  his  age,  as 
appears  on  his  gravestone.  He  was  taxed 
1 727- 1 737,  and  his  tax  was  abated  February 
5,  1739;  he  was  also  taxed  1741-1746.  He 
appears  as  a  party  to  three  deeds.  His  will 
dated  February  I,  1736,  was  probated  October 
19,  1747.  He  was  a  tailor.  He  married  (first) 
February  25,  1686,  Hepsiba  Crosswell,  born 
May  20,  1666,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Pris- 
cilla  (Upham)  Crosswell,  who  was  baptized  6 
(12)  1686.,  admitted  to  the  church  June  i, 
1718,  and  died  December  3,  1718  (or  as  the 
record  states — 1717).  He  married  (second) 
August  26,  1719,  Eleanor  Miller,  who  was 
admitted  to  the  church  .August  13,  1721,  and 
died  September  8,  1734,  as  stated  on  the  foot- 
stone  at  her  grave.  He  married  (third)  pub- 
lished March  22,  1735,  Mary  Dana,  who  mar- 
ried (second)  1848,  John  Brewster.  His  chil- 
dren were:  Thomas.  Hepzibah,  William  (died 
young).  Silence,  Ebenezer,  \\'illiam.  John,  Abi- 
gail, Rachel  and  Elizabeth. 

(V)  Thomas  (3),  eldest  child  of  Thomas 
(2)  and  Hepsiba  (Crosswell)  Harris,  was 
born  in  Ch.arlcstown,  November  13,  1686.  bap- 
tized 6  ( 12)  1687,  and  died  probably  1768.  He 
was  taxed  as  "Thomas  Jr."  1727-1746,  and 
as  "Thomas"  1748-1766.  His  name  appears 
on  record  both  as  grantor  and  grantee  in  vari- 
ous transfers  of  land,  1715-21-24-32-33.  The 
last  is  a  purchase  with  Mr.  Brigden  of  Benja- 
min Lawrence  of  a  wharf  near  the  ferry. 
.'\dministration  of  his  estate  was  granted  to 
his  son  John,  April  15,  1766.  The  estate  was 
assigned"  to  son  John  and  daughter  Martha  in 
1768,  but  there  is  no  invention  or  description 
iif  it.  He  married,  June  3.  1708,  Mary  Dow.se, 
born  in  Charlestown.  .April  17,  1686.  daughter 
of  Deacon  Samuel  and  Faith  fjewett)  Dowse. 
Their  children  were:  Martha,  .Mary,  Thomas. 
.\nn;i.   \iA\u  and  Jonathan. 

(  \  1  I  John  (2).  second  .son  of  Thomas  (3) 
.ind  .Mary  (Dowse)  Harris,  was  baptized  June 
I.  17(8,  in  Charlestown,  and  died  November 
I,  1780.  He  was  a  potter,  .September  20.  1741, 
he  was  admitted  to  the  church.  1  le  was  taxed 
1741-1773.  and  was  the  seventy-ninth  in  point 
of  valuation  in  the  town.  He  bought  various 
p.ircels  of  land  on  Charles  river.  .April  3, 
1782,  administration  was  granted  on  his  estate 


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to  his  son  John ;  the  inventory  mentions  man- 
sion and  lane,  two  acres  of  pasture,  and  a 
large  ]>crsonal  estate.     He  married.  June   12. 

1740,  Mellicent  Rand,  horn  June  3.  baptized 
June  4.1721.  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Melli- 
cent ( E-terbrook )  Rand,  of  Charlestown,  who 
was   admitted   to   the   church    September   20, 

1741.  Her  gravestone  at  Maiden  bears  the 
inscription:  "Mildred,  wife  of  John  Harris, 
died  at  Maiden.  June  20,  1775.  ae.  53."  He 
married  (second)  March  19,  1778,  Elizabeth 
Miller,  of  Mcdford,  widow  of  Captain  John 
Miller,  of  Charlestown.  She  married  (third) 
Richard  Devcns,  and  died  November  i,  1780, 
aged, as  the  gravestone  states,  sixty- four.  John's 
children  were:  Mellicent,  Mary  (died  young), 
Mary.  John.  Thomas,  Jonathan  and  Hannah. 
all  by  wife  Mellicent. 

(VH)  Captain  Thomas  (4).  second  son  of 
John  (2)  and  Mellicent  (Rand)  Harris,  was 
born  in  Charlestown.  October  15,  1749,  and 
died  in  Boston,  June  14  or  15,  1814,  aged 
sixty-five.  He  was  a  sea  captain.  He  and  his 
wife  and  five  children  are  in  the  census  of 
1789.  He  married.  August  18,  1776,  Mary 
Frothingham,  who  was  baptized  in  Charles- 
town. July  14.  1754.  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Mary  ( Whittemore)  Frothingham.  Their 
children  were:  Mary  (died  young).  Thomas 
(died  young).  Thomas.  John,  Mary,  Eliza, 
Sarah,  George  and  Harriet. 

(\'HI)  Captain  Thomas  ("5),  second  son 
of  Captain  Thomas  (4)  and  ]\rary  (Froth- 
ingham )  Harris,  was  horn,  as  he  has  written, 
"in  Boston,  May  14,  1779,  on  the  southwest 
corner  of  Winter  and  Common,  now  Tremont 
street,  where  the  ^\■itwell  House  now  stands." 
He  died  in  Brattleboro,  Vermont,  August  18, 
1840.  He  was  a  sea  captain  and  made  many 
long  voyages  to  various  ports  of  the  world. 
and  was  also  a  merchant.  .Among  the  rjuite 
numerous  land  transactions  to  which  he  was  a 
party  are  a  transfer  to  S.  Knowles  and 
Thomas  Harris  by  Thomas  Robbins,  of  a 
lot  on  the  square  in  1815.  In  1816,  S. 
Knowles  and  Thomas  Harris  granted  the 
same  lot  to  the  town  of  Charlestown  for 
the  site  of  a  town  hall.  .After  quitting  the  sea 
he  was  sent  by  certain  marine  insurance  com- 
panies, in  1835.  as  their  agent,  to  take  care  of 
and  repair  vessels  damaged  by  storms,  col- 
lisions, &c.,  on  which  they  had  insurance,  hav- 
ing his  residence  in  Cowes,  Isle  of  Wight, 
England.  He  filled  this  position  till  the  panic 
of  1837  and  then  returned  to  this  country  and 
settled  at  Brattleborough,  Wrmont,  where  he 


died.  In  a  manuscrijit  he  left.  Thomas  Harris 
states,  concerning  his  grand fatlu'r.  Ca]>tain 
Thomas  Harris.  "He  lived  on  a  line  hotwecn 
Co|)p's  Hill  in  Boston  and  Bunker  Hill  in 
Charlestown,  with  a  steep  sand  beach  in  front 
of  his  house,  a  little  to  tlie  eastward  of  a  creek 
that  led  into  the  Town  dock,  so  called.  He 
was  a  potter,  and  owner  of  vessels  in  the  cod 
fisheries,  and  owned  a  number  of  stores:  and 
in  winter  when  the  vessels  could  not  go  on  the 
Banks,  he  sent  them  to  the  southward  with 
eartlunware  and  notions.  *  *  *  ^  believe 
he  and  Richard  Devens,  known  as  Commissary 
Devens,  married  sisters^  for  their  second 
wives."  Captain  Thomas  (5)  Harris  married 
(first)  Lucinda  Smith  Falcs,  published  Decem- 
ber 2,  1804.  He  married  (second)  Abigail 
Chapin.  who  was  born  in  Orange,  Massachu- 
setts, July  2,  1789.  and  died  in  JetTrey,  Kew 
Hampshire.  August  3,  1870.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Oliver  and  Mary  (Jones)  Chapin, 
of  I'.rattleboro,  Vermont.  She  was  admitted 
to  the  second  (Unitarian)  church  April  7, 
1S33.  Their  children  were:  George  Oliver, 
Charles  Chapin,  Thomas  Edwin,  Mary  Chapin, 
Frederick  Harper.  Julia  Jones,  Frank  Orne, 
Soi^hia  Orne,  all  except  the  first  ba]Jtizc(l  at 
the  Second  Cinirch,  March  17,  1833. 

(TX)  Frederick  Harper,  fourth  son  of  Cap- 
tain Thomas  (5)  and  Abigail  (Chapin)  Harris, 
was  born  in  Charlestown,  June  22,  1823.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city 
until  his  parents  went  to  Cowes,  when  he 
accompanied  them.  Soon  afterward  he  was 
sent  to  Hamburg.  Germany,  where  he  studied 
two  and  a  half  years,  and  among  other  things 
acquired  a  practical  knowledge  of  tlie  (jerman 
language.  On  the  return  of  his  parents  from 
Cowes  he  came  back  to  America,  and  when  a 
little  more  than  fifteen  years  of  age  (Decem- 
ber, 1838)  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  old  .Spring- 
field Bank.  He  remained  with  that  institution 
about  six  years,  afterward  hccanie  cashier  of 
the  Pynchon  bank.  He  attended  faithfully  to 
his  duties  there  till  March  22,  i8'>4.  when  the 
Third  National  Bank  of  Springfield  was 
opened,  when  he  became  cashier,  and  from  that 
time  till  now  he  has  been  connected  with  what 
is  now  (1909)  the  strf)ngest  bank  in  the  city, 
and  since  iSSC)  filled  the  dfiice  of  president. 
This  bank,  started  in  "War  times,"  with  a 
ca])ital  of  .$500,000,  has.  through  the  wise 
management  of  its  officers.  ])aid  an  annual 
dividend  of  ten  per  cent,  and  now  has  a  surplus 
of  over  half  a  million,  deposits  of  nearly  four 
millions,  and  its  stock  sells  at  225  per  cent  of 


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its  face  value.  Mr.  Harris  began  banking 
seventy  years  ago,  and  has  probably  been 
longer  in  the  banking  business  than  any  other 
man  in  the  state  of  Massachusetts.  His  atten- 
tion has  been  chiefly  to  banking,  but  he  has 
also  taken  ])art  in  the  management  of  other 
concerns.  1  le  has  been  a  director  in  the  Spring- 
field Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  Company  for 
about  fifty  years,  and  is  now  its  oldest  director 
both  in  age  and  in  length  of  service.  He  was 
a  director  of  the  Connecticut  River  railroad 
for  years,  being  elevated  at  the  same  time 
that  Xehcmiah  Leonard  was  made  president. 
He  was  a  director  of  the  Hampden  Insurance 
Com[)any,  which  broke  in  consequence  of  the 
great  drain  made  on  it  to  pay  its  losses  in  the 
great  fire  in  I'ortland,  Maine,  in  1866.  He 
was  first  a  W  hig  and  then  a  Republican,  cast 
his  first  presidential  vote  for  Henry  Clay,  and 
his  first  Re]niblican  presidential  vote  for  John 
C.  Fremont.  He  filled  the  office  of  alderman 
several  times,  but  has  never  held  any  other 
jKilitical  office.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Xayasset, 
the  Winthrop  and  the  Country  Clubs.  In  the 
course  of  years  he  has  taken  an  occasional 
respite  from  work  to  devote  to  travel  and 
recreation,  and  has  visited  many  of  the  beauty 
spots  and  jileasure  resorts  of  the  United  States 
including  California  and  Florida,  and  the 
I'iahama  Islands,  and  portions  of  Canada. 

Frederick  H.  Harris  married,  January  26, 
1846,  Martha  Asenath  Bliss,  who  was  born 
April  I,  1825,  and  died  January  22,  1890;  she 
was  the  daughter  of  Theodore  Bliss  of  Spring- 
field, born  March  4,  1789,  died  December  13. 
1844,  and  his  wife  Juliet  Henrietta  Mann,  died 
Ajiril  g,  1879.  (See  Bliss).  The  children  of 
this  marriage  are  two:  I.  Mary  Chapin,  born 
in  S])ringfield,  March  19,  1847,  died  in  Florence. 
Italy,  January  28,  1900;  she  married  (first) 
February  18,  1873.  Fdward  Whitney  Lambert, 
merchant,  of  West  Newton,  son  of  Henry  and 
Katherine  (Porter)  Lambert.  He  died  of 
consumption  at  Aitken.  South  Carolina.  March 

25,  1874.     She  married    (second)    Sejitcmber 

26,  1877,  Charles  Theodore  Farlow,  merchant, 
of  Xewton,  son  of  John  Smith  and  Nancy 
Wright  (  I'llanchard  )  h'arlow ;  he  died  in  Flor- 
ence. Italy,  h'ebruary  7,  1900.  2.  Frederick, 
born  September  26,  1853:  married,  September 
3.  1879  Emily,  eldest  child  of  David  M.  and 
Eliza  (Wright)  Osborne,  of  .Auburn,  .\ew 
York.  They  have  two  children :  Florence 
Osborn.  born  in  Springfield,  November  12, 
181S2:  Helen  (  )sborne,  born  in  .Sjiringfield. 
May  14.  1SX8,  .Mr."  Harris  is  now  (iiK>;i 
cashier  of  llir  Third   Xatiimal   Bank. 


William  Richard  Cutter,  author 
CUTTER  and  editor,  is  a  direct  descend- 
ant of  Elizabeth  (i)  Cutter,  a 
widow,  who  came  to  New  England,  about 
1640.  and  died  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
January  10.  1663,  (1663-64).  In  her  will  she 
gave  her  age  as  about  eighty-seven  years,  but 
as  she  lived  about  two  years  longer,  she  was 
at  death  aged  about  eighty-nine.  She  dwelt 
with  her  daughter  in  Cambridge  about  twenty 
years.  Three  of  her  children  emigrated  to  this 
country:  William,  who  after  living  in  .Amer- 
ica about  seventeen  years,  returned  to  his 
former  home  in  Xewcastle-upon-Tyne,  in  Eng- 
land :  Richard,  the  founder  of  the  Cutter 
family  in  .America;  and  Barbara,  her  daugh- 
ter, who  came  to  this  country  unmarried,  and 
later  married  Mr.  Elijah  Corlet,  the  school- 
master of  Cambridge.  In  a  relation  Elizabeth 
made  before  the  church  she  is  called  "Old 
Goodwife  Cutter,"  and  she  makes  a  statement 
to  the  effect  that  she  was  born  in  some  small 
place,  without  a  church,  near  Xewcastle-upon- 
Tyne.  -She  "knew  not"  her  father,  who  may 
have  died  in  her  infancy,  but  her  mother  sent 
her,  when  she  was  old  enough,  to  Xewcastle, 
where  she  was  placed  in  a  "godly  family," 
where  she  remained  for  about  seven  years, 
when  she  entered  another  where  the  religious 
privileges  were  less.  Her  husband  died,  and  she 
was  sent  to  Cambridge,  Xew  England,  and 
came  thither  in  a  time  of  sickness  and  through 
many  sad  troubles  by  sea.  What  her  maiden 
name  was  is  not  known  to  the  present  writer. 
From  her  own  statement  the  inference  is 
drawn  that  her  mother  at  least  was  in  humble 
circumstances.  She  had  with  her  in  Cambridge 
a  sister  or  a  sister-in-law,  a  widow  named  Mrs. 
Isabella  Wilkinson,  who  undoubtedly  was 
from  Xewcastle-upon-Tyne.  There  is  more 
known  of  the  Cutters  in  Xewcastle,  where  it 
is  said  an  English  antiquary  has  discovered  the 
name  of  the  grandfather  of  W'illiam  and  Rich- 
ar<l  Cutter,  and  this  information  is  as  yet 
withheld  from  us. 

(  II  )  Riciiard  Cutter,  son  of  Elizabeth,  died 
in  Cambridge,  at  the  age  of  about  seventy-two, 
June  16,  ifK)3.  His  brother  William  had  died 
in  England  before  this  time.  Richard  was 
under  age  and  probably  unmarried  when  he 
came  to  .America.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to 
build  a  house  outside  of  the  settlement,  in  that 
l)art  of  Cambrielge  called  Menotomy.  and  his 
house  for  defense  against  the  Indians  was 
furnished  with  flankers.  In  December,  1675. 
ill'  sent  four  young  men  of  his  family — his  two 
sons  E])hraini  and  (iershom,  and  his  stepsons 


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Isaac  and  Jacol)  Amsdcn — to  tlie  severe  cam- 
paign in  Rhode  Island  whicli  culminated  in 
the  Xarragansett  tight,  in  which  a  great  jiart 
of  the  Xew  England  military  were  engaged. 
Richard  Cutter  was  twice  married :  First, 
about  1644.  to  Elizabeth  Williams,  who  died 
>[arch  5,  1661-2.  aged  about  forty-two  years 
(gravestone)  :  she  was  the  daughter  of  Robert 
Williams  of  Roxbury  and  his  wife.  Elizabeth 
(Stalham)  Williams.  .Second.  February  14, 
1662-3.  to  Frances  (Perriman)  .\msden.  par- 
entage unknown ;  she  was  the  widow  of  Isaac 
Amsden.  and  survived  Richard  Cutter's  de- 
cease, and  died  before  July  10,  1728.  Four- 
teen children,  seven  by  each  wife. 

Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  and  child  <if 
Richard  Cutter,  married  William  Robinson, 
and  several  of  lier  descendants  became  famous 
as  governors.  She  probably  died  a  long  time 
before  her  father,  and  was  omitted  in  his  will. 
Two  of  her  sons  laid  claim  to  their  share  of 
tlieir  grandfather  Cutter's  estate  at  a  later 
periol.  William  Robinson.  Jonathan  Robinson 
and  Elizabeth  (Iregory.  and  also  .Samuel  Rob- 
inson, children  of  Elizabeth  Robinson,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Cutter,  quitclaimed  their  rights 
to  their  grandfather  Richard  Cutter's  estate 
(Middlesex  Registry  Deeds.  39:  113.  etc.) 
William  Robinson  died  in  1693. 

(  III)  William  Cutter,  third  son  and  fourth 
child  of  Richard  Cutter,  the  immigrant,  was  a 
thriving  farmer,  and  died  in  Cambridge.  .Xjiril 
I,  1723.  in  the  seventy-fourth  year  of  his 
age  (gravestone).  By  his  wife  Rebecca  he 
was  father  of  ten  children.  She  was  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  John  (2)  Rolfe  (Henry  i)  and 
his  wife  Mary  Scullard  (Samuel  i).  Rebecca 
Rolfe  married  for  her  .second  husband  John 
Whitmore,  Senior,  of  Medford,  and  died  Xo- 
vember  13,  1751.  aged  ninety. 

( I\' )  John  Cutter,  second  son  and  fifth  child 
of  William,  born  (Jctober  15,  1690.  died  Jan- 
uary 21.  1776.  in  his  eighty-sixth  year,  and 
thirty-seventh  in  his  office  as  a  deacon.  He 
was  a  farmer.  He  married  Lydia  Harrington 
(John  (3),  Robert  (2),  and  possibly  .Ann 
(l);  she  was  formerly  of  Xewcastle-upon- 
Tyne.  England,  and  she  died  January  7.  1755. 
in  her  sixty-fourth  year.     Eleven  chililrcn. 

(V)  Ammi  Cutter,  tenth  child  of  John,  born 
October  27.  1733,  died  April  19.  1795.  in  his 
sixty-second  year.  He  was  a  farmer  and  a 
miller,  and  bad  three  wives  and  twenty-one 
children.  By  his  first  wife,  Erther  Pierce,  he 
had  ten  children,  the  ninth  of  whom  was  Eph- 
raim  Cutter,  born  (October  31,  1767,  died 
March   31,    1841,   who  by   his   wife,   Deborah 


Locke,  had  fourteen  children,  the  tenth  of 
whom  was  Benjamin  Cutter,  a  |)hysician.  born 
June  4.  1803,  died  .March  9,  1864,  who  by  his 
wife  .Mary  Whittemore  had  six  children. 

t  \'I )  William  Richard  Cutter,  youngest 
child  of  .\mmi  Cutter,  was  born  in  Woburn, 
.\ugust  17.  1S47.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town  mitil  his  fifteenth 
year,  when  he  was  sent  to  the  Warren  .Acad- 
emy in  Woburn,  where  he  remained  luitil 
.\pril,  1865,  when  he  entered  Xorwich  L'niver- 
sity  at  Xorwich,  Vermont — the  institution  now 
situated  at  Xorthfield.  Vermont,  and  known  as 
the  Military  College  of  the  State  of  N'ermont. 
When  at  \Voburn  at  the  Warren  .Xcademy  he 
commanded  (  i8()3-iS65)  a  corjis  of  cadets 
known  as  the  Warren  Cadets,  lie  |)erformed 
his  share  of  duly  at  Xorwich  .Military  Univer- 
sity during  the  two  years  of  1865  and  186^), 
and  leaving  there  in  the  latter  year  returned  to 
W'oburn,  where  he  pursued  his  studies  under  a 
jirivate  instructor.  In  the  fall  of  1867  he 
entered  the  .Sheffield  .Scientific  .School  of  Yale 
I'nivcrsity  at  .Xew  Haven,  Connecticut,  as  a 
sjiccial  student,  and  left  there  in  1869.  In  the 
meantime  having  access  to  the  large  college 
library  at  Yale,  he  became  interested  in  the 
study  of  history  and  more  especially  geneal- 
ogy, as  he  had  the  use  of  a  larger  and  more 
valuable  collection  of  books  here  than  he  had 
ever  had  before,  and  he  decided  to  publish  a 
histor)'  of  the  Cutter  l''aniily,  and  issued,  while 
at  Xew'  Haven,  his  jiroposals  for  that  work. 
He  traveled  extensively  in  his  pursuit  of 
material,  and  published  his  book  at  Boston  in 
1871,  under  the  title  of  "A  History  of  the  Cut- 
ter Family  of  Xew  England." 

He  was  married,  on  August  31,  1871,  to 
.Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Daniel  Kimball, 
teacher,  editor  and  lecturer,  and  his  first  wife, 
Mary  ,\nn  (,\mesi  Kimball,  and  a  grand- 
daughter of  Rev.  David  Tenney  Kimball,  for 
upwards  of  sixty  years  minister  of  a  church  in 
Ipswich.  Massachusetts.  One  child.  .Sarah 
Ilamlcii.  was  hnrn  to  them,  July  25,  1873,  but 
died  .April  26,  1890.  .Another  died  in  infancy 
in  t88o. 

in  1871  Mr.  Cutter  removed  his  residence 
I'l  Lexington.  Massachusetts,  and  devoted 
himself  ffir  ten  years  to  various  pursuits. 
While  at  Lexington  he  |)repared  and  j)ublished 
a  "History  of  tlie  Town  of  .Arlington,  Mass- 
achusetts," which  was  issued  from  the  press 
in  1880.  This  work  contained  a  very  full 
genealogy  of  the  early  inhabitants,  and  cojiics 
are  now  .scarce.  .At  Lexington  also  he  edited, 
with  notes,  his  article  for  the  ".Xew  b'ngland 


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Historical  and  Genealogical  Register,"  entitled 
a  "Journal  of  a  Forton  Prisoner,  England, 
1777-1779."  whose  length  caused  its  publication 
to  extend  through  the  numbers  of  that  period- 
ical from  April,  1 87(1,  to  January,  1879.  While 
at  Lexington  also  he  prei)ared  a  sketch  of 
Arlington,  which  was  printed  under  his  name 
in  Drake's  "Historv  of  j\[iddlesex  County" 
(1880). 

During  his  residence  in  Lexington  he  held 
the  office  by  successive  elections  of  clerk  of  the 
Hancock     Congregational     Church,     and     for 
seven  years   from   1875  that  of  member  and 
clerk  of   the   town   school  committee,   and   in 
connection  with  the  last  named  office  that  of 
trustee  of  the  Cary  Free  Public  Library,  being 
for  a  greater  jiart  of  that  time  clerk  and  treas- 
urer of  that  board.     In   1882  he  was  elected 
librarian  of  the  W'oburn  Public  Library  in  his 
native  city,  and  assuming  his  duties  on  March 
I.  of  that,  year,  removed  at  once  to  Woburn. 
He  holds  this  office  at  the  present  time.     He 
liriS  served  on   the   nominating  committee  of 
the  Massachusetts  Library  Club,  of  which  he 
was  one  of  the  original  members,  and  has  been 
one  of  its  vice-presidents.     In  Woburn  he  has 
held  the  office  of  secretary  of  the  trustees  of 
Warren  Acat.-:iny  since  1885,  and  that  of  trus- 
tee, clerk  and  treasurer  of  the  Burbeen  Free 
l.ectire  Fund  since  1892.     He  is  also  one  of 
the  vice-presidents  of  the  Rum  ford  Historical 
Association  of  W'oburn,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Massachusetts  Society  of  Colonial  Wars. 
He  has  been  a  vice-president  of  the   Boston 
Alumni    .Xssociation   of    Norwich    L'niversity, 
and  for  more  than  a  generation,  or  since  1870, 
a  resident  member  of  the  New  England  His- 
toric   (ienealogical    .Society.      He    has   written 
considerable  fnr  the  publications  of  the  Gene- 
alogical Society,  and  has  held  a  position  on  its 
governing  council,  and  in  1906  was  elected  its 
historian.     He  has  edited  for  the  Massachu- 
setts Historical  Society  a  section  of  Hon.  Mel- 
len  Chamberlain's  "History  of  Chelsea,"  mak- 
ing a  greater  ])art  of  the  second  volume  of  that 
monumental  work.     He  has  prejjared  for  pub- 
lication and  now  nearly  finished,  three  volumes 
of  the  Towue  Memorial  I'iographies,  published 
by  the   New    England    Historic   (jenealogical 
Society.     In  1906  Mr.  Cutter  was  selected  by 
the  Lewis  Historical   Publishing  Company  as 
editor  of  various  of  their  publications,  among 
them  the  jirescnt  work. 

Since  1882.  in  his  leisure  from  the  urgent 
work  of  his  lilirary  position,  Mr.  Cutter  has 
w'ritten  much  for  the  newsiia]icr  and  periodi- 
cal press,  and  has  WTittcn  or  edited  a  number 


of  works  of  greater  or  less  extent,  .\mong 
them  sketches  of  the  city  of  W'oburn,  and  of 
the  towns  of  Burlington  and  W'inchester,  for 
Hurd's  "History  of  Middlesex  County,"  1890: 
"Contributions  to  a  Bibliography  of  the  Local 
History  of  W'oburn,"  1892,  with  additional 
material.  1893;  "Diary  of  Lieut.  Samuel 
Thompson  of  W'oburn,  while  in  service  in  the 
]->ench  Wars,  1758"  (with  copious  notes) 
1896;  "Life  and  Humble  Confession  of  Rich- 
ard.son.  the  Informer"  (fifty  copies  printed) 
1894:  "A  Model  Village  Library"  (an  article 
descriptive  of  the  Woburn  Public  Library) 
in  "New  England  Magazine,"  February,  1890; 
"W'oburn  Historic  Sites  and  Old  Houses," 
1892:  etc. 

He  received  the  degree  of  .\.  M.  from  Nor- 
wich University  in  1893. 


All  who  bear  the  name  of  Field, 
FI  ELD  both  in  England  and  .America,  are. 
according  to  Burke's  "Landed 
Gentry,"  descended  from  the  Counts  de  la 
Field,  who  were  prominently  identified  with 
the  history  of  Alsace-Lorraine  jirior  to  the 
Norman  conc|uest.  Hubertus  de  la  Feld,  who 
was  probably  the  founder  of  the  family  in 
England,  crossed  the  channel  with  the  Norman 
duke  in  lofifi,  and  three  years  later  received 
from  the  Conqueror  a  large  landed  estate  in 
Lancaster  as  a  icward  for  his  military  services. 
During  the  succeeding  four  hundred  years 
there  were  various  changes  in  the  orthography 
of  the  name.  The  present  surname.  Field, 
simplified  by  the  omission  of  the  French  pre- 
fix de  la.  was  adojited  about  the  middle  of  the 
fifteenth  century.  Many  of  this  name  were 
noted  for  their  intellectua]  attainments,  and 
other  superior  ciualifications  prior  to  the  coloni- 
zation of  New  iMigland,  and  the  Fields  of 
America  have  every  reason  to  be  proud  of 
their  English  ancestors.  .\  pedigree  at  hand 
of  Zachariah  Field,  the  immigrant,  contains 
his  line  of  descent  through  ten  generations, 
beginning  with  Roger  Del  Field,  born  at  Sow- 
eri)v  about  the  vear  1240.  and  continuing 
through  Thomas'  Del  Feld,  John  Del  Feld, 
Thonias  Del  l'>ld,  Thomas  Del  Felde,  William 
I'Vld,  William  Feld,  Richard  Felde,  John  Field 
and  the  latter's  son  John.  The  elder  John 
Field  was  one  of  the  early  English  astronomers, 
and  a  noted  writer  upon  that  subject.  By  a 
patent  dated  Sciitembcr  14.  1538.  the  heralds 
formally  recognized  his  right  to  the  family 
arms  :  .Sable,  a  chevron  between  three  garbs 
argent,  and  at  the  same  time  tliey  granted  to 
him  the  following  crest:     A  dexter  arm  issu- 


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ing  out  of  cloiuls  fesseways  proper,  habited 
gules,  holding  in  hand,  also  proper,  a  si)herc 
or.  This  appropriate  crest  may  be  considered 
a  recognition  of  his  services  in  the  cause  of 
astronom}'.  The  family  about  to  be  mentioned 
is  descended  from  Zachariah,  the  immigrant, 
who  was  a  son  of  John  and  a  grandson  of  the 
astronomer. 

(T)  Zachariah  Field  was  born  at  I'^ast  .\rds- 
!ey.  Vorkshire.  in  1596.  and  arrived  at  Boston 
from  P.ristol  in  1629,  first  locating  in  Dorches- 
ter, Massachusetts.  In  1636  he  accompanied 
a  large  part}'  of  English  immigrants  to  the 
Connecticut  valley,  settling  at  Hartford,  and 
being  in  the  vigor  of  manhood  was  enrolled  in 
a  company  furnished  by  that  town  to  partici- 
pate in  the  I'equot  war.  Tn  1659  he  estab- 
lished himself  in  mercantile  business  at  North- 
ampton. Massachusetts,  engaging  quite  exten- 
sively in  trade  with  the  Indians,  and  in  1663 
removed  to  Hatfield,  where  he  died  June  30, 
i656.  The  Christian  name  of  his  wife,  whom 
he  married  about  1641,  was  Mary,  and  her 
death  occurred  about  1670.  Their  children 
were:  i.  Mary,  born  about  I^H.'^:  married 
Joshua  Carter.  Jr..  of  Xorthampton.  2.  Zach- 
ariah, born  1645:  married  Sarah  W'els.  3. 
John,  mentioned  below.  4.  Samuel,  born  165 1  ; 
married  Sarah  Gilbert.  5.  Joseph,  born  about 
1658  :  married  (  first )  Joanna  Wvatt :  (second  ) 
Mary  Belding. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Zachariah  and  Mary 
Field,  was  born  in  Hartford  about  164S.  lie 
resided  in  Hatfield,  and  served  luider  Captain 
Turner  in  the  memorable  engagement  with  the 
Indians  at  Turner's  Falls,  in  1676.  His  death 
occurred  in  Hatfield,  June  26,  1717.  He  mar- 
ried. December  17.  1670,  Mary  Edwards,  born 
January  20.  1650.  daughter  of  .Mexander  and 
Sarah  (Searli  Edwards,  of  Xorthami)ton. 
Children:  i.  John,  see  next  paragraph.  2. 
Mary,  born  i'i74.  died  young.  3.  Zachariah, 
born  1676:  married  .Sarah  Clark.  4.  Benja- 
min, born  February  14,  1679;  participated  in 
the  "Meadows  Fight"  in  1704.  5.  Mary.  6. 
Bethiah.  7.  Sarah.  8.  .\bilene.  died  young. 
9.  Ebenezer.     10.  Abilene. 

(Ill  )  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Field,  was 
born  in  Xorthampton.  May  11,  1672.  He 
resided  in  Hatfield,  and  was  one  of  the  two 
constables  appointed  by  the  governor  and 
council  in  1708.  He  also  served  as  a  soldier 
in  the  Indian  wars.  He  died  in  Hatfield.  May 
28.  1747.  In  1698  he  married  Sarah  Coleman, 
born  February  15.  1673,  daughter  f)f  John 
and  Hannah  (Porter)  Coleman.  In  Ash- 
pelon's   raid,   which    occured     in     September, 


1677.  Mrs.  Hannah  Coleman  was  killed,  and 
Mrs.  Sarah  I'ield  was  carried  to  Canada  as 
a  captive.  She  was  redeemed  in  the  following 
year,  and  one  of  the  slices  worn  by  her  on  the 
homeward  march  through  the  wilderness  to 
Hatfield  is  now  one  of  the  cherishetl  relics  to 
be  seen  in  the  Deerfield  Memorial  Hall.  Mrs. 
Field  survived  her  husband,  and  her  death 
occurred  January  8,  IJS'>-  •*^'"-"  ^^'^s  the  mother 
of  six  children:  John.  Sarah.  Hannah.  .\mos, 
Eliakim.  Mary. 

(I\')  Eliakim,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Sarah 
(Coleman)  Field,  was  born  in  Hatfield,  No- 
vember 27.  171 1.  He  resided  in  his  native 
towji.  anil  died  there  February  8,  1786.  In 
1752  he  married  Esther  Graves,  of  Whately, 
Massachusetts,  bom  November  29,  1732, 
daughter  of  David  and  .Abigail  (Bardwell) 
Graves.  David  (4)  (iraves  was  a  descendant 
of  Thomas  D.,  the  immigrant,  through  John 
(2)  and  Samuel  (3).  .Abigail  P>ardvve!l  was 
a  daughter  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Gull)  Bard- 
well. the  former  of  whom  served  in  King 
Phili|:)'s  war  and  took  part  in  the  ''Falls  Fight" 
under  Captain  Turner.  Children  of  Eliakim 
and  Esther  (_(iraves)  Field:  i.  Zenas.  born 
.Vugust  10.  1753:  married  (first)  Sarah  Bur- 
roughs: (second)  Eydia  Cathcart.  2.  Sarah, 
born  Aijril  23.  1755:  married  David  Scott,  of 
Whately.  3.  Zilpah,  born  November  13,  1756; 
married  .Aliner  Loomis,  of  Colchester,  Con- 
necticut:  resided  in  Whately.  Massachusetts; 
died  March  22,  1847.  4-  Khoda,  born  (  )c1o1ht 
26.  1758:  married  Elisha  Waite,  of  Ilallield; 
died  January  [9.  1819.  5.  John,  .see  next  para- 
gra])h.  6.  .\bigail.  born  July  21.  1762;  married 
Roger  Dickinson,  of  Whately :  died  February 
0.  1809.  7.  David,  born  .April  11.  1764;  mar- 
ried Tabitha  Clark.  8.  Esther,  born  April  4. 
1767:  died  unmarried.  <).  Hannah,  born  June 
21.  17(19:  married  (first)  .'-^anniel  (irimes; 
(second)   Oliver  Cooley :  died  May  14.   1843. 

(\')  John  (3),  son  of  Eliakim  Field,  was 
born  in  Hatfield,  .August  25.  ijCx).  In  early 
manhood  he  settlerl  in  Conway,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming,  and  resided  there 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  In  17S9  he  married 
Lucy  Look,  of  Conway,  born  at  ICdgartown, 
Massachusetts,  I7''>3.  and  died  in  Conway,  July 
29.  1854.  The  children  of  this  union  were: 
r.  I'olly,  born  -April  27,  1790;  died  October  25, 
1816.  2.  Xancy,  born  October  30,  1791  ;  mar- 
ried Elijah  Page;  died  December  2,  1856.  3. 
William,  born  December  8,  1793.  4.  John, 
who  will  be  again  referred  to.  5.  Lucinda. 
born  June  8,  1798;  married  Franklin  Childs, 
of  Conway.     (>.    Prudence,   born   October  20, 


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1800;  died    November  30,    1829.     7.   Editha, 
born  May  6.  1803:  died  August  i.  1804. 

(\'I)  jolin  (4).  son  of  John  (3)  and  Lucy 
(Look)  "l''ield.  was  born  in  Conway,  June  28, 
1796.  He  was  a  lifelong  resident  of  Conway, 
and  an  unusually  prosperous  farmer,  acquir- 
ing possession  of  the  homestead  farm  and  de- 
voting his  active  years  to  its  cultivation.  He 
was  noted  for  his  upright  character  and 
superior  judgment  in  business  affairs,  which, 
together  with  his  able  administration  of  vari- 
ous imijortant  public  offices,  gained  for  him 
the  esteem  and  confidence  of  his  fellow-towns- 
men. 1  lis  personal  ajjpearance  was  particularly 
attractive,  and  in  his  latter  years  he  was  an 
excellent  representative  of  a  New  England 
country  gentleman  of  the  old  school.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  originally  a  Whig  and  later  a  Re- 
publican. He  attended  the  Congregational 
church.  Mr.  Field  died  June  13,  1876.  He 
married,  September  25,  1828,  Fidelia  Nash, 
burn  in  Conway,  February  6,  1806,  died  Sep- 
tember 22,  1865.  daughter  of  Elijah  and 
Pamelia  ( Warner )  Nash.  Pamelia  Warner 
was  a  daughter  of  Jonathan  Warner.  John 
and  Fidelia  (Nash)  P""ield  were  the  parents  of 
nine  children:  I.  Chandler  .\ugustus,  born 
September  k;,  1829:  married  Helen  Wells.  2. 
Josejjh  Nash,  born  September  20,  1831  ;  mar- 
ried (first)  Jane  Hayes;  (second)  Catherine 
Blackwell :  resided  in  Manchester,  England. 
3.  Marshall,  who  is  mentioned  at  greater 
length  in  the  .succeeding  paragraph.  4.  Helen 
Eliza,  born  February  3,  1837:  married  Hon. 
Lyman  D.  James  (see  sketch).  3.  Henry, 
born  May  25,  1841  ;  married  Florence  Lathrop. 
6.  b'-lizabeth  Page,  born  September  25,  1843; 
died  December  27.  1854.  7.  William  E.,  born 
February  17,  1845;  died  ^Iay  22  same  year. 
8.  Laura  Nash,  born  October  30,  1848;  mar- 
ried, November  26,  1873,  Henry  Dibblce,  for- 
merly of  New  York  City,  and  now  a  prominent 
real  estate  dealer  in  Chicago.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Dibblee  have  two  children :  P>ertha,  born 
March  20,  1875.  and  Frances  F.,  born  .August 
26.  1877.  9.  Elizabeth,  born  .\pril  10,  1853; 
died  .\])ril  6,   1854. 

(X'H)  Marshall  Field,  son  of  John  and 
Fidelia  (Nash)  Field,  was  born  in  Conway, 
August  18,  1835.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  and  academy  of  his  native  town,  and 
these  advantages,  enhanced  by  a  through  train- 
ing in  habits  of  industry  received  at  home, 
proved  an  excellent  e(|uipme!U  for  a  business 
Ijfe.  .Mthough  of  a  contemplative  nature  he 
disliked  study,  was  not  desirous  of  entering 
any  of  tiie  learned  professions,  and  possessed 


but  one  ambition,  that  of  becoming  a  merchant. 
From  the  very  first  he  was  wholly  subservient 
to  this  idea  and  he  believed  himself  destined 
to  attain  its  realization.  .A.s  clerk  of  a  country 
.store  in  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
remained  four  years,  he  accjuired  the  necessary 
elementary  training,  and  ui)on  reaching  his 
majority  he  determined  to  take  advantage  of 
his  freedom  by  seeking  business  advancement 
in  the  W'est,  which  was  then  being  largely 
populated  by  sturdy,  energetic  New  Eng- 
ianders.  In  1856  he  became  salesman  in  the 
wholesale  dry  goods  house  of  Cooley.  Wads- 
worth  &  Company,  Chicago,  and  continued  as 
such  with  the  succeeding  firm  of  Cooley,  Far- 
well  &  Company,  greatly  adding  to  his  business 
experience  and  developing  such  marked  ability 
as  to  secure  a  junior  partnership  in  that  con- 
cern in  i860.  This  house,  which  was  one  of 
the  largest  mercantile  establisliments  in  Chi- 
cago to  successfully  weather  the  financial  panic 
of  1857,  was  also  able  to  greatly  expand  its 
volume  of  trade  during  the  civil  war  period, 
but  in  1865  a  complete  reorganization  was 
deemed  absolutely  necessary,  and  Mr.  Field 
became  senior  partner  in  the  succeeding  firm 
of  Field,  Palmer  &  Leiter.  From  this  time 
forward  his  business  career  was  practically  a 
succession  of  brilliant  mercantile  achievements. 
He  had  mastered  the  science  of  credit  as 
applied  to  the  changing  conditions  to  which 
the  growing  west  was  constantly  subjected, 
and  this  knowledge  was  always  in  evidence. 
Having  adopted  a  cash  system,  which  however, 
was  conducted  according  to  the  most  liberal 
interpretation  of  the  term,  he  was  inflexible  in 
demanding  punctual  payments.  He  also  pur- 
chased u])on  a  strictly  cash  basis,  never  deviat- 
ing from  that  rule,  and  this  system  proved 
one  of  the  chief  elements  of  his  success,  for 
it  was  truthfully  said  that  a  concern  without 
debts  was  always  solvent.  By  the  subsequent 
withdrawal  of  Potter  Palmer  the  firm  became 
known  as  Field,  Leiter  &  Company,  and  this 
concern,  guided  by  the  energetic  hand  of  its 
senior  partner,  successfully  survived  the  heavy 
losses  caused  by  the  disastrous  conflagration 
of  187 1.  It  also  survive<l  the  financial  panic 
of  1873,  and  in  1881  Mr.  Field  became  its  sole 
proprietor.  .\  few  years  later  it  was  deemed 
advisable  to  separate  the  retail  and  wholesale 
dejiartments,  and  the  latter  was  con.sequently 
removed  to  a  spacious  and  handsome  building 
fronting  on  .\dams  street,  and  constructed  of 
rough  hewn  granite  and  brownstone.  from 
plans  drawn  by  the  famous  .American  archi- 
tect, H.   H.   Richardson.     This  building  con- 


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tains  thirty  anil  one-half  acres  of  floor  space, 
and  its  thirty-four  (lei)artments  necessitate  the 
employment  of  three  thousand  people.  The 
retail  branch,  which  is  the  largest  as  well  as  the 
best  equipped  of  its  kind  in  the  world,  necessi- 
tates a  still  larger  force  of  employees,  and  it 
was  estimated  some  time  since  that  the  l""ield 
payrolls  contained  the  names  of  over  twelve 
thousand  peoiile.  Some  years  ago  the  firm 
engaged  extensively  in  manufacturing  and 
established  plants  in  .\nierica.  Europe  and  the 
Orient.  In  1891  the  firm  was  transacting  a 
business  aggregating  thirty-five  million  dollars 
per  annum,  and  ten  years  later  this  amount 
was  nearly  doubled.  Although  for  many  years 
a  multimillionaire.  Mr.  l-"iel(i  never  seemed  to 
think  of  leisure.  The  enormous  business 
which  bad  been  created  through  his  untir- 
ing industry  was  always  uppermost  in  his 
thoughts,  and  although  he  witnessed  the 
retirement  of  many  of  his  contemporaries,  the 
fortunes  of  some  of  whom  he  was  mainly 
instrumental  in  building  up.  he  preferred  t(j 
personally  direct  the  affairs  of  his  vast  enter- 
])rise  almost  to  the  last  moment  of  his  life, 
and  he  left  them  in  such  a  perfect  condition 
as  to  secure  their  continuance  without  the 
slightest  interruption.  Mr.  Field  died  of  pneu- 
monia in  Xew  York  City,  January  16,  1906, 
and  the  inexpressible  sorrow  which  the  sad 
event  brought  to  his  family  and  large  circle 
of  personal  friends,  was  shared  by  the  leading 
business  men  of  .America  and  Europe.  .\ 
merchant  jirince  in  the  truest  sense  of  the 
term,  and  possessed  of  a  fortune  sufficiently 
colossal  to  maintain  the  dignity  of  his  rank, 
his  remarkable  ability  for  the  accumulation  of 
wealth  was  fully  e(|ualled  by  his  magnificent 
generosity,  and  his  gifts  for  benevolent  |)ur- 
poses.  which  were  indeed  princely,  embraced  a 
wide  range  of  objects.  In  addition  to  found- 
ing and  endowing  with  the  sum  of  one  million 
dollars,  the  Field  Columbian  Museum,  Chi- 
cago, he  left  eight  millions  to  this  museum  by 
his  wmII.  He  w-as  one  of  the  original  bene- 
factors of  the  Chicago  I^'niversity,  jjresenting 
that  institution  with  land  valued  at  four  hun- 
dred and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  and  to  his 
native  town  of  Conway,  Massachusetts,  he 
presented  a  handsome  Memorial  Library,  dedi- 
cated to  the  memory  of  bis  parents.  He  was 
extremely  charitable,  subscribing  liberally  to 
any  cause  which  he  considerefl  worthy,  and  his 
contributions  to  religious  objects  in  general, 
and  to  the  Presbyterian  church  in  particular, 
were  large.  He  was  a  member  of  various  clubs 
and  not  infreciuentlv  visited  them,  but  he  de- 


voted a  very  small  portion  of  his  time  to 
society,  .-\side  from  rendering  valual)le  aid  in 
raising  the  municipal  atTairs  of  Chicago  to  a 
higher  moral  standard,  he  evinced  but  little 
interest  in  politics,  and  although  several  times 
offered  the  nomination  for  vice-president  of 
the  L'nited  States  he  declined  the  honor. 

On  January  3.  1863,  Mr.  Field  married  for 
his  first  wife,  Miss  Nannie  Douglass  Scott,  of 
1  ronton.  Ohio.  She  died  in  France,  whither 
she  had  gone  for  the  ])ur|)ose  of  recovering 
her  health.  Of  this  union  there  were  three 
children:  1.  Lewis,  born  January  9,  1866,  ilied 
.August  17.  same  year.  2.  Marshall,  born  April 
21,  1868:  married  Albertine  Iluck:  was  acci- 
dentally killed.  1905.  3.  Ethel  Xewcombe, 
born  .August  28.  1873.  married,  January  i, 
1891.  .Arthur  Magie  Tree,  who  was  born  in 
Chicago.  July  I.  i8()3;  resides  in  Leamington, 
Warwickshire.  F.ngland.  On  September  5, 
1906,  Mr.  Field  married  for  his  .second  wife, 
Mrs.  Delia  Spencer  Caton,  who  had  been  a 
neighbor  of  his  in  Chicago  for  tlnrty  years. 


Philip  James,  immigrant  ancestor, 
J.A.MES  came  to  Xew  F.ngland  in  1638 
with  his  wife  and  four  children, 
and  two  servants,  William  Pitts  and  Edward 
Mitchell,  from  Hingham,  England.  They  set- 
tled in  Hingham.  Massachusetts,  and  Philip 
"dyed  soon  after  he  came."     He  married  Jane 

,  who  married    (second)    I'ebniary   14, 

1640.  George  Russell.  bVancis  James,  prob- 
ably brother  of  Philip,  with  his  wife  and  two 
servants,  came  from  Hingham  at  the  same 
time.  He  died  December  2"/.  i'')47.  probably 
without  issue. 

(Ill  I'rancis,  said  to  have  been  ;i  son  of 
Phili])  James,  named  after  his  luicle.  was  born 
()rol)ably  in  England,  and  died  in  Hingham, 
.Massachusetts,  .\ovcmber  29.  1684,  intestate. 
His  widow  Elizabeth  was  apjioinled  adminis- 
tratrix of  the  estate.  He  was  called  husband- 
man, and  resided  at  Hingham  Centre.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Elizabeth,  died  .April  11,  1660.  2. 
.'■^arali.  born  bebruary  2"] .  1661-2;  married, 
1707,  John  Seal,  of  Boston;  died  .August  2, 
1727.  3.  Jane,  born  November  6,  1664;  mar- 
ried December  7,  1704,  Edward  Darl>y,  of 
Taunton.  4.  I-rrmcis,  born  Jamiary  25,  1666-7; 
died  lunnarried,  December  28,  1717-  5- 
Thomas,  born  December  7,  16^)9;  mentioned 
below.  6.  Philip,  died  February  15,  1687-8. 
7.  Sanniel,  born  .April  (),  1676;  married,  171 1, 
IIoj)e  Chamberlain;  died  August  20,   1749. 

nil)  Thomas,  son  of  Francis  James,  was 
br.rii    in    Hingham,    December    7,    1669.    and 


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died  July  31,  1724.  He  was  called  husband- 
man. His  estate  was  appraised  at  1720 
pounds  nine  shillings  three  pence.  It  included 
a  "mansion  house,  part  of  a  sloop,"  etc.  He 
resided  in  the  second  precinct  of  Hingham. 
He  married,  May  30,  1704,  Patience  (Tower) 
Farrow,  born  in  Hingham,  March  21,  1678-9, 
widow  of  William  Farrow,  and  daughter  of 
Ibrook  and  Margaret  (Hardin)  Tower.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Hingham:  i.  Thomas,  January 
II,  1704-5;  luarried,  1730,  Hannah  Holbrook. 
2.  Elizabeth,  August  21,  1706;  married, 
August  21,  1730,  Abisha  Stetson.  3.  Philip, 
July  25,  1708;  married.  May  25,  1738,  Mary 
Nichols.  4.  Jane,  October  7,  1710;  married, 
June  27,  1734.  Jeremiah  Lane.  5.  John,  1712; 
mentioned  below.  6.  Sarah,  September  27, 
1714;  died  November  28  following.  7.  Mar- 
garet. .March  19.  1715-16.  8.  Content,  baj)- 
tized  August  21,  1720:  married,  October, 
1739,  Samuel  1  lardin. 

(I^')  John,  son  of  Thomas  James,  was 
born  in  Hingham,  in  1712,  and  resided  in  the 
second  precinct,  at  or  near  the  easterly  end  of 
Jerusalem  Road.  He  married,  July  28,  1743- 
Deborah  (Bates)  Stodder,  born  in  Hingham 
April  2,  1716,  widow  of  Canterbury  Stodder, 
and  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Deborah  (Clapp) 
Bates.  She  married  (third)  December  15, 
1768.  John  Turner,  of  Pembroke.  Children, 
born  in  Hingham  :  I.  John,  March  16,  1744-5  ; 
mentioned  below.  2.  Deborah.  March  23. 
1746-7.  3.  Francis,  i\Iay  13,  1749.  4.  Enoch. 
August  24,  175 1  :  married  .Abigail  Adams.  5. 
Sarah,  September  13,  1755.  6.  Thomas,  July 
II,  1758. 

(V)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  James,  was 
born  in  Hingham,  March  16,  1744-5.  Fie 
removed  jirobably  after  tiie  birth  of  the  third 
child,  ab(jut  1769.  to  (loslien,  ^Massachusetts, 
then  a  part  of  Chesterfield.  He  was  in  the 
revolution,  in  Captain  Christopher  Banister's 
company.  Colonel  John  Dickman's  regiment,  in 
August,  1777,  and  marched  to  Bennington 
with  the  Chesterfield  company ;  also  in  the 
same  company  under  Colonel  Ezra  May,  in 
the  battles  of  Stillwater  and  Saratoga.  He 
married,  A[)ril  4,  1765,  Lois  Beal,  born  in 
Hingham,  July  20.  1746.  daughter  of  .\dam 
and  Jael  (Worrick)  I'eal.  Children,  born  in 
Hingham:  i.  Moses.  October  23,  1765.  2. 
Malachi.  July  9,  1767;  mentioned  below.  3. 
Lois,  May  29,  1769.  Probably  others  born  in 
Goshen. 

(Vn  Malachi,  son  of  John  (2)  James,  was 
born  in  Hingham,  July  9,  1767.  He  married, 
February    18,    1790,    Elizabeth,    daugjiter    of 


Elias  Lyman  of  Northampton.  He  died 
August  24.  1849.  Children:  i.  Sophia,  born 
November  18,  1791  ;  married,  1815.  Dr. 
Thomas  Sears.  2.  Enoch,  born  December  8, 
1793;  mentioned  below.  3.  Lyman,  born 
March  23.  1796;   married  Maria  C.  Goodrich. 

4.  Maria,  born  July  2,  1799;  married  Samuel 
Howes.  5.  Clarissa,  born  May  18.  1801  : 
married.  October  13,  1834,  J.  D.  Whitney.  6. 
Luther,  born  July  13,  1803.  7.  Lewis  L.,  born 
May  8,  1805;  married  Corintha  Wells.  8. 
Elizabeth,  married  A.  L.  Babcock.  9.  Rachel 
L.,  born  1812;  married  David  Storrs. 

(VII)  Enoch,  son  of  Malachi  James,  was 
born  at  Goshen.  December  8,  1793.  He  was  a 
prominent  and  influential  citizen  of  Goshen. 
He  managed  a  general  store  there,  and  also 
engaged  in  woolen  manufacture,  having  mills 
in  Williamsburg  and  Whately.  He  married 
.\rmanilla  R.,  daughter  of  Colonel  Simeon 
Dwight.  He  removed  late  in  life  to  Ann 
Arbor,  Michigan,  where  he  died  February  28, 
1867.  Children:  i.  Henry  Lyman,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Lyman  Dwight.  mentioned 
below.    3.  Martha  Dwight.    4.  Mary  Frances. 

5.  P'lnoch  Dwight. 

(  \TII )  Henry  Lyman,  son  of  Enoch  James, 
was  born  in  Williamsburg,  February  13,  1829, 
died  July  5,  1896.  Fie  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town,  Hopkins  Academy 
at  Hadley,  the  Williston  Seminary  at  East- 
hampton,"  and  the  New  Haven  grammar 
school.  .After  he  had  returned  home  from  his 
schooling,  his  father  removed  to  .\nn  Arbor, 
Michigan,  and  to  his  son  he  gave  the  woolen 
business  in  Whately  and  the  store  in  Will- 
iamsburg. This  general  store  has  been  owned 
by  the  James  family  for  a  century  or  more, 
and  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  the  country  con- 
ducted by  the  same  family.  In  1866  Mr. 
James  admitted  to  partnership  his  brother, 
"Lyman  Dwight  James,  who  continued  the  bus- 
iness after  his  death.  He  bought  the  business 
of  Henry  Wells,  near  the  present  site  of  the 
new  Meekins  Library,  and  manufactured  car- 
])enters'  tools  until  the  factory  was  destroyed 
by  fire.  Mr.  James  also  conducted  the  woolen 
mill  at  Whately  with  success  for  many  years, 
and  the  business  was  prosperous.  He  made 
his  home  at  Williamsburg,  however,  and  drove 
to  the  mill  several  times  a  week.  He  was  a 
great  lover  of  horses,  and  in  his  stables  there 
could  always  be  found  some  valuable  animals. 

In  the  fifties  Mr.  James  met  his  first  stroke 
of  ill  fortune.  .\  eyclime  destroyed  a  part  of 
the  mill  i^roperty  in  Whately  and  soon  after- 
ward the  remainder  of  the  mill  was  burned. 


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He  then  bou<;ht  of  Lewis  Bodman  the  woolen 
mill  in  Williamsburg,  just  above  the  railroad 
station,  south  of  the  village,  and  conducted  liis 
business  there  witli  success  until  the  fatal 
blow  of  1874  came.  The  flood  caused  him  a 
heavy  loss,  carrying  away  eleven  houses,  more 
than  a  hundred  bales  of  wool,  and  ruined  all 
the  contents  of  the  basement  of  the  mill  and 
dye-house,  including  machinery  and  sujjplies. 
I'.ut  his  was  the  only  mill  in  Williamsburg  and 
Ilaydenville  not  entirely  destroyed  by  the 
flood.  He  repaired  his  damages  and  resinned 
business,  receiving  none  of  the  fund  sub- 
scribed for  the  relief  of  the  owners  of  dam- 
aged property,  etc.  The  busine^s  reverses  of 
later  years  were  largely  due  to  lack  of  capital 
resulting  from  these  djsasters.  In  fact,  most 
of  the  industries  of  the  town  never  recovered 
from  the  shock,  or  removed  to  other  locations. 
Xo  calamity  ever  worked  greater  change  in  a 
town  than  did  that  fatal  catastrophe  of  1874 
to  \\'illianisl)urg.  The  Williamsburg  of  to-day 
is  a  sad  i)icture  in  comparison  with  the  town 
before  the  river  flood.  During  the  last  five 
years  of  his  life  Mr.  James  was  in  ill  health 
and  not  in  active  business.  In  1891  he  suf- 
fered a  stroke  of  apoplexy  and  another  shortly 
before  his  death.  He  was  one  of  a  number  of 
industrial  leaders  in  the  Connecticut  valley  in 
his  generation,  each  of  whom  virtually  built  up 
a  town  through  the  development  of  mills  and 
factories.  He  belongs  in  the  class  with  Joel 
Hayden,  William  Skinner,  Samuel  W'illiston 
and  Horatio  G.  Knight.  Mr.  James  took  great 
interest  in  his  own  town,  and  did  his  utmost  to 
develop  its  resources,  before  and  after  the 
disaster. 

He  was  apjjointed  [)ostmaster  by  President 
Lincoln,  and  continued  in  the  office  for  twenty- 
five  years.  In  jjolitics  he  was  a  stanch  Rc[)ub- 
lican,  and  he  figured  prominently  in  many  a 
cam])aign.  He  was  active  in  supjjorting 
Henry  L.  Dawes  for  congress.  On  the  night 
of  the  congressional  campaign.  Mr.  Dawes 
was  speaking  at  a  rally  in  Williamsburg.  Re- 
turning from  the  convention  with  the  news  of 
the  nomination  of  Mr.  Dawes,  Mr.  James 
found  the  nominee  in  the  midst  of  his  speech, 
and  he  took  advantage  of  the  opportunity  to 
break  the  news  to  the  people,  and  interrupted 
the  speech  for  that  purpose.  Mr.  Dawes  was 
thoroughly  surprised  and  overcome  by  tlie 
good  news,  which  was  received  with  vocif- 
erous applause,  and  had  to  take  his  seat  to 
recover  his  composure,  before  continuing  his 
address.  Mr.  James  represented  his  district  in 
the  general  court  in   1875,  and  for  ten  years 


was  an  active  and  influential  member  of  the 
ReiHiblican  state  central  committee  of  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Mr.  James  traveled  extensively  in  this  coun- 
try and  foreign  lands,  and  one  of  his  last  trips 
was  taken  in  company  with  II.  C.  Knight,  late 
of  Easthamptnn.  He  possessed  considerable 
literary  ability,  and  had  a  nimble  wit,  writing 
many  articles  for  the  Springfield  Republican 
and  other  publications,  generally  under  the 
nom-de-plume  of  "Peter."  Many  of  these 
articles  were  descriptive  of  his  travels.  He 
wrote  in  a  humorous  vein  usually,  was  keen  in 
observing,  and  piquant  in  criticizing.  There 
was  a  characteristic  ease  and  originalitv  in  his 
work  that  attracted  the  general  reader.  He 
attended  the  Congregational  church.  He  mar- 
ried. May  31,  uSfxi,  Maria  Louise,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Hlbridge  Simpson,  of  Hudson,  Xew 
York.  Children:  i.  Mabel  Louise,  married 
Norton  Chase,  of  .Mbany.  2.  Maud  .\rma- 
nella,  resides  in  the  James  home,  Williams- 
burg. 3.  Bertha  Simpson,  died  aged  seven. 
'i'wD  others  died  in  infancy. 

Dr.  l'"lbridge  Simpson  (see  above),  son  of 
John  B).  and  Eunice  (Tucker)  Simpson,  was 
born  at  Ashfield,  January  29,  1812,  and  died  in 
Hudson,  X.  Y..  in  October,  1880.  He  attended 
the  i)ublic  schools,  and  commenced  the  study 
of  his  profession  as  a  student  in  the  office  of 
Dr.  Samuel  McClellan,  at  Nassau,  New  York, 
lie  remained  with  that  distinguished  physician 
for  about  a  year,  and  then  studied  under  Dr. 
John  McClellan,  of  Johnstown,  Columbia 
county.  New  York,  and  at  the  Williams  Medi- 
cal School,  Pittsficld,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1838  with  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  He  commenced  ]>ractice  at 
Xewark,  Wayne  county,  in  partnership  with 
Dr.  Coventry,  and  in  1841  went  to  Catskill. 
Thence  he  removed  in  1845  to  Hudson,  in  the 
same  state,  succeeding  to  the  practice  of  Dr. 
Samuel  McClellan.  In  1858  he  removed  to 
Toronto  and  practiced  in  that  city  and  .Mon- 
treal until  1873,  when  he  returned  to  Hudson, 
living  there  the  rest  of  his  days.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Columbia  County  Medical 
Society  and  of  the  New  York  .State  Medical 
Society  from   1856. 

He  was  a  close  student  all  liis  life,  and  few 
physicians  kept  in  closer  touch  with  the  devel- 
opment of  medical  science  or  sooner  modified 
his  methods  in  the  light  of  new  discoveries. 
He  took  a  prominent  ])lace  in  his  j)rofession, 
and  as  the  years  i)asscd  his  skill  was  recog- 
nized by  both  laymen  and  the  profession.  He 
grew  to  have  confidence  in  his  own  judgment. 


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so  often  tested  in  the  sick  room  and  so  often 
successful  in  his  treatment.  He  had  a  genial 
and  benevolent  face,  an  impressive  bearing,  a 
persuasive  voice,  and  a  good  deal  of  magnet- 
ism of  manner  and  address.  'He  was,  it  has 
been  said,  a  "natural  physician,"  one  of  the 
finest  compliments  to  his  ability.  The  quali- 
ties which  made  him  eminent  were  hereditary, 
but  trained  by  medical  education  and  devel- 
oped by  long  and  diversified  jjractice.  One 
who  knew  him  well,  wrote  at  the  time  of  his 
death:  "His  original  sagacity  and  intuitive 
perceptions,  admirable  common  sense  and 
manipulatory  tact,  guided  by  adequate  pro- 
fessional knowledge,  made  him  a  very  skillful 
and  successful  practitioner.  He  was  neither 
theoretical  nor  speculative,  but  was  intensely 
practical.  As  a  surgeon  he  was  fertile  in 
mechanical  resources,  and  was  a  deft  surgical 
operator.  He  had  the  wisdom  to  perceive 
that  the  main  end  of  all  medical  education  is  to 
make  a  good  practitioner.  His  intercourse 
with  his  patrons  was  marked  by  the  most 
friendly  cordiality.  His  professional  relations 
to  the  other  sex  were  always  delicate  and 
refined,  and  his  purity  of  character  was 
unquestioned.  He  had  a  sort  of  chivalric 
deference  for  refined  women,  and  a  nice  sense 
of  professional  honor  will  go  with  him  to  the 
grave.  To  an  extraordinary  degree  he  was  a 
generous  and  benevolent  man,  and  not  a  tinge 
of  a  mercenary  spirit  discolored  his  life.  He 
was  especially  kind  and  benignant  to  the 
poor." 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Columbia  County  Medi- 
cal Society  after  his  death.  Dr.  Thomas 
Wilson  paid  an  affectionate  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  Dr.  Simpson,  from  which  we 
quote:  "We  are  here  to-day,  not  only  to  show 
our  respect  for  our  departed  brother,  hut  also 
to  mingle  our  griefs  and  .sympathies  with  those 
of  the  bereaved  family.  He  has  passed  the 
mysterious  boundaries  of  time,  and  we  all 
deeply  deplore  his  loss.  1  le  is  now  done  with 
earth,  but  we  are  to  tarry  awhile.  He  has 
climbed  up  life's  rugged  pathway;  exercised 
the  high  functions  of  his  calling;  discharged 
faithfully  its  many  and  varied  obligations; 
tasted  the  sweets  of  success ;  and  now,  past 
manhood's  bright  meridian,  amid  the  scenes 
and  surroundings  of  his  active  life,  beloved 
and  honored  by  those  who  knew  him  best,  he 
finishes  his  earthly  career.  Though  his  mortal 
remains  are  now  shrouded  for  the  tomb,  yet 
he  leaves  for  our  contemplation  his  past  life, 
redolent  with  good,  and  el(X|uent  in  example. 
Our  nu-dical  society  loses  a  worthy  member. 


and  this  city  a  valuable  citizen.  The  afi^icted 
can  no  more  listen  to  his  councils,  encourage- 
ments and  consolations,  more  precious  to  them 
than  the  rarest  gems.  Never  again  will  he 
appear  at  the  bedside  to  assuage  pain  and 
anguish  of  body,  and,  most  of  all,  henceforth 
will  be  missed  by  the  tender  loving  hearts 
gathered  about  his  own  family  hearthstone." 

He  married,  in  1838,  Sally  A.  Groat,  born  in 
181 1,  died  in  1850,  daughter  of  Captain  Peter 
and  Amanda  (Rogers)  Groat.  Children:  i. 
IClbridge.  2.  Maria  Louise,  married  Henry 
Lyman  James  (see  James  family).  3.  Carrie, 
died  October  25,  1907;  married  Thomas  C. 
Stratton,  of  Montreal.    4.  Albert. 

( \TH  )  Lyman  Dwight,  son  of  Enoch  James, 
was  bor%  in  Williamsburg.  Massachusetts, 
January  21.  1836.  died  there  May  30,  1902. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  Amherst  Academy.  His  father  hav- 
ing moved  to  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  he  spent 
two  years  there,  and  then  returned  to  Will- 
iamsburg, the  town  of  his  birth,  where  he 
spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  first 
entered  the  general  store  of  his  brother,  Henry 
Lyman  James,  as  clerk,  then  became  a  partner, 
and  later  sole  owner.  The  business  was  an 
old-fashioned  country  store  handling  all  kinds 
of  general  merchandise.  After  many  years  of 
active  life  he  retired  in  1898,  about  four  years 
before  his  death.  In  politics  he  was  a  Repub- 
lican, and  in  religion  a  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational church  of  Williamsburg.  He  was 
a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Northampton  about  twenty-five  years,  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death  was  vice-president,  and 
was  also  a  trustee  of  the  Nonotuck  Savings 
liank.  For  twenty-five  years  he  was  a  trustee 
of  the  Northampton  Insane  Asylum,  and  was 
serving  in  that  cajjacity  at  time  of  death.  Mrs. 
James  had  a  beautiful  club  house  on  the 
Insane  Asylum  grounds  constructed  in  mem- 
ory of  her  husband,  who  was  deeply  in  sym- 
pathy with  these  unfortunate  people. 

The  following  was  taken  from  one  of  the 
newspapers  at  the  time  of  his  death :  "The 
death  of  Lyman  D.  James,  of  Williamsburg, 
removes  from  us  a  man  who  was  first  and 
always  public-si)irited.  He  was  brim  full  of 
enthusiasiu,  as  active  as  a  young  man,  and  as 
keen  in  his  interest  in  the  world.  That  he  was 
nearly  seventy  years  old  never  occurred  to 
those  who  knew  him.  Young  men.  all  young 
])eoi)le.  liked  him  heartily.  He  had  good 
lumior  in  abundance,  and  delighted  in  a  busy 
life.  His  devotion  to  the  state's  interests,  as 
senior  trustee  of  the  Northampton  Asylum,  a 


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place  he  had  held  for  twenty-three  years,  was 
a  matter  of  note  all  through  the  common- 
wealth. Had  it  been  his  private  enterprise  he 
could  not  have  given  closer,  more  faithful, 
attention,  and  much  of  the  notable  success  of 
that  large  institution  is  due  to  him.  He  had  a 
very  kindly  nature,  and  people  who  had  no 
special  business  relation  with  him,  "took  to 
him,'  to  use  a  homelike  New  England  phrase. 
\\'hatever  his  more  prominent  services  have 
been,  this  constant  good  will  and  gooil  humor 
for  all  people,  old  and  young,  made  him  a  man 
whose  daily  presence  was  an  influence  for 
good.  He  goes  from  us  still  young,  full  of 
high  courage,  good  work,  and  plans  for  the 
future,  leaving  a  most  grateful  memory." 

Mr.  James  married,  September  lo,  1857, 
Helen  Eliza  Field  (see  Field).  Children:  i. 
Henry  Dwight,  wlio  lives  in  Haydcnville, 
Massachusetts.  2.  Howard,  who  lives  in  St. 
Paul.  3.  Grace  Fidelia,  married  John  W.  Gil- 
lette, and  resides  in  Hudson,  New  York.  4. 
Philip  Lyman,  who  resides  in  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois. 

(The   DwlRht   Line — For  preceding  generations   see 
John   Dwight    1). 

(IV)  Colonel  Simeon  Dwight,  son  of  Cap- 
tain Henry  Dwight,  was  born  F'ebruary  18, 
1719-20,  and  died  F^ebruary  21,  1776.  He  was 
a  colonel  of  militia,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  high  sheriff  of  Worcester  county. 
He  was  a  farmer,  and  resided  at  Western 
(now  Warren)  Massachusetts.  He  married, 
December  14,  1743,  Sibyl  Dwight,  born  Octo- 
ber 8,  1725,  died  March  19.  1784,  daughter 
of  Captain  Samuel  and  iNIary  (Lyman) 
Dwight.  Children:  i.  Sibyl,  born  October  4, 
1744;  married  Major  Elihu  Kent;  died 
August,  1822.  2.  Sarah,  born  May  i,  1746; 
married  Timothy  Ruggles.  3.  Anna,  born 
December  19,  1747;  died  November  27,,  1751. 
4.  Jerusha.  born  October  15,  1749:  died 
unmarried.  5.  Colonel  Henry,  born  February 
18,  1752;  mentioned  below;  died  November 
26,  1819.  6.  Anna,  born  November  10,  1753; 
married  Deacon  Asahcl  Hatheway;  died 
March  17,  1807.  7.  Simeon,  Jr.,  born  Sep- 
tember 13,  1755;  died  February  i,  1815.  8. 
Edmund,  born  January  6,  1757;  died  March 
/■  1758-  9-  Lydia,  born  October  12,  1759; 
died  August  20,  1761.  10.  Edmund,  born  May 
3,  1761  ;  died  unmarried  September,  1803.  11. 
Elihu,  born  February  17,  1763;  married  Lydia 
Chad  wick.  12.  Samuel,  born  December  7, 
1765;  died  April   10,  1817.     13.   Lydia,  born 


December  4,  1767;  married  Shadrach    Trum- 
bull; died  .\ugust  8,  1844. 

(\')  Colonel  Henry  Dwight,  son  of  Colonel 
Simeon  Dwight,  was  born  l'"ebruary  18,  1732, 
and  died  November  20,  1819.  He  resided  most 
of  his  life  at  Belchertown,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  a  farmer  and  citizen  of  high 
standing,  holding  various  public  offices.  He 
married,  Jime  2^,  1774,  Ruth  Rich,  born  1756, 
died  1837.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution, 
a  second  lieiUenant  in  Captain  F.stes  llowes's 
company,  F'irst  Uelchertown  regiment,  in 
1770 ;  also  in  the  same  company,  l-'ourlh 
Hampshire  regiment,  and  in  Captain  Jonathan 
r)ard well's  company.  Colonel  Elisha  Porter's 
regiment,  in  1777,  with  the  .\rmy  of  the 
North;  lieutenant  in  Third  comjiany.  Colonel 
Porter's  l-"ourtli  regiment,  in  1780.  His  resig- 
natimi  from  the  service  was  acceptetl  .Xjiril  18, 

1780.  Children:  i.  I^icutenanl  Joseph  Haw- 
ley,  born  March  26,  1775;  died  unmarried,  at 
F'ort  Niagara,  November  13,  i8or.  2.  Henry, 
Jr.,  born  November  7,  1777;  died  February  10, 
1 84 1.  3.  Colonel  Simeon,  born  September  24, 
1779;  mentioned  below.  4.  Charles,  born 
.\pril  5,  1782;  died  1815.  5.  Solomon  Rich, 
born  May  24,  1784;  died  unmarried,  i84().  6. 
Sophia,  born  July  3,  1780:  married  Justus 
Dwight;  died  November  26,  1814.  7.  Pere- 
grine, born  September  14,  17S8;  died  .\pril  24, 
1793.  8.  Thomas,  born  Sei)tember  28,  1790; 
died  unmarried,  F'ebruary  9,  1857.  9.  William, 
horn  November  5,  1792;  died  July  13,  1810. 
10.  Peregrine,  born  March  13,  1795;  died 
.\ugust  4,  1842.  II.  Clarissa,  born  November 
~^-  '799;  married  Myron  Lawrence;  died 
F'ebruary  10,  1832.  12.  Daughter,  born  and 
died  April  21,  1802. 

(\  1)  Colonel  Simeon  Dwight.  son  of  Colo- 
nel Henry  Dwight,  was  born  Sei)teinber  24, 
1779,  and  died  December  2;^.  1842.  He  was 
a  carriage  maker  at  P.elchertown,  antl  promi- 
nent in  town  atfairs.  He  was  deinity  sheriff 
for  thirty  years,  and  colonel  of  militia.  He 
was  an  earnest  religious  worker.  He  married, 
March  3,  1802,  Martha  Rice,  born  .August  2f\ 

1781,  died  February  29,  1840.  daughter  of 
Colonel  Asa  and  Miriam  Rice.  Children:  I. 
Armanilla  I^uggles,  born  February  28,  1803; 
married  Ijioch  James;  (see  James).  2.  Son, 
born  and  died  November  3,  1804.  3.  Joseph 
Hawley.  born  October  19,  1803;  married 
Eliza  (Mason)  l-'ilcr,  widow;  died  March  15, 
1849.  4.  Charles  llobart,  born  October  6, 
1807;  died  November  11,  1857.  5.  Mary  Rice, 
born  January  20,  1810;  died  June  27,  181 1.    6. 


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Mary  Rice,  born  December  26,  1812;  married 
Edwin  P.  Tucker;  (second)  Lewis  Hawes. 
7.  Simeon  Rich,  born  May  3,  1815.  8.  Serene 
Edwards,  born  November  12,  1825. 


George  Corless,  immigrant 
CORLESS  ancestor,  was  born  in  Devon- 
shire, England,  about  1617, 
son  of  Tliomas  Corless.  He  came  to  New 
England  m  1639  and  settled  in  Newbury, 
Afassaclnisetts,  and  removed  soon  to  Haver- 
hill, where  he  lived  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
He  settled  in  1640  in  the  west  parish  of 
Haverhill,  and  the  farm,  now  known  as  the 
Poplar  Lawn  farm,  was  at  last  accounts  in 
possession  of  a  direct  descendant,  having  been 
in  the  family  ever  since.  He  was  the  first 
settler  in  that  part  of  the  town,  and  built  a 
log  house  in  1647.  His  name  was  on  the  list 
of  freemen  in  1645,  and  was  constable  in  1650, 
selectman  in  1648-53-57-69-79.  His  will  was 
dated  October  18,  1686,  and  he  died  October 
IQ,  1686.  It  is  a  remarkable  coincidence  that 
( lorge  Corless,  his  son  John,  and  his  grand- 
son John,  all  died  on  the  same  farm,  each  one 
sitting  in  the  same  chair,  lie  married,  Octo- 
ber 26,  at  Haverhill,  Joanna,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Davis.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born 
September  6,  1646;  died  October  22,  1722; 
married  William  NefF,  and  was  with  Hannah 
Dustin  when  she  was  captured  by  the  Indians. 

2.  John,  born  March  4,  1648;  mentioned  below. 

3.  Joanna,  born  A])ril  28,  1650:  died  October 
29,  1734;  married  Joseph  Huckins.  4.  Martha, 
born  June  2,  1652;  married  Samuel  Ladd.  5. 
Deborah,  born  June  6,  1655;  married  Thomas 
Eastman.  6.  .\nn,  born  November  8,  1657; 
died  June,  1691  ;  married  John  Robie.  7. 
Huldali,  born  November  18,  1661  ;  married 
Samuel  Kingsbury.  8.  Sarah,  born  February 
23.  1663 ;  married  Joseph  .^\yer. 

(IIj  John,  son  of  George  Corless,  was  born 
in  Haverhill,  March  4,  1648.  and  died  Febru- 
ary 17,  1698.  He  inherited  the  homestead 
from  his  father,  and  his  name  is  among  those 
who  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  at  Haverhill, 
November  28.  1677.  He  was  also  among  the 
list  of  .soldiers  ])aid  by  the  town  August  24, 
1676.  He  died  intestate  February  17.  1698, 
and  the  inventory  of  his  estate  was  filed  .Au- 
gust I,  1698.  He  married  Mary  Wilford.  born 
November  18.  1667,  daughter  of  (iilbert  Wil- 
ford. of  Haverhill.  She  married  (second) 
William   Wliittakcr.  of   Haverhill.      Children: 

1.  John,  born  March  4.  1686:  mentioned  below. 

2.  Mary,  born  February  25,  1687.  3.  Thomas, 
Ixirn   March  2,   1689;  died   1784.     4.  Hannah, 


born  169 1  :  died  September  8,  1764.  5.  Timo- 
thy, born  December  13,  1693;  died  1783.  6. 
Jonathan,  born  July  16,  1695;  died  March  22, 
1787.     7.   Mehitable,  born  May  15,  1698. 

(HI)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Corless, 
was  born  at  Haverhill,  March  4.  1686,  and 
died  in  1766.  He  resided  on  the  old  home- 
stead, and  had  willed  it  to  his  son.  but  outlived 
him.  and  the  farm  descended  to  his  grandsons. 
He  was  a  man  of  large  stature,  being  more 
than  six  feet  in  height  and  finely  proportioned. 
He  had  a  powerful  voice,  and  it  is  said  that  he 
could  be  heard  and  under.stood  a  mile  away. 
He  enjoyed  remarkable  health  until  he  was 
over  seventy-five  years  old.  He  gave  each 
of  his  children  a  good  education  and  provided 
for  them  liberally  in  every  way.  He  married, 
171 1,  Ruth  Haynes.  born  February  7.  1691, 
died  1787.  Children:  i.  Ruth,  born  October 
14.  1712;  died  1802.  2.  George,  born  March 
4,  1714;  died  April  4,  1714.  3.  John,  born 
September  12,  1715;  died  November  15,  1753. 

4.  Timothy,  born  February  4,  1717;  died  1760. 

5.  Sarah,  born  November,  1718;  died  Novem- 
ber 20,  1736.  6.  Abigail,  born  November  20, 
1720.  7.  Joseph,  born  November  4.  1722; 
mentioned  below.  8.  Hannah,  born  August  16, 
1724.  9.  Infant,  died  young.  10.  Mary,  bom 
May  8,  1727.  11.  Infant,  died  young.  12. 
Jonathan,  born  February  25,  1730;  died  1776. 
13.  Joshua,  born  January  19,  1733:  died  Janu- 
ary 29,  1819. 

(IV)  Joseph,  son  of  John  (2)  Corless.  was 
born  in  Haverhill,  November  4,  1722,  and 
died  November  3,  1762.  He  married,  Febru- 
ary 19.  1746,  Mary  Emerson,  of  Haverhill, 
born  .September  3.  1728,  died  November  8, 
1815.  Children:  i.  Josej)h,  born  November 
29,  1747;  mentioned  below.  2.  .Sarah,  born 
May  5,  1749:  died  1787.  3.  Ephraim,  born 
.August  3.  1751  ;  died  (October  25,  1824.  4. 
Solomon,  born  June  30.  1754:  died  Sejitember 
'5.  1755-  5-  Abigail,  borii  August  9,  1756; 
died  November  11,  1803.  6.  Polly,  born  April 
16,  1760;  died  May  i.  1824.  7.  John,  born 
March  25.  1761  ;  died  November  21.  1841. 

(\')  Jo.seph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  Corless, 
was  born  Noveinber  20.  1747,  and  died  .Sep- 
tember 20.  1820.  With  his  first  one  hundred 
dollars  which  he  earned  peddling  thread  for 
the  Londonderry  settlers,  he  bought  a  hundred 
acres  of  land  and  a  small  house  at  Windham, 
New  Hampshire.  lie  moved  his  family  there. 
;ind  later  built  a  large  house  which  remained 
there  until  1840.  when  it  was  removed  to 
Lowell,  M^assachusi'tts.  lie  married  (first) 
abont      1767.      Miri.-ini      Fmerson :      (second) 


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Betsey,  daughter  of  Francis  Utinox.  a  descend- 
ant of  Huguenots.  Her  father  left  France  for 
England,  where  he  married  .Mary  Lee.  de- 
scendant of  Henry  Lee,  whom  Walter  Scott 
has  made  historic.  He  and  his  wife  and  son 
sailed  for  .America.,  and  Betsey  was  born  on 
the  voyage.  On  their  arrival  the  father  and 
son  both  died,  and  the  mother  soon  followed, 
leaving  her  daughter  in  charge  of  a  godmother 
who  bought  her  thread  and  linen  of  the  Lon- 
donderry settlers.  This  godmother  placed  her 
charge.  Betsey  Utinox.  in  the  family  of  Mr. 
Gregg,  of  Londonderry.  She  learned  the 
weaver's  trade,  and  used  to  travel  among  the 
settlers  and  weave  for  them  when  needed. 
Arriving  at  Windham,  the  constable.  Joseph 
Corless.  was  obliged  to  serve  warning  on  her 
as  a  transient  person.  He  found  her  at  the 
house  of  his  mother-in-law,  dressed  in  her  red 
dress,  weaving  for  them.  The  reading  of  the 
law  terrified  her.  and  though  they  soothed  her 
by  telling  her  that  it  was  simply  a  matter  of 
form  she  never  forgot  the  scene.  Afterward 
Joseph  Corless  took  her  for  his  second  wife. 
Joseph  Corless  kept  a  tavern  from  1812  to 
1819.  The  cellar  of  his  house  may  still  be 
seen  at  the  corner  of  the  road  leading  from 
Windham  to  Richard  Woodbury's  farm  at 
Salem.  Xew  Hamjjshire.  He  served  in  the 
revolution  in  the  first  military  company  of 
Windham,  in  1775,  under  Captain  James  Gil- 
niorc :  also  in  Captain  John  N'esmith's  com- 
pany. Colonel  Matthew  Thornton's  regiment 
in  1776.  and  in  .August  of  that  year  was  m  the 
C'ontinental  army.  He  was  elected  constable 
in  1780.  but  declined  to  serve.  Being  forced  to 
serve  he  declined  to  collect  the  minister's  rate 
and  was  finally  excused  from  doing  so.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:  i.  Solomon,  born  in  Haver- 
hill ;  married  Annis  Houghton.  2.  Sally,  mar- 
ried   Lund.    3.  Polly,  born  February  5, 

1773:  died  unmarried.  4.  Ephraim.  born  June 
^9-  I77.>  5-  I'eter.  born  .Sejitember  30,  1777; 
died  unmarried.  6.  Miriam,  born  May  9.  1781  ; 
died  young.  7.  Joseph,  born  .Ajjril  21.  1784; 
went  to  sea  and  never  returned.  8.  Benjamin 
Ctwin),  born  .April  21,  1784;  died  young.  9. 
John,  born  September  6,  1786;  died  October 
19,  1837;  married  Jane  Todd.  Children  of 
second  wife:  10.  Cyrus,  born  March  27.  1794; 
mentioned  below.  11.  Betsey,  born  May  20, 
1795:  married  John  D.  Emerson.  12.  Elijah, 
born  July  21.  1796;  died  a  young  man.  13. 
Lydia.  born  January  12.  1800;  married  Will- 
iam Dustin.  14.  Abigail,  born  December  17, 
1805:  married  Curtis  .Sargent:  died  1878. 
(VL)   Cyrus,    son    of   Joseph    (2)    Corless, 


was  born  .March  27,  1794,  and  lived  in  W  ind- 
ham  until  1824.  He  removed  to  St.  Albans, 
\ermont,  and  afterwards  to  Quincy,  Mas.sa- 
chusetts.  He  was  a  foreman  in  the  granite 
(juarry  there,  and  was  killed  in  the  quarry  in 
1839.  He  married  Phebe,  daughter  of  Lib- 
beus  (iordon,  of  Great  Falls.  She  died  in 
1864.  at  West  Quincy.  Children:  i.  Ro.xanna, 
born  February  4,  1817:  married  William  Rip- 
ley. 2.  Tabitha  R..  born  June  8.  1818 ;  married 
l-"rank  Brown.  3.  Daniel  G.,  born  I-'ebruary 
12.  1820.  4.  Libbeus  G.,  born  February  25, 
1 82 1.  5.  Joseph,  born  .August  13,  1823.  6. 
Edward  Clark.  7.  Simon  Berry,  mentioned 
below.  8.  Elijah,  killed  by  blasting  rocks  at 
Ouincy  c|uarry. 

(  \1I  I  Simon  Berry,  only  living  child  of 
Cyrus  Corless,  was  born  at  Greensborough, 
Vermont.  November  11,  1827.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  Quincy,  whither 
his  parents  removed  when  he  w-as  about  five 
years  old.  His  father  was  killed  when  he  was 
twelve  years  old,  and  he  had  to  leave  school 
and  go  to  work.  He  was  first  employed  in  the 
stone  c|uarry  to  carry  tools  for  the  <|uarrymen, 
and  learned  the  trade  of  granite  cutter  after- 
ward. When  gold  was  discovered  in  Cali- 
fornia he  and  his  brother  joined  a  company  of 
young  men  who  bought  a  small  vessel  and 
sailed  around  Cape  I  lorn  to  California,  through 
the  Straits  of  .Magellen,  taking  nearly  eight 
months  for  the  trip.  On  reaching  California 
they  sold  the  .shi])  and  sought  their  fortunes 
in  the  gold  fields.  .After  three  years  of  pros- 
])ecting  and  mining,  he  returned  home  and 
with  his  brother  ojjerated  a  granite  (|uarry  in 
East  .Milton.  They  were  prosperous,  and  after 
a  few  years  purchased  other  quarries  in  Ran- 
dolph. They  took  large  contracts  for  granite 
buildings  and  other  structures,  curbstones  and 
especially  monuments,  many  of  which  were 
designed  by  .Mr.  Corless.  He  had  charge  of 
many  large  contracts  and  was  one  of  the  best 
known  (|uarrymen  in  the  business.  He  retired 
1890.  Was  first  made  a  Mason  in  Quincy.  and 
is  a  charter  member  of  Constellation  Lodge 
of  Free  Masons  of  Dcdham :  a  member  of  St. 
Paul's  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  being 
now  an  honorary  member  of  both  ;  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  lodge  of  Odd  Fellows  in  Randolph, 
and  for  tw'cnty-one  years  was  a  member  of 
tiie  Royal  .Arcanum.  In  (lolitics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican. He  has  resided  at  Randolj))!  since 
1873.  He  married  (first)  Mary  Kayo,  born 
at  West  Quincy,  1864.  He  married  (second) 
.April  29,  1870,  .Susan  Kingsbury,  born  Sep- 
tember 25,  1840,  at  Dedham.  daughter  of  Mel- 


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zar  and  Mary  (Stone)  Kingsbury.  (See 
Kingsbury).  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Alma 
B.,  born  West  Quincy,  August  13,  1854;  mar- 
ried Henry  Wales  (see  Wales).  2.  Mehitable, 
born  February  8,  1857  ;  married  Walter  Berry; 
two  sons,  Simon  C  and  Donald.  3.  Maria  L.. 
born  P'cbruary  5,  1859;  married  Edward 
Young.  Children  of  second  wife:  4.  Cyrus, 
born  April  24,  1877;  married  Sarah  Jane 
Langley,  of  Mattapan,  Massachusetts.  5. 
Ralph  Kingsbury,  born  July  2,  1880. 

Several  immigrants  by  the 
KINGSBURY  name  of  Kingsbury, or  Kings- 
bery.came  early  to  New  Eng- 
land. Of  these  were  Henry,  John  and  Joseph 
Kingsbury,  probably  brothers.  Henry  Kings- 
bury came  in  the  ship  "Talbot,"  in  1630.  and 
joined  the  church  at  Boston,  with  his  wife 
Margaret.  Henry  of  Ipswich,  born  1615.  and 
called  "kinsman"  in  the  will  of  John  of  Ded- 
ham,  was  probably  son  of  Henry  the  immi- 
grant. John  Kingsbury,  of  Watertown,  was 
admitted  a  freeman  March  3,  1635-6.  He 
removed  to  Dedham  in  1636,  where  he  served 
as  deputy  to  the  general  court  and  as  a  town 
officer;  his  will  proved  December  2,  1659-60, 
mentioning  wife  Margaret,  brother  Joseph, 
kinsman  Thomas  Cooper  of  Seaconque,  and 
Henry  Kingsbury  of  Ipswich.  The  name  is  of 
ancient  luiglish  origin,  derived  from  the  place 
of  that  name,  Kingsborough. 

(I)  Joseph  Kingsbury,  immigrant  ancestor 
of  this  branch  of  the  family,  brother  of  John, 
settled  at  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  as  early  as 
1637.  His  wife  Millicent.  "who  appeared  to 
ye  church  a  tender-hearted  soule,  full  of  feares 
&  temptations,  but  truly  breathing  after 
Christ,"  was  admitted  to  the  Dedham  church 
April  24,  1639.  He  was  admitted  .'\pril  9, 
1641.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  June  2. 
1641.  He  died  before  June  i,  1676,  his  wife 
surviving  him.  His  will  was  dated  May  22, 
1675,  and  proved  June  i,  1676.  It  bequeaths 
to  sons  Joseph,  John,  Eliezer  and  Natlianicl ; 
wife  Millicent ;  daughter  Sarah  Croseman ; 
son-in-law  Thomas  Cooper,  of  Rehoboth ; 
grandchild  Elizabeth  Brewer:  sons-in-law 
Robert  Croseman  and  Nathaniel  Brewer : 
refers  to  deceased  brother  John  Kingsbury. 
Children:  i.  Sarah,  married  Robert  Crose- 
man, of  Taunton.  2.  Mary.  lx>rn  at  Dedham, 
Se]itember  t.  1637:  married  (probably)  Dea- 
con Thomas  Cooper,  of  Rehoboth.  3.  Eliza- 
beth, born  at  Dedham,  Se]itember  14,  1638: 
married  Nathaniel  Brewer,  of  Ro.xbury,  and 
died  June  25,  1661.     4.  Joseph,  born  at  Ded- 


ham, February  17,  16401  ;  died  December  16, 
1688:  married  Mary  ;  (second)  Sep- 
tember 7,  1681,  Mary  Donier;  settled  at 
Wrentham.  5.  John,  born  at  Dedham,  Au- 
gust 15,  1643;  died  May  30,  1669;  married 
Elizabeth  Fuller.  6.  Eleazer,  born  May  17, 
1645  :  died  February  2,  1722-3  ;  married  Esther 
Judson.     7.  Nathaniel,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Joseph  Kingsbury, 
was  born  in  Dedham,  March  26,  1650,  and 
died  October   14,   1694.     He  was  admitted  a 

freeman  in  1677.     He  married  Mary  . 

Children:  I.  Nathaniel,  born  September  14, 
1674;  married,  December  5.,  1695,  Abigail 
Barker:  died  January   19,   1724-5.     2.  James. 

3.  Timothy,  born   October   15.    1680;  resided 

at    Needham ;    married    Hannah    .      4. 

John,  born  .August  17,  1686.  5.  Daniel,  born 
November  11,  1688;  mentioned  below.  6. 
Millicent,  born  March  30,  1693. 

(III)  Daniel,  son  of  Nathaniel  Kingsbury, 
was  born  November  11,  1688,  and  died  April 
27,  1754.  He  resided  at  Wrentham,  where  he 
married,  December  29,  1713,  Elizabeth  Ste- 
vens, of  Dedham,  who  survived  him.  and  died 
in  1764.  Children:  i.  Daniel,  born  March  12, 
171 5:  died  1783:  married  (first)  November  3, 
1737.  lieriah  Mann;  (second)  October  19, 
1755,  .\bigail  .\dams,  widow.  2.  Stephen, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Elizabeth,  married  Joshua 
I'artridge.    4.  Mary,  married  Joseph  Harding. 

(I\')  Stephen,  son  of  Daniel  Kingsbury, 
was  born  about  1716,  and  died  April  23.  1754, 
aged  thirty-eight  years.  He  married  Silence, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Partridge.  Children:  i. 
Moses,  born  about  1742,  mentioned  below.  2. 
.•\aron,  born  about  1743.     3.  Lois,  born  al)out 

1745:    married   Metcalf.      4.    Joseph, 

born  about  1747.  5.  Olive,  born  abmit  1751. 
6.  .Stephen,  born  about  1754.  7.  Benjamin.  8. 
Abigail. 

(\')  Moses,  son  of  Stephen  King.sbury, 
was  born  about  1742,  and  was  probably  the 
Moses  who  died  in  the  fall  of  1771,  leaving  a 
widow  Thankful.  Children:  I.  Cyrus,  re- 
moved to  .'\lstead.  New  Hampshire,  and  was 
father  of  Rev.  Cyrus  Kingsbury  D.  D.  (B.  U. 
t8i2).  missionary  to  Choctaw  Indians.  2. 
Moses,  mentioned  below.     3.  Matilda. 

I  \'l)  Moses  (2),  son  of  Moses  (i)  Kings- 
burv,  resided  on  the  homestead  at  Dedham 
Island.  lie  was  a  farmer.  He  married  Han- 
naii  Lewis,  of  Needham.  Children:  i.  Han- 
nah, born  November  23,  1799.  2.  Calvin,  Feb- 
ruarv  3,   1801.     3.   Daniel.  Jatiuary  25,   1802. 

4.  Melzar,  October  i,  1803:  mentioned  below. 

5.  Joshua,  January  25.  1805.    6.  Deborah,  De- 


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cember  13,  1806.  7.  Mary  L.,  September  3. 
1808.  8.  Jonatban,  February  9,  1810.  i). 
Moses.  January  2.  181 1.  10.  George.  Marcb 
15,  1813:  died  young.  11.  Charles.  February 
5.  1815.  12.  Caroline,  September  12.  1816. 
13.  Sarah  Ann.  April  30.  181 8.  14.  George, 
October  20,  182 1.  15.  Henry,  May  16,  1823. 
(VII)  Melzar,  son  of  Moses  (2)  Kings- 
bury, was  born  at  Dedham.  October  i.  1803. 
and  died  there  in  July.  1S72.  aged  sixty-nine 
years.  He  was  a  farmer  on  the  homestead, 
and  married  Mary  Stone,  born  at  Brunswick. 
Maine,  in  1819.  died  at  Dedham,  1902,  aged 
eighty-three.  Children:  i.  Benjamin,  died 
aged  two  years.  2.  Mary,  born  January  28. 
1839:  married  George  Chase,  of  Dedham;  one 
child.  George  Arthur,  born  1856-  3-  Susan, 
born  September  25,  1840:  married  Simon 
Barry  Corless  (see  Corless).  4.  Augusta, born 
February  7,  1851,  died  December  17,  1901  ; 
married  Louis  J.  Houghton,  of  Dedham,  died 
June  28,  1908:  two  children:  Charles  Ed- 
ward, born  January  5,  1878;  Royal  B.,  died 
June  26,  1901,  aged  twenty  years. 


The  surname  Wales  is  obviously 
\\'ALE.S  derived  from  the  name  of  a  place 
and  the  family  dates  back  in 
England  to  remote  antiquity.  Xathaniel  Wales, 
immigrant  ancestor,  was  born  in  England  as 
early  as  1600,  and  came  to  New  England  in 
the  ship  "James,"  a  fellow  passenger  of  the 
famous  Rev.  Richard  Mather,  who  has  left  an 
interesting  description  of  the  voyage  in  his 
journal,  printed  in  "Young's  Chronicles."  Tie 
settled  at  Dorchester  of  which  he  became  a 
proprietor,  and  was  admitted  to  the  church 
there  and  freeman  N'ovember  2,  1637.  He  was 
a  weaver  or  webster  by  trade.  He  removed 
to  Boston  in  1651,  and  was  received  into  the 
church  there  with  his  wife  Susan,  March  2, 
1651-2.  She  was  a  daughter  of  John  Green- 
away,  a  millwright  of  Dorchester.  Isabel, 
whom  some  records  give  as  the  name  of  his 
wife,  may  have  been  his  first  wife.  He  de- 
posed I'^ebruary  i,  1661.  that  his  wife's  name 
was  Susan.  He  calls  Humphrey  .Xtherton  his 
brother-in-law,  and  his  son  Xathaniel  marrierl 
Isabel,  daughter  of  Atherton.  Nathaniel 
Wales  died  at  I'.oston,  December  4,  1661.  His 
will  was  dated  June  20.  1661,  be(|ueathing 
land  at  Dorchester  and  Boston  to  his  wife  and 
sons  Timothy.  Nathaniel  atid  John  ;  daughters 
Priscilla  and  .Sarah,  and  grandchild  Timothy 
Wells  Jr.  Humphrey  Atherton,  his  brother- 
in-law,  was  made  overseer  and  his  wife  Susan 
executrix.     The  inventory  was  dated  January 


3.  1662,  appraised  by  Edmund  Jackson  and 
Robert  Walker.  His  widow  died  without  ad- 
ministering the  estate,  and  his  grandson  Jeri- 
jah  Wales  was  appointed  administratur  July 
('.  1719.  Children:  i.  .Xathaniel.  mentioned 
below.  2.  Timothy,  lived  in  Dorchester.  3. 
John,  of  Dorchester.  4.  Priscilla.  5.  Sarah. 
().  Daughter  married  Timothy  Wells. 

(II)  Xathaniel  (2),  son  of  Xathaniel  (i) 
Wales,  was  born  about  1625,  doubtless  in  Eng- 
land, and  died  .May  10,  1662,  in  Boston.  His 
will  was  dated  .May  18,  1662.  and  proved  May 
27,  fallowing.  He  married  Isabel  Humjjhrey, 
ba]3tized  at  Winwick,  England,  January  23, 
i()30,  daughter  of  Major-General  Humphrey 
Atherton,  of  Dorchester,  one  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished men  of  the  first  generation  in  Mass- 
achusetts. His  wife  died  shortly  before  his 
death.  Children,  born  in  Boston,  mentioned 
in  his  will:  i.  Xathaniel,  mentioned  below. 
--.  Samuel.  3.  Mary.  4.  Jonathan,  killed  in 
King  I'hili])'s  war. 

(ill)  Elder  Xathaniel  (3),  son  of  Xathaniel 
(2)  Wales,  was  born  about  1650,  and  died  in 
Braintree,  March  23,  1718.  He  settled  early 
in  life  in  Braintree,  formerly  Mount  W'ollas- 
ton,  and  jiart  of  Boston.  He  was  there  in 
1^175  and  bought  twenty  acres  of  land  Sep- 
tember 6,  1684,  of  the  old  iron  works  land  at 
Braintree,  then  called  Monotoquod.  He  was 
chosen  deacon  of  the  Braintree  church,  and 
was  ordained  ruling  elder  there  February  27, 
1 700- 1,  by  Rev.  Mr.  Fiske.  Rev.  Peter 
Thatcher,  of  IMilton.  and  Elder  John  Rogers, 
of  Weymouth.  He  married  Joanna  b'axon, 
who  died  May  i  r,  1704,  tlaughter  of  Thomas 
I'axon,  of  Braintree.  She  was  less  than  fif- 
teen years  old,  we  are  told,  when  her  first  child 
was  born.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1675-6.  2.  Joanna,  born  April  18, 
1679;  died  April  25.  1679.  3.  Sarah,  born 
March    ir.    1780;  married   Xathaniel   Thayer. 

4.  .Xathaniel.  born  December  29,  1681  ;  mar- 
ried Esther  .Abbey.  5.  Joanna,  born  December 
19.  1683:  died  .Sej)tembcr  27.  1707.  unmarried. 
6.  FJkannah.  born  December  i,  1(385.  7- Deb- 
orah, born  October  16,  1687;  married,  1708, 
Elizabeth  Holbrook.  8.  Thomas,  born  Octo- 
ber 6,  1689;  died  February  22,  1690.  9.  Mary, 
born  Aj)ril  i.  1691  :  married,  .\pril  8,  1714, 
John  Thayer.  10.  .Samuel,  born  June  23.  1693. 
ri.  Thomas,  born  April  19.  i6(;5,  mentioned 
below.  12.  Jose|)h.  born  April  29,  1697;  mar- 
ried, 1713.  Hannah  .Allen.  13.  Jf)hn,  born 
May  25,  1699:  married,  Xovember  8,  1733. 
1  fazadiah  Leonard.  14.  Rachel,  born  October 
15.  1701  ;  married,  Xovember  12,   1719,  Cap- 


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tain  Mljenezer  Thayer.  15.  Atherton,  born 
March  8,  1704:  grathiate  of  Harvard  College, 
1726:  married.  1730,  Mary,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Samuel  Niles. 

fl\')  Deacon  Thomas,  son  of  Elder 
Nathaniel  (3)  Wales,  was  born  in  Braintree, 
Ai)ril  19.  1695.  He  married  (first)  January 
13,  1719.  Mary  iielcher.  who  died  January  30, 
1741 ;  (second)  September  7.  1742,  Sarah 
Belcher,  widow  of  Samuel  Belcher.  Children, 
born  in  Braintree:  i.  Samuel,  November  3, 
1719.  2.  Atherton,  p-ebruary  11.  1721.  3. 
Mary,  November  21,  1722;  died  July  13,  1731- 
4.  Ephraim,  C)ctober,  1725;  died  young.  5. 
Ephraim,  November  3,  1727;  died  October  6, 
1744.  6.  Moses,  December  20,  1728.  7. 
Nathaniel,  October  26.  1729.  8.  Deborah, 
March  27,  1731.  9.  Thomas,  .August  24,  1733; 
died  July  3,  1736.  10.  Mary,  February  27, 
1736.  II.  Thomas,  February  20,  1738;  died 
November  9,  1759.  12.  John,  March  3,  1739; 
died  March  23,  1740.  Children  of  second  wife: 

13.  Joanna.  May  9.  1746.  14.  Fphraim,  May 
9.  174^1:  mentioned  lielow.     15.  John,  February 

14,  1747:  died  March  7,  1747. 

(\')  Dr.  h4)hraim  Wales,  son  of  Deacon 
Thomas  Wales,  was  born  in  Braintree,  May  9, 
1746.  He  graduated  from  Harvard  College 
in  1768,  and  fitted  himself  for  the  medi- 
cal profession.  He  practiced  medicine  in' 
Soutli  I'raintree  many  years,  and  became  an 
eminent  and  successful  doctor.  He  was  in 
the  revolution,  on  the  Lexington  alarm,  in 
Cajitain  Selh  Turner's  com|)any.  Colonel  Ben- 
jamin Lincoln's  regiment.    He  married 

Beale.  Children:  i.  Thomas  Beale,  graduate 
of  Harvard,  1795:  resided  in  Boston.  2.  Dr. 
F'piiraim,  mentioned  below.  3.  Emily,  mar- 
ried .Aaron  Littleficld. 

(\'l)  Dr.  hlphraim  Wales  (2).  son  of  Dr. 
E])]iraim  Wales  ( i ),  was  born  in  South  Brain- 
tree, now  Kandolph,  about  1780.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  and  in  Dartmouth 
College,  and  succeeded  his  father  as  a  physi- 
cian at  Randolj)!!.  He  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Silas  .Alden,  and  descendant  of  John 
.Alden  of  the  "Mayflower."  Children:  I. 
Lawrence.  2.  Fphraim.  3.  Lawrence.  4. 
Peter  .Adams,  menlioned  below.  5.  Mary.  6. 
Tiiomas  B.  7.  Sally.  8.  .Annie,  lives  in  Ran- 
dolph. 

(\'H)  Peter  .Adams,  son  of  Dr.  Ephraim 
Wales  (2),  was  born  in  Randolph,  Massachu- 
setts, April  30,  1 81 3,  and  died  there  April  6, 
1881.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools, 
and  followed  farming.  He  jiossessed  con- 
siderable  mechanical   genius,   and   invented   a 


pump,  which  he  manufactured  with  profit  for 
man)  years.  He  accumulated  a  handsome 
competence  and  took  rank  among  the  most 
substantial  men  of  the  town.  In  politics  he 
v.a=  a  Republican.  He  married,  1838,  Millie 
.Ann  Downs,  born  1815,  at  Canton,  died  1898, 
at   Randolph.      Children,   born   at    Randolph : 

1.  Henry  James  (twin),  born  December  26, 
1838:  died  July  23,  1905;  lived  on  the  home- 
stead, which  he  and  his  twin  brother  conducted 
in  (jartnership :  married  .Alma  B.  Corless,  bom 
in  Ouincy,  daughter  of  Simon  B.  Corless  (see 
Corless)  :   had  two   sons  and  two  daughters. 

2.  James  Henry  (twin),  born  December  26, 
1838:  mentioned  below.  3.  Eliza  Downes, 
born  1840:  married  Edward  K.  Parker,  of 
A'armouth,  Massachusetts. 

( \'HI )  James  Henry,  twin  son  of  Peter 
.Adams  Wales,  was  born  at  Randolph,  Decem- 
ber ifi,  1838.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools,  and  worked  during  his  boyhood  and 
youth  on  his  father's  farm.  He  and  his 
brother  succeeded  to  the  farm  and  the  pump 
manufacturing  business,  which  they  conducted 
successfully  for  many  years.  He  has  a  pro- 
ductive farm  and  an  excellent  dairy.  In  poli- 
tics he  is  a  Republican,  but  he  has  never 
accepted  public  office.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  church.  He  married.  Novem- 
ber 26,  1898.,  A'iola  Alorse,  born  in  Rangeley, 
Maine.  They  have  had  no  children,  but  have 
ado])ted  a  daughter,  Alberta  G.  Wales. 


William     Thorpe,     immigrant 
THORPE      ancestor,  was  born  in  England 

about  1605.  He  was  a  founder 
and  settler  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  and 
came  to  New  England  about  1635,  with  his 
wife  Elizabeth,  aged  twenty,  and  daughter 
Elizabeth,  aged  two  years.  His  wife  died  Oc- 
tober 9,  i6f)0,  and  he  married  (second)  Mar- 
garet I'igg  (Pidge),  widow  of  Robert  Pigg. 
His  will  was  dated  September  u.  1670,  and 
he  died  about  1684.  Children:  i.  Nathaniel, 
baptized  May  24,  1640;  mentioned  below.  2. 
Elizabeth,  baptized  April.  1643.  3.  John,  bap- 
tized July.  1643-4;  settled  in  Fairfield,  Con- 
necticut. 4.  Samuel,  baptized  June  14,  1646; 
died  February  2,  1728.  3.  Eleazer.  born  Jan- 
uary 12,  1649;  died  February  20,  1649. 

(II)  Natlianiel,  son  of  William  Thorpe, 
was  baptized  May  24,  1640,  probably  in  Mass- 
achusetts. He  was  admitted  a  freeman  in 
1699.  He  married  (first)  November  20.  1662, 
Mary  Ford,  who  died  August  28,  1684,  daugh- 
ter of  Timothy  Ford,  of  Charlestown,  Mass- 
achusetts;  (second)  December  10,  1692,  Sarah 


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Robbins.  His  will  was  dated  July  9.  i~og,  and 
he  died  that  year.  Children  of  first  wife:  i. 
Nathaniel,  born  March  6,  1664;  mentioned 
below.  2.  Mary,  born  November,  1666:  died 
young.  3.  Mary,  born  February  i,  1667;  mar- 
ried John  Mackay.  4.  ^\■illiam.  born  April  30, 
1670.  5.  Daui^hter,  January  14.  1671.  6.  .\bi- 
gail.  May  15,  1676.  7.  Elizabeth,  July  21, 
1680.  8.  Samuel,  February  13,  16S1.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:  9.  Sarah,  born  Decem- 
ber 10,  1692.  10.  Hannah,  May  12,  1695.  11. 
Experience,  March  4,  1698;  married  Nathaniel 
Payne.     12.  Lydia,  born  September  12,  1702. 

(III)  Nathaniel  (2).  son  of  Nathaniel  (i) 
Thorpe,  was  born   March   (1.    1664,  and  died 

April  II,  1737.    He  married  FJizabeth , 

who  died  .April  23,  1735.  Children:  i.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  ^larch  6,  1687-8.  2.  Rebecca,  May 
10.  1690.  3.  Hannah.  June  7,  1692.  4.  Nathan- 
iel, March  7.  1695.  5.  Isaac,  October  8,  1697. 
6.  Samuel,  September  6,  1702.  7.  Moses,  men- 
tioned below.    8.  Aaron,  January  20,  1709. 

(IV)  Moses  Thorpe,  son  of  Nathaniel  (2) 
Thorpe,  was  born  October  3,  1707. 

fV)  David  Thorpe,  son  or  nephew  of 
Moses  Thorpe,  settled  at  Southampton,  Alass- 
achusetts.  He  died  there  at  an  advanced  age 
in  1811.  His  will  was  dated  July  i,  1808,  and 
proved  October  i.  1811.  Children:  i.  Sybil, 
married  Edward  Johnson.  2.  .'^arah,  married 
Elihu  Sandford.  3.  Moses,  was  living  in  West 
Springfield  in  1790,  and  had  two  children; 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  in  Lieutenant 
Eli  Herman's  company.  Colonel  John  Brown's 
regiment,  and  Captain  Zenas  Wheeler's  com- 
pany, Colonel  John  Ashley's  regiment.  4.  Eli, 
was  head  of  a  family  in  West  Springfield  in 
1790,  according  to  first  census.  5.  David  (2d). 
6.  James,  mentioned  below.  7.  Ira  Bishop.  8. 
Caleb.  9.  .\hraham.  10.  Thomas,  inherited 
his  father's  farm  at  Southampton. 

(VI)  James,  son  of  David  Xliorpe,  was 
born  probably  at  Southampton,  though  the 
birth  is  not  on  the  town  record.  He  worked 
on  the  homestead  during  his  youth  and  early 
manhood.  Later  he  was  a  blacksmith  and 
farmer  in  Southampton.  He  was  a  \\'hig  in 
politics  and  a  Congregationalist  in  religion. 
He  died  at  Southampton  in  1829.  The  inven- 
tory of  his  estate  is  dated  March  3,  1829.  The 
estate  was  not  finally  divided,  however,  until 
after  a  petition  dated  January  3,  i860.  He 
owned  land  on  Little  Mountain.  Pomeroy's 
Mountain,  and  Easthampton.  He  married 
I^ucy  Clapp.  Children:  i.  James  .\..  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Edward  R..  of  Northampton. 
3.    Rebecca     B.,    married,    October    4,    1831, 


(ieorge  N.  Lawton,  at  Southampton.  4,  Ruth 
P.,  married  Mr.  Moulton.  5.  Lucy  Salina, 
married  Louis  Warner.  6.  Elizabeth  L.,  mar- 
ried,   December   25,    1837,    Edward    Ludden. 

(VH)  James  A,,  son  of  James  Thorpe,  was 
born  in  Southampton,  April  3,  1806,  and  died 
in  Ilolyoke.  l'"ebruary  6,  1882.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools,  and  learned  the 
trade  of  blacksmith  of  Mr.  Brackman,  in 
I  lolyoke.  He  followed  this  trade  until  he  was 
injured  by  a  horse,  and  afterward  carried  on  a 
farm  in  his  native  town.  He  was  a  Congrega- 
tionalist in  religion,  and  a  Whig  in  politics  in 
early  life,  a  Republican  in  later  years.  His 
will  was  dated  at  Williamsburg,  .Massachu- 
setts, January  9,  1869,  proved  June  6.  1882. 
He  married.  October  30,  1825,  at  Southamp- 
ton, .-Mniena,  daughter  of  Rufus  Searle.  Their 
children  all  grew  to  maturity.  Children:  i. 
Ellen  F.,  born  December  24,  1830;  married 
Hiram  Bates,  of  Goshen;  (second)  Mr.  Mer- 
rey ;  now  resides  in  California.  2.  Mary  A., 
born  June  or  September  22,  1832;  married,  at 
Southampton,  May  21,  185 1,  (jardner  Fowles, 
of  Holyoke.  3.  Charles  L.,  born  January  19, 
1834.  4.  Edward  R.,  born  March  19,  1836.  5. 
James  A.,  Ajiril  19,  1838;  resided  in  New 
Haven.  6.  Susan,  June  24,  1840.  7.  George 
L..  March  5,  1842;  see  forward.  8.  Maria  J., 
June  14,  1844;  married  Harrison  Howe,  of 
Monson.  9.  .Amorettc  P..  September  14,  1846; 
married  Gilbert  W.  Thomas,  of  ilolyoke.  10. 
.Adelaide  L..  l'"el)ruary  28.  1X4S:  married  D. 
Merrick,  of  Springfield.  11.  William  S..  Oc- 
tober 5,  1851  ;  lived  in  Holyoke. 

(VIH)  George  L..  son  of  James  A.  Thorpe, 
was  born  in  Southampton,  Alarch  5,  1842,  and 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town  and  at  the  .Sheldon  Academy.  At 
tlie  age  of  eighteen  he  began  to  learn  the  car- 
penter's trade,  and  such  was  his  natural  apti- 
tude for  this  business  that  within  ten  months 
he  was  sent  out  as  foreman  by  his  em[)loyer. 
He  worked  as  journeyman  in  Springfield, 
whither  he  moved  in  i860,  and  in  New  Britain, 
Connecticut,  whither  he  went  in  18(^)4.  He 
took  a  contract  to  build  a  substaiuial  barn  on  a 
farm  in  Iowa,  and  while  in  the  west  took  other 
contracts  of  a  similar  kind.  .After  fourteen 
mfjiiths  in  the  west  he  came  to  Holyoke  and 
established  himself  in  business  as  a  contractor 
and  builder,  and  for  many  years  has  held  a 
leading  place  in  that  line  of  work.  During  his 
active  business  career  he  has  built  most  of  the 
fine  residences  and  many  [jublic  buildings  in 
Holyoke  and  vicinity.  He  had  the  Cftntract 
for    Grace    Church,    and    the    United    States 


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Armory.  lie  has  been  his  own  architect  and 
has  shown  special  abihty  in  designing  artistic 
and  convenient  dweUing  houses.  In  his 
younger  days  he  once  built  a  ten-room  house, 
putting  in  seventy-seven  bridges  in  the  first 
floor,  and  completing  the  house  without  a 
single  plan.  He  has  been  a  steadfast  Repub- 
lican since  he  became  a  voter,  and  was  for 
two  years  a  member  of  the  common  council  of 
the  city  of  Ilolyoke.  Since  1872  he  has  been 
on  the'official  board  of  the  Ilolyoke  Methodist 
Church  and  for  thirty-five  years  an  active 
worker  in.  and  for  the  greater  part  of  the 
time  superintendent,  of  the  Sunday  school  of 
that  church.  He  is  a  member  of  Holyoke 
Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows,  has  filled  the  various 
offices  of  the  order  and  belongs  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  the  Golden  Cross. 

He  married,  June  24,  1868.  Ann  Jennctte 
Hastings,  born  in  Hatfield,  daughter  of 
Lyman  and  Salome  (Larabee)  Hastings. 
Children:  i.  Reginald  M,  born  April  15, 
1870;  married  Harriet  B.  I'omeroy.  2.  Leon 
G.,  born  August  26,  1875 ;  died  December  19, 
1880.  3.  Lena  E.,  born  March  21,  1882;  mar- 
ried William  R.  Root;  child:  Cecil  E.,  born 
.April  26.  1007. 


The    Cash    family    is    of    ancient 
CASH      English  and  Scotch   origin,  deriv- 
ing its  surname  from  the  place  of 
that  name.  Cash  in  .^trathmiglo,  county  Fife, 
Scotland. 

(1)  William  Cash,  immigrant  ancestor,  set- 
tled in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and  lived  at  the 
lower  end  of  Esse.x  street,  near  East  street 
at  the  corner  of  Gerrish  place.  He  is  men- 
tioned in  tlie  will  of  .\nn  I'ickston.  widow  of 
Thomas  Pickston.  of  lieverly,  dated  Decem- 
ber 29,  1677,  a  legatee  with  Jeremiah  Butman, 
Jr.,  who  married.  October  8.  1659,  Hester 
Lambert.  William  Cash  married  her  sister, 
Elizabeth  Lambert.  October  16.  1667.  He 
died  before  i^xj^.  Children,  from  whom 
descended  all  of  the  name  in  this  country  as 
far  as  is  known:  i.  W  illiam,  born  February 
23,  1669;  died  1729:  married.  May,  if>93, 
Sarah  Flindcr,  daughter  of  Richard  Flinder. 
2.  John,  July  10,  1671,  died  July.  1724.  3. 
John  (twin),  July  10,  1672,  died  .\ugust  26. 
1674.  4.  I'"lizabeth  (twin).  July  10,  1672,  mar- 
ried, March  7,  1698-99,  William  Tai>ley.  5. 
Mary  (twin),  April  29,  1673.  married.  May 
28.  1697,  John  ^leacham.  6.  Anna  (twin), 
April  29,  i')75.  7.  Hester,  March  9.  1679, 
married,  ,\ngiist  5,  1700,  Joseph  Flanders.  8. 
James,  mentioned  below. 


(II)  James,  son  of  William  Cash,  was  born 
at  Salem  or  Alarblehead.  He  married  at  Mar- 
blehead,  October  29,  1716,  Elizabeth  Grove. 
Children,  born  at  Salem  or  Marblehead:  i. 
James,  mentioned  below.     2.  George,  married 

Eleanor    and    lived    at    Marblehead. 

Probably  other  children. 

(III)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  Cash, 
was  born  about  1715-20.  He  married  at  Mar- 
blehead, December  6,  1744,  Ruth  Putnam. 
Children,  born  at  Marblehead:  i.  George 
Putnam,  married,  August  3,  1776,  Eleanor 
Sweetland :  had  a  son,  James,  born  1793.  2. 
James,  baptized  .April  13,  1746,  married,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1767,  Mary  Dinsmore :  had  James, 
born  1768.  3.  Moses  Pitman,  baptized  March 
6,  1747-48.  4.  Moses,  baptized  January  14, 
1749-50.  mentioned  below.  5.  Mary,  baptized 
December  8,  1751.  6.  John,  baptized  Decem- 
ber 2,  1752;  married,  November  5,  I775>  Han- 
nah Doak ;  son  James,  baptized  June  29,  1783. 

(IV)  Moses,  son  of  James  (2)  Cash,  was 
baptized  in  Marblehead,  January  14,  1749-50. 
He  married  (first)  at  Marblehead,  February 
13,  1772;  married  (second),  April  15,  1779, 
Hannah  Richardson.  He  was  a  sailor  in  the 
revolution  on  the  ship  "Junius  Brutus."  He 
gave  his  age  as  thirty  years,  height  five  feet 
seven  inches  and  complexion  light,  enlisting 
June  15,  1780.  He  was  pilot  of  the  brigantine 
"Tyrannicide."  Captain  Jonathan  Haraden,  in 
1778.  He  resided  at  Marblehead  and  was  a 
seafaring  man.  Children,  born  at  Marble- 
head, of  fir.st  wife:  I.  Rebecca,  baptized 
March  16.  1773.  2.  Moses,  baptized  Novem- 
ber 5,  1775.  Children  of  second  w-ife:  3. 
Hannah,  baptized  September  23.  1787.  4. 
James,  baptized  November  18.  1792,  men- 
tioned below.    5.  Hannah,  baptized  .August  16, 

1795- 

(\')   James    (3).   son  of  Moses  Cash,   was 

burn  in  Marblehead,  baptized  November  18, 
1792.  He  married,  at  Marblehead,  .Abigail  A. 
Tutt.  1  le  i)robably  settled  at  Windham.  Chil- 
dren :  James.  mentit)ned  below;  Daniel,  of 
llridgton,  died  there:  Jacob:  Mary. 

(\T)  James  (4),  son  of  James  (3)  Cash, 
was  born  in  1824,  died  at  Woodford.  Alaine, 
1904.  He  was  a  contractor  and  builoer  for 
manv  years.  He  married  (first)  Martha  Lom- 
bart  ;  children:  i.  Radford,  born  1846,  died 
in  service  during  civil  war:  unmarried.  2. 
Charles  Henry,  mentioned  below.  He  married 
(second)  Harriet  Hawks,  of  Windham, 
Maine:  children:  Jennie.  Fannie,  Harriet. 
Nellie. 

(\'II)   Charles    Henry,   son   of   James    (4) 


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Cash,  was  born  at  Windliani,  Maine,  May  8, 
1S49.  At  the  age  of  six  months,  on  the  death 
of  his  mother,  he  went  to  Hve  with  his  aunt, 
Mrs.  D.  Cash,  of  Rridgton,  Maine,  and  was 
educated  there  in  the  pubHc  scliools.  lie 
learned  tlie  trade  of  carpenter  with  his  father 
at  Westbrook,  Maine.  He  worked  at  Wood- 
ford, Maine,  under  his  father ;  followed  trade 
at  Boston  ;  took  up  car  building,  but  later  gave 
it  up  and  became  an  engineer  on  the  East 
Boston  I'erry,  continuing  for  twelve  years; 
he  resided  in  East  Boston  during  this  time; 
in  1886  he  removed  to  Weymouth  and  fol- 
lowed his  trade  there  ever  since,  being  one  of 
the  well  known  carpenters  and  builders  of  that 
town.  He  is  a  member  of  Eastern  Star  Lodge, 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  East 
Boston:  Delphi  Lodge.  Knights  of  Pythias; 
Order  of  the  Golden  Cross.  He  is  a  Aletho- 
dist  in  religion  and  a  Republican  in  politics. 
He  married.  January  18.  1873.  Mary  Jane 
Marr,  born  October  14,  1846,  and  they  had  one 
child  who  died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Cash  is  a 
daughter  of  Benjamin  L.  and  Almira  (Nor- 
ton) Marr.  Beiijaniin  L.  Marr  was  born  Feb- 
ruarv  2,  1804,  at  Limington,  Maine,  died  May 
30,  1883,  at  r.aldwin,  Maine.  His  wife, 
Almira  ( Norton )  Marr.  was  born  February. 
1812.  died  Ajjril  19.  189S.  at  Weymouth,  with 
her  daughter.  Mrs.  Cash.  Children  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Marr:  i.  James  W..  born  Decem- 
ber 25,  1831.  at  Limington,  married  Mary 
Louise  Lovis :  one  child,  Byron,  born  in  Cor- 
nish, 1871.  2.  Lydia  Ann,  born  March  23, 
1833.  married  John  Milton  Pease,  of  Cornish  ; 
one  child.  Jessie  B..  born  September  11,  1855. 
3.  Sarah  E.,  born  September  26.  1836,  at  Bald- 
win, Maine,  married  William  (jilpatrick.  4. 
Hiram  N.,  born  July,  1838,  died  1852.  5. 
Harriet,  born  July  8.  1840.  married  George  W. 
Batchelder,  of  Baldwin;  children:  Jeannetle, 
born  1858,  and  (}eorge  E..  born  i860.  6.  Han- 
nah, born  March.  1843.  married  Isaiah  C. 
Libby;  children:  Dr.  J.  Herbert,  of  East 
Weymouth,  and  Winifred.  7.  Mary  Jane, 
born  October  14.  1846,  married  Charles  Henry 
Cash,  mentioned  above.  8.  Benjamin  W., 
born  April  7,  1848,  married  Carrie  Sweet;  one 
child.  Stella  S.,  born  in  Marblehead,  Massa- 
chusetts. 9.  Leonard  Philmore.  born  October 
23.  1850.  died  1858.  10.  Thompsanna  L..  born 
1853.  married  Charles  McLeod.  of  Prince 
Edwards  Island:  children:  Harry,  born  Sep- 
tember. 1871  ;  George  W..  September,  1873; 
Charles  B.,  September,  1875:  Charles  IL,  Oc- 
tober, 1877:  Jessie.  May.  1880:  the  first  and 
second  the  only  ones  living.      11.   Sidney   F., 


horn  1859.  unmarried.  12.  lliram  Milton, 
born  1861.  married  Gertrude  .^loddard ;  one 
child,  Mabel  S.  Benjamin  L.  Marr,  father  of 
these  children,  was  a  mariner  in  early  life; 
settled  on  a  farm  at  Limington,  Maine,  from 
whence  he  removed  to  I'.aldwin,  .Maine,  where 
he  was  a  pioneer,  lived  in  ;i  log  cabin,  cleared 
off  a  fine  farm  and  buill  a  substantial  house  :  he 
attended  the  Free  Baptist  church  at  I'.aldwin; 
he  had  brothers,  James.  Joshua  and  William,' 
and  a  sister  Salome. 


The  Chaffees  can 

CI1.\F1'"EE— CAR  1  I:R  trace  their  ances- 
try in  England  to 
the  year  of  1002,  to  the  time  of  King  Ethelred 
and  King  Edward  the  "Confessor."  The  coat- 
of-arms  granted  them  satisfactorily  marks 
tiieir  descent  from  Hugo,  l^arl  or  Thegn  of 
"C-'hafecombe,"  and  his  c<Jinieclinn  with  the 
.Saxon  Earldom  of  Devon. 

The  ChafTce  coat-of-arms  is  as  follows: 
I'ield,  vert,  a  fess.  gules,  five  fusils,  argent. 
Crest :  On  a  mount  vert,  a  jjcacock  in  its 
pride,  all  pi)r.     Motto:  "X'ive  ut  postca  vivas."' 

The  Carter  family,  from  which  is  descended 
Mrs.  Belle  Genevieve  (Carter)  Chaffee,  wife 
of  Emory  Franklin  Chaffee,  was  granted  arms 
in  1612,  the  description  of  which  is:  On  a 
chev.  betw.  three  cartwheels  vert.  Cre.st :  On 
a  mount,  vert,  a  greyhoinid  sejant  argent, 
sustaining  a  shield  of  the  last  charged  with  a 
cartwheel  vert.  .Motto:  '■Sub  libcrtate  <|uietcm." 

.\bove  is  given  the  impaled  coat-of-arms  of 
the  Chaffee-Carter  family,  which  is  an  exceed- 
inly  beautifully  specimen  of  armorial  emblaz- 
onry. 

The  derivation  of  the  surname  is  thus  given 


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in  the  "Etymological  Dictionary  of  Eamily  and 
Christian  Names,"  by  WiUiam  Arthur,  M.  A., 
published  Xew  York,  1857: 

Chaffee  (Fr.)  Chafe,  to  heat,  to  grow  warm 
or  angry.  (Fr. )  Chauffer,  to  warm,  to  can- 
nonade, attack  briskly. 

ChafTee,  Chafe,  Chafifey,  are  all  from  the 
same  name. 

Combe:  O.  Fr. — The  unwatered  portion  of 
a  valley  which  forms  its  continuation  beyond 
and  above  the  most  elevated  spring  that  issues 
into  it.  A  deep  valley  where  the  sides  come 
together  in  a  concave  form. 

The  "History  of  Somerset,"  by  Rev.  John 
CoUinson,  published  1791,  by  R.  Cruttwel,  vol. 
iii,  pp.  115,  gives  the  following: 

Chaffcombe — This  is  a  small  parish  in  a 
pleasant  valley  near  Chard  Common,  England. 
The  land  is  unfavorable  to  agriculture,  but 
flowers  of  various  kinds  and  ferns  flourish  here. 
The  ancient  name  of  this  parish  is  Cafifecome, 
which  is  compounded  of  the  Saxon  "lay," 
(sharp),  and  "lomb."  (valley).  In  the  Con- 
queror's time  it  belonged  to  the  Bishop  of 
(ioutances.  Two  thanes^  (a  title  of  honor 
among  the  Anglo-Sa^cons),  held  it  in  the  time 
of  King  Edward,  the  "Confessor,"  for  two 
manors. 

"The  parish  contains  thirty  houses,  includ- 
ing a  hamlet  called  I.ibnasli,  situated  a  mile 
southward  from  the  church.  There  is  a  wood 
eight  furlongs  long  and  as  many  broad.  It 
is  worth  forty  shillings.  To  this  manor  is 
added  one  hide  and  three  virgates  of  land. 
The  arable  is  two  carucates.  These  are  held 
by  three  villanes.  It  is  worth  twenty  shillings. 
But  in  process  of  time  this  manor  became  part 
of  the  honor  of  (Jloucester,  which  extended 
itself  throughout  this  county. 

"Edward  II,  Hugh  de  Beauchamp,  held  one 
moiety,  and  Ralph  de  Stocklinch  held  the 
other,  each  by  the  service  of  a  third  part  of  a 
knights  fee.  of  (iilbcrt  dc  Clare.  Earl  of 
Gloucester. 

"John  Denband  held  at  his  death  the  manor 
of  Stokelynch-(  )stricer,  with  the  advowson  of 
the  church,  of  the  Earl  of  Huntington,  as  of 
his  manor  of  Haselbnrough,  by  the  service  of 
keeping  a  hawk  (ostrum)  every  year  until  it 
should  be  completely  fit  for  service,  and  when 
said  hawk  should  be  fit,  he  was  to  convey  it 
to  his  lord's  manorhouse,  attended  by  his  wife, 
together  with  three  boys,  three  horses,  and 
three  greyhounds,  and  to  stay  there  forty  days 
at  the  lord's  expense,  and  to  have  the  lady's 
second  best  gown  for  his  wife's  work." 

The    following    extract    from    "Devonshire 


Wills,"  by  Charles  Worthy,  Esq.,  published  in 
London,  1896,  by  Bemrose  &  Sons,  gives  a 
clear  idea  of  the  earlier  surnames  as  found  in 
England. 

"The  ChafTys  derive  their  name  from  their 
ancient  heritage,  'Chafecombe,'  now  Chail- 
combe.  near  Chard,  which  is  the  "ceaf  cumbe" 
(in  English,  the  light  or  breezy  valley)  of  the 
Saxon  period,  and  which  was  held  by  their 
first  known  ancestor,  Hugo  the  Thegn,  or 
Thane,  in  the  days  of  Ethelred,  the  "Unready," 
and  by  his  son  Raynald  Fitz-Hugh,  in  those 
of  Edward,  the  "Confessor,"  in  1002. 

But  although  the  Chafys  can  trace  back  with 
unerring  certainty  to  a  period  long  anterior  to 
the  Conquest,  and  so  justify  the  assertion  in- 
scribed on  the  ancient  tomb  of  one  of  them 
in  Devonshire,  as  to  his  own  identity  with  the 
"perantiqua"  race  of  Chafes  of  "Chafecombe," 
yet  they  are  not,  paternally  at  least,  of  Saxon 
origin,  which  at  once  accounts  for  their  con- 
tinued possession  of  "Chafecombe,"  under 
Norman  rule. 

Hugo,  was  the  confidential  advisor  of  Queen 
Emma  of  Normandy,  second  wife  of  King 
Ethelred  of  England,  and  came  there  in  her 
train  of  1002.  That  her  Norman  follower  was 
faithful  to  her,  to  her  second  husband  King 
Knut  the  Dane,  and  to  her  children,  is  shown 
by  his  retention  of  his  property  at  "Chafe- 
combe," under  Saxons.  Danes  and  Normans, 
and  although  King  Edward  the  "Confessor," 
had  suffered  for  some  quarter  of  a  century 
by  the  interpolation  of  the  Danish  dynasty,  he 
evidently  recognized  the  fidelity  Hugo  had 
evinced  towards  his  royal  mother. 

With  the  title  of  Earldorman,  or  Earl,  Hugo 
was  sent  into  the  west  very  soon  after  the 
arrival  of  Queen  Emma  with  secret  instnic- 
tions  which  he  seems  to  have  followed  im- 
plicitly. 

The  term  Earldorman  was  afterward 
changed  to  Thegn,  and  we  next  hear  of  Hugo 
as  "Thegn  of  Chaffcombe"  during  the  reign 
of  King  Ethelre<l.  His  son  was  joint  owner 
up  to  io6(x  besides  having  a  separate  manor 
and  fitlicr  lands.  The  grandson  of  Hugo, 
Ralph  Fitz-Roghiald  succeeded  him  at  "Chafe- 
combe" and  so  on  from  father  to  son. 

From  the  "Black  Book  of  the  Exche(iuer." 
we  learn  that  during  the  reign  of  Henry  II, 
the  Lord  of  "Chaffcombe."  was  Robert  Fitz- 
Ranulph  who  had  a  younger  brother  Ranulph- 
I-"itz-Ranulph.  His  son  and  heir  Robert  Fitz- 
Ramd])h  was  the  ancestor  of  the  present  race 
of  Chafe  and  Chaffee.  His  father  had  re- 
ceived   for   his   younger   son's   portion,   "One 


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camicate  of  land  in  '"ChafFecumbe."  The  son 
of  Robert  Fitz-Ranulph  is  especially  note- 
worthy as  being  the  first  of  the  family  who 
assumed  a  regular  surname  which  was  of 
course  derived  from  his  pro[)erty.  As  "Thomas 
Chaffee'"  of  "Chafccombe"  "he  was  seized  of 
land"  of  the  inheritance  of  his  father  Robert. 

(I)  Thomas  Chafe,  (as  the  family  name 
was  originally  written),  the  first  American 
ancestor  of  the  Chaffees  of  Xew  England,  was 
born  in  England  in  one  of  the  counties  of 
Somerset.  Dorset  or  Devon.  He  came  to 
Plymouth  Colony  about  the  time  of  the  settle- 
ment of  the  town  of  Ilingham.  September  2, 
1635.  being  one  of  the  pioneers  of  that  sec- 
tion, and  there  are  records  of  his  owning 
land  there  at  that  time,  also  of  lands  granted 
in  1637.  At  that  time  the  General  Court  of 
the  ^Iassachusetts  Bay  Colony  encouraged 
especially  the  advancement  of  fishing. 

Thomas  Chaffee  took  up  the  occupation  of 
fisherman  and  fanner.  He  found  a  most 
advantageous  location  at  Xantasket  Plantation 
(which  became  the  town  of  Hull  May  29, 
1644).  He  moved  there  in  1642  and  prob- 
♦  ably  married  there.  He  acquired  considerable 
of  an  estate  principally  in  land  in  what  is  now 
Swansea.  .Attleboro  and  Relioboth  as  evi- 
denced by  his  will  made  in  1680,  in  which  he 
described  his  possessions  as  including  land  on 
the  borders  of  Rhode  Island.  In  it  he  names 
Nathaniel  and  Joseph ;  the  latter  as  executor. 
He  died  1683.  (Plymouth  Colony  Deeds,  vol. 
iii,  p.  174). 

During  King  Philip's  war  Thomas  Chaffee 
and  family  as  well  as  near  neighbors  doubt- 
less lived  in  "Chaffee's  garrison."  a  stone  build- 
ing which  stood  near  his  home.  During  this 
time  he  bought  considerable  property  of  Fran- 
cis Stevens  of  Rehoboth.  but  there  is  no  record 
of  the  disposal  of  the  same  or  in  his  will, 
which  follows: 

"In  the  name  of  God  Amen.  I,  Thos. 
Chaffee  of  Swansie  in  ye  county  of  New 
Plymouth,  in  New  England,  being  of  great 
age.  yet  in  perfect  memory  and  good  under- 
standing, make  this  my  last  will  and  testament. 
First :  I  commit  my  .Soul  to  Jesus  Christ  my 
Redeemer,  and  my  body  unto  ye  grave.  *  * 
Item :  I  give  unto  my  elder  son  Nathaniel  my 
home  lott,  being  twenty  five  acres  the  which  I 
purchased  of  Capt.  Thos.  Willctt  and  Jas. 
Brown  ( Sr. )  gentt.  as  also  my  right  in  ye 
common  lott  it  being  at  a  place  commonly 
called  the  long  beach,  and  four  acres  of 
meadow  lying  and  being  at  ye  mouth  of  ye 
River    on    ye    great    Neck,    commonly    called 


Mount  Hope  Neck.  Item:  I  give  unto  my 
son  Joseph,  all  ye  rest  of  my  land,  meadows, 
orchard,  gardens,  dwelling-house,  barn,  out 
houses,  as  also  my  living  stock,  neat  cattle, 
sheep,  horse,  kine.  Swine,  poltery,  and  thirty- 
five  acres  of  land,  lately  ])urchased  upon  ye 
neck  commonly  called  Phcbcs  Neck,  with  all 
other  priveleges  that  I  now  have  or  here  after 
may  have,  in  ye  aforesaid  Town  of  Swansy, 
with  my  debts  now  due,  or  hereafter  may  be 
due  unto  me,  or  my  estate  whom  I  make  my 
sole  e.xecutor,  to  pay  my  debts  to  see  this  my 
will  performed  and  my  body  buried.  In  wit- 
ness my  hand  and  seal  this  twenty-five  of  July 
in  yc  yeer  of  oe  Lord  one  thousand  six  hun- 
dred and  eighty,  signed  and  seal  in  ye  presence 
of  John  Peck,  John  Ormsby. — Signed  Thos. 
(T)  Chaffee." 

The  exact  date  of  his  death  is  at  present 
unknown,  but  he  was  no  doubt  buried  on  his 
own  farm  (in  the  ancient  ChaiTee  burying 
ground),  located  on  the  west  bank  of  the 
present  I.arrington  River,  a  few  miles  north- 
west of  the  present  town  of  Barrington  Centre, 
Rhode  Island.  Two  children:  i.  Nathaniel, 
born  1638-42.  married  Experience  Bliss.  2. 
Joseph,  born  about  ir)39-4f):  married  Atmis 
Martin. 

(11)  Joseph  Chaffee,  second  son  of  Thomas 
Chafe,  was  born  in  Hull,  between  1639-46. 
He  married,  December  8,  1670,  .\nnis,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Martin,  of  Rehoboth,  Massa- 
chusetts. She  (lied  at  Barrington,  Massachu- 
setts (formerly  Swansea),  about  March,  1729- 
30.  They  had'  nine  children.  Joseph  Chaffee 
probably  moved  with  his  parents  and  brother 
from  Hull  to  Rehoboth  between  1657  and  1660. 
In  1667  that  part  of  Rehoboth  (called  Wan- 
namoisett)  was  formed  into  a  se[)arate  town 
called  Swansea.  .About  1675-6  he  contributed 
one  pound  eight  shillings  for  carrying  on  the 
King  Philip  war,  the  brunt  of  which  fell  on 
Swansea,  the  most  exposed  and  the  greatest 
sufferer  of  I'hilip's  war,  of  any  of  the  Xew 
England  settlements.  Joseph  Chaffee  was 
Surveyor  of  Highways  in  1673  and  again  in 
1681.  '  He  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  in  May  22, 
1674,  and  took  the  oath  of  constable  in  1687. 

In  his  will  he  begins:  "In  the  name  of 
God.  .'\men.  I.  Joseph  Chaffee  of  the  town 
of  Swansey.  in  the  Co.  of  Bristol,  province  of 
Mass.  in  New  England,  being  sick  and  wcake 
in  body  But  of  sotnid  i^  i)crfect  mind  &  mem- 
orv  Prased  be  god  Doe  make  and  nrdaine  this 
my  last  will  and  Testament  in  manner  &  form 
following — First  and  principally  I  commend 
my  Soulc  into  the  Hands  of  .Mmighty  God  and 


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unto  Jesus  Christ  my  Dear  Redeemer  and  my 
Body  I  commit  to  the  Earth  to  be  Decently 
Buried  at  the  Discretion  of  my  Executrix,  and 
as  Touching  the  Disposition  of  all  such  tem- 
poral Estate  as  God  Hath  been  pleased  to 
bestow  ujjon  me.  I  give  &  bestow  etc.,  etc., 
becjueathing  to  his  wife  and  sons  John  and 
Joseph.  To  his  son  Joseph  was  given  the 
Great  Bible  that  was  his  father's. 

Children  of  Joseph,  born  in  Swansea:  i. 
Mary,  born  Ecbruary  21,  1671  ;  died  May  7, 
1674.  2.  John,  born  December  16,  1673;  mar- 
ried (first)  Sarah  Hills;  (second)  Elizabeth 
Hayward.  3.  Mary, born  October  23, 1675  ;  mar- 
ried Daniel  W'hitaker.  4.  Joseph,  born  February 
6,  1677;  married  (first)  Abigail  Hills,  (second) 
Jemima  Chadwick.  5.  Annis,  married,  Octo- 
ber 15,  1793,  Daniel  Allen.  6.  Dorothy,  born 
September  4,  1682;  died  August  2~,  1698.  7. 
Elizabeth,  born  March  18,  1685 ;  married 
Josiah  I'aine.  8.  Sarah,  born  March  18,  1687, 
married  Samuel  Luther,  q.  Abigail,  married, 
.•\l>ril  28.  1737,  Thomas  Field. 

(HI)  Joseph,  fourth  child  of  Joseph  (2) 
and  Annis  (Alartin)  Chaffee,  was  born  in 
Swansea,  Massachusetts,  February  6,  1677, 
and  died,  probably  at  Woodstock,  Connecticut, 
about  .August  10,  1759.  He  married,  at 
Maiden.  Massachusetts,  December  i,  1709, 
Abigail  Hills,  daughter  of  Gershom  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Chadwick)  Hills,  and  was  a  sister  to 
his  brother  John's  wife.  She  (Abigail)  died 
October  2,  1710,  when  her  only  child  was  three 
weeks  old.  Joseph  married  (second)  at  Fal- 
mouth, Mas.sachusetts,  October  16,  1712, 
Jamima  Chadwick,  of  that  place.  He  was  a 
field-driver  in  1701,  also  1707-8:  was  petty 
juryman  1703;  clerk,  1710;  constable,  1714; 
tytliingman,  1720;  fence-viewer,  1721 ;  hog- 
reeve,  1722  and  1725;  surveyor  of  highways  in 
Barrington,  1733;  asses.sor  in  1736,  1743  and 
1749.  He  was  prominently  connected  with 
town  affairs  at  both  Barrington  and  I-'almouth. 
He  later  moved  to  new  Roxbury,  Massachu- 
setts Bay  Colony  (now  W'oodstock,  Connecti- 
cut) living  in  the  western  ()art  of  the  town. 
He  left  no  will,  but  an  inventory  of  bis  large 
estate  was  filed  August  30.  1759.  He  was  one 
of  three  to  select  the  site  for  the  present  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Woodstock,  Connecti- 
cut. He  selected  sites  for  other  churches  and 
schools  and  was  prominent  in  all  the  town's 
affairs.  His  children:  i.  Benjamin,  born 
September  11,  1710,  married  ("first)  Hannah 
Chapman,  (second)  I'riscilia  (Jreen.  By  sec- 
ond wife:  2.  James,  born  about  1713,  married 
(first)  Beriah  Ilayden,  (second)  Rhoda  Cady. 


3.  Abigail,  born  March  5,  1714-15,  married 
Joseph  Wright.  4.  Thomas,  born  October  18, 
1 7 16.  married  Dorcas  .\bbott.  5.  Joseph 
(Jr.),  married  Hannah  Gould.  6.  Samuel, 
born  about  1722.  married  (first)  Susanna 
Lyon,  (second)  Mary  Howlett.  7.  Stephen, 
born  about  1726,  died  February  13,  iScxD, 
never  married.  8.  Josiah,  born  September  i, 
1 73 1,  married  Sarah  Cady. 

(IV)  James,  second  child  of  Joseph  and 
.-Vbigail  (Hills)  Chaft'ee.  was  probably  born  at 
Swansea,  Massachusetts,  about  1713,  and  died 
at  Monson,  Massachusetts,  May  22.  1799.  He 
married  (first)  in  Woodstock.  Connecticut, 
June  16.  1737,  Beriah  Hayden,  born  February 
10,  1715-16,  died  June  24,  1758.  He  married 
(second)  at  Killingly,  Connecticut,  .August  8, 

1759,  Rhoda  Cady,  of  that  place.  She  died 
May  22,  1799.  James  Chaft'ee  was  made  a 
freeman  September  12.  1749.  He  was  drafted 
during  the  revolution,  but  being  the  father  of 
twenty  children  he  said  he  could  not  leave 
such  a  large  family,  so  his  son  Abial  (aged 
fifteen)  was  accepted  in  his  place.  Children, 
by  first  wife:  i.  Nathan,  baptized  September 
23.  1739.  died  October  8.  1750.  2.  Zebediah, 
born  -April  11,  1741.  married,  Mehitable  Pres- 
ton. 3.  Dorothy,  born  May  6,  1743,  died 
October  27,  1743.  4.  Sarah,  born  .April  27, 
1746.  married  Samuel  Chaffee.  5.  James 
(Jr.),  born  March  22,  1748.  married  Sarah 
Howlett.  6.  Nathan,  born  November  17, 
1750,  married  Priscilla  Wedge.  7.  .Abigail, 
born  January  2.  1753.  8.  Chester,  born  April 
f),  1755.  married  Caroline  Walker,  g.  Calvin, 
born  Alay  12,  1757,  died  .April  25,  1758.  By 
second    wife:      10.   Calvin,   born    February   3, 

1760.  married  Ruth  Evidon.  11.  .Abial,  born 
-August    13,    1761,   married    Hannah    Sargent. 

12.  Charles,  born  June  14.  1763,  married  Deb- 
orah   .     13.  Lucy,  born  .August  18,  1765. 

14.   ATartha.  born   June  22.    1768.  died   .April 

13.  1772.  15.  Chadwick,  born  March  16,  1771, 
married  .Abigail  Moulton.  16.  Stephen,  bom 
September  25,  1773.  married  Ruth  Under- 
wood. 17.  Patty,  born  -April  17,  1776,  died 
1845.  18.  Jemima,  born  May  30.  1778.  19. 
Joseph,  born  June  30,  1780,  married  Clarissa 
Dunham.  20.  Leonard,  born  .A]>ril  11,  1782, 
married  Betsey  Needham. 

(\  )  Chester,  eighth  child  of  James  and 
-Abigail  (Hills)  Chaffee,  was  born  in  Wood- 
stock, Connecticut,  .April  6,  1755,  and  died  at 
Thompson,  Connecticut,  September  17,  1841. 
He  married,  at  Woodstock,  April  25,  1778, 
Caroline,  daughter  of  Joshua  Walker,  of  that_ 
place.  She  died  November  3,  1845,  aged  eighty- 


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six  years :  buried  at  East  \\"oo(lstock-.  Connec- 
ticut. Gicster  was  baptized  in  the  First  Con- 
gregational Ciiiirch  of  Woodstock,  May  18, 
1755.  He  and  his  wife  were  members  of  that 
church.  He  moved  to  Thompson,  Connecti- 
cut, and  bought  land  in  1785.  In  the  records 
of  the  Connecticut  Revolutionary  Service, 
mention  is  made  that  Chester  "Chafey"  served 
as  private  in  the  .Seventh  Company,  command- 
ed by  Captain  E])hraim  Manning,  formed  at 
Woodstock,  enlisted  May  9,  1775,  discharged 
December  15.  1775.  He  enlisted  again  as  pri- 
vate in  the  Third  Regiment.  July  i,  1780, 
discharged  December  11.  1780.  He  also  served 
in  Captain  Lj-ons  company.  Colonel  Durkee's 
regiment,  as  is  mentioned  in  his  [jcnsion  claim. 
He  was  a  revolutionary  pensioner  in  1832, 
living  in  Windham  county.  Connecticut,  also 
in  1840.  then  living  in  Thompson,  Connecticut, 
aged  eighty-five  years.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
tailor.  Description,  five  feet  four  inches,  and 
of  light  complexion.  He  had  ten  children :  i. 
Cyril,  born  I'ebruary  11,  1799.  married  Han- 
nah Grover.  2.  Hannah,  born  Jiuic  21.  1781, 
married  Hezikiah  Friesell.  3.  Abigail,  born 
July  II.  1783.  married  Amasa  Scott.  4.  John, 
born  November  30.  1785.  married  Lydia 
Elliott.  5.  Alpheus  Cady,  born  April  9.  1789, 
ma.rried  Nancy  Evidon.  6.  Caroline,  born 
August  2,  1791.  died  April  12,  1867,  unmar- 
ried. 7.  Sophia,  born  January  22,  1794,  mar- 
ried John  W.  Elliott.  '8.  Chester  (Jr.),  born 
March  14.  1798,  married  Mary  Barker.  9.  Mary 
Ann,  born  March  30.  1800,  married  Arad 
Upham  :  died  May  5,  1871.  10.  Harriet,  born 
April  2,  1804,  died  December  i,  1804. 

(\"I)  John,  fourth  child  of  Chester  and 
Caroline  (Walker)  Chaffee,  was  born  in 
Thompson.  Connecticut,  November  30,  1785, 
and  died  there  March  i,  1864.  He  married, 
at  Thompson,  Connecticut,  March  17,  1813, 
Lydia,  daughter  of  John  Elliott,  of  that  place. 
She  was  born  November  8.  1794,  died  June  5, 
1857-8:  buried  at  Grosvenordale,  Coimccti- 
cut.  Hoth  were  members  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Woodstock,  having  joined 
March  3.  1816.  Later  they  became  members 
of  the  Methodist  Church.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  stone  mason,  and  was  of  dark  complexion 
and  of  a  jovial  disposition.  In  politics  he  was 
a  Republican.  In  1813  and  for  many  years 
after,  he  lived  in  Thompson,  Connecticut.  He 
was  buried  at  North  Grosvenordale,  Connec- 
ticut. He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Connec- 
ticut militia  during  the  war  of  1812,  serving 
in  New  London,  under  command  of  John 
Lyon    from   Jime   21    to  June   24,    1813,   and 


under  Commander  Jacob  Lyon  from  June  25 
to  July  15,  1813.  He  had  five  children:  i. 
Emoret,  born  181 3.  married  Erastus  Caldwell. 
2.  Calista,  born  January  5,  1815,  married  Ben- 
jamin Burlingame,  3.  Faxon,  born  December 
16,  1817,  married  Sarah  J.  Brown.  4.  Loren, 
born  August  12,  1820.  married  Nancy  Hall. 
5.  Eliza,  born  December  29.  1823,  died  before 
1883,  married  (first)  Hammond  John.son, 
(second)  Leonard  Chaffee. 

(\T1)  Faxon,  third  child  of  John  and 
Lydia  (Elliott)  Chaffee,  was  born  in  Thomp- 
son. Connecticut,  December  16,  1817,  and 
died  February  27.  1870.  He  married,  Au- 
gust 9,  1846,  Sarah  Jane  Brown,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Jeremiah  Brown,  of  East  Killingly, 
Connecticut.  He  was  baptized  in  the  First 
Congregational  Church,  at  \\oodstock,  Con- 
necticut. He  owned  land  in  Killingly,  Con- 
necticut, in  1862,  and  with  his  wife  bought 
and  sold  land  from  time  to  time,  and  this  suc- 
cessfully. He  was  a  carriage  maker  by  trade, 
and  was  also  engaged  in  the  building  of  steam 
cars  for  many  years.  In  1869  he  lived  in 
Danielsonville,  Connecticut.  There  were  three 
children  :  i .  Francis  Herbert,  born  June  5,  1847, 
died  .\ugust  28,  1847.  2.  Ellen  Jane,  born  Jan- 
uary 5,  1849,  married  George  Rowell,  lives  in 
East  .'-^omerville,  Massachusetts.  3.  Emory 
Franklin,  born  January  27.  1856,  married  Belle 
G.  Carter,  January  i.  1879.  (See  Carter 
family). 

(\TII)  Emory  I'Vanklin.  only  son  of  Faxon 
and  Sarah  J.  (Brown)  Chaffee,  was  born 
in  Worcester.  Mas.sachusetts.  January  27, 
1856.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Danielson,  Connecticut,  and  the  National  Col- 
lege of  Business  at  .New  I  laven,  Connecticut, 
from  which  he  graduated.  His  father  dying 
when  he  was  a  mere  lad,  he  was  obliged  at 
the  early  age  of  sixteen  to  earn  his  own  liveli- 
hood, thus  beginning  to  carve  his  own  way  to 
success.  Having  married,  he  resided  in  Wo- 
burn  for  about  a  year,  then  removed  to  Som- 
erville.  There  in  1880  he  opened  a  new  phar- 
macy, on  Cross  street,  of  which  he  was  pro- 
prietor for  twenty-three  years,  selling  out 
the  business  in  1903  to  his  clerk.  During  the 
time  that  he  owned  the  store  Mr.  Chaffee 
became  connected  with  a  land  syndicate,  the 
first  proprietors  of  which  were  J.  W.  Litch- 
field. Charles  H.  Porter  and  himself,  he  being 
trustee  for  the  i)ropcrty.  The  syndicate  pur- 
chased three  different  estates  in  Everett, 
Massachusetts,  divided  them  into  house  lots, 
located  streets,  etc.  The  first  division  was 
named    Washington    Park,    and    others    later 


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were  Washington  Park  Addition  and  Mt. 
Washington  Park.  Later  Messrs.  Chaffee 
and  Litchfield  bought  Mr.  Porter's  interest, 
and  erected  some  business  blocks.  In  1903 
Mr.  Chaffee  bought  Mr.  Litchfield's  interest. 
Hundreds  of  dwelling  houses,  several  blocks, 
churches  and  schools,  have  been  built  upon  the 
land,  which  now  bears  no  resemblance  to  its 
former  unimproved  condition.  Mr.  Chaffee 
now  gives  his  attention  to  looking  after  his 
real  estate  in  Everett,  and  his  blocks  and 
houses  in  Somerville,  is  trustee  of  several 
estates,  besides  caring  for  numerous  estates 
belonging  to  others.  He  is  recognized  as  one 
of  the  prominent  and  influential  citizens  of 
Somer\-ille.  his  influence  being  always  felt  on 
the  side  of  right  and  justice :  and  in  behalf  of 
every  enterprise  for  the  best  interests  of  the 
community.  He  takes  a  deep  and  active  interest 
in  church  work,  and  is  a  member,  treasurer  and 
head  usher  of  the  East  Somerville  Baptist 
Church,  and  is  on  the  executive  board  of  man- 
agement. He  is  also  suf>erintendent  of  the 
Sunday  school.  He  acts  with  the  Republican 
partv-.  but  has  never  sought  public  oflBce.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  school  board,  being  chair- 
man of  the  finance  and  a  member  of  the  Text 
books  committee.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Railroad  Club  of  Boston,  the  Universalis! 
Men's  Qub  of  Somer\ille.  and  the  Young 
Men's  Baptist  Social  L'nion  of  Boston. 

Mr.  Chaffee  married.  January  i.  1879,  Belle 
Genevieve  Carter,  bom  in  Waterford.  Maine, 
daughter  of  Henry  W'yman  and  Sarah  G. 
(Brown)  Carter,  of  Wobum,  Massachusetts. 
(See  Carter  family).  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chaffee 
reside  at  i<yj  Pearl  street.  Somenille.  Their 
children,  all  bom  in  Somerville.  are : 

1.  Beulah.  bom  February  7,  1882;  gradu- 
ated from  Somer\-ille  grammar  and  high 
schools.  She  began  the  study  of  music  when 
very   young   and   after   graduating    from   the 

'  school  she  devoted  herself  wholly  to 
-■'■:.  studying  at  the  Faelton  Piano  School. 
Boston.  .After  teaching  music  for  a  time  she 
wa;;  married.  September  19.  1906.  to  Dr.  John 
.Allan  McLean,  a  graduate  of  Har\ard  Medi- 
cal School,  and  who  also  studied  in  the  hos- 
pitals of  London  and  Glasgow.  Dr.  McLean 
has  been  very  successful  in  his  practice.  They 
have  one  child.  Marjorie  .\rline.  born  March 
2.   1908.     H'  residence   is    16  Curtis 

street.  West  ~  f. 

2.  Emorj-  Leon  Chaffee,  bom  .April  15.  1885. 
When  a  lad  of  nine  years,  and  even  before  he 
had  reached  that  age,  he  showed  a  marked 
taste  for  electricity  and  the  sciences,  preferring 


experimentation  to  the  usual  boyish  sports. 
He  was  educated  in  the  Somer\-ille  grammar 
and  high  schools,  and  after  graduating  from 
the  English  high  school  he  designed,  construct- 
ed and  presented  to  the  high  school  an  X-ray 
coil  of  the  Tesla  t>-pe.  It  is  of  high  power, 
giving  a  spark  eighteen  inches  in  length,  and 
is  now  used  for  exhibition  purposes  in  the 
chemistry  and  physics  department.  In  June, 
1907,  he  graduated  with  honor  from  the  Insti- 
tute of  Technology',  Boston,  receiving  the  de- 
gree of  Bachelor  of  Science.  In  autumn  of 
the  same  year  he  applied  at  Har\-ard  College 
for  entrance  to  the  graduate  School  of  .Arts 
and  Sciences,  and  was  granted  a  scholarship 
upon  his  record  at  the  Institute  of  Technologv'. 
He  received  the  degree  of  .A.  M.  in  Physics  at 
Harvard  in  June,  1908.  He  is  now  teaching 
in  several  courses  in  Harvard  and  Radcliff, 
and  at  the  Har\ard  Summer  School,  at  the 
same  time  conducting  research,  expecting  to 
receive  the  degree  of  Ph.  D.  in  June,  1910, 
and  to  then  give  a  year  to  further  study  in  the 
University  at  Leipsic,  Germany.  In  addition  to 
prosecuting  his  studies,  he  is  conducting  per- 
sonal work  in  a  building  erected  for  the  pur- 
pose in  the  rear  of  his  home,  containing  labor- 
atories for  X-ray  and  research  work,  and  has 
performed  much  useful  labor  for  physicians. 
He  married,  June  23.  1909.  Dora  L.  Armes. 
of  Le.xington,  Massachusetts,  a  graduate  of 
Mt.  Holyoke  College,  '06.  granddaughter  of 
the  late  Rev.  P.  C.  Headley,  a  well  known 
author.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Emory  Leon  Chaffee 
reside  in  1909  at  262  L'pland  road.  Cambridge. 

3.  Lillian  Carlotta.  born  March  29.  1891. 
She  is  now  attending  the  English  high  school 
and  taking  voice  culture. 

4.  Raymond  Osgood,  born  .April  24.  1895. 
He  attends  the  Edgerly  grammar  school  and 
studies  the  violin. 

.All  of  these  children  are  members  of  the 
East  Somers-ille  Baptist  church,  and  active  in 
its  work,  teaching  in  the  Sunday  school,  etc. 
.All  of  the  children  are  trained  musically: 
Beulah  a  fine  pianist.  Leon  a  cornetist,  Lillian 
a  soprano  singer,  Raymond  a  violinist. 

Mrs.  Belle  Genevieve  (Carter)  Chaffee  is  a 
direct  descendant  of  Rev.  Thomas  Carter  (i), 
one  of  the  founders  of  Wobum,  and  its 
first  minister,  who  was  born  in  England, 
in  1610.  during  the  reign  of  James  I.  pre- 
sumably in  Hertfordshire,  at  or  near  St. 
.Albans.  He  without  doubt  was  the  grandson 
or  great-grandson  of  Richard  Carter,  Lord  of 
the  Manor  of  Garston,  in  the  parish  of  Wat- 
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tered  St.  Johns  College,  University  of  Cam- 
bridge, England.  .April  i.  1626.  and  there  took 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  1629-30.  and 
the  Masters  degree  in  1633.  .April  2,  1635, 
he  embarked  from  St.  .\lbans  in  the  ship 
"Planter,"  bound  for  New  England.  He  was 
obliged  to  take  the  disguise  of  a  servant  to 
one  George  Giddings,  for  the  English  govern- 
ment had  at  that  period  become  so  alarmed  at 
the  utter  contempt  of  the  colonists  for  the  laws 
and  authority  of  the  Crown,  that  restraints 
were  placed  upon  emigration  to  the  colonies, 
and  no  one  above  the  rank  of  serving  man  was 
permitted  to  remove  without  special  leave,  and 
persons  of  inferior  rank  were  required  to  take 
the  oath  of  supremacy  and  allegiance.  Hence, 
because  of  the  great  difficulty  of  one  of  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Carter's  education  and  position 
to  obtain  permission  to  emigrate,  he  adopted 
the  disguise  mentioned.  He  took  a  farm  and 
homestall  of  102  acres  in  Watenown.  Massa- 
chusetts, and  there  married  Mary  Dalton.  He 
was  ordained  November  22.  1642.  and  an  ac- 
count of  his  ordination  as  the  first  minister  in 
W'obum  is  given  in  the  "Historj-  of  New  Eng- 
land," by  Governor  John  Wimhrop,  Esq.,  first 
governor  of  Massachusetts.  He  continued  in 
the  pastorate  forty-two  years,  during  which 
long  period  the  greatest  harmony  existed  be- 
tween himself  and  the  society-.  In  Sewall's 
"Historv"  of  Wobum"  he  is  said  to  have  been 
a  pious,  exemplar}'  man,  an  able  and  soimd 
preacher  of  the  gospel,  and  one  whom  God 
honored  and  prospered  in  his  work.  Under 
his  ministrations  the  church  was  greatly  en- 
larged and  built  up,  the  town  flourished  and 
was  for  the  most  part  in  jjeace. 

The  earlier  members  of  the  Carter  family 
were  said  to  be  a  sturdy,  industrious,  sensible, 
kind  hearted,  publicspirited.  Godfearing  set 
of  people.  Their  special  characteristics  were 
love  of  their  kind — fidelity  in  the  marriage  re- 
lation, and  a  cheerful  recognition  of  the  Divine 
command  to  "multiply  and  replenish  the 
earth."  The  early  records  show  them  to  have 
been  prominent  in  all  matters  of  public  interest 
— the  division  of  land  and  la}"ing  out  of  roads, 
building  of  churches  and  establishment  of 
schools  were  entrusted  to  them.  Many  also 
were  active  in  the  militan.-  organizations  and 
duties  of  their  day,  so  that  much  of  the  re- 
ligious, moral  and  intellectual  culture  and 
prosperity  of  the  communities  where  they  set- 
tled is  due  to  the  labors  of  these  ancestors. 
The  most  marked  preference  to  any  one  calling 
seems  to  have  been  that  of  physician.     There 


were  many  among  the  descendants,  ^ 
ministers  of  the  gospel. 

Children  of  Rev.  Thomas  and  Mar\-  Carter: 
I.  Samuel,  bom  .August  8,  1640.  died  in  Gro- 
ton.  Massachusetts,  1693.  2.  Judith,  married 
(first)  June  8.  1660.  Samuel  Converse:  mar- 
ried (second)  May  2.  1672,  Giles  Fifield.  3. 
Theophilus.  bom  June  12,  1645,  died  February 
15,  1649.  4-  Mary,  bom  July  24,  16148,  died 
1688,  married  (first )  John  \V\-man  Jr.,  about 
1 67 1,  who  was  killed  by  the  Indians  at  the 
Swamp  Fight.  December  19.  1675 :  married 
( second »  Nathaniel  Bachiler.  of  Hampton, 
New  Hampshire.  October  31,  1676.  5.  Abi- 
gail, bom  June  10,  1649-50,  married,  Slay  7, 
1674,  John  Smith.  6.  Deborah,  bom  Septem- 
ber 15.  1651.  died  December  14,  1(367.  7- 
Timothy,  bom  June  12,  1653.  died  July  8, 
1727.  married.  May  3.  16S0.  .\nna  Fiske, 
daughter  of  David  Fiske.  of  Cambridge.  Lex- 
ington. 8.  Thomas,  bom  June  8.  1655.  mar- 
ried Maimer}-  \\"hitmore.  of  Cambridge,  bom 
September  9.  1668.  died  October  3.  1754. 

(Ill  Samuel,  eldest  of  the  eight  children 
of  Rev.  Thomas  and  Man,-  ( Dalton  t  Carter, 
and  in  line  of  descent  to  Mrs.  Belle  Gene- 
vieve (Carter)  Chaffee,  was  bom  August  8. 
1640.  He  graduated  from  Harvard  College 
in  1660.  and  in  1672  married  Eunice  Brooks, 
daughter  of  John  and  Eunice  (Mousall) 
Brooks.  He  was  admitted  an  inhabitant  and 
proprietor  of  the  common  lands  by  a  vote  of 
the  town  of  Wobum.  January-  4.  1665-6.  and 
sustained  at  different  times  several  respwnsibie 
oflices  in  the  town — selectman  1679. 16S1.  i(S82 
and  1683 :  commissioner  of  rates  1680 :  town 
clerk  1(590;  was  also  teacher  of  the  grammar 
school.  1685  and  1686.  (  Sewell's  "History-  of 
Wobum").  We  find  in  "Annals  of  Lancaster, 
Massachusetts."  record  of  seventy-five  acres 
of  land  deeded  to  him.  This  land  was  on 
George  Hill,  and  was  occupied  by  Mr.  Carter's 
descendants  for  several  generations.  He 
preached  at  Lancaster  between  1681  and  16S8. 
and  probably  resided  there  for  a  time.  The 
births  of  his  nine  children  are  recorded  in  the 
Wobum  town  records.  From  "Groton  His- 
torical Series,"  No.  12.  edited  by  Hon.  Samuel 
.A.  Green,  we  learn  that  on  October  21.  1692, 
by  vote  of  the  larger  part  of  the  town,  they  de- 
clared the  Rev.  Samuel  Carter  to  be  their 
fourth  minister,  to  be  ordained  in  due  time. 
He  moved  to  that  place  soon  after  recei\-ing 
this  call,  but  did  not  long  remain  over  his  pas- 
toral charge.  d\-ing  there  in  the  autumn  of 
1693.     There  is  not  much  said  in  the  town 


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records  of  his  brief  ministry,  but  as  one  of  the 
pioneer  preachers  in  the  early  days  of  New 
England  life,  his  memory  deserves  to  be  cher- 
ished. 

Children  of  Rev.  Samuel  and  Eunice 
(Brooks)  Carter:  i.  -Mary,  born  July  24, 
1673.  2.  Samuel,  born  August  27,  1675,  died 
at  VVoburn,  September  10,  1676.  3.  Samuel, 
born  January  7,  1678,  died  at  Lancaster,  Au- 
gust 30,  1738.  4.  John,  born  March  14,  1680, 
died  at  Lancaster,  1705.  5.  Thomas,  born 
April  3,  1682,  died  at  Lancaster,  March  31, 
1738.  6.  Nathaniel,  born  April  7,  1685.  7. 
Eunice,  born  March  29,  1687.  8.  Abigail,  born 
May,  1689,  died  young.  9.  Abigail,  born  May 
30,  1690. 

fill)  Samuel,  the  third  child  of  Rev. 
Samuel  and  Eunice  (Brooks)  Carter,  and  next 
in  descent,  was  born  in  Woburn,  January  7, 
1677,  and  dieil  in  Lancaster,  .-Xugust  30,  1738. 
He  married,  March.  1701,  Dorothy  Wilder, 
born  1686,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary 
(Sawyer)  Wilder.  From  ".Annals  of  Lan- 
caster" we  learned  that  they  lived  on  George 
Hill,  on  the  land  formerly  purchased  by  his 
father.  Rev.  Samuel  Carter.  He  was  assigned 
to  a  garrison  on  George  Hill,  with  his  brothers- 
in-law,  Lieutenant  Nathaniel  and  Ephraim 
Wilder,  Thomas  Ross,  and  his  brother,  John 
Carter,  and  lost  in  an  attack  by  the  Indians, 
July  31,  1704,  with  two  fires,  a  good  dwelling 
house,  a  horse,  cow,  two  calves  and  his  swine. 
He  was  selectman  in  1723,  and  served  on  vari- 
ous committees  for  the  location  of  highways, 
etc. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Dorothy  Wilder 
Carter:  i.  Samuel,  born  1703,  died  I,ancaster, 
May  20,  1761.  2.  Eunice,  born  1704,  died  at 
Sterling,  November  16,  1789.  3.  Nathaniel, 
born  1706,  died  at  Leominster,  July  20,  1787. 
4.  Dorothy.  5.  Anna.  6.  Johnathan,  born 
171 1,  died  at  Leominster,  March  ig,  1799. 
7.  Ei)hraim,  born  1713,  died  at  Lancaster.  8. 
()liver,  born  1715.  died  at  Leominster,  Sep- 
tember II,  1790.  9.  Mary,  born  1719,  died  at 
l)Olton.  February  3.  1743.  10.  Elizabeth,  born 
1722,  (lied  at  Lancaster,  October  9,  1755.  11. 
Prudence,  born  February  22,  1723,  died  at 
Leominster,  April  6,  1789.  12.  Josiah,  born 
January  26,  1726,  died  at  I^eominster.  Febru- 
ary. 1 81 2. 

(1\')  Josiah.  youngest  of  the  twelve  chil- 
dren of  Samuel  and  Dorothy  I  Wilder)  Car- 
ter, and  great-great-grandfather  of  Belle 
Genevieve  fCarter^  Cliaflfec,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 26,  \72f>.  and  died  at  Leominster,  Febru- 
ary,   1812.      He    married,    in    1745,    Tabitha 


Hough,  born  1729,  died  June  29,  1810.  His 
farm  was  the  northerly  of  the  two  farms  on 
Carter  Hill,  which  was  owned  by  the  descend- 
ants of  Samuel  (3).  The  beautiful  slope  of 
this  hill  marks  the  background  of  the  view  of 
Leominster  on  the  west,  with  South  Monoos- 
nock  just  above  it.  It  is  recorded  in  the 
"Book  of  Revolutionary  Soldiers"  that  Josiah 
Carter  was  the  first  major  of  Colonel  Asa 
Whitcomb's  regiment,  engaged  in  battle  April 
19,  1775  (Lexington).  He  was  also  lieuten- 
ant-colonel of  Colonel  Abijah  Steam's  Eighth 
( Worcester  county)  regiment,  commissioned 
February  7,  1776,  and  lieutenant-colonel  of 
Colonel  Josiah  Whitney's  regiment,  and  he 
was  also  colonel  of  the  Eighth  (Worcester 
county)  regiment.  There  is  an  official  record 
in  the  above  mentioned  book  of  a  ballot  by  the 
House  of  Representatives  dated  June  2,  1779, 
the  appointment  as  colonel  being  concurred  in 
council,  June  2,  1779. 

Children  of  Colonel  Josiah  and  Tabitha 
(Hough)  Carter:  i.  Tabitha,  born  October 
18.  1745.  died  young.  2.  Tabitha,  born  De- 
cember 30,  1747.  3.  Josiah,  born  January 
29.  1749,  died  July  19,  1827.  4.  Jude.  born 
March  8,  1751,  died  Rockingham,  \'ermont. 
5.  Sarah,  born  .\pril  26,  1753.  6.  Zerviah, 
born    .\pril    9,    1755,    died   January    3,    1807. 

7.  Relief,  born   March  26,   1757,  died  young. 

8.  Mary,   born    April   20,    1759,   died   young. 

9.  .Abijah,  born  September  3,  1761.  died 
Bridgton,  Maine.  10.  Jacob,  born  Septem- 
ber 4,  1763,  died  at  Leominster.  .August  27, 
1825.  II.  Relief,  born  November  27.  1765, 
died  young.  12.  James,  born  December  12, 
1768,  died  Leominster,  May  26,  1850.  13. 
Relief,  born  October  21,  1770,  died  Water- 
ford,  Vermont.  14.  Jonah,  born  January  26, 
1772,  died  at  Rindge,  New  Hampshire,  Febru- 
ary 25,  1837. 

(V)  .Abijah.  niiilh  child  of  Colonel  Josiah 
and  Tabitha  (  Hough)  Carter,  was  born  (prob- 
ably at  Leominster)  September  5,  1761,  and 
died  at  Bridgton.  Maine.  He  served  as  a 
soldier  in  the  revolutionary  war,  and  until 
his  death  received  a  pension.  The  following 
is  taken  from  "Revolutionary  Soldiers:" 
".Abijah  Carter  was  a  private  in  Colonel  Nicho- 
las Dike's  regiment,  and  also  in  Colonel  .Abi- 
jah .'^team's  ( Worcester  county')  regiment, 
and  he  marched  to  .'^aratoga.  (October  ().  1777, 
under  command  of  Major  Ebenezcr  Bridge,  to 
assist  General  Gates.  He  also  served  in  Col- 
onel John  Rand's  (Worcester  county)  regi- 
ment, and  was  in  service  there  three  months 
and    twelve    days."      He    married,    in    .April, 


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1781,  Xancy  Warner,  of  Leominster.  After 
his  marriage  he  settled  in  JafTrey,  New  Hamp- 
shire. He  was  surveyor  tliere  in  1786,  and 
owner  of  a  pew  in  tlie  cliurch.  He  removed 
to  Bridgton,  Maine,  where  most  of  his  fifteen 
children  were  born.  Both  he  and  his  wife  died 
tliere  or  near  by. 

Children  of  Abijah  and  Xancy  (  Warner) 
Carter:  i.  .Alpheiis,  died  at  Stowe,  iMass- 
achusetts.  2.  Abijah.  Jr.,  born  October  29, 
1783,  died  December  11,  1873.  3.  James.  4. 
John,  born  1785,  died  1825,  in  Waterford. 
Maine.  5.  Levi,  born  June  16.  1789,  died 
March  3,  1854.  at  Stowe,  Massachusetts.  6. 
Henry.  7.  Otis,  died  in  Xaples  or  Otisfield, 
Maine.  8.  William.  9.  Joseph,  died  in  child- 
hood. 10.  Ciiarles.  died  in  P.ridgton  Centre, 
Maine.  11.  Thomas  Jefferson,  died  at  the 
West.  12.  George.  13.  Xancy  W.  14.  Sally. 
15.  Betsey. 

(\'I)  Henry,  sixth  child  of  .\bijah  and 
Xancy  (Warner)  Carter,  was  born  in  Bridg- 
ton, Maine,  about  1790.  He  was  senior 
deacon  of  the  Methodist  church  in  North 
Bridgton  for  many  years.  He  married  Hannah 
Cochran,  of  .Vndovcr,  Massachusetts,  and  they 
had  seventeen  children,  all  of  whom  came  to 
maturity  excej)t  the  first  born,  who  died  aged 
five  and  one-half  years.  Among  the  sons  who 
served  in  the  civil  war  were  :  James,  in  Twelfth 
Xcw  Hampshire  Regiment ;  John,  in  Third 
Illinois  Cavalry;  .Xustin,  orderly  sergeant  in  a 
Massachusetts  regiment  of  heavy  artillery,  and 
who  participated  in  nineteen  battles :  and  Ed- 
win, Twelfth  Maine  Regiment,  who  died  from 
injuries  received   in  service. 

Children  of  Henry  and  Hannah  (Cochran  1 
Carter:  i.  Henry,  born  January  25,  1823. 
died  October  13.  1828.  2.  Samuel,  born  Feb- 
ruary I.  1824.  died  at  Lawrence,  Massachu- 
setts. March  24.  1881.  3.  Mary,  born  May 
10.  1825.  resides  at  South  Waterford.  Maine. 
4.  James,  born  December  20.  1826,  resides 
at  Biddeford,  Maine.  5.  Charles,  born  March 
20,  1828,  died  at  North  Conway,  New  Hamp- 
shire, April  2,  1880.  6.  John  N.,  born  Se]v 
tember  20,  1829,  resides  at  Bridgton,  Maine. 
7.  .Abbie.  born  April  20,  1831,  resides  at 
Andover,  Massachusetts.  8.  Emily,  born  Sep- 
tember 13.  1832.  resides  at  Winchester,  Mass- 
achusetts. 9.  Xancy  W.,  born  .May  21,  1834, 
died  Bridgton,  1908.  10.  Margaret  A.,  born 
October  27,  1836,  resides  at  Lawrence,  Mass- 
achusetts. IT.  Henry  W^.,  born  January  9, 
1838.  died  September  25..  1885.  12.  Wesley, 
born  July  7.  1839.  resides  at  St.  Cloud.  Minne- 
sota.    13.  Austin  F.,  born  I'^bruary  23,  1841, 


resides  at  Hyde  I'ark.  Massachusetts.  14. 
Edwin,  born  .\ugust  15.  1842,  died  June  30, 
1862.  15.  Elizabeth  M..  born  March  30,  1844, 
resides  at  Xorth  Bridgton.  Maine.  16.  Will- 
iam Solon,  born  January  24,  1846,  resides  at 
Conway.  Xew  Hampshire.  17.  Horatio  L., 
born  June  3.  1847. 

(\  II)  I  U-nry  Wynian.  ole\entli  child  of 
Henry  and  Hannah  1  L'nchran  )  Carter,  was 
born  January  9.  1838.  in  Bridgton.  Maine.  He 
was  educated  in  the  jiublic  scho(jl  there,  and 
took  up  the  trade  of  carriage  maker.  He  mar- 
ried, August  8.  1858,  Sarah  Georgie  Brown, 
of  Bridgton.  They  lived  for  a  time  in  Chess 
Springs,  Pennsylvania,  and  then  settled  in 
W'oburn,  Massachusetts,  the  home  of  Henry 
Wyman's  first  .American  ancestor.  He  and  his 
wife  were  members  of  the  First  Baptist  Church 
of  Woburn.  While  visiting  his  sister,  Mrs. 
X.  .\.  Holt,  of  Lawrence,  he  died,  September 
25,  1885.  The  Odd  Fellows  of  the  Woburn 
Lodge,  of  which  he  was  a  member,  and  also 
of  the  "Lawrence  Lodge,  officiated  at  the 
funeral,  and  accompanied  the  remains  to  their 
interment  at  Bridgton.  Maine. 

Children  of  Henry  Wjnian  and  Sarah 
(Brown)  Carter,  i.  Belle  Genevieve,  born 
March  25.  1859.  2.  Henry  Walter,  died  young 
at  Chess  Springs,  Pennsylvania. 

(XTH)  Belle  Genevieve,  daughter  of  Henry 
Wyman  and  Sarah  Georgie  (Brown)  Carter, 
was  born  March  25,  1859.  and  married.  Janu- 
ary I.  1879,  Emory  hVanklin  ChalTee.  then  re- 
siding in  Charlestown.  .Massachusetts.  She 
was  educated  in  the  Woburn  grammar  and 
high  schools,  during  the  same  time  and  after- 
ward studying  music  in  the  New  England 
Conservatory  and  at  the  Petersilea  .'\cademy  of 
Music,  then  located  on  Columbus  avenue.  She 
began  teaching  the  piano  when  (|uite  young, 
and  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  had  a  large 
niunber  of  pupils.  She  gave  several  [)ublic  re- 
citals of  her  pupils,  and  also  several  individual 
recitals  at  Steinert  Hall,  Boston,  besides  play- 
ing concertos,  etc.,  in  entertainments  in  Music 
Hall,  Tremont  Temple,  and  elsewhere  in  Bos- 
ton and  vicinity.  \\'ith  her  husband  she  is  a 
member  of  the  East  Somerville  Fiaptist 
Church,  serving  on  the  music  committee  of 
the  church,  and  on  the  executive  board  of 
management,  and  as  pianist  of  the  Sunday 
school.  She  has  had  charge  of  many  success- 
ful entertainments  in  the  church  and  at  clubs, 
her  time  1x;ing  freely  given  for  charitable  enter- 
tainments. She  is  chairman  of  the  music  com- 
iTiittee  of  the  Hejitorean  Club,  a  member  of  the 
Somerville  Woiuan's  Club,  and  until  recently 


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belonged  to  the  Maine  Club  of  Somerville. 
Although  asked  several  times  to  take  office  in 
the  aforesaid  clubs  she  has  not  as  yet  accepted. 


William  Hervey  (or  Harvey) 
IIERX'EV  immigrant  ancestor,  was  a  tan- 
ner and  settled  first  in  Taim- 
ton,  Massachusetts,  in  1639.  He  removed  to 
Boston.wherc  he  died  August  13.1638.  Admin- 
istration was  granted  to  his  widow  Martha  for 
herself  and  four  young  children.  .April  28, 
1659.  He  married  (first)  -April  2.  1639,  Joane 
Hiicker.  of  Cohannatt.  and  she  was  admitted 
with  him  to  the  Boston  church  in  1643.  He 
married  (second)  Martha  Copp,  who  was 
admitted  to  the  church.  .April  16.  1654.  She 
married  (second)  November  10.  1659,  Henry 
Tewksbury.  and  removed  to  Xewbury.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife,  born  in  Boston:  I.  Abigail, 
April  25,  1640.  2.  Thomas,  December  13  or 
18.  1641  ;  died  young.  3.  Experience,  (daugh- 
ter) March  4.  1644.  4.  Joseph,  December  8, 
1643.  Children  of  second  wife:  5.' William, 
.August  27.  1C131.  6.  Thomas.  .August  16, 
1652.  mentioned  below.  7.  John.  February  5, 
1654-33,  married  Sarah  (  Barnes)  Rowell.  8. 
Mary,  baptized  .August  2,  1637. 

(II)  Captain  Thomas,  son  of  William  Her- 
vey, was  born  in  Boston,  August  16,  1652,  and 
settled  in  Aniesbury.  He  took  the  oath  of 
allegiance  in  December.  1677,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  train  band  in  i(i8o.  He  was  admitted 
a  freeman  in  1690.  and  in  i(')C)i-C)2  was  a  dep- 
uty to  the  general  court.  In  1708  he  was  cap- 
tain of  the  "snoe-shoe  men."  The  inventory 
of  his  estate  was  filed  January  21,  171 5-16, 
and  administration  was  granted  his  son  Will- 
iam, March  19.  1715-16.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber 26,  1676.  Sarah  Rowell.  daughter  of  Val- 
entine and  grandddaughter  f>f  Thomas  Rowell. 
Slie  survived  him.  (Children:  i.  Mary,  mar- 
ried. May  15,  1707,  Joseph  Buswell.  2.  Eliz- 
abeth, married,  December  8,  1710.  Theophilus 
Colby.  3.  Hannah,  unmarried  in  1721.  4. 
William,  born  March  9.  1687-88.  died  January 
8,  1689.  5.  William,  January  15,  1689,  men- 
tioned below.  6.  Thomas.  February  14,  1691, 
probably  died  young. 

(HI)  William  (2).  son  of  Captain  Thomas 
Hervey,  was  born  January  15,  1689,  and 
resided  at  .Aniesbury.  He  was  among  the 
"snoe-shoe  men"  in  1708.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber 14,  1714,  at  .Aniesbury.  .Abigail  Martin, 
daughter  of  John  Martin.  He  joined  the 
second  church  of  .Amesbury,  .August  ii.  1726. 
and  she  joined  October  17.  1736.  Children, 
born    at    .Amesburv:     i.    W'illiam.    mentioned 


below.     2.     b'ortunatus,  baptized  August  25, 
1728. 

(IV)  William  (3),  son  of  William  (2), 
Hervey,  was  born  at  Amesbury  about  1720. 
He  married  Abigail  Talbot.  Children:  i. 
Thomas,  baptized  December  7,  1746,  men- 
tioned below.  There  was  a  William  and 
David  living  at  Newburyport  in  1790,  also 
sons.  William  died  there  July  7,  1806;  David 
died  June  16,  1802.  William's  widow  .Abigail 
died  at  Newburyport,  July  8.  1819.  aged 
seventy-seven  years.  Mary,  widow  of  David, 
died  there  January  19,  1824. 

(V)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  William  (3)  Her- 
vey. was  born  1746  and  baptized  December  7, 
1746.  The  family  removed  to  Newburyport 
after  the  revolution.  The  heads  of  families  in 
Newburvport  in  1790  were  Thomas,  David, 
William  and  .Abigail,  a  widow.  Thomas  had 
four  sons  under  sixteen  and  four  girls  in  his 
family  at  that  time.  He  died  at  Newburyport, 
November  29,  1821,  aged  seventy-five  years. 
He  was  a  dealer  in  lumber  and  other  ship- 
building materials.  In  1785  he  sold  to  the 
town  materials  for  building  hay  scales  for 
eighteen  pounds.  He  served  in  the  revolution, 
taking  part  in  a  Kittery  company.  He  married 
(first)  Tamsen  Gerrish,  and  (second)  Mary 
Woodman.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born  Novem- 
ber 19,  1772,  married.  .August  15,  1799,  Josiah 
Greenleaf.  2.  Thomas.  December  8,  1774,  died 
young.  3.  Thomas,  May  28.  1776.  was  a  car- 
penter and  was  killed  by  accident.  September 
II,  1856:  married.  May  23,  1803,  Jane  Camp- 
bell ;  children :  i.  Tamsen  Stevens  Hervey, 
born  April  12,  1806;  ii.  Jane  Hervey.  Septem- 
ber 30,  1807 :  iii.  Margaret  Hervey,  June  25, 
1809;  iv.  Elizabeth  Fleming  Hervey.  February 
10,  181 1  ;  died  young;  v.  Thomas  Hervey,  July 
25,  1812.  died  August  31,  1847:  vi.  Elizabeth 
Hervey,  October  27,  1813,  died  November  i, 
1827;    vii.    Elizabeth    Fleming    Hervey,    July 

3.  1813,  died  May  13,  1850:  viii.  Calvin  Her- 
vey. February  2,  1818:  ix.  Hannah  Spring 
Hervey.  July  9,  1819:  x.  John  Campbell  Her- 
vey. December  17,  1821.  4.  Betsey,  July  15, 
1778.  5.  William,  1780,  died  September  19. 
1851  ;  married.  September  8.  1803.  Elizabeth 
Buntin  :  children:  i.  \\'illiam  .'^tevens  Hervey, 
born  November  5,  1804;  ii.  Joseph  Buntin 
Hervey,  October  16,  1806,  married.  November 

4,  1832,  Eunice  W.  Hale;  iii.  Elizabeth  Her- 
vey. Mav  25,  1810.  married  William  Ingalls; 
iv.  Mary  Campbell  Hervey.  April  12,  1816.  6. 
Jane.  December  16,  1781,  twin,  died  July  28, 
1848.  7.  Joseph.  December  16.  1781,  twin, 
married,  August   31,   1807,   Mary   French,  of 


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Newbiiryport :  children:  i.  Joseph,  born  April 
i8,  iSo8:  ii.  Edwin.  May  17,  iSio.  8.  Nath- 
aniel. January  15,  1784.  died  March  3.  1819; 
married.  September  iq.  1803,  .Mary  Plummer ; 
children:  i.  Martha  Ilervey.  (twin),  born  De- 
cember 2-j.  1805;  ii.  Mary  (twin),  born  De- 
cember 27,  1805  :  iii.  Nathaniel  Plummer.  born 
January  11.  1808.  9.  Tamsen  Gcrrish.  De- 
cember 10,  1786.  married.  December  31.  181 1, 
Joseph  Piuntin.  10.  James,  December  27.  1788. 
II.  Charles,  married,  .\ugust  10.  1814.  l-lliza- 
beth  Sanborn.  Child  of  second  wife:  13. 
George,  October  10,  1796,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)  George,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  Hervey, 
wfes  born  October  10,  1796.  in  Newburyport. 
His  mother  is  said  to  have  been  over  fifty 
years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  birth.  His  edu- 
cation was  received  in  the  public  schools  of 
Newburyport,  and  he  developed  his  mind  by 
extensive  reading,  being  one  of  the  best 
Shakespearian  scholars  of  the  time  in  the 
vicinity.  He  early  learned  the  business  of  a 
tailor  and  cutter  and  for  a  short  time  was 
employed  in  New  York  City.  .About  182 1  he 
removed  to  Andover  and  thence  to  Maiden. 
where  he  became  interested  in  ^^asonry  and 
joined  Mt.  Hermon  I-odge  in  that  place,  the 
charter  of  which  was  dated  June  9,  1817.  He 
became  a  resident  of  Medford  in  1835  and 
commenced  the  business  of  tailor  in  the  room 
of  the  City  Hall  building,  afterwards  used  as 
the  selectman's  room,  and  more  recently  as  the 
mayor's  ofiice.  At  that  time  Jonas  Coburn 
kept  the  dry  goods  store  on  the  first  floor  of 
the  same  building  and  furnished  the  cloth  for 
Mr.  Hervey.  His  tailor's  shop  became  a  pop- 
ular resort  for  the  men  of  Medford.  who 
would  visit  there  for  the  purpose  of  discus- 
sion of  matters  of  local  and  i)ublic  interest. 
He  was  appointed  postmaster,  .Af^ril  22,  i8f>r, 
and  removed  to  the  part  of  tlie  building  nf)w 
used  as  a  waiting  room  by  the  Boston  and 
Maine  Railroad  Company.  Here  he  continued 
to  conduct  his  business  for  the  remainder  of 
his  life.  He  resided  at  No.  12  Summer  street 
in  a  house  which  he  built.  He  died,  after  a 
lingering  illness  of  two  years.  March  7.  1868. 
He  was  a  man  of  strict  integrity,  of  an  amiable 
disposition,  a  thorough  gentleman,  and  kindly 
to  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact,  always 
ready  with  good  advice,  given  with  the  best 
intentions  and  never  in  an  obtrusive  manner. 
An  examjjle  of  his  quick  wit  is  the  story  that 
once  when  a  good  deacon  of  the  church,  who 
was  a  fre(|ucnt  visitor  in  his  sho|),  after  the 
usual  gossip  of  the  morning,  asked  him  if  he 
could  not  tell  him  what  he  could  do  to  make 


his  home  happier — "Leave  it" — replied  Mr. 
Hervey,  without  interrupting  his  work.  He 
was  averse  to  holding  public  office,  but  was  on 
the  school  committee.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  fire  department  of  Medford  and  for  many 
years  clerk  of  the  hook  and  ladder  comj)anv. 
In  early  life  he  was  a  Whig  and  later  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics.  lie  and  his  wife  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Unitarian  church  of  .Medford.  He 
married,  .\ugust  4,  1825,  at  Maiden,  Sallv  f. 
Wait,  born  May  28,  1804.  died  November'  12, 
1884,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Pamelia  Wait. 
Children:  i.  George  Cabot,  born  August, 
1825.  died  April  9.  1882:  merchant  tailor  at 
Afedford;  married.  November  25,  1852,  .Xzu- 
bah  Kimball:  children:  i.  Walter  D.  Ilervey, 
born  August  2,  1857.  died  September  25,  1859; 
ii.  Edgar  James  Ilervey,  August  4,  18^9;  iii. 
Mabel,  March  29,  1863,  married.  April  4,  1888, 
Carl  Theodore  Guething,  and  have  Florence 
Sally,  born  January  20,  1890;  Theodore  Her- 
vey, October  15,  1891  ;  Carl  Theodore,  luly 
14,  1893:  James  Harold,  March  26,  1893."  2. 
Sarah,  died  young.  3.  James  .Aigin.  March  29, 
1827,  died  September  9,  1905;  superintendent 
of  schools  at  Aledford  :  married  (first)  August 
12,  1862,  Mary  E.  Peck;  (second)  April  11, 
1894,  Mrs.  Julia  A.  (Peck)  Leach,  sister  of 
first  wife;  child  of  first  wife:  Philip,  born 
April  10,  1867,  died  March  17,  1889.  4.  Sarah, 
February  21,  1831,  died  Sejnember  3.  1848.  5. 
lulwin,  November  10,  1832.  died  .August  9, 
1842.  6.  Thomas.  May  16.  1836,  drowned 
July  \(\  1851.  7.  I'Vanklin,  June  29,  1838, 
mentioned  below. 

(VII)  Franklin,  son  of  George  Hervey, 
was  born  at  Medford,  June  29,  1838,  in  the  old 
Garrison  House  of  revolutionary  fame.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
began  work  as  clerk  in  the  dry  goods  house  of 
I'arley.  Bliss  &  Company,  P.oston.  He  left 
this  position  to  enlist  in  the  civil  war  in  Com- 
pany F,  Fifth  Regiment.  Massachu.setts  Vol- 
unteer Militia,  Sej)tcniber  i.  1862.  After 
being  in  camp  a  short  time,  this  regiment  went 
to  Beaufort.  North  Carolina,  thence  to  New- 
burn  into  camp  in  the  department  commanded 
by  General  Foster.  He  took  part  in  the  battle 
of  Newbern.  Kinston.  Whitehall,  and  of 
(Joldsborough,  returning  with  the  regiment 
and  receiving  an  honorable  discharge.  July  2, 
1863.  After  some  time  in  a  clerical  capacity 
he  became  engaged  in  the  mercantile  trade  in 
which  he  was  successfully  engaged  up  to  1904. 
Mr.  Ilervey  for  many  years  was  actively  inter- 
ested in  the  Lyceum  in  New  England,  where 


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he  has  become  well  known  as  a  public  reader. 
His  residence  is  at  i6  Hillside  avenue.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  First  Unitarian  Church  and 
on  the  parish  committee  and  trustee  of  the 
sinking  fund.  He  was  formerly  a  member  of 
the  Med  ford  Club  and  belongs  to  Medford 
Council,  Royal  Arcanum.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber 7,  18S5,  (Jlive  Potter  Sawyer,  born  at  New- 
Bedford,  Massachu.setts,  June  22,  1845,  daugh- 
ter of  Gideon  and  Olive  (Potter)  Sawyer. 
Her  father  was  a  mason  and  builder ;  held 
various  offices  in  New  Bedford.  They  had 
one  daughter,  born  and  died  AjMil  4,  1888. 


The  name  of  ^\4lliston  doubt- 
WILLISTON  less  is  of  Danish  origin  and 
probably  came  over  to  Eng- 
land with  the  Danish  invasion  of  King  Can- 
nute  when  the  commander-in-chief  of  the 
armies  of  Denmark  bore  the  name  of  General 
W'illiston.  In  1640  three  brothers  of  the  name 
of  W'illiston  came  to  America  from  Lanca- 
shire, England. 

(I)  Joseph  Williston  was  probably  born 
about  1670.  There  was  a  John  Willison  or 
W'illingstone  at  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  at  an 
earlier  date,  thought  by  some  to  have  been  his 
father.  As  a  child  Joseph  Williston  lived  in 
the  family  of  John  Williams,  at  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut, and  to  him  he  was  doubtless  nearly 
related.  Mr.  W  illiams  married,  July  29,  1644, 
Mary  Burley,  who  died  August  3,  1665;  he 
died  April  18,  1681.  W'illiston  may  have  been 
a  grandchild.  Early  in  life  he  removed  to 
Springfield,  and  in  1691  had  settled  in  the 
adjacent  town  of  W'estfield,  Massachusetts. 
He  married,  at  Springfield,  March  2,  1699, 
Mary  (Parsons)  Ashley,  widow  of  Joseph 
Ashley,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Par- 
sons. She  died  .August  23,  171 1.  He  married 
(second)  November  2,  171 1,  Sarah  Stcbbins, 
widow-  f)f  Thomas  Stcbbins;  she  died  in  1732. 
Children,  born  at  Springfield:  i.  Joseph,  De- 
cember 28,  1700;  mentioned  below.  2.  Mar- 
garet, March  30,  1703,  died  aged  thirteen  years. 
3.  John,  November  6,  1705,  died  November 
10.  1747.  4.  Nathaniel,  January  28,  1707,  died 
July  18,  1748:  n-iarried  Aliriam  Stcbbins. 

(H)  Joseph  (2),  si:)!!  of  Joseph  (i)  W'illis- 
ton, was  born  at  Springfield,  December  28, 
1700,  died  .'\ugust  21.  1747.  He  married.  1727, 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 
(Strong)  Stebbins.  Children:  Joseph,  Rev. 
Noali,  mentioned  below ;  Thomas,  Consider, 
Gad,  Margaret,  Hannah. 

(HI)  Rev.  Xoah  W'illiston.  son  of  Joseph 
(2),  was  born  in  July,  1733, died  November  10, 


181 1.  He  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  the 
class  of  1757;  was  ordained  at  West  Haven, 
Connecticut,  June,  1760,  and  was  the  pastor  of 
the  Congregational  church  there  until  his  death. 
His  long  pastorate  is  the  finest  testimony  to  his 
tact,  his  faithfulness  as  a  pastor  and  wisdom 
as  a  teacher,  and  his  jjower  as  a  preacher.  He 
married  (first)  Hannah  Payson,  of  Pomfret, 
Connecticut,  born  1742,  daughter  of  Deacon 
Joshua  Payson.  She  died  in  1769.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  November  25,  1779,  Eunice  Hill, 
widow.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Rev.  Pay- 
son,  born  1764;  mentioned  below.  2.  Sarah, 
June  14,  1765  ;  married,  October  12,  1785,  Rev. 
Richard  Salter  Storrs.  3.  Rev.  David,  settled 
as  minister  at  Tunbridge,  Vermont.  4.  Han- 
nah, married  Rev.  Ebenezer  Kingsbury ;  set- 
tled as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church  of 
Jericho,  Vermont. 

( I\')  Rev.  Payson  W'illiston,  D.  D.,  son  of 
Rev.  Noah,  was  born  in  West  Haven,  Connec- 
ticut, June  2.  1764,  died  in  Easthampton,  Jan- 
uary 30,  1856.  He  took  part  in  the  skirmish- 
ing when  New  Haven  was  invaded  by  the  Brit- 
ish, 1779.  He  graduated  at  Yale  College  in 
the  class  of  1783,  and  in  1789  was  settled  the 
first  minister  at  Easthampton,  Massachusetts, 
previously  a  precinct  of  Northampton,  and 
served  in  that  capacity  for  over  half  a  century. 
During  his  long  and  successful  pastorate,  he 
w-ou  the  affection  and  confidence  of  his  people 
and  took  a  leading  position  among  the  min- 
isters of  his  faith.  In  1799  some  of  his  ser- 
mons were  published  in  a  volume  of  collec- 
tions of  the  Association  of  the  County  of 
Hampshire.  Later  other  discourses  were  pub- 
lished from  time  to  time  by  Mr.  Williston, 
and  they  display  much  ability.  He  was  a 
devout  and  pious  Christian,  a  faithful  and 
sym])athetic  pastor,  amiable  and  approachable 
in  his  personality.  To  the  end  of  his  long  life, 
ninety-two  years,  he  retained  his  health  and 
faculties.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Nathan  Birdseye,  of  Stratford,  Connecticut. 
Children,  born  at  Easthampton:  i.  Nathan 
Birdseye,  died  aged  four  years.  2.  Maria, 
married  Theodore  Brackett.  3.  Hon.  Samuel, 
born  June  17,  1795,  was  the  founder  of  Willis- 
ton .'Seminary  of  Easthampton,  one  of  the 
leading  preparatory  schools  of  the  state  for 
many  years ;  establisheil  all  the  industries  in 
Easthampton ;  assisted  Amherst  College  and 
other  institutions  of  learning;  he  married. 
May  27.  1822,  Emily  Graves,  of  William.sburg. 
Massachusetts,  born  June  5,  1807,  daughter  of 
Elnathan  and  Lydia  (Pomeroy)  Graves.  4. 
Sarah,  born  January  21,    1800,  married,  De- 


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cember  4,  181S.  Josiali  Dwight  Whitney,  of 
Xorthampton.  5.  John  Paysoii.  nieiitionod 
below. 

(\')  John  Payson.  son  of  Rev.  Payson 
W'illiston.  was  born  in  Easthampton.  Decem- 
ber 5,  1803,  died  in  Northampton,  January  4, 
1872.  He  receivc^l  his  education  in  the  pubHc 
schools  of  his  native  town,  and  for  a  number 
of  years  taught  school  in  Nortiiampton.  He 
began  business  as  a  druggist  in  \'orthani])ton, 
and  later  in  life  was  a  cotton  manufacturer  and 
also  interested  as  a  stockholder  and  director  in 
various  industries  in  Xorthamjiton  and  vicinity. 
He  was  the  inventor  of  Payson"s  Indelible  Ink, 
well  known  throughout  the  United  States,  still 
a  staple  article  of  trade  and  still  manufactured 
at  Xorthampton  by  his  son,  A.  Lyman  Willis- 
ton.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Ilolyoke  Water 
Power  Company  and  a  director  of  the  Xorth- 
ampton Xational  Pank,  universally  regarded 
as  one  of  the  ablest  business  men  in  Xorth- 
ampton. He  was  an  early  and  devoted  friend 
and  advocate  of  the  anti-slavery  cause  and 
later  very  active  in  true  temperance  reform 
and  prominent  in  what  is  known  as  the  Wash- 
ingtonian  movement  and  continuing  through- 
out his  life  his  warfare  against  tiie  use  of  intox- 
icating liquors  and  particularly  against  the 
saloons  of  his  native  town.  lie  was  firm  and 
decided  in  his  convictions,  of  great  public 
spirit,  of  exemplary  character,  a  strong  and 
forceful  personality,  a  useful  citizen,  known 
as  a  liberal  contributor  to  benevolent  purposes 
and  for  the  advancement  of  charitable  and 
educational  matters.  He  was  a  leading  mem- 
ber and  for  thirty-four  years  and  until  his 
decease  deacon  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church.  In  politics  a  Republican.  He  mar- 
ried, March  6.  1827,  Cecelia  Lyman,  born  Au- 
gust 6,  1805,  died  October  9,  1890,  daughter  of 
Asahel  Lyman.  Children,  born  in  Northamp- 
ton:  r.  A.  Lyman,  born  1827,  died  young.  2.,. 
John  Payson,  1829,  died  young.  3.  Lucy, 
1832,  died  young.  4.  A.  Lyman,  December  13, 
1834:  mentioned  below.  5.  Lucy,  1836,  died 
young.  6.  Sarah,  1838,  died  yoimg.  7.  Han- 
nah Moore,  August  11,  1841,  Cmarried,  Au- 
gust II,  1864,  Rev.  George  Samuel  Bishop, 
D.  D. ;  children :  William  Samuel,  born  .'\u- 
giist,  1865,  married  Mary  Luttrell,  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. ;  Margaret, '1868,  died  1876:  Ed- 
ward Hodge,  1870).  8.  Satnuel,  1844,  died 
young.    9.  diaries,  1846,  diefl  young. 

fVI)  A.  Lyman,  son  of  John  Payson  Willis- 
ton,  was  born  in  Northampton,  December  13, 
1834.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town   and   the   Williston   Seminary   at 


Easthampton.  .\t  the  age  of  eighteen  he  was 
given  the  active  management  and  sujierintend- 
ence  of  the  Greenville  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, manufacturing  sheeting  and  otiier  cotton 
gootls  at  Xortiiampton.  He  was  connected 
actively  with  this  concern  for  a  period  of  thirty- 
one  years,  filling  the  offices  of  treasurer  and 
[)resident  of  tlie  corporation  and  continuing  as 
president  until  he  sold  the  property  in  1883. 
He  has  been  connected  also  with  other  manu- 
facturing concerns  in  Northampton  and  else- 
wiierc  as  director  and  manager.  In  1877  he 
became  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Xorthampton,  has  been  on  the  board  to  the 
present  time  (1909)  and  president  of  the  bank 
since  1887.  He  has  been  called  to  many  posi- 
tions of  public  trust  and  honor.  For  many 
years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  public 
library  committee,  also  chairman  of  tiie  trust 
funds  ccimmittee  of  Northampton.  He  served 
as  alderman  of  his  ward  in  1887,  and  was 
chairman  of  the  first  board  of  sewer  commis- 
sioners of  the  city,  declining  further  service 
after  being  six  years  in  office.  He  never  sought 
iniblic  office,  however,  and  both  in  1889-90, 
when  nominated  for  mayor  of  the  city  by  the 
Rcjniblicans,  he  declined  the  honor. 

^Ir.  Williston  is  best  known, perhajjs.  through 
his  connection  and  labors  in  the  interest  of 
various  educational  institutions.  Early  in  life 
he  became  interested  in  Mount  Ilolyoke  Col- 
lege ;  he  has  served  on  the  board  of  trustees 
since  1867,  and  since  1873  has  been  its  treas- 
lux-r ;  he  has  been  chairman  of  all  its  building 
conunittecs.  One  of  the  finest  structures  of 
the  college  is  named  Lyman  Williston  Hall, 
erected  in  1876  at  a  cost  of  eighty  thousand 
dollars :  he  was  the  largest  contributor ;  he  has 
also  given  liberally  to  the  funds  for  other 
buildings  and  purposes  of  the  college.  He 
gave  the  astronomical  observatory,  its  equip- 
ment and  site,  to  the  college.  A  Massachu- 
setts j)aper  published  the  following  about  Mr. 
Williston  and  his  connection  with  Mount 
Ilolyoke  College:  "The  |5rescnt  prosperity 
aiKJ  influence  of  Mount  Holyoke  College  is 
due  in  no  small  degree  to  the  faithful  and 
never  failing  interest  of  Mr.  A.  Lyman  Willis- 
ton, of  Northam[)ton,  who  has  been  its  treas- 
urer twenty-five  years.  During  his  entire  term 
of  office  his  eflforts  for  its  advancement  have 
been  unremitting  and  he  has  spared  neither 
time  nor  money  in  its  cause.  To  him  the  insti- 
tution is  indebted  for  Lyman  Williston  Hall. 
During  his  term  of  office  Mr.  Williston  has 
been  the  executive  head  of  the  school  and  that 
his  hand  may  long  be  felt  in  its  direction,  is 


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the  earnest  wish  of  all  who  have  its  interest  at 
heart.     The  office  has  no  salary  attached  to  it 
and  the  hard  work  performed  is  jnirely  a  labor 
of  love  and  i)hilanthropy."     Air.  W'illiston  has 
been  active  in  promoting  the  interests  of  Am- 
herst  College   also;   he   was  a  member   of   a 
special   committee   in    1882   in   charge   of  the 
rebuilding  of  Walker  Hall  and  in  the  enlarge- 
ment  and   remodelling  of  the  college   library 
building:  he  was  afterward  on  the  committee 
in  charge  of  buil<ling  the    I'ratt  Gymnasium, 
and  has  contributed  liberally  to  various  funds 
of  the  college  from  time  to  time.    The  honor- 
ary degree  of  A.  M.  was  conferred  u])on  him 
by  Amherst  College  in    1881.     Mr.   Williston 
was  elected  a  trustee  of  Williston  Seminary, 
1873,  which  was  founded  by  his  uncle,  Samuel 
Williston,  and  was  his  own  alma  mater;  he 
became  its  treasurer  in  1880,  an  office  he  .still 
holds,  has  been  a  member  of  the  finance  and 
excutive  committees  for  many  years,  and  was 
president  of  the  board  of  trustees  from  1885 
to  1895.     Mr.  Williston  was  elected  a  trustee 
of   Smith   College   in    1876,   is   a   member   of 
some   of   the   important   committees,   such   as 
finance  and  executive,  for  many  years,  and  is 
still  active,  and  has  been  a  faithful  and  active 
member  of  the  board  of  trustees  to  the  present 
time  (1909).     In  1881  he  became  a  coqwrate 
member  of  the   American    Hoard  of   Foreign 
Missions;  he  served  for  one  year  as  member 
of  the  prudential  committee,  and  from  time  to 
time  on  important  sjiecial  committees  of  that 
organization.     Mr.  Williston  is  a  member  of 
the  Mrst  Congregational  Church.   While  resid- 
ing   ill    inoreiice,    Massachusetts,    he    and    his 
father  were  the  leading  sjiirits  in  establishing 
the  Florence  Congregational  Church:  A.  Ly- 
man Williston  was  chairman  of  the  building 
committee,  one  of  the  first  deacons,  and  one 
of   the    twenty-six    charter    members    of    the 
church.   Mr.  Williston  has  traveled  extensively 
lioth  in  this  country  and  abroad. 

Mr.  Williston  married.  June  12,  1861.  Sarah 
Tappan  Stoddard,  born  .\Iay  29,  1839,  daugh- 
ter of  Professor  Solomon  and  Frances  Eliza- 
beth (Cirecnvvood)  Stod<lard  (see  Stoddard). 
Children:  i.  May,  born  -May  7.  1863,  died 
young.  2.  John  I'ayson,  May  23,  1864,  died 
April  23.  1879.  3.  Lucy,  .August  7.  1866:  mar- 
ried Cliarles  M.  Starkweather;  children:  L. 
Williston.  1807:  Sarah,  i8()9;  I'-sthcr,  1903.  4. 
R(.bert.  January  12,  \S^v):  married,  June  22, 
1901.  Margaret  Kandoliih,  daughter  of  John 
and  Margaret  Hryan.  of  Charlottesville.  \'ir- 
ginin  ;  cliildreiv  \\'illiam  Wadlaw,  born  ( )cto- 
ber  9,  1904,  and  John  I'ayson,  born  \\)t\\  25, 


1906,  died  1907.  5.  Elizabeth,  February  27, 
1871  ;  married,  February  14,  1906,  Herbert  S. 
BuUard,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut.  6.  Harry 
Stoddard,  December  15,  1872  ;  resides  at  Lynn, 
Massachusetts ;  married,  October  30,  1907, 
Sydney  Stephens,  of  Washington,  D.  C. ;  one 
child,  Harry  S.  Jr.,  born  .August  12,  1908. 


The  name  Stoddard  is  de- 
STODD.\RD  rived  from  the  office  of  stand- 
ard bearer,  and  was  anciently 
written  De-la-Standard.  The  coat-of-arms  of 
the  ancient  family  of  Stoddard  of  London  is: 
Sable  three  estoiles  and  a  bordure  gules.  Crest : 
Out  of  a  ducal  coronet  a  demi  horse  salient, 
ermine.  Motto:  Fcstina  Lcntc.  In  the  office 
of  Heraldry,  England,  the  following  origin  of 
the  Stoddard  family  is  found :  "William  Stod- 
dard, knight,  came  from  Normandy  to  Eng- 
land in  1066  with  William  the  Conc|ueror,  who 
was  his  cousin.  Of  his  descendants  there  is 
record  of  Rukard  Stoddard,  of  Nottingham, 
Kent,  near  l^ltham,  about  seven  miles  from 
London  I'.ridge.  where  was  located  the  family 
estate  of  about  four  hundred  acres  which  was 
in  the  possession  of  the  family  in  1490.  how 
much  before  is  not  known,  and  continued  until 
the  death  of  Nicholas  Stoddard,  a  bachelor,  in 
1765."     Lineage: 

{!)  Thomas  Stoddard,  of  Royston.  (H) 
John  Stoddard,  of  Grindon.  (HI)  William 
Stoddard,  of  Royston.  (IV)  John  (2)  Stod- 
dard, of  Royston.  (V)  Anthony  Stoddard, 
of  London.  (\T)  Gideon  Stoddard,  of  Lon- 
don. (\1I)  .Xnthony  (2)  Stoddard,  of  Lon- 
don. i\llh  William  (2)  Stoddard,  of  Lon- 
don. 

(I.\)  .\iilhony  (3),  son  of  William  (2) 
Stoddard,  was  the  immigrant  ancestor,  and 
came  to  lioston  about  1639.  He  was  admitted 
a  freeman  in  1640  and  was  a  leading  citizen. 
He  was  deputy  to  the  general  court  in  1630- 
59-60,  and  during  twenty  successive  years  from 
1665  to  1684.  He  died  March  16,  1686-87. 
He  married  (first)  Mary  Downing,  daughter 
of  Hon.  Emanuel  and  Lucy  Downing,  and 
sister  of  Sir  George,  afterward  Lord  (ieorge 
Downing.  He  married  (second)  liarbara, 
widow  of  Captain  Josejjh  Weld,  of  Roxbury. 
.She  died  .\pril  15,  1654,  and  he  married 
(third)  about  1655,  Christian  .  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:  i.  Solomon,  born  October 
4,  1643;  mentioned  below.  2.  Samson.  De- 
cember 3,  1645.  died  November  4.  1698.  3. 
.Simeon,  1630.  died  October  15,  1730.  Chil- 
dren of  .second  wife:  4.  Sarah,  October  21. 
1632.     5.  Stephen,  January  6,  1654.     Children 


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of  third  wife:  6.  Anthony,  June  16,  1656.  7. 
Christian,  March  22^  1657 ;  married  Nathaniel 
Pierce.  8.  Lydia,  May  27,  1660;  married  Cap- 
tain Samuel  Turell.  9.  Joseph,  December  i, 
1661.  10.  John.  April  22,  1663.  11.  Ebenezer, 
July  I,  1664.  12.  Dorothy.  November  24,  1665. 
13.  -Mary.  March  25.  1668.  14.  Jane  (twin), 
July  29,  1669.  15.  Grace  (^twin),  July  29, 
1669. 

(X)  Rev.  Solomon,  son  of  .\nliiony  (3) 
Stoddard,  was  born  October  4,  1643.  died  Feb- 
ruary II,  1729.  He  graduated  at  Harvard 
College  in  1662  and  was  afterward  elected 
fellow  of  the  house,  and  was  the  first  librarian 
of  the  college,  which  office  he  held  from  1667 
to  1674.  .Alxiut  this  time,  on  account  of  his 
health,  he  accompanied  the  governor  of  Mass- 
achusetts to  the  Barbadoes  in  the  capacity  of 
chaplain,  and  remained  nearly  two  years, 
[ireaching  to  the  Dissenters.  In  1669  he  re- 
ceived a  call  from  the  church  at  Northampton, 
and  settled  there  as  minister,  September  11, 
1^172.  He  married,  March  8,  1670,  Esther 
( W'arham )  Mather,  born  at  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut, died  February  10,  1736,  aged  ninety- 
two,  widow  of  Rev.  Eleazer  Mather,  his  pre- 
decessor at  Northampton.  In  1726  Jonatlian 
Edwards,  his  grandson,  was  elected  his  col- 
league. Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard  was  the 
auth(jr  of  many  books  on  religious  subjects, 
anil  many  of  his  sermons  \vere  ])ul)lishe(l. 
-Among  his  publications  were:  "The  Trial  of 
.Assurance."  1696;  "The  Doctrine  of  In.stituted 
Churches."  1700,  written  in  answer  to  the 
work  of  Rev.  Increase  Mather,  entitled  "The 
Order  of  the  Gospel,"  which  occasioned  excit- 
ing controversy;  "The  Danger  of  Degeneracy," 
1702:  "Election  Sermon,"  1703;  ".Sermon  on 
the  Lord's  Supper,"  E.x.  47,  48.  1707:  sermon, 
"Odination  of  Rev.  Joseph  W'illard,"  Swamp- 
field,  1708;  "Inexcusableness  of  Neglecting  the 
Worship  of  God,"  1708;  "F"al.seness  of  the 
Hopes  of  Many  Professors,"  1708:  ".\n 
Appeal  to  the  Learned  on  the  Lord's  Sujjper." 
1709:  "The  Sermon  of  1707"  and  the  ".Ajjiieal" 
of  1709  were  a  renewal  of  the  controversy  of 
1700;  "A  Plea  for  Tithes;"  "Divine  Teachings 
Kender  Persons  Blessed,"  1712;  "A  Guide  to 
Christ,"  1714;  three  sermons:  "The  Virtue 
of  Christ's  Bloofl,"  "Natural  Men  Under  the 
Government  of  Self  Love,"  "The  Gospel  as  a 
Means  of  Conversion ;"  and  a  fourth,  "To 
Stir  Up  Young  Men  and  Maidens,"  1717; 
"Sermon  at  the  (Jrdination  of  Mr.  Thomas 
Cheney,"  1718;  "Treatise  Concerning  Conver- 
sion," 1719;  "Answer  to  Cases  of  Conscience," 
1722 ;  "Inquiry  whether  God  is  not  Angry  with 


this  Country,"  1723;  "Safety  of  .\ppearing  in 
Christ's  Righteousness,"  1724.  Children:  i. 
Mary,  born  January  9,  1671  ;  married,  October 
2,  1695,  Rev.  Stephen  Mix.  2.  Esther,  June 
2,  \(^~2.  died  January  19,  1771  ;  married,  No- 
vember 6,  1694,  Rev.  Timothy  Edwards.  3. 
Samuel,  h'ebruary  5,  1674.  died  March  22, 
1^174.  4.  .Anthoii}-.  June  (),  1675,  died  June 
/•  ^/'^S-  5-  Aaron,  .\ugust  2^.  i(->/().  died  same 
day.  6.  Christiana,  .August  23,  1676  (twin), 
died  \])ril  23,  1764:  married  Rev.  William 
Williams.  7.  Anthony,  .August  9,  1678,  died 
Se])tember  6,  1760;  married,  October  20,  1700, 
Prudence  Wells;  married  (second)  January 
31,  1715.  Mary  Sherman.  8.  Sarah,  April  1, 
1680:  married,  March  19,  1707,  Rev.  Samuel 
Whitman.  9.  John,  February  17,  1682;  men- 
tioned below.  10.  Israel.  .Ajiril  10,  1684;  died 
a  prisoner  in  France.  11.  Rebecca,  1686,  died 
January,  1766:  married,  November  16,  1722, 
Jose])h  Hawley.  12.  Hannah,  Ajiril  21,  1688, 
died  December  29,  1745:  married  Rev.  Will- 
iam Williams. 

(.\1  )  John  (3).  son  of  Rev.  Solomon  Stod- 
dard, was  born  February  17,  1682,  died  June 
19,  1748,  in  Boston.  He  resided  in  Northamp- 
ton. He  was  often  a  member  of  the  general 
court,  and  for  many  years  one  of  the  gov- 
ernor's council,  also  chief  justice  of  the  court 
of  common  pleas,  judge  of  probate,  chief  col- 
onel of  the  regiment,  etc.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 13,  1 73 1,  Prudence  Chester,  of  Wethers- 
field,  Connecticut,  born  March  4,  1699,  died 
Se])tember  11,  1780.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born 
November  27,  1732;  married  Colonel  John 
Worthington  about  December  7,  ijfiS.  2. 
Prudence.  May  28.  1734;  married  l^zekiel 
Williams,  of  \Vetherslielil.  3.  .Solomon,  May 
29,  1736;  mentioned  below.  4.  ICsther.  .May 
23.  1738,  died  May  27,  iSifi;  unmarried.  5. 
Israel,  .April  28,  1741.  6.  Hannah.  October  13, 
1742,  died  .August   i,   1743. 

fXII)  Solomon  (2),  son  of  John  ("3)  Stod- 
dard, was  born  May  29,  173''),  died  December 
10,  1827.  He  graduated  at  Yale  College  in 
1756  and  was  for  some  time  high  sheriff  of 
llanijishire  county.  lie  married  (first)  Martha 
I'artridgc,  who  died  October  20,  1772.  He 
marrietl  (second)  Eunice  Parsons,  who  died 
January  22,  1797.  Children,  born  at  North- 
ampton :  I.  John.  June  4.  1767;  graduated  at 
^'ale  College,  1787:  married  Mary  W'.  Bill- 
ings, of  Conway;  dietl  in  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
May  8,  1853.  2.  .Aima,  March  24,  I7''>9:  mar- 
ried, .April  28,  1799.  John  Williams,  of  Con- 
way. 3.  Solomon,  I-'ebruary  18,  1771  ;  men- 
tioned below.    4.  David,  January  4,  1778,  died 


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in  infancy.  5.  David,  September  5,  1780;  un- 
married; died  March  31,  1855.  6.  Israel, 
October  27,  1784,  died  November  9,  1821. 

(XIII)  Solomon  (3),  son  of  Solomon  (2) 
Stoddard,  was  born  February  18,  1771,  died 
at  Xorthampton,  October  16,  i860.  He  pre- 
pared for  college  mostly  by  private  instruction 
and  recitations  to  the  minister,  and  at  the  age 
of  fifteen  entered  Yale  College.  He  was 
assigned  the  English  oration  in  the  graduating 
class  of  1790.  Previous  to  his  death  he  was 
the  oldest  living  graduate  of  the  college,  with 
one  or  two  exceptions.  After  leaving  college 
he  entered  the  ofSce  of  the  late  Governor 
Strong  as  a  law  student.  For  eighteen  months 
he  practiced  law  in  W'illiamstown,  Massachu- 
setts, and  then  settled  ])erinanently  in  his 
native  town  of  Northampton,  where  he  con- 
tinued in  active  practice  until  1810.  At  this 
time  he  was  chosen  register  of  deeds  for 
Hampshire  county,  and  served  ten  years.  In 
1821  he  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  courts  for 
the  same  county,  which  office  he  resigned, 
after  si.xteen  years,  in  1837.  He  was  repre- 
sentative to  the  general  court  in  1807-08-38. 
He  was  of  a  modest,  retiring  disposition,  and 
never  put  himself  forward,  or  claimed  preced- 
ence over  others.  Kind,  gentle,  obliging,  he 
was  ever  esteemed  among  his  fellow  citizens 
as  a  good  neighbor  and  a  man  of  unswerving 
integrity  and  uprightness.  Originally  a  Fed- 
eralist of  the  ("lovernor  Strong  school,  he  be- 
came a  W  liig,  and  a  Republican  later.  He 
was  always  firm  in  his  political  opinions, 
though  prudent  and  courteous  toward  those 
who  diftered  with  him  politically.  .\t  the  age 
of  sixty-seven  he  retired  from  public  life.  The 
chief  glory  of  his  character  was  his  constant 
and  exem])Iary  piety.  For  forty  years  he  was 
a  member  of  the  church  in  Northampton,  of 
which  Jonathan  F.dwards  was  pastor.  The 
later  years  of  his  life  were  ])assed  in  the  bosom 
of  his  family,  where  the  christian  virtues  shone 
with  bright  and  constant  lustre.  He  was  the 
patriarch  of  the  house,  who  led  the  family 
devotions  morning  and  evening.  He  mani- 
fested a  lively  interest  in  the  benevolent  efforts 
of  the  day,  and  was  ever  ready  to  contribute 
to  promote  them.  To  the  period  of  his  last 
illness,  he  kept  himself  familiar  with  all  the 
nioveiuents  of  the  political  and  religious  world. 
He  married,  November  28.  1799,  Sarah  Tap- 
pan,  born  .August  1,  1771,  died  ,\pril  27,  1852, 
daughter  o{  I'lcnjaniin  Tappan.  Children:  i. 
Solomon ;  mentioned  below.  2.  Charles,  born 
June  27,  1802,  married.  .Xugiist  2.  1832,  Mary 
A.  Porter.    3.  William  Henry,  March  5,  1804; 


married  (first)  October  29.  1832,  Frances  I. 
Bradish;  (second)  January  I,  1852,  Mrs. 
Helen  Palmer:  (third)  Mrs'  Sophia  D.  Stod- 
dard, September  4.  1867,  died  ^larch  4,  1891. 
4.  Lewis  Tappan,  February  8,  1807,  died  July 
6,  1865 ;  married,  October  30,  1833,  Susan 
Gore;  married  (second)  October  7,  1844, 
Sarah  H.  Lothrop.  5.  John,  March  11.  1809; 
married,  January  7,    1836,  Mary   L.  Mongin. 

6.  .Arthur  Francis,  November  30.  1810;  mar- 
ried,  September  9,    1840,   Frances   E.   Noble. 

7.  Sarah  Tappan,  March  2-^.  1814;  married, 
May  17,  1837,  Rev.  Albert  Smith.  8.  David 
Tappan,  December  2,  1818,  died  January  22, 
1S57,  at  Mount  Seir,  near  Oroomiah,  Persia, 
where  he  was  a  missionary  for  the  American 
board;  married  (first)  February  14,  1843, 
Harriet  Briggs ;  (second)  February  14.  1851. 
Sophia  D.  Hazen. 

(XI\')  Professor  Solomon  (4),  son  of 
Solomon  (3)  Stoddard,  was  born  November 
28,  1800,  died  in  Northampton,  November  11, 
1847.  He  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1820,  and 
tutored  there  from  1822  to  1826.  He  was  asso- 
ciate author  of  Andrew's  and  Stoddard's  Latin 
( iranimar,  and  professor  of  languages  at 
Middlebury  College  from  1838  to  1847.  resid- 
ing in  Middlebury,  \'ermont.  He  married, 
May  29,  1838,  I'Vanccs  Elizabeth  Greenwood, 
born  January,  1808.  in  Demerara,  South  Amer- 
ica, died  March  23,  1883.  Children:  i.  Sa^ah 
Tappan,  born  May  29,  1839;  married,  June  12, 
1861,  A.  Lyman  Williston  (see  VVilliston 
family).  2.  Solomon  Partridge.  February  18, 
1841,  married  (first)  Mary  Dysle :  (second) 
Jennie  Munnell;  (third)  Nellie  Evans.  3. 
Louisa  Greenwood,  December  2,  1842,  mar- 
ried. May  29,  1869,  Rev.  Martin  L.  WiUiston. 
4.  James  Greenwood,  June  15,  1844,  died 
March  28,  1908.  5.  Francis  Hovey,  .\pril  25, 
1847,  married.  May  14,  1873,  Lucy  M.  Smith. 


The  surname  Higgnison  is 
IHGGINSON     derived    from    or '^  akin    to 

that  of  Higgins.  and  has 
never  been  a  very  common  name  in  England, 
where  the  family  originated.  Higgins  families, 
on  the  contrary,  are  very  numerous.  .-\s  early 
as  1500  the  English  family  from  which  the 
.American  lligginsons  are  descended  was  estab- 
lished in  and  about  W'em,  in  .'^hroiishire.  and 
then  or  soon  afterward  in  and  about  I'crkes- 
well,  Warwickshire.  Between  1500  and  1560 
there  were  residing  in  Wem  as  heads  of  fami- 
lies .Allen,  Jolian.  William  (two),  Richard,  John 
an<l  Thomas  Higginson.  The  families  of  Wem 
and    Berkcswell    arc    doubtless    of    the    same 


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branch,  hut  tlio  records  are  not  preserved  or 
have  not  yet  been  discovered  that  would  estab- 
lish the  lineage. 

(I)  John  Higginson,  the  progenitor  to  whom 
the  lineage  has  been  traced,  lived  at  Berkes- 
well.  and  was  mentioned  as  early  as  1 518  in 
that  place.  His  will  was  dated  Dccemher  10, 
1540.  and  proved  February  4,  following.  He 
had  at  the  time  of  his  death  four  grandchil- 
dren, and  it  is  presumed  that  he  was  born  as 
earl)'  as  1480.  From  his  will  it  appears  he 
had  a  brother  deceased,  formerly  of  \\'em.  and 
two  of  his  sons.  John  and  Nicholas,  lived  at 
Wem.  The  will  mentions  children  and  grand- 
children as  given  below,  together  with  grand- 
children Roljort  and  Dorothy  Higginson  and 
cousin  Agnes  Higginson.  who  shall  receive  of 
Nicholas  Higginson  dwelling  in  the  parish  of 
Wem.  three  kine..  to  be  delivered  to  Nicholas 
by  his  widow :  also  small  legacies  to  .Agnes 
\Valliau.  of  Coventry,  and  ^largaret  Bam- 
forth,  and  for  prayers  for  the  soul  of  Mistress 

Burway.    He  married  Jane .    Children  : 

I.  Thomas,  of  lierkeswcll :  will  proved  Feb- 
ruary 10.  157.S.  2.  John,  lived  in  Cotton,  in 
Wem:  died  1577.  and  left  will  mentioning 
various  relatives  and  children.  3.  Nicholas, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Gregory,  was  unmarried 
in  1540.  5.  Daughter,  married  Ralph  C)liver. 
f).  ■\Iargerie.  married  Rowland  Radforthc.  7. 
.•Mice.  8.  Margaret.  9.  Ellen,  alias  Joys.  10. 
Elizabeth.     The  last  four  were  unmarried. 

d] )  Nicholas,  son  of  John  Higginson,  was 
living  at  Wem  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death 
in  1540.  and  was  trustee  of  a  small  legacy  for 
Agnes  Higginson.  which  his  father  had  re- 
ceived for  her  benefit  from  her  father.  He  is 
mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  brother  Thomas 
in  1573.  He  appears  to  have  settlerl  in  Berkes- 
well  or  vicinity,  and  probably  flied  in  Clay- 
brook  in  April.  1581.  buried  April  11.  Clu'l- 
dren :  i.  Hugh,  of  Berkeswell.  2.  Rev.  John, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Nicholas,  of  Eeire.  died 
1589:  known  from  his  will  to  be  brother  of 
Rev.  John.     Probably  others. 

(HF)  Rev.  John  (2)  Higginson.  son  of 
Nicholas  Ffigginson,  was  born  as  early  as 
1540.  and  educated  at  Jesus  College.  Cam- 
bridge, B.  A.  1564-5:  M.  A.  1568.  He  was 
in.stituted  to  the  perpetual  vicarage  of  Clay- 
brooke.  county  Feiccster.  January  23.  1571-2, 
and  faithfully  filled  the  pastorate  for  about 
fifty-three  years.  He  died  in  jf)24.  and  accord- 
ing to  the  register  of  the  parish  of  Claybrooke, 
now  in  the  possession  of  Lord  Bray,  was 
buried  February  10,  1624.  Flis  will,  dated 
December  4.  1623,  proved  .April  2.  1624.  directs 


that  John  I'icksley.  clothier  of  Coventry,  shall 
convey  to  his  wife  Elizabeth  and  such  one  of 
his  two  sons  William  and  Nathaniel  as  shall  be 
most  dutiful,  a  cottage  in  Claybrooke.  etc.  Fie 
also  mentions  sous  John,  William,  Nicholas 
and  Nathaniel :  grandson  Nicholas  Fligginson, 
and  granddaughter  I'riscilla  Higginson.  There 
is  a  tradition  in  the  Marlow  (  luigland  )  branch 
of  the  family  that  he  lived  and  did  duty  as  a 
clergyman  until  he  was  one  hundred  and  four 
years  old.  and  was  then  drowned  by  the  sudden 
rising  of  a  brook  as  he  was  returning  from 
church.  Children,  all  baptized  in  Claybrooke 
except  Nathaniel:  t.  Nathaniel,  named  in 
father's  will.  2.  John,  bajitizcd  .April  25.  1575, 
died  young.  3.  Dorothy,  baptized  .April  24. 
157('):  married.  December.  — ,  William  Gilbard. 
4.  Priscilla.  baptized  September  22.  1578.  5. 
John,  baptized  December  14.  1580:  buried 
May  26,  1585.    6.  John,  baptized  October  27, 

1585.  7.  Francis,  baptized  .\ugust  6,  1586; 
mentioned  below.  8.  William.  ba]itized  May 
\^_  1389:  married.  October  28,  1629.  Francis 
I'alnuT.  9.  Catren.  baptized  May  18.  1591  : 
married.  .Ajjril  22.  1619.  Thomas  Coleman.  10. 
Martyn    (twin),   baptized    February   4,    1593. 

11.  Mary   (twin),  baptized  February  4,  1593. 

12.  Nicholas,  baptized  March  24.  1594:  buried 
April  II.  1681.  13.  George.  bai)tizcd  Decem- 
ber 25.  1607;  buried  .April  21.  1603.  14.  Nich- 
olas, baptized  March  19,  1608:  died  about 
1649.  15.  Grace,  baptized  May  13,  t6io.  16. 
Elizabeth,  baptized  December  8.  161 1:  buried 
January  30,  1612.  or  July  13.  1613.  17.  Judith, 
baptized  May  23,  1613:  buried  October  17, 
161 3.     (Dates  are  .said  to  be  all  new  style). 

.\n  f)ld  manuscript  (|uoted  by  Colonel  Thomas 
Wcntworth  Higginson  in  his  "Life  of  Francis 
Higginson,"  gives  the  chilflren  as  follows: 
John,  "a  gentleman  that  kept  high  company;" 
Francis:  Nathaniel,  "owner  of  a  castle  in  Ire- 
land, but  lost  in  the  Rebellion :"  Nichola.s, 
"father  of  Henry  the  goldsmith  in  Liverpool;" 
William  :  four  daughters  married  to  .Andrews, 
Coleman,  fulbert  and   Perkins. 

(IN)  Pev.  Francis  Higginson.  son  of  Rev. 
Inliii  (2)  Higginson.  was  baptized  at  Clay- 
brooke.   Leicestershire,    England,    .August    6, 

1586.  He  was  educated  in  Jesus  College, 
Cambridge,  where  his  father  also  took  his  de- 
grees, taking  his  B.  .A.  in  1609-10:  his  M.  A. 
in  1613.  Two  years  later  he  was  settled  over 
Claybrooke  parish,  apparently  curate  to  his 
father.  Cotton  Mather's  ".Magnalia"  contains 
a  careful  account  of  Higginson's  life  from  the 
time  of  his  graduation,  being  in  error  in  some 
instances,  however.     Higginson  was  appointed 


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to  one  of  the  five  parish  churches  of  Leicester, 
and  such  was  his  goodly  influence,  according 
to  Mather,  that  there  was  a  notable  revival 
of  religion  in  Leicester.  "For  some  years  he 
continued  in  iiis  conformity  to  the  rites  then 
required  and  practised  in  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land :  but  upon  his  ac(|uaintance  with  Mr. 
Arthur  Hildersham  and  Air.  Thomas  Hooker, 
he  set  himself  to  study  the  controversies  about 
the  evangelical  church  discipline  then  agitated 
in  the  church  of  God;  and  then  the  more  he 
studied  the  Scripture,  which  is  the  sole  and 
full  rule  of  church  administrations,  the  more 
he  became  dissatisfied  with  the  ceremonies 
which  had  crejit  into  the  worship  of  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ.  *  *  From  this  time  he  be- 
came a  conscientious  non-conformist,  and 
therefore  was  deprived  of  his  opportunity  to 
exercise  his  ministry  in  his  parish  church ; 
nevertheless  his  ministry  was  so  desirable  unto 
the  people  that  they  j)rocurcd  for  him  the 
liberty  to  jireach  a  constant  lecture,  on  one 
part  of  the  Lord's  Day,  and  on  the  other  jiart 
as  an  assistant  unto  a  very  aged  parson  that 
wanted  it.  He  was  now  maintained  by  the 
voluntary  contributions  of  the  inhabitants ; 
and  though  the  rest  of  the  ministers  there  con- 
tinued conformists,  yet  they  freely  invited  him 
luito  the  use  of  their  pulpits,  as  long  as  they 
could  avoid  any  trouble  to  themselves  by  so 
doing.  *  *  He  preached  also  in  Belgrave, 
a  mile  out  of  the  town." 

He  was  a  fearless  and  t)utsi)oken  preacher 
and  some  significant  anecdotes  are  related  by 
Mather  of  his  ministry  in  England.  On  one 
occasion  he  rebuked  the  mayor  and  aldermen 
of  the  city  for  over-indulgence  in  wine,  and 
after  the  coinniotion  had  subsided  he  held  the 
res])ect  and  confidence  of  tliese  men  to  such 
an  e.vtent  that  he  was  chosen  town-preacher, 
but  he  declined  this  comfortable  living  because 
of  his  unwillingness  to  conform.  He  had 
other  offers  of  livings,  but  for  the  same  reason 
refused  to  continue  in  the  Church  of  England. 
While  Mr.  Iligginson  continued  in  Leicester, 
he  was  not  only  a  good  man  full  of  faith,  but 
also  a  good  man  full  of  work.  He  preached 
constantly  in  the  parish  churches;  and  he  was 
called,  while  a  conformist,  frequently  to  preach 
visitation  sermons,  assiy.e  sermons  and  funeral 
sermons ;  and  as  well  then  as  afterwards  he 
was  often  engaged  in  fasts,  both  in  public  and 
private,  both  at  home  and  abroad ;  and  many 
repaired  unto  him  with  cases  of  conscience, 
and  for  help  about  their  interior  state.  Resides 
all  this  he  was  very  serviceable  to  the  educa- 
tion  of   scholars,  either  going   to   or   coming 


from  the  university;  and  such  as  afterwards 
proved  eminently  serviceable  to  the  church  of 
(jod;  whereof  some  were  Dr.  Seaman,  Dr. 
Hrian,  Mr.  Richardson  and  Mr.  Howe,  all  of 
them  Leicestershire  men,  who  would  often  say, 
how  much  they  owed  unto  Mr.  Higginson. 
.And  he  was  very  useful  in  forwarding  and 
promoting  of  contributions  for  the  relief  of 
the  Protestant  exiles  which  came  over  from 
the  ruined  Bohemia  and  the  distressed  Palati- 
nate in  those  times;  and  many  other  pious 
designs."  When  Laud  came  into  power  Mr. 
Higginson  was  informed  against  and  expected 
imprisonment.  But  at  this  juncture  he  was 
invited  to  go  to  Xew  England  as  minister  of 
the  colony  about  to  be  sent  to  Massachusetts. 
He  sailed  on  the  "Talbot,"  one  of  the  five  ships 
sent  by  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Company  in 
1629,  sailing  from  Gravesend  April  25,  1629, 
from  Yarmouth  May  16.  and  arriving  June  29 
at  Xaumkeag,  now  Salem,  Massachusetts.  In 
August  of  that  year  he  gathered  a  church  at 
Salem,  the  first  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Col- 
ony. He  kept  a  journal  of  his  voyage,  and  it 
is  one  of  the  most  precious  historical  documents 
relating  to  the  founding  of  the  commonwealth. 
It  has  been  repeatedly  published.  It  is  dated 
July  24,  1629,  and  created  mucli  interest  in 
England,  where  it  was  originally  ])rinted.  A 
letter  sent  by  him  to  England  under  date  of 
Inly  24,  1629,  was  also  published  and  served  to 
increase  the  interest  in  the  colony  and  per- 
suade many  to  join  the  pioneers.  His  book, 
"Xew  England  Plantation,"  written  soon  after- 
ward, as  a  continuation  of  the  journal,  was 
published  in  1629.  It  was  one  of  the  first 
l)ooks  written  in  Alassachusetts,  and  had  much 
to  do  with  bringing  thousands  of  colonists  to 
this  country.  The  further  history  of  Higgin- 
son is  identified  with  that  of  the  early  days 
of  Salem.  A  house  was  built  for  him  on  the 
site  now  occupied  by  the  Asiatic  building, 
Washington  street.  His  life  in  his  new  pas- 
torate was  busy  but  very  brief.  He  died  Au- 
gust (\  i''\30.  .\s  a  preacher,  Higginson  was 
popular  in  luigland  :  of  his  preaching  in  .Xmer- 
ica  we  know  little.  His  last  sermon  only  was 
preserved.  The  subject  was:  "What  went  ye 
out  into  the  Wilderness  to  see?"  and  it  was 
preached  before  Governor  Winthro]>  and  the 
large  body  of  colonists  who  came  with  him 
thai  year.  .\  portrait  of  Higginson  and  two 
copies  are  extant,  though  some  authorities  be- 
lieve that  the  portrait  was  not  of  the  immi- 
grant, but  of  his  son  John.  There  is  no  doubt 
that  it  is  of  a  Higginson.  His  widow  removed 
to   Charlestown   and   finallv    to    Xew    Haven, 


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where  slio  died  in  1638-9.  leaving  eight  chil- 
dren. Her  estate  was  settled  at  Xew  Haven 
February  25,  1639.  Her  maiden  name  is  un- 
known. 

Children  of  Francis  and  Ann  lligginson  :  i. 
John,  born  August  6.  1616:  mentioned  below. 
2.  Francis,  born  1617;  schoolmaster  at  Cam- 
bridge. .Massachusetts;  resided  at  London; 
settled  at  Kerby  Steven.  Westmoreland,  Eng- 
land :  died  unmarried.  3.  Timothy,  mariner ; 
died  unmarried.  4.  Tiieophilus,  died  aged 
thirty-seven.  5.  Ca])tain  Samuel,  captain  of 
an  English  man-of-war,  and  afterward  of  an 
East  Indiaman  :  died  aged  fortv-four.  6.  Ann. 
married  Thomas  Chatfield,  of  Guilford.  Xew 
Haven.  7.  Mary,  died  Tuesday.  May  19.  1629. 
8.  Charles,  cai)tain  of  a  ship  in  the  Jamaica 
trade ;  died  aged  forty-nine.  9.  Xeophytus, 
died  aged  about  twenty. 

(V)  Rev.  John  (3)  Higginson,  son  of  Rev. 
Francis  Higginson,  was  born  at  Claybrooke, 
England.  .August  6,  1616,  and  died  at  Salem, 
Massachusetts.  December  9.  1708.  He  became 
a  member  of  his  father's  church  at  the  age  of 
thirteen,  and  when  he  was  but  twenty  was 
sent  at  the  head  of  a  commission  with  Lieu- 
tenant Edward  Gibbons  and  Cutshamekin, 
Sagamore  of  Massachusetts,  to  wait  on  Can- 
onicus.  chief  of  the  Xarragansetts.  concerning 
the  murder  of  John  ( )ldham  while  on  a  trad- 
ing voyage  to  Block  Island :  and  at  twenty- 
one  was  appointed  scribe  of  the  Cambridge 
Assembly,  to  take  down  its  i)roceedings  in 
shorthand — a  report  unfortunately  lost.  He 
was  afterward  teacher  of  the  grammar  .school 
at  Hartford,  and  cha])lain  <if  tlie  fort  at  Say- 
brook.  Connecticut,  where  he  tonk  j)art  in  the 
defence  conducted  by  the  celebrated  Lion 
(jardiner.  He  turned  to  the  study  of  divinity 
and  was  for  some  time  assistant  to  Rev.  Henry 
Whitfield,  at  Guilford,  Connecticut.  The  old 
stone  parsonage  there,  the  oldest  house  stand- 
ing in  the  original  limits  of  the  L'nited  .States, 
was  his  home  for  a  time,  and  in  it  his  wedding 
to  the  minister's  daughter  Sarah  took  place. 
In  1659.  after  the  death  of  his  mother  he  de- 
cided to  return  to  England  to  settle  her  estate 
and  make  his  home  there,  but  the  vessel  in 
which  he  anrl  his  family  embarked  was  driven 
by  a  providential  storm  into  Salem  harbor. 
But  for  this  storm  the  great  contributions  that 
Higginson  and  his  distinguished  descendants 
have  made  to  .American  history  would  be  want- 
ing. He  was  persuaded  at  .Salem  to  take  charge 
of  the  church  his  father  founded  there  thirty 
years  before,  and  was  ordained  in  August, 
1660.     For  a  period  of   forty-eight  years  he 


was  minister  at  Salem,  and  during  nuich  of 
that  time  the  foremo.st  clergyman  of  the  Mass- 
achusetts Bay  Colony.  In  his  old  age  he  bore 
the  title  of  'Xestor  of  the  Xew  England 
Clergy." 

John  Higginson  was  undoubtedly  in  sym- 
pathy with  the  prevalent  hostility  to  the 
Quakers.  "But  his  name  is  not  identified,  I 
believe,"  WTites  Colonel  T.  W.  Higginson, 
"with  any  of  the  judicial  cruelties  aimed  at 
these  persecuted  people ;  though  it  is  probable 
that  he  fully  ajjproved  the  action  of  the  county 
court  when  it  sentenced  Thomas  Maule,  known 
to  the  readers  of  Hawthorne's  'House  of  the 
Seven  Gables,'  to  be  whipped  ten  stripes  for 
saying  that  'Mr.  Higginson  ])rcached  lies,  and 
his  doctrine  was  the  doctrine  of  devils.'  But 
he  was  a  rational  op])onent  of  the  witchcraft 
])crsccutions.  even  in  his  old  age.  1  fe  was  a 
witness  in  favor  of  (}oody  F.uckley.  charged 
with  witchcraft,  and  this  involved  him  in  such 
reproach  among  the  fanatics  that  his  own 
daughter  .Anna,  wife  of  Cai)tain  William  Holli- 
ver  of  (iloucester.  was  arrested  as  a  witch  and 
thrown  into  the  jail  at  Salem." 

He  wrote  the  preface  to  Cotton  Mather's 
".Magnalia."  and  says  in  it  of  himself.  January 
-5-  1697:  "As  for  myself,  having  been,  by 
the  mercy  of  God,  now  above  sixty-eight  years 
in  .\ew  England,  and  served  the  l^ord  and  his 
people,  in  my  weak  measure,  sixty  years  in  the 
ministry  of  the  gospel.  I  may  now  say  in  my 
old  age.  I  have  seen  all  that  the  Lord  hath 
dnne  f(]i  his  people  in  Xew  England,  and  have 
known  the  beginning  and  jirogress  of  these 
churches  unto  this  day,  and  having  read  over 
much  of  this  history.  I  cannot  but  in  the  love 
and  fear  of  the  Lord  bear  witness  to  the  truth 
iif  it  "  Judge  Samuel  Sewell  was  one  of  his 
intimate  friends,  exchanged  papers  and  books, 
and  when  Higginson  was  ninety  years  old  we 
find  him  giving  Sewell  his  support  in  the  move- 
ment against  the  slave  trade  and  slavery,  which, 
it  must  be  remembered,  was  the  foundation  of 
the  fortunes  of  many  great  families  of  Salem 
and  I'.oston.  His  funeral  sermon  was  ))reached 
by  Cotton  Mather,  and  at  least  two  of  the 
printed  cojjies  have  been  preserved.  The  fol- 
lowing list  of  the  published  works  of  Mr. 
Higginson  was  comjiilerl  by  Colonel  T.  W. 
Higginson:  "The  Cause  of  God  and  his  Peo- 
ple in  Xew  England,"  a  sermon.  May  2-^,  1663 ; 
"Our  Dying  .Saviour's  Legacy  of  Peace" 
(1686)  ;  ".Address  to  the  Reader  of  Xew  Eng- 
land .Memoriall"  (1669);  "Eiiistle  Dedicatory 
to  Xew  England's  Duty"  (1669)  ;  "Epistle  to 
the  Reader  of  Modest  Enquiry  into  the  Nature 


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of  Witchcraft"  (1702);  "Preface  to  Cotton 
Mather's  Winter  Meditations"  (1693);  and 
"A  Testimony  to  the  Order  of  the  Gospel,  in 
the  Churches  of  New  England,"  (i/Oi).  His 
"Advice  to  His  Children/'  called  his  "Dying 
Testimony,"  was  apparently  not  published  dur- 
inf(  his  lifetime,  but  from  manuscript  left  in 
the  hands  of  a  descendant  in  the  Essex  Insti- 
tute Collections,  ii.  p.  97. 

"No  character  in  our  annals,"  says  Upham, 
"shines  with  a  purer  lustre."  John  Dunton, 
the  London  bookseller,  visited  him  in  1686, 
when  seventy,  and  says  of  him :  "All  men 
look  up  to  him  as  to  a  common  father ;  and  old 
age,  for  his  sake,  is  a  reverent  thing.  He  is 
eminent  for  all  the  graces  that  adorn  a  min- 
ister. His  very  presence  puts  vice  out  of 
countenance ;  his  conversation  is  a  glimpse  of 
heaven."  "He  had  been,  in  the  words  of  the 
Massachusetts  Company's  first  letter  to  Endi- 
cott,  'trained  up  in  literature'  at  the  grammar 
school  at  Leicester,  and  was  therefore  recom- 
mended for  a  medical  education,  but  the  inevit- 
able influence  of  the  time  led  him  to  the  pro- 
fession of  his  father,  while  he  always  retained 
that  breadth  of  intellectual  interest  which  held 
out  so  remarkable  amidst  many  intellectual 
vagaries,  in  the  second  generation  of  Massa- 
chusetts Puritans."  He  was  one  of  the  first 
men  in  the  colony  to  urge  the  importance  of 
historical  investigations. 

He  married  (first)  Sarah,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Henry  Whitfield,  of  Guilford,  Connecticut. 
She  <lied  July  8,  1675,  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond) Mary,  born  1636,  died  March  9,  1708-9, 
daughter  of  Rev.  .Adam  Pjlackman,  of  Strat- 
ford, and  widow  of  Joshua  .Atwater,  of  New 
Haven  and  P>oston.  Children  of  first  wife: 
I.  John,  born  1646;  mentioned  below.  2. 
Nathaniel,  horn  at  Guilford.  October  11,  i'')52: 
died  in  London,  October  31.  1708;  graduate  of 
Harvard,  1670;  went  to  England,  and  was 
with  Lord  Wharton  about  seven  years,  steward 
and  tutor  to  his  children  ;  employed  in  the  mint 
of  the  Tower,  1681 ;  went  in  company's  ser- 
vice to  Fort  St.  George,  East  Indies,  1683 ; 
secretary  and  member  of  council  and  after- 
ward governor  of  factory  at  the  fort :  married, 
ALiy,  1692,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Rich- 
ards:  in  1700  returned  witii  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren to  luigland.  and  was  a  London  merchant. 
3.  Sarah,  married  Richard  Wharton,  of  Bos- 
ton. 4.  Anna,  married.  October  4,  1682,  Will- 
iam Dolliver,  of  Gloucester.  5.  Thomas, 
served  his  time  with  a  goldsmith  in  England ; 
returned  to  .'Xmerica :  sailed  for  .Arabia,  and 
was  lost  at   sea.     6.   Francis,  born  at   .Salem, 


June  9,  1660;  went  to  his  uncle  Francis  at 
kerby  Steven,  who  educated  him  at  the  uni- 
versity ;  died  in  London,  1684.  7.  Henry,  born 
at  Salem,  December  18,  1661  ;  educated  as  a 
merchant :  went  to  the  Barbadoes  as  a  factor, 
and  died  there  1685. 

(\T)  Colonel  John  (4)  Higginson,  son  of 
Rev.  John  (3)  Higginson,  was  born  in  Guil- 
ford, Connecticut,  in  1646,  and  died  in  Salem, 
March  23,  1719,  aged  seventy-three  years. 
He  was  one  of  the  foremost  men  of  the  town 
in  his  time,  a  prominent  merchant,  and  in  the 
affairs  of  colonial  government.  In  addition 
to  his  mercantile  interests  in  Salem,  he  engaged 
in  the  fisheries  and  carried  on  foreign  trade. 
He  had  an  extensive  correspondence  with  his 
brother  Nathaniel  between  the  years  1692  and 
1700.  published  by  the  Massachusetts  His- 
torical .Society.  From  a  letter  written  in  1697 
the  following  ([notation  sets  forth  the  condi- 
tions prevailing  in  the  town  by  reason  of  the 
French  and  Indian  war:  "In  the  yeare  1689. 
when  this  war  first  broke  out.  I  had  attained 
a  competent  estate,  being  as  much  concerned 
in  the  fishing  trade  as  most  of  my  neighbors; 
but  since  yt  time  I  have  met  with  considerable 
los.ses.  Of  sixty  odd  fishing  ketches  belonging 
to  this  towne..  but  about  six  are  left.  I  believe 
no  Towne  in  this  Province  has  suffered  more 
by  this  war  yn  Salem."  Again,  October  3, 
1699,  he  writes:  "In  the  late  war  all  East 
India  goods  were  extremely  dear.  Best  mus- 
lin, 10  pounds  a  piece;  pepper,  3s,  nuts  (nut- 
megs) 1 8s.  cloves  20s.  mace  30s.  lb...  but  they 
are  now  fallen  a  quarter  part ;  china  and  lacker 
wares  will  sell  of  a  small  quantity.  Ambergrece 
we  often  have  from  the  West  Indies.  Some 
musk,  pearl,  diamonds,  beazor  may  sell  well." 
In  1674  he  was  appointed  ensign  of  Captain 
Gardner's  company,  and  afterward  became 
lieutenant-colonel  of  militia.  In  1708  he  sent 
a  memf)rial  to  England  setting  forth  to  the 
govenunent  the  necessity  of  conquering  Can- 
ada. In  1^)86  he  is  mentioned  as  a  trustee  in 
a  deed  of  .Salem  lands  from  the  Indians  "as  a 
safeguard  against  encroachments  of  Userpa- 
tion."  In  1712  he  was  chosen  one  of  a  com- 
mittee "to  procure  a  suitable  grammar  school 
master."  He  was  deputy  to  the  general  court 
in  i68<);  member  of  tiie  governor's  council 
from  1700  until  his  death  in  1719. 

He  married.  October  9.  1672.  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Symmes)  Savage, 
of  Boston.  Children,  born  in  Salem:  i.  Mary, 
.September  27,  1673;  married  (first)  .April  4, 
1695,  Thomas  Gardner,  Jr.:  (second)  April 
25.    1699.    Dr.    Edward    Weld,  of   Salem.     2. 


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John.  August  20.  1675;  mentioned  below.  3. 
Thomas.  December  23,  1677,  died  September 
18.  1678.  4.  Xathaniel.  .-^pril  i,  1680,  died 
1720;  married,  April  23,  1702,  Hannah  Ger- 
rish.  5.  Sarah,  June  i,  1682,  died  August  5, 
1699;  marrieil.  June  22,  1699,  Nathaniel 
Hathorne.  6.  Elizabeth,  October  13.  1684; 
married,  October  22,  1705,  John  Gerrish.  7. 
Margaret.  November  10,  1686,  died  June  18, 
1688. 

f\'n)  John  (5).  son  of  Colonel  John  (4) 
Higginson.  was  born  in  Salem.  August  20, 1675, 
and  died  tliere  April  26.  1718.  He  was  edu- 
cated for  a  mercantile  career,  and  the  manage- 
ment of  his  father's  extensive  business  as  a 
merchant  was  for  the  most  part  in  his  hands. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  was  judge  of  the 
court  of  common  pleas  of  Essex  county,  with 
his  associate  Corwin;  but  in  1702  Governor 
Dudley  made  other  appointments.  In  one  of 
his  letters  to  Xathaniel,  his  father.  Colonel 
Higginson.  says  of  his  son  John :  "My  eldest 
.son  John,  whom  I  brought  up  at  home,  is  very 
capable  of  business,  a  very  liopeful  young  man 
as  any  in  our  town,  sober  and  judicious  *  * 
and  has  made  good  progress  in  the  world ;  has 
built  him  a  good  house,  has  one  fishing  vessel; 
a  lieutenant  of  one  of  our  military  companies, 
and  register  to  the  judge  of  probate  for  wills 
and  granting  administrations  for  this  county, 
and  well  accepted  in  the  place."  The  dwell- 
ing house  alluded  to  stood  on  the  south  side  of 
Essex  street,  between  Rarton  square  and  the 
corner  of  Washington  street. 

John  Higginson  married,  .September  11, 
1695,  Hannah  Gardner,  of  Salem,  who  died 
June  24,  1713,  daughter  of  .Samuel  Gardner. 
He  married  (second)  November  11,  1714, 
Margaret  .Sewall.  born  May  7,  1687,  died 
March,  1736,  daughter  of  Stephen  Sewall, 
first  register  of  probate  in  Essex  county.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife,  born  in  Salein :  i.  Elizabeth, 
June  28,  1696,  died  March  20,  1722-3:  mar- 
ried. October  20,  171 5,  Rev.  Benjamin  Pres- 
cott.  2.  John,  January  10,  1697-8,  died  July 
15,  1744:  graduate  of  Harvard  1717;  register 
of  deeds  for  Essex  county,  1725 ;  married 
(first)  Ruth  Roardman ;  (second)  Esther 
Cabot.  3.  Samuel.  I'ebruary  5,  1699- 1700, 
died  SeptemlKT  23,  1702.  4.  Sarah.  February 
13,  1702-3.  died  June  14.  1745;  married  De- 
cember, 1732,  Dr.  John  Cabot  Jr.  5.  Francis, 
November  29,  1705,  died  same  day.  6.  Henry, 
September  23,  1707.  died  December  i,  1708. 
Children  of  second  wife:  7.  Stephen,  July  31, 
1716.     8.  Nathaniel,  1718.  died  1719. 

(\'HI)   Stephen,  son  of  John   (5)   Higgin- 


son, was  born  in  Salem, 1  July  31,  1716,  and 
died  there  October  12,  1761.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent merchant  and  held  many  town  offices ; 
deputy  to  general  court  two  years,  and  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Salem  Social  Library  in 
T760.  Manjiof  the  books  for  this  library  were 
purchased  by  him  in  Boston.  In  1810  the 
books  were  bought  by  the  founders  of  the 
Salem  .-\thenaeum.  He  married,  April  22, 
1743.  Elizabeth  Cabot,  born  March  8,  1710-11, 
daughter  of  John  and  Anna  (Orne)  Cabot, 
,  Children,  born  in  Salem:  i.  Stephen,  Novem- 
ber 28,  1743.  2.  Sarah,  January  14,  1745,  died 
May  5,  1772:  married,  January  3,  1767,  John 
Lowell.  LL.  D.,  who  was  api)ointcd  judge  of 
the  district  court  by  President  Washington. 
3.  John.  April  30,  1746,  died  .'\ugust,  1750.  4. 
I  lenry,  December  14,  1747,  died  in  Boston, 
October  4,  1790;  master  mariner  ;  deputy  1780- 
81.  5.  Deborah,  July  24,  1750,  died  Septcm- 
''^■'■-  '/SS-  6.  Deborah,  January  6,  1754,  died 
December  14,  1820:  married  (first)  .Stephen 
Cabot;  (second)  Joseph  Lee.  7.  Elizabeth, 
baptized  May  2,  1756,  died  July.  1826;  mar- 
ried, I'\'bruary  22,  1774,  George  Cabot. 

(IX)  The  Honorable  Captain  .Stephen  (2) 
Higginson,  son  of  Stephen  (i)  Higginson,  was 
born  in  Salem,  November  28,  1743,  and  died 
November  22,  1828.  He  was  a  merchant  with 
an  extensive  business  in  both  Salem  and  Bos- 
ton. He  made  a  visit  to  England  just  before 
the  revolution,  and  was  called  to  the  bar  of 
the  Hf)use  of  Commons  to  answer  cjuestions 
as  to  the  state  of  feeling  in  Massachusetts.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  in 
1782-83.  and  a  firm  supporter  of  Washington 
and  Adams.  He  was  acting  secretary  of  the 
navy  May  11,  1798,  to  June  22,  1798,  and 
was  one  of  Governor  James  Bowdoin's  most 
active  and  resolute  advisers  in  the  suppression 
of  .Shay's  Rebellion,  going  out  as  second  in 
command  to  supj^ress  this  insurrection.  While 
he  was  shipmaster  he  brought  over  a  church 
bell  in  1772  for  the  North  Church  of  Salem, 
and  later  a  bell  for  the  East  Church,  which 
then  sold  its  old  bell  to  Harvard  College.  In 
the  war  of  1812  he  suffered  great  losses.  It 
is  said  of  him  that  he  sustained  with  great 
credit  the  reputation  of  an  ancient  and  honor- 
able family.  He  was  the  reputed  author  of 
"The  Writings  of  Laco,"  as  published  in  the 
Massachusetts  Cciitiiicl  in  I-'ebruary  and 
March.  1789.  These  articles  had  for  a  motto: 
"The  liberty  of  the  Press  is  essential  to  the 
security  of  freedf)m  in  a  state,  it  ought  not 
therefore  be  restrained  in  this  Common- 
wealth ;"   and    they    are    reprinted    under   the 


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modernized  title,  "Ten  Chapters  in  the  Life 
of  John  Hancock,"   (New  York,  1857). 

He  married  (first)  Susanna  Cleveland,  born 
at  Med  ford,   March   i,   1741,  died  at   Salem, 
June  24,   1788,  daughter  of  Aaron  and  Sus- 
anna   (Porter)    Cleveland,   granddaughter   of 
Aaron      Cleveland,     great-granddaughter     of 
Aaron,  and  great-great-granddaughter  of  the 
immigrant,    Moses   Cleveland.      She   inherited 
her   mother's   personal   attractions,    and    was 
celebrated  alike  for  her  beauty  and  her  dignity 
of  mind  and  manners.     The  marriage  license 
signed  by  Governor  Benning  Wentworth,  now 
in  the  possession  of  Colonel  T.  W.  Higginson, 
is  remarkable  in  that  it  authorizes  all  ordained 
ministers  of  the  (lospel  "E.xcept  one  Browne" 
to   join    the    cou|)le    in    matrimony.      Captain 
Higginson  married  (second)  Elizabeth  Perkins, 
of  Boston,  daughter  of  a  merchant,  Thomas 
Perkins,  of  English  birth.   He  married  (third) 
Sarah  Perkins,  sister  of  his  second  wife.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:     i.  John,  born  in  Salem, 
January   15,   1765.     2.   Sarah,  June   11,   1766, 
died   1805:  married  Dudley  .\tkins  Tyng.     3. 
Nathaniel,  February  12,  1768,  died  1794;  mar- 
ried Sarah  Rhea.     4.  Stephen,  November  20, 
1770,  at  Salem,  died  February  20,  1834;  for 
many  years  steward  of  Harvard  College :  mar- 
ried  (first)   August,  1794,  Martha  Salisbury, 
(second)   Louisa  Storrow ;   father  of  Colonel 
Thomas   Wentworth    Higginson.      5.    Barbara 
Cooper,   June    15,    1774;   married   Samuel   G. 
Perkins.     6.  Elizabeth,  .Vugust  5,   1776;  mar- 
ried (first)  Dudley  A.  Tyng.  being  his  second 
wife:    (second)    George    Searle.      7.    George, 
July    19,    1779.  at    Boston;   mentioned  below. 
8.  Henry,  born  in  Bo-ston,  P'ebruary  5,  1781  ; 
married.    1803,    Nancy    Gushing.      9.    Susan 
Cleveland,    .April   20,    1783:   married    Francis 
Dana  Chaniiing.     Child  of  second  wife:      10. 
James  Perkins,  mentioned  below. 

(X)  George,  son  of  Captain  .Stephen  Higgin- 
son, was  born  in  Boston,  July  19.  1779.  and 
died  in  March,  18 1 2.  He  was  a  well-known 
philanthropist,  .'\mong  the  young  men  whom 
lie  helped  to  educate  was  John  H.  Sheppard, 
.A.  M..  who  later  became  famous.  Rev.  Dr. 
J.  S.  J.  Gardner,  on  March  12,  1812,  at  Trin- 
ity church,  I'lOSton,  ])rcached  a  sermon  on  the 
death  of  ( ieorge  Higginson,  in  which  his  char- 
acter was  ably  drawn  and  his  benevolence  ex- 
tolled. He  married,  in  iSoo,  Martha  I'.abcock, 
wiio  married  (second)  his  half-brother.  James 
Perkins  Higginson.  Cliildren:  i.  Martha 
Babcock,  born  October  15,  1801,  died  1833; 
married  Augustus  .'\spinwall.  2.  Susan  Cleve- 
land, born    Se|)teniber    18,    1803,   in   London, 


England.  3.  George,  born  September  18, 1804; 
mentioned  below.  4.  James  Babcock.  died  in 
I'.oston,  May  26,  1855.  5.  John,  died  young, 
1822.     6.  Sarah  Rhea,  died  young. 

(XI)  George  (2),  son  of  George  (i) 
Higginson.  was  born  in  Boston,  September  18, 
1804,  and  died  there  April  27,  1889,  aged 
eighty-four.  When  a  young  man  he  went  to 
New  York  and  engaged  in  the  East  India 
trade,  which  failed,  with  Stephen  N.,  his  cousin. 
Returning  to  Boston  he  founded  the  banking 
house  of  Lee,  Higginson  &  Company,  which 
has  continued  to  the  present  time  without 
change  of  name.  His  original  partner  was 
J.  C.  Lee,  then  of  Salem,  and  subsequently 
Colonel  Henry  Lee,  a  cousin  of  J.  C.  Lee,  be- 
came a  partner.  In  1874  Mr.  Higginson  with- 
drew from  the  firm  to  devote  himself  to  the 
care  of  his  property  and  to  works  of  philan- 
throphy.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Calumet  & 
Hecla  Mining  Company,  in  which  he  had  a 
large  interest,  and  in  the  Provident  Institution 
for  Savings.  During  the  civil  war  he  was  a 
strong  supporter  of  the  L^nion,  and  a  large 
contributor  to  the  sanitary  fund.  He  married, 
in  P.oston,  October  31,  1832,  Mary  Cabot  Lee, 
born  August  16,  181 1,  died  .\ugu.st  26,  1849, 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary  (Jack.son)  Lee. 
Her  father  received  the  electoral  votes  of  South 
Carolina  for  vice-president  at  the  second  elec- 
tion of  .Andrew  Jackson.  Children,  born  in 
New  York  City:  i.  George,  August  6,  1833; 
married  Elizabeth  ISarker.  2.  Henry  Lee,  No- 
vember 18,  1834:  mentioned  below.  3.  James 
Jackson,  June"  19,  1836;  married  Margaret 
^iracie.  4.  Francis  Lee,  October  11,  1841  ; 
mentioned  below.  3.  Mary  Lee.  September  5, 
1838;  married  Samuel  Parkman  Blake. 

"(XII)  Major  Henry  Lee  Higginson,  son  of 
George  (2)  Higginson,  was  bnrn  in  New  York 
City,  November  18,  1834.  \\v  received  his 
earlv  education  in  Boston.  I  Ic  entered  Har- 
vard College  in  1 851,  but  did  not  complete  his 
course,  leaving  in  1852  before  the  end  of  his 
freshman  year  to  begin  his  business  career  as 
a  clerk  in  the  office  of  Samuel  &  Edward 
Austin,  bankers,  of  Boston.  .Afterward  he 
went  aI)road  and  studied  music  at  \'ienna  and 
dther  Iuiroi)ean  cities,  and  notwithstanding  his 
activity  in  business  and  finance  in  later  years, 
he  has  maintained  his  interest  in  musical 
afl'airs.  To  his  sui^jiort  and  initiative  Boston 
o\\  es  much.  1  le  was  the  prime  mover  in  estab- 
lishing and  maintaining  the  P.oston  Symphony 
Orchestra,  the  best  in  the  country.  He  entered 
the  I'nion  army  in  the  civil  war,  and  at  Aldie, 
\irginia,  in  June,  1863,  was  severely  wounded. 


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lie  held  the  rank  of  major  in  the  First  IVIassa- 
chusetts  Cavalry,  and  was  brcvettcd  lieutenant- 
colonel.  After  the  war  he  was  admitted  to 
partnership  in  the  banking  firm  of  his  father, 
Lee,  Higginson  &  Company.  His  enterprise 
and  sagacity  helped  in  large  measure  to  main- 
tain the  leadership  of  the  firm  in  financial 
circles.  Major  Higginson  has  been  one  of  the 
largest  benefactors  of  Harvard  I'niversity,  in 
which  he  has  always  shown  great  interest.  He 
gave  to  it  the  Soldiers'  Field  as  a  memorial  to 
the  Harvard  men  who  fought  and  died  for  the 
Union.  This  great  athletic  field,  on  the  bank 
of  Charles  river,  is  one  of  the  best  in  the  world 
for  its  purposes.  On  it  the  imposing  stadium 
has  been  built,  where  the  football  ancl  baseball 
games  are  played.  Major  Higginson  was  the 
prime  mover  and  donor  of  the  1  larvard  Union, 
for  which  a  magnificent  building  was  erected 
near  the  college  yard.  He  was  given  the  hon- 
orary degree  of  A.  M.  by  Harvard  in  1882; 
LL.  D.  by  Yale,  in  1901.  He  is  a  fellow  of 
Harvard,  and  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society.  Xo  man  enjoys  a  greater 
degree  of  jiojiularity  and  honor  among  Har- 
vard men.  undergraduates  as  well  as  graduates, 
than  Major  Higginson.  In  politics  he  is  a 
Republican,  of  large  influence,  though  he  has 
never  consented  to  accept  public  office.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Metropolitan  and  Knicker- 
bocker Clubs  of  New  York,  the  Kew  England 
Society  of  Xcw  York  City,  and  is  a  trustee  of 
the  Carnegie  Institution. 

He  married,  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
December  5.  1863,  Ida  Olympe  Frederika 
Agassiz,  born  at  Carlsruhe,  Grand  Duchy  of 
Baden,  .August  9,  1837.  daughter  of  Professor 
Jean  Louis  Rudolph  and  Cecile  (Rraiin) 
Agassiz.  Major  Higginson  resides  at  191 
Commonwealth  avenue.  Boston.  Children, 
born  in  P.oston :  i.  Cecile  Pauline,  born  Janu- 
ary 5,  1870;  died  Augu.st  18,  1875.  2.  Alex- 
ander Henry,  born  April  2,  1876;  graduate  at 
Harvard,  class  of  1898. 

(XII )  Francis  Lee  Higginson,  son  of  George 
(  2  )  Higginson.  was  born  in  Boston.  October  1 1, 
1841.  He  married  Cfirst)  I-'ebruary  16,  1876, 
Julia  Borland,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Nelson 
and  Madeline  f Gibson)  Borland,  descendant 
of  John  P.orland.  born  about  iGCto,  from  Scot- 
land. He  married  (second)  April,  1898, 
Corinna  Shattuck.  Children,  born  in  Boston : 
I.  Francis  Lee,  born  November  29,  1877; 
graduate  of  Harvard.  i</x3.  2.  Mary  Cabot, 
br)rn  December  3,  1878.  3.  Juliet  Borland, 
born  March  Ci.  1881.  4.  I'arbara,  born  March 
28,  1884.  Children  of  second  wife:  5.  Corinna, 


born  September  19,  1899.  2.  Eleanor,  Novem- 
ber 22,  1900.     3.  (}€orge.  December  21,  1904. 

(  X)  James  Perkins  Higginson,  son  of  Cap- 
tain Stephen  (2)  Higginson,  was  born  in  Bos- 
ton, July,  1792.  He  was  educated  in  the  jniblic 
.schools  and  engaged  in  business.  He  died  at 
Boston.  January  10,  1878.  He  married,  in 
1813,  Mrs.  Martha  ( Babcock )  Higginson, 
daughter  of  Adam  and  Martha  Babcock,  of 
Boston.  She  was  the  widow  of  his  brother, 
George  Higginson,  mentioned  above.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Boston:  i.  Frances  Saltonstall, 
born  May  28,  1814:  married  Charles  Dudley 
Head;  died  December  16,  1901.  2.  Louisa 
(iore,  born  Xovembcr  5,  1815,  died  in  Boston, 
December  16,  187O.  3.  Mary  Hubbard,  born 
and  died  in  1817.  4.  Sarah' Rhea,  born  De- 
cember 22,  1819;  married  William  Tnger.soll 
Bowditch.  5.  Charles  James,  born  December 
7,  1 82 1  :  married,  January  27,  1887,  Mrs.  Su.san 
Wilcox.  6.  John  .\ugustus,  born  June  21, 
1S24,  died  February  14,  1908.  7.  Henry  Fred- 
erick, mentioned  below. 

(XI)  Henry  Frederick  Higginson.  son  of 
James  Perkins  Higginson,  was  born  in  Bos- 
ton, September  5,  1825,  and  died  there  March 
31,  1891.  He  was  educated  at  Air.  Thayer's 
school,  Boston.  He  was  in  business  in  early 
life  in  the  Calcutta  trade,  later  in  the  Sand- 
wich Glass  Company.  During  the  last  twenty 
years  of  his  life  he  was  retired  from  active 
business.  In  politics  he  was  independent,  and 
in  religion  a  Unitarian.  He  married,  .Xpril 
15,  1857,  Mary  Jarves,  born  in  1832,  died  in 
I'.rooklinc,  May  10,  1863,  daughter  of  Dem- 
ing  Jarves  and  Ann  Stetson.  Their  only  child 
was  Frederick. 

(XH)  Frederick  Higginson,  son  of  Henry 
Frederick  Higginson.  was  born  in  Boston,  Jan- 
uary 25,  i860.  He  was  educated  at  the  Eng- 
lish high  school,  Boston.  He  is  a  merchandise 
broker,  with  offices  at  70  Kilby  street.  He 
resides  in  Brooklinc.  In  j)olitics  is  an  inde- 
[tendcnt,  and  in  religion  a  Unitarian,  a  mem- 
ber of  Dr.  Lyons'  church,  at  Brooklinc.  He 
married,  June  12.  1883.  in  Boston.  Mary 
Brazer  Ellis,  born  in  I^orchesler,  June  10, 
1862,  daughter  of  Henry  I'ayson  and  .Anne 
Warren  (Brazer)  FJlis.  Children,  born  in 
Brooklinc:  Katharine,  June  9,  1887;  Fred- 
erick Jr..  October  17.  1889;  John  Brazer,  Octo- 
ber 4.  1893;  Charles,  March  30,  1895. 


lulmund     Hobart.     immigrant 

HOP).ART      ancistnr  <>(  this   family,  came 

frmn   llingham,   England,  and 

settled   in    llingham,   Massachusetts,   in    1633. 


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With  him  came  his  wife,  son  Joshua,  daughters 
Rebecca  and  Sarah,  and  servant  1  fenry  Gibbs. 
They  lived  for  a  short  time  at  Charlestown, 
where  he  and  his  wife  were  admitted  to  the 
church  August  19,  1633.  He  was  a  constable 
there  in  1634  and  admitted  a  freeman,  March 
4'  1633-34.  His  sons  Edmund,  Thomas  and 
Rev.  Peter,  soon  followed  him  to  this  country, 
and  they  all  settled  in  Hingham,  whither  he 
removed  with  them.  He  served  as  deputy  to 
the  general  court.  He  married  (first)  in  Eng- 
land, Margaret  Dewey;  (second)  October  10, 
1634,  Sarah  Lyford,  widow  of  John  Lyford. 
She  died  June  23,  1649.  He  died  March  8, 
1646.  He  wrote  his  name  Hubbard  and  Hub- 
beard  ;  but  his  son.  Rev.  Peter,  wrote  it  Hobart. 
Both  spellings  are  in  common  use.  Children : 
I.  Edmund,  born  about  1604.  died  February, 
1686,    aged    eighty-two;    married     Elizabeth 

;    weaver;    settled    in    Hingham.      2. 

Rev.  Peter,  born  about  1604,  died  1679 ;  grad- 
uated at  Magdalen  College,  Cambridge,  1625; 
minister  at  Hingham  forty-one  years;  married 
Rebecca .  3.  Thomas,  born  1606,  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Nazareth,  married  John  Beal. 
5.  Rebecca.  6.  Sarah.  7.  Captain  Joshua,  born 
1614,  died  in  1682  ;  married,  1638,  Ellen  Ibrook. 
(H)  Thomas,  son  of  Edmund  Hobart,  was 
born  in  England  in  1606,  died  August  18,  1689. 
He  came  to  New  England  from  Windham,  a 
town  near  old  Hingham  in  England,  in  1633, 
and  settled  first  in  Charlestown.  He  was 
admitted  a  freeman  May  14,  1634,  and  removed 
to  Hingham  in  i(')35.  He  received  a  grant  of 
land  there  in  1636.  and  a  ten  acre  lot  in  1637. 
He  and  his  brothers  Edmund  and  Joseph  were 
members  of  the  train  band.  He  inarried,  in 
England,  June  2,  1629,  Anne  Ptomer,  and  the 
present  vicar  of  Wymondham,  Norfolk,  Eng- 
land, Rev.  Robert  Eden,  has  certified  to  the 
record.  His  estate  was  settled  by  his  son 
Caleb  in  1690.  Children:  i.  Caleb,  born  1632, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Joshua,  1639,  married 
Mary  Rainsford,  widow;  died  1713,  s.  p.  3. 
Thomas,  1649,  apprenticed  to  John  Nash,  of 
Boston,  cooper,  in  1670.  4.  Mehitable,  1651, 
married,  1674,  John  Lane.  5.  Isaac,  1653.  6. 
Hannah,   1655,  married,   1672,  John  Records. 

7.  Moses,  1656,  died  in  prison  in  Boston,  1686. 

8.  Aaron,  1661,  married  Rebecca ;  died 

1705.    9.  Nathaniel,  1663. 

(HI)  Caleb,  son  of  Thomas  Hobart,  was 
born  in  1632  in  England  and  came  to  New 
England  with  his  parents.  He  settled  in  Brain- 
tree  about  1^79.  He  died  in  171 1,  aged  eighty- 
nine.  Tie  married  (first)  in  1657,  Elizal>eth 
Churcli,  who  died  in  1659;  (second)  in  1662, 


Mary  Elliot,  who  died  in  1675;  (third)  1676, 
Elizabeth  Faxon,  widow,  who  died  in  1704, 
Children:  i.  Mary,  born  1663.  2.  Caleb,  1665, 
married,  1704,  Hannah  Saunders.  3.  Eliza- 
beth, 1666.  4.  Hannah,  1668,  married,  1692, 
Jonathan  Hayden.  5.  Josiah,  1670.  6.  Benja- 
min, 1677,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Benjamin,  son  of  Caleb  Hobart,  was 
born  in  1677.  He  lived  in  Braintree.  He 
married,  in  1699,  Susanna  Newcomb,  who  set- 
tled his  estate  in  1718.  She  died  in  1725.  The 
estate  was  divided  in  1727  among  the  follow- 
ing children:  i.  Benjamin.  2.  Caleb,  men- 
tioned below.    3.  Susanna  (or  Ann).  4.  Peter. 

3.  Israel.    6.  Joshua. 

(\)  Caleb  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  Hobart, 
was  born  about  1700,  and  resided  in  Braintree, 
where  his  children  were  born.     He  married 

Elizabeth  .     Children:     i.  Caleb,  born 

August  18.  1725,  married,  March  15,  1743, 
Elizabeth  French.  2.  Elizabeth,  July  6,  1727, 
died  young.     3.  Joshua,  February  8,  1733-34- 

4.  Elizabeth,  August  19,  1736,  died  young.  5. 
Elizabeth,  May  i,  1739.  6.  Adam,  June  9, 
1743,  mentioned  below.  7.  Joshua,  August  i, 
1747.     8.  John,  April  26,  1755. 

(\T)  Adam,  son  of  Caleb  (2)  Hobart,  was 
born  in  Braintree,  June  9,  1743.     He  married 

(first)   Mary  ;   (second)   .^vis  . 

Children,  born  at  Braintree :  i.  Caleb,  May  8, 
1765.  2.  Mary,  December  4,  1766.  3.  Relief, 
April  29,  1769.  Children  of  second  wife:  4. 
Avis,  February  8,  1774.  5.  Adam,  IMarch  18, 
1776.  6.  Abraham,  August  21,  1779,  men- 
tioned below.  .Adam  Hobart  was  in  the  revo- 
lution in  Captain  Moses  French's  company. 
Colonel  Joseph  Palmer's  regiment  from  Brain- 
tree. in  March,  1776;  also  in  the  same  com- 
pany. Colonel  Jonathan  Bass's  regiment  in 
June,  1776,  on  orders  to  march  to  Hough's 
Neck  and  later  to  Nantasket. 

(\TI)  Abraham,  son  of  Adam  Hobart, 
was  born  at  Braintree.  August  21,  1779.  He 
lived  in  Braintree  and  conducted  a  grist  mill, 
alsd  was  a  building  mover  and  wooden  pump 
maker.  He  married  Wheeler.  Chil- 
dren :  William  Wheeler,  mentioned  below ; 
Joshua,  Henry.  Charles,  Mrs.  Alexander  Bou- 
dich,  Jane,  Levi.  .Albert. 

(\'1II)  William  Wheeler,  son  of  \braham 
Hobart,  was  born  in  Braintree,  October  21, 
1802,  died  February  15,  1847.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  Braintree.  He 
first  conducted  the  mill  at  foot  of  Mellen  Hill, 
the  "Gannet"  Mill,  and  for  a  number  of  years 
operated  the  chocolate  mills  in  company  with 
.Mexander  Boudich;  also  owned  a  grist  mill 


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at  East  Braintree,  in  company  with  Joseph 
Arnold  up  to  his  death  in  1847.  I"  later 
years  he  lived  in  South  Braintree.  He  was  a 
W'lug  in  iiolitics.  He  married  Mary  Strong 
Arnold,  born  at  Braintree,  November  11,  1805, 
died  there  February  9,  1882,  daughter  of 
Ralph  Arnold.  Children:  i.  William  W., 
born  October  18,  1830,  died  February  23, 
1853,  unmarried.  2.  Joseph  II..  born  Novem- 
ber I,  1837,  married  Caroline  J.  Ba.xter,  of 
Quincy;  had  one  son  that  died,  and  one 
daughter,  Mary  Baxter,  who  married  Fred- 
erick Pennock.  3.  Charles  Harrison,  born 
October  18,,  1840,  mentioned  below.  4.  Francis 
Strong,  born  .\pril  27,  1844,  died  young. 

(IX)  Charles  Harrison,  son  of  William 
Wheeler  Hobart,  was  born  at  Braintree,  Octo- 
ber 18,  1840.  He  received  his  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  Braintree.  He  started  to 
work  as  a  clerk  in  the  retail  grocery  business, 
and  in  1861.  in  company  with  P.  D.  Holbrook, 
bought  out  a  business,  conducting  it  under  the 
name  of  P.  D.  Holbrook  &  Company  until 
1884,  when  Mr.  Hobart  purchased  his  part- 
ner's interest  and  has  continued  alone  up  to 
the  present  time  (1909),  having  built  up  the 
largest  business  in  this  line  in  Braintree.  In 
1871  he  built  his  present  block,  one  of  the 
largest  in  Braintree.  He  succeeded  F.  E. 
Thayer  in  the  fire  insurance  business,  the  most 
extensive  in  the  town,  and  later  associated  with 
him  his  son.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Braintree  Savings  Bank,  which  is  located 
in  his  block,  organized  in  1871,  and  is  serving 
as  secretary  and  treasurer,  having  served  in 
the  latter  jjosition  ever  since  its  organization. 
He  is  an  honorary  member  of  Rural  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  which  he  joined 
in  1862,  and  was  also  one  of  the  organizers 
of  Delia  Lodge,  joining  in  1906.  In  religion 
he  has  liberal  views.  He  is  a  man  of  sterling 
character  and  irreproachable  life.  He  mar- 
ried, February  3,  1874,  at  Braintree.  Abigail 
Field  Hardwick,  born  Mav  9.  1844,  daughter 
of  William  Parker  and  Ruth  ^L  (Thayer) 
Hardwick.  (See  Hardwick  family).  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Braintree:  i.  Lizzie  M.,  born 
December  19,  1874,  married  Plummer  Chad- 
burn  Spring,  a  native  of  Portland,  Maine; 
children:  i.  Hobart  W.  Spring,  born  October 
10,  1901,  at  Braintree;  ii.  Katherine  Spring, 
November  5,  1903;  iii.  Chadburn  Arnold 
Spring  (twin),  December  26,  1906;  iv.  Theron 
Hardwick  Spring  (twin),  December  26,  1906; 
Mr.  Spring  is  treasurer  of  the  J.  W.  Moore 
Manufacturing  Company.  2.  Harrison  Parker, 
born  May  2,  1878,  mentioned  below. 


(X)  Harri.son  Parker,  son  of  Charles  Harri- 
.son  Hobart,  was  born  May  2,  1878,  in  Brain- 
tree, and  educated  there  in  the  public  and  high 
schools.  He  became  clerk  in  his  father's  store 
and  has  been  associated  in  business  with  his 
father  to  the  present  time.  He  is  assistant 
manager  and  buyer  of  the  grocery  firm  and 
active  in  the  insurance  business.  He  is  a 
member  of  Free  and  .\ccepted  Masons,  Delia 
Lodge,  and  Old  Colony  Driving  Club.  In 
[jolitics  he  is  a  Republican,  in  religion  a  Con- 
grcgationalist.  He  married,  March  30,  1900, 
Fthel  M.  Gage,  born  in  Braintree,  daughter  of 
R.  .Mien  Gage,  of  Braintree.  Children,  born 
at  Ilraintree:  i.  Charles  Harrison,  October 
5.  1901.     2.  Robert  Gage,  December  24,  1903. 

(The  Iluniwick  Line). 

The  first  record  of  the  Hardwick  family  in 
this  county  is  the  marriage  of  John  Hennerick 
(Ileinrich)  Hardwick  and  Katherina  Hart- 
man  (or  Hartmann)  at  Braintree,  Alassachu- 
setts,  November  22,  1755.  They  were  undoubt- 
edly of  German  ancestry,  and  were  born  in 
Germany,  though  few  immigrants  of  German 
birth  came  to  this  locality  at  that  i)eriod.  The 
Hardwicks  and  a  munbcr  of  German  families 
settled  about  1752  in  that  part  of  Braintree 
still  known  as  (jermantown.  The  name  was 
spelled  Hardwic  and  was  doubtless  Hartwig. 
We  find  it  spelled  Ilartwick  for  several  gen- 
erations, and  finally  Anglicized  to  Hardwick, 
a  distinctly  Englisli  surname.  In  1767  this 
couple  was  living  in  Annapolis  county.  Nova 
Scotia.  Calnck's  history  gives  an  account  of 
the  family  and  calls  him  Hcinrich  Hardwick 
and  states  that  the  maiden  name  of  his  wife 
was  Hartmann.  "Hartmann  the  maiden  name 
of  his  wife  is  certainly  German."  He  obtained 
lands  and  became  a  properous  farmer.  Chil- 
dren:     I.  Flenry,  married,  1798,  Ann  Berteux. 

2.  Frederick,    married,    1801,    Sarah    Fasson. 

3.  John,  married  Mary  Balcom.  4.  Lucrctia, 
married  John  Kent.  5.  Mary,  married  Ezra 
Kent. 

(I)  Frederick,  brother  of  John  Ileinrich 
Hardwick,  also  settled  in  Braintree,  Massachu- 
setts. His  sister  Carlot  (Charlotte?)  Hard- 
wick married  there,  September  28,  1759, 
Josejih  Steele.  Another  sister  Elizabeth  mar- 
ried, October  5,  1753,  John  Quincy.  A  John 
Hardwick  died  in  Boston  in  1809.  He  was 
son  or  brother  of  Frederick.  In  the  census  of 
1790  Frederick  Hardwick,  of  Braintree,  had 
three  males  over  sixteen  and  two  females  in 
his  family.  Adam  and  John  Hardwick  were 
also  heads  of  families.     John  Hardwick  was 


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in  the  navy  in  the  revolution  on  the  ship  "Gen- 
eral Putnam."  William  Hardwick,  of  West- 
ford,  Dunstable  and  Chelmsford,  aged  thirty- 
five  years  in  1782,  served  through  the  revolu- 
tion. He  mav  have  been  brother  of  Fred- 
erick. Children  of  Frederick  :  i.  Peter,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Henry,  married,  July  16, 
1 79 1,  Sarah  Spear.  3.  John.  4.  Adam. 
Probably  other  children. 

(H)  Peter,  son  of  Frederick  Hardwick, 
was  born  about  1765  in  I'.raintree.  He  mar- 
ried there,  July  18,  1790,  Mary  Peck,  and 
lived  in  Quincv.  formerly  liraintree. 

(HI)  Frederick  (2),  son  of  Peter  Hard- 
wick. or  of  Frederick  Hardwick,  was  for 
many  vears  a  merchant  in  Braintree.  He  mar- 
ried'.Abigail  Field.  Children:  i.  Abigail.  2. 
Joseph.  3.  George.  4.  Frederick.  5.  James 
P.  6.  Peter.  7.  William  Parker,  mentioned 
below. 

(I\' )  William  Parker,  son  of  Frederick  (2) 
Hardwick.  was  born  in  Quincy,  June  3,  1814, 
and  died  in  Xew  Ispwich.  Xew  Hampshire, 
January,  1873.  He  was  reared  and  educated 
in  Quincy ;  he  learned  the  shoe  business  and 
mamifactured  and  sold  to  the  western  trade 
many  years :  later  he  retired.  He  married 
Ruth  M.  Thayer,  born  at  Randolph,  February 
10,  1820.  died  July  2,  t868,  at  New  Ipswich, 
New  Hampshire.  Children,  born  at  Ouincy: 
I.  Abigail  Field,  born  May  9,  1844  ;  married,  at 
Braintree,  February  3,  1874.  Charles  Harrison 
Hobart  (see  Hobart  family).  2.  George,  July 
18.  1847,  at  Quincy,  resides  in  Minneapolis, 
Minnesota.  3.  Flizabeth,  November  11,  1849, 
died  November  5,  1862.  4.  Libes  B.,  August 
3,  1852.  5.  William.  .April  17,  1855.  6. 
Leonadas,  December  7,  1859. 


Ralph  Blaisdell,  immigrant 
BLAISDFLL  ancestor,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, about  1600.  He  came 
to  New  England  soon  after  his  marriage,  and 
settled  in  Salisbury,  Massachusetts.  He  was 
a  tailor  by  trade.  He  received  grants  of  land 
in  Salisbury  in  1640-41-44-45,  and  bought  the 
rights  of  Jtihn  iiarrison  as  proprietor  in 
1642-3.  He  was  a  tavern  keeper  in  1645,  and 
received  a  license  to  sell  wine,  etc.  He  was  at 
York.  Maine,  for  a  time  between  1637  and 
1640.  In  the  early  records  the  name  is  often 
spelled  I'llasdale,  IMesdalc.  and  Rlasdel.  He 
died  before  1^)30,  but  was  living  in  1648.  His 
widow  die<l  .August,  \C\(tj.  and  administration 
on  her  estate  was  granted  to  Josejih  Stowers, 
October  8,  1^)7.  As  late  as  1698.  Ebenezer 
I'llaisdcll,  prandson  of  the  immigrant,  was  ad- 


ministrator of  his  estate.  Blaisdell  was  con- 
stable at  one  time.  Children  of  Ralph  and 
Elizabeth  Blaisdell:  i.  Henry,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Sarah,  died  January  17,  1646-7.  3. 
Mary,  born  March  5,  1641-2:  married  (first) 
Joseph  Stowers:  (second)  December  19,1676, 
\\'illiam  Sterling.  4.  Ralph,  born  about  1642-3, 
died  about  1667,  probably  without  issue. 

(H)  Henry,  son  of  Ralph  Blaisdell,  was 
born  in  England,  about  1632,  and  came  to  New 
England  with  his  parents.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  settlers  of  Amesbur}-,  where  he  received 
various  grants  of  land.  He  was  a  tailor  by 
trade.  He  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  in  Decem- 
ber, 1677.  and  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1690. 
He  married  (first)  about  1656,  Alary  Haddon, 
who  died  December   12,   1690-1,  daughter  of 

Jarrett  Haddon;    (second)    Elizabeth  . 

He  died  between  1702  and  1707.  Children, 
all  by  first  wife:  i.  Ebenezer,  born  October 
17.  1657:  mentioned  below.  2.  Alary,  born 
May  29.  1660:  married  Robert  Rawlins.  3. 
Henry,   born    Alay   28,    1663;   married    Mary 

'—:     (second)     Airs.    Hannah     (Powell) 

Colby;  (third)  October  27,  1707,  Dorothy 
Alartin.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  about  1665;  died 
young.  5.  Ralph,  born  about  1667;  died  un- 
married, January  11,  1691.  6.  John,  born  May 
27,  1668;  married,  January  6,  1692-3,  Eliza- 
beth (Challis)  Hoyt.  7.  Sarah,  born  Novem- 
ber II,  1671  ;  married,  June  20,  1706,  Stephen 
Flanders.  8.  Jonathan,  born  October  11,  1676, 
died  1748;  married  Hannah  Jackson.  9.  Sam- 
uel, "si.xth  son,"  according  to  the  records  ;  died 
October  3,  1683. 

(HI)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Henry  Blaisdell, 
was  born  October  17,  1657,  and  died  .August 
10.  1710.  He  received  "children's  land"  in 
1659,  and  his  father  received  a  "township" 
for  him  in  1660.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  took 
the  oath  of  fidelity  in  E>ecember,  1677.  He 
married,  about  1680,  Sarah,  daughter  of  John 
and  granddaughter  of  .Anthony  Colby.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Ejihraim,  born  about  1682;  married, 
1703,  Deborah  Bartlett.  2.  Thomas.  3.  Ebe- 
nezer, born  December  29,  1686:  mentioned 
below.  4.  I'Zleaiior.  born  November  30,  1688, 
died  January  19,  1688-9.  5.  Alary,  died  young. 
6.  Ralph,  born  .April  21,  1692;  married  Alary 
Davis.     7.  Sarah,  born  July  27.  1694. 

(I\)  Ebenezer  (2).  son  of  Ebenezer  (i) 
Blaisdell,  was  born  December  29,  1(386,  in 
Amesbury,  and  was  a  cooper  by  trade.  He 
removed  to  A'ork.  Alaine,  where  he  was  living 
in  1 712  and  afterwards.  The  intentions  of 
marriage  between  Ebenezer  Blaisdell  and 
Sarah    Chase    were    published    February    5, 


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1708-9.  lie  iiiarried.  before  January.  1712-13, 
Abigail,  daughter  of  John  Ingersol.  of  Kittery, 
and  widow  of  Joseph  Jenkins,  of  York.  She 
died  April  28,  1755.  Children  of  Ebenezcr 
and  .Abigail,  born  at  York.  Maine:  1.  Sarah. 
October  9.  1713.  2.  Ebenezer.  April  9.  1715; 
married  three  times.  3.  Ephraim.  September 
23,  1717:  mentioned  below.  4.  Samuel,  Au- 
gust 21.  1719:  married  Olive  Trafton.  5. 
Daniel,  February  7.  17201.  6.  .Abigail,  Janu- 
ary 7.  1722-3.  7.  Joseph,  October  5,  1725; 
died  April  29,  1726.  8.  Mary,  February  19, 
1726-7.  9.  James  (?).  March  7.  i727-S.'died 
August  10.  1728. 

(\")  Ephraim,  son  of  Ebenezer  (2)  Blais- 
dell,  was  born  at  York,  .Maine,  September  23, 
1717.  He  married  there.  May  3,  1742,  Thank- 
ful, daughter  of  Benjamin  Webber,  of  York. 
Probably  after  the  birth  of  his  first  child  in 
York,  he  settled  in  Lebanon,  Maine,  where  the 
other  children  were  born.  Children:  i.  Martha, 
born  May  11.  1743.  2.  Sarahf  ?),  married, 
October  17,  1766.  Benjamin  F"arnham.  3. 
Ejihraim,  married,  December  3,  1767,  Hannah 
liurrows.  4.  Ralph,  married,  July  11,  1768, 
Elizabeth  Herd.  5.  Elizabeth,  married,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1768,  Jabez  Garland.  6.  .Abigail, 
married,  August  19,  1773,  Moses  Goodwin. 
7.  Patience,  married.  March  22,  1778,  John 
Legrow.  8.  John,  born  .August  15,  17.S6;  mar- 
ried. July  12,  1778.  .Abigail  Eegrow.  9.  Thomas, 
mentioned  below.     Probably  other  children. 

(VI)  Thomas,  son  of  Ephraim  Blaisdell, 
was  born  in  Lebanon,  Maine,  and  resided 
there.  He  married,  March  ii,  1784,  Elizabeth 
Varney. 

(X'H)  David,  son  or  nephew  of  Thomas 
Blaisdell,  was  born  in  I-ebanon,  and  had  a  son 
.Samuel,  mentioned  below. 

(Vni)  Samuel,  son  of  David  Blaisdell,  lived 
in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  removed  to 
Somersworth,  New  Hampshire.  He  married 
Charlotte,  daughter  of  Charles  Sweet.  Chil- 
dren:  .Samuel.  Charles  M.  and  George  Albert, 
all  mentioned  below. 

nX  )  .Samuel  (2},  son  of  Samuel  O)  Blais- 
dell, was  born  in  Boston,  1833.  .At  the  age  of 
eleven  years  he  went  to  Great  Falls,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  went  to  work  in  the  cotton  mills 
there.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  returned  to 
Boston,  anfl  after  working  at  various  occu- 
pations entered  the  employ  of  the  Boston  & 
Providence  Railroafl  Com|)any.  He  remained 
nine  years,  filling  nearly  every  jiosition  of 
trust  and  res])onsibility  on  the  road.  Later  he 
removed  to  Xew  York,  and  took  charge  of  the 

i— J3 


business  of  the  Xew  A'ork  and  Providence 
Steamship  Company,  at  Pier  11,  North  River. 
I'pon  the  organization  of  the  New  York  & 
Baltimore  -Steamshi])  Comjtany  he  became  resi- 
dent agent  and  business  manager  of  the  line 
at  Baltimore.  This  coiu])any  was  a  success, 
and  (lid  a  large  business.  .At  the  close  of  the 
civil  war.  lines  were  put  in  ojieration  to  Savan- 
nah. Charleston  and  Mobile,  and  Mr.  Blais- 
dell cleared  for  Charleston  and  Savannah 
the  first  steamer  that  left  the  jwrt  of  Balti- 
more after  the  war.  He  also  sent  the  steamer 
"Kingfisher"  into  southern  waters  as  a  dis- 
patch boat,  bearing  disi)atches  from  Grant  to 
Sherman.  This  was  the  first  vessel  that  passed 
I'ort  Sumter  with  the  United  States  flag  after 
tlir  evacuation.  He  remained  in  Baltimore 
live  years,  during  which  time  he  furnished  the 
government  with  a  large  number  of  steamers 
for  the  troops  and  supplies.  Tn  1868  Mr. 
Blaisdell  went  to  Chicopce,  Massachusetts, 
and  establishcl  himself  in  the  cotton  business 
at  Chicopce  Junction,  in  company  with  George 
Mattoon.  Mr.  Mattoon  retired  in  May,  1872, 
and  Charles  M.  and  George  A.  Blaisdell  were 
admitted  to  the  firm.  The  business  was  at 
first  largely  in  cotton  waste,  but  a  large  trade 
was  built  up  by  the  new  firm  in  supplving  raw 
cotton  to  the  large  manufacturing  companies, 
direct  from  the  producers,  through  agents  in 
New  York.  Tn  April.  1879,  the  warehouse  was 
destroyed  by  fire.  He  transacted  the  largest 
business  of  its  kind  outside  the  city  of  New 
A'ork.  doing  a  business  of  from  one  to  two 
million  dollars  annually.  .Mr.  Blaisdell  is  a 
Republican  in  politics ;  he  has  never  sought 
public  office.  He  married,  in  i860,  Harriett 
Crane,  only  daughter  of  L.  H.  Crane,  of 
I'.rattleborough,  X'ermont :  children  :  Dasie  L., 
Ruby,  and  ATaude. 

(  LX)  Charles  M.,  .son  of  Samuel  (2  )  Blais- 
dell, was  born  in  Somersworth,  New  Hamp- 
shire. 1843.  fJi"!  '"  Chicopee,  February  12, 
1888.  Me  was  em[)loyed  as  a  clerk  in  the  old 
I'oston  &  Providence  Railroad  in  Boston,  at 
the  time  of  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war. 
He  enlisted  early  in  i86i  in  the  navy  and 
served  a  year,  being  discharged  in  March, 
1862.  on  account  of  small-pox.  He  went  home, 
intending  to  contimie  his  studies  at  the  Great 
Falls  high  school,  but  had  been  there  but  a 
few  weeks  when  he  enlisted  in  Company  F, 
.Ninth  Xew  Hampshire  Regiment  N'olunteers. 
He  remained  in  this  regiment  during  its  entire 
service,  being  absent  only  during  the  march 
from  Knoxville  to  Covington,  Kentucky,  act- 


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ing  as  assistant  commissary  sergeant  from  July 
to  October,  1863.  The  summer  following  the 
war  he  went  to  i'.oston  and  was  employed  by 
tiie  Boston  &  Providence  railroad  as  clerk.  In 
the  fall  of  1865  he  went  to  Florida,  and  for 
three  years  was  engaged  in  raising  cotton.  At 
the  end  of  that  time  he  returned  north  and 
went  into  business  with  his  brothers  in  Chic- 
opee  in  the  firm  of  S.  Blaisdell  Jr.  &  Company, 
dealers  in  cotton  and  wool.  His  business  abili- 
ties proved  to  be  of  the  highest,  and  a  large 
foreign  trade  was  established,  in  addition  to 
the  already  large  home  trade.  In  1888  he  be- 
came the  head  of  the  firm.  His  pleasing 
address  and  sterling  character  have  won  for 
him  and  for  the  firm  an  enviable  international 
reputation.  He  has  made  many  pleasant  trips 
abroad,  and  has  formed  many  friend^s  in 
foreign  countries.  He  married  Wary  H.  Starr, 
of  Deerfield,  Massachusetts,  daughter  of  A.  C. 
Starr. 

(IX)  George   Albert,  son  of   Samuel    (2) 
Blaisdell,    was    born    in    Somersworth,    New 
Hampshire,  October   19,   1849.     He  attended 
the  public  and  high  schools  of  his  native  town, 
graduating  in  the  class  of  1864.     He  was  for 
three  years  a  clerk   for  the   United  States  & 
Canada  Express  Company  at  Boston.  He  then 
entered   the   emi)loy   of   his   brother,    Samuel 
Blaisdell,  of  Chicopee,  then  the  largest  dealer 
in  cotton  in  the  United  States.     Later  he  was 
admitted  to  partnership  in  the  firm  of  S.  Blais- 
dell &  Company,  of  which  his  brother  Charles 
was  the  third  partner.     The  business  is  now 
conducted    by    the    two    surviving    partners, 
Charles  and  George  Albert  Blaisdell.     He  is  a 
member  of  Chicopee  Lodge  of  Free  Masons; 
of  Chicopee  Chapter,  Royal  .\rch  Masons:  of 
Springfield    Commandery.    Knights   Templar ; 
and  Massachusetts  Consistory,  32d  degree  ;  and 
of  Aleppo  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine.     He  is  a 
director  in  the  Chicopee  Board  of  Trade,  and 
a  trustee  of  the  Chicopee  Savings  Bank  and 
of  the  Masonic  Lodge.     He  is  a  member  of 
the  First  Unitarian  Church  of  Chicopee.     Mr. 
George    A.    Blaisdell    has    been    an   extensive 
traveller,  both  on  business  and   for  pleasure, 
covering  all  of  Europe,  parts  of  .Africa,  Spain, 
France,  Italy,  Russia,  etc.,  all  the  time  extend- 
ing the  business  of  the  firm  of  which  he  is  a 
member. 

He  married.  June  26,  1879,  Elizabeth  Blais- 
dell, born  in  Chicopee,  February  4.  1849, 
(laughter  of  Emanuel  J.  and  Maria  (MacDon- 
ald)  Blaisdell.  They  have  one  child,  .Mice 
Gertrude,  born  at  Chicopee,  July  12,  1884. 


The  surname  Haskins  and 
HASKIXS  Hoskins  are  identical,  and  in 
every  generation  both  ways  of 
spelling  have  been  in  use.  Hodgkins  is  another 
spelling  of  the  same  surname  and  perhaps  the 
most  common  in  England.  William  Haskins, 
or  Hoskins,  settled  in  Plymouth  in  1633,  and 
removed  to  Middleborough,  Massachusetts. 
Most  of  the  Haskins  of  New  England  trace 
their  ancestry  to  him. 

( I )  John  Hoskins  (or  Haskins),  the  immi- 
grant ancestor  of  this  family,  was  born  in 
England  and  came  to  America  in  1630  in  the 
ship  "Mary  and  John."  He  settled  first  at 
Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  and  was  admitted 
a  freeman.  May  18,  1631.  He  was  a  juryman, 
however,  November  9,  1630,  and  soon  after- 
ward became  a  proprietor.  He  removed  from 
Dorchester  with  the  first  party  of  colonists 
who  founded  Windsor,  Connecticut,  and  had 
lands  granted  him  in  1640.  He  was  a  deputy 
to  the  general  assembly  of  Connecticut  in 
1637.  He  married  Ann  Filer,  who  was 
admitted  to  the  church  April  9,  1648,  and  died 
March  6,  1662.  He  died  May  3,  1648,  and  his 
will,  dated  May  i,  1648,  bequeathed  to  the 
church,  to  the  poor,  to  his  wife  and  son 
Thomas.  Children:  i.  Thomas,  born  about 
1610;  mentioned  below.  2.  John,  born  in 
England  about  1612;  remained  at  Dorchester 
and  had  his  father's  homestead  there.  3. 
.Anthony,  born  in  Dorchester,  about  1632.  4. 
Rebecca,  born  about  1634;  married  Mark  Kel- 
sey,  March  8,  1659,  and  died  1683,  aged  forty- 
nine  years. 

(li)  Thomas,  son  of  John  Hoskins,  was 
born  in  F.ngland.  about  1610.  He  married,  at 
Windsor,  .\pril  20,  1653,  Elizabeth  Birge, 
widow,  daughter  of  Deacon  William  Gaylord. 
She  died  December  22,  1675,  and  he  died  April 
13,  iTir/).  Children:  i.  John,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Thomas,  born  June  20,  1656;  died 
young. 

(HI)  John  (2),  son  of  Thomas  Hoskins, 
was  born" May  29,  1654,  and  died  February  21, 
1734.  He  married,  January  29,  1677,  Deborah, 
daugiiter  of  1  lenry  Denslow,  who  was  killed 
bv  the  Indians  while  farming  at  Pine  Meadow 
in  1676.  She  died  in  1693-4,  and  he  married 
(second),  1699,  Ruth  .\tkins,  who  died  in 
1742,  aged  seventy-five.  Children  of  first  wife: 

1.  Deborah,  born  June  9,  1679:  married  Joseph 
Peck,  and   removed  to  Tolland,   Connecticut. 

2.  Elizabeth,  born   .August  22,   1682,    (twin)  ; 
married,   November   2,    1699,  Thomas  Thrall. 

3.  Susannah  or  Hannah   (twin),  born  .August 


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22,  1682.  4.  John,  born  June  13,  1688;  died 
young.  5.  Thomas,  born  May  21,  1693.  Chil- 
dren of  the  second  wife:  6.  John,  born  Decem- 
ber 5.  i/Oi ;  see  forward.  7.  Jonathan,  born 
1703;  died  unmarried.  8.  Mary,  born  April 
2,  1707,  died  November  19,  1727.  9.  .Vbigail, 
born  May  23,  1710:  married  Daniel  Finney. 
10.  ^largaret.  born  May  10,  1712:  married 
Henry  \"iets. 

(IV)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  lioskins, 
was  born  in  Windsor.  Connecticut,  December 
5,  1701,  and  died  in  1765.  lie  married,  August 
17'  I738-  Catherine  Viets.  who  died  November 
8.  1776.  daughter  of  John  and  Catherine 
(  Myers )  \'iets.  Her  father  was  of  German 
birth.  Children:  i.  John,  born  May  5,  1740; 
died  young.  2.  David,  born  May  24,  1741.  3. 
Simeon,  born  June  i.  1742.  4.  Mary,  born 
January  31,  1746:  married  David  Viets,  of 
Simsbury.  Connecticut.  5.  Ezekiel,  born  Jan- 
uary 3.  1748:  mentioned  below.  6.  Catherine, 
born  September  16,  1750:  died  aged  fifteen. 
7.  Benjamin,  born  December  7,  1752,  died 
January  15,  1753.  8.  benjamin,  born  Decem- 
ber 25,  1753 ;  died  unmarried,  and  gave  his 
property  to  his  nephew  Eli. 

(V)  Ezekiel.  son  of  John  (3)  Hoskins,  was 
born  in  Windsor,  January  3,  1748;  married, 
about  1775,  Elizabeth  Skinner,  of  Simsbury, 
Connecticut.  Children:  i.  Esther,  baptized 
October  19,  1776;  married  Roswell  Miller,  and 
died  November  12,  1826.  2.  Elizabeth.  ba]i- 
tized  October  25,  1778;  died  young.  3.  Sarah, 
born  March  28,  1781.  4.  Chloe.  born  1783. 
5.   Eli,   mentioned   below.     6.    Silas,   baptized 

(\  1 }  Eli.  son  of  Ezekiel  Hoskins,  was  born 
at  Windsor,  .April  18,  1785,  and  married,  about 
1806.  Harriet  Richardson  of  Windsor.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Henry,  born  November  30,  1807; 
married     Fidelia     Skinner;     (second)     about 

1855. .    2.  Edward,  born  June  11,  1809; 

married  Harriet  Ann  Abbe,  of  Enfield.  3. 
Erastus,  born  May  28,  181 1;  married 
Rebecca  Shepard.  4.  Benjamin,  born  June  5, 
1813:  mentioned  below.  5.  Harriet,  born 
June  9,  1815;  married  James  Y.  Burnham; 
died  May  11,  1846.  6.  Catherine,  born  Janu- 
ary 9,  1817;  died  February  13,  1817.  7. 
Horace  B.,  born  .April  9.  1820;  married  Fidelia 
Holcomb.  8.  William  R.,  born  February  5, 
1826:  died  unmarried,  February  3,  1803. 

CVH)  Benjamin  Haskins,  son  of  Eli  Hos- 
kins, was  born  in  Windsor.  June  5,  1813,  and 
died  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  November 
27,  1846.  He  married  Amy  B.  Shipman,  No- 
vember 26.  1834.     He  removed  to  Springfield, 


where  he  was  chef  in  the  Massasoit  House, 
and  where  he  died.  Children:  I.  Edward, 
died  young.  2.  Benjamin  Strong,  mentioned 
below.  Benjamin  Haskins  and  one  of  his 
brothers  changed  the  spelling  of  the  name  to 
Haskins.  while  two  of  the  brothers  still  con- 
tinued to  use  Hoskins. 

(\1II)  Benjamin  Strong,  son  of  Benjamin 
Haskins,  was  born  in  Hartford.  Connecticut, 
-Vpril  3,  1838.  He  removed  to  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  with  his  parents,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  that  city.  He 
worked  at  the  trade  of  making  gold  chains 
until  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war.  In 
August,  1 861,  he  enlisted  for  the  war  as  a 
musician  in  the  Seventh  Maine  Regiment 
r>and  for  three  years,  but  was  discharged  by 
act  of  congress  in  1862,  all  bands  being  dis- 
pensed with.  He  returned  to  Springfield  and 
became  an  inspector  in  the  United  States 
armory,  and  later  held  the  same  ])osition  in 
the  Smith  &  Wesson  factory.  In  jjolitics  he  is 
a  RcjHihlican,  and  .served  as  a  member  of  the 
Springfield  city  council  in  1873-74.  He  is  a 
member  of  Roswell  Lee  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  and  has  held  all  the  offices 
of  tlie  lodge  up  to  master.  He  married,  at 
Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  December  24, 
1862,  Sarah  Harrison  Walton,  born  July  28, 
1840,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Wal- 
ton. Her  father  was  a  sea  captain.  Children  : 
I.  Harry  Walton,  born  November  28,  1864, 
mentioned  below.  2.  .Arthur  Shipman,  born 
January  4,  1871  :  married.  October  14,  1897, 
Helen  Jane  Phelps,  of  Holyoke.  3.  Benjamin 
Strong,  born  July  29,  1874.  4.  William  Horace, 
born  (  )ctohcr  7,  J  877,  married  Flora  Stevens, 
of  .Springfield. 

fIX)  Harry  Walton,  son  of  I'.enjamin 
Strong  Haskins,  was  born  in  Springfield,  No- 
vember 28,  1864.  He  attended  the  jjublic 
schools  of  his  native  place,  graduating  from 
the  high  school  in  the  class  of  1882.  Soon 
after  his  graduation  he  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Chapin  Pai)cr  &  Pulp  Company,  where  he 
worked  about  ten  montlis.  He  left  there  to 
take  a  position  as  office  boy  in  the  Massachu- 
■setts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company;  he  rose 
steadily  and  was  for  many  years  second  assist- 
ant secretary  and  later  was  appointed  assistant 
secretary,  a  position  he  held  with  credit  until 
his  death.  For  many  years  he  was  a  member 
of  Sjiringficld  Lodge,  Free  and  .Accepted 
Masons,  having  been  one  of  the  organizers 
and  serving  as  first  master;  member  of  the 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons;  Springfield 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar ;  Melha  Tcm- 


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pie,   Order   of    the    Myotic    Shrine,    in    all   of 
which  he  has  held  prominent  office,     f-'ew  men 
have  had  a  wider  circle  of  friends  than  he  m 
business  or  in  lodges.     Though  he  was  never 
a  member  of  any  church,  he  was  brought  up 
in  Hope  Church   Sunday  school,  and  always 
attended  there,  and  served  the  church  as  treas- 
urer  for  two  years.     Many  outside  places  of 
trust  have  been  given  him  in  recognition  of 
his  abilities  as  a  business  man  and  his  integrity. 
He  was  a  keen  lover  of  sport  in  all  forms,  but 
rarely  took  the  time  away  from  the  office  to 
gratify  his  liking  for  it.    During  his  long  labor 
in  the  company,  extending  over  a  period  of 
iwenty-onc   years,   he  had   given   the  helping 
iiand  "to  manv  a  young  man  making  a  start  in 
life,  and  will' be  held  in  grateful  remembrance 
far  beyond  the  limits  of  the  city  of  Springfield. 
He   married,    Ume   26,     1895,    Estelle    Marie 
Wagner,   born   April   27,    1871,   at    Dunmore, 
Pennsylvania,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mehit- 
able    (Spencer)    Wagner,    granddaughter    of 
Daniel  and  Charity  (  Silvernail )   Wagner  and 
Edward  Spcnctr.  '  Mr.  Haskins  died  Decem- 
ber 9.  1904,  at  his  home,  133  St.  James  ave- 
nue,    Sjjringfield,     from    a    coiuplication     of 
diseases.     The  following  notice  was  sent  out 
by  Mr.  Phillips,  vice-president  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company:  "It 
is  my  painful  duty  to  announce  the  death  of 
Mr.  Harry  W.  Haskins,  assistant  secretary  of 
the  Com])any,  which  occurred  last  evening  at 
his  home  in  this  city,  after  an  illness  of  six 
months'   duration.      Mr.    Haskins   entered   the 
service  of  the   Com])any,  as  a  boy,   in    1883, 
after  graduation    from   the    Springfield    high 
school,  and  step  by  step  advanced  to  the  posi- 
tion of  auditor  and  assistant  secretary,  both 
of  which  he  had  filled  for  several  years.     Of 
unswerving    honesty    and    integrity     in     both 
thought  and  act.  loving  and  lovable  in  all  his 
associations ;  active,  conscientious,  and   faith- 
ful in   the  discharge  of  every  duty;   his  loss 
will  be  sadly  and  (leeply  felt,  not  only  by  the 
officers  and  cmi)loyes  of  the  Company,  but  also 
by  a  wide  circk'  of  friends  and  acquaintances." 

Thomas  Chuhl),  immigrant  an- 
Clirm;      ccstor  of  all  of  this  name  so  far 

as  known,  was  born  in  1609, 
in  England,  jirobably  in  (.'rewkcrne.  county 
Somerset.  He  came  to  lioston  with  the  first 
settlers.  He  was  a  carpenter,  and  had  bound 
himself,  presumably  for  his  jjassage  money, 
to  Samuel  Maverick,  and  was  freed  by  court 
from  his  obligation  and  engaged  to  William 
Gaylord,  of  Dorchester,  May  3,  I''>3I,  (Colon- 


ial Records).  He  removed  from  Dorchester 
t(j  Salem  abfuit  1636,  and  later  to  Beverly. 
He  was  an  active  citizen  and  appears  rather 
often  as  a  party  or  witness  in  litigation  in 
early  court  records.  He  died  October  17, 
1688,  according  to  Beverly  records.  His  mar- 
riage is  not  recorded,  but  his  children  were : 
1.  Thomas,  see  forward.  2.  John,  born  about 
I  ^'55-  3-  Susanna,  married,  November  2, 
1676,  Martin  Hall.  4.  Pasco  (?),  settled  in 
Andover;  married.  May  29,  1689,  Hannah 
Faulkner;  killed  by  Indians,  January  23.  1698. 

5.  William,  soldier  at  Hadley  in  King  Philip's 
war,  April.  1676. 

(H)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i) 
Chubb,  was  born  in  Salem  or  Beverly,  1650- 
51  :  was  eighteen  in  1669,  then  of  Ipswich.  He 
lived  in  Beverly.     He  married,  May  9,   1672, 

;\Iercy ,  of  Dorchester.    Children,  born 

in  Beverly:  i.  Thomas,  see  forward.  2.  Mary, 
born  July  10,  1682.  3.  Mercy,  born  March  2, 
1685-86,  married  Joseph  Tree.  4.  Elizabeth. 
born  June  25,  1688.  5.  John,  born  September 
14.  168 — :  settled  in  Xeedham  ;  died  February 
2S.  17S5:  his  widow  appointed  administratrix, 
Xovemiier  21,  same  year,  and  guardian  of 
daughter  Silence,  August  14,  1761.  6.  Ebe- 
nezer,  baptized  January  5,  1695-96;  soldier; 
in  Boston  :  administration  granted  Mary  Shepi- 
son,  widow,  of  Hebron,  Connecticut,  October 
I,  1723.    7.  Samuel,  baptized  January  5.  1695- 

06.  8.  William,  settled  in  Xeedham  ;  builder 
there  in  1728,  and  collector:  widow  l-"rances, 
of  I'.rookline,  and  John  Whitmore,  apjKjinted 
to  administer  his  estate,  January,  ijtn  ;  chil- 
dren: William,  John,  Samuel,  Sarah,  Mary, 
Lucv,  Ebenezer. 

(ill)  Thomas  (3),  son  of  Thomas  (2) 
Chubb,  was  born  in  Beverly  or  vicinity,  about 
1675.  He  settled  in  Boston  about  1700.  He 
married  Eliza  ;  children,  born  in  Bos- 
ton: I.  Elizabeth,  September  27,  1703.  2. 
Benjamin,    June    27,     1706,    married     Lydia 

,  and  had  son  Benjamin.    3.  Xathaniel, 

March  3,  1709-10,  settled  at  Marblehead  ;  mar- 
ried, in  Boston,  June  2,  1733,  and  had  son 
Thomas,  baptized  .August  11,  1734.  and  four 
daughters  later.     4.  Thomas. 

(I\)  Thomas  (4),  son  of  Thomas  (3) 
Chubb,  was  born  in  Boston,  between  171 5  and 
1720.  He  settled  in  Charlestown.  He  mar- 
ried, in  Boston.  June  13.  1747.  Abigail  Reed, 
who  ilied  l'"ebruary  21,  1804,  aged  eighty  years. 
.She  w-as  his  widow  in  1771,  and  bought  the 
house  occupied  by  her  son,  Thomas  Chubb, 
southwest  of  Back  Lane.  Administration  on 
her  estate  was  granted  May  14.  1807. 


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(V)  Thomas  (5),  only  known  child  of 
Thomas  (4)  Chubb,  was  born  in  Boston,  about 
1750.  He  was  a  hairdresser  l)y  trade,  in  the 
(lays  of  powdered  wigs.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  revolution,  from  Charlestown,  private  in 
Captain  Josiah  Harris's  company,  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  William  Bond's  Thirty-seventh  regi- 
ment (late  Colonel  Gardner's)  in  1775.  He 
and  his  wife  Elizabeth  in  1804  sold  the  house 
bought  by  his  mother  to  John  Harvey  Jr.  His 
son  Thomas,  mentioned  below,  was  ])robably 
by  a  former  wife. 

( \T )  Thomas  (6),  son  of  Thomas  (5) 
Chubb,  was  born  in  Boston,  about  1781,  and 
died  September  6,  1849.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  war  of  1812.  He  married  .Abigail  Reaver- 
stock.  Children:  I.  Thomas,  see  forward. 
2.  John,  died  aged  ninety  years ;  married.  May 
28,  1840,  Mary  .Aim  Abbott.  3.  Sarah,  mar- 
ried, November  25,  1834,  Moses  .Xason.  4. 
Abigail,  died  young.  5.  Lucy,  married,  May 
23,  1830,  Xelson  Cutler.  .All  of  these  children 
are  deceased. 

(\TI|  Commodore  Thomas  (7),  son  of 
Thomas  (6)  Chubb,  was  born  in  Charlestown. 
June  12.  1811.  died  .Vugust  29,  i8()0.  at  his 
summer  home  at  Post  Mills.  X'ermont.  Like 
many,  perhaps  all,  of  his  paternal  ancestors, 
he  followefl  the  sea.  He  married  Phoebe 
P>riggs.  who  died  in  1866,  aged  fifty  years, 
daughter  of  llarncy  Briggs,  of  an  old  Cape 
Cod  family :  the  other  children  of  Barney 
Briggs  were  Barney,  Mary  and  Rebecca.  Chil- 
dren of  Commodore  Thomas  and  Phoebe 
(Briggs)  Chubb:  i.  Abigail,  born  in  Charles- 
town, Massachusetts.  December  18.  1831,  mar- 
ried General  T.  J.  Chambers,  of  Texas ;  died 
February  6,  1898;  children:  i.  Kate,  married 
Fred  K.  Sturges,  and  resided  in  (ialveston, 
Texas :  ii.  Stella,  married  Donald  McGregor, 
of  Galveston.  2.  Thomas  Henry,  born  in 
Charlestown.  Xovember  4,  1836,  married,  Sep- 
tember I,  1859,  Isabel  Mason,  of  Baltimore, 
now  of  South  Framington,  Massachusetts; 
children  :  i.  Abbie  Eliza,  born  June  4,  i860, 
died  December  19,  i860;  ii.  Isabel  M.,  born 
December  3.  1861,  died  March  18,  1865:  iii. 
Thomas,  born  December  12,  1863,  married, 
September  4,  1901,  Esther  B.  Knigtit  and  had 
three  children  :  Thomas  R.,  born  July  4,  1902  ; 
Sheldon  R.,  born  October  29,  1904:  William 
H.,  born  June  12,  1906:  iv.  Phoebe,  born  July 
28,  1865:  v.  William  M..  born  January  22, 
1868,  died  May  2,  1869;  vi.  William  M..  born 
December  13,  1870;  vii.  Isabel.  br)rn  February 
14,  1872;  viii.  Frank  M..  born  March  26.  1874, 
marriefl  Emma  Grafflin  :  one  chil''.  I'rank  \.. 


born  October  29,  1904.  3.  Cecilia,  born  in 
Charlestown.  September  22,  1842,  resided  in 
Galveston,  Texas:  married  H.  X.  Duble,  of 
( 'hio,  now  deceased:  children:  Harry  C, 
Charles  W..  Lee,  Phebe,  Kate,  Randall, 
Thomas  Henry.  4.  John,  born  in  Galveston, 
Texas,  January  3,  1850,  died  in  Boston,  Janu- 
ary 30,  1905:  married  Lola  Sturges,  of  Gal- 
veston, .September  21,  1869:  children:  i. 
Diihle,  born  187 1  :  ii.  Ivlward  C,  born  1874, 
(lied  i()o8:  iii.  ."kidney,  died  irpo ;  iv.  Lola, 
born  1884;  V.  Kenneth,  born  1890.  5.  Will- 
iam Bennett,  see  forward. 

(\  HI)  William  Bennett,  son  of  Commodore 
Thomas  (7)  Chubb,  was  born  in  Galveston, 
Texas,  June  22,  1853.  He  married,  at  Post 
Mills,  X'ermont,  January  14,  1880.  Jennie  E. 
Guild,  born  at  \Vest  I'airlee.  \'ermont.  Feb- 
ruary 24.  1862.  daughter  of  Samuel  Harvey 
and  Susan  (Dearborn)  Guild  (see  Dearborn). 

(The  Dearborn  Line). 

( I)  Godfrey  Dearborn,  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  born,  according  to  tradition,  in  Exeter, 
Devonshire,  England.  He  settled  in  Exeter, 
.\ow  Hampshire,  about  1639,  under  Wheel- 
wright, and  signed  the  famous  Compact.  .After 
living  there  ten  years,  he  removed  to  Hamp- 
ton, New  Hampshire,  lie  was  selectman  of 
E.xeter  in  1648.  In  March  4,  1650,  seats  were 
assigned  "(ioodman  and  Goody  Dearborn"  in 
the  Hamjiton  meeting  lunise.  Mis  home  was 
in  the  west  end  of  the  town  of  Hampton,  on 
the  farm  latterly  if  not  now  occupied  by  a 
lineal  descendant.  His  descendants  have  been 
very  numerous  in  Hampton  and  vicinity.  He 
married  (  first )  perhaps  in  England  ;  (  second ) 
Xovember  25,  1662,  Hannah,  widow  of  Phile- 
mon Dalton.  Children  of  first  wife  :  i.  Henry, 
born  1633;  married  IClizabeth  Marrian :  died 
January  18,  1725.  2.  Thomas,  born  1634  ;  men- 
tioned ijeiow.  3.  Sarah,  died  .August  21,  1714: 
married  Thomas  Xudd.  4.  I"'sther,  married 
Richard  Shortridge.  of  Portsmouth.  5.  Daugh- 
ter. 6.  John,  born  about  1742:  married  Mary 
Ward;  riied  Xovember  14,  1731. 

(  II )  Deacon  Thomas,  son  of  Godfrey  Dear- 
born, was  born  in  England,  in  1634,  and  died 
in  Hampton,  .April  14,  1 7 10.  He  married, 
December  28,  1663,  Haiuiah  Colcord,  and  re- 
sided in  that  section  of  Hami)ton  known  as 
"Drake  Side."  He  was  a  leading  citizen  and 
a  deacon  of  the  Hampton  churcli.  Children, 
born  in  Hampton:  i.  Samuel.  May  27,  1676; 
married  Sarah  Gove.  2.  Ebenezer.  October  3, 
1679 :  tTientioncfl  below.  3.  Thomas,  born 
abmU  1681  :  married  Mary  Garland.     4.  Jona- 


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than,  Xovember  i8,  i686:  married  Mary 
;  (second)  Sarah  Waite,  who  died  Sep- 
tember lo,  1771- 

(III)  Lieutenant  Ebenezer,  son  of  Deacon 
Thomas  Dearborn,  was  born  in  Hampton, 
October  3,  1679,  and  died  March  15,  1772,  aged 
ninety-three.  He  married.  October  7.  1703, 
Abigail  Sanborn,  born  October  I.  1686,  died 
February  26,  1768,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
granddaughter  of  John  Sanborn.  Like  his 
father  he  was  deacon  of  the  church.  He  was 
one  of  the  grantees  of  the  town  of  Chester, 
New  Hampshire,  and  with  his  five  sons  settled 
there  in  1729  or  1730.  He  had  lot  No.  121, 
the  deed  of  which  was  dated  October  3,  1729, 
and  in  it  he  was  called  of  Hampton.  His  home 
lot  was  Xo.  17,  at  Chester,  nearly  opposite 
the  old  White  place,  where  Joseph  Webster 
now  or  lately  resided.  He  was  moderator  at 
the  town  meeting  in  Chester,  March  26,  1729- 
30,  and  was  elected  selectman  at  the  town 
meeting  following.  He  was  elected  deacon  of 
the  Chester  church  in  1734.  and  held  various 
town  offices.  He  served  against  the  Indians, 
in  Captain  James  Davis's  com])any  of  scouts, 
in  1712,  and  was  later  lieutenant  of  his  com- 
pany. His  will  was  dated  March  17,  1767, 
and  proved  May  27.  1772.  Children:  i.  Ebe- 
nezer, born  January  7,  1705;  married  (first) 
January  13.  1 731.  Hnldah  Xason ;  (second) 
I'.lizabeth  .'~lwain.  widow.  2.  Hannah,  baptized 
March  9,  1707.    3.  Mehitable,  burn  November 

4.  1709;  married  Deacon  Xathaniel  Fitts.  4. 
Peter,  born  Xovember  14,  17 10;  mentioned 
below.  5.  llenjamin,  born  .\ugust  I,  1715.  6. 
Michael,  born  .\pril  17,  1719;  married  Doro- 
tiiy  Colby.  7.  .Abigail,  born  January  27,  1721  ; 
married.  October  26,  1742,  James  \'arnum.  8. 
Mary,  born  June  11,  1723. 

(I\^)  Peter,  son  of  Lieutenant  Ebenezer 
Di-arbcjrn.  was  born  Xovember  14,  1710.  and 
<lied  October  28,  1781.  He  resided  at  Hamp- 
ton on  lot  No.  25,  on  the  cross  road  from 
Derry.  He  married,  December  2,  1736.  Mar- 
garet Fifield,  of  Kingston.  Children,  born  at 
Hampton:  i.  .\niia,  born  October  17,  1737; 
died  Xovember,  1780:  married  John,  son  of 
Ephraim  Hasclton.  2.  i'eter,  born  January  26, 
1740:  married.  December  26,  1765,  Tabitha 
Morrill;  died  October  24,  1 770.  3.  Deacon 
Jose])h.  born  August  17,  1742:  married  1761, 
I'.etty.  daughter  of  Deacon  Jonas  Hall ;  was 
lieutenant  and  captain.     4.  Mary,  born   1746. 

5.  Josiah,  born  November  6,  1751  ;  mentioned 
lielow.  6.  Sarah,  born  Sei)tember  16,  1754.  7. 
Asa,  born  July  25,  175^^):  married  .\ima  Emer- 
son   and    remcived    to    Chelsea.    \'erninnt.      8. 


Sherburne,  born  September  5,  1758;  married. 
May,  1779,  Elizabeth  Towle,  daughter  of  Isaac 
Towle. 

( \' )  Josiah,  son  of  Peter  Dearborn,  was 
born  in  Hampton,  November  6,  1751,  and  died 
.April  28,  1830.  He  was  in  the  revolution,  in 
1775  in  Captain  Henry  Elkins"  company;  also 
in  1776  in  Captain  David  RuimelTs  company. 
Colonel  Thomas  Tash's  regiment;  also  in  1777 
in  Captain  .Moses  Leavitt's  company.  Colonel 
Moses  Nichols'  regiment;  and  in  1781  in  Cap- 
tain Jacob  Webster's  company.  Colonel  Rey- 
nolds' regiment,  of  Hampton.  He  removed 
from  Chester  to  Weare  about  1790.  While  in 
Chester,  he  resided  on  the  John  Aiken  place. 
He  married,  in  .August,  1779.  Susannah  Emer- 
son, born  .Ai^ril  13,  1762,  died  .August  13.  1847, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Emerson.  Children,  born 
at  W'eare:  i.  Nehemiah.  March  9,  1780;  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Susannah,  January  19,  1782; 
married  Winthrop  Green,  died  September  25, 
1810.  3.  Henry,  November  19,  1783;  removed 
to  Corinth,  Vermont.  4.  Josiah,  .August  28, 
1785;  resided  in  Weare.  5.  Edmund,  January 
8.  1788,  removed  to  Corinth.  6.  Samuel.  .Au- 
gust 18,  1792;  married  Miriam  Sargent,  and 
went  to  Corinth.  7.  David,  November  19, 
1796.  8.  Jonathan,  November  19,  1796  (twin)  ; 
married.  1825,  Mary  .A.  Rogers ;  died  March 
3,  1828.  9.  Peter,  June  20,  1801  ;  lived  in 
Weare.  10.  John,  February  6,  1803;  lived  in 
Weare.  11.  Closes,  February  6,  1805;  lived  in 
\\'eare.  12.  Sarah,  .April  12,  1809;  married 
Hiram  Nichols. 

( \T )  Nehemiah.  son  of  Josiah  Dearborn, 
was  born  .March  9,  1780.  in  Chester,  New 
Hampshire.  He  settled  in  Vershire,  \'ermont. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  leading  citizen  of  the 
town.  He  attended  the  I'.ajitist  church.  He 
died  at  \'ershire,  December  29,  1846.  He 
married,  Xovember  8,  1820,  Judith  Huntoon, 
born  February  25,  1799,  died  July  17,  1881. 
Children  born  at  \'ershire  and  Corinth,  Ver- 
mont: I.  Nathaniel,  October  6.  1821  ;  mar- 
ried    Tuller.     2.  Susan  H.,  January  4, 

1823,  died  May  i6.  1824.  3.  Hannah.  Novem- 
ber 4,  1824;  married  Silas  Titus.  4.  Fannie  ].. 
-August  9,  1827.  5.  .Susan  O.,  mentioned  below. 
fi.  Charles  C,  November  21.  1832:  never  mar- 
ried. 7.  Mary  S.,  .April  23.  1834;  married 
(first)  Preston  Philbrick:  (second)  I'Vank 
I'otter.  8.  Caroline  F..  December  8.  1836; 
married  James  Patten.  9.  .Allen  J..  January 
28'.  1839;  only  one  living;  married  Almena 
.Avery.  10.  George  M.,  .August  5.  1841  ;  mar- 
ried Mary  Ella  Robey. 

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Dearborn,  wa^^  bcirii  in  Vershire.  June  lo. 
1829.  She  married,  in  1836.  Samuel  Harvey 
Guild,  born  at  West  Fairlce.  October  24.  1825, 
died  September  26.  1872.  in  Post  Mills,  \'er- 
mont.  They  lived  at  West  Fairlee.  \ermont. 
He  was  a  Congregationalist  in  early  life,  after- 
ward attended  the  Second  Advent  Church. 
In  his  younger  days  he  was  a  \\'hig  in  [lolitics, 
but  became  a  Republican  when  that  party  was 
organized.  I  (e  was  a  member  of  the  school 
committee.  He  was  a  prosperous  farmer.  His 
wife  was  a  lifelong  member  of  the  Congre- 
gational (CJrthodox)  church.  Children,  born 
at  West  Fairlee:  i.  Emma  L.  Guild.  Septem- 
ber 3,  1858;  married  W.  H.  Reckwith  ;  they 
live  in  Post  Mills  \'illage.  2.  Carrie  Guild, 
March  15.  i860 ;  married  F.  O.  Stanwood  :  they 
live  in  I'runswick.  Maine :  child,  Eldon  Guild 
Stanwood,  born  June  i,  1895.  3.  Jennie  Guild, 
February  24.  1862:  married  William  B.  Chubb 
(see  Chubb  family).  4.  Eldon  Harvey  Guild, 
December  8.  1865.  at  Post  Mills,  died  October 
3.  1880.  5.  Xellie  S.  Guild,  December  8,  1868, 
died  May  10,  1878. 


This  name  is  derived  from  fish.  The 
FISK     breakfasting    Englishman    of    early 

times  ate  his  fisc.  The  family  flour- 
ished in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  England,  as 
early  as  the  reign  of  King  John  in  1208.  In 
that  year  we  find  the  name  of  Daniel  Fisc, 
of  Laxfield,  where  he  ocupied  manorial  lands 
and  had  a  coat-of-arms.  .\mong  the  distin- 
guished men  of  this  line  were  Professor  John 
Fisk,  the  historian:  General  Clinton  Pi.  Fisk, 
of  New  Jersey,  who  ran  on  the  Prohibition 
ticket  for  president ;  Colonel  James  Fisk  Jr.. 
the  Xew  York  banker:  the  Hon.  Stephen  .\. 
Douglas:  Ezekiel  A.  Straw,  governor  of  Xew 
Hampshire:  and  Gail  Hamilton,  the  authoress. 
When  a  country  is  new  and  agricultural,  the 
tendency  of  emigration  as  the  inhabitants 
expand,  is  to  follow  the  river  from  its  mouth 
to  its  source.  In  this  way,  Lebanon,  Xew 
Hampshire,  and  nearly  all  the  towns  along  the 
Connecticut  N'alley.  were  peopled  from  down 
below.  Even  institutions  so  travel.  Dart- 
mouth College  was  a  Connecticut  fledgling 
before  its  location  in  the  wilds  of  northern 
Xew  Hampshire.  P.ut  in  the  run  of  years 
after  the  country  has  developed  along  com- 
mercial and  manufacturing  lines  there  is  a 
reactionary  movement  from  the  farms  and  the 
hillside  to  repossess  the  land  of  the  fathers 
and  the  treke  down  the  river  to  the  centers  of 
population  sets  in.  Down  the  river  to  S[)ring- 
field   came   those   great   captains  of   industry. 


I'.lisha  Morgan.  Thomas  W.  Wason  and 
George  C.  Fisk.  Members  of  the  family  in 
.America  for  centuries  have  been  ])r()mineiit  in 
])rivatc  and  public  life  as  clergymen,  lawyers, 
l)hysicians,  financiers,  soldiers,  merchants, 
teachers  and  professors  in  college,  farmers, 
philanthropists  and  patriots.  Rev.  I'errin  B. 
I'iske.  of  Lyndon,  Vermont,  has  written  of 
them  : 

"Ffische.   Fisc,   FIske,   Fisk   (spell   It   eUher  way) 

Meant  true  knlghthooil,  freedom,  faith,  pood  quali- 
ties that  stay. 

Brethren,  let  the  ancient  name  mean  just  the  same 
for  aye. 

•Forward,  every  youth!  to  seek  the  higher  good 
to-day!'  " 

(I)  Lord  Symond  Fiske,  grandson  of  Dan- 
iel Fisc,  was  Lord  of  the  ^lanor  of  Stand- 
haugh,  parish  of  Laxfield,  county  of  Suffolk, 
F.ngland,  lived  in  the  reign  of  Henry  1\'  and 
\"1  11399-1422).  He  married  Susannah 
Smyth,  and  after  her  death,  he  had  wife 
Katherine.  Symond  Fiske,  of  Laxfield,  will 
dated  December  22,  1463,  proved  at  Xorwich, 
I'ebruary  26,  1463-64,  died  in  February,  1464. 
He  was  survived  by  five  children:  William, 
Jeffrey,  John,  Edmund  and  Margaret. 

(II)  \\'illiam,  eldest  son  of  Symond  Fiske, 
born  at  Standhaugh,  county  of  Suffolk,  Eng- 
land, and  lived  during  the  reign  of  Henry  \T, 
Edward  IV,  Richard  IH  and  Henry  VTI.  He 
died  about  1504,  was  survived  by  his  wife, 
who  (lied  in  1505,  and  left  seven  children: 
William,  Augustine,  Simon,  Robert,  John, 
Margery  and  Margaret. 

(III)  Simon,  son  of  William  and  Joan 
(Lyme)  Fiske,  was  in  Laxfield,  date  unknown. 

He   married    Elizabeth   ,    who   died    in 

Halesworth.  June.  1558.  In  his  will  made  July 
10,  1536.  he  desired  to  be  buried  at  the  chancel 
end  of  the  church  of  .All  Saints,  in  Laxfield. 
He  died  in  that  town  in  June.  1538,  leaving 
(living  or  dead)  ten  children:  .Simon,  Will- 
iam. Robert,  Joan,  Jeffrey,  Gelyne,  Agnes, 
Thomas,  Elizabeth  and  John. 

(IV)  Simon  (2),  son  of  Simon  (1)  and 
Elizabeth  Fiske,  was  born  in  Laxfield.  The 
name  of  his  wife  and  date  of  his  marriage  are 
not  known.  He  died  in  1605.  His  children 
were:  Robert.  John,  (jeorge,  Xicholas,  Jeffrey, 
William,  Richard,  Joan,  (lelyne  and  Agnes. 

(  \' )  Robert,  son  of  Simon  (2)  I'^iske,  was 
born  in  Sandhaugh  about  1525.  He  married 
Mrs.  Sybil  (Gould)  Barber.  For  some  time 
he  was  of  the  parish  of  .St.  James,  South  Elm- 
ham,  England.     Sybil,  lu^  wife,  was  in  great 


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danger  in  the  time  of  the  reUgious  persecution, 
1553-58,  as  was  her  sister  Isabelle,  originally 
Gould,  who  was  confined  in  the  Castle  of  Nor- 
wich, and  escaped  death  only  by  the  power  of 
her  brothers,  who  were  men  of  great  influence 
in  the  county.  Robert  Fiske  fled  from  relig- 
ious persecution  in  the  days  of  Queen  Mary 
to  Geneva,  but  leturned  later  and  died  in  .St. 
James  in  i(xx).  llis  sons  were:  William,  Jef- 
frey, Thomas  and  Eleazer.  The  latter  had  no 
issue,  but  the  progeny  of  the  other  three  sons, 
in  whole  or  in  part,  settled  in  New  England. 
Besides  these  sons  there  was  a  daughter  Eliza- 
beth who  married  Robert  I'.ernard ;  their 
daughter  married  a  Mr.  Locke,  and  was  the 
mother  of  the  celebrated  John  Locke,  the 
Engli>h  ])hilosoi)her. 

(\'I)  William  (2),  eldest  child  of  Robert 
and  Sybil  (  Gould )  Fiske,  was  born  at  Lax- 
field  in  1566.  He  married  .\nna  Austye, 
daughter  of  Walter,  of  Fibbenham,  Long 
Row.  in  Norfolk.    After  her  death  he  married 

Alice .    He  is  described  as  of  St.  James 

in  South  Elmham,  and  it  is  said  of  him  that 
he  fled  with  his  father  from  religious  persecu- 
tion. He  died  in  1623.  Of  the  first  wife 
■Anna,  there  were  children:  John,  Nathaniel, 
Eleazer,  Eunice,  Hannah  and  Esther  (some- 
times called  Hester).  The  youngest  child  Mary 
seems  to  have  been  of  the  second  wife,  .\lice. 
(\  H)  Nathaniel,  second  son  of  William  and 
.Anna  (.Austye)  Fiske.  was  horn  in  Ditching- 
ham,  and  resided  at  Weybred.  He  married 
Alice  (Hencj)  Leman.  Children:  Nathaniel 
and  Sarah. 

(VHI)  Nathaniel  (2),  eldest  son  of  Nathan- 
iel (i)  and  .Alice  (Henel)  (Leman)  Fiske, 
was  born  in  Weybred.  There  is  a  tradition 
in  the  family  that  he  died  on  the  passage  to 
New  England.  He  married  Dorothy,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Symonds,  of  Wendham.  Children: 
John.  Nathan,  ICsther,  Martha. 

(IX)  Nathan,  second  son  of  Nathaniel  (2) 
and  Dorothy  (Symonds)  Fiske,  was  born  in 
1615.  died  June  21,  1676,  in  Watertown,  Mass- 
achusetts. He  settled  in  Watertown  as  early 
as  1642.  and  was  admitted  a  freeman.  May  10, 
1643.  He  was  selectman  in  1673,  and  his 
homestall  was  the  lot  in  the  town  plot  granted 
to  R.  Frake  on  the  north  side  of  the  Sudbury 
road,  opposite  to  .\.  Brown.  His  sister.  ^Lirtha 
I'nderwood,  testified  that  he  was  very  "crazy" 
in  his  memory  before  be  died.  He  married 
Susannah  (surname  unknown).  Children: 
Nathan,  John,  David,  Nathaniel,  Sarah. 

(\)  Nathaniel  (3),  fourth  son  of  Nathan 
and  Susannah  Fiske,  was  borii  in  Watertown, 


July  12,  1653,  died  there  September,  1735.  He 
was  a  weaver.  His  will  was  dated  June  10, 
and  proved  CJctober  3,  1735,  and  the  estate 
inventoried  one  hundred  and  forty-two  pounds. 
He  married  the  Widow  Mary  (Warren) 
Child,  born  November  29,  165 1.  a  daughter  of 
Daniel  Warren,  of  Watertown,  and  widow  of 
John  Child.  Children :  .Nathaniel.  Hannah, 
John,  Sarah,  Lydia.  Mary,  Elizabeth,  .Abigail. 

(XI)  John,  second  son  of  Nathaniel  (3) 
and  Mary  (Warren)  (Child)  Fiske.  was  born 
in  Watertown,  March  17,  1682,  died  in  Sher- 
burne, May  8,  1730.  He  married,  in  Sher- 
burne, July  31,  1706.  Lydia,  daughter  of  Moses 
and  Lydia  ( Whitney )  .Adams.  Children : 
John,  Lydia.  Isaac,  Daniel,  Lydia.  Peter,  .Abi- 
gail, .Nathaniel. 

(  XII )  Isaac,  second  son  of  John  and  Lydia 
( .Adams )  Fiske.  was  born  in  Sherburne,  .April 
24,  1 7 14,  died  December  22,  1799.  He  was 
a  weaver  by  trade,  resided  first  at  Worcester 
and  later  at  b'ramingham,  first  near  .Addison 
Dadmun's.  after  at  Guinea  I-'nd.  His  will  was 
dated  .August  24,  1789,  and  proved  March  17. 
1800.  He  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Rich- 
ard and  Lydia  (Whitney)  Haven,  of  I'Vam- 
ingham.  who  died  February  21,  1800.  Children: 
Isaac,  Hannah,  John,  Richard.  Daniel,  Moses, 
Lydia  and  Moses. 

(  XIII )  Hon.  John,  second  son  of  Isaac  and 
Lydia  (Haven)  Fiske,  was  born  in  Framing- 
ham  in  1 741,  where  he  always  resided,  and 
died  there  December  17,  1819.  He  lived  near 
the  Isaac  Warren  place  on  the  Silk  Farm,  and 
built  the  house  of  Rufus  Brewer.  For  years 
he  was  ju.stice  of  the  peace,  for  six  years  he 
was  representative  in  the  legislature  and  for 
twelve  years  selectman.  He  married  Abigail 
Howe,  born  in  1752,  died  in  .A])ril,  1829.  Chil- 
dren :  Nat,  Thomas,  .Sally,  Jolm  Boyle,  Sus- 
anna, Sally,  lulward,  Nancy,  William.  George. 

(  XI\'  )  Thomas,  second  son  of  the  Hon. 
John  and  .Abigail  (Howe)  Fisk,  was  born  in 
I'Vamingham.  .March  22,  1774,  died  at  Chester- 
field, New  Ham])shire.  July  25,  1861.  In  1807 
he  went  to  Chesterfield  and  settled  on  the 
farm  now  owned  and  occupied  by  his  son, 
John  li.  h'isk.  When  about  two  years  old,  he 
had  an  attack  of  scarlet  fever  which  caused 
him  to  be  deaf  and  conseiiuently  dumb.  He 
learned  nevertheless  to  rcatl  anil  cipher  in  the 
four  fundamental  rules  of  arithmetic.  .At  the 
age  of  fifty  years  he  was  admitted  to  the 
school  for  deaf  mutes  at  Hartford,  Connecti- 
cut, for  the  term  of  one  year.  1  le  made  rapid 
progress  and  aciiuircd  knowledge  that  was  of 
great  use  to  him  during  the   remaining  years 


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of  his  life.  He  married,  in  Westmoreland, 
New  Hampshire,  Lucinda  Trowbridge,  of 
Pomfret.  Connecticut,  who  was  born  in  1782, 
died  .April  14.  1869.  Children:  Thomas  T., 
Lucinda  D..  Mary  .\iin  1!.,  John  B.  • 

(W)  Thomas  Trowbridge,  eldest  son  of 
Thomas  and  Lucinda  (  Tr(jwbridgc)  Fisk,  was 
born  in  Che.stertield.  .November  27,  1806,  died 
in  Hinsdale,  New  Hampshire,  June  17,  i86i, 
on  the  anniversary  of  the  battle  of  Bunker 
Hill  and  just  as  the  clouds  of  rebellion  were 
lowering  over  the  land.  He  was  a  farmer, 
conducting  an  e.xjjress  and  trucking  business, 
and  later  began  the  manufacture  of  soap  in  a 
small  way  with  his  .son,  Lucius  L,  which  busi- 
ness has  since  grown  to  mammoth  propor- 
tions and  is  now  located  at  Springfield.  Massa- 
chusetts. He  married  Emily  H.,  daughter  of 
Elijah  Hildrctb.  who  was  born  in  Chesterfield, 
November  28,  1806,  died  in  Hinsdale.  Janu- 
ary 6,  1849,  and  together  with  her  husband  is 
buried  in  the  Pine  Grove  cemetery  there.  She 
was  a  woman  warmly  devoted  to  the  interests 
of  her  family.  Children :  George  C,  Lucius 
L,  Noyes  \\'.,  Addie  E.,  the  latter  by  second 
marriage  to  Miss  Goodnow. 

(X\T)  George  C,  eldest  son  of  Thomas 
Trowbridge  and  Emily  H.  (Hildreth)  Fisk, 
was  born  in  Hinsdale,  March  4,  1831,  and 
received  the  merest  rudiments  of  an  elemen- 
tary education  in  the  district  school.  For  three 
years  previous  to  leaving  Hinsdale  he  was 
employed  in  the  store  kept  by  E.  W.  I  lunt 
and  by  Amidon  &  Holland :  but  drawing 
molasses,  weighing  nails  and  selling  dry  go<)ds, 
all  at  one  time,  did  not  suit  him.  In  1 851,  at 
the  age  of  twenty  years,  he  left  Hinsdale  with 
Si 5  in  his  pocket  to  commence  life  in  earnest. 
He  went  to  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  and 
for  want  of  something  better  suited  to  his 
taste  entered  a  dry  goods  store,  but  soon  after- 
wards left  and  went  into  a  grocery  store.  A 
few  months  service  in  the  grocery  business 
satisfied  him  that  mercantile  pursuits  were  not 
congenial  to  his  tastes.  As  every  active  young 
man  at  that  time  was  attracted  towards  the 
great  West  where  new  fields  of  labor  were 
opened,  Mr.  Fisk  turned  towards  that  land 
of  promise.  Reaching  Cleveland,  Ohio,  he 
stopped  to  renew  the  accpiaintance  of  a  friend 
who  had  given  some  encouragement  that  work 
wouM  be  given  him.  While  waiting  for  a 
decision,  like  a  genuine  Yankee  he  looked 
around  for  an  opportunity  to  turn  an  honest 
penny.  Mrs.  Stowe"s  "L'ncle  Tom's  Cabin"  had 
just  been  published  and  thinking  it  might  sell 
well  he  purchased  several  copies  and  started 


out  as  a  book  agent.  The  business  flourished 
with  him  until  a  crabbed  old  fellow  threatened 
to  kick  him  out  of  his  house  if  he  was  ever 
seen  selling  another  book  to  his  family.  H 
this  was  the  treatment  that  book  agents  were 
to  receive  in  Cleveland  he  should  shake  the 
dust  from  his  feet  and  "go  West,"  which  con- 
clusicm  be  immediately  put  in  practice,  dispos- 
ing of  the  books  unsold  to  a  railroad  newsboy. 
He  started  for  Beloit,  Wisconsin,  which  place 
he  duly  reached.  He  spent  some  time  in  look- 
ing around,  but  the  slip-shotl  way  of  doing 
business,  then  general  in  the  West,  did  not  suit 
him  and  besides  he  foimd  that  a  young  man 
without  capital  in  the  West  had  as  few  chances 
for  success  as  in  New  England.  He  turned 
ea.stward  and  soon  found  himself  back  in 
Sjiringfield,  Massachusetts.  Elcazer  Ripley,  of 
that  ])lace,  was  about  to  commence  the  manu- 
facture of  locomotives,  and  wanting  a  book- 
keeper he  offered  the  jjlace  to  Mr.  Fisk  which 
he  accepted.  While  waiting  for  the  machinery 
to  be  put  in  order  he  went  home  to  Hinsdale 
to  make  a  desk.  Two  weeks  afterward  Mr. 
Ri])lc)-  sent  for  him  to  take  a  temporary  place 
in  r.  W.  Was.m's  car  shops,  while  Mr.  Wason 
was  absent  in  the  West.  Mr.  Fisk  took  the 
])Iace  and  acted  as  bookkeeper  until  Mr. 
Wason  returned,  who  then  made  him  an  oft'er 
(if  a  ])ermanent  position.  Mr.  Rii)ley  giving 
his  consent  he  accei)ted  of  the  offer  and  com- 
menced work  for  Mr.  Wason  for  one  dollar 
per  day.  In  1854,  after  the  company  had  been 
running  a  year,  J.  S.  Mellen.  one  of  the  pro- 
prietors, became  discouraged  as  very  little  had 
l)een  made,  sold  to  Mr.  Fisk  his  interest,  one- 
sixth  for  83,333,  and  this  was  his  commence- 
ment of  a  ijartnership  interest.  He  continued 
to  serve  as  bookkeeper  and  cashier  of  the 
establishment  until  it  was  organized  as  a  cor- 
I)oration.  when  he  became  treasurer.  In  addi- 
tion to  the  duties  of  the  office  he  had  more 
or  less  to  do  with  the  general  business  of  the 
company,  and  for  some  time  previous  to  the 
death  of  Mr.  Wason  he  was  chosen  vice-presi- 
dent and  took  the  general  management  of  busi- 
ness of  the  concern.  On  the  death  of  Mr. 
Wason  he  was  chosen  president  and  is  now 
general  manager,  the  direction  of  the  entire 
business  coming  upon  him. 

The  works  built  in  1871  are  situated  at 
Bright  wood,  three  miles  above  Springfield,  on 
the  banks  of  the  Connecticut  river,  named  after 
the  author  Dr.  J.  G.  Holland's  country  seat 
which  overlooked  the  site.  Mr.  Fisk  planned 
and  had  entire  charge  of  the  building  of  these 
shops.      Mr.    Fisk    fletermined    that   the    new 


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shops  shoiilfl  be  light,  airy,  symmetrical  in  plan 
and  perfect  in  convenience — in  short,  the  m^xlel 
manufactory  of  the  city.  Accordingly,  he  de- 
voted himself  to  elaborating  a  systematic 
method  of  utilizing  to  the  best  advantage  the 
sixtcen-acre  (jlot  devoted  to  the  Wason  car 
works.  A  survey  of  the  completed  buildings 
will  jjrove  that  .VJr.  Fisk's  intention  has  been 
carried  out  to  entire  success.  Lying  on  the 
west  of  the  railroad  and  the  north  of  the  entire 
purchase,  the  plot  is  occupied  by  two  ranges 
of  buildings  flanking  a  wide  transfer  track 
that  runs  east  and  west  between  them  and  into 
the  long  lumber  yard  that  stretches  beyond  to 
the  I'lainficld  road.  The  transfer  track  and 
table  which  moves  upon  it  the  whole  length 
of  the  works  are  among  the  most  novel  and 
remarkable  apjjaratus  to  be  found  there.  The 
works  and  the  lumber  yard,  it  must  be 
I>remised,  are  seamed  at  regular  distances  with 
lateral  car  tracks.  This  transfer  table's  duty 
is  to  receive  cars  of  freight,  (iron,  lumber, 
etc.)  from  the  railroad  switch  track,  and  con- 
vey them  to  the  place  where  they  arc  needed; 
to  take  cars  from  the  woofl  shfjjjs  and  trans- 
fer them  to  the  paint  shops,  and  to  fleliver  to 
the  railroad  for  transportation  the  completed 
cars ;  being  in  short,  a  movable  bridge.  The 
table  is  42  feet  long,  built  entirely  of  iron, 
except  the  cab,  in  the  comj>any's  own  shojjs, 
and  at  a  cost  of  .$io,rxxj.  It  ran  on  three  tracks 
set  ujjon  eight  foot  jfiles,  and  operated  by 
steam.  It  could  be  run  its  wh<jle  distance  of 
one  thousand  feet  in  about  two  minutes  with 
sixty  jKJunds  of  steam,  while  ten  pounds 
])ressure  was  enough  to  operate  it.  At  any  (jf 
the  ninety  lateral  tracks  it  could  be  stoj>ped 
instantly  or  gradually,  and  moved  half  an  inch 
as  easily  as  a  greater  distance ;  in  all  respects 
a  wonderful  and  invaluable  invention, 

'I"he  foimdry  itself  is  one  hundred  and  sev- 
enty feet  long,  sixty-two  wide,  and  thirty-five 
high  to  the  apex  of  the  deck  roof ;  a  deck  roof, 
be  it  explained,  being  as  if  the  ridge  of  the 
roof  for  twenty-five  feet  width  were  raised 
some  six  and  a  half  feet  and  the  sides  beneath 
it  occupied  by  windf)ws  for  purposes  of  light 
and  ventilation ;  an  arrangement  adopted 
throughout  the  new  works.  Heside  the  east 
wall  of  the  foundry  stand  a  set  of  Howe's 
eighty  thousand  pound  track  scales,  the  first 
lateral  track  passing  over  their  platform,  on 
which  cars  lf)aded  with  iron  from  the  smelt- 
ing, are  received  from  the  transfer,  weighed, 
and  run  through  to  the  iron  yard  at  the  rear, 
whence  the  iron  is  transferred  to  the  great 
cupola  room.     There   were  containefl  therein 


three  McKcnzie  cupolas,  melting  twelve  tons 
each  per  day,  two  of  them  used  for  wheels 
and  one  for  floor  castings,  and  contained  in  a 
house  forty  feet  by  twenty-eight,  Krom  these 
the  metai  passed  into  the  moulding  room, 
which  contained  four  wheel  cranes,  capacity 
twenty-five  car  wheels  each  daily,  though  at 
one  time  but  seventy-two  were  made,  using 
three  cranes.  .\  peculiar  notion  of  .\lr.  Ladd 
committed  each  crane  to  the  care  of  a  dififerent 
nationality,  the  three  in  operation  being  wield- 
ed resjjectively  by  f'Vench,  Irish  and  Yankee 
gangs ;  the  fourth  may  perhaps  be  a  "heathen 
Chinee."  The  full  daily  capacity  of  the 
foundry  was  one  hundred  wheels  and  ten  tons 
of  castings.  After  the  wheels  left  the  molds, 
they  were  taken  across  the  track  f  which  is 
roofed  in  at  this  |joint^  to  a  house  eighty  feet 
by  thirty-eight,  where  they  were  put  into  pits 
to  remain  three  days.  Continuous  with  the 
pitting  house  was  a  core  room  thirty  feet  long 
for  molding  and  baking  wheel  cores,  which 
were  made  of  a  mixture  of  rye  meal  and  yellow 
sand,  the  latter  article  being  brought  from 
VV'aterford.  New  York,  as  all  the  molding 
sand  used  alxjut  here  is,  and  kept  in  a  brick 
cellar  (fifty  feet  longj  to  prevent  its  freezing 
in  winter.  Still  north  of  these  buildings  is 
a  shed  eighty  feet  by  thirty-three  for  foundry 
sui)|>lies,  directly  ofjposite  which  is  a  coal  shed 
eighty  by  forty.  Twenty-five  feet  west  of 
the  foundry  rose  the  second  group  of  buildings, 
the  machine  and  smith  shops.  The  machine 
sho])  was  a  two  story  building,  ninety-six  feet 
by  forty-five,  the  lower  story  being  devoted  to 
heavy  and  the  upper  to  light  machine  work, 
while  the  trimmings  and  pattern  rooms  were 
also  on  the  second  floor,  .Xmong  the  improved 
machinery  that  tfx>k  the  place  of  the  obsolete 
jtrocesses  of  the  old  shops  may  be  mentioned 
in  this  shop  the  I'emcnt  .\'o.  30  hydraulic  ()ress, 
for  gauging  the  jjressure  with  which  wheels 
are  set  upon  the  axles,  a  process  which  was 
before  guess  work,  depending  on  the  judg- 
ment of  the  mechanic.  At  the  north  of  and 
connected  with  the  machine  shop  was  the 
sj)acious  smith  shop,  one  hunflred  and  fifty 
feet  by  forty-five,  and  thirty-five  feet  high  to 
the  deck  roof,  having  a  wing  forty-eight  by 
twenty-four  for  an  iron  room.  This  shop  con- 
taine(!  twenty-six  side  fires,  with  new,  im- 
proved cast  iron  forges,  three  large  center 
forges  for  heavy  work,  a  Waters  patent  one 
thousand  two  hundred  jiound  drop,  and  the 
usual  fleafening  array  of  trip-hammers. 

The    passenger   car   erecting   shoj),   twenty- 
five  feet  farther  west,  begins  the  next  fellow- 


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ship  of  buildings.  It  is  one  luindrcd  and  seven- 
teen feet  long  by  seventy-live  wide,  and  the 
same  height  to  the  deck  roof  as  the  shojjs 
before  mentioned.  This  room  area  contains 
five  tracks,  and  is  used  exclusively  for  build- 
ing passenger-car  bodies ;  the  trucks  on  which 
they  are  mounted  being  set  up  in  the  lower 
part  of  a  two-story  building,  si.xty  by  forty- 
five,  adjoining  on  tlie  north,  whose  upjxr  lloor 
will  be  occui)ied  as  a  tin  shop,  for  tlMiiing  is  a 
very  considerable  item  in  the  business  of  car 
manufacture.  IC.xtending  conliiniously  west- 
ward from  the  car-erecting  shop,  and  sejiarated 
therefrom  by  a  lire  jircjof  jiartition,  a  heavy 
brick  wall  and  double  iron  doors,  is  a  building 
two  hundred  feet  by  sixty-two  and  twr)  stories 
high,  with  a  wing  on  the  northwest  forty-two 
by  fifty  feet.  The  lower  floor  of  botii  ni;iiii 
))f)rtion  and  wing  is  Idled  with  machinery  fcji 
the  heavy  wooilwork,  nearly  all  of  which  is 
new,  though  a  jjortion  comes  from  the  old 
shops.  The  cabinet  shojj  above  occn|)ies  the 
entire  area  of  the  main  building,  while  in  the 
wing  arc  the  upholstery  and  ihi'  varnish  and 
seat-trimming  njoms,  each  twenty-live  by 
ff)r(y-two  feet.  I'.ast  (>(  this  wing,  and  also 
norlli  of  IJK-  niain  shop,  is  another  two-story 
addition,  containing  below  the  engine  and 
boilers.  The  engine  is  one  of  the  i'rovidence 
steam  engine  company's,  fine  hundred  and  fifty 
horse  power,  eighteen  inch  cylinder,  four  foot 
stroke,  and  running  a  fifteen  fool  (ly  wheel 
with  thirty-two  inch  face.  The  belt,  which  is 
probably  the  most  perfect  specimen  of  that 
manufacture  in  the  whole  coimtry,  and  of 
course,  therefore,  in  tlie  worirl,  won  the 
premium  of  the  American  fnstitntc,  in  whose 
fair  at  Xew  York  it  was  exhibiicd.  It  is  of 
flouble  leather,  one  Inmdred  and  twenty-two 
and  a  half  feel  long  anrl  thirty  inches  wide 
anfl  cf)st  one  thousand  dollars. 

5'assing  still  westward,  the  pilgrim  ihroiigh 
this  vast  irulnstrial  array  reaches  tlie  lumber 
yard,  extending  on  both  sides  the  transfer 
track,  and  to  whose  present  and  prospective 
uses  twelve  of  the  sixteen  anrl  a  half  acres  of 
the  factory  are  dedicated.  Twenty-five  feet 
west  of  the  wood-work  buildings  is  a  lumber 
shcfl  four  hundred  and  twenty  feet  long  and 
forty  wide,  two  stories  high,  in  which  are 
storcfl  all  the  choicest  woods  used  in  the  elabo- 
rate cabinet  work  expended  on  the  m'jdern 
passenger  coach,  and  a  bridge  leads  from  the 
upper  story  directly  into  the  cabinet  rooms. 
The  lumber  beyond  is  systematically  arrang<'d 
accorfling  to  the  order  of  demand,  and  tracks 
rim  tlirough  between  every  two  [liles,  sfj  that 


;i    siipjily    of    IiiiiiIki     c.-ui    be    taken    wilh    llic 
uliiiosi  economy  of  ii.indiing. 

The  south  side  of  llie  grounds  was  occupied 
for  live  hundred  feel  in  length  and  seventy- 
five  in  width  by  the  paint  shop.  A  noleworlhy 
feature  connected  wilh  tiiis  .shop  was  the  keep- 
ing of  llie  paint  slock  bene;ilh  ground,  in  a 
lire  prodl  (■(•liar,  some  iiisl;mrc  sdiilli  .i|  ijie 
^lio|i,  ;iii(i  idmiimiiic.-iting  with  it  by  .1  sub- 
lerr.iiie.ui  |).-issage.  (  )n  llie  same  sicjc  .•iiid  two 
hundred  ;ind  fifty  feet  from  (be  west  end  of 
the  shop,  in  the  lumber  yard,  wiis  ;i  brick 
doubli-  dry  house,  forty-two  feet  by  Ihirty-livc, 
heated  by  stoves. 

The  ])roduct  ol  ihc  (ompany  was  in  service 
in  every  section  of  Mic  I  iiilcd  Sl.'ites,  and  they 
had  large  conti.ni  fojin  ilic  (!ciilr;il  I'jicilic, 
ihc  (  .ui.idi.in  .Soiithci  n,  llic  New  Jersey  t.'en- 
iial.  ;iii<l  .Manh.ill.iii  r.iilways.  Their  goods 
have  .also  gtine  lo  .Argeiiliiie  K'epiil)ii<-,  llra/il, 
(  anada,  t'hina,  Central  ;\merica,  (  liili,  ( !nba, 
h'.gypl,  Mexico,  Nova  Scotia,  I'anama,  Portu- 
gal, Venezuela,  Yiical;m.  In  iHo^  ihe  build- 
ing of  passenger  co;ui)cs  fm  ii  .1111  iiiilways 
dicliiii'd  so  that  tin' conip.iny  coniiiK'iKcd  build- 
ing electric  cars.  Their  prodiul  for  one  year 
was  fifty-one  steam  railway  cars,  four  hiiiid- 
dred  and  fifty-three  .\lanhatl;in  cars,  fifteen 
rajiid  Iransil  cars,  sixty-four  closed  and  forty- 
nine  open  street  cars,  four  freight  cars  and 
fifty  snow  plows,  valued  at  .$1  ,jo(),(kk).  It 
iii;iy  not  be  generally  known  lli.il  lin-  first 
tinvjiigh  train  wliiili  rolled  ujioii  iIh  i.nls  of 
the  Pacific  railro;i<l  bound  for  .'^aii  I'lancisco 
was  bllill,  e(|ilipp<d  ;illd  decor.'ited  ;il  these 
works. 

.Mr.  bisk  is  iioi  one  who  forgets  former 
neighbors  and  youthful  scenes.  Mow  dearly 
he  pii/es  his  old  .New  I  l;iinpshire  home  is 
illilsUalcd  by  his  sele(liiig  a  view  of  .\1oii;id- 
iiock  nioinil.'iin  ;iiid  the  Asliiii-lol  v.'illey  as  a 
scene  for  the  drop  cm  lain  ;il  llii-  I'isk  ( iasino. 
Mr.  Msk  started  the  llrigblwood  Paper  Mills 
at  Hinsdale,  which  furnishes  employment  lo  n 
number  of  people  and  is  one  of  the  princi|)al 
indnslries  of  the  place. 

I  111-  I'isk  (,'asino,  binll  lliioii(;li  flu-  ciucroH- 
ilv  of  ( ieorge  ( '.  I'isk,  lo  provule  ;i  jilace  of 
.iniii  iiiient  for  the  people  of  liriglit wood,  is 
situaird  at  the  corner  of  Main  street  and 
VVason  avenue.  It  is  coiislrncled  of  wood  and 
is  of  (Jiieen  Anne  style,  and  has  cost  ;ibout 
.  $l2,fX)o.  The  casino,  allhoiigh  but  about  oiie- 
fpiarter  the  size  of  a  goodsizeil  iheatcr,  Ih 
neverlheless  as  well  r-(|nipp(f|  probably  as  any 
in  this  part  of  the  coiniliy  '!  In-  corridor, 
opening  on   .Main  street,  is  ten  by  fiflccn   feel. 


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The  auditorium  is  thirty-seven  by  forty-five 
feet  and  twenty-five  feet  high.  The  house, 
inchiding  the  balcony,  has  a  seating  capacity  of 
three  hundred  and  eiglity-seven.  The  main 
floor  has  settees  and  tlic  balcony  has  chairs. 
There  is  a  trap  duor  in  smoothly  polished 
floor,  so  that  all  the  seats  can  be  removed  to 
the  basement  and  the  room  cleared  for  danc- 
ing. The  woodwork  is  ash  with  cherry  panels. 
Tlie  windows  are  of  yellow  cathedral  glass 
and  a  Madras  lambrequin  is  hung  over  each. 
Over  the  proscenium  arch  is  a  monogram  G.  C. 
F.,  Mr.  risk's  initials,  and  above  this  is  a  head 
of  Melpomene,  the  muse  of  tragedy.  The 
stage,  twenty  feet  deep  and  forty-five  wide,  i^ 
thoroughly  e(|ui])ped  with  all  the  paraphernalia 
which  goes  to  make  the  modern  stage  complete. 

One  of  Mr.  Fisk's  fads  at  his  farm  at  Eagle 
Rest  was  thoroughbred  cattle  of  the  Holstein- 
Friesians  breed.  Among  his  registered  im- 
ported animals  have  been  Promoter  Bull  Ryse 
Duke  3075,  sire  Promoter,  dam  Koster  2nd 
(46>4  quarts).  Ryse  Duke  was  bred  by 
Elizur  Smith,  of  Lee,  Massachusetts.  The 
females  in  the  Iierd  have  been  Kouingin  \'an 
Friesland  r)th,  6489,  Dorrice  6863,  .\agie  Lee 
2nd  4435,  Kalma  2nd  3299,  Slot  2nd  1520, 
Aaggie  Beauty  2907.  Aaggie  Beauty  made  a 
record  in  Holland  of  68^  lbs,  in  one  day, 
when  three  years  old,  and  13.574  lbs.  in  one 
year  when  four  years  old,  and  was  dam  of 
.•\aggie  P>cauty  2nd,  and  .\aggie  Beauty  3d. 
.Aaggie  Beauty's  bull  calf,  by  Netherland 
Prince,  sold  for  ^soo  when  two  weeks  old. 
He  also  owned  the  Dutch  cow  ".\tossa"  which 
took  the  sweepstakes  premium  at  the  Bay 
State  fair  and  won  premiums  at  several  other 
fairs.  This  choice  pet  was  imported  by  Mr. 
Bradley,  of  I,ce.  Mr.  Fisk  has  purchased  the 
old  homestead  farm  at  Chesterfield,  New 
I  lanipshire.  together  with  other  farms,  making 
about  six  hundred  acres,  where  he  sjiends 
much  of  his  time  during  the  summer,  during 
the  daytime,  s|)en(ling  his  evenings  at  Hinsdale. 
He  retird  from  the  Wason  Company  in  1907, 
after  over  fifty-four  years  with  the  company, 
and  thirty-seven  years  as  ])resident. 

Mr.  I-'isk  married  Maria  iMiierson.  daughter 
of  Daniel  H.  Ripley.  Three  of  their  children 
are  deceased:  Cieorge.  died  at  age  of  eleven 
years:  and   Robert  and  Lena,  died  in  infanv. 

Charles  .\bbott.  son  of  George  C.  and  Maria 
Emerson  (  Ri])ley  Fisk,  born  in  Springfield, 
August  15.  1853.  died  at  his  summer  home 
in  Huntington  in  the  Berkshire  Hills.  His 
early  education  was  received  in  a  private 
school  in  this  citv.  and  he  afterward  entered 


the  Massachusetts  .Agricultural  College  in  Am- 
herst. He  began  his  business  career  as  an  errand 
boy  in  the  Wason  car  works  in  1872,  and  by 
faithfulness  and  perseverance  rose  to  higher 
]5ositions.  He  became  paymaster  and  was  also  at 
the  head  of  the  supply  department.  At  the  time 
of  his  death  he  was  cashier  and  purchasing 
agent.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Wason  Car  Com- 
pany, a  director  of  the  Fisk  Paper  Company  of 
Hinsdale,  New  Hampshire.  He  was  also 
])resident  of  the  1!.  L.  I'ragg  Company. 
.Mthough  a  firm  believer  in  the  principles  of 
the  Republican  party,  Mr.  Fisk  often  acted 
independently  in  politics.  He  was  elected  to 
the  common  council  from  ward  i  in  1877.  and 
served  on  the  city  property  and  enrollment 
committee,  giving  good  service  to  the  city. 
He  belonged  to  the  Calhoun  Club  and  attend- 
ed the  Third  Universalist  Church.  Mr,  Fisk 
was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being  Jennie, 
daughter  of  George  A.  Graves,  of  Springfield. 
One  daughter.  Mattie,  was  born  to  them. 
October  17,  1894,  he  married  (second)  Helen 
E.  Young,  daughter  of  E.  M.  Young,  of 
Springfield,  who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves 
three  children  bv  his  second  marriage :  Mil- 
refl,  Florence  and  Helen  E. 
Belle  R.,  daughter  of  George  C.  and  Maria 
Emerson  (  Ripley)  Fisk,  married  Oliver  Hyde 
Dickinson.  June  20,  1888,  and  have  three 
children:  George  Fisk,  born  Jtdy  5,  1890; 
Jidia  and  Minerva,  twins,  born  October 
23,  1891.  Mr.  Dickinson  is  engaged  in  the 
seed  business  in  Springfield.  The  Dickinson- 
Fisk  nuptials  was  one  of  the  .swellest  affairs 
in  the  "smart  set"  of  aristocratic  Springfield. 
The  local  papers  and  the  Boston  and  Xew 
^'nrk  journals  were  very  profuse  in  their 
descriptions. 

"The  most  brilliant  and  beautiful  wedding 
which  .Springfield  has  seen  for  many  years 
occurred  at  the  Brightwood  residence  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  George  C.  Fi.sk,  Wednesday  evening, 
when  their  only  daughter.  Miss  Isabel.  (  Belle 
R. )  was  united  in  marriage  with  Mr.  Oliver 
Hyde  Dickinson.  The  occasion  bore  the  poetic 
name  of  a  "rose  wedding,"  the  residence.  Dr. 
Hollancl's  Brightwood.  being  transformed  into 
a  bower  of  roseate  beauty.  The  estate,  beau- 
tiful in  itself,  was  made  doubly  so  by  all  that 
art  and  skill  could  do.,  the  decorations  being 
a  triumph  of  floral  art.  .At  the  back  of  the 
spacious  hall  was  a  bank  of  tropical  plants 
reaching  from  the  ground  floor  to  the  top  of 
the  balusters.  The  balusters  were  trimmed 
with  ivy  and  the  newel-post  entirely  covered 
with  a  column  of  I, a  France  and  Pearl  roses. 


Qy/., 


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MASSACHrsirrJS. 


365 


siifmoinited  by  the  bronze  statue  of  Mercury 
upholding  a  cluster  of  gas  jets.  The  columns 
supporting  the  Gothic  arches  were  trimmed 
with  ivy  so  arranged  as  to  hang  in  pendants 
from  the  three  arches.  Over  all  this  beauty 
came  the  colored  lights  from  the  dome  above, 
which  was  lighted  to  give  the  brilliancy  of  the 
midday  sun,  making  the  effect  something 
superb.  In  the  library  the  fireplace  was  com- 
pletely disguised  with  plants  and  roses  reach- 
ing to  the  ceiling.  In  the  center  of  the  room, 
su])ported  on  a  table,  was  a  magnificent  basket 
of  roses,  four  feet  in  diameter,  and  containing 
some  500  buds.  The  piazza  facing  the  east, 
inclosed  by  bamboo-beaded  portieres  and  filled 
with  tropical  plants,  gave  the  appearance  of 
a  conservatory.  The  moonlight  falling  through 
the  portieres  made  the  beads  sparkle  like 
jewels,  the  effect  being  almost  dazzling,  im- 
mense Japanese  lanterns  were  hung  in  design 
from  the  center  of  the  ceiling.  The  piazza 
facing  the  west  was  also  inclosed  by  bamboo 
beaded  portieres  lighted  by  100  Japanese 
candles,  and  it  was  here  that  Coenen's  orches- 
tra gave  forth  music  that  could  be  heard  all 
over  the  house  and  grounds.  In  the  dining 
room  the  center  piece  was  a  silver  epergne, 
three  feet  high,  filled  with  choice  fruits. 
I'nderneath  the  epergne  was  a  floral  base  com- 
posed of  roses  and  green  with  three  small 
in'ramids  supporting  china  filled  with  bonbons. 
Other  china  to  match  that  used  on  the  table 
was  scattered  among  the  roses.  At  each  end 
of  the  table  were  two  square  vases  composed 
of  roses  and  carnations;  the  vases  were  three 
feet  high  and  resting  on  green  bases.  Both 
vases  were  filled  with  choice  roses  and  .spirea 
japonica.  In  the  base  of  these  vases  were 
canary  birds,  whose  sweet  voices  were  a  mys- 
tery to  the  guests,  who  could  not  imagine 
where  the  songsters  were.  The  west  i)arlor, 
in  which  the  ceremony  was  performed,  was 
transformed  into  a  plateau  of  roses.  Glass 
and  manteli)iece  were  banked  from  the  floor 
to  the  ceiling  with  tropical  plants  and  roses. 
The  frieze  was  festooned  with  smilax  and 
roses  of  all  colors  caught  up  with  blue  bows. 
-Across  the  broad  ojKning  of  the  ex(|uisite  bay 
window  were  floral  f)ortiercs  with  a  frieze  of 
Marechal  .\'iel.  La  France  and  .\'e])hetos  roses, 
and  a  dado  of  bride  and  Jac(|ueminot  roses. 
The  backgrounds  of  the  portieres  was  com- 
posed of  ferns  and  smila.x,  and  in  the  center 
of  each  was  the  monogram  "D.  and  F."  in 
J^earl  and  La  France  roses.  The  chandelier 
was  festooned  with  smilax.  and  with  its  beau- 
tiful   glass    prisms   gave    a    charming   effect." 


Among  the  distinguished  guests  at  this  wed- 
ding was  the  Honorable  Don  M.  Dickinson  of 
.Michigan,  postmaster  general  in  L'leveland's 
cabinet. 

(X\I)  Lucius  I.,  second  son  oi  Thomas 
Trowbridge  and  Fmily  II.  (Ilildreth)  Fisk, 
was  born  in  Hinsdale  in  1833.  died  in  Spring- 
field. August  18.  1880.  He  married  I'lvaline 
E.  Raymond,  of  .Ashuelot.  .\ew  Hani])shire, 
and  they  had  no  children. 

(X\l )  Xoyes  \\'..  youngest  son  of  Thomas 
Trowbridge  and  Emily  H.  (Ilildreth)  Fisk, 
was  born  in  Hinsdale.  May  15,  1839,  died 
January  21.  igoi.  When  thirteen  years  old 
he  entered  the  country  store  of  Frederick  Hunt 
in  Hinsdale  as  clerk.  He  remained  with  Mr. 
Hunt  for  about  four  years,  and  in  1856  went 
to  Xorthampton  and  kept  books  for  Thayer 
(Jt  Sargeant  for  a  couple  of  years.  Later  he 
became  bookkeei)cr  for  E.  B.  Haskell  &  Sons, 
grocers,  in  Springfield.  In  l8C)2  he  enli.sted 
in  Company  A  of  the  Forty-sixth  Regiment. 
When  he  had  served  out  the  term  of  his  en- 
listment, he  returned  to  Springfield  and  started 
for  himself  in  the  grocery  and  provision  busi- 
ness. In  1867  he  went  into  the  niamifacture 
of  lamp-black  on  the  corner  of  Chestnut  and 
Ringgold  streets,  and  had  hardly  got  on  the 
way  when  all  his  buildings  were  consmned  by 
fire.  In  1868  he  went  into  partnership  with  his 
brothers  in  the  manufacture  of  soap.  In  1880 
the  Fisk  Manufacturing  Company  was  formed 
for  manufacturing  this  product,  of  which 
George  C.  Fisk  was  president.  .Xoyes  W.  Fisk, 
clerk  and  treasurer.  The  comi)any  employs 
nearly  forty  men  and  manufactures  a  larger 
'|uantity  of  soap  than  any  other  Xew  England 
house  and  is  among  the  very  largest  in  the 
whole  country.  The  princijial  markets  for  the 
Fisk  Manufacturing  Com])any's  goods  are  in 
.Xew  England.  Xew  York,  Xew  Jersey  and 
the  Middle  West.  They  make  the  popular 
Japanese  soap.  Mr.  hisk  was  for  seven  years 
a  member  of  the  common  council  from  ward 
one  and  for  ten  years  a  member  of  the  water 
commissioners.  He  was  a  director  in  the 
Chicopee  Xational  I'.ank.  the  Springfield 
Wood-working  Company  and  the  Hampden 
Paint  Works.  He  was  a  director  in  the 
Masonic  Mutual  Insurance  Company,  a  trustee 
of  the  School  for  Christian  Workers.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Winthro|)  Club.  Xayassett 
Club  and  Blue  Lodge  of  Masons  and  the 
Springfield  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar. 
He  had  passed  all  the  various  degrees  in  the 
Masonic  order  uj)  to  the  thirty-second  flegree, 
and  was  one  of  the  most  ardent  members  of 


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that  order.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  Fisk  Rubber  Company;  was  member  of 
Wilco.x  Post,  (Irand  Army  of  the  RepubHc. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Memorial  Congrega- 
tional Church.  He  was  a  lover  of  animals,  espe- 
cially horses  and  dogs,  and  it  was  his  pride  to  be 
the  possessor  of  some  of  the  best  horses  to  be 
had.  He  was  public-spirited  in  all  things 
tending  to  the  good  of  the  community,  and 
loval  in  his  friendships.  His  positions  of 
public  and  financial  trust  show  the  estimation 
in  which  Mr.  Msk  was  held  by  the  general  and 
business  community.  August  25,  1862,  he 
married  Emeline  G.  Adams,  of  Hinsdale, 
daughter  of  Oliver  and  Fanny  (Stearns) 
Adams,  and  they  had  two  children :  Harry 
G.,  and  Grace  M.,  who  died  in  infancy.  Harry 
G..  married  .Mice  B.  Mayo:  they  have  three 
children:  Julia  M.,  Noyes  M.  and  Charlotte 
M.  Harry  G.  is  actively  associated  with  the 
Fisk  Rubber  Company  as  secretary. 


There  were  persons  of  distinc- 
EATON     tion  among  the  English  families 

of  the  surname  Eaton, and  among 
the  New  England  descendants  of  that  ancient 
house  in  every  generation  from  the  time  of 
the  immigrant  ancestor  there  have  been  men 
of  distinction  and  high  character  equal  perhaps 
to  that  of  their  European  forbears,  although 
on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic  we  find  none  of 
the  name  who  have  placed  their  chief  reliance 
for  character  and  worth  on  the  coat  of  arms 
"or  a  fret  azure"  so  much  as  on  personal  en- 
deavor and  individual  achievement.  The  family 
of  the  Eaton  surname  whose  pedigree  is  traced 
here,  begins  its  history  in  New  England  with 
John  and  Anne  Eaton,  the  former  of  whom  is 
mentioned  in  some  chronicles  as  John  Eaton 
of  Haverhill  and  in  others  as  John  Eaton  of 
Salisbury,  both  of  the  colony  of  Massachusetts 
r.ay.  He  came  of  the  old  English  family  of 
the  same  name,  and  while  there  is  room  for 
the  liclief  that  his  ancestors  were  of  the  same 
kin  with  those  of  Sir  Peter,  baronet,  the  fact 
is  not  easily  established.  The  immigration 
registers  and  ship's  lists  of  passengers  give  no 
account  of  the  departure  of  John  Eaton  and 
his  family  from  England,  neither  is  it  known 
exactly  when  they  arrived  in  this  country,  nor 
the  name  of  the  ship  in  which  they  took  pass- 
age; but  they  came,  John  Eaton  and  his  wife 
and  si.x  children,  and  sat  down  in  one  of  the 
plantations  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay  colony, 
in  or  sometime  previous  to  the  year  163Q. 

fl)  John   Eaton  first  appears  on  the  pro- 
prietors' books  of  Salisbury  in   1639-40.  and 


several  grants  of  land  to  him  were  made  be- 
tween 1640  and  1646.  A  tradition  which  has 
run  in  the  family  for  more  than  a  century  and 
a  half  is  to  the  eflfect  that  he  had  a  brother  and 
a  cousin  in  the  colony  about  or  soon  after  the 
time  of  his  arrival,  but  the  researches  of  more 
recent  investigators  seem  to  dispel  the  theory. 
One  of  the  grants  of  land  to  John  Eaton  was 
that  made  on  the  "26th  of  ye  6th  mo.  1640,  2 
acres,  more  or  less,  for  his  house  lotte,  lying 
between  the  house  lotts  of  Mr.  Samuel  Hall 
and  Rolfe  P>lesdale ;"  and  another  was  his 
"planting  lotte,"  granted  "the  7th  of  the  9th 
mo.  1640.  containing  pr  estimation  six  acres 
more  or  less,  lying  uppon  ye  great  neck,"  and 
his  house  was  built  near  the  "great  neck  bridge, 
on  the  beach  road."  It  is  interesting  to  note 
in  this  connection  that  in  1890  the  old  home- 
stead property  was  still  owned  and  in  posses- 
sion of  descendants  of  the  immigrant.  Later 
in  1646  John  Eaton  conveyed  the  property  to 
his  son  John,  and  then  moved  with  the  other 
members  of  his  family  about  fifteen  miles  up 
the  Merrimack  to  Haverhill,  and  there  spent 
the  remaining  twenty-two  years  of  his  life.  In 
1646  he  was  chosen  grand  juror,  and  also  one 
of  five  prudential  men  of  Salisbury.  He  was 
a  husbandman,  and  the  records  mention  that 
he  also  made  staves.  He  died  in  Haverhill, 
October  29,  1668.  aged  about  seventy-tliree 
years,   hence   he   was   born   about    1595.     He 

married  Anne  ,  about  1617,  and  all  of 

their  children  were  born  in  England.  She 
died  February  5,  1660,  and  he  married  second, 
November  20,  1661,  Phebe,  widow  of  Thomas 
Dow,  of  Newbury,  Massachusetts.  She  died 
in  1672.  John  and  Anne  Eaton  had  children: 
I.  John,  born  1619;  married  Martha  Rowland- 
son,  of  Ipswich,  Alassachusetts.  2.  Ann,  born 
about  1622,  died  in  Haverhill,  December  13, 
1683;  married  June  25,  1645,  Lieutenant 
George  Brown,  who  married  second,  March 
17,  1684.  widow  Hannah  Hazen  of  Row-ley. 
3.  FZlizabcth,  born  about  1625 ;  married  De- 
cember I,  1648,  James  Davis,  of  Haverhill; 
ten  children.  4.  Ruth,  born  about  1628;  mar- 
ried December  9,  1656,  Samuel  Ingalls ;  lived 
in  Ipswich.  5.  Thomas,  born  about  1631 ; 
married  (first)  Martha  Kent ;  (second)  Eunice 
Singletery ;  lived  in  Haverhill.  6.  Hester, 
born  about  1634,  died  young. 

(11)  John  Eaton,  eldest  child  of  John  and 
.\nne  Eaton,  was  born  in  England  in  1619, 
and  died  on  the  old  homestead  in  Salisbury, 
Massachusetts,  November  i,  1682.  He  went 
to  Salisbury  with  his  father  in  the  winter  of 
1639-40,    and    when    the    latter    removed    to 


MASSACHL'SETTS. 


2fT7 


Haverhill,  in  \(->\(^.  he  deeded  his  house  and 
property  "on  the  neck"  to  his  son  John  who 
lived  there  until  his  death.  He  was  a  planter 
and  cooper,  as  he  describes  himself  in  his 
will,  and  he  appears  to  have  become  possessed 
of  a  large  estate  in  lands  which  he  gave  to  his 
son,  making  ample  provision  for  each,  the 
homestead  going  to  his  eldest  son  John.  About 
1644  John  Eaton  married  Martha,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Rowlandson  Sr.,  of  Ipswich,  and 
sister  of  Rev.  Joseph  Rowlandson,  who  gradu- 
ated from  Harvard  College  in  1652.  the  only 
member  of  his  class.  The  Rowlandsons  came 
trom  England,  and  it  is  believed  that  they 
were  acquainted  with  the  Eatons  before  coming 
to  this  country.  Martha,  wife  of  John  Eaton, 
survived  him  about  thirty  years,  and  died  in 
July,  1712,  "a  woman  of  great  age  and  of  great 
excellency  of  character."  Children:  i.  Hester, 
born  .August.  1645,  died  1649.     2.  John,  born 

about    1646:  married   Mary  ;  lived   in 

Salisbury.  3.  Thomas,  born  January  17,  1647; 
married  Hannah  Hubbard:  lived  in  Salisbury; 
she  was  a  descendant  of  \Mlliam  Hubbard, 
"an  eminent  inhabitant"  of  Ipswich.  4.  Martha, 
born  August  12,  1648:  married  (first)  Benja- 
min Collins,  of  Salisbury;  (second)  Philip 
Flanders,  of  Salisbury.  5.  Elizabeth,  born 
December  12.  1650:  married  January  7,  1673, 
Dr.  John  Grotli.  who  was  admitterl  to  practice 
medicine  in  1679.  6.  .Ann,  born  December  17, 
1652.  died  June  12,  1658.  7.  Sarah,  born  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1655 ;  married  Alay  6,  1675,  Robert 
Downer,  of  Salisbury.  8.  Mary,  born  Decem- 
ber 9,  1656,  died  January  i,  1657.  9.  Samuel, 
born  February  14,  1659;  a  mariner.  10. 
Joseph,  born  March  i,  1661  ;  married  Mary 
French;  lived  in  Salisbury.  11.  Ephraim.born 
April  12,  1663:  married  Mary  True;  lived  in 
Salisbury. 

(Ill)  Captain  Joseph  Eaton,  son  and  tenth 
child  of  John  and  Martha  (Rowlandson) 
F.aton.  was  born  in  Salisbury,  March  i,  1661, 
and  died  there  January  13,  1743.  His  house 
vvas  in  that  part  of  the  town  known  as  Sandy 
hill,  where  his  houselot  comprised  three  acres 
of  land  given  him  by  his  father,  but  he  had 
much  other  land  and  is  said  to  have  bought 
and  sold  land  quite  extensively  for  his  time, 
and  to  have  gained  an  honest  competency 
through  his  dealings.  He  was  a  joiner  by 
trade,  and  built  many  houses  and  other  build- 
ings in  the  town,  and  he  also  was  captain  of 
militia  and  a  man  of  considerable  influence  in 
public  affairs.  Captain  Eaton  was  a  famous 
himter  and  trapper,  and  at  certain  seasons  of 
the  year  went  with  companions  as  far  east  as 


P)runswick,  Maine,  and  on  his  return  home  he 
would  entertain  his  family  and  friends  with 
anecdotes  of  his  frequent  excursions.  These 
ftories  aroused  an  adventurous  spirit  in  his 
sons,  and  three  of  them  afterward  sought  their 
fortunes  down  in  the  wilds  of  Maine.  They 
were  not  adventurers,  however,  but  sturdy 
pioneers,  men  of  courage  and  determination. 
Indian  fighters  in  defense  of  home  and  family, 
and  one  of  them  fell  a  victim  of  Indian  rapac- 
ity, while  the  son  of  another  received  a  wound, 
and  was  made  prisoner  and  carried  away  into 
captivity.  In  the  history  of  Brunswick.  Maine, 
it  is  written  as  a  matter  of  tradition  that  one 
Jacob  I'laton  went  there  from  Salisbury,  Mass- 
achusetts, about  1680,  or  earlier,  with  one 
Michael  Malconi.,  and  were  trappers  and 
Traders  with  the  Indians;  that  they  bought 
lands  fmni  the  Indians  which  included  the 
territory  new  com[)rising  the  town  of  Bruns- 
wick, and  laid  claim  to  title.  The  story  is 
not  without  foundation,  though  essentially  in- 
correct in  many  respects,  and  is  the  outgrowth 
of  the  hunting  excursions  which  furnished 
recreation  for  Captain  Eaton's  hunting  parties. 
If  a  put  chase  was  made  from  the  Indians,  as 
might  be  inferred  if  what  has  been  termed  the 
'T*-aton  claim"  had  any  foundation  in  fact, 
the  grant  doubtless  was  secured  by  Captain 
Eaton  himself  rather  than  his  son  Jacob,  and 
at  a  jjcnod  much  later  than  1680,  for  the  cap- 
tain then  was  less  than  twenty  years  old  and 
his  son  Jacob  was  not  born  until  1703.  What- 
ever truth  there  may  have  been  in  the  story 
tliat  the  Eatons  ever  seriously  laid  claim  to 
title  to  the  lands  of  Brunswick  is  not  now 
known,  but  there  is  no  evidence  that  an  Indian 
deed  was  ever  executed,  or  presented  as  a 
foundation  of  the  so  called  claim  ;  but  if  family 
tradition  be  true  the  worthy  captain  pos.sessed 
a  suiliciently  keen  sense  of  humor  to  narrate 
to  his  friends  the  story  of  having  acquired  title 
to  Indian  lands  by  verbal  cession,  if  such  had 
been  the  case. 

Captain  Eaton  married  (first)  December  14, 
1683,  Mary  French,  of  Salisbury,  who  died 
July  12,  1726;  ten  children.  The  intentions 
of  his  second  marriage  were  recorded  in  No- 
vember, 1726,  and  he  married  soon  afterward 
Mary  Worster  (or  Worcester)  of  Bradford, 
Massachusetts,  who  died  Sejitembcr  2.  1759. 
His  children,  all  born  of  his  first  marriage:  I. 
John,  born  .August  23,  1684,  died  December 
12,  i'')84.  2.  John,  l)orn  October  18,  1685; 
married  Esther  Johnson,  of  Kingston,  New 
Hampshire;  lived  in  Salisbury.  3.  Samuel, 
born  December  7,   1687;  married  Mary  Mai- 


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com ;  removed  to  Brunswick,  Alaine.  4. 
Josepli,  born  August  14,  i6go:  married  Mary 
French :  lived  in  Newbury,  Massachusetts.  5. 
Benjamin,  born  February  14,  1693;  married 
Sarah  Merrill ;  lived  in  Salisbury.  6.  Moses, 
born  May  18,  1695  ;  was  killed  by  Indians  near 
Brunswick.  Maine,  1722.  7.  Mary,  born  April 
i).  1697;  married  January  14,  171 5,  Benjamin 
True,  of  Salisbury.  8.  Nicholas,  born  Septem- 
ber 12,  1699;  married  Mercy  Walton;  lived  in 
Salisbury.  9.  Sarah,  born  May  20,  1701  ;  mar- 
ried June  30,  1726,  David  Buswell,  of  Brad- 
ford, Massachusetts.  10.  Jacob,  born  April 
16,  1703;  married  (first)  Sarah  Plummer ; 
( second )  Sarah  Alalcom ;  lived  in  Topsham, 
Maine. 

(l\l  Samuel  Eaton,  third  son  and  child 
of  Cai)tain  Joseph  Eaton  and  Mary  French 
his  first  wife,  w^as  bom  in  Salisbury.  Decem- 
ber 7,  1687,  and  is  mentioned  in  the  history 
of  Brunswick  as  having  come  from  Salisbury 
"early  in  the  last  century  and  built  a  house  on 
tl-.c  corner  of  Bank  and  Maine  streets."  But 
the  author  of  the  history  just  mentioned  is 
mistaken  in  saying  of  this  Samuel  Eaton  that 
'one  of  his  children  Samuel,  was  a  soldier  in 
Fort  George  in  1722,"  for  the  Samuel  Eaton 
of  F'ort  (Jeorge  and  the  colonial  wars  was 
Samuel  the  elder  son  of  Captain  Joseph,  and 
the  pioneer  of  the  family  in  Maine.  He  in- 
herited a  love  of  exploration  and  "to  gratify 
it  he  plunged  into  the  forests  of  Maine  and 
finally  settled  in  what  is  now  Brunswick."  He 
is  the  Samuel  Eaton  who  figured  so  conspic- 
uously in  what  has  been  called  Lovewell's  war, 
which  began  in  1722,  and  it  was  he  whom 
Captain  Gyles  (or  Giles)  sent  from  Fort 
George  to  Colonel  John  Harmon  at  George- 
town, Massachusetts,  with  a  letter  tied  up  in 
an  eclskin  and  concealed  in  his  hair.  When  it 
w-as  imsafe  for  him  to  travel  by  land  he  look 
to  the  water  and  swam,  and  thus  reached  his 
destination  in  safety.  During  the  same  war 
Moses  Eaton,  brother  of  Samuel,  was  taken 
prisoner  (June,  1722),  tortured  and  mutilated, 
anfl  finally  was  carried  to  Point  Pleasant  and 
killed  by  his  savage  captors. 

Samuel  Eaton  married,  about  171 5.  Mary, 
daughter  of  John  Malcom.  first  of  Salisbury 
and  afterward  of  Pirunswick.  John  Malcom 
w'as  one  of  the  companions  of  Captain  Joseph 
Eaton  on  his  hunting  expeditions  from  Salis- 
bury into  Maine,  and  it  was  he  who  with  Flaton 
is  said  to  have  taken  part  in  purchasing  the 
Indian  title  to  what  now  is  Brunswick,  although 
the  history  of  Brunswick  ascribes  that  action 
to  one  Michael  Malcom.     It  is  not  known  that 


John  Malcom  took  part  in  the  colonial  wars, 
although  one  or  more  of  his  sons  entered  the 
service.  The  names  of  all  of  Samuel  Eaton's 
children  are  not  known,  but  it  is  stated  (on 
the  authority  of  the  late  Martin  Eaton)  that 
he  had  two  sons — Enoch  and  Daniel ;  and  a 
daughter  Mary.  Enoch  Eaton  was  drowned 
when  a  boy. 

(\')  Daniel  Eaton,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary 
r Malcom)  Eaton,  was  born  in  Brunswick, 
Maine,  in  1722,  and  through  him  are  descend- 
ed many  of  the  Brunswick  Eaton  families. 
Little  is  known  of  his  family  life  and  there  is 
no  present  record  by  which  we  may  learn  of 
his  marriage,  the  name  of  his  wife  and  their 
children,  except  John.  But  there  is  a  clear 
account  of  a  part  of  the  service  of  Daniel 
Eaton  as  a  soldier  of  the  French  and  Indian 
war.  Early  in  May. -1757.  while  John  Malcom 
and  Daniel  Eaton  were  going  to  Maquoit  for 
salt  hay,  they  were  attacked  by  Indians.  Mal- 
com escaped,  but  Eaton  received  a  bullet 
wound  in  the  wrist,  was  captured  and  taken 
to  Canada  and  held  there  about  a  year.  His 
captor  was  the  Indian  chief  Sabattis,  who  sold 
his  prisoner  for  four  dollars.  Many  years 
after  this  event,  about  1800.  the  old  chief  again 
visited  Brunswick,  met  his  former  ])risoner 
and  was  shown  the  mark  of  the  bullet  wound 
on  his  arm  ;  and  seeing  the  scar  Sabattis  said, 
"That  long  time  ago ;  war  time  too." 

( \T )  John  Eaton  was  a  son  of  Daniel 
Eaton,  but  other  than  this  fact  little  is  known 
of  him.  excejit  that  he  married  Jane  Grant,  and 
had  children,  among  them  sons  Martin.  John 
and  David,  and  a  daughter  Jane. 

(\TI)  Martin  Eaton,  son  of  John  Eaton, 
was  born  in  Brunswick,  Maine,  in  1796.  and 
died  in  South  Durham,  Maine,  in  1888,  having 
attained  the  remarkable  age  of  ninety-two 
years.  He  w-as  a  substantial  farmer,  living 
first  in  Brunswick  and  afterward  for  many 
years  in  Webster.  Maine,  but  later  returned  to 
Brunsw^ick  in  order  that  his  children  might 
have  the  benefits  of  the  better  schools  of  the 
latter  town.  Mr.  Eaton  married.  April  27, 
1834,  Phebe  Winslow,  of  Durham,  born  Janu- 
arv  31.  1805.  daughter  of  William  Winslow, 
founder  of  the  town  of  Winslow,  Maine,  and 
one  of  the  foremost  men  of  his  time  in  the 
province.  Children  of  Martin  and  Phebe 
fWinslowO  liaton:  i.  Sarah  Jane,  born  May 
.V^.  1835.  died  June  8,  1906:  married.  October 
17.  1879,  George  F*.  Day,  of  South  Durham, 
Maine.  2.  William  Winslow,  born  May  20, 
1836;  married,  July  12.  1863.  Agnes  H.  Ma- 
goun.     3.  Rebecca  .Xnnie.  born  July  18.  1837; 


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married.  April.  1878,  deorge  Richardson.  4. 
Abigail  Stewart,  born  October  10.  1838,  died 
July  13.  1839.  5.  .Martha  Kllen.  born  October 
8.  1839,  died  February  4,  1872;  married,  De- 
cember 8,  1864.  James  Clark.  6.  Alonzo  Jones, 
born  January  10,  1841 ;  a  soldier  of  the  civil 
war,  and  died  .August.  1905,  of  disabilities 
contracted  in  service:  married.  .Marcii,  i86r, 
Elizabeth  M.  Lyon,  who  died  in  1906.  7. 
Lucinda  Maria,  born  January  10.  1841,  died 
November  2,  1842.  8.  Edward  R.,  born  May 
29,  1843;  died  October  30,  1861,  while  in  ser- 
vice in  the  first  year  of  the  civil  war. 

(Mil)  Dr.  \\'illiam  Winslow  Eaton,  eldest 
son  and  second  child  of  Martin  and  Phebe 
(Winslow)  Eaton,  was  born  in  ^Vebster, 
Maine.  May  20,  1836,  and  for  more  than  forty 
years  has  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
professional  and  civil  life  of  Danvers.  and  of 
Essex  county.  Massachusetts.  When  Dr. 
Eaton  was  a  boy  living  down  in  Maine  his 
father  removed  from  Webster  to  Brunswick 
that  his  children  might  have  every  opportunitv 
to  gain  a  better  education  than  was  afforded  in 
the  common  schools  in  Webster,  and  William 
attended  the  public  schools  in  Brunswick,  and 
later  finished  the  course  of  the  high  school 
and  was  graduated.  But  this  was  not  enough 
for  him  for  he  had  determined  to  obtain  a 
higher  education  and  to  that  end  fitted  him- 
self for  college,  entered  Bowdoin  for  the  classi- 
cal course  and  graduated  with  the  degree  of 
A.  B.  in  1861  :  and  best  of  all.  he  accomplished 
this  course  wholly  through  his  own  persever- 
ing effort,  maintaining  himself  and  paying  his 
own  tuition  rates  from  the  day  of  matricula- 
tion to  commencement  day  when  the  dean  of 
the  faculty  handed  him  his  coveted  and  hon- 
estly deserved  diploma.  In  1865  he  received 
the  degree  of  M.  A.  from  the  same  institution. 
While  making  his  course  in  college  Dr.  Eaton 
had  begun  the  study  of  medicine  under  the 
competent  preceptorship  of  Dr.  Isaac  Lincoln 
of  Brunswick,  but  after  graduating  he  taught 
in  the  Bridg^on  high  school  one  year  and  at 
the  same  time  continued  his  j^reliminary  medi- 
cal studies  more  definitely  than  before,  taking 
his  first  and  second  courses  of  lectures  in  1861 
and  1862  in  the  Maine  Medical  .School,  although 
for  very  good  reason  he  did  not  receive  his 
diploma  in  medicine  until  something  like  two 
years  later.  The  interval  of  years,  however, 
was  not  without  value  from  the  standpoint  of 
jiractical  medical  and  surgical  experience, 
althf)ugh  for. the  time  the  young  aspirant  was 
compelled  to  lay  aside  his  text  books  and 
didactic  studies  for  the  more  practical  surgi- 


cal duties  of  the  hospital  tent  and  the  battle- 
field. 

On  June  6,   1862,  Dr.  l^aton  enlisted   from 
Brunswick,    Maine,    in    the    Sixteenth    Maine 
\'olunteer    Infantry    Regiment,   and   on   June 
27,  1862,  was  appointed  hospital  steward.    He 
was  promoted  to  assistant  surgeon  January  25, 
1863.  and  to  surgeon,  with  rank  of  major,  No- 
vember 25,  1864,  having  served  as  acting  sur- 
geon  front  May   i,    1864.     His  regiment  was 
organized  at  .Augusta.  Maine,  and  was  there 
mustered  into  the  service  of  the  L'nited  States 
for  a  period  of  three  years  or  during  the  war, 
on  .August  14,   i8(>2,  Colonel  .Asa  W.  Wildes 
commanding.     The  regiment  left  Augusta  on 
August  19  for  Wasiiington  City,  arriving  there 
August  21,  and  the  next  day  crossed  the  Long 
Bridge  into  \'irginia.  being  assigned  to  Forts 
Cass,    Woodbury   and    Tillinghast.      On   Sep- 
tember  7   it   was   withdrawn    from   the    forts 
and  ordered  to  active  duty  in  Maryland.     At 
Gettysburg  only  two  officers  and  fifteen  men 
remained   able    for   duty   at   the   close   of   the 
tliree  (lays  battle,  out  of  248  who  went  into 
action.     Surgeon  Eaton  was  captured  there  on 
July  1st.  and  remained  in  charge  of  the  Luth- 
eran   Church    Hospital    until   July   4th,   when 
after  the  advance  of  the  I'nion  forces  he  re- 
joined  his   regiment.      1  Fe   was  always  to  be 
found    at    his    post,    performing   the   arduous 
duties  of  an  army  surgeon   in  the  field  with 
efficiency   and   skill,   caring    for   the   sick   and 
wounded  of  his  command,  often  under  most 
unfavorable  conditions,  and  achieving  a  most 
creditable  record,  whether  in  camp,   hospital, 
or  on  the  field  of  battle.     While  a  prisoner  he 
ministered  to  sick  and  wounded  rebels,  as  well 
as  to  his  own  comrades.     In  this  connection  it 
may  be  noted  that  he  still  retains  a  fragment 
of   his   regimental    flag,   which,    when   capture 
was  inevitable,  was  lorn  to  pieces  by  the  color- 
bearer,  and  distributed  among  the  men  to  pre- 
vent it  falling  into  the  enemy's  hands.     While 
in    winter   cjuarters   at    Mitchell's    Station,    in 
December.    1863,  he  received   from   Secretary 
of  War  Stanton  a  leave  of  absence  to  admit  of 
his  comfjleting  his  professional  studies  in  the 
New  York  Hospital  and  Medical  School,  re- 
ceiving the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  Xew  A^ork 
University   on    March   4.    1864.      During  this 
course   he    sat    under   the    instruction    of   the 
eminent   D.  Valentine   Mott  and  other  noted 
I'hysicians  and  surgeons.     .Surgeon  Eaton  was 
honorably  discharged  from  service  at  Augusta, 
Maine,  June  5,  1865,  by  reason  of  end  of  war. 

.After    being   mustered   out   of   service.   Dr. 
Eaton  returned  t(.)  hi-^  old  home  in  I'nmswick, 


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where  lie  married,  but  did  not  practice  there. 
His  professional  career  was  begun  in  South 
Reading,  Nfassachusetts,  (now  Wakefield), 
where  he  was  induced  to  locate  in  answer  to  the 
urgent  request  of  his  old  regimental  chaplain, 
with  whom  he  was  visiting  after  returniiig 
from  the  front.  After  two  years  residence  in 
South  Reading  Dr.  Eaton  removed  to  Danvers 
and  has  engaged  in  active  and  successful  gen- 
eral practice  in  that  locality  since  1867.  a  jjeriod 
of  more  than  two  score  years.  He  maintains 
an  office  in  Salem  as  well  as  in  Danvers, 
although  his  home  is  in  the  latter  town,  and  his 
practice,  while  general,  has  its  special  side  and 
he  is  an  electro-therapeutist  of  wide  reputa- 
tion. It  is  doubtful  if  there  is  any  professional 
man  in  Essex  county  with  a  more  extended 
and  favorable  acquaintance  than  Dr.  Eaton, 
and  few  whose  endeavors  in  professional  life 
have  been  rewarded  with  better  success  or 
more  substantial  results.  In  1865  he  became 
a  member  of  the  Essex  County  Medical 
Society  and  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society, 
and  besides  he  holds  membership  in  various 
other  organizations  of  men  of  his  profession, 
among  them  the  Maine  Medical  Society,  the 
American  Medical  Association  and  the  Ameri- 
can Electro-Therapeutic  Society,  of  the  latter 
of  which  he  is  a  former  vice-president,  as  also 
he  is  ex-president  of  the  Essex  County  Medi- 
cal Society,  and  ex-vice-president  of  the  Mass- 
achusetts Medical  Society.  He  became  a 
member  of  the  board  of  C  S.  examining  sur- 
geons for  pensions,  June,  1889,  and  still  occu- 
pies that  position.  He  is  an  interesting  but  not 
pnilitic  writer.  One  of  his  best  professional 
monographs  is  one  on  "The  Use  and  Abuse  of 
Alcohol,"  and  he  is  author  of  a  "History  of 
the  Physicians  of  Danvers,"  which  has  been 
published;  and  a  concise  and  accurate  "His- 
tory of  the  Sixteenth  Regiment  Maine  Volun- 
teer Infantry,"  his  old  command. 

Dr.  I^,aton'is  a  Mason  of  long  standing,  hav- 
ing first  become  a  member  of  .Army  Lodge,  No. 
8,  E.  and  A.  M.,  while  in  service  at  the  front 
in  1864.  He  is  affiliated  with  Amity  Lodge, 
of  Danvers;  was  a  charter  member  and  past 
master  of  Mosaic  Lodge,  of  Danvers;  is  a 
charter  member  of  TTolton  Chapter,  R.  A.  M., 
of  Danvers:  also  member  of  Winslow  Lewis 
Commandery,  No.  18,  K.  T..  of  Salem,  of 
which  he  has  been  prelate  for  sixteen  years; 
and  member  of  Sutton  Lodge  of  Perfection, 
of  Salem.  He  is  a  comrade  of  Ward  Post, 
No.  90,  G.  A.  R. ;  was  its  second  commander, 
serving  two  years ;  and  for  thirty-five  years 
has  been  annually  installed  in  his  present  posi- 


tion of  surgeon.  In  his  life  in  Danvers  he 
has  been  for  many  years  variously  identified 
with  the  best  interests  and  institutions  of  the 
community,  and  while  he  has  never  aspired  to 
[jolitical  honors,  he  has  taken  an  active  part  in 
the  interest  of  good  citizenship  and  the  gen- 
eral welfare.  He  has  filled  several  offices  of 
minor  importance,  and  for  fifteen  years  served 
as  member  of  the  school  committee,  of  which  he 
was  at  one  time  chairman.  He  was  a  trustee 
of  the  Peabody  Institute ;  and  for  the  past 
twenty-three  years  has  been  president  and  one 
of  the  trustees  of  the  Walnut  Grove  Cemetery 
Corporation.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Danvers 
Scientific  Society.  He  is  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Danvers  Improvement  Society,  was  its 
first  vice-president,  and  for  eighteen  years 
president,  which  position  he  yet  occupies.  This 
Society  was  formed  with  the  idea  of  beauti- 
fying the  roads,  walks,  shade  trees,  railroad 
station,  etc.,  of  the  city.  The  Society,  without 
any  means  in  the  treasury,  purchased  for  five 
thousand  dollars,  which  has  been  paid,  a  tract 
of  land  of  twenty-five  acres,  which  it  pro- 
posed to  turn  over  to  the  town  as  a  beautiful 
park  bordering  on  Porter  river  for  a  quarter- 
mile  wide,  with  landscape  scenery,  river  viewr, 
etc.,  all  graded  and  beautified,  besides  thous- 
ands of  dollars  expended  in  improvements. 
This  will  be  turned  over  to  the  town,  to  be 
enjoyed  as  a  ]nil)lic  park  forever.  Dr.  Eaton 
delivered  the  address  at  the  Memorial  Institute 
at  the  time  of  the  death  of  General  Grant,  and 
has  made  addresses  on  several  Memorial  Days. 
On  June  25,  1865,  Dr.  Eaton  married  .\gnes 
Hirst  Magoun,  born  in  Carlisle,  England,  Jan- 
uary 5,  1842,  who  came  to  the  I'nited  States 
when  a  child.  She  died  in  Danvers,  July  14, 
1004.  Children  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Eaton:  i. 
Elbert,  born  August  8,  1866,  died  May  31, 
1880.  2.  Susan  Wilhelmina,  born  April  2, 
1870.  3.  Harold  P.,  born  January  2,  1881, 
died  May  2,  same  year.  4.  Marion  Agnes, 
born  June  ig.  1883. 

(Tlii>   Winslow  Line). 

William  Winslow.  or  Wyncelow.  the  first  of 
the  lineage  as  traced  in  England,  had  children: 
I.  John,  of  London,  afterwards  of  Wyncelow 
llall,  was  living  in  1387-88:  married  Mary 
Crouchman.  wlio  died  in  1409-10:  styled  of 
Crouchman  Hall.  J.  William,  mentioned  be- 
low. 

(Ill  William  Winslow  was  son  of  William 
Winslow  (  I  ). 

(IIJ)  Thomas  Winslow.  son  of  William 
Win.slow  (2),  was  of  Burton,  county  Oxford, 


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iiavins;  lands  also  in  Essex ;  was  living  in  1452. 
He  married  Cecelia^  one  of  the  two  daughters 
and  lieircss  of  an  old  family — Tansley.  She 
was  called  Lady  Agnes. 

(IV)  William  Winslow.  son  of  Thomas 
Winslow  (■31.  was  living  in  1520.  Children: 
1.  Kenelm,  mentioned  below.  2.  Richard,  had 
a  grant  from  Edward  \"i  of  the  rectory  of 
F.lk.sley,  county  Nottingham. 

l\)  Kenelm  Winslow.  son  of  William 
Winslow  '^4),  purchased  in  1559,  of  Sir  Rich- 
ard Newport,  an  estate  called  Newport's  Place, 
in  Kempsey,  Worcestershire.  He  had  an  older 
and  very  extensive  estate  in  the  same  j)arish, 
called  Clerkenleap,  sold  by  his  grandson,  Rich- 
ard Winslow.  in  1650.  Me  died  in  1607,  in 
t'le  parish  of  St.  .Andrew.  He  married  Cath- 
erine   .     His  will,  dated  April  14,  1607, 

proved  November  9  following,  is  still  pre- 
served at  Worcester.  Only  son.  Edward,  men- 
tioned below. 

(\'I)  Edward  Winslow,  son  of  Kenelm 
Winslow  (5),  born  in  the  parish  of  Saint  .An- 
drew, county  Worcester,  England,  October  17, 
[fCo.  died  before  1631.  He  lived  in  Kempsey 
and  Droitwich,  county  Worcester.  He  mar- 
ried first,  Eleanor  Pelham,  of  Droitwich :  sec- 
ond, at  St.  Bride's  Church,  London,  Novem- 
ber 4.  1594.  Magdelene  Oliver,  the  records 
of  'vliose  family  are  found  in  the  jiarish  regis- 
ter of  St.  Peter's,  Droitwich.  Children:  i. 
Richard,  born  about  i5<S5-86;  died  .May  20, 
1659:  married  Alice  Hay,  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward Hurdman :  resided  at  Draycoat,  parish 
of  Kempsey.  2.  Edward,  governor  of  Plymouth 
Colony,  born  October  18,  1595,  at  Droitwich; 
died  May  8.  i('55:  married  first,  at  Leyden, 
May  16,  1618,  Elizabeth  P)arker ;  second.  May 
12.  1621,  Susan  (Fuller)  W'hite,  (who  came 
in  the  "Mayflower"  with  Winslow),  widow  of 
William  W'hite  and  mother  of  Peregrine 
\\'hite,  the  first-born  in  the  colony.  3.  John, 
born  .April  16,  1597;  died  1674.  in  Boston; 
married,  October  12,  1624.  Mary,  daughter  of 
James  and  .Susanna  Chilton.  4.  Eleanor,  born 
.April  22.  1.S98,  at  I>oitwich  ;  remained  in  Eng- 
land. 5.  Josiah,  born  February  11,  1605-06; 
died  December  i,  1674;  sent  over  as  account- 
ant to  Mr.  Shirley.  1631 ;  lived  at  Marsh- 
field.  Massachusetts;  married,  1636.  Margaret 
I'ourne.  6.  Gilbert,  born  October  26,  1600; 
came  in  the  '"Mayflower"  with  Edward  ;  signed 
the  compact;  returned  to  England  after  1623. 
and  died  there.  7.  Elizabeth,  born  March  8, 
1601-02  ;  baptized  March  8  following,  at  Droit- 
wich ;  buried  January  20,  1604-05,  at  St. 
Peter's  Church.    8.  ^^agdalcn,  born  December 


26,  1604.  at  Droitwich ;  remained  in  England. 
9-  Kenelm.  mentioned  below. 

(VH)   Kenelm    Winslow.    son   of    Edvvara 
Winslow   (6),  was  born  at  Droitwich,  county 
^N'orccsler.  England,  .\pril  29,  1599,  and  bap- 
tized  .May   3.    I59().     He   wa:;  the   immigrant 
ancestor.     He  came  to  Plymouth  probably  in 
1629  with  his  brother  Josiah,  and  was  admitted 
a  freeman  January  i.  1632-3;  was  surveyor  of 
the  town  of  Plymouth  1640.  and  was  fined  ten 
shillings  for  neglecting  the  highways.     He  re- 
moved to  Marslifield  about  1641.  having  previ- 
ously received  a  grant  of  land  at  that  place, 
then  called  (keen's  Harbor,  ALirch  5,  1637-8. 
Tin's  grant,  originally  made  to  Josiah  Wins- 
low, his  brother,  he  shared  with  Love  Brews- 
ter.    His  home  was  "on  a  gentle  eminence  by 
the  sea,  near  the  extremity  of  land  lying  be- 
tween Green  Harbor  and  South  Rivers.    This 
tract  of  the  townshij)  was  considered  the  Eden 
of  the  region.     It  was  beautified  with  groves 
of  majestic  oaks  and  graceful   walnuts,   with 
the  underground   void  of  shrubbery.     A    few 
of  these  groves  were  standing  within  the  mem- 
ory of  persons  now  living  ( 1S54)  but  all  have 
fallen    beneath   the    hand    of   the    woodman." 
The  homestead  he  left  to  his  son  Nathaniel. 
Other  lands  were  granted  to  Kenelm,  as  the 
common  land   was  divided.     He  was  one  of 
the  twenty-six  original  proprietors  of  Assonet 
(FVeetown)    Mas.sachusetts,  purchased  of  the 
Indians  .April  2.  1659.  and  received  the  twenty- 
fourth  lot.  a  portion  of  which  is  still  or  was 
lately  owned  by  a   lineal   descendant,   having 
descended  by  inheritance.  Kenelm  was  a  joiner 
by  trade,  as  well  as  a  planter.     He  filled  vari- 
ous town   offices;   was   deputy   to   the  general 
court    1642  to    1644  and    from    1649  to   1653, 
eight  years  in  all.     He  had  considerable  litiga- 
tion, as  the  early  court  records  show.    He  died 
at  Salem,   whither  he  had  gone  on  business, 
.September   13,    1672.  apparently  after  a  long 
illness,  for  his  will  was  dated  five  weeks  earlier, 
.August  8,  1672,  and  in  it  he  describes  himself 
as   "being   very   sick   and   drawing   nigh    unto 
death."     He  may  have  been  visiting  his  niece, 
Mrs.   Elizabeth  Corwin.  daughter  of  Edward 
Winslow.    He  married,  in  Jime,  1634.  Eleanor 
.Adams,  widow  of  John  .Adams  of  Plymouth. 
She    survived    him,    and    died    at    Marshfield, 
where  she  was  buried  December  5,  i68t,  aged 
eighty-three.     Children:  i.  Kenelm,  born  .about 
1635,  died  November  ii,  1715.    2.  ICleanor,  or 
Ellen,  born  about  1637;  died  .August  27,  1676; 
married    Samuel    Baker.      3.    Nathaniel,   born 
about   1639;  died  December  i,   1719;  married 
F^aith  Miller.    4.  Job,  see  forward. 


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(Vni)  Job  Winslow,  son  of  Kenelm  Wins- 
low,  was  born  about  1641,  died  at  Freetown, 
Massachusetts,  July  14,  1720.  His  house  at 
Svvansey  was  burned  by  Indians  in  1675.  He 
went  to  Freetown,  Massachusetts,  and  was 
selectman  there  in  1686,  town  clerk  in  1690, 
and  leading  man  in  all  town  matters,  civil  and 
religious.     1  le  was  a  shipwright  by  occupation. 


He  married  Ruth 


Children:  William, 


born  November  16.  1674:  Oliver,  February 
20,  1676;  Ruth,  September  13,  1678:  Richard, 
March  6,  1680:  Hope,  May  29,  1681 ;  Job, 
July  10,  1683:  Joseph,  about  1685;  James, 
May  9,  1687,  mentioned  below  :  Mary,  April 
2,  1689:  (leorge,  January  2,  1C190-91  ;  Jona- 
than, November  22,  1692 :  John,  February  20, 
694:  Elizabeth,  1696-97. 

(IX)  James  Winslow,  son  of  Job  Winslow, 
,vas  born  at  Freetown,  Massachusetts,  May 
<,,  1687,  died  at  Falmouth,  Maine,  October  19, 
1773.  He  owned  a  large  tract  of  land  at  Broad 
Bay  (now  Portland),  which  he  gave  to  his 
ioiis,  but  on  account  of  trouble  with  the  Indians 
they  were  obliged  to  return  to  Falmouth  after 
a  few  years.  He  was  the  first  Friend  in  Fal- 
mouth'and  lent  a  most  important  support  to 
the  doctrines  of  that  respectable  people.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Carpenter;  married  (sec- 
ond) Ruth  (]etchell,  of  Brunswick,  Alaine. 
Children  :  Mary,  born  June  20,  1709  ;  Nathan, 
April  I,  1713;  Job.  March  30,  1713  ;  Benjamin, 
Tune  19,  1717,  mentioned  below,  Elizabeth, 
May  6,  1721  ;  James,  August  6,  1725;  Sybil, 
October  3,  1727, 

(X)  Benjamin  Winslow,  son  of  James 
Winslow,  was  born  June  19,  1717,  at  Free- 
town. Massachusetts,  died  April  26,  1796,  at 
Falmouth,  ^Maine.  He  seems  to  have  resided 
in  Falmouth  after  1728.  He  bought  in  corn- 
pany  with  Flijnh  Douglas  one-half  of  what  is 
known  as  Birch  Island  for  the  sum  of  seventy- 
six  pounds,  thirteen  shillings  and  four  pence. 
He  and  his  family  were  members  of  the 
Society  of  Friends.  He  married  Hope  Cobb, 
.August  II.  1738.  Children:  Samuel,  born 
SeiAember  15,  1739;  Sarah,  June  18,  1741; 
Oliver.  March  <),  1743;  Elizabeth,  March  10, 
"!745 ;  Benjamin.  December  6,  1746;  Joseph, 
July  31,  1748;  William,  June  19,  1750,  men- 
tioned below;  Oliver,  March  2,  1752:  Hannah, 
August  18,  1734. 

(XI)  \Mlliam  Winslow.  son  of  Benjamin 
Winslow.  wa'^  born  June  U),  1750,  died  No- 
vember 28,  1834,  at  l'"alniinith.  Maine.  He 
was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  1  le  married,  in 
P.oston,  Massachusetts,  Seiitember  20,  1770, 
Phoebe  I'opc.     Children:     .Xbigail,  born  June 


25,  1771  ;  Ebenezer,  October  q,  1772;  Hannah, 
December  30,  1773;  Huldah,  May  24,  1775; 
Stephen,  June  14,  1776;  Daniel,  September  14, 
1777;  Eunice,  July  26,  1779;  William,  April 
8,  1781,  mentioned  below;  Stephen,  June  18, 
1782;  Peter,  September  30.  1783;  Joseph  and 
Benjamin  (twins),  November  2,  1784:  Robert, 
.'\ugust  I.  1786;  Phoebe,  January  4,  1788; 
Daniel,  March  31,  1789;  Elijah,  .Augu.st  28, 
1793;  Reuben,  January  21,  1795;  John  Tabor, 
May  12,  1800. 

(XH)  William  Winslow,  son  of  \Mlliam 
Winslow,  was  born  April  8,  1781,  died  June 
28,  1844,  at  Durham,  Maine,  and  was  buried 
there.  He  was  a  carpenter  and  millwright  by 
occupation.  He  married. in  Scarborough.  Maine, 
l'>bruary  27,  1804,  Sarah  Stuart.  Children: 
Phoebe,  born  January  31,  1805,  at  Winslow, 
Maine,  married  Martin  Eaton  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  William  Winslow  Eaton  :  Abi- 
gail Stuart,  July  13,  1806,  at  Belgrade,  Maine; 
Sally.  December  26,  1807,  at  Belgrade:  Jane 
Gould.  July  29.  1809;  Mary  Gardner,  July  29. 
1811  :  Charles  Stuart,  June  18,  1813:  Huldah 
]\Iower,  January  24,  1815:  Hairiet,  July  4, 
1817;  Joseph  Pope,  Sejitember  28,  1819:  Will- 
iam Penn,  [unc  12,  1822;  Martha  Meader, 
March  17,  1824:  Eli  Gould,  May  5,  1826. 


The  Carter  family  is  of  ancient 
CARTTER     English  lineage,  'in  one  of  the 

liatties  of  Bruce'swar.an  officer 
by  the  name  of  McCarter  countermanded  the 
order  of  a  superior  officer,  which  meant  death. 
but  which  gave  the  victory,  hence  they  could 
not  really  i)ut  him  to  death,  but  could  iu)t  allow 
tiie  offence  to  go  unpunished.  Therefore  they 
deprived  him  of  the  "Mc"  in  his  name,  and 
added  a  "t."  making  it  Cartter.  The  pre.sent 
family  descends  from  him.  Richard  (Tartter. 
Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Garston.  in  the  parish 
of  Watford,  luigland,  is  sup'posed  to  have  been 
the  grandfather  of  Rev.  Thomas  Cartter.  the 
immigrant,  mentioned  below. 

(  T)  Rev.  Thomas  Cartter.  immigrant  ances- 
tor, was  horn  in  Hertfordshire,  England,  about 
1608,  as  he  de])osed  December  17,  1662.  He 
was  a  graduate  of  St.  John's  College,  Cam- 
bridge L'uiversily,  taking  his  degrees  in  1629 
and  1633.  In  1633,  with  forty  others,  he  came 
in  tlie  slii])  "Planter'"  from  England,  giving 
his  residence  there  as  St.  .Mbans  in  Hertford- 
shire. He  settled  first  in  Dedham,  but  soon 
removed  to  Watertown,  where  he  was  an  elder 
of  the  church.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman 
Mav  1,  1638.  On  the  founding  of  the  church 
in  Woburn,  he  was  called  as  the  minister,  and 


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ordained  there  October  22,  1642.  He  served 
the  people  acceptably  for  a  period  of  thirty-six 
years  until  his  death,  September  5,  1684.  He 
had  in  his  possession  what  he  believed  to  be  a 
Bible  of  the  martyr,  John  Rogers,  from  whom 
he  descended  in  a  maternal  line.  Johnson,  in 
his  "Wonderworking  Providence."  calls  him  a 
"Reverend,  godly  man.  apt  to  teach  the  sound 
and  wholesome  truths  of  Christ."  Another 
historian  jironounced  him  "a  very  i)ious.  e.xem- 
plary  man,  and  able  and  sound  preacher  of  the 
Gospel."  The  customs  of  the  time,  good  old 
Puritan  times,  is  shown  by  the  bill  of  expenses 
for  the  funeral  of  the  beloved  minister.  Of 
the  total  cost  of  four'pounds,  nineteen  shillings, 
the  coffin  cost  six  shillings,  the  wine  for  the 
mourners  cost  half  the  total  bill,  over  two 
pounds.  It  may  be  interesting  to  note  that  the 
town  of  W'oburn  paid  him  a  salary  of  eighty 
pounds  a  year.  He  married  Mary  Dalton,  who 
died  March  28,  1687.  Their  children  are  men- 
tioned in  the  will  of  James  Carter,  brother  of 
Rev.  Thomas,  dated  Hinderclay,  county  Suf- 
folk, England,  September  8,  1655.  Children: 
I.  Rev.  Samuel,  born  August  8.  1640;  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Judith.  March  15.  i(')45;  mar- 
ried, October  14.  i6()0.  Samuel  Somers :  (sec- 
ond) Giles  Fairfield.  3.  Theophilus,  July  24. 
1646.  died  February  15.  1649-50.  4.  Mary, 
July  24,  1648:  married,  1671,  John  Wyman, 
Jr. :  (  second  )  Nathaniel  Batchelder.  5.  Abi- 
gail. .-\ugust  10.  1649:  ntarried.  May  7,  1674, 
John  Smith.  6.  Deborah.  September  17,  1651, 
died  December  14,  1667.  7.  Timothy.  Woburn, 
June  12,  1653:  married.  May  3,  1680,  Anna 
Fiske:  died  July  8,  1727.  8.  Thomas,  June  8, 
1668  :  married.  [682.  Margaret  Whitmore  ;  lived 
in  W'oburn. 

(II)  Rev.  Samuel Cartter, son  of  Rev. Thomas 
Cartter.  was  born  at  Watertown.  .\ugust  8. 
1640.  He  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in 
1660  and  was  admitted  an  inhabitant  and  pro- 
prietor of  the  common  lands  at  W'oburn.  Janu- 
ary 4.  1665-66.  He  held  at  different  times 
several  responsible  offices  in  the  town ;  select- 
man in  1679-81-82-83;  commissioner  of  rates 
1680:  town  clerk  1690.  He  was  also  teacher 
of  the  grammar  schools  in  1685-86.  He  owned 
land  on  George  Hill.  Lancaster,  given  him  by 
the  town,  and  this  land  was  occujiied  by  his  de- 
scendants for  several  generations.  Hei)reached 
at  Lancaster  between  1681  and  1688.  and  prob- 
ably resided  there  for  a  time.  On  October  21, 
1692.  by  a  vote  of  the  larger  part  of  the  town. 
Rev.  Samuel  Cartter  was  elected  to  be  their 
fourth  minister.  He  removed  there  soon  after 
this   call,   but   did   not    remain   long  over  his 


pastoral  charge,  as  he  dieil  there  in  the  fall  of 
1693.  He  married,  in  1672,  Eunice  Brooks, 
born  October  10.  1655,  daughter  <if  John  and 
Eunice  (Mousall)  I'rooks.  She  married  (sec- 
ond) Captain  James  Parker:  (third)  John 
Kendall.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born  July  24. 
1073.  2.  Samuel,  .August  27,  1675,  died  Sep- 
tember ID.  1676.  3.  Sanuiel.  January  7.  1678: 
mentioned  below.  4.  John,  .March  14.  1680. 
5.  Thomas,  .\pril  3,  1682.  6.  Nathaniel,  .\pril 
4.  1685.  7.  Eunice,  March  29,  16S7.  8. -Abigail. 
May,  1689.  died  young.  9.  .Abigail,  Nlay  30,  it>90. 

( III )  Samuel  (2)  Cartter.  son  of  Rev.  Sam- 
uel (  I  )  Carter,  was  born  in  W'oburn,  January 
7.  1678.  died  in  Lancaster,  August  22,  1738. 
He  lived  on  the  north  side  of  the  road  that 
leads  up  George  Hill,  a  little  to  the  north  of 
the  school  house,  on  the  site  of  a  house  for- 
merly known  as  the  Ca])tain  Ei)hraim  Carller 
house,  his  father.  Rev.  Samuel  Cartter.  having 
purchased  two  lots  of  Captain  Henry  Kerley 
in  i')88  He  was  assigned  to  a  garrison  on 
( ,rorge  Hill  with  his  brother.s-in-law.  Lieuten- 
ant .Xathaniel  and  I^phraim  Wilder,  Thomas 
Ross,  and  his  brother,  John  Cartter,  and  lost 
in  attack  by  the  Indians,  July  31,  1704,  with 
two  tires,  a  good  dwelling  liouse,  a  horse,  cow, 
two  calves  and  his  swine.  He  was  selectman 
in  1723  and  served  on  various  committees  for 
the  location  of  highways,  etc.  He  married. 
in  March,  1701,  Dorothy  Wilder,  born  1686, 
daughter  of  Xathaniel  and  Mary  (Sawyer) 
Wilder.  Children:  I.  Sanniel,  born  1703. 
died  at  Lancaster.  May  20.  I7C)I.  2.  Eunice. 
1704.  (lied  at  Sterling.  November  16.  1789.  3. 
Nathaniel,  Lancaster.  1706:  mentioned  below. 
4.  Dorothy,  baptized  I'ebruary  4.  1710-11.  5. 
.Anna.  6'  Jonathan,  baptized  April  5,  17 13, 
died  at  Leominster,  March  19,  1799.  7.  Eph- 
raim.  bajjtized  February  6,  1714-15.  died  at 
Lancaster.  October  12,  \7()0.  8.  Oliver,  bap- 
tized December  i6,  1716,  died  at  Leominster, 
September  11,  1790.  9.  Mary,  baptized  Febru- 
ary I.  1 7 18- 1 9,  died  at  Boston,  February  3, 
1743.  10.  Elizabeth,  bajHized  October  30,  1720. 
died  at  Lanca.ster,  October  9,  1755.  n.  Pru- 
dence, born  February  22.  baptized  April  7, 
1723.  died  at  Leominster,  .April  6,  1789.  12. 
Jf)siah.  born  at  Lancaster.  January  26,  1726-27, 
died  in  Leominster,  February  14,  1812. 

(  I\' )  Nathaniel,  son  of  Samuel  (  2  )  Cartter, 
was  born  in  Lancaster,  1706,  died  at  Leominster, 
July  20.  1787.  He  resided  on  P.ee  Hill,  in  that 
town,  on  land  given  him  by  his  father.  .At  the 
first  town  meeting.  July  9,  1740,  he  was  chosen 
selectman,  and  on  December  15  of  the  same 
year  was  made  one  of  a  committee  to  build  the 


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meetinghouse.  He  was  one  of  the  first  sixteen 
to  sign  the  church  covenant  when  that  body 
was  incorporated.  September  25,  1743.  His 
son  EHsha  was  the  first  person  baptized  by  the 
first  minister  of  that  church.  He  married 
(first)  February  9,  1731,  Thankful  Sawyer, 
born  1715.  died  December  5,  1755,  daughter  of 
EHsha  and  Ueatrix  Sawyer.  He  married  (sec- 
ond )  July  21,  1758,  Dorcas  Spofford,  of  Lunen- 
burg, who  died  August  6,  1784.  His  will  was 
allowed  November  20,  1787.  He  mentions 
.Samuel,  Elizabeth  and  Thankful  Bennett,  chil- 
dren of  his  daughter  Elizabeth ;  son  Elias ; 
Jnlin,  Nathaniel.  Elias,  David,  Susanna,  Doro- 
thy. I,uke.  Sarah  and  Joshua,  children  of 
his  daughter  .Susanna ;  daughter  Abigail ;  Ebe- 
nezer.  i'rudence.  Elisha,  Abigail.  Elijah.  Thank- 
ful. Susanna  Colburn.  children  of  his  daughter 
I'rudence;  his  chililren  Samuel,  Elisha,  Asa, 
Thankful  and  Nathaniel  to  have  the  residue 
of  the  estate.  Children,  all  by  first  wife:  i. 
Elizabeth,  born  February  9,  1734,  died  April 
24.  1760.  2.  Nathaniel.  December  17,  1735. 
died  March  13.  1812.  3.  Elias,  November  24, 
1737,  died  at  Buckland,  December  21,  1721. 
4.  Susanna,  April  20.  1739:  married.  1757, 
John  Joslin  :  died  December  5,  1777.  5.  Abi- 
gail, May  10,  1741,  died  June  10,  1816.  6.  Pru- 
dence (twin),  May  10.  1741,  married  

Colburn.  7.  Elisha.  September  11,  1743,  died 
young.  8.  Samuel,  -\ugust  14.  1746,  died  at 
i'.ucklaud.  9.  I'^lisha.  July  u.  1748.  10.  Asa, 
.\la\-  (>.  1750.  died  January  21,  1822.  11. 
Thankful,  June  (>.  1752. 

(  \')  Nehemiah.  probably  nephew  of  Nathaniel 
Carter,  was  born  at  I-ancaster  in  1741.  died 
October  15,  1810.  He  settled  in  Westfield, 
Massachusetts,  and  married  Mary  Kellogg, 
born  in  Westfield,  January  13,  1748,  died  June 
20.  1810.  daughter  of  David  Kellogg  (see  Kel- 
logg ).  They  removed  in  their  old  age  to  Low- 
ville.  New  \'ork,  to  live  with  their  son  i'hi- 
denius.  Children,  born  in  Westfield:  i.  Chand- 
ler, born  February  2/.  1768:  mentioned  below. 
2.  .Nehemiah.  May  4.  I76<j  died  aged  ninety- 
two.  3.  .Mary.  June  i.  1770.  died  aged  ninety- 
four  in  Iowa.  4.  Colonel  Zeboim,  June  13, 
1772.  died  in  Iowa,  aged  eighty-one:  served  in 
the  war  of  181 2.  5.  Catherine.  -August  18, 
1774.  (lied  January  17.  1791.  (1.  David  Kel- 
logg. March  22.  1771'):  married,  1804,  b'lizabetb 
iloliister,  born  October  31.  1789.  daughter 
of  Abner  Iloliister:  married  (second)  Sarah 
Betty,  who  died  in  Rochester.  New  York,  Au- 
gust 27.  1828:  had  son  David,  who  was  a 
federal  judge  in  the  court  of  the  District  of 
C"oluml)ia.     7.  Submit,  .August   18,   1779,  died 


October  29,  1779.  8.  James  Bruce,  May  17, 
1781,  died  in  Rochester,  March,  1852:  mar- 
ried Mahala  Doty,  born  in  Saratoga,  New 
York.  Alarch  15,  1793,  died  in  Rochester,  New 
A'ork,  in  1852:  married  (second)  Anna  Parks; 
was  a  blacksmith  and  settled  first  in  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts. and  removed  to  Rochester  : 
said  to  have  ironed  the  first  wagon  built  in 
Rochester.  9.  Bathsheba.  February  2,  1783, 
died  in  Holyoke,  March  15,  1873;  married. 
I'ebruary  26,  1807,  Nathaniel  (jaylord.  10. 
Isaac,  October  21,  1784,  died  in  Lowville.  New 
York,  aged  eighty-eight.  11.  Phidemus,  June 
6,  1786,  died  in  Lowville,  December  19.  1874: 
married  (first)  Sophia  M«rra\-  (second)  .\Irs. 
Ruth  Hendel.  12.  Samuel,  September  9,  1788, 
died  in  Kansas,  aged  ninety:  removed  in  1806 
to  Lowville:  served  in  war  of  181 2. 

(VI)  Captain  Chandler,  son  of  Nehemiah 
Cartter.  was  born  in  Westfield,  Massachusetts, 
February  2/.  1768,  died  in  Springfield,  1853. 
He  married  ( intentions  published  April  28, 
1805)  .Ann  Waterman,  in  Medfield.  He  re- 
sided in  Russell  and  Chester,  Massachusetts. 
He  was  captain  of  the  militia  at  Russell,  and  a 
blacksmith  by  trade.    Children:    i.  Waterman. 

married Frisbee  and  died  in  Blandford  ; 

was  captain  of  train  band  and  commanded 
mounted  militia  ;  had  children  :  Andrew  Jack- 
.son,  Hosea,  Milo,  Homer  and  Lucy.  2.  Hiram, 
married  Emma  Day  and  resided  in  W'est  Spring- 
field. 3.  Mary,  married  Otis  Wait.  4.  Almira. 
married  John  Wilbur.  5.  Harriet,  married 
and  moved  to  Ohio.  6.  Emeline.  married  Eph- 
raim  Walker,  of  West  Becket.  7.  Bethsina.  8. 
Julia,  married  Richard  Church,  a  farmer  in 
llecket.  9.  Sarah,  married  Emerson  Wait. 
brother  of  Otis  Wait.  10.  .Ann.  married  Elijah 
.S.  tjrecne,  of  Chester,  who  was  born  in  East 
lirookfield.     11.  Lorenzo,  mentioned  below. 

(\'1I)  Lorenzo,  son  of  Captain  Chandler 
Cartter,  was  born  probably  in  Blandford.  Mass- 
achusetts, May  12,  1810,  and  settled  in  Chester. ' 
Massachusetts,  where  he  was  a  blacksmith. 
He  married  (first)  February  26.  1835.  Polly 
b'risbie.  born  July  28,  1807,  died  January  10, 
1844:  children:  Harriet  .Ann,  born  .April  6. 
1836:  Lydia  Flisa,  April  17.  1838;  Eli  Love- 
man.  March  31,  1841.  lie  married  (second) 
September  24,  1844,  Sarah  Smith,  born  March 
2~.  1812.  died  February  6.  1852:  children: 
l.awson  I'Vederick.  born  February  14.  1846: 
Isaac  Jose))h,  born  July  13,  1847,  tl'<^<^l  '"  t'l^ 
South,  December,  1878:  Sarah  Truelove.  born 
Jinie  24.  1830.  died  .August  3.  1850.  He  mar- 
ried (third)  December  17.  1853.  Lucina  S. 
( jardener.  born  in  England,  died  ^lay  30.  1902, 


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daughter  of  Joseph  Gardener,  a  native  of  Eng- 
land. Children:  i.  Charlotte  Maria,  born 
September  17.  1854;  married.  July  12,  1872. 
Jarvis  X'alentine  Farrington  :  had  William  .\.  J. 
I'arrington.  married  Susan  Cross,  daughter  of 
James  Cross.  2.  William  Lorenzo,  born  .\u- 
gust  23.  1856,  died  I'ehruary  3.  1872.  3.  Rich- 
ard Gardener  Waterman.  June  12,  1858:  men- 
tioned below.  4.  John  Brown,  born  March  27,. 
i860,  died  May  30,  1871.  5.  Charles  Sumner, 
born  May  20.  1863.  died  January  29.  1864. 

(\'I1I)  Richard  Gardener  Waterman,  son 
of  Lorenzo  Cartter,  was  born  in  Chester.  Mass- 
achusetts. June  12.  1858.  He  removed  with 
his  i)arents  to  W'estfield  at  the  age  of  three 
years.  He  attended  the  district  school  in  West- 
field  a  year,  and  then  three  years  at  Southwick. 
At  the  age  of  eleven  he  went  to  work  for  a 
farmer  at  Southwick.  working  for  his  board 
and  cli  thes.  I'or  six  months  he  worked  on 
the  farm  of  his  brother-in-law,  and  three  years 
for  S.  W'.  I'.ryant  at  South  lladley  Falls.  He 
then  went  as  a  travelling  salesman,  selling  oil 
on  commission,  but  his  income  was  so  large 
that  the  firm  wished  him  to  take  a  regular 
salary.  Xot  wishing  to  cut  down  his  income, 
he  resigned  his  position,  and  went  to  West 
S]jringfield  as  manager  of  the  R.  .\.  F'agg 
farm,  remaining  three  years.  His  experience 
here  in  market  gardening  led  him  to  buy  a 
farm  of  his  own.  and  in  1883  he  purchased 
nine  acres  of  land  from  W.  W.  Amadou,  and 
started  in  the  market  gardening  business.  From 
the  first  the  enterprise  was  a  success,  and  he 
now  owns  and  cultivates  over  one  hundred 
acres.  emi)loying  from  twenty  to  one  hundred 
men.  according  to  the  season.  He  has  brought 
the  fariu  to  a  highly  [productive  stale,  and  has 
two  large  greenhouses,  one  sixty  by  twenty 
feet,  the  other,  two  hundred  and  seventy-six 
by  fifty  feet,  together  with  extensive  hot  beds. 
His  farm  is  situated  on  the  west  bank  of  the 
Connecticut  river,  two  miles  from  Springfield 
and  one  and  a  (juarter  miles  from  Chicopee. 
He  has  all  the  facilities  for  successful  market 
gardening,  and  his  application  to  business,  to- 
gether with  his  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
work,  has  made  him  prosperous.  He  is  a  char- 
ter member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
Knights  of  Malta,  and  also  a  member  of  the 
Royal  .Arcanum,  Sons  of  St.  George,  and  of 
Tecota  Lodge.  Inde])cndent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows. His  hours  of  leisure  are  spent  in  enjoy- 
ing outdoor  life  in  his  motor  car,  and  he  is 
especially  fond  of  this  mode  of  travel.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Rei)ublican.  He  married,  1882, 
.•\(la  Uelle  .Amadon  (  see  .\madon  faniilv  ).  Chil- 


dren :    1.  Paul  Raymond,  died  young.    2.  Rich- 
ard, died  young.    3.  .\da  May.  died  young. 

(The    KcUofrgr    LInel. 

(  1  )  Captain  Jose])h  Kellogg,  imiuigranl  an- 
cestor, came  from  Great  Heights,  Fngland. 
lie  married  Joanna  . 

(  II  )  John,  son  of  Captain  Josei)h  Kellogg, 
was  baptized  in  Farmington,  Connecticut,  and 
married  Sarah  Moody,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Sarah  (Demming)  Moody,  granddaughter 
of  John  and  .Vnone  (  Treat )  Demming.  of  i  1  art- 
ford,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Richard  and 
.Mice  ((iaylord)  Treat. 

(  111  )  Captain  Saiuuel.  st)n  of  John  Kellogg, 
was  horn  in  lladley,  Massaclnisetts.  and  mar- 
ried Mary  Ashley. 

(  I\  )  David,  son  of  Captain  Samuel  Kellogg, 
married  Elizabeth  Jones,  of  Enfield,  daughter 
of  Lieutenant  Thomas  and  Mary  iMeacham) 
Jones. 

(  \  I  Mary,  daugliter  of  David  Kellogg,  mar- 
ried .\cliciuiali  Cartter  (see  Cartter  familv). 


Thomas  Chadwell,  immigrant 
(_  I  I  ADW  in.L  ancestor,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, in  161 1,  according  to 
liis  deposition  in  1680.  when  he  stated  his  age 
as  sixty-nine  years.  I'oth  he  and  his  brother 
Richard  were  shi|)wrights.  and  came  about  the 
same  time,  in  1636.  ])rol)al)ly  together,  to  Saleiu, 
Massachusetts.  Richard  Chadwell  was  at. Saugus 
in  1636.  and  was  a  witness  in  the  .Salem  court 
in  if)37.  The  records  show  that  John  Samp.son 
was  apjjrenticed  to  him  in  June.  i(')35,  by  Fran- 
cis Toby,  of  Rotherbith,  county  .Surrey,  Eng- 
land ;  that  he  removed  to  Sandwich,  Massachu- 
setts,of  which  he  was  a  |)roi)rietor  .\])ril  3.  1637  ; 
was  in  the  Ilarbadoes  in  iC)35:  married.  July 
22.  1649,  Katlierine  Presberry,  of  .Sandwich; 
died  November  27.  if/)i  ;  beciueathed  in  will 
dated  November  22.  1.681.  to  son-in-law  Lodo- 
wick  Hawkes  and  his  "fosen"  Thomas,  son 
of  Moses  Chadwell.  .Moses  was  son  of  his 
brother  Thomas  Chadwell.  Thomas  Chadwell 
went  from  Salem  to  Lynn,  of  which  he  was  a 
proprietor  as  early  as  1^138.  lie  removed  to 
Sandwich  before  i(')43.1nU  w:us  living  in  Charles- 
town.  Massachusetts,  in  1670.  and  finally  re- 
turned to  Lynn.     He  married  (first)  Margaret 

,  died   September   29,    1658;    (second) 

.Abigail ,  died  at  Charlestovvn.    Her  will 

dated  June  8,  1683,  proved  June  19  following, 
l)ec|ueathed  to  husl)and  :  to  sister  .Ann  Pearson, 
of  Piscata(|ua  (Maine),  to  grandson  Joseph 
(ioo.se  (or  .Vegus),  to  sister  .Susaiuia  Cross, 
and   to  sister   \Vheeler"s  daughters.     Thomas 


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Cluulwell  died  I'eljruary  zj.  1683.  His  will 
was  dated  February  25,  1684,  and  the  inventory 
is  dated  June  18,  1684.  He  Ijecjueathed  to  son 
IMoses  :  to  wife  of  Moses  and  their  son  Thomas  ; 
to  daughter  Ruth  Xeedham.  Children:  i. 
Moses,  born  April  10.  1637:  mentioned  below. 
2.  Benjamin  (  ?),  lived  at  Dover,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  Lynn  :  married  lilizabeth  Hawes ; 
was  not  named  in  will.  3.  Thomas,  not  men- 
tioned in  will;  died  at  Lynn,  February,  1683. 

(Ill  ]\Ioses,  son  of  Thomas  Chadwell,  was 
born  April  10,  1^37.  He  married,  February, 
1661,  Sarah,  probably  daughter  of  Thomas 
Ivory.  Children,  born  at  Lynn:  I.  Thomas, 
December  1 1 ,  1662  ;  mentioned  below.  2.  Sarah, 
March  12.  1667-8.  3.  Lewis,  October  3,  1670 
( .Savage  gives  name  as  Lois).  4.  Moses,  Sep- 
tember II,  1673;  died  Seiitember  29,  1676.  5. 
Margaret.  .September  30,  1676.  6.  Ann,  June 
17,  1679.    7.  F.lizabeth,  December  r8,  1681. 

(HI  )  'iiiomas  (2),  son  of  Moses  Chadwell, 
was  called  "Jr."  to  distinguish  him  from  his 
uncle  of  the  same  name.  He  was  admitted  a 
freeman  in  1691.  He  died  at  Lynn.  January 
16,  1740.  He  married  Hannah  .  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Lynn:  i.  Moses,  May  28,  1687: 
buried  at  Boston.  April  25,  1760,  or  at  Lynn, 
July  27.  1766.  2.  Hannah,  .August  4,  1689.  3. 
.Sarah.  June  2.  1(^)92.  4.  Benjamin,  mentioned 
below. 

(  i\')  Benjamin,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  Chad- 
well,  was  born  at  Lynn,  December  24,  i6(J4, 
and  died  July  16,  1748.  He  married.  May  i, 
1717,  at  Lynn.  Ruth  Collins,  who  died  May  11, 
1734.  Children,  born  at  Lynn:  I.  Moses, 
Ajjril  28,  1719:  mentioned  below.  2.  Martha. 
November  30,  1722.  3.  Benjamin,  November 
I,  173 — .  4.  Sarah,  August  21,  1724.  5.  Ruth. 
June   29,    1727.      6.    Ruth    (2(1),   October    12. 

"1730- 

(  \' )  Moses  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  Chadwell. 
was  born  at  Lynn,  .\pril  28.  17 19.  He  married, 
at  Lynn  (intention  dated  September  14.  1740). 
Susanna  Xewhall.  died  January  20.  1743-4; 
(second)  (intention  dated  .-\])ril  7,  1745)  Eliz- 
abeth Knox  (Xox),  of  Boston,  died  January 
9.  1746-7:  (third)  (intention  dated  October 
25,  1747)  Mary  Xewhall,  of  Lynn.  Children, 
born  at  Lynn:  i.  Moses.  2.  Harris.  March 
14.  1746:  mentioned  below.  3.  Child,  .\pril 
12,  1735.  4.  Ruth.  bai>tized  (October  10,  1756. 
Probal)ly  others. 

(\  I  )  Captain  I  larris  Chadwell,  son  of  Moses 
(2)  Chadwell.  was  born  at  Lynn,  March  14. 
1746;  died  there  .August  26.  1834.  He  was 
lieutenant  of  a  Lynn  comi)any  at  the  battle  of 
Concord.    Ajiril    10.    '775.    in    the   revolutii>n  ; 


lieutenant  in  Captain  .Samuel  King's  company 
later  in  the  year  in  coast  defence  duty;  second 
lieutenant  in  Captain  Benjamin  Epes's  com- 
])any.  Colonel  Isaac  Smith's  regiment ;  first 
lieutenant  in  Captain  Joseph  Miller's  company, 
assigned  to  ("leneral  Farley's  brigade,  in  the 
Rhode  Island  campaign  ;  also  in  Captain  Hiller's 
company.  Colonel  Jonatiian  Titcomb's  regi- 
ment, 1777.  in  Rhode  Island  campaign.  He 
was  later  a  captain  in  the  militia.  He  married, 
at  Lynn,  December  22,  1768.  Ruth  Witt,  died 
January  30,  1834,  aged  eighty-three.  Children, 
born  at  Lynn:  i.  Elizabeth,  July  12,  1769.  2. 
Mary,  December  14,  1770.  3.  Moses.  Febru- 
ary 6,  1773.  4.  Lydia,  June  13,  1775.  5. 
Harris  Jr.,  November  13,  1777;  mentioned 
below.  6.  Ruth,  June  28,  1780.  7.  Sally.  ( )cto- 
ber  21,  1782.  8.  Susanna,  January  31,  1785. 
9.  Patty,  April  25,  1787.  10.  William.  Novem- 
ber 29,  1789. 

(\TI)  Harris  (2),  son  of  Captain  Harris 
(  I  )  Chadwell,  was  born  at  Lynn,  November 
13,  1777,  and  died  there  February  8.,  1833, 
aged  tifty-five  years.  He  married  (first)  July 
9.  1801  (or  June  23.  according  to  a  church 
record),  Lucy  .Stocke,  October  10,  1802,  aged 
twenty-two  years  ;  (  second  )  July  6,  1806.  Folly 
Houghton,  died  at  Lynn  January  30,  1819, 
aged  thirty-four  years.  Child  of  first  wife, 
born  at  Lynn:  i.  Harris,  Jr..  May  4,  1802; 
died  September  22,  1803.  Children  of  second 
wife,  born  in  Lynn:  2.  Lucy  Houghton,  .April 
3.  1807.  3.  Mary,  October  28.  1809.  4.  Harris 
Otis,  July  3,  1812;  married  (first)  September 
30.  1833,  Harriet  Wright,  died  July  29,  1839: 
(second)  May  24,  1840,  Mary  D.  Dodge,  of 
Concord.  ( There  is  a  record  of  birth  at  Lynn 
of  Otis  II.  on  the  same  date.  Is  it  a  duplicate 
record  of  a  twin  child?).  3.  Cyrus,  mentioned 
below. 

(\TII)  Cyrus,  son  of  Harris  (2)  Chadwell, 
was  born  at  Lynn,  September  17.  1814.  He 
was  educated  in  the  district  schools,  and  in 
earlv  life  began  to  work  at  the  trade  of  shoe- 
maker. He  followed  tjiis  trade  in  the  inde- 
jiendent  way  of  the  shoemaker  of  his  day, 
taking  his  work  to  the  little  shop  on  his  own 
place  and  making  boots  and  shoes  entirely  by 
liand.  He  was  a  good  citizen,  of  strong  con- 
victions, much  earnestness,  tireless  industry 
and  uiirigiitne'^s.  He  married  (  intentions  dated 
July  3,  1836)  Hannah  V.  I'utnam,  of  Lynn, 
of  the  same  family  from  which  lieneral  Israel 
Putnam  and  Ceneral  Rufus  Putnam  are  de- 
scended. He  and  his  wife  were  among  the 
early  members  of  the  I'niversalist  church  of 
I.yini.      He   died   aged   seventy-eight,   and   his 


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wife  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Lynn:  i.  Cyrus  .\lvin.  Septem- 
ber 17.  1843:  mentioned  below.  2.  Perlo\- 
Russell.  March  3.  1847.  3-  *-■  Faustina.  4. 
Harriet  P.     5.  Laura  P.    6.  Harris. 

(IX)  Cyrus  .\lvin,  son  of  Cyrus  Chadwell. 
was  born  at  Lynn,  September  17.  1845.  He 
attended  the  i^ublic  schools  of  his  native  city. 
He  worked  at  the  trade  of  shoemaking  for  a 
time  in  his  father's  shop,  leaving  to  enlist  in 
the  civil  war.  .\ngust  8.  1862.  He  was  a  pri- 
vate at  the  age  of  sixteen  in  Com])any  E,  Cap- 
tain Jt)hn  Ldward  Smith.  Thirty-eighth  !\lass- 
achusetts  \  olunteer  Regiment.  Colonel  Ingra- 
ham.  The  regiment  was  later  under  the  com- 
mand of  Colonel  Rodman,  who  was  killed  at 
Port  Hudson,  and  finally  under  Colonel  Rich- 
ardson, who  returned  with  it  at  the  close  of 
the  war.  Mr.  Chadwell  took  jjart  in  many 
engagements.  He  was  in  the  battle  of  I'island, 
Louisiana,  and  of  Mansura  Plains,  and  in  the 
Red  River  camjjaign  under  Ceneral  Xathanicl 
P.  Banks,  and  at  Port  Hudson.  He  was  for  a 
time  in  the  hospital  at  York.  .Penn.sylvania,  on 
account  of  illness,  and  was  mustered  out  in 
May.  1865.  on  account  of  disability,  and  the 
war  being  over. 

L'pon  his  return  to  Lynn  at  tlie  close  of  the 
war  he  resunied  work  at  his  trade.  Put  the 
days  of  hand-work  in  shoemaking  were  rapidly 
passing,  and  he  found  employment  in  a  fac- 
tory where  some  machinery  operated  by  steam 
power  was  in  use.  Lie  worked  at  burnishing. 
In  1871  he  was  appointed  a  letter  carrier,  soon 
after  the  free  delivery  system  went  into  effect 
in  that  city,  and  has  been  in  active  and  continu- 
ous service  to  the  present  time.  Only  one  other 
man  in  the  Lynn  postal  department  has  been 
longer  in  the  service,  and  he  has  filled  his 
duties  in  this  position  with  zeal  and  fidelity, 
calling  ff)rth  the  commendation  of  various 
postmasters,  as  well  as  the  ajipreciation  of  the 
jniblic  which  he  served.  He  was  the  jirime 
mover  in  organizing  the  Grand  .\rmy  Post  at 
Lynn,  and  hi.■^  name  is  at  the  head  of  the  char- 
ter members  of  Post  No.  5,  which  became  in 
its  palmy  days  one  of  the  largest  and  wealthiest 
posts  in  the  country,  at  one  time  turning  out  a 
thousand  actual  members  on  Memorial  Day. 
.Mr.  Chadwell  declined  to  serve  as  first  com- 
mander, and  a  >econd  time  declined  the  honor, 
but  afterward  accepted  the  office  and  is  now 
the  third  ranking  [)ast  commander.  In  ])olitics 
he  is  a  very  decided  and  earnest  Republican. 

He  married,  October  3,  1876.  at  Lynn,  Char- 
lotte Pratt  Rogers,  born  in  Holden.  Maine, 
October  2.   1835.  daughter  of   Deacon  Josepli 


1-".  and  Laura  ( Copeland  )  Rogers.  Through 
her  Co|)eland  ancestry  she  is  ilescended  from 
John  and  Priscilla  (.Molines)  .Mden.  of  the 
"Mayflower."  Deacon  Rogers  began  his  busi- 
ness career  with  notiiing,  and  ac(|uired  a  com- 
fortable fortune  in  the  timber  and  lumber  trade 
in  Maine.  He  came  to  Lynn  in  1873  on 
account  of  his  disgust  over  the  management 
of  the  affairs  of  his  native  town  of  Holden, 
Maine.  He  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  in 
Lynn,  and  established  a  fit)urishing  business, 
but  through  too  extensive  credits  and  mis- 
]5laced  confidence  he  lost  heavily.  He  died  in 
1903.  at  an  advanced  age.  i  lis  widow  survives 
him.  active  and  in  good  health,  at  the  age  of 
eightw  The\-  were  members  (it  the  Congre- 
gational churcii,  of  whicii  .\lr.  Rogers  was 
deacon. 

Children  of  Cyrus  .\ivin  and  t'h.arlnttt-  I'ratt 
(Rogers)  Chadwell:  i.  Dr.  ( )rville  R.,  born 
.August  26.  1877  ;  mentioned  bel<iw.  2.  Perley 
.\.,  born  November  g.  1878;  resides  in  Lynn; 
married  Rhoda  Strong ;  child,  .\lvin.  3.  Mel- 
vin  Otis,  born  February  22,  1881  ;  clerk  in 
L\im:  married  Julia  A.  Day;  children:  .Mice 
rerle\.  iCdith  Day,  Morence  M. 

( .\  )  Dr.  Orville  Rogers  Chadwell.  son  of 
Cyrus  .Mvin  Chadwell.  was  born  in  Lynn,  Au- 
gust 26,  1877.  He  attended  the  public  and 
high  schools  of  his  native  city,  and  studied 
medicine  in  Boston  I'niversity,  graduating  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  the  class  of  1903.  Dur- 
ing the  next  four  years  he  was  an  instructor  in 
the  laboratories  of  the  Medical  Schcx)l.  In  the 
nieaiuime  he  conducted  a  general  practice  at 
lamaica  Plain.  Boston.  He  later  succeeded  to 
the  ]iractice  of  older  ])hysicians.  and  has  as 
|)atients  many  of  the  best  families  of  that  sec- 
tion. He  has  been  secretary  of  the  Boston 
Homoeopathic  Medical  Society  for  three  years, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  State  and  National 
societies.  He  is  medical  examiner  for  the  Inde- 
l)endent  Order  of  Odd  I-'ellows,  and  various 
insurance  orders,  and  is  a  director  of  the 
I'riendlv  Society  of  Jamaica  Plain,  and  the 
Neighborhood  House,  a  philanthropic  organi- 
zatifni. 

He  married.  Se])tember  21,  1904.  .MaJKl 
Margaret  Hubbard,  born  at  Solon,  Iowa,  De- 
cember 5,  1877.  daughter  i^f  .Mbert  M.  and 
Kmma  (Budd )  Hubbard.  When  she  was  a 
child  the  family  moved  to  Flyria.  near  Cleve- 
land. Ohio,  where  she  attended  the  public 
schools,  completing  her  educati<in  at  Mount 
Holyoke  College.  Her  father  was  a  cousin  of 
President  Grover  Cleveland,  and  his  paternal 
ancestors   were  among  the  jjioneers  of  Ohio 


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and  later  of  Iowa.  Mr.  Hubbard's  wife  died 
soon  after  the  birth  of  his  daughter  Margaret, 
and  he  removed  in  later  years  to  Fruitvale, 
California,  where  he  has  since  resided.  He  is 
a  lifelong  student,  well  versed  in  horticulture, 
and  has  been  especially  successful  in  the  grow- 
ing of  fruit.  During  the  civil  war  he  was  for 
some  time  an  accountant  in  the  provost  mar- 
shal's office.  He  is  a  niember  of  the  Congre- 
gational church.  Children:  i.  Ashbell  Hub- 
bard, lives  with  his  father ;  is  a  mechanical 
cngnieer.  2.  Meribel,  lives  at  home  with  her 
fatlier.  3.  Edgar  Hubbard,  died  when  a  young 
man,  unmarried.  4.  Mabel  Margaret  Hubbard, 
married  Dr.  Chadwell. 


Thomas   Hopkins  was  born   in 
ITr)PKIXS    Birmingham,  England.  He  mar- 
ried Isabella  (jreives.  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth    (Hunter)    Greives, 
of  Leith,  Scotland. 

(11)  Thomas  Greives  Hopkins,  son  of  Thomas 
Hopkins,  was  born  in  Birmingham,  England, 
where  he  was  educated  and  learned  the  trade 
of  glass  blower.  He  came  to  the  I'nited  States 
in  1832  with  his  family,  and  settled  in  Cam- 
bridge. Massachusetts,  where  he  was  employed 
in  the  manufacture  of  window  glass  by  hand. 
Afterward  he  removed  to  the  Adirondacks, 
Xcw  York,  where  he  was  also  employed  at  his 
trade.  Subse(|ucntly  he  returned  to  Cambridge, 
and  from  that  time  to  his  death  worked  prin- 
ci]jally  for  the  New  England  (jlass  Company 
of  that  city.  He  married  Elizabeth  Hunter, 
who  was  also  born  in  England.  Children:  I. 
Thomas,  was  a  member  of  .\iagara  Engine 
Company  :  married  Elizabeth  Shorey  ;  one  child, 
Emma.  2.  William^  was  a  member  of  the  old 
Niagara  Engine  Company;  married  Esther 
Wyman ;  his  son  Joseph  was  killed  while  on 
duty  as  a  fireman  in  East  Cambridge.  3.  John, 
assistant  engineer  of  Cambridge  fire  dejjart- 
nunt  :  married  ICmeline  Dawes  ;  children  :  i. 
Lillian,  married  Walter  .Shapley ;  ii.  Lizzie, 
married  Delmniit  -Miller.  4.  James  Robert, 
further  mentioned  below.  5.  Edwin,  married 
his  brother  William's  widow,  Esther  Wyman. 
6.  Elizabeth,  married  James  Marr.  7.  Louis 
I^.,  foreman  of  Hose  Com])any,  No.  3,  Somer- 
ville  ;  married  I-^Isie  I'rice  ;  child.  .Vlbert. 

(II  )  James  Robert,  son  of  Thomas  Greives 
Hopkins,  was  born  at  Cambridge.  January  10, 
1X36,  and  attended  the  public  schools  there. 
.•\t  the  age  of  si.xteen  he  l)egan  to  work  in  the 
furniture  factory  of  Doe.  Hazeltine  &  Com- 
pany, as  an  a])prentice  in  the  trade  of  wood 
carving.   .Nt  the  same  time  he  took  a  full  course 


in  drawing  at  the  Lowell  Institute.  He  con- 
tiiuied  at  his  trade  as  a  journeyman  until  the 
sjjring  of  1858  at  Cambridge.  He  then  entered 
the  employ  of  Haley,  Morse  &  Boyden,  of 
.South  Dedham  (Norwood),  but  after  a  time 
returned  to  his  former  employer  in  Cambridge. 
When  President  Lincoln  called  for  troops  April 
19.  1861,  he  enlisted  with  the  Somerville  Light 
Infantry  in  the  Fifth  Massachusetts  Regiment, 
and  served  for  three  months  at  the  beginning 
of  the  civil  war.  and  took  part  in  the  first  battle 
of  Bull  Run.  In  the  fall  of  i8<')i  he  re-enlisted 
and  went  to  New  Orleans  in  General  Butler's 
command,  and  served  for  seventeen  months  in 
the  chief  quartermaster's  department.  After 
he  was  mustered  out  he  resumed  his  trade  of 
wood  carving  in  the  factory  of  Doe,  Hazeltine 
&  Company,  and  afterward  in  the  factory  of 
J.  \V.  Berry  &  Company,  on  Medford  street, 
Charlestown.  In  1870  he  left  his  trade  to  en- 
gage in  business  on  his  own  account  as  a  gen- 
eral contractor  and  excavator. 

In  1854  Mr.  Hopkins  became  an  active  mem- 
ber of  Niagara  Engine  Company,  No.  3.  at 
East  Cambridge.  His  family  were  natural  fire- 
fighters, and  his  brothers  w'ere  distinguished 
in  the  fire  departments  of  this  section.  He  had 
been  for  some  time  a  volunteer  in  this  com- 
pany. W  hen  his  mother  removed  to  Somer- 
ville he  went  with  her  and  resigned  from  the 
Cambridge  company,  but  joined  Somerville 
Hand  Engine  Company,  No.  i.  July  6,  1856, 
and  continued  in  this  service  until  1858.  Dur- 
ing his  residence  in  Dedham  he  was  a  member 
of  Washington  Engine  Company,  No.  10.  Then 
he  returned  and  again  joined  the  Somerville 
Company,  -No.  I.  retaining  his  membership 
there  until  1865,  when  he  joined  the  newly 
organized  Hose  Company,  No.  i,  and  was  a 
member  until  it  disbanded  in  1866.  \\'hile 
serving  with  Engine  Company.  No.  i,  he  was 
second  assistant  foreman  in  183Q.  and  clerk  in 
1860.  He  was  also  clerk  of  Hose  Company, 
No.  I.  during  its  entire  existence.  He  was 
appointed  engineer  by  the  board  of  selectmen 
in  .\i)ri!.  1869,  and  two  weeks  after  the  city 
was  organized  he  was  elected  chief  of  the  fire 
department  of  Somerville.  That  was  January 
13,  1872,  and  since  then  Chief  Ho|)kins  has 
filled  this  office  with  great  fidelity  and  efficiency. 
His  courage,  zeal  and  executive  ability  have 
been  often  brought  to  the  ]iroof.  He  is  one 
of  the  oldest  and  most  ]io]nilar  chiefs  in  New 
i'.iigland.  and  has  the  distinction  of  holding 
the  office  of  fire  chief  longer  than  any  other 
man  in  the  country,  with  one  exception,  this 
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Baltimore,  in  1873.  '^^  assisted  in  organizing 
the  National  Association  of  Fire  Engineers, 
and  at  one  time  was  vice-president,  and  from 
time  to  time  lias  done  imjiortant  work  for  the 
association  and  read  valuable  papers  at  the 
annual  gatherings.  lie  is  a  member  of  the 
Massachusetts  State  Firemen's  .Association,  the 
Charlestown  N'olunteer.  Cambridge  and  .Som- 
erville  \'eteran"s  I'^iremen's  .-\ssociation,  and 
I)resident  of  the  Massachusetts  Fire  Chiefs 
Club,  which  he  was  instrumental  in  organizing. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  John  .\bbot  Lodge  of 
Free  Masons :  of  Somerville  Chapter,  Royal 
.■\rch  -Masons:  of  Oasis  Lodge.  \o.  146.  Odd 
I'ellows:  of  Excelsior  Council.  \o.  3,  Royal 
.Arcanum:  of  the  Knights  of  Honor:  and  of 
W'illard  C.  Kinsley  Post,  Xo.  139.  (irand  .\rmy 
of  the  Republic.  He  had  more  than  a  local 
reputation  as  a  singer  in  his  younger  days,  and 
belonged  to  various  church  choirs  of  the  vicin- 
ity. In  religion  he  is  a  Congregationalist,  and 
in  politics  a  Republican. 

He  married,  September  30.  1862,  Susan 
Cutter  .Mofire.  born  in  I'oston,  October  12, 
1838.  daughter  of  .-\bram  and  Charlotte  (Cut- 
ter) Moore  of  Canterbury,  Xew  Hampshire 
and  Arlington.  Massachusetts  (see  Moore). 
Children:  i.  Charlotte  Isabel,  born  at  Somer- 
ville, .April  7,  1866:  graduate  of  Somerville 
high  school:  assistant  in  the  public  library  for 
a  time  :  married  Josciih  W.  Whitaker,  of  Som- 
erville: child:  Robert  L.,  died  .August  19, 
1900.  2.  James  Wesley,  born  March  2,  1875: 
graduate  of  grammar  school,  and  student  three 
years  in  Somerville  high  school ;  clerk  in  jewelry 
store  of  Foster  &  Company,  West  street.  Bos- 
ton eight  years,  then  traveled  for  Gulf  Refin- 
ing Company.  He  married  Alice  M.  How- 
ditch,  September  30.  1908:  lives  in  Xo.  84 
Leamington  avenue.  West  Somerville. 

(The   Moore   Line). 

.A  number  of  pioneers  of  the  name  of  Moore 
came  to  Londonderry,  Xew  Hampshire,  in  the 
early  days  of  the  settlement,  from  the  north  of 
Ireland.  They  were  of  .Scotch  ancestry,  and 
their  descendants  are  numerous  in  all  jjarts  of 
the  country,  (larticularly  in  Xew  1  lamiishire. 

(I)  Jonathan  Moore,  immigrant  ancestf)r, 
was  living  in  Exeter.  Xew  Hampshire,  in  1630, 
and  according  to  tradition  was  of  Scotch  an- 
cestry and  had  been  a  colonel  in  the  royal  army. 
If  the  tradition  is  correct,  it  is  likely  that  he 
was  one  of  the  prisoners  of  war  shipped  to 
this  country  by  Cromwell.  Very  little  is  known 
of  him.  He  had  two  son^^.  Jonatlian  and  Will- 
iam, and  perhaps  other  children. 


ill)  William,  son  of  Jonathan  Moore,  was 
one  of  the  petitioners  January  4,  171 5,  for  the 
incorporation  of  the  town  of  Stratham  from 
Exeter,  and  was  elected  selectman  at  the  first 
town  meeting  of  Stratham,  .\pril  16,  1716.  At 
a  subse(|uent  town  meeting,  .August  5  follow- 
ing, he  was  elected  first  deputy  from  the  new 
town  to  the  general  court.  He  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  .Andrew  and  granddaughter  of 
Thomas  Wiggin.  the  immigrant.  .Among  their 
children  were  William.  .Mary  an<l  ])erhaps  John, 
mentioned  below. 

(Ill)  John,  son  or  nephew  of  William  Moore, 
was  born  about  1690,  in  I-lxeter  or  vicinity.  He 
married.  .March  15,  1719-20,  Hannah  .Sias.  of 
(  )ysler  River  parish  (Durham),  and  later  in 
life  removed  to  Canterbury,  Xew  Hampshire. 
In  the  first  federal  census  taken  in  1790  the 
following  sons  and  grandsons  were  heads  of 
families  in  Canterbury :  Samuel  had  three 
sons  under  sixteen  and  three  females  in  his 
family:  F.zekiel  had  wife,  but  no  children: 
W  illiam  had  two  males  over  sixteen,  four 
under  that  age.  and  four  females  in  his  faniilv  ; 
Josei)h  had  two  sons  under  sixteen  and  four 
females,  while  .Archelaus  had  no  children  living 
in  his  family.  John  and  John,  Jr.,  were  both 
living  during  the  revolution  at  Canterbury,  and 
signed  ))etitions.  William,  .Archelaus,  Eliza- 
beth and  Samuel  were  baptized  together  at 
Durliam.  Xew  Hampshire,  neceniber  24,  1727. 
Children  :  i .  John,  mentioned  below.  2.  Will- 
iam. 3.  .Archelaus.  was  town  clerk  of  Canter- 
bury 1772  and  1779:  was  with  brother  Will- 
iam at  Concord,  then  Rum  ford.  Xew  Hamp- 
shire, in  1747.    4.  Elizabeth.    5.  Samuel. 

(  1\'  )  John  (2  ).  son  or  nei>hew  of  Joim  (  i ) 
-MiHjre.  was  born  1720-30.  lie  lived  in  Canter- 
bury. 

( \' )  John  (3).  son  of  John  (2)  Moore, 
was  born  about  i750-(')0.  in  Canterbury.  He 
married  Tabitha  Davis.  Children,  born  in 
Canterburv:  Abraham  M..  mentioned  below; 
I  high  T..  \\illiam  D..  Judith  G.,  Ruth.  .Sallie. 

(\'I )  .Abraham  M..  son  of  John  (3)  Moore, 
was  born  at  Canterbury,  .August  31,  1799.  He 
married  Charlotte  Cutter,  born  January  28. 
1800.  Tliey  lived  at  Canterbury,  where  he 
followed  farming,  (.'hiidren.  born  at  Boston, 
Massachusetts:  i.  Abraham  M..  Jr.,  June 
28.  1830:  children:  i.  Lizzie,  married  Frank 
Draper:  ii.  Frank,  married  .Annie  Eames,  one 
son.  Edwin  II..  born  .August  20.  1899;  iii. 
Charl(jtte  W..  clerk,  Xew  England  Telephone 
C()mi)any.  Boston:  iv.  Mrs.  William  H.  John- 
ston. (Ireenville  street.  .Somerville.  2.  Will- 
iam Frank,  born  1836;  enliste<l  in  Company  I. 


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I*"iftli  -Massachusetts  Regiment,  and  was  killed 
in  battle  of  Bull  Run,  in  the  civil  war.  3. 
Susan  Cutter,  married  James  R.  Hopkins  (see 
Hopkins). 

The   surname  Van   Ness   is 
V"AN   XESS      undoubtedly   taken    from   a 

place  name,  the  prefix  signi- 
fying of  or  from,  and  Xess  being  the  town  or 
locality  in  Holland  where  the  family  originated 
or  were  located  at  the  time  the  surname  came 
into  use.  \'an  Xess  is  a  common  name  in 
America  as  well  as  Holland.  Most  of  the 
family  trace  their  ancestry  to  Cornelis  Van 
Nes  (or  Ness)  who  married,  about  1625, 
Mayken  Hendrickse  Burchgraeiif,  and  lived 
upon  the  Havendyke.  flolland.  Henrick  Ger- 
ritse  \'an  Nes.  from  Embcrland,  Holland,  mar- 
ried April  19.  1654,  /\nncke  Wessels,  who  was 
from  Colcn,  New  Amsterdam.  The  Van  Ness 
family  settled  at  Greenbush.  New  York,  as 
well  as  New  Amsterdam,  at  an  early  date,  and 
became  very  prominent  in  social  and  public  life. 
A  descendant  of  Cornelis  Van  Ness,  Judge 
William  Peter  \'an  Xess,  was  Alexander  Ham- 
ilton's second  in  his  duel  with  Aaron  Burr,  was 
L'nited  States  judge  of  the  southern  district 
of  New  York,  and  wrote  legal  and  historical 
essays.  Cornelius  Peter  \'an  Ness  was  gov- 
ernor of  New  York,  minister  to  Spain,  and 
chief  justice  of  \'ermont. 

Hon.  John  Peter  \'an  Ness,  of  the  old  \'an 
Ness  family,  was  born  in  Ghent,  New  York, 
in  1770.  He  was  representative  in  congress 
iSoi-03.  He  took  up  his  residence  in  Wash- 
ington, and  became  the  first  president  of  the 
Bank  of  the  Metropolis  in  1814,  and  was 
Mayor  of  Washington  later.  He  died  March 
7.  1847,  at  Washington.  His  mansion  there 
was  one  of  the  most  famous  of  the  first  fine 
houses  built  in  the  capitol.  It  stood  on  the 
banks  of  the  Potomac,  only  a  few  rods  from 
the  White  Tiouse.  Van  Ness  married  Maria. 
daughter  of  Davy  Burns,  owner  of  a  large 
part  of  the  tract  of  land  comprising  the  present 
city  of  Washington.  The  site  was  not  chosen 
by  congress,  but  by  \\'ashington  himself,  who 
was  authorized  to  select  a  location  for  the 
capital  city  on  the  Potomac  river  between  the 
inouth  of  the  eastern  branch  and  the  mouth  of 
the  Conveochca(|ue.  .\fter  the  site  was  chosen. 
the  owners  of  three  of  the  four  farms  rec|uired 
by  the  government  made  no  difiiculty  in  selling 
their  property,  but  the  fourth,  I'urns.  a  hard- 
headed  Scotchman,  was  not  willing  to  sell,  and 
the  commissioners  appointed  for  the  purpose 
finally  gave  up  their  efforts  to  induce  him  to 


come  to  tenns  and  called  upon  Washington  to 
undertake  the  task.  The  Burns  farm  was 
south  of  the  White  I  louse  and  extended  as  far 
eastward  as  the  Patent  Office,  comprising  six 
hundred  acres.  Washington  made  several 
visits  to  Burns,  and  finally  lost  his  temper  at 
the  farmer's  obstinacy,  and  exclaimed :  "'Had 
not  the  city  been  laid  out  here,  you  would  have 
died  a  poor  tobacco  planter."  Burns  replied: 
"Had  you  not  married  Widow  Custis  wi'  her 
nagurs  you  would  ha'  been  a  land  surveyor  to- 
day, and  a  mighty  poor  one  at  that."  W'ash- 
ington  had  finally  to  threaten  condemnation 
proceedings  before  Burns  came  to  terms.  Burns 
retained  his  house  and  some  land.  He  sent  his 
daughter  to  a  fashionable  school  in  Baltimore, 
after  he  became  rich,  from  the  sale  of  his  farm 
to  the  government,  and  when  she  returned  she 
was  recognized  as  the  belle  of  the  city,  not 
only  on  account  of  her  father's  wealth  but  for 
her  own  wonderful  beauty  and  vivacity.  She 
was  twenty  years  old  when  she  married  \'an 
Xess,  who  was  described  by  a  contemporary 
as  "well  fed,  well  bred  and  well  read."  For 
several  years  they  lived  in  the  old  Burns  home, 
but  in  1820  they  built  the  manor  house  at  a 
cost  of  thirty  thousand  dollars.  It  was  the 
finest  house  in  Washington  at  that  time  and 
was  a  social  center  for  many  years.  They  had 
one  daughter,  .Ann  Elbertine  Van  Xess.  who 
was  nearly  grown  up  when  the  mansion  was 
built,  and  who  inherited  her  mother's  beauty. 
She  married  .\rthur  Middleton,  of  South  Car- 
olina, and  died  a  year  later  in  childbirth.  Her 
mother  never  recovered  from  the  blow  of  her 
daughter's  death,  .'^hc  abandoned  society  and 
devoted  herself  to  charily  and  reforms.  As  a 
philanthro|)ist  she  acquired  a  national  reputa- 
tion, .'^he  was  the  founder  of  an  orphan 
asylum  in  Washington,  and  took  great  interest 
in  its  management.  She  was  an  .Abolitionist, 
known  the  world  over,  and  contributed  stirring 
articles  to  the  leading  .American  newspapers 
and  magazines,  materially  aiding  the  cause. 
She  died  in  Washington.  Septcml)er  g.  1832, 
aged  fifty  years,  and  was  buried  with  public 
honors.  At  a  memorial  mass  meeting  in  Wash- 
ington the  leading  men  of  the  nation  eulogized 
her.  Her  husband  erected  for  her  remains  a 
costly  mausoleum  designed  after  the  teni])le  of 
\'esta  at  Rome. 

(  1)  Joseph  \'an  Xess,  said  to  be  brother  of 
lion.  John  Peter  \'an  Xess,  went  from  Hol- 
land to  St.  .Andrew.  Scotland,  where  he  lived 
and  died.  .Among  his  children  were.  John 
and  James. 

(II)   James,  son  of  Joseph  \au  Xess,  was 


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born  at  St.  Andrews.  Scotland,  and  died  in 
Illinois,  in  1851.  He  was  well  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  ])lacc.  and  when  a  young 
man  came  to  .America  with  his  brother  John 
and  settled  in  Xew  York  City.  lie  taught 
school  for  a  time,  and  finally  settled  in  An- 
dover.  Massachusetts.  He  removed  to  Illinois, 
where  he  contracted  malarial  fever,  and  died 
in  1851.  He  married  Elizabeth  Robb,  of  Scot- 
land, of  Scotch  or  Scotch- Irish  descent.  The 
family  seat  of  one  branch  of  the  Robbs  was  at 
.-\ntrim.  I'lster,  in  the  north  of  Ireland. 

(HI)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  James  \'an  Xess, 
was  born  at  Andover.  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber  13,    1849.      He   was  an   infant   when   the 
family   went   west,   and   but   eighteen   months 
old  when  his  father  died.     W  hen  he  was  four 
years   old   his   mother   married    a    Scotchman 
named  Stevens.    She  was  a  frugal  woman  and 
took  the  best  of  care  of  her  property.     She 
owned  two  farms  and  a  general  store  to  which 
she  devoted  her  time  and  energy  to  good  ad- 
vantage financially.     .At  the  age  of  eleven  her 
son  had  acquired  what  education  the  common 
schools  afforded  and  became  familiar  with  the 
standard    authors   to   be    found    in   the   town 
library  and  wished  to  continue  his  studies,  but 
his  mother  did  not  encourage  him.  though  ex- 
tremely fond  of  the  boy.    He  managed  to  per- 
suade the  traveling  salesman  who  came  to  his 
mother's  store  to  let  him  live  with  him  and 
work  his  way  while  in  school,  and  fitted  him- 
self   for    the    Illinois    Industrial    University, 
which  he  entered  in  the  fall  of  1873  and  from 
which   he   graduated   June   7,    1876,      He   not 
only  worked  his  own  way,  but  gave  evidence 
of  superior  scholarship,  as  shown  by  the  extra- 
ordinary percentages  of   his  final   rank,   viz: 
English  97:   German  95;   Latin  89:   Algebra 
95  ;  Geometry  97  :  Bookkeeping  100:  Chemistry 
93:   Elocution   98:   Zoology   97;    History   rjg ; 
Political    Economy  99:   Military  90.     During 
his  last  year  in  the  university  he  tutored  to 
save   money    for   the  course   at   Cornell    Uni- 
versity and  overtaxed  his  strength.    He  suffer- 
ed from  a  severe  nervous  affliction,  and  when 
the  facts  became  known  to  the  faculty  at  Cor- 
nell,  further  teaching  was   forbidden  and  his 
expenses  provided  for  otherwise.    He  took  his 
degree   at   Cornell   June   20,    1878,   with   high 
honors.    His  health  was  shattered  by  his  over- 
work and  anxiety  to  complete  his  college  edu- 
cation, and  by  advice  of  his  physician  he  went 
to   Colorado    to    recuperate,    selling   his   little 
library  to  raise  the  necessary  funds.     He  lived 
near  an  irrigated  section  owned  by  an  English 
syndicate,  and  became  interested  in  irrigation. 


and  wrote  a  series  of  papers  for  the  Di-incr 
Republican  on  the  system  of  irrigation   used 
there.     Later  went  to  California  and  wrote  a 
series  of  articles  on  the  mining  interests,  pub- 
lished in  the  ])ai)ers  of  that  state,  .\fter  spend- 
ing four  years  in  the  open  air  he  came  to  Chi- 
cago with  renewed  health  and  ambition,  and 
entered  the  newspaper  business  on  the  staff  of 
the  Shoe  and  Leather  Review,  published  by 
C.  L.  Peyton,  and  became  eastern  representa- 
tive of  this  trade  journal,  with  offices  on  Bed- 
ford street.   ISoston.     lie  removed  his  offices 
to  Lincoln  street,  where  he  was  burned  out; 
opened   offices   on    .Atlantic   avenue,   and   was 
again  burned  out.     Under  his  energetic  man- 
agement the  Re-ineiu  became  leader  in  its  class 
through  the  eastern  states.     Seeing  an  oppor- 
tunity to  engage  in  business  on  his  own  account, 
he  resigned  from  the  Reviezi'  and  established 
an  advertising  agency  of  his  own  ;  making  a 
sjiecialty  of  handling  contracts   for  the  trade 
journals   and   other   mediums    in   which   shoe 
manufacturing     machinery     was     advertised. 
These   concerns   were   finally  con.solidated   as 
the  United  Shoe  Machinery  Trust.     While  he 
was  placing  the  advertising  of  a  thread  con- 
cern  he   conceived   the   idea   of  reaching   the 
foreman  and  sujjerintendents  of  the  boot  and 
shoe   factories,  and   for  this  purjKfse  asked  to 
borrow  a  list  containing  the  names  of  these 
men.     The  friend  whom  he  asked  for  this  list 
was  reluctant  to  do  the  favor  on  account  of 
the  great  cost  of  getting  the  list,  and  its  great 
value    in    business.     He   succeeded    finally   in 
borrowing  the  list,  the  value  of  which  he  then 
realized,  and  he  saw  the  ijossibilities  for  profit 
in  an  advertising  medium  that  would  regularly 
reach  and  interest  these  foremen  and  superin- 
tendents as  well  as  the  employers.   He  planned 
a   technical   trade   paper,    through    which   the 
dealers    in    sundries    for    shoe    manufacturers 
could  reach  their  possible  customers.   .A  journal 
that  would  discuss  the  best  methods  of  factory 
management,  of  mainifacture,  and  of  dealing 
with  lielp.    A  circular  letter  outlining  his  plans 
brought  the  ready  approval  of  his  ideas  from 
the  men  to  whom  he  sent  it.    He  was  encour- 
aged to  proceed,  and  October  20,   1896,  pub- 
lished the  first  number  of  the  Supcrinlendcnt 
and  Foreman,   the   only  technical   publication 
devoted  to  increasing  the  skill  of  shoe  manu- 
facturing.    Sui)erintendents,  Foreman  and  ex- 
|)ert  Oi)eralives  were  invited  to  wrile  ff)r  jjub- 
lication   short  articles   on   methods,   processes 
and  results  in  the  shoe  indu.stry,  to  ask  <|ues- 
tions  about  their  work,  and  assistance  in  their 
problems.     His  success  was  immediate.     The 


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journal  was  started  on  a  liigh  plan  and  the 
stan'lard  of  excellence  maintained.  At  the 
end  of  the  first  year  it  had  four  times  the  cir- 
culation of  any  other  shoe  and  leather  technical 
trades  paper  in  the  world.  The  price  of  sub- 
scrijjtion  and  advertising  was  increased.  The 
paper  reached  all  parts  of  the  English-speaking 
and  German-speaking  world  and  had  corres- 
pondents as  far  away  as  Australia  and  New 
Zealand,  reaching  every  country  on  the  globe 
where  shoes  are  made.  It  was  nick-named 
"The  Little  Schoolmaster  in  the  Art  of  Shoe- 
making." 

Mr.  Van  Ness  died  July  8,  1901.  The  busi- 
ness was  continuetl  by  his  widow  and  under 
her  capable  management  the  journal  has  grown 
in  circulation  and  standing.  Mr.  Van  Ness 
resided  in  Lexington,  Massachusetts,  where  in 
i8q4  he  built  a  beautiful  stone  residence,  one 
of  the  most  attractive  and  picturesque  man- 
sions in  the  state,  called  "Fieldstone." 

Mr.  Van  Ness  possessed  strong,  and  in  many 
respects  extraordinary,  characteristics.  Bright, 
active,  energetic,  an  indefatigable  worker,  an 
exceedingly  able  journalist,  he  was  a  gifted 
writer  as  well  as  an  astute  man  of  business. 
He  saw  his  oi)portunities  and  knew  how  to  use 
them  well.  He  was  original  in  his  business 
methods  and  in  his  literary  productions.  His 
capacity  for  accomplishing  things  gave  him 
unlimited  confidence,  and  he  never  admitted 
the  possibility  of  failure  or  defeat.  The  suc- 
cess of  his  paper  justified  his  confidence  in  his 
last  and  most  ambitious  effort.  But  he  was, 
nevertheless,  kindly  and  considerative  in  his 
relations  with  other  men,  attracting  friends, 
giving  freely  to  help  others.  He  had  higher 
ambitions  than  the  establishment  of  a  success- 
ful and  useful  trade  journal.  He  tried  to  make 
the  best  use  of  the  talents  given  to  him  and 
to  do  his  utmost  for  the  benefit  of  mankind. 
He  gave  his  life  in  striving  to  accomplish  this 
pur])osc  and  died  knowing  that  his  life  was 
essentially  successful.  .\  kind  and  generous 
nature,  of  refined  and  cultivated  tastes,  his 
friends  and  business  associates  say  of  him  he 
was  truly  a  deep  thinker,  a  natural  student ; 
he  rose  to  his  high  position  by  his  strict  truth- 
fulness and  honesty,  and  he  was  no  ordinary 
man  from  whatever  standpoint  considered. 

He  was  singularly  free  from  pride  and  pre- 
tence of  any  kind.  \s  an  instance,  he  dropped 
the  prefix  "X'an."  when  he  entered  the  Illinois 
I'niversity.  least  the  prefix  should  suggest  pre- 
tensions to  rank,  and  he  was  known  as  Ness 
up  to  the  time  of  his  marriage,  when  he  re- 
sumed the  use  of  his  full  name.     His  watch- 


word was  simply  duty — "Not  happiness,  but 
duty  done  is  the  greatest  good  that  life  may 
bring.  Even  death,  and  whatever  there  may 
be  beyond  it,  can  bring  no  sweeter  bliss  than 
comes  to  him  who  is  conscious  of  having  done 
his  duty  to  his  fellowman." 

It  was  characteristic  of  Mr.  Van  Ness  to 
appreciate  fully  the  character  of  Phillips 
Brooks.  He  once  said  of  him :  "A  great 
teacher,  a  great  preacher,  a  great  man.  And 
from  his  life  you  will  gather  much  which  will 
aid  you  to  bear  the  burdens  and  realize  the 
beauties  of  life."  In  speaking  of  the  future 
Mr.  \'an  Ness  often  quoted  Tennyson: 

"We  have  but  faith,  we  cannot  know. 
For  knowledge  is  of  things  we  see: 
And  yet  we  trust — it  comes  from  Thee 
A  beam  in  darkness;  let  it  grow." 

In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat  of  the  old 
school.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Greek  letter 
fraternity  Delia  Tan  Delta,  of  the  Illinois 
I'niversity,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
that  chapter.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New 
England  Cornell  Club,  the  Appalachian  Moun- 
tain Club,  and  the  Megantic  Fish  and  Game 
Club.  He  loved  out-door  sports,  especially 
fishing. 

He  married  October  4.  1892,  Sarah  Lucinda 
Bowman,  daughter  of  John  and  Eliza  Powell 
(Gittings)  Bowman.  Her  father  was  of  an 
old  and  prominent  Lexington  family  and  her 
mother  of  prominent  \'irginia  and  Maryland 
families.  They  had  no  children.  Mrs.  Sarah 
Bowman  \'an  Ness  was  founder  and  for  eight 
years  active  regent  and  later  honorary  regent 
of  the  Daughters  of  the  .\merican  Revolution 
of  Lexington, -Massachusetts.    (See  Bowman). 


The  surname  Bowman  nieans 
r,()\\M.\X     archer,  and  was  derived  from 

the  name  of  the  weapon  used 
liy  the  ancient  Britons  and  Saxons — the  long 
hlnv — and  took  their  origin  from  Kirkos- 
wald,  fourteen  miles  from  Carlisle,  county  of 
Cumberland,  the  beautiful  hill  country  of  Eng- 
land. The  first  coat-of-arms  of  this  Bowman 
family  of  England  is  described :  Argent,  two 
bows  gules,  stringed. — or,  in  saltier — one 
within  the  other.  This  is  the  most  ancient 
armorial  of  this  family,  and  second  earliest 
arms  in  England.  In  the  early  days  of  sur- 
naines  in  England.  Bowman  was  common 
along  the  luiglish  border  under  the  Percys. 
There  are  two  branches  of  the  family  in  Scot- 
land bearing  arms.  The  Bowmans  were  the 
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nently  known  as  one  of  England's  most  ancient 
families,  having  fiirnislieci  some  of  their  earli- 
est lawyers  and  statesmen.  Savage's  directory 
of  early  New  England  settlers  states  that 
twelve  Bowmans  graduated  from  Harvard 
College  in  fifty-five  years,  four  being  the  larg- 
est number  of  any  other  family  in  the  same 
time.  And  each  generation  of  the  family  has 
given  important  members  to  the  state  and 
nation. 

Robert  Cowman,  the  earliest  known  ancestor 
of  this  family,  married,  in  1544,  Helen  Crych- 
loe  :  two  sons  :  i.  Richard,  baptized  and  buried, 
1346.  2.  John,  married  .\nn.  daughter  of 
.Anthony  Beresford,  of  Parwick,  England, 
gentleman,  and  a  member  of  one  of  England's 
most  celebrated  families,  and  his  wife  Elyn, 
of  Gateleden  Grange.  John  and  .Ann  (  Beres- 
ford) Bowman  had  children  :  Xathaniel,  born 
1608,  see  forward;  Richard,  baptized  1610; 
Helene,  1612;  John,  1614;  Henry,  1617;  Eliz- 
abeth, 1619;  .-\nn,  1620;  Elizabeth,  1623; 
Anthony,  1625. 

(I)  Xathaniel  Bowman,  immigrant  ances- 
tor, was  born  in  England  in  iTxjS.  He  was  a 
cavalier  "gentleman"  (this  title  showing  that  he 
bore  arms  conferred  by  the  king)  and  emi- 
grated to  America  because  of  the  encroach- 
ment of  the  Barons  of  England  and  Scotland 
upon  his  lands.  At  the  time  the  crowns  of 
England  and  Scotland  were  united,  the  Bow- 
man family  of  Cumberland  county  were  the 
largest  landowners,  havmg  acquired  title  by 
their  military  services  rendered  to  the  earliest 
English  Kings,  and  were  recognized  by  the 
Kings  as  exclusive  owners  of  their  lands  and 
consequently  were  not  entered  upon  the  Domes- 
day Book.  These  early  Britons  were  selected 
by  William  the  Conqueror  as  his  bodyguards, 
owing  to  their  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
country  and  their  expert  use  of  the  bow  and 
arrow,  and  he  conferred  upon  them  the  name 
of  Bowman.  Eor  centuries  the  Bowmans  occu- 
pied and  held  exclusive  possession  of  the  hill 
country  in  Cumberland  county,  England. 

Xathaniel  lUnvman  and  wife  Ann  settled  in 
W'atertown  as  early  as  1630.  He  was  never 
admitted  a  freeman  in  the  colony  because  he 
would  not  relinc|uish  his  membership  in  the 
Church  of  England,  being  a  Cavalier,  and  not 
a  Puritan.  The  historian.  Bond,  says  in  his 
"History  of  W'atertown,"  page  1083,  "a  por- 
tion of  the  town  was  named  in  honor  of  Mr. 
Bowman  to  show  the  high  esteem  in  which  he 
was  held."  In  1635  Xathaniel  Bowman  pur- 
chased land  from  ICdward  Goffe  in  Cambridge 
Farms  (Lexington),  and  settled  on  this  land 


alM)ut  1649.  It  was  located  in  the  southeast 
part  of  the  town,  near  Arlington.  Xathaniel 
Bcnvman  died  January  26,  1681-82.  His  will, 
which  refers  to  him  as  Xathaniel  Bowman 
(gentleman),  dated  October  21.  1679.  ])roved 
-April  4.  1682.  l)e(|ueatlied  to  sons  Francis  and 
Xathaniel ;  daughter  Dorcas  Marsh  ;  and  granil- 
cliildren  Xathaniel  and  IJenjamin  lUackleach. 
Xathatiiel  Bowman  and  his  wife  .\im  were 
married  in  England.  She  depo.sed  in  1678 
showing  that  she  was  sixty-three  years  old ; 
she  died  befoie  him.  Children:  i.  Francis, 
born  1630,  mentioned  below.  2.  Mary,  buried 
Jaiuiary  I,  1638.  3.  Joanna,  buried  Xovember 
20,  I '138,  aged  three  years.  4.  Dorcas,  buried 
I'\'bruary6,  1639,  aged  seven  days.  5.  Xathaniel, 
born  March  6,  1641,  ])robably  died  at  Lexing- 
ton in  1694.  6.  Joanna,  born  Xovember  20, 
1642.  7.  Dorcas,  married  Benjamin  Black- 
leach. 

(II)  Francis,  son  of  Xathaniel  Bowman, 
was  born  in  1630,  died  December  16,  1687, 
aged  fifty-seven.  He  inherited  the  homestead 
in  Cambridge  I'arnis,  where  he  resided.  He 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  January,  1652.  He 
married,  September  26,  1661,  Martha  Sher- 
man, born  P'ebruary  21,  1641.  Children:  i. 
Francis,  born  September  14,  1662,  mentioned 
below.  2.  John,  I-'cbruary  19.  1665.  3.  Martha, 
March  26,  1667,  died  December,  1^)7.  4. 
Xathaniel,  I'ebruary  9,  1669,  died  June  30, 
174S.  3.  Josei>h.  May  18,  1674,  died  Ajjril  8, 
1762.  6.  Anna,  September  19,  1676,  died  Sep- 
tember 26,  1700.  7.  Deacon  Samuel,  August 
14,  1679,  resided  in  Cambridge;  married,  first, 
Rebecca  .Andrews  ;  second,  Deborah . 

(III )  Francis  (2),  son  of  Francis  (i)  Bow- 
man, was  born  .September  14,  1662.  He  was 
admitted  a  freeman,  and  was  one  of  the  most 
prominent  citizens  of  Lexington,  I  (e  held 
every  office  within  the  gift  of  the  King  anfl  the 
town,  and  was  known  as  "ye  most  worshipful 
justice ;"  was  a  member  of  the  first  board  of 
selectmen  and  assessors;  in  1693  was  one  of 
a  committee  to  buy  land  for  the  support  of  the 
ministry ;  was  a  deinity  to  the  general  court 
for  many  years:  and  a  Royal  Magistrate  1720 
to  1744,  being  the  first  to  be  a|)pi)iiUed  to  that 
office  by  the  King;  was  also  honored  with  a 
military  commission  by  the  King,  lie  was 
one  of  three  to  sit  at  table  in  the  meeting 
house,  anfl  his  wife  was  given  a  "fore  scat." 
In  his  will  he  be(|ueathes  to  his  wife  the  three 
negroes — I'.attiss,  Phillis  and  Pompey  ;  and  to 
his  granddaughter,  Ruth  Bowman,  the  negro 
boy  Dtjmini ;  also  bequeathes  to  wife  Ruth, 
son    Isaac,    daughters    Mary    Morse,    Lydia 


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Simonds  and  Sarah  Russell.  lie  married  first, 
June  26,  1684,  Lydia,  daughter  of  Deacon 
Samuel  and  Sarah  (Stearns)  Stone,  of  Cam- 
bridge ;  second,  Ruth,  daughter  of  Rev.  Samuel 
Angier.      Children:      i.    Francis,   born   about 

1685.     2.   Alary,   married  Morse.     3. 

Lydia,  married  Jonatiian  Simonds.  4.  John, 
born  July  14,  1689.  mentioned  below.  5.  Sarah, 
married  Philip  Russell.  6.  Isaac,  born  1693, 
died  July  18,  1785. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  Francis  (2)  Bowman, 
was  born  July  14,  1689,  died  April  30,  1726. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  church  at  Lexington, 
June  22,  1 718.  He  married  Mary  Stone,  who 
died  June  28,  1757.  Children:  i.  John,  born 
December  5,  1713,  mentioned  below.  2.  Jonas, 
February  3.  1717,  married  Abigail  Russell.  3. 
Francis,  .April  2,  1718,  married,  June  24,  1756, 
Sarah  Simonds,  and  resided  in  Bedford.  4. 
Ebenezer,  April  21,  1720,  resided  in  West 
Cambridge.  5.  Ruth,  December  23,  1723,  ad- 
mitted to  the  church,  October  18,  1741. 

(\')  John  (2).  son  of  John  (l)  Bowman, 
was  born  December  5,  1713,  died  April  21, 
1760.  He  married,  first,  February  19,  1737, 
Susanna,  daughter  of  Captain  Joseph  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Bond)  Coolidge,  of  Watertown.  John 
and  Susanna  (Coolidge)  Bowman  owned  the 
covenant  at  the  church  in  Lexington,  Decem- 
ber 4,  1737.  He  married  second,  Hannah  Wil- 
son, a  widow.  Children  of  first  wife :  I.Sus- 
anna, born  January  19.  1738,  married.  Decem- 
ber 16,  1779,  Bezaleel  Learned.  2.  Josiah, 
March  21,  1740.  3.  Mary,  August  i,  1742.  4. 
Klizabeth,  November  4,  1744,  married  Francis 
W'hittemore.  of  Medford.  5.  Ruth,  October 
5,  174'').  6.  Samuel,  November  4.  1749,  men- 
tioned below.  Children  by  second  wife:  7. 
Benjamin,  baptized  June  5.  1757.  died  Febru- 
ary, 177(1.     8.  John,  bajitized  July  15,  1759. 

(VI)  Samuel,  son  of  John  (2)  Bowman, 
was  born  at  Lexington,  November  4,  1749, 
died  at  Warwick,  Massachusetts,  December  21, 
1819.  His  father  died  when  he  was  a  minor, 
and  Cajitain  John  1  loar,  his  uncle,  was  appoint- 
ed his  guardian.  Ca|)tain  John  Hoar  married 
.second.  Flizabeth.  sister  to  Susannah  Coolidge, 
motlier  of  Samuel  Piowman.  Captain  John 
Hoar  was  great-great-grandfather  of  Senator 
Cieorge  Frisbic  Hoar.  Samuel  Bowman  lived 
in  the  family  of  his  uncle.  Rev.  Jonathan  Bow- 
man, who  was  forty-four  years  pastor  of  the 
I-"irst  Church  on  Meetinghouse  Hill,  Dor- 
chester. I  lis  wife  was  I'!lizabeth  (Hancock) 
Bowman,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Hancock, 
grandfather  of  (iovernor  John  Hancock,  and 
they  attended  to  his  education.     He  served  in 


the  revolution  as  drummer  in  Captain  John 
Parker's  Lexington  company,  on  duty  from 
May  6  to  10,  at  Cambridge,  by  order  of  the 
committee  of  safety;  was  in  same  company 
June  17-18,  evidently  at  the  battle  of  Bunker 
Hill ;  was  in  Captain  John  Bridge's  company. 
Colonel  Ebenezer  Brooks's  regiment,  1776,  at 
Roxbury ;  in  Captain  Watson's  company,  Col- 
onel Greaton's  regiment,  1777;  was  sergeant 
and  sergeant-major  in  Captain  .Abraham  Wat- 
son's company.  Colonel  John  Greaton's  regi- 
ment, 1777-79.  and  commissioned  ensign  in 
same  company.  March  4,  1780;  was  in  Cap- 
tain J.  Sumner's  company.  Colonel  Greaton's 
regiment.  1781.  and  was  commissioned  lieuten- 
ant on  recommendation  of  Colonel  Greaton  in 
Colonel  \'ose's  first  regiment,  .\pril  22,  1782, 
and  was  brevetted  colonel  after  the  close  of 
the  war.  He  inherited  considerable  property, 
and  after  the  revolution  settled  at  W'arwick, 
June  10.  1778,  si.x  days  after  his  marriage, 
where  he  bought  a  large  farm  and  lived  the 
remainder  of  his  life. 

He  married.  June  4, 1778,  Hannah  Winthrop 
Davenport,  born  June  16.  1751,  of  Dorchester, 
who  died  December  i.  1824.  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Mary  Pray  (Winthrop)  Davenport,  great- 
granddaughter  of  Governor  John  Winthrop. 
Children:  i.  Lydia,  born  May  17,  1779.  died 
September  29.  1811:  married  Stephen  John- 
son. 2.  Hannah.  December  8.  1780,  died  April 
fi.  1S73:  married  Joseph  Bishop.  3.  Susannah, 
.September  29,  1782,  died  December  19.  1812; 
married  Ste|)hen  Perry,  of  Vernon ;  children : 

i.  William:  ii.  Maria,  married Newhall, 

of  Hinsdale:  iii.  Martha,  married  Elijah  Merri- 
man.  4.  Samuel.  .August  10,  1784.  died  Sep- 
tember \f>,  1858:  he  was  one  of  the  prominent 
East  India  merchants  of  New  York :  married 
•Mary  Power,  of  Charlestown.  5.  Isaac.  May 
17,  1786,  died  October  20,  1813.  6.  Nancy, 
March  22,  1789,  died  Augu.st  19.  1831.  7. 
Polly.  March  11,  1791,  died  July  22,  1812.  8. 
John,  February  11,  1794.  mentioned  below.  9. 
loseph.  November  4,  1797.  died  Se])tember  16, 
"1708. 

(  \'II)  John  (3),  son  of  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Samuel  I'owman.  was  born  February  11,  1794, 
at  W'arwick.  Massachusetts,  and  died  there 
.\ugust  30.  1831.  He  was  brought  up  on  his 
father's  farm,  and  was  educated  in  the  district 
school.  He  remained  on  the  farm  with  his 
brothers,  succeeded  to  the  projierty.  and  fol- 
lowed farming  all  his  life.  He  married,  April 
17.  1S17.  Luciiida  (Willard)  Foster,  born  in 
Askburnham.  June  9,  1798.  died  February  24, 
1861.  great-granddaughter  of   Henry,   fourth 


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son  of  Majcir  Simmi  Willard.  who  bought 
Concord  from  the  Indians  and  later  settled  in 
CJroton.  Children:  i.  Isaac  Chainicev.  born  De- 
cember 26,  181 7,  died  in  Springtield.  Massachu- 
setts. January  19.  1886:  married  at  (jreenwich. 
November  2^.  1847,  .\lmira  T.  Hannister.  lx>rn 
May  22,  1828.  Children:  i.  Jeinio  Denning,  born 
July  3,  1852.  at  Hartford,  died  at  Springfield. 
December  19,  1866 ;  ii.  Xenry  Xewton,  born 
April  7.  1862,  married.  December  15,  1887.  Lil- 
lian Brown,  of  Springfield.  2.  Sarah  Jane,  born 
March  9,  1820,  died  at  Orange.  Massachusetts, 
October  14.  1875 ;  married,  at  Rrattleboro, 
\'ermont,  November  27.  184(1,  Chester  W. 
Eddy.  Children :  i.  Wales  Bowman,  born 
April  19.  1848,  died  at  Orange,  Massachusetts, 
August  18,  1884;  marrieil.  June  12.  i87i.Kate 
W.  Willard.  of  Orange ;  ii.  John  W'inthrop, 
born  September  26,  1849.  married,  in  Utica, 
New  York,  March.  1871.  Wealthy  Hartshorn, 
of  Orange :  iii.  Eugene  Leslie,  born  February 
7.  185 1,  died  at  Cleveland.  Ohio,  January  16, 
1888:  iv.  Robert  Carpenter,  born  January  14, 
1853,  married  Ella  ^I.  Harding,  of  Warwick, 
Massachusetts:  v.  Mabel  .Mice,  born  October 
10.  1854.  married,  at  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, January  19,  1875,  Henry  B.  Allen,  of 
St.  Johnsbury.  \'crmont.  3.  John,  born  .\pril 
16,  1822,  died  August  4.  1882.  mentioned  be- 
low. 4.  Hannah  Davenport,  born  April  18, 
1824.  died  at  .Vorthfield.  Massachusetts.  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1858:  married,  at  Warwick,  Massa- 
chusetts, March  3.  1844,  William  D.  Hastings, 
born  December  28,  1820.     Children:     i.  Mary 

Ann.  born  December  28.  1844.  married 

Trott:  ii.  William  Bowman,  born  February  6, 
1848,  died  September  14,  1848;  iii.  Frank 
Greenville,  born  August  6.  1849;  iv.  Edgar 
Allen,  born  September  16.  1852.  5.  Samuel 
Foster,  born  February  26,  1826,  died  in  War- 
wick. Massachusetts,  January  6,  1844.  6.  Still- 
man  W'inthrop,  born  February  9,  1828,  died 
.^ugust  31.  1831.  7.  Harriet  Foster,  born  De- 
cember 17,  1829,  died  -A.ugust  19,  183 1.  8. 
Harriet  Foster,  born  November  26,  1831,  died 
at  Hyde  Park,  Massachusetts,  October  9, 1883; 
married,  at  Warwick,  September  13.  1857, 
Henry  .-Mexander  Rich,  born  June  19.  1833. 
Children:  i.  Frank  Bowman,  born  February 
18,  i860,  died  January  17,  1907:  married,  De- 
cember 13,  1888,  Emma  Young;  children: 
^Tabel  Henrietta,  born  December  16,  1889: 
Edith,  January  17,  1895;  Henry  Alexander. 
February  2.  1901  ;  ii.  Fred  Alexander,  born 
March  8,  1867,  unmarried:  iii.  Foster  Henry, 
born  January  14,  1873,  died  August  15,  1873; 
iv.  Bertha  Jane,  born  July  2,  1874,  married. 


July  2.  i()o8.  Ilenry  B.  Sergeant,  of  Sunajjee, 
.New  1  lami)sliire. 

(\'HI)  John  (4),  son  of  John  (,3)  Bow- 
man, was  born  in  W'arwick,  April  16,  1822, 
died  at  Boston,  August  4,  1882.  He  attended 
the  public  schools,  and  in  his  youth  lived  part 
of  the  time  with  his  uncle,  Willard  I-'oster,  in 
order  to  be  near  good  schools.  He  continued 
his  education  at  Worcester,  and  later  took  up 
the  study  of  law.  He  acquired  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  mechanics,  became  a  skillful 
machinist  and  developed  a  genius  for  invent- 
ing useful  machinery.  Among  his  inventions 
were :  The  Douglas  I'ump,  a  locomotive  spark 
arrester :  knitting  machine  for  making  under- 
garments, which  latter  brought  him  fame  and 
fortune.  He  resided  many  years  in  Macon, 
Georgia;  Tallahassee,  Florida;  and  Milledge- 
ville,  Georgia ;  he  invested  extensively  in  real 
estate  at  Macon  and  Tallahassee.  He  was  in 
the  south  when  the  civil  war  began,  and  re- 
mained until  he  was  drafted  for  the  Confed- 
erate army.  1  Ic  made  his  way  north  and 
escaped,  finding  refuge  first  on  a  Union  bU)ck- 
ading  vessel,  the  "Stars  and  Stri]ies,"  in  the 
Gulf  of  Mexico,  and  later  coming  north  on  the 
sup])ly  steamer  to  New  York.  Owing  to  the 
depreciation  of  both  Confederate  and  L'nited 
States  notes,  his  property  was  largely  sacri- 
ficed. In  the  early  seventies  he  became  inter- 
ested in  the  railroad  from  Portland,  Oregon, 
to  Marysville,  California.  He  was  a  typical 
gentleman  of  the  old  school,  plain  of  s])cech, 
straightforward  and  honest  in  purpose  and 
action,  but  kindly  and  courteous  in  maimer. 
In  later  years  he  was  affectionately  known  as 
"Uncle  Jf)hn"  by  all  his  friends.  He  was  kind 
and  charitable  to  those  in  need  and  suffering, 
and  gave  liberally  to  all  good  causes.  His 
ancestors  were  of  the  Episcopal  faith  until  the 
introduction  of  the  Channing  theory  which 
introduced  the  Unitarian  creed  into  many  of 
the  Episcopal  churches ;  this  was  accepted  by 
him  and  a  portion  of  his  family.  In  jjolitics 
he  was  a  Reiiublican.  Though  he  considered 
the  condition  of  the  negro  better  under  the 
slavcrv  svstem  than  when  freed,  from  the  fact 
that  during  slavery  they  were  skilled  artisans, 
mechanics  and  domestics,  a  fact  which  has  not 
been  the  case  since  their  freedom,  he  did  not, 
however,  believe  in  the  continuance  of  the 
system.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
order,  joining  the  lodge  at  Macon,  Georgia. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Worcester  Lodge  of 
Odd  I'ellows. 

He  married.  August  10,  1848.  Eliza  Powel 
Gittings,  of  Macon,  Georgia,  born  at  Sparta, 


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Georgia,  October  25,  1823,  daughter  of  George 
Gittings  and  Sarah  Powel,  died  at  Lexington, 
Massachusetts,  June  12,  1899,  a  direct  descend- 
ant of  folin  Gittings,  who  from  1661  to  1669 
was  clerk  of  tlie  upper  "House  of  Burgesses," 
Maryland,  and  one  of  the  best  educated  and 
most  prominent  men  of  JNlaryland.  She  was 
also  descended  through  the  Powel  and  Tracy 
and  Bridgers  families,  in  direct  line  from 
Egbert  the  first  of  the  Saxon  Kings  of  Eng- 
land, and  from  the  Calverts  of  Maryland,  and 
was  a  direct  descendant  of  Captain  William 
Powel,  son  of  Sir  Hugh  Powel,  of  "Castle 
Madoc"  in  Brecon,  Breconshire,  W'ales.  who 
represented  Jamestown,  Virginia,  in  the  "House 
of  Burgesses,"  the  first  legislative  assembly 
in  America,  July  30,  1619,  being  chairman  of 
the  committee  who  examined  the  laws  which 
had  been  sent  by  parliament  for  the  governing 
of  the  colonies ;  he  and  his  committee  were 
elected  to  decide  which  of  the  laws  would  be 
accepted  by  the  colonies.  She  was  also  a  de- 
scendant (through  the  Quiney  and  Sadler  fami- 
lies) of  William  Shakespeare,  the  poet.  Chil- 
dren: I.Samuel  Stillman.born  .April  29,  1849, 
an  officer  in  the  United  States  army;  married 
Janet  Patterson,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland-; 
child,  John  .Mexander,  born  .'\pril  3,  1886.  2. 
George  Foster,  paying  teller  in  First  National 
Bank  of  Oregon,  a  fine  student  and  pen  artist, 
bom  January  25,  185 1,  died  November  25, 
1870,  the  result  of  a  drowning  accident  at 
Portland,  Oregon.  3.  Sarah  Lucinda,  married, 
Octoi)er  4,  1892,  Joseph  \'an  Ness,  of  Boston 
(see  \'an  Ness  family).  4.  John  Thomas, 
died  two  years  of  age,  in  Tallahassee,  Florida, 
1861.  5.  Ida  Corinne^  died  in  Tallahassee, 
Florida,  1861,  four  years  of  age. 

Solomon  Phipps,  immigrant  an- 
PHIPPS  cestor,  was  a  settler  in  Charles- 
town  and  received  a  grant  of 
four  acres  of  land  in  the  town  at  Mystic  Side, 
and  bought  of  John  Gould,  six  acres  later.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  church  January  15,  1641- 
42,  and  was  made  a  freeman  May  18,  1642. 
He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  a  town 
officer.  His  wife  Elizabeth,  called  "Mother 
Phipps,"  was  admitted  to  the  church  May  15, 

1642,  and  died  "an  aged  widow,"  November  i, 
1688.  His  will  was  dated  May  4,  1670,  and 
proved  December  14,  1671.  He  died  July  25, 
1 67 1,  aged  fifty-two,  according  to  his  grave- 
stone.   Children:     i.  Elizabeth,  born  April  23, 

1643,  married  John  Roy.  2.  Solomon,  1646. 
3.  Samuel.  4.  Mary,  died  September  2,  1682. 
5.  Mehitable,  died  July  15,  1657.    6.  Mehitablc, 


born  December  10,  1657,  died  young.  7.  Me- 
hitable, June  6,  1659.  8.  Joseph,  mentioned 
below. 

(H)  Joseph,  son  of  Solomon  Phipps,  was 
baptized  October  13,  1661,  and  was  a  carpenter 
by  trade.  His  name  figures  frequently  in  real 
estate  transactions  in  Charlestown.  His  will 
was  dated  January  i,  and  proved  February  6, 
1717-18.  He  married.  May  12,  1687,  Mary 
Kettell,  born  October  8,  1666,  died  December 
21,  1729,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mercy 
(Hayden)  Kettell,  and  granddaughter  of  Rich- 
ard Kettell.  Children:  i.  Joseph,  born  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1688,  died  December  25,  1690.  2. 
Mary,  baptized  June  21,  1691,  married  Richard 
Whittemore.  3.  Mercy,  baptized  November  6, 
1692,  married  Samuel  Maxey.  4.  Elizabeth, 
born  July  10,  1694.  5.  Samuel,  born  October 
27,  1696,  mentioned  below.  6.  Solomon,  born 
March  31,  1700.  7.  Joseph,  baptized  Septem- 
ber 15,  1706,  died  October  3,  1722. 

(HI)  Samuel,  son  of  Joseph  Phipps,  was 
born  in  Charlestown,  October  27,  and  bap- 
tized November  i,  1696,  and  died  of  fever, 
February  11,  1730-31.  He  served  as  town 
clerk   of    Charlestown.      He   married,   before 

1715.  Abigail ,  who  owned  the  covenant 

March  5,  1730-31.  She  married  (second) 
August  17,  1732,  Joseph  Whittemore,  and 
administration  was  granted  on  lier  estate  June 
18,  1734,  to  Joseph  Frost.  A  guardian  w-as 
appointed  for  the  minor  children  April  i,  1734. 
Children  :  i.  Abigail,  born  i\Iay  19,  1721,  mar- 
ried John  Blancy.  2.  Joseph,  j\Iarch  31,  1723, 
nientioned  below.  3.  Samuel,  September  i, 
1724,  died  before  1745.  4.  Elijah,  June  7, 
1727.  5.  Solomon,  .August  18,  1731  (post- 
humous). 

(IV)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Samuel  Phipps, 
was  born  in  Charlestown,  March  31,  and  bap- 
tized April  7,  1723.  He  was  a  baker  by  trade 
and  died  June  27,  1795.  He  was  among  those 
who  lost  property  at  the  time  the  British  burned 
Charlestown,  and  his  wife  was  among  those 
who  claimed  for  losses  in  1775.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Webb,  born  November  9,  1722,  died 
April  14.  1/97,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  .Abi- 
gail (.Austin)  Webb."  Children,  born  in  Charles- 
town :  I.  Elizabeth,  born  April.  1746,  married 
William  Sargent.  2.  Samuel,  baptized  .April 
24,  1748,  died  June  14,  1748.  3.  .Abigail,  bap- 
tized .April  30,  1749,  married  John  Butterfield. 
4.  Joseph,  born  January  11,  1751-52.  5.  Mary, 
baptized  February  25,  1753.  6.  Frances,  bap- 
tized March  9,  1755.  married  Timothy  Trum- 
bull. 7.  Sarah,  baptized  .August  7,  1757,  mar- 
ried Joel  IlagaPi    8.  Bethiah,  baptized  Febru- 


massaciiusi:tts. 


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ary  17,  1760,  married  John  Brinklcy.  9.  Han- 
nali,  baptized  April  3,  1763.  10.  Samuel,  men- 
tioned below. 

(V)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (2)  Phipps, 
was  baptized  in  Charlestown,  July  13,  1766, 
died  in  ]\Iay,  1813.  He  married,  March  7, 
1790,  Esther  Rand,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Abigail  (  Frothingham  j  Rand.  Ciiildren  :  i. 
-Ann  Miller.  2.  llenjamin.  born  October  18, 
1797.  mentioned  below.  3.  Esther,  married 
John  Perkins.  4.  Mary,  died  unmarried.  5. 
Samuel,  died  young.  6.  Bethiah  Brinkley,  died 
unmarried. 

(VI)  Benjamin,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  Phipps, 
was  born  in  Charlestown,  October  18,  1797, 
died  .April  7,  1878.  He  was  a  harness-maker 
by  trade,  and  a  prominent  citizen  of  Charles- 
town. He  held  many  offices  in-  the  town,  and 
was  alderman  after  it  became  a  city.  For 
many  years  he  was  treasurer  of  the  Winchester 
Home  corporation.  He  married  (first)  July  4, 
1820,  .Abigail  Kimball,  who  died  July  18,  1828, 
aged  thirty-three  ;  (second)  September  9, 1829, 
Sarah  Kettell  Frothingham:  (third)  May, 
1838,  Catherine  W.  (Ireen:  (fourth)  April  23, 
1851,  Josephine  V.  Kettell,  who  died  October 
4,  1874,  aged  sixty-seven.  Child  of  first  wife: 
Benjamin,  born  February  12,  1824,  mentioned 
below.  Children  of  .second  wife  :  John  .Alfred ; 
Abby  Ann,  married  .Abraham  G.  Wyman,  re- 
sides in  Brookline.  Child  of  third  wife  :  Sarah  C. 

f\"H)  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  (i) 
Phipps,  was  bom  in  Charlestown,  February  12, 
1824.  died  *in  Boston,  May  i,  1906.  He  was 
educated  at  the  Bunker  Hill  school  in  his  native 
town,  and  at  the  early  age  of  fifteen  applied 
for  a  position  with  Parker,  Blanchard  & 
Wilder.  There  was  one  vacancy,  and  two 
applicants.  He  was  rejected  because  the  other 
boy  was  more  muscular,  and  in  those  days  the 
younger  employees  were  obliged  to  assist  at 
times  with  such  work  as  is  now  done  by 
porters.  Twenty-nine  years  later  he  was  ad- 
mitted as  a  partner  in  this  same  firm.  A  letter 
from  his  schoolmaster  led  the  firm  to  take  him 
on  trial.  From  office  boy  he  was  promoted 
to  a  clerical  position,  after  a  faithful  service, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  firm  May  31.  1868. 
The  partners  then  were:  Marshall  P.  Wilder, 
Samuel  B.  Rindgc,  Ezra  Farnsworth,  John 
Byers,  William  H.  Wilder  and  Benjamin 
Phipps.  He  outlived  them  all.  and  at  his  death 
was  the  head  of  the  firm.  The  firm  was  one 
of  the  early  commission  houses  of  Boston,  and 
one  of  the  first,  if  not  the  first  to  sell  cotton 
goods  on  commission.  It  expanded  until  it 
became  the  sailing  agent  for  some   fourteen 


mills,  in  not  a  few  of  which  the  firm  was  largely 
interested  financially.  In  1849,  at  the  time  of 
his  marriage,  he  settled  in  Chelsea,  and  three 
years  afterward  bought  his  first  home  there. 
He  took  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the 
town,  and  in  1877  was  a  member  of  the  com- 
mon council,  in  1878  alderman.  In  iSiKj  he  be- 
came a  trustee  of  the  new  iniblic  library  of 
Chelsea,  and  served  until  1894,  two  years  after 
he  had  removed  from  the  city.  He  was  chair- 
man of  the  book  committee  and  deeply  inter- 
ested in  the  success  of  the  library.  In  1855  he 
was  ch(jsen  a  trustee  of  the  Chelsea  .Savings 
Bank,  organized  the  year  before,  and  in  1879 
was  elected  its  vice-president.  At  his  death  lie 
was  the  oldest  trustee  both  in  point  of  age  and 
service.  He  declined  the  nomination  for  the 
office  of  mayor,  although  he  was  strongly  urged 
by  many  friends  to  run.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  First  Unitarian  Church  of  Chelsea,  for 
many  years  its  treasurer,  and  meeting  many  of 
its  obligations  out  of  his  own  jsrivate  purse,  a 
fact  which  was  unknown  until  his  successor 
was  elected.  He  was  strongly  attached  to  his 
home,  and  even  after  his  removal  to  Brighton, 
in  1892,  he  retained  the  ownership  of  his 
Chelsea  house,  and  continued  to  assist  the 
church.  In  1892  he  took  up  his  residence  in 
the  Aberdeen  district  of  Brighton.  He  attend- 
ed the  l''irst  Parish  Church  tliere,  and  also  had 
a  pew  in  the  h'irst  Parish  Church  of  Brook- 
line.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Hamilton  .\'at- 
ional  Bank,  and  after  its  reorganization  was  a 
director  and  vice-president  of  the  National 
1  lamilton  Bank,  and  later  a  director  when  it 
was  merged  into  the  Fourth  National  Bank, 
and  served  until  his  death.  He  was  a  director 
in  the  Mill  Owners  Mutual  T-'ire  Insurance 
Company  imtil  it  was  consolidated  with  the  Ark- 
wright  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company :  was 
on  the  executive  committee  of  the  Home  Mar- 
ket Club  and  one  of  its  vice-presidents  from 
1S99  till  his  death;  director  in  the  Belvidere 
Woolen  Manufacturing  Comjiany  of  Lowell; 
treasurer  and  director  of  the  Cocheco  Woolen 
.Manufacturing  Company;  treasurer  and  presi- 
dent of  the  (ionic  Manufacturing  Coin|)any; 
treasurer  and  flirector  of  the  Stirling  .\lills; 
treasurer  and  director  of  the  I'hoenix  I'actory  ; 
president  of  the  Monadnock  Mills;  director 
of  the  Naumkeag  Steam  Cotton  Company; 
director  from  1890  and  president  from  1901 
till  his  death,  of  the  Yantic  Woolen  Company; 
and  for  many  years  treasurer  and  director  of 
the  ['nion  Manufacturing  Company.  In  1884 
he  was  chosen  treasurer  of  the  National  .Asso- 
ciation of  Wool  Manufacturers,  and  was  re- 


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elected  contimiously  until  his  dcatli.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  I'nion  Ckib.  Country  Club, 
Boston  Art  Club,  Bostonian  Society,  and  New 
England  Cotton  Manufacturers'  Association. 
He  was  respected  by  his  business  associates 
for  his  high  sense  of' honor  and  sterling  char- 
acter. He  was  a  fine  example  of  an  upright 
man,  of  integrity  both  in  jirivate  and  business 
life,  who  by  reason  of  his  ability,  faithfulness 
and  capacity,  reached  the  topmost  round  of 
the  ladder  of  success.  Rev.  Dr.  William  H. 
Lyon  .said  of  him  at  his  funeral:  "His  was  a 
long  life  and  a  .strong  life;  a  useful  life  and  a 
steadfast  life;  an  upright  life  and  a  beloved 
life:  a  religious  Hfe  ami  a  happy  life. 
When  we  think  of  what  he  has  been  in  these 
ways,  our  grief  is  almost  lost  in  admira- 
tion and  in  gratitude,  and  we  are  sure 
that  the  life  so  well  begun  we  may  follow 
without  fear."  He  married.  January  4,  1849, 
.'\nne  M.  l^.owen,  daughter  of  Abel  Bowen,  of 
r>oston.  (See  Bowen  family).  Children:  i. 
Annie  K.,  born  in  Chelsea  and  died  at  the  age 
of  seven.  2.  Walter  Bowen,  educated  in  the 
Chelsea  schools  and  was  in  the  wool  business ; 
married  Frances  B.  Smith:  had  Alaurice  B., 
Benjamin  K.  and  .Mfred  (i.  3.  Horace  Jones, 
mentioned  below. 

(\1I)  Horace  Jones,  son  of  Benjamin  (2) 
I'hipps,  was  bom  in  Chelsea,  December  3, 
185Q.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  and  high 
schools.  As  a  boy  he  worked  as  clerk  in  the 
commission  house  of  \Vhittemore,  Cabot  & 
Company,  and  afterward  was  in  partnership 
with  his' brother  in  the  wool  dealing  business 
in  Boston.  Since  1886  he  has  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  stained  glass,  and  the  present 
name  of  his  firm  is  Horace  J.  Phipps  &  Com- 
I)anv,  of  which  he  is  sole  partner.  He  is  al.so 
vice-president  of  the  Leslie  ALinufacturing 
Company,  of  Boston  :  a  director  of  the  Kinney 
Manufacturing  Company,  the  h'arrington  .Man- 
ufacturing Company,  and  the  Choralcelo  Man- 
ufacturing Company,  all  of  I'.oston  ;  vice-]5resi- 
dent  of  the  .American  Trackless  Trolley  Com- 
pany, of  l')Oston,  and  trustee  of  an  estate.  He 
is  secretary  and  director  of  the  Apollo  (  lub 
and  has  been  for  many  years  one  of  the  most 
active  members.  He  is  a  member  of  the  I'.os- 
ton Architectural  Club,  the  Braeburn  Country 
Club,  the  National  Art  Club  of  New  York,  the 
Boston  Citv  Club.  He  is  a  Unitarian  in  relig- 
ion a  Republican  in  politics.  He  married,  De- 
cember 3,  1885,  .\nnic  Carlton  Slocum,  born  in 
Chelsea'  1859,  daughter  of  Samuel  D.  and 
Elizabeth  ( Farmer)  Slocum.  They  have  no 
children. 


Of  the  earl\-  immigrants  to 
l',(  )WE.\  Massachusetts  before  1650 three 
settled  at  Rehoboth.  Massachu- 
setts. Obadiah  Bowen  was  there  as  early 
as  1643 ;  died  there  1708  at  an  advanced  age. 
Richard  Bowen  also  settled  in  Rehoboth ;  was 
a  town  officer,  proprietor,  admitted  freeman 
June  4,  1^^145;  married,  March  4,  1646,  Esther 
Sutton;  buried  February  4,  1674:  bequeathed 
in  will  dated  June  4.  1674,  to  children, 
William.  Obadiah,  Richard,  .\lice  Wheaton, 
Sarah  IniUer  and  Ruth  Leverich  and  wife 
Elizabeth. 

( I )  Thomas  Bowen.  the  third  and  probably 
the  younger-  of  the  three  brothers,  settled  in 
Rehoboth  but  had  been  in  New  London, 
according  to  Savage,  1(157-60.  Savage  says  his 
widow  married  Samuel  F"uller,  of  Plymouth. 
There  was  another  Thomas  Bowen.  of  Salem 
and  Marblehead,  who  died  about  1705,  also 
leaving  a  wife  Elizabeth.  It  is  not  known  that 
the  Rehoboth  family  w^as  related  to  this 
Thomas,  of  Salem,  of  the  family  of  Griffith 
Bow-en  who  settled  in  Boston,  a  native  of 
Langenith.  Glamorganshire,  Wales.  The  will 
of  Thomas  Bowen  of  Rehoboth  was  dated 
.\pril  II,  1663,  becpieathing  to  wife  Elizabeth 
and  son  Richard,  who  is  believed  to  be  Rich- 
ard Jr.  of  Rehoboth,  so-called  to  distinguish 
him  from  his  uncle  of  the  same  name. 

(H)  Richard  (sometimes  called  Jr.),  son 
of  Thomas  I'.owen,  was  born  about  1630-35. 
He  married   Marv  Titus.     Children,   born  at 


Rehoboth : 


I.   Sarah,   Februarv  7.    1656.     2. 


Hester,  .Aiiril  20,  1760.  3.  Richard,  January 
17,  1762.  4.  Mary.  October  5.  1666.  5.  John. 
March  15,  (doubtless  1668-69),  mentioned 
below. 

(HI)  John,  son  of  Richard  Bowen,  was 
horn  at  "Relioboth,  March  15.  1668-69,  died 
there  Aprd  I,  1748.  He  is  the  only  John 
found  in  the  records.  The  immigrant  Thomas 
left  no  son  except  Richard,  according  to  his 
will.  Tradition  probably  omitted  the  second 
generation  in  transmitting  the  lineage.  John 
married,  at  Rehoboth.  September  12.  1700, 
b'.lizabeth  Breckett  (Brackett).  The  intention 
was  dated  July  27.  There  is  a  record  of  the 
death  of  an  b^sther  Bowen,  daughter  of  John. 
.\ugust  3,  1701.  indicating  tliat  he  may  have 
had  a  wife  earlier.  Children  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Breckett)  Bowen:  i.  Peter,  born 
July  22,  1701,  married,  March  2^,  1726-27, 
"Susanna  Kent.  2.  Elizabeth,  July  17,  1702. 
married,  September  14,  1726,  Caleb  Lamb,  of 
Harrington.  3.  Sarah,  September  27.  1704. 
married.   May"  9,    1728,  William  Whipple.     4. 


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Esther,  December  9,  1706.  5.  John,  Decem- 
ber 19,  1709.  mentioned  below.  6.  Thomas, 
August  14,  1 7 12.  married  Sarah . 

(IV)  John  (2).  son  of  John  (i)  I'.owen, 
was  born  at  Rehoboth,  December  19,  1709. 
He  settled  at  Rehoboth.  Me  married  there 
(first)  February  5.  1735-36.  Mary  Read,  of 
Rehoboth  (married  by  Rev.  John  (.ireen- 
wood).  She  died  January  16.  174(1.  and  he 
married  (second)  August  17,  1749.  Hannah 
Peck,  of  Rehoboth,  (by  Rev.  John  Clreen- 
wood).  She  died  September  21.  1755  or  1736 
(duplicate  records  with  this  difference).  He 
married  (third)  at  Rehoboth.  May  3.  1759, 
Mary  Ormsbee  (by  Rev.  John  Carnest). 
Children,  all  born  at  Rehoboth,  by  first  wife: 

1.  John,  March  22,  17.36-37,  mentioned  below. 

2.  Betty,  January  26,  1739-40,  died  December 
I,  1746.  Children  of  second  wife:  3.  Bar- 
zillai.  May  3,  1750.  4.  Betty,  July  21,  1752, 
died  September  10,  1754.     5-  I'ezaleel.  .August 

3.  1754.  6.  Consider.  September  16,  1756. 
Children  of  third  wife:  7.  Mary.  July  23, 
1760.  8.  Hannah,  September  23,  1762.  died 
January  7,  1783.  9.  Shubael.  March  7,  1765, 
died  May  14.  176(3.  10.  Daniel,  September 
17.  I7'^7-  >i-  Esther.  July  24,  1770.  12. 
Shubael.  August  24,  1772.  13.  Thomas.  No- 
vember 8.  1776. 

(V)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  l!f)wen, 
was  born  at  Rehoboth,  March  22,  1736-37. 
He  married  Sarah  Cushing,  of  Rehoboth, 
October  9,  1757  (by  Rev.  John  Greenwood). 
Children,  born  at  Rehoboth:  i.  John,  Decem- 
ber 23,  1738.  2.  Daniel.  .April  8.  1760.  3. 
Bette,  I'cbruary  8,  1762,  married,  .April  24, 
1783.  John  I'earce.  4.  Sarah.  .August  23, 
1764.  3.  Bethia,  September  20,  1766,  married, 
December  4,  1788,  Comfort  Bullock.  6.  .Abel. 
December  14,  1768,  mentioned  below.  7. 
Olive,  November  i,  1780.  Daniel  Bowen 
lived  to  be  nearly  one  hundred  years  old.  He 
compiled,  set  the  type  and  printed  a  history 
of  Philadelphia.  He  went  abroad  in  1800  and 
met  many  of  the  notable  men  of  luirope :  he 
also  met.  after  his  return,  Washington,  Lafay- 
ette and  others.  Daniel  I'.owen  established 
a  museum  in  Boston  in  1791  at  the  .American 
Coffee  House,  opposite  the  branch  of  Seafe's 
Tavern,  on  State  street :  removed  to  the  hall 
over  the  school  house  in  Hollis  street,  and  in 
1795  to  the  corner  of  Tremont  and  P.romfield 
streets. 

fVI)  Abel,  son  of  John  (3)  I'.owen.  was 
born  at  Rehoboth,  December  14,  1768.  Mar- 
ried there,  March  31,  1789,  Delia  Mason.  He 
removed    to    Sand    Lake    village,    Greenbush. 


New  York,  after  his  marriage.  He  died  at 
Otego,  New  York,  December  8,  i8ii.  His 
widow  died  in  Mil  ford.  New  York,  October 
22.    1838,   agcil   si.xty-eight   years.     Children: 

I.  .Abel,  born  December  23,  1790,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Delia,  July  12,  1792,  died  July, 
'793-  3-  Henry,  May  28,  1794.  4.  Romeo, 
September  16,  1796.  5.  Juliet,  Alay  31,  1798. 
6.  Sidney,  July  29,  1799.  7.  Sophronia,  July 
25,  1801.  8.  ^lason,  June  6,  1802.  9.  Lorenzo, 
February  28,  1804.     10.  Eliza,  June  24,  1805. 

II.  Mary.  January  I,  1807.  12.  Olonda,  June 
6,  iSo). 

(\1I)  .Abel  (2),  son  of  Abel  (i)  Bowen, 
was  born  at  Sand  Lake  Village,  Greenbush, 
New  York,  December  23,  1790.  The  follow- 
ing bit  of  autobiography  is  in  the  possession 
of  the  family:  "It  is  well  known  that  Dr. 
Alexander  Anderson  of  New  York  was  the 
first  to  introduce  the  art  wood  engraving  into 
that  city,  and  may  be  jiroperly  styled  the  lather 
of  wood  engraving  in  the  United  States.  The 
introduction  of  wood  cuts  met  with  much 
opposition  by  newspaper  printers  and  others, 
on  account  of  the  liability  to  warp  and  crack, 
they  having  been  in  the  practice  of  using  the 
Type  Mltal  Cuts  which  had  been  the  kind  of 
engraving  jjreviously  used.  In  F.oston,  Type 
Metal  Cuts  were  generally  used,  and  no  one 
attempted  to  make  a  business  of  engraving  on 
wood  till  it  was  introduced  by  myself,  although 
it  is  evident  that  others  had  made  some 
occasional  attempts  to  produce  wood  Cuts.  I 
have  evidence  that  Dr.  Franklin  engraved 
some  devices  on  wood,  and  that  some  were 
used  in  the  printing  of  the  Continental  Money  ; 
and  after  him  a  .Mr.  .Aiken,  Mr.  Skillen,  Mr. 
Callendar  and  several  others  executed  Wood 
Cuts  not  as  a  business,  but  as  occasional 
experiments  as  suited  their  convenience  and 
the  accomodation  of  others.  The  first  wood- 
cut I  executed  in  Boston  was  ^  profile  cut  for 
W'.  M.  .S.  Doyle,  for  his  advertisement  for 
cutting  profiles,  which  may  be  seen  in  the  .New 
England  Paladium  of  Dec.  17,  1805.  I 
engraved  many  cuts  while  an  apprentice  at  the 
printing  business,  some  of  which  were  for  my 
Cnclc  Daniel  Bowen,  proprietor  of  the  Colum- 
bian Museum  in  Boston,  and  were  used  for 
this  Museum  bills  as  early  as  181 1.  I  made 
copies  of  some  cuts  by  Thomas  Bewick,  the 
restorer  of  the  .Art  of  Wood  h:ngraving,  which 
my  uncle  took  pains  to  exhibit  to  the  printers 
and  jniblishers  in  Boston,  many  of  whom  were 
])leased  to  express  comjjlimcnts  in  favor  of 
the  specimens,  and  a  desire  to  have  me  make 
it  a  business,  for  there  was  no  one  established 


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in  the  art  in  the  City.  This  led  me  to  engrave 
and  i.ssiie  a  Cut  (the  Tiger  Hunt)  for  a  Card, 
in  the  early  part  of  1812,  soliciting  a  patron- 
age at  the  ^Iuseum  while  I  executed  my 
Engravings  at  Brighton,  where  my  uncle 
resided,  .\fter  engraving  a  number  of  Cuts 
and  finding  a  ready  sale  for  them,  I  deter- 
mined on  making  Engraving  a  business,  took 
a  room  in  Tudor's  building  in  Court  street, 
and  commenced  in  August,  1812,  by  doing  a 
cut  of  a  Model  of  a  Boat  for  Mr.  Frederick 
Tudor,  and  advertised  to  do  Engraving  on 
Wood  in  Boston.  I  immediately  received 
orders  from  the  principal  publishers  in  the 
City,  such  as  Messrs.  T.  B.  Wait,  Caleb  Bing- 
ham, Summings  &  Hilliard,  Munroe  &  P'rancis, 
Lincoln  &  Edmands,  West  &  Richardson, 
.'\dams  &  Rhodes,  Benjamin  Russell,  and 
others,  most  of  whom  had  urged  my  making 
Wood  Engraving  a  business,  as  no  one,  as 
they  said,  had  ever  attempted  it  in  Boston." 
"The  patronage  tlius  bestowed  on  me,  led  Mr. 
Gershom  Cobb,  a  writing  master,  to  issue  a 
card,  as  he  had  made  cuts  occasionally,  by 
way  of  experimenting.  This  was  soon  fol- 
lowed by  N.  Dearborn,  originally  a  book- 
binder and  book  seller,  then  a  grocer,  to  issue 
a  Hicroglyphical  Card,  as  having  opened  in 
Water  .Street.  Mr.  Cobb  soon  relinquished 
the  business  altogether,  leaving  the  whole  to 
Mr.  Dearborn  and  myself.  .Vfter  this  a  degree 
of  rivalry  ensued  between  us,  and  the  progress 
each  made  may  be  seen  by  the  work  produced. 
Mr.  Shaw,  when  about  to  publish  his  Descrip- 
tion of  Boston,  gave  each  two  cuts  to  do.  the 
Church  of  Christ  in  Salem  St.,  and  the  Trian- 
gular Ware  House,  to  Mr.  Dearborn;  and  the 
( )ld  and  New  State  House  to  me  ;  and  any  one 
who  wishes  can  see  the  state  of  the  Art  in 
Boston  at  that  period  by  examining  the  work. 
And  to  show  the  progress  I  made  in  Engrav- 
ing on  Wood,  I  would  refer  to  a  Cut  placed 
at  the  head  of  an  Elegy  on  the  Death  of  Law- 
rence, killed  in  the  battle  between  the  Chcsa- 
I)cake  and  Shamion,  the  cuts  in  the  Naval 
Monument,  Snow's  History  of  Boston,  the 
Picture  of  I'.oston,  and  the  'S'oung's  Ladies' 
Wook,  all  of  which  were  i)ublished  by  myself. 
Soon  after  the  latter  book  appeared,  Mr.  Dun- 
lap's  work  on  the  'Arts  in  the  United  States' 
was  issued,  in  which  he  gave  me  the  credit 
of  introducing  the  .^rt  of  Wood  Engraving 
into  lioston.  The  statement  made  by  Mr.  D. 
was  from  a  knowledge  of  the  circumstances 
I  have  here  related,  obtained  from  what  was 
generally  understood  in  I'.oston,  not  from  any 
information  he  got  froni  me,  for  he  made  no 


application  to  me  on  the  subject.  The  public 
must  judge  whether  Mr.  Dunlap's  statement 
is  correct,  and  who  was  the  first  to  introduce 
the  Art  of  Engraving  into  Boston,  and  bring 
it  forward  to  take  rank  with  other  cities  in 
the  United  States.  Much  credit  awarded  to 
me  in  the  Art,  is  no  doubt  due  to  the  pupils 
who  have  been  in  my  employ,  some  of  whom 
I  am  proud  to  say  have  become  distinguished 
artists  and  do  great  credit  to  the  country; 
Croome,  Hartwell,  Devereux,  Brown,  Billings, 
Kelly,  Andrews,  and  several  others.  Abel 
Bo  wen." 

.'\n  article  on  Abel  Bowen  in  vol.  i.  No.  2 
of  the  Collections  of  the  Boston  Society  by 
William  Henry  Whitmore  (1887J  gives  an 
account  of  his  life,  and  works,  portraits  of 
himself  and  wife  and  reproduces  many  of  his 
engravings,  now  in  the  possession  of  the  Bos- 
tonian  Society. 

One  of  the  survivors  of  the  artists  of  the 
last  generation  has  kindly  favored  us.  writes 
Mr.  Whitmore,  "with  his  recollections  of  our 
subject."  "Bowen  was  the  real  founder  of 
the  art  of  wood-engraving  here,  not  so  much 
by  his  own  production  as  by  the  stimulus  he 
gave  the  subject.  He  was  an  enthusiast, 
always  projecting  works  to  be  illustrated  in 
this  manner,  and  though  rarely  making  a 
profit  himself,  he  was  thus  the  cause  of  much 
being  done.  He  was  self-taught,  copying  the 
designs  and  methods  of  those  English  exam- 
I)les  which  inspired  him.  Before  his  time 
engraving  on  copper  and  type  metal  had  been 
done  here  with  fair  success.  But  tlie  aims, 
])r()cesses  and  results  of  wood-engraving  were 
so  well  perceived  and  achieved  in  tliis  city, 
that  for  years  it  possessed  almost  a  monopoly 
of  the  business.  And  the  work  done  a  half 
century  ago  was  really  good  in  style  and  man- 
ner ;  so  that  to-day  the  greatest  advance  notice- 
able is  mainly  due  to  improvements  in  print- 
ing, paper  and  ink.  That  Bowen  was  unable 
to  command  the  means  to  succeed  largely  was 
the  misfortune  of  the  times;  that  he  should 
have  struggled  on,  year  after  year,  in  the  face 
of  reverses.  ])overty  and  long-continued  illness, 
is  the  highest  proof  that  he  possessed  that 
spark  of  vital  energy  which  we  call  genius." 

He  died  March  11.  1850.  He  married  Eliza 
Ilealy.  The  old  house  of  his  uncle.  Daniel 
I'lowcn.  in  Brighton  where  he  executed  some 
of  his  early  engravings  is  still  standing.  Chil- 
dren of  Abel  and  Eliza  (Mealy)  Bowen:  i. 
Lorenzo.  2.  Daniel.  3.  lulwin.  4.  Eliza, 
married  Henry  Sanderson.  5.  Anne  M.,  born 
Xovember  29,  1823,  married.  January  4,  1849, 


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Benjamin  Phipps.  (See  Phipps  family).  6. 
Emeline.  married  Charles  G.  Butts.  Four 
others  died  young.  .^11  of  these  children  with 
the  exception  of  Mrs.  Phipps  is  now  deceased. 

In  the  following  article  is  some 
CHAPMAN    account    of    a   branch    of    the 

Chapman  family,  supposed  to 
be  descended  from  Samuel  Chapman,  who  set- 
tled in  Sharon,  Connecticut. 

(I)  Rev.  Benjamin  Chapman  was  born  about 
1724  and  died  June  22.  1786,  aged  sixty-one 
says  Mr.  Robinson's  church  record  of  South- 
ington.  Connecticut,  but  the  tombstone  has  it 
sixty.  He  was  the  second  pastor  of  the  Con- 
gregational church  in  Southington.  ".\11  at- 
tempts to  fix  the  time  and  place  of  his  birth," 
says  Rev.  Heman  R.  Trinlow,  in  'Ecclesiasti- 
cal and  other  Sketches  of  Southington,  Conn.,' 
from  which  much  of  this  sketch  is  taken,  "have 
proved  unavailing.  .\  granddaughter  remem- 
bers hearing  her  father  say  that  an  'Cncle 
Samuel'  (brother  of  Rev.  Benjamin  )  used  to 
visit  them  at  Southington.  and  he  lived  some- 
where east  of  the  Connecticut  river.  Another 
fact  seems  to  appear,  that  is,  that  he  was  early 
in  life  left  without  a  father,  and  that  he  had 
property  in  his  ow'n  right.  From  his  youth  his 
associations  were  in  the  western  part  of  the 
state,  and  tradition  says  that  he  was  in  some 
way  under  the  care  of  Rev.  Dr.  Bellamy.  He 
had  friends,  and  evidently  lived  for  a  time  in 
Fairfield.  He  also  had  some  landed  property 
in  the  western  part  of  the  state,  for  once  a 
year  he  visited  there  to  look  after  it.  Putting 
all  facts  and  traditions  and  conjectures  to- 
gether, it  seems  likely  that  he  may  have  been 
of  the  family  of  Samuel  Chapman  who  left 
Colchester  and  settled  in  Sharon." 

He  graduated  at  the  College  of  New  Jersey, 
then  located  at  Newark,  September  25,  1754. 
Within  two  months  after  graduating,  in  com- 
panv  with  two  classmates,  he  applied  to  the 
Litchfield  .Association  of  this  state  (Connec- 
ticut) for  licensure.  From  the  records  of  that 
body  it  ai)pears  that  it  met  November  20.  1754. 
John  Graham,  moderator,  and  Jo.seph  Bellamy, 
scribe,  and  the  following  is  an  extract : 
"Messrs.  Noah  Waddams.  Benajah  Roots,  and 
Benjamin  Chapman  I'.:  of  /\ :  offered  them- 
selves to  examination  in  order  to  become 
!icen.sed  preachers,  this  association  examined 
each  of  them  according  to  our  Standing  Rules, 
and  look  upon  them  comi)letely  qualified  to 
preach  the  Gospel,  accordingly  the  said  Noah 
Waddams  B.  A..  Benajah  Roots  B.  A.,  and 
Benjamin  Chapman   B.  A.,  are  each  of  them 


licensed  to  preach  the  Gospel  under  the  direc- 
tion and  conduct  of  this  association  ;  heartily 
desiring  that  the  great  Lord  of  the  \'ineyard 
may  dispose  each  of  them  to  a  life  of  .studious- 
ness  and  Prayer  fullness,  &  to  an  humble  walk 
with  (iod  and  before  man,  and  make  each  of 
tliem  a  great  P>lessing  in  the  world."     It  is  a 
matter  of  tradition  that  Mr.  Chapman  studied 
for  a  time   with    Dr.    llellamy,   and  his   name 
appears  in  some  of  the  old  Bellamy  papers  in 
such  a  way  as  to  lead  to  the  belief  that  he  was 
not  only  a  student  of  his,  but  a  kind  of  protege. 
1  le  may  have  been  with  Dr.  Bellamy  for  the 
two  months  intervening  between  his  graduation 
and  api)lication  for  license  to  preach.    In  Octo- 
ber,   1753.  the   I'A-clesiastical  Society  of    New 
Preston,  Connecticut,  was  constituted,  and  .No- 
vember 14,  1754,  it  was  voted  to  build  a  meet- 
ing  house.     .At   a   meeting  held  January   30, 
1755,  it  was  "voted,  that  the  ministerial  com- 
mittee of  New  Preston  Society  shall  give  Mr. 
Benjamin  Chai)man  a  call  upon  probation  to 
preach  unto  us  in  order  for  settlement  amongst 
(us)  in  said  New  Preston."    "\'oted.  that  tlie 
ministerial   committee  James   Terrill   &  Jacob 
Kinne  &  John  Bostwick  shall  aply  themselves 
to  Mr.  Benjamin  Chapman  in  order  to  repre- 
sent  said  society  in  calling  Mr.  Chapman  in 
upon  probation  to  preach  to  us  in  order   for 
settlement  amongst  us."    How  long  he  ])reach- 
ed  there  is  not  known,  but  his  classmate  Wad- 
dams was  invited  to  preach  on  probation,  Sep- 
tember 16,  1756.  Mr.  Chapman  began  his  min- 
istry  under    favorable  auspices   in   that  there 
was  a  general  desire  for  peace,  and  not  con- 
troversy,  in   the   church.      By   his   unaffected 
piety  and  amiable  manners,  he  won  to  him- 
self the  friends  of  Mr.  Curtis,  his  predeces.sor, 
and  at  the  same  time  satisfied  those  who  had 
been  anxious  for  more  radical  religious  meas- 
ures.    P'or  about  ten  years  he  was  able  to  sat- 
isfy the  people,  and  there  were  numerous  addi- 
tions to   the  church.      But   after  this   time   a 
general  apathy  i)revailed.     This  was  not  alone 
the  case  in  his  church  :  much  the  same  feeling 
prevailed    elsewhere    in    New    England.      Mr. 
Chapman    contented    himself    with    preaching 
])lain.  ])ractical  sermons— never  attempting  to 
make  straight  what  seemed  crooked  in  God's 
moral  government.     His  mind  was  not  con- 
structed for  controversy.     He  is  spoken  of  as 
a  gfX)d  natured  man.  benevolent,  and  overflow- 
ing with  pleasantry.     His  piety  was  unques- 
tioned:  he   was   spiritual   and    faithful.     The 
fact  is  he  was  too  spiritual   for  the  times,  in 
his  preaching,  and  finally,  tired  of  preaching 
to  a  church  sijiritually  lifeless,  in  a  community 


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;vliere  society  was  totally  indifferent  to  relig- 
ions matters,  he  severed  his  connection  as 
pastor  of  the  church  September  28,  1774:  But 
the  dissolution  of  the  pastoral  relation  did  not 
release  him  from  his  ordinary  duties.  Prac- 
tically the  relation  was  not  dissolved,  for  he 
still  preached  frequently,  and  was  as  before 
the  pastor  of  the  dock.  A  large  number  of 
the  congregation  was  absent  in  the  army,  and 
he  was  the  trusted  friend  of  the  families  left 
beliind.  Although  feeling  himself  the  subject 
of  ingratitude  and  unmerited  neglect,  he  allow- 
ed nothing  to  interfere  with  Christian  duty. 
He  was  constant  in  his  attentions  upon  the 
sick,  and  continued  pleasant  intercourse  with 
his  old  parishioners,  it  was  a  frequent  cause 
of  lamentation  among  the  more  devout  of  the 
peo])le  that  they  had  permitted  the  dismission 
of  their  pastor.  Whatever  had  been  their 
former  complaints,  seldom  did  they  have  their 
pulpit  more  satisfactorily  filled  than  by  him. 
.After  he  ceased  to  be  their  pastor  many  saw 
and  confessed  their  error.  I'^or  three  or  four 
years  after  resigning  his  pastorate,  when  not 
su[iplying  at  Southington,  he  preached  to 
vacant  churches  in  I.itchtield  and  New  Havt'n 
counties.  I  fe  also  preached  on  week-day 
evenings  fre(|uently  in  portions  of  this  town 
somewhat  remote  from  the  church.  In  his 
later  years  he  had  a  series  of  religious  meet- 
ings at  Red  Stone  Hill,  and  he  found  himself 
again  in  his  element.  The  fire  of  his  earlier 
ministry  was  rekindled.  It  was  a  great  jjrivi- 
lege  to  end  his  active  life  as  he  began  it,  in  a 
revival.  This  was  in  1783,  and  from  this  time 
until  his  death  he  was  seldom  from  his  home. 
He  gradually  declined  till  he  quietly  passed 
away. 

Mr.  Chapman  had  not  been  entirely  depend- 
ent upon  liis  salary  for  his  living.  He  seems 
to  have  been  in  comfortable  circumstances, 
and  generously  disixMised  his  hospitality.  Ry 
his  private  fortune  he  was  enabled  to  set  a 
better  table  than  any  of  his  people,  and  this 
fact  was  often  spoken  of.  Until  he  lost  his 
property  and  until  his  wife  became  an  invaliil. 
his  home  was  the  center  of  social  attraction  to 
the  parish.  He  was  interested  in  the  young, 
and  is  said  to  have  originated  for  their  sjiecial 
benefit  tlie  plrm  of  the  library  that  survived 
until  about  I7<)0.  His  two  or  three  negro  ser- 
vants were  fed  so  well  that  to  "live  like  Chap- 
man's niggers"  became  proverbial,  and  to  this 
day  the  proverb  is  current  in  the  town,  although 
its  origin  is  unknown  to  many.  I'.ut  the  revo- 
lutionary war  came  on,  and  he  and  his  wife 
invested  a  large  ])art  nf  lluir  iirn|HTtv  in  Con- 


tinental scrip,  resulting  in  a  large  loss  of  prop- 
erty. His  investments,  whatever  they  were, 
were  not  in  Southington.  A  tradition  in  some 
branches  of  his  family  is  that  his  income  came 
from  the  western  part  of  the  state.  There  is 
reason  to  believe  that  his  wife  had  quite  a 
patrimony.  ]!ut  when  his  successor  assumed 
the  pastorate  at  Southington,  Mr.  Chapman's 
circumstances  were  straitened.  He  added  to 
his  income  somewhat  by  supplying  vacant  pul- 
pits, but  the  compensation  for  such  .service  in 
those  days  was  small.  .An  evidence  of  the 
smallness  and  harshness  he  had  to  encounter 
at  the  hands  of  his  people  is  illustrated  by  the 
fact  that,  although  his  domestic  sorrows  were 
overwhelming,  and  that  he  was,  as  providence 
opened  the  way  from  Sabbath  to  Sabbath,  still 
preaching,  his  little  estate  was  ta.xed  to  raise 
the  salary  for  his  successor.  He  was  so  press- 
ed for  the  payment  of  this  tax  that  he  had  to 
petition  the  legislature  for  relief.  And  the 
result  was  the  enactment  of  a  law  by  the  gen- 
eral court,  in  October,  1782,  relieving  ministers 
of  the  gospel  during  the  continuance  of  their 
imblic  service  in  the  gospel  ministry  from  pay- 
ment of  ta.xes  on  estates  of  theirs  lying  in  the 
town  where  they  dwelt.  "As  an  instance  of 
Mr.  Chapman's  humor  and  kindness  of  heart, 
it  is  said  that  one  night  he  heard  a  noi.se  in 
his  cellar.  Descending  thither  with  a  candle, 
he  saw  a  man  tying  up  a  bag  which  contained 
all  the  pork  that  had  been  stored  in  a  barrel. 
He  remarked,  'hriend.  it  isn't  fair  that  you 
take  all  the  pork — you  should  at  lea.st  leave 
me  half!  Here  now,  I'll  divide  it.  and  you 
take  half  and  leave  half  for  me.'  The  man, 
ashamed  at  being  caught,  refused  to  touch  it, 
but  Mr.  Chapman  good  naturedly  ])ersisting, 
he  trudged  off  with  his  share.  The  next  day 
was  "militia  training'  upon  the  green  north 
of  the  burying  groimd.  and  Mr.  Chapman 
officiated  as  chaplain.  After  the  prayer  he 
ran  his  eye  along  the  ranks  and  saw  that  the 
culprit  was  there,  then  turning  to  the  captain 
exclaimed.  'Captain  Woodruff,  one  of  your 
men  stole  my  jiork  last  night  and  ought  to  be 
punishecl.'  JUit  he  refused  to  tell  who  it  was, 
and  walked  rapidly  oft',  leaving  the  guilty 
jiarty  fearing  a  punishment  he  was  never  to 
receive." 

llenjainin  Cha])man  married.  January  8, 
I75('i,  /Vbigail  Riggs,  of  Derby,  who  died  Octo- 
ber 10,  1782.  aged  fifty-four  years.  Her  mother 
was  also  named  .Abigail.  From  the  Derby  rec- 
ords it  apjiears  that  Mrs.  Chapman  had  con- 
siderable proiH'rty.  There  were  several  trans- 
actions in  her  name,  and  as  late  as   1770  her 


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mother  deeds  her  property.  The  following 
extract  from  the  I-'armington  town  records 
bears  date  October  19.  1770:  "Abigail  Riggs, 
(if  Derby,  for  the  love  she  bears  to  her  daugh- 
ters. Abigail  R.  Chapman,  of  Farniington, 
Mary  for  Mercy)  Hawkins,  and  Elizabeth 
Yale  (wife  of  Thomas)  of  Derby,"  gives 
"land  lying  in  Dcrljy.  W'aterbiiry.  and  \Vill- 
ington,  or  in  any  other  town  in  the  colony,  to 
be  e<^iially  divided."  Mr.  Chapman  is  sup- 
posed to  have  given  his  son  Samuel  the  farm 
he  occupied  in  Russell.  Massachusetts.  Mrs. 
Chapman  was  a  woman  of  education  and  re- 
finement, but  of  a  very  sensitive  retiring  nature. 
The  trials  of  her  husband  were  no  less  sore  to 
her  than  to  him.  and  he  had  hardly  resigned 
his  charge  before  she  became  physically  pros- 
trated under  a  painful  disorder  which  lasted 
for  years,  and  she  finally  died  insane  from  the 
treatment  her  husband  received  at  the  hands 
of  the  society  and  church.  Right  children  were 
born  of  this  union:  i.  .\bigail.  born  October 
10,  1756;  died  October  15.  1776.  2.  Roswcll 
Riggs,  P^bruary  14,  1758:  died  September  5, 
1776.  3.  Sarah,  May  17,  1759;  died  January 
to,  1804.  4.  Clarissa,  November  22,  1764; 
married,  October  24.  1700.  Russell  At  water, 
of  Cheshire.  5.  I'enjamin.  I'ebruary  26.  1763: 
married  (first)  November  23.  1786.  Polly 
Cook,  who  died  July  2.  1789;  (second)  Sep- 
tember 25,  1792,  Sylvia  I'pson.  6.  Parmelia, 
November  7,  1764:  married,  1797,  Russell 
Falley.  of  ^lontgomery,  Massachusetts ;  died 
1873,  aged  one  hundred  and  nine.  7.  Samuel, 
mentioned  below.  8.  Levi,  October  30,  1768; 
married,  November  11,  1790,  Mercy  Carter: 
died  November  8,  1834. 

(  II  )  Samuel,  thinl  son  of  Rev.  Benjamin 
and  Abigail  (Riggs)  Chapman,  was  baptized 
June  22,  1766,  and  died  December  30,  1850, 
aged  eighty- four.  He  resided  in  Russell,  and 
died  in  I'.landford,  Massachusetts,  on  a  farm 
probably  given  him  by  his  father.  He  was  a 
quiet  citizen,  cultivated  his  farm,  and  held  no 
office,  and  was  not  in  public  life.  He  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  John  Ferguson,  of 
I'.landford.  wlio  died  .\ugu.st  23,  1851.  Their 
children  were:  i.  Caroline,  born  November 
9.  1799:  married  Marcus  Bradley,  of  Russell. 
Massachusetts,  and  died  in  1823.  2.  Reuben 
.\twatcr.  mentioned  below.  3.  Clarissa.  May 
15,  1805:  married,  September  25,  1831.  Rev. 
Richarfl  .Armstrong,  missionary  to  the  Sand- 
wich Islands. 

(HI  I  Hon.  Reuben  .\twater.  only  son  of 
Samuel  and  Hannah  (Ferguson)  Chapman, 
was  born  in  Russell.  Hampden  county.  Massa- 


chusetts. September  20,  1801,  and  died  in 
l-'luelen,  Switzerland,  June  28.  1873.  He 
attended  the  common  schools  of  the  town,  kept 
for  a  few  months  only  in  each  year.  At  the  age 
of  seventeen  he  was  engaged  as  a  school  teacher 
in  the  town  of  Montgomery.  He  afterwards 
went  to  I'.landford.  wiiere  he  was  a  clerk  in  a 
store,  and  studied  the  higher  branches  with  the 
minister  of  I'.landford.  The  young  men  of  the 
town  established  a  debating  society,  in  which 
he  became  a  member,  and  was  prominent  as 
the  foremost  debater.  He  at  length  entered 
the  otfice  of  (.leneral  .Manson  Knox,  of  Bland- 
ford,  as  a  student  at  law.  He  soon  mastered 
the  ordinary  routine  of  country  jMactice.  and 
was  accustomed  to  attend  justices'  trials  in 
I'.landford  and  the  neighboring  towns,  en- 
coimtering  sometimes  the  lawyers  in  the  vicin- 
iiv.  and  sometimes  their  students.  M  the  time 
of  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  enjoyed  the  re])U- 
talion  of  being  an  able  and  acute  jiractitioner. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  the  March  term 
of  the  common  jileas.  in  1S25,  and  opened  an 
office  in  Westfield.  There  were  then  in  that 
town  a  large  number  of  lawyers,  a  number 
much  too  large  for  the  necessities  of  the  town 
and  its  vicinity,  and  he  was  much  disapfiointed 
with  his  success.  In  1827  he  removeii  to  Mon- 
son.  and.  finding  the  demand  for  his  services 
there  too  limited,  he  removed  in  1829  to  the 
more  thriving  town  of  Ware.  He  was  at  once 
regarded  in  the  light  of  an  intruder,  and  a 
feeling  of  professional  rivalry  ripened  into 
controversy.  He  was  not  a  person  to  come 
off  second  best  in  such  a  state  of  tilings,  and 
he  had  obtained  a  lucrative  and  an  increasing 
practice,  when  he  was  invited  to  a  copartner- 
ship with  the  Hon.  (ieorge  .Ashmun.  in  Spring- 
fifld.  1  Ic  attracted  the  notice  of  Daniel  Wells, 
of  C.reenfield.  then  district  attorney,  and  the 
leading  lawyer  of  that  region,  and  afterward 
chief  justice  of  the  state ;  and  he  suggested  to 
Mr.  Chapman  and  George  Ashmun,  then  jirac- 
ticing  ill  Fnfield,  that  if  they  would  go  to 
Springfield  and  join  their  talents  and  legal 
Irnowiedge,  they  would  be  the  gainers,  botli  in 
])ocket  and  re|)utalion.  The  suggestion  was 
acted  upon,  and  in  1830  the  firm  of  Chapman 
&•  .\shnnin  commenced  practice  on  Elm  .street. 
!n  those  days  it  was  not  custoinary  for  young 
lawyers  to  engage  in  the  trial  of  cases,  unless 
some  one  of  the  older  members  of  the  bar  was 
associated  with  them :  but  the  new  firm  at 
once  made  an  iiniovation  upon  that  ancient 
custom,  and  the  old  lawyers  found  that  these 
young  men  were  foemen  not  to  be  des|)ised 
in  ih''  court  room.    Mr.  Lorenzo  Norton,  who 


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was  a  sUidcnl  in  their  office,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1843,  became  a  partner  in  the 
firm.,  and  remained  such  until  his  death.  The 
association  of  Chapman  &  .-\shmun  continued 
until  1850.  when  Mr.  Ashmun's  election  to 
coni^ress  led  to  the  dissolution  of  the  firm,  Mr. 
Chapman  continuing  the  business  for  some 
time  alone.  In  1854  he  induced  Franklin 
Chamberlain,  of  Lee,  now  Hartford,  to  remove 
to  Springfield,  and  become  his  partner,  which 
partnership  continued  until  i860,  when  the 
.senior  member  of  the  firm  was  placed  upon 
the  bench.  In  accordance  with  a  legislative 
resolution  passed  in  1849.  Governor  George 
N.  Rriggs  appointed  Mr.  Chapman  one  of  the 
members,  with  B.  F.  Curtis,  Es(|.,  of  Boston, 
and  X.  J.  Lord,  Esq.,  of  Salem,  to  draw  up  a 
[)ractice  act  for  the  courts  of  justice  of  the 
commonwealth  except  in  criminal  cases.  The 
resignation  of  Chief  Justice  Shaw,  in  i860, 
and  the  ])romotion  of  Judge  Bigelow  to  the 
chief  justiceship,  made  a  vacancy  which  was 
filled  by  the  appointment  of  Judge  Chapman; 
and  eight  years  later,  when  Chief  Justice  Bige- 
low resigned,  the  older  and  more  prominent 
Boston  lawyers  urged  Governor  Bullock  to 
ignore  the  claims  made  for  the  place  by  the 
fiic-nds  of  Judge  Benjamin  F.  Thomas  and 
Judge  E.  Rockwood  Hoar,  and  give  the 
apjiointment  to  Judge  Chapman.  The  first 
intimation  the  latter  had  of  any  movement  for 
liis  promotion  was  his  reception  of  the  appoint- 
ment from  the  governor.  His  course  upon  the 
bench  won  general  indorsement  and  approval, 
and  his  administration  was  characterized  by 
brief  and  commonsense  decision,  by  careful 
and  close  attention  to  business,  and  by  the 
most  conscientious  regard  for  legal  principles. 
It  has  been  said  of  him:  "In  one  respect  he 
succeeded  admiraljly  as  a  chief  justice.  He 
was  a  most  excellent  administrative  officer.  He 
properly  appreciated  the  evils  of  the  law's  de- 
lay, and  he  was  of  a  character  to  push  forward 
the  legal  business  of  the  court  to  speedy  justice. 
Another  trait  of  his  character  was  his  entire 
nnpartiality.  He  considered  a  judicial  tribu- 
nal as  a  theater  for  the  ascertainment  of  right, 
and  that  the  legal  forms  of  procedure  were 
the  necessary  securities  by  which  the  rights 
of  parties  are  to  be  investigated  and  establish- 
ed. Without  regard,  therefore,  to  the  parties 
litigant,  and  with  no  inlluences  of  friendshiji  in 
favor  of  the  opjiosing  counsel,  he  labored  to 
discover  the  substantial  merits  of  the  contro- 
versy, and  to  a])i)ly  the  princiiiles  of  ])ractice 
to  the  triumiih  of  justice.  The  oiiinions  which 
lie  left  u|)on  tiie  record  bear  testimony  to  liis 


nidustry  and  his  talent.  They  are  generally 
brief,  being  rather  decisions  of  the  questions 
fif  law  in  dispute,  than  long  disquisitions  upon 
the  law.  His  language  is  concise  and  clear; 
and  no  one  who  is  desirous  of  ascertaining, 
can  fail  to  understand  wdiat  the  point  of  law 
is.  that  he  proposes  to  decide.  There  was  one 
admirable  trait  in  the  mind  of  the  chief  justice, 
which  distinguished  him,  both  at  the  bar  and 
on  the  bench ;  and  we  allude  to  the  quick 
ap])reciation  of  the  evidence,  and  the  points 
of  law  in  the  case.  Fie  was  always  distingtiish- 
cfl  for  his  readiness  in  understanding  the  facts, 
and  his  f^jjilication  of  legal  principles  to  it." 

Originally  a  Whig,  Judge  Chapman  was 
alwavs  a  strong  anti-slavery  man,  and  during 
the  "Kansas"  excitement  was  one  of  the  fore- 
most men  in  Springfield  in  advocating  the  free 
state  movement.  He  was  a  personal  acquaint- 
ance of  John  Brown,  as  well  as  his  attorney 
when  Brown  was  in  business  in  Springfield, 
and  when  the  latter  was  arrested  in  Virginia 
he  was  at  once  sent  for  as  counsel,  but  was 
unable  to  respond  to  the  call  on  account  of 
jiressing  engagements  elsewdiere,  replying  to 
Brown  to  have  his  case  held  over  and  he 
would  then  take  up  his  case,  but  Brown  was 
executed  before  the  letter  was  delivered.  He 
was  a  supporter  of  the  Emigrant  Aid  Society, 
.ind,  when  a  United  States  commissioner,  great 
jiressure  was  brought  upon  him  to  resign  the 
office  that  he  might  avoid  the  olTensive  duty  of 
returning  fugitive  slaves  to  their  masters.  "I 
refuse  to  resign,"  was  his  firm  reply.  When 
an  explanation  of  his  position  was  asked,  he 
said,  "In  the  event  of  the  pursuit  of  a  slave  to 
Springfield,  as  an  officer  of  the  Emigrant  .\id 
.Societv  I  would  forward  the  fugitive  to  other 
part'-  ■  as  United  .States  commissioner  I  would 
then  issue  a  warrant  for  his  arrest."  Believing 
the  I:iw  unconstitutional,  he  felt  that  in  this 
manner  the  matter  could  be  tested  more  fairly 
with  the  office  held  by  a  man  of  anti-slavery 
I)rinciples. 

Judge  Chapman's  mind  was  under  such 
thorough  discipline  that,  whether  well  or  ill. 
he  could  bring  himself  to  the  performance  of 
his  professional  work;  and  so  great  was  his 
power  of  abstraction,  that  he  was  oblivious  of 
all  external  circumstances  while  actively  en- 
gaged in  mental  w-ork.  There  is  something 
remarkable  in  the  fidelity  with  which  he  pur- 
sued studies  outside  of  his  profession.  Early  in 
his  professional  life  he  took  uj)  mathematics — 
Latin  and  Greek  having  been  studied  in  con- 
nection with  his  profession — and  afterwards  he 
devoted  himself  in  succession  to  metaphysics. 


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theolog}-,  natural  history,  geology,  English 
literature,  and  the  modern  languages ;  and 
during  the  later  years  of  his  life  he  was  accus- 
tomed each  year  to  take  up  some  one  of  these 
branches  of  study  and  carefully  review  and 
enlarge  upon  his  original  investigations.  lie 
read  French  as  fluently  as  English,  and  was 
a  fine  reader  and  speaker  of  German.  lie 
was  exceedingly  fond  of  poetry,  and  owned 
and  carefully  read  and  studied  nearly  all  the 
writings  of  English  and  .American  poets.  He 
received  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts,  conferred  by  Amherst  College  in  1841, 
and  Doctor  of  Eaws  in  1861  ;  also  Williams 
College.  Master  of  .-Xrts,  in  1836.  and  Harvard 
College.  Master  of  Arts,  in  1864,  also  LL.  D., 
and  from  Yale  the  same. 

Following  are  some  extracts  from  a  discourse 
at  the  funeral  of  Judge  Chapman  in  the  South 
Congregational  Church.  Springfield.  July  26, 
1873.  by  Rev.  Samuel  G.  lUickingham,  pastor: 

"We  all  know  how  trutliful  and  honest  he 
was.  Sincerity  and  u])rightiiess  were  the  warp 
and  woof  of  his  wh(jle  character,  and  whatever 
else  was  woven  into  it,  this  was  the  main 
fabric,  and  set  off  all  the  rest  to  advantage. 
*  *  *  We  know,  too,  his  worth  as  a  neigh- 
bor and  friend.  His  advice  which  was  worth 
so  much,  was  always  freely  given.  His  en- 
couragement was  sure  to  be  bestowed  upon 
the  deserving,  especially  upon  the  young  and 
the  modest.  His  sympathy  we  were  sure  to 
have,  and  the  most  tender  expressions  of  it. 
whenever  trouble  befell  any  of  us.  *  *  * 
As  a  member  of  this  community,  and  a  citizen, 
we  are  greatly  indebted  to  him  for  helping  to 
create  a  just  public  sentiment,  and  for  a  hearty 
co-operation  in  our  jjublic  improvements.  He 
was  always  interested  in  such  subjects,  and  an 
admirable  adviser  in  regard  to  them.  The 
improvement  in  our  public  .schools  had  his 
encouragement  from  first  to  last.  The  in- 
crease of  church  accommodations,  and  of  mis- 
sion enterprises  in  the  city  was  one  of  his 
favorite  projects.  He  was  a  sturdy  friend  of 
the  temjjcrance  cause,  taking  an  active  part  in 
the  promotion  of  this  reformation  when  it 
began  forty  or  fifty  years  ago,  and  always  de- 
voting his  professional  services  to  its  aid  with 
the  utmost  satisfaction.  But  he  was  especially 
anxious  to  have  public  sentiment  right ; — to 
have  it  pure,  intelligent  and  Christian,  as  the 
soil  out  of  which  everything  good  would  natur- 
ally spring: — so  he  encouraged  the  dissemina- 
tion of  right  views  and  the  advancement  of 
good  men.  He  frowned  heavily  on  all  cor- 
ruption, even  in  politics.     He  denounced  un- 


sparingly the  highest  in  office,  of  any  party, 
who  sold  himself  to  corruption,  or  attemi)ted 
to  mislead  the  people.  He  was  for  truth, 
righteousness,    purity,    and    the    public    good. 

*  *  *  We  also  love  to  remember  him  as 
we  met  him  in  his  own  home,  and  with  his 
family.  His  wonderful  amiability  and  loveli- 
ness there,  together  with  his  generous  hospi- 
tality,    made     that    a    tielightful    .hou.sehold. 

*  *  *  But  it  is  of  his  religious  character 
that  we  love  best  to  speak.  He  believed  the 
I'lible,  and  had  no  such  difficulties,  as  many 
have,  about  accepting  the  whole  of  it  as  the 
inspired  word  of  (um\.  Accustomed  to  inter- 
pret language,  and  weigh  evidence,  he  found 
proof  enough  of  tlie  divine  origin  of  these 
writings,  and  could  never  be  too  grateful  for 
such  'a  lamj)  unto  our  feet.'  He  held  what  is 
called  the  evangelical  faith,  regarding  Jesus 
Christ  as  the  divine  Redeemer  of  mankind, 
trusting  in  llim,  and  in  Him  alone,  for  salva- 
tion. He  was  always  a  diligent  student  of  the 
sacred  writings.  1  le  was  the  first  superintend- 
ent of  this  .Sabbath  school,  and  for  many  years 
the  teacher  of  a  Bible  class.  The  Sabbath 
always  found  him  in  the  house  of  God,  and  he 
was  habitually  jiresent  at  the  weekly  prayer 
meeting.  He  always  had  for  his  Sunday  read- 
ing some  standard  religious  work.  *  *  * 
His  relation  also  to  the  church  at  large,  and 
his  connection  with  our  religious  institutions 
and  missionary  organizations,  demand  notice. 
He  was  one  of  the  trustees  of  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  and  a  corporate  member  of 
the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for 
Fnreign  Missions.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in 
the  work  of  home  missions.  *  *  *  j^e 
was  greatly  interested  in  what  we  call  home 
evangelization.  *  *  *  j-[g  ^.35  i]^q  origi- 
nator of  the  Hampden  County  Conference  of 
Congregational  Churches; — one  of  the  oldest, 
and  most  efficient  in  the  state ; — and  was 
always  aiding  by  his  presence  and  suggestions, 
as  well  as  by  his  sympathy  and  prayers.  His 
advice  was  greatly  flesircd  upon  ecclesiastical 
councils,  and  in  regarrl  to  all  matters  of 
church  government,  which  he  had  studied  care- 
fully, and  he  was  always  ready  to  give  atten- 
tion and  time  to  such  subjects.  ♦  *  *  Rut 
what  shall  we  say  of  his  connection  with  this 
church,  more  than  that  he  was  one  of  its  origi- 
nal founders :  that  he  was  for  nearly  twenty 
years  its  clerk,  and  for  the  same  time  a  mem- 
ber of  the  church  cfjmmittee ;  that  he  was 
always  its  steadfast  and  liberal  sui)])orter ; 
that  his  first  and  last  interest  was  bound  up 
in  our  welfare; — that  wherever  he  went,  his 


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heart  turned  lovingly  back  to  this,  as  his  spirit- 
ual home; — that  as  he  had  lived  so  long  and 
pleasantly  in  communion  with  us,  so  he  ex- 
pected to  die  and  be  buried  here." 

Reuben  A.  Chapman  married,  June  2,  1829, 
at  Blandford,  Massachusetts,  Elizabeth  Knox, 
who  was  born  in  Blandford,  Massachusetts, 
March  26,  1808,  and  died  in  Springfield,  April 
27,  i8g8.  She  was  the  daughter  of  General 
Alanson  and  Lucinda  (  Knox)  Knox,  of  Bland- 
ford. General  Knox  was  a  distinguished  law- 
yer of  Blandford,  and  representative  and  sen- 
ator of  Massachusetts.  He  removed  to  Chagrin 
Falls,  Ohio,  where  he  died.  Their  children 
were:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  November  20,  1837; 
married,  April  16,  1863,  Timothy  Manning 
Brown,  son  of  Manning  and  Mary  (Smedley  ) 
Brown,  a  lawyer,  of  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts. They  had  three  children:  i.  Edward 
Manning,  born  February  25,  1872;  graduated 
from  Yale.  B.  S.,  1894,  and  from  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  Columbia  rniversity,  1898;  now  a 
practicing  jjhysician  in  Springfield ;  married, 
1899,  Elizabeth  Katherine  Pcttinger,  daughter 
of  Henry  Pettinger,  of  Lasselsville,  New  York  ; 
she  died' April  10,  1907,  leaving  two  children — 
Edward  P.  and  Elizabeth  Chapman ;  ii.  Harold 
C.  Brown,  born  April  2,  1879;  tutor  in  Colum- 
bia College:  graduate  of  Williams  College 
I  go  I.  and  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  at 
Harvard,  in  1905;  married.  1903,  Frances  S. 
Norton  ;  have  two  children.  2.  Reuben,  born 
Se])tember  16,  1842 ;  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
and  died  at  Westfield,  Massachusetts.  April  4. 
1870.  3.  Mary,  born  January  5,  1845;  y-'^^ 
educated  both  at  home  and  abroad:  she  is  a 
member  of  tlie  North  German  Chemical 
Society:  the  .Vmerican  Association  for  the 
.Advancement  of  Science;  the  .American  Folk 
Lore  Society ;  The  Red  Cross ;  Mercy  Warner 
Chapter,  D.  A.  R. ;  Springfield  Woman's  Club  ; 
life  member  of  the  W.  B.  F.  M.;  member  of 
the  Woman's  .Association  of  the  M.  L.  T..  and 
of  the  Farmington  Lodge  Society.  She  trans- 
lated Janet's  "Theory  of  Morals,"  published 
sometime  in  the  eighties,  besides  other  trans- 


lations. 


Edmund  W'eston,  immigrant  an- 
WESTON  cestor,  came  to  Boston  in  the 
ship  "Elizabeth  and  .Ann,"  and 
settled  in  Du.xbury  in  1635.  His  age  at  the 
time  of  coming  was  given  as  thirty  years.  It  is 
said  that  in  England  his  trade  was  a  thresher 
of  grain.  lie  was  apprenticed  to  John  Winslow, 
and  transferred  Nnvi-niber  2,  1636,  to  William 


Thomas.  In  1639  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  John  Carver  for  planting  and  farming, 
and  in  1640  had  a  grant  of  four  acres  at  Stony 
Brook,  Du.xbury,  and  a  tract  of  land  at  Green 
Harbor.  He  was  on  the  list  of  those  able  to 
bear  arms  in  1643.  I"  1^52  he  was  surveyor 
of  highways,  and  took  an  active  part  in  town 
afifairs.  His  will  was  dated  February  18.  1686, 
and  proved  June  3,  1686.  He  died  in  Dux- 
bury  in  1 686.  aged  eighty.  He  married  late  in 
life' De  La  Noye  (Delano).   Children: 

1.  Elnathan,  mentioned  below.  2.  Mary,  mar- 
ried John  Delano;  lived  in  Duxbury.  3.  Ed- 
mund, born  1660,  died  September  23.  1723.  4. 
John,  born  1662.  died  1736. 

(H)  Elnathan.  son  of  Edimmd  Weston,  was 
born  in  Duxbury,  1657.  and  died  April  23. 
1724.  He  lived  on  his  father's  farm,  near  Mill 
Brook,  Duxbury.  and  was  surveyor  of  high- 
ways in  1687  and  1692,  and  a  freeholder  in 
1707.  His  will  is  recorded  with  the  Plymouth 
records.  He  married  Desire,  granddaughter 
of  Miles  Standish,  who  came  in  the  "May- 
flower." .All  her  descendants  are  eligible  to 
membership  in  the  Mayflower  Society.  She 
died  May  13.  1735.  Children:  i.  Samuel, 
died  1752.  2.  Joseph,  born  1692.  died  Septem- 
ber II.  1778.  3.  Mary,  married,  .April  10. 
1717.  Joseph  Simmons.  4.  Sarah,  married, 
April  10,  1717,  John  Churchill.  5.  Abigail, 
born  1704,  died  1764. 

(H)  John,  son  of  Edmund  Weston,  was 
born  in  Duxbury.  1662.  and  died  in  1736. 
He  resided  at  Powder  Point,  Duxbury.  and 
in  i6go  he  with  others  hired  the  common 
meadows.  He  was  a  freeholder  in  1707.  He 
married  Deborah  Delano.    Children:    i.  Isaac. 

2.  Jonathan.  3.  .Abner.  4.  Eliphas,  mentioned 
l)eiow.  5.  David,  died  September  4.  1805.  6. 
Desire.     7.  Deborah,  married  Benjamin  Prior. 

(HI)  l""liphas,  son  of  John  Weston,  was 
born  in  Du.xbury,  in  1702.  and  died  March  15. 
1762.  He  was  a  mariner,  and  lived  in  Dux- 
bury. He  met  his  death  by  drowning  in  Dux- 
bury Bay.  in  a  severe  snow  storm,  his  son 
Joshua  sharing  the  fame  fate.  He  married 
Priscilla  Peterson,  who  died  in  1778.  Chil- 
dren: 1.  Warren,  born  1740.  died  1799.  2. 
Ezra,  born  July    13.    1743:  mentioned  below. 

3.  Daniel,  born  1744.  died  November  17.  1766. 

4.  Eliphas,  born  1745.  5.  .Arunah,  born  Febru- 
ary 4,  1746,  died  January  17.  1831.  6.  Joshua, 
born  1748;  drowned  March  18.  1762.  7.  Tim- 
othy, born  1749. 

(I\')  Ezra,  .son  of  Eliphas  Weston,  was 
born  July  13.  1743.  and  died  October  II.  1822. 
I  le  lived  in  Duxburv.  and  was  one  of  the  most 


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enterprising  and  wealthy  men  in  the  province. 
He  was  the  largest  shipbnikier  and  owner  in 
the  country,  and  w'as  familiarly  known  as 
"King  Caesar.''  He  was  the  richest  man  in 
Plymouth  county,  and  owned  nearly  half  of 
the  town  of  Du.xbury,  and  did  a  great  deal  for 
that  town,  and  was  of  course  by  far  its  most 
prominent  man  in  all  respects,  a  man  of  high 
sense  of  honor  and  integrity  and  beloved  by  all. 
He  served  in  the  revolution,  in  Captain  Benja- 
min Wadsworth's  company  ( Second  Duxbury), 
Colonel  James  Warren's  regiment,  and  answer- 
ed the  Lexington  alarm,  April  19,  1775:  also 
in  same  comijany  under  Lieutenant  Nathan 
Samson  and  Colonel  Thomas  Lothrop,  Decem- 
ber 10,  1776;  and  in  Captain  .Allen's  company. 
Colonel  Theophilus  Cotton's  regiment,  on  a 
secret  expedition  to  Rhode  Lsland,  September 
and  October.  1777.  He  married  (first)  .April 
20.  1767,  Sylvia  Church,  who  died  May  21, 
1768:  (second)  October  25,  1770,  Salumith 
Wadsworth,  of  IMarshfield ;  (third)  July  4. 
1817.  Priscilla  \'ergin,  of  Plymouth.  .She  was 
a  widow  at  time  of  marriage.  Child  of  first 
wife:  I.  Sylvia  Church,  born  May  13,  1768; 
married  Captain  Sylvanus  Sampson.  Child  of 
second  wife:    2.  Ezra,  mentioned  below. 

(\')  Ezra  (2),  .son  of  Ezra  (l)  Weston, 
was  born  in  Duxbury,  November  30,  1771,  and 
died  .August  15.  1842.  On  arriving  of  age  he 
was  taken  into  partnership  by  his  father,  under 
the  firm  name  of  E.  Weston  &  .Son.  Both 
father  and  son  resided  on  their  farm  of  one 
hundred  acres  at  Powder  Point,  Du.xbury. 
They  established  one  of  the  finest  shipbuilding 
plants  in  the  state,  consisting  of  a  shipyard  on 
Blue  Fish  river,  of  ten  acres  and  wharf;  a 
ropewalk  a  quarter  of  a  mile  in  length  :  a  s])ar 
yard  and  a  sail  loft,  on  their  farm  at  Powder 
Point,  as  well  as  a  wharf  with  five  large  build- 
ings on  it  on  their  water  front  on  the  Bay.  So 
they  built  all  their  .ships,  made  the  spars,  rigging 
and  sails,  and  when  their  ships  left  the  wharf 
they  were  all  ready  to  proceed  on  a  voyage. 
They  also  conducted  a  country  store  from 
which  they  paid  in  goods  their  army  of  work- 
men in  their  employ,  there  being  at  that  time 
little  if  any  money  in  circulation.  They  had  a 
foreman  over  each  department  under  their 
direction.  On  the  death  of  "King  Caesar"  in 
1822,  his  son  continued  the  business  in  his 
own  name  of  E.  Weston,  with  the  same  energy 
and  entcri)rise,  as  successfully  as  iiis  father, 
and  ])roved  a  worthy  successor  to  him,  being 
in  1830  still  the  largest  ship  owner  in  the 
United  States  and  wealthiest  man  in  the  county. 
He  married  lerusha  Bradford,  who  died  Octo- 


l)cr  u,  1833.  She  was  a  lineal  desceiulaut  m 
the  sixth  generation  from  William  Bradford, 
governor  of  Plymouth  Colony.  .Ml  her  de- 
scendants are  eligible  to  menibershi|)  in  the 
Maytlower  Society.  Children:  i.  Ezra,  born 
I7<;():  died  1805.  2.  Maria,  born  1798,  died 
1804.  3.  (iershom  liradford,  born  .August  2~ , 
1799;  mentioned  below.  4.  Jerusha,  borti  i8o2, 
died  1804.  5.  .Alden  Bradford,  born  1805.  6. 
Ezra,  born  1809;  he  was  a  Harvard  man.  grad- 
uated in  the  famous  class  of  1829,  studied  law 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  never  entered 
into  the  active  practice  of  his  jirofession.  Me 
was  very  p(i])ular  with  his  classmates,  and  they 
elected  him  caiitain,  antl  he  commanded  the 
college  military  company.  .After  his  gradua- 
tion he  was  called  to  the  command  of  the 
Boston  Light  Infantry,  familiarly  known  as 
"The  Tigers."  Some  few  years  later  he  was 
urged  and  accepted  the  appointment  of  "City 
Marshall,"  of  Boston.  He  visited  Eurojje 
several  times,  and  traveled  abroad  extensively. 
l\'l)  (iershom  ISradford,  son  of  Ezra  (2) 
Weston,  was  born  .August  27,  1799,  in  Duxbury, 
and  died  there  September  14,  1869.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  j)ublic  schools,  and  assisted  his 
father  in  building  ships.  In  1840  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  partnership  with  him,  together  w-ith 
his  brothers,  .Alden  B.  and  Ezra,  in  Boston 
and  Duxbury,  the  firm  name  being  changed 
from  I'^zra  \Veston,  to  E.  Weston  &  Sons. 
They  continued  in  the  shipping  trade  initil 
1857,  when  the  firm  dissolved.  The  business 
had  thus  been  carried  on  successfully  for  about 
one  hundred  years,  from  father  to  son.  Their 
ships  were  always  rated  .Ax,  and  to  say  that  a 
ship  was  built  in  Duxbury  and  owned  by  the 
Westons  silenced  and  satisfied  all  criticisms  or 
inf|uiries.  Their  ships  sailed  and  their  sails 
whitened  every  known  ocean  and  sea  on  the 
globe,  and  carried  the  Stars  and  Stripes  into 
all  the  princi])al  maritime  ports  of  the  world, 
where  the  names  of  Ezra  Weston  (2)  E. 
Weston  &  Son,  (3)  E.  Weston,  and  (4) 
E.  Weston  &  Sons,  were  familiarly  known 
and  their  credit  unlimited.  E.  Weston's  brig 
"Smyrna"  was  the  first  ship  to  carry  the  United 
States  fiag  into  the  Black  Sea  through  the 
Dardanelles  and  Sea  of  Marmora  under  a  "I"ir- 
man"  issued  by  the  Sublime  Porte  in  1830. 
He  served  as  re])resentative  to  the  general 
court  for  fifteen  or  twenty  years,  and  as  sen- 
ator for  .some  years :  member  of  the  constitu- 
tional convention  in  1852:  a  member  of  (jov- 
ernor  (ieorge  S.  Boutwell's  council:  and  om 
of  the  first  comnnssioners  for  the  1  loosic  Tun- 
nel.     He  lived   in   Duxbury  until    1850,   when 


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he  removed  to  Boston  for  five  years,  returning 
then  to  Duxbury.  In  politics  he  was  a  Repub- 
Hcan  in  his  later  years.  He  was  president  of 
the  Duxbury  State  Bank,  and  director  of  the 
Equitable  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Boston 
ten  years.  He  attended  the  Unitarian  Church. 
He  married  (first)  1820,  Judith  Sprague,  who 
died  November  25,  1845.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) February  23,  1848,  Deborah  Brownell, 
born  in  Little  Coinpton,  Rhode  Island,  August 
I.  1822,  died  1907.  Children  of  first  wife:  •  i. 
Captain  Gershom  Bradford,  born  October  25, 

1821,  died  April,  1887:  he  was  a  master  mari- 
ner, took  command  of  a  ship  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  and  commanded  some  of  the  finest 
ships  that  sailed  out  of  Boston.  He  married, 
January  19,  1843,  Mary  B.  Moore,  and  had 
eight  children.     2.  Maria,  born  December  16, 

1822,  died  May  30,  1823.  3.  Jerusha  Brad- 
ford, born  March  15,  1824,  died  December  8, 
1824.  4.  John  Allyne,  born  November  3,  1825, 
died  May  12,  1869;  he  was  a  Llarvard  man, 
graduated  in  the  class  of  1846;  studied  law  in 
the  Harvard  Law  School,  and  in  the  office  of 
Judge  Barton,  at  Worcester ;  was  admitted  to 
the  bar,  and  practiced  his  profession  in  the 
town  of  Milford.  He  married  Mary  Paine, 
of  Worcester ;  had  Annie  Sprague,  born  Janu- 
ary 23,  1851.  5.  George  Canning,  born  March 
28,  1828.  died 'January  18,  1856.  6.  William 
Bradford,  born  June  20,  1830;  mentioned 
below.  7.  Edgar,  born  August  31,  1832,  died 
October  31.  185 r.  8.  Jerusha  Bradford,  born 
December  19,  1834;  resides  in  Duxbury.  8. 
Alfred,  born  January  19,  1837;  in  response  to 
the  call  of  Abraham  Lincoln  in  the  name  of 
the  nation  in  1861.  for  men  to  avert  the  nation's 
death,  the  records  of  the  Navy  Department 
show  that  Alfred  Weston  was  appointed  as 
acting  master's  mate  in  the  United  States  Navy, 
October  3,  1861  ;  acting  master,  November  4, 
i86t,  and  served  on  the  LTnited  States  barque 
"Ethan  Allen;"  detached  between  March  31, 
1863.  and  May  31,  1863,  and  ordered  to  com- 
mand United  States  schooner  "Fox  ;"  detached 
and  ordered  to  U.  S.  S.  "San  Jacinto,"  flagship 
of  the  East  Gulf  S(|uadron  ;  detached  Septem- 
ber 5,  1864,  and  granted  sick  leave  of  absence; 
ordered  to  U.  S.  S.  "luka,"  October  6,  1864; 
promoted  to  acting  volunteer  lieutenant,  De- 
cember 17,  1864;  detached  October  26,  1865, 
to  await  orders ;  ordered  to  U.  S.  S.  "Yantic," 
November  13,  1865;  detached  October  24, 
1866,  granted  leave  of  absence,  and  honorably 
discharged  February  27,  1867;  appointed  act- 
ing master.  April  5,  1867,  and  ordered  to 
V.  S.  store  ship  "Relief;"  detached  July  24, 


1867,  and  ordered  to  the  South  Pacific  Squad- 
ron;  served  on  U.  S.  S.  "Wateree;"  returned 
east  and  mustered  out  of  the  service  October 
2,  1868.  The  U.  S.  barque  "Ethan  Allen," 
steamer  "luka,"  and  schooner  "Fox"  were 
employed  in  blockading  the  ports  patrolled  by 
the  vessels  of  the  East  Gulf  Squadron.  In 
1870  was  appointed  by  President  U.  S.  Grant 
lieutenant  in  the  U.  S.  Revenue  Marine.  He 
served  on  several  revenue  cutters  at  the  sta- 
tions at  Savannah,  Georgia ;  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts; Ogdensburg  (Lake  Ontario)  New 
York;  and  Portland,  Maine.  In  1881,  for 
domestic  reasons,  he  resigned  from  the  service 
and  returned  to  private  life.  He  married 
Laura  Eldredge.  of  Duxbury ;  resides  in  Ash- 
mont.  10.  Maria,  born  June  3.  1839,  resides 
in  Duxbury  with  her  sister.  11.  Alden  Brad- 
ford, born  November  25,  1844;  he  was  edu- 
cated at  private  schools  in  Pembroke  and 
Northfield,  Massachusetts,  and  also  took  an 
academic  course  at  the  Highland  Military 
Academy  in  Worcester.  Massachusetts.  No- 
vember 30,  1863,  he  entered  the  Union  army  as 
private  in  Second  Regiment.  New  Hampshire 
Volunteer  Infantry,  and  was  mustered  out  De- 
cember 19,  1865.  He  participated  in  all  en- 
gagements and  battles  in  which  the  regiment 
took  part  up  to  October  29.  1864.  and  after 
that,  as  he  was  wounded  and  sick,  was  sent  to 
the  Hampton  Hospital,  near  Fortress  Monroe, 
Virginia,  where  he  remained  under  treatment 
until  mustered  out  of  the  service.  After  the 
war  he  was  appointed  deputy  constable  of  the 
commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  by  Governor 
John  A.  Andrew,  and  served  as  such  for  a 
year  and  a  half.  In  1871  he  entered  the 
Ignited  States  postal  service  as  a  clerk  in  the 
I'oston.  Massachusetts,  postoffice.  and  after 
j)assing  through  the  different  grades  was  pro- 
moted to  the  position  of  superintendent  of  the 
registry  division  in  1884,  which  position  he 
now  holds.  He  married  Helen  P.  Baker,  of 
Duxbury.  Massachusetts ;  resides  in  Dorches- 
ter. Child  of  second  wife:  12.  Edmund 
Brownell.  born  in  Duxbury,  1849,  resides  in 
Providence.  Rhode  Island. 

fVII)  William  Bradford,  son  of  Gershom 
I'radford  VN'^eston.  was  born  in  Duxbury.  June 
20.  1830.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
public  schools,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  entered 
the  counting  room  of  Edward  C.  Bates  & 
Company,  importers  and  shippers,  as  clerk. 
.•\t  the  age  of  seventeen  he  became  head  book- 
keeper, cashier  and  confidential  clerk,  in  full 
charge  of  the  counting  room,  and  at  the  age 
of  twenty-one  was  admitted  to  the  firm.     Mr. 


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Bates  always  fully  appreciated  yi:>uiig  Weston's 
business  ability'  and  willingness  to  work  at  all 
times,  and  as  a  partner  placed  great  and  full 
confidence  and  reliance  in  him,  leaving  it  in  his 
hands  to  execute  and  carry  out  all  the  busi- 
ness affairs  as  planned  by  his  senior.  The 
counting  room  of  the  company  was  located  at 
47  India  Wharf.  Boston,  until  1851,  when  .Mr. 
Bates  was  elected  the  first  president  of  the 
Bank  of  Commerce  (which  he  was  largely 
instrumental  in  founding  and  organizing) 
when  the  counting  room  was  moved  to  85 
State  street,  over  the  bank.  The  business  was 
with  the  West  Indies,  especially  Cuba.  They 
shipped  goods  also  to  various  other  countries — 
Russia,  England  and  Spain — having  a  very 
large  exporting  and  importing  trade,  ranking 
then,  as  always,  among  the  largest  merchants 
of  his  day  and  time.  During  the  financial 
panic  of  1857  the  firm  went  out  of  business, 
when  Mr.  Bates,  with  his  nephew  Ives  G. 
Bates,  under  the  firm  name  of  E.  C.  &  I.  G. 
Bates,  were  appointed  and  accepted  the  Boston 
agency  of  the  Cunard  Steamship  Company. 
They  had  carried  on  an  extensive  trade,  im- 
porting molasses,  sugar  and  cigars  and  export- 
ing sugar  box  shooks,  hogshead  shocks,  and 
empty  molasses  hogsheads,  salt  fish,  railroad 
sleepers,  and  machinery  for  the  manufacture 
of  sugar.  The  firm  owned  their  ships,  among 
them  being  the  old  ships  "Tirrell"  and  "Queen 
of  the  Pacific,"  and  barques  "Lecocq"  and 
"Mimosa."  Mr.  Weston  passed  the  winter  of 
1858  in  Cuba  and  traveled  all  over  the  island, 
renewing  his  acquaintance  with  the  friends  and 
correspondents  of  his  old  firm  and  arranging 
for  his  future  business,  and  on  his  return  to 
Boston  started  in  business  on  his  own  account, 
importing  sugar,  the  firm  name  being  William 
B.  Weston,  the  counting  room  situated  at 
■Rowe's  Wharf,  and  afterward  at  99  State 
street,  Boston.  For  seven  years  M  r.  W^cston  car- 
ried on  the  business,  importing  sugar,  molasses 
and  cigars.  He  then  entered  into  i)artncrship 
with  G.  P.  Carter,  the  firm  name  being  Carter 
&  W'eston,  successors  to  the  old  firm  of  Charles 
Hickling  &  Company,  having  the  largest  book 
printing  and  binding  business  in  the  state,  in 
the  manufacture  of  school  books  and  music 
books.  In  1880  Mr.  Carter  died  and  Mr. 
Weston  continued  the  business  alone  until 
1895,  when  he  retired.  He  resided  in  Boston 
many  years,  and  in  i860  removed  to  Roxbury, 
and  ten  years  later  to  Milton,  where  he  has 
since  lived.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Kansas 
City  &  Atlantic  Railroad  Company;  in  i860  a 
director  of  the   Fairfield  Gold   Mining  Com- 


pany of  Colorado;  treasurer  of  the  East  Bos- 
ton Dock  Company,  I^xington  Paint  Com- 
pany, and  American  Patent  Tubing  Company  ; 
also  served  as  an  expert  accountant  on  several 
occasions.  He  has  voted  the  Republican  ticket 
at  every  election  since  i85().  and  has  often 
served  his  ])arty  as  delegate  to  nominating  con- 
ventions, and  has  exerted  a  potent  inlluencc  in 
political  affairs.  Mr.-  Weston,  being  of  a  very 
modest  and  retiring  disposition,  would  never 
accept  public  office  (though  urged  to  do  so  by 
his  friends)  but  always  worked  and  voted  for 
highmindcd  and  honest  men  for  public  office. 
Mr.  Weston,  in  1907,  gave  to  the  town  of 
Milton  a  handsome  drinking  fountain  for  man 
and  beast,  and  in  other  ways  has  shown  his 
interest  in  municipal  welfare.  This  fountain, 
cut  from  Quincy  granite,  is  a  very  handsome 
afifair.  It  is  so  arranged  that  clean  water  con- 
stantly flows  into  three  receptacles — one  for 
the  human  family  and  another  for  horses,  and 
a  third  for  dogs.  It  stands  at  the  corner  of 
Adams  street  and  Randolph  avenue,  and  bears 
this  inscription:  "Adam's  ale  for  man  and 
beast."  "Presented  to  the  town  by  William  B. 
W' cston,  1907."  It  is  a  credit  in  design  to  both 
the  donor  and  the  town,  and  signifies  the  inter- 
est taken  by  Mr.  Weston  in  his  town  and  his 
kindness  and  forethought  for  the  animal  king- 
dom. Mr.  Weston,  being  a  gentleman  of  high 
sense  of  honor,  integrity  and  honesty,  always 
lived  a  sim])le  life,  minding  his  own  business 
and  i)rivate  afl'airs,  and  never  wronged  any 
one  out  of  a  cent,  always  having  for  his  guid- 
ance, "live  and  let  live,"  and  "Do  unto  others 
as  you  would  have  others  do  unto  you."  He 
was  trustee  of  the  Public  Library  for  ten  years 
or  more.  The  Westons  were  all  large  men, 
mostly  six  fpoters  or  more. 

He  married,  October  25,  1856,  Charlotte 
Louisa  Fiske,  born  in  Charlestown,  Massachu- 
setts, October  23,  1823,  died  I'ebruary  i,  1900, 
daughter  of  John  J.  and  -Sarah  (Stetson)  Fiske, 
of  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  and  New  York 
City. 

The  surname  Mann  appears  very 
MAXN     early   in   English   history  and   no 

doubt  in  Germany  carder  as  a 
patronymic.  In  the  earliest  records  it  is  gen- 
erally spelled  Man,  and  in  the  seventeenth  and 
eighteenth  centuries  both  Man  and  Mann.  In 
the  Domesday  I'.ook  (1086),  Willelmus  filius 
Manne  is  mentioned  as  a  landholder  in  county 
Hants,  luiglanrl.  \'arious  branches  of  the 
Maim  family  are  foinid  in  counties  Norfolk, 
Northampton,    Gloucester,    Norfolk,    Lincoln 


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and  York.  The  principal. seat  of  the  family 
seems  to  have  been  at  Bramley,  county  York, 
and  from  this  family  the  immigrant  William 
Mann,  who  settled  at  Cambridge.  Massachu- 
setts, is  thought  to  have  descended.  There 
are  several  coat-of-arms  borne  by  various 
branches  of  the  Mann  family,  all  somewhat 
similar,  some  bearing  three  lions,  others  three 
goats,  and  one.  three  legs  conjoined,  while  a 
tower  appears  in  the  crest.  Arms  of  the  Essex 
family  :  .A  chevron  ermine  between  three  lions 
rampant  sable.  Crest :  A  tower  or,  issuant 
from  the  top  five  tilting  spears  proper.  Motto : 
\  irtiis  vincet  invidiam.  .Another:  Argent 
three  anti(|ue  boots  sable  spurs  or.  Crest :  A 
demi-man  jiroper  wreathed  about  the  temples 
and  loins  vert  holding  over  the  de.xter  shoulder 
an  arrow  proper.  The  Lancaster  family  bore 
arms :  Per  fesse  embattled  argent,  and  azure, 
three  goats  passant  counter  charged,  attired  or. 

Richard  Mann,  immigrant  ancestor,  born  in 
England,  settled  in  Scituate,  Massachusetts, 
before  1644,  when  he  was  the  owner  of  land 
there.  He  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  Januarv 
15.  1644.  He  has  often  been  confounded 
with  Richard  More,  who  came  in  the  "May- 
flower" with  the  family  of  Elder  Brewster, 
and  many  of  the  descendants  of  Richard 
Mann,  relying  on  the  statement  of  the  historian 
of  Scituate,  who  was  misled  by  the  similarity 
of  names  when  written,  have  claimed  to  have 
Mayflower  ancestry.  Richard  Mann  was  a 
farmer,  and  was  one  of  the  twenty-si.x  part- 
ners in  the  celebrated  Conihasset  grant  in  1646. 
He  was  drowned  February  16,  1655,  while 
crossing  the  ice  on  the  pond  near  his  house. 
John  Hoar,  who  subsequently  went  to  Con- 
cord, Massachusetts,  was  his  near  neighbor, 
and  was  on  the  jury  that  held  the  inquest  after 
the  death.  The  verdict  shows  that  with  the 
vain  attempts  of  those  ])resent  to  help  him,  he 
struggled  for  an  hour,  and  finally  succumbed 
to  the  cold  and  was  drowned.  His  widow 
Rebecca  married  (second)  March,  1656-7, 
John  Cowan,  and  lived  in  tJie  .Mann  house 
until  i-fio.  Cowan  was  killed  at  Rehoboth  in 
the  Indian  fight  in  1676.  Rebecca  had  five 
children  by  her  second  marriage.  Children  of 
Richard  M.mn:  i.  Xathaniel,  Ixirn  Sejjteniber 
23,  1646;  died  July  20,  1688.  2.  Thomas,  born 
August  15.  1650;  mentioned  below.  3.  Rich- 
ard, bom  February  5.  1652:  married  Elizabeth 
Sutton.  4.  Josiah,  born  December  10,  1654, 
prol)ably  died  young,  though  he  may  be  tlie 
Josiah  who  was  in  Boston,  1674-6. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  Richard  Mann,  was 
born  in  Scituate,  August  15,  if>50.     He  .served 


on  a  coroner's  jury,  March  20,  1677.  He 
was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1680.  In  1679  he 
settled  his  father's  estate,  and  in  1703  he  pur- 
chased of  his  brother,  Richard  Mann,  lands  on 
Mann  Hill,  and  deeded  this  land  .April  9.  1713, 
to  his  second  son,  Thomas,  Jr.  He  also  deeded 
land  to  his  sons  Joseph  and  Benjamin,  Febru- 
ary 24.  1719,  and  to  his  son  Ensign  Mann, 
March  6,  1722,  and  lastly,  half  his  remaining 
estate,  in  1723,  to  his  son  Joseph.    He  married 

Sarah  .     He  died  at  Scituate  in   1732, 

and  his  will  was  proved  July  12,  1732.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Josiah.  born  ^larch  11.  1679:  died 
1708.  2.  Thomas,  born  .April  5,  1681  :  married 
Deborah  Joy.     3.   Sarah,  born  November   15, 

1684:  married (jibbs.     4.  Mary,  born 

March  15,  1688:  died  unmarried,  1723.  5. 
Elizabeth,  born  March  10,  1692.  died  1723.  6. 
Joseph,  born  December  27,  1694;  mentioned 
below.  7.  Benjamin,  born  February  19.  1697 ; 
married  Alartha  Curtis.  8.  Ensign,  born  about 
1699;  married  widow  Tabitha  \'inall. 

(HI)  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas  Mann,  was 
born  in  Scituate,  December  27,  1694.  and  died 
in  Braintree  (now  Randolph),  about  1747.  He 
was  e.xecutor  of  his  father's  will  in  1732.  His 
father  deeded  to  him  a  part  of  the  estate  on 
.Mann  Hill,  February  24.  1719.  In  1732  he 
sold  the  pro])crty  to  Jeremiah  Pierce,  and 
removed  to  I!oston.  Later  he  was  of  Brain- 
tree,  where  he  had  a  farm  of  eighty  acres  of 
Gideon  Thayer  in  the  south  precinct  of  that 
town,  afterwards  Randol])h.  In  1742,  calling 
himself  of  Hanover,  he  transferred  a  part  of 
that  estate  to  his  brother,  Benjamin  ilann,  of 
Hanover.  The  farm  remained  in  the  family 
for  many  generations,  and  is  situated  about 
two  miles  north  of  the  village  of   Randolph. 

He  married  Mary  .     Children,  born  in 

.Scituate:  i.  Joseph,  October  10,  1722:  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Xilcs.  2.  Seth,  1724,  mentioned' 
below.  3.  Iqihraim,  1728;  married  Sarah 
Glover.  4.  Mary,  1730;  married  .August  27, 
1751.  Moses  Littlefield.  5.  Delight,  born  1732; 
married.  October  11,  1750,  Ephraim  Hunt.  Jr. 

(  1\")  Lieutenant  Seth,  son  of  Joseph  Mann, 
was  born  in  1724,  and  died  January  28,  1815, 
aged  ninty-one  years.  He  was  a  farmer  and 
a!i  extensive  land  bolder,  and  resided  on  the 
farm  formerly  owned  by  his  father,  situated 
at  what  was  known  as  the  West  Corner,  where 
his  descendants  at  last  accounts  still  lived,  and 
where  his  house  .still  stands.  He  married 
(first)  October  14.  1745,  Rachel  Spear; 
(second)  October  18.  1750,  Elizabeth  Dyer; 
(third)  Deborah  Dyer,  widow,  d.iughter 
of  .Nathaniel    Littlefield.      Children:      i.    Deb- 


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orah.  born  April  i.  I74^>.  died  October  4, 
1822;  married  Zacbeus  Thayer.  2.  Seth,  born 
December  3,  1747,  married  Mary  Hayward. 
3.  Benjamin,  born  1751  :  married  Hannah 
Hayward.  4.  Ephraim,  born  April  3,  1752; 
married  Comfort  Jewett.  5.  Tietsey,  born  Oc- 
tober 20,  1753:  died  June  3.  1833;  married 
William  Pilancliard.  6.  Enos,  born  March  20, 
1755;  died  aged  thirty.  7.  Rachel,  born  Feb- 
rnary  11.  1757:  died  December  2().  1833;  mar- 
ried Joseph  Riford.  8.  Mary,  born  December 
19,  1758:  married  .Xdam  Howard.  9.  Samuel, 
born  September  13,  1760;  married  (first) 
Nancy  Pettee.  10.  Sarah,  born  July  11,  1762; 
died  June  2.  1852:  married  Micah  \\'hite.  11. 
.Anna,  born  May  18,  1764;  married  Deacon 
Eames.  12.  Stephen,  born  March  11,  1766; 
married  Lucy  Pettee.  13.  Job.  born  March  26, 
1769;  married  Matilda  Fuller.  14.  Elisha,  born 
February  4.  1771  :  mentioned  below.  15.  Phebe, 
born  September  19,  1772:  elied  December  20, 
1849;  married  Samuel  Temple.  16.  Olive, 
born  .August  4.  1774:  died  .April  9,  1855;  mar- 
ried Deacon  Asa  Thayer.  17.  Esther,  born 
February  9.  1776:  died  .April  19,  1847;  mar- 
ried Rufus  Thayer.  18.  John,  born  November 
18,  1777. 

(\  )  Elisha,  son  of  Lieutenant  Seth  Mann, 
was  born  February  4.  1771.  He  inherited  one- 
half  of  his  father's  farm  at  Randolpli.  He 
was  admitted  a  member  of  the  First  Congre- 
gational Church  there  in  1800,  and  was  elected 
deacon  in  1819,  resigning  in  1841.  He  married 
.Abigail  W'hitcomb.  born  1775,  died  1843, 
daughter  of  Lieutenant  Jacob  \Vhitcomb.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Randolph:  i.  Mary,  May  4, 
1798:  died  March  13,  1848;  married  (first) 
Levi  Mann;  (second)  Deacon  Ziba  Spear; 
(third)  Rollins.  2.  Lorena,  born  Oc- 
tober 7.  1800:  married  Warren  White.  3. 
Elisha.  born  March  31,  1803.  mentioned  below. 
4.  Adoniram  Judson,  March  28,  1805;  married 
Rosetta  Howard.  5.  F'iachel.  May  17,  1807: 
died  December  23,  1857;  married  Deacon 
Wales  Thayer.  6.  Esther,  August  6,  1809; 
died  March  11,  1881  ;  married  Thomas 
Lamson.  7.  .Abigail  Whitcomb.  .X'ovember  i, 
181 1  :  died  suddenly  December  i,  1829.  8. 
Lucinda,  Ajiril  12,  1814;  died  September  4, 
1879;  married  Zachariah  Tucker.  9.  Rev.  Asa, 
April  9,  1816;  married  Mary  W.  P.ruce.  10. 
Anna,  .April  9,  1816;  married  Ira  Odcll.  il. 
Ephraim,  .April  18,  1820;  married  (first) 
Marv  lane  Leeds. 

(\T")Elisha  (2),  son  of  Elisha  (j)  Mann, 
was  born  in  Randoli)h,  March  31,  1803.  He 
resided  on  the  homestead,  and  married  (first) 


Catherine  Tucker,  and  (second)  Naomi  ^L^nn. 
Children  of  fir.st  wife:  i.  Elisha,  born  De- 
cember 17,  1829;  married  (first)  Sarah  Jane 
Howard.  2.  Minerva,  born  July  17,  1831  ; 
died  February  4,  1847.  ,3-  Nelson,  born  Jan- 
uary 23,  1834:  mentioned  below.  4.  Catherine, 
born  March  5,  1836.  5.  Rachel  Lavinia,  born 
April  8,  1841  :  married  .April  8,  1868.  Ceorge 
M.  I'rench.  fx  Charles  llenry.  born  Novem- 
ber 4.  1842:  married  June  11.  1867,  Harriet 
Aiuia  i'hilli]js. 

(VH)  Nelson,  son  of  Elisha  (2)  Mann, 
was  born  in  Randolph,  January  23,  1834.  He 
received  his  education  in  the  district  schools 
and  at  Pierce  .Academy,  Middleborough.  He 
worked  on  his  father's  farm  until  he  was  nine- 
teen years  of  age.  and  was  clerk  for  a  time  in 
a  grocery  store,  lie  worked  in  various  shoe 
factories  and  learned  the  business  thoroughly, 
and  then  engaged  in  manufacturing  boots  and 
shoes  in  Randolph.  He  retired  from  business 
in  1884,  and  since  then  has  been  living  in  Ran- 
dolph. He  enlisted  in  Company  D,  I'ourth 
Massachusetts  Regiment,  in  the  civil  war,  and 
has  kept  a  record  of  the  members  of  that  com- 
pany down  to  the  present  time.  He  was  band 
master  in  his  regiment.  He  lias  always  been 
prominent  in  musical  affairs,  and  was  for 
many  years  leader  of  the  Randolph  Brass 
Band  and  director  of  the  old  Stoughton 
Musical  .Association.  He  is  a  Re|)ul)lican  in 
politics,  and  an  attendant  of  tlie  I'aplist 
Church  of  Randoljih,  and  was  leader  of  the 
choir  for  forty  years.  He  is  interested  in  local 
history,  and  has  in  his  possession  many  old 
deeds  and  other  documents  of  historical 
importance.  He  married,  June  9,  1864,  Jane 
Elizabeth  Howarrl,  born  in  Randolph  in  1840, 
daughter  of  .Nathaniel  and  .Almira  (Hough- 
ton) Howard.  Children,  born  at  Ranrlolph: 
I.  Howard  Nelson,  August  24,  1865:  died 
-August  22,  1870.  2.  .Mary  Porter,  May  i, 
1870;  died  .Sejnember  4,  1885. 

(The   Howard   Line). 

Jane  Elizabeth  (  Howard)  Mann,  wife  of 
Nelson  Mann,  is  descended  from  John 
Howard  ((|.  v),  through  Major  Jonathan  (n) 
and 

(III)  Dr.  .Abiel,  son  of  .Major  Jonathan 
Howard,  was  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College, 
1729,  and  married  .Silence,  daughter  of  Nehe- 
miah  Washburn.  Children:  i.  .Silence,  born 
1738;  married,  1757,  Dr.  Philij)  Bryant.  2. 
Nchemiah,  born  1740,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Jane,  1742,  married,  17^)3,  Ebenezer  Ames.  4. 
John,  1743.    5.  Daniel,  1746.    6.  Charity,  1748, 


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died  unmarried.  7.  Ann,  1750,  married,  1776, 
Jacob  Foster,  of  Maine.  8.  Joshua,  1751,  lived 
in  Easton,  and  married,  1776,  I'risciila  Capen, 
of  Stoughton. 

(IV'j  Nehemiah,  son  of  Dr.  Abiel  Howard, 
was  born  in  1740,  died  September  30,  1825. 
He  resided  in  or  near  Easton,  Massachusetts. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution  in  Captain 
Seth  Pratt's  company,  Colonel  James  Will- 
iams's regiment  (Bristol  county)  in  August, 
1780,  on  a  Rhode  Island  alarm.  He  married, 
1768,  Hannah  Dean,  of  Easton,  born  August, 
1745,  died  November  2,  1820.  Children:  i. 
Abiel,  born  May  i,  1771,  died  December  25, 
1859.  2.  Dean,  April  5,  1773,  died  March  11, 
1862;  married,  1800,  Polly  Perkins.  3.  Asa, 
April  I,  1775,  died  January  i,  1838.  4.  Han- 
nah, June  24,   1778,  died   February  6,    1864; 

married  Mitchell,  of  Easton.     5.  Jep- 

tiiali,  April  22,  1780,  died  November  13,  1839; 
married,  1804,  Betsey  Knapp.  6.  Natlianiel, 
July  II,  1786,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Nehemiah  Howard, 
wah  born  at  Easton,  July  11,  1786,  died  there 
Jainiary  28,  1857.  He  married  Anna  Tink- 
ham,  born  in  Middleborough,  Massachusetts, 
died  at  tlie  home  of  Nelson  Alann,  1871.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Easton:  i.  Jane,  born  F'ebruary 
22.  1814,  died  February  5,  1886;  married  the 
Rev.  Dr.  James  Porter.  2.  Antoinette  Frances, 
May  7,  1815,  died  January  17,  1842;  married 
Charles  Richardson.  3.  5y'athaniel,  April  28, 
1817,  mentioned  below.  4.  Augustus  Orville, 
January  21,  1 82 1,  died  November  9,  1889. 

(\'I)  Nathaniel  (i),  son  of  Nathaniel  (2) 
Howard  was  born  in  North  Easton,  April  28, 
1817,  died  July  11,  1897,  at  Randolph.  He  was 
educated  in  the  district  schools,  the  Maiidell 
school  at  West  Rridgewater  and  the  Randolph 
Academy.  He  began  his  business  career  as  a  clerk 
in  a  store  in  his  native  town,  but  after  a  short 
time  he  went  into  a  shoe  factory  and  learned 
the  trade  of  shoe  cutter.  In  October,  1836,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  .\biel  Howard  for 
the  manufacture  of  boots  and  shoes;  this  con- 
tinued until  1838  when  Mr.  Howard  retired 
and  John  L.  F'rench  came  into  the  firm,  the 
firm  becoming  Howard,  French  &  Company, 
the  company  consisting  of  Nathaniel  Howard, 
Jr.,  John  L.  French  and  Cjeorge  W.  French. 
In  1842  George  W.  French  died,  and  in  1857 
A.  O.  French  was  admitted  and  the  firm 
became  Howard  &  French,  which  ct)ntinued 
until  1873,  when  Nathaniel  Howard  retired 
from  the  business,  which  was  located  in  Ran- 
dolph, Massachusetts.  He  was  prominent  in 
town  affairs,  and   from   1875  to   1878  was  a 


member  of  the  board  of  selectmen;  from  1870 
to  1876  a  member  of  the  school  committee; 
justice  of  the  peace  from  1866  to  1894;  treas- 
urer of  the  Central  cemetery  in  1897.  He  was 
a  trustee  of  the  Randolph  Savings  Bank  for 
many  years;  trustee  of  the  Stetson  high 
school  three  years ;  treasurer,  trustee  and  col- 
lector of  the  Baptist  church  from  1875  to  1891. 
He  was  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  married 
.'\lmira  Houghton,  born  November  20,  1817, 
in  New  York,  died  September  27,  1899,  at 
Randolph.  Children:  I.  Jane  Elizabeth,  born 
December  30,  1840,  married  Nelson  Mann,  son 
of  Elisha  Mann  (see  Mann  family).  2.  Fred 
S.,  November  21,  1845,  died  December  7,  1845. 
3.  Antoinette  Frances,  October  18,  1856, 
resides  at  Randolph  on  the  homestead. 


The    Phelps    family    date    from 
PHELPS   Eombardy.  northern  Italy,  where 

they  were  called  Welf.  In  the 
eleventh  century  they  migrated  to  Germany 
and  changed  the  name  to  Guelph.  In  the  si.x- 
teenth  century  they  crossed  to  Scotland  and 
the  name  became  Phelps.  The  Royal  House 
of  Hanover  to  which  Queen  Victoria  belonged 
was  of  the  Welf  lineage,  and  her  family  has 
been  distinctly  traced  back  to  the  city  of  Padu. 
The  English  seat  of  the  family  was  in  Tewkes- 
bury, Gloucestershire,  and  beneath  the  old 
Abbey  church  there  remain  the  lettered  tomb- 
stones of  the  ancestors.  The  name  has  been 
variously  spelled.  Philps,  Phelipps,  Phelpes, 
Philipp,  Philippes,  Philipps,  Phellips,  Phil- 
lippes,  Phillipp  and  Phellips,  Phylippes,Phelyp, 
Phelpse  and  Felpes.  The  word  Phelps  has  its 
root  Pilos,  Greek  for  friend.  The  escutcheon 
of  the  .\merican  branch  was  "per  pale,  or  and 
argent  a  wolf  salient  azure  with  anorle  of  eight 
crosses-crosslet  and  fitchie  and  gule,  crest  a 
wolf's  head  erased,  azure  collard  or,  the  coUard 
charged  with  a  martlet  sable."  Interpreted 
this  is  supposed  to  mean :  The  parting  per 
pale  indicates  that  a  fortification  had  been 
placed  by  ancestor  in  face  of  an  enemy.  The 
wolf  signifies  courage  and  endurance,  the 
crosses-croslets  fitchee  being  emblems  of  the 
second  crusade,  shows  that  it  was  in  that  cam- 
paign the  arms  were  earned.  The  martlet  on 
the  crest  is  the  martin  or  swallows  of  Palestine, 
and  infers  that  the  ancestor  has  been  on  a  pil- 
grimage to  the  Holy  Land  in  addition  to  hav- 
ing been  in  the  second  crusade. 

(I)  James  Phel])s  was  born  about  1520. 
The  name  of  his  wife  was  Joan.  According  to 
the  prerogative  court  of  Canterbury,  adminis- 
tration was  granted  on  his  estate  May  10,  1588. 


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His  children,  baptized  in  the  Tewkesbury 
Abbey  Church :  \\illiain.  Thomas,  George, 
Alice,  Edward,  Keneline,  Richard  and  Robert. 

(II)  William,  eldest  son  of  James  and  Joan 
Phelps,  was  born  August  4,  1550.  His  wife 
was  Dorothy  (surname  unknown).  Adminis- 
tration was  granted  on  his  estate  September 
28.  161 1.  His  wife  died  in  1613.  Children: 
Mary.  Mary,  Thomas  (who  was  the  progeni- 
tor of  the  Irish  Phelps),  Dorothy,  William 
(mentioned  below),  Elizabeth  and  George. 

(III)  William  (2),  second  son  of  William 
(i)  and  Dorothy  Phelps,  was  born  August  19. 
1599.  and  emigrated  to  the  new  world,  sailing 
from  Plymouth,  England,  March  30,  i'')3o,  in 
the  ship  "Mary  and  John,"  Captain  Sc|ueb,  with 
one  hundred  and  forty  passengers,  landing  at 
Hull,  Massachusetts,  May  30,  1630.  With 
him  was  his  wife  and  six  children.  The  origi- 
nal intention  of  the  party  w-as  to  land  on  the 
bank  of  the  Charles  river,  but  a  misunder- 
standing arose  between  the  captain  and  his 
passengers  and  they  were  unceremoniously  put 
ashore  at  Hull,  where  they  had  to  shift  for 
themselves.  The  cruel  captain,  however,  had 
to  settle  in  damages  for  the  uncivil  act.  Will- 
iam was  made  a  freeman  October  19,  1630, 
served  on  the  first  jury  impanelled  in  New 
England,  September  27,  was  made  constable, 
was  one  of  the  committee  to  establish  the 
boundary  line  between  Boston  and  Roxbury, 
w'as  on  a  committee  to  see  about  the  enlarge- 
ment of  Boston  and  in  1635  was  member  of 
the  general  court.  That  year  he  went  with 
Rev.  Mr.  Warham  and  his  parishioners  to 
settle  Windsor,  Connecticut,  which  was  first 
called  Dorchester.  He  w'as  one  of  seven 
appointed  by  the  Massachusetts  company,  for 
it  was  then  supposed  it  belonged  to  the  Alassa- 
chusetts  government,  to  govern  the  colony.  It 
was  later  learned  that  the  colony  was  out  of 
the  Massachusetts  jurisdiction,  and  the  several 
colonies  in  Connecticut  met  at  Hartford  and 
adopted  a  constitution.  In  the  work  of  draft- 
ing this  document,  William  had  a  hand.  The 
principles  enunciated  in  that  constitution  form 
the  body  of  the  organic  law  of  Connecticut 
today.  These  simple  ()ioneers  in  the  wilder- 
ness builded  better  than  they  knew.  He  held 
the  oflfice  of  magistrate  fourteen  years,  and 
was  one  of  the  committee  to  treat  with  the 
Phenicke  Indians.  His  residence  in  Windsor 
was  on  the  road  running  northerly  and  later 
continued  to  Po(|uonoc  and  a  short  distance 
north  of  the  mill  in  the  mill-river  valley.  He 
was  drowned  out  in  the  great  flood  of  1639, 
after  which  he  moved  to  the  highlands.   Marks 


of  the  cellar  of  the  old  house  may  still  be  seen. 
The  first  wife  of  Mr.  Phelps  died  in  iCr^s, 
before  he  left  Dorchester,  Massachusetts.  lie 
married  for  his  second  wife,  Mary  Dover,  in 
1638,  who  was  a  passenger  on  the  same  ship 
with  him.  He  died  July  14,  1672,  his  wife 
surviving  him  three  years.  I  le  was  an  upright 
man,  walked  humbly  with  his  ( iod,  and  whose 
])ul)lic  and  private  life  was  without  reproach. 
He  helped  to  found  two  commonwealths,  Mass- 
achusetts and  Connecticut.  Well  may  any 
race  be  proud  to  bank  upon  such  a  forbear  as 
this  noble  man.  Children  by  first  marriage: 
Richard,  William,  Sarah,  Samuel,  Nathaniel 
and  Joseph.  By  Mary  Dover,  he  had  Timothy 
and  Mary. 

(IV)  Deacon  Nathaniel,  fourth  son  of  Will- 
iam (2)  Phelps,  was  born  in  Tewkesbury,  Eng- 
land, about  1627,  died  honored  and  respected 
at  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  in  his  seventy- 
fifth  year.  He  came  to  America  with  his 
father  and  moved  to  Windsor  with  the  Hooker 
treke  Conneclicutwards.  He  resided  on  the 
Orton  place  opjjosite  his  father's.  In  1656  he 
removed  to  Northampton,  of  which  he  was  a 
first  settler.  The  homestead  he  occui)ied  for 
forty-three  years  was  later  Margaret  Dwight's 
private  school  and  afterward  the  Dudley  Col- 
lege Institute,  and  is  now  Shady  Lawn.  I-'eb- 
niary  8,  1679,  he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
and  fidelity  before  Major  Pynchon ;  in  1685 
was  made  a  freeman  by  the  general  court  of 
I'.oston.  He  married  Elizabeth  Copley  in 
Windsor  in  1635.  She  was  of  the  same  line- 
age of  John  Coi)ley,  the  celebrated  artist.  She 
died  at  Northam])ton,  December  6,  17 12.  Chil- 
dren :  Mary,  Nathaniel,  Abigail,  \Villiam, 
Thomas  and  Mercy. 

(V)  William  (3),  second  son  of  Deacon 
Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Copley)  Phelps,  was 
born  at  Northampton,  June  22,  1650,  died 
there  in  his  eightv-eighth  year.  He  lived  on 
the  old  homestead,  and  was  made  a  freeman 
May  30,  1690.  He  married  Abigail,  daughter 
of  John  Stebbins,  of  Northampton,  May  30, 
1678,  who  died  in  her  eighty-eighth  year,  hav- 
ing survived  her  husband  three  years.  Chil- 
dren :  .Abigail,  Elizabeth,  William,  Mary, 
Nathaniel,  Deborah,  Ebenezer,  Joseph  Austin 
and  Mary. 

(\T)  Captain  William  (4),  eldest  son  of 
William  (3)  and  Abigail  (Stel)bins)  I 'helps, 
was  born  in  Northampton,  April,  1684,  and 
died  there.  He  was  on  the  committee  of  safety 
in  the  revolutionary  war.  He  married  Thank- 
ful E.flwards  in  I70<'i.  Children:  'I'hankful, 
Eliakim,    Thankful,    Benjamin,    Josiah,    Ex- 


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perience,  luinice,  Lois,  Jose])Ii,  William  and 
Elnathan. 

(\'II)  Eliakim,  eldest  son  of  Captain  Will- 
iam (4)  and  Thankful  (Edwards)  Phelps,  was 
born  in  Northampton,  January  17,  1709,  died 
at  Cold  Spring,  Belchertown,  Massachusetts. 
of  apoplexy,  August  19,  1777,  a  few  moments 
after  family  devotion.  He  married  Lydia 
Rust,  of  Nortliampton,  who  died  in  1753.  He 
married  (second)  Elizabeth  Davis,  of  Spring- 
field, Massachusetts,  in  1714.  who  died  August 
19,  1771,  in  her  fifty-seventh  year.  Children 
by  the  first  marriage:  Eliakim  (died  in 
infancy),  Eliakim,  Simeon  and  three  others 
who  died  in  infancy.  Children  by  Elizabeth 
(Davis)  Phelps:  William,  Eliakim,  Phebe. 
Sarah.  Lucy,  Betsey  and  Jolin. 

(Vni)  Deacon  Eliakim  (2).  second  son  of 
Eliakim  ( I )  and  Elizabeth  ( Davis)  Phelps, 
was  born  in  Belchertown,  January  5,  1775, 
died  of  heart  disease,  March  13,  1824.  He 
was  prominent  and  active  in  community 
afTairs;  selectman  eight  years;  member  of  the 
legislature  twelve  years ;  a  member  of  the 
convention  to  revise  the  constitution  in  1820 
and  a  justice  of  the  peace  forty  years.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Chapin,  of  Springfield, 
August  28.  1777.  He  married  (second)  in 
1778,  Margaret  Coombs,  of  Warren.  Massa- 
chusetts, who  died  Eebruary  7,  1846,  in  her 
ninety-fifth  year.  Children  by  second  mar- 
riage: .'\bner.  Daniel.  Eliakim,  Calvin,  Azrutli, 
Eliakim,  William,  Zerviah  and  Diana. 

(IX)  William  (5).  fifth  son  of  Deacon  Eli- 
akim (2)  and  Margaret  (Coombs)  Phelps,  was 
bom  in  lielchcrtown,  JuneHj),  1792,  died  there 
.■\ugust  20.  1868.  He  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  town,  and  was  a  farmer 
on  an  extensive  scale.  Previous  to  the  advent 
of  the  railroads,  be  was  a  stage  proprietor 
of  a  line  between  Boston  and  Albany. 
Also  he  was  engaged  in  the  construction 
of  highways.  He  held  all  the  various  town 
offices  and  was  a  justice  of  the  peace.  During 
the  war  of  181 2  he  volimteered  as  a  private 
but  was  not  mustered  into  service.  In  politics 
he  was  an  old  line  \\  big  until  it  became  time 
to  forsake  Whiggery  for  Re])ublicanism.  which 
he  promptly  did.  He  was  a  deacon  in  the  Con- 
gregational church,  a  just,  honest  and 
thoroughly  upright  man  and  Christian,  lie 
married  .\laria.  daughter  of  Rev.  Justin  and 
Lydia  (Merritt)  b'orward.  who  was  born  in 
Belchertown.  July  5.  1800,  died  there  Octo!)er 
6,  1840.  He  married  (second)  Mary  L.. 
davighter  of  .Asahel  and  Diantha  (Dimmick) 
Hmit.  of  Bridgewater,  New  York,  who  died  in 


Belchertown.  October  17,  1863.  He  married 
(third)  Louisa,  widow  of  H.  F.  Filer,  of 
Belchertown,  a  daughter  of  Abner  and  Keziah 
(Fairfield)  Town.  Children  of  first  marriage: 
Charles  W..  Martha  AL  and  Frederick  B. 
Mary  L.  (Hunt)  Phelps  was  the  mother  of 
Edward  H.,  mentioned  below. 

(X)  Edward  Hunt,  only  son  of  William 
(5)  and  Mary  L.  (Hunt)  Phelps,  was  born 
in  Belchertown,  June  10,  1842.  and  received 
his  primary  education  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  town,  pursuing  the  higher  branches  at 
Monson  Academy  and  the  Springfield  high 
school.  An  omnivorous  reader  of  books  and 
newspapers  and  of  a  retentive  memory,  he 
saturated  his  mind  with  vast  stores  of  infor- 
mation upon  a  wide  scope  of  topics  which  was 
of  great  value  to  him  in  his  career  as  a  jour- 
nalist. Possessing  musical  tastes  and  talents 
of  a  high  order  of  merit  which  he  improved  by 
special  study,  he  devoted  himself  to  musical 
instruction  first  at  Belchertown  and  then  at 
Springfield.  He  was  long  a  prominent  organ- 
ist, in  the  principal  churches  in  Springfield  for 
a  period  of  thirty  years.  He  was  a  musical 
composer  of  rare  merit,  which  had  he  devoted 
himself  exclusively  to  would  have  alone  won 
him  fame.  Plis  "Oh,  Morning  Land"  and 
"Breathe  Soft  and  Low,"  have  been  sung  in 
many  lands  and  the  words  translated  into 
many  tongues.  Also  he  was  a  nnisical  critic  of 
much  acumen  and  his  judgment  on  the  efforts 
of  a  virtuoso  met  with  the  approval  of  Dudley 
Buck  and  Theodore  Thomas,  to  whom  he  was 
an  intimate  friend.  His  natural  bent,  however, 
was  for  journalism,  for  which  he  had  inany 
and  varied  (jualifications.  His  first  work  in 
that  capacity  was  as  an  amateur  and  a  voltm- 
teer  in  assisting  the  local  editor  of  the  Repub- 
lican in  reporting.  He  was  one  day  given  a 
real  assignment  as  reporter  for  a  cattle  show, 
and  so  well  and  acceptably  was  the  field  cov- 
ered by  the  embryo  reporter  that  it  brought 
forth  encomiums  from  the  discriminating 
!~lamuel  P.owles.  Soon  after  this  incident,  the 
local  editor  was  going  away  on  a  leave  of 
absence  for  several  months  and  he  offered 
young  Pheli^s  the  opportunity  to  substitute. 
Brought  before  Mr.  Bowles  for  an  introduc- 
tion the  great  editor  looked  him  over  care- 
fully and  with  his  characteristic  brusqueness 
said:  "Yoimg  man,  I  have  heard  of  you.  and 
will  try  you.  ^'ou  cannot  do  worse  than  fail." 
This  was  the  latmching  of  yoiuig  Pliel(>s  into 
the  sea  of  journalism.  During  the  next  ten 
years  he  remained  with  the  Rcf<i(hlicii)i  in 
various  capacities.     It  was  during  the  stirring 


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times  of  the  great  civil  war  and  as  iiiglit  editor 
Mr.  Phelps'  duties  were  very  trying,  often 
drawn  out  until  the  small  hours  of  the  morn- 
ing, by  the  issues  of  extra  editions.  At  one 
period  when  Mr.  Bowles  and  Mr.  Pomeroy 
were  both  ill,  he  not  only  performed  his  own 
work  but  assumetl  entire  charge  of  the  paper, 
doing  the  work  of  three  men.  writing  all  the 
leaders,  and  in  those  days  long  editorials  were 
the  rule.  His  sustaining  powers  were  great. 
It  was,  however,  in  the  local  de])artment  of  the 
Republican  that  his  name  was  principally 
linked.  He  was  the  first  editor  in  the  country 
probably  to  introduce  local  correspondence 
from  the  country  towns  and  villages  and  he 
brought  it  to  a  high  state  of  efficiency,  an  idea 
since  extensively  borrowed  by  other  journals. 
Besides  Mr.  Bowles  that  paper  contained  such 
writers  as  J.  E.  Hood.  Clark  \V.  Bryan  and 
Dr.  J.  G.  Holland,  and  of  these  men  he  was  a 
compeer.  In  1872  the  time  for  parting  with 
with  the  Republican  had  come,  being  offered 
a  better  position  on  the  Springfield  Union  and 
to  that  paper  he  devoted  the  best  part  of  si.\ 
years  of  his  strenuous  life  in  faithful  and 
painstaking  work.  In  1878  he  purchased  of 
H.  M.  Burt  the  Xczi-  England  Homestead  and 
with  his  prestige,  influence  and  great  editorial 
ability,  the  circulation  at  once  took  an  upward 
boimd.  From  the  same  office  was  issued  a 
city  edition  and  the  families  soon  had  a 
monthly  calleil  the  Farm  and  Home.  1  le  later 
bought  out  the  good  will  and  circulation  list  of 
the  American  Agriculturist  of  Xew  York  and 
added  it  to  his  other  journalistic  enterprises. 
The  combined  circulation  of  these  four  period- 
icals was  389.000.  In  1880  he  organized  the 
Phelps  Publishing  Com[)any  and  ten  years 
later  he  was  obliged  by  failing  health  to  relin- 
quish his  connection  therewith,  of  which  he 
was  the  founder  and  long  the  great  head  and 
manager.  Following  his  business  career  he 
travelled  extensively  in  this  country  and  con- 
tinental Europe.  He  married  Harriet  Elvira, 
daughter  of  James  I.  and  Elvira  (Clappl 
(joulding.  He  was  postmaster,  selectman  and 
school  committeeman  of  .\thnl.  Massachusetts. 
His  father  was  Colonel  f  loulding  from  I  lolden, 
Massachusetts,  a  large  woolen  manufacturer. 
Mrs.  (iouIding"s  fatlier  was  Deacon  Samuel 
Clapp.  Children  of  Edward  H.  and  Elvira 
(Goulding)  Phelps:  i.  Mabel  Goulding,  born 
June  6,  1866,  married  Frank  E.  Clark,  a  hard- 
ware merchant  of  Sjiringfield.  and  their  chil- 
dren were:  Edward,  born  September  23,  1892; 
Harold.  January  8,  1894:  Richard.  August  4. 
1896;  Marion,  ^lay  i,  1904;  and  Mildred,  De- 


cember 2,  1906.  2.  Waller  Dimmock.  see  for- 
ward. 3.  Jessie  II.,  died  in  infancy.  4.  James 
E.,  died  in  infancy.  5.  Edward  H..  died  in 
infancy.  6.  Mary  Agnes,  born  November  21. 
1876;  married,  f)ecember  27,  1906,  Herman 
Sweezey.  of  Xew  Haven,  Connecticut. 

(XI)  Walter  Dimmock.  son  of  Edward 
Hinit  and  Harriet  ICIvira  (Goulding)  Phelps, 
was  born  in  .^])ringfield.  October  9,  18(18,  and 
attended  the  pulilic  and  high  school  of  that 
city.  He  entered  the  establishment  of  his 
fatlier  in  which  he  continued  till  the  lattcr's 
death.  He  is  now  engaged  in  the  publishing 
business.  He  married  Flora  W..  daughter  of 
Myron  C.  Graves,  of  !-^pringfieId.  Massachu- 
setts. October  23,  18S9.  by  whom  he  has  two 
children :  Harriet  Davis,  born  October  30, 
1894,  Dorothy  .Alice,  May   12,   1897. 


.For  pipcpding  generations  .see  John  Doane  I  i. 

(IV)  Simeon  Doane,  son  of  Sam- 
DO.\XE  uel  Doane,  was  born  at  Eastham, 
Massachusetts.  December  i,  1708, 
and  die<l  there  December  4.  1789.  He  lived  in 
Eastham.  on  a  jjart  of  the  homestead.  His 
will  was  dated  .April  24,  1784.  He  married, 
October  I,  1730,  :\i)phia  Higgins.  Child.-en: 
I.  Ruth,  born  March  30,  1733-4;  married 
Phineas   Siuith.     2.   .Abigail,  born   August  f), 

1735;    married    — Eldredge.      3.    John, 

mentioned  beli>w.     4.  Benjamin.     5.  EphraiVi. 
(1.  Isaiah,  burn  about  1742.    7.  Phebe,  married 

Smith.  \ 

(V)  John,  son  of  Simeon  Doane.  was  born  \ 
in  Eastham.  about  1738.  and  died  there  .\pril  \ 
19,  1800,  in  his  sixty-second  year.  It  is  thought 
he  was  buried  in  the  old  Herring- I'ond  burial 
ground,  near  the  church  where  he  had  wor- 
shiped (gravestone).  He  was  a  private  in 
the  I'Vench  war  in  1758.  imder  Captain  Sanuiel 
Knowles,  Cf)lonel  Timothy  Doty's  regiment: 
also  in  CajUain  Jabez  Snow's  com|)any.  Col- 
onel John  Thomas'  regiment,  at  .Annapolis 
Royal,  March  27  to  .Xovember  i,  1759:  also 
in  same  comjiany  Xovember  2.  1759,  to  June 
23,  1760.  He  lived  in  the  present  town  of  East- 
ham, on  the  north  side  of  the  harbor.  I  le  was 
a  deacon  of  the  middle  parish  church  during 
Rev.  Mr.  Cheever's  ministry.  The  house  he 
built  and  occupied  on  the  homestead,  was 
standing  until  a  few  years  ago.  when  it  was 
torn  down.  He  married,  about  1761,  Betsey 
Snow,  who  died  October  22.  1819  (grave- 
.stone).  Children,  born  in  Eastham  :  I.Timo- 
thy. May  13,  17^)2;  mentioned  below.  2. 
Heinan,  March  15,  1764.  3.  Sarah,  June  18. 
I7()7.  4.  Bettv,  March  21.  1769;  married,  Feb- 


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ruary  ii,  1793.  Abijah  Mayo.  5.  Abigail, 
March  21,  1771.  6.  John,  April  19,  1777.  7. 
Simeon,  July  31,  1780. 

(VI)  Timothy,  son  of  Deacon  John  Doane, 
was  born  in  Eastham,  May  13,  1762,  and  died 
at  Orleans,  Massachusetts,  January  19,  1822 
(gravestone  at  Orleans j.  He  lived  in  that  part 
of  Eastham  which  was  set  ofif  as  Orleans  in 
I7',7.  He  married,  March  7,  1781,  Jedediah 
Higgins,  who  died  March  4,  1847,  aged  eighty- 
four  years.  Children,  born  in  Eastham:  i. 
I,  Beriah,  November  25,  1782.  2.  Abigail,  March 

V        5,    1784.     3.   Mehitable,   November    15.    1785; 
\      married,  March  7,    '.805,  William  Smith.     4. 
\    Lewis,  September  24,  1787.     5.  Timothy,  June 
\  2,   1789.     6.  John,  May  28,   1791  :  mentioned 
I  below.  7.  Sally,  October  9,  1794,  died  Decem- 
Wr   26,    1830;    married,    November   7,    1816, 
Zpeth  Taylor.     8.   Betty,  November  6,   1796;  " 
married,    1819.   Sparrow    Horton.     9.   Nancy, 
February    19,    1799;   married,    December    30, 
1821,  Captain  Sears  Rogers.     10.  Isaac,  June 
4,  1804;  married,  November  20,  1836,  Phoebe 
F.  Foster. 

(\fll)  John  (2),  son  of  Timothy  Doane, 
was  feorn  in  Eastham,  May  28,  1791,  and  died 
at  Orleans,  March  3.  188 1.  He  received  his 
earlfy  education  in  the  public  schools,  and 
attended  Sandwich  Academy  and  a  school  at 
Bi^idgewater.  He  studied  law  with  John  Reed, 
arid  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Barnstable 
,about  1818.  He  practised  his  profession  for 
more  than  fifty  years.  He  was  a  representa- 
tive to  the  legislature,  and  in  1830  was  elected 
state  senator,  in  which  office  he  served  three 
terms  with  dignity  and  ability.  He  was  at  one 
time  a  member  of  the  governor's  council.  In 
1830  and  1853  he  was  elected  county  commis- 
sioner. He  lived  to  a  rijje  old  age  and  the 
enjoyment  of  a  rare  social  position,  respected 
by  all  who  knew  him.  Upon  the  town  in  which 
he  lived  and  u])on  the  public  whose  interests  he 
sought  to  serve,  he  made  a  lasting  impression 
as  an  honest  and  sound  counsellor,  who  in  all 
his  jirofessional  career  advised  settlements, 
com])romises  and  concessions,  instead  of  liti- 
gation in  the  courts.  He  was  familiarly  known 
all  over  the  Cape,  as  "Scjuire  Doane."  He  was 
a  friend  to  young  men  seeking  an  education. 
He  was  one  of  the  earliest,  if  not  the  first,  to 
engage  in  aboricnlture  in  this  country,  and 
filanted  many  acres  of  old  lands  to  pine  and 
oaks. 

The  following  tribute  by  a  friend  describes 
his  character  well ;  "I  le  was  one  of  the  repre- 
sentative men  of  Cape  Cod.  and  worthv  of  the 
high  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  and  of  all 


the  honors  that  were  paid  to  him.  Mr.  Doane 
was  a  lawyer  of  the  old  school,  one  of  the  class 
that  inclined  to  repress  rather  than  encourage 
litigation,  and  while  conscientious  and  faithful 
in  the  discharge  of  all  professional  duty,  never 
sought  to  create  professional  business.  He  was 
a  safe  and  wise  counsellor,  though  perhaps  too 
distrustful  of  his  own  judgment — a  failitig 
however,  which  never  injured  a  client,  nor 
diminished  the  confidence  of  his  fellows  in  the 
soundness  of  his  opinions.  A  constant  attend- 
ant upon  the  terms  of  the  court,  he  rarely 
addressed  the  bench  and  never  argued  a  case 
to  the  jury,  his  native  modesty  and  diffidence 
only  preventing :  but  no  member  of  the  old 
Barnstable  bar  prepared  his  cases  more 
thoroughly :  and  in  his  day  he  was  not  the 
only  one  of  that  bar  who  availed  himself  of 
the  magical  influence  of  the  silver-tongued 
Nymphas  Marston  with  a  Cape  Cod  jury.  1 
said,  ^Ir.  Doane  was  one  of  the  representative 
men  of  Cape  Cod.  He  was  modest,  but  self- 
reliant :  economical  and  thrifty,  and  at  the 
same  time  zealous  and  public  spirited ;  grave 
and  dignified,  but  never  morose  or  unsocial :  a 
man  true,  exact  and  faithful  in  all  his  public 
and  private  relations.  I  had  the  pleasure  of 
paying  my  respects  to  him  a  year  or  two  since 
in  his  pleasant  home,  where  he  was  the  central 
object  of  devoted  affection." 

He  married,  November  13,  1820.  Polly  Eld- 
ridge,  born  July  28.  1796.  died  January  3, 
1875,  daughter  of  Barnabas  and  Zipporah  Eld- 
ridge.  Children,  born  in  Orleans:  i.  Thomas, 
September  20,  1821  ;  see  forward.  2.  Caro- 
line, August  14.  1823;  died  December  30, 
1882:  married  Ca|itain  Allen  H.  Knowles.  of 
"S'arniouthport.  who  died  July  4.  1861  ;  had 
Sarah.  .Allen  II..  and  Caroline  Knowles.  3. 
John,  .April  28,  1825,  died  .August  25,  1873,  in 
Nebraska:  married,  January  i,  1833,  at  Paw- 
tucket,  Rhode  Island,  Almira  Starkweather.  4. 
Martha,  September  13.  1827,  died  .August  29. 
181)4.  unmarried.  5.  IMary,  .August  17,  1829. 
died  .August  22,  1894:  married  Captain  Scth 
Doane,  of  Orleans,  of  the  Pacific  Mail  Steam- 
ship Company.  6.  Lucy,  born  September  13. 
1 83 1,  died  November  22.  1849.  at  Bradford, 
Massachusetts.  7.  Henry,  born  January  22. 
1834:  graduated  at  Harvard  Law  .School  1839. 
and  jiracticed  law  for  a  time  in  Boston  :  captain 
of  Forty-third  Tiger  Regiment.  Massachusetts 
\dlunteers.  in  i8r)2:  in  service  in  North  Caro- 
lina and  in  battles  of  Kinston.  Whitehall.  Golds- 
horo.  siege  of  Washington:  mustered  out  July 
30,  1863  :  returned  to  Orleans  in  failing  health, 
and  died  .September  2,  1863  :  will  dated  Decern- 


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ber  10,  1862,  containing  this  clause:  "I  give  my 
gun  and  pistol  to  my  brother  Charles,  not 
doubting  that  he  will  use  the  same,  should 
occasion  call,  in  the  defence  of  liberty  and  good 
government ;"  his  name  appears  on  the  mural 
tablet  in  Memorial  Hall,  Harvard  College.  8. 
Charles  Wat.son.  mentioned  below. 

(Mil)   Thomas  Doane.  eldest  of  the  eight 
children  of  John  and  Polly  (  Eldridge )  Doane, 
was  born  at  Orleans,  September  20.  1821.  and 
died  October  22.   1897.     H*^  ^^'^^  one  of  the 
most  eminent  civil  engineers  of  his  day.     He 
began  his  education  in  the  academy  established 
by  his  father  and  others,  leaving  it  at  the  age 
of  nineteen  to  enter  the  English  .\cademy  at 
.•\ndover.  which  he  attended  five  terms.     He 
then   entered    the   office   of   the   distinguished 
civil  engineer.   Samuel   M.   Eelton.  remaining 
three  years.    He  was  then  engaged  as  engineer 
of  the  Windsor  White  River   Division  of  the 
\"erni'ont  Central  railroad,  and  from   1847  to 
1849  was   resident   engineer  of  the   Cheshire 
railroad  at  Walpole.  New  Hampshire.     Tn  De- 
cember in  the  latter  year  he  returned  to  Charles- 
town.    Massachusetts,    antl    opened    an    office. 
carrying  on  general  civil  engineering  and  sur- 
vey work,  personally  and  through  capable  assist- 
ants, until  his  death.     .At  one  time  or  another 
he  was  connected  with  all  the  railroads  out  of 
Boston,   and   particularly   with   the   Boston   & 
Maine  railroad.     In   1863.  under  the  State  of 
Massachusetts,  he  became  chief  engineer  of  the 
Hoosac    Tunnel,    which    he   completed,    under 
great   difficulty,   by   change  of  method  previ- 
ously followeii.  and  the  introduction  of  modern 
ideas  and  appliances.     He  relocated  the  tunnel 
line  and  established  its  grades,  connected  the 
two  ends  by  precise  measurements  and  levels, 
built  the   dam   across  the   Deerfield    river   to 
furnish   water-pow^r   for  turbines  to  operate 
air  compressers,  and  for  the  first  time  effected 
the  successful  use  of  nitro-glycerine.  the  use  of 
machine  drills  operated  by  compressed  air.  and 
"simultaneous    blasting"    by    electricity.      Mr. 
Doane  invented  the  carriages  on  which  machine 
drills  were  operated,  and  he  was  designated 
the  pioneer  of  compressed  air  in  this  country. 
As  early  as  1873  he  proposed  the  compressed 
air  power  jjlants  for  use  in  cities,  and  which 
have  but  recently  been  established.     In   1869, 
as  chief  engineer'of  the  Burlington  &  Missouri 
River  railroad  in  Nebraska,  he  in  four  years 
completed    four  miles  of  road,  constructed  a 
telegraph  line  its  entire  length,  and  established 
a  steam  ferry  over  the  Missouri  river  at  Platts- 
moiith.    In  1873.  at  the  opening  of  the  Hoosac 
Tunnel,  he  ran  the  first  locomotive  through  it. 


In  1879  he  became  consulting  and  acting  chief 
engineer  of  the  Northern  Pacific  railroad,  and 
located  its  lines  in  Washington  and  y.xn  of 
Dakota.  While  in  .Nebraska  he  secured  a 
sciuare  mile  site  for  Doane  College  (named  in 
his  honor)  at  Crete,  and  made  to  it  a  large 
contribution.  For  many  years  he  was  one  of 
its  trustees,  and  the  bulk  of  his  estate  was 
willed  to  it  at  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Boston  Society  of  Civil  Engineers,  and 
president  nine  years ;  of  the  American  Society 
(if  Civil  Engineers  :  a  director  of  the  .Associated 
Charities  of  Boston,  and  president  of  the 
Charlestown  branch:  of  the  New  England  His- 
toric Cicnealogical  Society;  vice-president  of 
the  Hunt  .Asylum  for  Destitute  Children;  first 
president  of  the  Charlestown  Branch  of  the 
\"oung  Men's  Christian  .Association,  ;uid  a 
liberal  contributor  to  its  supjiort ;  a  member  of 
the  Congregational  Club,  the  Bunker  Hill  Boys 
Club,  the  .American  College  and  Educational 
Society,  the  Winthrop  Church  in  Charlestown. 
and  for  fourteen  years  one  of  its  deacons.  1  le 
was  a  man  of  high  principles  and  unswerving 
integrity,  kind  and  considerate  to  all,  generous 
toward  all  worthy  objects,  and  lived  an  earnest 
and  christian  life. 

Mr.  Doane  married  (first)  Sojihia  D.  Clarke, 
of  Brattleborough.  X'ermont:  (second)  Louise 
P.arber.  His  children  were  by  his  first  mar- 
riage :  Mrs.  David  B.  Perry,  wife  of  the  presi- 
dent of  Doane  College;  Mrs.  W.  O.  Weeden, 
wife  of  a  Congregational  minister;  Mrs.  H.  B. 
Twombly:  and  Rev.  John  Doane,  jiastor  of 
Plymouth  Church.  Lincoln.  Nebraska. 

(X'llI)  Charles  Watson,  son  of  Hon.  Julin 
Doane,  was  born  at  Orleans,  July  9.  1840.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town 
and  the  Orleans  Academy.  .At  the  age  of 
nineteen  he  shipped  as  a  sailor  before  the  mast, 
and  at  the  age  of  twenty-five  had  risen  to  the 
rank  of  master  mariner.  His  first  command 
was  the  vessel  "Colorado,"  owned  by  Henry 
S.  Hallett,  and  he  made  his  first  voyage  from 
Liveri)ool,  where  he  took  a  cargo  of  salt  for 
ballast  and  proceeded  to  Calcutta.  India,  re- 
turning with  a  cargo  of  East  India  goo<ls  to 
New  York.  His  ne.xt  voyage  was  in  command 
of  a  new  ship,  "Sarah 'llignett,"  owned  by 
Paul  Curtis  &  Brother,  on  a  voyage  from  New 
A'ork  to  Calcutta.  His  next  ship  was  "The 
Puritan."  owned  by  Elijah  Williams  &  Com- 
jiany.  of  which  he  had  command  for  the  next 
six  years,  sailing  to  all  parts  of  the  world. 
One  of  his  largest  cargoes  was  a  cfMiipUte 
sugar  refining  plant  manufactured  in  Philadel- 
phia and  delivered  in   Peru,  South   America. 


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From  this  voyage  he  retunicci  with  ballast  to 
San  Francisco.  He  sailed  for  I  long  Kong 
from  Portland.  Oregon,  with  a  cargo  of  flour 
and  spars,  and  returned  to  Boston  with  tea  and 
other  Chinese  goods.  His  last  voyage  ended 
in  misfortniie.  When  off  the  river  Hooglcy, 
near  Calcutta,  he  picked  up  a  pilot.  The 
weather  was  bad,  and  the  pilot  attempted  lo 
sail  up  the  river,  but  through  bad  judgment  in 
miscalculating  the  set  of  the  current,  he  ran  the 
vessel  on  the  quicksands  outside  the  Hoogley 
river.  On  account  of  the  heavy  seas,  no  tugs 
or  steamers  could  come  to  the  assistance  of  the 
stranded  vessel.  The  crew  finally  had  to  aban- 
don the  ship.  Two  of  the  boats  were  picked 
up  and  the  men  taken  to  Calcutta.  The  boat 
in  which  Captain  Doane  left  the  ship  landed 
at  the  light-ship.  "The  Puritan"  gradually 
sank  in  the  quicksands  and  was  a  total  loss. 
Captain  Doane  retuimed  to  London  on  one  of 
the  P.  &  O.  steamers,  w'hence  he  returned  to 
his  home  in  Orleans.  He  had  been  master  of 
ships  for  eighteen  years  and  decided  to  retire 
from  the  business.  After  a  short  time  he 
located  at  Crete,  Nebraska,  where  he  had  a 
sheep  and  horse  ranch,  and  carried  on  general 
farming,  .'\fter  living  at  Crete,  Nebraska, 
twenty-three  years,  a  part  of  which  time  he 
conducted  a  ranch,  he  retired  from  the  busi- 
ness and  in  \')02  returned  to  Massachusetts, 
and  bought  a  home  at  Milton,  where  he  has 
resided  since.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Honor;  for  many  years  member  of  the 
Modern  Woodmen,  and  Knights  and  Ladies  of 
Security.     In  politics  he  is  a  Reijublican. 

Charles  Watson  Doane  married,  in  Marl- 
boro, Massachusetts.  June  13,  1877.  Mary 
.A.pplcton  Doane.  Children:  i.  Jolin  .-Xpple- 
ton,  born  at  Orleans,  .April  16,  1878:  superin- 
tendent of  machine  shops  of  Taylor  Iron  & 
Steel  Company,  High  Bridge,  New  Jersey; 
married  (first)  in  Dorchester  I.ower  Mills,  .Au- 
gust 30,  Kjoi,  Ida  Helen  Mason,  who  died  May 
25.  1902.  at  Milton:  married  (second)  Octo- 
ber 29,  1906,  Mabel  Hopkins,  of  Crete.  Ne- 
braska: child:  P.eulah  .\pi)leton,  born  .August 
13.  1907.  2.  Charles  Watson,  Jr..  born  in 
Orleans.  March  19,  1879;  is  a  draughtsman 
with  Westinghouse  Comjiany  of  I'ittsburg, 
Pennsylvania:  married  in  Pittsburg,  Mav  16, 
1907,  Lillian  May  liossart :  one  child,  Charles 
Watson  (.vl).  born  December  19.  1908. 

Mrs.  Mary  .Aiipleton  Doane,  wife  of  Charles 
Watson  Doane,  is  a  Daughter  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. She  is  a  descendant  of  the  inmiigrant, 
Jolui  Doane,  and  daughter  of  Cajitain  Isaac  and 
Mary   (Freeman)   Doane.     Her  father  was  a 


ship  master  in  the  California  and  East  India 
trade.  His  last  ship  was  the  "Samuel  Apple- 
ton."  He  took  his  family  on  one  voyage 
around  the  world.  He  died  aged  forty-six 
years,  and  his  widow  is  yet  living,  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  eighty-two  years.  Of  their  seven 
children  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Doane  is  the  only 
one  living.  Three  of  the  brothers  of  Captain 
Isaac  Doane  \v<'rc  ship  masters. 


Bacon  is  the  name  of  an  ancient 
B.ACON  seigniory  in  Normandy, and  from 
this  place  the  Xorman  ancestors 
in  England  took  their  name  nearly  a  thousand 
years  ago.  .According  to  the  genealog)'  of  the 
great  .Suffolk  family  of  Bacon,  one  Grimald,  or 
( irimaldus.  a  relative  of  the  Norman  chieftain, 
\\  illiam  de  \\'arrenne,  came  to  England  at  the 
time  of  the  Conc|uest  and  settled  near  Holt,  in 
.'^uffolk.  His  great-grandson  took  the  surname 
Bacon,  or  rather  resumed  the  use  of  the  place- 
name  as  a  surname.  In  the  north  of  France 
the  surname  P.acon  is  still  in  use.  William 
Bacon  in  1082  endowed  the  Abbey  of  Holy 
Trinity  at  Caen.  The  surname  Bacon  is  found 
in  the  Battle  Rolls  in  England  in  the  eleventh 
century,  and  in  the  Hundred  Rolls  in  the  thir- 
teenth. There  are  occasional  variations  in  spell- 
ing, such  as  liacini  and  Bachun,  and  in  some 
instances  the  surname  Bacon  may  have  been 
corrupted  from  Beacon.  From  their  connec- 
tion with  Bayeux,  the  Bacons  were  sometimes 
Latinized  De  Bajocis.  Sir  William  Bacon,  of 
the  knights  bearing  banners  in  the  reign  of 
Philip  III.  in  I'Vance.  bore  arms — a  beech  tree. 
I  irimaldus.  mentioned  above,  had  three  sons: 
I.  Radul])h.  2.  Edmund,  took  the  name  of  his 
abode  for  his  surname.  ^  Ranul])h,  or  Ral|)h, 
was  known  as  Ralph  de  Bacons-Thorpe  |  thorp 
means  village)  ;  his  son,  Roger  de  Baconsthorp, 
was  father  of  Robert  Bacon,  who  assumed  the 
n.inu'  witlmut  the  ])article  ini])lying  location, 
and  the  name  has  continued  in  various  lines  of 
descent.  ( ieorge.  son  of  Rali)h  de  P.aconsthorp. 
was  father  of  Roger  Bacon,  who  released  to  his 
sister  .Agnes  lands  belonging  to  the  family  in 
.Xormandy.and  from  him  for  many  generations, 
descended  the  I'.acons  of  Drinkstone  and  Hes- 
sett,  county  Suft"oIk.  The  lineage  of  Nathaniel 
Bacon,  of  X'irginia,  the  famous  "rebel"  of  early 
colonial  days,  has  been  traced.  Richard  Bacon 
(7).  whose  lineage  is  Reginald  (6).  Robert 
(5).  Roger  (4).  Ceorge  (3).  Raljih  (2),  ("iri- 
maldus (  I  ).  who  was  first  to  bear  the  arms  of 
h.is  family  :  ( lules  on  a  chief  argent  two  mullets 
sable.  The  I'.acon  family  at  Ilessett  bears  the.se 
arms:     .\rgent  on   a   fesse  ensrrailed  between 


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three  escutcheons  gules  tlirec  mullets  or.  The 
orig-inal  seat  of  the  family  was  iu  Suffolk,  near 
Ipswich,  perliaps  Barham,  hut  families  of  im- 
portance of  this  name  have  lived  and  been 
numerous  in  Durham.  Ilamjishire,  Norfolk, 
Somerset.  Yorkshire  and  other  counties. 

( I)  ^[ichael  r>act)n.  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
horn  about  1575.  probably  in  county  SutTolk, 
l-~ngland.  Fte  went  from  Kngland  to  the  north 
of  Ireland  in  1^133.  and  seven  years  later  came 
to  Xew  England  with  Sanntel  Cooke  and  John 
Smyth,  also  from  L'lster.  Ireland.  They  were 
proposed  as  proprietors  of  the  town  of  Ded- 
ham.  Massachusetts.  May  23.  1640.  and  the 
records  show  that  it  was  "agreed  ujion  that  the 
Towne  of  Dedham  shall  entertain  Mr.  Saml. 
Cooke,  together  with  his  estate,  and  also  Mr. 
Smith  and  Mr.  I '.aeon,  all  from  Ireland,  and 
afford  to  them  such  accomdation  of  ujjland  and 
meadow  as  their  estates  shall  require."  From 
a  record  made  the  next  month  it  would  apj^ear 
that  the  wife  of  Bacon  preceded  him.  He 
signed  the  famous  Dedham  Church  covenant. 
His  wife  was  admitted  to  the  church  Septem- 
ber 17.  1641.  and  died  .\pril  2.  1648.  In  1644 
he  gave  of  his  land  to  the  town  for  one  of  the 
highways  ( j).  364,  Gen.  Reg.  1902).  He  died 
.\pril  18.  i(')48.  the  same  month  as  his  wife. 
His  will,  dated  four  days  earlier,  mentions  all 
his  children  e.Kce[)t  .\lice.  who  died  the  month 
previous.  The  inventory  was  dated  .April  20. 
1^)49.  and  the  estate  amounted  to  nearly  fifty- 
five  poun<ls.  Some  writers  state  that  William 
Bacon,  of  .Salem,  was  a  brother ;  he  also  was 
an  Englishman  born,  who  lived  in  Dublin, 
Ireland,  in  1639;  his  wife  Rebecca  was  sister 
of  Humphrey  Potter,  wlio  was  slain  in  a  massa- 
cre in  Ireland,  and  daughter  of  Thomas  Potter, 
sometime  mayor  of  Coventry.  England.  Chil- 
dren of  Michael :  i.  Michael,  born  1608;  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Daniel,  was  of  W'oburn,  1640; 
of  Bridgewater :  of  Xevvton,  1669:  admitted 
freeman  May  26.  1647.  3.  John,  admitted  free- 
man at  Dedham.  1^)47:  died  June  17.  1683.  4. 
Alice,  married.  March  31.  1647.  Thomas  Ban- 
croft, who  died  March  24,  1648:  she  died 
March  29.  1648.  5.  .Sarah,  married,  .\pril  14. 
1648.  Anthony  Hubbard,  oi  Dedham:  died 
1652. 

(II )  Michael  (2  ).  son  of  Michael  (  1  )  Bacon, 
was  born  in  England,  in  1608.  as  indicated  by 
his  deposition  on  June  17.  1668.  stating  his  age 
as  about  sixty  years.  He  went  to  Ireland  with 
his  father,  and  came  to  .America  with  him.  He 
subscribed  to  the  town  orders  for  W'oburn.  and 
became  one  of  the  original  proprietors  in  1640. 
He  was  chosen  surveyor  of  highways  in  Woburn 


in  i(>44.  He  bought  of  Roger  Shaw  in  ir)48  a 
farm  in  the  norihwest  part  of  Cambridge,  now 
within  the  town  of  Bedford,  including  all  the 
meadow  adjoining  the  Great  .Swam]),  near  the 
east  corner  of  the  town  of  Concord,  on  the 
Shawshin  river,  on  whicii  Bacon  is  said  to  have 
built  a  mill  before  i'>75.  which  is  now  or  was 
lately  standing.  In  a  mortgage  recorded  June 
8.  1675,  he  was  called  a  citizen  of  Billerica.  In 
.August.  1675,  the  town  of  I'.illerica,  in  provid- 
ing defense  against  the  Indians  in  King  l^hilip's 
war.  assigned  Michael  Bacon  to  garri.son  No. 
10.  under  Timothy  Brooks.     He  died  July  4, 

iTiSS.     He  married  (first)   Mary  ,  died 

.August  26.  ifi^~,:  (second)  October  26.  1655. 
Mary  Richardson,  died  May  19.  1670:  (third) 
.Xoveuiber  28.  1670.  Mary  Noyes.  Children: 
I.  .Michael,  born  1640:  mentioned  below.  2. 
Elizabeth.  January  4.  1642.  at  W'oburn.  3. 
Sarah,  .\ugust  24.  1644,  at  W'oburn. 

(HI)  Michael  (3).  son  of  Michael  (2) 
P>acon.  was  born  in  1640.  i)rol)ably  in  Charles- 
town,  where  bis  father  was  located  for  a  time 
before  going  to  W'oburn.  i  le  was  a  shoemaker 
by  trade.  He  was  mentioned  in  a  deed  by  his 
father  October  4.  1666,  as  Michael,  Jr.  He 
bought  of  Rev.  Mr.  Mitchell  the  farm  of  five 
hundred  acres  for  two  hundred  jiounds  in  July, 
1682.  This  farm  was  granted  originally  l)y  the 
town  of  Cambridge  to  its  minister  in  if^^z.  It 
was  on  the  Shawshin  river,  included  a  mill, 
and  was  known  for  many  years  afterwards  as 
the  I'.acon  homestead.  From  Michael,  third 
of  the  name,  are  descended  many  ])rominent 
men  in  Picdford  and  vicinity  during  the  past 
two  hundred  years.  His  house,  at  last  accounts 
still  standing,  was  built,  it  is  said,  before  1700. 
.Six  later  generations  have  been  born  or  livefi 
on  the  homestead.  Of  the  twenty-six  miiuile- 
men  from  Bedford  in  the  Concord  fight,  six 
were  I'acons.  all  of  this  family,  and  two  others 
were  in  the  company  of  militia  in  that  engage- 
ment. Nine  Bacons  were  reported  as  liable 
for  nn'litary  duty  in  the  town  of  Bedford.  May 
i.^'  '77.S-  ''it'  "History  of  Bedford"  also 
mentions  the  musical  ability  that  seems  char- 
acteristic of  the  family.  Michael  I'.acon  died 
at  Bedford,  .\ugust  13.  1707.  He  married. 
March  22.  if/n.  .Sarah  Richardson,  died  .Au- 
gu.st  15.  if)94.  daughter  of  Thomas  Richardson. 
Children:  i.  .Mary,  born  March  i.  ifi6i,  in 
W'oburn.  2.  .Sarah,  born  .August  24.  i'V')3.  at 
W'oburn.  3.  .Abigail,  born  at  W'oburn.  March 
5.  ifif/)-j.  4.  Jonathan,  Ixirn  at  Billerica,  July 
14,  1^)72  :  mentioned  below.  5.  Xathaniel.born 
Sci)tembcr  18.  1675.  at  Billerica.  6.  Josiah, 
born  .August  20,  1678,  died  October  14,  1723. 


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7.  Ruth,  biini  July  24.  i()8i.  at  Rillerica.  8. 
Benjamin,  burn  1683,  at  Bedford,  died  Novem- 
ber 19.  1 7-1". 

(I\')  Jonathan,  son  of  Michael  (2)  Bacon, 
was  born  at  Billerica,  July  14,  1672.  and  died 
January  12,  1754.  He  was  a  leading  citizen  of 
Billerica,  and  in  1669  was  approved  to  keep  an 
crdinarv.  lie  and  two  of  his  brothers  were 
in  the  Indian  wars  with  ".Major  Lane"  in  1706. 
He  was  de]nity  to  the  general  court  from  Biller- 
ica in  1726.  and  selectman  in  17 19  and  1727. 
He  was  one  of  the  petitioners  for  the  forma- 
tion of  the  town  of  Bedford,  and  as  a  principal 
inhabitant  was  appointed  to  assemble  the  first 
town  meeting,  October  6.  1729,  when  he  was 
chosen  one  of  the  first  selectmen.  He  married 
(first)  January  3.  T694,  Elizabeth  Giles,  died 
1738;  (second)  September  22.  173c;.  Elizabeth 
Hancock,  widow  of  Benjamin  Wyman.  of  W'o- 
burn.  Children,  born  in  Billerica:  T.  Eliza- 
beth, November  26.  1695.  2.  Sarah,  December 
25,  1696;  married  Israel  Putnam.  3.  .\nna. 
.April  28,  1698,  died  October  8.  1698.  4.  Jona- 
than, December  18,  1700:  mentioned  below. 
5.  Mary.  Se])tember  18.  1702.  6.  Bridget,  Jan- 
uary 5,  170(1-7.    7.  .\nna.  .August  19,  1709. 

(\')  Jonathan  (2).  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
Racon,  was  born  at  Billerica,  December  18, 
1700.      He   lived   in    Bedford,   Massachusetts, 

and  married  Rutii .     He  came  to  U.x- 

bridge.  Massachu.setts,  in  1733,  and  owned  the 
water  power  at  what  is  now  Whitinsville.  He 
sold  to  his  son  Jonathan  six  luuidred  acres  of 
land  on  the  Miunfurd  river,  with  mills,  also 
a  farm  of  two  luuidred  acres  adjoining  or 
near  the  larger  tract,  fiien  in  Sutton.  The 
record  of  his  family  is  in  Sutton  from  1741 
to  1746.  He  died  before  February.  1764. 
The  Sutton  history  says  his  homestead  was  in 
that  part  of  Sutton  now  Upton.  Children:  i. 
William,    born    in    Bedford,    died    voung.      2. 

William,  married  Mary ;  lived  in  Sutton. 

3.  Jonathan,   settled    in    Dudley,   had   a   large 

familx- ;   luarried    .Martha .     4.   James, 

mentioned  below.  3.  Daniel  (  ?),  settled  in 
Charlton.  (>.  .\mos.  died  September  12.  1741. 
7.  Ivlizabeth,  Iwrii  at  Sutton,  .\ugust  28,  174T  : 
married,  .\ugust  23.  1759,  Joshua  Hicks.  8. 
David,  born  .\])ril  26.  1744.  at  Sutton;  mar- 
ried. December  17.  17(17.  Tabitha  \\'akefield. 
9.  Ruth.  Ixirn  May  28.  T74ri;  married,  at  Sutton, 
November  3,  1765. 

(\'I)  James,  son  of  Jonathan  (2)  I'.acon. 
was  horn  about  1733,  in  Uxbridge.  He  settled 
in  Dudley,  Massachusetts,  where  he  married, 
March  30.  17C10.  Martha  Jewell,  of  a  distin- 
guished Connecticut  family.     He  was  a  singer 


of  note  in  his  day.  and  when  a  young  man 
taught  school,  .\bout  1763  he  removed  from 
Dudley  to  Charlton,  and  five  years  later  to 
Brimfield,  Massachusetts.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolution.  Children,  the  first  two  of 
whom  were  in  Dudley,  the  next  two  in  Charl- 
ton and  the  others  in  Brimfield:  i.  Mary, 
born  February  or  September  17.  1761  ;  mar- 
ried Thomas  Lunibard :  died  December  29, 
1791.  2.  Martha,  born  June  27  or  28.  1762, 
died  Scjiteniber.  1773.  3.  .Abigail,  born  Sep- 
tember 10,  1764:  married  .Abner  Stebbins.  4. 
Sarah,  born  .April  17,  1766;  married,  February 

1,  1786,  Gideon  Eumbard.  5.  James,  born 
May  23,  1768,  died  November,  1768.  baptized 
at  Dudley.  May  30.  6.  Hannah,  born  June  9, 
.'769,  bajjtized  at  Dudley:  married,  November 
ig,  1789,  Gardner  Weyman.  7.  John,  born  .Au- 
gust 30.  1 77 1,  died  September.  1773.  8.  Chloe, 
born  March  19.  1774,  died  September,  1773. 
9.  .Amasa.  born  June  13.  1776;  mentioned 
below.  10.  Patience,  born  .April  9,  1779.  11. 
Cynthia,  born  .April  13,  1781  :  married.  Octo- 
her  2.  1800,  Samuel  Nichols. 

(X'lli  .Amasa.  son  of  James  Bacon,  was 
born  Jure  13.  1776.  died  June  10.  1833.  He 
resided  in  that  part  of  Brimfield  known  as 
Parksville.  and  built  the  first  grist  mill  of  Brim- 
field and  vicinity.  He  married  Hannah  Dodge, 
born  .Vptil  9.  1776,  died  .August  2.  1834.  of  an 
old  Brookfield  family.  Children,  born  at  Brim- 
field:     I.  Rufus  Freeman.  September  2.  1800. 

2.  Lucy  Lee,  February  11.  1802.  died  Decem- 
lier  13.  1803.  3.  .Sarah.  September  14.  1803; 
married.  September  3.  1833.  .Andrew  P.  Fitts, 
i>f  Leicester.  4.  James,  September  3.  1803.  3. 
(u'orge.  May  23,  1807:  meiUioned  below.  6. 
Almiia.  Tuly  10.  1 809 ;  married,  March  i,  1832, 
Jv))ui  W.  Baker,  of  Uxbridge.  7.  Clarissa, 
October  3,  181 1  :  inarried  Roswell  Foskett.  8. 
1  ibcrty,  August  23.  i8t2.  9.  Maria.  February 
18.  n^^iCi:  luarried  Estes  Bond,  of  .Sturbridge  ; 
(  second  )  Henry  Towne.  to.  Fanny,  .August 
23.  1819,  died  September  2(1.  1821.  11.  Diana, 
lune  0.  1821  :  married.  February  23.  1842. 
I-Vederick  S.  Pike. 

(A'lII)  George,  son  of  .Amasa  Bacon,  was 
burn  at  I'.rimfield,  May  23.  1807.  and  died  June 
8.  18' u.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  town  and  followed  the  occupa- 
tion of  farmer.  In  religion  he  was  a  I'nitarian. 
and  in  politics  a  Repuiilican.  He  married 
(first)  December  2^.  1831,  Eunice  Lombard 
(or  LtuubanD,  who  died  childless  .August  2, 
1832.  He  married  (" second)  September  24, 
1834.  Marv  Eliza  Ferry,  born  181 3,  died  Octo- 
ber 23.  i8C>2,  daughter  of  Hezekiah  and  Han- 


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nah  (Fisher)  Ferry.  Her  fatlier  was  one  of 
the  most  substantial  biisness  men  of  Palmer, 
and  left  a  good  farm  to  each  of  his  eight  sons. 
Ilannah  P"isher  was  born  in  Boston ;  her  father 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution  ;  her  mother  was 
a  Cooley,  of  Springfield  :  three  of  her  brothers 
were  sea  captains.     Children  of  second  wife: 

1.  George  Xorval,  horn  July  29,  1835,  died 
.April  ig.  180.=;:  married  Jennie  E.  Munroe: 
lived  at  Fiskdale.  Massachusetts ;  left  no  issue. 

2.  John  Flavel,  born  February  9.  1839,  died 
September  14,  1862.  3.  .Albert  Sherman,  born 
January  17.  1844:  mentioned  below.  4.  Mary 
I''isher.  born  March  1.  1831;  married,  .April 
12.  1876.  Seth  W.  Smith:  now  residing  at 
162  Piney- woods  avenue.  Springfield  :  children  : 
.Alice  Maud  Smith.  Florence  Smith.  Roy  .Smith. 
5.  -Alice  Maud,  born  I'ebruary  8.  1853:  resides 
at  South  Hadley. 

(  IX  )  Albert  Sherman,  son  of  George  Bacon, 
was  born  in  P>rimfield.  Jainiary  17,  1844.  He 
was  educated  in  the  ])ublic  schools  and  Hitch- 
cock .Academy.  He  is  now  (^igcxj)  living  in 
Dorchester.  ^Iassachusetts.  He  married.  Octo- 
ber 6,  1867,  Cynthia  Leonard,  of  W'orthington. 
Massachusetts,  born  November  13.  1842.  died 
February  28,  1899,  daughter  of  \\illiam  and 
ZVIary  S.  C.  (Everett)  Leonard.  Children, 
born  at  Brimfield :  i.  Fanny  Gertrude.  July 
19  i8fi8;  resides  at  420  Washington  street, 
Dorchester:  married  Edwin  Packenliam  Rug- 
gles.  of  Milton,  Massachusetts:  child,  Helen 
Ruggles.  2.  (jeorge  .Albert,  .August  27,  i86(); 
mentioned  below.  3.  Clarence  Xorval,  born  at 
W'ales.  Massachusetts,  December  4,  1871  :  mar- 
ried Rose  Martha  Mayforth.  of  Springfield: 
children :  i.  Doris  Xewberth.  born  August  4, 
1900:  ii.  Rosalind  .Alberta.  March  i,  1902:  iii. 
Xorval  .Albert.  October  2,  1903.  4.  Ruth  Gray, 
born  at  W'ales,  Massachusetts,  .August  21, 
1874;  resides  with  her  father  in  Dorchester. 
5.  Grace  Mabel,  born  at  Northampton,  Alassa- 
chusetts.. April  27.  1878:  resides  with  her  father. 
Ci.  Tane  May.  born  at  Hinsdale.  Xew  Hamp- 
shire. May  27.   1880:  resides  with  her  father. 

(X)  George  .Albert,  son  of  .Albert  Sherman 
P.acon.  was  born  in  Brimfield.  ATassachusetts. 
.August  27.  \RCx).  lie  attended  the  public 
schools  in  Xorthampton,  Massachusetts,  and 
Hinsdale.  Xew  Hampshire,  also  Boston  Uni- 
versity College  of  Liberal  .Arts  and  Boston 
I'niversity  School  of  Law.  graduating  from  the 
latter  in  i8fJ5:  also  studied  law  in  the  office  of 
Dean  Edmund  H.  T'ennett,  in  P>oston.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1895.  and  com- 
menced practice  as  attorney  at  law  in  Spring- 
field. June  17.  1895,  where  he  has  enjoyed  a 


large  practice,  and  is  one  of  the  best  known 
and  nH)st  successful  corporation  lawyers  in 
Western  Massachusetts.  He  is  always  active 
in  all  important  matters  for  civic  advancement. 
.As  a  Re]iublican  he  has  been  prominent  in  city 
politics,  having  hekl  several  offices  of  distinc- 
tion, lie  is  a  member  of  the  Springfield  Loilge 
of  Masons.  De  Soto  Lodge  of  Odd  I'ellows,  ths 
.'^pringfielil  Hoard  of  Trade,  the  Xayassct  Club, 
W  iiitlircip  Club.  S]iringfield  Country  Club,  and 
Phi  Delta  Phi.  legal  fraternity. 

He  married.  January  22,  1902,  Mabel  Maria 
Sedgwick,  of  I'oston.  born  Xovember  13,  187(1, 
in  .Adams.  Massachusetts,  daughter  of  I'red- 
erick  R.  and  Mary  (  Kilmer)  Sedgwick. 


Jeremiah  Xorcross,  immigrant 
.X(_)l\CROSS  ancestor,  came  from  luigland 
to  .America  in  1638,  and  from 
Bond's  "History  of  W'atertown"  we  learn  that 
he  was  a  i)ro])rietor  in  that  place  as  early  as 
i'')42,  his  family  then  consisting  of  his  wife 
and  three  children — Xathaniel,  Richard  and 
Sarah.  The  original  homestead  in  W'atertown 
consisted  of  about  twenty-six  acres,  the  title  to 
which  was  held  within  the  family  for  more 
than  one  hundred  and  si.xty  years.  A  portion 
of  this  estate  was  later  purchased  by  the  L'nited 
.•States  government,  and  is  now  the  location  of 
the  W'atertown  Arsenal.  The  senior  Xorcross, 
in  if>54.  when  arranging  to  visit  England,  exe- 
cuted a  will  in  which  the  various  members  of 
his  family  are  mentioned,  leaving  at  his  death 
the  greater  ])art  of  his  estate  to  his  son  Richard. 
The  brother  Xathaniel  received  the  degree  of 
-A.  1'..  at  Catherine  Hall  College.  Cambrirlgc, 
1636-7.  was  called  to  become  the  minister 
at  t.ancaster.  Massachusetts,  and  signed  with 
others  a  petition  to  the  general  court  to  jilant  a 
settlement  there.  But  there  being  so  much 
delay  in  i)reparing  for  the  settlement  and  build- 
ing the  early  houses  that  his  attention  was  called 
in  another  direction,  he  is  said  to  have  returned 
to  England  in  1646.  Jeremiah  Xorcross  mar- 
ried .Adrean  .Smith.  He  died  in  England  in 
1657.  Children:  i.  Xathaniel,  born  in  Lon- 
don :  married  Mary  Gilbert,  f>f  Tauntr)n.  2. 
Richard,  mentioned  belf)W.  3.  .Sarah,  married 
I'raiicis  Massy. 

fll)  Richard,  son  of  Jeremiah  Xorcross, 
was  born  in  England,  in  1621.  aufl  was  the 
possessor  of  a  small  estate  at  \\'atertf)wn.  Mass- 
achusetts, in  1642.  He  was  the  first  school 
master  in  that  town,  from  1651  to  about  1700 
followed  the  occupation  of  a  school  teacher, 
and  fr)r  nearly  a  f|uarter  of  a  century  was  the 
only  jjcrson  in  the  town  to  fill  that  office.     He 


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married  (tirst)  June  24,  1650,  Mary  Brooks, 
who  died  in  1672;  (second)  November  18, 
1673,  Susannah  Shattuck.  who  (Hed  December 
II,  1686,  widow  of  William  Shattuck.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Mary,  born  August  27,  1652,  died 
1661.  2.  Jeremiah,  born  March  3.  1655,  died 
unmarried.  3.  .Sarah,  born  December  28,  165 1  ; 
married.  .September  23,  1680,  Joseph  Childs, 
Jr.  4.  Richard,  born  .August  4.  1660;  mentioned 
below.  5.  Mary,  born  July  10,  1663;  married, 
April  2,  1712,  John  Stearns.  6.  Nathaniel, 
born  December  18,  1665.  7.  Samuel,  May  4, 
167 1. 

(Ill)  Richard  (2),  son  of  Richard  (i)  Nor- 
cross,  was  born  in  Watertown,  .\ugust  4,  1660, 
and  resided  in  Weston,  Massachusetts.  lie 
married  (first)  .Vugust  10,  1686,  Rose,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Woodward,  of  Watertown;  (sec- 
ond) .August  6,  1695.  Hannah  Saunders,  who 
died  May  14.  1743.  Children  of  first  wife, 
born  at  Weston:  i.  Richard,  December  30, 
1687.  2.  Samuel.  October  4,  1689.  3.  .Abigail, 
July  II.  1692.  Children  of  second  wife:  4. 
John,  December  28.  1696.  5.  Hannah,  Febru- 
ary 16.  1699.  6.  Joseph,  July  i,  1701  :  resided 
at  Weston  and  Putnam.  7.  Jeremiah,  July  20, 
1703;  resided  in  Lunenburg.  8.  Rose,  March 
20,  1708;  married,  October  20,  1733,  Edmund 
Mason,  of  Boston.  9.  Peter,  September  28, 
1710;  resided  in  Mcndon.  10.  William,  men- 
tioned below. 

(I\')  William,  son  of  Richard  (2)  Norcross, 
was  born  in  Weston,  March  14,  1715,  and 
resided  in  .Sudbury.  He  married,  November 
6,  174 — ,  Lydia  Wheeler,  born  March  25,  1722, 
daughter  of  John  Wheeler,  aiid  a  descendant 
of  Thomas,  of  Concord.  Children,  born  at 
Sudbury:  I.  William,  March  18,  1742,  died 
young.  2.  Daniel.  March  9,  1745.  3.  Sarah, 
Octolier  I,  I74'^>.  4.  William.  September  20, 
1748;  mentioned  below.  5.  Sarah,  June  3, 
.1759;  married,  1779.  C.eorge  Fillmore,  who 
was  in  the  revolution. 

(V)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (i  )  Nor- 
cross, was  born  September  20,  1748,  died  .Au- 
gust 14,  1803.  lie  married,  November  17, 
1774,  Sarah  Marsh,  of  Sturbridge,  born  Febru- 
ary 13,  175^),  died  January  9.  1823.  He  laid 
out  the  burying  ground  at  Monson  and  was  the 
first  to  be  buried  there.  He  built  the  old  house 
in  1775,  "C)^^'  occupied  by  S.  l-".  Cushman  Sons 
&  Company.  A  William  Norcross  from  Mass- 
achusetts was  in  the  revolution,  second  lieuten- 
ant in  Captain  John  Mott's  company.  Colonel 
Elias  Dayton's  regiment  (Third  New  Jersey) 
in  1777.  He  resigned  November  11,  1777,  on 
account  of  illness.      Chilchcn  :      i.    [oel.   born 


August  6,  177(>'.  mentioned  below.  2.  Amos, 
born  June  10,  1778;  proprietor  of  Monson 
Hotel:  died  .August  27,  1853.  3.  Sarah,  born 
.May  29.  1780 :  died  September  2.  1863  :  married 
Rufus  Flynt  (see  Flyntj.  4.  Betsey,  born 
October  16,  1783;  married  Timothy  Packard, 
who  died  March  15,  1865,  aged  eighty-three 
years;  she  died  .August  6,  1812:  children:  i. 
Lanna  Packard,  born  October  20,  1805.  died 
181 1  :  ii.  William  N.  Packard,  born  February 
25,  1809,  died  1878:  iii.  Fairbanks,  born  May 
8,  1812.  5.  William,  born  .August  4,  1785; 
resided  at  Brimfield.  Massachusetts,  merchant ; 
died  October  2j.  1813.  6.  Erasmus,  born  July 
22,  1794:  resided  in  New  York  City;  died  Au- 
gust 23,  1874.  aged  eighty  years. 

(\T)  Joel,  son  of  William  (2)  Norcross, 
was  born  .August  6,  1776.  He  owned  much 
real  estate,  building  a  laVge  number  of  houses 
for  investment.  He  established  the  Hampden 
County  Cotton  Mills,  and  was  one  of  the 
principal  stockholders  of  the  corporation.  He 
was  one  of  the  original  promoters  and  builders 
of  the  Petersham  and  Monson  turnpike  from 
the  Connecticut  line  to  New  Hampshire :  and 
one  of  the  large  stockholders  and  a  director  of 
the  Western  railroad,  as  that  section  of  the 
lioston  &  Albany  road  between  Worcester  and 
.Albany  was  originally  called.  He  was  the 
founder  of  Monson  .Academy,  and  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Congregational  church  at  Mon- 
son. He  married  (first)  December  16,  1798, 
Betsey  Fay.  born  November  5,  1777,  died  Sep- 
tember 3,  1821^  (genealogy  in  manuscript  in 
library  of  New  England  Historic  Cenealogical 
Society,  Boston).  He  married  (second)  Janu- 
ary fS,'i834,  Sarah  \aill.  born  March  29,  1788. 
died  .April  25,  1854.  daughter  of  Rev.  Joseph 
\'aill.  of  Hadlyme.  Connecticut.  He  died 
Mav  5.  1846.  Children  of  first  wife,  born 
at  Monsi)n :  i.  Hiram.  March  31,  1800, 
died  February  26.  1S29.  2.  Austin.  Febru- 
arv  2-,.  1802.'  3.  Emily.  July  3.  1804:  mar- 
ried. May  7.  1828,  Edward  Dickinson.  4. 
William  Otis,  September  13,  1806.  of  Newark, 
.New  Jersey ;  died  January  24.  1863.  5.  Eli, 
September  20,  1809,  died  October  20.  181 1.  6. 
I.avinia.  September  22,  1812;  married.  Nch 
viMiiber  4,  1834,  I.oring  Norcross.  7.  .Alfred, 
lulv  16.  181 5;  mentioned  below.  8.  Nancy 
Fay.  October!  3,  1818.  9-  Joel  W..  November 
15.  1821  ;  author  of  "Fay  Genealogy"  men- 
tioned above,  and  of  a  manuscrijit  genealogy 
of  the  Norcross  family  in  the  same  librar>-; 
resided  at  Lynn.  Massachusetts;  married.  Jan- 
uary 17,  1854.  Lannisa  IL  Jones,  born  in  Chi- 
cago.   .Aprif  26,    1833:   died   May  4.    1862.   in 


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41. 


New  York  City:  married  (second)  April  26, 
1866,  Maggie  P.,  daiiglitcr  of  Elislia  Gunnison, 
of  Roxbury. 

( \TI )  Alfred,  son  of  Joel  Xorcross,  was 
born  in  Monson,  July  16.  1815.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  tlie  public  schools  of  his  native  town. 
He  was  first  a  clerk-  in  the  general  store,  then 
proprietor  of  a  livery  stable.  When  his  father 
died  he  succeeded  to  his  business,  and  was 
occupied  largely  in  the  management  of  his  real 
estate  and  other  pro])erty.  He  was  a  prominent 
and  influential  citizen,  active  in  public  affairs, 
selectman  of  Monson  for  a  number  of  years. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational 
church.  He  married,  January  20.  1841.  Olivia 
Chapin,  born  January  26,  i8i6,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Olivia  (Dickinson)  Chajjin.  She 
died  F'ebruary  9,  i8y8,  and  he  died  December 
5,  1888.  Children,  born  in  Monson:  i.  Eliza- 
beth Porter,  May  12,  1843,  died  young.  2. 
Maria  Olivia,  October  29,  1845,  died  aged  five 
years.  3.  .Arthur  Dickinson,  Xovember  7, 
1848:  mentioned  below.  4.  Herbert  Chapin, 
November  8.  1855  :  mercliant  at  Monson  :  mar- 
ried, December  25,  1884,  Martha  C,  daughter 
of  John  L.  and  .'^arah  P.acon,  of  P.rimfield.  5. 
Edward  Dickinson,  Sejitember  3,  i860,  died 
aged  eighteen  months. 

(\'ni)  Hon.  .Arthur  Dickinson  Xorcross, 
son  of  .Alfred  Xorcross,  was  born  Xovember  7, 
1848,  at  Monson.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  and  the  academy  in  his  native  town, 
and  the  Massachusetts  .Agricultural  College  at 
.Amherst,  where  he  was  graduated  in  187 1.  in 
the  first  class  taking  their  degrees  at  this  insti- 
tution. He  then  worked  two  years  in  the  straw 
shop  of  Merrick.  Fay  &  Company,  of  Monson, 
as  an  inspector.  Tn  1873  he  was  appointed 
clerk,  and  later  assistant  postmaster  in  the 
postoffice  at  Monson.  He  was  ap|)ointed  post- 
master in  1881  and  served  until  ]kSC),  when  he 
engaged  in  mercantile  business.  His  store  was 
destroyed  by  fire  in  Xovember,  1893,  and  he 
did  not  resume  business.  His  time  has  been 
occupied  in  the  management  of  his  real  estate 
and  in  attending  to  various  offices  and  trusts. 
He  is  a  learling  Republican  in  this  section  and 
has  been  elected  to  many  offices  of  responsi- 
bility and  honor.  He  was  elected  water  com- 
missioner of  the  town  in  1894,  and  has  been 
chairman  of  the  board  to  the  present  time: 
.selectman  ten  years,  and  chairman  during  that 
time  :  road  commissioner  for  two  years ;  mem- 
ber of  the  school  committee  several  years ;  and 
chief  engineer  of  the  fire  department  for  a 
number  of  years.  He  represented  the  first 
Hampden  district  in  the  general  court  in  1904- 


1905  and  1906:  and  in  1908  and  i<K>)  he  was 
stale  senator  from  the  W'orcester-l  lampden 
district,  lie  has  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the 
legislation  of  those  years  he  has  been  in  the 
general  court,  and  has  held  places  on  important 
committees,  lie  is  a  trustee  of  the  Monson 
.Savings  Hank  :  director  of  the  Monson  National 
i'laid-c:  director  of  the  Monson  I'ree  Library, 
and  trustee  of  the  .Monson  .Academy,  lie  is 
gifted  musically,  and  has  sung  from  time  to 
time  in  quartettes  and  choruses  in  Monson, 
.Amherst,  Worcester,  Boston,  and  various  other 
places,  and  has  directed  many  musical  organi- 
zations. He  was  a  member,  while  in  college, 
of  the  Washington  Irving  Literary  .Society, 
and  its  first  president :  and  member  of  the 
1)  (!  K  fraternity.  lie  was  on  the  base  ball 
nine,  and  one  of  the  winning  boat  crew  of  1X71. 
He  married,  January  4,  1882,  .Augusta  \'. 
Kinney,  born  l-'ebruary  4,  i860,  daughter  of 
Ceorge  Kinney.  Children,  born  at  Monson  :  i. 
June,  June  19,  1884.  2.  .Arthur  Dickinson,  Jr., 
November  8,  1895.     3.  Grace,  died  in  infancy. 


There  appears  great  confusion 
PI  I  ILLH'S    in  the  records  as  to  the  identity 

of  John  Phillips,  the  immigrant 
to  New  Plymouth.  Governor  Bradford  states 
that  "John  I'hillips  came  to  Plymouth  as  a 
servant  seeking  service  and  a  change  of  mas- 
ters in  1630."  This  has  been  the  subject  of 
nuR-h  controversy  and  the  occasion  of  some 
corres])ondenco  between  the  Massachusetts  Bay 
Puritans  and  the  Plymouth  Pilgrims.  This  John 
Phillips,  according  to  the  Plymouth  Colony 
Wills  as  recorded  and  published  in  the  Cjene- 
alogical  Advertiser,  Vol.  HI,  p.  28,  was  aged 
eighty-seven  years  at  the  time  he  made  his  will, 
October  20,  1691,  which  would  bring  his  birth 
vear  1602  and  his  age  when  he  resided  in 
Plymouth  Colony  in  1630  as  twenty-eight  years 
which  is  beyond  the  period  of  life  in  which  it 
was  usual  for  servants  to  be  under  bonds  of 
service.  .As  no  mention  is  made  of  his  first 
marriage,  or  of  the  birth  of  children  by  his 
first  wife,  on  the  Plymouth  Records,  we  are 
bound  to  assume  that  he  harl  a  wife  an<l  chil- 
dren before  he  came  to  the  Colony.  There  is 
no  record  e.xcei)t  that  statement  of  Wintbrop 
that  he  was  an  immigrant  of  1630.  He  is  on 
record  as  having  purchased  land  at  Dnxbury 
in  1639,  and  of  immediate  grants  of  land  being 
made  to  him  by  the  colony,  adjacent  to  his 
proj)erty,  which  facts  would  inflicate  him  to 
have  been  at  that  time  a  man  of  i)roperty  and 
already  rif  the  responsibility  that  falls  ui)on 
freemen  with  family.    Then  his  son,  John  (2), 


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was  killed  by  lightning  in  1658.  when  about 
twenty-five  years  of  age,  another  proof  of  an 
early  marriage.  In  1643  he  was  an  inhabitant 
of  Duxbiiry,  his  name  appearing  on  the  records 
as  being  able  to  bear  arms  and  this  takes  it 
out  of  the  possibility  that  this  John  was  his 
son  and  not  the  patriarch.  In  1653  he  was 
engaged  in  a  law  suit  with  a  Marshfield  citizen ; 
he  was  constable  of  Marshfield  in  1657;  was 
propounded  as  a  freeman  of  that  town  in  1659, 
but  it  does  not  a]5i)ear  that  he  took  the  oath 
of  freeman  to  which  he  was  entitled  and  could 
have  claimed.  He  appears  to  have  had  sons: 
John,  Samuel  and  Jeremiah,  and  a  daughter 
Mary,  according  to  the  tract  published  by  Dr. 
Shurtlefif  entitled  "Lightning  in  Marshfield," 
etc..  and  the  fact  that  John  Phillips,  Jr.,  accord- 
ing to  the  Plymouth  Records,  Court  Orders, 
\'ol.  Ill,  p.  141,  reading  the  verdict  of  the 
inquest  held  upon  the  death  of  John  Phillips, 
Jr.,  names  the  place  in  which  it  occurred  as 
"Mr.  Buckley's,"  clearly  a  clerical  error,  in- 
tended for  "Mr.  Bulkley,"  the  minister  who 
had  formerly  occupied  the  house  then  occupied 
by  the  victim  of  the  stroke  of  lightning,  as  it 
is  called  in  the  official  in(|uest  "his  dwelling." 
This  would  indicate  that  he  met  death  in  the 
house,  but  not  necessarily  that  it  was  his  house, 
as  no  mention  is  made  of  his  wife  or  children, 
and  it  is  quite  apparent  that  Timothy  William- 
son was  the  householder  and  that  John  Phillips, 
Jr.,  took  refuge  in  the  home  from  the  tempest 
then  raging.  We  will  now  trace  the  family 
through  the  successive  generations  to  meet  the 
objects  of  this  article,  with  the  best  obtainable 
data  as  to  the  facts. 

(I)  John  Phillips,  born  in  England  about 
1602,  married  and  had  besides  his  wife,  Mary, 
whose  surname  does  not  appear,  three  sons  and 
one  daughter,  when  he  is  found  in  Duxbury 
and  Marshfield,  Plymouth  Colony,  all  the  period 
between  1639  and  ir)9o.  lie  died  in  Marsh- 
field between  the  dates  of  making  his  will, 
October  20,  1691,  and  its  probate,  May  10, 
1692,  and  probably  in  May.  1692,  ten  to  fifteen 
days  before  the  will  was  probated,  which  was 
the  usual  time  allowed  to  elapse.  The  chil- 
dren of  John  Phillips  by  his  first  wife,  who 
came  with  him  to  New  England  and  brought 
witli  her  four  children,  or  who  may  have  died 
in  luigland,  were:  i.  John,  killed  by  lightning 
at  South  Mansfield.  Plymouth  Colony,  July 
31,  1658,  probably  unmarried  and  aged  about 
twenty-five  years.  2.  Samuel,  who  married, 
in  1675,  probably  Mrs.  Mary  Cobb ;  had  three 
children:  Meliitable,  born  1676;  Samuel,  1678, 
who  may  have  been  one  of  the  proprietors  of 


Easton,  Massachusetts  ;  Thomas.  3.  Jeremiah, 
killed  by  lightning,  June  23,  1666,  at  Mansfield, 
unmarried.  4.  Mary,  a  feeble  minded  child 
who  never  married,  but  survived  her  father 
and  all  his  wives.  The  date  of  his  first  wife's 
death  or  the  fact  of  her  presence  in  New  Eng- 
land is  not  on  record.  John  Phillips  married, 
July  6,  1654,  as  his  second  wife,  Grace,  widow 
of  William  Halloway,  of  Duxbury  and  Mans- 
field. She  was  probably  born  in  England, 
1615-20,  and  by  her  marriage  to  William  Hallo- 
way  had  prior  to  March,  1652-53  (the  date  of 
her  husband's  death),  two  daughters,  Grace 
and  Hannah  (or  Jane)  Halloway.  By  this 
marriage  John  Phillips  had  two  sons,  making 
his  fifth  and  sixth  children:  5.  Joseph,  born 
March  31,  1655,  who  did  not  marry  and  was 
killed  in  the  "Captain  Pierce  Fight"  at  Reho- 
both,  March  26,  1677.  6.  Benjamin  (q.  v.). 
The  mother  of  these  children  was  killed  by 
lightning  at  Mansfield,  Massachusetts,  June  23, 
1666,  at  which  time  her  son  Jeremiah  w-as  also 
killed.  Her  husband  and  his  children,  Samuel 
and  Mary,  and  her  children  by  her  first  hus- 
band, Hannah  and  Grace  Halloway,  and  her 
children  by  her  second  marriage,  Joseph  and 
I'enjamin  I^hillips,  and  Mr.  Shurtleff,  his  wife, 
and  two  sons,  William  and  Thomas  Shurtleff, 
and  Mr.  Thomas  Rogers,  w'ere  prostrated 
but  recovered  from  the  effects  of  the  shock. 
This  occurrence  following  the  death  by  light- 
ning of  the  elder  son  John  (2),  eight  years 
before,  created  a  profound  sensation  through- 
out New  England.  John  Phillips  married  as 
his  third  wife,  Mrs.  Faith  Clark  Dotey,  who 
came  from  England  in  the  ship  "Francis," 
from  Ipswich,  1634,  having  tx-cn  born  in  1619, 
daughter  of  Tristram  and  Faith  Clark,  of  Dux- 
bury. She  married  (first)  Edward  Dotey,  the 
".Mayflower"  Pilgrim,  who  died  at  Plymouth, 
.\ugust  23,  1655,  and  by  him  she  had  nine  chil- 
dren. Tlie  ante-nu])tial  agreement  between 
John  Phillips  and  Mrs.  Faith  Clark  Dotey 
appears  in  the  records  of  the  general  court  of 
Plymouth  Colony,  and  is  dated  February  23, 
1666-67,  a"fl  on  March  14,  1666-67.  some  nine 
months  after  the  sudden  and  tragic  death  of 
his  second  wife,  John  Phillips,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-five  years,  married  Mrs.  Faith  Clark 
Dotey,  seventeen  years  his  junior  in  age.  The 
household  of  the  patriarch  immediately  after 
this  marriage  consisted  of  his  third  wife  with 
her  children  by  her  first  husband,  his  son  Sam- 
uel and  daughter  Mary,  child  of  his  first  wife; 
his  sons,  Joseph  and  Benjamin,  children  by  his 
second  wife  :  and  Hannah  (or  Jane)  Halloway, 
daughter  of  his  second  wife,  by  her  first  hus- 


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band.  John  Phillips  lived  with  his  third  wife  and 
their  variuus  children  for  eight  or  more  years. 
By  this  marriage  he  had  no  children.  Mrs. 
Faith  (Clark  Dotey)  Phillips  was  buried  in 
Marshfield,  December  21,  1675,  at  the  age  of 
fifty-six  years,  but  the  exact  date  of  her  death 
is  not  recorded.  John  Phillips  married  his 
fourth  wife,  .\pril  3.  1677,  Mrs.  .\nna  (Hatch) 
Torrey,  of  Scituate,  a  (laughter  of  Elder  Will- 
iam Hatch,  and  widow  of  Lieutenant  James 
Torrey,  to  whom  she  was  married  November 

2,  1643.  Her  own  house  had  just  been  burned 
by  the  Indians  and  as  she  was  the  mother  of 
ten  children  by  her  first  husband,  she  had  need 
of  shelter  and  protection.  She  died  before  her 
second  husband,  although  much  younger,  and 
this  made  the  fourth  wife  he  had  followed  to 
the  grave. 

(  n  )  P)enjamin.  fifth  son  and  sixth  child  of 
John  Phillips,  the  patriarch  immigrant,  and  sec- 
ond son  by  his  second  wife,  Grace  (Halloway) 
Phillips,  was  born  in  Marshfield,  Plymouth 
Colony,  in  1657,  and  lived  with  his  father  up 
to  the  time  of  his  marriage,  January  12,  1682, 
to  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Pit- 
ney I  Thomas,  of  Marshfield.  They  had  seven 
children  born  in  Marshfield  as  follows:  i. 
John,  1682,  married.  1710.  Patience  Stevens, 
who  died  in  November,  1760,  aged  eighty  years. 
Their  child.  Captain  Nathaniel,  born  1713,  mar- 
ried, 1735.  Joanna  White,  who  died  February 

3.  1798.    Captain  Nathaniel  died  May  15,  1795. 

2.  Joseph,  March  29.  1685;  married.  1711, 
^^ary  Fames  and  had  six  children :  Naomi  and 
Elizabeth,  1711:  Elisha,  1713:  .Agatha.  1716; 
Jcrusha,  1721  ;  Mary,  1725.  Joseph  Phillips 
died  and  his  widow  married  Benjamin  Hatch 
in  1740.  3.  Benjamin  (q.  v.).  4.  Sarah,  June 
29,  1689.  5.  Thomas.  January  17,  1691 ;  mar- 
ried (first)  1723,  Mary  (Eames)  Sherman, 
and  by  her  had  six  children:  Obadiah.  1729; 
Thomas.  1731  :  Mary.  1733;  Lydia.  1734-35; 
Mark.  1736:  Deborah.  1739.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) Mrs.  Herman  Allen.  6.  Jeremiah,  1697; 
married  and  Iia<^l  issue:  Isaac,  1703,  married 
Sarah  White.  1729.  died  February  15,  1788-89; 
Bethia.  1705.  married,  1725,  Tchabod  W^ash- 
born.  7.  .Abigail,  1699:  probably  married  James 
Hawks. 

(Ill)  Benjamin  (2).  third  son  of  Benjamin 
(i)  and  Sarah  (Thomas)  Phillips,  was  born 
in  Marshfield,  Mas.sachusetts,  May  20,  1687. 
He  married  (first)  in  1716,  Eleanor  Baker, 
and  by  her  had  three  children:  i.  Jedediah, 
born  in  1717.  died  in  1789.    2.  Benjamin,  1719. 

3.  Captain  John  (q.  v.).  Eleanor  (Baker) 
Phillips    died    in    May,    1726,   and    Benjamin 


Phillips  married  as  his  second  wife.  Desire 
Sherman,  and  by  her  he  had  four  daughters 
as  follows:  4.  Desire,  born  1729.  5.  Eleanor, 
1731.  6.  Penelope,  1735.  7.  Alice,  1742.  De- 
sire (Sherman)  Phillips  died  May  10,  1750. 

(IV)  Captain  John  (2),  third  son  of  Benja- 
min (2)  and  Eleanor  (Baker)  Phillips,  was 
born  about  1721.  He  lived  in  Duxbury  and 
Weymouth,  was  a  captain  in  the  French  ami 
Indian  war.  1775,  married  and  had  three  chil- 
dren, the  first  born  son  being  given  the  name 
of  his  father,  John  (q.  v.). 

(\')  John  (3),  son  of  Captain  John  (2) 
Phillips,  was  born  in  Weymouth,  Massachu- 
setts, about  1755.  He  was  brought  uj)  in  Wey- 
mouth, partook  of  the  military  spirit  of  his 
father,  and  in  the  .American  revolution  became 
a  member  of  the  Continental  army  and  is  sai<l 
to  have  been  a  member  of  the  bodyguard  of 
Washington  but  as  there  were  several  Cap- 
tain John  Phillips  in  the  revolution  and  from 
Plymouth  Colony,  it  is  uncertain  as  to  the 
identity  of  John,  the  son  of  Captain  John  of 
the  French  and  Indian  war..  This  we  do  know 
that  he  was  a  farmer  in  Duxbury  and  a  soldier 
in  the  .American  revolution.  John,  of  Duxbury, 
married  and  had  three  children:  i.  Lemuel. 
2.  Isaac  (q.  v.).    3.  John. 

(\T)  Isaac,  son  of  John  (3)  Phillips,  of 
Duxbury,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Duxbury, 
Norfolk  county,  Massachusetts,  about  1780. 
He  was  a  stone  mason  and  also  a  builder  and 
contractor.  He  married  Rhoda  Litchfield,  of 
Scituate,  and  they  had  ten  children  born  in 
Weymouth  as  follows:  i.  Lucy  .\nn,  .August 
14.  1804.  married  Truman  Whitmarsh,  and 
died  in  Weymouth  in  1881.  2.  Sally.  Septem- 
ber 29,  1805,  married  Frederick  Pope,  of  Wey- 
mouth. 3.  Isaac,  .August  22,  1807.  4.  Mary, 
December  8,  1809,  married  Benjamin  Hallo- 
way.  5.  Joshua,  March  20,  181 2,  married 
.Adeline  Whittier.  6.  Elizabeth.  January  15, 
1814;  married  John  Peterson.  7.  Rhoda  Ann, 
August   II.   1816.  still  living;  married   (first) 

S.Deamon,  deceased  ;  married  (second) 

Monroe.  8.  Lemuel,  March  22.  18 19,  married 
and  lived  with  his  son  in  Quincy,  Massachu- 
setts, reaching  his  ninetieth  birtlulay  in  1909. 
He  had  eleven  children,  nine  of  whom  arc 
living.  9.  John  ((\.  v.).  lo.  Harriet,  Decem- 
ber 27.  1824.  married  Mark  P.Ianchard. 

(\TI)  John  (4).  ninth  child  and  fourth  son 
of  Isaac  and  Rhoda  (Litchfield)  Phillips,  was 
born  in  Weymouth,  Norfolk  county,  Massa- 
chusetts. February  22,  1822.  He  acquired  his 
schof)!  training  in  the  district  .school, and  learned 
the  trade  of  stone  mason,  which  was  the  occu- 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


pation  of  his  father.  He  also  became  an  expert 
carpenter  and  this  led  him  into  the  business  of 
contractor  and  builder.  He  was  one  of  a 
party  of  four  hundred  and  ninety-five  adven- 
turers who  left  home  to  make  a  quick  fortune 
in  the  newly  discovered  gold  mines  of  Cali- 
fornia. They  left  September  i,  1848.  He  was 
a  miner  there  a  part  of  the  time  during  the  nine 
years,  and  on  his  return  to  Massachusetts,  in 
1858,  he  spent  a  number  of  years  in  freighting 
stone  from  Quincy  to  different  jwints  and 
building  sea  walls ;  he  continued  in  this  em- 
ployment until  his  retirement  in  1890.  He 
built  a  new  house  in  Weymouth  as  a  home  for 
his  family,  and  he  also  erected  the  first  house 
built  on  Lincoln  scjuare.  He  was  a  useful  and 
greatly  esteemed  citizen  of  Weymouth.  He 
married,  July  4,  1854,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Robert  and  .\lary  (liinney)  Davis,  of  Wey- 
mouth. She  was  born  September  18,  1831,  and 
died  in  Weymouth,  March  12,  1889.  She  was 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Congregational 
church.  Their  children,  born  in  Weymouth, 
were  as  follows:  i.  John  Wendal,  who  went 
west.  2.  Lizzie,  married  Irwin  Sherman,  of 
South  Weymouth;  children:  Alida  P.,  born 
June  2,  1879,  married,  1903,  W.  C.  Griggs, 
born  August  i,  1878;  Frank  1.,  born  December 
14,  1884,  married,  June  30,  1905,  Gertrude 
Easton.  3.  William,  died  aged  four  years.  4. 
Lester,  died  aged  seventeen  months.  5.  George, 
horn  i860.  T).  Walter,  born  1862,  married 
Mattie  Phillips,  of  Marblehead,  daughter  of 
Michael  Phillips:  children:  Esther  May,  Ixirn 
July  24,  1888,  died  February  7,  1903:  P>ed- 
erick,  born  June  26,  1894.  7.  Henry,  born 
1867.     8.  Ernest,  born  1872,  died  1899. 


This  surname  is  a  place  name 
BUCKI-FA'      cif  ancient  iMiglish  origin,  and 

was  originally  spelled,  in  the 
time  of  King  John,  in  1 199,  liuclough,  and 
later  llulclough.  It  signifies  "a  large  moun- 
tain." 'i'hcre  have  been  many  and  are  still 
variations  in  spelling.  liulkeley  is  the  one 
most  commonly  used,  other  forms  being  P)ulk- 
ley.  P>ulkly  and  liuckley. 

Piaron  Robert  de  P.ulkcley  ( I  )  lived  in  the 
time  of  King  John  (  1 199-2!')).  I'aron  William 
de  Piulkeley  (2)  married  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
I'.utler.  Ilaron  Robert  de  P.ulkcley  (3)  mar- 
ried Jane,  daughter  of  .Sir  William  P.utler. 
P.aron  William  de  liulkeley  (4)  married,  1302, 
Maud,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Davenport.  Baron 

Robert  de  P.ulkcley  (5)  married  .\gnes . 

P.aron  Peter  de  P.ulkcley  (6)  married  Nicola, 
daughter   of   Thomas    I'.ird.      P.aron    John   de 


Bnlkeley  (7),  of  Houghton,  married  .\rderne 
Fitley.  Baron  Hugh  de  Bnlkeley  (8)  married 
1  lelen,  daughter  of  Thomas  Wilbraham.  Baron 
Humphrey  de  Bnlkeley  (9)  married  Grisel 
Moulton.  Baron  William  de  Bnlkeley  (10), 
of  Oakley,  married  Beatrice,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam Hill.  Baron  Thomas  de  Bnlkeley  (11) 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Randelle  Gros- 
venor.  Rev.  Edward  de  Bnlkeley  (12)  was 
born  at  Ware,  Shropshire,  England.  He  was 
admitted  to  St.  John's  College,  Cambridge, 
.April  6,  1560,  and  was  curate  of  St.  Mary's, 
Shrewsbury,  in  1565;  prebend  of  Chester: 
prebend  of  Litchfield  about  1580;  rector  of 
All  Saints.  Odell,  in  the  Hundred  of  Willey, 
Bedfordshire,  where  he  died  and  was  succeeded 
bv  his  eldest  son  Peter,  mentioned  below.  He 
married  Almark  Irlby  (or  Islby),  of  Lincoln- 
shire. 

(XHI)  Rev.  Peter  Bnlkeley,  son  of  Rev. 
Edward  Bnlkeley.  was  born  January  31,  1582-3, 
at  Odell,  Bedfordshire.  England.  He  entered 
St.  John's  College,  Cambridge,  at  the  age  of 
sixteen,  March  22,  1604-5;  fellow  1608,  with 
AL  A.  degree,  and  "said,  but  on  doubtful 
authority,  to  have  proceeded  Bachelor  of  Divin- 
ity." He  succeeded  his  father  as  rector  of 
Odell.  He  was  known  to  be  a  non-conformist, 
but  "the  Lord  Keeper  Williams,  formerly  his 
diocesan,  and  his  personal  friend,  ilesired  to 
deal  gently  with  his  non-conformity"  and  con- 
nived at  it.  as  he  had  at  his  father's  for  twenty 
vears.  but  when  Loud  became  primate  of  Eng- 
land in  1633.  Mr.  Bnlkeley  was  silenced  and 
with  no  hope  of  reinstatement.  He  therefore 
sold  his  estate  and  sailed  for  New  England  in 
1635.  at  the  age  of  fifty-two.  with  his  children, 
on  the  ship  "Susan  and  Ellen.''  His  wife 
Grace,  aged  thirty,  was  enrolled  on  the  ship 
"Elizabeth  and  Ann,"  but  it  is  probable  that 
she  sailed  with  her  husband.  There  is  a  tradi- 
tion in  the  family  that  while  on  the  voyage,  the 
wife  Grace  apiwrently  died.  L'nwilling  to  have 
her  bodv  buried  at  sea,  the  husband  ])leaded 
with  the  captain  to  keep  it  until  they  reached 
jjort.  .\s  no  signs  of  decay  api^eared,  he  con- 
sented, and  on  the  third  day  symptoms  of  vital- 
itv  aj)pearcd.  and  before  land  was  reached  ani- 
mation was  restored.  Though  carried  from  the 
ship  an  invalid  she  recovered  and  lived  to  a 
good  (lid  age.  Rev.  Peter  P.ulkcley  settled  first 
in  Cambridge  and  the  next  year  with  twelve 
others  began  the  settlement  of  Concord.  Three 
years  later  he  received  a  grant  of  three  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  at  Cambridge.  He  was 
teacher  of  the  church  at  Concord  of  which 
Rev.  John  Jones  was  pastor,  and  was  installed 


MASSACIirSRTTS. 


417 


pastor  April  6,  1637.  He  is  always  spoken  of 
at  the  first  minister  of  Concord.  Me  brought 
with  him  from  England  about  six  thousand 
pounds,  most  of  which  he  s|)ent  for  the  good 
of  the  colony.  He  was  a  learned  and  pious 
man.  He  wrote  several  Latin  poems,  some  of 
which  Cotton  Mather,  in  his  "Magnalia," 
quotes,  as  a  part  of  the  sketch  of  his  life.  He 
also  published  a  volume  in  London  in  1646, 
entitled  "The  (;os])el  Covenant."  made  up  of 
sermons  preached  at  Concord,  and  an  elegy  on 
his  friend.  Rev.  Hooker.  He  was  among  the 
first  to  instruct  the  Indians,  and  the  singular 
immunity  of  Concord  from  Indian  attack  was 
largely  credited,  by  tradition,  to  his  sanctity 
and  influence.  He  died  at  Concord,  March  9, 
1658-9.  There  is  a  large  tablet  to  his  memory 
near  the  open  sc|uare  at  Concord.  His  will, 
dated  April  14.  1658.  with  codicils  of  January 
13  and  February  26  following,  was  proved 
June  20,  1659.  Before  his  death  he  gave  many 
books  to  the  library  of  Harvard  College.  He 
married  first,  about  1613.  Jane,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Allen,  of  Goldington.  She  died  at 
Odell,  in  1626.  and  he  married  second,  about 
1634,  Grace  Chetwoode,  born  1602,  daughter 
of  Sir  Richard  and  Dorothy  (Xeedham)  Chet- 
woode. of  Odell.  She  died  April  21.  1669,  at 
Xew  London,  Connecticut,  at  the  home  of  her 
son.    Children  of  first  wife,  born  in  England: 

1.  Edward,  June  17.  1614;  came  to  New  Eng- 
land before  his  father:  died  January  2,  1696. 

2.  Mary,  baptized  .August  24.  1615;  died 
young.  3.  Thomas,  born  .\pril  11.  1617;  mar- 
ried Sarah  Jones :  settled  in  Fairfield.  Con- 
necticut. 4.  Nathaniel,  born  November  29, 
1618:  died  1627.  5.  Rev.  John,  born  Febru- 
ary II.  1 620;. graduated  at  Harvard  with  the 
first  class.  6.  Mary,  born  November  i,  1621  ; 
died  1624.  7.  George,  born  May  17,  1623.  8. 
Daniel,  born  August  28,  1625.  9.  Jabez,  born 
December  20,  1626 ;  flied  young.  10.  Joseph 
(probably),  born  1619.  11.  William,  of  Ips- 
wich, in  1648.  12.  Richard.  Children  of  sec- 
ond wife,  born  in  New  England:  13.  Gershom, 
December  6.  1636:  mentioned  Vlow.  14.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  probably  1638,  married  Rev.  Joseph 
Emerson.  15.  Dorothy,  .August  2,  1640.  16. 
Peter,  .August  12,  1643. 

(XIV)  Rev.  Dr.  Gershom  P.ulkeley,  son  of 
Rev.  Peter  Bulkeley.  was  born  at  Concord,  De- 
cmber  6.  1636,  and  died  December  2.  1713, 
He  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1655,  as 
a  fellow  of  the  college.  In  i()6i  he  became 
the  minister  of  the  Second  Church  at  New 
London.  Connecticut,  and  in  1666-7  removed 
to    Wcthersfield,    where    he    was    installed   as 


pastor.  In  1676  he  asked  for  dismissal  on 
account  of  imjiaired  health,  and  he  thereafter 
devoted  himself  to  the  ]iractice  of  meilicine  and 
surgery,  in  which  he  achieved  much  success 
and  reputation.  He  was  an  ardent  student  of 
chemistry  and  philosophy,  and  master  of  sev- 
eral languages,  and  was  also  an  expert  sur- 
veyor. During  his  pastorate  in  1675  he  was 
appointed  surgeon  to  the  Connecticut  troops 
in  King  Philip's  war,  and  i)laced  on  the  council 
of  war.  The  court  gave  orders  to  have  him 
taken  especial  care  of.  .At  one  time  the  ])arty 
to  which  he  was  attached  was  attacked  by  a 
number  of  Indians  near  Wachusett  Hill,  Mass- 
achusetts, and  in  the  fight  he  received  a  wound 
in  the  thigh.  His  monument  in  the  W'cther.s- 
field  cemetery  says  of  him :  "He  was  honor- 
able in  his  descent,  of  rare  abilities,  excellent 
in  learning,  master  of  many  languages,  ex(|ui- 
site  in  his  skill,  in  divinity,  physic  and  law, 
and  of  a  most  exemplary  and  Christian  life." 
His  will  was  dated  May  28,  1712,  and  jjroved 
December  7,  1713.  He  married,  October  26, 
i()59,  Sarah  Chauncey,  born  at  Ware,  Eng- 
land. June  13.  1631.  died  June  3.  1699.  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  C'harles  Chauncey,  president  of 
Harvard  College.  Children:  i.  Catherine, 
born  about  i6(x):  married  Richarfl  Treat.  2. 
Dorothy,  born  about  1662:  luarried,  July  5, 
i()93.  Lieutenant  Thomas  Treat;  died  1757. 
3.  Dr.  Charles,  born  about  1663.  4.  Peter, 
married.  March  21,  1700,  Rachel  Talcott :  lost 
at  sea.  5.  Edward,  born  1672.  6.  Rev.  John, 
born  1679. 

( .W  )  Rev.  John  Bulkeley.  son  of  Rev.  Ger- 
shom P.ulkley.  was  born  in  \\'ethersfield.  Con- 
necticut, in  1679.  He  graduated  at  Harvard 
College  in  1699,  and  studied  diviin'ty.  He  was 
ordained  as  pastor  of  the  church  at  Colchester, 
Connecticut,  December  20,  1703.  He  took  a 
high  rank  among  clergymen  of  his  time,  and 
was  regarded  as  a  famous  casuist  and  sage 
counsellor.  The  following  anecdote  in  regard 
to  him  is  well  authenticated  :  ".A  church  in 
the  neighborhood  had  fallen  into  inihap()y 
division  and  contentions  which  they  were 
unable  to  adjust  among  themselves.  They 
de()iited  one  of  their  ntmiber  to  the  venerable 
Bulkeley  for  his  advice,  with  the  request  that 
he  would  send  it  to  them  in  writing.  It  so 
haj)()ene(l  that  Mr.  Bulkeley  had  a  farm  in  the 
extreme  part  of  the  town,  upon  which  he  had 
located  a  tenant.  In  superscribing  the  two 
letters,  the  one  for  the  church  was  by  mistake 
directed  to  the  tenant,  and  the  one  for  the 
tenant  to  the  church.  The  church  was  con- 
vened in  order  to  hear  the  advice  which  was  to 


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settle  all  their  disputes.  The  moderator  read 
as  follows:  'You  will  see  to  the  repair  of  the 
fences,  that  they  be  built  high  and  strong,  and 
you  will  take  special  care  of  the  old  black  bull.' 
This  mystical  advice  puzzled  the  church  very 
much  at  first,  but  an  interpreter  among  the 
more  discerning  ones  was  soon  found  who 
said:  'Brethren,  this  is  the  very  advice  we 
most  need  ;  the  direction  to  repair  the  fences  is 
to  admonish  us  to  take  good  heed  in  the  ad- 
mission and  government  of  our  members ;  we 
must  guard  the  church  by  our  Master's  laws, 
and  keep  strange  cattle  from  the  fold.  And 
we  must  in  a  particular  manner  set  a  watchful 
guard  over  the  devil,  the  old  black  bull,  who 
has  done  so  much  harm  of  late.'  All  per- 
ceived the  wisdom  and  fitness  of  Mr.  Bulke- 
ley's  advice,  and  resolved  to  be  governed  by  it. 
The  consequence  was  that  all  animosities  sub- 
sided and  harmony  was  restored  to  the 
afflicted  church.  What  the  subject  of  the  letter 
received  by  the  tenant  was,  we  are  not 
informed,  and  what  good  efifect  it  had  upon 
him  the  story  does  not  tell." 

Mr.  Bulkeley  was  one  of  the  largest  land- 
owners in  Colchester,  and  died  intestate,  and 
his  estate  was  divided  July  17,  1733.    Among 
the  property  divided  was  a  mill  and  the  appur- 
tenances, a  large  amount  of  real  estate,  a  negro 
man  Cesar,  and  a  library.     Mr.  Bulkeley  was 
the  author  of  several  volumes.     He  wrote  "A 
Preface    to    R.    Wolcott's    Meditations;"    an 
election  .sermon  in  1713,  entitled,  "The  Neces- 
sity  of   Religion   in   Societies."      In    1724   he 
published  an  "Inquiry  into  the  Right  of  tlie 
Aboriginal  Natives  to  the  Land  in  America." 
In  1729  he  published  "An  Impartial  account 
of  the  late  Debate  at  Lyme,  upon  the  follow- 
ing points:     Whether  it  be  the  will  of   God 
that  the  Infants  of  Visible  Believers  should  be 
baptized;  Whether  sprinkling  be  lawful  and 
sufficient ;   and   whether   the   present   way   of 
maintaining  ministers  by  a  public  rate  or  tax, 
be  lawful."     Dr.   Chauncey  thus  writes  con- 
cerning him :    "Mr.  John  Bulkeley  I  have  seen 
and  conversed  with,  though  so  long  ago  that 
I  formed  my  judgment  of  him  from  my  own 
knowledge.     Mr.  Whittlesey,  of  Wallingford, 
Mr.  Chauncey  of  Durham  and  others  I  could 
mention,   ever    spoke   of   him   as   a   first   rate 
genius;  and  have  often  heard  that   Dummer 
and  he,  who  were  classmates  in  college,  were 
accounted  the  greatest  geniuses  of  that  day. 
The    preference    was   given    to    Dumiiier   in 
regard   of    quickness,   brilliancy   and   wit;   to 
Bulkeley,  in   regard  of  solidity  of  judgment 
and    strength    of    argument.      Mr.    Gershom 


Bulkeley,  father  of  John,  I  have  heard  men- 
tioned as  a  truly  great  man  and  eminent  for 
his  skill  in  chemistry ;  and  the  father  of  Ger- 
shom and  grandfather  of  John,  Mr.  Peter 
Bulkeley,  of  Concord,  was  esteemed  in  his  day 
as  one  of  the  greatest  men  in  this  part  of  the 
world.  But  by  all  that  I  have  been  able  to 
collect,  the  Colchester  Bulkeley  surpassed  his 
predecessors  in  the  strength  of  his  intellectual 
powers.  Mr.  Bulkeley  was  classed  by  Rev. 
Dr.  Chauncey  in  1768,  among  the  three  most 
eminent  for  strength  of  genius  and  powers  of 
mind,  which  New  England  had  produced.  The 
other  two  were  Mr.  Jeremiah  Dummer  and 
Mr.  Thomas  Walter." 

Mr.  Bulkeley  married,  in  1701.  Patience, 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Prentice.  Chil- 
dren;  I.  Sarah,  born  April  8,  1702;  married 
(first)  Jonathan  Trumbull;  (second)  John 
Wells.  2.  Daughter,  born  and  died  May  6, 
1704.  3.  John,  born  April  19,  I7b5 ;  married 
(first)  :\Iary  Gardner,  October  29,  1738; 
(second)  April  16,  1751,  Abigail  Hastings.  4. 
Dorothy,  born  February  28,  1706.  5.  Ger- 
shom, February  4,  1709;  mentioned  below.  6. 
Charles,  December  26,  17 10.  7.  Peter,  No- 
vember 21,  1712.  8.  Patience,  May  21,  1715. 
9.  Oliver,  born  July  29,  1717;  died  January  i, 
1779.  10.  Lticy,  born  June  29,  1720.  11. 
Irene  (twin),  born  February  10,  1722;  died 
February  20,  1722.  12.  Joseph  (twin),  born 
February  10,  1722;  died  February  25,  1722. 

(XVI)  Gershom,  son  of  Rev.  John  Bulke- 
ley, was  born  in  Colchester,  Connecticut,  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1709.  lie  was  a  prominent  citizen 
there,  and  held  many  positions  of  trust  and 
responsibility.  He  married,  November  28, 
1733,  Abigail  Robbins.  Children:  i.  Sarah, 
born  January  10,  1735:  married.  January  17, 
1765.  Joseph  Isham  2.  John,  born  August 
23,  "1738;  mentioned  below.  3.  Joshua,  born 
h'ebruary  24.  1741  ;  married,  -November  9, 
1761,  Lois  Day.  4.  Daniel,  born  Ma)j  13, 
1744;  married,  August  16,  1764,  Dorothy 
Olmsted.  5.  Eunice,  born  May  14,  1747; 
married.  May  25,  1767,  Elisha  Lord.  6. 
David,  born  July  18,  1749;  married  Hannah 
I'.eckwith.  7.  Roger,  born  September  14. 
1 751;  married  Jerusha  Root.  8.  Ann,  born 
May  II,  1758. 

(XVII)  John,  son  of  Gershom  Bulkeley, 
was  born  in"  Colchester,  August  23.  1738.  He 
married.  January  11,  1759,  Judith  Worthing- 
ton.  Children:  i.  John,  born  October  7. 
1759;  married  Theodora  Foote.  2.  William, 
born  August  30,  1761  ;  married  Mary  Cham- 
pion.     3.    Gershom,    born    October    3,    1763; 


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mentioned  below.  4.  Elijah,  born  January  29, 
1 766;' married  Pamelia  Looniii.  5.  Xabby, 
born  December  30.  1769;  married  Roger 
Tainter.  6.  Joshua  Robbins,  born  November 
2,  1 77 1  :  married  Sally  Tainter.  7.  Mary,  born 
P\'bruar\-  2,   1774;  married  Aaron   lluckland. 

8.  Judith,  born  January  30,  1775  ;  married  Sol- 
omon Tainter.  9.  tlurdon,  born  March  15, 
1777;  married  (first)  Fanny  Wright;  (sec- 
ond) Nancy  Porter.  10.  Gad,  born  February 
20,  1779;  married  Orra  Barstow.  11.  Lydia, 
born  April  25,  1781 ;  married  (first)  John 
Worthington :  (second)  Dr.  William  Mason. 
12.  Dan,  born  March  20,  1784;  married  Phebe 
Burnet.  13.  Harriet,  born  January  22,  1787; 
married  Sanmel  Moseley. 

(X\  III)  Gershom,  son  of  John  Bulkeley, 
was  born  in  Colchester,  October  3,  1763.     He 

married  Noble,  widow,  and  removed 

to  Williamstown,  Massachusetts.  Children: 
I.  James,  mentioned  below.  2.  George,  law- 
yer, lived  in  Kinderhook,  New  York.  3.  Will- 
iam, died  in  New  York;  one  child,  William, 
who  lived  in  Dalton,  Massachusetts,  in  1790, 
with  a  family.  4.  Gershom.  5.  Harriet,  died 
unmarried.  6.  Judith,  married  Piatt  Talcott, 
of  Lanesborough.     7.  Mary,  died  unmarried. 

(XIX)  James  Bulkley  (or  Buckley)  son  of 
Gershom  Bulkeley,  was  born  probably  at  Will- 
vinistown.  Massachusetts,  about  1785-7,  He 
!i\ed  in  Catskill,  Troy  and  Kinderhook,  New 
York,  and  settled  finally  about  1821  in  Lee, 
Massachusetts.  He  learned  the  trade  of  paper 
making  and  followed  it  in  various  mills  of 
vvestern  Massachusetts  and  New  York.  He 
adopted  the  spelling  Buckley,  though  others  of 
the  family  for  a  generation  or  two  also  used  it. 
Probably  through  the  town  clerk's  error  the 
name  is  spelled  fUickland  in  the  birth  records 
o'  Lee,  but  is  Buckley  in  the  marriage  records. 
J  had  the  births  of  all  his  children  recorded 
ai  Lee,  with  the  places  of  birth  indicated.  Fie 
married  Clarissa  Bell.  Fie  died  at  Lee.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Hiram,  born  November  27,  1807,  at 
Catskill;  has  children  living  in  Troy.  2.  Jane 
Anne,  born  September  27,  1809,  at  Troy.  3. 
Lucius  G.,  born  June  28,  i8n,  at  Kinderhook. 

4.  .V'illiam,  born  July  2,  1813,  at  Kinderhook. 

5.  Abigail,  July  24,  1815,  at  Kinderhook.  6. 
John,  November  20,  1817,  in  Kinderhook.  7. 
George  Chittington,  April  27,  1821,  in  Kin- 
derhook; mentioned  below.    8.  Martha,  April 

9,  1822;  married  at  Lee,  December  11,  1845, 
Reuben  O.  Brown.  9.  Ann,  born  about  1824; 
married,  June  24,  1846,  at  Lee,  Nathan  Allen. 

(XX)  George  Chittington,  son  of  James 
Buckley,  was  born  in  Kinderhook,  New  York, 


.\pril  27,  1821.  He  removed  with  his  father 
and  the  family  to  Lee,  Alassachusetts,  when 
he  was  about  three  years  old,  and  was  educated 
there  in  the  i)ublic  schools.  He  learned  his 
father's  trade  as  paper-maker.  N\'hen  a  young 
man  he  removed  to  Kingston,  New  York, 
where  he  followed  the  hatter's  trade.  He 
returned  to  Lee  in  1849  and  lived  there,  where 
he  followed  pajjcr-making  the  remainder  of 
his  life.  Fie  was  a  Whig  in  politics,  in  reli- 
gion a  liberal.  He  died  October  31,  1890,  He 
married  Julia,  daughter  of  Lawrence  Keefer 
and  Hannah  (\'on  Steinberg)  Fcltcr,  of 
Kingston.  Her  father  was  ah  iron  worker  by 
trade.  Children,  born  at  Kingston:  i,  James 
Collier,  July  4,  1848,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Icedor,  September  i,  1845,  3.  George  C.  Jr., 
May  20,  1852.  4.  Clara  H.,  February  2,  1856. 
5  Frank  E.,  December  5,  1861.  6.  Fred  E,, 
May  24,  1863, 

(XXI)  James  C,  son  of  George  Chitting- 
ton lUickley,  was  born  at  Kingston,  New 
York,  July  4,  1848.  His  parents  moved  to  Lee 
when  he  was  two  years  old,  and  he  was  edu- 
cated there  in  the  public  schools.  At  the  age 
of  thirteen  he  left  the  high  school  after  one 
year's  study,  and  became  office  boy  of  the 
Holyoke  Paper  Company  at  Flolyoke.  Four 
years  later  he  left  this  concern  to  become 
bookkeejier  for  White,  Corbin  &  Company,  of 
Rockvilie.  Connecticut,  After  a  time  he 
returned  to  Holyoke  as  stock  clerk  for  the 
W'hiting  r'a[)er  Company,  Subsequently  he 
was  for  three  years  receiving  clerk  for  the 
Connecticut  River  railroad  at  Holyoke,  and 
for  three  years  clerk  in  the  general  freight 
office  of  the  Boston  &  .Xlbany  railroad  at 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  and  bookkeeper 
one  year  for  the  Chester  Emery  Company. 
From  1872  to  1881  he  was  bookkeeper  and 
fjaymaster  of  the  Gaylord  Manufacturing 
Com()any  of  Chicopee.  He  was  for  two  years 
bookkeeper  and  paymaster  of  the  Florence 
Sewing  Machine  Company,  and  bookkeei)er 
two  years  for  the  Worthington  Paper  Com- 
pany of  Holyoke,  Massachusetts.  From  1886 
to  1898  he  was  paymaster  and  resident  busi- 
ness manager  of  the  Ames  Manufacturing 
Comi)any.  From  1898  to  1906  he  conduclcd 
an  iron  and  bronze  statuary  foundry  on  his 
own  account  at  Chicopee.  lie  sold  this  busi- 
ness to  the  .Spaldings,  Since  1906  Mr.  I5uck- 
ley  has  been  city  clerk  and  treasurer  of  Chico- 
pee. He  was  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  town 
clerk  in  1883  against  John  White.  The  city 
was  incorporated  in  1890.  In  politics,  he  is  a 
Republican.     He  is  a  prominent  Free  Mason, 


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a  member  of  Chicopce  Lodge ;  of  Chicopee 
Unity  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  of 
Chicopee  Falls ;  of  Springfield  Council,  Royal 
and  Select  Masters,  of  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts ;  of  Springfield  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  of  Si)ringfield ;  of  Massachusetts 
Consistory,  thirty-second  degree;  and  Melha 
Temple,   Mystic  Shrine,  of  Springfield. 

He  married,  July  4,  1870,  Ro.xana  M.  Dor- 
man,  born  October  17,  1848,  daughter  of 
Amos  and  Ann  (Nugent)  Dorman,  who  died 
June  24,  1909. 

This  name  undoubtedly  originated 
LONG  in  a  person  tall  of  stature.  An 
account  of  its  origin  in  England, 
which  may  be  regarded  as  more  or  less  authen- 
tic, asserts  that  one  of  the  family  of  Preux, 
who  was  an  attendant  on  the  Lord  Treasurer 
of  Hungerford,  acquired  the  sobriquet  of 
Long  Henry  on  account  of  his  great  height. 
Having  married  a  lady  of  (luality  he  adopted 
the  prefix  as  a  surname,  transferring  the  appel- 
lation to  Henry  Long,  thus  becoming  the 
founder  of  the  Longs  of  Wiltshire.  The 
name  is  also  to  be  found  in  Cambridgeshire, 
Oxfordshire,  Norfolk  and  Suffolk,  and  is 
known  to  have  existed  in  the  reign  of  Edward 
L  Long  is  also  a  component  syllable  of  many 
other  surnames,  such  as  Longfellow.  Long- 
worth,  Longstreet,  Longchamp.  Longacre, 
Longyear,  Budlong,  etc.  Several  Americans 
of  this  name  have  won  national  distinction, 
including  the  Hon.  Jnhn  Davis  Long,  ex-sec- 
retary of  the  navy. 

(I)  James  Long,  an  early  settler  in  North 
Carolina,  was  a  resident  of  Percjuimans  pre- 
cinct, Albermarle  county,  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  in  1682,  and  his  will  mentions  sons 
James,  Thomas  and  Giles. 

(H)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  Long, 
died  in  Tyrrell  county.  North  Carolina,  No- 
vember 15,  171 1.  From  his  will  we  learn  that 
the  Christian  name  of  his  wife  was  Elizabeth, 
and  that  he  had  sons  James,  Thomas  and  John, 
and  daughters  Mary  and  lilizabeth.  He  was  a 
man  of  prominence  in  the  administrative 
affairs  of  the  colony,  and  a  member  of  the 
house  of  burgesses. 

(ill)  James  (3),  son  of  James  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  Long,  was  of  Chowan,  Tyrrell 
county,  and  died  there  September  1,  1734.  His 
will,  which  was  probated  at  the  April  term  of 
court  in  the  following  year,  mentions  eldest 
son  James,  second  son  (jilcs,  brother  Thomas, 
John,  Andrew,  son  Joshua  and  daughter  Eliz- 
abeth. ' 


(IV)  Giles,  second  son  of  James  (3)  Long, 
died  in  1782,  leaving  a  .son  Miles.  (N.  B.).  The 
"North  Carolina  Historical  and  Genealogical 
Register"  fails  to  mention  any  other  child  of 
Giles  Long. 

(V*)  Miles,  son  of  Giles  Long,  came  from 
North  Carolina,  and  lived  in  Plymouth.  Mass- 
achusetts. He  married,  in  Plymouth,  in  1770, 
Thankful  Clark,  born  1750,  and  lived  in  Ply- 
mouth. She  survived  him,  and  afterward  mar- 
ried Ezra  Holmes.  Children  of  Miles  and 
Thankful  (Clark)  Long:  i.  Thomas,  born 
.•\ugust,  1771.    2.  Betsey,  married  John  Clark. 

Thankful  Clark,  wife  of  Miles  Long,  was 
a  (laughter  of  Israel  Clark,  born  1720.  lived 
in  Plymiiuth.  who  married  Deborah  Pope. 
of  .Sandwich.  Israel  Clark  was  son  of 
Josiah  Clark,  born  1690.  lived  in  Plymouth, 
and  married  Thankful  Tupper.  Josiah  Clark, 
son  of  Thomas  Clark,  was  born  and  lived  in 
Plymouth,  and  was  called  ""Silver-headed 
Th(5mas,"  because,  having  been  scalped  by  the 
Indians  when  a  boy.  he  wore  a  silver  plate; 
married  Elizabeth  Crow.  Thomas  Clark  was 
son  of  James  Clark,  born  in  Plymouth,  in 
1536;  married,  1557,  Abigail  Lothrop.  who 
was  born  1659,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Loth- 
rop, who  came  over  in  the  "Griffin."  in  1635. 
and  was  the  first  minister  in  P.arnstable,  where 
his  house  still  stands  and  is  used  as  a  public 
library.  James  Clark  was  a  son  of  Thomas 
Clark,  the  Pilgrim,  who  came  to  Plymouth  in 
the  "Ann,"  in  1623.  He  lived  in  Plymouth, 
where  he  married  Susannah  Ring,  and  his 
gravestone  still  stands  on  liurial  Hill.  Ply- 
mouth. 

(\T)  Thomas,  son  of  Miles  and  Thankful 
(Clark)  Long,  was  born  in  Plymouth,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1 771,  and  died  in  Buckfield,  Ox- 
ford county,  Maine,  in  1861.  He  lived  in  Ply- 
mouth and  ]\liddleboro,  Massachusetts,  and 
removed  from  Middieboro  to  Buckfield  in 
i8o6.  He  married,  November  8.  1795.  l'>ath- 
sheba  Churchill,  born  May  26,  1766,  died  in 
Buckfield,  July  27,  1853.  Children:  I.Betsey, 
born  about  1796;  married  Isaac  Ellis.  2. 
Thomas,  born  about  1798.  3.  Zadoc,  born  July 
28,  1800.  4.  Sally,  born  about  1802;  married 
Lucius  Loring.  5.  George  Washington  ;  died 
in  infancy.  6.  Batiisluba,  married  Isaac 
Bearse.  7.  Harriet,  died  in  infancy.  8.  Miles, 
married  Ann  JUidgham.  g.  Thankful,  died  in 
infancy.  10.  Washington,  born  about  181 1. 
II.  Harriet.  12.  Thankful  C.  married  W'ill- 
iani  W.  P.acon. 

Bathsheba  Churchill,  wife  of  Thomas  Long, 
was  a  daughter  of  Zadoc  Churchill,  born  1747; 


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son  of  Stephen  Cliurchill,  born  1717,  son  of 
Stephen  Churchill,  born  1685:  son  of  Eleazer 
Churchill,  born  1652;  ."ion  of  John  Churchill, 
who  came  from  England  to  Plymouth.  Massa- 
chusetts, 1643.  and  married,  1644.  Hannah, 
daughter  of  William  Pontus. 

Zadoc  Churchill  married  P.athsheba  Rider, 
born  1750.  concerning  whose  ancestry  author- 
ities are  at  variance.  One  writer  says:  Rich- 
ard Warren,  of  the  "Mayflower."  1620,  son  of 
Christopher,  of  Kent  county.  England,  mar- 
ried widow  Elizabeth  Marsh,  who  came  over 
in  the  ".Ann."  1623:  had  Mary  Warren,  who 
married,  in  162S.  Robert  Piartlett,  who  came 
in  the  ".-\nn ;"  had  Sarah  Partlett.  who  mar- 
ried 1656,  Samuel  Rider  (second  wife)  ;  had 
Samuel  Rider,  born  1657;  married,  16S0, 
Lydia  Tilden ;  had  Joseph  Rider,  born  1691, 
married,  1740,  Elizabeth  Crossman.  (second 
wife)  ;  had  P.athsheba  Rider,  born  1650,  mar- 
ried Zadoc  Churchill. 

On  the  other  hand  Mr.  Powman,  secretary 
of  the  Society  of  Mayflower  Descendants,  says 
that  James  Chilton,  of  the  "Mayflower,"  1620, 
had  a  daughter  Mary,  who  married  John 
Winslow  (brother  of  Governor  Winslovv)  ; 
and  had  Mary  Winslow,  who  married.  1650, 
Edward  Gray,  of  Plymouth,  and  had  Desire 
(jray.  born  165 1,  married  Xathaniel  South- 
worth,  son  of  .-Mice  Southworth.  second  wife 
of  Governor  Bradford;  and  had  Mary  South- 
worth,  born  1676.  married  Joseph  Rider,  and 
had  Joseph  Rider,  Jr.,  who  married  (second 
wife)  Elizabeth  Crossman ;  and  had  Bath- 
sheba  Rider,  born  1750.  married  Zadoc 
Churchill,  and  had  Bathsheba  Churchill,  who 
married  Thomas  Long. 

(\'II)  Zadoc,  son  of  Thomas  and  P.ath- 
sheba (Churchill)  Long,  was  born  in  .Middle- 
boro,  Massachusetts,  July  28,  1800,  and  died 
in  Winchenden,  Massachusetts,  February  3, 
1873.  lie  was  a  man  of  considerable  promi- 
nence in  his  native  state,  and  in  i'')38  was  the 
Whig  candidate  for  congress.  He  received  a 
plurality  but  not  a  majority  of  votes,  hence 
failed  of  election.  He  married,  .'\ugust  31, 
1824.  at  New  Gloucester,  Maine,  Julia  Temple 
Davis,  born  in  Falmouth,  Maine,  February  17, 
1807,  died  in  Buck-field,  Maine,  September  19, 
1869.  Children:  i.  Julia  Davis,  born  .August 
16,  1825,  died  October  31,  1882:  married  Nel- 
son D.  White.  2.  Persis  Seaver,  born  Febru- 
ary 14,  1828.  died  .April  2j.  1893;  married 
Percival  W.  P.artlctt.  3.  Zadoc.  Jr.,  born  .April 

26,  1834,  died  September  14,  i8r/);  married 
Ruth  A.  Strout.    4.  John  Davis,  born  October 

27.  1838. 


Julia  Temple  Davis,  wife  of  Zadoc  Long, 
was  a  descendant  in  the  seventh  generatinn  of 
Dolor  Davis,  born  in  Kent,  Englaiul,  about 
1600,  and  came  to  P.oston  in  May,  1634,  with 
Simon  Willard.  lie  settled  in  Cambridge, 
then  in  IXi.xbury,  about  i')43,  then  at  Barn- 
stable, where  he  died  in  1673.  Meantime  he 
lived  in  Concord  from  1655  to  i60().  where  his 
sons  settled  and  lived.  Dolor  married,  about 
1624,  ^Ltrgery  Willard,  born  in  1602,  daughter 
of  Richard  Willard,  of  Morsemonden,  Kent, 
England.  She  died  in  Concord,  Massachusetts, 
after  1655  and  before  i(j66.  Their  son  Samuel 
married.  January  11,  1665,  at  Lynn,  Massa- 
chusetts, Mary  Meads  (or  Meadows),  who 
died  in  Concord,  1710.  Their  son  Simon, 
known  as  Lieutenant  Simon,  born  1683,  died 

in   Holden ;   married,    1713,    Dorothy  , 

who  died  at  Ilolden,  1776.  Their  son  Simon, 
born  1714.  died  1754;  he  lived  in  Rutland, 
Massachusetts,  and  married  Hannah  Gales  of 
.Stow,  who  died  in  1 761.  She  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Stejihen  Gates,  one  of  the  early  settlers 
of  Hingham.  Their  son,  Deacon  David,  born 
1740,  lived  at  Paxton,  and  married  Abigail 
P.rown,  1764.  Their  son  .Simon,  born  in  Paxton, 
September  2,  1765,  died  in  I'almoutli,  Maine, 
March  17,  1810.  He  married,  1802,  at  West 
Boylston.  widow  Persis  Seaver,  maiden  name 
Temi)le,  born  1766,  at  Shrewsbury,  a  descend- 
ant of  the  Temple  family.  Their  daughter, 
Julia  Tem|)lc  Davis,  married  Zadoc  Long,  Au- 
gust 31,  1824. 

(\'I1I|  John  Davis,  only  surviving  child 
of  Zadoc  and  Julia  Temi)le  (Davis)  Long, 
was  born  in  I'.uckfieJd.  Oxford  county.  Maine, 
October  27,  1838.  He  ac(|uired  his  earlier 
literarv  education  in  jniblic  schools  and  the 
academy  at  Hebron,  in  the  latter  fitting  for 
college  under  the  principalshij)  of  Mark  H. 
Dinmell,  afterward  a  member  of  congress 
from  .Minnesota.  He  entered  Harvard,  taking 
the  academic  course,  and  graduated  ,A.  B. 
1857,  second  in  his  class.  He  wrote  the  class 
ode  which  was  sung  on  commencement  day. 
For  two  years  after  leaving  college  he  was 
principal  of  the  West  ford  .Academy,  and  at 
the  end  of  that  time  entered  Harvard  Law 
School.  He  also  studied  law  in  the  office  of 
Sidney  BartUtt  and  I 'cleg  W.  Chandler,  of  the 
Boston  bar.  In  1861  he  was  admitted  to  prac- 
tice, and  the  same  year  began  his  professional 
career  in  Buckficld.  He  remained  there  si.x 
months,  then  came  to  P.oston,  and  became 
partner  with  Stillman  B.  .Allen.  .Alfred  11cm- 
cnway  was  afterward  a  partner,  a  relation 
which  was  maintained  until   November,  1879, 


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when  Mr.  Long  was  elected  governor  of 
Massachusetts.  He  and  Mr.  Hemenway  still 
hang  out  the  sign  of  Long  &  Hemenway. 

Soon  after  he  had  become  a  member  of  the 
Boston  bar.  Governor  Long  took  up  his  resi- 
dence in  Hingham,  where  he  still  lives.  In 
1875  he  was  elected  representative  from  the 
Second  Plynimith  district  to  the  general  court, 
was  re-elected  at  the  end  of  his  first  term,  and 
twice  afterward ;  during  the  legislative  ses- 
sions of  1876-77-79  he  was  speaker  of  the 
house,  and  the  unanimous  choice  of  the  house 
in  1877.  At  the  Republican  state  convention 
in  Worcester  in  1877  he  was  mentioned  for 
the  governorship,  but  his  name  was  with- 
drawn. At  the  convention  of  the  next  year  he 
received  266  votes  in  his  candidacy  for  the 
gubernatorial  office,  but  when  his  name  was 
presented  for  the  lieutenant-governorship  he 
was  nominated  by  a  large  majority  and  elected 
to  that  office.  In  1879  he  was  nominated  and 
elected  governor,  succeeding  Governor  Talbot. 
In  the  campaign  of  that  year  his  Democratic 
opponent  was  General  I'utler,  with  John 
Quincy  Adams  and  Rev.  Dr.  Eddy  as  nomi- 
nees of  minor  political  factions.  In  1880  he 
was  the  unanimous  choice  of  the  convention, 
and  at  the  polls  in  November  he  received  a 
vote  as  gratifying  as  it  was  unprecedented  in  a 
gubernatorial  contest  in  this  state  in  any  other 
than  a  presidential  year.  In  November,  i»8i. 
he  was  re-elected  for  another  term,  and  served 
in  all  three  years.  In  1884  he  was  elected  rep- 
resentative in  congress,  and  twice  re-elected, 
serving  during  the  48th,  49th  and  30th  ses- 
sions of  that  body.  On  March  6,  1897,  he  was 
appointed  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  in  Presi- 
dent McKinley's  cabinet,  and  retired  from  that 
office  May  i,  1902.  At  the  close  of  the  last 
session  of  his  si.x  years  in  congress.  Governor 
Long  returned  to  Boston  and  resumed  his 
law  practice,  and  with  the  exception  of  the 
years  in  the  president's  cabinet  he  has  not 
been  particularly  identified  with  the  public 
service.  For  several  years  he  was  a  member 
of  the  state  house  construction  commission. 
He  is  president  of  the  board  of  overseers  of 
Harvard  College,  member  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Historical  Society,  fellow  of  the  .Ameri- 
can Academy  of  Arts  and  Science's,  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Massachusetts  Total  .Abstinence 
Society.  The  Zadoc  Long  I'Vec  Library  at 
Buckfield,  Maine,  was  presented  to  the  town 
by  Governor  Long  in  1901  as  a  memorial  of 
his  father. 

"As  a  man  f>f  letters."  says  cm-  n{  his  recent 


biographers,  "Governor  Long  has  achieved  a 
reputation.  Some  years  ago  he  produced  a 
scholarly  translation  in  blank  verse  of  Virgil's 
Aeneid,  published  in  1879,  in  Boston.  It  has 
found  many  admirers.  Among  his  other  liter- 
ary productions  may  be  mentioned  his  After- 
dinner  Speeches,  The  Republican  Party,  Its 
History,  Principles  and  Policies,  and  The  New 
American  Navy.  His  inaugural  addresses 
were  masterpieces  of  art,  and  the  same  can  be 
said  of  his  speeches  on  the  floor  of  congress, 
all  of  them  polished,  forceful  and  to  the  point. 
*  *  *  Mr.  Long  is  a  very  fluent  speaker, 
and  without  oratorical  display  he  always  suc- 
ceeds in  winning  the  attention  of  his  auditors. 
It  is  what  he  says,  more  than  how  he  says  it, 
that  has  won  him  his  great  pojnilarity  on  the 
platform.  *  *  Amid  professional  and  offi- 
cial duties,  he  also  has  written  several  poems 
and  essays  which  reflect  credit  upon  his  heart 
and  brain." 

In  1880  Governor  Long  was  honored  by  his 
alma  mater  with  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  and 
later  with  the  same  degree  by  Tufts  College. 

On  Sejjteiuber  13,  1870,  he  married  (first) 
Mary  (Woodward)  Glover,  born  in  Roxbury, 
June  29,  1845,  died  in  Boston,  February  16, 
1882;  married  (second)  May  22,  1885,  Agnes 
Peirce,  born  at  North  Attleboro,  Massachu- 
■setts,  January  3,  i860.  His  children  are:  i. 
Margaret,  born  in  Hingham,  January  26,  1872. 
died  same  day.  2.  Margaret,  born  in  Boston, 
October  28,  1873.  3.  Helen,  born  in  Hingham, 
June  26,  1875,  died  October  4,  1901.  4.  (By 
second  wife)  Pierce,  born  in  North  .Attleboro, 
December  29,  1887. 

Mary  Woodward  Glover,  first  wife  of  Gov- 
ernor John  Davis  Long,  was  a  daughter  of 
George  Stephen  Glover,  born  Dorchester, 
Alassachusetts,  in  1816.  and  married,  about 
1841,  Helen  I'aul,  of  Sherborn.  (Jcorge  Ste- 
phen Glover  was  a  son  of  Cajitain  Stephen 
(ilover,  born  in  Dorchester,  January  9,  1729, 
died  October  11.  1811;  master  mariner  and 
deep  sea  navigator;  married  (first)  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Clough) 
Glover:  married  (second)  October  15,  T759, 
Jerusha  Billings,  born  in  Dorchester  Septem- 
ber 22,  1743,  died  in  Quincy,  .April  2.  1807. 
daughter  of  John  and  Miriam  (Davenport) 
Billings.  Captain  Elisha  Glover  was  son  of 
John  Glover,  bom  in  EKirchester,  September 
18,  1687,  died  in  Braintree  (Quincy),  July  6, 
1768:  was  land  holder;  married  (first)  Janu- 
arv  I,  1714,  Mary  Horton,  of  Milton,  died 
December  19,   1776.     John  Glover  was  a  son 


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of  Xathaniel  Glover,  born  in  Dorchester,  Jan- 
uary 30,  1653,  (lied  tlure  January  6,  1723-4; 
married,  1672-3,  Hannah  Hinckley,  of  Barn- 
stable, born  April  i.  1650.  died  in  Dorchester, 
April  30,  1730,  fourth  daughter  of  Governor 
Thomas  Hinckley  by  his  first  wife  Mary  Rich- 
ards. Xathaniel  was  son  of  Mr.  Nathaniel 
Glover,  born  1630-31,  died  in  Dorchester.  May 
21, 1657  :  married.  March  22.  1652.  Mary  Smith, 
born  at  Toxcth  Park.  Mary  (Smith)  Glover 
married  (second)  March  2,  1659-60,  Thomas 
Hinckley,  of  P.arnstable.  afterward  governor 
of  Plymouth  colony.  Xathaniel  Glover  was 
fourth  son  of  John  Glover,  Esq..  of  Prescott, 
England,  and  of  Dorchester  and  Boston,  New 
England,  born  in  Rainhill  parish,  Prescott, 
Lancashire.  England,  .\ugust  12,  1600,  died  in 
Boston.  December  11,  1653. 

Agnes  Peirce.  .second  wife  of  Governor  John 
Davis  Long,  was  born  January  i,  i860,  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  Joseph  D.  Peirce.  born  November 
15.  1815,  died  in  Xorth  Attleboro,  Massachu- 
setts, Xovembcr  16,  1880;  married,  Xovember 
30,  185S,  Martha  S.  Price,  born  1830.  died 
1885.  daughter  of  George  Price.  Rev.  Joseph 
D.  Peirce  was  son  of  John  Peirce,  born  Scit- 
uate,  Massachusetts.  October  29,  1776,  died 
at  sea.  May  16,  1816:  married,  Xovember  10, 
1810.  Mercy  Merritt,  born  January  24,  1784, 
died  April  4,  1838.  John  Peirce  was  son  of 
Seth  B.  Peirce.  born  Scituate.  September  7, 
1728.  died  December  9,  1810;  married  Septem- 
ber 6,  1766,  Jemima  Turner,  died  .\pril  19, 
1814.  Seth  B.  Peirce  was  son  of  Thomas 
Peirce.  born  Xovember  14.  1692,  died  before 
March  28,  1786.  Thomas  Peirce  was  son 
of  Captain  Benjamin  Peirce.  born  1646,  died 
1730:  married  (first)  February  5,  1678. 
Martha,  daughter  of  James  .-\dams ;  mar- 
ried (second)  July  21.  1718.  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth (.Adams)  Perry.  Captain  P.enjamin 
Peirce  was  son  of  Captain  Michael  Peirce, 
born  about  161 5.  in  England,  came  to  America 
about  1645,  aiid  was  first  of  llingham  and 
afterward  of  Scituate.  He  was  killed  in  battle 
while  leading  his  company  against  King  T^hilip's 
savage  warriors,  on  Sunday.  March  26,  1676. 
His  first  wife  died  in  1662.  and  he  married 
(second)  Widow  Anna  James. 

Jemima  Turner,  above  named,  was  a  de- 
scendant of  Elder  William  Brewster  of  the 
"Mavflower."  She  was  daughter  of  Richard 
Turner,  son  of  John  Turner,  who  was  son  of 
John  Turner  and  Mary  Brewster,  who  was 
"daughter  of  Jonathan  Brewster,  son  of  William 
r.rewster. 


The  surname  Bowne  (formerly 
BOWXE     Bohun  and   Bowyn)   is  of  Xor- 

nian-l-'rench  origin,  [  Ium])hrey  de 
Bohim.  of  Bohon  in  Xormandy,  coming  into 
England  with  the  Conqueror  in  1066.  Of  recent 
years  the  English  branches  have  largely 
dro])ped  the  final  e,  spelling  it  Bown. 

( I )  Thomas  Bowne.  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  baptized  May  23,  1695,  at  Matlock.  Derby- 
shire, I'jigland,  and  died  September  18,  1677, 
at  Flushing,  Long  Island.  He  came  to  Boston 
in  Xew  England  in  1648-9,  with  his  son  John, 
aged  twenty-two,  and  a  daugiiter  Dorothy, 
aged  eighteen,  leaving  in  England  a  daughter 
Truth,  who  was  living  in  1674.  He  was  an 
early  settler  of  Flushing,  Long  Island,  about 
1651.  Children:  i.  John,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Dorothy,  born  August  14,  1631:  married 
Edward  I'arrington.  3.  Truth,  remained  in 
England. 

(II )  John,  son  of  Thomas  Bowne.  was  bap- 
tized at  Matlock,  Derbyshire,  England,  .March 
9,  1627,  and  died  December  20,  1695.  He 
came  to  Boston  with  his  father  in  1648-9,  but 
returned  to  England  in  1650.  He  came  back 
to  .America  in  i')5i,  arriving  at  Boston.  .August 
15.  of  that  year.  He  visited  Mushing,  Long 
Island,  with  Edward  Farrington,  his  brother- 
in-law.  the  same  year,  and  settled  in  that  town. 
He  built  there  in  1661  a  house  which  is  still 
standing  on  Bowne  avenue,  and  in  good  repair. 
About  1656,  lie  embraced  the  religious  doctrines 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  was  severely 
persecuted  by  the  Dutch  authorities  therefor. 
In  1662,  by  order  of  Governor  .Stuyvesant,  he 
was  taken  from  his  family  in  Mushing,  and 
after  several  months  confinement  in  old  Fort 
.Amsterdam  was  banished  to  Holland  and  tried 
before  the  Dutch  West  India  Company  in 
.Amsterdam.  His  acquittal  and  return  in  1664 
marked  the  close  of  Quaker  persecutions  in 
Xew  Xetlicrland.  On  his  death  in  iCvjz,  the 
following  minute  was  made  upon  the  records 
of  the  X'cw  ^■ork  Yearly  Meeting  of  Friends: 
"He  did  freely  expose  himself,  his  house  and 
iiis  estate,  to  ye  service  of  Truth,  and  had  a 
constant  meeting  in  his  house  near  about  forty 
years:  he  also  suffered  much  for  ye  Truth's 
sake."  George  Fox,  founder  of  tiic  Society 
of  Friends,  made  his  home  at  the  Bowne  house 
during  his  visit  to  America  in  1672.  John 
Bowne  was  engaged  largely  in  farming  anrj 
trading,  and  was  a  man  of  considerable  influ- 
ence in  the  Dutch  and  English  colonies.  He 
was  treasurer  of  Queens  county,  New  York, 
in  1683.  and  was  elected  to  the  colonial  Icgis- 


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latiire  in  1691,  but  his  principles  debarred  him 
from  taking  the  oath  of  office  and  he  did  not 
serve.  He  married  (first)  May  7,  1656,  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Robert  and  EHzabeth  f  Fones- 
Winthrop)  Feke.  She  was  a  minister  in  the 
Society  of  Friends,  and  a  gifted  woman.  In 
1674  and  again  in  1676  she  made  extended 
tours  among  the  Friends'  meetings  of  England, 
Ireland  and  the  Netherlands.  While  on  one 
of  these  tours  she  died  at  the  house  of  John 
Elson,  in  London,  February  2,  1677-8.  He 
married  (second)  February  2,  1679-80,  Han- 
nah iiickerstafif,  who  died  June  7,  1690 ;  and 
(third)  June  26,  1693.  Mary,  daughter  of 
James  and  Sarah  Cock,  of  Matinecock,  Long 
Island.  Children  of  first  wife.  Hannah  Feke : 
I.  John,  born  March  13,  1656-7,  died  August 
30,  1673.  -•  Elizabeth,  born  October  8,  1658, 
died  1 72 1  ;  married  (first)  November  2,  1678, 
John  Prior;  (second)  Samuel  Titus.  3.  Mary, 
January  6,  1660- 1  ;  married,  1680,  Joseph 
Thorne.  4.  Abigail.  February  5,  1662-3.  died 
June  16,  1688,  married,  March  25,  1686,  Rich- 
ard Willits.  5.  Hannah,  April  10,  1665 ;  mar- 
ried, 1691,  Benjamin  F'ield.  6.  Samuel,  Sep- 
tember 21,  1667;  mentioned  below.  7.  Doro- 
thy, March  29.  1669;  married,  1689,  Henry 
Franklin.  8.  Martha  Johannah,  August  17, 
1673 :  married.  1695,  Joseph  Thorne.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife,  Hannah  Bickerstaff :  9. 
Sarah,  born  1680,  died  1681.  10.  Sarah,  Feb- 
ruary  17,   1681-2,  married Ford,  and 

died  in  1699.  11.  John,  September  10,  i68§, 
died  October  25,  1683.  12.  Thomas,  Novem- 
ber 26,  1684,  (lied  December  17,  1684.  13. 
John,  September  9.  1686:  married  Elizabeth 
LawTence.  July  21,  1714.  14.  .Abigail.  July  5, 
l6S8,  died  July  13  following.  Children  by 
third  wife.  Mary  Cock;  15.  .Amy,  born  1694; 
married.  1717,  Richard  Hallett.  and  died  1759. 
16.  Ruth,  bom  1695-6,  died  young. 

(HI)  Samuel,  son  of  John  Bowne,  was  born 
September  21,  1667,  and  died  May  30,  1745. 
He  w'as  a  minister  of  the  Society  of  Friends — 
"a  man  serviceable  in  his  day  ;  bore  a  public 
testimony  in  meeting,  and  his  house  always 
open  for  ye  entertaining  of  Friends."  He 
married  (first)  October  4,  1691,  at  Flushing, 
Long  Island.  Mary  I'eckct,  who  died  .August 
21,  1707.  daugliter  prdb.'ibly  of  John  and  Marv 
(Brundett)  P.ecket,  of  Middlewich,  Cheshire, 
England.  .She  was  a  ward  of  l-'.leanor  Lowe 
of  Newton.  Cheshire,  and  in  1684  of  Pliineas 
Pemberton.  of  Bucks  comity,  Pennsylvania. 
He  married  (second)  Decembers,  1709,  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Jasper  Smith,  of  Flushing, 
who   died    October    11,     1733.       He    married 


(third)  November  14,  1735,  Grace,  widow  of 
Hugh  Cowperthwaite,  of  Flushing,  who  died 
in  1760.  He  died  May  30,  1745.  Children  of 
first  wife,  Mary  Becket ;  i.  Samuel,  January 
29,  1692-3,  mentioned  below.  2.  Thomas,  born 
April  7,  1694;  married  Hannah  Underbill, 
1716.  3.  Eleanor,  April  20,  1695 ;  married, 
October  9,  1718,  Isaac  liorner.  4.  Hannah, 
March  31,  1697-8;  married,  April  6,  17 17, 
Richard  Lawrence.  5.  John,  September  11, 
1698;  married,  1738,  Dinah  Cnderhill.  6. 
Alary,  October  21,  1699;  married,  January  14, 
1719-20.  John  Keese.  7.  Robert.  January  17, 
1 700- 1  ;  married,  November  6,  1724,  Margaret 
L,atham.  8.  William,  April  i.  1702,  died  April 
15,  1702.  9.  Elizabeth,  October  11,  1704,  died 
young.  10.  Benjamin,  March  13,  1707,  died 
April  13,  1707.  (Children  of  second  wife,  Han- 
nah Smith:  11.  Sarah,  September  3,  1710; 
married,  March  12,  1729-30,  William  Burling. 
12.  Joseph,  February  25,  1711-12,  married 
(first)  November  13,  1735,  Sarah  Lawrence; 
(second)  June  13,  1745,  Judith  Morrell.  13. 
.Amy,  October  17,  1715  ;  married,  July  4,  1734, 
Stephen  Lawrence.  14.  Benjamin,  August  i, 
1717;  married  Mary  Rodman.  15,  Elizabeth, 
November  26,  1720;  married  Thomas  Dobson, 

( I\  )  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i) 
Bowne,  was  born  in  Flushing,  January  29, 
1692-3,  and  died  May  31,  17(39.  He  married, 
September  20,  1716,  Sarah  Franklin,  born  .Au- 
gust 31,  1700,  (lied  .August  7,  1767,  daughter 
of  Henry  and  Sarah  F'ranklin,  of  Flushing. 
( liildren  :  I.  William,  born  March  6.  1719- 
20;  married  Elizabeth  Willett.  2.  Samuel, 
May  14.  1721.  mentioned  below.  3.  Mary, 
March  3,  1723-4;  married.  1749.  Joseph  Far- 
rington.  4.  .Abigail,  1724;  married  (ieorge 
Enibree.  5.  Sarah,  1726;  married,  1753.  Will- 
iam Titus.  6.  James,  1728;  married  Caroline 
Rodman. 

(\')  Samuel  (3),  son  of  Samuel  (2)  Bowne, 
was  born  in  Mushing,  May  14.  1721,  and  died 
in  New  York  City,  .April  24.  1784.  He  was  a 
very  successful  merchant.  He  married,  No- 
vember 22,  1741,  .Aijigail  lUirling.  born  Febru- 
ary 25.  1723-4,  died  December  6,  1785,  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Elizabeth  Burling,  of  New 
'S'ork.  ("hildrcn:  I.  Edward,  born  September 
3.  17-12.  died  September  22,  1742.  2.  James. 
.March  20,  1743-4.  3.  .'^amuel,  .August  4,  died 
.August  21,  I74(>.  4.  Elizabeth,  November  19, 
1748.  died  January  22.  1752-3.  5.  .Samuel, 
June  25,  1750,  <lied  September  23,  1752.  6. 
Matthew,  July  19,  1752,  mentioned  below.  7. 
.Abigail.  October  21,  1754:  married  William 
Kenyon.    8.  Sarah,  January  14,  1757.  died  No- 


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vember  ii.  1759.  9.  Samuel.  September  5. 
175S.  (lied  May  22.  \-](^o.  10.  Mary.  August  8. 
died  August  ^4,  1761.  u.  William.  Marcli  9. 
1763;  married  .Sarah  Xewbold.  12.  Samuel, 
April  5.  1767:  married  Ilannah  I'earsall. 

(\M)  Matthew,  son  of  Samuel  (3)  Bowne, 
was  born  July  19,  1732,  in  Xew  York  City, 
and  died  at  Salem.  Xew  Jersey,  September  i, 
1797.  He  was  a  Xew  York  merchant.  He 
married,  December  20.  1775.  Elizabeth  Quinby, 
born  September  29,  1753.  clied  January  3.  1808, 
daughter  of  Aaron  and  Elizabeth  (Cornell) 
Quinby,  and  granddaughter  of  Josiah  and 
Niary  ( Mullineux )  Quinby  and  of  Richard 
and  Hannah  (Thorne)  Cornell.  Children:  1-2. 
Charles  and  Aaron,  twins,  born  October  10, 
1776.  both  died  young.  3.  Richard  Matthew, 
September  25,  1779;  married,  .\ugust  2,  1804, 
Penelope  Hull.  4.  Robert  Martin,  December 
29,  1781,  died  unmarried,  on  Island  of  Java. 
5.  \Villiam,  July  3,  1784;  married  .Ann  Ferris; 
he  was  master  of  one  of  the  first  Xew  York 
and  Liverpool  regular  line  ])acket  ships, and  was 
the  first  to  use  the  chronometer  in  the  merchant 
service  of  the  I'nited  States.  6.  .Abigail,  Sep- 
tember 5,  1786.  died  May  20.  1787.  7.  Sidney 
Breese.  mentioned  below.  8.  Josiah  Quinby. 
August  2"].  1793:  died  unmarried.  i8r8.  in  Cal- 
cutta. 

(\II)  Sidney  IJreese,  son  of  Matthew 
Bowne,  was  born  at  Xine  Partners,  Xew  York, 
June  19,  1788,  and  died  at  Westchester,  Xew 
York,  Xovember  5.  1865.  lie  was  a  merchant 
of  Westchester.  He  married,  January  30, 
181 1.  Jemima  Honeywell  Hunt,  born  at 
Yonkers,  Xew  York,  August  10.  1790.  died  in 
Xew  York  City,  January  25,  1863,  daughter 
of  Major  David  and  Phebc  (Oakley)  Hinit, 
and  granddaughter  of  .Aaron  and  Rebecca 
dlaydock)  Hunt.  Major  David  Hunt  served 
in  the  revolution  from  1778.  Children:  i. 
William  Hunt.  January  2.  1812  ;  married  (first) 
1839,  Sarah  L.  Hendricks,  (second)  1844, 
Mary  .\.  Clement.  2.  Robert  Matthew,  born 
September  21,  1813.  died  May  4,  1818.  3. 
Josiah  Quinby,  March  25,  1815,  died  unmar- 
ried, October  10,  1859:  sea  captain  in  Xew 
A'ork  merchant  service  1842-52:  later  wreck- 
ing agent  for  the  board  of  marine  insurers  and 
underwriters  of  port  of  Xew  York.  4.  Richard 
Matthew,  mentioned  below.  5.  Elizabeth 
Honeywell.  Julv  27.  1819.  and  married  Janu- 
ary 5^  1848.  EUwood  Walter,  of  New  York 
Citv:  she  died  January  23.  1863.  6.  Honey- 
well. February  I.  and  died  Septembers.  i82r. 
7.  .Sarah  .Matilda,  born  September  14,  1822, 
married    September    27,    1845,    Henry   Crom- 


well, of  .Xew  A'ork  City.  She  died  .April  13, 
1875.  8.  Maria  IMiebe,  .April  9.  1824;  mar- 
ried. .April  20.  1854,  John  Thomas,  of  Xew 
York  City,  died  July  5,  1887.  9.  I'hebc  .Ann, 
1825:  died  1826.  10.  Catherine  Haviland,  born 
and  died  182(1.  11.  Sidney  Franklin,  1827; 
died  1828.  12.  Sidney  I'rankliTi.  Xovember  10. 
1829;  died  umnarried,  l*'ebruary  4.  1855.  13. 
Thomas  Hurling.  June  11,  1831  ;  married, 
March  ly .  1856,  Rci)ecca  Leggett  U'atson,  died 
-August  29.  1880.  14.  .Amelia  Crane,  January 
5.  1834:  died  unmarried,  Xovember  16,  1883. 

(\TII)  Richard  Matthew,  son  of  Sidney 
Breese  I'.owne.  was  born  in  W^estchester,  Xew 
^'ork,  March  14,  1817.  and  died  Jinie  5.  1899. 
He  was  a  merchant  of  (ilen  Cove.  Xew  ^'ork. 
He  married.  March  17,  1846.  Mary  Margaret 
Titus,  born  May  21.  1823.  died  December  23. 
1884.  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Hannah  (Mott) 
Titus,  and  granddaughter  of  Jacob  and  Martha 
(  Keene)  Titus  and  of  Samuel  and  Margaret 
(Kershow)  Mott.  Children:  i.  Jacob  Titus. 
born  I'ebruary  12.  1847.  mentioned  below.  2. 
Josiah  Quinb\-.  born  1848:  died  1851.  3.  Sid- 
ney Bree.se,  December  5.  1849:  married.  Xo- 
vember 3,  1 87 1,  Martha  \'alentine  Willets. 
4.  Samuel  Titus,  born  .and  died  1851.  5. 
Josiah  Quinby,  born  1852,  died  1858.  6.  Han- 
nah Titus.  1854.  died  1855.  7.  lilla  Frost, 
.August  25.  1855 :  married  June  16.  1875.  Henry 
Townsend  Smith,  died  December  17,  1905.  8. 
.Mary  .Margaret.  1857:  died  1858.  9-  Richard 
I'ranklin.  Xovember  17.  1859:  married  (first) 
October  25,  1882,  Minnie  Cornelius  Under- 
bill; (second)  May  28,  1890,  .Agnes  Wood. 
10.  Mary  Titus,  born  1861,  died  i8(')2.  11. 
Elizabeth  Walter.  January  3.  1863;  married 
William  Henry  Zabriskie,  M.  D.  12.  William 
Hunt.  January  27,  1864:  married.  September 
24.  181X'.  .Adelle  F.  (ireene. 

(IX)  Jacob  Titus,  son  of  Richard  Matthew 
I'.owne.  was  born  at  (lien  Cove.  I-ong  l>l;md. 
I'"e1)ruary  12.  1847.  He  attcnderl  the  ])ublic 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  of  Xew  ^'ork 
City,  and  entered  the  I-Vec  .Academy,  now  the 
College  of  the  City  of  Xew  York,  but  did  not 
graduate,  because  of  illness.  He  was  a  clerk 
in  his  father's  general  store  at  Clen  Cove  from 
1863  to  1871.  when  he  went  into  the  flour  and 
grain  business  on  his  own  account  at  .Salina. 
Kansas,  returning  in  1873  to  Glen  Cove,  and 
neain  became  associated  in  business  with  his 
father.  In  1877  he  entered  upon  what  proved 
to  be  his  life  work,  accepting  the  office  of 
gfneral  secretary  of  the  'S'otmg  Men's  Chris- 
tian .Association  at  Hudson.  Xew  York.  In 
1878  he  came  to  Brooklyn  as  assistant  secrc- 


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tary  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
of  that  city,  and  continued  there  until  1880, 
when  he  became  secretary  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  of  Kewburgh,  New 
York.  After  three  years  he  resigned  to  take 
charge  of  the  Secretarial  Bureau  of  the  Inter- 
national Committee  of  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association.  In  1885  he  came  to  Spring- 
field to  take  charge  of  the  Association  Depart- 
ment of  the  School  for  Christian  Workers, 
now  the  International  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  Training  School.  In  this  institu- 
tion he  IS  librarian  and  instructor  in  association 
methods  at  the  present  time.  He  founded  the 
historical  library  of  the  American  Young 
Men's  Christian  Associations  in  1877.  and  the 
Secretaries  Insurance  Alliance  in  1880.  He 
was  joint  editor  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Handbook 
from  1887  to  1892;  author  of  the  "Decimal 
Classification  for  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Publications," 
in  i8gi  :  and  joint  author  of  "Decimal  Classi- 
fication for  Physical  Training"  in  1 901.  In 
1906  he  published  a  "Classified  Bibliography 
of  Boy  Life  and  Organized  Work  with 
Boys,"  and  the  same  year  received  the  degree 
of  Master  of  Humanics  from  the  Training 
School.  r')utside  his  chosen  profession  he  has 
been  much  interested  in  liistorical  and  archae- 
ological studies.  Since  18(^18  he  has  been  en- 
gaged in  collecting  material  for  the  Bowne 
family  in  England  and  .America.  In  i86g  he 
compiled  and  published  the  proceedings  at  the 
bi-centennial  celebration  of  the  settlement  of 
Glen  Cove.  Long  Island.  From  1868  to  1871 
he  contributed  various  articles  on  the  early 
history  of  (}len  Cove  and  its  institutions  to  the 
local  papers.  .Since  •  1900  he  has  published 
several  articles  on  aboriginal  life  in  the  Con- 
necticut river  valley,  and  made  archealogical 
investigations  on  the  coast  of  Maine,  in  the 
Chesapeake-Potomac  section,  on  the  east  coast 
of  Florida,  and  on  the  Pacific  coast. 

Me  married,  .\pril  15,  1884,  Eliza  Hunt  St. 
John,  born  in  Xcw  York  City,  October  31, 
1852,  daughter  of  Cliarles  \\'.  .St.  John  and 
Sarah  Eliza  Smith  I'ndcrliill.  Children:  i. 
Edith  St.  John,  Ijorn  at  Greenpoint.  Long 
Island,  February  22,  1885.  2.  Richard  Morse, 
born  at  Springfield,  .'\ugust  15,  1886.  died 
March  31,  1887.  3.  ;\Iar>'  Margaret,  born  .Au- 
gust 19,  1888.  4.  Bessie  Haven,  .April  25, 
1892. 

The  surname  Tirrell  is  an  an- 

TTRREI-L     cient  English  name  dating  back 

many  centuries.     The  spelling 

is  curiously  varied  in  the  early  records.     Sucli 


spellings  as  Turrell,  Terrill,  Turrill,  Turand, 
Turin,  Tarant,  Thurrell,  Thorall,  Turings,  Turel, 
Turen,  Tirrell  and  Tyrell.  The  latter  spelling 
was  not  common.  The  family  originally  seems 
to  have  preferred  the  spelling  Turrell,  but  this 
preference  had  small  influence  over  the  clerks 
and  clergymen,  magistrates  and  conveyancers 
of  colonial  days.  The  spelling  Tirrell,  probably 
the  ancient  and  correct  form,  is  now  in  general 
use.  Captain  Richard  Tirrell  was  one  of  the 
Protestant  English  who  received  grants  of  land 
in  Ulster  province  in  the  north  of  Ireland  in 
1610.  He  received  from  the  English  govern- 
ment a  grant  of  two  thousand  acres  in  the 
precinct  of  Tullsghgarvy,  county  Cavan.  and 
in  1619  it  was  reported  by  the  govonmient 
agent,  Nicholas  Pynnar,  that  a  strong  stone 
"bawn"  had  been  built  since  the  grant.  Whether 
Captain  Tirrell  himself  went  to  Ireland  we  do 
not  know. 

The  first  immigrant  of  this  name  coming  to 
.America  was  Daniel  Tirrell,  who  before  1643 
was  a  proprietor  of  the  town  of  Boston.  He 
was  an  anchorsmith,  blacksmith  and  sea  cap- 
tain :  his  wife  Lydia  was  admitted  to  the  church 
.August  29,  1647,  and  died  in  Boston,  June  23, 
1659.  He  married  (second)  Mary  Barrel!, 
widow,  daughter  of  Elder  William  Colhorne, 
and  she  died  January  23.  1697.  Daniel  died 
in  1688,  bequeathing  to  wife  Mary,  sons  Daniel. 
Colborne  and  Samuel;  Humphrey  and  Sarah, 
children  of  his  son  Joseph :  Sarah  and  Lydia 
Foster,  children  of  deceased  daughter  Lydia. 
and  to  kinswoman  Elizabeth  Cording.  In  the 
Suffolk  deeds,  July  19.  171 1,  mention  is  made 
of  John  Turell.  eldest  son  and  heir  of  .Sanuiel 
Turell.  late  of  the  parish  of  Instow.  Devon- 
shire, luigland.  mariner,  deceased,  the  only  son 
of  John  Tirrell,  some  time  of  Boston,  mariner, 
deceased,  and  William,  one  other  son  of  said 
Samuel  Turell. 

(I)  \\'illiam  Tirrell.  immigrant  ancestor  of 
this  family,  settled  in  Boston.  In  all  prob- 
abilitv  he  was  a  vounger  brother  or  nephew  of 
Daniel  Tirrell  ment'oned  above,  and  he  is  the 
progenitor  of  all  the  \\'eymouth  families  of 
this  name.  William  Tirrell  probably  died  in 
the  prime  of  life,  for  we  have  no  record  of  the 
settlement  of  an  estate  and  no  mention  of  his 
death.  He  married.  January  29,  1654-55.  in 
Boston.  Rebecca  Sinipkins,  daughter  of  Nicho- 
las Simpkins.  a  tailor  and  drajicr  of  high  stand- 
ing, who  removed  from  V'oston  to  Dorchester 
and  thence  to  Cambridge,  where  he  bought 
land  November  20,  1637.  Simpkins  was  the 
first  commander  of  the  fort  on  Castle  Island. 
Boston  Harbor.  He  deposed  before  the  general 


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court  in  1645  as  to  a  gun  he  took  to  the  castle 
in  1635.  Simpkins  was  of  Yarmouth,  1638-40, 
ren\oved  to  liarnstable,  where  he  sold  land  in 
1645.  and  to  Scituate.  where  he  sold  land  March 
I,  1648;  he  died  i(^^(^,  his  widow  Isabel  being 
administratrix.  Children  of  William  and  Re- 
becca Tirrell :  1.  Rebecca,  born  December  26, 
1655.  at  Boston.  2.  William.  Boston,  March 
16.  1658.  settled  in  Weymouth  with  his  brother 
Gideon  and  is  ancestor  of  many  of  the  families 
of  this  name  in  the  vicinity :  married  .\bigail 
Pratt,  daughter  of  Thomas  I'ratt:  died  at  Ab- 
ington,  October  27,  1727:  among  their  six 
children  was  one  name  Gideon.  3.  Mary,  April 
6.  1661.  4.  Gideon,  July  16,  1664.  mentioned 
below. 

(11)  Gideon,  son  of  William  Tirrell,  was 
born  in  Boston,  July  16,  1664.  He  and  his 
brothers  settled  in  Weymouth,  Massachusetts. 
It  is  known  that  John  Tirrell,  grandson  of 
Gideon,  possessed  a  manuscript  written  by 
Gideon  Tirrell  in  which  the  town  and  county  in 
England,  whence  the  family  came,  was  named, 
but  this  paper  has  been  lost  since  about  1850, 
and  the  best  recollection  of  those  who  had  seen 
the  document  fixes  the  place  as  Thorne  in 
Yorkshire.  Berhaps  no  value  should  be  placed 
on  this  statement,  for  until  recently  it  had  been 
supposed  that  Gideon  was  born  in  England. 
Gideon  made  his  home  in  Weymouth  about 
1683.  He  married  Hannah,  probably  daughter 
of  Thomas  Kingman.  .She  was  born  June  i, 
1666.  He  belonged  to  the  church  at  Weymouth 
when  Rev.  Mr.  I'aine  was  the  pastor,  and 
when  the  church  was  formed  in  the  south  pre- 
cinct, he  became  a  member :  under  Rev.  James 
Bayley  in  1723  his  name  appears  at  the  head 
of  the  list  of  members.  He  was  the  first  mod- 
erator of  the  south  parish  or  precinct  and  one 
of  the  assessors  elected  July  15,  1723;  was 
mo''erator  also  in  1724-25-26.  At  that  time  he 
held  the  rank  of  sergeant  in  the  militia  and  was 
doubtless  in  a<:tive  service  in  the  Indian  wars. 
He  bought  land  of  Captain  John  Holbrook, 
March  8.  i6(;8,  seven  acres  in  the  first  division 
of  \\'eymouth.  town  commons.  He  bought  of 
Benjamin  Luddle.  .August  6.  1702,  six  acres 
and  also  a  tract  of  forty  acres  of  Samuel 
White,  extending  from  the  Braintree  line  to 
the  lower  end  of  the  Great  Pond,  as  far  as  the 
south  part  of  Great  Pond,  and  bounrled  on  the 
west  by  the  T'.raintrec  line.  His  house  was 
near  the  spot  where  Kingman  Tirrell's  house 
stood  in  1857  and  later.  Children:  i.  Gideon, 
born  June  18.  1689,  died  young.  2.  Mary,  Octo- 
ber 4,  i6qo,  married,  17 13,  Ebenezer  Boulton. 
3.  Rebecca,   March   20,    1691-92.     4.   Gideon. 


A])ril  10.  Uk)3,  mentioned  below,  5.  Miriam, 
September  29,  1696,  died  July  19.  171 5.  6. 
John,  .\ugust  22,  1700.  7.  Hannah,  married, 
1727,  John  Kingman;  died  1761.  8.  Deborah, 
marrietl,  January  28,  1730,  Joseph  Nash. 

(Ill)  Gideon  (2),  son  of  Gideon  (i)  Tir- 
rell, was  born  at  \\'eymouth,  April  10,  1693, 
died  there  in  1765.  He  married,  July  9.  1715, 
Mary  Xash,  who  died  June  12,  1754.  He  was 
a  prominent  citizen,  of  great  piety.  He  joined 
the  Weymouth  church  in  full  communion,  1740. 
He  was  a  rc])resentative  to  the  general  court 
in  1728-29-30,  and  held  many  other  offices  of 
trust  and  honor.  lie  inherited  his  father's 
homestead  at  Weymouth.  Children,  born  at 
Weymouth:  i.  Jacob,  February  16,  1716, mar- 
ried, February  16,  1737,  Elisheba  \'inson.  2. 
Gideon,  November  3,  1717,  married,  October 
18.  1747.  Hannah  \'inson.  3.  Joseph.  Novem- 
ber 2.  1719,  died  .August  2,  1738.  4.  llannaii, 
.August  I.  1722,  married,  Feliruary  4.  1848, 
F.liphakt  Ripley.  5.  Isaac,  November  22,  1724, 
married.  February  4,  1748,  .Alice  Shaw.  6. 
Ebenezer,  February  5,  1729,  inentioned  below. 
7.  Benjamin.  October  15.  1731,  married.  De- 
cember 29,  1759.  Haiuiah  Packard. 

(I\')  Ebenezer.  son  of  Gideon  (2)  Tirrell, 
was  born  at  Weymouth.  February  5,  1729.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution  in  Captain 
Thomas  Nash's  coinpany,  Colonel  Solomon 
Lovell's  regiment  at  the  taking  of  Dorchester 
Heights  in  1776.  and  in  the  same  company  of 
minute-men  later  in  that  year  ("page  778  ^Iass. 
Soldiers  and  .Sailors  in  the  Revolution").  He 
married,  March  2.  1750.  Lydia  Weld,  of  Brain- 
tree.  Children,  born  at  Weymouth:  I.  Lydia, 
July  21.  1754.  married  John  Tirrell.  who  was 
drowned  in  1807.  2.  Ebenezer.  .August  24, 
1759.  soldier  in  the  revolution  in  Captain  Jacob 
\Vales's  company.  Colonel  Thomas  Marshall's 
regiment ;  was  taken  prisoner  and  starved  to 
death  in  the  service  Cvol.  XV.  Soldiers  and 
Sailors  in  the  Revolution  ).  3.  Sarah,  October 
24.  176)0.  4.  Haimah.  January  26,  1763.  mar- 
ried. SeptemIxT  14,  1782,  Lemuel  .Smith,  of 
Roxbury.  5.  flidcon.  .September  5.  1765.  mar- 
ried Sarah  I'.rown.  6.  James,  March  i,  1768, 
mentioned  below.  7.  Betsey,  May  7,  1771, 
married  Benjamin  Loud. 

(\')  James,  son  of  Ebenezer  Tirrell.  was 
born  in  Weymouth,  March  i.  1768.  died  at 
Sf>uth  Weymouth,  1815.  He  marrierl  Hannah 
Kingman  who  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven 
years.     He  was  a  farmer  at  South  Weymouth. 

His  wiflow  married  fsecond)  Reed,  of 

South  Weymouth.  ChiMren  of  James  and 
Hannah     (Kingman)     Tirrell:      i.    Kingman, 


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married  Cliarloltc  Ricliards,  daiigliter  of  James 
and  Sarah  (Tirrell)  Richards.  2.  James,  born 
1797,  mentioned  below.  3.  Betsey,  married 
Randall  Richards  and  had  eight  children.  4. 
.Minot,  manufacturer  of  boots  and  shoes; 
leather  merchant ;  member  of  the  Second  IJni- 
versalist  Church  of  Weymouth  ;  married  Caro- 
line liartlett,  of  Duxhury,  and  had  three  chil- 
dren. 5.  Wilson,  married  Rliza  Canterbur\-: 
(second)  .Vlmira  P.lanchard ;  had  four  children 
by  his  first  wife  and  one  child  by  his  second. 
6.  Mary,  married  Jairus  \'ining  and  had  two 
children.  7.  .Albert,  married  Charlotte  Blanch- 
ard,  daughter  of  Cyrus;  was  a  shoe  maniifac- 
turer  and  leather  merchant. 

(\'l  )  James  (2),  son  of  James  (  i  )  Tirrell, 
was  born  in  .South  Weymouth,  1797,  died  there 
in  18^)5.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools, 
and  learned  the  trade  of  shoemaker.  He  began 
to  manufacture  boots  and  shoes  on  his  own 
account,  when  a  young  man.  In  1845  li^  ^'i" 
gaged  in  business  in  Boston  as  a  dealer  in  hides 
and  leather  and  continued  with  much  success 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  a  prominent 
citizen  of  his  native  town,  and  held  the  offices 
of  overseer  of  the  poor  and  selectman.  He 
was  one  of  the  incorporators  and  a  trustee  of 
the  Weymouth  National  Bank.  He  was  an 
active  and  prominent  member  of  the  Wey- 
mouth Congregational  Church.  He  married 
Betsey  Whitmarsh,  born  1798,  at  East  Wey- 
niouth.  died  188S  at  South  Weymouth.  Clnl- 
dren,  born  at  South  Weymouth:  I.  Hannah, 
1818,  died  unmarried  in  1888.  at  South  Wey- 
mouth. 2.  Tirzah.  1820,  married  Moses  T. 
Durrell ;  she  died  December  30,  1908.  3. 
.Mfred,  May,  1823,  died  1890;  married  Frances 
Hastings.  4.  .Mary  Jane,  1825,  married  Charles 
Hersey,  of  Hiugham.  5.  James,  died  aged 
eight  years,  b.  James.  December  6,  1829,  men- 
tioned below.    7.  Betsey,  died  1832. 

(  \'I1 )  James  (3),  son  of  James  (2)  Tirrell, 
was  born  at  South  Weymouth,  December  6, 
1829.  IFe  was  c<lucated  in  the  i^ublic  schools 
of  .South  Weymouth  and  of  Derry,  New  Hamp- 
shire. .At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered  the 
employ  of  his  father  as  clerk  in  his  store  in 
T.oston.  and  when  he  came  of  age  was  admitted 
to  partii<Tshi|).  .\fter  the  deatli  of  his  father 
he  continued  the  business  in  partnership  with 
his  uncle,  who  had  been  a  member  of  the  firm 
from  the  first  till  1871  when  his  uncle  retired 
and  lie  conducted  it  alone  till  1877.  when  he 
sold  out.  He  then  returned  to  Weymouth  to 
live,  since  which  time  he  has  been  interested 
in  real  estate  in  Boston  and  South  Wevmouth. 
lie  was  for  four  vears  a  director  of  the  Wev- 


mouth National  liank.  In  religion  he  was  a 
Congregationalist ;  in  politics  a  Democrat.  He 
married,  June  2,  1859,  Helen  .Sprague,  born 
September  29,  1837,  at  South  Weymouth, 
daughter  of  Jesse  H.  and  .\ancy  W.  (Bates) 
S]jrague  (see  Sprague).  Children:  i.  James, 
born  June  25,  1863,  at  South  Weymouth,  now 
in  ice  business  in  that  town  :  married  Mary  S. 
Russell ;  children  :  James,  Russell  Nevin  and 
Helen  .S])rague.  2.  Helen  Florence.  June  21, 
1870.  died  .A])ril  25,  1906;  married  Fleeming 
l'>rook;  children:  Crammore  Wallace  and  Tir- 
rell.    3.  .Alfred,  .Aiiril  i,  1873,  ^liefl  1881. 

(The   Spragrue   Line — See   Edward   Sprague   1). 

(HI)  William  (2),  .son  of  William  (i) 
.Sprague,  was  born  May  7,  1630,  baptized  at 
Hiugham.  July  2,  1650.  He  was  a  prominent 
citizen  of  Hingham,  was  selectman  in  1690, 
and  deputy  to  general  court  in  1708.  He  re- 
moved to  Providence  in  1709,  and  died  there. 
He  married  (first)  December  13,  1674.  Deb- 
orah, daughter  of  .Andrew  and  Triphena  Lane. 
.She  was  baptized  at  Hingham,  June  20,  1632, 
and  (Hed  there  February  4,  1706-07.  in  her 
fifty-fifth  year.  He  married  (second)  (inten- 
tion dated  November  3,  1709)  Mary,  daughter 
of  Jeremiah  and  Elizabeth  (Rowland)  Tower. 
.She  was  born  in  Hingham,  November  3,  1672. 
Children  of  first  wife,  all  born  at  Hingham:  I. 
\\'illiam.  December  24,  1673.  mentioned  below. 
2.  Deborah,  March  24,  1677-78.  3.  Joanna, 
February  13.  i()79-8o.  4.  David,  December  23, 
''^'^.^-  5-  Jonathan,  July  24.  1686;  married. 
May  23,  1712,  Lydia  Leavitt.  6.  .Abiah,  Janu- 
ary 27.  1688-89.  "•  John,  September  13.  1692. 
8.  Benjamin.  January  3,  1694-93. 

(I\')  William  (3).  son  of  William  (2) 
.S])raguc,  was  born  at  Hingham,  December  24, 
I '173.  He  removed  to  .Abington,  where  he 
built  a  house  that  was  standing  until  recently. 
-Mrs.  John  I'nderhay,  daughter  of  Eliphaz 
.Sprague,  his  great-grandson,  lived  in  the  house 
when  a  child,  and  remembers  two  old-fash- 
ioned barrels  made  of  solid  tree-trunks,  placed 
in  the  cellar  of  the  house  by  William  (3), 
according  to  tradition.  He  married.  .April  2^. 
1707,  at  Hingham.  Silence,  born  in  Hiugham, 
.August  27.  16S4,  died  May  I.  1736,  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Silence  (Damon)  Tower.  Chil- 
dren: I.  .Silence,  born  Sejitcmber  7.  1708.  2. 
William,  born  January,  1709-10;  mentioned 
below.  3.  Jedcdiah.  born  Starch  18.  1712-13. 
I'robablv  others  at  .Abington. 

(\)  'William  (4).  son  of  William  (3) 
Sprague.  was  born  at  Hingham,  January  29, 
1700-10.  and  died  November  6,  1796.    I  le  went 


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with  hi>  lather  to  Abingtoii.  and  owned  a  large 
tract  of  land  in  the  west  part  of  the  town. 
According  to  report  he  was  chosen  to  carry  a 
petition  to  the  general  court  to  have  a  line 
stretched  from  Accord  jxnid  to  Angle  tree. 
He  was  honest.  u]>right.  antl  highly  respected. 
He  married,  at  llinghani,  September  16,  1735, 
.•\bigail  Keen.  They  had  eight  children,  si.x  of 
whom  were  victims  of  an  epidemic  called  the 
putrid  sore-throat,  doubtless  diphtheria,  which 
]ireAailed  in  .Abington  in  175 1-2.  The  surviv- 
ing children:  I.  Samuel,  lost  liis  life  in  the 
French  and  Indian  war.  2.  \\'illiam.  born 
1754;  mentioned  below.  3.  .\bigail,  born  De- 
cember 2.  1758. 

(\T)  William  (5),  son  of  William  (4) 
Sprague,  was  born  in  .Abington.  in  1754.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  in  Captain  Will- 
iam Reed's  company.  General  John  Thomas's 
regiment,  from  .\pril  to  August.  1775.  at  Cam- 
bridge and  Roxbury.  On  the  Lexington  alarm 
lie  served  a  few  days  in  Captain  Edward 
Cobb's  company.  Colonel  Edward  Mitchell's 
regiment.  He  married,  October  3,  1776,  Jane 
Orcutt,  of  .\bington.  who  died  February  23, 
1831.  aged  eighty-eight.  He  died  July  14, 
1830.  Children:  i.  Susannah,  born  in  .Abing- 
t(Mi.  Xoveniber  28.  1776;  died  unmarried,  about 
1851.  2.  Lydia.  born  May  i.  1778.  3.  Zebcdce, 
born  in  .Abington,  May  n.  1780:  died  .August 
15-  '856:  married,  February  i,  1806,  Susannah 
Penniman.  4.  Oliver,  born  September  25,  1782 ; 
married,  .August  21.  181 5,  Lydia  Keith,  who 
died  February  26.  1823.  5.  James,  born  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1785.  6.  .Anna,  born  March  g,  1787; 
married,  January  29,  1812,  Thomas  Joy,  of 
Weymoutli.  7.  Elii)haz.  born  .April  24.  1789; 
mentioned  below.  8.  Polly,  born  June  5,  1793; 
died  .April  27,  1796. 

( VH  )  Eliphaz,  son  of  William  (5  )  Sprague, 
was  born  in  .\bington,  .April  24,  1789,  and  died 
at  Holbrook,  Massachusetts,  in  1869,  aged 
eighty  years.  PTe  married  (first)  March  11. 
181 1.  Mary  Lydia  Harlow,  of  Plymouth,  who 
died  June  19,  1821.  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine 
years.  He  married  (second)  June  5.  1823, 
I.ydia  Thayer,  of  East  Randolph  ('now  Hol- 
brook). Children  of  first  marriage:  i.  Chand- 
ler, married  (first)  December  6.  1840.  Martha, 
daughter  of  .Manly  Hayward  ;  child:  i.  .Abby. 
married  Custavus  H.  Farrar.  He  married 
(second)  Rhoda  Shaw  Packard:  chil<lren :  ii. 
Alma  Jane,  born  Sei)tembcr  15,  1844:  iii.  .Ara- 
bella, born  -March  30,  18.^''):  iv.  Julia  .Ann.  July 
29.  1848.  Chandler  .Sprague  was  a  last  and 
boot  tree  manufacturer  at  Sprague  village: 
director  of  the  N'orth  P.ridgewater  I'.ank.  the 


.Abington  .Mutual  I'ire  Insurance  Comiiany, 
and  the  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company; 
justice  of  the  ]ieace  and  leading  citizen.  2. 
l-.ihridge.  married  .Sarah  i'rench.  3.  Jesse  11., 
mentioned  below,  4.  .Alnheus,  died  at  sea.  5. 
Harriet,  born  1817:  married  John  L'n<lerliay. 
and  resides  at  1  lolbrook.  Massachusetts,  ninety- 
one  years  and  eight  months  old  :  these  reconls 
have  been  largely  compiled  from  her  researches 
during  the  i)ast  few  months.  6.  James,  married 
Elena  Hates.  Children  of  Eliphaz  S])rague  by 
secontl  marriage:  7.  Eliza  .\nn.  married  a 
liigelow.  8.  L\clia.  married  a  Crocker,  ij.  iunily. 
married  .Augustus  Chandler.  10.  .Xathaniel. 
married  Elizabeth  Howard.  11.  Homer,  mar- 
ried Mary  Jordan.  12.  Quincy.  never  married. 
(  \'IH)  Jesse  Harlow,  son  of  Eliphaz  Sprague, 
was  born  at  .Abington,  in  1813,  and  died  at 
South  Weymouth  in  1871.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber 30.  1836,  Xancy  W.  I'ates.  daughter  of 
John  r>ate>.  granddaughter  of  Jonathan  Hates. 
John  ISates.  father  of  Jonathan,  was  son  of 
Increase  and  grandson  of  E<lward  liates  (i) 
the  immigrant.  His  w-ife  died  in  Soutli  Wey- 
mouth in  1881.  He  followed  the  trade  of  shoe- 
maker in  his  native  town,  removing  later  to 
South  Weymouth.  Children:  i.  Helen,  born 
.September  29,  1837;  married,  in  1859,  James 
Tirrell  (see  Tirrell  \'ll).  2.  Xancy.  Febru- 
ary 13.  1840:  married  .Augustus  X'ining.  3. 
Eunice,  .September  19,  1842;  married  (first) 
I'arker  Fogg;  married  (second)  Crammore  X. 
Wallace.  P>oston.  4.  .Alice,  February  13,  1844, 
married  Davis  Randall.  5.  Ida.  .March.  1853, 
married  John  .Augustine  Fogg.  6.  Charles  F., 
January  24.  1835.  7.  Fannie,  October  16, 
1857.  married  Charles  Foster.  8.  William, 
1859,  died  when  seven  months  old. 


(For   fir.ft    generation    see  ThomiiH    MiiHllnKM    1  >. 

(H)  Dr.  Thomas  (2)  Hast- 
1  l.\.STIX(iS      ings.  son  of  Deacon  Thomas 

(1)1  lastings.  was  born  in 
Watertown.  July  i.  I'')32.  and  died  at  Hatfield, 
.Massachusetts.  July  2j^.  1712.  lie  was  admitted 
a  freeman  February  8,  1678.  He  studied  medi- 
cine and  settled  in  Hatfield,  jiracticing  also  in 
Xorthampton,  Hadley  and  Deerficld,  and  was 
for  many  years  the  only  physician  in  those 
towns.  He  was  also  the  first  school  teacher  in 
Hatfield.  It  was  not  imcommon  at  that  tiine 
for  the  village  doctor  to  teach  school  also. 
.A  remarkable  thing  about  Dr.  Hastings's  school 
was  that  girls  were  admitted  on  the  same  foot- 
ing as  boys.  Elsewhere  in  .Xew  England,  until 
after  the  revolution  girls  were  not  taught  in 
the  j)iiblic   schools.      It   was    1789  before  the 


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Boston  schools  were  open  to  both  sexes  and 
not  until  1802  in  Northampton.  Dr.  Hastings 
married  (first)  October  10,  1672,  Anna, daugh- 
ter of  John  Hawks,  of  Hadley.  She  died 
October  25,  1705,  and  he  married  (second) 
February  14,  1706,  Mary,  daughter  of  David 
J'.urt,  of  Northampton.  She  died  April  13, 
1734.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Hannah, 
born  January  ig,  1677;  married  Samuel  Gil- 
lett.  2.  Thomas,  born  September  24,  1679; 
nVentioned  below.  3.  Hepzibah,  born  April  6, 
1682;  married,  April  5,  1705,  Jonathan  Curtis, 
of  Wethcrsfield,  Connecticut.  4.  Mehitable, 
born  June  23,  1684;  married,  November  25, 
1714,  John  Burke.     5.  John,  born  at  Hatfield, 

September  18,   1689:  married  Lydia  ; 

(second)  1720,  Hannah  White,  daughter  of 
Deacon  John ;  was  at  Fort  Dummer,  Vermont, 
1735  ;  settled  at  Charlestown,  New  Hampshire. 

(HI)  Dr.  Thomas  (3)  Hastings,  son  of  Dr. 
Thomas  (2)  Hastings,  was  born  at  Hatlield, 
September  24,  1679,  and  died  April  14,  1728. 
He  was  also  school  teacher  and  physician  in 
the  field  that  his  father  occupied  before  him. 
He  died  a  comparatively  young  man.  He  was 
thought  to  have  been  the  victim  of  slow  poison. 
He  was  taken  ill  in  Boston  while  on  a  visit, 
returned  to  his  home,  and  told  his  wife  he 
should  die  .April  14,  1728,  and  his  prediction 
came  true.  .\  (|uaint  unpoctical  but  flattering 
eulogy  and  an  acrostic  to  his  memory  were 
written  at  the  time  of  his  death  by  Josephus 
Nash.  A  record  of  a  surgical  case  of  note  is 
preserved  in  Rev.  John  Williams's  "History  of 
Captivity  and  Deliverance"  (app.  3).  Dr. 
Hastings  married,  March  6,  1701,  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Mary  Field,  born  February 
20,  1680.  died  November  9,  1764.  aged  eighty- 
four.  Children:  I.  Mary,  born  December  29, 
1701  ;  died  January  10,  1702.  2.  Thomas,  born 
November  6,  1702;  died  November  4,  1703. 
3.  Mary,  born  July  26,  1704;  married  Benja- 
min Billings.    4.  ;\nna,  born  October  13,  1706; 

married White.    5.  Dorothy,  born  July 

27,  1709;  died  July  29,  171 1.  6.  Tliomas,  born 
May  5,  1713.  died  young.  7.  Waitstill,  born 
June  3,  1714;  died  .'Vpril  22,  1748.  8.  Tabitha, 
born  October  6,  1715;  married.  January  4, 
1739,  John  Strickland.  9.  Hopestill,  born  .April 
13,  1718;  mentioned  below.  10.  Dorothy,  born 
March  20,  1720,  died  April  6  following.  12. 
Fucy,  born  Fe])niary  i,  1723;  married  Jona- 
than Taylor ;  resided  in  Heath,  Massachusetts. 

(IV)  Hopestill,  son  of  Dr.  Thomas  (3) 
Hastings,  was  born  at  Hatfield,  .April  13,  1718, 
anrl  died  December  24.  X'/(^^.  in  his  forty-eighth 
year,     He  was  a  farmer  at  Hatfield.     He  mar- 


ried, in  1 741,  Lydia  Frary.  Children,  born  at 
Hatfield:  i.  Abner,  born  July  7,  1742;  died 
July  ID,  1742.  2.  Lydia,  born  July  5,  1743; 
died  October  4,  1746.  3.  Dr.  Seth,  born  De- 
cember 6,  1745;  died  April  29,  1830,  aged 
eighty-four  years.  4.  Lydia,  born  November 
21,  1747;  died  October  4,  1751.  5.  Tabitha, 
born  October  i,  1749;  died  at  Amherst,  1795. 
6.  Elihu,  born  August  7,  1751 ;  soldier  in  the 
revolution,  and  pensioner  afterward ;  lived 
many  years  with  his  brother  Dr.  Seth  and 
nephew  .Seth  Hastings ;  died  at  Clinton,  New 
York,  February  25,  1837,  very  old.  7.  Elijah, 
born  June  (1,  1753:  mentioned  below.  8.  Perez, 
born  December  23.  1754;  died  March  ir,  1822, 
aged  sixty-eight  years.  9.  Hopestill,  born 
October  30,  1756;  died  October  31,  1756.  10. 
Oliver,  born  August  25,  1757;  died  1838,  at 
Hammondsport,  New  York. 

(\')  Elijah,  son  of  Hopestill  Hastings,  was 
born  at  Hatfield.  June  6.  1753,  and  died  at 
.Amherst,  Massachusetts.  October  4,  1803,  aged 
fifty  years.  He  settled  in  Amherst,  where  he 
was  a  blacksmith  and  farmer.  He  was  a 
soldier  in  the  revolution,  on  the  Lexington 
alarm,  in  the  company  of  First  Lieutenant  Eli 
Parker  (minute-men)  April  19,  1775.  He  was 
also  in  Captain  Moses  Cook's  company  in  Sep- 
tember, 1786,  and  was  called  to  the  defence  of 
the  governor  in  Shay's  Rebellion.  TTe  held 
various  town  offices;  was  tithingman  in  1777- 
80-82,  and  i)erha])s  other  years ;  on  conunittee 
to  locate  school  house  in  1790;  committee  to 
build  bridge  over  the  river  on  Pelham  road ; 
on  school  committee,  1799,  when  he  was  called 
Lieutenant.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Common  Library  and  was  on  the  committee 
to  buy  books  Jiuic  4,  1793.  He  removed  to 
.Schenectady,  New  A'ork.  lie  married  Jerusha, 
daughter  of  Deacon  John  Billings,  of  .Amherst, 
where  she  died  July  3,  1798,  aged  thirty- four 
years.  Elijah  must  have  joined  the  church 
after  the  death  of  his  wife,  for  three  of  his 
children  were  baptized  at  Amherst  at  the  same 
time.  {\-tol)er  14.  1798.  Children:  i.  Lucina, 
married  .\]iril  2,  1809,  Calvin  Hamilton.  2. 
Lydia  P.,  baptized  October  14,  1798;  married, 
^fay  14.  1810.  Chauncey  Hamilton,  who  was 
called  the  best  lawyer  in  New  York  state :  she 
married  (.second)  .August  31.  1723,  her  cousin, 
Orlando  (Parmalee)  Hastings,  son  of  Dr. 
Seth  Hastings;  removed  to  Rochester,  New 
A'ork.  3.  Nancy,  baptized  October  14.  1798; 
married."  December  24.  1807,  Dr.  Isaac  Guern- 
sey Cutler,  of  .Amherst,  and  died  June  28, 
1849.    4.  Elijah,  mentioned  below. 

(VI)   EHjah  (2),  son  of  Elijah  (i)  Hast- 


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ings,  was  born  at  Amherst,  about  1790,  and 
was  baptized  there  with  two  sisters,  October 
14,  1798.  His  wife  was  Rebecca  Smith,  daugh- 
ter of  Ebenezer,  a  minute-man  at  Lexington, 
born  at  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  1792.  died  at 
South  Wevmouth,  Massachusetts,  1870.  EHjah 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Amherst. 
He  went  to  Schenectady  with  liis  father  and 
followed  the  trade  of  tanner  and  currier,  at 
which  he  worked  for  a  time  in  Vemiont.  He 
died  in  1832.  in  Schenectady,  New-  York,  of 
Asiatic  cholera,  being  ill  only  four  hours ;  this 
was  the  last  of  this  epidemic  reported  in  New 
York  state.  Children:  i.  Ellen,  born  1817, 
died  young.  2.  Elijah,  born  1819.  died  young. 
3.  Ann  Eliza,  married  Xorman  Uennett,  of 
Oswego,  New  ^'ork.  4.  Henry  J.  5.  Oscar 
Hamilton,  deceased.  6.  Edward  Mortimer, 
deceased.  7.  Margaret  Frances,  born  May  27, 
1828;  married  .Mfred  Tirrell ;  see  below.  8. 
Charles  W..  born  1831.  in  South  Weymouth; 
served  in  the  civil  war,  and  was  taken  prisoner 
at  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  and  held  as  such 
nine  months ;  for  the  past  thirty  years 
he  has  been  commissioner  of  state  aid  for 
Massachusetts.  9.  Albert  E.,  died  in  Buffalo, 
New  York. 

Alfred  Tirrell  ("see  above)  was  descended 
from  \\illiam  Tirrell.  emigrant  ancestor  (q. 
v.),  and  was  a  son  of  Captain  James  Tirrell, 
who  served  in  the  war  of  i8r2.  .\lfred  Tirrell 
was  born  at  South  Weymouth,  June  18,  1824, 
and  died  May  7,  1890,  in  his  native  town.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Wey- 
mouth and  at  Phillips  .\cademy,  Andovcr. 
New  Hampshire.  He  became  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  manufacture  of  leather,  boots 
and  shoes,  at  \\'eymouth,  and  it  is  to  be  noted 
that  his  grandfather  manufactured  brogans 
for  soldiers  in  the  Mexican  war.  The  father 
conducted  a  wholesale  business  in  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  but  he  relinf|uishefl  this  when  that 
city  was  blockaded  during  the  civil  war.  Soon 
after  Alfred  Tirrell  came  of  age  he  succeeded 
to  the  business,  his  father  retiring.  During 
the  civil  war  .Alfred  Tirrell  was  active  in  sup- 
port of  the  national  government,  and,  unable 
to  enter  the  army  himself,  sent  a  substitute  to 
the  front.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Weymouth 
National  Bank  for  many  years.  He  was  active 
in  the  Union  Congregational  Church,  which 
his  father  and  a  few  other  leading  citizens  had 
organized.  He  was  a  jirominent  leader  in  the 
Whig  party,  and  an  active  and  useful  citizen 
of  the  town.  He  married,  November  11,  1847, 
at  South  Weymouth,  Margaret  Frances,  daugh- 
ter of  Elijah  Hastings  (see  above)  ;  this  was 


the  last  marriage  in  .South  Weymouth  under 
the  publication  of  marriage  intentions. 


All  the  .American  Sanlxirns 
S.ANllORN  are  descentled  from  three 
brothers  who  settled  in  Hamp- 
ton, New  Hami^shire,  in  1639.  The  surname 
is  derived  from  the  .Anglo-Saxon  words  Sand 
and  Burn  (stream),  evidently  a  place  name 
before  it  became  a  surname,  and  it  seems  prob- 
able that  the  English  progenitors  who  first  used 
Sanhourne.  the  original  form  of  Sanborn,  as 
their  surname,  were  in  Sambourne,  Wiltshire. 
The  earliest  mention  of  the  name  in  England 
in  1 194  gives  it  de  Sambourne,  and  since  the 
fourteenth  century  these  two  forms  have  been 
the  acce])ted  spelling  in  England,  the  only  two 
surviving  branches  in  that  country  using  them. 
The  American  progenitors  spelled  the  name 
Samborn  and  Samborne,  but  gradually  the 
name  has  been  changed  to  Sanb(jrn.  the  form 
accepted  generally  by  almost  all  the  .American 
descendants.  In  Illinois  it  is  spelled  Sanborn 
and  in  Michigan,  Sandburn.  The  Sanborn  or 
Samborne  coat-of-arms :  Argent,  a  chevron 
sable,  between  three  mullets  gules,  pierced  or. 
Crest :    .A  millett  as  in  the  arms. 

The  .Sambourne  ancestry  has  been  traced  by 
\'.  C.  .'^anborn.  compiler  of  the  genealogy,  to 
.Xicholas  Sambourne.  of  Wiltshire,  in  1320. 
Nicholas  Sambourne  was  born  about  1320; 
probably  held  the  fourth  part  of  a  knight's  fee 
in  Biddestone,  St.  Nicholas,  Wiltshire ;  repre- 
sented Bath  City  at  the  parliament  held  at 
Westminster,  November  3,  1391.  His  son, 
Xicholas  Samlmurne,  was  born  about  1350; 
held  the  fourth  part  of  a  knight's  fee,  men- 
tioned above,  was  in  parliament  in  1393-4; 
married  Katherine,  youngest  daughter  and  co- 
heir of  Sir  John  Lusbill,  or  De  Lusteshull,  who 
was  connected  with  the  House  of  Lancaster. 
A  grandson,  Walter  Sambourne,  born  1420, 
held  I'ernham  and  Lusbill  manors,  but  prob- 
ably lived  at  Southcot  House,  near  Reading, 
P.erkshire;  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Drew,  of  Seagry,  Wiltshire;  she  died 
in  I4()4  and  her  will  is  extant.  Nicholas  Sam- 
bourne, son  of  Walter  and  Margaret,  born 
about  1450,  made  his  home  in  Maplcdurnam. 
Oxfordshire:  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
John  lirooks,  of  Beaurepaire.  Hampshire,  de- 
scendant of  an  ancient  and  honorable  family, 
from  which  she  inherited  considerable  prop- 
erty, including  Timsbury,  which  the  Sam- 
bournes  occupied.  Timsbury  House,  now  the 
most  ancient  SamlK)iirnc  residence  in  England, 
is  celebrated    for  the   interesting  and   artistic 


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Tudor  architecture.  The  house  today  is  prac- 
tically unchanged  since  1542,  e.xcept  for  minor 
alterations  and  repairs  and  the  loss  of  one 
wing  by  fire.  The  probable  line  of  descent 
from  this  Nicholas  to  the  .Xmerican  immigrant 
is  thus  given  by  the  family  historian :  Nich- 
olas Sambourne,  born  1500:  Edward,  born 
about  1550.  and  William,  who  married  Ann 
Bachiler,  and  was  of  P.rimpton.  I'.crkshire.  in 
1616,  their  sons.  Eieutenant  John,  mentioned 
below,  William  and  Stephen,  being  the  three 
American  immigrants. 

(I)   Lieutenant  John   Sanborne,  the  immi- 
grant ancestor  of  the  Sanborn  family  of  Soiti- 
erville,   Massachusetts,   was  born   in   England 
in  1620.  and  settled  in  Hampton,  now  in  New 
Hampshire,   as   early  as    1640,   when  he   was 
granted  a  house,  lot  and  tract  of  land  there 
in  that   year.      In    1643   he   signed   a   petition 
with  other  Hampton  men,  and  after  that  the 
records  contain  numerous  references  to  him. 
His  house  in   Hampton  was  next  to  that  of 
Stephen    P.achiler,   across  the  road   from  the 
meeting  house  green  and  nearly  opposite  the 
old  meeting  house.      John    Sanborne   and   his 
brothers   \Villiam   and   Stei)hen   were   sons  of 
an    English    Sanborne    (probably    William    of 
Brimpton).  Berkshire,  and  Anna,  daughter  of 
Rev.    Stephen    Bachiler.      Their    father    died 
about   1630.     The  three  brothers  are  said  to 
have    come    to    .\merica    in    i''>32    with    their 
grandfather  Bachiler.   In  1647  Bachiler  deeded 
his  jiroperty  at    I  famjiton  to  his   four  grand- 
children, the  three  brothers  named  and  Nathan- 
iel Bachiler,  "all  now  or  lately  of  Hampton." 
They  were  the  ancestors  of  Daniel  Webster. 
February    2,     1657,    John    Sanborne    was 
chosen  a  selectman,  but  exempted  :  March  30, 
1657.   he   was   appointed   on   a   committee   to 
see  to  the  building  of  i  house  for  the  minis- 
ter.  Rev.    Mr.   Cotton.      His   familiarity  with 
the  town  records  and  boundaries   led  to  his 
being   chosen   on   all   committees   to   examine 
old  grants  or  establish  boundary  lines.     Thus 
in   1 65 1   and  again  in    1658  he  was  chosen  a 
committee  to  join  with  the  town  clerk  to  ex- 
amine   all    the    grants    and    appointments    of 
lands,  highways,  and  the  like :  and  to  perfect 
the   same   in   the   town   bonk.      In    1661    San- 
borne was  again  a  selectman  and  also  on  the 
committee    to    hire    the    school    teachers.      In 
1664  he  was  chosen  ensign  of  the  Hampton 
militarv  cnmi)any.     He  was  a  selectman  also 
in     1665-68-71-74-75-78-79:    commissioner    to 
end  small  causes  in   1666-^17-69  for  the  town 
of  Hampton  :  foreman  of  the  grand  jury  1676. 
He  was  admitted  a  freeman  Mav.  1666;  com- 


missioned lieutenant  of  Hampton  forces  Octo- 
ber 15,  1669.  In  the  contest  with  the  Mason- 
ian  proprietors  he  refused  to  yield  to  the  de- 
mands of  Mason  and  was  imprisoned,  Octo- 
ber 21.  1684.  He  was  elected  to  the  general 
assembly.  1685. 

He  married  (first)  Mary  Tuck,  daughter  of 
Robert  Tuck,  of  Gorlston,  Suffolk,  England, 
and  Hampton,  New  Hampshire.  She  died 
December  30,  1668.  He  married  (second) 
Margaret  (Page)  Moulton.  widow  of  William 
Moulton  and  daughter  of  Robert  Page,  of 
Ormsb}-,  Norfolk,  England,  and  Hampton, 
New  Hampshire.  Children:  t.  John,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Mary,  born  165 1.  died  1654. 
3.  Abigail,  born  February  23,  1653.  married 
l-:i)liraim  .Marston :  died  January  3,  1743.  4. 
K'ichard,  born  January  4,  1655.  5.  Mary,  born 
165-,  died  1660.  6.  Joseph,  born  March  13. 
16:9.  7.  Stephen,  born  1661,  died  1662.  8. 
_\nn.  born  November  20,  1662,  married  Ste- 
rihen  Palmer,  g.  Dinah,  married  James  Mars- 
ton.  10.  Nathaniel,  born  January  27,  1666.  11. 
iknjamin,  born  December  20.  1668,  12.  Cap- 
tain Jonathan,  born  May  25,  1672. 

(II)  John  Sanborne,  son  of  Lieutenant 
Joliu  Sanborne  (IK  was  born  in  Hampton, 
about  1649:  was  admitted  a  freeman  .\pril 
25,  167S.  He  married.  November  19,  1674. 
Judith  Coffin,  daughter  of  Tristram  Coffin,  of 
\ewbury.  She  was  born  December  4,  1653, 
and  died  May  17.  1724.  John  died  Septem- 
ber 23,  1727.  Children:  I.  Judith,  born 
August  <S.  1675.  married  Ebenezer  Gove.  2. 
MaVv,  lorn  July  2,  1677,  married  Ebenezer 
.'Stevens.  3.  Sarah,  born  May  8,  1679.  4. 
Deborah,  born  1681,  married  Samuel  Fellows 
and  (second)  Benjamin  Shaw.  5.  John,  born 
1683,  6.  Tristram,  born  1684-85.  7.  Enoch, 
born  16S5.  mentioned  below.  8.  Lydia,  born 
Februarv'24,  1687.  9.  Peter,  born  1689.  10. 
.\bner,  born  .\pril  27.  1694. 

(HI)  Enoch  Sanborn,  .son  of  John  San- 
borne (2),  was  born  in  Hampton,  1685,  lived 
in  Hampton  Falls,  where  he  owned  a  small 
farm,  and  a  mill,  in  1750.  In  1707  he  went 
with  Captain  Chesley's  expetlition  to  Port 
Roval.  He  married.' March,  1709,  Elizabeth 
Deiniett.  daughter  of  Alexander  Dennett,  of 
P(Utsm(nith:  (second)  April  i.  1736,  Mehit- 
able  Blake  Godfrey,  daughter  of  John  Blake, 
of  I  lampton,  and  widow  of  Jonathan  Godfrey. 
Enoch  was  a  .^addler  by  trade.  He  deeded  his 
land  in  Halestown  to  his  son  John  in  1760. 
Children:  i.  Itlizabeth.  baptized  1712.  died 
voiuig.  2.  Ebenezer.  born  July  25.  1712.  3. 
hulith.  born  December  8,  1715;  married  John 


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Philbrick.  4.  Moses,  baptized  March,  1717: 
mentioned  below.  5.  John,  baptized  Julv  19, 
1719.  6,  Rlizabetb,  baptizetl  June  18,  1721  ; 
married  .Alexander  Salter  and  (second)  John 
Danirell.  7.  F.noch.  baptized  June  28,  1724. 
8.  Sarah,  baptized  May  7.  1727.  g.  Isaac,  bap- 
tized Xovember  18.  1737. 

( I\")  Moses  Sanl)orn.  s^)n  of  Enoch  San- 
born (3).  was  born  in  Hampton  Falls,  bap- 
tized there  March,  1717:  lived  there  and  in 
the  neighboring  town  of  Kensington,  New 
Hampshire.  He  married.  Jainiarv  7.  1742. 
Elizabeth  Mitchell.  He  died  Jnn'e  8.  1S02. 
Children:  i.  Dorothy,  born  February  23.  1744, 
married  Paine  Lilake.  2.  Henry,  born  March 
I.  1746.  mentioned  below.  3.  James,  born  De- 
cember 6,  1748.  4.  Moses,  born  October  25. 
1758.  died  unmarried  1777.  5.  Jesse,  born  De- 
cember 10,  I7''>4- 

(V)  Henry  Sanborn,  son  of  Moses  Sanborn 
(4),  was  born  in  Kensington,  Xew  Hampshire, 
March  i.  1746:  lived  and  died  in  Kensington; 
signed  the  association  test  there.  He  married. 
November  22,  1769,  .Anne  Rlake.  daughter  of 
Jedediah  Blake,  of  Hampton  Falls.  He  died 
May  3.  1798.  Children:  i.  Dorothy,  born  in 
Kensington.  January  9,  1772,  married  Samuel 
Dow.  of  Xortbwood.  Xew  Hampshire.  2.  Fbc- 
nezer.  born  June  14.  1773.  3.  Henry,  born 
June  14,  1775.  4.  Moses,  bom  .April  25.  1777; 
mentioned  below.  5.  Xewell,  born  July  15, 
1779-  ^-  Polly,  born  October  29,  1781  :  mar- 
ried Ebenezer  Sinclair,  of  Monmouth,  Maine. 
7.  P>etsey.  born  June  16.  1784.  married  William 
Graves,  of  Hartland.  Maine.  8.  .Ann.  born 
April  28.  1786,  married.  June  23.  1813.  Moses 
Dow,  of  Epping.  9.  James,  born  June  11,. 
1790.     10.  John,  born  September  14.  1792. 

(\'l)  Moses  Sanborn,  son  of  Henry  San- 
born C5).  was  born  in  Epping.  Xew  Hamp- 
shire. April  25.  1777:  moved  to  Wales.  Maine. 
PTe  was  a  farmer  all  his  active  life.  He  mar- 
ried. March  18.  1801.  Xancy  Fogg,  daughter 
of  Maior  Josiah  Fogg,  of  Raymond.  Xew 
Hampshire.  .She  was  born  July  11.  1770.  and 
died  February  23.  1838.  He  rlied  .April  12. 
1852.  Children:  i.  Clarissa,  born  July  18, 
1802,  married  Parker  Dow,  of  St.  .Albans. 
Maine.  2.  Sarah,  born  June  9.  1804.  3.  Henry, 
born  Fehruarv  18.  1808;  mentioned  below.  4. 
Dudley  F..  born  Dcceiubcr  5,  1820. 

f\  H)  Henry  .Sanborn,  son  of  Moses  San- 
born (6  (.was  born  in  Epping.  Xew  Hamp- 
shire. February  18.  1808.  He  went  to  Maine 
with  his  father's  family  and  followed  farming 
at  Wales  and  Greene.  Maine.  He  married. 
January  22,    1834,  .Ann  Grossman   Daly,  who 


was  born  in  Wales,  .Maine,  .April  9,  1812.  She 
died  in  Eewiston.  Maine.  He  died  Julv  14. 
1864.  Their  only  child  :  James  Solomon,  men- 
tioned below. 

(  \  111)  J  ames.SoIdnion  Sanborn,  son  of  I  lenry 
Sanborn,  was  born  in  Wales.  .Maine.  .March 
29.  1833.  His  youth  was  .spent  in  Wales  and 
Monmouth.  Maine,  and  in  Xashua.  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  he  received  the  education  of  the  tlis- 
trict  .schools  of  that  time.  He  began  his  busi- 
ness career  as  traveling  salesman  for  the  seed 
house  of  .A.  H.  Dunlaji,  of  Nashua,  .\ew  1  lamp- 
shire,  and  for  a  nuiuber  of  years  be  proved  his 
ability  as  a  commercial  traveler  to  the  satisfac- 
tion of  his  employers  and  to  his  own  advantage. 
His  first  venture  on  his  own  account  was  in 
Lewiston.  Maine,  where  he  went  into  the  coffee 
and  spice  business.  In  1868  he  became  con- 
nected with  the  firm  of  Dwinell.  Ilavward  & 
Comi)any.  of  P.oston.  dealers  in  cottee  and 
spices.  The  firm  nf  Chase  &  .Sanborn  was 
formed  in  1878  and  the  greatest  success  has 
attended  the  firm  from  the  outset.  The  coffees 
and  teas  prepared  for  the  market  by  this  con- 
cern have  a  world  wide  reputation.  At  the 
World's  Fair  in  1893.  the  firm  supplied  the 
coffee  for  all  the  restaurants  upon  the  grounds. 

Mr.  Sanborn  made  his  home  in  .Somerville, 
Massachusetts,  in  1872,  and  except  for  the 
period  of  five  years  from  1884  to  1889  in  Bos- 
ton, lived  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  Somer- 
ville, and  in  Poland,  Maine,  where  he  had  a 
summer  home.  His  stables  at  Elmwood  were 
famous.  He  i)aid  s[)ecial  attention  to  breeding 
French  coach  horses.  In  1897  he  became  |)art 
owner  and  manager  of  the  Alaiiir  !■  (inner,  a 
weekly  newspaper  that  has  been  well  known  in 
Xew  l-'ngland  for  half  a  century.  Mr.  San- 
horn  loved  nature  and  traveled  extensively  in 
.America  and  Europe.  He  visited  the  countries 
that  produced  coffee  and  spices,  the  West  Indies, 
Mexico,  and  Central  .\merica.  He  was  a  splen- 
did type  of  the  .American  business  man  whose 
success  was  won  by  his  own  native  ability, 
resourcefulness  and  endeavor.  He  was  ener- 
getic and  persevering,  of  high  character  and 
broad  mind.     He  died  .May  10.  1903. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  the  SniitrrTillr  Jour- 
nal ^a'u\:  "The  firm  of  Chase  &  Sanborn  was 
formefl  in  1878  and  the  successfid  history  of 
that  frrni  is  too  well  known  to  ref|tn"re  any 
comment.  .A  (lartnership  is  a  phase  of  active 
life,  which  nr)t  only  tests  the  business  ability  of 
men.  t)Ut  also  their  temperaments,  and  no  man 
was  ever  hapiiier  in  his  relations  with  those 
associated  with  him  than  was  the  late  Mr.  .San- 
born.   He  was  a  great,  big-hearted,  big-brained 


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man,  and  not  only  believed  that  honesty  was 
the  best  policy,  but  made  it  a  cardinal  principle 
of  his  life,  because  he  believed  that  it  was  right. 
Any  suggestion  of  fraud  or  deceit  in  business 
in  a  direct  or  indirect  manner  was  always 
promptly  condemned.  He  would  succeed  only 
along  honest  and  legitimate  lines,  and  never  by 
precept  or  example  did  he  ever  depart  from 
this  rule.  He  never  envied  the  succcess  of 
others,  and  only  desired  to  secure  success  such 
as  his  brains  and  his  industry  and  his  honesty 
entitled  him.  His  temperament  was  one  of 
those  happy  combinations  of  good  cheer  and 
sunshine  which  made  association  with  him 
ahvavs  a  pleasure,  and  gave  those  who  came  in 
contact  with  him  in  his  daily  life  that  comfort 
and  encouragement  which  makes  men  better 
fitted  to  cope  with  their  daily  trials. 

"He  was  a  helpful,  kindly  nature,  and  he 
seemed  to  realize  always  that  the  best  deeds  of 
a  man's  life,  and  those  which  give  him  the  most 
satisfaction  are  those  occasions  where  he  has 
helped  those  that  are  poorer  and  weaker  than 
he  is.  His  whole  career  was  lightened  and 
brightened  all  the  way  along  by  constant  deeds 
of  kindness,  with  substantial  aid  wherever  it 
was  required.  Those  who  knew  him  intimately 
were  always  inspired  by  his  example,  and  found 
joy  and  comfort  in  following  his  lead.  *  *  * 
"For  thirty  years  he  had  been  a  resident  of 
Somerville,  and  among  the  pleasant,  associa- 
tions of  his  later  years,  none  were  dearer  to 
him  than  his  friendships  formed  in  his  early 
acquaintance  in  Somerville.  In  his  leisure 
moments  he  was  found  at  the  fireside  and  in 
the  library.     *     *     * 

"With  a  deep  love  for  the  New  England 
farm  and  the  scenes  of  his  early  boyhood,  Mr. 
Sanborn  jnirchased  several  years  ago  an  old 
homestead  antl  estate  in  Poland,  Maine,  which 
had  been  converted  into  a  fine  stock  farm,  not 
to  be  duplicated  in  America.  His  reputation 
for  growing  high-class  road  horses,  French 
coaches,  has  attracted  many  visitors  to  Elm- 
wood  through  the  summer  seasons.  Here  Mr. 
Sanborn  has  enjoyed  recreation  from  business 
duties,  which  leisure  time  he  had  richly  earned. 
Meanwhile  the  active  duties  of  his  department 
in  the  firm  were  transferred  to  his  two  sons. 
Charles  E.  and  Oren  C,  who  have  been  care- 
fully trained  and  are  thoroughly  conversant 
with  the  business." 

In  his  funeral  address.  Rev.  Charles  L. 
Noyes,  pastor  of  the  Winter-hill  Congrega- 
tional church  which  Mr.  Sanborn  attended  in 
life.  said,  in  part:  "Without  any  endowment 
but  his  native  strength,  he  rose  out  of  the  ob- 


scurity of  the  humble  circumstances  and  the 
little  town  where  he  was  born,  to  enter  the 
great  movements  and  encounter  the  eager  com- 
petition of  our  times.  By  his  natural  mag- 
netism and  ascendency  he  gathered  about  him 
a  notable  array  of  persons  with  those  talents 
he  was  able  to  combine  his  own.  In  an  age 
when  a  splendid  material  prosperity  has  been 
the  glory  of  our  country,  he  took  conspicuous 
share  in  the  commercial  enterprise  which  has 
contributed  to  the  wealth  and  power  and  com- 
fort of  the  times  in  which  we  live.  Emerson 
has  said:  'It  is  the  privilege  of  any  human 
work  which  is  well  done  to  invest  the  doer 
with  a  certain  haughtiness.'  It  is  his  way  of 
saying  that  a  man's  work  raises  him  into  a 
true  aristocracy.  There  is  such  an  aristocracy 
of  honorable  and  useful  workers  growing  up 
in  our  democratic  land,  and  if  there  are  ranks 
in  it  of  higher  and  lower,  he  must  stand  among 
the  foremo.st,  whose  work  has  been  done  on 
sound  and  wholesome  principles,  and  with 
results  of  national  importance  and  extent. 
Strength,  that  tribute  cannot  be  denied  to  him 
of  whom  we  speak.    But  it  has  been  said, 

'Oh,  it  is  excellent 
To    have    a    giant's    strength;     but    it    is    tyrannous 
To  use  it  lilte  a  giant.' 

"We  have  seen  men  who  have  controlled  great 
affairs,  have  built  up  great  enterprises,  but 
have  done  it  by  overriding  other  personalities, 
crushing  other  interests,  making  all  things  bow 
to  their  will  and  minister  to  their  emolument. 
Now,  those  who  have  had  any  relations  with 
Mr.  Sanborn,  even  the  most  superficial,  most 
of  all  those  who  have  had  to  do  with  him  inti- 
mately, must  be  well  aware  of  the  fine,  friendly 
sjiirit  with  which  he  dealt  with  other  men — his 
respect  for  others'  personalities,  his  sense  of 
their  rights  and  capacities.  The  spirit  of  co- 
operation was  strong  in  him.  He  recognized 
that  truth  of  nature  set  forth  in  the  ScriiJtures 
in  the  figure  of  the  body  and  its  members.  He 
knew  that  his  individual  success  lay  in  union 
with  all  the  other  members,  in  business,  or 
political  or  social  body,  and  his  greatest  joy 
was  in  a  success  in  which  others  contributed 
and  sliared,  each  according  to  his  merit  and 
aptitude.  This  it  is  which  has  enabled  him. 
together  with  other  social  traits  of  heart  and 
mind,  to  live  and  work  so  many  years  in  part- 
nership with  his  equals,  only  with  increasing 
mutual  respect  and  affection.  Those  who  have 
been  his  juniors  and  subordinates  had  found 
him  all  the  time  more  desirous  to  bring  out 
their  jinwers,  push  them   forward  to  success, 


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make  them  share  in  the  prosperity  and  power 
of  the  concern,  than  to  profit  liimself  by  their 
labors.  His  pride  in  his  business,  if  1  may 
judge  by  liis  way  of  S])caking  of  it  in  conver- 
sation, was  rather  in  the  men  and  their  char- 
acter and  ability,  than  in  the  profits  and  fame 
it  had  brought  him.  What  was  true  in  the 
matter  of  his  business  was  true  in  every  other 
activity  of  his,  as  neighbor,  as  patriot  of  his 
state  and  country.  Everywhere  he  was  like  a 
great  current  of  force  pouring  in  its  full  charge 
into  any  channel  open  for  him,  finding  most 
satisfaction  and  joy  when  thus  he  was  able  to 
help  on  others,  better  mankind,  bring  new  life 
and  pleasure  to  anyone. 

"Yes.  the  first  impression,  ever  deepened  by 
larger  acquaintance,  was  of  the  rugged  strength 
and  splendid  force  of  his  personality.  Hut 
there  is  something  greater  than  that,  on  which 
we  all  agree :  it  is  our  sense  of  respect  for  his 
moral  character.  From  all  sides  I  hear  this 
unanimous  acclaim,  that  it  was  the  strong, 
steadfast  purpose  of  this  man  to  do  things 
honestly,  truthfully,  justly, honorably,  sc|uarely. 
He  had  a  large  magnanimous,  open  spirit.  'He 
was  honest,'  one  has  recently  said,  'not  because 
he  believed  honesty  was  the  best  policy,  though 
he  did  believe  that  and  proved  it,  but  it  was  his 
nature,  his  satisfaction  to  be  honest.'  He  loved 
things  honest,  just,  pure,  of  good  report,  as  he 
hatedthe  small,  mean,  low,  underhanded,  hypo- 
critical, wherever  he  met  it.  His  morality  was 
not  merely  that  negative  kind  which  avoids 
evil,  but  a  great  positive  passion  for  good, 
which  he  wanted  to  see  prevail  in  all  tilings. 
'He  was  always  working  to  make  things  better.' 
This  was  as  true  of  his  recreation  as  of  his 
work.  He  had  large  unselfish  interests  and 
ambitions.  In  his  business  he  had  an  ideal  that 
it  should  be  as  honorable  as  it  was  successful, 
that  it  should  raise  the  credit  and  tone  of  all 
business.  He  meant  his  native  state  should  be 
better  that  he  was  born  in  it  and  raised  stock 
in  it.  He  meant  this  city  of  ours  should  profit 
by  his  residence  here.  His  presence  and  sup- 
port was  never  wanting  in  any  movement  that 
he  believed  for  the  aflvantage  of  the  city.  H 
he  gave  liberally,  as  he  always  did  to  any  object 
that  j)roved  itself  worthy  to  his  mind,  it  was 
in  no  careless  or  vain  spirit,  but  he  wished  that 
church  and  association  and  charity,  and  the 
people  through  them,  might  be  the  better, 
stronger,  more  useful,  for  his  contribution  of 
money.     *     *     * 

"There  is  love  in  our  hearts  for  one  whose 
heart  was  large,  generous,  tender,  compassion- 


ate. This  gentle  side  of  his  nature  was  not 
always  expending  itself  in  words,  but  it  was 
always  ready  to  the  call  of  need  or  friendship. 
We  should  have  to  read  the  secrets  of  many 
lives  to  know  of  all  the  persons,  who,  in  their 
hour  of  misfortune,  or  even  failure  or  fault, 
had  been  set  back  on  their  feet,  or  steadied 
and  braced,  by  some  encouraging  word,  faith- 
ful help,  or  substantial  gift  from  .Mr.  Sanborn. 
Xo  one  could  ever  go  to  him  in  behalf  of  a 
good  cause,  or  another  person  in  need,  that  he 
(lid  not  respond  to  such  an  appeal  with  gener- 
osity and  eagerness  as  if  it  were  a  favor  to  be 
informed  how  to  put  his  means  to  good  use. 
With  the  swiftness  which  the  light  flows  from 
the  *un  to  things  that  grow  by  its  power,  his 
he!])  would  run  to  the  places  and  person'5  |)roved 
worthy  of  his  aid.  And  all  his  generosity,  of 
which  there  is  no  full  earthly  record,  grew  out 
of  his  natural  kindness,  together  with  that 
feature  of  his  character  of  which  I  have  spoken, 
a  desire,  as  far  as  he  could  'to  make  things 
better,'  to  put  an  end  to  distress  and  pain  and 
discomfort,  to  e(|ualize  comfort  and  happiness 
in  our  human  lot,  to  help  the  distressed  and  un- 
fortunate, and  make  the  world  a  j)lace  where 
all  might  share  more  evenly  in  the  common 
bounty  of  wealthy  Nature. 

"There  are  those  who  have  known  Mr.  San- 
born long  and  intimately,  and  been  allowed  a 
glimpse  into  his  sacred  inner  motives,  who 
could  tell  something  of  w'hat  he  was  to  his  in- 
timate friends  and  kindred.  The  best  things 
that  can  be  said  of  any  worthy  man  are  too 
personal  and  sacred  ever  to  be  said.  Our  first 
and  holiest  duties  we  owe  to  our  own  flesh  and 
bl(X)d.  .Xnd  in  this  kind  of  piety,  which  binds 
us  to  l)e  kind  and  true  and  loving,  to  those 
whom  Ciod  has  knit  to  us  by  the  closest  bonds, 
was  the  beginning  of  religion  for  this  man. 
And  though  we  must  here  pass  by  with 
veiled  faces,  yet  in  our  time  and  day,  when 
men  are  so  ambitious  to  find  their  sphere  and 
their  interest  in  more  public  spheres  and  neglect 
the  home,  or  lightly  break  its  ties,  it  is  good  for 
us  to  pause  and,  at  least,  by  our  silence,  to  pay 
our  respect  to  this  side  of  the  nature  of  this 
strong  successftfl  man  of  the  world. 

"1  venture  as  the  pastor  of  this  church,  the 
minister  and  friend  of  Mr.  Sanborn  for  so 
many  years,  to  bear  testimony  that  I  believe 
he  was  essentially  a  religious  man.  He  was  a 
man  of  reverence,  a  man  of  faith — faith  in 
goodness,  faith  in  good  men,  faith  in  God. 
*  *  *  We  stand  in  silent  reverence  over 
powers  used  to  such  pood  purpose,  over  a  life 


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spent  so  heliifully,  over  a  battle  fought  so 
bravclv.  May  God  give  us  strength  to  follow 
on  !" 

Mr.  I'rank  L.  Dingley  wrote  of  Mr.  San- 
born: "The  tinest  talent  is  the  most  rare  and 
it  commands  the  highest  reward.  The  late 
Tames  S.  Sanborn,  of  the  firm  of  Chase  & 
Sanborn,  of  Boston,  rose  from  the  ranks.  He 
forged  ahead  in  virtue  of  what  was  in  him, 
subject  to  self-development,  not  in  virtue  of 
anything  done  for  him  by  inflence,  or  by  pull. 
He  was  his  own  architect,  his  own  builder  of 
fortune.  His  executive  gift  was  his  genius. 
Integrity  of  character  was  the  inspiration  of 
his  gift  for  organizing  and  for  executing.  He 
never  betrayed  a  friend.  He  was  wholesome, 
genial,  strong  in  body  and  mind.  A  great 
originating  merchant,  he  leaves  behind  him  a 
legacy  of  unique  values  in  memories  and  in 
friendships,  as  well  as  in  fame  and  service,  as 
an  indu.strial  founder. 

"Wherever  New  England  enterprise  is 
known — and  the  world  is  its  open  book — there 
the  name  of  James  S.  Sanborn  is  a  household 
word,  there  his  generosity,  his  kindliness,  his 
many-sided  and  unostentatious  service  are 
recognized.  Starting  at  the  foot  of  the  ladder 
and  climbing,  rung  by  rung,  Mr.  Sanborn's 
heart  went  out  to  all  who  showed  the  real  stuff 
or  moral  courage  and  intellectual  power. 
Many's  the  struggling  lad,  worker,  and  student 
whom  he  has  helped  so  unobtrusively  that  the 
secrets  between  his  right  hand  and  his  left  hand 
were  scripturally  maintained.  The  merchants 
of  Boston  have  achieved  nobl}'  for  the  city,  the 
state,  and  the  nation,  and  none  more  worthy 
has  joined  the  great  majority  than  James  S. 
Sanborn.  What  he  has  done  for  his  native 
state  in  its  varied  interests  of  stock  raising  and 
of  agriculture  is  well  appreciated.  The  i)laces 
where  his  first  struggles  began  will  miss  him: 
the  place  where  his  struggles  were  crowned 
with  victory  will  miss  him.  Success  is  indeed 
successful  when  built  on  the  foundations  of 
intelligence,  grit,  zeal,  loyalty,  integrity  and 
comradeship.  That  is  the  tribute  which  those 
who  knew  liim  best  will  tmanimously  pay  this 
great  merchant,  this  noble  citizen,  this  self- 
made  man — James  S.  Sanborn." 

Mr.  .Sanborn  married.  November  (•>.  1856, 
Harriet  X.  Small,  who  died  la-bruary  9,  1901, 
(laughter  of  Captain  John  and  Sarah  (  Moody) 
Small,  of  .\uburn,  Maine.  Their  children:  i. 
Helen  Josephine,  born  October  6,  1857;  living 
in  Somerville,  umuarried  ;  author  of  ".A  Winter 
in  Central  .America."  2.  Charles  Edgar,  born 
April  29,  iSHo;  married,  .\ugust  i,  1887,  I'"lor- 


ence  Blazo :  he  died  January  2/.  1905 ;  he  was 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Chase  &  Sanborn,  and 
buyer  for  the  coffee  department.  3.  Oren 
Clneney,  born  October  6,  1865;  married,  June 
I,  1886,  Lorena  Armstrong,  of  Machias,  Maine, 
resides  in  Winchester,  Massachusetts;  is  con- 
nected with  the  firm  of  Chase  &  Sanborn :  chil- 
dren :  i.  James  Oren,  born  in  Somerville.  March 
10,  1891  ;  ii.  Helen  Elizabeth,  born  in  Somer- 
ville. May  2,  1897;  iii.  Caleb  Chase,  born  in 
Winchester,  May  18,  1899:  iv.  John  Arm- 
strong, born  in  \Vinchcster,  August  2,  1901.  4. 
Georgie  Dunlap,  born  in  Lewiston,  Maine,  De- 
cember 20,  1867,  married,  February  17,  1897, 
Edward  Sands  Townsend,  of  Boston,  born  in 
Chelsea,  in  1869;  resides  in  Brookline,  Massa- 
chusetts ;  children :  i.  Charles  Edward  San- 
born, born  in  West  Medford,  May  7.  1898:  ii. 
Xewell  Colby,  born  in  Newton  Centre,  August 
27,  1902;  iii.  Clara  Gary,  born  in  Newton 
Centre,  February  22.  1905:  iv.  Edith,  born 
November  25,  1907. 

( IX )  Helen  Josephine  Sanborn,  daughter  of 
fames  Solomon  Sanborn,  was  born  Octo- 
ber 6,  1857.  She  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Eewiston.  Maine,  and  Somerville,  gradu- 
ating from  the  high  school  in  1873.  She  enter- 
ed the  State  Xormal  school  at  Salem  and  was 
valedictorian  of  the  class  of  1879.  She  taught 
school  for  four  terms  at  Concord,  Massachu- 
setts, and  won  the  commendation  of  the  school 
committee  of  the  town  for  the  excellence  of 
her  work.  The  annual  report  of  the  Concord 
school  committee  for  1879-80.  referring  to 
Miss  .Sanborn,  said :  ".\t  Nine  .Acre  Corner, 
th.c  scliool  has  had  a  better  attendance.  .\n 
excellent  teacher  has  here  been  doing  a  good 
work.  She  would,  of  course,  be  able  to  do 
much  better  work  in  a  graded  school."  Miss 
.Sanborn  was  offered  a  position  as  teacher  in 
the  Emerson  .School  at  Concord  but  she  chose 
to  go  to  college  instead.  She  entered  WcUesley 
in  1880,  and  was  graduated  in  1884  with  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  .\rts.  During  the  winter 
of  1885  she  traveled  in  (."entral  .America  and 
Mexico  with  her  father,  and  gathered  her 
material  for  the  book,  ".A  Winter  in  Central 
America,"  which  was  published  in  1886  by  Lee 
and  Sliejiard  of  P>o.ston.  In  1888  she  made 
the  Euro]iean  tour  with  a  Wellesley  College 
partv.  visiting  England,  1  lolland,  Belgium, 
.Switzerland.  France.  Germany,  and  other 
l)oints  of  mtcrest  abroad. 

In  [893  she  made  the  voyage  to  the  Mediter- 
ranean coimtries.  in  company  with  her  father. 
She  went  abroad  in  1904  and  again  in  1905, 
when  she  visited  Iceland,  Norwav  and  North- 


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ern  Europe.  She  wrote  a  series  of  articles  on 
"Travel"  from  her  point  of  view  and  experi- 
ence. She  has  written  another  series  of  articles 
on  "Child  Study."  a  subject  in  which  as  a 
trained  teacher  she  takes  a  special  interest.  In 
1890  she  was  elected  a  member  of  the  school 
board  of  the  city  of  Somerville,  a  position  she 
filled  faithfully  and  efficiently  for  three  years, 
declining  re-election  from  both  the  Republican 
and  Democratic  parties.  For  seven  years, 
from  1S93  to  1900.  she  was  president  of  the 
Hillside  Club,  the  only  woman  thus  honored. 
She  is  a  charter  member  of  the  lleptorean 
Club.  She  joined  the  Winter  Hill  Congrega- 
tional church  in  18S4,  antl  has  been  active  in 
the  work  of  that  society.  She  organized  the 
Daughters  of  the  Covenant,  a  missionary 
society,  of  which  she  has  been  president  since 
June.  1895.  S'^^  ^^'''*  appointed  treasurer  in 
1903  of  the  College  I.eague  in  the  interests  of 
the  International  Institute  for  Girls  in  Spain. 
This  is  the  first  and  only  college  for  women  in 
that  country.  She  is  also  a  director  of  the  cor- 
poration in  charge  of  the  college.  She  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Boston  Authors'  Club.  In 
June.  1906.  she  was  elected  to  the  board  of 
trustees  of  her  alma  mater.  W'ellesley  College. 


(For  first  s^ipration  see  preceding  sketch). 

( II )  Joseph,  .son  of  John  San- 
S.WI'iOR.V    born,   was  born   in   Hampton, 

.\ew  Hain|jshire.  March  13. 
1659,  and  lived  in  iIam|)ton  I'alls.  on  the  farm 
now  or  lately  occui)ied  by  his  descendant.  Sarah 
Sanborn.  lie  married.  December  28,  1682, 
Mary,  daughter  of  ("aptain  Rflward  Gove,  of 
Hampton.  She  married  (  second  ) Mor- 
rill, of  .Salisbury.  Joseph  Sanborn  gave  much 
of  his  property  to  liis  .sons  before  his  death, 
which  occurred  between  1722  and  1724.  Chil- 
<!ren:  I.  .\bigail,  born  .April  T.  1686;  married. 
October  7.  1703.  Kbenezer  Dearborn.  2.  Hul- 
dah.  born  May  3.  1688:  married.  October  17, 
1705.  Jonathan  Xason ;  died  October  7.  1758. 
3.  Reuben,  twrn  May  18.  1692.  4.  Edwartl, 
born  .-\pril  7.  1695.  5.  Abraham,  born  March 
10,  1696.  6.  .Mary,  born  July  28.  1697;  mar- 
ried Samuel  I'rescott :  died  May  28,  1757.  7. 
Joseph,  born  July  22,  1700.  8.  Davifl.  men- 
tioned below. 

(Ill)  David,  son  of  Joseph  .Sanborn,  was 
born  January  16.  1702.  in  Hampton  Falls.  He 
served  in  1722  under  Major  John  Gilman.  He 
removed  to  Barnstead,  where  his  will  is  dated 
June  7,  1775.  He  inherited  land  from  his 
father  in  Chester,  but  sold  it.  He  died  January 
16.    1777,   at    Shaker    X'illage,   in   Canterburj', 


Xew  Hampshire.  He  married,  March  2,  1727, 
.\bigail  Ciliddin,  who  died  at  Shaker  \'illage, 
January  15,  1805.  He  anil  his  first  son  were 
ba])tized  the  same  day  in  1728,  at  Hampton 
I'alls.  Children:  i.  Eilward,  dieil  young.  2. 
Jeremiah,  died  young.     3.  David,  died  young. 

4.  Elizabeth,  baptized  in  Hampton  Falls,  May 
(1.  1733  :  married  John  .Mudgett.  5.  John,  ba])- 
tizeii  .\i)ril  6,  1735,  died  j'oung.  6.  David, 
baptized  1737.  died  young.  7.  Edward,  bap- 
tized .\pril  I,  1739.  8.  .\bigail,  bajnized  1 741  ; 
died  yoiuig.  ().  Jeremiah,  born  June  27.  1744. 
10.  John  baptized  .\ugust  24,  1745:  mentioned 
below.     I  I.  Joseph,  baptized  January  10,  1728. 

(  1\  I  jolm  (2),  son  of  David  .Sanborn,  was 
baptized  .August  24,  1745,  in  Hampton  Falls, 
and  was  killed  in  tlie  revolution.  He  enlisted 
.April  15.  1777.  in  Captain  Morrill's  company. 
Colonel  Stark's  regiment,  and  again  in  1778 
for  three  years.  He  lived  in  Barnstead,  and 
signed  the  Test  there.  He  married  Hannah 
Eastman.  Children:  i.  Reuben,  born  .March 
12,  1773.  2.  Mary,  born  October  3,  1774; 
married  (first)  .Moses  W.  Rand;  (second) 
May  iC),  1817.  Josei)h  Kimball.  3.  John,  men- 
tioned below. 

(\')  John  (3),  son  r)f  John  (2)  Sanborn, 
was  born  March  2.  177'''.  in  I'.arnstead.  He 
lived  at  first  in  Barnstead,  but  removed  early 
to  Lower  Gilmanton,  Xew  Hampshire.  In 
1795,  his  father  being  dead,  Ezekicl  Eastman 
of  f?arn.stead  was  a])pointed  guardian  of  the 
minor  son.  John  Sanborn.  He  died  I'ebruary 
().  1859.  He  married  I  first )  Hannah,  daughter 
of  John  Ilodgdon.  of  liarnstead;  (second) 
May  10.  1827.  Mrs.  .Sally  .\very.  Children: 
I.  Jeremiah,  born  .May  2,  1806;  mentioned 
below.  2.  .Mahala.  born  .August  20,  180S;  mar- 
ried William  .Marston  ;  died  1856.  3.  William, 
br)rn  June  16,  181 1  :  died  unmarried.  4.  .N'ancy 
.M  .  horn  May  5.  1814;  married  John  L.  Lonl. 

5.  John  Hodgdon,  born  .\ugust  19,  1821  ;  died 
unmarried.  6.  Hannah  Hodgdon.  born  Un- 
vember  6,  1827:  married  Sanniel  B  Wedge- 
wood.  7.  Sarah,  born  .September  16,  1832; 
married  July  4,  1856,  Dyer  J.  Merrill. 

(\1)  Jeremiah,  son  of  John  (3)  .Sanborn, 
was  born  .May  2,  1806.  in  Barnstead,  New 
Ham()shire.  and  died  February  14.  1890,  in 
Epsom.  Xew  nain|)shire.  He  settled  in  liarn- 
stead.  but  soon  removed  to  London,  Xew 
I  iampshire.  where  he  had  a  farm.  1  le  married 
(first)  December  30,  1826.  Xancy  Ann  Sin- 
clair Pickering,  of  Barnstead,  born  February 
28.  1807.  died  May  6.  i860:  (second)  Mrs. 
Climena  Pearsons,  of  Epsom.  Chilrlren,  all 
bv  first  wife:     i.  Woodbury  Page,  born  April 


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24,  1827;  mentioned  below.  2.  Rosetta  Jane, 
born  December  11,  1828;  died  unmarried,  Feb- 
ruary. 1867.  3.  Jriannah  Ann,  born  July  21, 
1830:  died  unmarried,  July,  1865.  4.  John 
Sinclair,  born  I'"ebruary  4,  1832;  died  1833.  5. 
Amanda  .Maria,  born  Xovember  11,  1833;  mar- 
ried (first)  January  2.  1854,  Joel  E.  Cook; 
(second)  January  i,  1857,  Andrew  Locke.  6. 
John  Henry,  born  August  19,  1835  ;  physician 
at  Newport,  Rhode  Island.  7.  Jeremiah  Lyford, 
born  .April  7,  1837;  resides  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.  8.  .Albert  Burns,  born  Febru- 
ary 14,  1839;  mentioned  below.  9.  Laura,  born 
-August  19,  1841  ;  married  E.  E.  Ala.xfield.  10. 
George  Hodgdon,  born  September  20.  1845; 
married,  1863,  .Adelia  Hayes;  resides  in  Wey- 
mouth, Massachusetts ;  he  died  December  7, 
1901.  II.  Charles,  born  February  13,  1847; 
married,  1878,  Ellen  Smith;  resides  in  Water- 
town,  Massachusetts. 

(VH )  Woodbury  Page,  son  of  Jeremiah 
Sanliorn,  was  born  .April  24,  1827,  at  Gilman- 
ton,  Xew  Hampshire.  He  was  educated  in  the 
district  schools  of  Loudon,  New  Hampshire, 
whither  his  parents  moved  when  he  was  about 
three  3'ears  old.  He  followed  farming  during 
his  boyhood  on  his  father's  place,  and  at  the 
age  of  twenty-two  years  came  to  Ouincy, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  was  engaged  in  farm- 
ing for  a  year.  From  1832  to  1856  he  was  in 
Weymouth,  and  then  for  two  years  and  a  half 
at  Wilton,  Maine,  in  various  lines  of  agricul- 
tural work,  where  for  a  time  he  owned  a  small 
farm,  but  sold  it,  and  returning  to  Weymouth 
entered  the  employ  of  Loud  &  Rhines,  dealers 
in  lumber.  Later  this  firm  became  Loud  & 
Pratt.  He  was  connected  with  this  firm  for 
thirty-three  years  altogether.  He  was  then  in 
the  boot  and  shoe  department  of  a  dry  goods 
store  in  Weymouth  for  si.x  years.  He  is  a 
prominent  member  of  the  BaptLst  church,  of 
which  he  was  deacon  for  four  years,  then  was 
mai-'e  deacon  emeritus,  which  position  he  still 
holds,  clerk  fifteen  years,  and  for  a  long  period 
a  tcaclier  in  the  .Sunday  school.  In  politics  he 
is  a  Republican.  He  is  now  making  his  home 
with  son  Walter,  at  Weymouth,  l^e  married, 
.April  30,  1854  Leonora  (  i'uller )  Mosher, 
daughter  of  Captain  Fuller,  of  W'ilton,  ATaine. 
Children:  Helen  M.  and  Walter  Francis. 
Helen  M.  .Sanborn  married,  in  1881.  Frederic 
.A.  Sulis,  of  St.  Jnhn.  Xew  lirunswick,  who 
is  in  the  drygoods  l)usiness  in  Weymouth. 
Tlieir  children  :  i.  Florence,  born  Januarv  24. 
1884;  married.  May  28,  1906,  Frederic  L, 
Richards,  a  traveling  salesman.  2.  Helen  L., 
horn  December  21.  1885.     3.  George  F.,  born 


Mav  8,   1888.     4.  Stanlev  R.,  born  .March  2, 
1892. 

(VIII)  Walter  Francis,  son  of  Woodbury 
Page  Sanborn,  was  born  in  Wilton,  Maine, 
Alay  6,  1858.  When  he  was  three  years  old 
his  parents  removed  to  Weymouth.  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  attended  the  public  schools.- 
He  was  then  employed  in  a  grocery  store  there 
for  a  few  years.  He  then  learned  the  trade  of 
carpenter,  and  was  employed  by  the  firm  of 
Loud  &  Rhines  for  some  years.  Having  left 
this  firm,  he  finally  resumed  his  connection 
with  them.  In  1891  he  bought  the  lumber 
business  in  Weymouth  which  he  has  since 
owned  and  conducted  with  much  success.  He 
is  a  trustee  of  the  Weymouth  Savings  Bank. 
He  and  his  family  are  Christian  Scientists  in 
religion,  and  he  is  a  Republican  in  politics. 
He  married,  July  11,  1877,  Bryantha  Etta 
Thayer,  born  December  22,  1856,  at  Ouincy, 
(laughter  of  Thomas  Jefiferson  Hamilton  and 
liryantha  Richards  (Playden)  Thayer,  of 
ISraintree  (see  Thayer  and  Hayden). 

(IX)  E.  Russell  Sanborn,  son  of  Walter 
Francis  Sanborn,  was  born  February  25,  1879. 
He  took  up  the  study  of  music  at  an  early  age, 
and  gave  his  first  organ  recital  in  his  eight- 
eenth year,  and  shortly  after  securecl  his  first 
position  as  church  organist.  He  was  the  organ- 
ist chosen  to  represent  the  commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts  on  Bunker  Hill  Day  at  the  Pan 
.\mcrican  Exposition,  where  he  was  engaged 
to  give  a  series  of  recitals.  Has  filled  many 
prominent  organ  positions,  and  given  recital 
tours  which  have  taken  him  to  almost  every 
section  nf  the  I'nited  .States.  He  is  now 
located  in  ISoston,  where  he  has  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  modern  pipe  organs  in  any 
studio  in  .America.  He  married,  Sejitember  4, 
1901,  Caroline  E.  Skilton,  born  May  7,  1881, 
at  Reading,  Massachusetts ;  her  father.  Jona- 
than Skilton,  was  born  in  Burlington.  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1849,  flisfl  in  East  Braintree,  Mass- 
achusetts, January  17,  1892;  he  married  (sec- 
ond) X'estina  Parker  Converse,  of  Reading; 
her  mother  Caroline  (Dixon),  died  in  Reading, 
Arassachusetts,  1881  ;  her  grandfather,  Nathan 
.Skilton.  of  Braintree,  married  Elizabeth  Locke, 
of  P.oston.  Caroline  Dixon  had  sisters:  i. 
.Ada  Florence,  married  William  Stevens,  of 
Fast  Braintree,  children :  Xorma  Winona ; 
William  Mason,  died  aged  five  months :  and 
Dorothy  Gene.     ii.  Irma  F.linta. 

fX'TI)  .Albert  Burns,  son  of  Jeremiah  San- 
born, was  born  at  Loudon,  New  Hampshire, 
I'cbruary  14,  1839.  He  was  educated  in  the 
district   schools   of   his   native   town.      In   his 


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youth  he  worked  on  his  father's  farm.  In 
i860  he  came  to  Weymouth,  Massachusetts, 
and  for  three  years  had  charge  of  Captain 
Joseph  Loud's  farm.  During  the  ne.xt  twenty 
years  he  was  employed  in  various  shoe  fac- 
tories in  Weymouth,  making  shoes  by  contract. 
Then,  taking  a  position,  he  travelled  exten- 
sively, selling  shoe  machinery :  then  for  a  time 
was  foreman  of  a  large  shop  in  I'hiladelphia ; 
then  going  to  San  ford.  Maine,  he  purchased  a 
large  farm  and  huilt  three  houses;  he  was  ex- 
tensively engaged  in  farming  up  to  1892,  wlien 
he  sold  out  and  came  to  Weymouth,  since 
which  time  he  has  been  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness. He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  While 
in  Maine  he  was  constable  five  years  :  chairman 
of  the  board  of  health  five  years ;  agent  of 
schools  four  years :  had  charge  of  streets  three 
years :  was  special  police  in  Weymouth ;  K.  of 
P.  of  Maine,  later  of  Weymouth;  member  of 
Business  Men's  Club,  of  Weymouth,  and  treas- 
urer of  Trinity  Church  of  Weymouth.  He 
married  (first)  1863.  Helen  Higgins.  of 
(Jrleans.  Massachusetts,  daughter  of  Jabez 
Higgins.  He  married  (second)  November, 
1884,  Mrs.  Cora  .-KugMsta  Williams  Hobart. 
born  January  4,  183&,  at  Weymouth,  widow 
of  Otis  Henry  Hobart.  daughter  of  Charles 
Henry  and  Caroline  Sarah  (Stewart)  Will- 
iams (see  below).  Children  of  first  wife:  i. 
-Alden  Linwood,  rcsiflcs  at  Dorchester,  Massa- 
chusetts. 2.  Ralph  W.,  a  letter  carrier,  resid- 
ing at  Revere.  Massachusetts.  Children  of 
Afrs.  Sanborn  by  first  husband:  i.  Charles 
Augustus,  born  .August  31.  1855;  a  real  estate 
broker  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts ;  married  Han- 
nah Holt.  2.  Frank  Stuart,  born  May  10, 
1858;  married  Xora  Smith,  a  native  of  Nova 
Scotia  :  child  :  Charles  Shiart  Williams,  born 
April  If,  1898. 

(The    WMllams    Line). 

( I )  Chauncey  Williams  C  see  above)  was  born 
at  Winsted,  Connecticut,  and  died  at  Weymouth, 
]\ra.ssachusett.s.  He  married  Mercy  Hunt.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Betsey,  married  Jacob  Tirrell.  2. 
Lyman.  3.  Charles  Henry,  mentioned  below. 
4.  Susan,  married  William  Field.  5.  Hatniah. 
married  George  Snow.  ft.  Ntercy,  married  H. 
Smith,  of  Weymouth.  7.  John.  8.  Sarah, 
married  Daniel  Smith.  9.  Betsey,  married 
Charles  Arnold 

(H)  Charles  Henry,  .son  of  Chauncey  Will- 
iams, was  born  at  Weymouth,  October  9,  1813, 
and  died  there  .April  3,  1894.  He  was  educated 
in  the  Weymouth  schools,  ami  learned  the  trade 
of  shoemaker.     He  embarked   in  business  in 


Boston  as  a  manufacturer  of  shoes,  and  later 
he  was  pro]>rietor  of  an  express  business.  He 
devoted  his  later  years  to  real  estate,  develop- 
ing and  taking  charge  of  property,  buying  and 
selling,  and  enjoyed  an  excellent  business.  When 
fifty  years  of  age  he  built  a  yacht  which  he 
sailed  each  summer  the  rest  of  his  life.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Republican,  in  religion  a  Con- 
grcgationalist.  lie  was  domestic  in  his  tastes, 
and  a  member  of  no  secret  orders,  lie  mar- 
ried. I'ebruary,  1836.  Caroline  Sarah  .Stewart, 
born  January  6,  1819,  at  Sterling,  Massachu- 
setts, died  .August  13,  1904,  at  Weymouth. 
Children, born  at  Weymouth:  i.  Cora  .Augusta, 
January  4,  1838;  married  (first)  Otis  Henry 
Hobart:  (second)  .Albert  Burns  .Sanborn  (see 
above).  2.  Charles  Stewart,  born  January  i, 
1844,  died  July.  1891;  married  Susan  R.  II. 
Hunt,  of  Braintree ;  she  died  1890;  he  was  a 
banker  and  broker  in  Boston ;  was  selectman 
of  Weymouth ;  attendant  of  Congregational 
church ;  served  in  the  civil  war  in  Forty-second 
Massachusetts  Regiment,  and  was  taken  pris- 
oner by  the  Confederates  in  the  campaign  in 
Texas.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity  of  \\'eymouth. 

(The  Sli'wart  I^lne). 

The  Stewart  family  above  named  has  for 
ancestors  Duncan  (I).  James  (II).  Solomon 
(III).  Daniel  (I\l.  wIki  married  .Mary  Ire- 
land, and 

f\')  James  Stewart,  born  in  Lunenburg, 
Massachusetts.  February  23,  1785;  luarried 
Sarah  Persis  Manson,  of  Petersham,  February 
8,  1810;  died  at  Sterling,  March  I,  1826;  was 
a  manufacturing  hatter  in  Sterling  for  several 
years. 

(\T)  Caroline  S.,  fourth  cliild  of  James 
Stewart,  born  in  Sterling,  January  6,  1819, 
died  .August  13,  1904;  married,  February,  183C), 
Charles  H.  Williams  ;  two  children  :  Cora  .Au- 
gusta and  Charles  Stewart. 

(\II)  Cora  .Augusta,  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Caroline  S.  (  Stewart )  Williams,  was  born 
in  WeyuKJUth,  January  4,  1838:  married  (first) 
October  30,  1853,  Otis  H.  Hobart ;  children  :  i. 
Charles  .A.  Hobart,  born  .August  31,  1854,  mar- 
ried .Mrs.  Hannah  Holt,  Crowninshicld,  l)orn 
in  Winteri)ort.  Maine,  and  lives  in  Lynn  :  ii. 
Frank  Stewart  Hobart.  born  May  10,  1858, 
married  Xora  C.  .Smith,  born  in  Nova  Scotia, 
and  has  (jne child, C.Stewart  Hobart, born  A])r\\ 
II,  1897.  Cora  .Augusta  Williams  (Hobart) 
married  (second)  November,  1884,  Albert  I'>. 
Sanborn. 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


The  above  named  family  intermarried  with 
the  Dudley  family,  descended  from 

(I)  Francis  Dudley,  a  relation  of  Governor 
Thomas  Dudley,  was  born  in  England,  and  came 
to  this  country,  settling  at  Concord,  Massachu- 
setts, about  1663,  married  Sarah  Wheeler,  of 
Concord,  October  26,  1665.  He  probably  re- 
mained in  Concord  until  his  decease;  his  wife 
died  December  12,  1713. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  Francis  Dudley,  mar- 
ried Abigail  Gobble,  1691,  and  died  in  Concord, 
November  3,  1702. 

(III)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  Dudley, 
born  1697;  married,  CJctober  2,  1718,  Mary 
Chandler. 

(IV)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Josejih  (2)  Dudley, 
born  about  1735,  was  a  captain  in  the  war  of 

the  revolution.    He  married  Grace ;  he 

died   at   Sudbury;   his   wife   died   at   Hebron, 
Maine,  September  25,  1821. 

(V)  Eunice,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Dudley, 
married  Nicholas  Manson ;  died  in  Boston. 

(\T)  Sarah  I'ersis.  daughter  of  Nicholas 
and  Eunice  (Dudley)  Manson,  married  (first) 
February  8.  1810,  James  Stewart:  (second) 
March  21.  1833,  Elijah  Wright,  of  Ashby ;  she 
died  at  the  home  of  her  son,  Dr.  James  Stewart, 
in  Brooklvn.  .New  York  (see  Stewart  above). 


(For  first    generation   see    tiicliard  Tlia>-er    1). 

( II )  Richard  (2)  Thaver.  son 
THAYER  of  Richard  (i)  Thayer,  was 
born  in  England,  in  1625,  and 
settled  in  liraintree,  Massachusetts.  He  mar- 
ried. December  24.  163 1,  Dorothy  Pray,  who 
died  IJecemlier  11,  1705;  he  (lied  Decem- 
ber 4,  1705.  Children:  1.  Dorothy,  born 
July  30,  i(')53.  2.  Richard,  born  July  31,  1O55; 
mentioned  below.  3.  Nathaniel,  b(5rn  January 
I,  1658.  4.  .\bigail,  February  10,  1661.  5. 
Joannah,  December  13,  1665.  6.  Sarah,  De- 
cember 13,  1667.  7.  Cornelius,  .A.ugust  18, 
1670. 

(HI)  Richard  1 3),  son  of  Richard  (2) 
Thayer,  was  born  July  31.  1655,  and  died  Seji- 
tember  11.  \j2i).  He  lived  in  Braintree,  and 
married.  July  1').  \(>/').  Rebecca  Micall.  born 
January  22.  tTi^S.  Children:  1,  Rebecca,  born 
.\ugust  16,  1680:  married,  I'ebruary  12,  1701, 
Thomas  Bolter.  2.  Benjamin,  born  October  6, 
1C183.  3.  Richard,  January  26,  1685.  4.  John, 
January  12.  1688.  5.  Mary.  February  10.  ir)8(>. 
f).  James,  November  12.  \C^)i.  7.  Deborah. 
.\pril  II.  iTkjs.  8.  .\nna,  November  14.  1(197. 
I).  Gideon.  July  26,  1700;  mentioned  below. 
10.  Obcdiah.  May  l,  1703;  (lie<l  .April  3.  1721. 
(1\')   Gideon,  son  of  Richard   (3)  Thayer, 


was  born  Jul)  26,  1 700,  and  died  February  17, 
1742,  being  drowned  on  a  Sunday  morning 
while  crossing  the  Monitoquot  river,  by  break- 
ing through  the  ice.  He  was  a  farmer,  and 
lived  in  Braintree.  He  married,  June  3,  1713, 
Hannah  Hollis.  Children:  i.  .Abigail,  born 
November  13,  1724.  2.  Mary,  November  i, 
1726.  3.  Hannah,  April  6,  1728.  4.  Eunice, 
October  10,  1730,  died  August  16,  1732.  5. 
Gideon,  October  2,  1732;  mentioned  below.  6. 
Eunice,  December  20,  1735.  7.  Job,  August 
13,  1738,  died  August  9,  1750.  8.  Elijah,  born 
August  17,  1741. 

(  Y)  Gideon  (2),  son  of  Gideon  ( i )  Thayer, 
was  born  October  2,  1732,  in  Braintree,  and 
died  there  November  27.  1800.  He  was  ser- 
geant in  Captain  Thomas  White's  company. 
Colonel  Joseph  Palmer's  regiment  in  1776,  and 
in  Captain  Holbrook's  company,  under  Colonel 
Bass,  same  year.  He  married,  in  1758,  Sus- 
aimah  Thayer,  who  died  January  6,  1806, 
daughter  of  David  and  Hannah  Thayer.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Braintree:  I.  Job,  1739.  2. 
(iideon.  .August  21.  1763;  mentioned  below. 
3.  Sylvanus,  January  21,  1774.  4.  Rachel.  5. 
Ira,  1781.  (1.  .\aomi.  7.  Zephora.  8.  Leah, 
died  young. 

(\T)  Gideon  (  3),  son  of  Gideon  (2)  Thayer, 
was  born  in  Braintree.  .August  21.  1763,  and 
died  .April  23,  1841.  He  lived  in  Braintree, 
and  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  in  Captain 
Thomas  White's  company.  Colonel  Joseph  Pal- 
mer's regiment,  at  Dorchester  Neck,  1776;  also 
in  Captain  I'eter  Penniman's  company,  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel  Nathan  Tyler's  regiment,  1776-7. 
He  married  (first)  .April  24,  1800.  Jemima 
\'inti)r:  (  second  1  November  3.  1802,  Hamiah 
Belcher.  Child  of  first  wife  :  I.  William,  burn 
l*\'liruary  21),  1801.  Children  of  second  wife: 
2.  Jemima,  Ixirn  Se]itember  2,  1804.  3.  Gideon, 
March  11,  i8o(').    4.  Joseph,  mentioned  below. 

(\TI)  Joseph,  son  of  Gideon  (3)  Thayer, 
was  born  June  18.  1810,  in  Braintree.  and  died 
in  Randolph.  He  resided  in  the  latter  place, 
and  married  (first)  Drucilla  Penniman  ;  (sec- 
ond )  I'lveline  Stetson,  born  November  23,  1803, 
in  .^outh  Weymouth,  died  in  Brockton.  Chil- 
dren, all  by  second  wife:  i.  George  Washing- 
ton, living  in  Nova  Scotia.  2.  Drucilla.  3. 
Jose])h  Henry,  died  in  Taunton.  4.  Thomas 
Jefferson  Hamilton,  see  forward.  3.  .Almeda. 
resides  in  Brockton.  6.  Martin,  died  in  Onset. 
Lanuarv  17.  T<)o8.  7.  Laura,  died  in  Ouincy. 
8.  Eveline  J.,  born  September  10.  1844:  mar- 
ried. .August  II.  18(12.  Tiiomas  M.  Snow:  he 
died  in  Brockton.  9.  Hiram,  resides  in  Brain- 
tree. 


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441 


(\'III)  Thomas  Jefferson  Hamilton,  son  of 
Joseph  Thayer,  was  born  in  i'.raintree.  Jniy  16, 
1833.  and  (lied  Se[)tember  18.  1908.  in  (Juincy. 
He  was  eckicatcd  in  the  pubUc  schools  of  Drain- 
tree.  He  married  and  settled  in  Quincy,  where 
he  was  engaged  in  the  boot  and  shoe  business 
nntil  the  beginning  of  the  civil  war.  In  1861 
he  enlisted  and  served  three  \ears  in  Company 
D. Thirty-ninth  .Massaclnisetts  Regiment,  .\fter 
the  war  he  took  a  ijosition  as  a  stationary 
engineer,  and  followed  the  same  some  years. 
He  then  engaged  in  the  polishing  and  granite 
business  in  Quincy,  where  he  continued  about 
ten  years,  then  being  burned  out,  after  which 
he  lived  retired  until  his  death.  1  le  attended 
the  Methodist  E])iscopal  church  :  was  a  member 
of  Paul  Revere  I'ost.  .\o.  88.  C.  .\.  R..  and 
Weymouth  Lodge.  K.  1'.  In  politics  he  was  a 
Re]nil)lican.  He  married,  in  1854.  iJryantha 
Richards  Hayden.born  July  13. 1836,  at  Quincy, 
daughter  of  Xathaniel  and  Sally  Ilayden.  She 
resides  at  9  Wendell  street,  Quincy.  Children : 
Bryantha  Etta,  born  December  22.  1856:  mar- 
ried Walter  V.  Sanborn  (see  Sanborn).  2. 
Anna  Louise  Loveland,  born  February  19, 
i860:  married  .Anson  Lee  Wright.  3.  Clifton 
J.,  born  1867:  married  Luella  Goodwin,  of 
Charlestown,  Massachusetts  :  children  :  George 
R.,  Marion  L..  Walter  F..  Priscilla  H.  4. 
Susie  L.,  born  1869,  died  1901  :  marrierl  George 
Pratt.  5.  Ida  May.  married  Moses  Dyer;  re- 
sides in  South  Praintree.  6.  Eva  I'rances,  horn 
September  7.  1870:  resides  with  lur  mr)thcr. 


The  Ilayden  or  Hej'den  family 
HAYDEX      of    England    belonged    to    the 

order  of  Knights  deriving  this 
surname  from  the  town  of  Heydon  in  Norfolk, 
where  they  were  first  seated.  The  word  means 
high-down,  or  plain  on  the  hill,  and  the  town 
itself  is  rich  in  ancient  history.  The  family 
itself  appears  as  early  as  the  Xorman  Conquest, 
but  comes  into  prominence  early  in  the  thir- 
teenth century  in  the  person  of  Thomas  de 
Heydon.  resident  at  Heydon.  and  a  justice 
itinerant  in  Norfolk  in  I22t.  From  him  all  the 
English  families  arc  descendcfl.  They  do  not 
seem  to  have  been  numerous  at  any  period  of 
their  history.  The  principal  branch,  in  the 
persons  of  the  eldest  sons,  remained  in  Nor- 
folk, inheriting  the  estates  of  Heyrlon,  Bacons- 
thorp  anfl  elsewhere  :  while  a  branch  in  the  line 
of  the  second  son,  by  the  name  of  John  de 
Hayden,  settled  in  Devonshire  about  1273.  and 
another  a  few  generations  later  at  Watford, 
near  London. 

CI)   Thomas  de   Haydon,  the  English  pro- 


genitor, was  born  ])r(ibahly  about  1185,  ^"'1 
died  1250.  (II)  William  Heydon,  eldest  son 
of  Thomas,  was  born  about  1220,  and  died 
1272.  He  had  an  estate  in  Norfolk.  (HI) 
John  de  Haydon,  younger  son  of  William,  was 
county  judge  in  Devonshire  in  1273.  (  I\') 
Robert  Haydon  settled  in  P.oughwixxl,  Harp- 
ford,  Devonshire,  near  which  estate  the  family 

afterward  dwelt.      He  married  Joan   . 

He  deeded  his  estate  to  his  son  llenrv,  in  the 
nineteenth  year  of  Henry  I.  (  \')  Henrv  Hay- 
don luarried  a  relative,  Julian,  daughter  and 
heir  of  Haydon  of  Ebford.  (  \T )  William 
Haydon  inherited  his  father's  estate  at  Bough- 
wood.  (\'ll)  Robert  Haydon  succeeded  his 
father.  (\ill)  John  Haydon  was  his  son. 
(  IX  )  I  lenry  1  laydon  had  the  Pouglnvood  and 
Ebford  estates  in  1397.  (X)  William  Haydon, 
a  younger  son,  inherited  the  P>oughwood  and 
Ebford  estates,  his  elder  brother  John  leaving 
no  issue.  Children :  Richard,  died  young ; 
John.  Richard.  William.  (XI)  Richard  Hay- 
don was  living  on  the  estate  in  1476.  Children: 
Richard.  John.  Jane,  married  Robert  (Jiibert, 
of  Powderham. 

(XII)  Richard  Haydon  had  the  estates  in 
1 522.  married  Joan,  daughter  of  Maurice  Trent, 
of  Ottcry  St.  ^Iary.  Children  :  Thomas,  John, 
of  Cadhay :  George,  of  Hornesseys.  married 
Agnes  .Merrifield.  The  family  arms:  .Argent 
three  bars  gemelle  azure  on  a  chief  gules  a 
barrulet  dancette  or.  Crest :  The  white  lion 
vulniug  the  black  bull.  The  arms  were  granted 
before  1 31 5. 

(  XIH  )  Thomas  Hayden  married  Joan, daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Weeks,  of  Honey  Church.  Chil- 
dren :  Thomas,  mentioned  below ;  Daughter, 
married  Walter  Leigh :  Jane,  married  Richard 
Williaiu^:  Margaret,  married  Thomas  P.rown- 
ing. 

(XI\')  Thomas  Hayden  inherited  the  family 
estates  of  Hills  in  Kelmiston  and  Ebford  ;  mar- 
ried Christina,  daughter  and  heir  of  Robert 
Tidersleigh,  in  Dorsetshire. 

(X\)  Robert  Hayden  inherited  the  estate 
of  his  grand-uncle  John,  at  Caflhay.  a  distin- 
guished lawyer,  who  held  the  charter  for  incor- 
porating the  church  when  Englaml  l)rr>ke  away 
from  the  Roiuan  church,  in  15.^6,  known  as 
St.  M,nry  ( Itt-ry.  where  Tuany  of  the  family 
are  buried.  His  wife  Joan  inherited  the  estate 
at  Cadhay,  and  he  rebuilt  the  house,  which  is 
still  in  good  rei)air.  Robert  Havrlen  married 
loan,  rlauehter  of  Sir  .\mias  Paulet.  of  George 
Hinfon.  Sr)m'Tset.  He  was  a  justice  of  the 
peace,  living  in  1620.  Children  :  f iidi-on.  men- 
t-onefl  below:  .\mias.  Drew.  Margaret. 


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(XVI)  Gideon,  ?on  of  Robert  Hayden,  suc- 
ceeded to  the  Cadhay  and  Kbford  estates  ;  mar- 
ried Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Davy,  of 
Creedy.  The  author  of  the  family  history 
says:  "They  had  seven  sons  and  five  daugh- 
ters. Several  of  the  sons  grew  to  manhood, 
and  were  living  in  1630.  The  eldest  son,  Gideon, 
succeeded  him.  The  names  of  the  others  do 
not  appear.  I  take  it  there  must  have  been  a 
John,  William  and  James,  and  that  they  were 
"the  lohn.  William  and  James  who  emigrated 
to  Bo.ston  in  1630-31."  Gideon  Hayden  owned 
the  ship  "Dove,"  of  Lymston,  in  1628,  and  it 
was  commanded  by  his  son  Gideon.  The  son 
Tohn  Hayden  commanded  the  "Phoenia,"  of 
bartmuth,  also  in  1628.  In  any  case,  the 
American  branch  seems  closely  connected  with 
the  Devon  family,  and  the  lineage  seems  to  be 
correct. 

CX\Tr)  John,  son  of  Gideon  Haydon.  is 
.said  to  have  come  to  Boston  in  1630,  and  was  a 
proprietor  of  Dorchester  in  1632.  He  was 
admitted  a  freeman  May  14,  1634.  On  June  8, 
1639,  his  "fine  for  entertaining  an  unlicensed 
servant,  as  he  did  it  ignorantly,  was  remitted 
to  him."  In  1640  he  was  in  Braintree.  He 
married  Susanna .  His  will,  dated  Octo- 
ber 31,  1C78,  proved  July  26,  1682,  bequeathed 
to  widow  Susanna,  sons  Ebenezer,  Joseph, 
Xchcmiah  and  John ;  daughter  Hannah ;  and 
the  children  of  deceased  son  Samuel.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John,  born  1634,  died  1718:  married 
Hannali  .\mcs.  2.  Joseph.  3.  Samuel,  married 
Hannah  Thayer.  4.  Jonathan,  l)orn  May  19, 
1640:  married,  .Aiiril  20,  1669,  Elizabeth  Ladd. 
5.  Hannah,  born  ,\])ril  7,  1642.  6.  Ebenezer, 
born  .SciUeniher  12,  1645,  died  February  13, 
1718.    7.  Xchcmiah.  mentioned  below. 

fXVIII)  Xehemiah,  son  of  John  Hayden, 
was  born  February  14,  1647-8,  and  died  Janu- 
ary 12,  1717-8.  He  was  a  prominent  and  influ- 
ential citizen  of  Braintree.  and  served  as  select- 
man ten  years,  1706-1716.  and  on  important 
committees.  He  and  his  wife  were  members 
of  the  Middle  Frecinct  church  at  the  time  of 
Mr.  Xiles'  ordination  in  171 1.  His  will,  dated 
January  16,  1717-18,  proved  February  28,  1717- 
t8,  mentions  all  the  children  except  ATary.  He 
married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Henry  Xcale. 
Children:  i.  Xehemiali.  born  May,  l68o.  2. 
Flannah.  Inl\-  16.  1681  :  married  Ste- 
vens. 3.  Mary,  married  Samuel  Hayden.  4. 
Samuel,  mentioned  below.  5.  Benjamin,  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1685-6:  married  Elizabeth  Faxon.  6. 
Rachel,  married  Samuel  Paine.  7.  John,  mar- 
ried Margaret  (Curtis'"!  Thayer,  widow.  8. 
Ebenezer,  married,  Xovember  30,  I/K).  M^ry 


Mollis.  9.  Jonathan,  married,  December  22, 
1719,  Sarah  Copeland. 

(.\IX)  Samuel,  son  of  Nehemiah  Hayden, 
was  born  about    1690.     He  married   Priscilla 

,  and  lived  at  Braintree.     Children :     i. 

Child,  born  October  i,  1714,  died  October  6 
following.  2.  Samuel,  January  20,  1715-16; 
married,  January  12,  1737-8.  Esther  Allen.  3. 
.\my,  .August  26,  1717,  died  next  month.  4. 
Christopher,  February  18,  1719.  5.  Richard, 
fanuary  22,  1720-1  :  mentioned  below.  6.  Jere- 
miah, December  29,  1722.  7.  Xehemiah,  Janu- 
ary 3.  1724-5.  8.  Xathaniel,  February  21, 
1725-6.  9.  William.  October  5,  1727;  settled 
in  Weymouth  apj)arently. 

(XX)  Richard,  son  of  Samuel  Hayden,  was 
born  January  22,  1 720-1,  at  Braintree.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Amminidab,  born  August  26,  1746; 
mentioned  below.  2.  Cozbi.  Xovember  26,  1749. 
3..\senath.  Xovember  i,  1751.  4.  Ziba,  January 
22.  1754.  5.  Cyrus.  June  13,  1756.  6.  Sally 
(twin),  .\ugust  28,  1759.  7.  Molly  (twin), 
.\ugust  28,  1759.  8.  Lewis,  February  6,  1763; 
settled  in  Weymouth. 

(XXI)  Amminidab.  son  of  Richard  Hayden, 
was  born  .\ugust  26,  1746,  at  Braintree.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  corporal  in 
Captain  Silas  Wild's  company.  Colonel  B>enja- 
min  Lincoln's  regiment. on  the  Lexington  alarm, 
.April  19,  1775,  and  later  in  the  same  year  in 
the  regiment  of  Colonel  John  Greaton.  He 
was  <|uartermaster  of  his  regiment,  commis- 
sioned .\ugu.st  16,  1776,  statione<l  in  the  defence 
of  Boston  :  also  (|uartermaster  in  (Colonel  Eben- 
ezer hVeeman's  regiment.  October.  1776.  He 
married  (first)  Susanna  Thayer,  who  died 
before  January,  1780:  (second)  Isabel  Down- 
ing. .After  the  war  he  settled  in  Weymouth. 
Of  the  children  of  the  second  wife,  two  are 
recorded  at  Weymouth:  i.  Sarah,  born  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1789.  2.  Isabel  Downing,  Xovember 
20,  1790.  .Also:  3.  Samuel,  born  about  1778: 
m.nrried  Silence  Hollis.  4.  Tliomas.  5.  Xathaniel. 
mentioned  lielow. 

I  XXII)  Xathaniel,  son  of  Amminidab  Hay- 
den, was  born  according  to  the  family  record 
October  15.  1780.  (The  birth  is  not  on  the 
town  records  of  Weymouth).  He  married,  in 
Braintree.  Xovember  26,  1810,  Sally  Hayden. 
born  at  B.raintree,  June  22.  1793.  Children: 
T.  Xathaniel,  born  Xovember  3.  181 1  :  married. 
Xovember  3,  1836,  Harriet  X.  .Stetson :  he  died 
.Aoril  12.  1894.  2.  Sally,  born  Xovember  14, 
1813  :  married.  October  6.  1833.  James  Harris  ; 
she  died  .September  T4.  1906.  3.  Jonathan, 
born  Xovember  14,  181 5;  died  January  9. 
1805:  married.  Xovember  26.  1840.  Dolly  M. 


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Green.  4.  Joseph,  born  Jannary  11.  1818,  died 
December  7,  1846.  5.  William,  born  Septem- 
ber iq,  i8iy,  died  January  14.  1854:  married, 
August  9,  1842,  Sarah  Hamilton.  6.  Albert, 
born  June  17.  1823.  died  February  11,  1825. 
7.  Henry,  born  November  14.  1825,  died  Au- 
gust 8.  1888:  married  .Mary  Richardson.  8. 
Bartlett.  born  February  23.  1830.  died  March 
30.  1905.  9.  Rryantha  Richards,  born  .-\pril 
10,  1832.  died  September  18.  1836.  10.  James 
Alonzo,  born  April  13.  1834;  resides  with  his 
daughter  in  Ouincy :  married  Prudence  Rich- 
ardson. II.  Rryantha  Richards,  born  July  13, 
1836:  married  Thomas  J.  H.  Thayer  Alay  22, 
1855  ;  children  :  i.  Rryantha  Etta  Thayer.'born 
December  22.  1856,  married  July  11.  1877, 
Walter  Francis  Sanborn  (see  Sanborn)  ;  ii. 
Annie  I.oveland  Thayer,  born  February  19, 
1 861  :  iii.  Clifford  J.  Thayer,  September  24, 
iS'')/:  iv.  Susie  Laura  Thayer,  November  i, 
1869:  V.  Ida  May  Thayer.  January  14.  1872; 
vi.  Eva  Frances  Thayer,  September  6,  1879. 

This  is  one  of  the  class  known 
FUELER  as  occupative  surnames,  dates 
from  the  twelfth  century,  or 
later,  aiul  has  the  same  signification  as  Tucker 
or  Walker,  "one  who  thickens  and  whitens 
cloth."  \'arious  persons  named  Fuller  have 
won  distinction  in  both  England  and  .\merica. 
Nicholas  Fuller,  born  1557.  was  a  distinguished 
Oriental  scholar:  another  .Nicholas  Fuller,  died 

1620.  was  a  prf>minent  lawyer  and  member  of 
parliament ;  Isaac  Fuller,  died  1672,  was  a 
noted  painter;  .Andrew  Fuller,  born  1754.  was 
an  eminent  Raptist  minister  and  writer  ;  Thomas 
Fuller.  English  divine  and  author,  born  1608. 
was  chaplain  extraordinary  to  Charles  II..  and 
a  prolific  writer.  .X  high  authority  said  of  him : 
"Fuller  was  incomjiarably  the  most  sensible, 
the  least  ])rejudiced  great  man  of  an  age  that 
boasted  of  a  galaxy  of  great  men."  Sarah 
Margaret  Fuller,  Marchioness  of  Ossobi,  born 
1810.  was  a  prominent  teacher,  editor  and 
author.  Melville  W.  Fuller,  born  1833,  distin- 
guished as  a  jurist,  is  now  chief  justice  of  the 
United  States. 

CI)  Edward  Fuller,  the  "Mayflower"  immi- 
grant, son  of  Robert  Fuller,  butcher,  was  bap- 
tized September  4.  1575.  in  the  parish  of  Reden- 
hall.  county  of  Norfolk.  England,  and  died  at 
Plymouth,  between  January  11  and  .April  10, 

1621.  as  we  learn  from  the  "Gonealogy  of  Some 
Descendants  of  Eflward  Fuller."  by  William 
flyslap  Fuller,  from  whose  work  most  of  the 
followingf  sketch  has  been  drawn.  Thcnc  is 
nothing  to  indicate  that  he  was  with  the  Pil- 


grims in  Holland,  and  it  seems  ])robable  that  he 
joined  the  others  on  the  arrival  of  the  "Speed- 
well" in  Southampton,  England,  where  the 
"Mayllowcr"  was  awaiting  them.  His  name  is 
the  twenty-third  on  the  Compact  signed  in  the 
cabin  of  the  "Mayflower"  just  before  landing 
on  Cai)e  Cod.  in  November.  1620.  The  inclem- 
ency of  the  climate,  the  privations  they  suffered 
and  the  changed  conditions  under  which  they 
were  brought,  deprived  Edward  Fuller  of  his 
life  a  few  months  after  he  first  saw  the  inliospi- 
talble  shores  of  New  England.  He  brought 
with  him  a  wife  whose  name  is  unknown,  but 
sometimes  called  .\mi.  She  died  early  in  1621, 
after  Jannary  nth.  (Kivernor  Rradford  says: 
"Edward  Fuller  and  his  wife  died  soon  after 
they  came  on  shore."  They  left  one  child 
Samuel,  next  mentioned. 

(II)  Samuel,  only  son  of  Edward  Fuller 
and  wife,  was  born  about  if>i2.  and  came  to 
Plymouth  with  parents  and  was  left  an  orphan 
when  about  nine  years  old.  The  place  and 
time  of  his  birth  and  baptism  arc  unknown. 
He  (lied  October  31.  1683,  O.  S..  at  Rarnstable, 
Massachusetts.  He  grew  up  under  the  care  of 
his  uncle.  Dr.  Samuel  Fuller,  of  Plvmouth.also 
a  "Mayflower"  Pilgrim.  He  had  three  acres 
at  the  division  of  lands  in  1623.  This  land 
was  on  the  south  side  of  the  town  brook,  "to 
the  woodward,"  and  included  what  is  now 
Watson"s  Hill.  He  was  made  a  freeman  in 
1634.  and  settled  in  .Scituatc :  November  7, 
1636.  he  joined  the  church  there,  having  a 
letter  of  dismissal  from  the  church  of  Plymouth, 
of  which  he  had  been  a  member.  In  the  same 
year  he  built  the  fifteenth  hou.se  in  Scituate.  on 
Creenfield  street,  the  first  lot  abutting  on  Kent 
street.  He  had  twenty  acres  of  land  on  the 
east  of  licllhouse  Neck  in  that  town,  probably 
a  grant  from  the  town.  Rev.  Mr.  Eothroi>  and 
others  of  .Scitiiate  foun<led  the  town  of  Rarn- 
stable, and  to  that  place  Samuel  Fuller  removed 
between  1641  and  1^150,  probably  about  the 
latter  date.  March  25.  1650,  O.  .S.,  Samuel 
Fuller  and  wife  of  Scituate  in  the  government 
of  New  Plymouth  in  New  England  in  Aiucrica, 
conveyed  to  Peter  Collymorc  "one  dwelling 
house  and  a  barn  and  cow  house  with  sixteen 
acres  of  upland  and  two  parcels  of  marsh  land 
fonfainintr  twelve  acres."  With  his  cousin. 
Captain  Matthew  Fuller.  .Samuel  Fuller  bought 
of  Sccunke.  an  Indian,  so  much  of  .Scorton.  or 
Sandv  Neck,  as  lies  within  the  town  of  Barn- 
stable. Samuel  Fuller  also  bought  meadow  of 
his  cousin  Matthew  that  was  Mairir  John  Free- 
man'';, and  meadow  of  .Samuel  House,  and  land 
on  Scorton  Hill.     He  lived  in  the  northwest 


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angle  of  the  town,  in  a  secluded  spot  where 
few  had  occasion  to  pass.  He  was  constable 
in  Scituate  in  1641,  and  a  few  times  was  one 
of  a  jury  or  committee  to  settle  difficulties  with 
the  Indians.  He  was  the  only  one  of  the 
passengers  of  the  "Mayflower''  who  settled 
permanently  at  Barnstable,  and  one  of  the 
latest  survivors  of  that  company.  He  was 
buried,  if  not  on  his  own  estate,  in  the  ancient 
burial  place  at  Lathrop's  Hill,  in  Rarnstable, 
near  the  site  of  the  first  meeting  house.  His 
will,  dated  "the  nine  and  twentyeth  Day  of 
October  in  the  year  of  our  I.ord  one  thousand 
six  hundred  and  eighty  and  three,"  was  proved 
Tune  5,  1684,  and  his  inventory  dated  Novem- 
ber 14,  1683,  amounted  to  fii6  5s.  gd.,  "the 
land  &  housing  not  prised."  Samuel  Fuller 
was  married,  at  Mr.  Cudwortii's  house  in  Scit- 
uate, by  Captain  Miles  Standish,  magistrate, 
"on  ye  f(nirtJie  daye  of  ye  wceke."  (.April  8-18, 
1635 1  to  Jane,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Lathrop, 
of  Scituate  and  (after  1639)  Barnstable.  She 
was  baptized  September  29,  1614,  at  Edgerly, 
county  Kent,  England,  and  died  between  1658 
and  1683.  but  just  when  is  not  known.  Chil- 
dren :  Tlannah,  .Samuel,  Elizabeth.  Sarah  (died 
young),  Mary,  Thomas,  Sarah,  John,  and  an 
infant. 

(HI)  Samuel  (2),  eldest  son  of  Samuel  (i) 
and  Jane  (Lathrop)  Fuller,  was  baptized  Feb- 
ruary II.  1637,  at  Scituate.  There  is  no  record 
of  his  family  on  the  Barnstable  records,  and 
but  little  is  known  of  him.  He  probably  lived 
on  a  portion  of  his  father's  estate.  An  inven- 
tory of  his  estate  was  taken  at  Rarnstable,  De- 
cember 28,  if')9r,  amounting  to  £98  17s.  From 
this  it  appears  that  he  bad  died  some  time 
before,  and  that  his  widow  had  lately  died,  for 
her  estate  was  settled  on  the  30th  of  the  same 
month.  Tlir  names  of  his  children,  given 
iielow.  are  taken  from  an  agreement  made  at 
that  time,  dated  December  30,  1691.  He  mar- 
ried .Anna,  dautrhter  of  IMatthew  Fuller.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  I'.arnstable :  Barnabas.  Joseph, 
Matthew.  Benjamin,  Desire  and  Sarah. 

(1\')  Matthew,  third  .son  of  Samuel  (2) 
an'  .Anna  (Fuller)  Fuller,  was  born  about 
16(13,  at  I'arnstable,  and  died  at  Colchester, 
before  1744,  aged  about  eighty  years.  He 
settled  in  Colchester  about  1712,  and  was  bap- 
tized at  the  First  Church  there.  December  12, 
i~?4.  "ayed  about  eit'^litv  years,"  says  the  rec- 
ord, but  tlicre  is  nrobably  an  error  as  to  the 
asre.  He  married,  February  25,  1(193.  Patience, 
datighter  of  Ccorge  and  Hannah  (Pinson) 
Young,  of  Scituate.    She  ^«'•'s  born  about  1670. 


and  died  June  25,  1746,  at  Colchester,  leaving 
a  will  which  is  a  most  useful  confirmation  of 
the  relationship  here  stated.  In  this  will,  dated 
February  3,  1743-4.  and  probated  .August  6, 
1746.  she  is  described  as  a  wid<nv.  Children: 
.Anna,  Jonathan.  Content,  Jean,  David,  Young, 
Cornelius  and  Hannah. 

(V)  Young,  third  son  of  Matthewand  Patience 
(Young)  Fuller,  was  born  in  L!arnstable  in 
1708.  and  died  in  Ludlow,  June  17,  1796.  He 
removed  in  1747  to  that  part  of  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut, now  Ellington.  The  earliest  deed  in 
which  he  appears  as  the  grantee  is  dated  Janu- 
ary 21,  1747-8.  He  was  also  the  owner  of 
land  in  Bolton,  East  Haddam,  and  elsewhere. 
In  1767  he  removed  from  Ellington  with  his 
eldest  son  Joshua  to  Ludlow,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  died.  He  and  his  wife  were  baptized 
and  admitted  to  full  communion  in  the  Col- 
chester church,  December  24,  1732.  He  mar- 
ried. .April  23.  1730,  at  Colchester.  Connecticut, 
lerusha.  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Bridget 
'(  r.rockway  )  Beebe,  of  East  Haddam,  Connec- 
ticut. Children  :  Joshua,  David.  Caleb.  Jerusha, 
Lydia  and  .Anne. 

iVl)  Deacon  Joshua,  eldest  son  of  Young 
and  lerusha  (Beel)e)  Fuller,  was  born  in  Col- 
chester. Connecticut,  September  9.  1731.  and 
died  October  6,  18 10,  in  Monson,  Massachu- 
setts. When  sixteen  years  of  age  he  removed 
with  his  father  from  Colchester  to  Ellington, 
Connecticut,  and  March  11,  1754,  his  father 
deeded  him  a  house  and  farm  there.  In  1767 
he  removed  to  Ludlow,  Massachusetts,  then  a 
part  of  Springfield,  where  he  was  one  of  the 
pioneers  and  a  leading  man  in  church  and 
nnmicipal  affairs,  and  a  public  official  in  vari- 
ous capacities.  His  last  years  were  spent  in 
Monson  with  his  son  Benjamin.  He  married. 
Januarv,  1753.  Mercy  Lathrop,  born  October 
"i.  1736.  died  January  15,  1827,  daughter  of 
Solomon  and  Susannah  Lathrop,  of  Tolland. 
Children,  the  first  six  born  in  Ellington  :  Elisha. 
Solomon  Lathrop.  Ezekiel.  Sarah.  Lydia.  Ben- 
jamin. Jonathan  Beebe.  Mariana  and  Olive. 

(\"H)  P>cnjamin.  fourth  son  of  Joshua  and 
Mercv  (Lathrop)  Fuller,  born  in  Ellington, 
Connecticut,  July  23,  1767  died  December  8, 
1842.  in  Monson,  Alassachusetts.  He  settled 
in  Monson  in  179.=;.  and  his  father  and  mother 
removed  from  Ludlow  and  spent  the  later  years 
of  their  lives  with  him.  He  married.  Novem- 
ber 10,  1788.  .Annis  Fuller,  born  October  i. 
1768.  in  East  IlacMam.  Connecticut,  died  Sep- 
tember 3.  1854,  in  Monson.  daughter  of  Jehiel 
and    Sarah    (Dav)    I'ldKr.   of   Fast   Haddam. 


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Children:  Horace  Day.  Harriet.  Achsah.  Ben- 
jamin. Austin.  Sophia  (died  young),  Warren 
(died  young  I.  Sopliia  .and  Warren. 

(  \  IH  )  Benjamin  (2).  .second  son  of  Benja- 
min (i)  and  Annis  (Fuller)  Fuller,  was  born 
in  Monson.  January  i.  1796,  and  died  in  Spring- 
field. June  6.  1888.  aged  ninety-two  years.  He 
married.  March  g,  1823.  Cynthia  Collins,  born 
in  East  Windsor.  Connecticut,  September  12. 
1803,  died  in  Springfield.  July  25.  1872,  daugh- 
ter of  Ebenezer  and  Azuha  (  Chapin^  Collins, 
of  South  Hatlley.  Massachusetts.  Children: 
Cynthia  Collins,  Mary  E..  Henry  Lathrop, 
Mary  L.,  Helen  Sopliia.  Elizabeth  Annis  an<l 
Henrietta. 

(  IX  )  Elizabeth  .\iiiiis.  fifth  daughter  of  I'.en- 
jamin  and  Cynthia  (  Collins  )  Fuller,  was  born 
in  Hartford.  Connecticut,  .\pril  11.  1838,  and 
married  December  8,  1869,  Richard  W.  Rice 
(see  Rice),  whom  she  survives,  and  now  re- 
sides in  Springfield. 


Neither  record  nor  tradition  has 
RICE  been  found  of  the  place  of  embark- 
ation to  this  country  of  Edmund 
Rice,  nor  is  there  anything  known  of  the  ship 
he  came  in  or  at  what  ])lace  he  first  arrived. 
He  is  first  found  at  Sudbury,  Massachusetts, 
and  became  the  head  of  a  numerous  and  widely 
scattered  progeny. 

d)  Deacon  Edmund  Rice  came  from  Bark- 
hamstead.  in  the  county  of  Hertford.  England, 
and  settled  in  Sudbury,  Masachusetts,  in  1638 
or  1639:  as  he  siiared  in  the  three  divisions  of 
land  in  Sudbury,  the  first  of  which  was  made 
in  1639.  he  was  without  doubt  a  resident  there 
at  that  time.  He  first  appears  in  Sudbury  with 
a  wife  and  a  family  of  at  least  .seven  children, 
who  came  over  with  him.  He  was  born  about 
1594  according  to  a  dei)osition  which  he  made 
April  3.  1656.  giving  his  age  as  sixty-two  years. 
He  became  one  of  the  best  known  and  most 
influential  settlers  of  Sudbury.  He  was  pro- 
prietor and  selectman  in  1639  and  was  prob- 
ably there  in  tlie  early  part  of  the  preceding 
year.  His  village  plot  in  .Sudbury,  now  Way- 
land,  was  laid  out  in  the  fall  of  1639,  and  he 
was  one  of  the  first  to  build  a  house.  The  lot 
was  on  old  Xorth  street  near  the  Mill  lirook. 
He  received  his  share  of  the  meadow  land  Sep- 
tember 4.  1639,  .April  20,  1640.  and  Xoveinber 
18,  1640.  amounting  in  all  to  forty-three  and 
three-fourths  acres.  He  shared  also  in  all  the 
divisions  of  uplands  and  common  lands  until 
his  holdings  ainountcd  to  two  hundred  and 
forty-seven  acres.  lie  had  eleven  acres  in  the 
south  part  of  the  town  between  Timber  Neck 


and  Mr.  Clover's  farm.  This  lay  near  the 
spring  and  he  sold  a  part  of  it  to  Thomas 
.A.xtell  and  a  part  to  Philemon  Whale,  both  of 
whom  built  houses  there.  He  sold  his  home 
farm  to  John  Moore,  September  i,  1(142,  and 
September  13  of  the  same  year  took  a  si.\  year 
lease  of  the  Uunster  farm  on  the  west  shore 
of  Lake  Cochituate.  In  Xovember,  K>43,  he 
bought  lantl  of  the  Widow  A.xtcU  between 
Philemon  Whale's  ])lace  and  his  own  at  Rice's 
Spring.  Later  he  also  bought  Philemon  Whale's 
house  and  nine  acres  of  land  adjoining  his 
own.  These  various  purchases  formed  the 
nucleus  of  the  old  Rice  homestead,  which  re- 
mained in  ])art  in  the  hands  of  his  descendants 
until  a  recent  date.  September  29,  1647,  he 
leased  for  a  term  of  ten  years  of  President 
Dunslcr  of  Harvard  College,  guardian  for  the 
(llover  heirs,  what  was  known  as  the  Glover 
farm.  By  the  terms  of  the  lease  he  was  to 
erect  a  house  on  the  place  and  a  barn  fifty  feet 
long.  These  buildings,  it  is  supposed,  were 
located  near  Dudley  Pond,  and  on  that  jiart  of 
llu-  (jlover  farm  which  by  an  adjustment  of  the 
town  bounds  in  1700  came  into  the  town  of 
W'ayland.  Edmund  Rice  bought  the  Jennison 
farm  of  two  hundred  acres  extending  from 
the  Dunster  farm  to  the  Weston  line,  and  on 
this  tract  some  of  his  descendants  still  live. 
1  le  and  his  son  bought  the  Dunster  farm,  June 
24.  1659.  Besides  tliese  and  others  grants  and 
purchases  he  received  from  the  general  court 
fifty  acres  at  Rice's  End  in  1652,  and  eighty 
acres  near  I>eaver  Dam  in  1659  in  I'raming- 
liam.  He  was  on  a  committee  to  apportion  the 
meadows,  September  4,  1639;  .selectman.  ](yy), 
1644  and  later;  deacon  of  the  church.  |C)48; 
and  deputy  to  the  general  court,  1654.  1  le  was 
one  of  the  original  petitioners  for  the  Marl- 
borough grant  in  1(^)56.  received  a  grant  there 
and  removed  to  that  town  in  1660.  lie  died 
at  .Marlborough.  .May  3.  i''>'')3.  aged  si.xty-nine 
years.  The  inventory  of  Edmund  Rice,  of 
Marlborough,  taken  Alay  15,  1663,  by  Thomas 
King.  John  Woods  and  John  Stf)ne,  amounted 
to  £566:  house  etc.,  £170;  another  inventory  of 
tlic  same  date  taken  by  William  Wanl.  Thomas 
Loring,  John  Woods  and  John  .Stone  enumer- 
ates ])roperty  amotmting  to  £743.8.4.  Whether 
these  two  inventories  refer  to  the  sanie  |)ro|)- 
erty  or  not  is  micertain.  but  as  Fvlnnuid  Rice 
had  property  in  both  .Sudbury  and  Marlborough 
the  inventories  mayrefer  to  different  j)ro])erties. 
"Tamazine,"  wife  of  Edmund  Rice,  died  in 
.Sudbury.  June  13.  i'')54:  the  record  of  her 
death  is  the  only  one  wherein  her  name  has 
been  foinid.     Edmund  Rice  married  ("second) 


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March  i,  1655,  "Mercie,"  widow  of  Thomas 
llrigliam,  of  Cambridge.  She  survived  Mr. 
Rice  and  married  (third)  William  Hunt,  of 
Marlborough,  "Oct.  or  Nov."  1664.  She  died 
December  28,  1693.  The  children  of  Edmund 
Rice,  the  first  nine  by  the  first  wife,  were: 
Henry,  Edward,  Thomas,  Matthew,  Samuel, 
Joseph,  Lydia,  Edmund,  Benjamin,  Ruth  and 
Ann. 

( H)  Thomas,  son  of  Edmund  and  Tamazine 
Rice,  was  born  in  England  and  came  to  Amer- 
ica with  his  parents.  He  resided  in  Sudbury 
and  Marlborough,  to  the  latter  of  which  towns 
he  removed  about  1764.  The  births  of  si.x  of 
his  children  are  recorded  at  Sudbury,  and  the 
others,  younger  children,  at  Marlborough,  of 
v.-hich  he  was  a  proprietor.  He  died  there  No- 
vember 16,  1681.  His  wife's  baptismal  name  was 
j\Iary.  The  will  of  Thomas  Rice,  dated  Novem- 
ber II,  1681,  and  proved  April  4,  1682. gave  to 
sons  Thomas,  Peter,  Nathaniel  and  Ephraim, 
residue  to  wife  Mary,  and  at  her  decease  to  go 
to  "the  younger  children  not  mentioned  above." 
My  brothers,  Henry  and  Matthew  Rice,  and 
Peter  King  to  be  overseers  of  my  will,  etc. 
The  will  of  Widow  Alary,  dated  "May  10,  in 
the  8th  year  (1710)  of  Queen  .\nne's  reign," 
was  proved  April  11,  1705,  and  gave  to  sons 
Thomas  of  Marlborough:  Peter,  Nathaniel, 
Ephraim,  Gershom,  James,  Jonas  and  Elisha, 
to  daughters  Mary  White.  Sarah  Adams.  Fran- 
ces Allen  and  Grace  Moore.  The  children  of 
Thomas,  most  of  whom  lived  to  great  age, 
were  Grace  (died  young),  Thomas.  Mary, 
Peter.  Nathaniel,  Sarah,  Ephraim,  Gershom, 
James,  Frances,  Jonas,  Grace  and  Elisha. 

(HI)  Ephraim,  fourth  son  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  Rice,  was  born  in  Marlborough,  April 
15,  1665.  and  died  in  Sudbury,  where  for  years 
he  was  a  resident,  October  25,  1732.  He  was  a 
proprietor  of  Worcester,  and  had  thirty  acres 
of  land  granted  him  in  that  town  in  1718,  but 
as  far  as  known  he  never  resided  there.  His 
will  was  made  October  20,  1732.  and  proved 
November  27,  1732.  He  married  (first)  Feb- 
ruary 22,  i68g,  Hannah  Livermore,  born  Sep- 
tember 27,  1670,  daughter  of  John  and  Han- 
nah Eivermore,  of  Watertown.  She  died  May 
21,  1724.  He  married  (second)  March  24. 
1725,  Mary  Noycs.  of  Sudbury,  born  at  Sud- 
bury, June  22.  1666,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  (Darwcll)  Noyes,  of  Sudbury,  who  were 
married  November  12,  1662.  She  died  Janu- 
ary II,  1744.  Her  will  dated  June  21,  1742, 
was  probated  March  12,  1745.  The  children 
of  Epliraim  Rice,  all  by  the  first  wife,  were: 
Hannah  (died  young),  Ephraim,  Mary,  Josiah, 


Grace,  Thomas,  Gershom,  John,  Isaac  and 
Hannah. 

(IV)  John,  fifth  son  of  Ephraim  and  Han- 
nah (Livermore)  Rice,  was  born  in  Sudbury, 
April  23,  1704,  and  died  in  Sudbury,  in  1771. 
At  the  request  of  the  widow  her  son,  Jonas 
Rice,  was  appointed  administrator  December 
24,  1 77 1.  John  Rice  married  (first)  Sarah 
Dunton,  of  Sudbury,  November  11,1731.  There 
is  no  record  of  her  death.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) November  4,  1741.  Anna  Sanderson.  His 
third  wife's  baptismal  name  was  Thankful. 
He  had  by  his  first  wife  two  children,  and  by 
the  third  nine.  They  were :  Anne,  Lydia, 
John,  Jonas,  Abraham,  Amos,  Eunice,  Lucy, 
Peter.  Joel  and  Nathan,  who  is  next  mentioned. 

fV)  Nathan,  youngest  child  of  John  and 
Thankful  Rice,  was  born  in  Sudbury.  Decem- 
ber 8.  1760.  He  first  settled  at  Belchertown, 
and  about  1820  removed  to  Springfield,  where 
he  died  May  23,  1838,  in  his  seventy-eighth 
year.  He  married  Hepzibah  Allen,  of  Con- 
cord, born  December  18.  1763.  died  at  Spring- 
field, April  8,  1854.  in  her  ninety-first  year. 
Their  children  were:  John.  Nathan.  William, 
Nancy  and  James. 

(\T)  John  (2),  eldest  son  of  Nathan  and 
Hepzibah  (.\11en)  Rice,  was  born  March  2, 
1782.  and  resided  at  Springfield,  where  he  died 
February  24.  1841.  He  married  Joanna,  daugh- 
ter of  David  and  Joanna  (Moody)  Warrincr, 
of  Wilbrahani.  She  died  November  11.  1840, 
aged  fifty-nine.  Their  eight  children  were: 
Maria  J..  John  \\'.,  Mary  j\nn,  William  E., 
Sophia.  Charles  W.,  Henr\'  and  George  W. 

(VH)  John  W.,  eldest  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Joanna  (Warrincr)  Rice,  was  born  in  Spring- 
field, where  he  died  while  a  comparatively 
young  man.  He  always  lived  in  Springfield 
and  was  a  carpenter  by  trade.  He  married 
Marv  Stebbins.  Her  parents  owned  a  consid- 
erable [liece  of  land  in  Springfield,  of  a  part  of 
which  she  became  the  owner  and  on  it  she  built 
the  house  at  17  Ilolyoke  street.  She  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Church  (Congregational). 
The  children  of  John  W.  and  Mary  (Stebbins) 
Rice  were:  i.  Mary,  who  died  unmarried.  2. 
Richard  W.,  mentioned  below.  3.  Lois  Steb- 
bins. who  died  tmmarried.  4.  Martha  Stebbins. 
who  married  .Augustus  L.  Childs,  and  died 
March,  1907. 

(\TTI)  Richard  \\'ells,  only  son  of  John 
\\'.  and  Mary  (Stebbins)  Rice,  was  born  in 
Springfield.  April  13.  1838.  His  father  died 
when  he  was  but  six  years  old.  leaving  him, 
an  onlv  son,  with  his  mother  and  three  sisters, 
one  of  whom,  Mrs.  Martha  S.  Childs.  survived 


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him.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools, 
being  a  pupil  in  the  high  school  at  the  age  of 
fourteen,  when  he  went  out  into  the  world  to 
begin  life  for  himself.  His  tirst  employment 
was  in  the  ticket  office  of  the  Boston  &  Albany 
railroad  where  he  remained  a  year.  His  next 
•service  was  with  the  Hampden  Insurance  Com- 
pany, and  the  Five  Cents  Savings  Bank,  the 
business  of  the  two  concerns  being  conducted 
in  the  same  office.  He  spent  three  years  there, 
and  following  that  the  same  length  of  time 
with  the  Alassassoit  Insurance  Company. 
I-'inally,  in  1864.  li^  entered  the  employ  of 
Isaac  Mills,  coal  dealer,  and  was  a  clerk  for 
him  until  1890.  when  he  had  the  entire  manage- 
ment of  the  business,  and  then  purchased  an 
interest  in  it.  On  the  death  of  Mr.  Mills  a  few 
years  later  he  succeeded  to  the  ownership  of 
the  entire  business  which  he  carried  on  from 
that  time  under  his  own  name.  His  coal  yard, 
near  the  corner  of  Court  and  Water  streets, 
was  the  oldest  in  the  city,  the  original  books 
of  the  concern  showing  entries  made  during 
the  year  1833.  and  under  both  Mr.  Mills  and 
Mr.  Rice  the  business  was  carried  on  with  the 
strictest  integrity.  In  politics  Mr.  Rice  was  a 
staunch  Republican,  and  in  religious  belief  a 
Congrcgationalist.  He  died  after  an  illness  of 
but  one  week.  May  i,  1903,  and  was  buried  in 
Springfield  cemetery.  At  a  regular  f|uartcrly 
meeting  of  the  trustees  of  the  Springfield  Five 
Cents  Savings  Bank,  July  3,  1903,  the  follow- 
ing letter  was  presented : 

"Gentleman :  Richard  Wells  Rice  died  at 
his  residence  in  Springfield  aged  si.xty-five 
years  and  eighteen  days.  Mr.  Rice  was  clerk 
in  this  bank  in  1856,  elected  a  member  of  the 
corporation  in  1857.  a  trustee  June  7,  1895, 
and  an  auditor  July  9,  1895.  For  forty-seven 
j'ears  he  has  fulfilled  faithfully  the  duties  of 
the  offices  held  by  him  as  a  member  of  this 
corporation.  He  has  been  painstaking  and 
careful  in  their  fulfillment.  He  has  endeared 
himself  to  all  his  associates,  and  his  death  has 
removed  a  faithful  and  worthy  member  from 
our  board.  He  loved  his  native  city  and  always 
gave  his  best  cfiforts  to  make  Springfield  a 
happy  city  of  homes,  and  the  community  will 
long  cherish  his  memory  and  mourn  his  loss. 
Our  loss  is  great,  but  that  of  his  family  is 
greater,  and  wc  sympathize  with  them  in  their 
sorrow  and  hope  the  memory  of  his  many 
deeds  of  kindness  and  his  conscientious  Chris- 
tian life  may  soften  the  shock  of  their  bereave- 
ment." 

It  was  moved  and  carried  by  a  rising  vote 


that  this  letter  be  adopted  as  the  expression  of 
the  feeling  of  the  board,  and  that  a  copy  be 
sent  to  .Mrs.  Rice. 

Richard  W.  Rice  married,  in  Springfield, 
December  8,  1869,  Elizabeth  .\.  Fuller,  of 
Springfield,  who  was  born  in  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Cynthia 
(Collins)  Fuller.  There  is  no  living  chikl  of 
this  union. 


(For  preceding  greneration  see  ICilmund  Itlte  1). 

(II I   Deacon  Edward,  son  of  Dea- 
RICE      con   Edmund  and  Tamazine   Rice, 

was  born  probably  in  England.  He 
resides  in  Sudbury,  whence  he  removed  to  .Marl- 
borough in  1664;  was  deacon  of  the  church 
there;  died  .\ugust  15,  1712.  .\s  shown  by  a 
paper  on  the  court  files  of  Cambridge  his  age 
was  forty-seven,  October  2,  1666.  If  this  is 
correct,  he  was  born  about  1619  and  was  not 
far  fnjm  ninety-three  years  old  at  the  time  of 
his  death.  He  bought  land  of  his  father  and 
also  some  from  his  brother  Benjamin.  He  and 
his  wife  .\nna,  of  Marlboro,  conveyed  April  1, 
1686,  to  their  son  Edmund  Rice,  of  Sudbury, 
half  of  this  farm,  lying  within  the  bounds  of 
.Sudbury  "near  the  spring."  This  deed  was 
acknowledged  .\pril  16,  1706,  and  recorded 
.\ugust  16,  1734.  Edward  Rice  is  said  in 
Barry's  "History  of  Farmington"  to  have  mar- 
ried (first)  Agnes  Bent,  and  that  she  died 
without  issue.  No  record  of  their  marriage 
or  of  her  death  have  been  found.  His  widow, 
.\gncs,  died  at  Marlborough,  June  4,  1713, 
aged  eighty-three.  .\11  his  children  except  the 
eldest,  whose  birth  record  is  not  found,  were 
by  wi  fe  .Anna — the  two  youngest  being  recorfled 
at  Marlborough,  the  others  at  Sudbury.  Chil- 
dren :  John,  Eydia  (died  young),  Lydia,  Ed- 
mund. Daniel.  Caleb,  Jacob,  .•\nna,  Dorcas, 
Benjamin  and  .\bigail. 

(Hi)  Daniel,  third  son  of  Edward  and  .Anna 
Rice,  was  born  November  8,  i(>SS-  •'"''  resided 
at  .Marli)orougli,  where  he  died  July  6,  1737. 
His  will  made  May  5,  1729,  was  probated  De- 
cember 19,  1737.  His  wife  Elizabeth  was 
probably  not  living  at  the  date  of  his  will.  He 
married  (first)  February  10,  1681,  IV-thiah 
Ward,  born  1658,  who  flied  December  8,  1721, 
daughter  of  Deacon  W'illiatn  W'ard.  He  mar- 
ried (second  )  May  9,  1725.  Elizabeth,  widow  of 
John  W'heeler,  of  .Marlborough,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Elizabeth  Wells.  Children,  all  by 
the  first  marriage:  Bethiah,  Daniel,  Judith, 
Luke,  Priscilla.  Eicazcr,  Deborah  and  Hope- 
still. 
(I\)  Daniel  (2),eldest  son  of  Daniel  (i)and 


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Retliiah  (Ward)  Rice,  was  born  in  Marlborough 
June  3.  1684.  He  resided  in  Marlborough, 
and  in  the  latter  part  of  his  life  in  Shrews- 
bury. Elizabeth  Rice,  wife  of  Daniel  Rice, 
was  admitted  to  full  church  privilege  at  Shrews- 
bury, November  28,  1731.  Ilannah  Rice,  being 
adult,  was  bajitized  at  her  own  request,  .April 
16,  1732.  .^he  was  the  daughter  of  Daniel 
Rice  and  Eliz.ibeth,  his  wife.  Daniel  Rice  re- 
sided on  the  farm  in  the  northeasterly  part  of 
Shrewsbury  in  1731,  and  jjerhaps  until  his 
death,  on  which  his  brother  Luke  settled  soon 
after,  and  which  was  the  homestead  of  three 
subse'iuent  generations,  that  is.  Hezekiab,  Col- 
onel .\sa  and  .\sa.  Junior.  Daniel  Rice,  of 
Shrewsbury,  made  a  will  October  13.  1733, 
which  was  jiroved  July  14,  1734.  in  which  he 
says,  "having  determined  to  travel  abroad."  he 
made  his  wife  Elizabeth  sole  executrix.  His 
inventory  amounted  to  three  hundred  and  fif- 
teen pounds,  six  shillings  and  si.x  pence.  He 
married,  in  Marlborough.  February  12.  1713. 
Elizabeth  Taylor,  born  in  1696.  daughter  of 
James  Taylor,  Jr..  (born  1664)  and  Elizabeth, 
his  wife,  son  of  James  (died  1713)  and  his 
wife.  Sarah,  daughter  of  Richarfl  Newton,  all 
of  Marlborough.  Elizabeth  (Taylor)  Rice 
married  (second)  May  19.  1764.  Captain  Ger- 
shom  W'heelock,  of  Shrewsbury,  who  had  then 
passed  his  seventieth  year.  Children  of  Daniel 
and  Elizabeth :  Hannah,  William,  Davis,  Ste- 
])hen,  Bezaleel,  .•\bner,  Jabez,  next  mentioned. 

(\' )  Jabez,  youngest  son  of  Daniel  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Taylor)  Rice,  was  born  in  Marl- 
liorough,  .April  7,  1727.  There  is  no  record 
of  his  death.  He  married,  January  9.  1753, 
Miriam  Morse,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Abigail 
(Barns)  Morse,  of  Marlborough.  She  died 
January  28,  1776;  and  he  married  (second) 
Elizabeth  Burnet,  of  Marlborough,  .April  2, 
T77C).  .She  died  November  27.  181 2.  Children 
by  first  wife:  Daniel.  Miriam,  William,  Mar- 
tin, Lydia,  Stephen,  Phebc,  Jabez,  .\aron,  Betty, 
.Anna,  John  Hancock  and  Dorothv  Ouincv 
(twins).  Bv  the  second  marriage:  Moses  and 
Paul. 

(\'T)  Stephen,  fourth  son  of  Jabez  and 
Miriam  (  ATorse)  Rice,  was  born  June  8.  1762. 
in  Marlborough.  .About  1787  he  removed  from 
IVtersham.  Massachusetts,  and  soon  after  set- 
tled in  Reading,  ^''ermont.  where  lie  died  July 
12,  1802.  He  nparried.  .April  6,  1785.  .Anna 
Hammond  at  Petersham.  Their  children  were: 
Haven.  .Aaron.  Stephen,  .\chsah  and  .Svlvia. 

(YTT)  Haven,  eldest  child  of  Stephen  and 
.Anna  (Hammond)  Rice,  was  born  at  Peters- 
ham, Massachusetts,  October  26,  i78r),  died  in 


West  Windsor,  \'ermont,  February  6,  1868. 
When  an  infant  he  went  with  his  parents  to 
\'ermont  where  he  grew  up.  He  was  a  mill- 
wright and  constructor  of  early  grist  mills  and 
saw  mills  throughout  Windsor  county,  Ver- 
mont. He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics.  In 
religious  sentiment  he  was  a  Baptist.  He  mar-- 
ried.  at  Reading.  December  15.  181 1.  .Abigail 
Davis,  who  died  at  West  Windsor.  Children  : 
Lysander  M.,  lietsey,  Lorenzo  Dow,  Lucinda, 
Joseph  .A.  and  Frederick  G. 

(VHP)  Lysander  Mason,  eldest  child  of 
Haven  and  .Abigail  (Davis)  Rice,  was  born  in 
Reading,  A'ermont,  November  11,  1812,  died 
at  the  house  of  his  son,  Colonel  John  L.  Rice, 
in  Springfield.  Massachusetts,  (Jctober  29.  1903. 
]  le  learned  the  trade  of  blacksmith  in  .Ascutney- 
ville,  \'ermont,  during  his  minority,  serving  an 
apprenticeship  of  four  years  and  becoming  the 
most  e.xpert  workman  in  all  that  region.  .At 
the  age  of  twenty-two  he  established  himself 
in  business  in  Ascutne>'\'ille.  then  known  as 
Weathersfield  Corners  (named  changed  1855). 
having  a  large  shop  with  water  power  and 
machinery.  This  was  in  1S34.  before  the  time 
when  farming  tools  could  be  bought  at  the 
village  stores,  and  until  about  1848  he  made 
practically  all  the  farm  imjilements  used  on 
the  farms  within  a  wide  radius  of  his  shop,  as 
well  as  the  small  hardware,  such  as  cutlery, 
pocket  knives,  scissors,  etc.  With  the  advent 
of  machine-made  goods  he  found  his  occupa- 
tion fast  slipping  away,  and  thereupon  went 
into  the  employ  of  the  Robbins  &  I.awrcnce 
Company  of  Windsor,  A^ermont,  then  largely 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  military  arms 
for  the  L'nited  States  government  as  well  as 
for  foreign  governments.  Upon  the  failure 
of  that  company  in  1857,  he  went  to  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the 
same  business  until  about  the  beginning  of 
the  civil  war.  Soon  after  the  outbreak  of 
hostilities,  he  became  a  contractor  with  tlip 
Province  Tool  Company,  of  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  and  continued  throughout  the  war  in 
the  manufacture  of  arms  used  in  the  sup- 
pression of  the  relx^Uion.  It  is  a  singular  cir- 
cumstances that  at  one  time  his  son.  Colonel 
Jolm  L.  Rice,  found  the  regiment  of  which  he 
had  command  armed  with  rillcs  made  by  his 
father.  During  Mr.  Rice's  emiiloyment  at 
W  indsor.  Colonel  Sharpe.  of  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, invented  the  breech-loading  rifle  which 
bears  his  name,  and  seeking  an  expert  work- 
man to  fashion  the  parts  of  that  famous  weapon 
from  the  paper  drawings,  selected  Mr.  Rice  as 
the  one  best   fitted  to  do  it.     Mr.   Rice  with 


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hammer  and  anvil  antl  file  matle  all  the  parts 
which  went  into  the  construction  of  the  first 
rifle,  and  from  those  the  dies  were  made  for 
the  manufacture  of  tlie  weapon  on  a  large 
scale.  Mr.  I^ice  was  a  lifelong  Democrat  in 
])oIitics.  but  never  in  public  life,  except  that  in 
early  life  he  was  for  a  short  time  an  officer  of 
the  \ermont  State  Prison  at  Windsor  and  was 
IHistmaster  at  .Ascutneyville  during  the  first 
administration  of  President  Cleveland.  He 
supported  the  Democratic  nominee  for  the 
presidency  from  .Andrew  Jackson  to  William 
I.  I'ryan.  In  early  life  he  had  become  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Baptist  church  at  Windsor  and  main- 
tained the  connection  till  his  death.  In  1834 
Mr.  Rice  built  the  house  at  .Ascutneyville  where 
he  resided  all  the  remainder  of  his  life,  and 
where  all  his  nine  children  were  born  and  where 
his  wife  died.  .After  the  death  of  his  wife,  he 
spent  the  winters  with  lii.s  children  in  .Spring- 
field. Massaclnisetts.  and  his  summers  at  .Xscut- 
ncyville.  He  went  from.Xscutneyville  in  Septem- 
ber, 1903,  to  Si)ringfield,  where  he  died  sud- 
denly, of  apople.xy.  six  weeks  later.  Lysander 
M.  Rice  married  in  W'eathersfield,  December 
17,  1835,  Clarinda  W'hitmore  Upham,  born  in 
W'eathersfield,  \"ermont.  .-\pril  25,  1814,  rlied 
in  W'eathersfield,  .September  26,  1889.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  .\sa  and  P>etsey  fW'hit- 
more)  l'i)ham  (see  U|)ham  IX.).  Their  chil- 
dren, all  born  in  W'eathersfield.  were:  i.  .Xbi- 
gail  Maria,  December  16,  1836:  married  Sam- 
uel P.reck,  of  .Springfield,  and  died  January  27. 
1898.  2.  Ellen  E.  Cdied  young).  3.  John 
Eovell,  mentioned  below.  4.  Frances  Eliza- 
beth, July  20,  1842:  married  ffirst)  Daniel 
Colton  :  (second)  Dr.  Henry  H.  Banks,  and 
<lied  February  23,  1901.  5.  Vietts  Lysander, 
February  11,  1844,  died  February  21,  IQ06.  6. 
George  Asa,  June  7.  1846,  died  January  25, 
1900.  7.  Charles,  .August  29,  1848,  died  Feb- 
ruary \6.  1905.  8.  Clara  Jeanette,  .August  21, 
1852.  died  in  infancy.    9   Infant,  died  young. 

( IX)  Colonel  John  Povcll  Rice,  eldest  son  of 
Lysander  M.and  Clarinda  W'hitmore  ("I'pham) 
Rice,  w^as  born  in  W'eathersfield,  \'ermont, 
February  i,  1840,  and  was  educated  in  the 
cfimmon  schools  of  his  native  town  and  at 
Kimball  Union  .Academy,  Meriden,  New  Hairip- 
shire.  After  leaving  school  he  was  engaged  as 
a  clerk  in  a  store  in  Cornish,  New  Hamjjshire, 
uiuil  .April  28.  1861,  when  he  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  Com])any  .A.  .Second  Xew  Hamp- 
shire \'olunteer  Infantry,  serving  till  Xr>vem- 
ber  18,  1862.  He  was  af)pf>inted  captain  of 
Company  H,  Sixteenth  Regiment  Xew  Hamp- 
shire   \'olunteers.    November    18,    1862,    and 


served  with  that  rank  until  .August  20,   1863. 
October  31,  i8r)3,  he  was  promoted  to  lieuten- 
ant-colonel of  the  SeveiUy-fifth  L'nited  States 
Colored    Infantry   and    hlled    thai    place   until 
.Xovember  2(1,  i»>5.     lie  was  .severely  wound- 
ed, being  shot  through  the  lungs  at  the  first 
battle  of    Bull   Run  and   was  reported  dead: 
funeral  ceremonies  were  held  at  his  house,  and 
he  was  deeply  mourned.     Meanwhile,  he  was 
suffering  in  Libby  prison,  where  he  remained 
until  January  2,   1862,  and  rejoined   his  regi- 
ment   when    released.      In    December   of    the 
latter  year  he  was  ordered  to  Louisiana,  where 
he  particii)ated  in  various  strenuous  cam|)aigns 
in  that  state,     b'ollowing  is  his  record  in  brief: 
Battle  of   P.ull   Run,  July  21,   1861  :  Siege  of 
Vorktown,  March-.April,   1862:  Williamsburg, 
May   5.    18(^2:   Fair   Oaks,   May   31,  June    i, 
1862:  Oak  Grove.  June  25,  1862:  .Savage  Sta- 
tion. June  29,  1862:  Glendale,  June  30,   i8r)2; 
Malvern   Hill,  July   i,   1862:   Bristow'  Station, 
.August    25,    1862:    Groveton.    .August    29-30, 
i8r)2:  Chantilly,  September  I,  1862 — all  in  \"ir- 
ginia;  Butte  a  La  Rose.  .April  20,  1863;  Siege 
of  Port  I  ludson,  June-July.  1863  :  Pleasant  Hill, 
.April  9,  1864;  Cane  River,  May,  1864— all  in 
Louisiana,      hi  January.   1867,  he  returned  to 
Massachusetts   and   took   up   his   residence   at 
.Siiringfield.  where  he  ha"s  since  lived.     .After 
six  years  in  the  provision  business,  1867-1873, 
he  served  two  years — June  8,   1874,  to  April 
30,  1876,  as  inspector  of  cu.stoms  in   Boston, 
lie  devoted  his  spare  time  to  the  study  of  law 
in    the   office   of   Jewell,    Gaston    &    Field,   of 
Boston,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Suffolk  bar. 
.April  24,  1876.     He  was  representative  in  the 
general  court   from  Sjiringfield  in    1882.  chief 
of  police  in  Springfield  in  1882-83,  jiostmaster 
at  Springfield  from  February  7,  1886,  to  March 
I,  1890,  and  again  chief  of  police  from  January 
I,  1892,  to  January  i,  1895.     He  has  also  been 
commissioner  of  the  United  Slates  circuit  court 
for  the  -Massachusetts  flistrict  since  November 
14,    1889.      .May    18.    1909,   a|>pointe(l   deputy 
clerk   United   States  circuit  court  and   United 
.States  district  court  with  residence  at  Spring- 
field.    Since  1876  he  has  devoted  his  attention 
to  the  practice  of  law  with  the  exception  of 
such  time  as  lias  been  required  in  the  discharge 
of  his  duties  in  the  offices  he  has  filled.     He 
has  been  a  liberal  and  valuable  contributor  to 
historical  magazines.     He  has  been  active  and 
prominent   in  the  affairs  of  the  (irand   .Army 
of  the  Republic  and  the  military  order  of  the 
Loyal  F-cgion,  holding  the  r)ffice  of  commander 
of  E.  K.  Wilcox  Post.  Dejiartment  of  .Massa- 
chusetts,   1870,   and   judge  advocate,    Depart- 


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ment  of  Massachusetts,  1879.  Colonel  Rice 
married  (first)  at  Cornish,  New  Hampshire, 
lanuary  8,  1807,  Marion  X'irginia  Chellis,  born 
at  Cornish,  1844,  daughter  of  Enoch  F.  and 
Sarah  A.  (Taft)  Chellis,  of  Cornish.  She  died 
at  Springfield,  October  30,  1873,  and  he  mar- 
ried (second)  at  Springfield,  October  2,  1879, 
Clara  Elizabeth  Galpin,  born  in  Springfield, 
August  5.  1850,  daughter  of  Allen  M.  and 
Jane  E. '(  Dickinson)  Galpin,  of  Springfield. 
Children,  all  by  second  marriage  and  born  in 
Springfield:  i'.  .Mien  G.,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Elizabeth  IJanks.  September  10,  1881.  married 
Joseph  Maslen  Meade,  of  Springfield,  Janu- 
ary 8,  1903,  and  has  one  daughter,  Eleanor, 
born  in  Denver,  Colorado,  May  25,  1905.  3. 
Ellen  Birnie,  April  11,  1883. 

(X)  Dr.  Allen  Galpin,  only  son  of  Colonel 
J(ihn  Lovell  and  Clara  Elizabeth  (Galpin) 
Rice,  was  born  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
July  20,  1880.  He  was  educated  in  the  jjublic 
schools,  graduating  from  the  Springfield  high 
school  in  1898:  then  in  Harvard  University 
where  he  took  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1902  and 
that  of  M.  D.  in  1905.  After  receiving  his 
medical  diploma  he  was  interne  and  house 
surgeon  in  the  Boston  City  Hospital  from  No- 
vember, 1904,  to  November,  1906.  After  taking 
the  place  for  a  month  of  the  resident  sur- 
geon of  the  Fore  River  Iron  Works  at  Quincy, 
^Massachusetts,  Dr.  Rice  began  the  practice  of 
medicine  in  Springfield,  January  i,  1907,  and 
has  since  l)uilt  up  a  good  practice,  being  a 
member  of  the  surgical  staff  of  the  Springfield 
Hospital  since  his  settlement  here  and  is  also 
L'niled  States  civil  service  examiner  for  this 
district.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
Medical  Society,  of  the  Springfield  Clinical 
Club,  of  the  Aesculapian  Club,  of  the  Harvard 
Medical  School  Alumni  .^ssociation,  of  the 
r.oylston  Medical  Club,  and  i)hysician  to  Christ 
Chnrch  Parish.  In  religious  affiliation  he  is  a 
member  of  Christ  Church  (Episcopal),  and  in 
iiolitics  he  is  a  Democrat. 


The  first  mention  of  Ujiham  as 
*   UPIIAM     a  surname  is  met  with  in  a  deed 

of  lands  to  the  church  of  Saint 
Maria  de  Brandenstock.  which  was  a  small 
monastery  in  Wills,  England,  founded  by 
Walter,  son  of  Ednunid,  of  Salisbury.  The 
document  bears  the  name  of  Hugo  de  Upham, 
date  1208.  lipham  as  the  name  of  a  place 
occurs  in  records  previous  to  the  introduction 
of  surnames.  That  Hugo,  the  first  of  this 
name,  is  designated  Hugo  de  Upliam  (of  Up- 
ham), naturallv  indicates  that  he  derived  his 


name  from  his  estate,  but  the  lands  belonging 
to  him  are  expressly  referred  to  in  the  same 
document  as  bearing  the  name  of  Upham.  The 
"de"  was  early  dropjied  and  the  name  passed 
through  various  forms  of  spelling,  .\lthough 
many  documents  have  been  found  in  which 
the  name  ajjpears,  three  centuries  pass  from 
the  time  of  Ilugo  before  the  advent  of  Richard 
Upham,  from  whom  an  unbroken  line  is  traced 
to  the  present  day.  The  Ui)ham  family  held 
a  co]iyhold  estate  at  Gettington,  in  the  parish 
of  Bicton,  in  the  easterly  division  of  the  coun- 
try of  Devon,  and  were  associated  with  this 
parish  for  upward  of  three  hundred  years. 

(I)  Richard  Upham  (spelled  Uppam),  the 
first  of  the  name  found  mentioned  in  Bicton, 
was  living  there  in  1523.  No  date  of  his  birth 
is  given  but  according  to  the  records  he  died 
in  1546.  .\s  he  left  no  will,  there  is  little  in- 
formation concerning  his  immediate  family, 
but  from  other  sources  it  is  conclusive  that  he 
left  three  children  one  of  whom  was  John. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Richard  Uppam  (no  date 
of  birth),  died  in  Bicton  in  1584.  Only  the 
fir.st  name  of  his  wife  is  given,  Joan  (or  Johan). 
The  names  of  three  children  appear :  Richard, 
his  successor  at  Bicton,  Katherine  and  Thomas. 

(III)  Richard  (2),  yeoman,  son  of  John 
and  Joan  Uiijiam,  date  of  birth  not  given,  died 
in  Bicton  in  December,  1635.  His  wife,  !\Iaria, 
died  in  July,  1634.  Children:  Thomas,  his 
successor  at  Bicton ;  Joan,  married  Robert 
Martin,  and  both  immigrated  to  New  England 
with  her  brother  John :  John,  the  immigrant ; 
Sara,  who  also  accompanied  her  mother  to 
New  England  and  may  have  become  the  wife 
of  Richard  Webb;  Judith;  Frances  and  Jane. 
The  will  of  Richard  I'ppam  is  a  lengthy  and 
interesting  document  in  which  there  is  men- 
tion of  certain  conditional  bequests  to  his 
daughter  Sara  and  son  John. 

(IV)  John  (again  spelled  I'pham),  son  of 
Richard  (2)  and  Maria  Uppam,  was  the  first 
to  bear  the  name  in  .\merica.  and  so  far  as  is 
known  was  the  ancestor  of  all  who  have  since 
borne  the  name  in  tliis  country.  He  was  born 
in  Bicton,  county  of  Devon.  England,  probably 
in  iTioo.  He  married,  at  Bicton,  November 
I,  1626,  Elizabeth  Sladc.  The  names  of  six 
children  are  given  in  the  following  order: 
liihu,  Nathaniel.  Elizabeth,  born  in  England; 
riiineas.  Mary  and  I'ri.scilla.  born  in  New  Eng- 
land. Jolui  I'pham  accomi)anied  by  his  wife, 
three  cliiKlren  and  two  sisters  above  mentioned, 
emigrated  to  New  England  with  the  Hull  col- 
onv,  which  set  sail  on  the  20th  of  March,  1635, 
from  Weymouth,  in  old  Dorset,  for  the  lands 


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of  the  Massachusetts  Kay  Colony.  The  ship 
cast  anchor  before  Governor  W'inthrop's  infant 
city  of  Boston.  May  6,  but  it  was  not  until  July 
2  that  the  colonists,  with  the  permission  of  the 
general  court,  finally  settled  in  W'essaguscess 
as  their  future  home.  On  September  2,  1635, 
John  Upham  was  admitted  freeman,  and  on 
this  date  the  name  of  tiie  place  was  changed 
to  Weymouth.  It  was  made  a  ])lantation,  with 
the  privilege  of  a  deputy  to  the  general  court, 
and  this  company  became  an  important  ele- 
ment in  the  community.  In  1642  John  L'])ham 
was  one  of  the  si.x  who  traded  with  the  Indians 
for  lands  of  W'eymontii,  and  obtained  a  title 
from  them  thereto.  .After  being  closely  identi- 
fied with  the  town  for  thirteen  years,  he  re- 
moved to  Maiden,  becoming  one  of  the  early 
settlers  and  continued  through  life  a  leading 
citizen  of  that  place.  He  was  repeatedly  elected 
to  its  various  offices,  and  the  general  assembly 
appointed  him  six  tiines  commissioner  to  settle 
the  lesser  legal  matters  of  Weymouth  and 
Maiden.  }  le  was  also  actively  interested  in  the 
settlement  of  Worcester  (Lincoln's  "History 
of  Worcester").  John  Upham  held  the  office 
of  deacon  in  the  church  for  at  least  twenty- 
four  years.  Through  his  long  life  he  retained 
his  vigor  of  mind  and  body.  He  sustained 
himself  well  as  an  efficient  corroborator  among 
those  who  in  time  of  great  peril  aided  the 
foundation  of  a  free  state.  He  died  in  Maiden, 
February  25.  1681.  His  gravestone  may  still 
be  seen  in  the  old  burying  ground  at  .Maiden. 
There  is  no  record  of  the  death  of  his  wife 
Elizabeth,  but  it  is  suggested  that  she  must 
have  lived  to  be  sixty-four  years  of  age.  In 
1671  John  Upham  married  (second)  Katherine 
Holland. 

(\')  Phineas  was  the  only  son  of  John 
L'pham  that  left  posterity.  conse(|uently  he, 
as  well  as  his  father,  was  the  ancestor  of  all 
the  American  U[)liams.  He  was  born  in  Wey- 
mouth, probably  in  1635.  He  married,  April 
14,  1658,  Ruth  Wood.  Nothing  is  known  of 
her  ancestry.  According  to  an  inscription  on 
her  gravestone  which  is  identified  in  the  old 
burying  ground  above  referred  to,  she  died 
January  18.  if'196-97.  There  were  conveyances 
of  land  to  Phineas  Upham  in  1663-64-72.  In 
1673  he  was  appointed  with  three  others  to 
survey  a  road  from  Cambridge  to  Maiden,  and 
as  early  as  1672  he  was  interested  in  the  settle- 
ment of  Worcester.  It  appears  that  he  pos- 
sessed in  a  high  degree  the  energy  and  activity 
that  characterized  his  father.  In  the  military 
services  of  his  country  it  is  manifest  that  he 
was  esteemed  an  efficient  officer.    He  held  the 


rank  of  lieutenant  anil  rendered  important 
service  in  the  war  with  King  i'hilip.  lie  was 
at  the  storming  of  Fort  Canonicees,  December 
"J-  1675,  and  was  wounded  in  tiie  battle,  from 
the  effects  of  which  he  never  recovered.  The 
government  was  Tiot  unmin<lful  of  this  great 
sacrifice  and  bore  testimon)-  upon  the  records 
of  his  long  and  good  service  for  his  country. 
His  death  is  recorded  as  having  occurred  (Octo- 
ber 8.  1676.  Children:  Phineas,  Nathaniel, 
Ruth,  John.  Elizabeth,  Thomas  and  Richard. 

(\  I)  John,  third  son  of  Phineas  and  Ruth 
U])ham.  was  born  December  9,  1666,  at  Mai- 
den, Massachusetts,  where  he  died  June  9, 
1733.  He  married,  in  1688.  .Abigail  Hay  ward 
(in  one  account  the  name  is  written  Howard), 
(laughter  of  Samuel.  She  died  .August  23, 
1717.  and  he  married  (second)  Tamzen  Ong, 
17 17.  Children,  all  but  the  last  by  wife  Eliza- 
beth: Abigail,  John,  Samuel.  Abigail,  Ezekiel, 
David,  Jacob  (died  young). 

(All)  Ca])tain  1-lzekiel.  third  son  of  John 
and  .\bigail  (  Hay  ward  )  L'pham,  was  born  in 
.Maiden.  1700.  He  is  known  to  have  been  at 
Dorcliester  in  1726,  and  in  the  same  year  he 
was  at  Stoughton,  where  he  sold  land  which 
had  ])reviously  been  bought  by  his  brother 
John,  on  a  portion  of  which  the'  Universalist 
church  was  afterward  built.  He  settled  at 
Sturbridge  about  1730  and  bought  a  tract  of 
land  there,  and  (jrobably  resided  there  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life.  He  was  one  of  the  four- 
teen male  mcmlx-rs  who  first  organized  the 
Congregational  church  at  .Sturbridge,  Se|)teni- 
ber  29,  1736.  He  also  appears  to  have  held 
the  rank  of  captain  at  Sturbridge,  as  lie  is 
given  that  title  on  the  town  records.  He  mar- 
ried, 1726.  Hannah  Stearns,  of  Dorchester, 
who  flicd  Jimc  to,  1788.  Their  children  were: 
Ezekiel,  Hannah.  -Aliigail,  John.  .Asa,  William, 
Isaac  and  Nathaniel. 

(  \Tn  )  Asa,  third  .son  of  Ezekiel  and  Han- 
nah (.Stearns)  l'pham.  was  born  May  18, 
1736.  in  Sturbridge.  where  he  died  September 
13, 1826.  He  went  from  Sturbridge  to  Weathers- 
field  after  he  had  had  eight  children  born  in 
the  foriner  town.  He  married,  December  10, 
1761,  Eydia  Pierce,  who  died  December  11, 
1822.  They  had:  Eydia.  Joseph  P.,  .Abigail, 
Mary.  Eunice,  Asa,  Rachel,  Lois,  Ezekiel, 
Hannah.  Thankful  and  Samuel. 

(  IX)  Asa  (2),  second  son  of  .Asa  (i)  and 
Lydia  (Pierce)  Upham.  was  born  November 
26,  1771.  married  in  Sturbridge,  Massachu- 
setts, and  died  in  Wcathersfield.  July  24.  1858. 
I'.v  occupation  he  was  a  farmer  and  well  ofT;  in 
religion  he   was  a   Methodist;  and  in  politics 


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first  a  Federalist,  tlieii  a  W  liig.  and  after  the 
outbreak  of  the  civil  war  a  Re]nd)licaii.  He 
married  (  first )  Achsah  Xewell,  who  died  Xo- 
vcmhcr  12,  1810.  lie  married  (second)  Bet- 
sey Whitmore.  Children  by  wife  Achsah  :  Fanny, 
Cynthia,  George;  by  wife  Betsey:  I'luma, 
Ciarinda  \\'.,  Sarah,  Ann,  Frances  and  Caro- 
line. 

(X)  Ciarinda  Whitmore,  second  daughter 
of  Asa  (21  and  Betsey  (Whitmore)  Ui^ham, 
.vas  born  in  Weathersfielil,  \'ermont,  April  25, 
1814,  and  died  in  Weathersfield.  Se])tember  2(\ 
j8Si;.  She  married,  December  17,  1835,  Lysan- 
der  M.  Rice,  of  Weathersfield  (see  Rice). 


Jonathan  Fales,  who  was  born  in 
F.\LES     Massachusetts,  served  during  the 

revolutionary  war,  his  record  being 
as  follows:  Order  for  pouches,  June  18,  1775, 
Cajitain  Moses  Draper's  company.  Lieutenant 
Colonel  William  liond's  Thirty-seventh  (late 
(jardner's)  regiment:  drummer  in  same  com- 
])any.  same  regiment,  return  dated  at  Prospect 
Ilill,  ( )ctober  7,  1775:  order  for  bounty  coat 
iir  its  e(|uivalent  in  money,  dated  at  Prospect 
Ilill,  December  30,  1775:  drinnmer  in  Captain 
John  Lincoln's  company.  Colonel  Joseph 
Webb's  regiment,  which  marched  to  camp,  Au- 
gust 20,  1781,  and  was  discharged  November 
29,  1781.  He  w-as  a  farmer  in  the  southern 
part  of  Wal])ole.  Mr.  Fales  married,  March 
2(),  1776,  Anna  Craves,  and  had  a  son,  James, 
concerning  whom  see  forward,  and  probably 
others. 

(II)  James,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Anna 
(Craves)  I""a]es,  was  born  in  \\'alpole,  Massa- 
chusetts, December  28,  1777,  and  died  in  West 
Medway,  June  16,  1853.  He  and  his  wife 
Hannah  are  buried  in  the  W'cst  Medway  ceme- 
tery, appropriate  headstones  still  marking  their 
graves.  He  was  a  farmer  and  shoemaker  by 
occu])ation.  I'our  of  liis  children,  Caroline, 
James  D.,  John  .S.  and  Xancy,  were  bajitized 
June  3,  1810,  at  the  Second  Congregational 
Church  of  West  Medway.  He  marriecl,  .April 
24.  1799.  Hannah  IDaggett,  born  in  1777,  died 
October  2,  i860.  Children:  i.  Nancy,  born 
July  28,  1799,  died  June  5.  i86c),  unmarried. 
2.  John  Sinith,  see  forward.  3.  James  Daggett, 
born  October  13,  1802.  died  .March  i.  18(14; 
married,  .Xovembcr  13,  1825,  Mary  Hill;  chil- 
dren: Abbie  C,  born  b'ebruary  23,  1844;  i,ewis 
(;..  February  8,  1848;  (k'orge  IL,  born  Janu- 
ary 14,  1850,  died  February  2,  1872.  4.  "Mar- 
shall, born  December  7,  1813.  baptized  July  3, 
1814,  died  .Vpril  12.  i88q:  married,  October 
19.    iS_|i.    Hannah    R.    Rice;   chihlren :      Mar- 


shall, bcjrn  January  6,  died  February  19,  1845; 
Mary  .Aim,  born  June  i,  1848.  5.  Caroline 
Mackentire,  born  .Xovember  21,  1807;  mar- 
ried, February  7,  1830,  Zina  Underwood.  6. 
Charles  Fisher  Emerson,  born  October  21, 
1809. 

(HI)  John  Smith,  eldest  son  and  second 
child  of  James  and  Hannah  (Daggett)  Fales, 
was  born  in  Medway,  ^lassachusetts,  Novem- 
ber 5,  1800,  and  died  at  .Sherborn,  Massachu- 
setts. He  received  his  early  education  at  Med- 
way, at  the  same  time  assisting  his  father  on 
the  farm  and  in  his  teaming :  he  was  still  a 
young  lad  when  he  was  sent  to  Sherborn, 
bound  out  to  Daniel  Leland,  and  attended  the 
common  schools  of  the  town.  Later  he  settled 
in  Holliston,  where  he  engaged  in  farming  and 
teaming,  principally  in  bringing  West  India 
goods  from  lioston  to  Holliston,  and  shortly 
after  his  marriage  he  removed  to  Sherborn. 
There  he  lived  for  a  time  on  the  Cutter  place, 
and  worked  on  various  farms.  He  and  his 
family  attended  the  Orthodox  church,  and  in 
politics  he  w'as  a  W'hig.  He  married.  May  6, 
1830,  Charlotte,  born  July  25,  1807,  died  July 
22,  1850,  daughter  of  Captain  John  and  Sylvia 
(Leland)  Leland.  Children:  i.  Harriet  .\u- 
gusta,  born  July  10,  1830,  died  June  9,  1850. 
2.  Chark)tte  .Adelaide,  born  March  11,  1832, 
(lied  March  <).  1908;  married,  .March  16.  1862, 
.\ldcn  Harrison  .Adams,  of  Sherborn;  chil- 
dren: i.  John  Leland.  born  July  24,  1863; 
married,  June  2,  1894,  Caroline  Comey;  ii. 
Charlotte  Lovina,  born  January  7,  1865;  mar- 
riecl. August  29,  1803.  Joseph  Perry  Douse; 
iii.  Charles  hVancis,  born  July  10,  1866;  mar- 
lied.  June  1905,  I'ertha  Lee;  iv.  George  .Alden. 
born  (Jctober  16,  1867;  v.  Oliver  I'ales.  born 
.\ugust  5,  1870;  vi.  Harriet  .Sybel,  born  I"eb- 
ruary  9,  1875.  3.  Oliver  Leland,  born  Janu- 
ary 7,  1839,  disappeared  in  1860.  4.  John, 
born  March  12,  1841  ;  married  Ella  Raleigh; 
ciiddren:  George  and  Bertha.  5.  Charles 
I  .eland,  see  forward.  6.  George  Miller,  born 
March  11,  1847,  died  .August  29,  1884,  .At 
an  early  age  he  became  a  fireman  for  the  Bos- 
ton &•  .Albany  railroad,  retaining  this  position 
for  the  greater  part  of  his  life.  He  resided 
at  No.  32  Mall  street,  Roxbury,  Massaclnisctts, 
was  of  the  Bajitist  faith,  and  a  Rejiublican  in 
|u)litics.  He  marrieil,  June  10,  1880.  luuma 
Leland,  linrn  in  .Sherborn,  daughter  of  John 
and  Sybil  (Leland)  Jones;  child:  Emma  C. 
born  June  I  1.  died  .August  23,  1881. 

(1\')  (.'harles  Leland,  third  son  and  fifth 
child  111  John  Smith  and  Charlotte  (Leland) 
b'tdc-.    was   born   in    Sherborn,    Massachusetts. 


MASSACil  LSliTTS. 


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April  2C1.  1843.  '^"''  '"^fl  '"  iTanklin,  Massa- 
chusetts. Se])teinber  28,  1902.  lie  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town, 
then  found  emijloyment  in  a  grocery  store, 
where  he  remained  until  the  outbreak  of  the 
civil  war,  when  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in 
Company  P),  Sixteenth  Rei,'iment,  ^lassaclni- 
setls  X'olunteer  Militia,  in  the  sjiring  of  1861, 
and  went  into  camp.  Was  nnistered  into  ser- 
vice July  2,  at  Camp  Cameron,  at  Cambridge, 
under  Colonel  P.  T.  Wyman.  The  regiment 
was  in  various  camps  until  May  12,  1862, 
when  it  joined  Hooker's  Division,  lleintzel- 
man's  Corps,  Army  of  the  F^otomac.  Its  first 
engagement  was  at  Fair  Oaks.  June  18.  another 
at  the  same  place  on  June  26.  and  others  were 
as  follows:  Savage  Station,  June  27;  Glen- 
dale.  June  28:  Malvern  Hill,  June  30.  and  at 
the  same  place,  July  20:  Rristow's  Station. 
July  26:  Hull  Run.  August  29;  at  this  battle 
Mr.  F"ales  was  taken  prisoner  and  w^as  under 
guard  on  the  battle  groimd  for  a  week,  paroled 
and  sent  to  Washington,  from  there  to  Camp 
I'arole  at  .Annapolis.  Maryland,  where  he  was 
exchanged  in  November  and  returned  to  service 
December.  1862.  Later  he  i)articipated  in  the 
following  battles  :  Cliancellorsville.  May  i,  1863  : 
Gettysburg.  July  2  and  3;  Wapping  Heights, 
July  23:  Manassas  Gap;  Mine  Run,  Novem- 
ber 27,  1863.  Later  he  was  on  detached  duty 
at  division  head(|uarters  under  the  provost 
marshal,  and  was  discharged  from  service  at 
Brandv  Station.  X'irginia.  1  [e  re-enlisted,  July 
II.  1864.  in  the  ICleventh  Massachusetts  Batta- 
lion, and  was  advanced  to  the  rank  of  corporal 
September  i,  1864,  serving  in  that  rank  until 
the  close  of  the  war.  He  was  also  in  the 
following  engagements:  Cold  Harbor.  May 
31.  1864:  in  and  around  Petersburg,  Virginia, 
from  June  16  to  June  22;  Deep  Bottom,  July 
27;  lianville  Railroad,  r)ctober  2:  Hatcher's 
Run.  October  27;  siege  of  Petersburg,  winter 
of  1864-5:  near  .Appomattox,  .April  7,  1865, 
until  the  surrender  of  Lee.  his  division  having 
the  honor  of  hf)lding  the  front  line  of  battle 
when  Lee  asked  for  terms  of  surrender.  Dur- 
ing the  last  year  of  his  service  he  acted  as  com- 
pany clerk,  and  was  mustered  out.  July  14, 
1865.  He  was  in  the  hos])ital  at  Camj)  Hamil- 
ton, near  Fortress  Monroe,  here  he  had  typlK)id 
fever  and  lay  very  ill  for  several  weeks,  and 
was  unconscious  for  a  fortnight.  Upon  his 
return  to  his  home  at  the  close  of  the  war, 
Mr.  Fales  resumed  his  work  in  the  grocery 
store  in  which  he  had  formerly  been  employed, 
remaining  there  for  one  year.  Shortly  after 
his  marriage  he   removed   to  West   Med  way. 


where  he  formed  a  partnership  with  E.  G. 
W  are.  selling  his  share  at  the  end  of  the  two 
years.  He  removed  to  Foxboro  in  the  fall, 
and  entered  into  [)artnership  with  Mr.  llixon, 
under  the  firm  name  of  llixon  &  l""ales.  Mr. 
]  li.Kon  retiring,  T.  G.  Pierce  took  his  place,  the 
f'rm  continuing  in  business  for  several  years 
and  then  selling  to  Guy  Brothers,  of  I'.oston. 
In  1877  I'lUy  llrothers  came  to  Franklin,  and 
with  Mr.  h'ales  opened  a  grocery  store  under 
the  firm  name  of  C.  L.  [-"ales  &  Company.  The 
following  spring  Mr.  Fales  purchased  the  en- 
tire interest,  carrying  on  the  business,  how- 
ever, under  the  same  name.  When  his  store 
was  destroyed  by  fire  he  conducted  the  busi- 
ness at  his  home  for  a  year  or  more,  later 
opening  a  store  in  the  Metcalf  block  and  tak- 
ing as  a  ])artner,  .A.  .A.  Dean,  who  remained 
for  only  one  year,  the  firm  name  being  Fales 
&  Dean.  Altogether  Mr.  Fales  was  in  the 
grocery  business  nearly  thirty-eight  years,  and 
for  twenty-five  consecutive  years  in  Franklin. 
No  man  in  the  town  was  more  highly  resi)ecled 
for  integrity  and  honest  business  principles. 
He  and  his  family  were  attendants  at  the  l-'irst 
L'niversalist  Church,  and  he  gave  his  political 
support  to  the  Re])ublican  party.  He  was  a 
member  of  l-'ranklin  F^ost  No.  60.  Cirand  Army 
of  the  Re|)ub!ic,  and  of  King  David  Lodge, 
No.  71.  Indeiiendcnt  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
of  I'Vanklin.  lie  married  at  Medway,  April 
jf\  1866.  .Abbie  Caroline,  born  F'ebruary  23, 
1844.  daughter  of  James  Daggett  and  Nlary 
(  Hill )  I-'ales,  the  former  a  cooper  by  trade. 
Children:  I.  Nellie  .Adelaide,  born  Decem- 
ber 24,  1866;  married,  April  20,  1887,  .Arthur 
Adams  Dean,  of  Franklin  ;  children  :  Charles 
Walter,  deceased,  and  another  son  died  an 
infant.  2.  Charles  Rimer,  born  January  21, 
1869,  carries  on  his  father's  business  at  I'rank- 
lin.  3.  Waller  Leiand.  see  forward.  4.  Mary 
Louisa,  born  August  26,  1878;  married.  June 
15.  1904.  .Albert  Rogers  Willard.  of  I'"raiiklin. 
CV)  Walter  Leiand,  second  son  and  third 
child  of  Charles  Leiand  and  .Abbie  Caroline 
(Fales)  Fales,  was  born  in  Foxboro,  Massa- 
chusetts, September  27,  1871,  and  died  in 
I'ranklin.  Massachusetts,  March  4,  i8rjo.  The 
larger  part  f)f  his  education  was  obtained  in 
the  grammar  schools  of  Franklin,  from  which 
he  was  graduated,  and  at  an  early  age  he 
became  assistant  to  his  father  in  the  store  of 
the  latter,  acting  as  clerk.  While  in  the  per- 
formance of  his  duties,  one  day,  he  was  taken 
with  cerebral  hemorrhage  and  dicfl  in  a  short 
time.  During  his  leisure  moments  he  had  de- 
voted his  time  to  the  study  of  nature,  more 


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es]jecially  ])laiU  life,  in  which  he  was  partic- 
ularly interested.  He  was  of  a  most  lovable 
and  generous  disposition,  a  firm  and  devoted 
friend,  and  had  given  promise  of  a  brilliant 
future.  He  was  an  attendant  at  the  Univer- 
salist  church. 


The  surname  Taylor  is  a  very 
TAYLOR  common  and  ancient  English 
fanu'ly  name,  derived  from  the 
occujiation  of  the  progenitors,  as  Smith,  Mason. 
Carpenter.  This  name  is  found  also  pretty 
generally  in  Ireland.  A  branch  of  the  family 
settled  in  the  north  of  Ireland  at  the  time  of 
the  grants  to  the  Scotch  and  English  Prot- 
estants, from  whom  the  race  of  Scotch-Irish, 
so-called,  are  descended.  James  Taylor,  sup- 
posed to  be  the  brother  of  the  immigrant  Will- 
iam, mentioned  below,  was  born  in  1607,  came 
to  New  England  and  married,  October  19, 
1641,  Isabel  Tompkins,  born  ifus,  died  Janu- 
ary 22.  iCii)o.  in  Concord.  He  had  children: 
Henry,  born  and  died  1648;  Samuel,  June  21, 
1656;  Thomas,  born  and  died  1659.  He  was 
probably  older  than  \N'iIliam. 

(I)  \\'illiam  Taylor,  immigrant  ancestor, 
luay  have  come  to  Xew  England  with  his 
brother  James.  He  settled  at  Concord  on  lot 
\o.  14,  one  hundred  and  seventeen  acres  on 
the  East  lied  ford  road.  He  married  Mary 
^^eriam.  who  died  December  10.  1699.  He 
died  at  Concord,  December  6,  1696.  Children  : 
r.  Mary,  born  February  19,  1649-50.  2.  John, 
October  19,  1633.  married,  March  26,  1678. 
Eunice  Woolen.  3.  Sanniel,  July  3,  1655,  died 
Jidy  16,  1655.  4.  .Abraham,  November  14, 
1656,  mentioned  below.  5.  Isaac,  March  3, 
i63().  C>.  lacob.  May  8,  1662.  7.  Joseph.  Con- 
cord. .Ajjril  7,  1665,  settled  in  Grafton. 

(\\)  .Abraham,  son  of  William  Taylor,  was 
born  in  Concord,  N^ovember  14,  1656.  He  was 
admitted  a  freeman  in  i6no  and  was  a  farmer 
in  Concord  all  his  life.  He  married.  December 
16,  1681,  Mary  Wliittaker,  who  died  Febru- 
ary if).  I73('i,  aged  ninety-three  years,  eleven 
months.  Children,  born  at  Concord:  I.  Abra- 
ham, Januar\-  11.  1682-83,  died  young.  2. 
John,  .September  8.  1685.  3.  Ebcnezer,  .April 
,30,  1688,  mentioned  below.  4.  F.lizabeth,  .\u- 
gu.st  7,  1690.  5.  Mary,  March  15,  1691-92.  6. 
Jonathan,  .August  10,  1694.  7.  Sarah,  October 
13.  1696.  8.  David,  January  31,  1698.  9. 
llenjamin,  .\i)ril  18,  1699.  10.  .Nathaniel,  Feb- 
TKary  9,  1701-02.  i  i.  Daniel.  .March  22,  1703- 
04.  12.  Timothy,  .March  3.  1703.  died  March 
28,  1703.  13.  .Abraham.  .Xjiril  4,  1707.  14. 
.Samuel,  CJctober  i.  1708. 


(HI)  Ebenezer,  son  of  .Abraham  Taylor, 
was   born   at   Concord,   .April   30,    1688,   died 

June  25,  1753.     He  married  Deborah  . 

He  settled  in  Lancaster,  now  Sterling,  Massa- 
chu.'etts.  Children,  born  at  Concord  :  I.John, 
July  20,  1720.  2.  .Nathan.  November  19.  1722. 
3.  libenezer,  October  31.  1723,  mentioned 
below.     4.  .Abraham,  .August  21,  1729. 

( 1\' )  Ebenezer  (2),  son  of  Ebenezer  (i) 
Taylor,  was  born  at  Concord,  October  31, 
1723.  He  settled  in  Lancaster,  now  .Sterling, 
.Massachusetts.  He  bought  land  of  Thomas 
.lawyer  at  Lancaster,  .April  27,  1750,  and  also 
bought  land  at  Lancaster,  July  i,  1752,  of 
Elisha  Sawyer.  He  bought  land  of  Mary 
Beaman  in  Lancaster,  June  23,  1755,  and  of 
Thomas  Sprague  in  the  west  precinct  of  Lan- 
caster in  1751.  He  deeded  bis  homestead  of 
eighty-six  acres  in  the  west  part  of  Sterling  to 
son  Nathaniel,  March  30.  1790.  James  and 
Louisa  Taylor  witnessed  the  deed.  He  deeded 
I  t!icr  lands  to  his  son  Nathaniel,  December  12, 
1796.  He  married,  March  9,  1748,  Mary 
I  loughton,  daughter  of  James  Houghton.  He 
and  his  wife  quitclaimed  their  share  in  the 
estate  of  James  Houghton.  The  other  heirs 
were  Silas  Smith,  Oliver  Hoar,  Daniel  Davis 
and  Fortunatus  Eager.  Children,  born  at  Lan- 
caster and  Sterling:  I.  Ebenezer,  July  5,  1749, 
baptized  an  adult,  .\pril  4.  1773.  2.  Jonathan 
(twin  ).  September  20,  1751.  3.  James  (twin), 
September  20,  1751,  baptized  an  adult.  May  17, 
T~72.  mentioned  below.  5.  EInathan,  October 
7,  1-60. 

(  \' )  Dr.  James,  son  of  Ebenezer  (2)  Taylor, 
was  born  Se|)tember  20,  1 73 1,  in  .Sterling, 
Massachusetts;.  He  was  a  physician  and  prac- 
tice '  in  i^terling.  He  removed  to  Fitzwilliam, 
-New  IIam|)shirc,  about  1796,  and  settled  on 
lit  No.  4.  range  I.  and  followed  farming  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  married,  .March  27, 
1786.  Louisa  lielknaj),  born  January  4,  1765. 
died  .September  7,  1840,  in  Winchendou,  Mass- 
.'ichusetts.  daughter  of  Ebenezer  ISelkuap,  of 
.Stirling.  Her  father  was  a  captain  in  the 
revolution.  Children,  the  first  five  born  in 
Sterling,  the  others  in  l-"itzwilliam :  I.  Louisa, 
.September  17.  1787.  died  June  12,'  1825.  2. 
Deborah.  .March  31.  1789.  died  .\ugust  13, 
1849:  married.  .March  3,  1817,  Stephen  Elliot. 
3.  James,  May  3,  1791.  mentioned  below.  4. 
Jonathan,  .\pril  2^,.  I7<)3.  died  1874:  married 
(first)  January  4,  1818.  Iletsey  I'ard ;  (sec- 
ond I  Anne  (  )sliorue.  5.  Ebenezer.  May  7, 
I7<;(i.  died  December  23.  1831  :  married,  C)cto- 
bir  3,  1820,  Phebe  I'ard.  6.  .Asher.  December 
2,  1798.  died  Deceiuber  4,  1871  :  married.  No- 


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vember  7,  1822,  Susan  Stuart ;  (  second  )  Xo- 
vember  0.  1848.  Orincia  Rugs.  7.  Mark,  July 
7.  1801.  dk-<l  October  30.  183S:  married.  June, 
1825,  Mary  F.  Hlood.  8.  Mary,  December  14, 
1803.  died  Marcli  14.  1877;  married.  Marcli 
27,  1824.  Leonard  Willoby.  9.  Dorcas.  Octo- 
ber 14,  1806,  died  November  19.  i86():  mar- 
ried, August  25.  1829,  Luther  Willoby.  10. 
Stillman.  November  7,  1811,  dieil  May  13, 
1S87  :  married,  January  26.  1841,  Susan  Adaline 
Tenney. 

(\"I)  James  (2).  son  of  Dr.  James  (i) 
Taylor,  was  born  in  .'-iterling.  May  3.  1791, 
died  April  2.  1863.  After  the  birth  of  his  first 
child  he  removed  to  W'inchendon,  Massachu- 
setts. He  married  (^ first)  Jainiary  22.  1822. 
Kezia  Stuart,  born  July  2.  1794.  died  .^pril  28. 
1)^28.  daughter  of  Paul  and  Hannah  Stuart,  of 
W'inchendon.  He  married  (second)  October 
26.  i82().  Lucy  Lilood.  born  I'ebruary  20.  1797. 
died  March  14.  1860.  daughter  of  Reuben  and 
Lucy  Blood,  of  Sterling.  He  married  (third) 
January  31,  1861,  Laura  Jane  Parkill,  of  Can- 
ton. New  York.  Children  by  first  wife:  i. 
James  Hiram,  born  December  13,  1822.  men- 
tioned below.  2.  .Arvilla  Louisa,  .April  21, 
f8?fi.  in  \\  inchendon.  married.  November  28. 
1848.  Levi  C.  Smith.  3.  Infant.  bi)rn  and  died 
.-\pril  28,  1828.  Child  by  third  wife:  Edson 
Parkill.  September  i,  1862. 

(\'H)  James  Hiram,  .son  of  James  (2) 
Tnvlor.  was  born  in  Fitzwilliam,  .New  Hamp- 
shire. December  i  ^.  1822.  died  in  1884.  in 
."^trcl-holm.  N^w  York.  He  bought  a  farm  in 
Stockholm,  St.  Lawrence  county.  New  York, 
where  he  removed  about  1850.  and  lived  there 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  married,  in 
liicknellville.  New  York,  Lorinda  Ursula 
Humphrey,  born  July  2,  1831.  daughter  of 
Lewis  and  Louisa  (Eliott)  Humphrey.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Charles  Humplirey.  2.  Fred  Bas- 
comb.  born  May  2.  1835.  mentioned  below.  3. 
I  oi;isa.  J.  Delbert.  a  Baptist  minister,  now 
living  in  Wisconsin.     5.  Grace. 

(  YHT  )  F>ed  I'.ascomb.  son  of  James  Hiram 
Taylor,  was  born  in  Stockholm.  New  York, 
May  2,  1855.  I  Fe  attended  the  public  schools 
of  the  town  of  .Stockholm,  and  at  the  age  of 
eigltcen  came  to  Sjiringfield  and  engaged  in 
the  building  business  and  two  years  later  built 
a  factory  to  manufacture  sash  and  blinds.  He 
has  developed  a  large  and  j)ros|)erons  business 
and  ranks  among  the  leaders  in  his  line.  I*"rom 
the  first  he  has  invested  at  every  opportunity 
in  real  estate  and  at  the  present  time  is  one  of 
the  largest  owners  of  real  estate  in  the  city  of 
Sjiringfield.      In   politics   he   is  a   Republican. 


and  in  religion  a  .Methodist,  lie  is  a  member 
of  Dc  Soto  Lodge.  Inde])endent  ( )rder  of  Odd 
I'ellows.  He  married.  May  i).  1882.  I-lliza  Jane 
King,  (laughter  of  \\  illiam  .\.  and  Sarah  .\. 
(  I'erry  )  King.  Children:  1.  llerniee  I'A'elyn, 
horn  July  3,  18S3.  married  Walter  Lawrence 
("hamberlain ;  child.  Walter  L.  Chamberlain, 
Jr.  2.  Earle  Hum])hrey.  March  31.  1883,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Phili])  Mcrwin,  October  7. 
1892.    4.  (irace  King.  Jaiuiary  3.  1803. 

(  L\  )  Earle  I  Ium|)hrey.  son  of  hVed  Bas- 
comb  Taylor,  was  born  in  Springfield.  March 
31.  18S3.  and  was  educated  there  in  the  public 
schools,  and  at  the  Cheshire  Military  .\cademy, 
where  he  was  a  student  from  the  age  of  four- 
teen to  twenty-two,  and  at  Princeton  I'niver- 
sity.  At  the  end  of  his  freshman  year  he  left 
college  to  help  his  father  who  had  suffered 
heavy  loss  from  a  fire  that  destroyed  his  fac- 
tor\'.  Since  then  he  has  been  associated  in 
business  with  his  father.  In  politics  he  is  a 
Republican,  and  in  religion  an  Episcopalian. 
He  married,  .April  17,  1909,  Beatrice  Stone, 
born  April  9,  1885,  daughter  of  Wilmore  B. 
and  Carrie   (Newell)  Stone. 

The.Xmerican  advent  of  this  family 
nOTI'.N  was  in  the  "Mayflower."  It  has 
pro'duced  merchants  of  wealth  an'd 
renown,  men  high  in  finance:  others  have  hum- 
blv  sailed  the  seas,  penetrating  every  clime  on 
the  face  of  the  globe  :  but  the  vast  majority  have 
been  i)lain,  substantial  artisans  and  farmers, 
who  have  educated  their  children  well,  and 
have  brought  them  up  to  lead  useful  lives.  In 
the  revolutiiin  they  were  on  both  sides  of  the 
fight:  the  loyalists  mostly  emigrated  to  Nova 
Scotia  after  independence  was  declared.  The 
Dotens  were  in  the  Seminole  war  in  Florida ; 
in  the  war  for  sailors'  rights  they  were  at 
Plattsburgh  and  Saeketts  Harbor:  in  the  Mexi- 
can war  they  were  at  Chepultepec  :  in  the  fratri- 
cidal strife  in  "Cii  some  follower!  the  Stars  and 
.Stripes,  and  others  of  the  name  the  Stars  and 
Mars.  Th  y  wire  at  hVedericksburg.  Clian- 
cellorsville.  and  in  the  Wilderness.  In  our 
latest  war,  descendants  of  the  name  were  with 
K'fxisevelt  at  Kettle  Hill.  In  religion,  we  find 
them  among  the  Quakers,  and  even  amrmg  the 
Mormons,  as  well  as  all  the  leading  denomina- 
tions. .Among  those  who  have  achieved  sjjecial 
j)rominence  have  been  lion.  John  Lamb  Doty, 
L'nited  .States  consul  to  Bermurla.  mider  Cleve- 
land :  Hon,  Lakewood  L.  Doty,  private  secre- 
tary to  both  Governors  Morgan  and  Scyiliour, 
and  afterward  United  States  consul  to  Nassau  ; 
Professfr   Frank   .\.  Sherman,  of  Dartmouth 


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MASSAC  HL-SETTS. 


College:  and  Hosea  Doteii,  the  mathematician 
and  astromomer. 

( I)    Edward  Doten  was  a  London  youth  who 
came  over  in  the  "Mayflower"  as  an  apprentice 
of  Stephen  Hopkins.  The  first  account  we  have 
of  Edward  is  in  Cape  Cod  harbor  where  he 
signed  the  cabin  contract.     He  was  treated  to 
all  intents  and  [jurposes  as  one  of  the  company. 
Stephen  Hopkins  was  a  tanner  of  London,  and 
joined  the  Pilgrims  at  Southampton,  and  diil 
not  go  to  the  Low  Countries.  The  "Mayflower" 
arrived  at  Cape  Cod,  November  ii,  1620,  and 
the  first  duty  of  the  Pilgrims  was  to  find  a 
suitable  landing-spot.  The  shallop  they  brought 
with  them  for  shore  e.xplurations  was  out  of 
commission,  and  a  few  hardy  ones  volunteered 
to  make  an  inland  journey.   Si.xteen  in  all  went 
ashore,   and   they  were   the   first    Englishmen 
[jernianently  to  land  in  New  England.     In  this 
party  was  Edward  Doten.     They  started  No- 
vember  15,  and  were  gone  several  days.     A 
few   Indians  whom  they  met  ran  away  from 
them,  and  they  found  some  Indian  corn,  which 
they  bore  back  to  the  ship,  the  first  they  had 
ever  seen.    ( )n  December  6th,  the  shallop  being 
made  ready,  a  party  of  ten  set  out  by  water, 
and  of  these  Edward  was  one.     The  weather 
was  extremely  cold,  the  seas  rough  and  boister- 
olis,  and  they  encountered  muchliardship.  They 
beat  off  the  Indians,  discovered  their  stores  of 
corn,  their  h;ibitations,  and  graves.  On  Friday, 
December    8.    in    a    terrible    snowstorm,    they 
reached  a  point  of  land  now  known  as  Clark's 
island.    Here  they  rendezvoused  all  day  of  the 
9th,  an<l  Sunday,  as  became  men  of  their  pro- 
fession. It  is  said  that  Edward  Doten  attempted 
to  first  leap  on  the  island,  but  was  checked,  and 
the  master's  mate  allowed  to  first  land,  after 
wliom   the  island   was  named.     On   Monday, 
December    11    (our   21st,    I'^ore father's   Day), 
they  sounded  the  harbor,  and  sailed   for  the 
mainland,  mooring  at  Plymouth  Rock.     It  was 
a  hard  winter  for  the  Pilgrims,  that  first  winter 
at  Plymouth,     They  were  little  i^repared   for 
such  rigorous  climate,  and  their  suffering  was 
consequently   great.      Disease   attacked   them; 
death  thinned  their  numbers.      I'.dward  Doten 
bore  his  part  of  the  inconveniences  with  the 
others,  but,  being  young  and  strong  of  frame, 
he  was  carried  through  safely. 

The  next  allusion  we  find  to  Edward  is  when 
he  fought  a  duel  in  single  combat  with  sword 
and  dagger  with  Edward  Lister,  both  being 
woundcfl,  the  one  in  the  hand,  and  the  other  in 
the  thigh.  They  were  adjudged  by  the  whole 
comnnmity  to  have  their  head  and  feet  tied 
together,   and    so   to   remain    fur   twenty-four 


hours  without  meat  and  drink;  but  after  an 
hour,    because    of    their    great    pains,    they 
were  released  by  the  governor.    This  was  the 
first  duel  fought  in  New  England,  and  the  first 
pardon  ever  issued  by  the  hand  of  an  Ameri- 
can governor.     It  was  also  the  second  olTense 
committed  in  the  colony.    Lister  seems  to  have 
soon  after,  whether  voluntarily  or  by  compul- 
sion, left  the  jjlantation,  and  died  some  years 
later  in  \  irginia.     Edward,  it  must  be  remem- 
bered,  was  not  of  the  ascetic  race,   like  the 
Scrooby  farmers  and   Notinghamshire  sectar- 
ists  who  composed  the  bulk  of  the  "Mayflower" 
list.     He  had  seen  London  life  in  abundance, 
his  blood  ran  quicker,  he  possessed  a  spryer 
temper  than  they,  and  thus  got  into  escapades 
which  were  rendered  venal  through  the  eft'er- 
vescence  of  youth.     He  seems  later  in  life  to 
have  retrieved  his  somewhat  lively  character, 
and  began  to  accumulate  property.  In  January, 
1631,  he  was  rated  at  one  pound  seven  shillings, 
and  there  were  many  lower  ratings  than  this. 
He  was  luade  a  freeman  in  i(')33.     He  was  a 
litigant,  due,  no  doubt  to  his  warm  blood  and 
a   determination   to   stand    up    for   his    rights. 
January  i,  1632,  John  W'ashburne  haled  him 
into  court  for  wrongfully  taking  his  hog,  but 
the  jury  brought  in   for   Edward.     In  April, 
1633,  \Vill  Bennet  complained  of  Edward  for 
divers   injuries — that   he  sold  him  a  flitch  of 
bacon  at  the  rate  of  three  pounds,  and  that  it 
was  not  worth  above  half  that  sum.    This  was 
referred  to  Robert  Hecker  and  Francis  Eaton, 
to  decide  as  they  should  think  meet  between 
man  and  man.    Edward  called  Bennet  a  rogue, 
whereat  he  brought  him  into  court  on  a  sum- 
mons for  slander,  and  Edward  was  fined  fifty 
shillings.      In    1634,    at    a    general    court,    an 
ai)prentice   of   Edward's    (this   shows   he   was 
getting  u])  in  the  world,  to  keep  an  assistant), 
[ohn  Smith,  asked  the  court  to  free  him  from 
iiis  master   I-Mward.  to  whom  he  had  bound 
himself  for  ten  years,  as  the  master  did  not 
keep  him  iiropcrly.     .\t  a  court  of  assistants, 
held  March  24,  1634.  Edward  and  Jason  Cook 
were  fined  six  shillings  for  breaking  the  peace. 
Thev  got  into  a  fistic  altercation,  and  Edward 
drew  the  first  blood.     March  7,  1636,  at  a  court 
of  assistants,  ( ieorge  Clarke  complained  against 
Edwar !    for  daiuages   in   a   land  trade.     The 
court  ordercil   Edwaril  to  repay  Clarke  eight 
pounds.     At   the  same   session,   Edward   was 
convicted  for  assault  and  battery  and  assessed 
twelve   i^ence,   and    in   another   action   of   the 
same  kind,  same  ])arties,  ten  shillings.     Up  to 
1650  he  was  in  court  either  as  jilaintiff  or  de- 
fendant in  twelve  otiier  causes.     In   I ('124  the 


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people  recjiiested  the  governor  to  set  off  land, 
and  Edward  received  his  share  on  what  is  now 
Watson's  iiill.  In  ihjj  there  was  another 
allotment  "to  heads  of  families,  and  to  voung 
men  of  prudence,"  and  lulward  was  given  a 
share  under  this  designation,  thoiigli  unmar- 
ried, which  shows  him  to  have  gained  the  confi- 
dence of  the  governor.  At  a  general  meeting, 
March  14.  1635,  he  was  given  ha)-  ground  on 
Jones  river,  on  High  ClitYord  or  .Skoal  Hill, 
near  the  present  border  of  Kingston,  In  1(127 
he  sold  land  to  Russell  Derby  for  one  hundred 
and  fifty  pounds.  To  this  deed  he  made  his 
mark,  as  to  all  other  documents.  In  1637 
he  was  allotted  sixty  acres  on  Mount  Hill : 
also,  he  owned  land  in  'S'armouth,  Cohasset, 
Dartmouth,  Lakenham  and  i'unck(|uasett,  now 
Tiverton.  Rhode  Island.  In  1638  he  went  bail 
for  Samuel  (laston  for  forty  poinids ;  in  1639 
for  Richard  Derby  in  the  sum  of  twenty  pounds  ; 
in  1642  for  John  Hassel,  of  Seakonk ;  in  1643 
for  John  Smith,  of  Eele  river.  He  was  a  pri- 
vate in  the  militia,  and  livefl  in  the  town  of 
Plymouth.  High  CJiflf.  Plain  Dealing,  which  is 
the  name  Theodore  Roosevelt  adopted  for  his 
\  irginia  country  place. 

He  died  .August  24,  1^)55,  and  his  will  bears 
date  May  20  that  year ;  the  apjiraisement  was 
one  hundred  and  thirty-seven  pounds  nineteen 
shillings.  He  contracted  marriage  with  Faith, 
daughter  of  Thurston  and  Faith  Clarke,  Janu- 
ary 6,  1634.  .She  was  horn  in  Ipswich.  Eng- 
land, in  i''>i<>.  Her  ])arents  came  to  Plymouth 
in  1634.  .After  her  husband's  decease  she  mar- 
'ried  John  Phillips,  by  whom  she  had  issue,  and 
she  diefl  at  Marshfield  in  1675,  and  is  buried 
in  the  old  cemetery  there.  Children  of  Edward 
and  Faith :  Edward,  John,  who  is  the  subject 
of  the  next  paragraph  :  Thomas,  Samuel,  De- 
sire, Elizabeth,  Isaac,  Josejih  anfl  Mary. 

ni)  John,  second  son  of  Edward  and  Faith 
(Clarke)  Doten,was  born  in  Plymouth,  Massa- 
chusetts, May  14,  if^y).  and  died  there  May  8, 
TToi.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  the  only  son  of 
his  father  who  settled  in  Plymouth.  He  re- 
ceived a  share  of  the  patrimonial  estate  ;  beside, 
he  was  granted  by  the  town.  January  8.  1665, 
three  acres  of  meadow  at  Turkey  swamp  ;  Jan- 
uary 31,  t668,  thirty  acres  at  Island  pond;  in 
\C><^)S  was  given  a  piece  of  the  "gurnet."  a  head- 
land on  the  coast  near  Plymouth ;  and  again  in 
1701  a  valuable  lot  of  ground.  His  mother 
signed  off  to  him  all  of  her  right  and  title  to 
her  late  husband's  land  in  Plymouth.  His  name 
appears  on  the  court  records  in  several  matters. 
In  Tuly.  1660.  John  Dunham  complained  that 
he  beat  liitu  in  the  highway.     He  had  the  pug- 


nacity of  his  combative  father.  In  i()7()  he 
and  Jacob  t'ooke  had  a  ilisiiute  in  court  over 
some  marshland.  In  i(')8i  he  entered  suit 
against  Nathan  .Southworth  for  breach  of  con- 
tract. He  was  a  juryman  in  1675-6-9,  and 
1680-3-4.  In  1671  he  was  highway  surveyor, 
and  again  in  1675,  and  in  1680  was  constable. 
His  will  was  executed  .April  15,  1701,  and  pro- 
bated ill  Jiuie  that  year.  His  descendants  still 
reside  in  Plymouth,  among  whom  are  jjreserved 
heirlooius  and  traditions  of  the  family.  He 
married,  in  1667,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jacob 
Cooke.  He  was  a  native  of  Holland,  and  was 
the  son  of  Francis  who  came  over  in  the  "May- 
flower," but  Jacob  and  his  mother  came  in  the 
".Ann"  three  years  later.  Elizabeth  died  before 
Jolifi,  and  he  married  next,  .Sarah,  daughter  of 
fiiles  Rickard.  l!y  Ivlizabeth  he  had  John,  Ed- 
ward, Jacob,  Elizabeth,  Isaac,  Sanniel,  lilisha 
(see  below),  Josiah  and  Martha.  I'y  wife 
Sarah  he  had  Sarah,  Patience  and  Desire. 
Sarah  Rickard  Doty  married,  after  her  hus- 
band's death,  Jose])h  Peterson,  and  she  was 
living  as  late  as  1708. 

(HI)  l-llisha,  fifth  son  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Cooke)  Doten,  was  born  in  Plymouth, 
July  13,  1686.  and  died  there  before  1756.  He 
wrenched  a  living  iro\u  a  hard  soil  and  harder 
sea.  March  11.  171 1.  he  was  granted  a  house 
lot  provided  he  build  thereon  during  the  year. 
In  171(1  he  luiited  with  his  brothers  Isaac, 
Samuel  and  Jose()h  in  a  deed  to  their  sister 
IClizabeth.  as  they  knew  it  was  their  father's 
intention  to  do  before  he  dicfl.  The  forename 
of  his  wife  was  Hannah.  Children:  Elisha, 
.Samuel.  Hamiah  (died  young).  Edward.  Han- 
nah, Paul,  Lois,  Stephen  (mentioned  below) 
anri  James. 

( ]\' )  Stephen,  fifth  son  of  Elisha  and  Han- 
n.iji  Dott-n.  was  born  in  Plymouth.  Jaruiary  24, 
1726.  and  spent  his  life  there.  He  married 
.Amia.  flaufrhter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Cobb) 
P.artlett.  .She  was  born  in  Plymouth  in  1727. 
He  married  (second)  the  widow  Josie  Don- 
ham.  Children  :  Mary,  Stephen.  Sarah.  Mercy, 
I  lannah.  l-'sther.  Joseph,  anil  John,  whose  sketch 
follows. 

(\')  John  (2).  yotuigest  son  of  .Ste])hen 
and  Hannah  (P.artlett)  Doten,  was  1)orn  in 
Plymouth,  in  I7(V),  anrl  died  in  Sheffield.  Mass- 
acinisetts,  in  .Augu>t,  1825.  It  was  not  till  this 
generation  that  the  Dotens  drifted  from  the 
family  altars  and  firesides  of  their  forefathers. 
John  went  to  Sheffield  in  1S14.  He  married, 
November  27.  1700.  Mary,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Faith  (Chandler)  Wright,  of  Plym|)ton, 
Massachusetts.    Children  :   lames.  Marv.  Faith 


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MASSAC  HrSE;TTS. 


Chandler,  John,  Bartlett   (sketch  below)   and 
Caleb. 

(VI)  Bartlett,  third  son  of  John  (2)  and 
Faith  (Wright)  Doten,  was  born  in  Plymonth, 
February  16,  1797,  and  died  in  Bridgeport, 
Connecticut,  August  16,  1867.  He  was  a  mer- 
chant and  manufacturer,  residing  in  Sheffield 
and  Pjridgeijort.  He  married,  November  14, 
1833,  in  Sheffield.  Augusta,  daughter  of  Col- 
onel Darius  and  Sarah  (Root)  Mason.  Chil- 
dren: Martha  Ellen.  Frederick  Bartlett.  sketch 
below  ;  Edward  M-ason.  who  was  cashier  of 
the  First  National  Bank,  of  Chicopee ;  Charles 
A.,  educated  at  Vale,  a  lawyer  and  judge  at 
Bridgeport. 

(  Vn )  Captain  Frederick  Bartlett  Doten,  eld- 
est son  of  Bartlett  and  Augusta  ( Mason)  Doten, 
was  born  in  Sheffield,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber 9,  1 841,  and  died  in  Chicopee,  Massachu- 
setts, .Njiril  9.  1903.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Sheffield  and  Bridgeport.  .As 
a  young  man  he  went  to  New  York,  where  he 
took  a  position  as  clerk  in  a  carriage  manu- 
facturing concern.  He  remained  there  luitil 
the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war,  when  he  returned 
to  Bridgeport  and  enlisted  as  a  corporal  in  the 
Fourteenth  Connecticut  Regiment.  For  his 
braverv  and  excellent  service  he  was  promoted 
to  first  lieutenant.  February  3.  1863.  and  to 
captain.  October  20.  1863:  and  he  served  by 
detail  on  the  statTs  of  General  Hays  and  Gen- 
eral r>arlow.  He  participated  in  various  of 
the  most  bloody  battles  of  the  war.  At  the 
battle  of  Fredericksburg  the  .state  flag  borne 
by  his  regiment  was  picked  up  by  Captain 
Doten  and  Major  Hicks,  after  the  color  bearer 
had  been  shot  down.  It  remained  in  their 
keeping  all  day,  and  they  brought  it  safely 
from  the  field  at  the  close  of  the  engagement. 
At  Morton's  Ford  he  was  captured,  and  sent 
to  Libby  Prison.  This  was  the  most  trying 
exjierience  of  all,  but  by  his  uncomiilainiug 
submission  he  won  the  respect  of  his  keepers, 
and  was  consefpiently  trusted  beyond  his  other 
conn-adcs.  After  tluee  months  he  was  ex- 
changed through  the  intervention  of  Secretary 
Mallory,  of  the  Confederate  cabinet,  who  knew 
his  friends  in  Connecticut. 

Tiie  war  over,  he  returned  to  his  old  Bridge- 
port home  and  settled  down  to  the  jiursuits  of 
])eacc  as  a  matter  of  course,  as  if  nothing  extra- 
ordinary had  lia|5]5ened.  He  never  boasted  of 
what  he  had  done.  He  then  returned  to  New 
N'ork  and  entered  the  employment  of  \\'o(m1 
Brothers,  carriage  manufacturers.  In  1871  he 
went  to  Chico])ee  and  entered  the  firm  of 
Jerome  Wells  &  Co.     .About  this  linu-  he  took 


the  position  of  cashier  of  the  First  National 
Bank.  He  cared  little  for  politics,  less  for 
office,  and  was  in  no  sense  a  politician.  He 
discharged  his  duties  as  a  citizen  at  the  polls. 
Twice  he  w^as  induced  to  hold  minor  offices  in 
the  municipality — alderman  and  school  com- 
mitteeman—  and  he  brought  to  the  discharge 
of  these  duties  his  varied  business  experience 
and  uncompromising  honesty.  He  was  a  con- 
sistent member  of  the  Unitarian  church ;  also 
a  charter  member  of  the  Xayasset  Club,  and  a 
companion  of  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion.  Massachusetts  Commaudery.  He  was 
a  lover  of  music,  and  sang  in  the  Unitarian 
choir,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Orpheus  Club, 
and  a  musical  atmosphere  pervaded  the  home 
circles.  He  was  conservative  in  business  affairs, 
and  was  frequently  consulted  by  those  in  need 
of  advice  and  his  judgment  was  rarely  wrong. 
He  was  intimately  connected  with  the  business 
growth  and  life  of  Chicopee  and  saw  it  grow- 
to  a  large  manufacturing  city  and  he  grew  with 
it.  Somewhat  reticent  of  nature,  he  was  at 
his  best  in  his  home,  among  those  he  loved. 

A  comrade-in-arms  said  of  him  at  his  death : 
"It  is  with  a  sad  heart  that  I  note  in  The  Kc- 
piiblicaii  of  the  loth,  the  news  of  the  death  of 
Captain  Fred.  B.  Doten.  of  Chico])ee.  He  was 
a  fellow-officer  with  me  in  the  old  l-'ourteenth 
Connecticut  Infantry  during  the  civil  war.  and 
was  one  of  the  best  and  bravest  of  the  remark- 
nblc  and  dashing  young  fellows  who  worked 
their  way  up  from  the  ranks  to  a  commission. 
Death  got  in  its  work  very  fre(|uently  in  the_ 
ranks  of  the  Fourteenth,  and  hence  promo- 
tions were  C|uick  and  recurring;  but  in  Captain 
l)oten"s  case,  at  least,  it  was  well  deserved  and 
accejitable  to  all  concerned.  At  the  battle  of 
.Morton's  Ford,  in  1864.  when  a  statT  officer  of 
the  oUl  Second  Corps,  and  engaged  in  carrying 
orders.  I  stopped  for  a  chat  witli  the  old  regi- 
ment. I  especially  noted  his  gallant  bearing 
and  pleasant  greeting.  *  *  ■"  Our  ranks 
are  thinning  fast  of  late  years,  but  Fred  Doten 
will  be  one  of  the  most  mis.sed.  for  he  was  not 
onlv  a  brave  and  efficient  soldier,  but.  in  those 
davs  and  since,  ever  and  always  a  gentleman." 
Ca])tain  Doten  married.  October  4.  1866, 
Georgiana  L.,  daughter  of  Jerome  and  Louise 
(Rice)  Wells,  of  Chicopee  "(.see  Wells).  Mrs. 
Doten  is  a  member  of  the  I'nitarian  church, 
and  has  served  on  the  parish  committee.  She  be- 
longs to  the  Cosmopolitan  C'lub.  a  woman's  club 
of  Springfield  :  the  Chicojiee  l-"alls  Woman's 
Club,  and  the  Travelers'  Club  of  Chicopee:  she 
has  served  on  the  committee  on  aids  and  char- 
ities  of   the    Sjiringfield    Ilos]iital.      She   is   a 


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MASSAClirSKTTS. 


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member  of  Mercy  Warren  Cliapter.  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution,  deriving  member- 
ship therein  through  her  ancestor.  Lieutenant 
Seth  Rice.  Children  of  Captain  and  Mrs. 
Dot  en :  i.  Jerome  Wells,  horn  Sei)teinl)er  q, 
1869.  died  r3ecember  14.  1903:  married  (first) 
.Mary  Whiting  Groce.  of  Roxbury.  Massachu- 
setts: (second)  Bessie  Henderson  Taylor,  of 
Xew  York  City.  2.  Florence  E..  married  Louise 
Trask  Hawkins:  children:  Frederick  Doten, 
born  December  31.  igoo:  fleorgiana  Wells, 
August  1 1,  19-03. 


Wells  is  from  Wellan,  to  spring 
WFLLS  up  as  a  fountain,  or  water.  It  is 
a  place  name  in  England.  It  also 
has  a  Xornian  stem  in  \'al.  \'als.  \"aux  and  De 
\ollibus.  Three  .sons  of  Harold  De  \'aux.  a 
Xorman  baron,  came  over  to  England  in  1120 
and  settled  in  Cumberlanrl.  One  of  these  was 
named  Robert,  and  his  grandson  .Adams  \'aux, 
in  about  1194.  holding  the  manor  of  Welles, 
took  the  name  of  De  Wells.  Bishop  Hugo  De 
Welles  became  one  of  the  most  important  men 
in  England.  Advanced  to  the  see  of  Lincoln 
as  archdeacon  and  lord  chancellor  of  the  realm, 
his  power  became  very  great.  He  was  chief 
of  the  Harons,  and  was  instrumental  in  obtain- 
ing from  King  John,  at  Runnymede,  in  121 5, 
the  Magna  Charta,  the  bulwark  of  English 
liberties,  prepared  by  his  own  hand.  The 
family  have  had  two  L'nited  States  senators, 
three  congressmen,  three  governors  of  states, 
and  on''  held  a  cabinet  portfolio — the  Hon. 
Cidfon  Welles.  The  Hon.  Roscoe  Conklin  was 
a  Wellfs  descendant.. 

(  1  )  Hugh  Wells,  of  Essex  county.  England, 
born  in  i^(jo.  came  to  .America  in  1635,  in  the 
ship  "Globe."  and  landed  at  Boston.  He  re- 
moved to  Connecticut  in  1636.  and  his  first 
stop  was  at  Hartford,  where  he  was  one  of 
the  pioneers.  He  soon  removed  to  Wethers- 
field,  and  was  one  of  the  founflers  of  that 
town.  He  died  there  in  i''>45.  He  married  his 
wife  in  England,  and  her  name  was  I-Vances. 
-After  her  husband's  death  she  married  Thomas 
Coleman,  of  Wethersfield,  who  was  originally 
from  Evesham,  near  Bath,  England.  They 
removed  to  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  where  she 
lived  the  residue  of  her  life  and  died  in  1678. 
She  bequeathed  her  i)roi)erty  to  her  grandchil- 
dren, to  her  son  John,  and  daughter  Mrs. 
Gilbert.  Her  son-in-law,  Jonathan  Gilbert,  ad- 
ministered. Children  of  Hugh  Wells:  Thomas 
(of  whom  later),  Hugh,  born  1625;  Mary, 
1626; John,  1628. 


(  H  )  Thomas,  eldest  son  of  1 1  ugh  and  I'ran- 
ces  Welles,  was  born  in  Colchester,  I\ngland, 
in  ir)20,  and  died  in  Hadley,  Massachusetts, 
1676.  He  was  taken  to  .\merica  as  a  mere 
child  in  1(135,  and  thence  to  Wethersfield,  Con- 
necticut. His  name  was  on  the  agreement  of 
the  "withdrawers,"  who  went  with  Parson  Rus- 
sell to  Ca])onoke  Meadow,  afterward  called 
Xorwoottucke,  now  Xortham|)ton,  on  account 
of  a  religious  .schism  in  Wethersfield,  ( )ctober 
8.  if)(.o.  and  was  one  of  the  twenty-eight  "en- 
.gagers"  to  sign  the  engagement  to  become  an 
inhabitant  of  the  new  settlement  (Hi  the  Con- 
necticut. He  was  made  a  freeman  March  26, 
1661.  His  lot  was  number  eight  from  the 
river,  between  Samuel  I'orter  and  John  Hub- 
hard.  His  lot  in  Hockanum  meadow  was  num- 
ber forty-five,  of  six  acres.  In  1663  he  was 
nil  a  petition  to  the  general  court  for  an  en- 
largement of  the  townshi]).  I-'ebruarv,  16(18, 
Thomas  signed  a  jxtition  directed  to  the  gen- 
eral court  to  revoke  the  duties  on  imported 
goods  and  merchandise  which  the  general  court 
had  im])osed.  This  was  perhaps  the  first  free 
trade  jiropaganda  in  the  L'nited  States. 

"This  morning  was  received  sad  intelligence 
from  Hadley  :  that  upon  Saturday  last.  Captain 
Lothroji  with  about  sixty  men.  being  appointed 
to  conduct  from  Dcerfield  to  Hadley  with 
carriages  and  cattle,  they  were  surprised  by 
abundance  nf  Itidians  that  lay  in  ambushmcnt 
and  received  a  dreadful  lilow  :  insomuch  that 
above  forty  of  Captain  Lothrop's  men  with 
himself  were  slain.  Captain  Mosely  being  not 
far  off.  engaged  with  the  Indians  and  fought 
several  hours  and  lost  eleven  men:  others  also 
were  slain  that  belonged  to  the  carriages  f  carts") 
so  that  the  next  day  they  buried  sixty- fr>ur  men 
in  all.  The  Indians  were  judged  to  be  near 
five  hiuidrcd." 

Thomas  was  in  this  engagement  at  Muddy 
Brook,  and  received  wounds  there.  He  owned 
lanfl  in  Hadley,  Wethersfield,  also  England. 
I  lis  will  was  dated  .September  30.  1676,  proved 
December  19,  1676.  The  inventory  was  seven 
hundred  and  thirty-two  pounds.  He  married 
.Mary,  daughter  of  William  Beardsley,  of  Eng- 
land. She  was  born  in  1631,  and  Bt  the  time 
of  the  marriage  was  of  Wethersfield.  She 
married  after  her  husbands  death,  .Samuel 
I'.el'ing.  of  Hatfielfl,  and  she  died  there  in 
\('xjn.  Children  of  Thomas  Welles:  Thomas, 
horn  lanuary  10,  1652:  .Mary,  <  )ctober  i.  1653 
(died  )  :  .Sarah,  .May  5,  iC)55  :  John,  January  14, 
1657  (died);  Jonathan,  in  i'')39:  John,  .April 
3.  i(V)o;  Samuel,   1662:   Mary,  September  8, 


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1664;  Koah.  July  26.  ift/)-.  llaiiali  and  Ebe- 
nczer  (twins),  in  1668;  Daniel  in  1670;  Eph- 
raim,  1672 ;  Joshua,  ["'ebruary  18,  1673. 

(Ill)  Ebenezcr,  eleventh  and  twin  child  of 
the  fourteen  children  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(  Beardsley  j  Welles,  was  born  in  Hadley,  July 
4,  1668,  and  died  in  Hatfield,  Massachusetts. 
He  had  a  grant  of  twenty-eight  acres  on  Green 
river  on  condition  that  he  occupy  it.  He  drew 
lot  number  twenty-two,  south  of  Fort  river, 
in  the  general  division  of  land  at  Hadley.  Home 
lots  were  laid  out  according  to  one's  estate,  a 
pound  drew  forty-six  rods  of  land.  The  eleva- 
tions were  selected  for  houses  such  as  Chilcab's 
Hill.  Cold  Hill  and  Sandy  Hill.  Their  fuel 
ground  was  at  the  growth  at  Falls  Woods  Field, 
called  so  because  it  was  a  wood  lot  near  the 
falls.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Sergeant 
Benjamin  Waitc.  of  Hatfield  ;  (  second  )  Au- 
gust 15,  1705,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Smith,  widow  of  John  Lawrence.  Children 
of  Ebenezer  Wells :  Ebenezer,  born  Septem- 
ber 13,  1691  :  Thomas,  September  25,  1693; 
Joshua  (see  below)  ;  Martha,  September  18, 
\(v)j :  John,  June  9,  1700;  Jonathan,  Septem- 
ber 2(').  1702;  Mary,  Octoljcr  24,  1707. 

(1\  )  Joshua,  third  child  of  Ebenezer  and 
Sarah  (  Waite)  Wells,  was  born  in  Deerfield, 
Massachusetts,  August  31,  1693,  and  died  in 
Greenfield,  Massachusetts.  April  21.  1768.  He 
seltle<l  in  the  Green  river  district.  His  house 
stood  on  the  site  of  what  is  now  called  the 
Arthur  D.  Potter  place,  and  was  palisaded 
during  the  I<"rench  and  Indian  war.  His  lot 
was  number  fourteen,  and  was  north  of  Cheap- 
side  and  east  of  Green  river.  This  was  given 
tn  his  son  Abner.  He  sold  to  Oliver  Cooley, 
in  1 8 19,  and  Cooley  to  Gould  in  1827.  Gould 
sold  to  Henry  W.  Clapp  in  1834,  and  he  to 
.Arthur  D.  Potter.  He  was  sealer  of  weights 
and  measures.  .Sixteen  acres  was  laid  out  to 
him  as  his  "i)itch,"  number  ninety.  August 
25,  T725,  he  was  with  a  party  surprised  by  a 
band  of  Indians  in  ambush  near  Green  river. 
One  Indian  was  killed  and  one  of  the  whites 
woinided.  .An  army  of  two  hundred  and  eighty 
men  was  raised  in  the  Connecticut  valley  tnwns 
to  send  to  the  Kennebec  (hiring  the  French- 
Inrlian  wars  in  .August,  1774.  They  surprised 
and  killed  I'^ather  Rasle  and  six  chieftains  and 
about  thirty  of  the  enemy.  Joshua  Wells  was 
in  this  ex])edition.  By  death  of  Father  Rasle 
and  the  subscr|uent  death  of  Governor  \'aud- 
rcuil  the  Indians  lost  their  leaders  and  peace 
was  restored.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  First  Church,  and  on  the  committee  to 
invite  Re\-.  Mr.  P.illings.     He  married.  April'), 


1770.  I'.lizabeth,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Smead ; 
she  died  -May  2,  1773.  Children:  Joshua, 
born  .September  16,  1721  ;  Ebenezer  (see  next 
paragraph)  :  Martha,  February  16,  1724;  Eliz- 
abeth, October  17,  1726;  Simeon,  March  7, 
1727;  .Asa,  January  15,  1729;  Elisha,  Novem- 
ber 12,  1731  ;  Mary,  August  6,  1733  :  Joel,  April 
2,  1735;  Esther,  .March  29,  173O:  Elizabeth, 
December  15,  1737;  Joel,  May  6,  1739;  Thank- 
ful, July  14,  1 741,  and  Abner,  December  15, 
1742. 

(  \  )  E])enezer  (  2  I, second  child  of  Josliua  and 
Elizabeth  (Smead)  Wells,  was  born  in  Deer- 
field,  in  1723,  and  died  in  Greenfield,  January 
II,  1787.  His  house  was  situated  on  what  is 
now  called  the  Frederick  G.  Smith  place.  Fred- 
erick's father.  Deacon  Moses  .Smitli,  bought  of 
.A.  H.  Nims ;  Nims,  of  Elisha  Root:  he  of 
Elisha  Lyman,  who  probably  obtained  it  from 
Captain  Wells.  Captain  Wells  was  selectman 
for  twelve  years,  and  town  clerk  and  treasurer 
in  1782.  He  obtained  his  title  from  service  in 
the  militia,  and  was  a  leading  man  in  the 
town.  He  married.  I-'ebruary  14,  1745,  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  l-'benezer  l-'ield.  .She  died 
May  [J.  1784 ;  he  married  (second)  February 
20,  1785.  Mary  Whipple.  Children  of  Eben- 
ezer: Obed,  died  young:  Elizabeth,  born  Octo- 
ber 3.  1748:  Ebenezer,  June  16,  1730;  a  daugh- 
ter, March  3,  1752;  Reuben,  May  5.  1753; 
Simeon,  June  30,  1736;  Levi,  July  27,  1738; 
(Jbed  (see  below)  ;  .Simeon,  October  17,  1762; 
Consider,  January  iCi.  1765:  Elizabeth,  July  30, 
1766,  and  Seth,  (  )ctober  27,  1768. 

(\I)  Obed,  eighth  child  of  Ebenezer  (2) 
and  Elizabeth  (l-"ields)  Wells,  was  born  in 
Deerfield,  h^bruary  3,  1746,  and  was  drowned 
at  Gardners  Island,  November  10,  1809.  He 
married  Caroline  Grinnell.  Children  :  Patrick 
(see  below);  Lena,  born  October  21,  1783; 
Obed.  Ai)ril  17,  1 786:  Harriet,  January  4. 
1788:  Lydia.  June  6,  1790:  Hart,  Sejitember  4, 
1792  ;  Russell,  November  20, 1794  :  Willis  W'est, 
July  22,  1797;  Elizabeth,  October  6.  1799; 
Weston  Wise,  July  23,  1802;  Warren  Field, 
July  23,  1802:  Obed  Hart.  March  3.  1803. 

(\1I)  Patrick,  eldest  child  of  Obed  and 
Caroline  ( ( Irinnell )  Wells,  was  born  in  Green- 
field. December  17.  177Q.  and  died  in  Burling- 
ton, New  A'ork,  1830.  He  married  .Nmanda, 
daughter  of  Ruel  \Villard. 

(\'HI)  Jerome,  son  of  Patrick  and  .Amanda 
(Willard)  Wells,  was  born  in  Greenfield,  .April 
2,  1812.  Tn  1830  he  went  into  the  store  of 
Howard  iK:  Lothrop,  South  Hadley  Falls,  as  a 
clerk.  Sul)se(|uently  he  went  to  .Springfield 
and  learned  tiie  silversmith's  trade.     For  a  few 


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401 


years  he  was  a  clerk  in  liis  uncle's  store.  In 
1835  he  removed  to  Ciiicii])ee  anil  engaged  in 
the  dry  goods  trade  with  Moses  Vounglove. 
In  1854.  upon  the  establisliment  of  the  old 
Cabot  Hank  (later  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Chicopee),  he  was  elected  president,  and  re- 
mained in  that  office  till  1880.  He  was  a  director 
in  and  president  of  the  Cabot  Bank,  chartered 
January.  1845.  succeeding  John  Wells  in  1854. 
He  was  a  stockholder  and  director  in  the  Gay- 
lord  Manufacturing  Com])any.  He  was  elected 
a  representative  from  Chicopee  to  the  legisla- 
ture in  1869,  and  was  chairman  of  tlie  com- 
mittee on  banks  and  banking.  His  practical 
knowledge  of  business  affairs  and  of  banking 
was  of  great  value  to  his  associates,  and  no 
legislative  measure  received  his  a])])roval  until 
it  had  been  carefully  looked  into  and  found  in 
his  judgment  to  be  in  the  best  interests  of  the 
majority  of  the  peoi)le  of  the  commonwealth. 
His  own  little  city  found  in  him  a  persistent 
and  conscientious  advocate  of  its  interests  at 
the  state  capitol.  From  conversing  with  those 
who  knew  Mr.  Wells,  we  learn  that  he  was  a 
kind  and  obliging  neighbor,  a  friend  to  the 
friendless,  that  his  business  acumen  was  of  a 
high  order,  and  that  in  his  family  relations  he 
was  kind  and  indulgent. 

He  married  Louise  C,  daughter  of  William 
Rice,  of  Xorthboro,  Massachusetts,  who  was 
from  Edmund  Rice.  One  child  crowned  the 
union — Georgiana  L..  married  Captain  Fred- 
erick B.  Doten  (see  Dotcn,  above). 


Samuel  Webb,  immigrant  ancestor, 
WEBB    was  born  in  Redriff,  near  London, 

England.  December  25,  1696,  son 
of  Captain  Samuel  Webb,  who  was  in  the  ser- 
vice under  the  reign  of  Queen  .■\nne,  and  who 
was  lost  at  sea  in  1706.  .Samuel  was  left  an 
orphan,  his  mother  having  died  in  1704.  two 
vears  before  his  father,  and  he  was  bound  out 
to  learn  his  trade.  His  master  or  guardian  did 
not  allow  as  much  liberty  as  he  desired,  and  in 
1713  he  ran  away,  taking  passage  on  a  ship  for 
.•\merica.  Where  he  went  first  on  reaching 
this  country  is  uncertain.  It  is  likely  that  he 
followed  the  sea  for  a  time.  In  an  account  of 
him  written  by  his  grandson.  Seth  Webb,  it  is 
stated  that  he  landed  in  Rhode  Island,  and  was 
taken  into  the  family  of  Mr.  Mclntyre.  a  black- 
smith of  Tiverton,  and  there  learned  the  trade. 
While  his  name  is  not  found  in  the  town  rec- 
ords of  Tiverton,  there  is  no  reason  why  it 
should  be  there,  for  he  was  a  minor.  The  town 
records  contain  f)nly  records  of  birth,  marriage, 
death,  elections  to  public  office,  etc.     The  first 


public  record  of  him  is  in  Braintree  and  Wey- 
mouth, giving  his  marriage,  Septenilier  13,  1721, 
to  Susanna  Randall,  born  in  Weymouth,  Janu- 
ary 14,  i70-'-3,  «lie(l  there  December  22,  1724, 
daughter  of  John  and  Susanna  (  f'orter)  Ran- 
dall. He  married  (second)  August  11,  1725, 
Bethiah  (Farrow)  Spear,  born  at  llingham, 
November  29.  1704.  died  at  Little  isle  of  Holt, 
Maine.  November  30.  1770,  daughter  of  John 
and  IVrsis  (llolbrook)  I'arrow,  of  llingiiam, 
and  widow  of  David  Spear,  of  liraintree. 
These  marriages  were  performetl  by  Rev.  Ne- 
hemiah  llobart.  of  the  Cohasset  (jarish,  and  arc 
recorded  in  the  Weymouth  town  records. 

Samuel  Webb  may  have  been  distantly  re- 
lated to  the  other  Webbs  of  Braintree  anil 
Weymouth.  It  is  a  curious  coincidence  that 
he  should  choose  for  his  residence  on  leaving 
Rhdde  l>lan(l  the  same  town  in  wiiich  Richard 
Webb  settled  as  early  as  1640.  and  but  a  mile 
or  so  from  the  home  of  Christopher  Webb,  of 
Braintree.  But  a  thorough  search  shows  that 
he  was  not  a  direct  descendant  of  any  of  the 
pioneers  of  this  name.  There  is  no  reason  to 
(l(iul)t  the  faniilv  record  of  his  birth  in  I'-ng- 
land.  .About  1 730  Webb  moved  away  from  Wey- 
mouth, leaving  his  sons  Samuel  and  Tlmmas 
with  their  grandfather  John  Randall,  who  was 
cIkjscu  guardian  for  the  son  Samuel,  March  14, 
1736.  The  history  of  Deer  Isle  states  that  he 
once  lived  in  the  vicinity  of  Salem,  Massachu- 
setts. He  was  m  that  i)art  of  F'almouth,  now 
Wcstbrook,  in  1740.  The  "History  of  (jor- 
ham"  states  that  he  was  in  Boston  in  1744, 
moved  to  what  is  now  Windham,  in  1745.  and 
settled  on  home  lot.  No.  23.  He  was  chorcii  a 
blacksniith  there,  and  the  first  schoolmaster. 
I  le  served  as  a  .schoolmaster  in  the  Indian  wars 
of  1747-8  and  in  1757.  He  prolrably  moved  to 
North  '^'armouth  about  1760,  and  about  1764 
to  Little  Isle  of  Holt.  .After  the  death  of  one 
of  his  sons  in  1784.  he  mrived  to  Deer  Isle, 
where  he  died  I'ebruary  15,  1785.  In  the  bury- 
ing ground  of  .North  Weymouth  is  a  large 
granite  monument  erected  by  his  descendants 
over  the  spot  where  his  first  wife  lies  buried, 
and  u])on  which  is  the  inscription:  "Samuel 
Webb,  son  of  .Samuel  Webb,  was  born  in  Lon- 
don. England.  ifV/i.  Died  in  Deer  Isle,  Maine, 
I'ebruary  15,  1785."  father  family  names  are 
inscribed  thereon,  inchuling  that  of  his  first 
wife.  He  and  his  second  wife  are  buried  in  the 
old  graveyard  at  Deer  Isle.  Children  of  first 
wife  :  I.  Samuel,  born  July  31,  1722  ;  mentioned 
below.  2.  Thomas,  born  December  21,  1723, 
died  January  t,\ ,  1724.  3.  Thomas,  l)orn  De- 
cember I,  1724.    Children  of  second  wife:    4. 


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MASSACIirSETTS. 


David,  born  March  29,  1727.  5.  Susannali, 
born  March  29,  1729.  6.  Ezekial.  7.  Seth, 
born  1732.  8.  John.  9.  Eh,  born  November 
17,  1737;  married,  April  20,  1760,  Sarah  Clout- 
man.  10.  Eliza  Adams.  11.  Elizabeth,  born 
Jime  14,  1744-5.  12.  James.  13.  Josiah,  born 
fannary  21,  1746.     14.  Elizabeth,  born  March 

4,  1746-7- 

(II )  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  ( i  )  Webb, 
was  born  July  31,  1722,  and  died  at  the  North 
Parish  of  Weymouth,  November  6,  1809.  In 
1736,  when  his  father  left  Weymouth,  young 
Samuel  was  placed  in  charge  of  his  grand- 
father, Samuel  Randall,  who  was  legally  aj)- 
pointed  his  guardian.  He  became  a  highly 
respected  and  honored  citizen  of  Weymouth, 
antl  was  deacon  of  the  first  church  there.  He 
married,  December  29,  1743.  Ruth  Ward,  born 
[anuary  29,  1723.  died  June  14,  1801,  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Jael  (Real)  Ward.  Children: 
I.  Samuel,  born  December  14,  1744;  mentioned 
below.  2.  Susannah,  born  February  29,  1748; 
married,  March  18,  1779,  Dyer  Rawson,  of 
Milton.  3.  Ruth,  born  September  3,  1752,  died 
unmarried,  April  7,  1833.  4.  Rebecca,  born 
December  14,  1757:  married,  June  10,  1782, 
Eliphalet  Ripley,  of  Weymouth. 

(III)  Sanni'el  (3),  son  of  Samuel  (2)  Webb, 
was  born  in  Weymouth,  December  14,  1744, 
and  died  there  .\ugust  24,  1820.  He  married, 
March  26,  1772,  Margaret  (Porter)  Torrey, 
of  Weymouth,  born  December  23,  1744,  died 
October  4,  1826.  He  and  his  wife  were  ad- 
mitttd  to  the  Weymouth  church  August  29, 
1773.  He  was  a  miller,  and  owned  the  mill 
built  bv  his  father  on  the  creek  in  Weymouth, 
(.'hildren,  born  in  Weymouth:  I.  Colonel  Sam- 
uel, June  7,  1777.  2.  Christopher  Columbus, 
mentioned  below. 

( IV)  Christopher  Columbus,  son  of  Samuel 
(3)  Webb,  was  born  at  Weymouth,  July  12, 
1780;  died  July  4,  1831,  at  Weymouth.  He 
lived  in  a  house  built  by  himself.  He  graduated 
from  I'.rown  I'niversity  in  1803.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar,  opened  his  office  in  Wey- 
mouth, and  became  one  of  the  leaders  of  the 
bar  in  Norfolk  county.  He  was  elected  to 
many  offices  of  trust  and  honor  in  his  native 
town :  was  selectman  a  number  of  years,  and 
served  his  district  in  the  general  court  for 
twentv-seven  years — a  striking  evidence  of  his 
popularity  and  value  as  a  citizen.  He  was  a 
strong  and  able  legislator,  and  one  of  the  best 
known  men  of  the  state  in  his  later  years.  He 
was  interested  in  town  affairs  and  in  all  public 
f|uestions.  especially  in  school  matters,  being 
for  manv  vears  on  the  board,  and  took  an  active 


part  in  starting  a  high  school.  He  was  a  lead- 
ing and  influential  Republican  in  politics.  In 
religion  he  was  a  Congregationalist,  and  for 
many  years  deacon  of  the  Weymouth  Congre- 
gational church.  Of  strong  and  vigorous  intel- 
lect, of  sterling  character,  strict  integrity  and 
attractive  personalit}-,  he  was  for  many  years 
the  foremost  citizen  of  the  town,  enjoying  to 
the  fullest  e.xtent  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
his  townsmen.  He  was  a  partner  in  the  firm 
of  \\  hitcomb.  Porter  &  Webb,  lumber  dealers. 
1  [c  was  keenly  interested  in  the  history  of  his 
native  town  and  state,  and  gathered  much 
valuable  historical  data..  He  married,  Novem- 
ber 13,  1817,  Susaima.  daughter  of  Major  John 
and  Nancy  (I'abcock)  White  I  see  White). 
Children  :  I.  Susan.  2.  Mary  H.  Torrey,  mar- 
ried L.  Gelett  Merrill,  of  Portland,  Maine.  3. 
.Nancy  H.;  married  Captain  Jackson.  4.  Sam- 
uel, mentioned  below.  5.  Christopher,  has  two 
sons,  Harry  Howard  and  Louis,  both  mining 
engineers,  (i.  Eliza,  married  Dr.  Gibbons,  of 
Weymouth.    7.  George. 

(  \' )  Samuel  (4  ),  son  of  Christojiher  Colum- 
bus Webb,  was  born  in  Weymouth,  in  1822, 
and  died  there  in  1898.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  tow-n  and  when  about 
fifteen  entered  unon  a  mercantile  career  as 
bookkeeiier  in  the  boot  and  shoe  establishment 
of  Eliphalet  Merrill.  Later  he  attended  Ober- 
lin  College,  after  which  he  returned  to  P)alti- 
more  and  was  with  Mr.  Potter  in  the  crockery 
business,  and  later  started  in  business  for  him- 
self in  the  same  city.  W'hen  the  gold  fever 
broke  out  in  1849  he  went  to  California  with 
his  brother  Christopher,  in  a  company  of  forty 
men  from  New  Orleans.  Not  satisfied  with 
the  mode  of  travel  of  the  party,  however,  they 
separated  from  it  and  continued  on  their  way 
alone  by  the  difiicult  and  dangerous  land  route. 
A  fter  following  the  mining  business  a  few 
years  Samuel  opened  a  flour  mill,  in  connec- 
tion with  a  grain,  feed  and  provision  store  in 
San  Francisco.  California,  this  being  the  first 
business  of  its  kind  in  that  town.  His  wife 
joined  him,  going  by  way  of  Cape  Horn  in  the 
long  biU  safer  journey  by  water,  taking  seven 
months  to  make  the  voyage.  Like  many  others, 
however,  he  preferred  to  live  in  his  native 
state,  and  in  1859  returned  with  his  family. 
He  engaged  in  business  in  Weymouth  and  also 
in  Washington.  D.  C,  whither  he  often  went 
in  connection  with  his  business.  He  was  a 
Republican  in  jwlitics.  He  was  always  inter- 
ested in  the  welfare  of  his  native  town,  and 
never  neglected  an  ojiportunity  to  advance  its 
welfare.     He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the 


MASSACH  ISF.TTS. 


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Congregational  cliurcli  oi  \\  cyniomli,  and  a 
member  of  tlie  PVee  Masons,  lie  married 
Deborah  Avers  Pratt,  born  1823,  died  1905. 
at  W'eynioiitli.  daughter  of  Asa  Pratt.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Samuel,  mentioned  below.  2.  Susan, 
married  Charles  Lemon,  born  in  England.  3. 
Rebecca.  4.  Fannie  \\'..  died  six  years  of  age. 
5.  Christopher,  resides  in  California,  and  has 
charge  of  his  father's  estate  in  that  state. 

(\'I )  Samuel  (  5  ),  son  of  Samuel  (4)  Webb, 
was  born  in  lialtimore,  Maryland,  in  1850.  He 
was  educated  in  the  ])ublic  schools  of  San 
Francisco  and  Weymouth,  and  later  returned 
to  California,  where  he  has  a  large  ranch.  He 
married  Sophia  Remme,  born  in  \'rek-a,  Cali- 
fornia. Children:  .Mice,  Miriam,  Fann\-,  Wil- 
helmina,  Samuel  Henry,  Robert,  Edwin. 

(The   White   Line). 

f  H)  Captain  Ebenezer  White,  son  of  Thomas 
\Miite  ( q.  v.  I,  was  born  in  Weymouth,  in  1648, 
lived  and  died  there,  1703.  His  original  home- 
stead was  recently  occupied  and  owned  by 
Heacon  Abiel  White,  of  Weymouth,  and  is 
near  the  house  of  the  late  Christopher  C.  Webb 
(see  above).  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  in 
1674.  He  was  a  highly  respected  and  useful 
citizen,  of  strict  integrity  and  moral  worth. 
His  will  was  dated  July  19,  1703,  and  his  in- 
ventory amounted  to  nine  hundred  and  fifty- 
five  pounds,  ten  shillings,  six  pence — a  large 
estate  for  his  day.  He  married  I  lannah  Phillips, 
born  November  25,  1654,  at  Yarmouth,  daugh- 
ter of  Nicholas  and  Hannah  (Salter)  Phillips. 
Children:  i.  Ebenezer,  born  February  17, 
1672:  graduate  of  Harvard  College,  1692:  or- 
dained Cjctober  Q,  1696,  niinister  of  church  at 
Southam[)ton,  Long  Island:  married  Hannah 
Pierson.  2.  Thomas,  born  August  19,  1673 ; 
mentioned  below.  3.  Deacon  Samuel,  born 
1676:  married,  September  14,  1692,  .Ann  Pratt. 

4.  Joseph,   married   Sarah   ;    (second) 

Catherine  .Andrews,  1743.  5.  Hannah,  born 
May  5,  1681  :  married  John  .Mden,  of  Middle- 
borough.  6.  .\bigail,  born  March  1683;  mar- 
ried Samuel  Reed.  7.  P.cnjamin.  born  F^ebru- 
ary  21,  1684:  married  Ruth  Reerl ;  (second) 
Ann  P.icknell.  8.  Experience,  born  July  i, 
1686;  married  Joseph  Pool.  9.  Elizabeth,  born 
November  9.    1688;   married   David   Pierson. 

(HI)  Deacon  Thomas,  son  of  Captain  Eben- 
ezer White,  was  born  at  Weymouth,  August 
19.  1673.  He  resided  at  Weymouth  on  the 
homestead  previously  occupied  by  his  uncle 
.Samuel  \\'hite,  and  died  there  April  28,  1752. 
aged  seventy-nine  years.  iTe  was  distinguished 
in  both  civil  and  military  life,  was  deacon  of 


tile  \\  eymoutii  church,  and  held  many  town 
oftices.  He  married  (first)  in  1700,  Mary 
White,  baptized  November  it,  ihj/,  daughter 
of  James  and  Sarah  (  Baker)  White,  of  Dor- 
chester. Massachusetts.  She  died  Xovember 
3,  1716,  aged  forty-one,  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond! Sei)teniber  15.  1740,  Silence  (Torrey) 
I'rench,  widow  of  Samuel  I'reucii,  of  .\bing- 
ton.  Children,  born  at  Weymouth:  I.  Dr. 
Nathaniel,  September  4,  1701,  died  November 
23.  1758;  graduate  of  Harvard,  1725;  married, 
.\pril  27,  1726,  Sarah  I.ovell :  (second)  .April 
15.  1742.  Ruth  llolbrook;  (third)  July  i,  1755, 
Lydia  or  .Vbigad  Heath.  2.  Jonathan.  October 
21,  1702:  married.  Jaiuiary  i,  1731-2,  Hannah 
Lo\ell :  settled  i:i  New  York.  3.  John,  Septem- 
ber 25,  1704;  married,  January  23,  1734-5, 
Hannah  Dyer;  (second)  May  24,  1739,  !<achel 
Loring:  removed  to  North  Yarmouth,  Maine; 
deacon;  ilied  November  i,  1747.  4.  Thomas, 
May  3.  1707:  married,  November  30,  1738, 
Sarah  Loring.  3.  Ebenezer,  December  21, 
i7o<;;  graduate  of  Harvard,  1733;  ordained 
at  Danhury,  Conecticut,  March  11,  1736;  dis- 
missed March,  1764;  died  September  it,  1769, 
at  Weymouth;  married  (second)  January  14, 
1747,  Mary  FVencli.  6.  James,  November  5, 
1712;  mentioned  below.  7.  Mary,  February 
12,  1714;  married,  June  19.  1733.  Micah 
.Alien.  8.  Silence,  November  13.  1716;  mar- 
ried. January  22,  1738,  Captain  John  Hayward. 
( IV)  James,  son  of  Deacon  Thomas  White, 
was  born  in  Weymouth,  November  3,  17 12; 
died  March  i,  1793,  aged  eighty  years.  He 
resided  on  Fore  River,  in  Weymouth,  in  the 
house  built  by  his  uncle,  Joseph  White,  from 
lumber  brought  from  England,  now  occupied 
by  the  family  of  Samuel  Webb,  a  descendant, 
mentioned  below.  The  house  was  built  about 
1700.  White  was  captain  of  the  military  com- 
pany ;  de|)uty  to  the  general  court ;  held  vari- 
ous town  offices,  and  had  a  large  estate,  of 
which  his  son  John  received  the  largest  share. 
Me  married,  .April  16,  1748,  Miriam  Kingman, 
brirn  Octf)ber  2,  172^),  daughter  of  John  and 
Hannah  (Tirrell)  Kingman, 'of  Weymouth, 
.'^hc  died  December  29,  1 791,  aged  sixty-two. 
Children,  born  at  Weymouth:  t.  Hannah,  Octo- 
ber 10.  1740.  died  November  20,  1731.  2. 
Mary,  February  20,  175 — ;  married  Nathan 
\"ose.  3.  Hainiah,  June  12,  1753.  died  June 
2^1-  '7.S.1-  4-  Haimah,  October  25,  1734:  mar- 
ried Lenniel  .Adams,  of  Milton.  3.  .Silence. 
December  3,  1736;  married  Jonathan  Swift,  of 
Milton,  ft.  John,  March  6,  1739;  mentioned 
below.  7.  Susanna,  March  16.  1761,  dierl  April 
T.   1761.     8.   Sarah    (twin).   August  8,    1762; 


4^n 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


married  Hon.  Daniel  Baxter.  9.  Miriam  (twin), 
.\iigiist  8,  17C)2;  married  Colonel  Benjamin 
Hayden.  10.  Deborah,  Jnly  17,  1765;  married 
Deacon  Caleb  Hayward,  son  of  Captain  John; 
(second)  Deacon  John  White,  of  Concord, 
January  19,  1807. 

(  \' )  John,  son  of  James  White,  was  born  at 
Weymouth.  March  6,  1759:  died  Xovembcr  7, 
1816,  aged  fifty-eight.  He  inherited  the  man- 
sion honse  and  a  large  part  of  his  father's 
estate.  He  married,  .\pril  29,  1791,  Nancy 
Babcock,  of  Milton.  Children,  born  at  Wey- 
mouth: I.  James,  August  12,  1793.  2.  Ann, 
June  14,  1795:  married  Josiah  Vose.  3.  Sus- 
anna (twin).  November  6,  1798:  married  Hon. 
Christf)pher  Columbus  Webb,  November  13. 
1817  (see  Webbl.  4.  Maria,  June  27,  iSoo; 
married  Colonel  Royal  Turner,  of  Randolph, 
son  of  Seth.  5.  Harriet,  March  19,  1805  ;  mar- 
ried, July  18,  1829,  Benjamin  C.  Harris.  6. 
George,  married,  and  left  a  son  George,  who 
married  and  left  a  daughter  Catherine,  who 
married  a  Clajip  and  resides  in  Dorchester.  7. 
Arthur. 


The  two  great  families  of  Rhode 
Gl\l{l'l.\  \L  Island  Greenes,  of  which  a  branch 

of  one  family  is  delineated  in 
this  article,  are  traced,  say  the  genealogists, 
from  a  companion  of  William  the  Conqueror 
through  a  lordly  line  of  descendants  to  the 
immigrants,  John  of  Warwick  and  John  of 
Quidnesset.  The  immigrant  (ircenes  were  prom- 
inent men  among  their  fellows,  and  the  brave 
record  of  the  family  has  been  kept  up  since 
their  time.  Of  this  family  have  been  General 
Nathaniel  Greene,  second  only  to  Washing- 
ton as  a  general  in  the  revolution ;  General 
George  Sears  Greene  and  General  Francis  \'in- 
ton  (ireene.  It  has  supplied  Rhode  Lsland  with 
representatives,  senators,  supreme  judges  and 
governors,  and  many  others  less  distinguished 
have  bceii  hardly  less  useful. 

(  I )  .'Mexander,  a  knight  at  the  king's  court, 
was  the  great-grandson  of  one  of  the  Norman 
nobles  who  invaded  England  with  William  the 
Con(|ueror  in  106^1.  King  John  bestowed  tlie 
estate  of  Boughlon  in  Northamiiton  on  him  in 
1202.  He  is  the  earliest  known  ancestor  of 
the  Greene  families  of  Warwick  and  Quid- 
nesset in  Rhode  Island.  He  probably  received 
his  estate  for  services  rendered  in  putting  dow^n 
a  rebellion  of  John's  nobles,  and  what  was 
given  him  had  probably  belonged  to  one  of 
the  lords  whom  the  king  had  attainted.  Lord 
.Mexander  assumed  a  surname  after  his  chief 
estate,  de  (ireene  de  P.oketon,  that  is.  the  Lord 


of  the  Park  of  the  Deer  Enclosure.  A  green 
in  those  times  was  a  park.  Boketon  is  a  very 
old  word  meaning  the  ducks'  (dokes)  ton  or 
paled-in  enclosure.  Centuries  ago  the  terminal 
syllable  ton  had  lost  its  original  sense,  and 
meant  a  town,  so  that  Boketon,  still  used  in 
the  original  sense,  shows  Lord  .-Mexander  came 
to  an  estate  named  long  before,  and  noted  for 
its  extensive  jiarks  and  deer  preserves.  Boke- 
ton became  Bucks  and  Buckston.  and  later 
Boughton,  its  present  name.  It  lies  in  North- 
ampton. For  a  long  time  the  full  name  de 
Greene  de  Boketon  was  used  in  legal  docu- 
ments. Naturally  in  everyday  speech  it  was 
shortened  to  de  (Greene.  During  the  reign  of 
I  lenrv  \'I,  1422-1471 ,  with  its  attendant  French 
wars,  the  patriotic  de  Greenes  dropped  the 
patrician  de  as  too  Frenchy  in  sound  for  Eng- 
lishmen, as  they  now  considered  themselves. 

(II)  Sir  W'alter  de  Boketon,  son  of  Sir 
Alexander,  succeeded  his  father  to  the  title 
and  estates,  and  was  probably  a  crusading 
knight  in  the  seventh  crusade,  which  ended  in 
1240.  as  he  was  listed  in  the  old  rolls  of  the 
twentieth  year  of  Henry  III  (T236)  and  the 
forty-fifth  year  of  the  same  king  (i2('ii  ). 

(ill)  Sir  John  de  (ireene  de  Boketon,  the 
son  of  Sir  Walter,  accompanied  King  lulward 
III  to  the  Holy  Land  as  a  crusading  knight  and 
perished  there,  leaving  an  infant  son. 

(IV)  Sir  Noinas,  only  child  of  Sir  John  de 
Greene  de  Boketon,  received  the  title  of  his 
a-icestors  in  his  infancy.  He  accompanied  Ed- 
ward I  against  the  Scots  in  1296,  and  is  men- 
tioned in  the  records  of  1319  as  then  alive. 
1  le  married  Alice,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir 
Thomas  Bottishane.  of  Brauston. 

(V)  Sir  Noinas  (2),  fifth  Lord  de  Greene 
Boketon,  was  born  in  1292.  son  of  Sir  Noinas 
( I ).  When  about  forty  years  old  he  was  made 
high  sheriff  of  Northampton  (13301332),  in 
the  carlv  part  of  the  reign  of  luhvard  III. 
"The  office  in  those  days  was  esteemed  equal 
to  the  care  of  iirinces,  a  place  of  great  trust 
and  reputation."  He  married  Lucie,  daughter 
of  Eudo  de  la  Zouche  and  Millicent,  one  of 
the  sisters  and  heirs  of  George  de  Cantelupe, 
1  .ord  of  .\bergaveny.  Lady  Lucie  had  royal 
blood,  (^nc  house  of  de  la  Zouche  was  lineally 
descended  from  .Man  the  famous  Earl  and 
sovereign  of  Little  I'ritain.  ( ^ne  son  was  l>orn 
of  this  marriage. 

(\'T)  Sir  Henry,  son  of  Sir  Noinas  de  Greene 
de  Boketon  (2).  was  the  foremost  lawyer  of 
his  day  and  was  made  lord  chief  justice  of 
I'nglaiiil.  He  was  speaker  of  the  house  of 
Icirds  in  two   Parliaments   (1363-64),  and  be- 


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came  at  last  tlie  King's  nearest  counsel,  lie 
died  in  1370.  ni  tiie  sixtieth  year  of  his  age, 
and  was  buried  at  Uougiiton.  He  left  to  his 
posterity  one  of  the  most  considerable  estates 
of  the  age.  He  married  Katherine.  daughter 
of  Sir  John,  and  only  sister  of  .^ir  Simon  Dray- 
ton, of  Drayton.  They  had  six  children,  Thomas, 
Henrv.  Xicholas,  Richard.  Margaret  and  Ama- 
dila. 

(\JI)  Sir  Henry  (2),  the  .second  son  of 
Sir  Henry  (i)  de  Greene  de  lioketon,  was 
made  the  heir  of  his  father  in  spite  of  the 
English  law  of  primogenture  through  a  special 
license  given  b\  the  King.  1  Icnry  was  a  very 
rich  man  and  possessed  many  estates.  He 
married  Matilda,  sole  heiress  of  her  father. 
Lord  Thomas  Mauduit,  who  also  had  five 
lordships  and  other  fair  |)ossessions.  Henry 
was  a  man  of  ability  and  became  as  prominent 
a  statesman  as  his  fatlier  had  been.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  House  of  Commons,  and  one 
of  its  leaders.  He  was  knighted  and  became 
one  of  the  King's  near  counselors.  As  a  fav- 
orite of  the  King,  he  received  many  more 
manors  and  estates.  Sir  Henry  was  one  of  a 
commission  appointed  over  King  Richard  H, 
whose  eccentricity  amounted  almost  to  insanitv. 
and  as  such  counseled  the  King  to  confiscate 
the  estates  of  the  banished  Henry  Bolingbroke, 
Duke  of  Hereford  and  Lancaster.  .After  the 
overthrow  of  Richard.  .Sir  Henry  was  taken 
prisoner  by  Fiolingbroke  and  beheaded  in  the 
market  S(|uare  in  Bristol.  September  2,  1399. 
Shakespeare  devotes  much  of  .-\cts  I  and  H  of 
his  Richard  H  to  Sir  Henry  Greene.  The  chil- 
dren of  Sir  Henry  and  Lady  Matilda  were: 
]\alph.  John,  Thomas,  ITenry,  Eleanor.  FA\za- 
beth  and  Mary. 

(VHI  I  Thomas  (3  ).  third  son  of  Sir  I  Icnry 
(2)  Greene,  was  the  only  son  of  his  father 
v/hose  line  remained  to  bear  the  name  of 
rireene.  From  him  came  the  Gillingham  Greenes, 
and  from  them  again  came  the  Warwick  and 
Quidnesset  Greenes,  two  of  the  most  important 
lines  of  that  name  in  .-Xmerica. 

(IX)  The  name  of  the  son  of  Thomas  Greene 
who  was  the  ninth  of  this  line  has  not  been 
preserved.  He  was  born  about  1420,  and  came 
to  manhood  in  the  middle  of  the  "bloody  cen- 
tury." This  included  the  period  of  the  Wars 
of  the  Roses  and  but  little  authentic  history  of 
many  families  during  this  time  is  to  be  found. 

(  X  )  John  (2  ).the  next  of  the  line  is  supposed 
to  have  been  born  about  T450.  Dickens  says 
that  King  Richard  HI  sent  word  to  Sir  Robert 
I'.rackenbury  by  John  (Jrecne.  ordering  him  to 
|ntt  the  two  princes  to  death.     But  Sir  Robert 


refused  to  execute  the  command.  After  the 
death  of  Richard.  John  Greene  lost  no  time  in 
putting  the  .seas  between  himself  and  Henry 
\'II,  the  rival  and  successor  of  Richard.  He 
returned  to  luigland,  where  he  lived  a  while, 
then  tied  again  and  died  abroad.  He  is  knuwn 
as  "John,  the  fugitive"  in  the  family  records. 

{  X 1  )  Robert  Greene,  gentleman,  son  of  John 
(2),  purcha.sed  an  estate  at  Gillingham  in  Dor- 
setshire, which  he  called  Bowridge  Hill.  On 
the  old  records  it  is  usually  spoken  of  as  Por- 
ridge Hill,  the  local  iironimciation  of  liowridge 
Hill.  He  had  five  children:  I'eter,  Richard, 
John.  .Mice  and  .Anne.  l->om  Richard's  line 
came  Surgeon  John  Greene,  the  head  of  the 
Warwick  Greenes,  and  from  John  came  John 
of  yuidnesset,  the  head  of  a  numerous  Rhode 
Island  family  of  Greenes. 

(XII)  Richard. second  sonof  Robert  Greene, 
inherited  his  father's  estate,  married  and  left  a 
son  and  a  daughter. 

(XIII)  Richard  (2),  son  of  Richard  (i), 
and  wife,  .Mary,  ha<l  five  sons  and  four  daugh- 
ters, 

(Xl\  )  Surgeon  Jolin  (3),  (variously  called 
John  Senior,  John  the  Elder,  John  of  Salisbury, 
Chirurgeon  John,  Surgeon  John.  John  of  Provi- 
dence and  John  of  Warwick),  the  fourth  son 
of  Richard  and  Mary  Greene,  was  born  at 
Bowridge  Hall,  (iillingham.  England.  |)rol)ably 
in  15X5.  In  most  American  genealogies  he  is 
called  the  son  f)f  I'eter  Greene  of  .Aukley  Hall, 
This  is  a  mistake.  I'eter  was  his  eldest  brother, 
the  heir  of  Bowridge  Hall.  His  home  was  at 
.Aukley  Hall.  Salisl)ury.  lie  left  luigland  to 
enjoy  religious  freedom  and  probably  for  |)er- 
sonal  safety,  and  with  his  wife  and  five  chil- 
tlren  set  sail  from  .Southanipton  in  Ai)ril.  if\]^, 
in  the  ship  "James."  and  arrived  at  I'lostdii, 
May  3rd  of  the  same  year.  He  lived  for  some 
time  at  .Salem,  and  was  among  the  first  to  fol- 
low Roger  Williams  to  F'rovidence.  The  latter 
showed  his  confidence  in  him  by  making  him 
one  of  the  trustees  to  whom  Providence  was 
deeded,  anrl  of  this  land  he  received  his  pro- 
portionate allotment  when  it  wasdivided.  Dur- 
ing Roger  Williams'  visit  to  England  in  iC)4i, 
.Surgeun  Jcihn  wrote  a  bold  i)am|)lilet  on  what 
was  called  the  \'erin  Controversy,  a  (picstion 
of  heresy  and  the  states  right  to  put  down  such 
beliefs.  He  flatly  charged  the  legislature  of 
the  Bay  with  "usurjiing  the  |)Ower  of  Christ 
over  the  Churches  ami  men's  consciences."  The 
year  after  his  settlement  at  Provi<lenre  he 
visited  I'.oston.  There  he  expressed  himself 
freelv  as  to  the  tyranny  of  town  officers  in  try- 
ing to  control  nicn'<  rrimriences.  Palfrey  states 


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that  the  Boston  authorities,  September  19,  1637, 
fined  him  twenty  pounds  for  "seditious  dis- 
course, "  and  sent  him  away  with  an  injunction 
to  keep  away  in  the  future.  In  1643  Surgeon 
John  was  living  at  Shawomet  or  Shawmut, 
afterward  called  Warwick,  when  the  Massa- 
chusetts authorities  and  forty  soldiers  broke 
up  the  settlement  by  force,  and  took  nearly  all 
the  settlers  of  Shawomet  [jrisoners.  Joan, 
wife  of  Surgeon  John,  was  drawing  near  death. 
In  her  weak  state,  she  was  dreadfully  alarmed, 
and  her  husband  carried  her  oi¥  for  refuge  to 
the  friendly  Indians  at  Conanicut,  Rhode  Island, 
where  she  died.  He  escaped  capture  and  the 
trials  of  his  comrades.  In  1644  Surgeon  John 
was  selected  as  a  representative  of  Providence 
l^lantations  to  cross  the  ocean  and  lay  their 
side  of  the  controversy  with  Massachusetts 
before  the  English  authorities.  In  England  he 
became  the  best  known  man  of  the  Colony  with 
the  e.xce])tion  of  Roger  Williams.  Surgeon 
John  died  in  1759  at  Warwick  (Shawomet) 
and  was  buried  at  Conanicut  by  the  side  of 
his  first  wife.  John  Greene  married  (first) 
November  4,  1619,  at  St.  Thomas'  Church, 
Salisbury,  England,  Joan  Tatersall  (or  Joane 
Tatarsole,  as  the  old  records  have  it).  They 
had  five  children,  three  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters, four  of  whom  left  issue.  They  were  Mary, 
John,  James  and  Thomas.  .All  three  sons  were 
at  various  times  assistant  president  of  the  Col- 
ony. While  in  England  he  married  (second) 
a  lady  wdiom  he  had  known  in  Rhode  Island, 
Widow  .Mice  Daniels,  who  had  returned  home. 
She  soon  died,  and  after  his  return  to  Rhode 
Island  he  married  (third)  Philippa  (or  Phellix) 
,  who  survived  him. 

(XV)  James,  second  son  of  John  (3)  and 
Joan  (Tatersall)  rirecne,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land and  baptized  June  21,  1626.  .'\t  the  age 
of  nine  years  he  came  with  his  parents  to 
Mas.sachusetts,  and  went  with  them  on  their 
removal  the  next  year  to  Rhode  Island.  He 
was  a  prominent  citizen,  held  the  office  of 
assistant  ]jresident  of  the  Colony  and  lived 
until  .April  27,  1698.  He  married  (first)  De- 
liverance Potter :  (second)  Elizal)eth  .\nthony, 
daughter  of  John  .Anthony. 

(X\  I)  Jabez,  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth 
(.Anthony)  Greene,  moved  in  later  life  into  the 
edge  of  Quidnesset  territory,  on  the  Poto- 
wliommet,  where  he  and  his  son  built  the  fam- 
ous anchor  mills  and  forge  wdiich  made  them 
all  rich.  He  married  ("first)  Mary  Gorton, 
and  had  two  daughters  ;  (second)  Mary  Greene, 
prohabiv  the  daughter  of  Ca|itain  Edward  and 
graiuldaughtcr  of  Jnhu   Greene,   the   head   of 


the  Quidnesset  branch  of  Greenes.  She  was 
the  mother  of  all  his  sons.  He  married  (third  ) 
Grace  Whitman,  by  whom  he  had  one  daugh- 
ter. The  sons  were:  James,  born  February 
21.  1701  ;  Benjamin,  December  16, 1703;  Jabez. 
May  26,  1705;  Nathaniel,  September  4.  1707; 
John.  December  14,  1709;  and  Rufus,  April  21, 
"1714. 

(  X\  II  )  James  (2),  eldest  son  of  Jabez  and 
Mary  (Greene)  Greene,  was  born  February 
21,  1701,  and  married  (first)  in  1726,  Eliza- 
beth Gould,  sister  to  the  wife  of  his  brother 
Jabez.  He  married  (second)  in  1734,  Han- 
nah Tucker.  Of  the  first  wife  were  born  James 
and  Paul;  of  the  second  were  Elizabeth,  Sam- 
uel. Jabez  and  .Abraham,  next  mentioned. 

(  X\'1II )  .Abraham,  youngest  child  of  James 
(3)  and  Hannah  (Tucker)  Greene,  was  born 
August  10,  1740.  He  married  (first)  Septem- 
ber 5,  1765,  Patience  .Arnold;  (second)  1771, 
Mary  Reynolds. 

(XIX)  William,  son  of  .Abraham  and  Pa- 
tience (.Arnold)  Greene,  was  born  February 
'3-  1769.  died  December  30.  1848.  He  mar- 
ried (  first )  1726.  Sarah  Shaw,  who  died  July 
24.  1S07;  (second)  1809,  Mary  Wilcox.  The 
children  by  the  first  wife  were:  James,  Matty 
(  ?),  Perry,  Eliza  and  Sally;  by  second  wife, 
Robert  Wilcox. 

(  XX  )  James  (3),  eldest  son  of  William  and 
.Sarah  (.Shaw)  (jreene,  was  born  in  1797,  died 
( )ctober  21,  18(^)4.  He  married  Lucy  N.  Sher- 
man, and  they  had:  I.  Mary  Wilcox,  born 
1820,  married  W.  H.  .Allen.  2.  William  S., 
mentioned  below.  3.  .Albert  Crawford,  1825, 
died  1 88 1  ;  married  Lucretia  Whipple.  4.  Eliz- 
abeth, married  .Solomon  P.  Wells.  5.  Harris 
Ray.  1829,  died  1892;  married  Nettie  Seaman. 
6.  John  Flavel,  1833;  married  (first)  Ann  E. 
TUackwell :  (second)  Sarah  E.  Hull.  7.  Lucy 
E.,  1836,  died  1893;  married  Roger  T.  Ester- 
brooks.  8.  Nathaniel  Sherman.  1842;  married 
(first)  Lucy  Cole;  (second)  Josephine . 

(XXI)  William  Shaw,  eldest  .son  of  James 
(3)  and  Lucy  N.  (Sherman)  Greene,  was 
born  in  North  Kingston.  Rhode  Island.  Sep- 
tember 29,  1822,  died  in  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts. June  21.  1878.  His  preparation  for 
college  was  made  at  .South  Kingston  under 
the  tuition  of  Rev.  Charles  \'ernon,  a  most 
estimable  man  and  a  teacher  to  whom  he  was 
very  much  attached.  He  entered  Waterville 
(College)  Maine,  as  a  freshman  in  1845,  ^"f' 
completed  the  course  as  a  member  of  one  of 
tile  best  and  most  studious  classes  that  ever 
graduated  from  that  institution.  .After  gradu- 
ating he  engaged  in  teacliing  for  several  years. 


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first  as  principal  of  the  academy  at  East  Corinth  ; 
from  October.  1833.  for  one  year  in  tlie  Jiid- 
son  Female  Seminary  at  Marion,  Alabama; 
and  from  September,  1854.  to  July.  1858.  as 
principal  of  the  W'l^rcester  Academy.  One 
year  from  the  fall  of  1858  he  spent  in  Europe. 
About  the  close  of  1859  he  returned  to  Wor- 
cester and  is  thought  to  have  resumed  the 
office  of  principal  of  the  academy,  while  at  the 
same  time  he  prosecuted  the  study  of  law  under 
the  direction  of  Dwight  [-"oster.  lie  ne.\t  re- 
moved to  S|jringfiel(l.  where  after  a  short  period 
of  study  in  the  office  of  O.  A.  Seamans  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1862.,  and  there  began 
practice  and  continued  in  it  till  the  close  of  his 
life.  He  was  first  a  partner  with  M.  P.  Knowl- 
ton  and  later  with  H.  W.  Bosworth,  with  whom 
he  was  associated  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
During  the  years  1867-68-69,  he  was  a  partner 
in  the  ojierations  of  the  Wells  River  Lumber 
Company  in  X'ermont.  which  terminated  dis- 
astrously. He  was  a  man  greatly  esteemed  for 
the  conscientious  manner  in  which  he  con- 
ducted his  business  and  his  kindness  to  the 
poor,  whom  he  often  gratuitously  counseled 
and  aided,  even  when  pressed  with  matters 
involving  great  j)ecuniary  interest.  Highly 
gifted  by  nature,  he  became  a  most  scholarly, 
cultured  and  refined  gentleman.  He  was  ever 
the  center  of  attraction  in  the  society  in  which 
he  moved,  not  only  because  of  his  manifest 
scholarship  and  fund  of  information,  but  also 
and  especially  from  his  rare  powers  of  con- 
versation, which  in  a  most  eminent  degree 
blended  real  richness  and  fertility  of  thought 
with  the  most  mirthful  wit  and  humor.  He 
everywhere  made  hosts  of  friends,  and  what  is 
a  better  proof  of  his  real  goodness  of  heart 
he  never  lost  any.  He  was  a  member  of  Spring- 
field Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  though 
not  an  active  one.  He  was  always  noted  for 
his  simplicity  in  rlress  and  manner.  He  was 
a  man  of  good  ability  and  of  earnest  religious 
convictions :  and  though  for  many  years  the 
victim  of  a  painful  malady  C general  weakness 
of  the  digestive  system  and  hereditary  disease 
of  the  liver),  he  was  remarkable  to  the  end  for 
a  sweet  and  cheerful  disposition  and  genial 
bearing.  He  married,  ^^ay  11,  1870,  Carrie 
E.  Patton.  born  in  Sjjringfield,  May  7.  1849. 
daughter  of  William  and  Caroline  E.  CSikes) 
Patton  Csee  Patton  Vll).  There  was  born 
of  this  marriage  one  child,  Harrie  W..  next 
mentioned. 

(XXIT)  Harrie  William,  only  living  child  of 
William  S.  and  Carrie  E.  f  Patton")  Greene,  was 
born  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  October'  9. 


187J.  Studied  medicine  and  graduated  from 
Itoston  L'niversity  School  of  .Medicine.  June  O, 
i8i>4.  He  settled  in  S|iringheld.  May.  i8tA 
jiracticed  medicine  a  short  time,  and  upon  the 
death  of  his  grandfather  (  \\iljiam  Patton). 
who  was  a  real  estate  dealer,  gave  up  medicine 
and  went  into  real  estate. 


This  is  an  ancient  English  sur- 
P.\TTOX     name  dating  hack  to  the   very 

beginning  of  the  use  of  sur- 
names in  luigland  and  taken,  as  was  often  the 
case,  from  a  locality.  Richard  Patten  was  a 
resident  of  Pattine,  near  ChelmsfonI,  Essex 
county,  England,  as  early  as  1119.  One  of 
his  descendants.  Richard  Patten,  of  Wayne- 
tleet,  was  a  man  of  distinction  from  1422  to 
1462.  was  bisho])  of  Winchester  and  lord  high 
chancellor  and  foimded  .Magdalen  College  at 
Oxford.  Hector,  Robert  and  William  Pat- 
ten came  from  Ireland  and  settled  in  New 
I'jigland.  Nathaniel  Patten,  of  Crewkerne, 
England,  settled  in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts. 
Another  W'illiam,  mentioned  below,  came  evi- 
dently from  England  but  there  is  no  clue  to 
the  place  of  liis  birth,  though  Somerset  has 
been  suggested. 

(I)  William  Patten  of  this  sketch  is  first 
mentioned  in  this  country  in  the  Cambridge 
town  records  under  date  of  March  13.  1635- 
36,  when  by  vote  of  the  townsmen  it  was  agreed 
that  he  should  keep  one  hundred  cattle  belong- 
ing to  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  for  the  space 
of  seven  months  for  twenty  poimds.  one  half 
to  be  [laid  in  money  when  he  had  kept  half  his 
time,  and  the  other  half  in  corn  (grain)  when 
he  had  done  keei)ing.  In  1638  he  also  had  an 
agreement  to  keej)  the  town  cows.  In  1646 
P.rotlier  Patten  was  fined  for  having  one  hog 
without  keeper,  thrice  one  shilling.  On  the 
20th  day  f)f  the  third  month.  1649,  .Andrew 
Stevenson  and  William  Patten  were  a[)pointed 
to  execute  the  town  order  concerning  hogs, 
anfl  to  levy  on  all  such  as  shall  be  fotmd  break- 
ing that  rule,  then  just  penalty  of  the  same 
being  therein  i)rescribed.  In  the  same  year 
liberty  was  granted  some  of  the  townsmen, 
among  them  William  Patten,  for  the  present 
hay  time  to  mow  the  common  meadow  at 
Shawshine  "provided  they  intrench  upon  noc 
f)ropcrty."  r)n  two  or  three  different  occasions 
we  find  him  apjiointed  as  one  of  the  surveyors 
of  fences,  his  district  being  that  al>out  the 
Menf)tomy  fields.  He  was  also  appointed  sur- 
veyor of  highways  on  one  or  two  occasions. 
Pietwecn  1660  and  1668  William  Patten  was 
granted   libertv  on   several   occasions  to  take 


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luiiibtr  Ironi  the  comuKin  "to  repair  fencez," 
"f'lr  a  cart,"  "for  a  cow  house,"  ""to  build  a 
lean-to  and  an  end  to  his  farm,"  and  to  "re- 
payre  his  old  house  at  towne. "  He  did  not 
always  ask  for  permission,  for  in  1662  he  was 
fined  twenty  shillings  for  felling  trees  on  the 
common,  contrary  to  town  orders.  Fines  levied 
bv  the  selectmen  were  sometimes  abated,  for 
in  1663  it  ajjpears  that  a  fine  imposed  upon 
William  Patten  was  abated  five  shillings.  In 
1642  William  Patten  was  enrolled  as  a  member 
of  the  .Ancient  and  Honorable  .Artillery  Com- 
pany of  IrJoston.  He  lived  on  what  is  now 
Massachusetts  avenue,  opposite  the  Common. 
The  proprietors'  records  show  that  he  had  "one 
house  and  garden  about  halfe  an  .Acre  upon 
the  Cow  Common."  "In  the  New  Lotts  ne.xt 
Manotomie  two  Acres  of  planteing  grounde." 
In  1645  forty-seven  lots  on  the  west  side  of 
Menotomy  river  were  granted  to  the  several 
iidiabitants  of  the  town.  In  this  distribution 
William  Patten  had  "Three  Acre  more  or 
lesse."  June  (j,  1652,  an  agreement  was  made 
by  the  church  as  to  the  division  of  Shawshine. 
In  this  William  Patten  was  assigned  lot  87, 
containing  eighty  acres,  yet  it  is  doubtful  if 
he  ever  lived  there,  but  remained  in  Cambridge 
until  his  death.  In  1655  "The  Great  Deed  from 
the  Cambridge  Projirietors  to  the  Billerica  Pro- 
])rietors,"  making  Shawshine  or  Hillerica  an 
independent  town,  was  executed  and  William 
Patten  was  one  of  the  signers.  This  deed  is 
still  preserved  by  the  town  of  P)illerica.  Will- 
iam Patten  died  December  10,  1668.  He  left 
no  will,  but  on  April  2,  1669,  his  widow  filed 
with  the  court  an  inventory  of  property  amount- 
ing to  one  hundred  and  ninety-nine  jjounds, 
three  shillings  and  eight  |)ence.  The  articles 
enumerated  and  their  value  show  him  to  have 
been  a  citizen  in  good  circumstances.  William 
Patten  married  before  coming  to  this  country 

-Mary ,  who  died  September  20,   1(^)73. 

Their  children  were:  Mary,  W'illiani,  Thomas, 
Sarah.  Xathaniel  (died  young)  and  Xathaniel. 
ill)  Thomas,  second  son  of  William  and 
.Mary  Patten,  was  i)orn  at  Cambridge,  October, 
i^y),  <lied  January  16,  ifiijo.  He  removed  in 
1654  to  I'.illerica,  and  resided  there  till  his 
death.  I  lis  house  was  on  the  west  of  Long 
street,  south  of  the  ComuKin.  near  the  house 
of  Francis  Richardson,  lie  owned  consider- 
able land  in  liillcrica  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
and  also  owned  an  interest  in  a  sawmill  near 
I'attenville.  lie  does  not  seem  to  have  taken 
an  active  part  in  the  ]niblic  aflfairs  of  the  town  : 
in  the  treasurer's  account  of  the  town  for  the 
year   l'i*i4  l\;ilpb   Mill.  Sen.,  and  Thnm;is   P:it- 


ten  are  charged  thirteen  shillings  each  for  "not 
traininge;"  Hillerica  being  a  frontier  settle- 
ment there  was  great  fear  of  the  Indians  atid 
much  dread  of  an  attack  from  them.  In  1675 
an  order  was  passed  by  the  selectmen  and 
committee  of  the  militia  appointing  garrison 
houses  and  assigning  citizens  to  them.  .An  e.x- 
tract  from  the  order  is  as  follows:  "5.  They 
apjioint  Thomas  Pattin's  house,  for  garrison 
and  to  entertain  Coldin  Aloore,  Samuel  ffrost, 
Jno.  Kidder,  Roger  Toothaker  &  John  Trull ; 
seven  soldiers  and  five  families."  In  the  same 
order  overseers  were  appointed  for  each  garri- 
son, whose  duty  it  was  to  regulate  the  work  of 
the  garrison  and  determine  what  should  be 
done  for  fortifying  them.  Orders  were  also 
issued  putting  strict  regulations  on  the  conduct 
of  citizens,  and  giving  instructions  as  to  what 
be  done  in  case  of  an  attack  by  the  Indians. 
.A  master  was  also  appointed  for  each  garrison, 
Thomas  Patten  being  appointed  for  his  house. 
Jaiuiary  14,  iCx;o,  Patten  made  a  will  of  which 
his  wife  and  his  son  William  were  joint  exe- 
cutors. The  inventory  of  his  ])roperty,  filed 
the  .March  following,  amounted  to  three  hun- 
dred and  eight  i)ounds.  Thomas  Patten  mar- 
ried, April  I,  1662,  Rebecca  Paine,  of  Dedham, 
born  October  19,  1642,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Rebecca  Paine.  She  died  May  19,  1680. 
He  married  (second)  May  20,  1686,  Sarah 
Dunton,  of  Reading,  Her  name  by  some 
authorities  is  given  as  DidstMi  or  Ditson.  but 
the  name  of  Dunton  is  that  given  by  the  Biller- 
ica records.  .She  married  (second)  December 
29.  1690,  Thomas  Richardson.  Thomas  and 
Rebecca  were  the  parents  of :  Mary.  Thomas, 
Nathaniel,  William.  Rebecca,  Sarah,  F.lizabeth. 
Mehitable  and  Kendall. 

(HI  )  Xathaniel,  second  son  of  Thomas  and 
Rebecca  (  Paine)  Patten,  was  born  in  Billerica, 
.'-^ciitember  14,  1668,  died  .April  2,  1718.  He 
was  a  thrifty  man  and  left  what  was  for  that 
time  a  good  estate.  He  married,  December  6. 
1695,  Hannah  Ross,  born  March  31,  1679, 
(laughter  of  Thomas  Ross.  She  married  (sec- 
ond )  May  19,  1726,  Josejih  Emerson.  The 
children  of  Xathaniel  and  Hannah  were:  llan- 
n;di.  Xathaniel  and  John. 

(1\)  Xathaniel  (2),  son  of  Xatli;uiicl  (  1  ) 
and  Hannah  (Ross)  Patten,  was  born  in  liil- 
lerica,  Se])tember  10,  1707,  died  Xovember  2^, 
1736.  December  7,  1729.  Xathaniel  Patten, 
cooper,  and  Mary,  his  wife,  convey  land  and 
mill  in  Oxford  to  |o^e]ih  Reed,  of  Leicester. 
'The  following  year  they  convey  land  also  in 
()xford  to  Benoni  Twitchell.  They  are  after- 
ward rei)orted  to  have  gone  to  Windham,  Con- 


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necticut.  where  tlieir  children  are  said  to  have 
been  born,  but  on  the  \\  indhani  records  the 
birth  of  Mary  alone  ajipears.  lie  afterward 
went  to  Stratford,  Connecticut,  where  he  re- 
mained till  his  death.  His  grave  and  that  of 
his  wife  Mary  may  be  seen  there  at  the  present 
time.  .A.t  a  term  of  probate  court  lield  at  Hart- 
ford, September  5.  1757,  the  following  entry 
was  made:  "It  was  certified  to  this  Court  by 
Zebulon  West,  Esc|.,  Justice  of  the  peace,  that 
Sarah  Fatten  a  minor  thirteen  years  of  age. 
daughter  of  Xathaniel  Patten,  late  of  Tolland, 
deceased,  before  him  made  choice  of  Xathaniel 
Woodward  of  Coventry  in  the  Court  of  Wind- 
ham,  to  be  guardian,  which  choice  the  Court 
allows."  .At  the  same  session  of  the  court 
"Xathaniel  Woodward  of  ("oventry.  adminis- 
trator in  right  c)f  the  wife  Mary,  the  Relict  of 
.Vath'l  I'atten,  late  of  Stafford,  deceased,  hav- 
ing settled  their  account  of  administration  on 
said  estate  then  move  to  the  Court  for  dis- 
tribution." The  decree  of  distribution  give? 
"to  the  Rellict  of  said  Dec'd  now  the  wife  of 
Xathaniel  Woodward  one  third  of  the  movable 
estate,  e.vclusive  of  Debts  and  charges  and  one 
third  of  the  Real  F-Istate  for  iier  Improvement 
during  life  and  to  .Xath'l  Fatten,  eldest  son  a 
Double  share  and  to  John  Patten,  William  Pat- 
ten, and  to  Mary  Patten,  Hannah  I'atten  and 
Sarah  Patten,  children  of  tlie  deceased  each 
of  them  a  single  share."  Xathaniel  Patten 
married  Mary  Kidder,  daughter  of  Enoch  and 
Mary  (  Hayward  )  Kidder.  They  are  thought 
to  be  the  ones  who  were  living  in  Oxford  in 
1729.  .-\fter  the  death  of  her  first  husband, 
Mrs.  Patten  married  Xathaniel  Woodward. 
She  died  Xovember  30.  1789.  aged  eighty-eight 
years.  The  children  of  Xathaniel  and  Mary 
(Kidder)  Patten  were:  Mary  (died  yoimg), 
Hannah.  Xathaniel.  .Mary,  Sarah,  John  and 
William. 

(V)  John,  second  son  of  Xathaniel  (2)  and 
Mary  (Kidder)  I'atten,  was  born  in  1747. 
March  18,  1778,  he  took  the  oath  of  fidelity 
appointed  to  be  taken  by  the  state  of  Connec- 
ticut and  at  a  freeman's  meeting  held  in  Staf- 
ford, Connecticut,  .\pril  8,  1782,  John  Patten 
took  the  oath  re(|uired  by  law  for  freeman. 
He  was  a  soldier  of  the  revolution  in  (>)lonel 
Spencer's  Second  Connecticut  Regiment,  Third 
Company.  Captain  Roger  Knos,  of  Windham. 
He  served  from  May  9  to  December  18,  I775- 
On  a  list  of  soldiers  from  Tolland  county  who 
served  in  the  campaign  against  Piurgoyne  in 
1777  appears  the  name  of  John  Patten,  cor- 
poral. On  a  monument  in  Portland.  Connecti- 
cut, js  this  inscription:     "John  Patten,  buried 


at  West  Springfield.  .August  13,  1800,  aged 
fifty-three  years.  Hannah,  wife  of  John  Pat- 
ten, died  May  17,  1816,  aged  si.xty-three  years." 
John  Patten  by  his  wife  Hainiah,  daughter  of 
Seth  Johnston,  had  five  children  :  .Setli  John- 
ston, l.ydia,  Robert,  Hannah  ami  John. 

(\1)  Seth  Johnston,  eldest  child  of  John 
and  Hannah  (Johnston)  Patten,  was  born  in 
Stafi'ord,  Conecticut.  I'ebruary  18,  1773,  <lied 
in  W'ilbraham,  .Massachusetts,  .A|)ril  24,  1855. 
The  name  of  Seth  J.  Patten  ajipears  on  the 
roll  of  Connecticut  militia  in  the  war  of  181 2, 
his  service  being  from  .August  6,  1813,  to  Sej)- 
tember  id,  of  the  same  year.  He  married, 
Xnvemher  2~ .  1800,  Huldah  Warner,  born 
Jaiuiary  11,  1779,  died  in  South  Wilbraham, 
.\[)ril  4.  1859.  Their  children,  born  at  Ware- 
house Point.  Cotniecticut.  were  :  Seth  J.  (died 
young).  .\<leline.  F.liphalet  Warner.  Huldah, 
John,  F'.meline,  Robert,  \\  illiam,  Seth  J.  (died 
voung")  and  Mary  .A. 

(\'I1)  William  (2),  fifth  son  of  Seth  J.  and 
llul<l;di  (  W  ariKT  )  I'atten,  was  born  at  Ware- 
house point,  Connecticut,  October  25,  1819, 
(lied  in  .Springfield.  .Massachusetts.  Xovember 
30.  iS(;8.  In  early  life  he  changed  the  s|)elling 
of  the  name  to  Patton.  He  was  educated  in 
the  common  schools  of  Enfield  and  Warehouse 
Point  and  for  a  time  taught  penmanship  in 
the  comTuon  schof)ls.  He  then  became  a  ])eddler 
of  notions  and  from  his  cart  sold  wares  in 
various  parts  of  .Xew  England.  In  this  busi- 
ness he  was  a  success  and  accumulated  money. 
Seeing  how  he  could  make  his  business  more 
extensive  and  more  i)rofitable.  he  came  to 
Sjiringfield  Xovember,  1848,  and  opened  a  store 
where  he  sold  general  notions,  small  wares, 
arms,  etc.,  and  kei)t  a  number  of  men  on  the 
road  selling  from  wagons  and  distributing  goods 
all  over  .Xew  England,  except  Rhode  Island. 
Later  these  jieddlers  were  succeedefi  by  com- 
mercial travelers  of  the  modern  tyjie,  and  he 
emj)loved  about  fifteen  men,  clerks  and  trav- 
elers. This  enterprise  was  very  successful  and 
Mr.  Patton  cleared  a  large  amount  of  money 
before  January  11,  1875,  when  he  sold  out  his 
business  to  D.  I'rank  Hale.  He  was  engaged 
in  the  real  estate  business  from  an  early  date, 
and  built  up  much  in  Siiringfield.  He  made 
his  first  purchase  at  the  corner  of  llamixlen 
and  Main  streets,  l-'ebruary  \(^.  1857.  In  1864 
he  built  at  270-276  Main  street,  corner  of 
Ham]Klen.  a  building  four  stories  high  of  sev- 
enty-five feet  front  anrl  eighty  feet  depth,  a 
large  business  structure  for  Springfield  in  those 
days.  In  this  building  he  had  his  store  from 
January.   hS'').;.  to  January,  1875.     In   1870  he 


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built  behind  this  block  of  stores  another  on 
Hampden  street  ;  and  in  1874  another  block 
on  Hani]Klen  street  which  has  recently  been 
taken  down  by  William  Patton,  Jr.,  and  on  the 
site  he  is  now  erecting  a  much  handsomer  and 
more  costly  building.  Foreseeing  the  inevit- 
able extension  of  Springfield  toward  the  north, 
Mr.  Patton  bought  part  of  a  piece  of  land  then 
used  as  ])asture.  and  two  years  later  bought 
tlie  remainder  extending  from  Main  to  Chest- 
nut streets,  two  blocks  wide  through  the  center 
(^f  which  he  laid  out  Patton  street.  Continuing 
to  indulge  his  penchant  for  architecture,  he 
began  to  build  residences  on  this  tract  in  1878, 
when  he  erected  two  houses.  Continuing  he 
erected  four  houses  in  1879,  four  in  1880,  six 
in  18S1,  two  in  1886,  one  in  1887,  six  in  1888, 
and  many  others  in  the  years  following  till  the 
time  of  his  death,  covering  the  land  he  had 
bought  with  well-built,  two-story  houses,  a 
total  of  fifty-eight,  all  but  two  of  which  he 
continued  to  own  and  rent.  He  made  large 
real  estate  deals,  in  which  he  was  a  gainer,  and 
at  the  time  of  his  death  his  property  had  vastly 
increased  in  value.  Mr.  Patton  was  a  Repub- 
lican. I"or  many  years  he  was  a  member  of 
Christ  Church  (Episcopal)  and  one  of  its 
vestrymen.  He  was  a  Vfason  and  a  metnber 
of  the  W'inthrop  Club.  Mr.  Patton  was  twice 
abroad,  his  first  visit  to  Europe  including  Eng- 
land. Scotland  and  France  ;  and  the  second  Hol- 
land. Belgium  and  Ciermany.  He  was  an  en- 
thusiastic sportsman  and  greatly  enjoyed  hunt- 
ing and  fishing.  He  traveled  much  over  the 
United  States  and  spent  winters  in  Florida 
where  he  found  ample  opportunity  to  indulge 
his  desire  to  fish  and  hunt.  Mr.  Patton  was 
net  wholly  absorbed  in  the  pursuit  of  business 
and  money  getting  in  which  he  was  so  very 
successful,  but  was  one  of  the  best  informed 
men  in  history,  mythology,  as  well  as  general 
literature,  a  deep  thinker,  a  great  student  and 
a  pleasing  conversationalist. 

William  Patton  married,  in  Sufiield,  Con- 
necticut, .\pril  2.  1846.  Caroline  E.  Sikcs,  born 
April  6,  1825,  daughter  of  .Amos  and  .Anne 
(  Xortham)  Sikes,  of  Suffield.  She  died  Janu- 
ary \>).  1888.  Two  children  were  born  to  them: 
Carrie  E.  and  William.  Carrie  K.,  born  May 
7,  1849:  married.  May  II,  1870,  William  S. 
Creene,  and  resides  in  Springfield  (see  Greene 
XXl).  To  Mr.  and  ^irs.  (Greene  was  born 
one  child,  Harrie  W.,  October  9.  1872. 

(Vni)  William  (3),  only  son  of  William 
(2)  and  Caroline  E.  (Sikes")  Patton.  was  born 
in  .Springfield,  Massachusetts,  .\ugiist  4.  1855. 
He  attended  the  i)ul)lic  schools  of  .Springfield 


until  he  had  comjjleted  a  3'ear  in  the  high  school 
and  then  went  to  Williston  Seminary,  East 
1  lampden,  where  he  took  two  years  of  the 
three  years  scientific  course.  His  service  in  his 
father's  store  then  began  and  this  continued 
until  the  latter  sold  out  his  mercantile  business. 
The  following  nine  years  he  was  in  Xew  York 
city  as  a  clerk  with  John  B.  Alden  &  Comj>any, 
then  a  famous  jjublishing  house.  In  July,  1888, 
he  returned  to  Springfield  and  from  that  time 
had  the  chief  care  of  his  father's  realty  and 
real  estate  business.  By  the  death  of  his  father, 
he  has  become  a  large  holder  in  real  property 
w  hich  he  has  managed  with  skill  and  profit.  At 
the  present  time  (1909)  he  is  about  to  finish  a 
handsome  building  on  Hampden  street.  He  is 
the  owner  of  one-half  of  the  property  on 
Patterson  street.  He  has  a  handsome  residence 
at  80  Cornell  street.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican. In  foreign  travel  he  finds  entertain- 
ment and  instruction,  and  the  art  galleries  of 
the  old  world  have  much  that  he  admires.  He 
lias  made  six  tours  to  the  countries  of  South- 
western Europe. 


The  origin  of  the  name 
RICHARDSOX  Richardson  dates  back 
centuries,  and  came  from 
the  name  Richard,  Richardson  meaning  son  of 
Richard.  This  tradition  was  a  matter  of  course, 
and  the  name  has  been  widely  spread  in  Eng- 
l:'rd,  .Scotland,  Wales  and  Ireland,  .\mong 
the  name  are  found  men  of  letters,  barristers, 
clrTgymen.  baronets,  bisho]is,  painters,  authors, 
statesmen,  professors,  merchants  and  manu- 
facturers. The  different  family  seats  bore 
arms,  and  it  would  be  impossible  to  correctly 
give  a  coat-of-arms  that  would  apply  to  all  the 
different  families,  as  few  if  any  of  the  immi- 
grants had  the  same. 

I  I )  Samuel,  one  of  the  three  noted  Richard- 
son brothers  who  were  among  tlie  earliest  set- 
tlers of  Woburn,  Massachusetts,  was  baptized 
at  West  Mill,  county  Herts,  F.ngland,  Decem- 
ber 22.  1602  or  1604,  and  died  in  Woburn, 
Massachu.setts.  March  23,  1658.  He  was  son 
of  Thomas  and  Katherine  (Durford)  Rich- 
ardson, of  West  Mill,  who  were  married  .Au- 
gust 24,  1590.  He  was  second  in  age  of  the 
three  brothers,  Ezekiel,  Samuel  and  Thomas, 
and  the  last  of  the  three  to  come  to  Xew  Eng- 
land. His  wife  Joanna,  surname  unknown, 
])robably  died  in  1678.  She  was  living  as  late 
as  December  10,  iC>77.  when  she  is  mentioned 
as  receiving  fifty-five  acres  of  land  at  a  meet- 
ing of  the  proprietors  held  that  date.  Her  will 
(Iati'<l    20th,   4th,    1666.   mentions   sons  John. 


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Joseph.  Samuel  and  Sie])lien ;  and  daughters 
Elizabeth  and  Mary  Mousall.  Elizabeth  and 
Mary  married  brothers,  sons  of  Ralph  Mousall, 
of  Charlestown.  Elizabeth  marrying  John,  and 
Marj-  marrying  Thomas.  Samuel  Richartlsou 
was  executor  of  his  father's  will  in  England, 
dated  March  4.  1630.  ami  inherited  his  mother's 
part  of  his  father's  estate.  The  will  was  pre- 
sented at  court  in  i<)34  by  Samuel  Richardson. 
Samuel  was  married  before  he  left  West  Mill, 
and  two  of  his  children  were  baptized  there — 
Samuel,  1633.  and  Elizabeth.  1^)33.  It  was 
after  1635  that  he  and  his  brother  Thomas 
sailed  for  Xew  England.  In  1636  he  located 
in  Charlestown.  lie  was  a  selectman  of  W'o- 
burn.  1644-46-49-51,  and  his  name  appears  on 
the  first  tax  list  of  W'oburn  in  1645.  He  was 
one  of  the  signer.s  of  W'oburn  town  orders  of 
1640.  He  released  certain  lands,  with  his 
brothers,  to  the  inhabitants  of  W'oburn  in  1644. 
and  helped  found  the  first  church  of  W'oburn 
in  1642.  His  estate  was  locate<l  on  the  'Rich- 
ard.son  Row  Road"  of  early  times,  and  an 
estate  known  a  century  ago  as  the  Job  Miller 
estate,  on  present  Washington  street,  in  the 
present  limits  of  the  town  of  Winchester,  was 
the  more  modern  e(|uivalent.  This  estate  de- 
scended in  a  direct  line  from  Samuel  (I),  to 
Samuel  (11).  thence  to  Jonathan  (III),  and 
thence  to  Jonathan  (  I\' )  Richar(l>on.  The 
last  Jonathan  bec|ueathed  it  to  his  niece.  Sarah 
Miller,  wife  of  Job  Miller.  Jonathan  Richard- 
son ( I\' ).  who  was  born  in  \\'obnrn.  had  lived 
elsewhere  during  a  part  of  his  life,  and  return- 
ing in  his  latter  days  to  W'oburn.  died  in  his 
native  town  October  31.  1798.  Job  Miller  that 
year  occui^ied  the  house,  which  was  a  very  old 
one  at  that  time,  thirty-six  by  eighteen  feet  in 
lateral  dimensions,  and  two  stories  high.  The 
adjoining  farm  contained  fifty  acres.  The 
family  of  Samuel  Richardson  (II)  was  attack- 
ed by  Indians  on  this  ])lace:  Ajjril  10.  1676,  and 
three  of  the  family  were  killed.  The  father 
was  at  work  on  the  afternoon  of  that  day, 
with  a  young  son  for  company,  in  his  field. 
He  noticed  a  commotion  at  the  house,  and 
hastening  there  found  his  wife  Hannah  and  his 
son  Thomas  had  been  slain  by  a  band  of  skulk- 
ing Indians,  so  called,  who  after  robbing  some 
gardens  of  linen  articles,  at  Cambridge,  had 
on  their  retreat  ()erformed  this  mischief  and 
slaughter.  .\  further  search  revealed  the  fact 
that  his  infant  daughter  Hannah  had  also  been 
killed.  Her  nurse  had  fled  with  her  in  her 
arms  in  the  direction  of  a  neighboring  garri- 
son house,  and  being  closely  pursued  by  the 
Indians,  in  order  to  save  herself,  she  dropped 


the  child,  which  the  Inilians  dispatched.  The 
father  |nirsued  the  Indians  with  a  rallying 
party,  and  coming  upon  them  seated  beside  a 
swamj)  in  the  woods,  the  party  shot  at  iheni 
and  hit  one  of  them  fatally,  as  the  body  was 
found  afterwards  in  the  woods,  buried  under 
leaves  where  his  associates  had  laid  him.  The 
fact  of  his  being  wounded  was  jjroved  by 
traces  of  blood  which  were  found  in  the  woods 
from  the  ])oint  where  he  was  first  after  he  was 
shot:  at  this  i)lacc  the  Indians  left  behind  a 
bundle  of  linen  in  w'hich  was  found  wrapjied 
up  the  scaljjs  of  one  or  more  of  their  victims. 
The  .*^mith  place  represents  the  original  estate 
of  Job  Miller.  I'rince  avenue  traverses  the 
original  Samuel  Richardson  estate.  The  estate 
of  the  first  Samuel  extended  from  the  present 
tracks  of  the  I'.oston  &  Maine  railroad,  near 
Nathaniel  .\.  Richardson's  house,  to  the  Stone- 
ham  and  Winchester  town  line,  the  homestead 
being  on  the  estate  known  to  many  of  the 
))rcsent  generation  as  the  Josiah  E.  Stone  place. 
A  ])art  of  the  lands  now  owned  by  Nathaniel 
.\.  Richardson  were  included  in  the  original 
estate.  The  Miller  house  was  built  by  the 
second  Samuel,  but  the  first  Samuel  is  sup- 
posed to  have  lived  on  the  other  side  of  the 
|)resent  Washington  street,  and  oi)i)osite  the 
Miller  |)lace.  His  house  stood  in  a  little  valley. 
,ind  disa|)peared  before  the  year  1800. 

Children  :  I.  Samuel,  baptized  at  West  Mill, 
Herts,  l-'ngland.  July  3.  1633.  2.  Elizabeth, 
baptized  at  West  Mill.  -May  22.  1635:  married 
John  .Mousall.  of  Charlestown  ;  died  at  Charles- 
town. .\ugust  16,  1685.  3.  Mary,  baptized  at 
Charlestown.  Eebruary  25,  16)37-8;  married 
Thomas  Mousall.  of  Charlestown.  4.  John, 
baptized  at  Charlestown,  Xoveiuber  12.  i63<j; 
married  (first)  October  22,  1658.  h:iizabeth 
I'.acon;  (second)  October  28.  1672.  Mary  I'ier- 
son;  (third)  Margaret  Willing.  5.  Hannah, 
born  at  W'oburn.  March  8.  1641-42.  died  .Aijril 
8.  1642.  6.  Joseph,  born  July  27.  1643;  mar- 
ried. N'oveml)  r  5.  i6/)6.  Hannah  Creen.  7. 
.Samuel,  born  May  22.  1646.  8.  Ste|)hen.  born 
.Xugiist  13.  i'M'^  mentioned  below.  9.  Thomas, 
born   December  31.   i()3i.  died  Sei)tember  2T, 

•^'57- 

(II)   .Stijjhen.    son   of   Sanniel    Richardson, 

was  born  at  Woljurn,  Massachusetts,  .Xugust 
13.  i^4<>.  diid  there  .March  22.  1717-18.  He 
resirled  in  W  oburn  which  then  included  Murl- 
ington.  a  jiart  of  Wilmington,  and  his  land  ex- 
tended into  I'.iilcrica  which  then  joined  Wo- 
burn.  He  was  a  freeman  in  \(*)n.  His  will 
was  dated  .\ugust  15.  I7i3,and  proved  .\pril  22. 
1718  (see  Midfllesex  probate  records,  vol.  15. 


472 


MASSAC  I ILSETTS. 


pp.  157-163).  In  it  he  mentions  as  living  wife 
Abigail,  danghters  Abigail  \inton  and  Ir'ru- 
dence  Kendall,  sons  Stephen,  William,  Francis, 
Timothy,  Seth,  Daniel  and  Solomon.  He  mar- 
ried, January  2,  1674-75,  at  Billerica,  Abigail 
\Vyman,  born  1659,  died  September  7,  1720, 
daughter  of  Francis  and  .\bigail  (Read)  \Vy- 
nian,  the  former  of  whom  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Wobiirn  and  one  of  the  largest  land- 
holders of  Wobnrn.  Children  :  i.  Stephen,  born 
February  20,  1675-76,  died  January  14,  171 1- 
12.  2.  Francis,  born  January  19,  1677-78,  died 
January  27,  1677-78.  3.  William,  born  De- 
cember 14.  1678;  mentioned  below.  4.  Fran- 
cis, born  January  15,  1680-81  ;  married  Sarah 
Tloughton.  5.  Timothy,  born  December  6, 
•682,  died  January  18,  1682-83.  6.  Abigail, 
born  November  14,  1683,  died  June  21,  1720: 
married  John  X'inton,  Esq.,  March  9,  1702.  7. 
Prudence,  born  January  17,  1685-86;  married 
Samuel  Kendall.  8.  Timothy,  born  January 
24,  1687-88;  married  Susanna  Holden.  9. 
Seth,  born  January  16,  1689-90  ;  married  Mary 
Brown.  10.  Daniel,  born  October  16,  1691, 
died  April  20,  1749  :  married  Joanna  (Mousall) 
Miller.  11.  Mary,  born  May  3,  1696,  died 
before  1713.  12.  Rebecca,  born  June  10,  1698, 
died  December  6,  171 1.  13.  Solomon,  born 
March  27,  1702;  married  Abigail  Evans. 

(Ill)  William,  son  of  Stephen  Richardson, 
was  born  at  Woburn,  Massachusetts,  December 
14,  1678.  but  the  time  of  his  death  is  not 
recorded,  lie  was  a  husbandman,  and  resided 
in  Wolnirn  until  1709  or  1710.  when  he  re- 
moved to  Charlestovvn  End,  or  the  present 
town  of  .*>toneham,  incorporated  as  such  De- 
cember 17,  1725.  His  land  bordered  on  that 
of  his  brother-in-law,  John  \'inton,  Esc|.,  and 
he  owned  several  lots  in  common  with  him. 
On  March  22,  1710,  land  in  Charlestown  was 
conveyed  to  John  \'inton  and  William  Richard- 
son. There  are  three  other  deeds  dated  1700, 
1709,  17 1 2.  by  which  land  in  Charlestown 
(east  side  of  Spot  Pond  in  Stoneham)  was 
conveyed  to  them  also.  On  March  26,  171 5, 
^\'illiam  Richardson  sells  land  to  John  \inton, 
Esq.  About  1718  he  removed  to  .Attleboro, 
Mas.sachusetts.  lie  bought  land  there  of  the 
proprietors,  December  25,  17 10.  II is  wife  Re- 
becca is  mentioned  in  her  mother's  will  dated 
April  21,  1729.  He  married,  Sei)tember  15, 
1703,  at  Woburn,  Rebecca  \'inton.  horn  Alarch 
26,-  1683,  died  after  1729.  daughter  of  John 
and  1  lannah  (Ciren)  \'inton,of  Woburn.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Rebecca,  born  .\ugust  4,  1704.  died 
at  almshouse,  .April  11,  1788.  2.  Hannah,  born 
October  28,  1706.     3.  .Abigail,  born  .\|)ril    18, 


170,1.  died  Xovember  2t,.  1730:  married.  .Au- 
gust 8.  1728.  John  Shejjard.  4.  William,  born 
A|  ril  17.  1712:  married  Mary  Coy.  5.  Ste- 
]i1kii.  born  September  7,  1714;  married,  No- 
vember II,  1736,  Hannah  Coy.  6.  Mary,  born 
.\pril  18,  1717.  died  November  i,  1797,  unmar- 
ried. 7.  John,  born  November  27,  1719;  men- 
tioned below.  8.  Joanna,  born  September  17, 
1722. 

(  1\'  )  John,  son  of  William  Richardson,  was 
burn  at  .Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  November 
2~.  1 7 19.  He  received  his  name  John  out  of 
regard  to  John  \'inton,  Esq.,  of  Stoneham, 
his  mother's  brother.  He  was  private  in  Cap- 
tain .'^tephen  Richardson's  company  of  minute- 
men  which  marched  on  the  alarm  of  .April  19, 
1775,  service  nine  days.  There  is  a  copy  of 
an  order  on  Ephraim  Newell,  town  treasurer 
r)f  .Attleboro,  dated  July  5.  1776,  for  wages 
due  said  Richardson  and  others  for  service  on 
the  alarm  caused  by  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill. 
He  married  Elizabeth  Wyman.  Children:  i. 
I  .ucy,  born  December  5.  1742.  2.  John,  born 
-May  24.  1744.  died  June  2,  181 1  :  married  Ruth 
Woodcock.  3.  Wyman.  born  May  13,  1746, 
(lied  October  14.  1839;  married,  October  31, 
1 77 1,  Ruth  Lane.  4.  Betsey,  born  April  7, 
1748.  5.  Joel,  born  October  10,  1750;  men- 
tioned below.  6.  Henry,  born  .August  7,  1752, 
drowned  November  4,  1827,  aged  seventy-five; 
married.  June  23,   1774.  Olive   lllackinton. 

(  \  )  Joel,  son  of  John  Richardson,  was  born 
at  Attleboro,  Massachu.setts,  October  10,  1750, 
died  at  Belgrade,  Maine,  January  7,  1819. 
Abort  1795  he  removed  his  family  from  Attle- 
hr^ro  to  Belgrade.  Alaine,  with  his  brother 
1  lenry's  family,  where  they  all  settled.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  owned  large  tracts  of  land 
in  I'.elgrade.  lie  was  married  at  Belgrade, 
Maine,  they  being  the  first  couple  to  be  married 
in  that  town,  having  previously  gone  there,  but 
returned  to  .Attleboro.  He  married,  1776,  Sarah 
Wyman,  died  December  10,  1845,  daughter  of 
Simon  Wyman.  Children:  I.  Joel,  born  May 
II.  1777:  mentioned  below.  2.  Henry,  born 
.\\)u\  28,  1779.  3.  Daniel,  .April  8.  1781.  4. 
F.lizabcth,  June  11,  1784.  5.  Sarah,  I'cbruary 
27,  1787.  6.  Ariel.  June  17.  1789.  7.  Silas, 
October  6,  1796.    8.  Stejihen.  May  30,  1799. 

(\'n  Joel  (2).  son  of  Joel  (i)  Richardson, 
was  horn  at  Belgrade,  Maine,  May  II,  1777, 
died  at  Canaan.  Maine.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  district  school,  and  assisted  his 
father  on  the  farm.  He  later  settled  at  Hart- 
land.  Maine,  as  a  farmer  an<l  storekcejier.  His 
wit'j  Temperance  was  said  to  have  been  a  very 
capable  woman,     lioth  Joel  and  his  wife  were 


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inembcTs  of  the  clnircli.  and  he  was  strong  in 
liis  tonvictions.  indiistrions.  Iionest  and  frngal 
in  iiis  living.  He  owned  considerable  property 
atone  time.  He  married,  at  Belgrade,  Maine, 
December  8,  1797,  Temperance  Crowell,  died 
September  5.  1841,  and  buried  at  Canaan, 
Maine,  daughter  of  Levi  and  Deborah  (  Bax- 
ter )  Crowell.  Ciiildren  :  1.  Joel,  married  Mary 
Danfortb:  children:  Charles.  Miller,  Ralph. 
Julia,  Temperance,  .Sybil.  2.  David,  married 
Lorinda  (Sale;  children:      David,  Jr.,  Marcia, 

.Angelica.     3.  Bryant,  married  Rachel  ; 

children :  Joel.  Stephen.  Eugene.  Josephine. 
4.  Miller,  married,  and  had  children  :  ICmogcne, 
Sarah.     5.  Stephen,  mentioned  below,  o.  .Saliv. 

married   Ellis.      7.    Deborah,    married 

I  first  )  a  (ileason  :  (second)  Elkanah  .Miller: 
chililren  :  .\nnie  .Maria.  Sylvia.  Leonard.  Xancy. 
Isabella.  Elizabeth,  I'rances.  Stephen.  8.  .Vancy. 

married  Joel  Lambert.  9.  Svlvia. married 

Gale. 

(\TI)  Stephen  (2).  son  of  Joel  (  i  )  Rich- 
ardson, was  born  at  Belgrade,  Maine,  about 
1825,  died  and  was  buricil  at  Forestville,  .Son- 
omo  county,  California.  1880.  He  was  reared 
on  his  father's  farm  and  in  his  father's  store, 
ac(|uiring  a  good  education  in  the  district  school, 
being  a  fine  penman  and  above  the  average  of 
his  associates  in  learning.  He  also  worked  in 
his  brother's  general  store  at  Canaan.  Maine. 
.\t  the  age  of  nineteen  years,  having  ac(|uired 
a  knoweldgc  of  the  general  store  business,  he 
set  up  in  business  with  Hartwell  .Mcrrow  at 
Hartland,  Maine.  His  b(X)ks  show  that  he 
sold  rum,  furs,  groceries,  jewelry,  farm  pro- 
ducts and  such  supplies  as  are  sold  in  an  inland 
town.  He  was  also  the  postmaster  of  the  place, 
and  conductefl  a  blacksmith  anrl  wheelwright 
shop,  also  the  village  hotel  for  a  time.  He  was 
also  town  clerk  and  held  other  important  offices. 
In  1852  he  sold  his  interests  to  his  i)artner,  and 
with  the  impression  that  he  was  to  buy  goods 
in  .\'ew  York,  shipjK-d  via  Cape  Horn  for  Cali- 
fornia during  the  gold  excitement.  He  was 
not  engaged  at  mining,  but  was  steward  and 
supply  agent,  also  clerk  for  one  of  the  com- 
panies then  operated  in  the  gold  fields.  In 
later  years  he  was  engaged  as  an  exchange 
dealer  and  trader.  It  was  reported  that  he 
was  killed  by  Indians  in  1880.  He  was  a  Dem- 
ocrat in  politics,  following  in  the  footsteps  of 
his  forefathers,  who  were  all  Democrats.  He 
was  a  brilliant  man  in  conversation,  genial  in 
disposition  and  generous  among  his  friends. 
He  married,  November  18,  1846.  at  .\ugnsta, 
.Maine,  Harriet  Miller,  born  in  Sidney,  Maine. 
Xovcmber  10,  182^).  died  in  Franklin,  Massa- 


chusetts, .March  7.  1879,  of  cancer,  daughter 
of  Elkanah  and  Isabella  (  Battles  »  .Miller.  Ivlka- 
nah  .Miller  was  a  farmer.  Children:  [.Wal- 
lace Ruthven,  born  .May  18,  1848;  married, 
-March  8.  1873.  Elizabeth'jane  Walker,  of  Yar- 
mouth. Maine:  children:  i.  .\nnie  .Maud, born 
December  4,  1874,  died  Seinember  17,  1879; 
ii.  Charles  Ruthven.  born  July  12.  1877.  died 
October  2.  i87<>:  iii.  Mildred,  born  December 
2-.  1881.  2.  1-Vemont  .Miller,  born  October 
8,  1849:  mentioned  below.  3.  Ste|)hen  W'ill- 
iam.  born  March  16,  1852;  married,  October 
3.  1877.  Eldora  .M.  Ricker :  children:  i.  Clar- 
ence Stei)hen.  burn  .\i)ril  16,  r88o.  married, 
I'^cbruary  18.  1903.  .\ra  Kisterson;  ii.  Stanley, 
horn  Jidy  15,  1883,  married,  Jinie  6,  1906, 
Maud  .Mc(ireno;  iii.  Edith  -M.,  born  .August 
20.  1886,  married,  b^ebruary  20.  nx'7,  Charles 
Zimmerman;  iv.  Ralph  Miller,  horn  J:uiuary 
29,  1894. 

(\'11I)  bVemont  Miller,  son  of  Stephen 
(2)  Richardson,  was  born  at  Hartland,  Maine. 
October  8,  1849.  .At  the  age  of  six  years,  after 
his  father  went  to  California,  he  with  his 
mother  and  two  brothers  removed  to  Franklin, 
Massachusetts,  where  the  family  settled  in  the 
south  part  of  the  town  (South  b'ranklin). 
Here,  with  his  brothers,  he  attended  the  dis- 
trict school,  working  out  on  different  farms, 
and  attending  school  until  fourteen  years  of 
age.  He  then  entered  the  employ  of  Thomas 
D.  I'llsbree,  who  kept  the  postoffice  and  general 
store  at  .Sheldonville,  in  the  west  part  of 
Wrentham,  where  he  reiuained  four  years. 
He  then  came  home  to  I""ranklin,  his  mother 
having  j)revii)usly  moved  to  the  center.  He 
took  a  six  months  course  in  I'ryant  &  Strat- 
ton's  Commercial  School  at  Boston,  and  again 
entered  the  employ  of  Mr.  F-lsbrce  who  was 
then  a  general  store  keeper  at  Central  Falls, 
Rlioile  Island,  remaining  four  years,  sub.se- 
f|uently  accepting  a  similar  jiosition  as  clerk 
in  the  store  of  .A.  &  W.  Sprague  Company,  at 
Central  Falls,  and  after  a  year  transferred  to 
their  Providence  store,  where  he  remained  until 
the  com|>any  was  f)Ut  of  business.  He  then  re- 
turned to  Franklin,  Massachusetts,  and  entered 
the  employ  of  James  O.  Chilson,  a  leading 
groc(.r  and  provision  merchant,  where  he  re- 
mained until  i8(;3,  when  Mr.  Chilson  took  him 
into  the  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Chil- 
son &  Richardson.  .After  about  five  years  the 
partners  dissolved,  Mr.  Richardson  disposing 
of  his  interest  to  Mr.  Chilson.  and  for  a  time 
remained  in  Mr.  Chilson's  employ.  Later  with 
George  E.  Emcr.son  he  bought  out  Mr.  Chil- 
son an  1  formed  the  ])artnershi|)  of  Richardson 


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iV  F.nierson.  w  liicli  continued  five  years,  when 
they  dissolved,  each  partner  starting  in  sep- 
arately. In  1900  Mr.  Richardson  opened  a  store 
in  Central  Square,  his  present  store,  dealer  in 
groceries  and  provisions,  having  for  his  cus- 
tomers the  hest  trade  in  Franklin  and  Wrent- 
ham.  He  and  his  family  attend  the  Congrega- 
tional (Orthodox)  church  of  Franklin:  he  has 
served  on  the  parish  committee.  He  is  a  Re- 
]Hiblican  in  politics ;  served  his  party  as  dele- 
gate to  congressional  conventions ;  has  filled 
ofiice  of  overseer  of  poor.  He  was  made  a 
member  of  Excelsior  Lodge  of  Free  Masous, 
at  F'ranklin,  June  20,  1878;  was  exalted  in 
Miller  Chapter,  Royal  .Arch  Masons,  at  Frank- 
lin, September  9,  1902 ;  member  of  King  David 
Lodge,  No.  71,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  at  Franklin  ;  member  of  .Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen;  member  of  Franklin 
Husiness  Men's  Club.  He  married.  September 
20,  1871,  Henrietta  Heaton.  born  in  lfo])kin- 
ton,  January  4,  1850,  daughter  of  William 
.•\lbert  and  .\ancy  .\nn  (Hall)  Heaton  (see 
Heaton).  William  A.  Heaton  was  a  leather 
WDrker.  Children:  i.  William  F"remont,  born 
lulv  4.  1872.  He  was.  for  fifteen  years,  con- 
iiectcd  with  the  bouse  of  lirowning.  King  and 
Cdmpanv,  of  lloston.  where  he  held  the  i)osi- 
tion  of  window  decorator,  and  filled  a  number 
of  other  positions.  He  was  a  young  man  who 
made  a  host  of  friends,  and  in  fact  had  no 
enemies.  He  was  highly  res])ected  by  all. 
.^fter  a  brief  illness,  he  died  July  II,  1909,  and 
on  the  day  of  his  funeral  the  various  members 
of  the  firm  and  heads  of  the  departments 
attended  in  a  body.  2.  Edgar  Stanley,  born 
.•\ugust  I,  1873:  married.  November  7,  1901, 
F'lorence  Sumner  Whiting.  ,v  W  alter  Ernest, 
born  June  12,  1875.  4.  Herbert  Lester,  born 
June  22,  1870;  married,  December  18,  1904, 
FIdith  Louise  Hamilton  ;  child,  Florence  Hamil- 
ton, born  March  29,  1909. 


Thomas  Richanlsdu.  im- 
IvlCI  I  AKDSOX  migrant. wasborn  in  b'ng- 
land,  and  had  brothers 
Samr.el  and  b'.zekiel.  who  also  came  to  New 
England.  He  was  probably  the  youngest  of 
the  brothers,  and  probably  came  over  in  1635. 
lie  was  admitted  a  freeman  at  Charlestown, 
.Massachusetts,  .May  2.  if'.38:  was  one  of  seven 
chosen  by  the  town  of  Charlestown  to  com- 
mence the  settlement  of  Woburn.  His  wife 
Mary  was  admitted  to  the  church  at  C"harles- 
town,  F'cbruary  21,  1635-6,  and  that  is  the 
earliest  record  of  the  family.  He  had  land 
assigncfl  him  at  Maiden,  and  died  August  28, 


1651.  He  joined  the  church  in  February, 
1637-8.    and    held    various   town   offices.      He 

married  Mary ,  who  married  (second) 

Michael  Bacon,  said  to  have  come  from  Ire- 
land, and  one  of  the  original  inhabitants  of 
Woburn  in  1641.  She  died  May  19,  1670. 
Children:  i.  .Mary,  baptized  November  17, 
1638:  married.  May  15,  1655.  John  Baldwin, 
of  Billerica.  2.  Sarah,  baptized  November  22, 
1640  ;  married,  March  22,  1660,  Michael  Bacon, 
|r.  3.  Isaac,  born  May  14,  1643;  married 
Deborah  I'uller.  4.  Thomas,  born  October  4, 
1645  :  mentioned  below.  5.  Ruth,  born  .April 
14,  1647.  6.  Phebe,  January  24,  1648-9.  7. 
.Nathaniel,  January  2,  1650-1. 

(II )   Thomas  (  2 ),  son  of  Thomas  ( i )  Rich- 
ardson, was  born  in  Woburn,  October  4,  1645. 
He  settled  in  Billerica.  then  called  Shawshine, 
and  was  accepted  as  an  inhabitant  in  1667.  He 
settled  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  town,  on  the 
ninety-nine   acre   tract   called   the    Cambridge 
School   farm   (Harvard  College)   west  of  the 
Shawshine    river,   and    north   of   the    present 
Boston  road.     He  sold  out  in  16(^0  to  Cajitain 
Samuel   ( lallu]).      He  was  in  the  company  of 
Captain  .Samuel  Callui)  in  the  unfortunate  Can- 
ada e.vpedition  in  1690.   In  1704  he  was  deputy 
to  the  general  court.     He  gave  his  oldest  son 
Thomas  a    farm   near   the    P>oston   road,   now 
Washington  street,  and  October  4,  1705,  gave 
his  son  .Andrew  a  farm  north  of  Thomas's  and 
later,    one   to    Nathaniel,   north   of   .Xnilrew's. 
lie    died    at    I'illerica,    February    25,    1720-1. 
He  married  (first)  January  5,  1669-70,  Mary 
Stevenson,    died    June    7,    1690,    daughter   of 
.Andrew    Stevenson:    (second)    December   29, 
1690,  .Sarah,  widow  of  Hugh  Ditsonand  Thomas 
Fatten.      She  died    November   20,   1734.      His 
will    was    dated    .\|)ril    10,    1719.   and    proved 
March  20.  1720-1.     Children:     I.  Mary,  born 
and  d\p<\   February  8,   1670-1.     2.  Mary,  born 
and  died  January  31.  1671-2.     3.   Mary,  born 
I'ebniaiy  17,  1672-3:  married  Edward  Farmer, 
4,  Thomas,  born  December  3,  1675.  3.  .Andrew, 
born  lune  16.  1678:  married  Ilamiah  lefts.    6. 
Nathaniel,   born    January    2^.    1679-80:    men- 
tioned below.     7.  Jonathan,  born  February  14, 
1682-3 :   married    Hannah    F'rench.     8.    Ruth, 
born  December  4,  1685;  married  John  French. 
9.  F'lnathan.  horn  and  died  February  7,  1686-7. 
(  HI  I    Nathaniel,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  Rich- 
ardson,   was    born    in    Billerica,    January    25, 
1679-80.  and  died  intestate,  .April  4.  1733,  aged 
seventv-tbree.      He    had    a    farm    in    Billerica 
from  iiis  father,  and  after  his   father's  death 
in  1721  received  thirty-two  acres  of  upland  on 
Content    Plain    and    eight    acres   of   the    Mill 


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Swamp  at  a  ])Iace  called  Black  Hole.  He  mar- 
ried. May  -.  1703.  Mary  Peacock,  died  October 
18.  1756.  Children,  born  at  P.illerica :  i.  Mary, 
.March  31.  1704;  married  Jonathan  Goss.  2. 
Xathnniel.  January  8.  1706-7.  3.  Samuel,  De- 
cember 22.  1708:  married  Haniiah  Walker.  4. 
Sarah,  March  8,  1710-11.  died  .April  18,  1712. 
5.  William,  May  5.   171 3:  married.  December 

9.  1742,  Mary  ilobart.  "  6.  Ilezekiah,  May  8. 
1713:  married  l\lizabeth  Walker.  7.  F.benezcr, 
J-eptember  24.  1717,  died  yonn,t;.  8.  Rebecca, 
.May  17.  1720;  married  Hcnjamin  Richardson, 
y.  Joseph,  .May  20,  1722;  killed  by  Indians  in 
ambush  at  Xortlifiekl,  June  16.  1747,  while  he 
was  marching  with  a  squad  of  soldiers  to  re- 
lieve Fort  Dummer.  10.  Ebenezcr.  mentioned 
below. 

( I\")  Ebenezer,  son  of  Nathaniel  Richard- 
son, was  born  in  I'illcrica,  October  2,  1724, 
and  died  in  1808.  The  inventory  of  his  estate 
was  dated  October  4,  1808.  lie  married  (first) 
December  30,  1746,  Elizabeth  Shed,  died  May 

10,  1763,  daughter  of  Picnjaniin  Shed;  Csec- 
ond")  October  4,  1764,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Simon  Crosby:  (third)  December  6,  1770, 
I.ydia,  widow  of  James  Danforth:  (fourth) 
December  12.  1776,  Catherine,  died  January 
'9-  '"83.  widow  of  Increase  Wyman.  lie 
married  (fiftli)  May  31.  1783.  Elizabeth  liacon, 
of  P>edford,  died  May  i,  1790;  (sixth)  Novem- 
ber 23,  1790.  Susanna, -widow  of  Daniel  Davis, 
of  Bedford  :  (  seventh  )  Keziah.  widow  of  .\mos 
Wyman,  as  appears  from  probate  records.  She 
died  November  13.  1814.  aged  seventy-five 
years.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  Decem- 
ber 2j.  1747:  died  July  23.  1749.  2.  Rebecca, 
born  .Sej)tember  29.  1749.  3.  P.ettic.  born  Feb- 
ruary 12.  1750:  married  William  Currier.  4. 
Ebenezer.  born  December  20,  1752,  died  young. 
5.  Ebenezer,  born  February  25,  1754.  f>.  Rhoda, 
born  December  31.  1755:  married  John  Edes. 
7.  Nathaniel,  born  May  19.  1757.  8.  Lucy, 
born  lanuary  12.  1758.  died  young.  9.  .^sa, 
born  February  14,  1760:  mentioned  below.  10. 
Isaac,  born  October  30,  1761,  it.  John,  born 
March  16.  1763.  12.  I.ucy,  born  .-Nugust  3, 
1 77 1,  died  .September  4.  1775.  13.  .Abigail, 
born   December  8,    1772,  died   September    13, 

W75- 

(\  )  .Asa,  son  of  Ebenezer  Richardson,  was 
born  at  Hillerica.  February  14.  \jf>o.  lie  mar- 
ried. May  23,  1781,  Sarah  Tufts,  of  Medford. 
She  died  October  13.  1835.  Children:  i.  Asa. 
born  March  5.  1782:  married  Elizabeth  Bird; 
died  December  i.  1833.  2.  .Sally,  born  Decem- 
ber 22,  7785.  3.  Francis  (twin  ).  born  Decem- 
ber 6.  1787:  married  Martha  Richardson.     4. 


Josiah  (twin),  born  December  (>.  1787:  men- 
tioned below.  5.  William,  born  I'ebruary  24, 
i7<>o;  married.  .May  14,  1822,  Sarah  ban- 
forth.  6.  David,  born  l-'ebruary  10,  17(>2;  mar- 
ried Eliza  Kingsbury:  died  September  24,  1847. 
7.  Josejih.  born  .November  8,  17^4:  married 
Lucy  Cummings;  died  1874.  8.  Peggy  Tufts, 
born  June  2}i.  I7<>5:  married  Cyrus  Farmer. 
9.  (jeorge.  born  June  18.  1797:  married  .Ase- 
natli  Lnmmings;  died  December  13,  1832.  ID. 
Lucrctia.  born  .May  9,  I79<);  died  June  26, 
1833.  II,  Samuel,  born  December  5,  1802; 
died  .September  13,  1810. 

(  \  I )  Josiah.  son  of  .Asa  Richardson,  was 
born  December  C\  1787,  in  Billerica.  lie  lived 
in  Ro.xbury.  and  was  a  prosperous  car|)enter 
and  builder.  lie  died  at  Roxbury,  aged  about 
seventy  years,  lie  married,  .\pril  16,  1812. 
.Martha  \\'entworth.  born  Sei)tember  11.  1785, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Rachel  1  Lewis) 
Wentwortli  (see  Went  worth )  ;  (second)  Han- 
nah M.  (Foster)  Wentwortli,  widow  of  .Amos 
H.  Wentwortli,  son  of  Stejihen  Wentworth. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  I'"aimie  Lewis,  born 
November  23,  1812:  married,  November  2C). 
1828.  (leorge  Fracker,  a  school  teacher;  both 
died  in  Iowa  City,  2.  Albert  Lewis,  born  ( )cto- 
bcr  28,  1814,  died  January  28,  1829.  3.  Laura, 
born  November  6,  iSiCi:  married  Daniel  Jack- 
son, a  successful  builder  and  mechanic  of  Rox- 
bury. 4.  Henry  Horace,  born  .\])ril  21,  1819; 
mentioiu"!  below.  5.  Isabella,  born  July  27, 
1826;  died  i</)8:  married.  .Ajiril  30.  1846. 
William  (lill.  of  Roxbury.  a  book  l)in<ler:  died 
February  1,  1854.  (\  Ellen  Maria,  born  May 
2~.  1828,  died  March  5,  1868;  married,  No- 
vember 19,  1846,  John  M.  Marston,  of  Rox- 
bury. carjienter  and  builder,  for  some  years 
|)artiier  of  his  brother-in-law,  Henry  H.  Rich- 
ardson. 

(  \TI  )  1  knr\  I  lorace,  sonof  JosialxRichard- 
son,  was  born  in  Roxbury,  .April  21,  1819.  Me 
was  educated  in  the  |)ublic  schools  of  his  native 
town,  and  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter  of 
his  father,  with  whom  he  was  associated  in 
business.  .Afterward  he  was  in  i)artnership 
with  his  brother-in-law.  John  M.  Marston,  in 
Roxbury,  in  the  contracting  and  building  busi- 
ness. He  removed  to  Barre.  .Massachusetts, 
where  for  a  number  of  years  he  was  in  busi- 
ness as  a  carpenter  and  builder  on  his  own 
account.  Late  in  life  he  suffered  a  shock,  for 
which  he  was  taken  to  a  hos[)itaI  in  Reading, 
.Massachusetts,  for  treatment,  and  flied  there, 
November  21,  1898.  He  was  an  active  Odfl 
Fellow.  In  his  younger  days  he  was  a  member 
of  the  old  Rfixbury  artillery  comfiany,  a  noted 


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MASSAC  [  I  rSETTS. 


military  organization  at  that  time.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Unitarian  church.  He  married 
(first)  in  Ro.xbury,  Cecilia  Marsh,  born  in 
Roxbury,  January  21,  1830.  died  .April  18, 
i860,  daughter  of  Warren  and  Hannah  (With- 
ington )  Marsh,  of  Hinghani,  Massachusetts. 
Her  father,  a  successful  mason  and  contractor, 
died  in  1864.  aged  eighty-one  years:  her 
mother  was  born  in  Jamaica  Plain,  1785,  and 
died  in  1869.  Mr.  Richardson  married  (sec- 
ond) at  Barre,  .\pril  14,  1863.  Martha  Lowe, 
born  .April  29,  1842,  in  Worcester  county,  died 
December  30,  1807,  daughter  of  George  Lowe, 
a  carpenter  and  builder.  She  was  a  Methodist 
in  religion.  Child  of  first  wife:  I.  Martha, 
born  in  Ro.xbury,  May  14,  1846:  educated  in 
public  schools;  married,  March  13,  1867.  Cur- 
tis Clapp,  a  dealer  in  small  wares,  Boston  ;  they 
are  members  of  the  Theodore  Parker  L^nitar- 
ian  Church,  first  parish :  children :  i.  Mabel 
Clai)p.  born  June  17,  i8fi8,  died  November  7, 
1897,  aged  twenty-nine  years,  unmarried  :  ii. 
Curtis  Clapp,  Jr.,  born  December  7.  1869:  asso- 
ciated in  business  with  his  father :  iii.  .Mice 
Coliday  Clapp,  born  October  15,  1878.  married 
Arthur  J.  Crockett,  a  publi.sher,  Boston;  iv. 
Child,  died  in  infancy.  Children  of  second 
wife:  2.  George,  died  in  infancy.  3.  Ella  M., 
born  .April  28,  1865.  died  January  10,  1908: 
married  Rockland  Walter,  of  Marlborough. 
Massachusetts,  clerk  in  a  meat  and  provision 
store :  child,  Charlotte  Lowe  Walter.  4.  Susie 
Lowe,  born  June  7,  1867:  married  William  A. 
Hol'len.  a  traveling  salesman  :  they  reside  in 
Dayton.  Ohio.  5.  Walter  Gill,  born  August  30, 
i8~o :  mentioned  below.  6.  .Alice  AL.born  March 
20,  1874:  educated  at  Boston  University;  now 
teaching  in  I'cn  Charter  School.  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.  7.  William  Henry,  born  Octo- 
ber 18,  1876;  a  plumber,  residing  at  Orange, 
Orange  county, California  ;  married  Alabelc  Pal- 
mer, of  Roslindale :  children  :  i.  Ethel,  born 
October  4.  1904:  ii.  Ralph,  January  t8,  1907. 
8.  [oseph  Warren,  M.  D..  born  January  3, 
1880  :  graduate  of  University  of  Vermont,  Bur- 
lington, with  degree  of  M.  D.  ;  has  since  ])rac- 
ticed  his  i)rofession  at  Seattle,  Washington: 
married  Bertha  Tsham,  of  Burlington,  \'er- 
mont,  daughter  of  Senator  Tsham:  child,  Rtith 
.Alice,  born  December  29,  1906. 

fVHT)  Walter  Gill,  son  of  Henry  Horace 
Richardson,  was  born  at  Hardvvick.  Massachu- 
setts. .August  30.  1870.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Barre.  and  learned  the 
trade  of  tinsmith  in  that  town  in  the  shop  of 
William  11.  White.  .Afterward  he  served  an 
ap]>renticeship   at    the    plumber's   trade   luuler 


Michael  M.  Herbert,  of  Roslindale.  After 
working  six  years  for  Mr.  Herbert  he  embark- 
ed in  business  as  a  plumber  and  tinsmith  on  his 
own  account,  buying  the  establishment  of  Ben- 
jamin F.  Cobleigh.  at  Birch  street  and  Bel- 
grade avenue.  He  has  developed  this  busi- 
ness to  large  proportions,  and  it  takes  rank 
easilv  as  one  of  the  foremost  in  its  line  in  the 
suburban  districts  of  Boston.  His  store  and 
shops  are  models  of  method  and  neatness.  He 
is  a  member  of  Quinobequin  Lodge  of  (Jdd 
Fellows,  and  Prospect  Lodge.  Free  and  Accept- 
ed Masons.  He  married,  at  Dedham.  October 
S.  1894.  Carrie  H.  \\'eeks.  born  in  Dedham. 
daughter  of  Luther  Weeks  and  Martha  (Os- 
good) Weeks,  formerly  of  Dedham.  She  is 
a  member  of  the  Congregational  church,  anfl 
active  in  social  life.  Mr.  and  Airs.  Richard- 
son have  had  four  children,  all  of  whom  died 
in  infancy. 

Martha  Wentworth  Richardson,  wi  f  e  o  f  Josiah 
Richardson  (\^I),  is  descended  from  Regi- 
nald Wentworth  (L).  through  line  traced  upon 
another  page  of  this  work,  and  reaching  to 
John,  named  below : 

(XXH)  John  Wentworth,  son  of  Elder  Will- 
iam Wentworth,  was  born  about  1650.  He 
was  in  Dover  from  1668-72 ;  took  the  oath  of 
allegiance  June  21,  1669.  He  was  of  A'ork. 
Maine.  .August  28,  1699,  and  in  1704  we  find 
him  located  near  Canton,  Massachusetts.     He 

marrie'l  Martha .     Children  :     I.  John, 

born  1675:  mentioned  below.  2.  Edward,  was 
in  Xewbury,  ifxj3.  3.  Charles,  died  at  Canton, 
July  8.  1780,  aged  ninety-six  years.  4.  Shubael. 
died  1759.  5.  Elizabeth,  married.  May  16, 
1728.  John  Kenney.  6.  Abigail,  married.  De- 
cenilier  30,  17 1 5.  Benjamin  Jordan.  7.  Alary, 
married,  September  24,  1 71 2,  James  Wright. 
(XXlll)  John,  son  of  John  Wentworth, 
was  born  in  ^"llrk,  Maine,  probably  in  1675, 
and  died  Jainiary  6.  1772,  aged  ninety-five 
vears.  He  resided  near  Stoughton,  Massachu- 
setts. 1  le  married  I'.lizabeth,  (laughter  of  Henry 
Burle\.  She  died  January  14.  1761.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Mary,  bom  August  15.  1705;  mar- 
ried. Tune  22,  1742.  Xathaniel  .Adams;  (sec- 
ond) Benjamin  Smith.  2.  John,  born  Novem- 
ber 8.  1709.  3.  Mercy,  born  May  8.  1713:  mar- 
ried. October"24.  1731.  John  Clark.  4.  Martha, 
born  A  [arch  23.  1 716:  married.  January  22, 
1746.  John  Withington.  Jr.  5.  Aloses.  born 
.April  4.  1720;  mcntifined  below.  6.  Aaron 
(twin),  born  .April  4,  1720;  married.  Septem- 
ber II.  1766.  Ruth  Blackmcr.    7.  Ebenezer. 

(\X1\')  Moses,  son  of  John  Wentworth. 
was  born  in  Stoughton.   Massachusetts.  April 


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4.  1720.  lie  married,  Xovember  10,  1757, 
^Susanna  Warren.  Cliiklren :  1.  Ebenezer.  2. 
Rebecca,  born  1768,  died  young.  3.  Aaron, 
born  \~i(x).  died  April  16,  I7(>9.  4.  Moses,  mar- 
ritd,  at  A'ortlianipton,  March  23,  1787,  Cath- 
erine Merrilield  :  (second  I Fowler.     5. 

lienjamin,  tnentioned  below.    U.  Rebecca,  born 

June  K),  1770:  married Eaton. 

(  XX\' )  lienjamin,  son  of  Moses  Wentwortli, 
was  born  about  1760.  and  married  September 
9,  1784,  Rachel  Lewis.  Ciiildren:  i.  Martha, 
born  September  11,  1785;  married,  April  16, 
1S12,  Josiah  Richardson,  of  Ko.xbury  (see 
Richardson).  2.  James,  born  July  30.  1787; 
married  Hannah  I'.lackman.  of  .\ugusta.  Maine. 
3.  .\ndrew,  born  December  18,  I78<;.  4.  Eucy, 
born  June  I,  1792,  died  1862;  married  three 
times.  5.  Elizabeth,  born  March  2,  1786,  died 
unmarried,  March  29,  1858,  at  Canton. 


This  name  is  of  English 
Ll'Dl.\(  iTf  )\'  origin,  derived  fromapar- 
i^h  at  one  time  called  l,yd- 
ington,  in  Xorthamptonshire,  as  first  mentioned 
in  Domesday  r>ook,  when  it  was  a  part  of  the 
bishopric  of  I-incoln..  It  has  since  been  set  off 
to  the  county  of  Rutland.  The  chief  seat  of 
the  family  .seems  to  have  been  in  the  Eastern 
Midlands,  though  families  of  the  same  name 
appear  in  the  counties  of  Lincoln.  Rutland. 
I^eicester,  Huntingdon,  Xorthampton.  Warwick 
and  Worcester.  There  is  a  credible  tradition 
that  in  the  Third  Crusade  a  Ludington  was 
among  the  followers  of  Richard  Coeur  de  Lion. 
and  that  afterward,  wlien  that  adventurous 
monarch  was  a  prisoner  in  .\ustria.  he  sought 
to  visit  him  in  the  guise  of  a  palmer,  in  order 
to  devise  with  him  some  j)lan  of  escape.  Be- 
cau.se  of  such  loyal  exploits  he  was  invested 
with  a  ])atent  of  iK)bility,  and  with  the  coat- 
of-arms  of  the  family:  I'ale  of  six  argent  and 
azure  on  a  chief  gules  a  lion  passant  andgardant. 
Crest:  .\  palmer's  staff  erect  Motto:  Frobum 
non  penitet.  Robert  Ludington, gentleman,  was  a 
merchant  in  the  Levantine  trade,  dnd  also 
made  a  pilgriniage  to  I'alestine.  He  died  at 
Worcester,  England,  in  1625,  aged  seventy- 
six  years.  The  exact  degree  of  relationship 
between  him  and  the  .\merican  immigrant  is 
not  known,  but  there  is  reason  to  believe  that 
they  were  of  the  same  family. 

(I)  William  Ludington,  immigrant  ancestor, 
born  in  England.  1^108,  came  to  .America  with 
his  wife.  Ellen,  whom  he  married  in  16,^6.  He 
settled  in  that  part  of  Charlestown,  Massachu- 
setts, which  was  set  off  as  Maiden,  and  had 
been  there  as  early  as   1640.  when  his  name 


ai)])ears  on  the  court  records.  I  Ic  buili  his 
house  outside  the  town  limits,  for  which  a 
heavy  jjenalty  was  imposed,  but  was  remitted. 
He  remained  at  Charlestown  about  twenty 
years,  and  was  a  considerable  land  owner  and 
an  iniportaiU  citizen,  November  30,  U)5i,  he 
is  named  as  one  of  the  creditors  of  lleiiry 
.Sandys,  of  Charlestown,  and  in  i()()0  he  was 
a  juror  of  Maiden.  In  iWkj  he  removed  to 
Xew  Haven,  Connecticut,  and  settled  at  liast 
Haven,  adjoining  liranford,  on  the  east  side 
of  theOuinnipiac  river.  .\ltlH)ugh  he  had  been 
a  weaver,  he  becanie  interested  in  the  iron 
works  at  East  Haven.  .March  27,  iC/jo,  he 
appears  as  complainant  in  a  slander  suit,  and 
died  soon  after.  (Jctober  i,  i6()i.  John  Waite 
jjctitioned  for  administration  of  his  estate,  and 
the  inventory  was  filed  by  James  Barrat,  .\i)ril 

1.  1662.  His  widow  married  (second)  before 
.Ma_\-  5,  1663,  John  Rose.  Children:  i.  Thomas, 
born  1637:  settled  in  Newark.  Xew  Jersey.  2. 
John,  born  1640:  living  at  East  Haven  in  1664, 
and  ])rol)al)ly  removed  to  X'ermont.  3.  Mary, 
born  I'cbruary  6,  1642-3.  4.  Henry,  killed  in 
King  l'hili|)'s  war.  5.  Hannah.  6.  William, 
mentioned  below.  7.  Mathew,  born  December 
16,  1657.  died  January  12,  1657-8. 

(  11  )  \\  illiam  C2),  son  of  William  (i  )  Lud- 
ington, wa,s  born  about  1653,  and  died  Febru-. 
'"'.\'-  '7,?7-  ''^^  "'«i^  ^  \w»x\  of  means,  intelli- 
gence and  ability,  and  of  important  stan<liiig 
in  the  community,  llis  will  was  proved  I'"eb- 
ruary  7,  1736-7.  lie  married  (first)  .Martha, 
ilaughter  of  Jolui  and  granddaughter  of  Robert 
Rose:  (second)  in  Jimc,  1690,  Mercy  White- 
head, died  Xovember  23,  1743,  aged  seventy- 
five,  (laughter  of  John  and  .Martha  ( liradfield  ) 
Whitehead.  Children  of  first  wife  :  I.Henry, 
l)orn   1679,  died   1727;  married  .Sarah  Collins. 

2.  I'"lcanor.  married  .Vathaniel  ISailey,  of  ( Inil- 
ford,  3.  William,  born  .September  25,  1686; 
married  Anna  Hodge.  Children  of  second 
wife:  4.  Mercy,  born  .May  31,  i'h;:  ;  married 
l-'benezer  Deans,  of  .Xorwich.  5.  Mary,  born 
May  3T.  1691.  twin;  inarried  John  Dawson. 
6.  Haimah.  born  .March  13.  i'^>83,  died  June 
4.  1719:  married  Isaac  I'enfield.  7.  John,  born 
January  31,  i'^>94:  mentioned  below.  8.  I''li|)ha- 
let.  born  Ajiril  28.  l6<;7.  died  January  26,  \-jU\  ; 
married  .Abigail  Collins.  9.  Elizabeth,  br)rn 
i6(/;.  died  July  28.  1707.  10.  Dorothy,  born 
July  16.  1702.  rlied  Se])tember  19.  1742:  mar- 
ried I'.enjamin  .Mallory.  II.  Dorcas,  born  July 
16.  1704:  married  James  Way. 

(Ill)  John,  son  of  William  (2)  Ludington, 
was  born  January  31.  \(*)\.  and  died  October 
3(1.   1726.     ,\dminislration  was  granted  un  bis 


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estate  January  2,  1726-7.  Guardians  were 
appointed  for  his  children  :  Samuel  Potter  for 
John,  Thomas  Robinson  for  Elizabeth,  Gideon 
Potter  for  Jude.  He  married,  before  April 
10,  1722,  Elizabeth  Potter,  born  September  24, 
1697,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Holt) 
Potter,  of  East  Haven.  She  married  (second) 
October  2,  1734.  Thomas  Wheailon,  of  Bran- 
ford,  and  died  September  3.  1746.     Children: 

1.  Elizabeth,  married  John  Rose.  2.  John, 
born  June  26,  1723,  died  May  30,  1743.  3. 
Jude,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Jude,  son  of  John  Ludington,  was 
born  July  23,  1725,  and  was  living  at  South- 
ington,  Connecticut,  November  12,  1748.  In 
deeds  lie  was  called  of  llranford  in  1757  and 
1761.  He  served  in  the  French  and  Indian 
war  in  1757.  He  married  (first)  Martha  Page; 
(second)  widow  Mary  (Wade)  Frisbie.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:     i.  John,  mentioned  below. 

2.  Daniel,  married  Naomi  Searl,  of  Southamp- 
ton, Massachusetts.  3.  Martha,  married  Noah 
-Stone.  Children  of  second  wife:  4.  Jude, 
married  1  luldah  Carrier,  of  Colchester.  5. 
Elizabeth,  born  March.  1763;  married  Elijah 
Williams.  6.  Asenath,  born  1765;  married 
Asa  Miller,  of  West  .Springfield :  died  Novem- 
ber 6,  1845.     7.  Lucinda,  born  1770,  died  De- 

•cember  31,  1840;  married  Nathan  Stevens,  of 
Wilbraham. 

(V)  John  (2),  son  of  Jude  Ludington.  was 
born  in  1749,  and  died  September  10,  1841. 
He  married  (first)  Sarah  Palmer;  (second) 
May  7,  1795,  Jane  Ely.  He  lived  in  Holyoke, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  was  a  farmer. 

(VI)  Isaac,  .son  of  John  (2)  Ludington, 
was  born  in  ITolyoke,  and  was  educated  there 
in  the  ])ul)lic  schools.  He  removed  when  a 
voung  man  to  Franklin  county.  New  York, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming.  He  married 
Eunice  Jones,  born  in  what  is  now  Flolyokc. 
Children:  Lydia.  married  George  P>.  Trea<l- 
well  ;  David  Palmer,  of  whom   further. 

(\  II)  David  Palmer,  only  son  of  Isaac 
Ludington,  was  born  in  Franklin,  New  York, 
.August  20,  1831.  and  died  in  West  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  February  10,  1908.  He  was 
reared  and  educated  in  his  native  town.  At 
the  age  of  twenty  years  he  came  to  ?Tolyoke, 
Massachusetts,  and  became  clerk  in  a  drug 
store.  After  a  time,  having  acquired  a  prac- 
tical knowledge  of  the  business,  be  purchased 
a  drug  store  in  that  town.  After  conducting 
it  successfully  for  several  years  he  relinquished 
the  business  and  removed  to  \\'cst  Springfield, 
where  he  passed  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He 
was  for  a  number  of  years  a  member  of  the 


Ixjard  of  directors  of  the  Mittineague  Mills, 
and  was  one  of  the  promoters  of  that  industry, 
"trie  was  for  many  years  an  active  member  of 
Trinity  Methodist  Episcoi)al  Church,  and  sensed 
several  years  as  steward,  and  later  as  a  trustee. 
He  was  a  quiet  unassuming  man,  of  lovable 
disposition,  and  was  a  liberal  contributor  to 
all  worthy  causes.  He  marrietl,  December  14, 
1870,  Martha  Day  Smith,  daughter  of  Charles 
Horton  and  So[)hia  (Day)  Smith  (see  Smith). 

(The   Smith   Line). 

( I )  Hugh  Smith,  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
born  in  England,  and  was  among  the  early 
settlers  of  Rowley,  Massachusetts.  He  was 
one  of  the  proprietors  of  that  town,  and  was 
admitted  freeman  May  18,  1642.  He  was 
overseer  of  the  poor  in  1649  and  1654,  and 
selectman  in  1651.  He  was  a  man  of  substance 
and  importance  in  the  community.  In  1643 
his  house  lot  was  a  half-acre  in  Bradford 
street.  His  widow  Mary married  (sec- 
ond )  December  2,  1657,  Jeremiah  Ellsworth. 
Hugh  Smith's  will,  dated  November  19.  1655, 
])roved  Marcii  20  following,  bec|ueathed  to 
wife  Mary  his  estate;  to  be  divided  among  his 
children  after  her  death  or  marriage.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Rowley:  i.  Samuel,  married 
Mary  Elithorp.  2.  John,  married  Faith  Parrat. 
3.  Mary,  born  March  17,  1642;  married  Daniel 
\\'icom.  4.  Sarah,  born  October  24,  1643; 
buried  January  3.  1643.  5.  Hannah,  born 
March  24,  1647-8:  married  Jose])h  Trumbull; 
(second)  John  Strong.  6.  Martlia,  born  Feb- 
ruary 5.  1648;  married  Caleb  lUirbank.  7. 
Edward,  mentioned  below.  8.  John,  born  and 
died  1639.  10.  Sannicl,  of  whom  Dr.  Wicom 
was  guardian. 

(  II  )  Edward,  son  of  Hugh  ."^mith.  was  born 
June  I.  1634.  He  settled  in  Suffield,  Connec- 
ticut, and  married  there,  March  21.  16)83, 
.^arah,  daughter  of  Edward  Allen.  Children, 
born  at  Suffield :  Edward,  Mary,  Samuel. 
Hugh,  Joseph,  died  young:  David,  mentioned 
below. 

(Ill)  David,  son  of  Edward  Smith,  was 
born  at  Suffield,  October  18,  1699,  and  died 
in  1733.  He  married.  December  14,  1726,  Ex- 
perience Chapin.  born  July  8.  1703.  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Sheldon)  Chapin. 
Her  father  was  horn  July  4.  1663.  died  Octo- 
ber T9,  1729.  married.  December  24.  1690, 
Hannah  Sheldon,  and  lived  at  the  upper  end 
of  Chicopee  street,  Springfield.  Japliet  Chapin, 
father  of  Samuel,  married.  July  22,  1664,  -Abi- 
lene Cooley.  who  died  November  17,  1710;  he 
married  (second)  May  31.  171 1.  Dorothy  Root, 


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or  Rood.  Deacon  Samuel  Cliapin,  fatlier  of 
Japhet.  was  tlie  immigrant,  David  Smith  was 
constable  of  Siiffield,  i735-(),  and  highway  ?ur- 
veyor,  1736-7.  He  proposed  to  exchange  land 
with  the  town  May  9,  1734. 

(I\')  David  (2).  son  of  David  (i)  Smith, 
was  born  about  1730.  He  and  his  son  David 
served  in  tlie  same  company  and  regiment  in 
the  revolution.  Cajjtain  John  Boynton's  com- 
pany, Colonel  Xathan  Sparhawk's  regiment, 
commanded  by  Major  Jonas  Wilder.  David, 
Sr..  was  in  service  July  27  to  .\ugust  23,  1777. 
and  David.  Jr..  from  Sejitember  27  to  October 
IQ  same  year.  He  settled  in  West  Springfield. 
He  married  Joanna  liodurtha.  Children  :  David 
and  Lewis. 

(V)  Lewis,  son  of  David  (2)  Smith,  was 
born  about  1763.  He  resided  at  West  Spring- 
field. He  served  in  the  closing  years  of  the 
revolutionary  war,  and  returning  settled  at 
Smith's  Ferry.  Xorthamptnn,  where  he  died, 
March  15.  1838,  leaving  a  family  of  eleven 
children.  He  was  a  large  landlmlder,  and  a 
man  unusually  respected.  He  married.  Novem- 
ber 3.  1785.  at  Smith's  Ferry,  Eunice  Judd, 
baptized  January  27,  1768,  died  .August  19, 
1849.  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  ( 1  lulbcrt ) 
Judd  and  his  second  wife,  of  Northampton, 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  Judd.  .Samuel  Jufld. 
father  of  Thomas,  married  Maria  Strong,  of 
Northampton.  He  was  of  the  second  genera- 
tion in  this  country,  youngest  son  of  Deacon 
Thomas  Judd.  the  immigrant. 

(XTH)  Charles  Horton.  youngest  child  of 
Lewis  Smith,  was  born  in  Northampton,  Octo- 
ber 29.  1810.  He  married  Sophia  Day.  daugh- 
ter of  Justin  and  Martha  (  P.rack-ett )  Day. 
Children,  born  in  Northampton  :  Martha  Day, 
born  at  .Smith's  Ferry,  October  28,  1837;  mar- 
ried David  Palmer  Ludington.  of  West  Spring- 
field. 


This  name,  variously  spelled, 
FRISSELL  appears  on  the  records  of 
New  England  about  the  mid- 
dle of  the  seventeenth  century.  The  immi- 
grants of  this  name  were  all  or  nearly  all  of 
Scotch  extraction.  James  Frissell  was  of  Rox- 
bury.  Massachusetts,  where  a  daughter  Mary 
was  born  May  16,  1656.  John  Frissell,  a  native 
of  Scotland,  died  in  Rraintree,  Massachusetts, 
January  19.  1664:  William,  also  a  Scotchman, 
of  Concord,  married  Hannah  Clarke,  Novem- 
ber 28,  1667.  \'arious  others  of  the  name  are 
mentioned  later  in  the  century. 

(1)   John  and  Josef )h   Frissell  were  of  the 
original  colony  of  thirty-five  persons  who  re- 


ceived from  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  the  grant 
of  the  town  of  Woodstock,  Connecticut,  as 
appears  by  an  ancient  deed  on  tile  in  the  office 
of  the  town  clerk.  Jo.seph  married  .Abigail 
I'.artholomew.  January  11,  iCx)!.  This  is  one 
of  the  earliest  marriages  recorded  after  tlie 
settlement  of  the  town  of  Woodstock. 

I  I !  )  John,  son  of  Jo.seph  Frissell,  married 
.Abigail  Morris,  November  10,  1726. 

(HI)  Lieutenant  William,  son  of  John  Fris- 
sell. was  bai)tizcd  in  Woodstock,  July  i).  1737, 
and  died  in  Peru.  Massachusetts,  December  25, 
1824,  aged  eighty-six  years.  Sergeant  Will- 
iam I'Vissell's  name  is  on  the  Lexington  alarm 
list  from  the  town  of  Woodstock,  term  of  ser- 
vice tifteen  days;  he  was  ensign  in  Seventh 
Company,  Third  Regiment,  (Colonel  Israel  Put- 
nam's), commissioned  May  i,  discharged  De- 
cember 16.  1773.  He  re-entered  the  service  in 
1771').  Two  state  battalions  under  Colonels  Mf>tt 
and  .Swift,  raised  in  June  and  July,  1776,  rein- 
forced the  Continental  troops  in  the  .Northern 
Department,  at  I'ort  Ticonderoga  and  vicinity, 
served  under  General  Cates,  and  returned  in 
Noveinber  of  same  year.  The  commission  of 
first  lieutenant  given  "William  Fizle"  under 
the  hand  of  Jonathan  Triunbull.  Es(|..  captain 
general  and  commander-in-chief  of  the  F.ng- 
lish  Colony  of  Comiecticut  in  New  En.gland,  at 
Hartford,  June  20,  1776.  with  the  public  seal 
of  the  colony  attached,  is  now  in  jjossession  of 
I'rancis  W.  Rockwell,  of  Pittsfield.  Massachu- 
setts. William  Frissell  moved  from  Woodstock, 
Connecticut,  to  Partridgefield  fnow  Peru), 
Massachusetts,  about  1784,  and  represented 
that  town  in  the  legislature  in  1800  and  for  two 
years  thereafter.  He  married  Judith  .Mason, 
of  Woodstock,  Connecticut,  who  died  in  Peru, 
Massachusetts,  .August  13.  1831,  aged  ninety 
years.  Children:  Monica.  .Amasa.  William. 
Thomas,  Sarah,  Lemuel,  Walter  and  John. 

(IV)  Ca()tain  Thomas,  third  .son  of  Lieu- 
tenant William  and  Juclitli  (Mason)  Frissell, 
was  born  in  Woodstock,  Connecticut,  Decem- 
ber 20,  1773.  and  died  in  Peru,  Massachusetts, 
November  21,  1833.  He  removed  with  his 
father's  family  to  Peru,  where  he  was  a  suc- 
cessful farmer  and  a  prominent  citizen.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  legislature,  1817-19, 
selectman,  held  other  town  offices,  and  was 
caj)tain  of  militia.  He  joined  the  church  at 
the  same  time  with  his  youngest  daughter.  He 
was  a  I-'ree  .Mason.  Tie  married,  April  19, 
i8f)3.  Hannah  Philli|)s,  born  in  Peru.  July,  1784. 
<lieii  there  April  3.  1849,  daughter  of  Smith 
T'hillips,  Children:  Augustus  Caesar,  .Scmi- 
ramis,  Cleopatra,  .Statira  and  .Monica  Asjjasia. 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


(V)  Captain  Augustus  Caesar,  eldest  child 
of  Captain  Tliomas  and  Hannah  (Phillips) 
Frissell.  was  born  in  I'eru,  Massachusetts, 
April  <).  1806,  and  died  there  Xovember  14, 
1851.  He  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm,  which 
he  afterwards  owned.  He  was  a  good  man- 
ager, siiceceded  in  business,  and  was  often 
called  t(i  till  town  offices.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  board  of  selectmen,  captain  of  militia, 
and  in  1849-50  was  a  member  of  the  legisla- 
ture, lie  was  a  member  of  the  Peru  Congre- 
gational church,  and  took  a  deep  interest  in 
its  affairs.  He  married.  Xovember  30,  1833, 
Laura  (  Mack )  Emmons,  born  in  Hinsdale, 
July  3,  1810,  died  .September  18,  1898  (see 
Emmons).  Children:  i.  Eliza,  born  Septem- 
ber 20,  1835:  married,  February  13,  1862, 
Henry  A.  Messinger :  he  died  January  21, 
I.SS8;  she  lives  in  Federalsburg,  Maryland; 
cliildreu :  Henry  lUirdett.  born  March  11, 
18(13:  Jennie  Eliza,  born  .\pril  22,  1864,  died 
Julv  2^.  18O5;  Robert  W.,  born  February  28, 
1870.  2.  Uora  (name  afterward  changed  to 
Emilv),  born  May  7,  1837:  married,  March 
if>.  1862,  William  Joy;  she  died  September  30, 
1888;  chill:  William  Ashman,  born  Novem- 
I)er  21,  1872,  died  June  25,  1882.  3.  Seraph, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Susan,  born  February 
10,  1845:  married,  September  4,  1870.  Charles 
E.  White;  she  died  May  2,  1890;  children: 
Madalene.  born  May  19,  187 1,  died  June  29, 
1893:  Charles  Euclid,  born  October  24,  1877; 
Frank  Russell,  born  November  27,  1884.  5. 
Solon  E..  born  May  25,  1847,  died  August  30, 
1907;  married,  May  25,  1875,  Fannie  E,  Bout- 
well  ;  children :  Fred  1'.,  born  September  2, 
1876;  Marion  E.,  Sei)teniber  20,  1878,  died 
Xovember  3,  1878;  Florence  B.,  born  Sejjtem- 
ber  15,  1887.  6.  Thomas  .\..  born  October  18, 
185 1  :  married,  June  9,  1878.  Susan  Hutchin- 
son Bingham  ;  children  :  Clinton  B.,  born  Sep- 
tember 18.  1879,  died  July  11.  1907:  Thomas 
Augustus,  born  December  30,  1887;  Xelson 
Emmons,  born  July  31,  i8c;o. 

Cai)taiu  I^'rissell  made  no  will.  .At  the  time 
of  bis  death,  the  youngest  child,  a  son,  was 
only  four  weeks  old.  Mrs.  FVissell.  in  com- 
pliance with  her  husband's  wishes,  kept  the 
home  for  the  children.  .After  nineteen  years 
it  seemed  best  to  dispose  of  the  i)roperty.  It 
was  therefore  transferred  to  the  eldest  son. 
Solon  I'".,  who  was  to  care  for  his  mother,  the 
four  (laughters  each  receiving  a  small  com|)en- 
sation.  'ihomas,  the  youngest  son,  was  not 
of  age,  but  jiromised  to  make  no  trouble.  When 
twentv-one  vears  ol<l  he  placed  hi^  name  on  the 


(juit-claim  deed.  The  entire  transaction  cost 
only  two  dollars. 

(\'I)  Dr.  Seraph  Frissell,  third  daughter  of 
Captain  .Augustus  Caesar  and  Laura  Mack 
(  Flmmons)  FVissell,  was  born  in  Peru,  Mas,sa- 
chusetts,  August  20,  1840.  Her  father  died 
when  she  was  eleven  years  old,  leaving  her 
mother  with  six  children  to  care  for,  and  with 
limited  means  for  their  sup])ort.  Her  girlhood 
\ears  were  divided  between  domestic  work, 
employment  in  woolen  mills  at  Rockville.  Con- 
necticut, and  school  life.  During  these  years 
she  saved  money  enough  to  defray  her  ex- 
penses for  one  year  at  Mount  Holyoke  Semi- 
nary. She  entered  this  institution  September, 
1 86 1,  taking  a  four  years  course  in  three  years, 
but  in  the  meantime  teaching  five  years  ;  there- 
fore did  not  graduate  until  iSCk).  In  1867  she  re- 
ceived appointment  as  missionary  to  Ceylon, 
from  the  American  Board  of  Foreign  Missions, 
but  in  deference  to  her  mother's  wishes  did  not 
enter  upon  this  work.  She  conmienced  the 
study  of  medicine  in  1872.  and  entered  the 
University  of  Michigan  the  fall  of  the  same 
vear,  which  was  the  second  year  after  women 
were  admitted.  She  received  her  diploma  from 
the  de]iartment  of  medicine  and  surgery  of  the 
I'niversity,  .March  24.  1875.  Her  hospital  prac- 
tice included  four  months  at  the  Woman's 
Hospital.  Detroit,  Michigan;  si.K  months  at 
Dr.  Ruth  Gerry's  Private  Hospital.  Ypsilanti, 
Michigan,  and  eleven  months  at  the  New  Eng- 
land Hospital  for  Women  and  Children,  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts. 

In  September.  1876,  Dr.  Frissell  began  the 
general  practice  of  medicine  in  Pittstield.  Mass- 
.•ichusetls,  where  she  resided  until  her  removal  to 
Springfield  in  Jul\-.  1884.  During  her  eight  years 
residence  in  Pittsfield  she  was  elected  the  first 
president  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temper- 
ance Union  of  that  place,  and  for  seven  years 
was  president  of  the  Women's  Board  of  Mis- 
sions of  the  South  Church.  Women  were  first 
admitted  t<i  medical  societies  in  Massachusetts 
in  1884.  but  the  P>erkshire  District  Medical 
Societv  made  Dr.  Frissell  an  honorary  member 
in  1877.  and  she  attended  its  monthly  meetings, 
receiving  notices  as  a  regular  member.  She 
was  a  regular  member  of  the  Berkshire,  Ben- 
nington, Rensselaer,  and  Washington  Cotmty 
Medical  .'society  from  its  organization  until 
she  left  Berkshire  county.  .SJie  was  the  first 
woman  in  western  Massachusetts  to  be  ad- 
mitted to  any  county  society,  becoming  a  mem- 
b:>r  of  the  llam)>den  (."ounty  Medical  Society 
in   1 88;.      She  i--  ;i  nuniber  of  the   Massachu- 


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MASSACIirSI'TTS. 


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setts  Metlical  Society,  having  been  the  fourth 
woman  to  be  admitted  ;  a  member  of  the  Amer- 
ican Medical  Association  ;  an  iionorary  member 
of  the  Ahimnal  Association  of  the  Winiian's 
Medical    College,    Pennsylvania;    member    of 
-Mercy    Warren    Chapter,    Daughters    of    the 
American  Revolution;  of  E.  K.  Wilcox  Relief 
Corps.  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic;  of  the 
Springfield  Mount  I  lolyoke  Alumnae  Associa- 
tion ;  of  the  Alumnal  Association  of  Michigan 
University;  and  of  the  College  Club.     In  1896 
Dr.  Frissell_  took  a  course  in  electro-therapeu- 
tics.    For  ten  years  she  has  been  medical  ex- 
aminer for  the  Herkshire  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, Pittsfield,  Massachusetts.    She  is  a  mem- 
ber  of   the    First   Congregational    Church   of 
Springfiekl.     She  has  been  superintendent  of 
the  Department  of  Heredity  and  Flealth  of  the 
Woman's    Christian    Temperance    Union    for 
Hampden    county;   and    during    1890-QI    was 
resident  physician  and  lecturer  on  physiology 
and  hygiene  at  Mount  1  lolyoke  College.     Her 
specialty  has  been  diseases  of  women  and  chil- 
dren.     She    presented    before    the    American 
Medical  Association  a  valuable  paper  on  the 
treatment  of  diphtheria  without  alcohol,  which 
was  published  in  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation Journal,  November   13.   1897.     She  is 
the  author  of  several  other  interesting  papers, 
notably  one:     "Colonial  Flags  and  the  Fvolu- 
tion  of  the  Stars  and  Stripes."    Other  pajiers 
are:    "Memorial  Day  in  Hampton,  \'irginia ;" 
"Hygiene,  and  why  it  should  be  taught  in  our 
Public     Schools;"     "Prevention    better    than 
Cure;"  "Tobacco;"  "Contents  of  a  Teapot;" 
"Why    I   am   a    Temperance    Doctor :"    and 
"Pioneer  Women  in  Medicine."  While  devoted 
to  her  profession.  Dr.  Frissell  is  interested  in 
the  progressive  movements  of  the  day,  and  her 
.sympathies  are  as  broad  as  humanity. 


There  are  at  least  three  se|)a- 
I'^.M  .M(  J.\S  rate  and  distinct  Emmons  fami- 
lies in  the  I.'nited  States,  one 
of  which  is  descended  from  a  propositus  who 
is  first  mentioned  in  the  earliest  records  of  the 
pioneers  of  Rhode  Island.  The  line  which 
forms  the  subject  of  the  following  article  de- 
scends from  this  ancestor. 

CI)  Thomas  Emons.  shoemaker,  was  prob- 
ably ijorn  in  Englanfl,  but  there  is  no  record  of 
him  before  October  8.  1639,  when  a  census  was 
taken  of  such  persons  as  were  by  general  con- 
sent of  the  Company  admitted  to  be  inhabitants 
of  the  Island  called  .-\quidneck,  "and  have  sub- 
mitted themselves  to  the  government  that  is. 
or  shall  be  established  according  to  the  Word 


of  God  therein."  The  entry  oi  this  census 
upon  the  minutes  of  the  Assembly  consisted 
of  sixty-two  names  written  in  two  jjarallel 
columns  headed  thus:  "Samuel  Hutchinson," 
"Thomas  Fnions."  On  March  12,  1040,  a 
convention  of  the  two  towns  of  Portsmouth 
and  Newport  was  held  at  the  latter  place,  at 
which  a  new  form  of  government  for  the  whole 
island  was  established  and  officers  we're  elected 
inider  it.  Thomas  Emons  and  seven  otiiers 
preseiued  themselves  and  were  admitted  as 
"IVeemaii  of  this  Inuiy.  fully  to  enjoy  the  privi- 
leges belonging  thereto."  "Thomas  Emins  was 
admitted  to  be  an  inhabitant  of  I'oston  |une 
29th.  1648,"  and  from  that  time  until  his  cieath 
he  remained  a  resident  there.  The  following 
facts  concerning  Thomas  Emons  and  his  family 
are  taken  from  the  public  records  of  Boston. 
Thomas  Emons  and  Martha  iCmons  his  wife 
are  subscribing  witnesses  to  a  deed  made  by 
John  Marshall,  of  P.oston,  to  John  .Marrion, 
of  the  same  place,  I-"ebruary  18.  1649.  "Thomas 
Emons.  cordwainer.  with  his  wife  Martha,  was 
adniilted  to  First  Church,  Boston,  February 
i8th,  1651."  "He  was  admitted  freeman  there 
May  26,  1652."  As  shown  in  a  deetl  of  Thomas 
\oe  to  Philip  Wharton,  dated  December  16, 
1^153,  Thomas  Emons  was  a  shoemaker,  and 
ownefl  a  house  and  lot  on  Conduit  street,  P.os- 
ton.  The  name  of  Thomas  lemons  apjiears  on 
four  other  deeds  made  before  1657.  He  was 
chosen  sealer  of  leather  April  4,  lfiC^2.  He 
died  May  11.  1664.  On  20  11  mo.  1660,  he 
made  his  last  will,  which  was  probated  June 
17,  1664.  The  inventory  of  his  estate  amount- 
ed to  £440  5s ;  debts  rlue  deceased,  £66  6s  4d ; 
"from  ye  deceased,  £45  ids  9d."    He  married 

Martha  ,  date  of  marriage  not  known. 

She  survived  her  husband,  and  dictated  her 
will  March  30,  1^166,  and  it  was  recorded  Feb- 
ruary 18.  1667.  The  inventory  made  Decem- 
ber 18.  1666,  shows  an  "Am't  of  417  pounds 
17s.;"  also  mentions  "A  share  in  the  Conduit, 
14  pounds:  also  debts  of  John  Hincksman," 
etc.  Children  of  Thomas  and  .Martha  Emons : 
Obadiah.  Hamiah,  Samuel,  Elizabeth,  Benja- 
min and  Joseph. 

i\\)  f)badiah,  eldest  child  of  Thomas  and 
.Martha  Emons.  was  born  about  1635.  and  died 
in  Boston,  1705.  He  first  appears  as  a  legatee 
tmdcr  his  father's  will.  1660.  and  later  as  one 
of  the  legatees  of  his  mother's  will,  1666.  He 
appears  as  a  mortgager  of  real  estate  in  1670 
and  again  in  1675.  With  others  he  signed  a 
petition  to  the  general  court  of  .Massachusetts, 
T'ebruary  22,  1675.  relative  to  the  war  then 
waged  against  the  Indians  under  King  Philip. 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


His  name  appears  in  the  list  of  inhabitants  of 
Boston  in  1702.  He  married  (first)  about 
1657,  Abie,  died  about  1671-5;  (second)  Mary 
.  Children  :  Thomas,  ^lartha,  Eliza- 
beth, Mary,  Rebecca,  Samuel  and  Obadiah 
(twins). 

( HI )  Samuel,  second  son  of  Obadiah  Emons, 
was  born  November  8,  1671.  He  is  believed 
to  have  been  the  Samuel  Emons  who  resided 
in  Cambridge,  and  removed  thence  to  Wethers- 
field,  Connecticut,  about  1691,  and  later  settled 
in  East  Haddem,  Connecticut,  where  he  and 
his  wife  were  admitted  to  the  church  October 
5,  1705,  and  where  he  died,  aged  ninety-six 
years.  He  married,  about  1692,  a  daughter  of 
Deacon  Samuel  Liutler,  of  Wethersfield,  Con- 
necticut ;  children :  Samuel,  Jonathan,  Nathan- 
iel, Mary,  Ebenezer  and  Mehitable. 

(IV)  Deacon  Samuel  (2),  eldest  child  of 
Samuel  ( I )  Emons,  was  probably  born  in 
Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  about  1696.  No 
record  of  his  death  is  found.  He  went  to 
East  Haddam  with  his  parents  about  1700. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  church  July  11,  1731. 
In  October,  1733,  the  parish  of  Millington  was 
formed  of  a  part  of  East  Haddam,  and  sub- 
sequently at  a  meeting  of  the  citizens  of  Mill- 
ington, Sanniel  Emons  was  chosen  one  of  three 
men  constituting  the  society  committee.  Sam- 
uel Emons  and  Daniel  Gates  were  elected 
first  deacons  of  the  Millington  church  in  Octo- 
ber, 1736;  and  Deacon  Emons  as  agent  for 
the  parish,  petitioned  the  General  Assembly  in 
October,  1737,  "That  a  tax  of  one  penny  an 
acre  be  assessed  upon  all  unimproved  lands 
within  the  said  jiarish,  in  order  to  help  settle 
and  su])port  a  minister."  He  married,  Septem- 
ber 14,  1 72 1,  Ruth  Cone,  who  was  admitted 
to  the  church  at  East  Haddam,  September  22, 
1723.  Children:  Dorothy,  Elizabeth,  Eben- 
ezer, Samuel,  Mary,  Daniel,  an  infant,  Jona- 
athan,  Hannah,  Ruth,  Sybel  and  Nathaniel. 

(V)  Lieutenant  Ebenezer,  eldest  son  of 
Deacon  Samuel  (2)  and  Ruth  (Cone)  Emons, 
was  born  at  East  Haddam,  September  18, 1725, 
and  died  in  1809.  He  was  appointed  ensign 
of  the  Eourth  company,  TweiUy-fifth  regiment 
colonial  militia,  at  Hartford,  in  1763;  trans- 
ferred to  Twelfth  company,  or  train  band, 
Twelfth  regiment,  in  May,  1766,  and  promoted 
to  lieutenant  October,  1768.  He  married,  April 
4,  1754.  Susannah  Spencer,  and  they  are  said 
to  have  had  ten  children.  The  names  of  the 
seven  following  are  known:  Noadiah.  Daniel 
S.,  Nathaniel,  Samuel,  Susannah,  Ebenezer 
and  Mary. 

(\Tj   Major  Noadiah  I'.mmons,  eldest  son  of 


Ebenezer  and  Susannah  (Spencer)  Emmons, 
was  born  in  East  Haddam,  March,  1755,  and 
died  March  6,  1808.  He  was  a  farmer.  He  enlist- 
ed at  East  Haddam,  May  10,  1775,  as  private  in 
Cajitain  Jose])h  Spencer's  First  company,  Sec- 
ond regiment,  and  was  discharged  December 
17.  1775;  enrolled  as  a  minute-man  in  Captain 
liliphalet  Holms's  company,  of  East  Haddam, 
in  Alay,  1776;  appointed  captain  of  the  First, 
or  North  Millington  comjjany,  colonial  militia, 
1780,  and  major  in  1780.    He  married.  May  i, 

1777,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Abner  and  Eliza- 
beth lirainard.  She  was  born  at  East  Haddam, 
November  16,  1758,  and  died  February  2,  1823. 
Children,  born  at  East  Haddam :  Ichabod, 
Noadiah,  Brainard,  Henry,  Susannah,  Augus- 
tine, Jonathan  L.,  and  David. 

(\ TI)  Major  Ichabod,  eldest  child  of  Noa- 
diah and  Elizabeth  (Brainard)  Emmons,  was 
born  in  East  Haddam,  Connecticut,  March  18, 

1778,  and  died  at  Hinsdale,  Massachusetts, 
April  26,  1839.  When  a  young  man  he  went 
to  Middlefield,  Massachusetts,  to  learn  the 
trade  of  blacksmith.  After  marriage  he  re- 
turned to  East  Haddam,  where  he  remained 
about  two  years,  and  again  returning  to  Mass- 
achusefts,  purchased  a  farm  in  Hinsdale,  Berk- 
shire county,  on  the  road  from  Boston  to  Al- 
bany. There  he  worked  at  his  trade  and  culti- 
vated the  soil.  He  is  said  to  have  been  an  inde- 
fatigable worker,  often  hammering  at  liis  forge 
through  the  long  hours  of  the  night,  shoeing 
horses  or  fashioning  farming  implements.  In 
1819  he  erected  a  fine  brick  mansion  on  the 
farm,  in  which  he  lived  until  his  death.  This 
was  for  many  years  the  finest  dwelling  in  town, 
and  remained  in  the  ])ossession  of  the  family 
till  1901,  when  it  went  into  other  hands  and 
\\as  remodeled  and  converted  into  a  pojiular 
summer  hotel  bearing  the  name  of  "Shady 
\  ilia."  The  Major  was  a  man  possessing  a  keen 
sense  of  humor,  and  was  one  of  the  best  known 
wags  of  AN'estern  Mas.sachusetts.  While  in 
the  legislature,  where  he  represented  his  town 
several  terms,  he  was  noted  for  his  witty  say- 
ings, and  was  a  welcome  guest  at  many  social 
functions  held  in  l'>oston  during  his  legislative 
career.  At  one  of  the  legislative  sessions  he 
introduced  a  bill  entitled  "An  Act  to  Tax  Min- 
isters and  Sheep."  The  title  of  Major  was 
given  him  as  an  officer  in  one  of  the  militia 
regiments  of  Berkshire  county.  He  married, 
December  9,  1799,  Mindwell,  daughter  of  David 
and  Mary  (Talcott)  Mack,  born  in  Middle- 
field.  September  6,  1779.  died  June  23,  1862. 
Children  were :  Monroe.  Noadiah,  Eliza, 
Laura,  Mack,  Emily  and  Mary. 


MASSACH  rSETTS. 


4.^0 


(\"II1)  [,aiira  .Mack,  second  claughter  of 
Major  Icliabodaiiil.MiiuhvclI  (Mack)  Emmons, 
was  born  in  Hinsdale,  July  3.  1810,  and  died 
September  18.  1898.  aged  eiglity-eight  years. 
She  married.  November  30,  1833,  Hon.  .Au- 
gustus C.  Frissell.  of  Peru  (.see  Frissell). 


The  surname  Spear  is  of  ancioiu 
SPE.AR     Englisli  origin,  tbougli  the  family 

seems  never  to  have  been  very 
nimierous.  The  name  is  also  spelled  Spere  in 
the  early  records. 

(I)  George  Spear,  immigrant  ancestor  per- 
haps of  all  of  the  surname  in  this  country,  came 
from  England  to  Massachusetts  in  1642  and 
settled  in  IJraintree.  He  was  admitted  a  free- 
man May  29.  1644.  He  lived  for  a  time  at 
Dorchester.  In  his  old  age  he  removed  to  Xew 
Dartmouth,  now  Pemac|uid.  Maine,  and  is  said 
to  have  been  killed  by  the  Indians.   I  le  married 

Mary .  w-ho  died  at  Rraintree,  December 

7.  1674.    Children:     i.  George,  married,  .\pril 

2,  1669,  Mary,  born  January  16.  1652-3,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Deering.  of  Braintrec  :  children  : 
Hannah.  Mary  and  Eleazer  (given  by  some 
writers  as  of  his  parents).  2.  Sarah.  January  3. 
1647-8:  married.  June  19.  1672.  George  Witty. 

3.  Richard,  had  seven  children  baptized  April 
II.  1698.  4.  Samuel.  October  15,  1652,  died 
young.  5.  Ebenezer.  .\ugust  3,  1654;  married, 
July  16,  1679,  Rachel  Deering.  6.  Hannah, 
March  30.  1656-7,  died  1668.  7.  Saiuuel.  Janu- 
ary 16,  1658-9;  mentioned  below.  8.  XathanicI, 
May  15.  1665;  married,  .August  8,  1689,  Han- 
nah Holman. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  George  Spear,  was  born 
Jaiuiary  16.  1658-9,31  Braintree.  antl  died  there 
December  24.  1713,  aged  according  to  his  grave- 
stone fifty-five  years.  His  epitaph  reads:  "The 
memory  of  thy  life  is  blessed."'  He  married 
Elizabeth  Daniels.  Children,  born  in  Braintree: 
I.  Rev.  Samuel.  July  6.  1696  :  graduate  of  Har- 
vard College,  171 5:  minister  at  Provincetown  ; 
his  will,  July,  1747,  mentions  brothers  and 
sisters  William.  John,  Benoni.  Mehitable,  Doro- 
thy, Hannah,  Mary.  2.  Daniel,  August  25, 
1698.  3.  Elizabeth,  June  19,  1700.  4.  Mehit- 
able, September,  1702.  5.  Dorothy,  mentioned 
in  brother  .Samuel's  w-ill.  6.  Hannah,  baptized 
.August  4,  1706.  7.  William,  born  June  8.  1708  ; 
married  Hannah  Pemiiman.  8.  John,  .April  8, 
1710;  mentioned  below.  9.  ^Iary.  baptized 
March  23,  1712.  10.  Benoni  (posthumous;, 
born  July  23,  1714;  married,  November  29, 
1760.  Elizabeth  Xewcomb,  widow. 

(HI )  John,  son  of  Samuel  .Spear,  was  born 
in  Braintree.  .April  8,  17 10,  and  died  there  July 


5.  177<).  in  his  si.\ty-sixth  year.  He  resided  on 
the  Spear  homestead,  on  Hough's  Xeck.  all  his 
life.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Sarah  .Arnold,  of  Braiiuree,  I'ebruary  20. 
I7,?<'>-  Children,  born  at  P.raiiUree:  i.  Prudence, 
-March  8.  1736-7:  married,  1755,  Daiu'el  I'.axter. 
2.  Mary,  bajitized  Xovember  V->.  1738,  i)n)bablv 
<lied  young.  3.  Seth,  born  Januarv  K).  1742; 
mentioned  below.  4.  Mary.' Januarv  4,  174^: 
married  James  Brackctt.  Jr.  "5.  Dor'othv.  born 
IVbruary  14.  baptized  February  19.  1744:  mar- 
ried, Sei)tember  22.  1763,  Edward  .Adams.  6. 
Ichabnd.  bai)tized  March  9,  1745.  died  voung. 
(John  Spear  (3d)  also  had  a  wife  Marv  and 
children  about  the  .same  time  1. 

(I\')  Lieutenant  .Seth,  son  of  John  S|)ear, 
was  born  in  Braintree,  January  19.  1742.  an<l 
died  .August  26.  iSiS.  lie  was' a  soldier  in  the 
revolution,  in  Captain  Seth  Turner's  company, 
in  1776.  for  three  months  and  fourteen  davs, 
stationed  at  Braintree  :  also  sergeant  in  Captain 
Edmund  Billings's  company,  of  Xorth  Precinct 
of  Braintree.  Colonel  Jonatiian  Bass's  regiment, 
later  in  1776.  engaged  to  drive  the  British  ships 
from  P.oston  harbor.  He  resided  in  the  north 
precinct  of  Braintree,  and  signed  the  petition 
to  set  off  the  jjrecinct  and  establisii  what  is  now 
Quincy.  .According  to  the  census  of  1790  he 
had  two  males  over  si.xteen.  three  under  that 
age.  and  eight  females  in  his  family.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  September  25.  1764.  Judith  .Adams, 
horn  1746.  died  July  10,  1787  ('town  record), 
daughter  of  Deacon  John  and  Mary  (Swift) 
Adams  ;  (second  )  May  15. 1788. .Abigail  Marsh, 
died  October  28.  1812.  daughter  of  Wilson 
Marsh.    Epitaph: 

"Here's  one  who  lived  In  pence  on  e,Trtli 

And  here's  her  sleeplni^  dust. 
The  .Moul   we  trust   In   Heaven   Is 

And  reigns  among:  the  Just." 

He  married  (third)  Frances,  widow  of  John 
Xightingale.  daughter  of  Captain  Moses  Brack- 
ett.  She  died  July  3.  1846.  aged  eighty  years. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Mary,  born  October 
20,  1765,  died  October  9.  1813:  luarried,  July 
15,  1792,  Ebenezer  Adams.  2.  Judith,  borii 
May  19.  1767.  died  May  5,  1795;  married, 
October  17.  1793,  Josiah  J'.ass.  3.\Seth.  born 
February  17,  1769,  died  young.  4.  Sarah,  born 
January  17,  1770.  died  .September  9,  1795; 
married.  September  30,  1791.  Henry  Hardwick. 

5.  John,  born  (Jctober  3,  1771  :  married.  May 
15-   '"'>''>•  Mary,  daughter  of  Joshua  Hobarl. 

6.  .\bigail.  born  .May  24.  1773.  died  young.  7. 
Elijah,  born  January  27.  1775.  died  .Sef)tember 
14.    1833:   married.    A])ril    13.    1800,   Susanna 


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MASSAC  HL'SETTS. 


Baxter.  8.  Sctli,.  born  Janiiar\-  12.  1777,  died 
Mav  28,  1799.  9-  Dorothy,  born  September  16, 
1778.  died  January  30,  1822:  married.  May  31, 
1804,  Joseph  r.laiichard.  10.  l-llizabeth,  born 
October  22,  1780,  died  August  5,  1795-  H- 
Lucy,  born  February  20,  1783;  married,  Janu- 
ary 25,  1809,  Elisha  Marsh.  12.  George,  born 
fanuary  25.  1785  ;  mentioned  below.  13.  Luther, 
born  June  13,  1787:  married,  December  17, 
1807,  Esther,  daughter  of  Deacon  Samuel  Savil. 
Children  of  second  wife:  14.  Maria  Bovvcn, 
horn  April  20.  1789,  died  May  3,  1819.  15. 
Sophia,  born  December  i,  1790,  died  August 
29.  1827;  married,  June  13,  181 1,  Jonatlian 
Marsh.  16.  .Abigail,  born  July  29,  1793;  mar- 
ried. April  II,  1819,  Charles  Gleason.  17. 
Louisa,  born  September  18,  1795;  married. 
May  22,  1814,  George  Nightingale..  18.  Alpheus, 
born  December  8,  1796,  died  May  4,  1847; 
married,  March  21,  1 8 19,  .Ann  Adams.  19. 
Lemuel,  born  March  4,  1798,  died  March  20, 
1839  :  married,  December  14,  1823,  \'elera  \\'at- 
son. 

(V)  George,  son  of  Lieutenant  Seth  Spear, 
was  born  January  25,  1785,  and  died  in  Quincy, 
at  the  age  of  ninety  j'ears.  He  was  a  prominent 
citizen  of  Quincy,  and  a  farmer.  He  was 
brought  up  in  the  orthodo.x  faith,  and  was  a 
great  student  of  the  Uible.  Late  in  life  he 
became  a  I'niversalist.  Me  married,  December 
20,  1809,  .Ann  Savil,  daughter  of  Deacon  Sam- 
uel Savil.  Children;  i.  George  W.,  born  Octo- 
ber 30.  1810;  see  forward.  2.  Sarah  .A.,  No- 
vember 5,  181 1,  died  July  11,  1813.  3.  Lucretia 
S.,  born  January  29.  1813:  married  Charles 
Pierce,  and  died  aged  ninety  years.  4.  Elisha, 
born  January  29,  1815,  died  September  10. 
i8[7.  5.  Edward  .A.,  born  December  7,  1816; 
captain  in  civil  war;  settled  in  Quincy,  where 
he  was  superintendent  of  cemeteries.  6.  Elisha. 
born  Se])teniber  2,  i8i8;  a  shoemaker;  served 
in  army  during  civil  war;  lived  in  Missouri, 
where  he  died.  7.  .Albert  F.,  a  shoemaker ; 
settled  in  North  \\'eymouth.  8.  Lebbeus  C, 
born  March  20,  1822,  died  October  17,  1823. 
o.  Lucy  .A.,  born  Jaiuiary  27,  1824;  married 
Frederick  Garfield,  and  died  at  an  advanced 
age.  lo-i  I.  John  and  Mary,  twins,  born  March 
0,  i82r);  John  died  March  10,  and  Mary  died 
March  14.  1826.  12.  Mary  E.,  born  .August 
9,  1829;  died  unmarried,  at  an  advanced  age. 

13.  Granville  .A.,  born  June  11.  1831  ;  a  shoe- 
maker; married  in  Indiana,  went  to  C'alifornia, 
and  later  returned  to  Indiana,  where  he  died. 

14.  I'.mily  ]■".,  born  .August  23,  1834. 

(  \  1  )  ( ienrgc  \\  .,  >on  of  George  Spear,  was 
bom  in  Quincy,  October  30.  1810.     lie  learned 


the  trade  of  blacksmith,  and  was  engaged  in 
that  business  in  Quincy  for  some  time.  He 
became  foreman  for  Gridley  Bryant,  a  promi- 
nent architect  of  Boston,  and  worked  in  South 
Boston  and  Med  ford.  Here  he  met  with  a 
serious  accident  in  a  quarry,  a  premature  ex- 
plosion, by  which  he  lost  an  eye  and  was  made 
a  cripple  for  life.  He  returned  to  Quincy, 
where  he  was  accidentally  killed  by  being  caught 
in  a  bevel  gearing  of  a  machine  which  he  was 
operating.  He  was  a  good  citizen,  and  an 
industrious  man.  He  married,  in  Quincy,  Eliz- 
abeth Thayer,  born  .April  3,  1814,  died  July  8, 
1893,  daughter  of  Elihu  and  Elizabeth  Thayer; 
her  father  was  a  carpenter  of  Quincy.  Chil- 
dren;  I.  George  A.,  born  November  14,  1836; 
mentioned  below.  2.  Edward,  born  December 
15,  1838.  3.  Christopher  .A.,  born  December 
23,  i83<).  died  March  14,  1905;  was  in  the  civil 
war,  and  afterwards  seven  years  purser  in  the 
L'nited  States  navy.  4.  Ann  E.,  born  Novem- 
her  I.  [841:  married  William  S.  Pierce,  who 
was  in  the  civil  war.  and  is  now  a  clerk  em- 


])loyed  by  the  city  of  Boston. 


Walter  F.. 


born  October  24,  1843,  ^''^d  December,  1897; 
married  .\nianda  Guild ;  carpenter.  6.  Hiram 
.Austin,  born  February  28,  1846;  carjienter, 
living  in  Middletown.  Connecticut.  7.  .\ngeline 
.M.,  born  September  28,  1848;  died  unmarried. 
8.  Francis  .A.,  born  May  15,  1854;  probation 
officer,  city  of  Quincy.  9.  Elihu  T.,  born  Au- 
gust 18,  1851  ;  head  engineer  of  Metropolitan 
Works,  Quincy  ;  married  Mrs.  Abbie  Newcomb. 
10.  Lucy  (j.,  born  September  15,  1858;  married 
James  \\alker ;  lives  in  Quincy.  11.  Herbert, 
born  January  10,  1861  ;  officer  on  a  revenue 
cutter  in  the  navy;  married  Lain^a  Jernegan, 
of  Edgartown,  Massachusetts. 

(\'1I )  (Jeorge  .A.,  son  of  George  W.  Spear, 
was  born  November  14,  1836.  He  received 
his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Quincy, 
and  in  1852,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  went  to  West 
Roxbury  and  was  a])|irenticeil  to  bis  uncle. 
Hiram  Thayer,  to  learn  the  trade  of  carpenter. 
.After  a  few  years  as  a  journeyman  he  estab- 
lished himself  in  business  as  a  carpenter  and 
builder.  He  soon  established  a  reputation  for 
careful,  practical  and  honest  work,  and  his 
business  increased  rapidly.  He  erected  many 
jirivate  houses  in  West  Roxbury  and  other 
suburbs  of  Bo.ston.  lie  was  always  interested 
in  the  growth  anil  development  of  his  native 
town,  and  is  a  worthy  and  resjiected  citizen. 
In  ]iolitics  he  i^  a  Republican,  and  in  religion  a 
liberal.  He  married.  November.  iS^kj,  .\netta 
llariier,  born  in  West  Roxburv,  1839,  died 
IVbrnary   jj.    1S74.   daughter   of  Joseph   and 


MASSACIU'SIHTS. 


485 


Abigail  (I'.ragg)  Harper,  llcr  fatlier  was  a 
native  of  Dorsetshire,  EnglaiKl.  who  came  to 
Xcw  England  and  settled  at  West  Roxbury  as 
a  farmer.  Children:  i.  Sarah  C.  born  Janu- 
ary 16.  1862:  married  Albert  P.  Langtry  (see 
Langtry).  2.  .Mvin.  born  (ktober  30.  1869: 
mentioned  below.  3.  George  Harper,  died 
yoimg. 

(\'III)  Alvin.  son  of  George  .A.  Spear,  was 
bom  in  West  Roxbnry.  October  30.  1869.  He 
is.  a  snccessful  stone  mason  and  contractor, 
having  constructed  many  foundations  and  sub- 
stantial buildings  in  that  section.  He  married. 
December  i.  1895.  I-ouisa  .\gnes  Lutz.  born  in 
Roxbury.  September  13.  1871.  daughter  of 
George  C.  and  Pauline  ^1.  (Roher)  Lutz,  both 
of  German  birth.  Children:  i.  Ruth,  born 
November  3,  1896.  2.  Helen,  January  11. 
1898.  3.  George  A..  November  29.  1900.  4. 
Earl  Langtry.  .April  18.  1903. 


The  name  Washburn  is  de- 
\\"ASITBL'RN  rived  from  two  simple  words 

— wash — which  applies  totbe 
swift  moving  current  of  a  stream,  and  burn  or 
bourne,  a  brook  or  small  stream.  It  has  been 
said  of  the  family,  whose  origin  is  in  England, 
that  the  posterity  of  John  Washburn,  the  first 
immigrant  of  the  name  to  locate  in  New  Eng- 
land, "will  scldftm  finfl  occasion  to  blush  upon 
looking  back  ujjon  the  past  lives  of  those  from 
whom  they  have  descended.  Fortunate  indeed 
may  the  generations  now  in  being,  esteem  them- 
selves, if  they  can  be  sure  to  bequeath  to  their 
posterity  an  equal  source  of  felicitation."  In 
this  illustrious  family  have  been  found  some 
of  our  nati(jn"s  greatest  characters,  in  public 
and  private  life,  statesmen  and  niilitarv  men  in 
all  of  the  .American  wars.  Maine.  \'crmont. 
Massachusetts  and  Wisconsin  have  all  had  gov- 
ernors from  the  Washburn  family,  and  three 
brothers  served  as  congres.smen  from  three 
states  at  the  same  time,  and  all  with  much  abil- 
ity. Authors  and  college  graduates  may  be 
found  to  a  score  or  more,  who  have  left  their 
impress  upon  the  world.  In  England  a  John 
Washburn  was  the  first  secretary  of  the  Council 
of  Plymouth,  and  was  succeeded  in  office  in 
1628  by  \\'iiliani  lUirgess;  but  it  is  not  known 
that  he  was  identical  w-ith  John  Washburn,  of 
Duxbury.  in  1632:  nor  is  it  known  that  the 
New  England  \\'ashburns.  tlie  descendants  of 
John,  were  of  kin  to  William.  Daniel  and  John 
Washburn,  who  had  land  upon  Long  Island  as 
early  as  1653,  but  whose  names  soon  afterwards 
disappeared  from  the  records  there. 

(I)   Sir  Roger,  of  Little  Washbourne,  county 


Worcester,  England,  flourished  in  the  latter 
half  of  the  thirteenth  century.  He  is  men- 
tioned in  the  in(|uisition  of  1259  and  was  living 
in  I29g.     He  married  Joan . 

(II)  .Sir  John,  sou  of  Sir  Roger,  was  known 
during  the  lifetime  of  his  father  as  John  de 
Duft'oril.  He  was  knight  of  the  shire  and  died 
before  Michaelmas.  1319.  He  married  Isa- 
bella   . 

( III )  Sir  Roger  (2).  son  of  Sir  John,  mar- 
ried, as  early  as  1316,  Margaret  .     He 

was  Lord  of  Waslibournc. 

(IV)  John  (2)  Washburn,  son  of  .Sir  Roger, 
was  a  younger  son.  He  had  an  elder  brother, 
also  named  John,  who  died  witiiout  issue, 
and  conse(|uently  the  estate  and  manor  of 
Washbourne  was  confirmed  to  the  younger 
son  by  his  father.  .Sir  Roger.  He  married 
Isabclle  . 

(  V)  Peter  W'ashborne.son  of  John  (  2  )  Wash- 
burn, married  Isolde  llanley  in  the  twenty- 
ninth  year  of  the  reign  of  Edward  111.  Had 
sons  John,  mentioned  below,  and  William. 

(\"I)  John  (3)  Washborn,  son  of  Peter 
Washborne,  married  (first)  Joan  Musard,  and 
(second)  Margaret  I'oher,  or  Powre,  of  Wich- 
cnford.  He  was  knight  of  the  shire,  escheator, 
and  vice-comes.  He  was  the  last  of  the  name 
to  own  .Stanford,  and  the  first  in  Wichenford, 
and  was  living  in  July,  in  the  fifth  year  of  the 
reign  of  Henry  \'I.  Children:  Isolde  (by 
first  wife),  Norman.  John,  Elynor. 

(\'H)  Norman  Washburn,  son  of  John  (3) 
Washborn,  married  Elizabeth  Knivton.  As 
son  and  heir  he  had  a  grant  of  the  manor  of 
Washborne  from  his  father  in  the  fifth  year 
of  the  reign  of  Ilcnry  \'I.  He  died  before 
1479.  Chiklren  :  John,  mentioned  below:  Ele- 
anor :  other  daughters. 

(\'III)  John  (4),  son  of  Xorinan  Wash- 
burn, died  in  May.  1517.  He  was  i)robably 
born  as  early  as  1454.  He  was  a  commissioner. 
He  married  (first)  Joan  Mitton,  of  Weston, 
county  Stafford,  and  (second  )  Elizabeth  Mon- 
ington.  of  P.uttcrs,  county  Hereford,  who  was 
buried  at  I'osbury.  His  will  was  dated  May  3, 
1517.  and  he  died  Alay  6  following.  He  was 
biuied  ui  Wichenford  church.  Ciiildren  of 
first  wife:  i.  Robert,  died  in  the  lifetime  of 
his  father.  2.  John,  mentioned  below,  3.  Wal- 
ter, executor  of  his  father's  will.  4.  Francis, 
Children  of  second  wife:  5.  .Anthony,  of  P>os- 
bury.    fi.  Richard. 

(  IX  )  John  (5),  son  of  Joim  (4)  Washburn, 
was  fotmder  of  what  is  known  as  the  Benge- 

worth  branch,  and  married  Emme ,  who 

lived  at  Rengeworth,  a  few  miles  distant  from 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


Little  W'ashbovirnc.  His  will  was  dated  De- 
cember 27.  154').  and  he  died  soon  afterward. 
His  wife  made  her  will  May  I.  1547.  Chil- 
dren: 1.  John,  mentioned  below.  2.  William, 
married  Margaret  Harward. 

(X)  John  (6),  son  of  John  (5)  Washburn, 
of  Rengeworth,  married,  in  1542.  Jone  Bushell. 
He  married  (second)  in  1561.  Jone  White- 
head, who  was  buried  in  1567.  He  was  buried 
in  1593.    Children:     i.  John,  mentioned  below. 

(XT)  John  (7),  son  of  John  (6)  Washburn, 
was  of  Rengeworth.  and  married,  in  1596, 
Martha  Stevens,  whose  will  was  proved  in 
1626.  He  was  buried  in  1624.  His  will  was 
('ated  Augu.st  3.  1624.  Children:  i.  John, 
baptized  July  2,  1597;  mentioned  below.  2. 
Jane,  baptized  December  2.  1599.  3.  William, 
ija|)tize<l  Xovember  9.  1601.  4.  Jone,  baptized 
.\pril  II,  1604,  buried  1636. 

(XH)  John  (8),  son  of  John  (7)  Wa.sh- 
btirn,  was  baptized  in  Rengeworth.  England, 
July  2.  1597.  He  was  the  immigrant  ancestor. 
He  settled  in  Duxbury,  Massachusetts,  in  1632. 
Two  of  his  sons,  John  and  Philip,  came  with 
him,  and  also  his  wife.  In  that  year  he  had 
an  action  in  court  against  Edward  Doten,  and 
he  was  a  taxi)ayer  in  1633.  In  1634  he  bought 
nf  lulward  I'lOmpasse  a  jjlace  beyond  the  creek, 
called  Eagle's  Xest.  He  and  his  sons  above 
mentioned  were  on  the  list  of  those  able  to 
bear  arms  in  1643.  He  and  his  son  John  were 
among  the  original  fifty- four  proprietors  of 
liridgewater  in  1645.  They  bought  the  lands 
of  the  old  .Sachem,  Massasoit.  for  seven  coats 
of  one  and  one  half  yards  each,  nine  hatchets, 
twenty  knives,  four  moose  skins,  ten  and  a  half 
yards  of  cotton  ckith.  The  transfer  was  wit- 
nessed by  Captain  Myles  Standish.  Samuel 
Xash  and  Constant  Southworth.  He  died  at 
Rridgewatir  in  1670.  He  married  Margery 
Moore,  who  was  baptized  in  1588.  Children: 
I.  Mary,  bai)tized  1619.  2.  John,  born  1620: 
mentioned  below.  3.  Phili]-),  baptized  and  buried 
June,  1622.  at  Rengeworth.  4.  Philip,  went  to 
.\merica  with  his  father. 

(XIH)  John  (9).  son  of  John  (8)  Wash- 
burn, was  baptized  in  Rengeworth,  England, 
in  1620.  and  came  to  New  England  with  his 
father.  In  1645  he  married  Elizabeth  Mitchell, 
daughter  of  Experience  Mitchell,  as  shown  by 
a  letter  written  by  her  nephew. ThoniasMitchell, 
to  his  luicle.  Experience,  dated  at  .Xmsterdam, 
July  24,  iCtGz.  This  letter  has  been  preserved. 
John  Wasliburn  in  1670  sold  his  house  and 
lands  at  Cireen's  Harbor.  Duxbury.  which  his 
father  had  given  him.  He  made  his  will  in 
ifiSf".     His  sons   John  and  Samuel  were  exe- 


cutors and  his  brother-in-law,  Edward  Mitchell, 
and  his  kind  friend.  John  Tomson.  were  made 
trustees  and  overseers.  Children:  I.  John, 
married  Rebecca  Lapham.  2.  Thomas,  mar- 
ried f first)  Abigail  Leonard;  (second)  De- 
liverance Packard.  3.  Joseph,  married  Han- 
nah Latham  and  resided  in  Bridgewater.  4. 
.Samuel,  born  165 1  :  mentioned  below.  5.  Jon- 
athan, married  Mary  \'aughan.  6.  Benjamin, 
(lied  on  the  Phipps  expedition  to  Canada.  7. 
Mary,  born  1661  ;  married,  1694.  Samuel  Kins- 
ley. 8.  Elizabeth,  married  (first)  James  How- 
ard :  (second)  Edward  Sealy.  9.  Jane,  married 
William  Orcutt.  Jr.  10.  James,  born  1672 ; 
married  Mary  Bowden.  11.  Sarah,  married, 
iC^C)/.  John  Ames. 

(Xi\")  Sergeant  Samuel,  son  of  John  (9) 
Washburn,  was  born  in  Duxbury  in  165 1.  died 
in  1720.  He  married  Deborah  Packard,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Packard.  His  w'lll  was  made  in 
1720,  and  shows  that  his  sons  Noah  and  Israel 
were  dead  at  that  time.  Children:  i.  Samuel, 
born  1678.  2.  Noah,  1682:  mentioned  below. 
3.  Israel.  1684.  4.  Nehemiah,  1686.  3.  Benja- 
min.   6.  Hannah,  married  John  Kieth. 

(XV)  Noah,  son  of  Sergeant  Samuel  Wash- 
burn, was  born  in  1682,  and  died  in  17 17.  He 
married,  in  1710,  Elizabeth  Shaw,  daughter  of 
Joseph  .Shaw,  and  sister  of  Rev.  John  Shaw. 
She  married  (second)  in  1719,  Isaac  Harris. 
Noah  resided  at  East  Rridgewater.  Children : 
I.  Eleazer.     2.  Noah,  mentioned  below. 

(X\'I)  Noah  (2).  son  of  Noah  (i)  Wash- 
burn, married,  in  1739.  Mary  Staples,  and  lived 
in  I'".ast  Rridgewater.  He  settled  in  Williams- 
burgh  and  owned  the  house  lately  occupied  by 
Lauriston  Washburn.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth, 
born  1739.  2.  Xoali.  1741.  3.  Nehemiah.  1743; 
married,  in  1770.  Ruth  Edgerton.  4.  Stephen. 
1748:  mentioned  below.  5.  Huldah,  1750.  6. 
Mary.  1756. 

(X\TI)  Stephen,  son  of  Noah  (2)  Wash- 
burn, was  born  in  East  Rridgewater  in  1748. 
lie  married,  in  1770.  .Sarah  I-'axon,  antl  settled 
in  Williamsburgh.  He  was  a  farmer.  Chil- 
dren: I.  .-Xmos,  mentioned  below.  2.  Polly, 
married  Gross  Williams.  3.  Sally,  married 
(first)  Eleazer  Hillman ;  (second)  Selh  John- 
son, of  Dana.  Ma.ssachusetts.  4.  Ruth,  married 
Rev.  Hosca  Rallou,  the  distinguished  I'niversal- 
ist  minister. 

(X\  ill  )  .\mos,  son  of  .Steiihen  Washl)urn. 
wasbornat  Williamsburgh.  I  lemarried  .Amanda 
Root.  Children,  born  at  Williamsburgh  :  Lauris- 
ton. .\eheiuiali,  William  I...  Charles.  Sarah, 
Edward  ( "i. :  the  three  latter  were  triplets. 

(XLX  )  EdwardGardner,  sonof  .Xmos  Wash- 


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burn,  was  born  in  \\'illianisburj;Ii.  June,  1819, 
died  in  Springfield,  ^[ay  22,  1889.  He  was 
one  of  triplets.  Edward  G.,  Charles  and  Sarah, 
and  was  brought  np  by  Fenton  Diitchertown, 
who  was  a  teacher  of  the  violin,  which  he 
taught  Mr.  Washburn,  who  thus  became  an 
accomplished  violinist  and  played  in  orchestras 
all  his  life.  He  first  learned  the  trade  of  orna- 
mental wood  carver,  and  after  working  at  that 
some  years  went  to  Springfield,  where  he  w'as 
employed  as  a  wood  worker  in  the  armory 
until  1865.  October  2,  of  that  year  he  bought  out 
the  undertaking  business  of  \\\-lls  P.  Hodgett. 
and  carried  that  on  until  his  death.  He  was 
also  engaged  for  a  time  in  the  manufacture  of 
planes.  He  was  a  member  of  the  P>lue  Lodge 
of  Masons,  and  attended  St.  Paul's  Universal- 
ist  Church.  In  politics  he  was  independent. 
He  married.  1839.  Sylvia  P>riggs  Cheney,  born 
in  1823.  died  in  Springfield.  1894.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Levi  an<l  Plotina  (Metcalf) 
Cheney,  of  Xorth  Orange.  There  were  three 
children  of  this  marriage :  Homer  AI.,  born 
1846.  died  December  ri,  1898:  Edward  Corral, 
1850.  died  July  i.  1897;  Cheney  Davidson. 
next  mentioned. 

(  XX  )  Cheney  Davidson,  only  living  son  of  Ed- 
ward (Gardner  Washburn,  was  born  in  Spring- 
field. September  24.  1856.  and  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  and  I'urnett's  English  Classi- 
cal Institute  on  Court  street.  He  was  in  the 
employ  of  his  father  until  the  death  of  the 
latter.  May  22,  1889.  when  he  succeeded  to  the 
business  which  he  has  since  carried  on  success- 
fully. He  is  an  independent  Republican  in 
politics,  and  attends  the  South  Congregational 
Church.  He  is  a  member  of  Springfield  Free 
and  .Accepted  Masons. and  Ilampdc-ii  Lodge  and 
Agawam  Encampment.  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  .nlso  of  the  Xayasset  and  \\  in- 
throp  clubs.  He  married.  December  3.  1877, 
Mary  W.  Titus,  born  December  3.  1856.  daugli- 
ter  of  .-\rthur  F.  and  Waity  \V.  (.\ldrich) 
Titus,  the  former  born  in  South  Scituate,  and 
latter  of  Xorth  .Scituate,  Rhode  Island.  Mrs. 
Washburn  is  a  member  of  the  Londmeadow 
Woman's  Club,  and  the  Tuesday  Morning 
Music  Club.  There  is  one  child  of  this  marri- 
age, Stanley  Titus,  born  February  14,  1885. 


The  surname  I'arrington 
EARRlXCiTOX      is  old  English,  the  family 

taking  it*;  name  from  the 
place  called  Frendon. meaning Fearn  I  till.  There 
is  an  ancient  town  ai  Farrington  in  Berkshire. 
England,  west  of  Lf)ndon.  and  a  tf)wn  of  Far- 
rington in  Lancashire.    The  family  of  Earring- 


ton,  or  Efarrington.  of  Warden,  and  Frarring- 
ton  of  Woodvale.  were  lineal  descendants  of 
John  de  Farrington,  of  the  time  of  Henry  III., 
whose  will  was  dated  in  1549.  The  family 
motto  is:  "Domat  omnia  virtus."  Sir  .\nthony 
T'arrington  was  knighted  in  17^16. 

(  1  )  John  I'arrington.  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  in  .\ew  F.ngland  as  early  as  1639,  as  De- 
cember 3  that  year  he  gave  bonds  before  the 
general  court  for  Isaac  Decsbro.  He  was  a 
proprietor  of  Dedham.  a  townsman  there  Janu- 
ary I.  1646.  and  died  there  .\pril  27,  lOijC).  He 
married,  in  I ''149.  Mary,  daughter  of  \\'illiam 
r.ullard.  Ik-  was  a  freeman,  and  joined  the 
church  March  <>,  1667.  His  wife  Mary  joined 
in  May.  1652.  .Vdministration  of  his  estate 
was  granted  his  widow  and  son  John.  July  28, 
1676.  Distribution  was  made  July  3,  1704, 
after  her  decease,  to  other  children,  namely, 
Xathaniel.  Daniel  and  I'enjamin  Farrington  : 
Sarah  Withcrly;  Abigail  Hoadley:  Mary  Ken- 
ney.  daughter  of  Mary  (Farrington)  :  and  John 
Abbot,  son  of  Hannah  (Farrington).  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Dedham:  i.  Mary.  January  2C\ 
iCj^o:    married    (first)    April   27.    1667.   John 

T'idgc;    (second) Kenney.     2.   Sarah, 

July    I.    1652;   married  \\'itherly.      3. 

John.  February  25,  1654;  married.  September 
24.  1677,  Mary  James.  4.  Nathaniel,  born  June 
6.  1656:  mentioned  below.  5.  Eleazer.  Febru- 
ary II.  1660.  6.  Hannah,  July  22,  1662:  mar- 
ried   Abbot.    7.  Daniel.  April  10,  1664; 

married.  October  5.  1691.  Abigail  Fisher;  re- 
sided at  Wrentham  ;  ancestor  of  Maine  branch 
of  the  family.  8.  Judith.  June  i.  iC/jf);  died 
March  3,    1676.     9.   .Abigail,   .April   30,    i(')68: 

married Hoadley.     10.  I'enjamin.  June 

15.  \C172. 

(II)  Xathaniel,  son  of  John  I'arringlon, 
was  born  in   Dedham,  Jime  6,  1656,  and  died 

tluTC  May  8,  1723.     He  married  Sarah . 

Children,  horn  at  Dedham:     i.  .Sarah.  January 

3.  i'^i83,  2.  Xathaniel.  July  24.  1^85;  died  Xo- 
\ember  20.  1707.     3.  1  iami;di.  August  17.1^187. 

4.  .\bigail,  October  if),  1(189.  5.  Jonathan,  born 
"X'ovember  5,  i6(/j) ;  mentioned  below.  6.  Mary, 
born  .A|)ril  16,  1704.  f\'ery  few  births  are 
recorded  between  1689  and  1699.  and  no  doubt 
he  had  children  during  that  time). 

(HI)  Jonathan,  son  of  .Xathaniel  I-"arring- 
ton,  was  born  at  Dedham,  Xovember  5,  \f<<)f). 
1  le  resided  at  Dedham,  and  married,  .August 
10,  1727.  Prudence  Chikis,  of  Brookline.  Chil- 
dren, horn  at  Dedham:  i,  Jonathan,  May  5, 
1728:  tnentioned  below.  2.  Xathaniel,  Decem- 
ber 17,  1730:  died  young.  3.  Joshua,  August 
22,  ^7^2.    4.  Ebenezer.  May  13,  1734.     5.  Na- 


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tlianiel.  March  15,  1735-6.  6.  Sarah,  January 
8,  1739-40.  7-  -Vbigail,  .\ugiist  15,  1741.  8. 
Steijhen.  Ajiril  3,  1744.  9.  Benjamin,  born 
March  20.  1745. 

(I\')  Joiiatlian  (2).  son  of  Jonathan  (1) 
Farrington.  was  Ijorn  at  Dedham,  May  5.  1728. 
I  lis  son  Jonathan  was  in  the  revohition,  on  (kity 
at  Rhode  Island,  in  Captain  Jeremiah  Putnam's 
company.  Colonel  Nathaniel  Wade's  regiment, 
in  1778-9;  on  guard  duty  at  Boston  from  Janu- 
ary to  May,  1779,  in  Captain  Abner  Crane's 
company  :  in  Rhode  Island  the  same  year  under 
Captain  Joseph  Richards.  Jonathan  Farring- 
ton, of  .Stoughton,  jjrobably  the  father,  was  in 
Captain  .Asahel  Smith's  company.  Colonel  Lem- 
uel Robinson's  regiment,  and  answered  the 
Lexington  alarm,  April  19,  1775.  He  married 
(second)  at  Stoughton,  April  15,  1756  (inten- 
tions dated  .\])ril  i)  Mary  I'ulTer,  Children: 
I.  Mary,  born  at  Dedham,  March  7,  1752  (by 
first  wife).  2.  Jonathan,  born  at  Stougliton, 
baptized  March  2,  1757.  3.  .\bel.  mentioned 
below.    Other  children. 

(  \')  Abel,  son  of  Jonathan  (2)  Farrington. 
was  born  at  Stoughton,  about  1773.  He  re- 
sided at  Stoughton,  and  married  ( first )  Han- 
nah  ;  (second)  Sally .    Children 

of  first  wife:  i.  Abel,  born  November  17. 
1800:  married  Louise  Spaulding.  2.  Nancy, 
born  November  3,  1802:  married  John  Fisher, 
of  Dedham.  3.  Enoch,  born  November  14. 
1805:  mentioned  below.  4.  Samuel,  born  Octo- 
ber 19.  1807.  Children  of  second  wife:  5. 
Elizabeth,  born  December  20,  181 1.  6.  Elijah, 
November  2,  18 13.  7.  John  B.,  October  20, 
1815.  8.  Sarah,  June  10,  1817.  9.  TIannah. 
February  29,  1820  ;  died  January  25,  1823.  10. 
Mary,  born  July  11.  1822.  II.  Jairus,  June  6. 
1825.     12.  Hannah,  July  12,  1827. 

(VI)  Enoch,  son  of  Abel  Farrington,  was 
born  at  Stoughton,  November  14,  1805,  and 
died  February  21,  1888.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Thayer,  born  September  i,  181 5,  at  Stoughton, 
died  July  12,  1897.  As  a  young  man  he  worked 
in  a  shoe  shop;  then  in  Canton,  as  a  butcher: 
then  drove  a  meat  wagon  in  Dedham ;  then 
worked  in  mill  of  Henry  Ca])en.  and  later  was 
enijiloyed  in  different  kinds  of  business  until 
■  he  retired.  Child.  Charles  ^^'ent\Vl)rtll.  men- 
tioned below. 

(\'ir)  Charles  \\'entworth.  son  of  Enoch 
Farrington,  was  born  in  Canton.  December  19, 
1835,  and  died  at  Stoughton,  .April  12,  1903. 
He  came  to  Stoughton  when  he  was  about 
eight  years  old,  and  attended  the  public  schools 
of  that  town.  He  learned  the  trade  of  boot- 
maker, at  which  he  worked  for  a  time.     In  his 


later  years  he  was  a  small  farmer  at  Stoughton 
and  then  retired.  He  was  a  prudent  and  hard- 
working man,  and  succeeded  in  accumulating 
a  com|)etence.  He  was  quiet  and  domestic  in 
his  tastes,  loving  his  home  and  family  and 
seeking  no  jjublic  honors.  He  was  not  without 
interest  in  public  afl^airs,  however,  and  by  ex- 
ample assisted  in  the  temperance  movement. 
In  politics  he  voted  the  Republican  ticket,  or 
for  the  best  man.  He  married,  September  9, 
1873,  Mary  Emeline  Harris,  born  January  27, 
1843,  at  Stoughton,  daughter  of  Theophilus 
Curtis  Harris,  born  November  14,  1800,  at 
.\bington,  Massachusetts,  died  July  23,  1880, 
at  Stoughton,  and  Mary  (Belcher)  Harris, 
born  May  29,  1809,  at  Sharon,  and  died  June 
3,  1878,  at  Stoughton.  Her  father  was  a  car- 
penter at  Stoughton;  was  an  attendant  of  the 
Congregational  church.  Oliver  Harris,  father 
of  Theophilus  Curtis  Harris,  lived  at  Stough- 
ton, married  Elizabeth  Leach;  children:  i. 
Simeon  Harris :  ii.  Oliver  Harris  ;  iii.  Theo- 
]ihikis  Curtis  Harris,  mentioned  above;  iv. 
\'ashti  Harris;  v.  Relief  Harris:  vi.  Charlotte 
Harris;  vii.  Emily  Harris;  viii.  Elizabeth 
Harris:   ix.    .Adeline   Harris.      Mr.   and    Mrs. 


I'arrington  had  no  children. 


The  surname  Cole  is  derived  from 
COLE  an  ancient  personal  name  of  un- 
known antic|uity.  Coel,  as  the  name 
was  formerly  spelled,  was  the  founder  of  Col- 
chester, one  of  the  early  kings  of  Britain. 
Justice  Cole  lived  in  the  reign  of  King  Alfred. 
Another  Cole  defeated  Sweyne,  the  Danish 
chieftain  in  looi  at  Pinhoe.  William  Cole  and 
wife  Vsabella  are  named  in  .Assize  Roll  of  the 
comity  of  Cornwall  in  .\.  D.  1201,  showing 
that  Cole  w^as  at  that  time  established  as  a  sur- 
name. \'arious  branches  of  the  luiglish  Cole 
famih'  bear  coats-of-arms.  all  indicating  rela- 
tionshi[)  bv  the  similarity  of  the  device.  The 
Hertford.shire  family,  to  which  the  American 
is  believed  to  belong,  bears:  Party  per  pale  or 
and  argent  a  bull  passant  within  a  bordurc 
sable  on  a  chief  of  the  third  three  bezants. 
Crest :  .A  demi-dragnn  vert  bearing  in  his 
dexter  paw'  a  javelin  armed  or,  feathered  argent. 
( I)  James  Cole,  immigrant  ancestor  of  this 
family,  was  living  in  llighgate,  a  suburb  of 
London,  England,  in  1616.  He  is  spoken  of 
as  a  great  lover  of  flowers.  He  married,  in 
1624,  Mary  Lobel,  daughter  of  the  noted  botan- 
ist and  physician,  Afatliieu  Lobel.  Her  father 
was  a  ]>hysician  to  James  I,,  and  was  a  great 
student  and  the  author  of  a  number  of  books 
on  medicinal  plants ;  he  discovered  the  medi- 


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ciiial  ([ualities  of  the  plant  which  he  called  after 
himself,  [.obclia.  In  ih7,2  lames  Cole,  his 
wife  and  two  children  came  to  Saco,  Maine, 
and  in  the  following  year  located  at  Plymouth, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  was  admitted  a  free- 
man the  same  year.  He  was  a  sailor.  In  1634 
his  name  appears  on  tlie  tax  list,  and  he  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  land.  His  house  stood  on 
the  lot  next  below  the  present  site  of  the  Bap- 
tist church.  He  was  the  first  settler  on  what 
is  still  known  as  Cole's  Hill,  the  first  burial 
ground  of  the  Pilgrims,  and  which  probably 
included  the  ground  on  which  rests  Plymoutli 
Rock.  He  had  other  grants  of  land  and  was 
surveyor  of  highways  in  1^141-42-51-52:  con- 
stable in  1641-44.  In  1637  he  was  on  a  list  of 
volunteers  against  the  Pe(|uot  Indians.  Soon 
after  his  arrival  at  Plymouth  he  opened  the 
first  inn,  which  was  one  of  the  first  in  New- 
England.  This  house  was  kept  by  him  and  his 
.son  James  until  1698.  Children:  i.  James, 
born  in  London.  1625;  mentioned  below.  2. 
Hugh,  born  in  London,  1627.  3.  John,  born 
November  21,  1637,  in  Plymouth.  4.  Mary, 
born  in  Plymouth,  1630:  married  (first)  John 
Almy:  (second)  John  Pocokc :  died  without 
i~<ue. 

;  II  )  James  (2).  son  of  James  (i)  Cole, 
was  born  in  London,  England,  in  1625-26,  and 
can",e  with  his  father  to  Plymouth  in  1633.  He 
removed  to  Scituate,  and  from  there  to  York, 
Maine,  and  probably  thence  to  Kennebunk, 
where  he  remained  but  a  short  time.  He  was 
admitted  a  freeman  of  Plymouth  in  1654.  In 
1656  he  w'as  surveyor  of  highways,  also  in 
1678  and  1685:  deputy  to  the  general  court  in 
^(ygo.  In  1668  he  purchased  from  his  father 
the  public  house,  which  he  kept  for  many  years, 
ludge  Scw-ell  in  his  diary  says  the  house  was 
built  by  Governor  Winslow,  and  was  the  oldest 
in  Plymouth.  He  died  in  Plymouth  in  17 12. 
He  married  Cfir.st)  December  23.  1652.  ^iary 
Tilson.  He  married  (second)  Abigail  Daven- 
port. Children:  i.  Mary,  born  December  16, 
1653.  2.  John.  March  16.  1660:  mentioned 
below.  3.  Nathaniel.  4.  Ephraim.  5.  Eliza- 
beth, married  Elkanah  Cushman.  6.  Martha, 
married  Nathan  Ilowland.  7.  Joanna,  married 
Thomas  Howland.  8.  Hannah,  married  Elisha 
P.radford. 

(Ill)  John,  son  of  James  (2)  Cole,  was 
born  March  16,  1660,  died  March  14,  1724. 
He  was  on  the  first  list  of  voters  of  the  town 
of  Plympton  which  was  incorporated  June  4, 
1707.  He  bought  of  Robert  Ranson  fifteen 
acres  of  land  on  the  north  of  the  brook  out  of 
Dotys   Meadows,  which   was   his   homestead. 


His  will,  dated  March  13.  1723,  be(|ueaths  all 
his  jjropcrty  to  his  wife  Susannah.  He  married 
(first)  Patience  Uarher.  He  married  (second) 
Susannah  Oay.  born  October  15.  166S.  died 
.August  26.  1727.  daughter  of  Edward  and 
Dorothy  (I-ettuce)  (iray.  whose  second  hus- 
band was  Captain  Nathaniel  Clark.  Children: 
I.  I'atience.  born  1697.  2.  John,  1699.  3. 
Joseph.  Eebruary  4.  1706.  4.  Ebenezer,  Octo- 
ber 17,  171 1  :  mentioned  below.  5.  TIczekiah, 
diod  May  16.  1724. 

(  I\' )  I^benezer.  son  of  John  Cole,  was  born 
at  Pl\mpton,  October  17.  1711.  He  married 
Ivuth  Churchill,  daughter  of  William  Churchill, 
of  Plympton.  Children:  I.  E.benezcr.  born 
1739.  2.  Obadiah.  3.  Barnabas.  4.  Lemuel. 
5.  Joanna.  6.  .Seth.  born  1756.  7.  .\maziali. 
8.  \\"illiam.  9.  Consider,  born  1762.  10.  Jesse, 
born  1764.     II.  Hannah.     12.  Ruth. 

(\')  Consider,  son  of  Ebenezer  Cole,  was 
born  in  1762.  in  Plymouth,  or  Plympton.  Mass- 
achusetts, lie  came  to  Chesterfield.  Massachu- 
setts, with  his  father's  family  when  he  was  a 
boy.  His  brother  .\maziah  settled  on  the  home- 
stead lately  owned  by  \Vidow-  Smith  and  had 
sons  F.benezer,  Joseph  and  .\maziah.  Jr..  of 
Chc'lorfield.  Consider  bought  a  hundred  acres 
of  unimproved  land  and  cleared  his  farm.  He 
was  a  blacksmith  by  trade  and  followed  his 
trade  as  well  as  farming.  He  died  at  Chester- 
field and  is  buried  in  the  W'orthington  ceme- 
tery.    ]  fe  married  .     She  died  Sepleni- 

ber.  1S19.  aged  fifty-five  years.  Of  their  eleven 
children,  four  died  young.  Children,  born  at 
Chesterfield:  i.  Isaac,  went  west.  2.  Daniel. 
3.  Seth.  4.  William,  born  1812:  mentioned 
i)elow.  5.  Consider.  Jr.  6.  Horace,  stone 
luason  ])\  trade,  w'orked  in  New  York  City  at 
his  trade  :  became  a  leather  merchant  and  dealer 
in  hides  in  iiartnership  with  Matthew  Carroll  ; 
relurned  to  Chesterfield,  1828,  and  carried  on 
a  large  farm :  established  a  general  store  at 
U'orthington  in  1845  in  partnership  with  Sim- 
eon Clapp,  later  with  C.  C.  Parish  and  finally 
with  his  son  as  II.  Cole  &  Son,  his  son  succeed- 
ing to  the  business  in  1875:  also  manufactured 
boots  and  shoes;  his  house  and  store  were 
burned  in  1859,  but  soon  rebuilt :  established  a 
cheese  factory  in  1875  and  sold  out  later  to  a 
stock  company :  a  Whig  and  later  Republican 
in  politics  :  selectman  at  Chesterfield  and  Worth- 
ington  ;  a  Congrcgationalist  in  religion :  mar- 
ried (first)  May  9,  182T.  Sarah  King,  who  died 
June,  1855:  (second)  October  14,  1857.  Mary 
Cole,  daughter  of  Elijah  Cole,  widow  f)f  J"hn 
Kinne.  of  Chesterfield:  his  second  wife  ilicd 
Eebruary    7.    1873.    and    he    married    (third) 


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MASSAC  I  IL'SETTS. 


JiuH'  28,  1874,  Almira  Hall,  daughter  of  Jere- 
miah Mali,  of  Stonington,  Connecticut,  widow 
of  Calvin  Gunn,  of  Pittsfield.  Massachu-setts, 
granddaughter  of  Judge  Hall;  Horace  Cole 
was  an  honest,  successful,  able  and  wealthy 
man:  he  left  a  son  Samuel.  7.  Mary  Ann.  8. 
Lucy.     Three  others  died  young. 

(\  I)  William,  son  of  Consider  Cole,  was 
born  at  Chesterticld,  June  22.  18 1 2,  died  at 
W'orthington,  .April  22.  1888.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town.  He 
followed  farming  at  W'orthington  during  his 
active  life.  Me  took  a  keen  interest  in  ])ublic 
affairs  and  was  active  in  the  Methodist  church 
of  which  he  was  a  member,  and  donated 
liberally  to  the  church  fund  when  the  edifice 
was  built.  He  was  selectman  for  a  number  of 
years.  IK'  married.  .April  8.  1834,  Cynthia 
Jackson,  born  .August  12.  1819.  at  Chesterfield, 
died  in  1900,  at  W'orthington.  Children:  i. 
Juliet,  born  October  4,  1835 :  married  Harry 
Arden,  a  lawyer,  of  New  York  City.  2.  Wealthy 
Ann,  Xovember  19,  1836,  died  December  21, 
1872 :  married  James  P.  Brown.  3.  Charles 
Franklin.  .April  19.  1838:  mentioned  below. 

(\'H)  Charles  Franklin,  son  of  William 
Cole,  was  born  at  Worthington.  .Ajiril  19.  1838. 
died  June  14.  1908.  at  Huntington.  Massachu- 
setts. Me  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  town,  and  early  in  life  learned  the 
carpenter's  trade.  W'hen  he  came  of  age  he 
left  home  and  found  employment  in  the  United 
States  arsenal  at  Springfield  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  guns,  continuing  for  many  vears.  He 
was  afterward  employed  in  a  toy  sled  factory. 
In  1884  he  jjurchased  a  grain  store  in  Hunting- 
ton and  lived  there  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
He  developed  lunisual  business  capacity  and 
built  up  a  large  trade.  .-After  a  few  years  he 
erected  a  large  building  on  the  site  of  the  store, 
using  the  gromid  floor  for  his  own  business. 
In  partnership  with  W.  G.  Kimball  anil  Myron 
b'iske.  under  the  firm  name  of  Cole.  Kimball  & 
I-'iske.  he  was  at  the  head  of  the  firm  which 
-successfully  built  and  owned  the  water  works 
of  the  town.  He  was  a  typical  self-made  man. 
l'"rom  a  workman  at  daily  wages  he  started  in 
a  modest  way  in  business  and  ac(|uire(l  a  hand- 
some competence,  won  a  place  of  influence  and 
importance  in  the  community  and  the  confi- 
dence of  all  his  townsmen.  He  was  a  member 
of  Huntington  Lodge  of  Free  Masons.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Republican,  and  in  i8()j  was 
a  selectman  of  the  town.  He  was  an  attendant 
of  the  Congregational  church.  He  married,  in 
1862,  Josephine  F.lizabeth  Goodrich,  born  Sep- 


tember 15,  1845,  at  Westfield,  daughter  of 
Fliphalet  Goodrich  (  see  ( Goodrich,  \'II.).  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Helen  Joseijhine,  born  .August  3, 
1864,  at  Westfield:  married  Alfred  Converse; 
children  :  Edith,  Charles  and  Mabel  Converse. 
2.  Flora  A..  April  29,  1874;  married  Leonard 
]"".  Hardy,  lawyer,  of  Huntington:  children: 
Margaret  Josephine  and  Richard  Earle  Hardy. 

(\')  .Amaziah,  son  of  Ebenezer  Cole,  was 
born  in  Plympton.  about  1740.  He  was  one  of 
the  first  of  the  family  to  come  from  Phinouth 
county.  He  and  his  brothers  settled  in  Chester- 
field. Massachusetts,  and  he  bought  the  farm 
lately  owned  by  Widow  Smith  on  Ireland  Hill. 
I  le  married .  Children  :  i.  Elijah,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Joseph,  settled  in  Chester- 
field. 3.  .Amaziah.  Jr..  settled  in  Chesterfield, 
and  had  son  Ephraim.    Perhaps  daughters. 

(  \'I )  Elijah,  son  of  .Amaziah  Cole,  was  born 
about  1780  in  Chesterfield,  Massachusetts.  He 
lived  in  his  native  town  and  Worthington.  He 
married  Deborah  Damon.  .Among  his  children 
was  .Amos,  mentioned  below. 

f^'^)  -Amos,  son  of  Elijah  Cole,  was  born 
in  Worthington.  He  married  .Adelaide  Moore, 
daughter  of  Holland  Moore.  Children:  I. 
John,  resides  in  West  Springfield  on  George 
street.  2.  Henry.  3.  Elisha  Prewster.  born 
.April  23,  1835:  mentioned  below.  4.  Selina, 
married  Cyrus  Parsons,  of  Worthington.  5. 
Martha,  died  young. 

(\'ITI)  Elisha  Pirewster.  son  of  Amos  Cole, 
was  born  at  W'orthington.  .April  23.  1835.  died 
nt  Huntington.  .April  11.  1908.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town. 
He  went  to  Illinois  when  a  young  man.  but  a 
few  years  later  returned  to  Massachusetts  and 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  baskets  at 
Kiiightsvillc.  about  four  miles  from  Hunting- 
ton Center.  He  was  also  in  the  business  of 
manufacturing  sleds  and  toys  in  partnershiji 
with  his  cousin  and  the  firm  was  very  success- 
ful. His  later  years  were  devoted  to  the  insur- 
ance and  collecting  business  in  Huntington 
where  he  lived  for  forty  years,  and  was  one 
of  the  best  collectors  in  Massachusetts.  In 
politics  Mr.  Cole  was  a  Republican,  but  was 
never  active :  in  religion  he  was  very  liberal. 
He  was  a  member  of  no  fraternal  organiza- 
tions, being  devoted  to  business  and  his  own 
home.  He  married.  October  5.  i8ri7.  Helen 
L<iuisa  Rude,  born  December  10.  1846.  at  Hunt- 
ington, daughter  of  Elias  and  I,ouisa  (San- 
ford)  Rude  (see  Rude,  R'.V  They  had  no 
children.  His  widow  resides  in  the  home  at 
Huntington. 


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(The  Goodrich   I^inc). 

(II )  Ephraim.  son  of  William  Goodrich  (q. 
v.),  was  born  June  2.  1663,  died  February  2~, 
1739.  lie  resided  at  Rocky  Hill,  Connecticut. 
He  married  (  first )  .May  20,  1684,  Sarah  Treat, 
who  died  January  26,  1712,  daughter  of  Major 
Richard  and  Sarah  (Coleman)  Treat.  He 
married  (second)  December  25.  1712,  Jerusha 
Welles,  Ijorn  1678.  died  January  15,  1754, 
widow  of  Captain  Thomas  Welles,  and  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  James  Treat.  Children  of  first 
wife:  I.  Richard,  born  h'ebruary  2~,  1685; 
married  (first)  Haimaii  llulkley;  (second) 
Mehitable  ISoardman.  2.  Sarah,  August  3. 
1689.  died  May  6,  1785:  married.  December 
15.  1725.  Richard  Rutler.  3.  Ephraim.  Decem- 
ber 21.  1693:  married  Hannah  Steele.  4.  \\'ill- 
iam,  February  21.  1697;  married  Rachel  Sav- 
age. 5.  David,  October  3,  1699  ;  married  Sarah 
Edwards.  6.  Thomas,  September  27,  1701. 
7.  Gideon,  February  7,  1705:  mentioned  below. 
Children  of  second  wife:  8.  Oliver,  Septem- 
ber 14,  1714:  married  Temperance  \\'right.  9. 
Gurdon,  December  29,  1717:  married  Abigail 
Belden. 

dll)  Gideon,  son  of  Ei)hraim  Goodrich, 
was  born  February  7,  1705.  died  in  1769.  Tie 
resided  in  Wethersfield  and  L'pper  Middletown. 
Connecticut,  and  was  for  many  years  a  sea 
captain.  He  is  buried  at  Rocky  Hill.  He  mar- 
ried, June  29,  1718,  Sarah .     Children: 

I.  Sarah,  born  February  29.  1719.  2.  Jerusha, 
December  16.  1720.  3.  Elijah,  Jtme  5.  1725; 
mentioned  below.     4.   Gideon.   December    15, 

1727  ;  married  .Anna .    5.  Lois,  .April  12, 

1729:  married  John  Robbins.  6.  Caleb.  Sep- 
tember I.  1731  :  married  Huldah  Rutler.  7. 
Ebenezer,  Marcii  18,  1733:  married  Lydia 
Denning.  8.  Eunice,  .\pril  4,  1735.  9.  Joshua, 
May  18,  1738.  10.  Wait,  June  17,  1740;  mar- 
ried Christian .    11.  Levi,  June  10,  1747, 

married.  October  6.  1774,  .\zuba  Goodrich. 

{\\^  Elijah,  son  of  Gideon  Goodrich,  was 
born  June  5.  1725.  and  resided  in  Rocky  Hill, 
Connecticut.  He  married.  .September  12.  1748, 
^^ary  Wright.  Children:  I.  Ozias.  born  Sep- 
tember 13.  1750.  died  December  12,  1750.  2. 
Lydia.  Xovembcr  3.  1751  :  married,  December 
3.  1768,  Sanuici  Warner.  3.  Israel,  .\ugust  i. 
1754:  mentioned  below. 

rV)  Israel,  son  of  Elijah  Goodrich,  was 
born  .\ugust  i.  1754.  and  resided  in  Rocky 
Hill.  He  married.  January  4.  1785.  Mercy 
White.  Cliildren  :  r.  Israel.  2.  Warren,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  .-Xlfred  Lindley.  4.  Ozias, 
died  in  Cuba,  West  Indies.  5.  Gary,  went  to 
\'aIparaiso.    6.  Sarah.     7.  Lydia. 


(\  1)  Warren,  son  of  Israel  Goodrich,  was 
born  at  Rocky  Hill.  Connecticut,  and  died  at 
Westfield,  Massachusetts,  He  lived  at  North 
Chester,  Worthington  and  Westfield,  Massa- 
ciiusetts.  He  married  .\nn  Bowers,  who  died 
at  Xortl?  Chester,  Massachusetts.  Chiliiren: 
Mercy,  Charles,  Jerome,  Ann,  Ozias,  George, 
Eunice,  I^lizabetJi.  Eli])halet.  Henry,  Alfred. 

(\'H)  Eliphalet,  son  of  Warren  Goodrich, 
was  born  in  \\'orthington,  April  17,  1823,  died 
May  17,  1866,  at  Westfield.  He  attended  the 
district  school,  but  was  largely  self-taught  and 
had  a  broad  and  general  education,  a  retentive 
luemtiry  and  unusual  ability.  He  began  to 
work  in  the  "W'Jiii)  City"  in  his  youth.  He  was 
the  first  manufacturer  of  silver  whi])  mount- 
ings. He  enlisted  in  the  civil  war  in  Company 
K,  Massachusetts  \'olunteers.  After  his  return 
from  the  field  of  service,  he  was  a  contractor 
in  the  manufacture  of  these  whip  mountings 
by  contract  with  state  prison  help,  then  a  usual 
proceeding.  Later  he  resumed  business  in  West- 
field.  He  married  Almira  Elizabeth  Bills,  born 
November  r,  1826,  died  June  3,  1902.  at  West- 
field.  Their  only  child,  Josephine  Elizabeth, 
bnrn  September  15,  1845;  married,  in  1862, 
(  liarles  Franklin  Cole  (see  Cole  family). 

(The    Ud.le    Line). 

I-'rom  either  the  Rnod  or  Rudd  families  of 
Nfirwich,  Ccnnecticut,  and  vicinity,  the  Rudes 
of  western  Massachusetts  are  descended.  We 
find  the  name  Rude  on  the  Norwich  records 
occasionally,  and  after  moving  to  Murrayfield, 
Massachusetts,  the  spelling  Rude  was  followed. 

{ I )  John  Rude  or  Rood,  of  Norwich,  Con- 
necticut, had  a  hoine  lot  in  1679  on  "the  other 
side  of  the  Showtucket  River  near  his  uncle 

Lefifingwell's."    He  married  AL'iry .  He 

was  in  I'reston,  Connecticut,  in  1686,  as  was 
also  Jonathan  Rudd,  and  they  were  doubtless 
related.  He  left  six  children,  the  names  of 
two  being  known:  i.  John,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Zachariah.  aged  fourteen  in  1706.  died  at 
Preston.  I'ebruary  10.  1795.  aged  one  himdred 
an<l  three  years. 

(  II  )  Joiin  (2),  s(in  of  John  (  i  )  Rude,  was 
born  in  N'lirwich  in  i6<X).  His  age  was  stated 
as  si.Nteen  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death  in 
1706.  He  had  a  bounty  for  killing  birds  in 
1 7 18.  He  was  doubtless  the  first  or  among 
the  first  settlers  of  what  is  now  Huntington, 
Hampshire  coimfy.  Massachusetts,  originally 
the  eastern  part  of  Murrayfield,  incorporated 
first  as  Norwich,  Jimc  20.  1773.  The  older 
histories  state  that  the  first  settlement  was 
made  bv  an   "Indian    family  bv  the  name  of 


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Rhodes."  The  later  histories  find  no  corrobora- 
tive evidence  of  the  statement,  though  they 
make  Rude  one  of  the  first  settlers.  The  spell- 
ing of  Rudd,  Rood  or  Rude  as  Rodes,  Roods, 
Rudds  or  Rhodes  is  the  best  explanation  of  the 
divergence  of  the  statement.  There  may  have 
been  Indian  bhxxl  in  the  pioneer's  veins.  The 
Christian  Indians  often  took  Englisli  names, 
and  the  records  do  not  help  us  discover  why 
the  first  settler  was  called  Indian,  when  obvi- 
ously meaning  an  English  settler.  The  loca- 
tion pointed  out  as  the  settlement  made  by 
"Rhodes"  is  about  two  miles  above  Pitcher 
Piriflge,  the  date  given  was  1760.  Tradition 
says  that  Rude  settled  "when  there  were  but 
three  houses  in  Huntington"  but  the  three 
houses  were  probably  built  at  the  same  time 
and  one  belonged  to  him.  Caleb  Eobes,  Will- 
iam Miller,  David  Scott  and  Isaac  Mixer  were 
the  other  earliest  settlers.  The  farm  he  cleared 
is  still  owned  by  a  descendant.  We  are  told 
that  his  son  John  came  with  him,  and  it  is 
likely  that  the  son  was  more  active  than  the 
father  in  clearing  the  land  and  building  the 
hf)mc  in  the  wilderness.  We  know  of  no  other 
children.    The  wife's  name  was  Mary  Earle. 

mi)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Rude,  was 
burn  in  Xorwich.  about  1750,  and  died  at  an 
advanced  age  in  1R48  on  the  homestead,  where 
he  lived  from  boyhood,  in  Huntington.  He 
married  Deborah  Dunbar.  Children,  born  at 
Huntington:  1.  .\lvin,  married  Mary  Bisby, 
of  Worthinglon.  2.  Zara,  born  about  1775; 
married  Elizabeth  Patch:  children:  i.  Thomas, 
married  Miranda  Damon :  ii.  John,  married 
Maria  1  lolmes  ;  iii.  Lucy,  married  Jerome  Stev- 
en,son :  iv.  Aliva,  married  Ira  Miller:  v.  Lydia: 
vi.  Electa:  vii.  \\'elthea ;  viii.  Elias,  had  the 
homestead  at  Huntington,  married,  December 
14.  1857.  Nancy  .\.  Alerritt,  born  November  3, 
1833.  daughter  of  .Austin  Merritt.  3.  Harvey, 
never  married.  4.  Elias.  mentioned  below.  5. 
Relief,  married  Ira  Damon.  G.  Joseph,  married 
Mary  Damon.  Children  of  second  wife,  Ruth 
fl'urton)  Rude,  were:    7.  Norman.  8.  Ursula. 

(I\')  E.lias,  .son  of  John  (3)  Rude,  was 
born  in  Huntington,  .Vugust  12,  1808,  and  died 
tlicre  in  i8f)o.  He  was  a  farmer  all  his  life. 
He  married  Louisa  .Sanford,  l)orn  November 
2,  1813.  at  Huntington,  died  there  .\ugust  25, 
1000.  Children,  born  at  Huntington  :  i.  .\lma 
M..  Eebruary  24,  1838:  married  .Vustin  T. 
Hancock,  of  I  luntington  :  died  January  6,  t8()2, 
2.  Egbert  D.  ftwinL  January  7.  1840:  lives  at 
Forest  Hills.  Maryland.  3.  .Mbert  Ctwin), 
January  7,  1840:  enlisted  in  New  York  in  the 
civil  war  and  died  after  the  battle  of  the  Wild- 


erness from  ty()hoid  fever.  September  10, -1862. 

4.  Halsey,  .April  23,  1844,  died  June  28,  1909. 

5.  Helen  Louisa.  December  10,  1846:  married 
Elisha  Brewster  Cole,  of  Huntington  (see  Cole, 
VIII.). 

(For  preceding  generations  see  Elizabeth  Cutter  1). 

(Ill)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Rich- 
CUTTER     ard  Cutter,  was  born  December 

II.  1663,  baptized  January  24. 
1664.  at  Cambridge.  He  was  the  e.xecutor  of 
his  father's  will  and  heir  to  a  part  of  the  lands 
in  Charlestown,  wdiere  he  lived.  He  married, 
October  8,  1688.  Mary  Fillebrown,  born  May 
5,  1662,  died  March  14,  1714,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  .Anne  Fillebrown,  of  Charlestown. 
Both  joined  the  Cambridge  church  (October  28, 
1705.  .About  1715  he  married  (second)  Eliza- 
beth   ,  wdio  survived  him,  and  was  dis- 
missed to  the  First  Church  in  Groton,  Novem- 
ber 12,  1749.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Na- 
thaniel, born  April  10.  1691  :  married  Sarah 
Winship.  2.  Alary,  born  August  5,  1693.  3. 
Jacob.  Ijorn  .April  8,  i'')95.  4.  Ebenezer,  born 
November  11,  1698:  mentioned  below.  5.  John, 
born  September  19,  1703:  married  Hepsibah 
(Cutter)  Brooks.  Children  of  second  wife: 
G.  Richard,  born  October  II,  1716.  died  Au- 
gust 6.  1717.  7.  Elizabeth,  born  January  26, 
1718-19:  married  John  Williams. 

(IV)  Ebenezer,  son  of  Nathaniel  Cutter, 
was  born  in  Charlestown,  November  11,  iC)r)S, 
and  baptized  July  2,  1699.     He  married.  July 

19.  1722,  -Sarah  Cutter,  daughter  of  William 
and  Rebecca  (Rolfe)  Cutter.  On  July  14, 
1723,  he  w'as  a  Covenanter  at  Cambridge,  and 
with  his  wife  joined  the  Cambridge  cliurch, 
June  23.  1732.  They  were  dismissed  to  the 
Aledford  church  in  October,  1744.  He  made 
generous  gifts  of  fuel  to  his  pastor  in  Cam- 
bridge. He  lived  most  of  his  life  in  Med  ford 
and  died  there  June  29.  1750.  His  wife  was 
apjuiiiited  administratrix  of  his  estate  and  his 
brother,  Jolin  Cutter,  was  appointed  guardian 
of  his  son  Daniel,  then  in  his  eighteenth  year. 
Children:  i.  Sarah,  born  July  n.  1723,  buried 
March   19,   1782.     2.  Ebenezer,  born  October 

20.  1725.  3.  Mary,  born  Alarch  11.  1728-29; 
married  Timothy  Hall.  4.  Susanna,  baptized 
.April  5,  1730,  died  young.  5.  Daniel.  Ixirn 
.April  24.  1733:  mentioned  below.  (').  Susanna, 
baptized  November  30,  1735:  married  James 
\\yman.  7.  Rebecca,  baptized  February  5, 
I".l8".^9-  8.  .Abigail,  born  in  Medford,  Febru- 
ary 12,  1741-42:  married  Isaac  Hall. 

(V)  Daniel,  son  of  Ebenezer  Cutter,  was 
born  in  Charlestown.  .April  24.  1733,  b.aptized 


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April  2i),  1733.  ami  was  buried  in  Med  ford, 
March  23.  1804.  lie  married,  Xovember  28, 
1756,  Patience  Hall,  born  May  4,  1738.  daugh- 
ter of  Deacon  Thomas  and  I'atience  (Allen) 
Hall,  of  Cambridge.  He  served  in  the  revolu- 
tion in  Captain  IJenjamin  Locke's  company, 
Colonel  Thomas  Gardner's  regiment,  enlisting 
May  4,  1775.  aged  forty-two.  height  five  feet, 
ten  inches.  He  also  served  in  the  same  com- 
pany in  Colonel  William  lioncl's  regiment  at 
FVospect  Hill  in  1775:  and  in  Captain  William 
Adams's  company,  at  the  taking  of  Dorchester 
Heights.  March  4,  1776.  He  was  on  guard 
duty  under  Captain  Caleb  Champney,  Febru- 
ary 12.  1779.  Children:  i.  Ebenezcr,  born  at 
Medford,  January  24,  1758:  married  Mehit- 
able  Morrison.     2.   Patience,  born   September 

10.  1760,  died  July  3.  1764.  3.  Sarah,  born 
September  4.   1762.     4.  Daniel,  born  October 

11.  1764.  5.  .Abraham,  born  Xovember  9.  1766, 
drowned  1793.  /■  Thomas  Hall,  born  Sejitem- 
ber  5.  1772.  8.  Jacob,  born  May  24,  1774; 
mentioned  below.  9.  Isaac,  born  February  11, 
1777,  died  June  28,  1778.  10.  Moses,  born 
December  16,  1780.  11.  Timothy,  born  Janu- 
ary 13.  1786. 

'(\T  )  Jacob,  son  of  Daniel  Cutter,  was  born 
May  24.  1774.  died  in  Xewburyport.  December 
10.  1827.  He  was  a  mason  by  trade  and  went 
from  Medford  to  Xewburyport.  where  he  was 
a  much  respected  citizen.  He  married.  Decem- 
ber 17.  1797.  F,lizabcth  Edmands.  born  August 
14.  1778.  died  May,  1844,  daughter  of  Barna- 
bas Edmands,  of  Xewburyport.  Children:  i. 
.Abraliam.  born  .August  13.  1799:  mentioned 
below.  2.  Davifl  Edmands,  born  June  10, 1801. 
3.  Jacob,  born  May  15.  1804.  5.  Thomas  Hall, 
born  October  5,  1806.  6.  Barnabas  Edmands, 
born  February  11,  1813. 

(VH)  .Abraham,  .son  of  Jacob  Cutter,  was 
born  .August  13.  1799,  died  .August  25.  1886. 
He  was  a  mason  and  builder  of  Saco,  Maine, 
and  was  representative  in  the  Maine  legislature 
in  1853-54.  He  married  Mary  Gibson,  of 
Xewburyport.  .August  14.  1820.  She  was  born 
December  23.  1798.  died  March  5.  1882.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  .Abram  l-'dmands.  born  January  24, 
1822:  mentioned  below.  2.  Francis  Edwin, 
born  Afarch  22.  1823.  died  in  Saco.  April  16, 
18.15.  3-  •^^^''y  ^^^^^-  b'irn  Afay  7,  1830;  mar- 
ried. TanuarvM-  '850.  Joseph  G.  Deering.  of 
Saco;  died  there  Xovember  6,  1859,  without 
issue. 

CVHI)  .Abram  Edmands,  son  of  .Abraham 
Cutter,  was  born  in  Xewburyport.  January  24. 
1822.  When  he  was  four  years  old  his  father 
removed  to  Saco,  Maine.    Abram  E.  was  edu- 


cated in  the  public  schools  of  Saco,  with  a  three 
years  course  of  study  at  Thornton  Academy  of 
that  jilace.     .Alter  leaving  school  he  was  em- 
ployed in  a  drug  and  stationery  store  in  Saco. 
He  made  two  voyages  to  Europe  in  a  sailing 
vessel,   and   spent   another  year   at   Thornton 
.Academy,  and  in  1843  went  to  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts,  and   found   employment   in   W'illiam 
Brown's  drug  store.    He  remained  in  this  busi- 
ness until   1852.  when  he  removed  to  t'harles- 
town  and  started  in  business  as  a  bookseller  in 
the  firm  of  McKim  &:  Cutter.     .At  the  end  of 
three  years  he  ])urchased  his  partner's  interest 
in   the   business,   and   continued   the   business 
alone  until  about  twelve  years  before  his  death. 
He  was  equally  prominent  in  mercantile  and  in 
public   life.      In    1857   he   was   elected  to  the 
school  board  of  the  city  of  Charlestown  'uid 
served  in  that  office  for  si.xteen  years,  beccm- 
iiig  a  member  of  the  Boston  school  board  when 
Charlestown  was  annexed.    His  service  to  the 
cause  C'i  public  education  was  at  an  important 
period,      lie   alwa:ys    retained   his   interest   in 
educational  affairs,  in  local  history  and  anti- 
(|uities.      To    his    good    taste    and    enterjjrise 
scholars   owe    the    beautiful   edition   of    .\ime 
Bradstreet's  Poems.     1  le  was  active  in  various 
local  charitable  organizations  and  institutions 
of  Charlestown  and  Boston.     He  was  a  ])ronii- 
nent  member  of  the  Harvard  Unitarian  Church 
of  Charlestown.    He  died  May  14.  1900.  .\fter 
his  death,  -Mrs.  Cutter  gave  up  his  valuable  and 
interesting  private  library,  which  he  left  in  his 
willtniiie  Boston  Public  Library.  .\  very  apjire- 
ciative  notice  of  the  gift  appeared  in  the  Bos- 
ton. Transcript  at  the  time.     Mr.  Cutter  had  a 
handsome   residence  in   Charlestown  opjiosite 
Hunker  Hill  monument  and  lived  there  until  a 
few   vears  before  his  death.     His  last  years 
were  .spent  in  Brookline,  where  his  widow  now 
lives,  at  56  (larri.son  Road.   He  married  (first) 
[uly  7,  1853.  in  Charlestown.  Mary  Eliza  Ed- 
mands, born  .August  7,  1828,  died  February  it, 
1854.  daughter  of  Barnabas  and  Eliza  (Whitte- 
more)  Edmands.     He  married  ("second)  Octo- 
ber   13.    1857,    Elizabeth    Finley    Smitli,   born 
lanuary  22,' 1837,  daughter  of  Washington  an<l 
"l-'.lizabcth   (Hay)  Smith,  of  Xew  York.     Her 
father  was  a  prominent  manufacturer  of  ])ot- 
terv,  drain  pipe,  etc..  on  Eighteenth  street  be- 
tween   Ninth  and  Tenth  avenues.  New  York 
City.     He  was  one  of  the  ten  governors  of  the 
Charitable    Institutions   of   the   City   of    N'ew 
York,  and  one  of  the  electors  of  .Abraham  Lin- 
coln for  president.    He  died  January  27,  1863. 
Mr.  .-.nd  Mrs.  Cutter  had  no  children. 


494 


MASSAC  firSETTS. 


Some  authorities  tell  us  that  the 
COW'ERSE  origin  of  the  Converse  family 

was  in  Navarre,  France,  from 
whence  Roger  de  Coigniers  emigrated  to  Eng- 
land near  the  end  of  the  reign  of  William  the 
Conqueror  and  to  whom  the  Bishop  of  Dur- 
ham gave  the  constableship  of  Durham.  Will- 
iam G.  Hill  in  the  "Family  Record  of  Deacons 
James  \\'.  and  Elijah  S.  Converse"  traces  the 
lineage  to  this  Roger  de  Coigniers.  Recent  re- 
search has  established  the  fact  that  this  lineage 
is  not  correct  as  to  the  immediate  ancestors  of 
the  American  immigrant,  Edward  Converse, 
of  Maiden.  Massachusetts.  The  name  is  spelled 
Combers  in  some  of  the  old  registers  and  rec- 
ords, but  Convcrs  was  the  correct  spelling  as  early 
as  1430,  and  the  family  was  numerous  at  West- 
ham  and  Navestock,  county  Essex,  in  the  fif- 
teenth and  sixteenth  centuries.  There  is  every 
reason  to  believe  that  the  family  is  descended 
from  Le  Convers  family  of  F'rance.  Roger 
Convers  was  of  London  in  1258.  John,  son  of 
this  Roger,  was  in  the  service  of  the  King  in 
1277:  Nicholas  le  Convers  who  died  1304-05 
may  have  been  another  son,  and  Roger  le  Con- 
vcrs a  third.  The  latter  married  Agnes,  who 
married  (second)  Aliles  de  Mountney  prior  to 
1318.  Roger  and  Agnes  had  a  son  Roger. 
Richard  Convers  is  mentioned  as  of  Navestock 
in  1389  and  on  a  roll  nine  years  earlier  are 
found  the  names  of  Roger  Convers  and  of 
Matilda  Convers,  both  of  that  place.  This 
Richard  is  presumably  the  progenitor  of  the 
Navestock  family  mentioned  below. 

(I)  Richard  Convers,  probably  Imsband  of 
the  widow  Margaret  Convers,  from  whom  this 
lineage  is  traced,  died  intestate  and  was  buried 
at  Navestock.  F'ngland.  October  21,  1542.  The 
will  of  Margaret,  widow,  was  dated  February 
10,  T565,  and  proved  February  i,  1566,  men- 
tioning her  son  John  and  his'children.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John,  mentioned  below.  2.  Annys, 
executrix  of  her  mother's  will.  3.  Richard, 
had  a  son  living  in  1665. 

(II)  John  Convers,  son  of  Margaret  Con- 
vers. widow,  had  house  and  lands  at  Nave- 
stock. and  lived  at  Stanford  River;  will  dated 
-August  6,  1574,  and  proved  October  5,  1574. 
Mis  wife  Joan  was  executrix  and  William  Sum- 
ner, of  ITarlow.  was  executor.  Children:  i. 
.Mien,  of  South  Weald,  E.ssex,  had  houses  and 
lands  in  Navestock.  Stanford  River  and  Fy- 
field  :  mentioned  below.  2.  Thomas,  baptized 
at  Navestock.  May  31,  1560.  3.  Anthony,  bap- 
tized October  18.  1362,  buried  January  28, 
1622;   married.   January   29,    1685,   Clemence 


.Sljady.  4.  John,  baptized  May  5,  1566;  will 
dated  1627;  was  of  Sheffield. 

(Ill)  Allen  Convers,  son  of  John  Convers, 
was  of  South  Weald.  His  will  was  dated  Jan- 
uary 3,  1636,  and  proved  June  28,  1639.  He 
had  a  house  and  lands  at  Navestock,  Stanford 
River  and  Fyfield.     He  married  (first)  Joanna 

,  who  was  buried  June  22,   1602.     He 

married  (second)  November  28,  1603,  Eliza- 
beth Palmer.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Allen, 
ha])tized  at  Navestock.  February  28,  1586;  mar- 
ried Sarah ,  who  was  buried  December 

5,  1626,  at  South  Weald;  his  son  Allen,  bap- 
tized August  18,  1616,  was  the  American  immi- 
grant who  settled  in  Salem,  a  nephew,  there- 
fore, of  the  Edward  Converse,  mentioned  be- 
low. 2.  Edward,  baptized  February  23,  1588; 
mentioned  below.  3.  Andrew,  baptized  No- 
vember 30.  I5(>i.  4.  Anna,  baptized  June  20, 
1599.  5.  Richard,  named  in  father's  will.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wjfe:  6.  Susan,  baptized  at 
Sould  Weald,  March  18,  1(305.  7.  Gabriel,  bap- 
tized March  24,  1606.  8.  Daniel,  baptized 
February  18,  1609.  9.  Hester,  baptized  April 
26,  1612;  married,  October  28,  1630,  William 
Skinner. 

( 1\')  Deacon  Tulward  Converse,  son  of  Allen 
Convers,  was  baptized  at  Navestock,  county 
Esse.x,  England,  February  23.  1588.  He  was 
one  of  the  select  company  of  Puritans  who 
came  from  England  to  this  country  in  the  fleet 
with  Winthrop,  whose  ship,  the  "Arabella." 
preceding  the  other  vessels  of  the  fleet,  arrived 
at  -Salem,  June  12.  1(130,  after  a  stormy  passage 
of  sixty-three  days.  \\'ith  hini  came  his  wife 
Sarah  and  children  Josiah.  James  and  Mary. 
They  settled  first  at  Charlestown.  Alassachu- 
sctts,  and  were  among  the  first  members  of  the  . 
church  received  on  the  Sunday  following  its 
organization  in  Charlestown,  July  30,  1630, 
and  which  included  in  its  congregation  mem- 
bers on  both  sides  of  the  river,  the  majority 
of  whom  had  removed  to  Boston  within  a  few 
montlis.  This  was  the  First  Church  of  Boston, 
and  from  it  Edward  and  Sarah  Converse  and 
thirty-three  other  members  were  dismissed  Oc- 
tt)ber  14,  1632.  to  be  embodied  at  the  First 
Church  of  Charlestown,  entering  into  mutual 
covenant  for  this  purpose  November  2,  1632. 
He  was  admitted  a  freeman.  May  18,  1631, 
among  tlie  first  to  be  admitted  to  the  company 
in  New  England.  He  established  the  first 
ferry  between  Charlestown  and  Boston  under 
the  vote  of  the  general  court,  November  9, 
i'')30.andjune  14, 1631,  was  authorizedtocharge 
ferriage  "two  pence   for  every  single  person. 


MASSACHL'SKTTS. 


495 


and  one  penny  apiece  if  tliere  be  two  or  more." 
This  lease  was  renewed  November  9,  1637, 
for  three  years,  Converse  paying  forty  pounds 
a  year  for  the  privilege.  This  ferry  crossed 
where  the  old  Charlestowii  bridge  crosses  now, 
and  was  called  the  Cjreat  Ferry,  to  distinguish 
it  from  the  ferry  between  Charlestown  and 
W'innisimmet.  operated  by  Thomas  Williams. 
Converse  held  the  lease  until  October  7.  1640, 
when  it  was  granted  for  the  support  of  Har- 
vard College.  Edward  Converse  was  a  juror, 
.September  28,  1630;  selectman  from  1635  until 
his  removal  to  the  new  town — Woburn — in  the 
founding  of  which  he  was  prominent.  His 
name  was  at  the  head  of  the  seven  commis- 
sioners a])]x>inted  by  Charlestown  to  establish 
the  town  and  church  at  Woburn.  He  built  the 
first  house  in  Woburn,  previous  to  January  4, 
1641,  which  was  at  the  mill  once  called  by  his 
name  in  the  south  village,  now  Winchester. 
He  also  built  this  first  mill  there,  a  corn  mill. 
On  the  organization  of  the  town  he  w-as  chosen 
one  of  the  seven  selectmen,  .Xpril  13,  1644,  and 
served  until  his  death  in  1663.  On  March  3, 
1649,  he  was  one  of  the  four  selectmen  appoint- 
ed to  settle  the  disputed  boundary  line  between 
Woburn  and  Charlestown ;  from  1649  to  1660 
he  was  one  of  the  commissioners  for  the  trial 
of  small  causes ;  in  1660  he  was  deputy  to  the 
general  court.  He  was  one  of  the  two  deacons 
chosen  by  the  Woburn  church  and  continued 
in  thafoffice  until  his  death.  He  was  tything- 
man  at  various  times.  Deacon  Converse  was 
a  man  of  energy,  strength  of  character  and 
substantial  estate.  His  wife  Sarah  died  Janu- 
ary 14,  1661-62,  and  he  married  (second)  Sep- 
tember 9,  1662,  Joanna  Sprague,  widow  of 
Ralph  Sprague,  of  Charlestown.  She  died  Feb- 
ruary 24.  1679-80.  He  died  in  Woburn,  Au- 
gust 10,  1663.  His  will  was  dated  August, 
1659.  anfl  proved  October  7,  1663.  His  estate 
w'as  valued  at  eight  hundred  and  tw'enty-seven 
pounds.  In  his  will  he  mentions  his  wife 
Sarah ;  sons  Joseph,  James  and  Samuel ;  Ed- 
ward, the  son  of  James;  his  daughter  Mary 
and  her  children  by  her  first  marriage :  his 
kinsman,  .\llen  Convers ;  his  kinsman,  John 
Parker,  and  his  kinswoman,  Sarah  Smith. 
Children:  I.  Deacon  Josiali,  born  in  Eng- 
land, baptized  at  South  Weald,  October  30, 
1618;  died  in  Woburn,  February  3,  1689-90; 
married  Esther  Champney.  2.  Lieutenant  James, 
born  in  England  about  1620,  died  in  Woburn, 
May  10,  1715;  married  Anna  Long.  3.  John, 
baptized  in  South  Weald,  November  29,  1620. 
4.  ?>Iary,  born  in  England,  1622  :  married  (first) 
Simon  Thompson;  (second)  John  Sheldon.    5. 


.Sarah,  bajnized  at  South  Weald,  June  j,  1023. 
6.  Sergeant  .Sanuiel,  mentioned  below. 

(\')  Sergeant  Samuel,  son  of  Deacon  Ed- 
ward Converse,  was  baptized  March  12,  1637- 
38,  in  the  First  Church,  Charlestown,  and  died 
I'cbruary  20,  1669.  1  le  married,  June  8.  1660, 
Judith  Carter,  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  and 
.Mary  ( I'arkhurst)  Carter.  Her  father  was 
the  first  minister  of  Woburn  and  continued 
forty-two  years.  Judith  survived  her  husband 
and  married  (second)  May  2,  1672,  Giles 
I'ifield.  She  died  1677.  Samuel  Converse  was 
admitted  a  freeman  in  1666  and  was  sergeant 
in  the  Woburn  train  band.  He  came  to  an 
untimely  death  by  an  accident  in  the  corn  mill 
which  he  inherited  with  his  brothers  from  his 
father.  His  head  was  caught  between  the 
wheel  and  the  wall  while  he  was  cutting  ice 
from  the  wheel.  He  died  intestate.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Samuel,  born  April  4,  1662;  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Abigail,  born  in  Woburn, 
died  July  14.  1689. 

(\T)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Sergeant  Samuel 
( I  )  Converse,  was  born  in  Woburn,  .April  4, 
if)f)2,  died  in  Thompson  parish,  Killingly,  Con- 
necticut, about  1732.  He  married  Dorcas 
prior  to  1694.  In  1710  Samuel  Con- 
verse and  family  removed  to  Thompson  parish 
and  occupied  a  farm  that  he  had.  bought  of 
Richard  Evans,  the  first  settler  of  Killingly. 
Mr.  Converse  was  the  first  settler  in  Thompson, 
his  farm  being  in  that  jiart  of  the  town  set  off 
as  Putnam.  In  1718  he  sold  the  Evans  farm 
and  [jurchased  a  part  of  the  "(Juinatisset  Farm" 
laid  out  to  John  Gore,  of  Ro.xbury,  surveyor, 
in  1686.  This  farm  is  about  a  mile  southwest 
of  Thomp.son  Hill  and  in  1882  was  occupied 
by  .^tei)hen  Uallard  and  lienjamin  I'ugbee. 
He  deeded  jjarts  of  this  farm  to  his  sons  as 
they  settled  in  life.  They  attended  chinxh  at 
Killingly  until  the  erection  of  Thompson  parish 
in  1728.  Converse  and  his  sons  were  active  in 
building  rhomi)son  meeting  house,  and  his 
name  heads  the  list  of  church  members  at  its 
organization,  January  28,  1730.  Children:  i. 
Samuel,  l)orn  in  Woburn,  May  26,  1694:  mar- 
ried (first)  Hannah  Bartlett ;  (second)  Sarah 
.•\twell.  2.  Edward,  born  September  25,  1696; 
mentioned  below.  3.  Thomas,  born  October 
28,  1699;  married  (first)  Martha  Clougli ; 
(second)  .Abigail  Fay.  4.  Dorcas,  born  in 
Woburn,  February  r,  1702-03;  married,  April 
28,  1723.  Daniel  Whitmore.  5.  Pain,  Novem- 
ber 25,  1706,  died  Scptetnber  10,  1781  ;  married 
Mary  Hal  ford.  6.  Josiali,  baptized  in  Kill- 
ingly. Novcmljer  20, 1714 ;  married  Mary  Sal)in. 

(\TI)    Ensign  Edward  (2),  son  of  Samuel 


496 


MASSACIILSETTS. 


(2)  Converse,  was  born  in  W'oburn,  Septem-  , 
ber  25,  1696,  died  July  9,  1784.  At  the  age 
of  fourteen  he  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Thompson.  Me  married,  August  6,  1717,  Ehz- 
abeth  Cooper,  who  died  February  19,  1776, 
daughter  of  John  and  Ehzabeth  Cooper.  He 
received  from  his  father,  February  6,  1718.  the 
deed  of  fifty  acres  of  land  north  of  the  home- 
.stead.  He  built  the  house  occupied  by  him  and 
his  sons  for  many  years  and  was  known  as 
the  "Converse  Tavern."  He  was  a  man  of 
energy  and  sound  judgment,  and  much  em- 
]5loyed  in  public  affairs.  He  was  one  of  the 
constituent  members  of  the  church  and  served 
on  the  committee  on  building  the  meeting 
house.  He  was  chosen  to  repair  bridges,  helji 
survey  the  doubtful  bounds,  collect  reserve  and 
distribute  school  money,  and  "settle  distrained 
I'aptists  on  as  easy  terms  as  he  could."  He 
was  active  in  military  affairs,  served  as  ensign 
many  years.  The  rank  of  ensign  corresponds 
to  that  of  lieutenant  at  the  present  time.  At  a 
town  meeting  in  December,  1732.  he  was 
selected  constable.  His  real  estate  was  doubt- 
less made  over  to  his  sons  in  Inis  lifetime.  He 
died  intestate.  Children:  I.  Captain  James, 
baptized  .^^eptember  27,  1719;  married  Mary 
Leavens.  2.  Captain  Edward,  baptized  at  Kill- 
ingly,  November  8,  1720:  married  Mary  Davis. 
3.  Jonathan,  baptized  April  28,  1723  ;  mentioned 
beiow.  4.  Lieutenant  Jacob,  born  at  Killingly, 
February  26,  1727;  married  .Ann  White.  5. 
Asa,  born  September  30.  1730:  married  Ruth 
Leed.  6.  Jesse,  born  November  30.  1732  :  mar- 
ried Damaris  Chandler,  widow.  7.  Elizabeth, 
born  April  4,  1735,  died  March  18,  1737.  8. 
Zachariah,  born  .'\pril  4,  1736:  probably  died 
young.  9.  Elizabeth,  born  March  29,  1738; 
married.  May  20,  1757,  Timothy  At  wood.  10. 
Susanna,  born  October  28.  1741.  died  .August, 
1833:  married  (first)  Diah  Johnson  ;  (second) 
Dr.  .Saiuuel  Ruggles. 

(\'I1I)  Jonatiian.  son  of  luisign  F.dward 
(2)  Converse,  was  born  in  Thomjison,  Connec- 
ticut, and  baptized  .\pril  28,  1723.  1  le  married 
Keziah  Hughes,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Hughes, 
an  early  resident  of  Killingly.  He  died  in 
1761.  He  occupied  after  his  marriage  a  farrn 
on  a  by-road  running  north  west  from  Brandy 
1  nil  and  near  to  the  old  Hale  and  John  Jacobs 
places  until  about  1752,  when  he  removed  to 
the  homestead  afterwards  (iccui)ied  by  Elijah 
:ui'l  Kiel  Converse,  near  the  present  village 
of  W'ilsdnville.  Living  in  such  a  remote  neigii- 
borliodd  he  iiad  little  to  do  with  public  affairs, 
neither  does  his  name  appear  on  tlie  society 
records:  but  he  evidently  managed  to  attend 


church,  as  his  children  were  baptized.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Elijah,  born  June  20,  1745,  died  June 
14,  1820;  married  (first)  January,  1770,  Ex- 
perience Hibbard,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and 
E.xperience  Hibbard  ;  served  three  years  in  the 
revolution.     2.  Alice,  born  February  11,  1747. 

3.  Khoda.  born  March   12,   1748,  died  young. 

4.  FClisha,  born  .April  4.  1750,  died  young.  5. 
Lois,  born  ^lay  29,  1751.  6.  Esther,  born 
October  29,  1752.  7.  Jonathan,  born  Novem- 
ber 25,  1754,  died  May  9,  1761.  8.  Rhoda, 
born  .August  23,  1756:  married,  November  26, 
1778,  Jeremiah  Converse.  9.  Elisha,  born 
^larch  13,  1758;  mentioned  below.  10.  Jona- 
than, born  January  27,  1760:  married  (first) 
November  20.  1783,  Esther  Whijjple ;  (second) 
.\])ril  7,  1833,  Sarah  W'ilber,  widow;  (third) 
September  24,  1837,  Zerviah  S])rague  ;  was  in 
the  revolution. 

( IX  )  Elisha,  son  of  Jonathan  L'onverse,  was 
born  March  13,  1758.  died  February  15,  1843. 
He  went  to  X'ermotit  in  1806  and  thence  to 
15rimfield.  Massachusetts,  in  1820.  During  the 
war  of  1812  he  supplied  the  xAmerican  army 
with  provisions.  He  was  in  the  revolution 
and  served  in  Ca])tain  Joseph  Eliott's  company 
(the  8th),  (ieneral  Israel  Putnam's  regiment, 
recruited  at  Windham  county,  Connecticut,  and 
served  around  Boston  in  1775.  In  July  of  that 
vear  the  regiment  became  a  ])art  of  the  Con- 
tinental army,  and  a  detachment  served  at 
Bunker  Hill,  while  another  detachment  went 
on  the  expedition  to  Quebec.  He  was  a  cor- 
])oral  in  1778  in  Captain  Daniel  Tilden's  com- 
pany. Colonel  .Samuel  McClellan's  regiment, 
under  Sullivan  in  Rhode  Island  in  1778.  He 
married.  December  2,  1779.  Mary  Bishop.  He 
married  (second)  November  2,  1814.  Mary 
Wells.  Children:  i.  Roswell,  born  September 
14,  1780:  married,  March,  1807,  Dosha  Nichols. 
2.  Jonathan,  born  March  27,  1782:  married, 
Marcli  10,  \SoC\  Lydia  Joslyn.  3.  Polly,  born 
.March  30,  1784:  married,  .April  10,  1806,  David 
Warren.  4.  Lucy,  born  February  22,  1786: 
married.  July  21,  1806.  Jason  Jones.  5.  Esther, 
born  Mav  22.  1788:  married,  .\ugust  15,  1808. 
Ephraim  Wheeler.  6.  .\delphia.  born  June 
24.  1790:  married,  iSu.  Henry  Wheelock.  7. 
Louisa,  born  June  30,  1792:  married.  June  9. 
1818,  Sprague  L.  Converse.  8.  Elisha,  born 
August  12.  1704:  mentioned  below.  9.  John 
Mason,  born  February  29.  1797;  married,  Jan- 
uary I".  1821,  Delin(la  Newton. 

(N)  Elisha  (2),  son  of  Elisha  (i)  Con- 
verse, was  born  August  12.  1704  He  resided 
in  Palmer.  Alassachusetts,  where  he  worked 
in  a  saw  mill,     lie  |iurchased  a  farm  near  the 


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okl  Centre,  atul  became  a  successful  farmer, 
acquiring  a  ccimpctence.  lie  married  (first) 
May  9.  1820.  .Mehitable  I'enton.  born  May  26, 
1795,  died  October  20.  1850.  lie  married 
(second)  November  12,  1852,  Lovinia  Fuller, 
who  died  December  17,  1873.  Children:  i. 
John  Mason,  born  July  8,  1823;  mentioned 
below.  2.  Henr}-  Dexter,  born  May  22,  1825, 
died  January  25,  1848.  3.  Mary  Maria,  born 
April  23,  1828,  died  March  5,  1829.  4.  Alfred, 
born  .April  5,  1830. 

{XI)  John  Mason,  son  of  Elisha  (2)  Con- 
verse, was  born  at  I 'aimer,  July  8.  1823.  died 
there  August  29,  1898.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  the  high  school 
at  Westfield.  Massachusetts.  At  the  age  of 
fifteen  years,  he  removed  with  his  parents  from 
Palmer  Center  to  the  Depot  N'illage.  where  his 
father  bought  and  managed  the  old  Sedgwick 
Tavern,  which  had  been  moved  from  Shearer's 
Corner  to  the  site  of  the  present  Converse 
House.  The  son  assisted  the  father  in  the 
management  of  the  hotel  and  for  a  time  drove 
the  stage  between  Palmer  and  I'rookfield.  They 
were  associated  in  business  many  vears  and 
accumulated  a  substantial  estate.  I'rom  time 
to  time  they  bought  land  in  Palmer  until  tlicv 
owned  most  of  the  property  east  of  Main 
street  between  Church  street  and  Thorndike 
.street  and  as  far  back  as  Dewey's  Hill.  They 
put  up  dwelling  houses  to  rent  and  not  only 
secured  a  large  revenue  from  the  real  estate, 
but  greatly  increased  the  land  values  in  that 
section.  The  old  tavern  was  destroyed  by  fire. 
In  its  place  the  Tockwotten  House  was  built 
by  the  Converses,  but  after  opening  the  new 
hotel,  the  management  was  transferred  to 
others,  and  the  owners  devoted  all  their  ener- 
gies to  their  real  estate  investments.  Mr.  Con- 
verse continued  to  the  time  of  his  death,  with 
much  enterprise  and  foresight,  improving  his 
real  estate  and  making  other  investments.  In 
later  years  his  son.  Henry  Dexter  Converse, 
was  associated  with  him.  Mr.  Converse  was 
never  actively  interested  in  ])olitics,  though  he 
held  various  town  oflfices,  and  was  always 
identified  with  the  important  business  affairs 
of  the  town,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  chief 
taxpayers  for  many  years.  He  married.  De- 
cember 18,  1851.  Emeline  Rindge,  born  at 
Templeton.  Massachusetts.  May  6,  1827,  died 
December  t2,  irp'i,  daughter  of  Erastus  and 
Sally  (West)  Rindge.  Children,  born  at  Pal- 
mer: I.  Mary  Emeline,  born  May  28,  1853. 
died  .August  20,  1854.  2.  Lizzie  M.,  born  Xo- 
vember  4.  1854.  died  May  29,  1857.  3.  Delia 
Rindge,  born  .September  8.  1856.  died  June  22, 


18(15.     4.    Henry    Dexter,   born   September    I. 
1S58;  menlionetl  below. 

(XII)  Henry  Dexter,  son  of  John  Mason 
Converse,  was  born  in  Palmer,  Sc()tember  i, 
1858.  He  was  educated  in  the  |)ul)]ic  schools 
of  his  native  town,  at  the  Weslcyan  .Academy, 
also  at  Monson  .Academy,  and  Eastman  llusi- 
ness  College,  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York. 
.After  completing  his  education,  he  became 
associated  with  his  father  in  the  real  estate 
business,  and  succeeding  him  in  the  ownership 
of  much  improved  property  in  the  town  of 
Palmer,  lie  is  counted  among  the  most  .saga- 
cious and  successful  real  estate  owners  of  the 
county.  His  judgment  is  depended  upon  by 
those  in  need  of  expert  testimony.  He  is  the 
largest  individual  taxjiayer  in  the  town.  In 
politics  a  Republican. 


( I'or  lailv   Kenprations  .«ee  precetling  .sketili). 

(Vni)  Captain  Edward  Con- 
C()X\  I'lR.SE  verse,  son  of  Ensign  Edward 
Converse,  was  born  at  Kill- 
ingly,  Connecticut,  and  baptized  Xovember  8, 
1720.  He  occujiied  a  fine  farm  on  bVencli  river, 
which  was  a  jiart  of  his  father-in-law's  estate. 
In  1 74 1  he  joined  the  church  and  was  active 
in  its  work.  He  was  appointed  in  1761  captain 
of  the  Seventh  Company,  Eleventh  Regiment 
militia.  .After  1761  there  is  no  record  of  him 
at  Killingly  or  Thompson,  Connecticut.  He 
removed  to  (jageborough,  afterward  Windsor, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  selectman  in  1 77 1.  He 
and  his  wife  were  admitted  to  the  church  there 
in  1773.  He  was  assessor  in  1778:  surveyor 
1784:  selectman  from  1771  to  1779.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  Davis,  daugliter  of  Samuel  Davis. 
She  died  a  widow  July  18,  1814,  in  the  ninety- 
third  year  of  her  age.  Children:  i.  Samuel 
Davis,  baptized  February  17.  1742;  mentioned 
belnw.  2.  Edward,  baptized  June  10,  174.S. 
died  1745.  3.  Edward,  born  June  6.  1747,  died 
.April  9,  uSiT).  4.  Ca])tain  .Aiuasa,  born  June 
8,  1750:  married  ("first)  Olive  ;  (sec- 
ond )  Mrs.  Sarah  Cleveland.  5.  Mary,  born 
-March  r.  1753.  6.  .Abigail,  born  .August  23, 
1756,  died  December  28,  1824:  married  Asa 
Hall. 

( IX)  .Samuel  Davis,  son  of  Captain  lulward 
Converse,  was  baptized  i-'ebruary  17,  1742.  He 
resided  in  Chesterfield.  Xew  Hampshire,  luitil 
1782.  when  he  removed  to  Dummerston.  \'er- 
mnnt.  and  from  there  to  Worthiiigton,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  died  at  the  home  of  his  son. 
He  was  one  of  the  thirteen  inhabitants  of 
Chesterfield  who  refused  to  sign  the  association 
test.     He  served  in  the  revolution  in  the  Ches- 


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terfield  company  under  Lieutenant  James  Rob- 
cstson.  marching  for  Ticonderoga,  June  29. 
1777.  He  was  in  Captain  Kimball  Carlton's 
eiglith  comiiaiiv.  Colonel  Moses  Xicliol's  regi- 
ment, C.eneral  Stark's  brigade,  which  marched 
July  22.  1777.  to  meet  the  British  at  Benning- 
ton. This  company  was  sent  .\ugust  t6  to  the 
rear  of  the  enemy's  left  wing,  and  the  battle 
was  opened  at  three  o'clock  by  Colonel  Nichols' 
detachment.  .\  detachment  of  Carlton's  com- 
pany and  another  company  was  sent  to  Green- 
bush,  New  York,  and  fell  into  an  ambuscade. 

Samuel   D.   Converse  married  .     Chil- 

*dren:  i.  Willard.  2.  Betsey,  baptized  Augiist 
24,  176O;  married  Simeon  Thrasher.  3.  Wal- 
ter, born  July  ly.  1767.  lived  in  Butternuts, 
New  York.  4.  Dr.  John,  born  March  5,  1772, 
died  December,  1815;  married,  1799,  Sallie 
Hanson.    5.  Elisha,  mentioned  below.  6.  Polly. 

(X)  Elisha,  son  of  Samuel  Davis  Converse, 
married  Lucy  ^[atthews.  Children:  i.  Sally, 
married  Elrastus  Pease  and  had  eight  children. 
2.  (Jrren,  mentioned  below.  3.  Lucy,  married 
Joslin  Tower;  settled  in  \\  orthington ;  had 
seven  children.  4.  Betsey,  married  John  F. 
Pease  and  had  seven  children.  5.  Samuel,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Ladd  and  had  five  children.  6. 
Elisha.  Jr.  7.  Horace,  married  Laura  Ladd 
and  had  one  son. 

(XI)  Orren.  son  of  Elisha  Converse,  was 
born  in  Huntington.  Massachusetts.  He  was 
educated  in  the  iniblic  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter.  He 
lived  in  Chestei,  Massachusetts.  He  married 
(first)  Elizabeth  Yeomans,  of  New  York  City, 
died  in  1843,  aged  thirty-two.  He  married 
(second)  Rachel  Eastman,  daughter  of  Benja- 
min Eastman,  of  Chester,  Massachusetts.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:  i.  Henry  M..  born  August 
25,  1833.  2.  William  Wallace,  born  February 
22,  1836:  mentioned  below.  3.  Alinus  M., 
born  .\ugust  15,  1839.  Child  of  second  wife: 
4.  Emma  E.    - 

(XH  )  \\'illiam  Wallace,  son  of  Orren  Con- 
verse, was  born  in  Chester,  ]\L-issachusetts, 
I'ebruary  22,  1836.  Tfe  attended  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town.  Early  in  life  he 
began  to  work  as  a  teamster  for  the  lumber 
mills.  In  IXxember,  1863.  be  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany (1.  I'V)urth  Massachusetts  Cavalry,  as 
sergeant,  and  served  with  credit  to  the  end  of 
the  civil  war.  In  the  course  of  his  service  he 
was  once  given  an  important  order  from  Gen- 
eral Benjamin  F.  Butler  to  be  delivered  to 
General  Terry  at  Point  of  Rocks,  N'irginia. 
On  the  way  he  had  to  cross  a  pontoon  bridge 
which  he   found  undergoing  repairs,  and  the 


lieutenant  in  charge  refused  to  allow  him  to 
cross  it,  two  of  the  boats  having  been  removed, 
rendering  it  unsafe.  Sergeant  Converse  started 
apparently    on    his    way    back,    but    suddenly 
wheeled     his     horse,     spurred     him     forward 
upon  the  bridge.  esca])ing  all  attempts  to  stop 
him.  clearing  the  gap  in  the  bridge  at  a  jump, 
and  delivered  the  message.     When  Richmond 
fell  he  was  with  General  Weitzel's  statif.  and 
was  the  messenger  sent  back  to  confirm  the 
despatches  to  the   w-ar  department  at   W'asli- 
ington  of  the  news  of  the  occupation  of  the 
Confederate  cajiital.      He  was  honorably  dis- 
charged   in    Xovember,    1865,    at    Richmond. 
Cpon  his  return  he  found  employment  in  the 
carpet  mills  at  Clinton,  .Massachusetts.     Soon 
afterward,  however,  he  became  a  commercial 
traveler  and  continued  as  salesman  for  J.  W. 
Coleton.    Westfield,    Massachusetts,    fourteen 
years.     In  1883  he  began  the  manufacture  of 
mineral  paste  at  Palmer,  Massachusetts,  and 
has  built  up  a  large  and  flourishing  business. 
He  ranks  among  the   foremost  business  men 
and  UKxst  prominent  citizens  of  that  town.    He 
is  a  member  of  Thomas  Lodge  of  Free  Masons  : 
of  Hampden  Chapter,  Royal  .\rch  Masons;  of 
Washington  Council,  Royal  and  Select  ?\Iasters  ; 
of  L.  L.  Merritt  Post,  Xo.  107,  Grand  .Army 
of  the  Republic,  and  served  on  the  staff  of  the 
commander-in-chief   of   the   Grand    Army   of 
the  Republic,  1892-93;  of  Hampden  Lodge  of 
( )dd  Fellows.     In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Second  Congregational 
Church.     He  married   (first)   Mary  F.  Willis, 
lune  20.  1862;  she  died  Xovember  2.  1862.   He 
inarried  (second)  December  16.  1863.  Clara  L. 
Metcher,  daughter  of  Joseph  II.  and  Clarissa 
1.  Fletcher.    Children,  all  by  second  wife:     i. 
.Vlgernou  William,  born  October  9.  1864:  mar- 
ried Emma  I'-.  Greeley,  June  20,  1888.   2.  Henry 
Alinus.  born  .\ugust  9,   1872,  died  Xovember 
2i).  1878.   3.  Helen,  born  .\ugust  7.  1879:  mar- 
ried   Sei)teml)er   28,    K/54,   .\rlhur   O.    Berry; 
child.   Doris   Berry,  born   .\ugust  28.    1906. 


Edward  Allen,  immigrant  ances- 
ALLEN  tor  of  this  family,  was  born  in 
England  about  1670.  and  died  in 
Xantucket,  February  i,  1741-  He  emigrated 
from  London,  ICngland.  about  1690.  and  settled 
on  Xantucket  Island.  He  was  popular  with  his 
townsmen  and  held  a  number  oi  public  offices, 
among  them  being  that  of  trustee  and  constable 
of  the  island,  juror,  and  several  others.  He 
was  the  possessor  of  considerable  real  estate, 
and  some  years  prior  to  his  death  deeded  a 
portion  to  each  of  his  surviving  children.    He 


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was  married  about  1692  to  Aim  Coleman,  born 
Xovember  10.  1675.  died  July  i.  1739. daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Ann  (  liunker )  Coleman,  of 
Nantucket.    Children:     i.  Mary,  horn  August 

25,  I '193.  died  Xovember  2" .  I7'^>3.  and  was 
buried  at  Newport.  Rhode  Island:  she  married 
(first)  Paul  Coffin,  who  died  at  sea.  Ajiril  i, 
1729,  and  had  four  children  ;  (  second  )  Novem- 
ber 29.  1 73 1.  Clothier  Pierce,  of  Newport. 
Rhode  Island,  grandson  of  the  celebrated 
Michael  Pierce,  who  won  renown  in  King 
Philip's  war.  2.  Joseph,  born  October  10. 
i()95.  died  May  4.  1706.  3.  nenjamin,  born 
March  22.  iCtgj.  was  lost  at  sea  in  the  south 
while  on  a  whaling  expedition  in  1722.  4. 
Nathaniel,  see  forward.  5.  Daniel,  born  .\pril 
23.  1704.  died  March  30.  1788:  he  married, 
January  26,  1737,  Elizabeth  liunker.  born 
December  10.  1717.  died  January  7.  1809, 
daughter  of  Peleg  and  Susannah  IJunker:  they 
had  three  children.  6.  Sylvanus.  born  May  6. 
1706.  died  [irior  to  1784:  he  resided  in  Dart- 
mouth. Massachusetts,  and  married.  January 
8.  1727.  Jemima  Starbuck.  born  May  2.  1712. 
died  October  11.  1798.  daughter  of  Jethro  and 
Dorcas  Starbuck :  they  had  nine  children.  7. 
Rachel,  born  December  31,  1709,  died  May  31, 
1789:  she  married.  October  2.  1726.  Thomas 
Starbuck.  l)orn  October  22,  1706.  died  l-'ehru- 
ary  5,  1779,  son  of  Thomas  and  .Abigail  Star- 
buck  :  they  resided  in  Nantucket  and  had  seven 
children.  8.  Sarah,  born  June  4.  1713.  died 
December.  1766:  she  married,  October  19, 
1731,  Joseph  Harvey,  resided  at  Nantucket, 
and  had  three  children.  9.  Elizabeth,  born 
May  2,  1716;  marrie<l  William  Brewer  and 
had  one  child.     10.  Ebenezer.  born  December 

26.  1718.  died  August  22.  1753:  he  married. 
August  15.  1740.  Christiana  Heath,  born  .Au- 
gust 5.  1724.  (lied  .\ugust  29.  1773.  daughter 
of  Edmund  and  Catherine  Heath  ;  they  resided 
at  Nantucket  and  had  six  children. 

(U  )  Captain  Nathaniel,  third  son  and  fourth 
child  of  Edward  and  .*\nn  (Coleman)  .Mien, 
was  born  at  Nantucket,  Massachusetts.  Febru- 
ary 24,  1700,  died  April  7,  177'').  He  was  a 
mariner  and  had  charge  of  the  coasting  trade, 
spending  the  greater  [jart  of  his  time  on  the 
sea  and  conse(|uently  having  little  time  to  sj)are 
for  the  public  affairs  of  his  town.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  but.  after 
his  second  marriage,  which  was  out  of  meeting, 
he  was  dropped  from  its  membership.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  January  i,  1724.  Provided  Gaskell. 
who  died  Jaiuiary  30.  17.^0.  flaughter  of  Ca|t- 
tain  Sanuiel  Gaskell,  granddatighter  of  Samuel 
and   Provided   (.Southwick)   Gaskell,  of  Xcw- 


buryport.  Massachusetts,  and  a  de.scendaiu  of 
that  Cassandra  Southwick  of  whom  W'hittier 
has  written  one  of  his  most  touching  pocm>. 
Ciiildrcn :  1.  l-"dmund.  born  October.  i72<>, 
(lied  unmarried,  .\ugust  2(>,  I7(>3.  2.  Provided, 
born  July  12,  1728,  died  December  3.  179S; 
.she  married,  March  17,  1747.  Daniel  Gardner, 
born  .\ugust  24.  1727.  died  July  9.  1780,  son 
of  Samuel  and  Patience  (Gardner:  they  resided 
on  .Nantucket  Island.  ha<l  ten  children,  whose 
descendants  are  still  residents  of  the  island. 
Captain  Nathaniel  .Mien  married  (second) 
May  2.  1732.  Mercy  Coffin,  born  Se|>tember 
3.  1 701.  died  .April  24,  1781.  widow  of  Prince 
Cortin.  and  daughter  of  Nathan  and  Mercy 
SkitT.  On  the  maternal  side  she  was  the  grand- 
daughter of  John  and  Ho])e  (  Howland  )  Chap- 
man, great-granddaughter  of  John  anil  Eliza- 
beth (  Tilley  )  Howland.  and  great-great-grand- 
daughter of  John  Tilley,  who  came  to  this  coun- 
try in  the  "Ma\llower.  "  She  was  also  a  de- 
scendant of  Governor  Carver,  as  the  records 
in  the  old  Hartford  P.ible  show.  The  children 
of  Captain  .Nathaniel  and  Mercy  (SkitT) 
(Coffin)  .Allen  were:  i.  Abigail,  born  .April 
10,  1733.  died  February  14,  1817;  she  married, 
-May  3.  1785.  Jonathan  Moores.  born  June  12, 
1725,  died  September  3.  1795,  son  of  Jonathan 
and  Elizabeth  Moores.  2.  .Susanna,  born  .Ajiril 
'•  ^7^7-  •l''^'''  lunnarried.  .April  11.  179'').  3. 
Joseph,  see  forward.  4.  I'enjamiii,  born  Janu- 
ary 1.  1740.  was  lost  at  sea;  he  married  (pub- 
lished December  4,  17(15)  Abigail  Trott.  born 
October  15.  175''),  died  November  18,  181 1, 
daughter  of  Pienjamin  and  Elizabeth  Trott.  5. 
Mercy,  born  Se|)tcmhcr  4,  1742,  died  March 
29.  1825:  she  married,  December  4,  ijCo.  .Ste- 
phen Macy,  born  June  6,  1741.  died  l''ebruary 
8.  1822,  son  of  David  and  Dinah  Macy.  C>. 
("a])tain  ( )liver.  who  rlied  in  Shutesbury.  Mass- 
achusetts, in  1792;  he  was  master  of  a  trading 
vessel  for  many  years,  then  retired  to  a  farm 
and  became  prominent  as  a  member  of  the 
committee  of  correspondence  during  the  revo- 
lution.    He  tnarried  Joamia . 

(HP)  Joseph,  eldest  son  and  third  child  of 
Capta-n  Nathaniel  and  Mercy  (.Skiff)  (Coffin) 
.Allen,  was  born  at  Nantucket.  Massachusetts. 
.April  I.  1737.  died  at  Shutesbury.  Massachu- 
setts. December  20,  1804.  He  sold  his  real 
estate  holdings  in  Nantucket  in  i7fVJ  and  rc- 
movcfl  to  Newport.  Rhode  Island.  He  is  said 
to  have  served  in  the  continental  army  during 
the  revolutionary  war.  and  after  the  conflict 
returned  to  RlK)dc  Islaiul.  where  he  was  noted 
as  the  owner  of  fine  horses,  with  which  he  was 
f)ften  a  winner  in  spcetiing  them  on  the  turf. 


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^lASSAC  in  "SETTS. 


His  last  (lavs  were  spent  in  peaceful  retirement 
in  the  home  of  his  son  Robert.     He  married, 
December  4,   1753.   He])hzibali  Coffin,  born  at 
Xantucket,  November  18,  ij^f),  <lied  at  Ports- 
month,  or  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  about  1769, 
daughter  of  Robert  and  Su.sanna  Coffin.     She 
numbered  among  her  ancestors  many  promi- 
nent peoi)le,  among  them  being:     Hon.  Peter 
Coffin,  of   Dover,   New    Hampshire:   Edward 
Starbuck,  of  Derbyshire,   England,  and  Nan- 
tucket,   Massachusetts:   Thomas    Cardner,   of 
county  Dorset,  England,  and  Nantucket:  John 
Severance,  of  Salisbury,  Massachusetts:  Peter 
I'Vilger,  of  county  Norfolk,  England:  Richard 
Kimball,  of  county  Suffolk,   luigland,  and  of 
l])swich,  Massachusetts;  and  many  others.  The 
children    of   Joseph   and    llephzifjah    (Coffin) 
.Allen   were:"    i.    .Vn   infant,    who   died   about 
1754.      2.    Hephzibah,   born   about    1756,   died 
in  1784:  she  married,  February  21,  1771,  Peleg 
Cardner,  who  died  in   1809,  son  of  John  and 
Keziah  Cardner;  he  was  a  mariner  and  sailed 
from  Nantucket,  taking  his  sons  with  him.     3. 
Margaret,  born  .August  31,  1758,  died  June  19, 
1850:  .she  married  Nathan  P.rooks.     4.  P.etsey, 
born   November  3,    1762,  died   September   16, 
1808:  she  married,  December  3,  1780,  Benja- 
min  lirown,  born  January  19,  1756,  died  De- 
cember 24,    181 8,  .son  of  John  and   Mehitable 
P)rown :   they   had   five   children.      5.    Joseph, 
born   1764,  died  October  23,   1823;  he  was  a 
successful  practicioner  of  medicine  in   P>uck- 
land,  Massachusetts;  he  married,  about   1800, 
T-ucretia  Smead,  born  October   12,   177^.  died 
in  Seiitember,    1839;  they  had    four   children, 
many    of    whose    descendants    have    followed 
various   ])rofessions    with   honor.      (1.    Robert, 
see  below. 

(I\')  Robert,  youngest  child  of  Joseph  and 
Hephzibah  (Coffin)  Allen,  was  born  at  New- 
port, Rhode  Island,  November  10,  1767,  died 
in  W'allingford,  \"ermont.  May  15,  1856.  His 
mother  died  when  he  was  but  two  years  of  age 
and  he  was  brought  up  in  the  family  of  his 
luicle.  Cai)tain  Oliver  .Mien,  who  had  retired 
from  a  seafaring  life  to  a  farm  at  Hardwick, 
Massachusetts,  and  later  removed  to  Shutes- 
bury  in  the  same  state,  in  whose  schools  young 
Robert  received  his  education.  I  \v  w;is  young 
wlien  he  married  and  settled  on  a  farm  in 
Shutesbury,  where  his  eight  children  were  born. 
In  1806  he  removed  to  Wallingtord.  \ermont, 
cleared  a  farm  there  ujion  which  he  sjient  the 
remainder  of  his  useful  life,  and  which  was  in 
the  possession  of  his  descendants  until  1897. 
h"or  many  years  he  was  engaged  in  buying 
large  herds  of  cattle  and  driving  them  t<>  Pirigh- 


ton  market,  where,  being  a  man  of  sound  judg- 
ment in  business  matters,  he  was  invariably 
successful  in  disposing  of  them  to  advantage. 
He  was   sincere  and   earnest   in   his  religious 
belief  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Bap- 
tist   church,    which    is    still    standing   in    East 
W'allingford,  \'ermont.     He  married,  in  1786, 
Rhoda  Cady,  born  in  Shutesbury,  March  16, 
1765,  died  May  22.  1850,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and    Elizabeth'  Cady,   great-granddaughter   of 
C'aittain  Joseph  Cady.  a  noted  Indian  fighter  of 
Killingly,    Connecticut,    and    a    descendant    of 
Nicholas  Cady,  the  immigrant,  of  W'atertown, 
Massachusetts.     In  her  youth  Mrs.  Allen  was 
a  noted  beauty,  and  that  the  spirit  of  patriotism 
was   not   lacking   in   her   immediate    family   is 
evinced  by  the  fact  that  when  her  father  and 
brothers  were  engaged  in  the  service  of  their 
counlrw    the    female   members   of   the    family 
bore   all    the   burdens   and   responsibilities   of 
carr)ing  on  the   farm  industry.     One  of  her 
brothers,  Jeremiah,  was  a  member  of  the  fam- 
ous "Boston  Tea  Party."  being  temporarily  in 
Boston  at  the  time  of  its  occurrence,  and  avail- 
ing himself  gladly  of  the  opi)ortunity  of  join- 
ing in  the  adventure,  a  fact  which  he  frequently 
related  when  it  was  safe  to  do  so.    Mrs.  Allen's 
mother  died  at  the  advanced  age  of  one  hun- 
dred and  three  years.     The  children  of  Robert 
and    Rhoda    (Cady)    .Allen    were:      I.    Rufus, 
born  Sejjtember  22.  1787,  died  September  30, 
1879;  he  was  a  school  teacher  and  noted  for 
his  remarkable  mathematical  acumen :  he  mar- 
ried. .August  12.  1810.  .Sarali  I-'urbush  Warren, 
born  in  Newfane,  \'ermont,  March  18,   1789. 
died  October  12.,  1862.     2.  Rhoda,  born  April 
30,   1789,  died  Se])tember  28,   1840;  she  mar- 
ried. December   11.   1808.  Jonathan  .Anderson,. 
born  .August  23,  1785.  died  December  9.  1872. 
3.  Oliver,  born  .March  27,  1792,  died  October 
"23,    1852;  he   was  a    deacon    of    the    Baptist 
church,  and  resided  with  his  family  of  eleven 
children    in    East    W'allingford,    X'ermont :    he 
married  (fir.st)  October  9,  1813,  Nancy  .Sarah 
Sweetland,  born  in   I'itzwilliam.  New  Hamj)- 
shire,  February    18,   17()0.  died  September  13. 
1850;  he  married   (second)   Mrs.  Jerusha  Bis- 
sell.    of    Rutland,    X'ermont.      4.    Calvin,   borit 
September  11.  17<;4.  died  September  28,  1 706. 
5.  Jose])h,  born  .August  27.  1797.  died  July  20. 
1875  ;  he  was  prominent  many  years  in  A\  hite- 
hall.    New    A'ork,    in    mercantile    and    public 
atTairs,  and  accumulated  a  large  property  ;  he 
married  (first)  1825,  Sally  Cook,  born  Decem- 
ber 30,  1801,  died  November  28,  1830:  he  mar- 
ried (  second  )  .AIi)ha  Cook,  a  si.ster  of  his  first 
wife,  born    November  29,    1809,  died   .August 


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25.  1872:  he  had  a  family  of  eight  chiklren. 
6.  Hephzihah.  born  April  11.  1800.  died  Sep- 
tember 13.  1803.  7.  Betsey,  born  September 
21,  1803.  died  December  8.  1887:  she  married. 
November  12.  1822.  Levi  Warren  Marsh,  born 
August  4,  1798,  died  January  13.  1888;  he  was 
seventh  in  descent  from  John  Marsh,  who  set- 
tled in  Salem.  Massachusetts,  in  1633;  thev 
resided  in  Wallingford  and  had  nine  children. 
8.  Robert,  see  below. 

(  \' )  Deacon  Koben  (2).  youngest  cliild  of 
Robert  (i)  and  Rhoda  ( Cady )  .Mien,  was 
born  in  Shute.sbury,  Mas.sachusetts.  Ajjril  16, 
1805,  and  died  in  \"ernon.  N'ermont.  .\ugust 
21,  1889.  tfe  resided  for  short  periods  in  sev- 
eral towns  in  the  state  of  N'ermont.  and  finally 
settled  in  \'crnon  in  1856.  and  there  made  his 
permanent  home.  He  was  a  man  of  generous 
impulses  and  gave  largely  of  his  means  for 
benevolent  ]nir])oses.  His  moral  worth  was 
acknowledged  by  all  with  whom  he  came  in 
contact :  he  was  deei)ly  imbued  with  the  honest 
religious  views  he  had  received  in  early  life 
and  he  was  for  many  years  deacon  in  the 
church  at  X'ernon.  He  married.  October  25. 
1832.  Eliza  Paine  Doolittle.born  in  Townshend. 
\'ermont,  February  25.  1812.  and  died  in  \'er- 
non.  \'ermont.  March  31,  1908.  daughter  of 
Roswell  and  Clarissa  ( I'.urt )  Doolittle.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Orrin  I'eer,  see  forward.  2.  Jason 
Cady,  born  in  W'allingford.  \'crmont.  Febru- 
ary 26,  1835 ;  he  is  a  real  estate  owner  in  \"er- 
non,  X'crmont,  where  he  has  lived  on  the 
.Mien  homestead  since  1856:  he  has  held  with 
honor  nearly  every  office  in  the  gift  of  the 
township,  and  was  elected  to  the  X'ermont 
legislature  in  1896,  receiving  every  vote  with 
the  exception  of  two;  lie  married,  December  i, 
1864,  Mary  .Sophia  Combs,  born  in  Enfield, 
Connecticut,  February  14,  1846,  died  January 
12,  1896,  and  their  son,  Robert  Cady,  is  married 
and  lives  on  the  .Mien  homestead  in  \'ernon. 
3.  Julia  .'\ugusta.  born  in  Xewfane.  \'ermont. 
July  30.  1837.  flied  there  Jaimary  23.  1839.  4. 
Charles  .Xntlerson.  born  in  Jamaica.  X'ermont. 
February  i.  1840.  died  in  .Athens.  .August  11. 
1865  :  he  was  a  young  man  of  much  promise  and 
success ;  he  married.  September  6,  1864.  .Abbic 
E.  Hall,  of  .Athens.  \'ermont.  who  died  Septem- 
ber 9,  1872.  5.  Robert  Clark,  born  in  Jamaica. 
\'ermont.  Dctoljcr  8.  1842:  he  resides  in  Xorth 
Springfield.  \'ermont.  where  he  has  been  for 
many  years  a  building  contractor  and  road 
commissioner:  he  married  (first)  June  18. 
1864.  Jane  .A.  Lockwood.  who  died  .April  29. 
1867;  married  (second)  October  13,  1867, 
I-ucy  C.    Lockwood.   who  died    November   7, 


1868:  married  I  third  )  November  5.  i8(>9.  Mrs. 
Hattie  N.  ( Cha|)n)an )  Henry;  he  has  one 
daughtir  who  is  unmarried  and  resides  in 
North  .S])ringfield.  6.  Sarah  .Augusta,  born  in 
Jamaica.  N'ermont,  October  30.  1846,  died  in 
\'ernon.  {•"ebruary  13.  1905  ;  she  married.  Jaim- 
ary 18.  i8f)9.  Lafayette  \V.  Stoddard,  and  had 
children  :  Wallace  E..  now  residing  in  Williams- 
town.  .Massachusetts;  P)ertha.  married  Ihester 
D.  Hicks,  and  resides  in  .'^iiringfield.  7.  \'esta 
Eliza,  horn  in  \\  indham.  \  ermont.  .November 
f).  1854.  died  in  X'ernon.  January  16.  1862. 

(\I)  Orrin  J'eer,  eldest  child  of  Deacon 
Robert  (2)  and  Eliza  Paine  (Doolittle)  .Allen. 
was  born  in  Wallingford.  \'ermont,  September 
30,  1833.  lie  com])letC(l  his  education  at  the 
Chester  (  \  ermont )  .\cademy,  where  he  won 
an  enviable  reputation  as  a  diligent  and  earnest 
student,  at  the  same  time  teaching  schools  in 
the  towns  of  Windham.  Cavendish  and  \"ernon. 
\ermont.  and  after  being  graduated  he  taught 
school  in  Ilackensack.  New  Jersey.  For  several 
yeav^he  was  su])erintendent  of  schools  in  Ver- 
non, resigning  this  office  ujjon  his  removal  from 
the  state  of  X'ermont.  He  settled  in  Palmer.  Mass- 
achusetts. October  5.  1859.  establishing  himself 
in  the  ))harmaceutical  business  and  contunied 
in  this  line  until  the  fall  of  1902,  when  he 
retired  from  commercial  enter])rises.  F'"arly 
in  life  he  had  evinced  a  decided  taste  for  liter- 
ary |)nrsuits  and  his  course  of  reading  has  been 
an  tunisually  extensive  one,  ranging  through 
nearly  all  the  departments  of  literatme  and 
embracing  the  classics,  ]ioetry.  history  and  the 
various  sciences.  He  commenced  writing  for 
jniblication  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  and  has 
been  a  ]irolific  contributor  since  that  time.  For 
many  years  he  has  been  interested  in  the  sub- 
ject of  local  history  and  genealogy  ;  has  written 
many  historical  pajiers  for  the  jiress  relating 
to  Palmer  and  other  localities.  He  has  com- 
|)iled  and  |)ublished  the  genealogies  of  Samuel 
Lee.  of  XX'atertown.  Massachusetts;  .Abraham 
Doolittle.  of  .New  Haven;  John  I'airman.  of 
I'.nfield.  Connecticut;  William  .Scott,  of  Hat- 
field. Massaclniselts  :  John  Scott,  of  Spring- 
field ;  I'.dward  Allen,  of  .Nantucket  ;  and  .Sam- 
uel .Mien,  of  I'jifield,  Connecticut.  He  has 
gathered  material  for  a  volume  of  the  jjioneer 
.Aliens  of  America,  and  is  now  (1908)  engaged 
in  completing  the  genealogy  of  .Nicholas  Cady. 
of  Watertown.  .Massachusetts.  1645- 1908.  lie 
wrote  the  History  of  the  .Second  Congrega- 
tional ('hurch  of  Palmer  in  1895.  and  on  the 
occasion  of  the  public  celebration  of  the  jubilee 
anniversary  of  the  chtnxh  in  1897,  he  was 
chosen  to  deliver  the  historical  address.     He 


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was  also  chosen  to  deliver  the  historical  address 
upon  the  occasion  of  the  celebration  of  the 
centennial  of  the  Thomas  Lodge  of  Masons  of 
Palmer,  in  1896,  of  which  he  is  a  member.  He 
has  never  sought  i)ublic  office,  yet  he  has  been 
called  upon  to  (ill  many  positions  of  trust  and 
responsibility.  He  was  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Eastern  Hamptlen  Agricultural 
Society  for  nineteen  years ;  member  of  the 
Massachusetts  State  Board  of  Agriculture  for 
three  years ;  many  years  a  trustee  of  the  Pal- 
mer Savings  Bank ;  for  several  years  superin- 
tendent of  the  Sunday  school  connected  with 
the  Second  Congregational  Church  of  Palmer, 
and  for  seventeen  years  clerk  of  the  church. 
He  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  movement 
for  founding  the  ^'oung  Men's  Lihrarv  Asso- 
ciation of  Palmer  in  1878,  was  its  librarian  for 
a  period  of  twelve  years  and  a  trustee  up  to  the 
I)resent  time.  When  the  history  of  Palmer 
was  contemplated  \h  1883  Mr.  Allen  was  chosen 
by  the  town  as  one  of  the  publishing  committee, 
in  which  he  was  elected  chairman,  and  devoted 
much  of  his  time  to  the  collection  of  the  neces- 
sary material  until  its  completion  in  1889.  He 
was  the  ])rime  mover  in  the  establishment  of 
the  Palmer  Historical  Society,  which  was 
organized  in  .May.  1899.  ami  incorporated 
through  his  efforts  in  May,  1900 ;  he  has  .served 
as  curator  of  this  society  since  its  organization. 
He  has  also  collected  and  identified  a  very 
complete  flora  of  Palmer,  this  emi)racing  some 
four  hundred  and  fifty  s]iecimens. 

Mr.  .Allen  married  (first)  I*"ebruary.  i860, 
Harriet  f^yudon  Maria  (Jarvin,  born  in  Boston. 
Se])teiuber  12.  1840.  died  in  l^almer,  February 
25.  1862.  Their  <inly  cliilil,  Ina  Lyndon,  was 
l)orn  in  I 'aimer,  .May  16,  18O1,  and  married 
Charles  R.  Carroll ;  they  had  ten  children,  of 
whom  a  daughter,  .-Mice  Lyndon,  was  gradu- 
ated from  the  Charlemont  high  .school  and  the 
Moody  .School  at  East  Xorthfield.  and  became 
a  student  at  the  Syracuse  L'niversitv.  Mr. 
■Mien  married  (second)  June  16.  uSG^.Lucinda 
h'lmiiia  .Scott,  born  in  \'ernon,  \'ermont.  June 
5.  1845.  ''^■''  ancestors  took  a  notable  and 
active  part  in  the  colonial  and  revolutionary 
days.  One  of  them.  William  Scott,  partici- 
pated in  the  famous  "Falls"  fight  with  the 
Indians:  Captain  Moses  Scott,  her  great-great- 
grandfather, was  f)ne  of  the  brave  defenders 
of  I'ort  Massachusetts ;  his  son.  Ebcnezer 
Scott,  the  great-grandfather  of  Mrs.  .Mien, 
survived  a  ca])tivity  among  the  F>ench  and 
Indians  of  Quebec,  came  back  and  bore  his 
share  bravely  as  a  soldier  in  the  .Vmerican 
revolution,  lived  to  a  good  old  age.  and  became 


one  of  the  honored  pensioners  of  the  United 
States  government.  Orrin  Peer  and  Lucinda 
Elmina  (  Scott)  Allen  had  children:  i.  Walter 
Scott,  born  February  11,  1867,  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Palmer  and 
in  the  ^Mitchell's  Boys'  School,  at  Billerica, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  was  awarded  a  gold 
medal  for  superior  scholarshij).  2.  Julia  .Ade- 
line, born  July  6.  1869.  was  graduated  from 
the  Palmer  high  school  in  1888  and  from  the 
Westfield  Normal  school  in  1892  ;  she  was  pre- 
cocious as  a  musician,  having  successfully 
played  on  the  piano  at  an  entertainment  at  the 
Palmer  Opera  House,  when  but  five  years  of 
age ;  since  then  she  has  been  engaged  as  a 
teacher  of  music.  3.  Lillie  May,  born  Sep- 
tember 7,  1870.  was  graduated  from  the  I 'ai- 
mer high  school  in  1888,  and  completed  her 
education  at  the  Westfield  .Xormal  school  in 
1891  ;  she  is  now  an  assistant  in  the  postoffice 
in  Deerfield,  Massachusetts. 


Lewis  .Mien,  immigrant  ancestor, 
.ALI^EX  was  living  in  Watertown  Farms 
(  Weston  ) ,  Massachusetts,  in  1665, 
and  died  there  January  24,  1708.  There  is  a 
tradition  that  he  came  from  Wales,  lie  mar- 
ried ( first )  Sarah  Ives,  born  in  Watertown. 
October  11,  1639,  daughter  of  Miles  and  Mar- 
tha Ives.  He  married  (second)  Mary  (Sher- 
man )  Freeman,  widow  of  Henry  I'reeman,  of 
\\  atertown.  who  died  Xovember  12,  1672.  She 
died  July  13.  1703.  and  was  probably  the  clde.st 
daughter  of  Rev.  John  .Sherman,  t'hildren  of 
first  wife,  born  in  Watertown  Farms:  i.  Child, 
born  and  diefl  .Xovember,  i(^>()5.  2.  Lewis, 
born  and  died  December.  lOGCt.  3.  Sarah,  born 
January  3.  1668.  mentioned  in  the  will  of  her 
grandfather  Ives.  December.  1683.  4.  Abel, 
born  September  15,  i6(ytj,  mentioned  below.  5. 
Mary,  born  .\pril  14,  1671.  Child  of  second 
wife:     (1.  Ebenezer.  born  about  1(^77. 

(Ill  .\bel.  son  of  Lewis  .Mien,  was  born  in 
W'ritrrtown  I'arnis.  September  15,  1669.  and 
(lied  there  early  in  175').  I  lis  will  was  made 
in  1750  and  proved  May  3.  1756.  He  lived  on 
the  farm  that  his  father  had  occupied,  but 
never  owned.  In  December,  i''>83.  Miles  Ives, 
his  grandfather,  gave  to  .\bel  .Allen  the  farm 
his  son-in-law,  Lewis  .Mien,  is  living  on.     .Abel 

.Allen  married  (first)  Sarah  .  who  died 

.September  18.  1736.  He  married  (second) 
.September  18.  1738,  Elizabeth  Shejiard.  who 
survived  him.  Children,  all  by  first  wife,  born 
at  Watertown  Farms:  i.  Rol)ert.  Jamiary  21, 
\C^4.  2.  Sarah,  March  9,  iCtqCt;  married.  July 
30.    1724,   Peter   Falcs,  of  Walj^olc.     3.   Sus- 


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anna.  January  10,  1698;  married.  May  13. 1720, 
I.^aac  Harrington,  of  Westcn.  4.  jolin.  No- 
vember 25.  1699.  5.  George.  ()ctt)ber  2^.  1701, 
mentioned  below.  6.  Samuel.  December  5, 
1703,  not  mentioned  in  his  father",s  will.  7. 
David.  July  8.  1705.  8.  Mary.  November  3.  1707, 
not  mentioned  in  will.  9.  Lydia.  March  3.  1710. 
not  mentioned  in  will.    10.  .Vbel.  April  19.  1714. 

(Ill)  George,  son  of  Abel  .-Mien,  was  born 
at  Watertowii  I'arms.  (October  23.  1701.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  followed  his  elder  brothers 
to  W'alpole.  and  in  1728  or  1729  located  per- 
manently in  what  later  became  the  adjoining 
town  of  Sharon  (then  a  i:)art  of  Stoughton). 
He  died  there  in  the  first  half  of  the  year  1792, 
aged  ninety  years.  William  Savage,  Jr..  was 
appointed  administrator  of  his  estate  on  June 
20  of  that  year.  He  married  (intention  ]nib- 
lished  April  26.  1729)  Mary  Talbot,  of  Stough- 
ton. born  March  24.  170S,  died  January  19, 
1804.  daughter  of  George  and  .Mary  Talbot. 
Children,  all  born  in  what  is  now  Sharon:  i. 
Mary.  March  31,  1731.  2.  Tnrell,  February 
21,  1734.  died  in  Stoughton,  February  27,  1824: 
married  (first)  November  28.  1762,  Margaret 
Stearns;  (second)  October  18.  1798,  Sally 
Dersy.  of  Stoughton.  3.  George.  April  7,  1736, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Ebenezer,  about  1741, 
enlisted  for  service  at  Lake  George,  April  2. 
1759;  reported  as  on  a  former  expedition;  in 
service  in  Nova  Scotia  in  1760.  5.  .\bel.  1744. 
died  1744.  6.  Seth,  March  13.  1746,  married 
Jemima  Jordan.     7.  Elizabeth.  June  12.  1756. 

( 1\' )  George  (  2  ).  son  of  George  ( i  )  .Allen, 
was  born  in  Sharon.  .April  7.  1736.  He  mar- 
ried (first )  in  1759.  Fx])crience  Stearns,  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  .Stearns,  of  Stoughton.  He 
married  (second)  in  1777.  Mercy  Jordan,  of 
Stoughton.  He  enlisted  May  31.  1754.  for  the 
defense  of  the  eastern  frontier. 

(V)  Bethuel.  son  or  ncjjhew  of  George  (2) 
Allen,  was  born  in  1772  in  Stoughton,  died  at 
Newton.  Massachusetts,  December  3,  1838. 
He  married,  at  Canton.  December  17.  1797, 
Martha  (called  Patty)  P.ent.  daughter  of  Rufus 
and  .\nn  (  McKenzie )  I'.ent.  Her  father  was 
born  March  10.  1742.  and  was  housewright  at 
Milton  and  I'.oston.  and  .Marietta.  Ohio;  mar- 
ried. December  6,  1767,  .\nn  .McKenzie,  widow 
of  Andrew  .McKenzie,  and  daughter  of  Alex- 
ander Middleton,  who  came  from  .Scotland  in 
1735.  Her  ancestry  was:  Rufus  Bent  (5), 
Joseph  (4).  Joseph  (3).  Joseph  (2 1,  John 
Rent,  the  immigrant.  Tlie  ciiildren  were  prob- 
ably born  but  are  not  recorded  at  Canton.  Five 
were  baptized  at  the  same  time,  June  2,  1822, 
at  Nev;ton,   Massachusetts,  where  the   family 


settled.  1  le  had  a  large  farm  in  Newton. 
Children:  I.  .Ann  Middleton.  married  Na- 
thaniel Tracy,  of  Newburyport.  2.  Kinsley, 
born  1800;  married,  November  16,  1826,  .Abi- 
gail V.  Smith;  died  at  .Newton.  July  i(),  1840, 
leaving  Kinsley  liethuel,  who  dietl  January  15, 
1832  ;  Howcn,  born  at  Canton,  October  9,  1827, 
married  Mary  Bent,  born  September  29,  1836; 
died  in  the  China  sea.  3.  ^laria.  4.  Jose])h 
lient.  baptized  June  2.  1822,  lived  in  Boston. 
5.  James  Fdward,  baptized  June  2,  1822.  6. 
William  Henry,  born  1816,  ba])tized  June  2, 
1822,  mentioned  below.  7.  Charles  Dwight, 
baptized  June  2,  1822.  8.  Martha,  bai)tized 
June  2,  1822;  married  William  G.  Means. 

(  \'I )  \\  illiam  I  lenry,  son  of  Bethuel  .Allen, 
was  born  in  i8i(').  at  Newton.  .About  1822  he 
went  with  his  father's  family  to  Newton,  where 
he  was  bajitized  with  brothers  and  sisters.  June 
2.  1822.  He  was  educated  in  the  Cliauncey 
Hall  .School.  I'loston.  He  began  his  business 
career  in  a  large  dry  goods  house  in  New  York 
City  and  a  few  years  later  opened  a  dry  goods 
store  on  his  own  account  in  Boston.  His  busi- 
ness flourished  and  he  became  a  prominent 
merchant.  He  made  his  home  in  Canton  and 
was  very  fond  of  nature  and  outdoor  life.  Ik- 
was  devoted  to  his  family,  a  man  oi  many 
friends  and  highly  respected  in  the  communit}'. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  I'nitarian  church  at 
Canton.  In  ]iolitics  he  was  a  Democrat.  He 
married  Sarah  Barnard  Kinsley,  daughter  of 
Silas  Kinsley,  of  Dorchester,  and  Prutlence 
(  Bent )  Kinsley,  who  was  born  in  Dorchester 
and  died  in  Canton.  Her  father  was  a  farmer 
in  Canton  on  the  ])resent  .Allen  homestead. 
Children  of  Silas  and  Prudence  (Bent)  Kin.s- 
Icy:  i.  Rufus  Kinsley,  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  .Adams  Express  Company;  ii.  Mary  I'ent 
Kinsley;  iii.  .Allen  Kinsley;  iv.  Edward  Kins- 
ley; v.  .Ann  Kinsley;  vi.  Henry  Kinsley;  vii. 
Helen  Kinsley;  viii.  Charles  Kinsley;  ix.  Sarah 
Barnard  Kinsley,  married  William  Henry 
Alkn.  mentioned  above.  Children  of  .Mr.  and 
.Mrs.  Allen:  I.  William,  born  1842.  in  P.oston, 
died  in  1888.  at  Canton.  2.  l-'aimy.  born  1844.  at 
Canton.  3.  (lertrudc,  1846.  at  Canton,  unmar- 
ried. 4.  Mary.  1849.  5.  Sarah.  1853.  married 
Dudley  Hall,  of  Medford.  tea  mercliant.  Bos- 
ton ;  child.  Dudley  Hall  Jr..  in  banking  business 
in  I'.oston. 

(For   firsi    K.'iK  r;ii  .Ml,    -.  ,     l(..lifil   Sanderson    1). 

(H)    William  .Sanderson, 

S.ANDERSON      son  of  Robert  Sanderson, 

was    born    at    Hampden, 

I()4I.      He   toi)k   the  oath   of   tiihlity   in    1652. 


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MASSAC  ULSETTS. 


All  his  children  except  Hannah  were  born  in 
Watertowii.  and  he  then  removed  to  Groton, 
but  on  account  of  trouble  with  the  Indians  re- 
turned to  W'atertown.  He  married,  in  Water- 
town,  December  i8.  1666,  Sarah .  Chil- 
dren :  I.  John,  born  October  13,  1667.  2. 
Sarah,  March  17,  1668-69,  married,  February 
4.  1695-96,  Andrew  White.  3.  William,  Sep- 
tember 6,  1670,  married  (  first)  Abigail  Traine  ; 
(second)  May  14,  1704,  Anna  Shattuck.  4. 
Mary,  November  30,  1671.  5.  Hannah,  Ciro- 
ton.  May  3,  1674,  6.  Lydia,  Watertown,  April 
21,  1679.  7,  Joseph,  August  28,  1680.  men- 
tioned below. 

(HI)  Joseph,  son  of  William  Sanderson, 
was  born  in  Watertown,  August  28,  1680,  set- 
tled in  Groton.  He  married  there  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Page.  His  estate 
was  administered  in  1736  by  his  widow  Sarah. 
Children:  i.  Joseph,  mentioned  below.  2. 
David,  born  September  5,  1715,  married  Eunice 

.      3.    Sarah.   January    19,    1716-17.     4. 

William.  July  17.  1718.  5.  Hannah,  April  3, 
1720.  6.  Joseph,  March  17.  1721-22.  died 
young.  7.  Susanna,  May  18,  1723.  8.  Gideon. 
February  19.  1724-25.  9.  Joseph,  March  5, 
1726-27.  10.  Sarah,  October  15.  1729.  11. 
John,  December  13,  1731. 

(IV)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  Sand- 
erson, was  born  Augu.st  30,  17 14.  died  at 
Whatcly.  March  20,  1772.  He  settled  at 
Whatcly  in  1752  with  his  wife  and  eight  chil- 
dren. He  built  a  log  house  near  .Abraham 
Parker's,  perhaps  on  land  belonging  to  him. 
Later  he  built  a  house  on  his  own  land,  where 
the  old  Sanderson  house  was  burned  about 
1880.  He  married,  in  1737,  Ruth  Parker,  who 
died  December  8,  1780.  aged  si.xty-four,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  Parker.  In  his  will  he  mentions 
ten  of  his  twelve  children  who  were  married 
and  jiad  families.  From  him  have  descended 
l)ctweeu  twelve  and  fifteen  hundred  children, 
grandchildren,  great-grandchildren  and  great- 
great-grandchildren.  Children:  i.  Ruth,  born 
in  Groton,  October  6,  1737,  married  Jonathan 
SpafTord.  2.  Esther,  .Vpril  6,  1739,  married 
Captain  Abel  Dinsmore.  3.  Joseph,  March  8, 
1741,  4.  Anna,  August  7,  1742,  married  Medad 
Harvey.  5.  James,  April  7,  1744.  6.  Thomas, 
Marcli  16,  1746.  7,  Abraham.  June  10,  1748. 
8,  David.  May  15,  1750.  9.  Child.  1752,  died 
young,  10.  John,  March  11,  1754.  mentioned 
below.  II.  Asa,  .\])ril  11,  1756,  12.  Isaac. 
October  9,  1757. 

(V)  John,  son  of  Joseph  (2)  Sanderson, 
was  born  in  Whately,  March  11,  1754.  He 
lived  on    Indian   Hill  at   Wiiately  until    1803, 


when  he  removed  to  Milton,  \'ermont.  He 
married  (second)  October  2,  1780,  Phebe 
Snow,  of  Conway,  Children,  born  in  \\'hately: 
I.  Levi.  June.  1782.  married,  January,  1806, 
Sally  Bean.  2.  John,  1784,  married,  1807, 
Louisa  Jackson.  3.  Hiram,  October  24,  1788, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Almeron,  February  8, 
1790,  married,  1815,  Xancy  Meaker. 

(  \'I )  Hiram,  son  of  John  Sanderson,  was 
horn  at  Whately,  October  24,  1788.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  October  4,  1811,  Louisa  Owens; 
(  second)  Hettie  Dorman.  He  was  a  gunmaker 
and  lived  in  Whitney ville,  near  Xew  Haven. 
Connecticut.  He  removed  to  Springfield  and 
was  employed  in  the  Cnited  States  armory 
there,  and  died  September.  1873,  Children: 
I.  David.-  2.  Frederick.  3.  Hiram  Ouincy, 
mentioned  below.  4.  Charles.  5.  Perry.  6. 
I>erkeley.     7.  Burton.     8.  George. 

(\'II)  Hiram  Ouincy.  son  of  Hiram  Sand- 
erson, was  born  in  Middletown,  Connecticut. 
December  20,  1824,  died  May  i,  1892.  He 
attended  the  Lancasterian  school  in  Xew 
Haven,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  was  appren- 
ticed to  a  druggist  in  Fair  Plaven.  Three  years 
later  he  came  to  Springfield  and  was  clerk  in 
a  grocery  store.  A  year  later  he  became  owner 
of  the  store.  In  1848  he  sold  the  business  and 
became  corporation  clerk  at  the  American 
Machine  Works,  where  cotton  gins  and  presses 
were  made  for  the  south.  In  1852  he  went 
west  as  paymaster  and  bookkeeper  for  Phelps, 
Mattoon  &  Barnes,  who  were  constructing 
the  Terre  Haute,  .\lton  &  St.  Louis  railroad. 
.'\fter  its  construction  he  became  general  freight 
and  passenger  agent  of  the  new  line,  with 
headquarters  at  St.  Louis.  On  the  breaking 
out  of  the  civil  war,  his  sympathies  were  with 
the  north,  and  his  life  was  in  danger  there.  He 
was  sent  to  Xew  York  City  as  eastern  agent  of 
the  road.  Sleeping  cars  were  then  just  begin- 
ning to  be  used,  and  Mr.  Sanderson  went  into 
this  business  and  soon  had  sleepers  running 
from  Xew  York  to  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  and 
Louisville.  This  enterpri.se  he  finally  sold  to 
George  M.  Pullman,  who  has  since  built  up  a 
great  business.  One  year,  1857-58,  he  spent 
in  S]iringfield  and  was  elected  to  the  bouse  of 
rejiresentatives.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
first  city  council  ever  chosen  in  .Springfield.  In 
1 87 1  he  returned  to  S|iringtiel(l  and  made  it  his 
permanent  home,  .\fter  a  trip  to  luirope  in 
1875  he  was  apj)ointed  city  marshal,  serving 
for  two  years.  He  was  then  elected  high  sheriff 
of  Hampden  county  and  .served  nine  years. 
During  this  time  he  was  largely  instrumental 
in  building  the  new  jail.    He  was  elected  chair- 


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505 


man  of  the  water  l)oanl  in  18S1  and  lieUl  tliat 
office  until  his  ileatli.  It  was  hirgely  through 
his  influence  and  work  on  this  board  that  the 
city  has  such  a  pure  and  abundant  supply  of 
water.  He  and  liis  family  were  attendants  and 
supporters  of  the  North  Church.  He  married. 
-September  10.  1843.  Mary  Hannis,  bom  in 
Philadeliihia.  Pennsylvania.  December  17,  1826, 
daughter  of  Cai)tain  iose])h  and  Mliza  (Glad- 
ing)  Hanuis.  He  was  insjjector  of  arms  at 
the  .Springfield  armory.  Children:  i.  Ellen 
Eliza.  Eebruary  24.  1847.  mentioned  below.  2. 
Charles  J..  January  5.  1849.  ''i^d  March  i. 
1892;  was  president  of  the  common  council 
of  .Springfield  and  a  ])rominent  Knight  Temji- 
lar:  local  freight  agent  for  the  New  York  & 
Xew  England  railrf)ad.  3.  Lilla  Kate.  1864. 
married  Frank  .\.  1  lolden  ;  died  May  10.  1888. 
Mary  P>..  Frank.  Mary  H.  and  William,  died 
young. 

(A'HI )  Ellen  Eliza. daughter  of  HiramOuincv 
Sanderson,  was  born  February  24.  1847.  She 
was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of 
Springfield.  She  married  Dr.  Robert  H.  Melius, 
of  .\ew  York  City.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the 
Albany  .Medical  College  of  the  class  of  1864  and 
I'racticed  his  profession  in  Morrisania.  a  suburb 
of  Xew  York  City.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Xew  York  Medical  Society.  He  died  Decem- 
ber 2.  1876.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat 
and  in  religion  a  Congrcgationalist.  Their  chil- 
dren:  I.  Pauline  Charlotte,  born  in  .Morrisania, 
Xew  York,  (October  13,  1873,  graduate  of 
.Springfield  high  school  and  of  Smith  College ; 
now  a  teacher  in  Palmer  high  school.  2.  Mar- 
,  ion,  January  12,  1875.  graduate  of  the  Spring- 
field high  school  and  .Smith  College,  class  of 
1898:  a  writer  of  some  prominence;  married, 
December  20,  1907,  Maurice  W.  Dickey,  for- 
merly on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Worcester 
Spy  and  the  Sf>riiu/(ield  Union,  now  news  edi- 
tor of  the  Boston  Globe. 


.\rchibald  Little  was  born  at 
LITTLE     Sligo,  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  of 

Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  He  and 
his  brother  James  came  to  this  country  when 
j'oung  men.  He  learned  the  trade  of  mason, 
but  settled  down  t(5  farming  in  W'arrcn  county. 
Xew  York.  In  1850  he  removed  to  Westfield, 
Massachusetts.  He  was  a  very  active  anrl 
energetic  man.  In  religion  he  was  a  Meth- 
odist, and  a  man  of  high  character  and  strict 
integrity.  He  married  I'lliza  Fish  Dudley, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Dudley.  Children:  i. 
Mary,  married  .Andrew  J.  .Smith.  2.  Thomas, 
mentioned    below.      3.    .Annie,    married    Silas 


P.ucknam.  4.  Child,  died  young.  5.  Child,  died 
young.  ().  Jane,  married  Henry  Kelsey,  of 
Westfield,  .Massachusetts.  7.  \Villiam,  is  in 
emi)loy  of  Thomas  Little,  Westfield.  8.  James, 
deceased:  married  .Mary  (."rozier.  9.  Charles, 
died  young. 

(Ill  riuinias.  son  of  Arcliihald  l.illle.  was 
born  al  Williamsburg,  .Xew  York,  .\ugust  II, 
i83<).  When  he  was  about  a  year  old  his 
family  removed  to  Warren  couutv,  Xew  York, 
and  lived  there  until  1850.  He  worked  during 
the  summer  on  his  father's  farm  in  his  youth, 
and  attended  the  jjublic  schools  at  W'estfiekl 
until  he  was  fifteen  years  old.  He  then  began 
to  "work  out"  for  wages  of  twenty-five  cents 
per  day.  Later  he  received  ten  dollars  per 
month.  For  two  years  he  worked  without 
wages,  receiving  as  his  stijicnd  some  scluxjling, 
besides  his  board  and  clothes.  He  was  ap])ren- 
ticed  at  the  age  of  eighteen  to  learn  the  mason's 
trade,  in  the  emjiloy  of  Colonel  I..  !'..  W'alkley, 
His  wages  were  fifty  dollars  ilie  tirst  year, 
seventy-five  the  second,  and  a  hundred  the 
third  year,  l)esides  his  board,  lie  served  his 
time  and  worked  one  year  as  a  journeyman, 
then  his  emjiloyer  left  his  business  to  go  to  the 
front  with  the  Tenth  Massachusetts  \olun- 
teers.  Mr.  Little  worked  on  his  own  account 
fnr  nearly  two  years,  taking  small  contracts. 
Tluii  he  enlisted  for  nine  months  in  Company 
K.  the  I*"orty-sixth  Regiment  Massachu.setts 
N'oluntcers,  in  September,  1862,  served  faith- 
fully with  his  regiment  at  the  front,  and  was 
nnistered  out  in  July,  1863.  He  was  ill  with 
tyj)h<)id  fever  for  a  long  time  after  his  return 
from  the  service.  When  he  had  recovered  he 
resumed  business  in  Westfield  and  contiinicd 
with  much  success  as  a  mason  and  contractor 
until  1886,  when  he  sold  out  and  went  to 
I'lorida,  on  account  of  failing  health.  He  was 
in  business  at  his  old  trade  there  for  a  time, 
but  finally  returned  to  Westfield  and  again 
engaged  in  business  as  a  mason  and  contractor, 
and  so  continuing  to  the  i)resent  time.  Mr. 
Little  is  a  thonnigh  master  of  his  trade,  and 
very  capable  in  business.  1  Ic  has  been  ex- 
tremely busy  and  Cjuite  successful  in  accumu- 
lating property.  His  long  years  of  active  life 
have  not  diminished  his  ze.st  anrl  activity  in 
business.  He  has  nnich  force  of  character, 
and  his  many  good  qualities  of  heart  and  mind 
have  attracted  to  him  many  frien<ls.  He  has 
the  re^!pect  and  esteem  of  all  who  know  him. 
He  is  possessed  of  i)ublic  spirit,  and  takes  jiart 
in  every  movement  tending  to  benefit  the  town 
of  his  ado|)tion.  He  is  a  prominent  member  of 
the  W^cstfield  Methodist  Episcopal  Church ;  of 


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Lyons  Post,  No.  41,  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public :  and  of  Mt.  Moriali  Lodge  of  Free 
Masons.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He 
married  Julia  Lorette  Sibley,  .September  12, 
1865.  She  was  born  March  25,  1839,  daughter 
of  Elijah  Sibley,  of  West  S])ringfield,  Massa- 
chusetts (see  Sibley).  Ciiildron,  born  at  West- 
field:  I.  Lucia  A.,  born  November.  1867; 
married  Chester  H.  Abbee,  of  Westfield.  2. 
Charles  J.,  born  December,  1869,  educated  in 
public  schools;  is  one  of  the  leading  coal  mer- 
chants of  W^estfield,  a  prominent  and  useful 
citizen  ;  he  is  president  of  the  Hampden  Na- 
tional i'.ank  of  Westfield;  married  Elizabeth 
Lanihertdn  ;  children  :    David  Charles.  Thomas 

Lanibertnn. 

I  The    .Sibley    Line). 

J(ihn  .Sibley,  immigrant  ancestor,  born  in 
England,  came  to  New  England  on  the  sliiji 
"Fleet,"  in  1629,  with  the  Higginson  fleet. 
Richard  Sibley,  believed  to  be  his  brother,  was 
with  him.  He  settled  at  Salem,  and  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman  there  May  6,  1635.  He  may 
be  the  son  of  John  .Sibley,  of  Charlestown,  who 
with  his  wife  .Sarah  was  admitted  to  the  church 
there  February  21,  1634-3,  and  who  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman  there  September  3,  1634;  he 
was  a  proprietor  of  Charlestown,  and  may 
have  been  selectman  of  Salem  in  1636,  instead 
of  the  John  .Sibley  first  mentioned.  There  are 
reasons  for  believing  that  John  Siblev  (  i  )  was 
too  young  to  have  held  such  an  important  office 
at  that  (late.  John  Sibley,  of  Charlestown.  died 
November  30,  1649.  But  for  this  death  record, 
all  the  references  to  John  Sibley  in  both  towns 
could  refer  to  one  and  the  same  man.  It  may 
be  that  this  death  was  of  an  infant  son.  John 
Sibley  was  a  proprietor  of  Salem,  served  on 
the  jury  in  1636,  was  constable,  and  member 
of  tlie  ciiurch.  He  resided  at  Manchester  then 
called  JetYreys  Creek,  in  1637.  He  died  in 
1661.  He  married  Rachel,  daughter  of  John 
I'ickworth.  Children:  I.  Sarah,  born  in  Salem, 
ba])tized  Se|)tember  18,  1642.  2.  Mary,  hnp- 
tized  SeiitemJDer  8,  1644;  married  Jonathan 
Walcott.     3.    Rachel,  baptized   Mav  3,    1646: 

married F.ishop.    4.  John,  bajitized  Mav 

4.  1648.  5.  Hannah,  bajitized  June  22.  1657: 
married  Ste])hen  .Small,  fi.  Samuel,  bajitized 
.\\iT\\  12,  T637.  7.  .Abigail.  1)aptized  July  3, 
1659.     8.  Joseph,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  John  .Sibley,  was  born 
jirobably  in  1655.  in  Salem.  He  was  a  fisher- 
man. On  his  return  from  a  fishing  voyage  he 
was  imjiressed  on  a  British  frigate  and  put  to 
hard  service  for  seven  weeks,  then  released 
and  ."lent  home.   His  five  .sons  settled  in  Sutton. 


and  were  ancestors  of  a  numerous  family  there. 
Joseph,  John  and  Jonathan  were  among  the 
thirty  original  settlers  there.  He  married, 
b'ebruary  4,  1684,  Susanna,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam r^ollett,  of  Dover.  New  I  lampshire.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Joseph,  born  November  9,  1684.  2. 
John,  September  18,  1687.  3.  Jonathan.  May 
I,  1690.  4.  Hannah,  baptized  May  9,  1695; 
married,  .\ugust  10,  1722,  Ebenezer  Daggett. 
5.  Samuel,  born  1(397.  6.  William,  September 
7,  1700;  died  October  18,  1763;  married,  July 
4,  1726,  Sarah  Dike.  7.  Benjamin,  mentioned 
below. 

(Ill)  Benjamin,  son  of  Joseph  Sibley,  was 
born  in  Salem,  September  19,  1703.  He  re- 
moved with  his  brothers  to  Sutton,  Massachu- 
setts, and  settled  there.  .About  1729  he  re- 
moved to  the  adjacent  town  of  Oxford,  Wor- 
cester county,  where  the  daughter  Zeruiah  was 
l)orn  .August  31.  1729.  He  went  with  his  family 
soon  afterward  to  Cnion,  Connecticut,  lived 
also  at  .Ashford  and  Ellington.  Connecticut, 
and  died  at  .Ashford  or  I'nion.  Children,  born 
at  Suttcn  :  I.  Priscilla.  2.  Fienjaniin.  Jr.  Child 
born  at  Oxford:  3.  Zeruiah.  .August  31.  1729. 
Children  born  at  Union  :  4.  Joseph.  5.  Ezekiel ; 
mentioned  below.    6.  Samuel.     7.  Jonathan. 

(  1\')  Ezekiel.  son  of  Benjamin  Sibley,  was 
born  in  i'nion,  Connecticut,  abo\it  1735.  He 
settled  in  Ellington,  Connecticut,  with  others 
of  the  family. 

(\'  I  Ezekiel  (  2).  son  of  Ezekiel  (  I  )  Sibley, 
was  born  probably  in  Ellington,  Coiuiecticut, 
about  1770-80.  He  was  a  farmer.  1  le  removed 
to  West  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  He  mar- 
ried Mehitable  Hurlhurt.  Children:  1-2.  Ste- 
phen and  Benjamin,  twins.  3.  Ezekiel.  removed 
to  Ohio  and  Michigan,  4.  IViscilla.  3.  .Allen. 
fi.  Elijah,  mentioned  below. 

(  \  I  I  Elijah,  son  of  Ezekiel  (  2)  Sibley,  was 
lidin  at  I'.llington,  Coiuiecticut.  Jime  20.  1800, 
;ind  died  October  22,  1874,  at  West  .Springfield, 
Massachusetts.  Early  in  life  he  began  to  work 
on  his  father's  farm.  He  w^as  educated  in  the 
district  schools  and  learned  the  trade  of  mason. 
He  and  his  father  o|)erated  a  quarry  at  West 
.Sjiringfield.  and  he  and  his  brother  .Allen  had 
the  contract  to  build  the  |)iers  of  the  old  bridge 
across  the  Westfield  river,  als(^  the  piers  for 
llu'  old  canal  viaduct  over  Westfield.  His 
farm  at  one  time  comjirised  fixe  hundred  acres 
of  land,  all  in  West  .Springfield.  He  was  a 
Democrat  in  ]>olitics.  and  a  Methodist  in  relig- 
ion. He  married.  December  4,  1833,  Lucy 
Lee,  born  1807,  died  .\ugust  22.  1863,  at  W'est 
Springfield,  daughter  of  Captain  Charles  Lee. 
Children,  born  at  West  .Sjiringficld :     I.  Henry 


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A..  Marcli  9.  1835:  married  Amanda  Coolev ; 
child.  Fred  H.  2.  Laura  I...  January  3.  1838; 
ditil  February  23.  1838.  3.  Julia  Lorette.  born 
March  25.  1839:  married  Seincmber  12,  1865, 
Thomas  Little  (see  Little).  4.  Augusta  A., 
born  July  16.  1842.  a  school  teacher  for  many 
years,  now  living  with  Mrs.  Thomas  Little. 


The  somewhat  widely  scatter- 
SESSIOXS  ed.  but  not  numerous  family 
of  Sessions,  are  descended,  it 
seems,  from  .\lexander  Sessions,  the  onlv  head 
of  a  family  of  that  name,  as  far  as  the  records 
show,  who  settled  in  New  England  in  early 
times. 

( I )  Alexander  Sessions,  said  to  have  been  a 
native  of  Wantage.  Berkshire.  England,  born 
in  1(145.  in  a  deposition  recorded  in  the  office 
of  the  clerk  of  the  courts  of  Essex  county, 
Massachusetts,  in  the  case  of  Simon  P.rad- 
street  against  John  Gage,  stated  that  he  was 
twenty-four  years  of  age;  and  that  he  was  in 
Andovcr  in  1666.  .-Xlexander  and  wife  Eliza- 
beth were  members  of  the  church  in  Andover 
in  1686,  and  from  that  time  till  their  decease. 
He  was  a  witness  to  the  will  of  John  Aslet. 
of  .\ndover,  Essex  county,  Massachusetts.  May 
15,  1671.  and  was  at  the  court  when  it  was 
proved  "27  4  mo  1671,"  as  a])])ears  from  the 
[japers  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  probate 
court.  An  inventory  of  the  estate  of  Alexander 
.Stitchins  (the  name  being  spelled  in  the  origi- 
nal "Elexsander  Seshins")who  died  I-'ebruary 
26,  1687,  mentions  eighty  acres  of  land  and 
other  pro])erty.  valued  at  £119.  Elizabeth 
Sutchins,  widow  of  .Alexander  Sutchins.  |)re- 
sented  the  inventory  of  the  estate  to  which  she 
made  oath  in  Ipswich  ""25  i  mo.  1690,"  and 
letters  of  administration  were  granted  her  after 
she  had  given  bond  for  £200,  with  John  Spof- 
ford,  of  Rowley,  and  Thomas  Patch,  of  Wen- 
ham,  as  sureties.  Later  Elizabeth  Sutchins. 
alias  Low.  .\<lmx.  jiresented  an  account  of  her 
administration  to  the  court.  As  she  was  the 
".Mies  Low."  it  seems  she  had  married  again. 
March  8.  1697.  the  widow  makes  final  settle- 
ment, receives  her  portion,  and  the  balance  is 
divided  among  the  children  of  .Mexander 
Sutchins,  to  wit :  Elizabeth,  John,  .Mexander, 
Timothy,  .Samuel,  Nathaniel,  Josiah.  Joseph 
and  Abel.  The  oldest  is  given  as  abo>it  twenty- 
four  years  old,  anrl  the  youngest  about  eight 
years  old.  The  town  records  give  the  marriage 
of  .Alexander  Sessions  with  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  John  .Spofford,  of  Rowley.  .April  24, 
1672,  Alexander  Sessions  died  I'^ebruary  26, 
1689.     Children:  John,  born  October  4,  1674: 


Alexander.  ("Ictober  3.  1676:  Timntliv.  .\\)v'\\  14. 
i(>78:  .Samuel.  March  8.  i<)8o:  Nathaniel.  .Au- 
gust 8.  i(x8i  ;  losiah.  Ma\-  2.  1(184;  losejih, 
March  28,  1686. 

(II)  Xathaniel.  fifth  son  of  .Alexander  and 
Elizabeth  (  Spofford  )  Sessions,  was  born  .Au- 
gust 8,  1681,  in  Andover:  settled  in  Pomfret, 
Connecticut,  as  early  as  1704,  and  was  one  of 
the  first  white  settlers  there,  lie  died  there 
March.  1771.  llis  wife  Hannah  died  the  same 
\ear.  They  had  eight  children :  John,  Na- 
thaniel, -Abner,  .Abijali.  .Alexander,  .\inasa, 
Da  vies  and  Simon. 

(  HI )  Captain  Amasa,  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
Hannah  Sessions,  was  born  in  171 3  and  died 
in  1799.  He  lived  and  died  in  Pomfret.  lie 
was  a  cajitain  of  a  company  with  Putnam  in 
the  old  French  war.  In  his  prime  he  was  a 
very  strong  man  ;  in  his  advanced  age  he  was 
very  cor])ulent.  1  lis  wife's  name  was  I  lannah, 
and  she  died  in  1804.  They  had  eleven  chil- 
dren: John.  .Samuel,  .Amasa,  Nathaniel,  Rob- 
•ert.  1  lannah.  Susannah,  Sc|uire,  Mary,  .Xbiier 
(died  young)  and  .Abner. 

(  l\  I  Robert,  fifth  son  of  .Amasa  and  Han- 
nah .Sessions,  was  born  in  Pomfret.  .March  4, 
1732.  He  served  in  the  revolutionary  army, 
attaining  the  rank  of  lieutenant,  and  was  on 
the  Lexington  alarm.  "He  was  one  of  the 
memorable  I'oston  Tea'Party."  He  removed 
from  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  to  Wilbraham, 
Massachusetts,  about  1779,  and  lived  there  till 
his  death.  September  27,  183(1,  at  which  time 
he  was  in  his  eighty-fifth  year.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  bought  a  farm  in  1781.  on  which 
he  made  imiirovemeiits.  ami  among  f>ther  things 
raised  and  enlarged  his  house.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent citizen  of  the  town,  serving  as  moderator, 
town  clerk,  treasurer  and  selectman  many  times, 
and  also  as  a  rejiresentative  in  the  legislature 
three  times.  He  was  ap])ointed  justice  of  the 
peace  soon  after  he  became  a  citizen,  and  held 
that  office  till  his  death.  He  marrie<l  .Anna 
Ruggles.  of  Pomfret.  .April  16.  1778.  and  they 
had  children  :  Petsey,  Charles.  Robert.  ( leorge, 
.Nancy.  Celina.  I'rancis,  Horace,  Martha  Phi|)i)s, 
Hannah  Miller,  Sumner,  Nabby,  William  \"yne, 
next  mentioned. 

( \' )  Williani  \'yne,  youngest  child  of  Rob- 
ert and  .Anna  (  Ruggles )  Sessions,  was  born  in 
Wilbraham,  Massachusetts,  Se|)tcmber  14. 1801, 
and  died  .Ajjril  9.  i8<>7.  He  spent  his  early 
life  on  the  homestead  and  was  prominent  in 
town  and  church  affairs,  often  serving  as 
selectman  and  assessor,  and  was  for  many 
years  deacon  of  the  Congregational  church. 
He  represented  the  town  in  the  legislature  one 


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term,  and  was  county  commissioner  three  years, 
and  for  many  years  was  justice  of  the  peace. 
He  lielped  to  start  tlie  first  factory  in  the  town 
for  the  manufacture  of  woolen  goods,  and  thus 
was  an  important  factor  in  the  growth  of  the 
town.  I  le  married  Lydia  Ames,  who  was  born 
December,  1799,  died  July  3,  1893,  daughter 
of  Cyrus  and  Rhoda  (Osborn)  Ames,  of  Cen- 
tral Xew  York.  Rhoda  Ames'  father,  Samuel 
Osborn,  was  ca])tain  in  the  revolution.     They 


had    four   childrci 


Xancy    Ruggles     ( died 


young)  :  Lydia  .\nies.  born  December  28,  1833; 
William  R.,  mentioned  below;  Helen  Victoria 
(died  young).  Lydia  Ames  was  the  first  prin- 
cipal of  tlie  Lake  Erie  Seminary  at  Plainesville, 
Ohio,  now  Lake  Erie  College.  She  married 
Rev.  \\'.  \\'.  Woodworth,  who  died  in  Berlin, 
Connecticut. 

(  \'I )  William  Robert,  oidy  son  of  William 
\  ync  and  l,)(lia  (.Ames)  Sessions,  was  born 
in  South  Wilbraham  (now  Hampden),  Decem- 
ber 3,  1835.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
and  select  schools  of  South  Wilbraham.  He" 
married  at  twenty  years  of  age  and  started  to 
conduct  his  father's  farm  on  shares,  but  at 
the  end  of  a  year  had  to  relinquish  that  kind  of 
work  on  account  of  physical  disability,  his  left 
leg  having  been  weakened  by  a  fever  sore  in 
his  childhood,  not  being  able  to  jx'rform  the 
labor  re(|uired  of  it."  He  then  removed  to 
Columbus,  Ohio,  became  partner  in  one  of  the 
finest  dry  goods  stores  in  Columbus,  the  firm 
being  Metcalf  &  Sessions.  The  financial  crash 
of  1857  came  in  October  following,  and  after 
struggling  a  year  the  firm  collapsed,  and  Mr. 
Sessions  lost  all  he  had  put  into  the  venture. 
In  the  s])ring  of  1859  he  returned  to  Massa- 
chusetts, and  became  foreman  in  the  weave 
room  of  the  South  Wilbraham  Manufacturing 
Conijiany,  where  he  worked  a  year.  I  lis  father 
then  became  agent,  and  Mr.  Sessions  took  hrs 
father's  place  on  the  farm.  There  he  remained 
till  the  fall  of  1862,  and  then  enlisted  in  Com- 
pany L  I-'orty-si.xth  Massachusetts  \'olunteer 
Infantry,  was  made  sergeant,  and  served  until 
July,  1863.  This  regiment  was  brigaded  with 
the  Twenty-seventh,  Twenty-fifth,  Third  and 
i'ifth  Massachusetts  regiments,  and  was  sta- 
tioned in  Xorlh  Carolina,  and  participated  in 
engagements  at  Kinston.  Wiiitchall  and  Colds- 
boro;  and  in  several  skirmishes,  in  one  of  which 
at  P.achelor's  Creek,  Mr.  Sessions  was  captured 
and  sent  to  Libby  prison,  where  he  was  kept 
ten  days  and  then  jiaroled  and  ,'^ent  home  with 
the  regiment.  I'rom  that  time  till  1899  the 
olil  hiimesteail  was  his  home,  and  he  carried 
"u  the  farm.     During  all  this  time  he  was  en- 


gaged in  dairying  and  raising  short  horn  cattle, 
keeping  about  fifty  head  all  the  time,  and  sell- 
ing animals  that  were  sent  all  over  Xew  Eng- 
land and  to  other  states.  The  next  spring  after 
his  return  from  the  war  Mr.  Sessions  began 
what  has  j^roved  to  be  a  long  term  of  public 
service  in  various  capacities.  He  was  then 
elected  moderator,  and  was  re-elected  to  that 
place  nearly  every  year  till  the  division  of  the 
town  and  the  erection  of  Hampden  town  in 
1878:  and  for  several  years  longer  he  was 
moderator  in  Hampden.  In  1864  he  was  elect- 
ed selectman,  and  continued  to  fill  that  office, 
with  the  ex'ception  of  two  years,  till  the  divi- 
sion of  the  town,  and  was  chairman  of  the  first 
board  of  selectmen  of  Hampden,  and  filled  that 
I)lace  most  of  the  time  till  1888.  Occasionally 
during  those  years  he  served  as  assessor  and 
school  committee  in  Hampden.  In  18(17  he 
was  elected  to  the  Massachusetts  house  of 
re]M-esentatives  and  served  one  term.  In  1883 
he  was  elected  to  the  senate  and  served  on  the 
committees  on  towns,  agriculture  and  taxa- 
tion. He  was  re-elected  the  next  3-ear  and 
served  on  the  committees  on  towns,  agricul- 
ture, and  roads  and  bridges.  From  1856  he 
had  been  a  member  of  the  Hampden  County 
.Agricultural  -Society,  holding  the  offices  of 
director  and  vice-iiresident.  In  1879  he  was 
elected  by  the  society  as  its  delegate  to  the 
state  board  of  agriculture.  He  filled  that  jilace 
till  1887,  and  was  then  elected  by  the  members 
of  the  board  as  its  secretary,  and  discharged 
the  duties  of  that  office  until  his  resignation 
in  1899,  a  period  of  twelve  years.  Although 
Air.  Sessions  maintained  his  residence  in 
Hampden,  his  official  duties  ref|uired  his  pres- 
ence in  P>oston,  and  he  spent  aliuost  all  his  time 
excejit  Siuidays  in  that  city.  During  his  tenure 
of  office  the  dairy  bureau  was  created,  and 
the  secretary  of  the  board  of  agriculture  was 
made  its  executive  officer.  In  1890  the  task 
if  dealing  with  the  gypsy  ninth  jiest  was  also 
committed  to  the  board  of  agriculture,  to  be 
managed  by  a  committee  of  the  board.  c>f  whom 
the  secretary  would  be  one.  and  Mr.  .Sessions 
filled  the  ])lace  of  chairman  or  secretary  of 
this  board  during  his  tenure  of  office.  During 
this  time  over  a  million  of  dollars  of  state 
ajipropriations  were  ex])ended  by  this  board, 
and  every  voucher  for  money  paid  out  had  to 
go  through  Mr.  Sessions's  hands,  and  although 
the  bills  for  exjienditures  were  frequently  ex- 
amined by  o]iponents  of  the  work,  not  even 
a  cent  of  the  funds  was  ever  reported  misspent. 
The  work  was  ]irosecuted  with  such  success 
th.Mt  at   the  time  it   was  stopjied   in    i()00,  the 


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investigating  committee  repurtcd  that  there  was 
no  place  where  the  motli  was  doing  dam- 
age. From  1885.  when  he  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Robinson,  till  his  resignation  in  1905. 
he  sei^'cd  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College.  He 
served  as  justice  of  the  peace  in  1  lampden  one 
term.  In  1899  •^I''.  Sessions  removed  to 
Springfield,  where  he  has  since  lived  retired. 
Since  becoming  a  citizen  of  Springfield  he  has 
served  one  term  of  two  years  as  alderman, 
declining  re-election.  Mr.  Sessions  has  always 
been  a  Republican,  and  cast  his  first  presidential 
vote  for  Lincoln.  He  has  been  a  Mason  since 
i8fi2,  and  a  member  of  Xewton  Lodge  of  W'il- 
braham.  Soon  after  the  establishment  of  Wil- 
cox Post.  Grand  .Army  of  the  l\C])ublic,  he  be- 
came a  member,  and  still  retains  his  member- 
ship there.  He  has  also  been  a  member  of 
Hampden  Harvest  Club  since  1869,  and  of  the 
Franklin  Harvest  Ckib  ior  fifteen  years.  Each 
club's  membership  is  limited  to  twenty-two. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  George  Washington 
Clia]jter,  .Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  of 
Springfield. 

He  married  (first)  Elsie  W.  Cunningham, 
March  11.  1856.  She  was  born  September  2. 
1838,  died  July  29.  1869,  daughter  of  Joseph 
B.  and  Elsie  (Walker)  Cunningham,  of  South 
Wilbraham.  He  married  ( secoitvl )  Lucy  E. 
Cunningham,  sister  of  his  first  wife,  October 
26,  1870.  She  died  January  10,  1887.  He 
married  ( third  )  .August  22,  1888,  Clara  Mark- 
ham,  who  died  February  13,  1900.  He  mar- 
ried (fourth)  .-\pril  11,  1901,  Lydia  Ellen 
Toombs,  born  March  26,  1852,  daughter  cjf 
William  and  Sophia  J.  (Barney)  Toombs,  of 
North  Bennington,  Vermont.  The  children 
of  William  R.  and  Elsie  W.  Sessions  were: 
I.  Elsie  Mary,  born  SeiHember  7.  1857,  mar- 
ried Jonas  Coolidge  Mills,  of  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, .April  2^.  1896.  2.  William  Joseph, 
December  18,  1859.  3.  Helen  Lydia,  Septem- 
ber 2.  i86r,  died  Nlay  21,  1883.  4.  Lucy  Maria, 
.\ugust  4,  1865,  married  Silas  Ives  Wallace, 
of  Clinton,  Massachusetts,  September  i.  1886; 
children :  Earle  Sessions,  born  in  Clinton, 
July  29.  1887;  Sylvia  Perry,  September  24, 
1896.  5.  Mortimer  Walker,  December  2,  1867, 
died  May  17.  1872.  .\1I  were  born  in  South 
Wilbraham. 

(  \'II )  William  Joseph,  son  of  William  Rob- 
ert and  Elsie  W.  (Cunningham)  Sessions,  w^as 
born  December  18,  1859.  He  went  to  South 
Dakota  when  he  was  twenty-one  years  old,  and 
settled  at  Benedict  in  Sanborn  county,  which 
county  he  represented  in  the  legislature.     He 


returned  to  his  native  town  in  1896,  and  was 
soon  called  to  serve  as  selectman,  and  has  held 
that  office  nnich  of  the  time  since.  Governor 
Crane  appointed  him  justice  of  the  peace  in 
1902.  He  owns  and  occupies  the  ancestral 
acres.  He  married.  February  8,  1887,  in  Mc- 
llenrv  countv,  Illinois,  Mary  E.  .Anilerson. 
Their  children  were:  I.  Helen  Lydia,  born 
in  Benedict,  South  Dakota.  October  22,  1888, 
died  .March  2<).  1889.  2.  Mina  Anderson  Bene- 
dict, born  March  11.  181/).  3.  William  \'yne 
llenedict.  .\i)ril  29.  1892.  died  May  28,  1892.  4. 
William  N'yne  (second),  Hampden,  Massachu- 
setts, born  .Xovember  19.  1896.  5.  Robert  Lee, 
Hamiidcn.  lune  3.  i8oo,  died  hV-bruary  \(\ 
1 900. 

This  family  is  one  of  tin-  nio>t 
|ACI\S('\  ancient  and  numerous  in  I'Jig- 
land.  The  surname  is  obviously 
derived  from  Jack  and  son,  and  belongs  to  the 
same  class  of  names  as  Richardson,  Dickson, 
lUlsoii.  and  was  in  use  in  the  eleventh  or  twelfth 
centurv.  when  surnames  were  adopted  in  I'.iig- 
land. 

(  1  )  Jonathan  Jackson  was  a  weaver  in  Leeds, 
luigland.  and  according  to  family  tradition  the 
family  had  lived  there  for  many  generations. 
His  father  was  born  there  in  1727,  and  died 
there  in  1829,  at  the  remarkable  age  of  one 
hundred  and  two  years.  Jonathan  was  born 
about  1750-60,  at  Leeds,  lie  had  little  educa- 
tion,and  early  in  life  began  work  at  the  weaverV 
trade.    Then  the  weaving  was  done  at  home  on 

hand  looms.   1  le  marrie(l  first Gee.  who 

died  about  1804.  and  he  married  again,  lie 
lived  at  Slack,  a  town  near  Leeds.  His  second 
wife  died  .\])ril  12.  1818.  and  he  then  went  to 
live  with  his  son  John,  at  Mount  Pleasant,  I'jig- 
land.  (^'hildren  :  Benjamin,  mentioned  below; 
Hannah.  Jonathan,  Betsey,  Sarah,  John. 

(II)  I'enjamin,  son  of  Jonathan  Jackson,  was 
born  at  Slack,  near  Leeds,  luiglaml.  about  1783. 
I  le  learned  his  father's  trade,  and  became  a  very 
e.vpert  hand  weaver.  He  had  little  schooling. 
He  came  to  this  country  at  the  age  of  twenty, 
and  is  given  credit  for  weaving  the  first  i)iece 
of  broadcloth  made  in  this  country,  according 
to  the  "History  of  Connecticut  \alley."  He 
was  the  only  one  of  the  family  to  come  to  .\mer- 
ica.  and  he  returned  to  his  native  land  several 
times  lo  visit  relatives.  He  settled  and  made 
his  home  in  Leeds.  Massachusetts,  then  becom- 
ing an  important  nianufacturing  ])lace.  He 
was  an  ex|)ert  weaver,  following  that  trade  all 
his  life,  and,  after  the  ancient  custom  of  the 
family,  teaching  it  to  his  sons.      I  le   went  to 


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MASSAC  Mrs  KTIS. 


England  in  1X30  and  found  his  sister  Betsey 
living  in  Leeds,  his  brother  Jonathan  about  six 
miles  from  that  town,  and  his  sister  Hannah  in 
the  town  of  Slack.  He  made  another  visit  to 
the  old  country  when  he  was  seventy-five  years 
old.  He  was  pious,  but  rather  stern  and  austere. 
He  died  December  28,  1863,  aged  about  eighty 
vears.    He  married  and  had  children. 

(HI)  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  (  i  ) 
lackson,  was  born  in  Leeds,  Massachusetts, 
about  1815,  and  died  there.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools,  and  learned  the  black- 
smith trade.  [le  settled  in  (ireenfield.  Massa- 
chusetts. He  married  Olive  Sanderson  Stebbins, 
born  May  17.  18 18,  daughter  of  Ralph  and  Sub- 
mit (  Sanderson  )  Stebbins.  of  Conway,  Mass- 
achusetts (see  Stebbins).  Children,  born  at 
(jreenfield:  Elizabeth,  Andrew,  Charles  Baker. 

(I\')  Charles  Baker,  son  of  Benjamin  (2) 
lackson,  was  born  in  (ireenfield,  Massachusetts, 
lanuary  23,  1852,  and  was  educated  there  in 
the  public  schools.  He  followed  farming  until 
1870,  when  he  worked  for  two  years  in  a  car- 
riage factory  and  two  years  as  clerk  in  a  grocery 
store.  In  1880  he  engaged  in  the  trucking  and 
ice  business  in  Greenfield,  and  has  conducted 
this  business  with  much  success  to  the  present 
time.  He  also  deals  extensively  in  horses,  and 
has  a  large  sale  stable.  He  is  a  Cnitarian  in 
religion,  and  a  Democrat  in  ])olitics.  He  mar- 
ried, 187(1,  Ziljiha  C.  Thayer,  born  1859,  daugh- 
ter of  Lyman  Thayer,  of  ("ireenfield.  Children  : 
I.  Charles  Baker,  jr..  born  1886.  2.  Bertha 
Olive,  1888:  married  Arthur  S.  Chapin,  of 
.\ortham|)ton,  .Massachusetts;  children:  Rich- 
ard, bnrn  1902:  Eleanor,  1906. 


( Koi-  first    generation  sec    llovvland  Stebbins  1). 

(II)  John  Stebbins,  .son  of 
STEBBIX;-^  Rowland  Stebbins,  was  bmn 
in  1626.  in  England,  and  was 
living  in  Roxbury.  Massachusetts,  in  1651,  but 
bought  a  house  that  year  in  Springfield.  lie 
was  one  of  the  original  i)ro])rietors  of  Pocum- 
tnck,  owning  twenty  cow  commons,  and  drew 
house  lot,  Xo.  13,  there,  in  what  is  now  Deer- 
field,  .Massachusetts,  bin  ])robably  was  not  a 
settler,  lie  made  his  home  in  .\'orthami)lon. 
I  le  died  .March  9, 1679,  "in  an  unusual  manner," 
and  witchcraft  was  suspected  as  the  cause  of 
death.  .\  jury  of  inquest  found  "several  hun- 
dred spots,  small  ones,  as  if  they  had  been  shot 
with  small  shot,  which  we  scra])ed  and  under 
them  were  holes  into  his  body."  Xo  prosecu- 
tion followed  the  in(|uest,  however.  He  mar- 
ried. May  14,  1(14^).  Mary,  widow  of  .Xbr.iham 
.\lunden,  |)robably  daughter  of    Thomas  Mun- 


son,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut;  (second)  Xo- 
vember  17.  1657.  .\bigail,  daughter  of  Robert 
Bartlett,  of  Xorthampton,  and  she  married 
(  second  )  December  28,  1681.  Jedediah  Strong, 
and  died  July  [5,  1(189.  Children  of  first  wife: 
I.  John,  born  January  28.  1647;  mentioned 
below.  2.  Thomas,  died  April  24.  1649.  3. 
.\nn,  born  April  10,  1651  ;  died  1653.  4.  Ed- 
ward, born  July  12,  1653:  died  October  16, 
1653.  5.  I^ienoni.  born  June  23,  1655;  ser- 
geant :  in  i()()7  he  conspired  with  other  lads  of 
Xortham|)ton  to  "run  away  to  the  French"  in 
Canada :  stole  "24  shillings  in  silver  and  seven 
shillings  in  wam])um"  to  ])ay  Ouanquelatt,  an 
Indian,  for  helping  them  carry  out  the  plan  : 
the  theft  and  plot  were  discovered  :  Ouanquelatt 
was  whipped  and  forced  to  give  up  the  money  ;" 
"Xims,  the  ringleader  in  these  villainies,"  got 
fifteen  lashes  on  the  naked  back,  and  Stebbins 
and  the  others  eleven  each  ;  in  i()77  he  attempted 
to  settle  on  his  father*s  home  lot  in  Deerfield, 
but  was  cajjtured  in  the  .\sh])elon  raid  that 
year:  came  again  at  the  resettlement  and  was  a 
prominent  man — selectman,  assessor  and  con- 
stable :  built  on  his  father's  lot  the  house  so 
successfully  defended  by  seven  men  and  a  few 
women  against  a  horde  of  the  enemy,  February 
29,  1704,  and  he  alone  of  the  party  was  slain: 
married.  i(>77.  Mary  (  Broughton  )  liennett. 
widow  of  James  Bennett,  who  was  killed  at  the 
Falls  fight ;  she  and  her  husband  were  both 
fined  because  she  wore  silk  when  his  bride, 
contrary  to  the  sumj^tuary  laws  of  the  colony : 
he  married  (second)  1691,  Hannah,  widow  of 
Joseph  Edwards,  and  she  married  ( third ) 
Thomas  I'rench,  whose  wife  was  killed  by  the 
Indians  when  a  captive  on  the  march  to  Canada 
1704.  Children  of  second  wife:  6.  Samuel, 
born  January  21,  1658-9;  lived  at  Xorthamii- 
ton.  Deerfield,  Boston  and  Leicester,  and  finally 
settled  at  I5elchertown.  about  1727:  died  Sep- 
tember 3,  1732  ;  married.  March  14,  1678,  Mary 
I'rench  ;  (second)  March  14.  1(192,  Sarah  Will- 
iams, at  Rhode  Island.  7.  .\bigail.  born  Se]i- 
temlier  24,  i(rfio:  married.  May  30.  1678,  Will- 
iam Phelps.  8.  Thomas,  born  May  6,  16(12: 
died  .\pril  28,  1712:  married,  Sejitember  2^. 
1684.  Ivlizabcth  \Vright,  who  married  (  second  ) 
Jime  16,  1715,  John  Hannum.  9.  Hannah, 
born  July  8,  1(1(14:  married.  Xovember  15. 
1679.  aged  fifteen.  John  Sheldon  ;  was  killed  in 
old  Indian  house,  February  29,  1704.  10.  Mary. 
born  September  10,  1666;  married,  Xovember 
17,  1683.  Thomas  Strong,  of  Xorthamjiton.  T  i. 
Sarah,  born  June  4.  1668:  married.  1687,  Will- 
iam .Southwell,  of  Xorthampton.  12.  Joseph, 
born  January    17.    1(170-1:  died  Jime  8.   1681. 


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13.  Dfborali.  born  March  5.  ifiJ2:  married. 
1(190.  Lieiijaiiiin  Alvord.  14.  I'.oiijamin,  bap- 
tized .May  3.  1674;  a  troojier  in  I'oniroy  i)ur>int. 
i(xj8:  removed  to  ISelchertown.  1741  ;  married. 
December  21.  1709,  Mary  Ashley.  15.  Rebecca, 
baptized  I-'ebruary  26.  1676;  married.  i6c;7. 
Xathaniel  Strong.  16.  Thankful,  born  May  1 1. 
1678;  married,  July  18,  1700,  Jeriah  Strong. 

(Ill)  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2)  Stebbins, 
was  born  at  S])ringticld.  Januar\-  jS.  1647.  He 
was  a  carpenter  by  trade.  When  his  brother 
Heiioni  planned  to  run  away  in  1667,  John 
knew  about  it.  and  when  the  plan  was  dis- 
covered, John  suffered  with  the  others,  being 
sentenced  by  court  to  ten  stripes  or  to  pay  ten 
shillings  to  the  county  treasurer.  His  father 
paid  the  fine,  lie  received  a  grant  of  lot  36. 
May  10.  1670.  and  of  lot  13,  May  14,  1671.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  Cai)tain  Lothrop's  company, 
and  the  only  man  known  to  have  come  out 
whole  from  the  liloody  Hrook  massacre.  Two 
days  afterward  he  enlisted  in  Captain  Moseley"s 
company,  and  was  serving  in  March,  1676,  and 
probably  through  King  l'hilii)'s  war.  .After- 
ward, when  imjjressed  for  military  duty  at 
Hadley.  he  was  fined,  but  the  statement  of  his 
service  and  the  facts  of  the  impressment  were 
sufficient  to  secure  his  discharge  from  the  pen- 
alty and  service.  He  lived  at  Boston  for  a  time 
and  worked  at  his  trade  at  Muddy  River 
(  E'rookline  )  and  Cambridge  Village  ( Newton  ) . 
He  returned  to  Deerfield  at  the  resettlement, 
and  lived  on  lot  35.  In  1685  his  home  lot  was 
on  "Plumbtree  I'layne,"  as  \\  ap])ing  was  called 
imtil  1689.  He  was  hayward  at  Deerfield  in 
iC)89:  on  school  committee  in  1700.  His  house 
was  burned  and  the  entire  family  taken  cap- 
tives by  the  Indians,  l-'ebruary  29,  1704.  He, 
his  wife  and  son  Jolin  are  the  only  ones  known 
to  have  returned,  the  others  choosing  to  live  in 
Canada.  He  died  December  19,  1724.  His 
will,  dated  July  31.  1723,3!  Deerfield,  bequeath- 
ed to  Dorothy  his  wife:  one-eiglitli  to  each  of 
his  children  in  (_"anada — Samuel.  Ebenezer, 
Joseph.  .Abigail  and  Thankful,  provifled  they 
would  return  to  New  Englan<l  to  live,  but  if  nf)t. 
each  was  to  receive  but  the  ])roverbial  five  shil- 
lings. AaronDesiioions,  son  of  his  daughter  Abi- 
gail, was  evidently  living  with  his  grandfather, 
and  he  was  made  heir  in  j)lace  of  liis  mother, 
provided  he  "continue  in  this  country."  The 
son  John  was  to  have  a  trel)le  portion  and  rest 
of  the  estate  to  be  divided  between  the  children 
that  returned  from  Canada.  There  is  no  evi- 
dence that  any  but  Samuel  returned,  and  he 
did  not  stay  and  receive  his  portion.  John 
married  Dorothy,  daughter  of  John  .-Mexander, 


of  Xewton,  where  she  was  living  in  1733. 
(children  :  1.  John,  born  about  i()<S5  ;  meiuioned 
below.  2.  .\bigail.  born  about  i(kS7  :  married. 
l-"ebruary  3,  1703-4,  by  Rev.  John  Williams 
James  Denyo  (  Desnoions  in  the  w'ill),  one  of 
the  tiiree  "Frenchmen  from  Canada"  in  Mr. 
\\  illiams's  list  of  ca])tives ;  she  was  taken  |)ri>- 
oner  with  iier  husband:  son  Aaron,  born  in 
Canada,  December  14,  1704.  returned  to  Deer- 
field and  founded  tiie  Denio  family:  .Abigail 
was  ba])tized  in  the  (.'atholic  churcli  as  Mar- 
guerite De.Xoyan.  at  .Montreal.  May  17-28, 
1708.  3.  Samuel,  jjorn  December  25,  1688. 
4.  Thankful,  September  5,  1691  ;  married  a 
Frenchman  in  Canada,  .\drien  L.  Cram-La- 
vallee.  5.  Ebenezer,  December  5,  K)';4 :  bap- 
tized in  Catholic  church  as  Jac(|ues  (^harles; 
remained  in  Canada.  6.  Joseph,  .\])ril  12,  ifK>9; 
settled  at  Chamblv,  Canada :  tlied  April  23, 
1753:  married  Mary  .Sanssouci.  (For  children 
see  "Deerfield  ilistory"). 

(IV)  John  (4),  son  of  John  (3)  .Stebbins, 
was  born  at  Deerfield,  about  1675.  lie  was 
ca]itured  with  the  rest  of  the  family  in  1704, 
but  returned  with  his  parents  to  Deerfield. 
lie  had  a  grant  of  land  May  8,  1723,  as  a 
commoner,  and  again  in  1743  grants  of  seventy- 
five  acres  and  ninety-three  acres.  He  lent  the 
town  five  pounds  December  11,  1728.  lie  lived 
on  the  homestead  lot.  No.  35 ;  died  at  Deer- 
field, Se])tember  7,  1760.     He  married  (first) 

about    1714,    .Mary  ,   who  died  August 

30,  1733,  aged  thirty-seven:  (second)  August 
-.>  '7.?.S.  Hannah,  born  February  12,  171)8-9, 
(laughter  of  lulward  and  Mercy  (I'ainter) 
.Mien.  Children,  born  at  Deerfield:  1.  John. 
June  24,  1715:  died  mnuarried.  2.  h^benezer. 
October  26.  1716:  probably  died  in  Louisburg 
expedition,  I'ebruary  7,  1746.  3.  Joseph,  Octo- 
ber 20,  1 7 18:  married  Mary  Stratton.  4.  Mary, 
September  20,  1720:  married  October  18,  1743, 
Daniel  .Arms.  5.  Abigail,  March  11,  1723: 
married,  November  11,  1741.  Daniel  Nash. 
6.  Samuel,  May  5.  1725  ;  married  Martha  Hard- 
well.  7.  Experience.  October  31.  1727;  mar- 
ried, December  5.  174.S.  Enoch  I'.ardwell.  8. 
Thankful.  :\])r\\  1,  1729:  married,  August  30. 
1749,  Jonathan  Severance.  9.  Mo.ses,  October 
18,  1731  :  married  Mercy  Hawks.  10.  .Simon, 
January  0.  17,^'^:  married  Hannah  Hinsdale. 
IT.  Dorothy,  January  6.  1738;  married  June 
12,  1787,  Eawrence  Kemp.  12.  David,  April 
20.  1741  :  mentioned  below.  13.  Hannah.  I'"eb- 
ruary  19.  1744:  died  Jiuie  11.  1744. 

(  \' )  Lieutenant  David,  sou  of  John  (4) 
Stebbins.  w'as  born  in  Deerfield,  .April  20.  1741. 
He  was  commissioned  second  lieutenant  in  llu- 


MASSAC  HL'SETTS. 


rcvdhuidiiaiv  ;inn_\.  .May  3.  i/~(>,  in  Captain 
Xatlian  I'rarv's  company,  l'"ifth  Hampshire 
ri-yimcnt  ;  was  lieutenant  alsn  of  Cajitain  IukjcIi 
Chapin's  com])any.  Colonel  Jacob  Gerrisli's 
regiment,  detached  from  Hampshire  county 
militia  to  guard  stores  at  Springfield  and 
lirooktield  for  six  months  from  July  I,  1778. 
He  owned  pew  2^  in  the  new  meeting-house  in 
1777.  He  removed  from  Deerfield  to  Conway 
aliout  1792.  and  died  there  Sei)tember  30,  1816. 
Me  married.  December  18,  1765,  Rhoda  Shel- 
don, horn  October  24,  1748.  at  Deerfield,  died 
August  8,  i82f),  at  Conway,  daughter  of  Abner 
and  Lucy  (  liarclwell)  Sheldon.  Children,  born 
at  Deerlield  :  i.  Sylvester.  |nl\  8,  1767;  mar- 
ried Klizabelh  Dwelly.    2.  Lucy,  June  18,  1768. 

3.  John,  May  25,  1771  :  married  Sarah  Sanders. 

4.  Horace,  .August  13,  1773.  5.  David,  August 
16,  1775  ;  settled  in  Sherman,  New  York;  mar- 
ried Irene  Collins.  6.  Malachi,  January  14 
(  ?).  1777.  7.  Chester.  July  22.  1778:  married 
.\ancy  iiurroughs.  8.  Israel.  .X'ovember  20, 
1783,  died  March  3,  1790.  <;.  Rhoda,  born 
September  21,  178 — .  10.  Ral])h,  January  20, 
178 — :  mentioned  below.  11.  Israel,  January 
27,  1792;  died  of  wounds  received  in  battle  of 
Bridgewater  in  war  of  1812,  July  26,  1814. 

(  \  1  )  Ral])h.  son  of  Lieutenant  David  Steb- 
bius,  was  born  January  20,  178 — ,  at  Deerfield, 
and  died  Jul)'  11,  1858,  at  Conway.  He  was 
a  farmer,  living  at  Conway,  Deerfield  and 
lloosac,  \e\v  York.  He  was  a  .Seventh  Day 
iiaptist  in  religion.  He  married  .Submit  Sand- 
erson, born  1787,  at  Whately.  daughter  of  Eli- 
jah Sanderson.  Children;  1 .  John,  died  aged 
seven  years.  2.  Rhoda  Sheldon,  August  28, 
1808.  3.  Sarah  I'arker,  January  2,  181 1  ;  mar- 
ried Jolin  Cioland  ;  (second)  .Albert  Jones.  4. 
Israel,  born  March  20,  1812:  married  Dorothy 
Allis.  5.  Marinda  .Arms,  .August  31,  1817: 
died  1832,  at  Conway.  6.  Olive  .Sanderson, 
May  17,  1818;  married  Henjamin  Jackson  (see 
Jackson).  7.  Submit,  August  16,  i8i();  mar- 
ried .Austin  Lee.  8.  Charles  1 1  itchcock.  May  24, 
1822  :  married  Charlotte  Ellen  Jenks.  9.  Mari- 
etta .Augusta,  .Se])tember  2,  1825  :  married  .Aus- 
tin Wells.  10.  Rali)h,  Jr.,  November  26.  1828: 
died  in  Cummiugton,  1851.  it.  James  .Sand- 
erson, born  .August  31,  1830;  married  .Alniena 

:  died  1863.  iu  the  civil  war;  his  widow 

died  at    .Millers    I'alls.   Massachusetts. 


James  Mellen  was  a  native  of 
M  Ll.l.l'.X     Ireland.    He  came  to  .Massachu- 
setts with  his  ))areuts  and  set- 
lied  in  Worcester.     He  had  a  couimon  school 
education   and   was  a   skillful    mechanic.      He 


began  at  the  foot  of  the  lailder  nu  the  Boston 
(.^  Worcester  railroad,  later  the  Boston  & 
Albany,  and  was  jjromoted  from  time  to  time 
until  he  became  a  locomotive  engineer,  one  of 
the  first  and  best  on  that  road.  He  left  the 
railroad  business  to  become  a  merchant  in  Wor- 
ces.ter,  and  also  conducted  a  livery  stable.  Dur- 
ing the  gold  fever  of  1849  '^^  sought  his  for- 
tune in  California,  but  like  many  others  lost 
his  life  and  w'as  never  heard  from  after  leaving 
home.  He  married  .Margaret  iSrennan,  also  a 
native  of  Ireland.  She  was  a  gentle,  refined 
and  capable  woman,  and  managed  to  care  for 
her  little  family,  and  eipiip  her  sons  with  edu- 
cation and  character.  Both  sons  attained  dis- 
tinction in  professional  and  public  life.  She 
died  March  10,  1886.  Children:  I.  James 
llcnrv,  born  October  7,  1845;  was  educated  in 
the  |)ublic  schools  of  his  native  city:  a  news- 
pa])er  writer,  editor  and  publisher;  representa- 
tive to  the  general  court  for  a  longer  period 
than  any  other  man  of  his  day,  serving  on 
iiu])ortaiU  couimittees  and  exerting  a  large  in- 
fluence in  legislation  :  for  many  years  an  alder- 
man of  the  city  and  a  leader  in  that  body  ;  one 
of  the  most  influential  and  ])rominent  Demo- 
crats of  the  commonwealth :  an  able  public 
s])eaker  and  caniiiaiguer  :  married  (first)  Julia 
Moouey:  children:  William,  John,  (."atherine. 
.\nnie,  James,  I'rances,  Richard.  He  married 
(second)  Mary  Hagan  ;  chilil.  Mary.  2.  Will- 
iam M.  E..  mentioned  below. 

(  11  )  Dr.  William  M.  E..  Mellen,  son  of 
James  .Mellen,  was  born  at  W'orcester,  .April 
6,  1848.  He  attended  the  public  .schools  of 
his  native  city,  and  early  in  life  began  to  con- 
tribute to  the  snpi)ort  of  the  family.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  iron  molder  in  Worcester, 
but  was  ambitious  to  contiiuie  his  education, 
and  with  the  savings  of  several  years  from  his 
wages  in  the  iron  foundry  lie  ])aid  the  cost  of 
a  medical  education  iu  the  L'niversity  of  Mich- 
igan. While  in  the  medical  .school  he  evinced 
exceptional  ability,  learning  readily  and  taking 
high  rank.  He  received  his  tlegree  of  AL  D. 
in  1876,  and  at  once  began  to  ])ractice  his  pro- 
fession at  .\ortham])ton,  Massachusetts.  One 
year  later  he  caiue  to  the  adjacent  town  of 
Chicopee.  and  there  jiracticed  medicine  the 
remainiler  of  his  life,  lie  took  high  rank  as 
a  ]5hysiciau  and  had  a  large  practice;  he  had 
the  faith  and  confidence  of  his  fellow-practi- 
tioners, and  was  often  called  in  consultation 
by  them.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Hamiiden 
District  Medical  Society,  and  was  ]5rcsi<lent 
iu  1005  :  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Mcili- 
cal  .Society:  and  in   i8<)o  was  chosen  delegate 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


5>3 


to  the  Tenth  Iiiteniational  .Medical  Congress  in 
Berlin,  and  while  abroad  continued  his  medical 
studies  in  the  hospitals  of  London,  Glasgow, 
Paris  and  X'ienna. 

He  was  naturally  inclined  to  the  study  of 
public  questions,  and  adapted  by  disposition, 
education  and  natural  iiualitications  for  public 
service.  Almost  from  the  time  that  he  came 
to  Chicopee  until  he  died  he  was  the  most 
prominent  Democrat  of  the  town.  A  year 
after  he  located  there  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  school  committee,  and  served  on  the 
board  from  1879  to  1882.  He  was  town  physi- 
cian in  1883-84,  and  for  several  years  was  a 
member  of  the  board  of  health,  of  which  he 
was  chairman  in  1889.  1"  1891  he  was  elected 
to  the  board  of  aldermen,  and  in  the  following 
year  became  president  of  the  board.  During 
his  service  in  the  city  council  his  executive 
ability  became  known  and  recognized,  and  he 
was  appointed  on  all  the  mo,st  important  com- 
mittees. He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Democratic 
national  convention  in  Chicago  in  1892,  and 
served  as  delegate  to  nearly  all  of  the  Demo- 
cratic state  conventions  after  he  entered  public 
life.  He  was  appointed  by  President  Cleve- 
land on  the  medical  board  for  examining  appli- 
cants for  pensions  in  Hainpden  county,  and 
served  for  the  ensuing  eight  years.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  committee  for  drafting  the  city 
charter  for  Chicopee.  In  the  fall  of  1892  Dr. 
Mellen  was  nominated  for  mayor  of  Chicopee 
by  the  Democrats,  and  after  an  active  cam- 
paign was  defeated  by  the  narrow  margin  of 
997  ^^  936.  by  Henry  Harris,  then  mayor.  .\t 
the  next  city  election  the  following  year  he 
defeated  the  same  oi)ponent  by  a  majority  of 
two  hundred  and  thirty-six  votes.  His  admin- 
istration was  notable  for  the  long  and  bitter 
controversies  in  the  city  council  over  the  grant- 
ing of  liquor  licenses  and  the  granting  of  a 
franchise  to  the  .Si)ringfield  Street  Railway 
Company  for  the  Liberty  street  route  to  Chic- 
opee Falls.  He  was  an  able  and  conservative 
executive  and  a  good  financier.  During  his 
term  of  office  the  tax  rate  was  reduced  from 
$17.50  to  $13.80.  the  lowest  rate  in  the  history 
of  the  city  after  the  first  year.  The  city  owes 
many  of  its  imjjrovements  to  his  initiative, 
foresight  and  ]KTtinacity.  He  persistently  fol- 
lowed a  jKjIicy  or  purpose  once  undertaken. 
He  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  the  municipal 
ownership  of  electric  light  and  gas  plants  for 
lighting  streets  and  houses,  and  after  a  cam- 
paign lasting  three  years  he  succeeded  in 
effecting  the  purchase  of  a  municipal  electric 
light  plant  in  Chicopee.  He  believed  in  the 
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further  extension  of  the  public  ownership  of 
public  utilities.  He  was  a  prime  mover  in  the 
project  to  purchase  the  Wells  property  adjoin- 
ing the  city  hall  lot  for  a  city  library  site, 
and  was  again  successful.  Largely  through 
his  efTorts  and  intluence  the  li(|uor  license  fees 
were  raised  anil  the  numicipal  revenue  consid- 
erably increased  thereby.  Such  policies,  while 
wholly  in  the  interest  of  the  public,  made 
political  enemies  for  him,  though  at  the  same 
time  they  won  for  him  the  confidence  and  sup- 
port of  the  best  citizens  and  a  greater  degree 
of  ])opularity.  .After  the  fight  over  liciuor 
licenses  he  was  active  in  drafting  and  su])port- 
ing  a  law  creating  license  commissions  for  cer- 
tain cities  and  taking  from  the  aldermen  the 
function  of  granting  li(|uor  licenses.  The  result 
of  this  act  has  been  to  improve  the  personnel 
of  the  boards  of  aldermen  in  cities  where 
licenses  are  granted.  Throughout  his  career, 
not  only  in  the  board  of  health  and  city  coun- 
cil but  in  private  practice  and  as  a  citizen,  he 
earnestly  and  consistently  sought  to  improve 
the  sanitary  conditions  of  the  city.  .Xs  al<ler- 
man  and  mayor  he  was  responsible  for  the  reg- 
ulation ret|uiring  all  houses  to  connect  with  the 
sewerage  system,  and  for  the  systematic  col- 
lection of  garbage,  etc.  In  nothing  did  he  show 
a  greater  amount  of  determination  and  public 
spirit  than  in  cleaning  up  the  town.  Indeed, 
he  came  to  be  known  as  the  "Iron  Mayor."  at 
a  time  when  the  city  needed  a  man  of  iron  at 
the  helm.  The  wealthy  property  owner  who 
rented  unsanitary  premises  to  poor  tenants  had 
to  be  coerced  into  obeying  the  law.  He  warned 
but  once,  and  those  who  persisted  in  violating 
the  health  regulations  were  promptly  brought 
into  court.  Though  instinctively  genial  and 
charming  socially,  he  never  omitted  a  ])ul)lic 
duty  to  favor  a  friend,  nor  neglected  a  dis- 
agreeble  task  for  fear  of  making  enemies.  He 
was  an  open  and  fearless  fighter,  upright, 
manly.  symi)atlictic  and  earnest  in  character. 
He  was  a  charter  member  of  Chicopee  Coun- 
cil, Knights  of  Columbus,  and  member  of  the 
.Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians  and  of  the 
I'nited  Workmen  of  .America.  He  was  a  cnr- 
j)oralor  of  the  Chicopee  Savings  P.ank.  In 
religion  he  was  a  faithful  Roman  Catholic,  a 
liberal  sujipfjrter  of  the  parish.  He  died  May 
14.  1906.  of  hemorrhage  of  the  brain.  Cntil 
his  last  illness  Dr.  Mellen  had  enjoye<l  perfect 
health  and  a  robust  constitution.  The  funeral 
was  on  May  17  following,  at  the  Church  of 
the  Holy  Name.  The  city  was  represented  by 
the  mayor  and  other  city  officers,  and  delega- 
tions from  the  fraternities  and  medical  rirgan- 


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izations  to  which  he  belonged  were  in  attend- 
ance. During  the  funeral  all  the  merchants  ni 
town  closed  their  stores.  The  Springfield 
Republican.  •'When  a  city  like  Chicopee,  filled 
with  many  activities  and  interests,  pauses  m 
the  middle  of  one  of  its  working  days  and 
remains  (|uiet  while  one  of  its  members  is 
being  carried  to  his  last  resting  place,  a  strik- 
ing tribute  is  paid  to  the  dead." 

He  married,  July  3,  1883,  Catherine  Burke, 
born  November  26,  i860,  daughter  of  Patrick 
r.urke,  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Chicopee.  She 
survives  him.  They  had  one  child,  Eleanor 
Margaret,  born  September  15.  1885:  graduate 
of  the  Chicopee  high  school,  class  of  1904, 
student  one  year  at  the  Boston  Museum  of 
Fine  Arts,  and  now  a  student  in  the  Normal 
Art  School,  class  of  1909. 

Lambert  Chenery  ( Ginere, 
CHENERY  Genere.  Chenerc,  and  other 
forms)  was  born  in  1393, 
probably  in  England,  and  died  in  Dedham, 
Massachusetts,  January  30,  1674.  He  arrived 
in  America,  landing  at  Salem,  in  1630,  went 
first  to  Watertown,  then  to  Dedham,  where 
he  was  among  the  first  settlers  in  1635-36.  It 
is  supposed  that  his  wife  and  two  sons  came 
to  .\merica  with  him,  his  wife  being  admitted 
f.  c.  December  4,  1640.  and  he  June  9,  1644. 
lie  married  (second)  May  14,  1656,  Thomasis 
Hewes,  who  died  in  Watertown,  January  2, 
ifi/O.  Children:  Isaac,  see  forward.  2.  John, 
born  in  ICngland  in  T630,  died  in  Watertown. 
September  5,  1675.  3.  Mary,  born  December 
24,  1659. 

(II)  Isaac,  eldest  child  of  Lambert  Chenery, 
was  born  in  England,  and  died  in  Medfield  in 
1711.  He  married,  November  16,  1654,  I'.liza- 
bcth  Gamlyn.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth.  Ixirn 
.\pril  6,  1657.  2.  Isaac,  see  forward.  3.  Mary, 
November  21,  1662.  4.  Ephraim,  May  30, 
1664.  5.  Deborah,  .\pril  8,  1667.  6.  Eleazer, 
February  26,  1668.  7.  Hannah,  June  9.  1671. 
8.  lienjamin,  .\pril  5,  1673. 

(HI)  I.saac  (2),  eldest  son  and  .second  child 
of  Isaac  (i)  and  Elizabeth  (Gamlyn)  Chenery, 
was  born   January   3,    T659:   married    Rachel 

:  children:      i.   F-ithraim.  born   March 

14.  1709.     2.  Isaac,  see  forward. 

(  IV)  Isaac  (3).  youngest  child  of  Isaac 
(2)  and  Rachel  Chenery.  was  born  October 
29,  171 1,  died  January  30,  1742.  He  married 
Sarah  Smith,  fourth  in  line  of  descent  from 
I  lenrv  Smitli,  who  came  from  England  in  1637 
and  >ettled  in  Medfield.     Children:     I.  Isaac, 


see  forward.     2.  Eleonia,  born  about  1739-44. 
died  January  7,  1754  or  1759. 

(  \' )  Dr.  Isaac  (4),  eldest  child  and  only 
son  of  Isaac  (3)  and  Sarah  (Smith)  Chenery, 
was  born  in  ]\Iedfield.  Massachusetts,  in  No- 
vember, 1742,  died  in  Holden,  Massachusetts, 
October  20.  1822.  He  married,  about  1769, 
Susannah  Pierce,  of  Worcester,  Massachusetts, 
born  October  2,  1748,  died  January  27,  1820. 
Children  :  i.  Thaddeus,  born  April  27,  I769,died 
September  25,  1857.  2.  Zillah,  February  5,  1771, 
died  March  8,  1843.  3.  Nathan,  see  forw^ard.  4. 
Susannah.  February  5,  1785,  died  at  Enfield, 
October  31,  1872.  5.  .\loney,  January  27, 
1788.  died  December  12,  1863.  6.  Isaac,  April 
30.  1791,  died  March  30,  1842.  7.  Leonard, 
.\pril  27,  1794,  died  December  23,  1831.  8. 
Wilkes,  died  young. 

(  \T )  Nathan,  second  son  and  third  child 
of  Dr.  Isaac  (4)  and  Susannah  (Pierce)  Chen- 
ery, was  born  in  Holden,  Massachusetts,  in 
February.  1774,  died  in  Montague.  Massachu- 
setts. February  25,  1826.  He  early  removed 
to  Montague  from  his  native  town.  Married, 
May  4,  1807.  Sophia,  born  in  1785.  died  X'o- 
veniber  9,  1828,  daughter  of  Cajitain  Nathaniel 
Gunn,  of  Montague.  Children:  i.  Harriet, 
born  December  6,  1807,  died  May  28,  1835. 
2.  Sophia,  July  10,  1810,  died  December  12. 
1828.  3.  Leonard.  February  18.  1812,  died 
lanuarv  10.  1842.  4.  luliann.  March  7,  1814. 
died  April  8,  1814.  5.  Hollis,  June  12,  1815. 
(lied  .March  30,  1850.  6.  Richard,  see  forward. 
7.  James  (lunn,  .April  12,  1819,  died  in  Rich- 
nuind,  \'irginia,  November  3.  1866. 

(\TI)  Richard,  third  .son  and  .sixth  child 
of  .Nathan  and  Sophia  (Gunn)  Chenery.  was 
born  [une  20,  1817,  died  in  Belfast,  Maine. 
|ulv  27.  1890.  He  received  his  education  in 
academic  and  jirivate  schools  at  Amherst. 
Greenfield  and  Northfield,  .Massachusetts. after 
which  he  resided  three  years  in  New  York 
City,  then  seven  years  in  Wisconsin  and  four 
years  in  Northampton,  Massachusetts.  He 
went  to  California  in  1849  and  from  thence 
to  Belfast,  Maine,  in  1879.  His  career  has 
been  a  varied  one.  Was  merchant,  farmer, 
owner  and  manager  of  steamboats,  builder  of 
railroads,  government  official  and  member  of 
the  California  legislature.  He  was  one  of  the 
earliest  settlers  in  California,  reaching  there 
in  .August,  1849,  was  a  citizen  of  the  state  for 
more  dian  thirty  years,  during  which  time  he 
was  proiuinent  in  many  ways.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  the  California  Steam  Navigation  Com- 
panv  and  interested  in  incorporating  and  build- 


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ing  some  of  the  earlier  railroads.  lie  took  a 
leadiii!,'  jiart  in  the  vigilance  committee  of  1856 
that  dill  so  mucii  toward  purifying  the  condi- 
tion of  the  state,  taking  its  government  from 
tlie  hands  of  the  roughs  and  placing  it  in  that 
of  the  better  class.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
state  legislature  when  it  was  of  the  utmost 
importance  that  honest  and  upright  men  should 
frame  the  laws  for  the  rapidly  growing  state. 
I'nder  President  Lincoln's  administration. 
r<S<)i-(')5.  he  occupied  the  position  of  navy  agent 
antl  disbursed  many  millions  of  tlollars  for  the 
navyof  tlie  national  government.  His  later  years 
were  spent  on  the  eastern  part  of  the  continent, 
summering  in  Maine,  and  wintering  in  Florida. 
He  married  (first)  in  Sunderland.  Massachu- 
setts, -Vugust  15,  1839,  Sarah  .Ann,  born  in 
Milford,  Massachusetts,  .\ugust  29,  1819,  died 
in  San  Francisco,  California,  Xovember  23, 
1864,  daughter  of  Dr.  Gustavus  I',  and  Sallie 
P.  Peck,  of  Milford.  Children:  i.  Charles 
Eugene,  born  in  Spring  Prairie,  Wisconsin, 
June  16,  1841,  died  in  San  Franci.sco.  Decem- 
ber 17,  1870.  2.  James  Perry,  born  in  Sunder- 
land. .Massachusetts,  May  9,  1843,  died  in 
Xortliampton,  the  same  state,  March  2,  1863. 
3.  Leonard,  born  in  Xortliampton,  March  11, 
1846,  died  in  .Xew  York,  .March  10,  1901.  4. 
Richard,  born  in  San  I-Vancisco,  Xovember  17. 
1864.  died  in  Honolulu.  Hawaiian  Islands,  Xo- 
vember 6,  1876,  where  he  was  at  school  at  St. 
.Albans  College,  and  was  drowned  while  swim- 
ming. Richard  Chenery  married  (second)  at 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  May  18,  1873,  Mrs. 
Anne  Maria  Johnson,  born  July  2,  1832,  widow 
of  .Alfred  Johnson,  of  P>elfast,  Alaine,  and 
daughter  of  Hon.  W.  G.  Crosby,  the  last  Whig 
governor  of  Maine.  Child:  Horace,  see  for- 
ward, 

f\TII)  Horace,  only  child  of  Richard  and 
.Anne  Maria  fCro.sby)  Chenery.  was  born  in 
San  1-Vancisco,  California,  September  29,  1874, 
and  now  resides  in  P.elfast,  ^Iaine.  He  mar- 
ried ("first )  Grace,  daughter  of  George  .\.  and 
Ellen  Fuller:  a  son.  I'uller  Chenery,  born 
March  7,  1899.  Married  ("second)  Julia- H., 
daughter  of  Hon.  H.  A.  and  C,  P.  Lloyd : 
children:  Margaret,  born  Xovember  11,  1902: 
Richard,  August  3,  i9<Xj. 


Robert  Daniels,  immigrant  an- 
D.\XIELS     cestor,  was  born  in   England, 

about  1590.  as  on  June  26, 
1652,  he  deposed  that  he  was  about  sixty  years 
oki.  He  wa.s  an  early  settler  at  Watertown, 
and  was  a  property  owner  there  as  early  as 
\f>^C).    He  was  a  farmer.     In  1636  he  removed 


to  Cambridge,  but  latter  returned  to  \\  .iter- 
town.  He  was  a<lmitte<l  a  freeman  March 
14,  1638-9.  Un  October  7.  1(351,  he  sold  to 
lulward  (iarfield  six  acres  of  land  on  the 
Hither  Plain  in  Watertown.  In  December  of 
the  same  year  he  sold  six  acres  more  in  the 
same  location  to  John  Whitney.  He  was  in 
Cambridge  again  in  1(132.  He  married  (first) 
l^lizabeth  .  died  October  2,  1643;  (sec- 
ond I  May  2,  1654,  Reana,  widow  of  William 
.Andrew.  His  will,  dated  July  3,  1655,  pr(jved 
October  2,  1656,  bec|ueathed  to  widow  Reana 
the  property  she  had  when  she  married  him, 
besides  other  property ;  to  his  five  children  and 
his  cousin  .Anna  Xewcomen.  His  widow  mar- 
ried (third)  Edmund  I'rost.  Children:  i. 
Elizabeth,  married  Thomas  l-"anning.  2.  Sam- 
uel, married  Marie  (or  Mercy)  Grant,  3. 
Josc])h,  born  1640;  mentioned  below,  4.  Sarah, 
married  William  Cheney.  5.  .Mary,  born  Sep- 
tember 2.  1642:  married.  1660,  Sampson  Frary, 
wdio  was  slain  at  Deerfield  by  the  Indians.  6. 
Thomas,  buried  Sejitember  6,  1644. 

(11)  Jose])h,  son  of  Robert  Daniels,  was 
born  in  Watertown,  in  1640,  and  died  June 
2^^.  1715.  He  settled  in  that  part  of  Medficld 
which  is  now  Millis.  He  married  (first)  No- 
vember 16,  iO()5.  Mary  Fairbanks,  born  Sep- 
tember 10,  1647,  in  Dedham,  died  June  9,  1682, 
daughter  of  George  and  Mary  (.Adams)  Fair- 
banks; (second)  Rachel  Sheffield,  born  in 
P>raintree,  March  24.  1(^)60,  died  Mav  3,  1687, 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Sheffield.  He 
married  (third)  Mrs.  Lydia  (.Adams)  .Allen, 
born  1653.  died  December  26.  1731.  daughter 
of  Edward  and  Lydia  .Adams,  widow  of  James 
.Allen.     Children:     I.  Joseph,  born  September 

23.  1666;  mentioned  below.  2.  Mary,  July  14. 
1669.  3.  Samuel,  October  30,  iC-iji  ;  married, 
1694.  Deborah  Ford.  4.  Mehitable.  July  10, 
lC)74:  died  Jime  3.   1686.     5.  Ebenezer,  .Aj^ril 

24.  1677.  ^'-  Elizabeth.  March  9,  1679:  mar- 
ried Joseph  Mason.  7.  Jeremiah,  ATarch  17, 
1680:  died  June  iC\  1680.  8.  Eleazer.  March 
9.  1681  ;  resided  in  Meiidon.  9.  Jeremiah,  Xo- 
vember 3,  1684.  10.  Rachel.  October  17,  1686. 
1 1.  Zachariah.  April  9,  1689  ;  died  May  2,  1689. 

(HI)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  Dan- 
iels, was  born  .Seplember  23.  1666.  in  Medfield. 
and  died  there  January  14,  1739.  He  married 
(first  )  Rachel  I'artridge,  born  1669.  daughter 
of  John  and  .Magdalen  (  P.ullard  )  Partridge; 
(second)  Methia  lireck.  born  December  20, 
I('i73.  in  .Sherborn,  died  February  3,  1754, 
flaughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Hill)  Pjreck. 
Children:  I.  Samuel,  born  December  25,  1693; 
mentioned    below.      2.    Josciih.    Dccrnibcr    15. 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


1695-  3-  '^'ivid,  February  21,  1698-9.  4. 
Ifannali,  September  30.  1701  ;  married,  Octo- 
ber 27,  1725,  Eleazer  Thompson.  5.  Ezra, 
March  10,  1704.  6.  Sarah,  May  i,  1707;  mar- 
ried, February  20,  1733,  John  Bullard.  7. 
.^bigail,  March  15,  1715,  died  December  14, 
1718.  8.  Tamar,  March  17.  1717;  married, 
December,  1733,  John  Metcalf. 

(I\')  Samuel," son  of  Joseph  (2)  Daniels, 
was  born  in  Medfield,  December  25,  1693,  and 
died  in  1789.  He  settled  in  that  part  of  Med- 
field which  became  Medway,  and  married 
(fir-st)  December  6,  1718,  Experience  Adams, 
bom  1696,  died  March  29,  1731,  daughter  of 
Deacon  Peter  and  Experience  (Cook)  Adams; 
(second)  February  20,  1733,  Sarah  Phipps, 
born  in  Wrentham,  daughter  of  John  Phipps, 
who  was  a  nephew  and  adopted  son  of  Sir 
William  Phipps,  of  London,  England.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Samuel,  born  June  8,  1720:  married, 
January  7,  1743,  Hannah  Hill,  lived  in  Keene, 
New  Hamjishire.  2.  Timothy,  September  6, 
1722  ;  married,  February  6,  1734.  Ruth  Leland  ; 
lived  in  Sherborn.  3.  Xathan,  .\ugust  20, 
1727;  mentioned  below.  4.  John,  ^August  18, 
1728.  5.  Simeon,  March  8,  1730-1 ;  married, 
.\pril  9,  1754,  Lydia  Adams;  lived  in  Franklin. 
Children  of  second  wife:  6.  Reuben,  born 
November  25,  1733;  died  February  26,  1734. 
7.  Sarah,  January  10,  1734-5;  married,  Marcli 

2,  1758,  Timothy  Force.  8.  Mary,  April  23, 
1736  ;  married,  July  5,  1764,  Jonathan  Wiswell. 
9.  "japheth,  I'^ebruary  17,  1738;  married  Mela- 
tiah  II  ay  ward;  lived  in  Holliston  ;  died  March 

3,  1805.  10.  .Vbijah,  July  27.  1740;  married, 
1774,  Hannah  Dix :  lived  in  Milford. 

(V)  .Nathan,  son  of  Samuel  Daniels,  was 
born  in  East  Medway,  .August  20,  1727,  and 
died  -August  20,  1791.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  revolution,  in  Captain  Thomas  l5acon's 
company,  on  the  Lexington  alarm  ;  also  matross 
in  Cai)tain  Perez  Cushing's  company,  Colonel 
Thomas  Crafts's  artillery  regiment,  1776-77. 
He  settled  in  Franklin  in  his  later  years.  He 
married,  March  17,  1746,  Mary  .\dams.  born 
-May  6,  1722.  died  .November  10,  1772,  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  and  Dorcas  .Adams.  Children, 
born  in  Medway:  i.  Naplhali,  born  June  21, 
1747.  2.  Nathan,  July  12,  1748.  3.  Ze])heniah, 
May  6,  1750;  died  March  8.  1754.  4.  Silas, 
January  11,  1752;  died  September  10,  1755. 
5.  I'.enoni,  November  5,  1754.  6.  .Adams.  Sep- 
tember 4,  1757;  married  Mary  Smith;  lived  in 
Medfield:  died  1804.  7.  Seth,  July  3,  1760; 
died  July  5,  1760.  8.  Mary  Daniels.  December 
18,  1761.     9.  Joel  (?).  died  .August  24.  1837; 


married,   November  29,   1785,   Mary  Daniels. 
10.  Silence,  .August  28,  1766. 

(\T)  Nathan  (2),  son  of  Nathan  (i)  Dan- 
iels, was  born  July  12,  1748.  in  East  Medway, 
and  died  November  25,  1841,  at  Franklin. 
He  inherited  his  father's  homestead.  He  fol- 
lowed farming  all  his  active  life,  and  was  cap- 
able, industrious  and  successful.  He  had  a 
large  herd  of  cattle  and  raised  wool  and  fla.x, 
which  were  spun  and  wove  into  cloth  for  the 
use  of  the  family.  His  farm  was  in  what  is 
now  b^ranklin.  and  he  built  a  new  house  just 
before  his  marriage,  leaving  it  unfinished  to 
shoulder  his  musket  and  join  the  minute-men 
in  the  revolution.  He  (or  his  father)  was  a 
private  in  Captain  Thomas  Bacon's  company 
(  First  Wrentham)  which  marched  on  the  Lex- 
ington alarm,  .April  19,  1775.  He  was  clerk 
of  Captain  Elijah  Pond's  company,  which 
marched  on  the  same  alarm  :  also  clerk  of  Cap- 
tain John  Metcalf's  company  (Fourth  Suffolk) 
county  regiment.  Colonel  (  Major)  Seth  Bul- 
lard, on  the  Rhode  Island  alarm,  July  and  Au- 
gust, 1780;  also  in  Captain  Ebenezer  Pond's 
company.  Major  Metcalf's  regiment,  on  Rhode 
Island  alarm.  December  8,  1776.  He  was  a 
veritable  Puritan  in  his  religion  and  daily  life, 
strict  in  his  home  and  business,  a  devout  and 
prominent  member  of  the  orthodox  church, 
in  which  he  held  various  offices  of  trust  and 
responsibility.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat. 
He  was  town  clerk  of  Franklin,  1786,  1791 
and  1804;  selectman,  1783:  justice  of  the  peace, 
and  by  virtue  of  this  office  the  local  magistrate 
many  years.  He  held  many  jxisitions  of  private 
trusts,  and  was  much  occupied  in  probate  busi- 
ness and  the  settlement  of  the  estates  of  his 
neighbors. 

He  married  (first)  June  22,  1775.  Elizabeth 
Partridge,  born  October.  1753.  died  January 
7.  1783,  of  a  well  known  family  of  Medway. 
Franklin,  Sherborn  and  vicinity.  He  married 
(second)  January  23.  1786,  Sarah  Smith,  born 
(k-tober  17.  1758.  died  .March  5,  1838,  daugh- 
ter of  Seth  and  .Ann  (  Hartshorn)  Smith.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:  i.  F.lizabcth.  born  .April 
10,  1776;  died  Sejitember  24,  1778.  2.  Cyrus. 
I-Vbruary  9,  1778:  married  Polly  Sawyer.  3. 
Dorcas,  October  14.  1779;  married  Samuel 
Cushing.  4.  David,  January  12,  1782;  died 
.August  8,  1782.  Children  of  second  wife:  5. 
Ezra,  born  November  11,  1786;  died  .August 
27,  1869:  married  .Abigail  Woodward.  6.  Luke, 
January  28,  1788;  married  (first)  Jemima 
Fiskc;' (second)  .Ai)ril  12.  1857.  .Amelia  T. 
Hubbard.  7.  Sally.  July  i.  178c):  died  Jaiuiary. 


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1890:  married,  June  19,  1817,  Samuel  Ware. 
Jr.  8.  Nathan.  August  13.  1791 ;  mentioned 
below.  9.  Olive.  September  13.  1793;  died 
August  24,  1882.  10.  Betsey.  October  19. 1795  ; 
died  January  3.  1797. 

(  \"II )  Xathan  (3").  son  of  Xatban  {2)  Dan- 
iels, was  born  at  Franklin,  on  the  old  home- 
stead. August  13.  1701.  and  died  there  March 
16.  1872.  He  attended  the  old  "Latic"  district 
school.  During  his  boyhood  he  worked  with 
his  father  on  the  farm,  and  continued  there 
after  he  came  of  age.  succeeding  to  the  home- 
stead upon  liis  father's  death.  He  was  an 
energetic  and  well-to-do  farmer.  From  his 
wood  lots  he  cut  much  timber,  and  he  had  a 
cider  mill  to  which  the  farms  of  the  vicinity 
brouglit  their  a])])les.  He  was  of  a  (|uiet  and 
domestic  disposition,  seldom  going  from  home. 
but  devoted  to  his  family  and  higlily  esteemed 
by  his  friends.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational church.  Tn  early  life  he  was  a 
Democrat,  but  after  i860  was  a  Republican. 
He  held  the  office  of  highway  surveyor  of 
Franklin  for  a  time.  Tn  early  life  he  served 
in  the  state  militia.     He  married.  January  13. 

1823,  Roxanna  Thayer,  born  Xovemhcr  15. 
1801.  died  June  12.  1887.  daughter  of  Xahum 
and  Polly  (Pierce)  Thayer,  of  Mcdway.  Her 
father  was  a  blacksmith.  Children,  born  at 
Franklin:     i.  Son,  born  and  died  August  28, 

1824.  2.  Thomas  Jeflferson,  born  April  10. 
1826 ;  mentioned  ttelow.  3.  Lucy  Gilbert.  Feb- 
ruary 2.  1829:  married,  October  3,  1850.  Will- 
iam Henry  P>a]dwin.  who  died  in  Anderson- 
ville  prison,  during  the  civil  war.  4.  Harriet 
Adeline.  September  29.  1834;  died  March  i. 
ir)09:  married.  May  4.  1854.  William  .■\mos 
P.artlett :  children :  i.  Harriet  .Mmina  P.art- 
lett.  born  January  26.  1855.  died  April  26. 
1855  :  ii.  William  .\lbert  Bartlett.  born  Septem- 
ber 14.  1856,  married  Josephine  Davidson,  and 
had  William  .\nios  Bartlett.  married  Ruth  E. 
Bean,  and  had  Dorothy  Eleanor  Bartlett :  iii. 
Herbert  Eugene  Bartlett.  born  Afarch  8.  1859. 
marrierl  Sarah  Evans,  and  had  Florence  Ade- 
line Bartlett.  married  Robert  Ware:  iv.  Lucy 
Rachel  Bartlett.  born  .August  31,  1861. 

('V^HI)  Thomas  Jefferson,  son  of  Xathan 
( ^)  Daniels,  was  born  at  Franklin,  in  that  sec- 
tion formerly  part  of  W'rentham  called  Popo- 
latic.  .April  10.  1826.  and  died  there  February 
8.  1905.  He  attended  the  district  school  at 
"Latic."  about  half  a  mile  from  his  father's 
house.  He  remained  on  the  farm  until  he  came 
of  age,  then  worked  for  a  few  months  in  a  shoe 
factory  in  Sherborn,  in  a  machine  shop  in  West 
Medway,   and   in   a   cotton   mill   at   Caryville. 


While  here  he  had  a  severe  illness  and  returned 
home.  When  he  recovered  he  assisted  his 
father  on  the  homestead  and  engaged  at  the 
same  time  in  the  lumber  business.  .About  1853 
he  purchased  the  Partridge  .Adams  farm,  or 
I-""iIo  l-'isher  place,  and  conducted  it  until  1858. 
when  he  sold  it  to  Peter  Ford,  conducting  a 
small  place  at  Grantville.  Massachusetts,  where 
he  lived  six  years.  In  1863  he  bought  the 
Willard  Poncl  farm  in  the  "T.atic"  district; 
here  he  built  a  large  barn,  still  standing.  He 
also  purchased  his  father's  farm  there,  and 
became  one  of  the  most  substantial  farmers  of 
the  town,  owning  some  three  hundred  acres 
of  land,  also  purchased  large  tracts  of  timber 
land  and  cut  off  and  sold  the  wood  and  timber. 
He  also  had  an  extensive  business  in  timber 
and  wood  cut  from  his  farm  and  at  one  time 
operated  a  steam  saw  mill  on  his  place.  He 
attended  the  Congregational  church.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  a  Democrat,  and  he  took  a  lively 
interest  in  town  affairs.  I'^or  a  period  of  thirty 
years  he  was  highway  surve3'or  of  Franklin, 
and  for  ten  years  was  fire  warden.  He  was 
highly  respected  by  his  townsmen  and  beloved 
by  his  family  and  friends. 

He  married  (first)  October.  1853.  Celia  .\ini 
Hicks,  died  SeiJtember  7.  1838,  daughter  of 
Jacob  Hicks.  He  married  (second)  Xovemlier 
12.  i860.  Mary  Elizabeth  I'illings.  born  .August 
22,  1838,  daughter  of  Duflley  and  Achsah 
(Thayer)  Billings.  Her  father  was  a  stone 
mason  and  butcher.  Child  of  first  wife:  i. 
Xathan  .Anson,  born  .May  7.  1833:  married. 
March  0.  1879.  Emma  Melvina  .Ackley :  chil- 
dr'ii :  i.  Emery  Xathan.  born  February  3. 
1884;  ii.  Frank  Jefferson,  Xovember  6,  1886: 
iii.  i'.ertha  Elizabeth.  June  15.  1889.  married. 
Tune  16.  1907.  Robert  Henry  Evans;  iv.  Eva 
Celia  .Ann.  October  28.  1893;  v.  Emma  Jane. 
October  7.  1900.  Children  of  second  wife  :  2. 
Xahum  Ellsworth,  born  October  20.  1861  ;  was 
a  railroad  conductor  twenty-seven  years ;  died 
\|)ril  ().  IOC);  married,  May  12.  1802,  .Alniira 
Roberts  ;  children:  i.  Mabel  Elizabeth,  born 
-^nril  12.  18-13;  ii-  Ella  May.  March  24.  1893; 
iii.  Warren  Ellsworth,  I'Y-bruary  18,  i8r)7:  iv. 
.Amy  Louise.  .April  23.  1899;  v.  Oscar  Lincoln. 
July  IT.  190T :  vi.  Ida  Estclle.  .August  22.  1903 ; 
vii.  Frank  Edward.  December  27.  1003.  3. 
r)scar  lefferson.  born  Xovember  4.  1867;  mar- 
ried Ethel  Mav  Hill:  children:  i.  Marjoric 
lionise,  born  December  23.  1906;  ii.  Dorothy 
May.  Xovember  23,  1908.  4.  Cyrus  Weston, 
born  February  6.  1873  ;  died  September  6,  1873. 
3.  Caroline  .Alice,  born  January  29.  187(1.  6. 
Dora  Elizabeth,  born   .August  27.    1878;  died 


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Se])temher  2,  1880.  7.  Ella  Riihama,  born 
l'"ebruary  7,  1883;  married.  August  20,  1902, 
Walter  Oscar  Nordstrom:  children:  i.  Mar- 
ion Daniels  Nordstrom,  born  January  5,  1903 : 
ii.  Gladys  Charlotte  Nordstrom.  June  26,  1905. 

The  •Campbell  family  has  for 
CAMPBELL     many  centuries  been  among 

the  most  prominent  in  Scot- 
land and  is  common  both  in  the  Highlands  and 
Lowlands,  and  in  the  Scotch  province  of  Ulster 
in  Ireland,  especially  in  the  counties  Antrim. 
Down.  Armagh.  Tyrone,  Londonderry  and 
Donegal.  The  family  was  seated  at  Argj^le- 
shire.  Perthshire,  BanfTshire,  etc.,  before  1300. 
The  family  possesses  the  dukedom  of  Argyle. 
niar(|uisates  of  Lome  and  Kintyre :  earldoms 
of  Athol.  Breadalbane.  Caithness.  Campbell, 
Cowal,  Irwin,  Isla  or  Hay.  and  Lmidoun  :  vis- 
countcies  of  Lochowm  Glenisla,  (llenorchy  and 
Taymouth ;  lordships  of  Arrois,  Benedoraloch, 
Denoon,  Inverary,  Lundie,  Mauchline,  Alor- 
vern;  Mull,  Ormlie,  Oronsay,  Paintland,  Tyrie 
and  Wick.  The  family  is  reputed  of  Anglo- 
Norman  origin.  Eight  Camiibclls  registered 
nil  the  Famous  Ragman's  Roll  in  1296.  .\  large 
number  of  Campbells  came  to  the  colonies  early 
in  the  eighteenth  centurv  from  L'lsterand  Scot- 
land. 

( I )  Robert  Campbell,  first  settler,  came  to 
Southwick,  Massachusetts,  about  1750.  He 
was  doubtless  related  to  the  other  Campbells 
of  Worcester  and  Hampshire  county,  coming 
from  .Scotland  and  Lister  about  this  time. 
|ohn  Campbell  was  another  early  settler,  possi- 
bly a  son.  John.  James  and  Thomas  Campbell 
were  heads  of  families  in  Southwick.  in  1781. 
.\ccording  to  the  federal  census  of  1790,  James. 
William.  Iose]ih.  Captain  Thomas,  Captain 
Jnhn  and  .Samuel  Campbell  lived  in  Southwick. 

TIkn-  were  sons  or  nephews  of  Robert  Camp- 
bell. .\s  shown  by  the  ages  of  their  children, 
Thomas.  John  aud  James  were  the  elder  chil- 
dren. 

(II)  C'a])lain  Thomas,  son  of  Robert  and 
Mary  Campbell.  wa>  born  December  25.  1747, 
in  Southwick,  ]irobabl\',  but  he  may  have  come 
there  in  early  childhood.  Lie  settled  there  and 
was  a  prominent  citizen  and  well-to-do  farmer. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  a  private 
in  Captain  Silas  Fowler's  com|)any  (  I'irst 
Southwick)  of  minute-men  on  the  Lexington 
alarm.  April  19.  1775.  and  marched  to  Ro.xbury. 
He  was  also  a  corporal  in  Cajitain  James 
Drnrv's  company,  in  the  siNteentii  regiment  in 
1776.  Later  he  held  a  captain's  commission. 
jirobably  after  the  war.      lie  married    (first) 


(intention  dated  November  6.  1771)  Eunice 
.Noble,  born  1752.  daugiiter  of  John  Noble. 
Her  father  was  born  December  21.  1706,  died 
March  3.  1776.  and  was  one  of  the  first  settlers 
from  Westfield  in  that  part  of  the  tow'n  set  off 
as  Southwick.  He  became  a  preacher  in  the 
Separate  Baptist  Church.  He  married  (first) 
July  10,  1735,  Lydia  Bush,  born  March  5, 171 1, 
daughter  of  Ebenezer  Bush,  of  W'estfield ; 
(second)  August  28.  1746.  Elizabeth  Reming- 
ton, who  was  born  in  Suffield.  .August  22.  1718, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Remington.  Mark  Noble, 
father  of  John  Noble,  was  born  at  Westfield 
about  1670,  died  April  16,  1741  ;  was  a  farmer 
and  town  officer;  married,  1698,  Mary  Mar- 
shall, daughter  of  Samuel  and  Rebecca  (New- 
bury) Marshall,  of  Northampton.  Mark  Noble 
w'as  son  of  the  immigrant.  Thomas  Noble. 
Captain  Thomas  Campbell  married  (second) 
Keziah  Owen.  Children  of  first  wife  :  i.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  September  20.  1772,  at  Southwick. 
married,  1802.  David  Fowder,  and  died  at 
.Southwick,  March  20,  1845,  aged  seventy-two ; 
he  was  a  farmer  and  cattle-dealer.  2.  Lucy, 
born  October  29,  1774.  married,  January,  1798, 
Walter  Fowler :  she  died  at  Trenton,  New 
^'ork.  .\ugust  II,  1871.  3.  Thomas,  born 
October  18.  1776,  died  at  Truxton,  October 
20,  1844,  aged  sixty-eight  years  :  married,  Octo- 
ber, 1805.  Mrs.  Do'lly  (Gates)  Wait.  4.  Noble, 
born  March  27  or  29,  1779;  mentioned  below. 
5.  Horace,  born  -April  24,  1781,  married,  No- 
vcmb'-r  25,  1807.  Lucretia  \\'aller.  6.  Justin, 
born  SeiHember  7,   1783,  died  July  19,   1828; 

married,  .\pril  18,  181 3,  .Almira ;  he  was 

a  merchant.  7.  .Asa.  born  September  23,  1785, 
ma'ried  .^ally  .Strickland :  he  died  at  Ltica, 
Iiuie.  1838.  8.  Child,  born  and  died  December 
29.  1787.  9.  F.unice.  born  May.  1789.  died 
June  I.  1789. 

(Ml)  Xnblc.  son  of  Caiitain  Thomas  Camp- 
bell, was  born  at  Southwick.  March  27  or  29, 
1779.  died  at  Westfield.  March  28,  1853.  aged 
seventy-three  years.  I  le  married,  .April  9, 
1809,  I,ucy  Miller,  daughter  of  Lieutenant 
.Asa  Miller'  of  what  is  now  Tattam.  Children  : 
T.  Noble  .Andrew  Jackson,  born  1826,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Caroline,  married  John  Sim- 
mons. 3.  Emma.  4.  Lucy.  5.  Ilosea.  died  in 
Indiana.    6.  Lorain. 

(  1\")  Noble  .Andrew  Jackson,  .son  of  Noble 
Campbell,  was  born  at  Southwick  in  1826.  He 
was  educated  in  the  jniblic  schools.  He  was  a 
cigar  manufacturer  in  Westfield  for  many 
vears.  He  died  there  in  1858.  Me  married 
Lydia  F.lvira  P.nsh.  born  Westfield.  1827.  died 
^iarcb   20.   IQO^),  daughter  of  Leonard  Bush. 


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Children  :    i.  Sumner  Bush,  burn  July  ^5.  1S52, 
mentioned  below.    2.  Emma  L. 

(\")  Suinncr  Bush,  son  of  Xoble  Andrew 
Jackson  Campbell,  was  born  in  Wcstficld.  July 
25,  1852.  and  was  educated  there  in  the  public 
schools.  He  began  his  career  as  clerk  for  the 
Boston  &  Albany  railroad  and  continued  for 
thirteen  years  as  clerk  and  ticket  agent  at  West- 
field.  In  1882  he  became  connected  as  clerk 
with  the  Textile  Manufacturing  Company, 
manufacturing  hardware  and  casket  trimmings 
and  metal  goods,  remaining  in  that  position 
imtil  1891.  when  he  was  elected  treasurer  and 
general  manager,  made  vacant  by  the  death  of 
that  official:  this  position  he  has  filled  up  to 
the  present  time,  lie  is  treasurer  of  the  West- 
field  Power  Comjiany.  lie  attends  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  church  : member  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  L'nited  Workmen  and  of  Moinit 
Moriah  Lodge  of  Free  Masons.  In  politics  he 
is  a  Republican. 


Captain  Samuel  Marshall, 
M.ARSl  I.M.r.  immigrant  ancestor  of  this 
family,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land. Me  settled  in  Windsor.Coiniecticut,  where 
he  had  a  lot  in  the  Palizado.  as  early  as  1637. 
He  was  a  man  of  education  and  early  became 
prominent:  was  magistrate  in  1638:  deputy  to 
the  general  assembly  in  1637:  juror  several 
times.  In  ifif>^  he  was  licensefl  to  retail  li(|uors 
and  doubtless  kejit  a  tavern.  He  bought  of 
Thomas  Marshfield.  January,  1652.  his  farm 
on  the  east  side  of  ISroad  street,  but  sold  it  the 
same  year  and  probably  did  not  live  there.  He 
bought  of  John  Xewton,  February.  lO^i,.  a 
farm  on  what  is  now  Silver  street  and  also 
the  Captain  Mason  place  on  the  southeast 
corner  of  the  Palizado.  With  Joseph  Fitch 
and  Jacob  Drake  he  petitioned  the  general  court 
to  enlarge  the  boundaries  of  Windsor.  In 
1673  ''^  ^^'3^  called  (|uartermaster  on  the  record 
of  a  grant  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of 
land.  He  was  ensign  in  Majr>r  Treat's  com- 
mand in  the  King  Philip's  war.  and  was  one 
of  the  five  Connecticut  captains  who  led  the 
colonial  forces  in  the  attack  on  the  Xarragan- 
sett  fort.  December  19,  1675.  He  fell  in  battle 
at  the  head  of  his  troops.  Windsor  lost  in 
him  an  active,  honorefl  and  useful  citizen  and 
brave  soldier.  His  resiflence.  according  to 
tradition,  was  on  the  bank  oi  the  rivulet  near 
the  point  that  juts  into  the  meadow  below  the 
present  site  of  the  bridge.  Captain  Marshall 
was  one  of  those  who  "stayed  by  consent  of 
the  town  and  enlarged  their  gardens  in  the 
Palizado."     His  home  was  on   the  site,  it   is 


thought,  of  the  Elihu  .Marshall  place,  lie  mar- 
ried .Mary  Wilton, daughter  of  Lieutenant  David 
Wilton,  May  6,  1652.  His  widow.  Mary,  died 
.\ugust  25,  1683.  She  contributed  to  the  Con- 
necticut fund  for  the  relief  of  the  poor  of  the 
other  colonies  in  1676.  She  owned  the  half- 
way covenant  January  31,  1657.  Children, 
born  at  Windsor:  i.  Samuel,  born  .May  27. 
1653:  mentioned  below.  2.  Lydia,  born  Feb- 
ruary 18,  it)55.  3.  Lydia,  born  February  3, 
1657,  married  Joseph  Hawley.  4.  Thomas, 
born  .Vjiril  23.  1659.  5.  David,  born  July  24, 
1661.  6.  Thomas,  born  February  18.  1663. 
7.  Mary,  born  May  8.  1667.  8.  Eliakim.  born 
July  10.  1669.  9.  John,  born  .\])ril  10.  1672. 
10.  Elizabeth,  born  Sejitember  2.  iCi/^. 

(II)  Deacon  Samuel  (2),  son  of  .^anniel 
(  I  )  Marshall,  was  born  at  Windsor.  Connecti- 
cut. May  27,  i('>53.  Married  (first )  Rebecca 
Xewbury.      He  married    (second)     Elizabeth 

Holcomb.  who  married    (first)   Case, 

(second) .Slater  and    (third)    Deacon 

Marshall,  and  she  survived  him,  d\ing  at  Sims- 
bury,  Connecticut,  February  26,  1762.  at  the 
advanced  age  of  ninety-one  years.  .She  was 
born  at  Simsbury.  .\pril  4.  1670.  third  daugh- 
ter of  Joshua  and  Ruth  (Sherwood)  Holcomb. 
This  was  the  only  .Marshall  family  at  Simsbury. 

(III)  Perez,  son  of  Deacon  Samuel  (2) 
Marshall,  of  Windsor  and  Simsbury.  was  born 
aboft  i~io-20.  .According  to  the  history  of 
Granville.  ^Massachusetts,  he  removed  to  that 
lf)wn  as  earlv  as  1750.  He  lived  in  that  i)art 
set  off  as  Tolland.  .Massachusetts,  in  1810. 
Some  of  his  sons  were  living  in  .Simsbury  dur- 
ing the  revolution  and  he  ])erha|)s  returned  to 
It's  native  town.  (Page  iiofi..  Connecticut 
N'alley  History,  vol.  II ).  The  name  was  some- 
times spelled  Pierce  (for  Perez).  According 
to  the  account  of  the  family  he  sold  his  pro])- 
erty  at  Simsbury  in  1782  and  bought  five  hun- 
dred acres  in  wliat  is  now  Tolland,  M;issaclui- 
srtts.  He  married  Mary  Woodford,  of  .Avon. 
Connecticut.  .According  to  the  census  of  1790 
Perez  Marshall  was  living  at  Granville  and  liad 
four  males  over  si.vteen.  none  under,  and  three 
females  in  his  family:  his  son  Perez  had  a 
wife  but  no  children  and  his  son  Joel  a  wife, 
flruighter,  and  two  .sons  under  si.xteen.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Perez,  Jr..  settled  in  Granville:  soldier 
in  t!ie  revolution  from  .Simsbury.  Comiecticut. 
in  Captain  William  .'^tanton's  company.  Eighth 
Connecticut  Regiment,  in  1780.  2.  Joel,  born 
abort  17(10.  was  in  the  revolution  in  Cai)tain 
Adonijah  P>urr's  company.  Cokmel  Moselcy's 
regiment  in  1778;  settled  in  Granville  and  in 
1790  had  in  bis  family  two  sons  under  sixteen 


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and  two  females.  3.  Samuel,  whose  son  John 
L.  and  daughter  Mrs.  Alonzo  Miller  lived  in 
Tolland.  4.  Dudley,  mentioned  below.  5. 
Gains.    6.  Hannah.    7.  Mary. 

(IV)  Dudley,  son  of  Perez  Marshall,  was 
born  in  Sinisbury  and  came  to  Granville  (Tol- 
land) about  1782.  He  married — .  Chil- 
dren: I.  Lyman,  settled  in  Wellington,  Ohio; 
married  Orpha  Huff  and  had  two  sons  and 
one  daughter.  2.  Alonzo,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Gains,  settled  in  Colebrook,  Connecticut,  and 
had  three  sons.  4.  Eunice,  married  George 
Covvles  and  settled  in  Wellington,  Ohio;  had 
one  son  and  one  daughter. 

(\')  .A-lonzo,  son  of  Dudley  Marshall,  was 
born  about  1800  at  Colebrook,  Connecticut, 
and  died  at  Tolland,  Massachusetts.  He  mar- 
ried Phebe  Smith,  born  at  Colebrook,  died  at 
Tolland.  Children:  i.  Dwight  L.  2.  Charles 
N.  3.  Roswell  S.  4.  Sarah  E.  5.  Miles  W., 
born  February,  1842,  mentioned  below.  6. 
Georgie  M. 

(\'l)  Allies  W.,  son  of  Alonzo  Marshall, 
was  born  February,  1842.  at  Colebrook,  Con- 
necticut. He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Tolland.  He  learned  the  meat  and  provi- 
sion business  and  in  1870  embarked  in  business 
on  his  own  account  in  Westfield,  Massachu- 
setts. For  a  short  time  before  he  conducted 
a  farm,  but  sold  out  when  he  came  to  West- 
field.  Since  1880  he  has  been  in  the  ranch 
business  and  raised  horses  and  cattle.  He  has 
bought  and  sold  several  ranches  and  has  been 
successful  in  this  line  of  business.  He  is  a 
Methodist  in  religion  and  a  Democrat  in  poli- 
tics. He  married,  1864,  Marion  Browning 
Knox,  born  at  \\'estfield,  daughter  of  Abijali 
llabcock  and  Artemisia  Desdemona  (Catlin) 
Knox.  Her  father  was  born  in  1804  at  Bland- 
ford,  Massachusetts,  died  in  Sejjtember,  1876. 
at  Westfield :  married  Artemisia  Desdemona 
Catlin,  born  1806,  at  Harwinton,  Connecticut. 
and  (lied  September  7,  1892,  at  Westfield  ;  their 
children:  i.  Marinu  Kncix ;  ii.  Lorenzo  .\. 
Knox,  died  in  1891)  in  Mexico,  married  Lizzie 
B.  Ide  and  had  Edith,  Dorothy  and  Marion  ; 
iii.  Irving  C;itlin  Knox,  died  April  12,  1908, 
:it  \\  I'^tl'uld,  married  Josephine  Foley;  iv. 
Marion  1!.,  mentioned  above.  Eli  Knox,  father 
of  .Abijah  liabcnck  Knox,  was  of  an  early 
Scotch-Irish  family  of  Blandford;  married 
.\bigail  Babcock  :  children:  i.  Eli  Knox,  Jr., 
liad  Eli,  S|K'ncer.  .\bigail,  Martha.  Emma  and 
Howard  Knox;  ii.  Abijah  B.  Knox,  mentioned 
above ;  iii.  Samuel,  had  Watson  Eli,  Waldo 
Samuel  and  Wallace  Knox.  Child  of  Miles 
W.  and  Marion  Browning  (Knox)   Marshall: 


Allan,  born  July  16,  1865,  educated  in  the 
Westfield  schools  and  graduated  at  L'niversity 
of  Minnesota;  now  a  teacher  in  the  schools 
of  the  West  Indies ;  married  Florence  Edith 
Crossley,  of  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  Septem- 
ber 10,  T908. 


The  nameAbbot  is  derived  through 
ABBOTT  the  Syriac  abba,  from  the  Hebrew 

ab,  meaning  father.  It  has  been 
applied  to  the  head  of  a  religious  order  by  vari- 
ous peoples  from  the  earliest  times  and  finally 
became  an  English  surname.  There  always  has 
been  a  difference  of  opinion  in  respect  to  the 
I)roper  s]ielling  of  the  patronymic,  some  author- 
ities contending  for  the  use  of  but  one  t,  while 
(ithers  use  two.  Many  persons  have  held 
that  the  single  letter  indicates  the  ancient  and 
correct  form,  although  careful  investigation 
seems  to  incline  to  the  opposite  theory,  for  of 
two  hundred  and  eleven  Abbotts  whose  wills 
were  filed  in  and  about  London  in  the  probate 
courts  during  the  fourteenth,  fifteenth  and  six- 
teenth centuries  one  hundred  and  ninety-five 
show  the  use  of  two  t"s.  In  this  connection  it 
is  proper  to  mention  that  Major  Lemuel  Abbott, 
United  States  army,  who  recently  has  written 
a  most  valuable  work  on  the  descendants  of 
George  Abbott,  of  Rowley,  finds  the  same  pro- 
portion among  the  signatures  of  the  early  Amer- 
ican .\bbotts,  although  he  says  frankly  that  he 
]3refers  the  single  t,  and  always  supposed  that 
to  be  the  original  and  correct  form  of  spelling 
the  name.  The  ancient  English  branch  of  the 
family  lived  in  Yorkshire,  and  its  arms  were  a 
shield  ermine  with  a  pale  gules  on  which  are 
three  pears  or.  Above  the  shield  is  a  closed 
helmet  and  the  crest  is  a  dove  bearing  an  olive 
branch  in  its  month.  The  Guilford  branch  in 
Surrey,  which  is  said  to  contain  the  most  dis- 
tinguished members  of  the  family,  has  arms  on 
which  three  ])ears  are  |)rominent,  and  are  varied 
by  the  insignia  of  the  bishop's  office.  The  (uiil- 
ford  Abbotts  present  a  remarkable  record. 
Maurice  .\bbott  was  a  rich  cloth  worker  in 
town  during  the  sixteenth  centurj-,  and  his  wife 
was  .-Mice  Marsh,  or  March.  They  were  staunch 
Protestants  and  ])eople  of  undoubted  respect- 
ability, but  their  own  condition  gave  little  indi- 
cation of  the  eminence  to  which  three  of  their 
sons  would  attain.  They  all  were  contempor- 
aries of  .Shakesi)earc.  and  their  talents  were  of 
the  kind  brought  oiU  1)\-  "the  sjiacious  times  of 
great  Elizabeth."  Robert  .\bbott.  eldest  of  the 
six  sons,  became  bishop  of  Salisbury;  George, 
the  second  son  ( 1562- 1633).  became  lord  arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury,  wliicli  office  gave  him 


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the  rank  of  tlic  tirst  citizen  of  England;  and 
Morris,  the  youngest,  ijecame  a  kniglit,  gov- 
ernor of  tlie  East  India  Company  and  lord 
mayor  of  Eoiiddn.  Of  the  EngHsh  Ablxnts  in 
more  recent  times,  mention  may  be  maiie  of 
Charles  .\bbott.  .son  of  John  Abbott,  of  Canter- 
bury, who  was  made  lord  chief  justice  of  Eng- 
land, 1818,  and  Baron  Tenterden.  1827.  Another 
Charles  Abbot,  son  of  Rev.  John  .\bbot,  of 
Colchester,  was  s])eaker  of  the  house  of  com- 
mons from  i8o2  to  1817.  when  he  became  P.aron 
Colchester.  The  Abbott  family  of  .America 
has  not  produced  men  of  world-wide  fame,  but 
according  to  Major  Abbott,  genealogist,  the 
name  always  has  stood  for  "quiet  dignity,  con- 
sideration, kindness  of  heart  and  great  suavity 
of  manner."  Many  of  them  have  been  farmers, 
others  who  are  writers,  clergymen,  professors 
and  educators. 

( I)  George  .Abbot,  the  venerable  ancestor  of 
a  numerous  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  and 
of  a  vastly  more  numerous  line  of  descendants 
on  this  side  of  the  .Atlantic  ocean,  is  believed 
to  have  come  from  Yorkshire,  England,  about 
the  year  1640.  and  was  one  of  the  tirst  settlers 
of  .Andover.  Massachusetts,  in  1643,  and  one 
of  the  pro])rietors  of  that  town.  He  lived  and 
died  on  a  farm  which  in  1847  was  owned  by 
John  Abbot,  one  of  his  descendants  of  the 
seventh  geiieration.  During  the  period  of  Indian 
troubles  his  house  was  a  garri.son  and  was  used 
as  such  many  years  after  the  death  of  the 
immigrant.  In  1647  he  married  Hannah,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  .Anne  Chandler ;  and  George 
.Abbot  and  his  wife  were  both  industrious, 
frugal  and  of  pious  mind.  He  died  December 
24.  1681.  anrl  his  widow  married  a  second  hus- 
band. Rev.  Francis  Dane,  minister  of  .\ndover. 
She  died  June  11,  171 1.  aged  eighty-two  years. 
George  and  Hannah  (Chandler)  Abbot  had 
thirteen  children,  all  born  in  .Andover:  i.  John, 
March  2,  1648.  2.  Jose])h,  March  11,  1649.  3. 
Hannaii.June9,  1650.  4.  Joseph,  March  30, 1652, 
said  to  have  I)een  the  first  person  in  .Andover 
who  fell  a  victim  of  Indian  murder.  5.  George. 
June  7,  1655,  died  February  27.  1736.  6.  Will- 
iam, November  18,  1(157,  died  October  24, 
1713.  7.  .Sarah.  November  14,  1659.  died  June 
28,  171 1.  8.  Benjamin,  December  20,  i<j6i, 
died  March  30,  1703.  9.  Timothy,  November 
17,  1663.  died  .September  9.  1730.  10.  Thomas, 
May  6,  1666,  died  .April  28.  1728.  11.  Edward, 
died  young,  drowned.  12.  Nathaniel.  July  4. 
i(')7i.  died  1749.  13.  Elizabeth.  I'ebruary  9, 
1673,  died  Alay  4,  1750. 

(H)  Deacon  John,  eldest  child  of  George 
and  Hannah   (Chandler)   .Abbot,  was  born  in 


-Andover,  Massachusetts.  March  2.  if^^S.  and 
died  there  .March  19,  1721.  He  lived  with  his 
father  in  the  garrison  house,  and  is  said  to  have 
been  a  man  of  judgment  and  executive  ability. 
He  was  employed  much  of  the  time  in  business 
for  the  town,  and  served  as  selectman  and 
representative  to  the  general  court.  When  the 
church  was  organized  in  the  south  parish  of 
-Andover.  in  171 1,  he  was  chosen  deacon,  and 
Mr.  l'liilli])s  mentions  that  "he  used  the  (.)fifice 
well."  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  much  re- 
spected for  U|)rightness  and  piety.  Deacon 
Abbot  married,  November  17,  1673,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Richard  Barker,  one  of  the  first 
settlers  in  .Andover.-  She  was  born  in  1647 
and  died  February  10,  1729.  They  had  nine 
cl'ildren.  all  born  in  .Viulover:  i.  John,  No- 
vember 2,  1O74,  died  January  i.  1754.  2. 
Joseph,  December  29.  1676,  died  January  9. 
1757-  3-  Stephen,  ^Iarch  16,  1678,  died  May 
27.  1766.  4.  Sarah,  December  7,  1680,  died 
March  6,  1754  :  married.  1707,  Zebadiah  Chand- 
ler. 5.  I'4)hraim.  .August  16.  1682.  6.  Jo.shua. 
June  16.  1685,  died  February  11,  1769.  7. 
Mary,  January  2.  1687,  died  Decem])er  2,  1688. 
8.  Ebenezcr.  Sejitember  27,  i^Hg.  died  January 
14,  1761.  9.  I'riscilla,  July  7.  1691.  died  May 
24.  1791. 

fill)  Eijhraim.  son  of  Deacon  John  and 
.Sarah  (Barker)  Abbot,  was  born  in  .Andover, 
Massachusetts.  .August  16,  1682.  and  died  there 
June  8,  1748.  He  was  a  farmer  and  spent  his 
life  in  the  town  in  which  he  was  born.  He 
married.  January  6,  1715,  widow  Sarah  Iltmt. 
of  T'.illerica.  who  survived  him  and  married  for 
her  third  husband,  .August  I,  1749.  John  Dane. 
I'4)hraiin  and  .Sarah  (Ilunt)  .Abbot  had  eleven 
children,  all  born  in, .Andover  :  I.  Sarah.  March 

8.  1 7 16,  married,  September  8.  1736,  .Samuel 
Gray,  of  .Amher.st,  New  Hampshire.  2.  Eph- 
raim.  July  22,  1718,  farmer  of  .Amherst,  New 
Hampshire,  and  of  Andover;  married  (first) 
Mary  .Abl)ott.  (second)  Hannah  Knceland.  3. 
Mary.  July  9,  1720.  married.  May  it.  1743, 
Robert  Read,  of  IJtchfield.  4.  Joshua.  October 
I.  1722.  lived  in  .Amherst,  New  Hampshire; 
married,  November  20,  1749.  Bhebe  Ingalls. 
5.  Daniel.  September  14,  1724,  a  blacksmith  by 
trade  and  lived  in  Andover;  married.  May  21. 
1732.  \\'idow  Lydia  Ilenfield.  6.  Elizabeth. 
June  29,  1726,  married  .Asa  .Abbot.  7.  Josiali. 
September  26,  T728.  a  farmer  and  lived  in 
LynfllM)rough.  New  Ilampsbire:  marrierl  Han- 
nah  Ilobbs.     8.  Ebenezcr.  I''ebruary  20,   1731. 

9.  Martha.  March  31.  1733.  died  .April  24,  1733. 

10.  I'eter.  May  8,  1734,  died  .April  18,  1774; 
lived  in  Kingston,  New  Hampshire ;  married. 


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Se])tcmbcr  22.  1757.  \\  idow  Elizabeth  DaiiKjn, 
of  Reading,  Massachusetts.  11.  Martha,  July 
13,  1737,  married  .\rchclaus  Towne,  of  Mil- 
ford,  Xew  1  lampsliire. 

( I\')  Ebenezer  .\bbott,  son  of  Ephraimand 
Sarah  (  Hunt)  .Abbot,  was  born  in  Andover, 
I'ebruary  20,  1731,  died  there  December  19, 
1 77 1.  He  was  a  cordwainer  by  trade.  He 
married.  January  i,  1752,  Lydia  Farrington, 
who  survived  him  and  was  still  living  in  1776. 
They  had  seven  children,  born  in  Andover : 
I.  Hannah,  January  27,  1753,  died  July  24, 
1816;  married,  September  18,  1777,  Abijah 
(Hark.  2.  Lydia,  June  18,  1754.  married,  De- 
cember 26,  1773,  Peter  Towne.  3.  Ebenezer, 
January  15.  1757.  4.  Ephraim,  March  ig, 
175Q,  married  (intentions  October  26,  1781) 
Esther  Ea.stman,  of  Conway,  Maine.  5.  Jethro, 
.April  18,  1761,  died  May  2,  1764.  6.  Theodore, 
September  10.  1763,  died  May  14,  I7('>4.  7. 
Sarah,  December  7,  \"(^S-  married,  December 
28,  T784,  David  Stevens. 

(\  )  Ebenezer  (2),  son  of  l-lbenezer  (i) 
and  Ldyia  (Farrington)  Abbott,  was  born  in 
.\ndover,  January  15,  1757.  died  in  1803.  He 
was  a  cordwainer  and  lived  in  the  north  parish 
o"f  Reading.  IK'  married.  January  20,  1783, 
Sarah  Craves,  by  whom  he  bad  six  children, 
all  ])robably  born  in  Reading:  I.  Ebenezer, 
March  II,  1784.  2.  Ephraim,  1786.  3.  Sally, 
1788,  died  jciung.  4.  Eliab,  1790,  died  in  ser- 
vice during  the  war  of  1812-15.  5.  Sally,  \'J^)2. 
().  Daniel,  1794.  7.  Lydia,  179^.  8.  Xabby. 
1799.    9.  Joshua,  1801. 

(\'T)  Ebenezer  (3),  son  of  Ebenezer  (2) 
and  Sarah  (  Craves)  .Abbott,  was  born  in  Read- 
ing. Massachusetts,  March  11,  1784,  died  in 
1867.  Tie  was  a  soldier  in  the  .\merican  army 
during  the  second  war  with  the  mother  country, 
lie  married,  in  1707,  Betsey  Swain,  who  died 
in  1852,  having  borne  her  Inisljand  ten  children  : 
I.  Ebenezer  T.,  Xorth  Reading,  ^larch  4,  1808, 
died  November  9,  1888;  married,  February  19, 
1835,  Ruth  I  [ewes,  born  May  16,  1816.  2. 
.Sunnier  .S.,  June  9,  1809,  died  Decemlier  14, 
1885;  married,  December  2,  1835,  Elvina 
Symonds,  born  May  12,  1814.  died  Mav  13, 
1883.  3.  r>etsey.  October  1  1,  1810.  died  ^iarch 
I,  1838;  married,  I'ebruary  27,  1834,  William 
Walls.  4.  I'.eujamin  S.,  .\])ril  19.  1812.  died  in 
l-Vancistown.  Xew  Hampshire,  Seiitember  5, 
1894:  married  (first)  Harriet  Quigley.  (sec- 
ond) Eunice  L'jiton  Richardson.  S- Joseph  H., 
March  4,  1814.  6.  Sanniel  E.,  .April  9,  1816. 
ilied  March  7.  i8()8:  married  (first)  January 
25,  1846,  .Abbie  Stone,  (second)  Xovember. 
1856.  Marg.-irel  Stone,  (third  )  .August  14.  1862. 


Helen  M.  Hean,  died  January  7,  1907.  7.  Sara 
C,  April  7,  1818,  married.  June  12,  1835.  War- 
ren Eaton,  born  February  5,  1810,  died  Febru- 
ary, 1895.  8.  Frederick,  April  19,  1820,  died 
June  24,  i()02:  married,  Xovember  26,  1844, 
.Martha  Wright,  died  October  12,  1907.  9. 
William  W..  July  5,  1827,  died  October,  1827. 
10.  Daniel  C,  February  9,  1829,  died  Alay  i, 
1892  :  married,  .August  2,  1851.  Anna  L'.  Stone. 

(VH)  Joseph  H.,  son  of  Ebenezer  (3)  and 
Betsey  (Swain)  Abbott,  was  born  in  Xorth 
Reading,  Massachusetts,  ALarch  4,  1814,  died 
in  Holyoke,  .August  24.  1899.  He  lived  in 
Xorth  Reading,  where  his  father  was  a  cord- 
wainer and  was  carrying  on  the  business  of 
making  shoes  in  a  limited  way  and  also  engaged 
in  farming.  Joseph  H.  was  brought  up  to  the 
trade  of  his  father  and  followed  it  during  the 
greater  part  of  his  life,  although  he  too  did 
some  farming.  During  the  civil  war  he  en- 
listed and  made  a  good  record  as  a  soldier  in 
a  regiment  of  heavy  artillery.  In  politics  he 
was  a  firm  Re])ublican  and  in  religious  prefer- 
ence a  L'nitarian.  Mr.  .Abbott  married.  May 
14,  1837,  Hepzibah  F.,  daughter  of  William 
and  Esther  (Damon)  Sawyer,  and  by  whom 
he  had  six  children,  all  born  in  Xorth  Read- 
ing: I.  Henry  Stocker,  March  8,  1838,  died 
October  15,  1841.  2.  Joseph  Edwin,  .April  16, 
1841,  dieil  in  I'.angor,  Maine,  September  19, 
''^.v-  .V  llarriet  F..  May  14.  1843.  married 
(first)  Xovember  17,  i8r)3.  .Alexander  Terry, 
who  was  drowned  at  sea,  b'ebruary  10.  1864; 
married  (second)  John  X.  Davis.  4.  William 
11.,  November  30.  1846.  5.  Nathan  P.,  Octo- 
ber 24.  1850.  married,  December  24,  1873, 
Parthenia  E.  Crosby.  6.  Lydia  Betsey,  Janu- 
ary 26,  1853,  married.  May  22,  1872.  .Arthur 
A.  Liximis. 

(\  111)  William  1 1  liny,  son  of  Josejih  II. 
and  Hepzibah  1*".  (Sawyer)  .\bbott.  was  born 
near  Xorth  Reading,  Massachusetts,  Xovem- 
ber 30,  1846,  and  when  about  nine  years  old 
went  to  Ohio  to  live  with  the  family  of  his 
uncle.  Cntil  he  was  fourteen  years  old  he  was 
sent  to  the  district  school,  working  on  his 
uncle's  farm  during  vacation  intervals.  At  the 
breaking  out  of  the  civil  war  he  went  from  his 
uncle's  home  and  apjilied  for  enlistment.  This 
was  in  the  suiumer  of  1861,  before  be  had  at- 
tained his  fifteenth  birthday.  .Although  (|uile 
large  for  his  years  he  did  not  look  to  be  eighteen 
and  at  the  recruiting  office  the  captain  in  com- 
mand asked  if  he  was  eighteen  years  old.  His 
answer  was  that  he  did  lack  a  little  of  it,  and 
then  was  told,  with  a  smile  from  the  officer, 
that  if  he  were  not  allowed  t(^  enli>t  he  should 


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have  a  chance  to  go  as  a  waiter :  hut  when  the 
company  was  organized  he  was  accepted  with- 
out further  c|uestion.  He  was  mustered  as 
private  in  Company  I.  Twenty-nintli  Ohio  \ol- 
unteer  Infantry,  which  command,  after  re-cn- 
hstment.  became  known  as  "Ohio  N'eteran 
\'ohmtecrs."  Company  \  was  ]icrliaps  one  of 
the  most  shattered  companies  which  ever  enter- 
ed the  service  during  the  war  from  any  state. 
At  the  battle  of  Port  Repubhc.  when  through 
some  misunderstanding  twenty-five  hundred 
Union  men  were  left  alone  to  fight  thirty  thous- 
and Confederate  troo])s.  and  when  the  regi- 
ment (under  cover  of  the  main  army,  which 
had  come  uj)  during  the  retreat )  stacked  arms 
there  were  only  thirteen  men  of  the  regiment 
present :  but  during  the  following  night  a  few 
stragglers  came  in  to  cam]).  Mr.  Abbott  was 
wounded  in  this  engagement  and  for  the  next 
two  months  lay  in  tlie  hospital  at  .Alexandria : 
and  he  was  again  wounded  at  the  battle  of 
North  Edisto  River.  \t  Chancellorsville  his 
regiment  held  its  position  to  the  very  last  and 
was  last  to  leave  the  field.  Among  the  many 
other  important  battles  in  which  he  took  jjart 
there  may  be  mentioned  Shenandoah  \'alley, 
(iettysburg.Dug  (^ap  (  (ieorgia),Resaca  (Geor- 
gia). New  Hope  Church.  Pumpkin  \'ine  Creek. 
Dallas  (Georgia).  Pine  Knot.  Kenesaw  Moun- 
tain. Peachtree  Creek,  and  still  others  might  be 
added  to  the  list.  His  was  the  first  regiment  in 
Savannah  at  the  siege  of  that  city,  and  it  also 
took  part  in  the  siege  of  Atlanta.  Mr.  .Abbott 
receivcid  his  discharge  as  corporal.  July  23. 
1865.  having  served  three  years  eight  months 
ten  days.  He  enjoys  the  pleasant  distinction 
of  having  been  the  youngest  man  serving  the 
longest  time  in  the  whole  army.  It  may  be 
said  incidentally  that  only  one  officer  returned 
v,ith  the  Twenty-ninth  Ohio  who  went  out 
with  it  when  it  was  mustered  into  service  in 
1 861.  .\t  the  end  of  the  war  Mr.  .\bbott  re- 
turned to  Northampton  and  with  his  uncle 
went  into  the  business  of  manufacturing  soap. 
After  four  years  he  removed  to  Holyoke  and 
started  in  business  as  sole  owner  and  proprietor, 
remaining  in  Ilolyoke  until  1888,  when  liis 
factory  was  removed  to  Smith's  Ferry,  where 
it  still  stands  and  he  still  is  owner  and  o])eratnr, 
For  man}'  years  he  has  been  a  prominent  figure 
in  business  circles  in  Ilolyoke  and  is  known  as 
one  of  the  progressive  and  public-s])irited  citi- 
zens of  that  constantly  growing  city.  He  is 
a  Master  Mason,  member  of  Mt.  Tom  Lodge: 
past  commander  of  Kilpatrick  Post,  No.  71, 
Grand  .Army  of  the  Rei)iiblic,  having  served 
five  terms  as  commaiukr.  and  now  is  senior 


vice-commander;  member  of  the  .Sons  of  \'ct- 
erans.  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican.  Mr. 
Abbott  married.  A\n'\\  20,  1869,  Ella  L..  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  M.  and  Submit  (Walker)  Ken- 
ney.  and  by  whom  he  has  eight  children:  i. 
Charles  II..  born  January  29,  1870,  married, 
March  31.  1891.  Harriet  Rowc.  of  Ilolyoke; 
children:  Ruth  K.,  .April  12.  1892:  Pearl  I., 
April  20,  1894;  William  II..  .August  9,  1903. 
2.  Ijernard  F.,  March  24.  1872.  married,  June 
6,  1897,  Lillie  Pickup;  child,  Ilerold  F.,  Janu- 
ary 19.  1900.  3.  \\'i!bur.  March  18.  1874.  died 
.August  9.  1874.  4.  .\nnie  Lee.  February  18, 
187(5.  marriccl.  May  21.  1902.  .Arthur  E.  Picn- 
nctt.  5.  May  Pearl.  May  29.  1S80,  married, 
January  7.  1903.  Frank  Todd:  child,  I'eatrice 
.A..  I'\'bruarv  6,  1904.  6.  Belle  Clara,  January 
8.  1878.  died  October  5.  1878.  7.  Bess"ie  Ken- 
ney,  July  i.  1883.  married.  January  24,  1906, 
Thomas  Kirley:  child.  Bessie  E..  September  6, 
1907.  8.  Fred  Walker.  April  15.  188(1.  mar- 
ried. January  3.  1907,  Emily  D.  Vincent ;  child, 
Charles  H..  September  30,  1907. 


(  !■  or    pi"ere<iilig 


iPiierations   see   Kdmuml    Frost    1). 


(Ill)  Joseph,  son  of  Deacon 
l'l\().'-;r  James  Frost,  was  born  Alarch 
21.  1682-3.  He  was  living  at 
Tewksbury  on  December  i8.  1737.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Ajiril  5.  1710.  .Sarah  Flint,  of 
Charlestown.  daughter  of  John  Flint :  (second) 
December  8.  1718.  Rebecca,  daughter  of  James 
Frost.  Children:  I .  Josejih.  born  January  22, 
171 1-12:  mentioned  below.  2.  Sarah.  May  31. 
1716.  3.  P.enjamin.  March  6,  1717-8.  4.  Ei)h- 
raim.  June  9.  1721. 

(I\')  Joseph  (2 ),  son  of  Josejih  (1)  h'rost, 
was  born  January  22,  1711-2.  and  died  Janu- 
ary 29,  1751.  He  resided  in  Tewksbury,  Nlass- 
achusetts.  He  married.  October  25.  1731.  Abi- 
gail Kittridge,  daughter  of  Daniel.  Children, 
born  at  P.illcrica  and  Tewksbury:  i.  .Abigail, 
March  6.  1733-4.  2.  .Mehitable,  Sejitemher  4. 
1735:  died  January  24.  1736.  3.  Joshua,  .April 
.^-  ^7^7'•  soldier  in  the  revolution.  4.  Joseph, 
I'cbruary  20.  1738:  mentioned  below.  5.  Jon- 
athan, h'ebruary  20.  1740.  6.  Benjamin  (twin), 
I'Vbruary  10,  1742.  7.  Sarah  (twin).  I'ebruary 
10.  1742.  8.  ^Iehitable.  June  4.  1745.  <).  I'-liz- 
abeth  (twin).  .August  i(>.  iJAJ-  i^'  Daniel 
(twin).  .August  16,  1747.  II.  .\bigail.  .\j)ril 
30.  1749. 

(V)  Joseph  (3),  son  of  Joseph  (2)  Fro.st, 
was  born  in  Tewk.sbury.  Massachusetts,  Febru- 
ary 20,  1738-9.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revo- 
lution, in  1779.  in  Captain  Trucll's  company, 
Colonel  Brown's  regiment  (Seventh),  age  given 


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as  forty,  height  five  feet  ten  inches.  He  was 
in  the  service  at  other  times. 

(\T)  Joseph  (4),  son  or  nephew  of  Joseph 
(3)  Fro.st.  was  born  about  1770,  probably  in 
Tewksbury.  In  early  life  he  settled  in  Charle- 
mont,  Massachusetts,  and  was  a  prosperous 
fanner.  He  lived  to  the  age  of  seventy  years. 
He  married  and  had  five  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters. 

(VH)  Elmer,  .son  of  Joseph  (4)  Frost,  was 
born  in  Charlemont.  He  was  educated  in  the 
di.-^trict  schools  there,  and  learned  the  trade 
of  carpenter.  He  settled  in  the  adjacent  town 
of  Ruckland.  Franklin  county,  and  followed 
his  trade  for  a  period  of  thirty  years.  He  then 
bought  a  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Buckland. 
erected  a  house,  barn  and  other  buildings,  and 
followed  farming  the  rest  of  his  life.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  si.xty-five  years.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Democrat,  and  took  an  active  part  in 
town  affairs,  serving  as  assessor,  overseer  of 
the  poor  and  selectman  for  many  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  of  Buckland.  He  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Betsey  (Leonard)  Brackett 
(see  Leonard  and  Brackett).  Children:  Justus 
B..  mentioned  below;  Mary  A..  Sarah.  .Amelia, 
Joseph. 

(VIII)  Justus  ?>.,  son  of  Elmer  Frost,  was 
born  in  Buckland,  December  28,  1821.  He  was 
educated  in  the  pubHc  and  select  schools.  .-At 
the  age  of  sixteen  he  began  to  learn  the  car- 
penter's trade,  and  a  few  years  later  became  a 
contractor  and  builder  on  his  own  account. 
He  entered  jjartnership  with  Samuel  Toby  and 
his  firm  conducted  a  large  business,  employing 
regularly  twenty  carpenters,  and  erecting  many 
buildings  in  Buckland  and  vicinity.  This  firm 
built  the  Congregational  church  and  the  school 
house  at  Buckland.  and  the  brick  school  house 
at  .Shelburne  Falls,  and  many  houses  and  busi- 
ness blocks  in  that  village.  He  was  a  prime 
mover  in  constructing  tlie  waterworks,  bringing 
an  excellent  supply  of  water  from  mountain 
springs.  He  retired  from  the  building  busi- 
ness in  1861.  and  bought  a  farm  and  saw  mill 
in  Buckland.  carrying  on  the  lumber  business 
in  connection  with  his  farm  for  ten  years.  Then 
he  built  the  saw  mil!  and  grist  mill  for  Lam- 
son  &  Cjoodnow.  and  in  partnership  with  \.  W. 
Ward  conducted  these  mills  until  1875,  when 
D.  C.  Bartlett  bought  the  interests  of  Mr. 
Ward.  The  business  was  continued  by  the 
new  firm  until  1895.  ^fr.  Frost  has  also  been 
a  very  successful  merchant,  having  a  store  in 
the  basement  of  the  stone  hotel,  of  which  he 
is  a  part  owner,  and  conducting  an  extensive 


flour  and  grain  business,  wholesale  and  retail. 
He  had  a  livery  stable  in  Shelburne  Falls  for 
twenty-five  years,  and  still  owns  and  manages 
two  farms.  He  was  assessor,  collector  of 
ta.xes  and  selectman,  in  Buckland.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Republican.  He  died  August  19, 
1906.  He  married.  December  31.  1846.  Eve- 
line, daughter  of  Lyman  and  M}Ta  Wood. 
Children,  born  at  Buckland:  i.  Ida,  died  aged 
eighteen.    2.  Ernest  C,  mentioned  below. 

fIX)  Ernest  C,  son  of  Justus  Brackett 
Frost,  was  born  at  Buckland.  .\ugust  28.  1857. 
He  was  educated  there  in  the  public  schools. 
In  1874  he  associated  himself  with  his  father 
in  business  as  miller  and  builder.  In  1876-7 
he  was  connected  with  the  boot  and  shoe  busi- 
ness of  A.  W.  Ward,  at  Shelburne  Falls,  and 
later  succeeded  Mr.  Ward  in  business.  He 
sold  out,  and  for  a  time  was  in  the  employ  of 
Frost  i*^-  Bartlett.  his  father's  firm,  in  the  flour, 
feed  and  grain  business.  In  1893  his  father 
bought  the  interests  of  his  partner,  and  from 
that  time  until  his  father  died,  Ernest  C.  Frost 
was  manager  of  the  business,  and  since  his 
father's  death  has  become  sole  owner.  In  1886 
and  1887  he  traveled  extensively  in  the  western 
states.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  in  relig- 
ion liberal.  He  married,  April  14.  1892.  Ber- 
tha .\.  Winterhalder.  Children,  born  at  Shel- 
burne Falls:  I.  Dorothy  W..  December  27, 
1892.    2.  Roger  B.,  .\pril  i,  1896. 

(The  Brackett  Line). 

Captain  Richard  Brackett,  immigrant  ances- 
tor, was  born,  according  to  his  own  deposition, 
in  1612.  He  was  a  member  of  the  church  in 
ISoston,  Massachusetts,  in  1631-2.  and  was  dis- 
missed to  the  church  in  Braintrec.  December 
5.  1641.  He  was  deacon  of  the  church,  town 
clerk,  magistrate,  deputy  to  tlie  general  court, 
and  a  leading  citizen.  He  died  March  3,  1690. 
aged  eighty  (gravestone).  His  will  was  proved 
December  19.  ir)90.  He  owned  houses  and 
lan(l>  in  Braintree  and  Billerica.  where  several 
of  his  children  settled.  He  married  .Mice 
,  died  November  3,  1690,  aged  seventy- 
six.  Children:  i.  Hannah,  baptized  January 
4.  1635 ;  married  Samuel  Kingslcy.  2.  Peter, 
baptized  May  7.  1637;  married.  .August  7, 
1661.  Elizabeth  Bosworth ;  (second)  March 
30.  1687.  Mrs.  Sarah  Foster.  3.  John,  baptized 
May  7.  1637  (twin)  :  mentioned  below.  4. 
Rachel,  born  November  3.  1639;  married 
Simon  Crosby.  5.  Mary,  born  February  i. 
1642:  married  Jose])h  Thompson,     ft.   James. 

married   Sarah  :   settled   in    Braintree. 

7.  Josiah,  born  July  8,  1652  :  married,  February 


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4,      1672-3.     Elizabeth    Waldo;    removed    to 
Chelmsford.    8.  Sarah,  married  Joseph  Crosby. 

( II )  John,  .-ion  of  Captain  Richard  Brackett. 
was  born  in  Billerica.  and  baptized  May  7, 
1637.  He  married.  September  6.  1661.  Han- 
nah French,  born  about  1643-  tJ't'd  May  9, 
1674.  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
French:  (second)  March  31.  1675.  Ruth,  prob- 
ably daughter  of  Joseph  Ellice. '  He  lived  in 
Billerica,  at  the  corner  on  the  west  side  of  the 
road  between  the  two  brooks.  He  died  March 
18.  1686-7.  Children:  i.  Hannah,  born  De- 
cember I,  1662.  2.  Elizabeth.  June  7.  1664, 
3.  Mary.  February  12.  1665-6:  married,  No- 
vember 27.  1683.  Edward  Spalding,  of  Chelms- 
ford. 4.  Sarah,  December  1 1.  1667.  5.  Rachel, 
September  30,  1669.  6.  Abigail.  December  31, 
1670:  died  January  II  following.  7.  Bathsheba, 
March  10.  1671-2;  died  April  24,  1673.  8. 
Samuel,  March  4,  1672-3.  9.  Sarah,  May  9, 
1674.  Children  of  second  wife  :  10.  John,  born 
January  19,  1675-6;  died  June  24.  1675-6.  11. 
Ebcnezer,  October  19,  1677.  12.  John,  De- 
cember 10.,  1680;  mentioned  below.  13.  Betliia. 
May  25,  1682. 

(III )  John  (2),  son  of  John  (  i)  Brackett, 
was  born  at  Billerica,  December  10,  1680.  He 
married  Rebecca  .  He  lived  at  Brain- 
tree.  Children,  born  at  Braintree :  i.  Rebecca. 
May  24,  1706:  died  July  26,  1710.  2.  John. 
3.  Samuel,  mentioned  below. 

(  I\' )  Samuel,  son  of  Jolin  (2)  Brackett.  was 
born  at  Braintree,  February  25,  171 2-3,  and 
died  at  Stoughton,  Massachusetts,  February  3. 
1799.  He  married,  August  27,  1737,  Abigail 
Stearns. 

(  \')  Samuel  (2).  son  of  Samuel  ( i )  Brack- 
ett, was  born  about  1740.  in  Braintree.  of 
Stoughton :  married,  at  Stoughton.  February 
10,  1765.  Hannah  Clap]).  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  revolution,  sergeant  in  Captain  I'etcr  Tal- 
bfits  company.  Colonel  Lemuel  Robinson's 
regiment,  1775:  also  in  Captain  Robert  Swan's 
company.  Colonel  Benjamin  Gill's  regiment, 
1776.  Child,  Samuel,  mentioned  below;  prob- 
ably others. 

(\"I)  Samuel  (3).  son  of  Samuel  (2) 
Brackett.  was  born  at  .'Stoughton.  January  5, 
1766;  married  I'etsey  Leonard,  born  May  12, 
1765,  died  January  15.  1852  (see  Leonard). 

(The   Leonard   Line). 

The  name  Leonard  is  one  of  those  taken 
from  the  Christian  name,  and  signifies  the  lion- 
hearted.  The  ancient  coat-of-arms  of  the 
family  is:  Or  on  a  fesse  azure  three  fleur-de- 
lis  argent.     Crest:    Out  of  a  ducal  coronet  or 


a  tiger's    head   argent.      Motto:      Memor    ct 
fidelis, 

(I)  Solomon  Leonard,  immigrant  ancestor, 
was  born  about  1610.  in  Monmouthshire,  or 
vicinity,  in  the  soutliwest  of  England,  He 
seems  to  have  gone  first  to  Leyden,  Holland, 
probably  with  his  father,  believed  to  be  Sam- 
uel Leonard.  He  came  to  New  England,  and 
was  engaged  in  the  service  of  the  Colony  Com- 
pany in  Plymouth  for  a  time,  but  became  one 
of  the  early  settlers  of  Duxbury.  where  he  was 
living  when  the  town  was  incorporated  in  1637. 
He  received  a  grant  of  land  there  in  1638,  and 
was  adniitted  a  freeman  in  1643.  The  same 
year  he  was  on  a  list  of  those  able  to  bear  arms. 
He  spelled  his  name  Lenner,  and  sometimes 
Lennerson.  He  became  one  of  the  earliest 
proprietors  an<l  settlers  of  Bridgewater,  where 
he  lived  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was  a  weaver 
by  trade.  He  married  Mary  .  Chil- 
dren:      I.    Samuel,    married     (first)     .\bigail 

Wood;    (second)    Deborah  .     2.  John, 

born  about  1645;  married  Sarah  (Chandler?). 

3.  Jacob,  mentioned  below.     4.  Isaac,  married 

Deliverance .      5.    Solomon,    married 

Mar\- .    6.  Mary,  married  December  24, 

1673.  Jolin  Pollard. 

(II)  Jacob,  son  of  Solomon  Leonard,  was 
born  about  1647.  It  is  said  that  he  was  one  of 
the  earliest  settlers  at  Worcester,  but  was 
iloubtless  driven  out  by  the  Indians  and  lived 
in  Bridgewater  again.  He  was  in  Weymouth 
in  1679,  where  two  daughters  were  born.  In 
1 68 1  he  sold  certain  tracts  of  his  Bridgewater 
property  to  John  .Mdrich.  and  in  exchange 
took  John  Aldricli's  place  in  Mendon.  On  the 
second  attenTi)t,  to  settle  Worcester,  Jacob 
Leonard  located  in  1^)84-5.  '"  ll'<-'  vicinity  of 
Lake  Quinsigamond.  About  May  i,  1693,  the 
Indians  being  troublesome,  they  went  back  to 
I'.ridgcwater.  He  lived  for  a  short  time  in 
Taunton,  .\orth  Purchase  (now  Easton).  His 
will  was  dated  December  14,  1716,  and  proved 
December  19,  1717.  He  married  (first)  Phebe, 
daughter  of  Roger  Chandler:  (  secontl )  Sus- 
anna King,  born  in  Weymouth,  May  6,  1659, 
died  in  Bridgewater.  daughter  of  .Samuel  and 
Ex|)erience  (Phillii>s)  King,  and  granddaugh- 
ter of  John  King,  an  original  proprietor  of 
Mendon.  Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Joseph, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Josiah.  Children  of  sec- 
ond wife:  3.  .Vbigail,  born  in  Weymouth.  No- 
vember II,  1680:  married  Thomas  Washburn. 

4.  Susannah,  born  in  Weymouth.  December 
24,  1683;  died  November  19,  1764:  married, 
March  22,  1714,  Ebenezer  Hill.  5.  Experience. 
6.  Mary,  married,  November  27,  1719,  Benja- 


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min  Willis.  7.  Solomon,  born  in  Bridgewater, 
1693;  (lied  May  29,  1761  ;  married,  1730,  Eliz- 
abeth Perkins.  8,  Sarah,  born  in  Bridgewater, 
June  II,  ir)99  :  married,  February  27,  1720-1. 
"William  Orcutt.  9.  Jacob,  born  in  Bridgewater, 
Iiine  13,  1702:  died  December  6,  1722. 

(Ill)  Joseph,  .son  of  Jacob  Leonard,  was 
born  about  1670,  and  died  January  29,  1749. 
He  and  his  wife  are  buried  in  the  old  Bridge- 
water  burying  ground.  He  resided  in  Bridge- 
water,  and  married,  in  1695,  Martha  Orcutt, 
born  in  Scituate.  in  1671,  died  September  30, 
1752,  daughter  of  William  and  Martha  Orcutt. 
Cluldren:  i.  Joseph,  born  1696:  mentioned 
below.  2.  Ephraim,  married,  September  16. 
1720,  Martha  Perkins.  3.  Martha,  married, 
October  7,  1734,  Ebenezer  Eddy. 

(TV)  Joseph  (2),  .son  of  Joseph  (i)  Leon- 
ard, was  born  in  1696,  and  died  in  Bridge- 
water,  .\pril  28,  1786.  He  was  a  prosperous 
farmer,  and  active  in  church  affairs.  He  mar- 
ried, Se])teniber  14,  1721.  Mary  Packard,  born 
1696,  died  March  29,  1770,  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel Packard.  Children:  I.  Mary,  born 
July  25,  1722;  died  young.  2.  Sarah,  born 
October  15,  1723;  married,  December  20,  1743, 
Isaac  Pool.  3.  Dan,  born  July  29,  1725 ;  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Seth,  born  March  i,  1727; 
(lied  1755.  5.  Mary,  born  February  2,  1729: 
died  voung.  6.  Joseph,  born  November  I, 
1730:  (lied  October  11,  1793;  married,  January 
31,  1750,  Huldah  Dean.  7.  Benjamin,  born 
October  21,  1732;  died  November  22,  1813  : 
married  (first)  1756,  Keturah  Briggs ;  (sec- 
ond) February  17, 1760,  Mary  RenefTe  ;  (third) 
l^'olly  Bosworth.  8.  David  (twin),  born  July 
29.  1734:  died  November  24,  1813:  married. 
May  24,  1770,  Mary  Hall.  9.  Jonathan,  born 
July  29,  1734  (twin  )  :  died  December  31,  1813  ; 
married,  .'\i)ril  25,  1758,  .Martha  Washburn. 
10.  Simeon,  born  November  24.  1737;  died 
September  20,  1793;  married,  April  10.  I7('>4, 
Anna  Smith. 

(  \')  Dan,  son  of  Joseph  Leonard,  was  born 
July  29,  1725,  and  died  in  1771.  He  was  a 
drummer  in  the  French  war,  and  was  with 
Ceneral  Winslow  in  1755  in  Nova  Scotia,  lie 
lived  on  the  Darius  Dunbar  place  in  Bridge- 
water.  He  married,  November  i,  1750.  Mary 
Dunbar,  born  1730,  daughter  of  James  and 
h".x|)erience    (Hayward)    Dunbar.      Children: 

1.  Mary,  born  March  26,  171 1;  died  October 

2,  1842:  married  (first)  September  22,  1772, 
Ichabod  Warren:  (second)  March  28.  1777. 
Ca|)tain  Thomas  Delano.  2.  Dan,  born  June 
iC).  1752;  died  May  7,  1837:  married,  October 
15.  1775,  Hope  CIai>p   (2nd).     3.  Experience, 


born  November  13,  1753:  died  August  15, 
1846;  married,  1773,  Luther  Redding.  4. 
Pliebe,  born  April  27,  1755;  married,  Septem- 
ber 27,  1778,  Joseph  Delano.  5.  Ziba,  born 
October  13.  1756:  died  July  7,  1845;  married. 
May  5,  1783,  Chloe  Shaw.  6.  Josiah,  born 
.\ugust  8,  1758  :  died  November  29,  1839  :  mar- 
ried, May  13,  1784,  Lurania  Keith.  7.  Kezia, 
born  January  21,  1760;  died  young.  8.  Betsey, 
born  May  12,  1765;  died  January  15,  1852: 
married  Samuel  Brackett  (see  Brackett  and 
Frost).  9.  Calvin,  born  December  27,  1767; 
died  June  29,  1839 ;  married,  August  22,  1796, 
Sally  Temple.  10.  Sarah,  born  August  4, 1768 ; 
died  May  22,  1833:  married,  Oct(jber  2^.  1788, 
Isaac  Shepard.  11.  Rosamond,  married  Na- 
than Shaw.  12.  Ichabod,  born  July  11,  1771  ; 
died  .August  30,  1856:  married,  (Ictober  15, 
1795,  Sarah  Sterns. 


Michael  Bright,  immigrant  an- 
BRIGHT      ce.stor  of  the  liright  families  of 

Dedham,  Needham,  Canton  and 
Stoughton.  Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land in  1706,  and  died  at  Dedham,  Massachu- 
setts. March  5,  1785.  When  a  young  man  he 
was  impressed  into  the  service  of  the  king  and 
sent  to  New  England,  where  he  served  in  the 
war  with  the  French.  He  deserted  from  his 
ship  while  it  was  lying  in  Boston  harbor,  and 
hid  in  a  barn  which  is  now  standing  on  Elm 
street  in  Canton.  I!ater  he  enlisted  and  served 
in  the  expedition  against  Cape  Breton  in  1754, 
and  at  Crown  Point  in  1755;  at  the  age  of 
fifty-three  years  he  enlisted  in  Captain  Frank 
lirentorales's  company  at  Dedham,  in  1759; 
and  .August  25.  1 761,  in  Captain  Thomas  Pea- 
bodv's  company.  He  settled  at  Dedham,  where 
he  lived  with  his  son-in-law,  William  Davels, 
where  he  died,  and  is  buried  in  the  Red  Ceme- 
tery. He  was  married,  at  Dedham,  March  31, 
1743,  by  Rev.  Thomas  Balch,  to  Mrs.  Thank- 
ful Warren,  who  died  December  4,  1789.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Michael,  see  forward.  2.  Elizabeth, 
born  .\ugu.st  I,  1745:  died  1829:  married. 
March  5,  1768,  Elias  Haven,  of  Wrentham ; 
children:  Elias,  Philemon,  Betsey,  Mary  and 
Susan.  3.  Mary,  born  December  13,  1746,  died 
in  .\pril,  1833;  married,  July  24,  1770,  Will- 
iam Davels.  Jr..  of  Dedham.  Massachusetts. 

(H)  Michael,  eldest  child  and  only  son  of 
Michael  and  Thankful  (Warren)  Bright,  was 
born  in  Dedham,  March  13,  1744,  and  died 
May  20,  1813.  He  was  auK^ng  the  early  set- 
tlers of  Needham,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
purchased  a  piece  of  land  and  established  his 
homestead,  being  an  active  and  energetic  man, 


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and  followed  fanning  throughout  his  life, 
although  he  was  attlicted  with  lameness  during 
his  last  years.  He  served  during  the  war  of 
the  revolution,  enlisting  from  Xeedham,  Janu- 
ary 30.  1776,  as  private  in  Captain  Hoi)estill 
Hall's  company.  Colonel  Lemuel  Rohinson's 
regiment,  service  twenty-two  days :  rolls  dated 
Dorchester  and  Roxhury.  He  was  also  a  pri- 
vate in  Captain  James  Marten's  company.  Col- 
onel Pierces'  regiment,  enlisting  March  12. 
1778.  discharged  April  4,  1778,  at  Governor's 
Island.  He  was  chosen  tield  driver,  March  9, 
1789.  and  March  17,  1794;  tithingman.  March 
14,  1791.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Church  of  Xeedham.  and  lived  about  three 
miles  from  that  structure.  He  married.  De- 
cember 29.  1768,  .-\bigail  Davenport,  born  in 
Dorchester.  1743.  died  in  Milford.  1825.  and 
is  buried  in  Xeedham.  Her  father  was  a  chair- 
maker.  She  was  a  very  capable  woman,  but 
was  afflicted  with  blindness  for  ten  years  prior 
to  her  death.  Children:  i.  Cate,  born  March 
18.  1770:  tnarried  (first),  June  9.  1802,  Amos 

Fuller    Jr.,     (second ) (Godfrey.      2. 

Michael,  born  September  21,  1772.  died  Octo- 
ber 10.  1792.  3.  Salla.  born  May  28,  1774. 
(lied  October  10.  1857:  married  Joshua  P.art- 
lett,  of  Xewton.     4.   Samuel,  born   .\pril  2^, 

1782,  died  in   1808;  married  Harriet  , 

who  died  in   1807.     5.  Jesse,  see  forward. 

(HI)  Jesse,  youngest  child  of  Michael  and 
.■\bigail  (Davenport)  Piright.  was  born  at  Xeed- 
ham. August  22,  1784,  and  died  at  Stoughton, 
September  26,  1857.  Until  the  age  of  seven 
years  he  lived  on  the  farm  of  his  father,  and 
was  then  |)Ut  out  to  work  and  attended  the 
district  school ;  later  he  lived  with  a  sister  at 
Xewton.  with  whom  he  remained  until  he  was 
fifteen  years  of  age,  when  he  returned  to  Xeed- 
ham, and  had  one  winter's  instruction  at  the 
district  school.  I  Fe  subse(|uently  workerl  in 
Brookline  and  Brighton,  where  he  was  married. 
He  was  of  an  economical  and  saving  disposi- 
tion, and  during  the  years  of  his  employment 
managed  to  accumulate  sufficient  means  to 
purchase  a  small  farm ;  as  he  was  a  minor  his 
father  had  the  deed  made  out  in  his  own  name, 
and  Jesse  later  lost  all  his  hard-earned  wealth, 
as  his  father  in  his  will  gave  this  property  to 
one  of  his  daughters.  He  then  left  the  [)arental 
roof  and  settled  in  Canton  about  181 2-3,  work- 
ed there  until  1842,  when  he  removed  to 
Stoughton  and  leased  a  farm  one  mile  from 
Brockton,  known  as  the  Luther  Swan  place, 
and  there  resided  until  his  death.  His  life  was 
strictly  honorable ;  he  possessed  great  deter- 
mination, and  was  devoted  to  his  h«me  and 


family.  He  served  in  tiie  militia  at  Canton, 
was  orthocLo.x  in  his  religious  views  and  a 
Democrat  in  politics.  He  married,  December 
31,  i8o9,at  Canton,  Rebecca,  born  at  Dedham. 
April  19.  1787.  died  at  StotighKjn.  July  i.  1876, 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Bright) 
Savels,  the  former  a  shoemaker  and  farmer. 
Children:  i.  Michael,  see  forward.  2.  Samuel, 
born  May  12.  1813,  died  August  2.  1888:  mar- 
ried (  first )  October  (\  1836.  Clarissa  Shepard ; 
children:  i.  Frank,  born  Xovember  12,  1837, 
married  Elizabeth  West;  ii.  Alonzo.  born  June 
27.  1840;  iii.  Horace;  iv.  Maria;  v.  .\ddie. 
Samuel  married  (second)  Mrs.  Maria  (  Blake) 
Packard:  children:  vi.  Blanche  Lillian,  mar- 
ried Fred.  H.  P.isbee;  vii.  John,  died  aged  nine- 
teen years.  3.  Rebecca,  born  .August  9,  1816, 
died  .April  30,  1837.  4.  \\'arren,  born  April 
C).  1819,  died  September  17.  1900;  married, 
September  18,  1845,  ^^rs-  Elmira  (Pitcher) 
liriggs ;  child:  Blanche  Warren,  born  Sep- 
tember. 1850.  married  Leander  Bretton.  5. 
Sarah,  born  September  22,  i8ii,  died  Janu- 
ary 20,  1861  ;  married,  Xovember.  1S43.  Elias 
Went  worth.  6.  .\bby  Davenport,  born  July 
16.  182S;  married,  June  17,  iHfr).  Samuel 
Cajjen,  second. 

( I\')  Michael  (2),  eldest  child  of  Jes.se  and 
Rebecca  (Savels)  Bright,  was  born  at  Xatick, 
.August  18,  1810,  and  died  at  Franklin,  Alassa- 
chusctts,  April,  1879.  He  was  very  young 
when  his  ])arcnts  moved  to  Canton,  where  he 
attended  the  district  school,  atid  was  still  (|uite 
a  lad  when  he  engaged  himself  to  Rlisha  Wliite, 
a  wealthy  citizen  of  the  town,  on  whose  farm 
he  remained  until  the  age  of  twenty-one  years. 
He  then  worked  for  various  peoi)le.  removing 
to  Stoughton,  where  he  lived  until  1838,  when 
he  returned  to  Canton  and  was  engaged  in 
farming  there  imtil  1843.  ^^'^  t'''^"  removed 
to  Sharon,  where  he  bought  a  farm  known  as 
the  old  DrajK-r  i)lacc,  and  engaged  in  market 
gardening,  in  which  he  was  very  successful  as 
a  grower  of  small  fruits  including  strawberries, 
also  melons  and  early  vegetables,  and  found 
a  ready  market  for  his  products  in  the  vicinity. 
In  1867  he  removed  to  Avon,  Maine,  where  he 
was  associated  with  his  sons  in  farming,  in 
187 1  going  with  his  son  Warren  to  Franklin, 
and  was  associated  with  him  initil  the  time  of 
his  death.  He  was  a  home-loving  man  and 
beUjved  Ijy  his  family.  He  and  his  family 
attended  the  Methodist  church  of  Franklin. 
Politically  lie  was  affiliated  first  with  the  Whig 
party,  and  later  with  the  Republicans,  i  le 
married,  at  Canton,  Augtist  15,  1830,  Elvira 
Richards,  born  .April  28.  1809.  died  at  Sharon, 


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A])ril,  iS(i3.  and  u  ho  lived  during  her  girlhood 
at  the  home  of  Samuel  Wales,  of  Stoughton. 
Children:  i.  Samuel  Wales,  born  May  27, 
1831,  died  at  Jackson,  California,  December  1 1, 
1907;  he  was  a  beef  merchant  and  ranchman, 
and  married,  June,  i860,  Martha  Bradbury. 
2.  Mary  Wales,  born  May  20,  1832;  married, 
September  24,  1854,  William  F.  Smith ;  chil- 
dren :  i.  Artliur  William,  born  December  23, 
1855:  ii.  Fred  Morville,  born  November  13, 
1857,  died  October  6,  1859;  iii.  Lizzie  Fostina, 
born  November  29,  1858,  died  January  15, 
1863;  iv.  George  Channing,  born  October  3, 
i860,  died  April  2,  1889;  v.  Elsie  May,  born 
March  i,  1867,  married,  November  28,  1889, 
Alden  Taylor  Warren;  children:  a.  Clarence 
Addison,  born  October  30,  1891  ;  b.  Helen, 
born  August  24,  1893,  died  January  9,  1894; 

c.  Alden  Taylor,  Jr.,  born  December  4,  1895; 

d.  Sylvia  Adams,  born  August  31,  1897;  e. 
Rutli  Elsie,  born  December  31,  1899.  3.  Eliz- 
abeth Hodges,  born  at  Canton,  died  in  infancy. 
4.  Elizabeth  Hodges,  born  March  27,  1835; 
married.  May  i,  1867,  John  Mason  Metcalf; 
children  :  i.  Fred  Morville,  born  August  27, 
1877:  ii.  liertha  j\lay,  born  June  19,  1881.  5. 
Sarah  A..])orn  .April,  1837,  died  June  26.  1838. 
6.  Thomas  Wales,  born  .August  15,  1838,  died 
May  I,  1893:  married,  January  4,  1857,  Ellen 
Tenney  ;  children  :  i.  Nellie  Frances,  born  July 
16,  1857,  married  Edward  Curran  and  had  a 
child,  Edward  ;  ii.  Harriet  F.,  born  December 
20,  1858,  died  March  12,  i860;  iii.  Hattie  Au- 
gusta, born  .September  6,  1861,  died  May  3, 
1907,  married  .\lvin  Cluer  and  has  children : 
a.  Dai.sy,  born  April  30,  1883;  b.  Florence, 
born  December  25,  1889;  c.  Grace,  twin  of 
Florence ;  iv.  Mary,  married  Webster  Smith  ; 
V.  nianche,  married  El  win  Dunbar  and  has 
children  :  Dorothy  and  Helen.  7.  Daniel  W^eb- 
ster.  born  May  20,  1839,  died  May  6,  1863,  in 
New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  during  the  civil  war ; 
married  Laura  Smith.  8.  Warren  Henry,  see 
forward.  9.  Abbie  Morse,  born  July  31,  1843, 
died  .April  25,  1869.  10.  Edwin  Thompson,  a 
sketch  of  whom  follows.  11.  Frederick,  born 
October  4,  1847,  died  .April  10,  1901  ;  married 
(first)  June  6,  1874,  Laura  Beals,  and  has  a 
son,  Herbert  N.,  who  was  born  in  1875  and 
married,   December  25,    igoi.   Inga    E.    Kay; 

married  (second)  Mrs. Pond  and  has  a 

tion,  Raymond.  12.  \\'illar(l  ."-^umiier,  horn  Feb- 
ruary 3,  1850,  married  .^arah  .\dams.  13. 
Charles  Francis,  born  .April  24.  1852,  married 
Alice  Jolinson. 

I  \' )    Warren  Henry,  fourth  son  and  eighth 
child  of  Miciiael  and  Elvira  (  Richards)  Bright, 


was  born  in  Canton,  the  original  home  of  the 
immigrant  ancestor  of  the  family.  August  4, 
184 1,  and  died  in  Franklin,  Massachusetts,  May 
6,  1907.  He  was  three  years  old  when  his 
parents  removed  to  Sharon,  and  he  there 
attended  the  district  school  until  fifteen  years 
of  age,  working  on  the  farm  a  part  of  the 
time ;  he  then  attended  the  winter  sessions  until 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  being  engaged  in 
farming  during  the  summer  months.  At  this 
time  he  obtained  a  position  in  the  Lothrop 
knife  shop  in  Sharon,  and  at  the  end  of  one 
year  enlisted  as  a  private  at  Readville,  in  the 
Eleventh  Massachusetts  Battery,  October  31, 
1863.  After  a  short  stay  in  camp  the  battery 
was  ordered  to  the  front  and  although  he  was 
not  promoted,  he  served  in  the  front  ranks  of 
his  company  until  his  discharge  at  the  close 
of  the  war,  June  25.  1865.  His  first  active 
experience  on  the  battlefield  was  at  the  battle 
of  the  Wilderness,  May  5  to  7,  1864,  and  this 
was  followed  by  the  engagement  at  Spottsyl- 
vania.  Then  in  succession  he  was  present  at 
the  following:  North  Anna  River,  Cold  Har- 
bor, Petersburg,  and  the  beginning  of  the  siege 
by  Grant,  until  the  close  of  the  war.  During 
the  time  preceding  the  surrender  of  Lee,  Mr. 
Bright  was  constantly  in  active  service,  being 
in  tiie  engagements  of  Deep  Bottom,  New- 
market, Alalvern  Hill.  Weldon  Railroad  and 
Fort  Stedman.  He  was  at  one  time  in  the 
smallpox  hospital  at  Georgetown.  After  his 
discharge  from  the  army  he  returned  to  his 
home  at  Sharon,  subsec|uently  going  to  Phillips, 
Maine,  where  he  and  his  brother-in-law,  Will- 
iam Smith,  engaged  in  the  making  of  barrel 
hoops,  then  a  thriving  industry  of  that  town 
during  the  winter  months.  In  the  spring  of 
1866  he  and  his  brother  Frederick  purchased 
a  fifty-acre  farm  at  .Avon,  Maine,  where  they 
were  engaged  in  lumbering  and  hoop  making, 
finding  a  ready  market  for  the  hoops  at  Port- 
land, Maine.  He  sold  his  interest  to  Frederick 
and  removed  to  I'Vanklin.  Massachusetts,  in 
1 87 1,  locating  on  the  John  Metcalf  homestead, 
and  a  year  later  bought  the  farm  on  which  he 
died.  Mr.  I'.right  entered  extensively  into  the 
market  garden  business  and  later  in  the  wood 
and  lumber  business,  purchasing  large  tracts 
of  land  and  wholesaling  his  products.  He  was 
a  prominent  factor  in  the  business  world  of 
that  section,  was  keenly  interested  in  the  affairs 
of  his  adojHed  town,  and  always  had  an 
eye  to  the  greatest  good  to  the  greatest 
number.  In  addition  to  his  home  farm  of 
fifty-five,  acres  he  owned  two  others  of 
si.\ty-fivc  and  forty-five  acres  respectively,  and 


MASSACIirSF/lTS. 


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eiglity-tive  acres  of  other  laiul.  He  served 
liis  town  as  overseer  of  llie  poor  for  a 
period  of  nine  years,  was  assessor  in  1895.  ^n^ 
was  frct|iK'ntly  solicited  to  act  as  selectman, 
but  always  declined.  Me  was  a  member  of 
I'ranklin  Tost,  Xo.  to.  Grand  .\rmy  of  the 
Republic:  of  King  David  Lodge,  Xo.  71,  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  Franklin ; 
and  an  active  and  valued  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist church.  He  married  (first)  May  9.  1866, 
Mary  Elizabeth,  born  at  .\von,  Maine.  F~ebru- 
ary  i.  1845,  'l'<-"d  ''t  Franklin.  Massachusetts. 
December  18.  1886.  daughter  of  .Stephen  and 
Susan  (  Rowe )  I'eary.  Children:  i.  Etlna 
Amanda,  borii  F-"(.'l)ruary  13.  1867;  is  a  teacher 
in  -Maine  Conference  ^>eminary.  liucksport.  2. 
Susie  Amanda,  born  July  i,  1869;  married, 
June  26.  1893.  Roy  C.  Southworth.  3.  Ina  .A., 
born  December  4.  1870,  died  August  13,  1871. 
4.  Anna  Relle.  born  April  14.  1872:  married, 
June  8.  1898,  Charles  H.  Prince:  children:  i. 
Helen  I!right.  born  January  31,  i(;oo;  ii.  Mar- 
ion Chaffee.  October  3.  1901.  5.  ^label  1..  born 
December  29.  1873.  died  July  7,  1875.  6. 
Elvira  Frances,  born  August  20.  1875:  mar- 
ried. December  5.  1896.  George  FVancis  Rivero  ; 
children :  i.  Edwin  Francis,  born  Xovember  3, 
1897:  ii.  Irwin  Warren.  F"ebruary  8,  1901  ;  iii. 
Lester  Elmer.  October  15.  1902;  iv.  Emily 
May.  .September  18.  1904.  7.  Henry  James, 
born  February  24.  1877.  died  October  18,  1904. 
8.  Mary  Elsie,  born  June  8.  1879:  married, 
July  23,  1901,  Silas  .Arthur  Cook;  children:  i. 
Wesley  \Varren,  born  .August  16,  1902;  ii. 
Edith  Evangeline,  -August  20,  1904;  iii.  Esther 
Elizabeth.  July  3,  1907.  9.  Harry  Raymond, 
born  F^ebruary  7,  1881.  -Mr.  I'.right  married 
(second)  January  8.  1891.  .\gnes  .Marie,  born 
F'ebruary  10,  1865,  daughter  of  Henry  Jerome 
and  Rebecca  I*-lizabeth  (Crosby)  Trask,  the 
former  a  farmer  and  owner  of  a  saw  mill. 
Child.  Karl  .Aubrey,  born  December  12,  1892. 

(\')  Edwin  Thompson,  fifth  son  and  tenth 
child  of  Michael  and  Elvira  ( fiichards  )  Bright, 
was  born  at  Xorth  Sharon,  Massachusetts,  De- 
cember 10.  1845.  His  elementary  schooling 
was  obtained  in  the  district  school,  and  he 
assisted  on  his  father's  farm  until  he  was 
fourteen  years  old.  Two  years  later  he  entered 
the  employ  of  Morse  llrothers.  makers  of  Ris- 
ing Sun  .Stove  Polish,  remaining  in  this  posi- 
tion four  years.  He  then  had  charge  of  a  trip 
hammer  for  a  year  in  the  -Ames  Shovel  Works 
at  Canton,  at  the  end  of  this  time  removing  to 
I-Vanklin.  where  he  worked  two  years  in  the 
straw  shoj)  of  H.  M.  Cireen.  then  went  to 
-Attleboro.  Massachusetts,  in   i8''i9,  where  for 


eighteen  months  he  learned  the  jewelry  busi- 
ness with  D.  11.  .Smith,  subse<iuently  entering 
the  em])loy  of  Sturdy  Brothers  to  learn  the 
enameling  trade,  and  was  with  this  firm  twelve 
years.  .After  two  years  spent  in  the  same  work 
for  the  Watson  &  -\ewell  Company,  Mr. 
Bright,  in  1884,  commenced  this  business  for 
himself,  and  was  successful  from  the  outset. 
He  worked  for  many  of  the  leading  jewelers 
of  .Attleboro,  but  in  1898  his  business,  together 
with  many  others,  was  totally  destroyed  by 
fire.  W  ith  the  insurance  money  that  he  re- 
ceived he  again  started  in  the  same  business, 
occupying  various  localities  until  January,  1909, 
when  he  removetl  to  new  and  more  commodious 
(juarters  in  the  Ingraham  building,  where  he 
is  now  established.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  E.  D.  Ciilmore  &  Company,  manu- 
facturing rings,  pins,  brooches,  etc.,  the  other 
members  of  the  firm  being:  E.  D.  Gilmore 
and  \\  illiam  L.  King,  also  located  in  the  Ingra- 
ham l)uiiiiing.  -Mr.  Bright  served  in  the  state 
militia  while  living  at  Canton.  He  is  a  Re]Hib- 
licaii  in  politics,  a  member  of  the  First  Congre- 
tional  Ciuirch  at  .Attleboro.  Fie  is  a  charter 
member  of  Oriental  Lodge,  No.  165,  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  a  member  of 
the  -Ancient  Order  of  L'nited  Workmen.  He 
married,  .\pril  2,  1874,  Ida  Cora,  born  F'ebru- 
ary  18,  1852,  daughter  of  (jcorge  R.  Gilmore, 
and  they  had  one  child,  i  larold  (iilmore.  born 
-Xovember  14,  1874,  died  at  the  age  of  three 
davs. 


This  is  a  name  which  lias  been 
ADAM.S  conspicuous  in  the  early  annals 
of  .Xew  Iingland,  and  is  still 
well-kn<iwM  in  the  leading  walks  of  life  through- 
out the  l'nited  States.  There  were  several 
immigrants  bearing  the  name  and  nearlv  .ill 
have  left  a  numerous  |jrogeny. 

(  1  )  John  .Adams  came  from  luigland  in  the 
shij)  "F'ortune"  and  arrived  at  Plymouth,  Mass- 
achusetts, Xovember  9.  1621.  He  was  a  sharer 
in  the  division  of  lands  in  if')23  and  in  the 
division  of  cattle  in  1627.  He  died  in  1633  and 
the  inventory  nf  his  estate  made  by  John  \Vins- 
low  and  John  Jenny,  amounting  to  seventy-one 
pounds  and  fmirteen  shillings,  was  returned  on 
October  24.  of  that  year.  lie  married  Eleanor 
lor  I'-llen )  Xewton,  who  came  in  the  shi]) 
".Anne"  and  their  children  were:  i.  James, 
mentioned  below.  2.  John,  married,  in  1634, 
Jane  James,  lived  in  .Marshfield  and  subse- 
quently in  Flushing,  Long  Island.  3.  Susanna. 
.After  the  death  of  John  .Arlams.  his  widf)w 
marrierl  (second;  in  June.  1634.  Kenelm  Wins- 


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low,  brotlicr  of  (iovernor  Edward  Wlnslow. 
She  survived  him  and  died  at  Marshfield,  De- 
cember 5,  i()8i,  aged  eighty-three  years.  The 
children  of  Kenelm  and  Eleanor  Winslow 
were:  I.  Kenelm,  married  Mercy  Warden, 
and  lived  in  'Yarmouth  (now  Brewster).  2. 
Ellen,  became  the  wife  of  Samuel  Baker.  3. 
Nathaniel,  married  Faith  Miller,  and  lived  in 
Marshfield.  4.  Job,  a  shipwright,  living  at 
Swansey  and  Freetown. 

(II)  James,  eldest  child  of  John  and  Eleanor 
(Xewton)  Adams,  was  born  about  1625  in 
Plymouth,  and  is  found  on  the  list  of  those 
capable  of  bearing  arms  in  that  colony  in  1643, 
as  accredited  to  the  town  of  Marshfield.  He 
lived  in  that  town  but  was  connected  with  the 
Second  church  of  Scituate,  where  his  children 
were  baptized.  On  June  10,  1651,  he  acknowl- 
edged the  receipt  from  Kenelm  Winslow  of 
five  pounds  which  was  to  be  paid  him  when 
he  arrived  at  age.  He  probabl_\-  lived  subse- 
(|uently  at  Concord,  Massachusetts.  He  mar- 
ried, June  16,  1646,  Frances  \'assall,  daughter 
of  \\illiam  \'assall,  one  of  the  patentees  of 
Massachusetts  and  an  assistant  to  Governor 
Cradock.  In  answer  to  her  petition,  the  gen- 
eral court  of  Massachusetts  on  May  25,  1672, 
granteil  to  h" ranees  Adams,  wife  of  James 
Adams,  and  daughter  of  the  late  William  \'as- 
sall,  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  land.  This 
grant  was  located  in  Lunenburg,  and  the  plan 
or  survey  was  returned  and  a])]iroved  by  the 
general  court,  May  7,  1673.  In  this  [jroceeding 
the  grantee  was  called  Frances  .\dams  of  Con- 
cord. No  record  of  her  death  or  that  of  her 
husband  appears.  They  had  at  least  five  chil- 
dren, all  of  whom  were  bajjtized  in  Scituate, 
namely:  William,  born  May  16,  1647;  Anna, 
A]>T\\  18,  i'')4g:  Richard,  mentioned  below: 
Mary,  January  27,  1653:  Margaret,  baptized 
March  18,  1654. 

(III)  Richard,  second  .son  of  James  and 
I'rances  (\'assall)  Adams,  was  born  April  19, 
165!.  in  Marshfield,  and  baptized  on  the  27th 
of  the  same  month  in  Scituate.  Very  little 
record  can  be  found  concerning  him.  He 
jirnbably  removed  to  Rhode  Island.  He  mar- 
ried Reljccca  Davis,  but  no  record  of  her  birth 
or  parentage  has  been  discovered. 

(IV)  \\'illiam.  son  of  Richard  and  Rebecca 
(Davis)  .^dams,  was  born  in  1690,  and  died 
in  1727.  He  jirobably  resided  in  or  near  Can- 
terbury, Connecticut.  He  married  Susanna 
Woodward,  born  in  1693.  died  .Xpril  29,  1790, 
and  was  buried  at  South  Canterbury,  Connecti- 
cut.    .\fter  the  death  of  William  .\dams,  she 


became  the  second  wife  of  Joseph  Adams,  the 
marriage  taking  place  .April  4,   1728. 

(  \  )  Phinehas,  son  of  William  and  Susanna 
(  \\  oodward  )  .Adams,  was  born  about  1725, 
and  lived  in  that  i)art  of  Old  Norwich,  Con- 
necticut, which  is  now  Lisbon.  The  records 
say  that  he  was  there  married,  December  31, 
1 75 1,  to  Lydia,  daughter  of  Colonel  Jabez 
Fitch,  of  Canterbury.  She  was  born  January 
20.  1734,  and  died  July  14.  1820  (see  Brad- 
ford). They  had  children  born  as  follows: 
William,  October  17,  1752.  .\sael,  September 
13.  1754.  married  Alice  .Avery.  Abigail,  De- 
cember 7,  1756,  married  Septimus  Lathrup. 
Lydia.  December  22,  1758.  died  young.  Lydia, 
February  16.  1759.  W'eltheon,  February  22, 
1760.  married  Joshua  Bishop.  Phinehas,  Au- 
gust 17,  1762.  Roger,  November  6,  1764. 
Jabez.  mentioned  below.  Fitch,  January  20, 
1772.  Lydia,  May  4,  1774,  married  William 
Sergeant.  .Alice,  October  8,  1776,  married 
.Simeon  T.  Rudd. 

(\I)  Jabez.  fifth  son  of  Phinehas  and 
Lydia  (Fitch)  Adams,  was  born  .August  23, 
1768,  in  Lisbon,  died  in  Alansfield  Center,  Con- 
necticut, May  24,  1848.  He  was  for  many 
years  a  physician  in  Mansfield  Center,  where 
he  was  for  a  considerable  portion  of  the  time 
associated  with  Dr.  Earl  Swift.  He  married 
(first)  .April  10,  1793,  Lucy  Swift,  born  Au- 
gust 27,  1772.  died  January  11.  1814,  daughter 
of  Barzillai  Swift,  of  Mansfield  Center.  He 
married  (second)  in  Pom  fret,  Connecticut, 
-Ajjril  12,  1815,  Lucy,  daughter  of  Jedediah 
Ensworth  of  that  town.  She  died  in  Mansfield 
Center,  July  14,  1871.  Children  of  first  wife: 
T.  1  iarriett.  born  .August  25,  1794,  died  Decem- 
ber 18.  1844.  2.  Henry.  March  20.  1796.  died 
.April  29.  1858.  3.  .\i)igail  L.,  l-"ebruary  28, 
179S.  died  October  i,  1813.  4.  Lucy.  Decem- 
ber 13.  1799,  died  June  8,  1880.  5.  Jabez,  Jan- 
uary II,  1802,  died  February  11,  1802.  6. 
Washington,  January  6,  1803,  died  October  3. 
1813.  7.  Eliza,  .April  23,  1805,  died  1879.  8. 
David  -A.,  mentioned  below.  9.  Sarah  F., 
March  20.  1809,  died  December  12,  i8(36.  10. 
.Alice  R,.  February  10,  iSii.  died  September 
27.  1S88.  II.  arid  12.  Fitch  and  Lydia,  twins, 
February  25,  1813;  the  latter  died  the  same 
day,  the  former  March  18.  1S14.  Of  the  sec- 
ond wife:  13.  .\bigail  .A.,  .April  13.  1816,  died 
July  2.  1848.  14.  Jabez  Fitch,  September  10, 
"1820.  died  July  4,  1 85 1. 

(\'II)  David  Augustus,  fourth  son  of  Dr. 
Jabez  and  Lucy  (Swift)  .Adams,  was  born 
February  C\   1807.  in   Mansfield,  Connecticut, 


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and  tiled  April  30.  1891.  in  Springfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, whither  he  removed  in  1S28.     \\  hen 
fifteen  years  of  age,  he  went  to  work  in  a  coun- 
try  store    in    Thoni])sonvllle,    Connecticut,    in 
which  his  brother-in-law,  James  I'rewer,  and 
others  in  Springfield  were  interested.    He  con- 
tinued in  this  store  for  several  years  and  then 
went  to  New  York,  whence  he  soon  returned 
and  located  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  tak- 
ing a  position  in  the  hardu*-e  store  of  James 
IJrewer,  of  that   city,     l.ater  he  entered   the 
store  of  his  brother.  Henry  .Adams,  a  silver- 
smith.    I'rom  183*)  to  1852  he  was  a  road  sur- 
veyor of  Springfield,  and  he  was  also  the  first 
city   marshal    under   the   charter  of   the   city. 
He  served  as  collector  of  taxes  and  was  eleven 
years  a  member  of  the  board  of  assessors.     He 
was  a  dei)uty  under  sheriffs  Cutler  Hush  and 
I'.radley.   and   during   the    war    was   assistant 
L'nitcd   States  assessor,   it   being  his  duty   to 
receive  and  assess  all  income  returns.     .At  one 
time  Mr.  .Adams  was  sworn  in  as  United  States 
deputy  thereafter  to  preserve  order  on  govern- 
ment land.     On  December  3.   1884,  was  cele- 
brated the  golden  wedding  anniversary  of  Mr. 
.Adams   and    his    wife.      He    was    married    in 
Mansfield  Center  by  Rev.  .Anson  .S.  .Atwood. 
December  3.  1834.  to  Harriet,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Earl  and  Laura  (Ripley)  Swift,  of  Mansfield 
Center.     She  was  born  October   17.    18 12.  in 
W'ethersfield.   Connecticut,   and   died   October 
27.  i8<x».    Laura  (Ripley)  Swift  was  daughter 
of  Ralph   Ripley,  of   Windham.  Connecticut: 
General  James  Ripley,  chief  of  LJnited  States 
ordnance    dei)artnient.    Washington,    was    son 
of  Ralph   Rii)ley.     Children:      i.   David   An- 
gu.stus.   born   July   7.    1836.   died   January    10 
following.    2.  Harriet,  November  6,  1837,  died 
March  30.  1882.    3.  Henry  .Augustus,  Novem- 
ber 3,  1840,  died  September  10,  1849.   4.  James 
Swift,  May  20,  1843,  rnarried.  May  17,  1870, 
Caroline  E.  Knight :  children :     Robert  Win- 
throp,  born  October  4,  1872:  Emily  Belle,  born 
November  25,    1S76.     5.   Elizabeth  Lee.  Sep- 
tember 27.   1845.  married  Charles  P..  Conant. 
of  Newark.   New  Jersey,  June  2,   i8(')8:  chil- 
dren:    Harriet  Elizabeth,  born  September  14, 
i86g:  Sarah  Lorcna.  born  December  16,  1873; 
Charles  S..  born  November  20.  1877.    6.  Will- 
iam Frederick,  tnentioned  below.     7.  Edward, 
March  7,  1850,  died  .August  13,  i860.    8.  Earl 
Swift,   November   r,   1852,  died   December  7. 
1872.     9.    Frances.   December    18.    1855,  died 
lulv  27,    1856.     The  youngest  son   was  pos- 
sessed  of  a   rare  business   tact    and    energy, 
coupled  with  a  genial  and  social  nature,  and 


was  a  young  man  of  great  promise  and  a  gen- 
eral favorite. 

l\'llli  William  I'Vederick,  fourth  son  of 
David  .\.  and  Harriet  (Swift)  .\dams,  was 
born  March  13.  1848,  in  .S]>ringfield.  where  he 
still  resides.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  town,  and  on  leaving  the 
high  school  entered  the  Second  National  I!ank 
in  January.  1865,  as  clerk.  His  connection  with 
the  bank  continued  until  November.  1870,  when 
he  resigned  to  engage  in  llie  book  business. 
He  became  a  partner  of  James  L.  Whitney  in 
the  ■■(  )lil  C'<irner  I'.ookstore,"  one  of  the  land- 
marks of  Si)ringfiel(l.  and  this  business  was 
continued  under  the  firm  name  of  Whitney  & 
Adams  until  July,  1887,  when  it  was  inpjr- 
porated  under  the  title  of  the  W,  F.  .Adams 
Company,  with  .Mr.  Adams  as  president  and 
treasurer.  Mr.  .Adams  was  a  member  of  the 
city  coimcil  in  the  years  1891-92-93.  and  served 
as  member  of  the  board  of  supervisors,  and 
for  three  years  was  a  member  of  the  finance 
committee  of  that  body.  He  is  president  of 
the  Connecticut  X'alley  Historical  Society  and 
has  contributed  much  to  the  growth  and  success 
of  that  organization  :  is  a  Republican  and  has 
alwavs  sought  to  further  the  princii)lcs  for 
whicii  his  party  stands.  Mr.  .Adams  married. 
May  30.  1878.  in  Springfield.  1^.  Jemiic  Strong, 
daughter  of  Daniel  .Strong,  born  .A()ril  27, 
1853.  C'hildren :  Dorothy  Stockbridge.  born 
Mav  14.  1885.  .-md  Willian'i  i'.radfnrd.  July  31. 

(The   Bradford   IjincO. 

The  name  Bradford  is  one  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished in  the  early  Colonial  history  of 
Massachusetts,  and  the  record  of  the  P>rad- 
ford  family  from  the  establishment  of  the 
Puritans  in  Holland  to  1657  includes  a  great 
()art  of  the  history  of  the  Puritan  colony, 
h'rom  this  family  have  sprung  a  great  part  of 
the  llrad fords  of  New  England. 

(I)  The  first  of  the  name,  of  whom  record 
is  here  known,  was  William  P.radford,  of  ,Aus- 
terfield,   England,  who  died  January  10.  1596. 

(]])  William  (2),  son  of  \\'illiam'  ( i  )  P.rad- 
ford, married  .Alice,  daughter  of  John  Han- 
som, and  died  in  Jidy,  1391. 

CHI)  William"  (3),  ".son  of  William  (2) 
P.radford,  was  born  in  1588,  in  Austerfield, 
A'orkshirc,  England.  About  1608  he  went  to 
I  lolland.  and  was  among  those  who  set  out 
froiTi  the  country  in  1C120.  oti  board  the  historic 
"Mayflower."  to  settle  the  Puritan  colony 
across  a  broad  ocean.  He  was  accompanied 
fin  this  vf)yage  by  his  wife,  whose  maiden  name 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


was  Dorothy  May.  She  was  accidentally 
drowned  on  the  seventh  of  December,  1620, 
during  the  absence  of  her  husband  with  an 
exploring  party,  in  the  wilderness  adjoining 
Cape  Cod  Bay.  With  the  exception  of  five 
years.  Mr.  Bradford  was  chosen  governor  of 
the  colony  from  1621  to  1657,  the  year  of  his 
<leath.  He  was  one  of  the  most  efficient  in 
directing  and  sustaining  the  new  settlement, 
and  a  writer  of  those  times  said  of  him :  "He 
was  the  very  prop  and  glory  of  I'lymouth  col- 
ony, during  the  whole  series  of  changes  that 
passed  over  it.'"  He  married,  .\ugust  24,  1623, 
.Alice  Southworth,  a  widow  whose  maiden 
name  was  Car])enter.  She  came  to  Plymouth 
in  the  ship  ".Anne"  and  was  among  the  most 
highly  respected  residents,  dying  March  26, 
1^70,  at  the  age  of  eighty  years.  She  was  the 
mother  of  three  children :  William.  Mercy 
and  Joseph  Bradford.  Governor  Bradford 
died  May  9,  1657.  and  was  lamented  by  all  the 
New  England  colonies  as  a  common  father. 
The  bodies  of  himself  and  father  were  entomb- 
ed at  Phmouth. 

{ IV) 'William  (4),  son  of  William  (3) 
B.radford,  was  born  June  17,  1624.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  .Mice  Richards,  (second)  Widow 
Wiswall,  anil  (third)  Mrs.  Mary  (Wood) 
Holmes.  His  biograpiier  says:  "Mr.  Brad- 
ford was,  next  to  Miles  Standish,  a  chief  mili- 
tary man  of  the  colony.  In  Philip"s  war,  he  was 
commander-in-chief  of  the  Plymouth  forces, 
and  often  e.x])osed  himself  to  its  perils.  .\t  the 
.N'arragansett  I'urt  fight,  he  received  a  musket 
ball  in  liis  fiesli,  which  he  carried  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  In  that  des]xTate  mid-winter  en- 
counter, when  both  ])arties  fought  for  their 
very  existence,  nearly  a  thousand  Indians  fell 
a  sacrifice,  and  about  one  hundred  and  fifty  of 
the  English  were  killed  or  wounded.""  In  the 
war  with  the  Indians,  .Mr.  Bradford  held  the 
rank  of  major;  was  assistant  treasurer  ami 
deputy  governor  of  Plymouth  from  16S2  to 
\()8f).  and  from  1689  to  iCxji.  and  in  the  latter 
year  he  was  one  of  the  council  of  .Massachu- 
setts. His  residence  w\-is  in  Kingston.  Massa- 
chusetts, on  the  north  side  of  Jones  river.  He 
died  February  20,  1703-04.  His  children  of 
the  first  marriage  were :  John,  \\"illiam,  'Hiomas, 
Samuel,  .Mice,  I  lannah,  Mercy,  .Meletiaii,  Mary 
and  .Sarah;  oi  the  second  marriage:  Jose])h. 
Israel.  Ejihraim.  David  and  Hezekiah. 

(V)  .Alice,  eldest  daughter  and  fifth  child  of 
Major  William  (4I  and  .Alice  (Richards) 
liradford.  was  born  in  1661.  in  Plymouth,  and 
died  in  1745.  She  married  (first)  March  20. 
I'lSo,    K'ev.   Willi.un   Adams,  cif    Dcdham.  and 


(second)  May  8.  1687,  Major  James  Fitch. 
He  was  a  son  of  Rev.  James  Fitch,  of  Say- 
brook,  Connecticut,  who  was  born  in  Boking, 
England.  December  24,  1622,  and  came  to  this 
country  in  1638.  He  was  married  in  October, 
1664.  to  Pricilla.  daughter  of  Captain  John 
.\Iasoii.  the  hero  of  the  Pequot  war.  and  died 
at  Lebanon.  Connecticut.  .November  18.  1702. 
.\lajf)r  James  Mtcli  from  early  manhood  was 
actively  employed  ^h  civil  and  military  allairs. 
He  wholly  re-established  the  colonial  govern- 
ment after  the  revolution  of  1689,  and  was 
appointed  assistant  in  1690.  He  was  sergeant- 
major  of  Xew  London  county,  in  1696.  and 
led  military  expeditions  to  guard  the  frontiers. 
He  exercised  jurisdiction  over  the  Mohegans; 
he  was  a  warm  friend  of  the  Indians,  with 
whom  he  had  more  infiuence  than  any  one 
else  in  the  colony.  He  also  served  as  treasurer 
of  the  county  of  Xew  London;  but  little  pro- 
gress had  been  made  in  the  settlement  of  this 
county  until  i'^>97.  when  he  removed  thither 
with  his  family,  digging  the  first  cellar  and 
erecting  the  first  jjermanent  habitation  in  what 
is  now  the  township  of  Canterbury.  He  select- 
ed for  his  permanent  residence  the  neck  of  land 
enclosed  by  a  curve  of  the  Ouinebaugh  river. 
.\t  the  time  of  his  settlement,  he  was  little  past 
middle  age.  and  had  been  for  many  years  one 
of  the  most  prominent  men  in  Connecticut. 
It  was  f(jr  a  long  time  the  only  settlement  be- 
tween .Xorwich  and  Woodstock,  and  the  ex- 
l^edition  for  the  relief  of  the  latter  place  in 
1699  jiassed  the  night  both  in  going  and  com- 
ing at  his  farm.  Here  he  died  November  10, 
1727.  aged  eighty  years.  He  was  born  .August 
2.  i'>47.  in  .Sa\brook.  Children:  .Abigail, 
Ebenezer.  Daniel.  John,  liridget.  Jerusha,  Will- 
iam and  Jabez, 

I  \'I  I  Jah"7.  youngest  child  of  Major  James 
.md  Alice  (  I'.radford)  I-'itch,  was  born  1703. 
1  le  resided  for  a  time  in  Newent,  and  returned 
til  Canterbury,  where  he  passed  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  and  was  for  many  years  justice 
of  the  ])eace  and  (|Uorum.  and  judge  of  i)robate. 
I  le  also  served  as  colonel  of  the  Eleventh  Regi- 
ment of  the  Connecticut  Colony  Militia.  In 
1773  he  was  chosen  agent  by  the  town  to  oppose 
the  |)roject  for  an  ojien  and  public  highway  to 
be  laid  nut  thrnugh  Killingly.  Pomfret  and 
C'anterburv.  to  accommodate  travel  from  Bos- 
ton. Xew  Haven  and  Xew  ^'ork.  and  was  suc- 
cessful in  defeating  the  project.  He  served  in 
tlie  general  assembly  in  17(^14-65.  He  died  in 
1784  and  was  buried  in  Coventry.  I  le  married 
I.ydia.  daughter  of  .\braham  tJale,  born  U\)0, 
died   1752. 


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(\11)  Lvdia.  (laughter  of  Colonel  Jabcz 
and  Lydia  ( (iaie)  I'itcli,  was  born  Jamiary  20, 
1734.  She  married  in  1751  I'liineJias  Adams, 
of  Lisbon,  and  died  lulv  14,  i8jo  (see  Adams 
V.)-  ' 

The  pedigree  of  this  family  traces 
ADA.MS     the   ancestry,    according   to   one 

account,  to  .Ap  Adam,  the  father 
of  John  or  Lord  A()  Adam,  ulio  was  called  to 
parliament  by  Edward  I.  and  Haron  of  the 
Realm  from  12</)  to  1307.  and  states  that  he 
came  out  of  the  Marches  of  Wales  into  Devon- 
shire. This  statement  has  been  discredited  by 
genealogists,  though  i)roof  of  error  seems  as 
much  wanting  as  proof  of  correctness.  If 
correct,  the  lineage  includes  kings  of  England 
and  France  and  goes  back  to  Charlemagne. 

(  I  )  Henry  .\dams.  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
born  in  England,  and  came  from  llraintree. 
England,  to  liraintree.  Massachusetts,  about 
^^'i^'3i-  ^^^  ^^■'*^  allotted  forty  acres  of  land 
for  the  ten  persons  in  his  family,  February  24, 
1639-40.  F'resident  John  Adams,  a  descend- 
ant, believed  that  Henry  .Adams  came  from 
Devonshire,  and  erected  a  monument  to  him 
in  the  old  burying  ground  at  Rraintree.  now 
Ouincy.  with  this  inscription:  "Tn  memory  of 
tfenry  Adams  who  took  flight  from  the  Dragon 
jjersecution  in  Devonshire.  I'jiglaud.  and 
alighted  with  eight  sons  near  Mount  W'ollas- 
ton.  One  of  the  sons  returned  to  England  : 
and  after  taking  time  to  explore  the  country, 
four  removed  to  Medfield.  and  two  to  Chelms- 
ford. One  only.  Joseph,  who  lies  here  at  his 
left  hand,  remained  here — an  original  pro- 
prietor in  the  township  of  Braintree."  The 
monument  commemorates  the  "piety,  humility. 
sim()licity.  jjrudence.  patience,  temperance,  fru- 
gality, industry,  and  jjerseverance"  of  the 
Adams  ancestors.  President  John  Quincy 
Adams,  however,  dissented  from  the  conclu- 
sion of  his  father  that  Henry  Adams  was  of 
Devonshire.  Savage  agrees  with  the  younger 
Adams  that  the  immigrant  was  of  F.raintree. 
countv  Essex.  England,  and  some  of  the  sons 
from  Chelmsford  in  that  county.  It  is  gen- 
erallv  believed  that  the  wife  of  Henry  .\dams 
returned  to  England  with  her  daughter  L'rsula. 
and  died  there.  Henry  died  at  Rraintree.  Octo- 
ber 6.  1646.  and  was  buried  on  the  8th.  In  his 
will,  proved  June  8.  1647,  he  mentions  sons 
Peter,  John.  Joseph.  Eflward,  Samuel,  and 
daughter  l'rsula.  Children:  l.  Lieutenant 
Henry,  born  1604.  married,  in  P.raintree.  No- 
vember 17.  1643,  Ivlizabeth  Paine;  settled  in 
Medfield.     2.  Lieutenant  Thomas,  1612;  men- 


tioned beliiw.  3.  C'aptain  Samuel.  1617.  4. 
l")eacon  Jonathan.  1619.  married  l''.lizabetli 
F'ussell:  settled  in   Medfield.     3.   Peter.   i(>22. 

married    Rachel :   settled   in    Medfield. 

6.  John.  i()24.  settled  in  Cambridge.  7.  Joseph. 
1626.  8.  I'jisign  Edward.  1630.  see  sketch,  ij. 
L'rsula,  mentioned  in  her  father's  will. 

(H)  Lieutenant  Thomas,  son  of  Henry 
.\dams.  was  horn  in  I'.ngland.  in  I()i2.  died  in 
Chelmsford.  Massachusetts.  July  20.  i()88.  He 
removed  from  liraintree  to  Concord,  and  thence 
to  Chelmsford.  He  was  chosen  chief  sergeant 
of  the  military  company  in  i^jc;.  hut  the  court 
refused  to  confirm  him  on  account  of  his  relig- 
ious views.  He  was  confirmed  in  .\pril.  1660, 
upon  agreeing  not  to  disseminate  any  views 
contrary  to  those  the  church  sanctioned.  He 
was  chosen  ensign  in  1678  and  lieutenant  in 
I ('182.  in  the  the  company  in  which  his  brother 
Samuel  was  captain.  He  served  as  town  clerk, 
selectman,  and  (ie])uty  to  the  general  court.  His 
will  was  dated  March  28,  1688.  and  proved 
October  7.  ifx)0.  He  married,  in  liraintree, 
in  i(^2,  Mary  lilackmore.  Children:  I.  .Mary, 
born  in  Rraintree,  July  24,  1643,  died  young. 

2.  Jonathan  (twin),  born  in  Concord,  January 
C^.  1646.  marrie<l.  .\ugust  29.  1681.  Leah  Could  ; 
died  .Xovembcr  25,  1712.     3.  Peletiah  (twin), 

horn  January  (>.    1646.  married  Ruth ; 

died  .\pril  29.  1723.  4.  Timothy,  born  .\pril 
2  or  I"ci)niary  13.  1648.  died  July  i.  1708;  mar- 
ried Mary .    3.  (jeorge.  born  ^Iarch  29, 

1650,  died  young.  6.  Samuel,  born  in  Chelms- 
ford, mentioned  below.  7.  Edith,  born  F'eb- 
ruary  21,  1633.  8.  Rebecca,  horn  .September 
18.  1637.  died  young.  9.  Elizabeth,  born  C)cto- 
her  2r.  1638-39.  died  young.  10.  Thomas,  born 
July  22,  1660.  died  November  20  following. 
II.  Mary,  born  October  29,  1664.  married 
Cooi)er. 

(Ill)  Samuel,  son  of  LieiUenatU  Thomas 
Adams,  was  born  in  Chelmsford  about  1632-33. 
He  was  a  millwright  by  trade  and  removed  to 
Charlestown  and  thence  to  Canterbury,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  was  a  prominent  citizen. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  board  of  selectmen  in 
Canterbury  in  iC)(/j.  His  will  was  dated  .Au- 
gust 7.  1727,  and  proved  December  4.  1727. 
He  died  November  26,  1727.  He  married 
Mary .  who  died  .March  28,  1718.  Chil- 
dren: I.  .Abigail,  born  in  Chelmsford  about 
1682-83.    2.  Caj)tain  Joseph,  mentioned  below. 

3.  Henry,  married  Sarah  .Adams.  4.  Thomas, 
married,  l-'ehruary  23.  1714-13.  .Abigail  Daven- 
port. 5.  Sanniel.  married  Mary  Cady :  die<l 
I-"<'bruarv  Ti.  1723-26.  6.  Susanna,  born  in 
(  hnrlestowu.  March   13.   1692,  married  James 


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ISradford.  ".  Katherine.  born  May  2"],  1695, 
married,  June  7.  1718.  David  Adams,  died  Au- 
gust 2,  1733.  8.  Margaret,  born  in  Canterbury, 
married  Samuel  Adams.    9.  Rebecca,  died  July 

5,  1709. 

(  1\' )  Captain  Josepli.  son  of  .Samuel  Adams, 
was  born  in  Chelmsford  about  1682-83,  died 
March  3.  1732.  He  was  a  first  settler  at  Can- 
terbury, a  large  land  dealer  and  prominent 
man.  He  married  (first)  July  23,  1708,  Eunice 
Spalding,  who  died  .\pril  5,  1726.  He  married 
(.seconrl)  April  4,  1728,  Mrs.  .Susanna  (Wood- 
ward) Adams,  born  1693,  '^''^'^'  -^pril  29,  1790, 
daughter  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (  Dana ) 
Woodward,  and  widow  of  William  Adams. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Joseph,  born  in 
Canterbury,  June  10,  1709,  died  September  7, 
1709.  2.  Captain  Samuel.  Sejitember  4,  1710, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Eunice,  July  25,  1713, 
married  Thomas  Bradford.  4.  Lieutenant 
Josej)h,  September  6,  1715,  died  December  6, 
1780;  married,  1738,  Sarah  Bradford.  5.  Mary, 

.August  5,    1719,   married Leach.     6. 

Parker,  .\pril  18.  1722,  married.  May  9,  1745, 
Ereelove  Eanning.  Children  of  second  wife: 
7.  Susanna,  January  19,  1729,  died  October  3, 
1729.    8.  Elihu,  June  11,  1731,  married,  March 

6,  1753,  Jerusha  .Adams:  died  December  22. 
1804.  9.  Captain  Thomas,  July  31,  1734,  mar- 
ried (fir.st)  Susanna  Peck:  (second)  January 
4,  1782,  Mary  Mudge ;  died  .\pril  22.  1815. 

(V)  Captain  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Cai)tain 
Jnse]ih  Adams,  was  born  in  Canterbury,  Sep- 
tember 4,  1710,  died  there  December  27,  1760 
(gravestone).  He  married  (first)  in  1731, 
.Sarah  Cady,  who  died  January  7,  1736,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  and  Mary  Cady.  He  married 
(second)  in  1739,  .Abigail  .\dams,  born  No- 
vember 12,  1712.  died  .August  21,  1809,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Mary  (  Cady  )  .-\dams.  She 
married  ( second  )  Deacon  Ricliard  I  Tale.  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife:  i.  C.iptain  Samuel,  born 
Jmie  13,  1732,  married,  .\pril  ij,  173').  Lvdia 
.Adams.  2.  .Anna,  born  May  K),  1734.  married 
Asa  .Aspinwall.  Children  of  second  wife:  3. 
(iideon.  May  2.  1743.  married.  January  3.  1764, 
Mary  Leach.  4.  Eunice,  June  17,  1746,  married 
.Ajiril  16.  1764.  Captain  John  Stark.  5.  \a- 
than,  1748,  mentioned  below.  6.  .Abigail,  .April 
12.  1730,  married,  Xovcmber  19.  1768,  Elijah 
Williams.  7.  Sarah,  Xovember  I,  1733.  mar- 
ried, Decenibir  19,  1771,  Major  John  Hale; 
died  1803.  8.  .Mice,  July  i.  173'),  married 
(first)  Elisha  Ripley:  (second!  William  Law- 
rence. 9- Josejjh.  December  n),  1738,  married, 
1792.  Abiah  Edgerton. 

{\'l)    .Nathan,  son  of  Captain  Samuel   (2) 


.Adams,  was  born  in  Canterbury,  December  31, 
1748.  died  Pebruary  4,  1837.  He  owned  a 
farm  and  grist  mill  one  mile  south  of  Canter- 
bury village,  and  a  house  in  the  village,  where 
lie  spent  liis  last  days.  He  was  appointed  in 
1782  lieutenant  to  command  a  garrison  at 
Black  Rock,  Eairfield.  Connecticut.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  April  4,  1771,  Phebe  Ensworth, 
born  August  i,  1749,  died  July  12,  1800.  He 
married  (second)  Mrs.Mary  (Wright)  Hale, 
born  December  3,  1743,  died  December  22, 
1808,  widow  of  Richard  Hale,  Jr.  He  married 
(third)  .Anna  Boswell,  of  Norwich.    Children: 

I.  Mehitable,  born  June  16,  1772,  died  August 

II.  1787.  2.  Hon.  Rufus.  May  6.  1774,  men- 
tioned below. 

(\II)  Hon.  Rufus,  son  of  Nathan  .Adams, 
was  born  in  Canterbury,  May  6,  1774,  died 
December  21.  1840.  He  graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  1793.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
legislature,  and  judge  of  the  court  in  1829. 
He  removed  to  New  A'ork  City.  He  married, 
November  26,  1807,  Joanna  Hyers,  born  Sep- 
tember 14,  1781,  died  January  2-j .  \%(m.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Canterbury  :  i.  Mehitable,  Octo- 
ber 3.  1809,  married,  December  21.  1831, 
FTenry  .Smith;  died  .April  14,  1880.  2.  Mary 
Smith,  June  25,   1811,  died   March   14,    1813. 

3.  Dr.  Nathan,  May  6,  1813,  mentioned  below. 

4.  Alary  Smith,  June  30,  1815.  married,  No- 
vember 23.  1832,  Benjamin  W.  Delameter.  6. 
I 'lube  Ensworth.  .November  3.  1819.  married, 
December  31,  1833,  William  Kinne  :  died  April 
!"•  i%3-  7-  James  Byers,  October  10,  1822, 
married.  January  7,  1852,  Catherine  M.  John- 
son ;  died  Alay  22,  1837.  8.  Rufus,  October  4. 
1S23,  died  October  9,  1823. 

(VHI  )  Dr.  Nathan  (2),  son  of  Hon.  Rufus 
.Adams,  was  born  in  Canterbury,  Alay  6.  1813. 
He  attended  the  jMiblic  schools  with  the  addi- 
tion of  two  years  at  school  in  I  (art ford,  where 
he  fitted  for  college.  He  graduated  from  Vale 
Meilical  .School  with  honors  in  i83().  and  then 
spent  six  years  in  l>ellevue  Hospital,  New  York 
City,  and  a  year  or  more  lived  in  Connecticut, 
lie  settled  in  Springfield,  Alassachusetts.  and 
at  once  took  a  deej)  interest  in  town  affairs. 
In  1836  be  represented  ward  3  in  the  city 
council.  1  le  was  a  very  successful  ])ractitioner, 
and  was  popular  with  his  patients  and  with  his 
pri'fessional  contemporaries,  (  )n  a  bitterly 
Cold  night  in  Jainiary.  1863,  he  was  thrown 
from  his  carriage  and  was  a  long  time  recover- 
ing from  the  effects  of  the  accident,  which 
finally  led  him  to  give  up  his  professional  life. 
He  sold  his  Sjiringfield  property  and  removed 
to  New   Haven,  Connecticut,  where  lie   lived 


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for  five  years  a  sechuled  life,  then  travelled 
five  years  more.  In  1876  he  returned  to  Sjiriiig- 
field  and  in  i88<i  bouglit  a  Iionse  on  W'ortliing- 
ton  street.  Soon  afterward  lie  bongln  tlie 
McKniglit  place  at  Ingersoll  tirove.  but  did  not 
live  long  enough  to  enjoy  his  new  home.  While 
on  a  visit  to  his  daughter  at  Marblehead,  he 
died  suddenly  of  heart  disease.  October  2, 
1888.  Dr.  Adams  was  a  man  of  great  force 
of  character.  His  generosity  was  unbounded 
and  he  did  more  good  than  the  world  will  ever 
know.  He  was  interested  in  the  Episcopal 
church,  especially  the  church  in  \ineland.  Xew 
Jersey,  of  which  his  son-in-law.  Mr.  Egbert. 
was  rector,  anil  gave  liberally  towards  its  sup- 
port. He  married,  .May  11,  1843,  Elizabeth 
Watkinson,  born  .September  18.  1817,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  and  Maria  (Champion)  Watkin- 
son. Children:  i.  Ellen  Watkinson.  born 
February  6.  1844.  mentioned  below.  2.  Xathan, 
July  12.  1845.  3-  W  illiam  Rufus.  Jainiary  3. 
1853.  died  .March  7.  1854. 

(  IX I  Ellen  Watkinson.  daughter  of  Dr. 
Xathan  (2)  Adams,  was  born  February  6, 
1844.  at  Springfield.  She  married,  .April  18, 
1877.  Rev.  John  L.  Egbert,  who  was  born  in 
Liberty,  Missouri,  but  always  lived  in  Ken- 
tucky, son  of  John  Smith  and  Jane  (Hazlctt) 
Egbert.  He  was  an  Ejiiscopal  clergyman,  and 
was  settled  in  Bainbridge.  Xew  York,  and 
\'ineland.  Xew  Jersey.  Children:  i.  Xathan 
Adams,  born  in  Bainbridge.  Xew  York.  Febru- 
ary 15.  1878.  graduate  of  Harvard  College. 
class  of  1900  (.A.  B.).  2.  Ellen  Watkinson. 
Bainbridge.  .August  12,  1879.  3.  William  Wal- 
lace. \'ineland,  Xew  Jersey,  .August  10,  1882. 
4.  John  Leighter.  N'ineland.  .\'ew  Jersey.  Octo- 
ber 20.  1884. 

(For  first  genf^ration  see  Henry  Ailams  1  i. 

En>ign  Edwar<l  .Adams,  son  of 
AD.AMS  Henry  .\dams.  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, and  about  1(130  came  to 
Xew  England  with  his  ])arents.  He  and  three 
of  his  brothers  settled  in  Mcdfield.  Massachu- 
setts. He  was  ensign  and  selectman  and  flcputy 
to  the  general  court  in  1689-92  and  1702.  Ik- 
died  in  Medfield.  Xovember  12.  1716,  "the  last 
of  the  original  settlers."  He  married  (first) 
in  1652.  Lydia  Rockwood.  daughter  of  Rich- 
artl  and  .Agnes  (Bicknell)  Rockwood.  She 
died  March  3.  1676.  He  married  (second)  in 
1678,  Abigail  (Craft)  Ruggles,  widow.  (Til- 
den  says  .Abigail  Day.  of  Dedham).  .She  died 
1707.  He  marrierl  (third)  January  6.  1709- 
10.  .Sarah  Taylor.  Children,  all  by  first  wife: 
I.  Lydia,  born  July   12,   1653.  married   (first) 


December  12.  i()72.  James  .Mien;  (second) 
if>9~.  Jose])h  Daniel:  died  December  26.  1731. 
2.  Captain  Jonathan,  born  .April  4.  1655.  mar- 
ried (first)  1678.  Mary  I''llis ;  (second)  De- 
cember 12.  1717.  -Mehitable  Cheney,  widow; 
died  January  J4.  1718.  3.  John,  born  February 
iS.  if>57.  died  March  i,  1761;  married  (first) 
1(182,  Deborah  Partridge:  (second)  Susanna 
Breck.  4.  Eliashib.  born  February  18,  1658-9, 
mentioned  below.  5.  Sarah,  born  May  29, 
1660.  married,  1677.  John  Turner.  6.  Lieu- 
tenant James,  born  January  4,  1661-62,  mar- 
ried. January  4,  1689,  Mary ;  <licd  1733. 

7.  Henry,  born  October  29.  1663,  married 
(first)  December  10,  1691,  Tatience  Ellis; 
(second)  1697-98,  Ruth  Ellis:  (third)  Mrs. 
Hannah  .Adams:  died  June  28,  1749.  8.  Mehit- 
able. born  March  30.  1665,  married  Josiah 
I-"a.von ;  died  March  i,  1753.  9.  Elisha,  born 
.\ugust  25.  1(166,  married,  December  18,  1689, 
Mehitable  Cary.  10.  Edward,  born  June  28, 
1^168,  married.  May  19,  1692.  Elizabeth  Walley. 
I  i.  iletiiia.  born  .April  12,  1670,  died  1672.  12. 
Betliia,  born  .August  18,  1672,  died  young.  13. 
.Abigail,  Ixjrn  June  25,  1675,  died  young.  14. 
-Miriam.  Ixirn  February  26,  1676.  died  young. 

(Ill)  Eliashib.  son  of  Ensign  Edward 
.\danis.  was  born  in  .Medfield,  l-ebruary  18, 
"''58-59.  He  settled  in  liristol.  Rhode  Is'land, 
where  he  died  in  \(x)H.  ilis  will  was  i)roved 
August  2,  1698.  He  married,  December  18. 
i(iH').  Mehitable  Cary,  daughter  of  John  Cary. 
He  had  four  children:  I.  Lydia,  born  Janu- 
ary 7,  1690.  2.  William,  born  June  3,  1693.  3. 
.Mehitable,  born  .August  3,  1695.  4.  Eliashib, 
b(jrn  .Sejjtember  11,  1697.  .All  of  these  are 
mentioned  in  his  will. 

(1\')  Eliashib  (2),  son  of  Eliashib  (l) 
.\danis.  was  born  in  f'ristol.  Rhode  Island, 
Sei)teniher  11,  1697.  He  settled  in  I'reston, 
Connecticut,  and  died  May  15,  1733-34.  He 
married,  .\'f)vemlxr  9,  1720,  Deborah  Tracy, 
of  I'reston,  daughter  of  Thomas  Tracy,  .\iter 
his  fleath  she  removed  to  Canterbury,  Con- 
necticut, and  marrie<l  (second)  .Adams. 

Children:  i.  Jerusha,  born  Xovember  28,  172T, 
died  .Vovember  26,  1726.  2.  Mehitable,  born 
,Sei)tember  28,  1723.  3,  Deborah,  born  .Au- 
gust 5.  1725.  clied  .Xovember  20.  1726.  4. 
I'.lia>hil).  born  July  28.  1727.  mentioned  below. 
5.  Jerusha.  born  .August  24,  1729,  married. 
March  6,  1753,  Elihu  .Adams;  died  Jamiary  24, 
181 5.  6.  Lydia,  born  Xovember  17,  1731.  7. 
William,  born  September  4,  1733. 

(\')  Eliashib  (3).  son  of  Eliashib  (2) 
.Afjains,  was  born  in  I'reston.  Connecticut,  July 
2S,  1727.     In  1 74 1  he  was  ajiprenticed  to  learn 


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MASSAC  Hl'SETTS. 


the  weaver's   trade   at    Xorwich.   Cunnecticiit. 
He  settled  in  Canterbury.  Connecticut,  about 
1750.     I  le  was  a  member  of  the  general  assem- 
bly a    number    of   times.      In    1797,   with    his 
daughter  Chloe,  he  removed  to  W'orthington, 
Massachusetts,    where   he   died    September   3. 
1801.  aged  seventy-four.     "He  was  a  man  of 
naturally   brilliant   talents :   had   the    manners 
and  used  the  language  of  a  gentleman  liberally 
educated,  and  had  the  confidence  of  all  who 
knew  him."    He  married  (first)  May  3.  1753. 
Betsey  Phillips,  of  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  who 
died   March  9,   1766.     He  married    (second) 
.August  20,  1767,  Mrs.  Moll}-  Webb  Annable, 
willow,  of  Scotland,  Connecticut,  daughter  of 
Timothy  Webb.     She  died  March,  1826,  aged 
eighty-seven,   at   the   home   of   her   daughter, 
Chloe  P.rewster.  at  Chesterfield,  Massachusetts. 
Children  oi  first  wife,  born  in  Pomfret,  Con- 
necticut:     I.    Dr.    Elijah,   born    I''ebruary    17. 
1754,  surgeon  in  the  battle  of  Hunker  Hill.    2. 
Mary,   bt)rn   Jime    13,    1757,   married    Deacon 
Rufus    Marsh.      3.    Cynthia,   born    August    2, 
1760.     4.  Mehitable.  born  February  11,  1763, 
died  Sei)tember  13,  1763.    5.  Betsey,  born  July 
2,    1763.     Children   of   second   wife,   born    in 
Canterbury.    Connecticut :      6.    Chester,    born 
May    13,    1768,    died    December   6,    1769.      7. 
Chloe,  born  .\ugust   12,   1770,  married.   i8oti. 
Dr.  Moses  Brewster.    8.  Deacon  Eliashib.  born 
June  5.  1773.  married.  December.  1800.  .\nna 
Leland,   died   .August   28,     1855.    in    Bangor, 
Maine.    9.  .Asluir,  born  .August  17,  1777.  mar- 
ried (first)  Xancy  Bissell:  (second)  Catherine 
Bisscll  :   (  third  I    luuily   \\yll\s;  died  June  20, 
i860.      10.    Cliester.    born    January    22.    1780. 
mentioned  below. 

(\T)  Chester,  son  of  l'"liashib  (3)  .\dams, 
was  born  in  Canterbury,  Connecticut,  January 
22,  1780.  In  early  manhood  he  w-as  a  school 
teacher.  He  became  a  i^rominent  man  of 
Charlestown  antl  Boston.  I'rom  1814  to  i8i(; 
he  was  cashier  of  the  Trcmont  National  Bank 
of  Boston.  1-riiin  December,  1819,  to  October, 
1846.  he  was  cashier  of  the  Cnion  Hank.  At 
that  time  he  was  elected  its  president,  which 
])osition  he  held  until  his  death.  May  30,  1855. 
He  was  deacon  of  the  Winthrop  Congrega- 
tional church  for  a  nnntber  of  years.  1  le 
married,  March  22.  1803,  iilizabeth  Watts, 
born  in  Worthington,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber 24,  1778,  died  in  Charlestown,  December 
21,  1851.  Children,  the  first  two  born  in 
Worthington.  the  others  in  Charlestown:  I. 
John,  born  May  5.  1804.  married.  J:uuiary  i. 
"1838,  Mary  .Aiin  I'.ryant  :  died  July  2().  1873. 
2.  Rev.   Ilemy.  born  .April   13.  1806,  married. 


May  10,  1831,  Sophia  Meld:  died  March  28, 
1883.  3.  James,  born  February  18.  1810,  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  March  5, 
1 81 2,  married  Rev.  Alvan  Tobey,  died  May 
II,  1897.  5.  Sarah,  born  February  5,  1815. 
married  Dr.  Jacob  Hayes,  died  September  25, 
187(1. 

(\n)  Hon.  James,  son  of  Chester  Adams, 
was  born  in  Charlestown,  February  18,  1810. 
In  early  life  he  was  in  the  hardware  business 
and  had  a  store  at  first  with  his  brother.  John 
.Adams,  in  the  scjuare  where  the  Cliarlcstozi'ii 
Enterprise  office  now  is.  Later  his  store  was 
located  at  the  corner  of  Alain  and  Henley 
streets,  opposite  the  Warren  Institution  for 
Savings,  of  which  he  was  later  elected  presi- 
dent. He  held  that  office  for  twenty-five  years. 
He  was  also  a  manufacturer  of  kerosene  and 
other  oils,  owning  a  factory  on  the  Alystic  river, 
adjoining  the  Chelsea  bridge.  In  1854  he  was 
elected  the  third  mayor  of  Charlestown.  He 
was  iirominent  in  the  commercial.  ]ioIitical  and 
religious  life  of  the  ct)minunity.  He  was  among 
the  organizers  of  the  Winthrop  Congregational 
church  and  was  a  deacon.  He  was  also  an 
active  member  of  the  school  committee,  and  a 
director  of  the  Bunker  Hill  Bank.  He  resided 
in  the  house  formerly  owned  by  T.  J.  Goodwin. 
He  died  November  15.  1880.  He  married, 
A])ril  28.  1835.  Pamelia  W.  Skilton,  daughter 
of  Matthew  Skilton.  She  died  July  10.  1868. 
Children,  born  in  Charlestown:  1.  Pamela  S., 
born  March  20,  1836.  died  September  22.  1836. 
2.  James,  born  .September  17,  1838,  mentioned 
bciow .  3.  William  Henry,  born  October  6, 
1839,  died  October  20,  1862.  4.  Sidney  Ed- 
ward, born  .April  7.  1843,  married,  June  20. 
|S8(;.  Mrs.  Marv  E.  Pierce,  and  resides  in 
I'.ufialo.  New  York.  5.  Elizabeth  Watts,  born 
fr.ly  15,  1844.    f).  Sarah  Haves,  born  December 

(\11I)  James  (j).  son  of  James  11) 
.A  'ams.  was  born  September  17,  1838.  in 
Charlestown.  He  attended  the  Harvard  gram- 
mar school  (of  Charlestown)  and  the  high 
school  of  Charlestown.  He  beeame  a  clerk 
in  the  Hunker  Hill  I'.ank  and  was  promoted 
stejj  bv  ste|)  until  he  was  cashier.  In  1873  he 
resigned  this  position  to  become  cashier  of  the 
Blackstone  .National  I'.ank  of  lioston.  He  was 
cashier  of  this  large  and  inlluential  bank  from 
that  time  until  he  was  chosen  its  iiresident  in 
famiarv.  i8()().  The  bank  was  liquidated  in 
April.  H)oo.  and  after  forty-five  years  in  the 
banking  business  Mr.  .\dams  retired.  He  has 
resided  in  Hrookline.  Massachusetts,  since  1888. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.    1  le  was  a  mem- 


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537 


ber  of  the  coniiiion  council  of  Cliarlestown  for 
three  years,  i SIjS-Cx^jo.  and  president  during 
the  last  year  of  his  service.  He  married.  May 
14,  1873.  Kinnia  Kendall  Tufts,  born  Decem- 
ber 15.  1848.  daughter  of  William  Tufts,  of 
Charlestown.  and  grandilaugliter  of  .Vmos 
Tufts,  a  descendant  of  IVtcr  Tufts,  the  immi- 
grant ancestor  of  one  of  the  most  distinguished 
families  of  Charlestown  and  vicinity.  Chil- 
dren: I.  liliza  Kendall,  born  .\|)ril  25.  1S74. 
2.  Pamelia  Skilton.  born  May  8.  1876.  graduate 
of  Smith  College,  class  of  1900.  3.  Helen 
Crocker,  born  November  8.  1878.  married  Dr. 
P'rederic  C.  PafFard.  of  I'.rooklyn.  New  York. 
December  15.  1904.  4.  James.  Jr..  born  De- 
cember 16.  1881.  graduate  of  Harvard  College, 
class  of  i<;»o5.  now  with  Little.  Urown  &  Com- 
pany, publishers  of  books.   Boston. 

I  The  Skelton   I.ine». 

The  ancient  home  of  the  Skelton  family  is 
in  the  north  of  England.  There  is  a  Skelton 
in  Cumberlaixl  near  Penrith,  and  as  early  as 
the  reign  of  Edward  I.,  Christina  de  Skeltnn 
was  defendant  in  an  action  in  the  court  of  that 
county  respecting  a  land  title.  In  the  East 
Riding  of  Yorkshire  there  is  a  township  of 
Skelton  in  the  parish  of  Howden,  and  in  the 
West  Riding  a  hamlet  named  Skelton,  in  the 
parish  of  Leeds.  There  is  a  township  of  Skel- 
ton also  in  the  parish  of  Ripon  in  Yorksliire. 
The  records  of  the  time  of  Erlward  L  mentions 
William,  son  of  Robert  de  Skeltnn.  contesting 
witii  William  .*^kelton.  son  of  William  de  Skel- 
tcn.  possession  of  lands.  In  1417  Richard  de 
Skelton  the  younger,  of  Cumberland,  and  in 
14 1 8  Richard  Skelton,  of  Carlisle,  were  named 
in  the  French  Rolls  in  the  retinue  of  the  Duke 
of  Gloucester,  taking  part  in  the  subjection  of 
the  northern  jjnnince  of  l-'rance.  The  name 
was  common  in  the  city  oi  York  many  cen- 
turies ago.  .\dani  de  Skeltone's  will  was 
proved  October  18.  1330.  Dr.  Karber  states 
that  the  name  is  derived  from  Skeel.  a  Daiu'sh 
personal  name,  and  Tun.  old  Xorse.  meaning 
a  fortified  town.  The  name  occurs  in  the 
Domesday  i'.ook.  spelled  Scheltun.  probably 
pronounces  skaleton.  as  it  is  written  later.  The 
variation  in  s|)elling  is  very  great  in  the  old 
records.     (See  Xew  I-jig.  Reg.   i8<j8.  p.  347). 

(I)  Rev.  Samuel  .Skelton.  immigrant  ances- 
tor, was  born  in  l-jiglan<l  in  1584.  died  at 
.Salem.  Massachusetts.  .August  2,  if>34.  He 
was  rector  of  the  Sempringham  church.  Lin- 
colnshire, from  about  1618  for  three  or  more 
years.  This  church  is  a  relic  of  Xorman  arch- 
itecture to  which  a  tower  was  added  in  1423. 


It  is  a  jiarish  of  extensive  area  comprising  the 
chapelries  of  Pomton  and  Berthorpe.  while  the 
village  near  the  church  has  long  since  dis- 
ai)i)eared.  The  .Manor  House,  formerly  the 
seat  of  the  earls  of  Lincoln,  is  also  destroyed. 
He  married  there  .\|)ril  27.  1(119.  Susanna 
Travis,  daughter  "t  William  Travis.  Her 
father's  will  was  dated  .\pril  22.  U135.  and 
proved  June  17,  if)45.  at  Lincoln.  He  was  of 
Horljling.  Rev.  Samuel's  daughter  Sarah  w^as 
bai'.tized  .\ugust  14.  and  was  buried  at  -Sem- 
pringham. .\ugust  27.  1621.  He  removed  to 
Tatershail.  seventeen  miles  northeast  of  .Sem- 
j)ringliani.  and  there  three  children  were  bap- 
tized. It  seems  likely  that  Susanna  was  his 
secDiid  wife  and  that  Benjamin  and  Nathaniel 
were  by  a  former  marriage,  lie  was  about 
thirty-si.x  years  old  when  he  married  Susanna 
Travis.  He  came  under  the  appointment  of 
the  Massachusetts  Bay  Company  in  the  siiip 
"(ieorge  Bonaventure"  to  Salem,  sailing  May 
4.  1629.  and  he  weIcome<I  \\  inthrop's  ])arty 
the  next  year,  lie  was  admitted  a  freeman 
May  18.  1(^131.  He  had  a  grant  of  land  in 
.Salem  in  i(')3o.  (See  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  second 
series,  vol.  \.  |i.  loS).  He  died  .Vngiist  2. 
1634.  and  his  wife  died  March  15,  1631,  at 
.Salem.  With  the  consent  of  Mrs.  Beggerly. 
the  division  of  the  estate  was  ordered  in  June, 
I ("138.  his  three  eldest  children  to  receive  the 
jiersona!  effects.  The  house  in  which  he  lived 
jiassed  to  the  ownership  of  Xatliaiiiel  I'elton, 
his  son-in-law.  who  sold  it  in  i(')43  to  William 
I'.rowne.  His  farm  was  bought  by  John  Porter, 
the  final  (\ec<\  being  given  liy  the  son  Samuel. 
March  30.  i'^C)3.  Children:  i.  Benjamin,  had 
son  John,  bajitized  at  Salem,  in  1639.  2.  Xa- 
thaniel.  had  son  John  born  1(148  at  Salem.  3. 
.Sarah,  born  and  died  i('i2i.  4.  Samuel,  bap- 
tized January  8.  1622.  mentioned  below.  5. 
.Susaiuia.  baptized  .Xjiril  3.  1627.  married  John 
Marsh,  of  Salem,  o.  Mary,  baptized  June  28, 
i('>28.  married  Nathaniel  l-'elton.  7.  Elizabeth, 
born  about  1631  in  .Salem,  married  Robert 
San  ford,  of  Boston. 

(II)  .Samuel  (2).  son  of  Rev.  Samuel  (  i) 
Skelton.  was  baptized  in  Tatershail.  luigland. 
Jamiary  8.  i(')22.  In  1644  and  1649  he  convcyi'd 
laufl  formerly  his  father's,  calling  himself  "son 
of  Rev.  .Samuel  Skelton."  and  in  1N13  coniplettvl 
the  transfer  of  his  land  at  Salem.  I  le  returncfl 
to  I'jigland  before  i'')4.v  He  died  at  Taters- 
hail. -May  12.  iCn^5.  His  will  was  dated  I'ebru- 
ary  15.  ifiC-i^-C}^..  It  mentions  his  wife  Mar- 
garet and  cliib'ren  .Samuel.  Zerrubbabel.  Israel 
and  Nathaniel,  and  cousin  John  Skelton.  Chil- 
ilren  :    r.  Joseph,  mentioned  belfiw.    2.  .Satnucl, 


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bajjtized  in  Rngland.  if'45.  3-  Zcrrubbabel, 
born  i()47-  4.  Israel,  baptized  1650.  5.  Xa- 
Uianiel.  baptized  1656.  6.  Jobn.  7.  ^largaret. 
buried  March  14.  1695-96. 

(Ill)  Jcsepb.  son  of  Samuel  (2)  Skelton. 
was  born  probably  at  Salem  and  brought  up 
bv  his  aunts  or  other  relatives,  as  his  father 
returned  to  England  when  he  was  very  young. 
(See  history  of  Billerica.  Dedham  Hist.  Reg. 
vol.  7,  ]).  II).  In  any  case  he  seems  to  be 
grandson  of  Rev.  Samuel  (  i  ).  Me  was 
apprenticed  to  Captain  John  Carter  and  re- 
sided in  W'oburn  as  early  as  1653.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Dedham,  February  2^.  1673,  Deborah 
Howe,  daughter  of  .Abraham  Howe,  of  Dor- 
chester. .^Iie  died  at  Woburn  in  1711  and  he 
died  there  June  30,  1705.  Children,  born  in 
Dedham:  I.  Thomas,  born  .April  10.  1674, 
mentioned  below.  2.  Deborah,  born  February 
12,  1676,  married,  at  W'oburn,  .\ugust  13,  1700, 
John  Cragin. 

(IN)  Thomas,  son  of  Jose])h  Skeltcm,  was 
Ijorn  at  Dedham,  .April  lO,  1674,  married,  at 
W'oburn,  December  29,  1701.  Mary  Cragin, 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Cragin.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  tailor.  In  1696  he  deeded 
lands  in  W'oburn  and  in  I70)his  father's  home- 
stead at  W'oburn.  His  will  was  dated  .\ovem- 
ber  13.  1650,  bet|ueathing  to  wife  Mary,  son 
Thomas,  daughter  Mary  and  grandson  Thomas. 
Children,  born  at  W'oburn:  1.  Thomas,  born 
November  20.  1702,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Mercy,  born  l-'ebruary  10,  1704.  3.  Daze,  burn 
.August  17,  1705,  died  at  W'olinrn,  December 
15,  171  I.  .1.  .Anna,  born  Januar}-  11,  1710.  5. 
.Mary,  died  after  1750. 

(  \  )  Thnmas  (  2  ),  son  <it  Thomas  (  1  )  .Skel- 
ton, was  born  at  W'oburn,  .Xovember  20,  1702, 
died  tliere  March  23.  1796.  lie  married,  at 
W'oburn.  X'dvember  3,  1729,  Ruth  Reed.  I  lis 
will  is  dated  February  20,  1773.  with  a  codicil 
in  1782,  and  was  proved  1797.  It  nientinns 
his  wife  Ruth,  daughters  Mercy,  .Sarah.  .Sus- 
anna, .Anna,  and  sons  Daze,  Thomas,  John  and 
Matthew,  t'bildren,  born  in  W'nburu:  i. 
Ruth,  born  .August  3,  17.^0.  2.  .Mercy,  burn 
I'ebruary  9,  1731,  married,  January  18.  i7.;3, 
l^lkanah  Welch,  (jf  Cambridge.  3.  Sarah,  born 
.A]iril  23,  1734,  married,  July  9.  1767,  .Abiathar 
Johnson.  4.  .Anna,  born  January  3,  1736.  •  5. 
Susanna,  born  July  24,  1737.  married,  Decem- 
ber 24,  17^11,  .Simeon  I'.iodgett,  of  I.exingtnn. 
,  6.  Thomas,  born  Xovemljer  2H.  1740,  soldier  in 
the  revolution  ;  married  Flizabeth  Johnson.  7. 
Daze,  born  December  21,  1742,  married  Ruth 
Ilartwell;  was  in  the  revolution.  8.  John, 
born  December  31,  1744.  mentioned  below.    9. 


.Matthew,  born  June  19,  1746,  soldier  in  the 
revolution  ;  married,  September  6.  1769,  Sarah 
W'vman.  10.  .Anna,  born  June  19,  1750,  mar- 
ried, March  5,  1782,  Edward  Wood. 

(VI)  John,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  Skelton, 
was  born  in  Woburn,  December  31,  1744,  died 
June  10.  1821.  He  settled  in  the  southeast 
part  of  the  town  of  Billerica,  and  his  name 
apjjears  on  the  tax  list  as  early  as  1770.  He 
married,  February  2,  1768,  Joanna  Johnson. 
Children:  I.  John,  born  February  4,  1771, 
married,  Ala\-  14,  1809,  Sally  Jacques;  died 
October  I,  1824.  2.  Matthew,  born  October 
26,  1773,  mentioned  below.  3.  Benjamin.  4. 
Thomas,  born  December  16,  1779,  graduated 
at  Harvard,  1806;  married  Emma  Willard.  5. 
Alfred,  died  before  1821.  6.  .Ann,  married 
.\mos  Haggitt.  7.  Toanna,  married  David  Fos- 
dick. 

(  \'1I  )  Deacon  Matthew  Skilton  (he  and  his 
descendants  spelled  the  name  with  an  "i"), 
son  of  John  Skelton,  was  born  October  26, 
1773.  died  in  Charlestown,  October  7,  1842. 
lie  inherited  the  homestead.  He  married 
(first)  Pamela  Wyman,  of  Charlestown,  who 
died  March  15,  1834.  He  married  (second) 
.A]>ril.  1835,  .Mrs.  Alartha  Skilton  (or  Skelton). 
wlio  died  October  10.  1842,  aged  sixty-nine. 
Children:  i.  Matthew,  born  .August  19,  1806. 
died  January  12,  1831.  2.  Samuel  Putnam, 
born  .August  18.  1808,  died  September  8,  1848. 
3.  .Augustus,  born  October  11.  1810,  died 
young.  4.  Pamelia  Wyman.  born  October  23, 
1812,  married,  .April  28,  1835.  Hon.  James 
.Adams,  died  July  10,  1868  (see  .Adams  family  ). 
5.  .Augustus  Henry,  born  February  n,  1823, 
died  .April  20,  1898. 


It  has  been  wisely  said  that  the 
.\D\MS     native    .American   stock   may   be 

found  in  its  pristine  purity  in 
\  cTnunt  a>  in  no  olher  --tale  in  the  I  nion. 
.Among  so  much  foreign  intlux,  this  old  stock 
has  a  saving  i|ualily.  N'erniont  has  raised  many 
great  men  and  has  loaned  her  citizens  freely  to 
other  states.  Wisconsin  borrowed  the  resource- 
ful Matt.  Carpenter  and  the  broad  minded  Dick- 
inson of  Cleveland's  ministry  :  Iowa,  that  master 
of  finance.  Leslie  M.  Shaw,  and  Illinois,  that 
matchless  debater,  Stephen  .A.  Douglas.  \'er- 
mont  jieople  are  everywhere,  and  in  Massachu- 
setts and  the  Connecticut  X'alley  they  are  in 
all  honorable  walks.  They  have  bnnight  with 
them  the  tradition^  and  high  principles  of  the 
old  Creen  Mountain  -tate.  They  have  the 
capacitv  to  do  things,  to  succeed  in  whatever 
thev  undertake,    ("mod  ])eopIe  to  know,  to  iiave 


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on  your  side,  are  these  same  X'ernnMiters.  Tlie 
city  of  Springfield  contains  among  lier  pro- 
gresshe  and  successful  business  men  a  goodly 
number  who  have  hailed  from  this  state  anil 
no  family  from  there  have  wrought  to  better 
advantage  or  moved  in  better  circles  than  the 
one  we  now  introduce. 

(II)  James  (2).  son  of  James  (i)  Adams, 
came  from  .Stillwater.  Xew  York.  He  resided 
in  Canaan.  Connecticut,  and  .Springfield.  Mass- 
achusetts, fn  1768  he  went  to  St.  Johnsbury, 
X'ermont.  then  called  Dunniore.  He  .settled 
in  the  meadow  south  of  Railroad  street  and 
made  the  first  clearing  in  town.  He  was  one 
of  the  original  grantees  when  the  town  was  in- 
corporated. He  later  lived  in  Littleton  and 
W'aterfonl.  \ermont.  He  married,  in  S])ring- 
field.  Submit  Purchase.  His  wife  died  in  1797 
and  he  married  again.  He  died  in  1810  and 
was  buried  on  his  farm  in  St.  Johnsbury.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Martin,  whose  career  follows.  2. 
Jonathan,  born  September  20.  1765.  3.  Thirza, 
.September  29.  1767.  4.  Clarisse.  January  21. 
'769-  5-  James  Callender.  January  25.  1771. 
6.  Charles. 

(TH)  Deacon  Martin,  eldest  son  of  James 
(2)  and  Submit  (Purchase)  .Adams,  was  born 
in  Canaan.  Connecticut.  February  3.  1764,  and 
went  with  his  father  to  Springfield  and  to  St. 
Johnsbury.  then  called  Duncansboro.  He  served 
as  drummer  boy  in  Cajjtain  James  lirookin's 
com])any  and  Colonel  .Sam  Fletcher's  regiment 
in  the  revolutionary  war  from  July  to  No- 
vember 23.  1 78 1.  .Also  in  Captain  William 
Hutcbins's  indeiiendent  X'ermojit  militia.  He 
settled  in  Xewimrt.  X'ermont.  then  called  Dun- 
cansboro. and  built  the  first  log  house  there  in 
'793  where  .Alfred  I  limes  afterward  long  lived. 
I  le  went  to  Stanstead.  Canada,  for  a  few  years 
but  returned  to  .Newport.  He  was  selectman 
in  1802-09-10-15-18-19-20.  He  was  representa- 
tive to  the  general  court  in  1814.  He  married 
Mercy,  daughter  of  Rev.  S.  15.  Ryder. 

(I\  )  .Abial.  son  of  Deacon  Martin  and 
Mercy  (Ryder)  .Adams,  lived  in  Newport  and 
was  a  farmer,  owning  a  saw  mill.  He  was 
town  clerk  in  1825  and  was  a  constituent  mem- 
ber of  the  Baptist  church.  His  house  was 
made  the  jiest  house  by  vote  of  the  town  in 
the  small  po.\  epidemic  in  1844,  He  married 
Irene  (jray.  Children  :  i.  .Abial  A.,  born  Janu- 
ary 24.  1802.  diefl  July  9.  1881.  2.  Irene.  Sef>- 
tember  15.  1807.  died  .Ajiril  i,  1883.  3.  Ira, 
.March  7.  1824.  died  December  iCi.  1900.  4. 
Daniel  M.,  October  17.  1825.  died  December  6. 
)8''>i.  5.  Lucretia.  October  17,  1827,  died  .Au- 
gust 18.  1828.    6.  James  C.  Afay  2J.  1829,  died 


.April  12.  1809.  7.  John  D..  July  12,  1831,  died 
November  i(\  \i)Oj.  8.  .Abel  P.,  .August  11, 
1833-  9-  Oscar  D..  May  19,  1835.  10.  Mercy, 
-April  17,  1838,  died  October  30,  1864.  11, 
Newel  H.,  June  8.  1841.  12.  Orrin  J.,  March 
25.  1844.  13.  Harriet,  June  28.  1846,  died 
February.  1872.  14.  Don  C,  December  19, 
1848.  15.  Ranson  \\  ..  June  i('\  1851.  16. 
I'rank.  ^lay  13.  1854. 

(  \' )  Oscar  Dunreath.  son  of  .Abial  and  Irene 
((iray)  .Adams,  was  born  in  Newport,  May 
19.  1835.  He  attended  the  di.strict  school  and 
Derby  .Academy,  graduating  from  the  latter  in 
1855.  1  le  taught  country  schools  until  twenty- 
one  years  of  age.  when  he  clerked  in  a  store 
at  Derby  Center.  In  1862  he  was  in  Troy, 
X'ermoiit,  in  business.  He  came  to  .Springfield 
in  i8f)4.  when  it  was  a  small  city  and  he  lias 
seen  it  grow  to  its  ]iresent  proportions.  In 
Springfield  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  produce 
business,  selling  \'ermont  j^roduce,  and  is  now 
actively -engaged  in  the  .same.  He  came  from 
a  state  where  there  are  nothing  but  Republi- 
cans and  of  course  belongs  to  that  i)arty.  He 
has  never  taken  ofiice  excejit  two  years  as  alder- 
man under  .Mayor  Ladd.  He  is  president  of 
the  .Sons  and  Daughters  of  N'ermont.  in  .Spring- 
field, lie  attends  the  First  Congregational 
Church  and  contributed  liberally  toward  the 
erection  of  the  Memorial  Church.  The  sport 
he  loves  best  is  fly-casting  for  trout.  He  cahie 
to  know  when  a  farmer  lad  where  the  speckle<i 
beauties  lurketh  and  he  usually  entices  a  goodly 
number  from  their  hidden  iKumts  when  with 
reel  and  creel  he  goes  on  his  vacation  among 
the  hills  of  his  early  days,  lie  married  Mari- 
etta, daughter  of  Hiram  15.  Lane,  whose  ances- 
try is  traced  in  this  work.  They  have  one 
child.  liertha  E..  who  married  Waldo  E.,  the 
son  of  .Mark  I'.enjamiu.  Iler  husband  died 
June  13,  1906.  Mrs.  lienjamin  is  a  member  of 
the  Tuesday  .Morning  Musical  Club  and  eligible 
to  mcmberslii|)  in  the  Daughters  of  the  .Amer- 
ican Revolution,  of  which  she  is  soon  to  become 
a  member.  Mr.  and  .Mrs.  I'enjamin  had  one 
child,  .Avis  Retta.  who  married  Wendell  W. 
P.roadhurst,  of  the  I'roadhurst  dye  works  of 
-Springfield. 

(The   Lant   Line). 

K'obert  Lane  was  from  Derbyshire,  England, 
and  settled  in  Killingworth.  Connecticut,  later 
coming  to  .Stratford.  C"onnecticut.  in  16^)5.  His 
tf)wn  lot  was  number  si.xty-two  of  two  acres. 
He  was  a  successful  farmer  and  was  sexton 
of  the  graveyard.  In  1699  he  was  given  four- 
teen acres  in  the  flivision  of  the  cominonage. 
Herders  were  employed  to  take  care  of  cattle 


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wliicli  were  ])asturecl  in  tlie  woods.  It  was  an 
irksome  jt)b.  and  the  men  sometimes  proved 
recreant  to  duty  and  not  much  to  blame  either. 
"February  1 8.  1662.  Samuel  Fayrechild  and 
Robert  Lane,  cowkeepers  for  the  year  1662, 
being  detected  of  unfaithfulness  in  keeping 
the  heard,  the  said  Samuel  and  Robert  doe 
own  thev  <lid  leave  the  heard  in  the  woods  and 
came  home  several  days.  This  was  owned  in 
a  public  town  meeting.  They  were  fined  twenty 
shillings.'  In  1675  he  was  chosen  fence  viewer 
and  in  1686  was  representative  to  the  general 
court.  He  married  Sarah  F'ickett,  of  Eng- 
land, and  after  her  decease  Lydia  Kelsey.  Chil- 
dren :  Joseph,  born  February  29,  1666 ;  Hurd  ; 
Hannah.  December  16,  1668:  Daniel.  July  27, 
1671  ;  John,  who  is  sketched  later:  Elizabeth, 
January  31,  1676;  Margaret,  .August  25,  1679; 
Rebecca,  March  7,  1682 ;  Jonathan.  October 
if\  i''>85;  Mary,  September  23,  1688. 

ill)  John,  tifth  of  the  ten  children  of  Rob- 
ert and  Sarah  f  Pickett )  Lane,  was  lieutenant 
in  the  Seventh  Regiment,  having  enlisted 
March  17,  1775.  He  was  also  in  Captain  Jon- 
athan Johnson's  com()any  of  the  W'adsworth 
brigade,  having  enlisted  June  12  and  discharged 
November  16,  1775.  He  was  made  a  prisoner 
at  Fort  \\'ashington.  He  re-enlisted  under 
Captain  Daniel  .Allen  in  Colonel  Samuel  W'ylles 
third  regiment  of  the  Continental  line  and  was 
transferred  to  the  Ceorgia  battalion  in  August, 
1777.  .Also  he  was  a  soldier  at  the  East  Haven 
alarm,  July  7,  1779,  under  Captain  Bezaleel 
P.ristol.  lie  enlisted  again  July  i  and  wa^ 
discharged  December  13  under  Colonel  Her- 
man .Swift  in  the  .Seventeenth  Regiment, 
thev  being  the  short  levies  in  Connecticut, 
in  17S0.  <  )n  Se])teml)er  ifi.  1789,  he  was 
pn  minted  tn  he  C(ir])i)rai  and  served  several 
years  in  La|)tain  .Abraham  Pierson's  Seventh 
Connecticut  regiment.  He  was  accidentally 
killed  while  drilling  his  coiu])any  on  the  square 
in  Killingworth.  He  luarried  Experience 
b'dgarton.  Their  children  were:  Jnhn.  jede- 
diah.  -Sanuiel.  Ilezekiah  and  Elisha. 

I  III)  Samuel,  third  son  of  Ca])tain  jdhii 
and  E.xperiencc  (  Edgarton)  Lane. married  Abi- 
gail Norton,  July  2.  1757.  and  lived  in  Salis- 
bury, Connecticut.  Their  children  were:  Sam- 
uel, Elisha,  .Abigail.  Electa,  Polly  and  Salome, 

I  I\' )  Elisha,  second  son  of  Samuel  and  Abi- 
gail (  Norton  I  Lane,  was  born  in  .Salisbury, 
Connecticut.  He  lived  in  Salisbury  and  P>ur- 
lington,  N'ermont.  He  lived  in  llurlington  on 
the  farm  afterward  owned  1)\  the  I.oomis 
fann'ly  above  the  high  bridge  nn  the  intervale. 
He  married   Charitv    lacobs.      Their   children 


were:  Lovey,  deceased  when  young;  Laura, 
Seymour.  Burrill,  Harry,  Elisha,  Charity, 
Mariah,  Calista,  Hyman  and  Hiram,  twins,  and 
I  forace. 

(\  )  .Seymour,  third  child  of  the  thirteen 
children  of  Elisha  and  Charity  (Jacobs)  Lane, 
was  born  in  .Newport,  February,  1788.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church  at  Newport  and  was  clerk  of 
the  same  from  1831  to  1864.  He  was  select- 
man in  1828-29.  He  married,  January  i,  181 5, 
Hetty  Robinson.  Their  children  were:  George, 
Henrv,  Harriet.  Cephas,  Hiram  P..,  who  is 
sketched  below :  .Augusta  and  Elisha. 

(  \"I )  Hiram  I!.,  fifth  of  the  seven  children 
of  Seymour  aTid  Hetty  (Robinson)  Lane,  was 
born  in  New])ort.  August  17,  1824,  died  in 
Springfield.  November  15.  1901.  He  was 
selectman  of  Newport  in  1859.  He  married 
Eleanor,  daughter  of  Samuel  Rowley.  She 
was  born  June  20,  1822.  died  September  4. 
1862.  He  married  (second)  Maria  J.  Hitch- 
cock, born  March.  1834.  Children  I)y  first 
wife:  Alarietta.  born  July  21.  1844.  becatne 
the  wife  of  Oscar  D.  .Adams  (see  Adams). 
Elma,  October  31,  1848.  Olin  H..  February 
21,  1855.  Children  by  second  marriage:  Harry 
P.,  September  13,  1865.  Harriet  B.,  January 
27,  1875.  ' 

John  .Adams  removed  from  P)OW- 
.AD.AMS  doin  to  Litchfield.  Maine,  in  1S13. 
with  his  wife.,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Rebecca  Tarr,  and  three  sons.  James, 
Daniel  and  John.  He  died  in  Litchfield  in  1830. 
(II)  James,  son  of  John  and  Rebecca 
(Tarr)  .Adams,  was  born  in  P.owdoin,  in  1787, 
and  died  at  the  home  of  his  son  James,  in 
Iowa,  May  8,  i8()(),  aged  seventy-nine  years.  In 
early  life  he  followed  the  sea  a  part  of  the 
time  for  some  years,  and  being  of  a  frugal 
disposition  he  saved  a  portion  of  each  year's 
earnings.  In  1813.  with  his  father  and  brothers, 
he  went  to  Litchfield,  and  after  preparing  a 
log  cabin  in  the  wilderness  he  took  his  family 
there  and  instituted  a  home.  He  was  soon  able 
ti)  build  comfortable  buildings,  and  with  the 
efiicient  and  faithful  aid  of  his  good  wife,  in- 
creased his  estate  uiuil  he  became  one  of  the 
most  indei)endeut  and  successful  farmers  in 
the  tow  n.  I  le  succeeded  by  most  rigid  economy 
and  untiring  industry,  backed  up  by  good  judg- 
ment and  sound  New  I-'iigland  sense.  He  was 
deejily  interested  in  |)ublic  affairs,  state  and 
national,  and  read  much  in  the  newsjiapers  and 
in  such  books  as  came  intii  his  hands.  Though 
at  first  opposed  to  prohibition,  he  carefully  in- 


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vestigated  the  claims  put  furward  in  its  favor, 
and  stfing  its  very  beneficial  eti'ects  in  the 
community  where  he  liveil,  he  gave  it  his  un- 
(|ualified  support  and  became  a  "tetotaller,'" 
and  so  remained  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was 
one  of  the  first  to  itlentify  himself  with  the 
political  party  which  declared  against  the  ex- 
tension of  slavery  into  free  territory,  and 
assisted  in  the  organization  of  the  Republican 
party  in  his  town,  lie  was  a  man  of  intense 
convictions,  strong  prejudices,  active  in  mind, 
and  possessing  courage  at  all  hazards.  He 
was  a  good  friend  and  an  undesirable  enemy ; 
appreciating  kindness,  resenting  injury  with 
fiery  indignation:  a  man  who  without  a  dollar 
to  begin  life  with  was  ever  able  to  command 
credit  to  any  auKJunt  he  desired.  He  married 
Mary  Williams,  who  died  November  3,  1863, 
aged  seventy-one  years.  They  had  ten  children 
who  grew  up  on  the  old  homestead  and  then 
scattered  from  Maine  to  California:  1.  Daniel, 
born  December  i,  1812,  lived  near  his  father, 
and  died  December  5,  1852.  He  married  Susan 
llarrimaii.  2.  Lettice,  .April  13,  1814,  married 
William  Hale  and  moved  to  l->esiio.  California. 
3.  Mary  .\nn,  October  2"].  1815.  married  Wil- 
son .Sandford.  of  Cowckrin.  4.  Rufus  W.,  Sep- 
tember 28.  1818,  married  Mary  I.  Clifford,  is 
a  builder,  and  lives  in  Bath.  5.  Aaron,  see 
below.  6.  Margaret,  .March  28,  1822,  married 
Dr.  Isaac  Rowell,  lived  first  in  (iardiner.  Maine 
and  then  in  San  Francisco.  California.  7. 
Janos  L..  July  19,  1824,  married  Mary  Gan- 
non, and  lived  in  ISoston,  Massachusetts.  8. 
Crial  D.,  Sei)tember  6,  1826,  married  Love  L. 
lirackett  and  settled  in  Charlestown,  Massa- 
chu.setts,  where  he  became  a  successful  con- 
tractor. 9.  Melville  W.,  .April  6.  1832,  married 
-Mary  C.  Smith,  and  owns  and  occupies  the 
homestead  farm.  10.  Franklin  C,  October  6, 
1834.  married  I.ectina  Lewis. 

(HI  )  .Aaron,  third  son  of  James  and  Mary 
(Williams)  .Adams,  was  born  in  Litchfiekl, 
December  28.  1819,  died  in  llarpswell  in  i860. 
He  carried  on  the  lumber  business  in  Litch- 
field, and  afterward  conducted  a  hotel  at  I?runs- 
wick,  and  later  in  Harpswell.  In  religious  faith 
he  was  a  I'niversalist.  and  in  politics  a  Whig. 
He  married,  in  IJrunswick.  ]*>ances  .Ann  Xiles, 
born  in  Topsham.  July  27.  1821,  and  is  .still 
living  (19OJ).  She  is  the  daughter  of  James 
Erastus  and  Deborah  (Gannon)  Niles,  of 
Turner.  James  Krastus  Xiles  was  a  fifer  at 
the  age  of  twelve  in  the  war  of  1812.  IIi^ 
parents.  James  and  Mercy  Xiles,  lived  in 
Turner.  The  children  of  .Aaron  and  Frances 
.A.  (Xiles)  .Adams  were:     i.  .Aaron  .Alphrjnso. 


2.  (.leorgiana.  who  married  George  11.  Say- 
ward,  of  Dt)ver,  Xew  Hampshire,  and  now 
resides  in  W  inchester,  Alassachusetts.  3.  Fd- 
win  Hoardman,  ne.xt  mentioned. 

(I\)  Dr.  Fdwin  Boardman,  youngest  child 
of  .Aaron  and  l-'rances  Ann  (XilcsJ  Adams, 
was  born  in  Brunswick,  Maine,  October  20, 
1851.  He  received  his  literary  education  in  the 
l)ublic  schools,  attending  the  high  school  of 
liath  from  the  age  of  twelve  to  fifteen.  In 
18W)  he  left  Bath  and  went  to  W'allliam,  Mass- 
achusetts, where  he  was  employed  two  years  as 
a  dial-painter  in  a  watch  factory.  The  two  or 
tliree  years  ne.xt  following  he  was  employed  in 
a  store  in  Boston.  In  1872  he  engaged  at  his 
trade  in  the  .Si)ringfield  watch  factory  and  was 
employed  there  till  1879.  In  i87()  he  decided 
to  study  medicine,  and  for  that  purj)ose  entered 
the  office  of  Dr.  (_ieorge  F.  I-'oster,  of  .Spring- 
field, and  read  four  years,  as  he  had  leisure,  all 
the  time  attending  to  his  work  in  the  factory. 
In  1870  he  left  the  factory  and  entered  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  of  Xew 
^'(lrk.  ftjr  his  final  course,  from  which  he  re- 
ceived his  degree  .March  13,  1880.  He  im- 
mediately engaged  in  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine and  surgery  in  .Springfield,  and  by  labor 
and  skill  has  secured  an  honorable  position 
and  a  large  ])ractice.  lie  was  visiting  sur- 
geon three  years  and  did  all  the  operating 
at  -Mercy  Hospital  for  three  months  of  each 
year,  and  is  now  consulting  surgeon  in  that 
institution.  He  is  a  memljer  of  the  .Springfield 
.Academy  of  .Medicine,  the  .Massachusetts  .Medi- 
cal Society,  and  the  .American  .Medical  .Asso- 
ciation. In  politics  he  is  independent.  He 
married,  .April  30,  1884.  Mrs.  Jane  Kent,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Kirby.  .She  was  born  in 
Leeds,  Fngland,  and  came  to  .America  when 
a  small  child  in   18^7. 


(II)  Joseph  .Adams,  son  of  I  lenry 
,\l)  \.\l.^  Adams  ( <[.  v.),  born  in  Fngland, 
1(126,  died  in  Braintree,  .Massa- 
chusetts. December  6.  i(>94.  I  le  was  a  malster. 
lie  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  1(153  :  was  select- 
luan  1673.  Mis  will  was  dated  July  18,  1(194; 
proved  Jaiuiary  ro,  \(*)'^.  I  le  married,  in  Brain- 
tree,  .Vovember  26.  1650,  .Abigail  B;i.\ter.  died 
in  I'.oston.  .August  2~ .  i(w)2.  aged  fifty-eight, 
daughter  of  (Gregory  and  .Margaret  (I'addyj 
Baxter,  of  Boston.  Children,  born  in  Brain- 
tree:  I.  Ilannah,  born  .November  13,  1652; 
married,  .Ajiril  10,  1672,  Deacon  Samuel  Savil ; 
died  Se|)teml)er  15.  1726.  2.  Joseph,  born  Octo- 
ber or  December  24,  1654;  mentioned  below. 
3.  John,  born  l-"ebruary  13,  1656.  died  January 


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27.  i')57.  4.  Abigail,  born  I'ebruary  2"] ,  1658; 
married  John  Bass ;  died  October  26,  1696.  5. 
Captain  John,  born  December  20,  1661  ;  mar- 
ried first.  Hannah  Webb ;  second,  October  19, 
1694.  Hannah  Checkley ;  was  sea  captain  and 
merciiant.     6.   llethia   (twin),  born  December 

20,  1661  ;  married.  May,  1680,  John  Webb.  7. 
Mary,  born  .September  8.  \(ii2>-  •'■'^'^  young.  8. 
Samuel,  born  .September  3,  1665,  died  young. 
9.  Mary,  born  February  25,  i6(j7-78;  married 
Deacon  Samuel  Bass;  died  March  9,  1706.  10. 
Captain  Peter,  born  February  7,  1669-70  ;  mar- 
ried, February  12,  1695,  Mary  Webb.  11.  Jon- 
athan, born  January  31,  1671.  12.  Mehitable, 
born  November  23,  1673;  married,  July  21, 
1697,  Thomas  White,  Jr. :  died  October  2,  1713. 

(  HI  )  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (1  )  .\daius, 
born  in  Braintree,  October  or  December  24, 
[654,  died  there  February  12,  1736-37.  Ik- 
resided  ill  l^)raintree,  and  was  selectman  in  1673 
and  1698-99.  Joseph  .\dams  and  John  Bass 
were  credited  to  iSraintree  for  services  in  the 
war  with  the  Indians  in  .August,  1676.  He 
married  first,  February  20,  1682,  Mary  Chapin, 
born  .\ugust  27,  1662,  died  June  14,  1687.  He 
married  second,  1688,  Hannah  Bass,  born  June 
22,  1667,  died  October  24,  1705,  daughter  of 
John  and  Ruth  (.Alden)  Bass.  He  married 
third.  l''lizabeth  Hobart,  died  February  13, 
1739.  aged  seventy-one,  daughter  of  Caleb 
Hobart  of  Braintree.  Children  of  first  wife: 
I.  Mar_\-.  born  h'ebruary  6,  1683,  died  January 
30,  1733-34;  married,  .April,  1714,  Fphraim 
Jones,  Jr.,  of  Braintree.  2.  .Abigail,  born  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1684,  died  .April  28,  1722;  married, 
February  5,  1713,  Seth  Chapin,  Jr.  Children 
of  second  wife;  3.  Rev.  Joseph,  born  January 
4,  1688;  married  first,  October  13,  1720,  Mrs. 
FJizal)cth  Janvrin  ;  second,  January  3,  1760, 
I'llizaljeth  lirackett ;  graduate  of  Harvard,  1710. 
4.  I^cacon  Jolm,  born  February  8,  1691-92; 
mentioned  below.  5.  Samuel,  born  January  28, 
1694,  died  July  17,  1751  ;  married,  October  6, 
1720,  Sarah  I'aine.  6.  Josiah,  born  February 
18,  1696,  died  July  30,  1802;  married,  Novem- 
ber 25,  1 7 18,  Bethia  Thompson.  7.  Hannah, 
born  February  21,  1698;  married,  February  4, 
1725,  Benjamin  Owen.     8.  Ruth,  born  March 

21,  1700;  married,  November  21,  1 731,  as  sec- 
ond wife.  Rev.  Natlian  Welib ;  resided  at  I'.x- 
bridgc.  <).  r.ethia,  born  June  13,  1702  ;  married, 
.April  28.  1737,  I-lbenezer  Hunt,  as  second  wife. 
10.  Ca])tain  ICbenezer,  born  December  30, 1704, 
died  .August  6,  1769:  married,  1728-29.  .Anna 
Boylston.  Child  of  first  wife  :  n.  Caleb,  born 
May  26,  1710,  died  June  4,  1710. 

(IV)   Deacon  John  .Adams,  son  of  Joseph 


(2)  Adams,  born  in  l'.raintree_.  i-'ebruary  8,- 
1691-92.  died  May  25,  1761  ;  married,  October 
31,  1734,  Susanna  Boylston,  born  March  5. 
1699,  died  .April  17,  1797,  daughter  of  Peter 
and  Ann  (White)  Boylston,  of  Brookline.  He 
was  a  cordwainer  and  farmer,  and  resided  at 
Braintree.  Children,  born  in  Braintree;  I. 
President  John,  born  October  19,  1735;  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Captain  Peter  Boylston,  born 
October  lO,  1738:  married,  .August  20.  I7<)8. 
Mary  Crosby ;  died  June  2,  1823.  3.  CaiJtain 
Elihu.born  Mav29, 1741  ;  married,  1765, Thank- 
ful White. 

(  \' )  President  John  (2  j  .Adams,  son  of  Dea- 
con John  .Adams,  was  born  in  Liraintree,  now 
(Juincy,  Massachusetts,  October  19,  1735.  He 
gratluated  at  Harvard  College  in  1755.  and 
taught  school  and  studied  law  at  Worcester  for 
two  years.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Suttolk 
bar  in  1758,  and  began  practice  in  Boston,  re- 
siding at  Braintree  until  I7('>8,  when  he  removed 
to  Boston.  He  was  employed  as  counsel,  to- 
gether with  Jeremiah  (iridley,  the  head  of  the 
Boston  bar,  and  James  Otis,  the  orator,  to  pre- 
sent a  petition  to  the  governor  and  ctnmcil  that 
the  courts  might  proceed  with  business,  though 
no  stamps  were  to  be  had,  and  he  was  chosen 
one  of  a  committee  to  draft  instructions  to  the 
representatives  of  the  town.  In  1770  he  was 
chosen  a  representative  in  the  general  court,  a 
position  which  he  occupied  for  a  number  of 
years,  thougli  his  practice  was  larger  than  that 
of  any  other  lawyer  in  the  province.  He  was 
conspicuous  as  an  adviser  and  leader  of  the 
patriit  party.  He  was  one  of  five  delegates 
chosen  by  .\lassachusetts  to  the  congress  of 
1774  at  Philadelphia;  was  a  member  of  the 
I)rovincial  congress  on  his  return,  and  in  1775 
was  again  chosen  a  delegate  to  the  second  con- 
tinental congress.  The  war  had  alreaily  begun, 
and  Washington  was  ciiosen  commander-in- 
chief.  .Adams  was  a  leading  spirit,  and  upon 
him  devolved  the  presidency  and  the  burden  of 
the  board  of  war.  which  won  for  him  the  en- 
comium of  "the  clearest  head  and  firmest  heart 
of  any  man  in  Congress."  He  went  abroad  as 
commissioner  to  France  in  I'ebruary.  1778,  and 
for  the  next  ten  years  much  of  his  time  was 
spent  in  the  service  of  his  countr}',  as  commis- 
sioner to  France,  minister  to  England  and  to 
Holland.  Through  his  efforts  a  loan  of  two 
million  dollars  was  negotiated  in  Holland,  which 
proved  of  great  value,  lie  was  vice-president 
with  Washington  from  1789  to  1797,  and  presi- 
dent from  1797  to  1801.  He  then  returned  to 
his  large  farm  and  home  in  Quincy,  where  he 
passed  the  remainder  of  his  life,  devoted  mainlv 


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to  writing.  aii<l  cliud  July  4.  1826,  a  few  hours 
after  the  dcatli  of  his  former  associate  and 
friend.  Thomas  Jefferson.  His  son  wrote  of 
him:  "In  figure,  John  .Adams  was  not  tall, 
scarcely  exceeding  middle  height,  but  of  stout, 
well-knit  frame,  denoting  vigor  and  long  life, 
yet  as  he  grew  old,  inclining  more  and  more  to 
corpulence.  His  head  was  large  and  round. 
with  a  wide  forehead  and  expanded  eyebrows. 
Mis  eye  was  mild  and  Ijenignant.  but  when 
e.vcited.  e.\]3ressed  the  vehemence  of  his  spirit." 
He  has  been  described  as  a  man  of  greater 
learning  and  force  than  any  i>f  his  contempor- 
aries, but  of  ungovernable  temper  and  undue 
self-e.steem.  His  services  to  his  country  were 
of  inestimable  value.  He  married,  February  24 
((Jctobcr  25?),  1764,  Abigail  .'^mith,  born  No- 
vember 23,  1744.  died  October  28.  i8i8,  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  William  and  Elizabeth  ( Ouincy  | 
.Smith,  of  Weymouth,  Massachusetts.  She  is 
described  as  a  woman  of  superior  abilities  and 
great  good  sense.  Her  letters,  written  to  her 
husband  during  the  revolution,  are  interesting 
and  valuable  for  the  light  they  throw  on  the 
life  of  that  period.  Children:  i,  Abigail,  born 
in  ISraintree.  July  14,  1765,  died  .August  15, 
1S13;  married  Hon,  Henry  William  .Smith,  pri- 
vate secretary  of  ['resident  .Adams,  and  aj)- 
poiuted  by  him  surveyor  of  the  port  of  New 
^'ork.  2.  Hon.  John  Ouincy,  born  July  11, 
1767:  mentioned  below,  3,  Susanna,  born  in 
r.oston,  December  28,  1768.  died  February  4, 
1770.  4.  Charles,  born  in  Ho.ston,  May  29, 
1770,  died  November  30,  1800:  married,  .Au- 
gust 29,  1795,  Sarah  Smith  :  graduated  at  Har- 
vard. 1789;  was  a  lawyer  in  New  A'ork.  5. 
lion.  Thomas  I'.oylston,  born  in  Ouincy,  Sep- 
tember 15,  1772,  (lied  March  12,  1832  :  married, 
-May  i(),  1805,  .Ann  I  larrod  :  graduated  at  Har- 
vard. 1790;  was  chief  justice  of  sujireme  court 
of  Massachusetts. 

I  \'I  )  Hon.  John  Ouincy  Adanis,  I.L.  l).,Min 
of  President  John  (2)  .\dams.  was  born  in  the 
south  house  on  hranklin  street,  Ouincy,  July 
1  1,  I7C)7.  lie  began  his  jiublic  career  in  early 
boyhood,  going  al)road  with  his  father  when 
ten  years  old.  lie  served  as  jirivate  secretary 
to  the  minister  to  Russia  when  he  was  only  fif- 
teen years  old.  .Much  of  his  education  was 
ohtainetl  in  Euro])ean  courts  and  capitals.  He 
entered  Harvard  College  in  1786  antl  graduated 
in  1788:  studied  law  for  three  years  in  the 
office  of  Chief  Justice  Theo|)hilus  Parsons,  at 
.\ewl)iiry|)ort,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1791.  He  o])ened  an  otYice  and  began  practice, 
but  in  17(^4  was  a])])oiuted  minister  to  the 
Hague  by  Washington,  and  in  I7<X'  minister  to 


Portugal,  By  the  written  advice  of  Washing- 
ton, his  father,  on  becoming  president,  made 
him  minister  to  lierlin,  whither  he  went  soon 
after  being  married  in  London,  in  the  fall  of 
1797.  He  resided  several  years  in  Berlin,  per- 
fecting his  knowle<lge  of  the  German  language, 
negotiating  treaties  of  commerce  with  Sweden 
and  Prussia,  and  travelling.  .A  volume  of  his 
letters  on  Silesia,  the  New  England  of  Europe, 
written  to  his  friends  at  home,  was  published 
and  extensively  circulated.  Returning  to  Bos- 
ton he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Massachu- 
setts senate  in  1802,  and  to  the  United  States 
.senate  in  1803.  His  ardent  support  of  the  meas- 
ures of  President  Jefferson  led  to  his  defeat  for 
a  second  term.  President  Madison  appointed 
him  ambassador  to  Russia,  and  while  serving  in 
that  capacity  he  was  joined  b)-  Clay  and  Galla- 
tin on  the  commission  which  negotiated  the 
treaty  of  peace  at  Ghent,  December  24,  1814. 
He  reiuained  in  London  as  minister  of  the 
United  States,  but  returned  to  become  secre- 
tary of  state  to  President  Alonroe  in  1817.  He 
w'as  elected  to  the  presidency  in  1824  and 
served  one  term.  Upon  his  retirement  he  was 
chosen  to  represent  his  district  in  congress, 
which  he  entered  in  December,  i83i,and  where 
he  continued  till  his  death.  During  his  term  as 
president  both  senate  and  house  were  against 
him.  and  no  measures  of  importance  were 
enacted  on  that  account.  The  best  work  of  his 
life  was  done  after  he  was  elected  to  congress, 
where  he  stood  as  champion  of  his  own  inde- 
pendent thought  and  the  rights  of  the  people. 
1  le  was  heard.  whene\er  he  s])oke  in  congress, 
with  res])ect  and  attention  and  exerted  a  ])ower- 
ful  inlluence.  He  was  esiiecially  distinguished 
for  his  fearless  and  eloquent  advocacy  of  the 
right  of  petition  for  the  abolition  of  slavery  in 
the  District  of  Columbia,  which  had  been  denied 
by  the  dominating  ])oliticians,  and  which  no 
nther  had  the  courage  to  defend.  He  continued 
at  his  post  till  an  advanced  age.  and  became 
known  as  "the  (Jld  .Man  liloquent,  "  and  died  in 
the  ca])itol,  suddenly,  h'ebruary  23,  1848,  and 
his  last  words  were  "This  is  the  last  of  earth  ;  I 
am  content." 

I  le  married,  in  London.  July  26,  1797,  Louisa 
Catherine  John.son,  died  1852,  daughter  of 
Joshua  Johnson,  of  .Maryland,  who  was  at  that 
time  .American  Consul  at  London.  Children: 
I.  George  Washington,  born  in  P.erlin,  Prussia, 
April  13.  1801  ;  graduated  irom  Harvard  1821  ; 
lawyer  :  unmarried  :  lost  on  a  steamer  off  Long 
Island  .Sound,  .A|iril  30.  1829.  2.  John,  born  in 
Boston,  July  4,  1803.  died  October  23,  1834; 
married,  182'').  in  the  White  I  louse.  Washing- 


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ton.  Iiis  cousin,  Mary  llelcn  Adams.  3.  lion. 
Charles  Francis,  born  .August  18,  1807:  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Louisa  Catherine,  born  at  .^t. 
Petersburg.  181 1,  died  young. 

(\'1I)  Hon.  Charles  l-"rancis.\dams.LL.  U., 
son  of  John  Quincy  .\dams.  was  born  in 
Hoston.  .August  18.  1807.  and  died  there  No- 
vember 21.  1886.  lie  resided  much  of  his 
earlier  life  with  his  parents  in  Kurt)pe,  and 
earlv  became  master  of  several  of  the  modern 
European  languages.  Me  returned  and  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  College  in  1825.  soon  after 
his  father  was  inaugurated  president.  He 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  Daniel  Webster  in 
Floston,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Suffolk 
county  in  1828.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Whig  party  and  of  the  Massachusetts  legisla- 
ture from  1831  to  1836.  He  was  nominated 
for  the  vice-presitlency  by  the  Free  Soil  Re])ub- 
licans  on  the  ticket  with  Martin  \an  Ikiren  in 
1848 :  elected  to  congress  from  the  third  district 
of   .Massachusetts   in    1858.   and   re-elected   in 

1860.  Fresi<lent  Lincoln  appointed  him  min- 
ister to  England  in  1801.  where  he  continued 
till  1868.  a  position  which  his  fatlier  and  grand- 
father bad  filled  before  him,  and  which  now  rc- 
(|uired  the  highest  order  of  diplomatic  ability. 
Mr.  .-\dams  acc|uitte<l  himself  with  great  firm- 
ness and  success  through  the  most  trying  con- 
ditions, and  proved  himself  an  .\merican  of 
great  i)atrioti.sm  and  dii)loniatic  ability.  He 
married.  Seinember  3.  1829,  .Abigail  H.  P.rooks, 
born  in  Medford.  .\pril  25.  1808,  died  June  6, 
1889.  youngest  daughter  of  Peter  C.  lirooks,  of 
I'.oston.  Children,  all  but  the  last  born  in  Bos- 
ton:  I.  L.oui.sa  Catherine,  born  .August  13, 
1831.  died  Julv  13,  1870:  married.  .April  13, 
1854,  Charles  Kuhn.  of  Philadelphia.  Pennsyl- 
vania. 2.  Hon.  John  Quincy,  born  September 
22.  1833.  died  July  if\  1894:  married.  .A])ril  29. 

1861,  Fanny  Cadwalader  Crowninsbield,  of 
Boston:  gra'duatetl  at  Harvard.  1853:  lawyer; 
member  of  corporation  of  Harvard  College.  3. 
Hon.  Charles  Francis.  LL.  D.,  born  May  27, 
1835  :  married,  November  8, 1864.  Mary  ( )gden  ; 
graduated  at  Harvard.  1856:  in  civil  war  :  mem- 
ber of  corporation  of  Harvard  College.  4. 
Professor  Henry,  born  February  16,  1838; 
married,  |une  27',  i8'')2,  Miriam  Hooper  ;  grad- 
uated at  Harvard,  1858:  became  professor  in 
1  larvard  ;  author  of  historical  works.  5.  .Arthur, 
born  lulv  23.  1841.  died  February  9,  1846.  6. 
.Mary',  born  February  19.  1846;  married,  June 
20,  1877,  Dr.  Henry  P.  Quincy.  7.  IJrooks, 
born  in  Quincy.  June  24.  1848:  married  Evelyn, 
daughterof  .Admiral  Charles  Henry  Davis,  U. 


.^.  .X.  :  graduated  at  Harvard  1870;  jawver  and 
authiir  :  resides  in  \\  asliington,  D.  C. ;  no  issue. 


lobn  Whitcomb.  immigrant 
WIHTCOMP.  ancestor  of  this  family  in 
.\merica,was  undoubtedly  of 
l-jiglish  birth,  and  tlie  name  was  originally 
Wlietcombe.  He  was  long  supjiosed  to  be  the 
son  of  Symon  Whetcombe.  who  was  one  of  the 
original  patentees  of  the  old  Massachusetts  P.ay 
(."olony,  but  the  ])ublication  of  the  will  of  John 
Whetcombe  of  Sherbnurne,  Dorsetshire,  Eng- 
land, ]>rol)ate(l  in  1598.  shows  that  Symon  was 
then  a  minor,  and  that  he  could  not  have  been 
tile  father  of  the  .American  progenitor,  who 
was  born  about  1588.  Some  authorities  believe 
that  the  .American  John  was  brother  of  .Symon, 
and  the  J<ihn  Wlietcombe  mentioned  in  the  will 
of  Symon's  father. 

John  Whitcomb  sailed  in  Dorchester,  .Mass- 
aclnisetts.  and  was  a  cliurch  member  there  in 
1635:  this  and  the  birth  of  his  youngest  son 
Josiah,  in  1(138,  are  the  only  events  of  hi.s 
family  life  recorded  during  the  years  he  spent 
in  Dorchester.  Later  evidence  shows  him  to 
have  been  well-to-do  for  the  times,  a  man  of 
inlelligeiice  and  cnter])rise,  much  given  to  buy- 
ing and  selling  land.  In  ir>40  he  removed  to 
Scituate,  where  he  owned  land,  one  piece  being 
a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  eight  acres  near 
the  mouth  of  the  .North  river,  on  the  Marsh- 
field  side,  and  after  1646,  when  he  became  one 
of  the  Conihassct  partners,  he  owned  the  lands 
which  througJ!  that  transaction  became  his 
^liare.  While  in  Scituate  he  was  constable, 
then  (iiie  of  the  most  important  offices.  He 
was  admitted  a  freeman  June  3,  i'')52.  In  1^)44 
he  sold  his  farm  on  North  river  to  Thomas 
Micks:  in  1654  he  sold  half  his  share  in  Coni- 
hassct lands  to  John  Williams.  Jr.,  giving  the 
other  half  to  his  son  Robert.  In  the  same  year 
he  removed  to  Lancaster,  .Massachusetts,  where 
he  had  bcjught  a  share  two  years  before,  when 
the  town  was  laid  out.  Not  all  his  children 
accomi)anied  him  thither:  Catherine  married 
and  settled  in  .Scituate:  Robert  remained  in 
Scituate  and  settled  in  I'.oston.  John  Whit- 
comb and  his  son  John  are  counterl  among  the 
pioneer  settlers  of  the  town  of  Lancaster, 
originally  the  .Nashaway  Plantation.  The  home- 
stead of  John,  .Sr..  was  on  lot  No.  33:  John. 
Jr..  had  lot  No.  34.  The  |)resent  post  office 
and  bank  building  in  Lancaster  is  on  the  origi- 
nal house  lot. 

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seventy-four  years.     He  married  in  England, 

Frances  ,   who  made   a  will    May    12, 

1671,  and  died  at  Lancaster  May  17,  1671. 
The  agreement  of  division  of  John  Whitcomb's 
estate  has  the  name  spelt  by  his  own  children 
three  different  ways — Wetcomb,  W'hetcomb 
and  Whitcomb,  (3ctober  7,  1662.  Children:  i. 
Catherine,  married,  1644.  Rodolphus  EUmes, 
of  Scituate,  nine  children.  2.  James,  born  in 
England,  settled  in  Boston  ;  owned  five  acres 
of  land  opposite  Boston  Common  ;  died  in  Bos- 
ton, November  23.  1686;  married  first.  Rebecca 
,  second  Elizabeth :  had  ten  chil- 
dren. 3.  John,  Jr.,  may  have  been  the  eldest 
son,  and  was  most  closely  associated  in  later 
life  with  his  father;  married  May  19,  1669  or 
1671  :  died  April  7,  1683.  leaving  wife  Mary 
and  two  daughters.  4.  Robert,  remained  at 
Scituate;  married  Mary,  daughter  of  General 
Tames  Cud  worth,  in  Rhode  Island  ;  they  were 
the  first  to  settle  in  the  f^eeches,  the  family  place 
at  Scituate.  5.  Jonathan,  born  about  1630,  in 
England ;  settled  in  Lancaster,  Massachusetts, 
and  W'ethersfield,  Connecticut.  6.  Abigail.  7. 
Job,  land  surveyor  at  Lancaster  ;  married,  May 

'iQ,  1669.  Mary ;  settled  at  Wethersfield, 

Contiecticut.    8.  Josiah,  mentioned  below. 

(II)  Josiah  Whitcomb,  son  of  John  Whit- 
comb f  i),  was  born  in  Dorchester,  Massachu- 
setts, in  i'')38.  He  accompanied  his  father 
from  Scituate  to  Lancaster  in  1654,  and  his 
name  appears  often  on  the  earliest  town  rec- 
ords. In  1688  he  was  paid  a  bounty  for  killing 
a  wolf,  and  he  and  his  brother  Job  figurecl  in 
an  action  for  damages  to  a  neighbor's  swine. 
It  seems  that  Stephen  Gates,  their  next  neigh- 
bor, had  three  i)igs  killed  by  the  Whitcomb  boys, 
and  their  father  agreed  to  settle  for  the  dam- 
age by  paying  forty-five  shillings  in  wheat 
"within  a  week  after  Michael  tyde  next  1658 
to  be  payed  at  his  house  in  Sudbury,"  but  later 
Whitcomb  asked  the  general  court  to  relieve 
him  from  payment.  The  court  decided  in  favor 
of  Gates,  because  he  had  the  note,  though  Whit- 
comb alleged  that  the  note  was  obtained  by 
false  representations  and  that  he  was  not  liable 
for  the  hogs.  "It  was  by  reason  of  age  and 
weakness  I  did  not  consider  of  it  that  I  had  no 
right  to  pay  anything  to  him  before  he  did  duly 
make  it  ajjpear  that  I  had  damnified  him." 

Josiah  married.  January  4.  1664,  in  Lancas- 
ter. l\ebccca.  .laughter  of  Lawrence  and  Ann 
(Linton)  Waters,  of  Walertown,  Lancaster 
and  Charlestown,  Massachusetts.  She  was  born 
February.  1640.  During  Queen  Aim's  war, 
1702-1717.  he  was  allowed  a  garrison  for  pro- 
tection against  the  Indians ;  it  was  situate  in 


what  is  now  Bolton,  then  Lancaster.  He  was 
commander  of  the  garrison.  In  1705  he  was 
selectman;  in  1708  was  one  of  thirty  who 
signed  the  church  covenant,  and  he  contributed 
liberally  to  the  support  of  the  church;  in  1710 
was  a  (lei)uty  to  the  general  court.  In  his  will 
dated  March  20.  1718,  he  gave  to  each  of  his 
children  an  eighth  part  of  his  right  in  the  town 
of  Littleton.  Massachusetts.  His  widow  died 
in  1726.  A  rough  granite  slab  marks  his  grave 
in  Lancaster,  and  gives  the  date  of  his  death 
March  21.  1718,  in  his  eightieth  year.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Josiah.  Jr..  born  November  12.  1665, 
died  same  day.  2.  Josiah,  Jr..  born  Jaiuiary  7, 
1666,  or  1667.  3.  David,  born  February  20, 
1668,  mentioned  below.  4.  Rebecca,  born  No- 
vember 12,  1671 ;  married  Jacob  Houghton, 
1704.  5.  Johannah,  born  March  8.  1674;  mar- 
ried. December  26,  1708.  Peter  Joslin  ;  she  died 
Se])tember  24.  1717.  6.  Hezekiah.  born  Sep- 
tember 14,  1 68 1.  7.  Deborah,  born  December 
26,  1683  ;  probably  died  young.  8.  Damaris.  mar- 
ried in  Marlborough.  Alassachusetts.  Nathaniel 
Wilder.  9.  Mary.  10.  Abigail,  born  March  13, 
1687;  married  Josiah  \\'hite.  June  26.  1706. 
1 1.  Eunice. 

( III )  David  Whitcomb.  son  of  Josiah  U'hit- 
comb,  was  married  May  31.  1700.  in  Con- 
cord. Alassachusetts.  to  Mary  (Hayward)  Fair- 
banks, widow,  a  descendant  of  Resolved 
White,  who  came  over  in  the  "Mayflower,"  a 
small  boy,  with  his  father  and  mother,  and 
whose  brother  Peregrine  is  famous  as  the  first 
white  child  born  in  Massachusetts,  or  New 
England.  Tier  husband.  Jonathan  Fairbanks, 
was  killed  by  the  Indians  at  Lancaster,  Sep- 
tember 4,  1697  ;  she  was  taken  captive,  but  was 
returned  January  17,  1699,  on  the  Province 
Galley  from  Casco  Bay.  While  in  captivity 
she  acquired  a  knowledge  of  herbs  from  the 
Indians,  and  was  afterward  for  this  reason 
called  Doctress.  They  lived  in  the  southeastern 
corner  of  what  is  now  Bolton,  and  he  kept  a 
tavern.  He  died  intestate  .\pril  11.  1730.  and 
his  wife  Mary  died  Jamiary  5.  1734.  in  the 
sixty-seventh  year  of  her  age.  The  real  estate 
of  David  was  divided  among  liis  heirs  by  a 
partition  agreement.  Children:  1.  David.  2. 
Jonathan.  3.  Joseph,  born  1700.  mentioned 
below.  4.  Rebecca,  baptized  1708,  married 
Ezra  .Sawyer,  January  16.  1725-fS.  5.  Benja- 
min, born  1710.  baptized  November  26,  1710, 
at  Lancaster.     6.    Simon,   baptized   March   7, 

I7I.V4- 

(  1\"  ]  Joseph  Whitcomb.  son  of  David  W  hit- 


ib.    was    born 


Lancaster.    1700. 


married.  January  20,  1725.  Damaris,  daughter 


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547 


of  John  and  Anna  (Houghton)  Priest.  They 
settled  in  Lancaster,  in  what  is  now  Leomins- 
ter; removed  ahoiit  ijfK)  to  West  Swanzey. 
Xcw  Hampsiiire,  where  his  wife  (hed  Xovem- 
her  12,  1770.  He  moved  into  the  wilderness, 
built  a  saw  mill  and  grist  mill,  making  the 
privilege  on  which  now  stand  the  Stratton 
mills  and  the  box  and  bucket  shops.  He  owned 
an  extensive  tract  of  land,  was  a  man  of  high 
standing,  and  a  leading  citizen.  He  died  No- 
vember. 1792,  aged  ninety-two  years,  and  was 
buried  in  Swanzey;  his  wife  (lied  Xovember 
12,  1770.  In  the  expedition  which  laid  siege 
to  Louisburg  in  1745,  Josei)h  W'hitcomb  was 
lieutenant  in  Company  Four,  of  which  John 
Warner  was  captain,  in  Colonel  Samuel  Will- 
ard's  regiment.  In  the  Crown  Point  expedi- 
tion, 1755.  he  was  lieutenant,  and  in  the  con- 
f|iiest  of  Canada.  1758,  was  cajitain  in  Colonel 
Timothy  Ruggle's  regiment. 

Children:  1.  .\bigail.  born  .\pril  13,  1726; 
married Derby.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  De- 
cember 3,  1728.  3.  Lieutenant  Joseph,  born 
March  15,  1731-2;  soldier  in  revolution.  4. 
r>enjamin.  born  September  i,  1735  ;  died  young. 
5.  Damaris,  born  January  7.  1737,  died  young. 
Ct.  Benjamin,  born  Se[)teniber  29.  1738.  7. 
Colonel  Jonathan  Priest,  born  January  14, 
1740,  at  Leominster;  was  in  the  revolution.  8. 
Colonel  Elisha  (twin),  born  October  18,  1742. 

9.  Elizabeth    (twin),  born   October   18,    1742. 

10.  Damaris,  born  May  21. 1746 ;  married,  April 
3-  ^7^5-  Jonathan  Carter:  she  died  July  6, 
1820.  II.  General  Philemon,  born  October 
29.  1748.  12.  .-\bijah.  born  June  25.  1751  ; 
mentioned  below.  13.  .Xnna.  born  1755:  mar- 
ried June  19,  1775.  John  Carter,  of  Leominster. 

(  \')  .Abijah  W'hitcomb,  son  of  Captain  Joseph 
W'hitcomb,  was  born  June  25,  1751.  at  Leo- 
minster. Massachusetts,  and  moved  with  the 
family  to  Swanzey.  New  Hampshire.  He 
built  a  saw  and  grist  mill  on  the  west  side  of 
the  river  at  West  Swanzey.  anrl  later  with  his 
brother  Philemon  built  a  saw  mill  at  what  is 
now  Spragueville.  New  Hampshire.  He  was 
a  soKlier  in  the  revolution  and  took  part  in  the 
battle  of  P.unker  Hill,  and  served  eight  months 
and  a  half  in  the  army  at  Cambridge  in  1775. 
He  was  a  pensioner  late  in  life.  He  was  in 
Captain  Jonathan  Whitcomb's  company.  Col- 
onel Reed's  regiment.  Four  of  his  brothers 
had  commissions  in  the  army,  while  .'Nbijah. 
the  yoimgest.  was  a  private.  His  brother.  Cap- 
tain Jonathan,  who  commanded  the  company 
in  which  .Ahijah  was,  was  entertaining  some 
visitors  at  Cambridge,  and  without  ceremony 
ordered  .Abijah  to  fetch  some  rum.     He  felt 


slighted  at  not  being  introduced  to  the  visitors, 
and  -o.  it  is  said,  hauled  out:  "Which  will  vi>u 
have,  I'.rother  Jonathan,  Old  England  or  .N'ew 
England?  ■  The  live  brothers  settled  in  Swan- 
zey, and  of  this  line  comes  the  character  made 
famous  on  the  stage  as  Joshua  W'hitcomb.  In 
1840  .\bijah  was  living  with  Joseph  Whitcomb, 
Swanzey.  He  married  first,  Xovember  6,  1786, 
-Mary  Seaver,  born  Xovember  8.  1764,  died 
August  25.  1789,  daughter  of  Shubal  Seaver. 
.\bijah  married  second,  I-'ebruary  6,  1791,  Sus- 
anna Warner,  born  .\ugust  19,  1766.  died  De- 
cember 10,  1825,  daughter  of  Daniel  Warner. 
.Abijah  died  May  17,  1847,  Children:  i.  .Abi- 
jah,  born  October  25,  1791  ;  married  Xovem- 
l)er  24.  181 5,  Su.sanna  Graves,  born  1790,  died 
Xovember,  1845.  daughter  of  Elijah  Oaves; 
he  died  October  10,  1872;  children:  i.  Caro- 
line Maria,  born  Jaiuiary  7.  1818.  died  .April 
29,  1867;  ii.  Benjamin  ■■"ranklin.  born  Septem- 
ber 7,  1820.  2.  Joseph,  born  January  31,  1800, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Susanna,  born  Jainiary 
4,  1807;  married  William  Read, 

f  \'I)  Jo.sejih  Whitcomb.  .son  of  Abijah  Whit- 
comb, was  born  in  Swanzey.  Xcw  Hamp- 
shire. January  31,  1800,  and  died  May  8.  1842. 
He  married  Betsey  Page,  who  was  born  in 
Rupert.  Vermont,  in  1799.  and  died  .August  9, 
1873.  Their  children,  all  born  at  Swanzev: 
I.  Chestina.  born  .April  21.  1829;  resides  in 
Toronto,  Canada ;  married  September  23,  1853, 
James  Elbridge  I'nderwood.  of  Lawrence, 
Massachusetts.  2.  Joseph  Page,  born  April  29. 
1831  ;  resides  in  Keene,  Xcw  Hampshire;  mar- 
ried Mary  Elizabeth  Goodnow  :  children  :  i. 
.Alice  Mary,  born  February  7.  \S,^(>:  married 
Xovember.  1886,  Marshall'W.  Xiin.s,  of  Con- 
cord, Xew  Hampshire;  ii.  Carrie  Elizabeth, 
born  January  5,  1862;  teacher  at  Keene  CNew 
Hampshire),  high  school.  3.  Irvine  .Abijah. 
born  .April  9.  1839;  mentioned  below. 

f\'II)  Irvine  .Abijah  Whitcomb.  son  of 
loscph  Whitcomb.  horn  at  .'swaiizev.  Xew 
Ham))shire.  .April  9,  1839.  He  was  educated 
at  the  district  school  in  old  Xo.  5,  and  at  Mt. 
Caesar  .Academy  at  Swanzey  Centre,  from 
which  he  was  graduatcfl  at  the  age  of  sixteen. 
He  was  familiar  with  hard  work.  like  most 
boys  of  his  flay,  and  at  the  conijjletion  of  his 
schooling  went  to  work  in  the  ()ail  factory  in 
his  native  town.  In  a  few  years  he  left  the 
mill  and  opened  a  stationery  store  in  Law- 
rence, Massachusetts,  where  for  some  years  he 
was  very  successful.  Disaster  finally' coming 
upon  him  through  no  fault  of  his!  he  was 
obliged  to  settle  with  his  creditors  as  best  he 
could,  and  wind  up  his  business.     His  char- 


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MASSACHL'SETTS. 


acter  is  well  shown  by  the  fact  that  he  later 
jiaid  all  these  debts  with  interest,  a  form  of 
hont'sty  that  is  by  no  means  common  in  these 
times.'  lie  then  accepted  a  ])osition  as  travel- 
ing agent  for  the  Boston,  Concord  &  Montreal 
railroad,  going  south  as  far  as  Baltimore,  west 
as  far  as  St.  Louis,  Chicago,  Cleveland  and 
Buffalo.  The  six  years  he  spent  in  this  posi- 
tion made  him  thoroughly  familiar  with  the 
railroad  business,  and  reve.aled  to  him  its  possi- 
bilities. He  was  forty  years  old  when  he  began 
tiie  life  work  that  made  his  name  known 
tiironghout  thv'  civilized  world.  He  formed  a 
l>artnershii)  with  Walter  Raymond.  In  1879 
Ivaymond  &  Whitcomb  put  into  successful 
operation  their  jilans  to  manage  railroad  excur- 
sions in  the  United  States.  These  trips  prov- 
ing successful,  they  were  gradually  extended 
until  they  reached  the  Pacific  coast  and  be- 
yond, and  finally  the  Raymond  &  Whitcomb  ex- 
cursions Ijecame  known  all  over  the  world. 
The  first  excursion  to  California  from  the  east 
w'as  in  the  spring  of  1 881.  The  party  consisted 
of  two  hundred  and  eighty-four  persons,  and 
the  train  was  divided  in  two  sections.  Before 
this,  however,  Raymond  &  Whitcomb  had  made 
trips  to  Washington,  the  White  Mountains, 
Montreal.  Quebec.  Niagara  Falls,  etc.  In  1882 
the  firm  .seiTt  out  five  trains  each  carrying  a  hun- 
dred or  more  passengers.  The  business  greatly 
increased  from  year  to  year,  and  new  routes 
were  selected.  The  first  winter  excursion  cov- 
ered a  period  of  seven  months,  carrying  sixty 
]>assengers;  the  second  numbered  one  hundred 
and  thirty-eight,  and  the  third  over  four  hun- 
dred. 

The  business  was  incorporated  in  the  stale 
of  Maine  in  igoo.  inider  the  name  of  Ray- 
mond &  Whitcomb  Company,  Mr.  Raymond 
being  the  first  i)resident,  anc'l  Mr.  Whitcoml). 
general  manager  and  treasurer  of  the  com- 
])any.  In  1903  Mr.  Whitcomb  was  made 
|)resident.  and  retained  that  jKisition.  as  well 
as  that  of  treasurer,  until  his  death.  The 
companv  has  offices  at  25  I'nion  .S(|uare.  New 
^■ork  :  1005  Chestnut  street,  riiiladelphia  :  Park 
P.uilding.  i'ifth  avenue,  i'ittsbnrgh,  Pennsyl- 
vania; 133  East  Jackson  B.oulevard.  Chicago. 
The  Agencies  :  Union  Ticket  Office,  377  Main 
street.  P.uffalo.  New  York  :  New  York  Central 
Citv  Ticket  Office.  I'niversity  Block.  Syracuse, 
\cw  York;  20  State  street.  Rochester.  New 
York;  64  North  Pearl  street,  .\lbany.  New 
>(irk  ;  33  Seneca  street. deneva.  New  York  ;  385 
Main  street,  Worcester.  Massachusetts:  404 
Main  street.  .Sjiringficld.  Massachusetts;  216 
West  Fourth  street.  Los  Angeles,  California; 


San  Francisco,  California;  132  Third  street, 
Portland.  Oregon ;  20  Cockspur  street,  S.  W. 
London;  14  Hare  street,  Calcutta;  59  Hornby 
Row.  Bombay.  India.  Besides  these  mentioned, 
there  are  correspondents  in  Paris  and  London, 
and  all  other  agents  of  the  Comjiagnie  Inter- 
nationale des  Wagons-Lits  and  the  Trans- 
Siberian  Railwav  throughout  Europe.  Besides 
organizing  and  managing  personally  conducted 
tours,  the  company  makes  a  business  of  pro- 
viding the  ordering  of  cars  for  family  and 
other  parties  anywhere  in  the  world,  selling 
foreign  exchange,  providing  letters  of  credit, 
travelers'  checks,  bankers"  money  orders  to  all 
parts  of  the  world.  The  company  sells  rail- 
road and  steamship  tickets  at  regular  rates  to 
all  points,  and  has  as  authorized  agents  from 
Boston,  the  Boston  &  Albany,  the  Boston  & 
Maine,  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hart- 
ford, including  the  steamshi])  lines ;  from  New 
^'ork,  the  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River, 
West  Shore.  Baltimore  cS:  Ohio.  Lehigh  X'alley, 
Central  Railroad  of  New  Jersey,  the  Erie; 
from  Philadeliihia.  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio, 
Philadelphia  &  Reading;  also  the  United  Rail- 
ways of  Havana,  all  the  principal  lake  and 
river  steamship  lines,  coastwise  lines  of 
steamers  to  jKJints  in  Maine  and  the  maritime 
provinces,  the  Chesapeake  l!:iy  ports,  the  South, 
the  West  Indies.  Porto  Ricn.  .South  .\merica. 
Alaska,  also  all  trans-Atlantic  an  1  trans-Pacific 
steamship  lines. 

These  excursions  were  not  managed  solely 
to  save  money,  but  to  make  traveling  more 
comfortable  and  freer  from  those  petty  details 
that  are  so  annoying  to  many  people.  Ladies 
and  those  imaccnstomed  to  travel  were  taken 
in  charge  and  cared  for  in  such  a  satisfactory 
manner  that  these  excursions  soon  ac<|uired  a 
]H)])idar:ty  that  has  jiersisted  to  the  present  day. 
They  catered  to  the  best  classes  in  the  com- 
munitv.  Thev  gained  their  confidence  and 
])atronage,  anil  it  was  their  constant  aim  to 
give  their  ])atrons  a  little  more  than  they 
promised,  never  anything  short  of  what  was 
^tated  in  their  ainimmcements.  and  many  can 
bear  witness  to  their  faithfulness  in  living  u]'> 
t<i  this  standard.  Much  of  this  excellent  re- 
sult w-as  due  to  the  arduous  and  intelligent 
effort  of  Mr.  Whitcomb.  and  it  was  largely 
through  his  great  energy,  perseverance  and 
tact  that  he  was  enabled  to  place  this  enter- 
prise ni)on  its  successful  foundation.  The 
business  involved  an  infinite  amount  of  de- 
tail. Mr.  Whitcomb  knew  the  railroads,  their 
officers,  managers  and  conductors,  times  of 
moving  trains,  connections  to  be  made,  places 


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549 


for  stop-overs,  the  names  of  the  jiarlor  and 
sleeping  cars,  the  hotels  and  eating  houses  and 
their  owners  and  managers,  carriage  men  and 
stage  proprietors,  in  fact  every  one  and  every- 
thing having  to  do  with  his  hnsiness.  to  which 
his  great  energy  was  entirely  devoted.  Mr. 
Whitcomb  was  the  pioneer  in  tliis  particular 
branch  of  industry  in  this  country.  His  energj-, 
his  honesty,  his  reliability,  his  ability  to  accom- 
plish resuhs.  his  loyalty  to  his  friends  and  to 
the  i)ublic.  his  generosity,  and  his  great  human- 
ity, all  go  to  the  formation  of  that  high  char- 
acter which  his  friends  and  acquaintances  will 
always  associate  with  his  memory. 

Mr.  Whitcomb  resided  in  Somerville.  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  had  a  handsome  home.  He 
was  a  Congregationalist  in  religion,  and  joined 
the  P>roadway  Congregational  Church  of  Som- 
erville on  .Sunday.  December  2.  i<>d6.  He. 
however,  for  many  years  was  active  in  the 
affairs  of  the  parish,  and  contributed  liberally 
to  the  various  charities  and  societies  of  the 
church.  He  gave  three  thousand  dollars  to  the 
fund  for  a  parsonage,  and  his  ])lan  to  raise  the 
money  to  jjay  for  the  building  was  successful. 
I-'or  fourteen  years  various  contributors  of  the 
fund  are  to  |)ay  over  the  sum  of  five  hundred 
dollars  annually,  and  when  the  aggregate  is 
seven  thousand  dollars.  Mr.  Whitcomb's  contri- 
bution is  to  pay  the  balance.  The  par.sonage 
cost  ten  thousand  dollars,  and  the  condition  of 
the  gift  is  that  it  be  used  always  as  a  jiarson- 
age.  Mr.  Whitcomb  gave  freely  to  other  relig- 
ious societies  that  appealed  to  him  for  aid.  and 
in  all  affairs,  whetlier  nnmicipal.  j)olitical  or 
religious,  showed  the  s])irit  nf  a  i)atric>tic  .Amer- 
ican citizen.  He  was  an  active  supporter  of 
Rciniblican  politics  and  candidates.  He  was  a 
member  of  Tuscan  f.odge  of  Free  Masons,  of 
the  Congregational  Club.  Bo.ston.  and  of  the 
Home  Market  Club,  of  I'.oston.  He  was  jiopular 
among  his  townsmen  and  business  associates, 
ami  was  one  of  the  most  widely  known  and 
highly  respected  business  men  in  tiie  I'nitrd 
State's. 

Mr.  Whitcomb  married  (first),  June.  1865, 
Helen  M.  King,  daughter  of  A.  F'.  P.  King. 
He  married  (second).  July  3.  1877,  Emma  I'. 
Read,  daughter  of  Edwin  F*".  aiifl  Ambrc 
(Stoned  Read.  •'•{  Swanzey.  New  Hampshire, 
her  parents  were  natives  there,  residing  \n 
Keenc,  .\'ew  Ham|)>-hire.  ^Frs.  Whitcnmb  is 
prominent  in  Somerville  society  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Heptorean  Club.  Chilflren  of  Irvine 
.A.  and  Helen  NF.  Whitcomb:  i.  Frank  Irvine ; 
born  January.  i8'')8:  attends  the  F.piscopal 
church  :  resides  in   N'ew  York  City  ;  married. 


in  .San  Franci.sco.  October  13.  i8<>o.  Miriam 
Miller,  born  in  Hear  X'alley.  California,  .May 
11.  iSoS:  (.-liilil.  F'rank  Irvine.  Jr..  born  .No- 
vember o.  iSoi.  at  New  ^drk.  2.  .\elson. 
died  in  childhood,  (children  of  Irvine  A.  and 
Kmma  1-".  Whitcomb :  3.  Ernest  Read,  born 
October  11.  1886.  at  Somerville;  student  in 
Tufts  College.  4.  Emmons  Joseph,  born  .\pril 
3.  1888.  at  Somerville:  student  in  .Massachu- 
setts Institute  of  Technology. 

Mr.  Whitcomb  died  April  13.  i';o7.  at  Som- 
erville. Massachusetts,  .\t  his  funeral.  .Vjiril 
18.  lOO".  the  following  remarks  were  made  by 
his  ])astor.  Rev.  Robert  Welsted  I'.eers.  of  the 
Rroadway  Congregational  Church,  Somerville  : 

"III  sorrow's  dark  and  gloom.v  day 
\\e  Wlndly  prope  the  troubled  way. 
And   init'sttiin  'mid  our  treml)ling  fears 
W'hy  oartli   Is  such  a  vale  of  tears: 
"Till   I'^ailh   Hfts  up  her  radiant  e.ves. 
And   sees   upon    tlie  azure  skies 
These    words   in    lioavenly    beauty    glow. — 
'Believe — I-Iereafter  ye  sliall   know.' 

"We  ask   in  liours  of  pain  and  prief 
Wh.v   Love  Divine  ffrants  not   relief — 
Why  earth   no  comfort   can    imparl, 
No  solace  for  the  breakins  heart; 
Yel,  when   llie  promise  we  survey. 
Our  hearts  with  joyful    meekness   say. 
'Since  Love   Divine  ordains   it  so. 
Amen:    Hereafter  ye  sli.'ill   know.' 

"How  oft  tlie  funeral  march   we  tread. 
And.  weeping  o'er  our  buried  dead. 
Tiie  mourning  heart  tlie  answer  craves 
Why  earth   is  such  a  world  of  graves; 
Then    Kalth   <liscerns    tlie   jironilsed   dawn 
And  h.iils  the  Ilesui'rection  morn: 
And  Jesus  speaks  lo  soothe  our  woe: — 
'llejolct — Hereafter  ye  shall   know,'" 

"May  this  blcsserl  IVomise  of  our  F)ivine 
F!c(Feemer,  the  I'Vicnd  that  sticketh  closer  than 
a  brother,  ser.'e  to  take  away  the  gloom  ami 
sorrf)W  of  this  present  occasion,  which  are  due 
to  its  peculiar  circumstances: 

"The  keys  of  death  and  the  gra\e  are  in  the 
IuukN  of  Him  who  was  dead,  but  is  alive  for 
evermore — in  the  hands  of  Ilim  who  is  the 
Eord  of  life  and  death,  and  who  has  so  loved 
IIS  as  to  die  the  death  of  the  Cross  in  our  be- 
half. Death  can  come,  neither  to  us.  nor  to  our 
lovetl  ones,  without  His  ])ermission,  .•\nd,  since 
lie  is  infinite  l.r»ve  and  infinite  Wisdom,  we 
may  be  confident  that  He  jiermits  it  at  the 
riglit  time  and  in  the  right  way  to  accomplish 
the  largest  outworking  of  gootl. 

"We  should  thcreff)re  totlay  bow  before  His 
superior  wisdom,  althf)Ugh  we  would  all  doubt- 
less have  jTeferred  that  Mr,  Whitcomb  shr)ul(l 


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liave  remained  with  us  many  years  longer  to 
use  in  the  service  of  humanity  the  endowments 
and  resources  witli  which  God  had  blessed 
him,  and  which  he  himself  was  anxious  to  use 
to  the  best  possible  advantage. 

"He  was  a  man  of  large  experience  with 
men.  and  a  man  of  great  possibilities,  as  was 
evidenced  in  his  ever-ex])an(ling  business ;  and 
he  was  still  in  the  ])rime  of  his  usefulness,  so 
that  wc  are  constrained  at  this  time  to  exclaim 
in  the  words  of  the  i)ro])het :  "Mow  is  the 
strong  staff  broken!'  He  had  a  strength  of 
character  which  became  manifest  very  (juickly 
to  all  with  whom  he  had  to  do.  He  had  a  posi- 
tiveness  of  conviction,  a  persistence  of  energy, 
a  solidity  of  opinion,  whicii  made  him  a  tower 
of  strength  against  o])i)osing  forces,  and  ef|ually 
a  strong  statT  to  lean  u|)on  for  counsel  or  assist- 
ance. He  was  a  man  of  great  frankness,  of 
deep  earnestness,  of  strong  determination,  and 
of  sterling  integrity,  .\ccordingly,  he  com- 
manded the  respect  of  the  entire  community. 

"Added  to  these  characteristics,  he  had  a 
mind  of  natural  keenness,  of  broad  vision,  and 
trained  skill  fulness,  which  constituted  liini  still 
more  a  man  of  strength — a  strong  staff  wher- 
ever he  a])i)eare(l.  This  was  made  manifest 
especially  in  his  business  career.  He  was  in 
love  with  his  business,  and  burned  with  en- 
thusiasm at  each  new  achievement,  and  strove 
to  use  all  his  powers  to  advance  its  utility. 
Progress  was  always  his  watchword.  He  was 
intensely  active.  He  could  not  sit  still.  And 
his  activity  was  never  aimless.  Tt  was  always 
for  a  pur])ose:  and  that  ])ur))o';e  was  to  secure 
better  and  larger  things, 

"Not  only  was  his  activity  and  strength  man- 
ifested in  his  chosen  business.  It  was  also 
shown  in  behalf  of  the  community  in  which  he 
lived.  He  was  a  jjublic  spirited  man,  taking  a 
deep  interest  in  everything  that  i)ertainc(l  to 
the  advancement  of  the  community,  wliether 
it  was  of  a  material,  intellectual,  or  moral  char- 
acter, lie  was  also  intensely  interested  in 
the  church,  lie  thoroughly  believed  in  it  as  a 
nivine  institution.  He  thoroughly  believed 
that  it  is  the  great  uplifting  power  in  the 
world.  .And  for  many  years  he  has  been  one 
of  the  chief  financial  sui)i)orters  of  the  Uroad- 
way  Congregational  Church,  of  which  I  am 
now  ]>a>-tor. 

".•\nd  then,  in  additi<iu  to  hi>  great  strength 
of  character,  exhibited  in  all  spheres  of  his 
life,  there  was  the  social  and  private  side  of  his 
character,  which  was  as  sweet  and  generous  as 
a  woman's,  which  made  him  (|uick  to  sympa- 
thize with  and  relieve  others.     1  le  had  an  ex- 


ceedingly tender  heart,  full  of  kindness,  which 
often  imiielled  him  to  stretch  forth  his  hands 
in  deeds  of  love  and  benevolence.  H  I  could 
chisel  upon  his  tomb  the  symbol  of  his  char- 
acter, as  it  was  made  apparent  to  me,  I  would 
carve  a  flamiiuj  heart  upon  a  broad  and  open 
hand.  A  flaming  heart  to  denote  the  intensity 
of  his  nature,  his  burning  enthusiasm,  his  all- 
consuming  persistency  of  energy — and  the 
broad  and  open  hand  to  denote  his  large  heart- 
c<l  sympathy  and  liberality.  .\  tlaniing  heart 
u])on  a  broad  and  open  hand  is  the  truest  sym- 
bol of  his  character. 

"We  are  fortunate  todayin  havingwith  us  one 
w  ho  has  been  very  intimate  with  the  family  for 
\ears — one  married  in  this  house,  and  who  will 
soon  speak  to  you  from  a  much  longer  acquaint- 
anceship with  Mr.  W'hitcomb  than  it  was  my 
fortune  to  have.  Nevertheless,  I  feel  that 
although  my  knowledge  of  him  has  covered 
but  a  year  and  a  half,  yet  in  that  time  by 
reason  of  circumstances  in  the  Providence  of 
(iod,  I  have  become  far  better  acquainted  with 
his  true  self  than  many  others  who  may  have 
been  acc|uainted  with  him  a  great  deal  longer. 

".\  year  and  a  half  ago  I  came  "a  stranger' 
t(!  .^omerville;  and  he  at  once  "took  me  in,' — 
took  me  into  his  great  big  heart  of  loving  sym- 
pathy, and  lavished  his  ati'ection  upon  nie  as 
a  father  upon  his  son.  Nay,  more :  he  took  me 
into  his  secret  confidence,  and  talked  to  me  of 
naatters  the  most  private  and  sacred.  In  re- 
turn I  unbosomed  myself  to  him — told  him  my 
jilans  for  the  Church,  the  encouragements  and 
discouragements  that  I  saw  before  me.  .And 
as  a  result,  on  the  one  hand.  I  am  living  today 
in  a  lionie  provided  by  his  generosity,  fitted  up 
according  to  my  own  desires — a  project  in 
which  he  took  the  keenest  delight,  not  only  be- 
cause he  knew  that  it  brought  happiness  to 
me  and  my  family  but  because  he  believed  he 
was  ))roviding  a  suitable  home  for  the  future 
pastors  of  our  Church  for  all  time  to  come. 
I  do  not  believe  he  ever  did  anything  in  his 
whole  life  which  gave  him  more  gratification 
than  that.  .And,  as  the  result  of  our  mutual 
confidences,  on  the  other  hand,  it  afforded  me 
very  great  pleasure  to  be  the  instrument  in 
Ciod's  hands  of  lifting  him  up  to  the  higher 
spiritual  ))lane  of  open  confession  of  Jesus 
Christ  as  his  Savior  and  Lord.  I  will  never 
forget  our  communion  service  last  December, 
when  he  and  ex-Mayor  Perry  were  both  re- 
ceived into  the  membership  of  the  Broadway 
Church  on  confession  of  their  faith — two  strong 
men — each  one  a  tower  of  strength.  And  I 
w  ill  never  forget  the  earnestness  of  grasp,  ex- 


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prcssive  of  liis  gratification  at  the  step  lie  was 
taking,  which  Mr.  Wliitcoiiib  gave  nie  when  I 
gave  him  tlie  right  hand  of  fellowship,  together 
with  his  life-m(->tto  in  these  words  of  onr  Risen 
Lord:  "Him  that  overconieih  will  1  grant  to 
sit  with  me  in  my  throne.' 

"I  iiad  hoped,  because  of  this  higher  spir- 
itual vantage-ground  which  he  had  reached,  to 
have  his  wise  cousel  and  liberal  assistance  in 
everything  pertaining  to  my  pastoral  work  for 
many  years  to  come :  so  that  I  am  sure  yon  can 
enter  somewhat  into  my  feelings  when  I  tell 
you  that  1  feel  a  very  keen  personal  loss — a 
loss  which  seems  to  me  just  now  to  be  irrepar- 
able. 

"lint  I  know  that  God's  ways  are  always 
best.  'He  is  not:  for  dod  hath  taken  him.' 
And  do  you  know  that  1  think  the  manner  of 
his  death  was  not  only  the  mo>t  merciful  way 
possible,  preventing  as  it  did.  much  pain  and 
suffering,  but  also  the  most  beautiful  way. 
When  last  .Monday  evening  I  received  a  mes- 
sage over  the  "phone  of  his  death,  I  hurried 
at  once  to  his  home,  and  to  the  room  where 
he  died.  His  death  had  taken  place  only  a 
few  minutes  before:  and  as  I  looked  upon  him, 
sitting  on  his  couch  with  his  head  resting 
peacefully  against  the  wall,  he  looked  as  if  he 
liad  only  fallen  into  a  sweet,  calm  sleep,  and 
the  words  which  came  instinctively  to  my  lips 
were:    "So  (lod  givcth  his  beloved  sleep.' 

"Perhaps  the  finest  tribute  to  the  dead  that 
can  be  found  in  ICnglish  literature  is  that 
which  Tennyson  ])aid  to  his  bosom-friend,  and 
is  known  imdcr  the  name  of  "In  ^^emorian^." 
There  is  a  line  in  it.  which  I  think  is  specially 
appro))riate  to  this  occasion,  and  certainly  in 
accord  with  (lod's  Word.  The  line  is  this: 
■(iod's  finger  touched  him.  and  he  slei)t.' 

"  "God's  finger  touched  him,' — no  enemy,  but 
his  best  Friend,  his  heavenly  Father.  "God's 
finger  touched  him.'  and  bade  him  go  uj)  higher, 
to  larger  opi)ortunitics  under  better  conditions. 
"God's  finger  touched  him' — the  last  touch  of 
the  Divi)ie  Sculptor  ui)on  his  soul  here  on  earth 
— the  touch  that  ])erfects.  and  makes  one  fitted 
for  the  inheritance  of  the  saints  in  light. 

"  "God's  finger  touched  him.  and  he  slept.' 
He  sleeps.  He  is  not  annihilated,  nor  gone 
into  a  state  of  unconsciousness  of  soul.  He 
has  entered  into  the  peaceful  rest  of  God.  He 
sleeps.  He  is  obtaining  refreshment  and  re- 
invigoration.  He  will  t)e  ready  to  greet  us  in 
the  morning — the  same  man.  only  the  stronger 
and  brighter  because  of  the  sleep  of  death. 

"And  so,  my  dear  friend,  we  follow  you 
today,  not  with  the  word  'good-bye!'  upon  our 


lips,  as  though  we  might  never  see  you  more, 
but  rather  with  the  word  "good-night,'  for  we 
shall  greet  you  again  in  the  morning.'' 


( I-'or  flr.st  gent-rallon  see  preceiling  sk*'tch). 

(  11  )  louathan  Whitcombe.^' 
W  II  n\(  )M  r.E  son  of  John  Whitconibe,  re- 
moved from  Scituate  to 
Lancaster  withhis  father  in  1654.  Hewith  others 
signed  a  i)etition  ior  aid  after  the  Indian  raid 
of  if'JS"/*^'-  '!"<'  '1^'  lived  nearly  all  the  remain- 
der of  his  life  in  Lancaster,  \\ith  hi,s  brother 
Robert  and  his  brother-in-law.  Rodolphus 
Fllmes.  he  served  on  the  jury  of  in(|uest  upon 
the  death  of  Richard  Mann,  of  Scituate,  Fcb- 
luary  18.  1655.  The  family  pro])erty  at  I^an- 
castcr  became  his  by  inheritance  and  he  added 
til  it.  lie  died  February.  1690,  and  the  inven- 
tory of  the  estate  was  taken  February  25,  1 691, 
by  his  brother-in-law,  John  Moor.  .Sanuiel  .Sum- 
mr  and  Cyprian  .Stevens,  and  was  returned 
under  oath  by  his  widow,  .April  7,  161JI.  The 
amount  of  the  inventory  was  about  eighty- 
eight  pounds,  llis  widow  was  killed  by  the 
Indians  Jul\-  18.  \(><)2,  at  the  house  of  Peter 
Joslin  in  Lancaster.  He  married,  Xovember 
25,  iC^^/,  Hannah .  Children:  I.  Han- 
nah, born  September  17.  iftiS,  died  December 
9.  1668.  2.  Jonathan.  I'ebruary  26,  ]()(xj,  men- 
tioned below.  v  llannah.  .\ugust  28,  1671, 
married  Joseijh  Ulood,  of  (iroton.  4.  .\bigail, 
.May  5.  i'')74,  married  William  Kelsey.  of 
\\  indsor.  1694.  5.  Elizabeth,  1676.  6.  Kath- 
erine.  1678.  7.  Ruth.  1680.  8.  Mary.  1682. 
9.  John.  ."Vlay  12.  1684. 

(HI)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
W'hitciimbe,  \\a>  born  I'ebruary  2(1.  ](>(i().  He 
m.'irried  (first)  between  ifiSo  and  1(189.  Mary 
(l'loii(l)  Jdslin.  (if  Lancaster,  daughter  of 
.Abraham  and  .M.-uy  I'.lood,  of  Lancaster. 
(.Samuel  .Smith,  of  Littleton,  recorded  he  was 
married  first  to  .Mary  Joslin  and  second  to 
Marv  lilood.  daughter  of  Joseph  l>lood,  of 
Grnton).  He  married  (second)  at  Concord, 
.Se|iteniber  4.  1 7 10.  Deborah  .Scri])ture.  of  (iro- 
tiin.  He  died  .\])ril  to.  1715.  and  she  prob- 
.ibly  died  sometime  before  him,  as  about  that 
time  he  paid  Samuel  Harrows  for  a  coffin.  The 
children  were  named  in  settling  the  estate,  but 
the  correct  order  of  birth  is  uncertain.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Jonathan.  mentionc<l  below.  2. 
Joseph.  3.  .Vathaniel.  4.  Hannah,  married 
Josejih  Powers;  nine  children.  5.  .Martha, 
died  .March  18.  1721.    6.  Kphraim,  born  .April, 

•The  famUy  name  waH  speUed  In  varlouH  forniH 
liy  rllfferent  fieHoendants  of  tlie  Immigrant  ancestor. 
The  line  with  which  ihln  narrative  Oealn.  preservBH 
the  form  of  VVhItcombe. 


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1702.  7.  -Mary,  born  1704.  married  John  Cob- 
leigh,  Jr.  8.  Ufiijaniin.  born  December  11, 
171 1,  in  Groton.    g.  Lydia. 

(IV)  Joiiatlian  (3),  son  of  Jonathan  (2) 
Whitcombe,  was  born  about  1690.  He  "had 
lime  kihis.  was  a  tanner,  currier,  blacksmith, 
shoemaker,  and  made  coffins."  By  a  deed, 
October  20,  17 10,  he  was  a  cordwainer.  The 
old  dam  still  remains  and  places  can  be  seen 
where  he  giH  bis  lime  rock.  He  marrierl.  May 
15,  1716,  Deliverance  Nutting,  daughter  of 
James  Nutting,  at  Groton.  He  died  about 
1767  or  1770.  His  wife  was  living  as  late  as 
1774  in  Lancaster.  Children:  i.  Jonathan, 
born  December  23,  1717.  2.  William,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1 7 19.  3.  Oliver,  August  21,  172 1.  4. 
Elizabeth,  January  17.  1723-24.  5.  Tamar. 
March   20.    1726,   married   Isaac   Heald,  June 

7,  1745.  7.  Job,  April  16  or  2^),  1730.  8. 
Martha.  December  26,  1732,  unmarried  in  1767. 
g.  Abner,  February  12,  1734,  mentioned  below. 
10.  Jotham,  .-\ugust  8,  1737. 

( \' )  Abner.  son  of  Jonathan  (3)  Whit- 
combe, was  born  February  12.  1734.  died  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1 82 1.  He  lived  first  in  Littleton,  and 
then  in  (irfiton,  Massachusetts.  He  twice  en- 
listed as  a  minute-man  from  (jroton.  He  was 
in  Captain  Henry  Haskell's  company.  Colonel 
Prescott's  regiment,  in  the  revolution.  In  1783 
he  became  one  of  the  founders  of  Hancock, 
New  Hamjishire.  and  settled  first  in  a  level 
place  midway  between  T'.ald  Hill  and  Norway 
Pond,  but  died  in  a  house  on  Main  street  built 
b\-  him  in  his  old  age.  He  was  a  man  of  re- 
markable physical  vigor  an<l  outlived  three 
wives  and  married  a  foiuth  when  he  was 
seventy-three  years  old.  lie  married  (first) 
March  27.  i/.sg,  Sarah  Jefts,  born  July  12. 
1734:    (second) :    (third)    September 

8,  I7g5,  Susannah  Meads;  (fourth)  February 
2[.  1806,  .Abigail  I'.oynton,  who  died  October, 
1823,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  .Alice  Boynton, 
of  Hancock.  Children,  eight  born  in  Groton, 
fn\n'  in  llancock:  1.  .\bner,  February  13  or 
18,  I7()0.  2.  -Samuel,  January  30  or  31,  17 f^;^. 
3.  John,  .\ugust  30  or  31,  1764.  4.  Ebenezer. 
July  30,  1766-67.  3.  Oliver,  June  18,  1768, 
mentioned  below.  6.  Eli,  Februarv  18,  1770. 
7.  Sarah,  h'ebruary  2.  1772,  married  (first) 
October  23.  I7g2,  James  (irayham:   (second) 

Gilson.    8.  Ira,  February  13.  1774,  died 

young,  g.  i,ucy,  died  August  5,  1823:  mar- 
ried, December  19,  1822,  Samuel  Dennis.  10. 
Ira  .Meads,  1793.  11.  Eunice,  died  when  a 
young  girl  from  excessive  nose  bleed.  12.  David, 
May  30.  1808. 

(\'I  )   Oliver,  son  ni  Abuer  W'hitci 'nil)e.  was 


born  in  Groton,  June  18,  1768.  He  went  to 
Ipswich,  New  York,  where  he  lived  for  a  time, 
but  returned  to  Hancock,  where  he  died  Janu- 
ary 13,  1843.  He  was  a  blacksmith.  For  the 
last  fourteen  years  of  his  life  he  was  an  invalid, 
during  which  time  he  read  the  Bible  through 
fourteen  times.  He  married,  December  18, 
I7()4.  Hannah  Hosley.  born  August  11.  1776, 
died  in  Mtchburg.  Massachusetts.  January  6, 
1833.  'Children:  i.  Elizabeth  (  I'.etsey ).  born 
( )ctober  23.  1795.  married.  December  26.  1815, 
Joel  (iates.  2.  Oliver,  October  7,  1797,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Joel,  October  18,  1799.  4. 
.Stillman,  .\ugust  7,  1801,  died  January  i.  1824. 
3.  Hannah.  Jamiary  2^.  1804.  married.  Febru- 
ary I".  1828,  l^dward  Taylor.  6.  James  IIo,*;- 
Icy.  (Jctober  7.  180C).  7.  John.  May  6.  i8og. 
8.  Harriet.  October  13.  181 1,  married.  March 
8,  1832,  John  Miller.  9.  Sarah  Hosley,  Janu- 
ary 6,  1816,  married,  September  4.  1834, 
Charles  G.  Hinman.  to.  (jeorge.  March  10. 
1820. 

(  \'II  )  Oliver  (2).  son  of  Oliver  (  i)  Whit- 
combe. was  born  October  7.  1797.  died  in  Lon- 
donderry. New  Ham])shire.  Aj)ri!  i.  1870.  He 
was  engaged  in  lumbering,  storekeeping.  black- 
smithing,  etc..  and  was  postmaster  for  a  time, 
lie  lived  in  Hancock,  New  Ham])shire:  Union, 
l'>roome  county.  New  York  :  Townsend.  Massa- 
chusetts, and  Londonderry.  New  Hampshire. 
He  married.  March  23.  1824.  Nancy  Clark, 
born  .\pril  2.  1801.  died  in  Cambriflge.  Massa- 
chusetts, October  13.  1881.  Children:  t. 
Peter  Cochran  Clark,  born  January  14.  1823. 
mentioned  below.  2.  Oliver  Reed.  .\]iril  11, 
1S30. 

(  \'IH  )  Peter  Cochran  Clark,  son  of  Oliver 
(  2)  Whitcombe,  was  born  January  14,  1823,  in 
llancock.  New  Hampshire,  died  at  his  home, 
2  Clinton  street,  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
.May  26,  igoo.  He  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  and  began  life  as  a  clerk  in  a  country 
store  in  New  Ham()shire.  He  came  to  Boston 
in  1835  where  he  found  em|)loyment  with  the 
firm  of  .Adams  &  .Adams,  publishers  of  city 
and  town  directories.  He  held  responsible 
piisitions  for  many  years  with  this  firm  and 
cciiUinued  with  its  successor.  Mr.  Murdock, 
and  later  with  the  firm  of  Sampson  i*t  .Mur- 
dock. the  present  proprietors  of  this  business. 
Mr.  Wiiitcombe  was  a  faithful  and  callable 
representative  of  iiis  firm.  In  the  course  of 
his  career  he  became  accjuainted  with  more 
business  men  of  P.oston  than  is  the  lot  of  many 
men.  He  held  the  respect  and  confidence  of 
all  with  whom  he  had  dealings  and  was  trusted 
im|)licitl\'  by  his  employers.     In  |)olitics  he  was 


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1,^ 


a  Republican,  and  in  religion  he  and  his  wife 
were  prominent  in  the  Congregational  church. 
He  was  interested  in  genealogy  and  contributed 
a  sketch  of  the  family  to  the  history  of  Han- 
cock. Xew  Hampshire.  He  resided  at  Cam- 
bridgej)ort  many  years.  He  married,  in  P.os- 
ton.  .\ugiist  6.  1850.  Harriet  Maria  Harris,  of 
Middletown  L'ppi^r  Houses,  Connecticut,  and 
through  her  mother  was  a  direct  descendant 
of  Roger  Williams,  founder  of  Rhode  Island. 
Children:  i.  Walter  Clark,  born  .April  20. 
1852.  in  Townsend,  educated  in  the  Boston 
public  schools  and  Pinkerton  academy :  taught 
music  for  a  time:  now  associated  with  Mur- 
dock  &  Sampson,  directory  publishers :  resides 
at  the  family  home,  2  Clinton  street,  Cam- 
bridge. 2.  Charles  Reed,  November  6,  1853. 
mentioned  below. 

( IX  )  Dr.  Charles  Reed,  son  of  Peter  Coch- 
ran Clark  W'hitcombe,  was  born  in  O.xford 
street.  Boston,  then  a  residential  section  of  the 
city.  November  6.  1853.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Boston  and  Cambridge  and  gradu- 
ated from  the  Cambridge  high  school  in  the 
class  of  1872.  and  from  Williams  College  in 
t8~''>.  He  determined  to  secure  a  medical  edu- 
cation and  sjicnt  a  year  and  a  half  in  Harvard 
Medical  .School;  when  his  funds  gave  out  he 
turned  his  attention  to  teaching  and  continued 
for  the  next  five  years.  He  was  ])rincipal  of 
the  Houghton  school  of  Bolton,  Massachusetts, 
one  year,  at  Marlboro  high  school  two  years, 
an'  of  the  West  Boylston  high  school  about 
two  vears.  He  then  resumed  the  study  of 
p-ipdicine  in  the  Long  Island  Medical  College 
of  Brooklyn  and  graduated  in  1883  with  the 
decree  of  M.  D.  He  has  practiced  since  1884 
in  Roslindale  in  the  city  of  Boston,  except  for 
a  short  time  when  he  was  in  Chicago.  .\Itliough 
a  general  practitioner  he  has  acquired  a  notable 
reputation  as  a  surgeon  and  has  assisted  in 
manv  capital  operations  and  is  often  called 
to  distant  points  on  surgical  cases  anrl  in  con- 
sultation. He  has  a  large  practice  and  is  very 
ponrlar  not  only  with  his  patients  but  with  his 
fellow-practitioners.  He  is  a  thorough,  pains- 
taking, conscientious  physician,  keeping  abreast 
of  the  advance  in  medical  science.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, and  of  the  .American  Medical  .Asso- 
ciation. He  is  a  prominent  Free  Mason,  a 
member  of  Jseph  Webb  L<xlge.  and  .St.  Paul 
Chapter.  Royal  .Arch  Masons.  In  politics  he 
is  independent.  He  married  (first)  in  .Sep- 
tember, 1875,  Nellie  Louise  .Ames,  of  Will- 
iamstown,  Massachu.setts.  He  married  (sec- 
ond at  Kenosha,  Wisconsin,  January  21.  i8'>8. 


Isabelle  Hay,  born  November  12.  1871.  in  .^t. 
John,  New  Brunswick,  Canada,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Maria  (Case)  Hay,  both  natives 
of  New  Briniswick  and  of  English  and  Scotch 
ancestry.  1  Icr  father  lives  in  .St.  John,  at  an 
advanced  age.  He  was  formerly  a  dealer  in 
wool.  Her  mother  died  in  St.  John  at  the  age 
of  seventy-six  years,  January  27,  1908.  Her 
parents  were  for  many  years  active  members 
of  the  liaptist  church.  Of  their  eight  children, 
tive  are  living  (  1909)  and  four  reside  in  the 
Cnitcfl  States.  Mrs.  Whitcombe  was  carefully 
trained  and  educated  in  her  native  town,  served 
in  .New  York  City  hosi)itals  as  a  nurse,  and 
since  she  has  resided  in  Roslindale  has  become 
a  leader  in  social  life.  Children  of  Dr.  Whit- 
combe by  his  first  wife:  i.  Frank  Harris,  born 
in  Cambridge,  July  12.  1876.  is  married,  re- 
sides in  Colorado.  2.  Harriet  Maria,  March 
18.  1882.  died  I'ebruary  15,  1884.  3.  Martha 
.Ames.  November  17.  1886.  in  Roslindale.  mar- 
ried. June  24,  1908.  Irving  M.  .AtwoiKl.  a 
wholesale  dealer  in  fish,  "T"  wharf.  Boston; 
tliev  reside  in  Dorchester. 


John  ( lould.  immigrant  ancestor, 
(inil.l)      was   born    in    Fngland.   in    1610. 

and  (lied  in  Charlestown  luid. 
Massachusetts.  March  21,  i^kjo-i.  He  came  to 
this  coimtry  in  the  ship  "Defence"  in  1635, 
from  Towcester.  Northami)tonshire.  He  was 
a  cariKMiter  by  trade.  He  was  admitted  a  free- 
man May  2.  1038.  His  first  wife  drace  died 
in  \(>}fi.  leaving  one  or  two  children.  She  was 
born  in  luigjanil.  in  iTtii.  He  married  (sec- 
ond )    Marv ,  who  was  admitted  to  the 

church  January  8,  if>,^'i-7.  and  died  at  Ten  I  lills 
farm,  September  28.  1642.  He  married  ( third) 

Joanna  ,  born  about  1608.  died  August 

27.  I ''197.  called  one  hundred  years  old,  but  it  is 
|)robabIe  she  was  about  ninety,  judging  from 
the  age  of  her  husband,  and  that  she  was  aged 
fifty  in  1658.  (iould  lived  in  the  section  of 
CJiarlestown  that  became  .Sloneham.  He  had 
a  double  lot.  granted  July  i.  \CiT,f\  In  1682  he 
was  excused  frnni  training  in  the  militia.  He 
fought  in  King  Philip's  war,  and  remained  in 
the  militia  until  over  seventy-two  years  of  age. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  church  March  25. 
1638-9.  His  house  was  at  the  west  end  of 
what  is  now  Cionld  street,  Wakefield.  He  and 
wife  Joanna  sold  lan<l  at  Maiden  in  1658.  His 
will,  dated  January  3.  1C188.  i)roved  June  19. 
1A91.  be(|ueathed  to  sons  Daniel.  John,  and 
John  I'.urben.  and  grandson  Thomas  Coidd. 
Children:  I.  Thomas.  2.  Mary,  baptized  Feb- 
ruary 29,  i'^.V>-7-    ?>■  Sarah,  bapti/.ed  December 


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15,  il\^j:  married,  iCVio.  John  P.urben  (or  Bur- 
been  I.  4.  Elizabetli,  born  if)40.  baptized  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1639-40.  5.  .Abigail,  born  February 
26,  1641-2;  married.  1669.  William  Rogers; 
(second)  John  Rogers.  6.  Hannah,  born  Octo- 
ber 26.  1644.  7.  John,  born  January  21,  1646, 
died  October,  1647.    8.  John,  mentioned  below. 

9.  Daniel,  born  1654. 

(Ill  John  (  2 ),  son  of  John  (  I  )  (iould,  was 
born  .August  5,  1648,  at  Cliarlestown,  and  lived 
at  Slonehani,  where  he  died  January  24.  171 1-2. 
lie  married  (first!  .\bigail  llelcher,  died  De- 
cember 20,  1687,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  Belcher, 
of  Ipswich;  (second)  Martha  Redington,  born 
-April  7, 1655, granddaughter  of  Zaccheus  Gould, 
another  (iotikl  immigrant.  Children  of  first 
wife,  born  at  Stoneham  :  1.  John,  March  28, 
1 67 1  :  married  Sarah .  2.  Abigail,  De- 
cember 30,  1672;  married.  May  15,  1693,  Cap- 
tain lienjamin  ( ieary.  3.  Jeremiah,  1678;  men- 
tioned l)elow.  4.  Thomas.  1680;  married  Mary 
Day.  and  I'l-iscilla  Batenian.  5.  Daniel,  De- 
cember 11,  it)8i  ;  married  Sarah  Lirover,  and 
Abigail  (Johnson)  Richardson.  6.  Mehitable, 
married  Jonas  Eaton;  (second)  Nathan  Brig- 
ham,  of  Sudbury.  7.  Mary,  May  8,  1687;  mar- 
ried Ebenezer  Knight,  of  Stoneham  and  Marl- 
Ijorough.  Children  of  second  wife:  8.  Samuel, 
born  1691  :  married  Ruth  Dunton.  9.  .Abra- 
ham.  \(V)T,;  married  Mary  ;  died  1776. 

10.  Isaac.  1696;  resided  at  West  ford  and  .\ttle- 
borough,  Massachusetts. 

(Ill)  Jeremiah,  son  of  John  (2)  Gould, 
was  born  in  .Stoneham,  in  1678,  and  died  at 
.Soutli  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  according  to  the 
church  records,  July  25,  1752,  "aged  about 
seventy-four."  lie  married,  in  1701,  Mary 
I'rown,  of  \\'al])ole,  born  1678.  died  October 
5.  1770.  They  lived  at  .Stoneham.  at  Dorches- 
ter after  171 5,  at  Decjham  in  1728,  and  at 
W'alpole  in  1742.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born 
1703.  2.  .\bigail.  i/Of).  3.  Jeremiah.  1709; 
married,  October  13,  1740.  Keziah  Morse;  he 
died  .April  16.  1779.  4.  -Sarah,  born  1710.  5. 
John,  1714;  married,  January  2^.  1738.  Naomi 
Pettee.  6.  Daniel,  born  about  1716  ;  mentioned 
below.  7.  .Samui'l.  I7I<);  married,  June  12, 
1744,  Mary  IVttee.  8.  .Anna,  baptized  with 
other  children,  -March  2^.  1739.  Daniel,  Sam- 
uel and  .Anna,  children  of  Jeremiah,  owned  the 
covenant  in  the  church  at  South  Dedham, 
March  25.  1739. 

(1\  I  Daniel,  son  of  Jeremiah  (iould,  was 
b(jrn  1716-7.  and  died  .April  20,  1754,  aged 
thirty-seven  years.  He  married,  at  Dedham, 
January  7,  1741-2,  .Abigail  IV'ttee.  He  and  his 
brother    Samuel   ami   sister   .Anna   owned   the 


covenant  in  the  .South  Church  of  Dedham, 
March  25,  1739.  He  and  his  wife  joined  the 
church  in  full  communion  March  4,  1753.  Their 
children  were  all  baptized  in  the  -South  Church 
of  Dedham.  He  lived  at  Sharon,  formerly 
Stoughtenham.  adjoining  Dedham.  Children 
\\  ith  dates  of  bajJtism  :  i.  -Abigail,  January  23, 
1742-3.  2.  Lois,  December.  30.  1744.  3.  Dan- 
iel, .\ugust  7,  T748.  4.  David,  July  29,  1750; 
mentioned  below.  5.  Ebenezer.  baptized  after 
father's  death.  July  25.  1754. 

(  \  )  David,  son  (jf  Daniel  (iould,  was  born 
in  Stoughtenham,  in  1750.  bajJtized  in  the 
church  at  South  Dedham,  July  29,  1750;  died 
at  W'are,  Massachusetts,  -August  22,  1817,  aged 
sixty-seven,  according  to  Ware  town  records. 
He  removed  with  his  brothers  Ebenezer  and 
Daniel  from  .'-^haron  to  Ware,  Daniel  going 
thither  in  1770.  according  to  the  E'reckenridge 
Genealogy,  but  the  others  probably  later  than 
1776.  as  he  was  in  Stoughtenham  in  the  revolu- 
tion. With  Daniel  came  Oliver  Coney  and  Philip 
Mt)rse.  of  Stoughtenham  (  Sharon  ).  David  was 
a  soldier  in  Captain  Edward  Bridge  Savell's 
company  (  First  Stoughtenham  company ) ,  Col- 
onel Robinson's  regiment,  on  the  Lexington 
alarm.  April  19.  1775  :  again  in  Captain  Edward 
liridge  .Savell's  company.  Colonel  Gill's  regi- 
ment. 1776.  His  brother  Ebenezer  (iould  was  in 
the  same  company.  David  (.iould  lived  on  the 
farm  now  or  lately  owned  by  Joseph  A.  Cum- 
mings.  He  married,  in  1780.  Lovisa,  daughter  of 
John  Downing.  Her  father  came  from  Spring- 
field, and  bought  a  farm  of  Timothy  Brown  at 
Ware  in  1752;  kept  a  tavern  on  the  old  road  on 
the  west  side  of  Muddy  Brook,  on  land  lately 
owned  by  Wallace  .Sheldon.  .Another  daughter 
of  Downing  married  Isaac  Magoon.  Children: 
1.  David.  2.  (ieorge.  3.  .Samuel.  4.  Downing. 
5.  John,  mentioned  below.  6.  I^)visa.  7.  Mar- 
garet.    8.  Minerva. 

(\'l)  John  (3).  son  of  David  Gould,  was 
born  in  Ware,  in  178();  died  there  at  the  age  of 
seventy-one.  He  married.  .Se])tember  21.  1819, 
.Annie  .Allen  I'.righani.  born  in  Brookfield,  De- 
cember 8.  171)8.  claugbter  of  Michael  and  Polly 
I  Tvler )  r.righam.  (See  Brighaiu).  He  was 
a  farmer  in  Ware  all  his  life.  Children:  I. 
Maria,  born  -May  2-t.  1820,  died  November  12, 
1855.  2.  William  Bowdoin,  born  January  12, 
1822.  3.  David,  l-"ebruary  4.  1824:  resided  in 
Ware.  4.  Minerva,  March  13,  i82().  5.  Min- 
erva, July  5,  1827.  6.  John  lirigham,  June  12, 
1820:  mentioned  below.  7,  Daniel.  June  19, 
1 83 1  ;  resided  at  .Springfield.  8.  -Mary  -Ann, 
Jinie  13,  1833;  married  Erskine  Pease,  of 
Indian  Orchard.    9.  James  H.,  .May  27,  1835. 


MASSACHL-SKTTS. 


lo.  Eliza.  .MarL-h  S,  1838.     11.  Joseph  B.,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1841. 

(  \  11  )  John  IJriyham,  son  01  John  (3  )  ("lonld. 
was  born  at  Ware.  June  12,  1829.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town.  During  his  boyhood  and  youth  he  work- 
ed on  his  father's  farm,  and  later  succeeded  to 
it.  .Since  he  has  owned  the  homestead  he  lias 
greatly  improved  it.  building  the  new  house, 
which  is  beautifully  situated  on  a  hill  overlook- 
ing the  town.  He  had  a  large  milk  route  until 
he  disposed  of  it  a  few  years  ago.  and  he  still 
maintains  an  excellent  dairy.  Mr.  (iould  has 
made  a  success  of  farming,  and  is  one  of  the 
substantial  citizens  of  the  town.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  a  Congregationalist  in  relig- 
ion. December  23,  1867,  he  married  Julia  Ar- 
delia  Caryl,  born  at  Barnet.  \ermont.  in  1838. 
daughter  of  Rodney  Clark  Caryl.  (See  Caryl  I. 
Children,  born  at  Ware:  i.  Edwin  Caryl,  born 
1872  :  married  Ellen  Connor  ;  children  :  i.  Stead- 
man  :  ii.  Robert.  2.  Helen  E.,  born  1873.  3. 
[ohn  .A.,  born  1875.  4.  .Anna  Brigjiam,  born 
1881. 


The  name  IJrigham  is  from 
r.RIi  il  I  AM  the  Saxon  brigg  (bridge  )  and 
liam  (house).  There  is  a 
manor  of  the  name  in  county  Cumberland,  ad- 
joining Scotland,  of  which  it  was  in  ancient 
days  a  part.  The  barony  from  which  the 
family  name  is  derived  is  now  generally  called 
by  another  name.  Cockerniouth.  The  old  castle 
was  (jne  t)f  the  strongest  in  its  day.  It  was 
built  largely  of  material  taken  from  an  old 
Roman  castle  in  the  vicinity.  .\s  late  as  1648 
it  was  garrisoned  and  stood  siege  for  a  month. 
.\fter  it  was  cai)tured  it  was  nearly  destrfiyed. 
but  at  last  accounts  a  small  part  was  still  habit- 
able. From  this  manor  the  English  and  .Amer- 
ican Brighams  get  their  names,  and  all  |)rob- 
ably  are  descended  from  the  early  Brighams 
of  this  |)lace. 

(  I  )  Thomas  F'righam.  immigrant  ancestor. 
was  born  m  England,  in  i'^>03.  He  embarked 
at  London  for  \ew  England.  .A))ril  18.  1653, 
in  the  ship  "Susan  and  lillen,"  Edward  I'yne. 
master.  He  settled  at  W  atertown.  In  1637  he 
liad  a  fourteen  acre  lot  there,  bought  of  John 
Doggett.  situated  in  a  part  later  annexed  to 
Cambridge.  He  built  his  house  in  Cambridge 
on  a  lot  containing  three  acres  and  a  half.  His 
neighbors  were  Josi])h.  Simon  and  UaacCrosby. 
I  \\<  home  was  about  two-thirds  of  a  mile  from 
I  iarvard  College,  and  at  one  point  abutted  on 
the  Charles  river.  He  resided  there  until  1648. 
He  was  admitted  a   freeman   .April    18.    1637, 


and  wun  a  leading  citizen,  lie  was  silectman 
in  i(>40-42-47.  and  constable  in  i(>3<)-42.  He 
made  a  specialty  on  his  farm  of  raising  hogs, 
and  in  i()47  owned  a  third  of  all  the  swine  in 
the  town.  He  was  fined  for  letting  his  hogs 
get  away  and  run  at  large.  1  le  owned  a  wind- 
mill f(^r  grinding  corn.  He  died  December  8, 
if>33.  His  will  was  dated  December  7.  1653, 
and  i)roved  October  3,  1654.  He  married 
Marcy  llurd,  who  is  said  to  have  come  with 
her  sister  alone  from  I'.ngland,  owing  to  relig- 
ious difference  from  which  they  suffered  annoy- 
ance and  ])ersecution  at  home.  .After  the  death 
of  Mr.  lirigham  she  married  (second)  March 
1.  i'i55.  l^dnumd  Rice,  of  Sudbury  and  Marl- 
borough, by  whom  she  had  two  daughter^ ; 
she  married  (third)  William  Hunt,  of  Marl- 
boniugh.  who  died  1667.  She  died  December 
-.V  i''V3.  after  being  in  her  third  widowhood 
tweiity--.ix  years.  Children  of  Thomas  and 
Mercy:  1.  .Mary,  horn  probably  at  Water- 
town.  2.  Thomas,  born  1640- 1  :  mentioned 
below.  3.  John,  born  March  0.  ^(^■\.  died  Sep- 
lenil)er  16.  1728.  4.  Hannah,  born  March  g, 
I '141;:  niarried  .Samuel  Wells.  5.  Samuel,  born 
January  12.  1(^)52-3. 

(  II  )  Thomas  (  2  ).  son  of  Thomas  (  i  )  llrigham, 
was  Ixirn  probably  in  Cambridge,  about  i()40, 
and  died  in  .Marlborough.  November  25.  1716. 
\\  hen  hismothermarried  Ednnmd  Rice. Thomas 
went  with  her  to  .Sudbury  and  .Marlborough. 
On  attaining  his  majority  he  bought  of  his 
stejjfather  for  thirty  jjounds  a  town  right  in 
Marlborough  of  "twenty-four  acres,  with  the 
frame  of  a  dwelling-house  thereon."  This  land, 
>itnated  near  William-  pond,  in  the  southwest 
part  of  the  town,  was  the  beginning  of  his  large 
farm.  He  was  also  one  of  the  purchasers  of 
the  old  ]jlantation  "Ockoocangansett"  which 
had  been  reserved  for  the  Indians  out  of  the 
ancient  boundaries  of  Marlborough.  On  the 
old  Thomas  Brigham  homestead  on  the  south 
side  of  the  jiresent  Forest  street,  something 
like  a  score  of  rods  from  the  highway,  at  the 
fo(  t  of  Crane  Hill,  is  a  slightly  raised  rec- 
tangular sjjot.  about  thirty  by  seventy-five  feet, 
in  the  centre  of  which  is  a  large  a|)|)le  tree. 
Here  rest  the  last  of  the  .Marlborough  Indians, 
indu'ling  their  last  chief  and  about  thirty  of 
his  followers.  This  s])ot  is  sacredly  cherished 
by  the  family  of  lirighams.  The  place  is  or 
wa'^  lately  owned  by  <  ieorge  F.  Nichols,  whose 
wife  wa-;  a  llrigham.  The  last  male  I'righam 
owner  of  the  ])lace  is  said  to  have  strikingly 
resembled  his  paternal  ancestry,  "having  thick, 
wavy  black  hair,  black  eyes  and  red  cheeks ;  a 
fine   looking  man."     The  house  stood  a   few 


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MASSAC  HL'SIHTS. 


rods  al)i)Vf  the  brook,  which  flowed  through 
tlie  farm  to  WilHams  Pond.  The  first  dwelling, 
a  log  hut  built  by  Thomas  Brigham  (2  1.  was 
burned  during  his  absence  by  flax  catching 
fire.  In  170b  he  built  a  frame  house,  which 
was  left  for  an  ell  by  his  son  (jershom.  who 
built  a  two  story  house  about  1724.  The  old 
hnusi'  was  used  as  a  garrison  during  Queen 
.Anne's  war.  This  ell  was  finally  taken  down 
in  171)1  by  Warren  Hrigham,  and  the  house 
was  inhabited  until  1839.  .\fter  it  had  stood 
cm])tv  for  some  time  it  was  finally  razed.  The 
Ciershom  I'.righam  house  "was  clapboarded  but 
never  ])ainted  outside  ;  only  two  rooms  were 
finished:  the  sitting  room  and  the  principal 
bedroom  were  plastered  and  painted."  .\bout 
1825  the  present  house  was  built  on  the  o])]io- 
site  side  of  the  road  by  Barnabas  Brigham. 
The  old  well  still  e.xists.  Thomas  Brigham 
was  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  the  town  but 
owing  to  the  loss  of  records,  nothing  is  known 
of  the  ofiices  he  held.  He  made  his  will  .\pril 
21.  1716.  and  died  Xovcmbcr  25  of  the  same 
year,  in  his  chair,  which  is  now  in  the  possession 
of  Miss  Martha  L.  Ames.  His  will  was  proved 
January  2.  1717.  He  married  (first)  December 
27,  1665,  Mary,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Eliza- 
beth (Moore)  Rice,  and  granddaughter  of 
Rdmund  Rice,  the  immigrant.  He  married 
(second)  julv  3.  1695,  Susanna,  daughter  of 
William  Shattuck.  of  W'atertown,  and  widow- 
first  of  |ose])h  Morse  and  second  of  John  Fay, 
whose  first  wife  was  Mary,  sister  of  Thomas 
Brigham.  Children:  1.  Thomas,  born  Febru- 
arv  24,  1667,  probably  died  before  his  father. 
2.  Xathan,  born  June  17,  iC^~i.  3.  David,  .Au- 
gust II.  if^'7.V  flic<l  young.  4.  Jonathan,  Feb- 
rrary  22,  i''>75.  5.  David,  .\pril  12.  1678: 
mentioned  below.  6.  Gcrshom.  {•"ebruary  23, 
i^So,  died  January  3.  i748-(;:  married,  .May 
iS.    1703.    Mehitable    Warren.      7.    Elnathan, 


March 


1(183.     8.   Mary,  October  26,   1^187: 


married,  July  30,  1710,  Captain  Jou.-is  Hough- 
ton, of  Lancaster:  seven  children. 

I  III)  David,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  Brigham. 
was  born  in  Marlborough,  .April  12,  i'')78.  and 
died  June  26,  1750.  He  settled  on  a  wild 
tract  of  land  of  aliout  five  hundred  acres,  in- 
cluding the  |iresent  hospital  grounds  and  sev- 
eral adjacent  farms  in  Westborough.  then  in- 
cli'ded  in  the  town  of  Mariliorough.  lie  was 
surveyor  iu  irii  in  Marliiorougii.  .After  1717 
he  was  >even  years  sealer  of  leather,  and  six 
years  selectman  in  Westborough.  His  house 
was  about  sixty  rods  east  of  tiie  ])rcsent  Insane 
Asylum.  It  was  burned  during  his  old  age. 
C'clober    l(>.    1737.  with   much   of  its  contents. 


1  le  married  (  hr>t  )  Deborah ,  died  Octo- 
ber II,  1708:  (second)  .August  21,  1709,  Mary 
(Leonard)  Xewton,  widow,  who  died  Decem- 
ber I.  1 74 1.  He  married  a  third  wife,  who 
survived  him.  Children  of  first  wife  :  I.John, 
born  .\pril  22.  1704.  2.  David,  Sc|)tember  30. 
1708,  died  Xovember  29,  1741.  Children  of 
second  wif;.  3.  Silas,  born  .August  9,  1710. 
4.  Jemima.  .August  24,  1712:  married  Edward 
Xewton.  5.  Deborah,  September  17,  17 14: 
married,  Xovember  14,  1752,  Francis  Harring- 
ton. 6.  Levi.  .August  21,  1716.  7.  Jonas,  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1718:  mentioned  below.  8.  Asa,  De- 
cember 2,  1 72 1. 

(  I\' )  Cainain  Jonas,  son  of  David  Brigham, 
was  born  h'ebruary  2^.  1718,  in  Westborough, 
and  (Hed  there  Sei)tember  25,  1789.  He  settled 
on  land  inherited  from  his  father,  and  built 
his  house  about  twenty  rods  south  of  the  pres- 
ent Insane  .Asylum.  He  was  lieutenant  in  the 
train  band,  and  acting  captain  at  the  relief  of 
Fort  William  Henry  in  1758.  He  stood  high 
in  the  esteem  of  the  citizens  and  was  often  in 
office.  He  was  on  the  school  committee  re- 
peatedly; was  surveyor  and  constable:  seven 
vears  selectman,  between  1764  and  1777:  mod- 
erator of  town  meetings,  and  member  of  vigi- 
lance and  other  important  committees.  He 
was  delegate  to  the  county  congress  at  the  be- 
ginning and  during  the  revolution.  He  mar- 
ried. January  16,  i743-(i,  I'ersis  Baker,  who 
died  .Xovember  3,  1784.  Children:  i.  Martha, 
born  Xovember  i,  174^1.  2.  Jonas,  October  29, 
1748;  mentioned  below.  3.  Hannah,  married 
Rev.  Ilalloway  ImsIi.  4.  .\iitipas.  born  July 
23.  1750.  died  Xovember  12,  1756.  5.  Eli, 
born  May  17,  1752.  6.  Edward,  May  21,  1754- 
7.  Barnabas.  March  29.  I75f>-  8,  .Antipas. 
.March  15,  1758.  <>.  Daniel,  June  12,  17(10.  10. 
David.  March  31,  I7()2.  11.  Bersis,  .April  23. 
1764.  died  February  3.  1775.  12.  Jose|)h.  born 
.\pril  20,  I7(id.  13.  William,  born  Nlay  12, 
i7<)8.  died  December  7,  1779- 

(\  1  Captain  Jonas  (21,  son  of  CajHain 
lonas  (  I  )  I'righam.  was  born  in  Westborough. 
(  ictober  29.  1748.  and  died  in  Bakersfield.  \'er- 
mont.  in  1826.  He  settled  first  in  North  Brook- 
field.  He  was  in  the  revolution.  In  1774  he 
was  a  minute-man.  and  marched  to  Lexington 
on  the  alarm,  .\pril  19.  1775.  when  he  was  a 
sergeant  :  was  lieutenant  from  B.rookfield.  1777- 
and  in  the  battle  of  Saratoga.  I  lis  commission 
as  ca|)tain  of  the  .Massachusetts  militia  was 
signed  by  John  Hancock.  July  1,  1781.  He  re- 
moved to  i'.akersfield,  and  was  |jrominent  in  all 
the  aft'airs  of  the  tow  n.  1  le  was  elected  eighteen 
times  representative  to  the  general  assembly. 


MASSACH  LSK  ITS. 


.■^3/ 


(  )ii  the  division  ot  the  town  his  land  fell  into 
the  limits  of  Enoshiirg.  where  he  was  mod- 
erator in  1797.  lie  married  i  first  )  piihlished 
January  2(1.  1771.  Anna  Drajjer.ol  W  atcrtown. 
(lied  in  1802:  (Second)  Xovember  10.  1810, 
I'oll}-  W  yman.  Children,  all  excejjt  the  last 
born  in  Hrooktield :  i.  .Miciiael.  March  2.  1772; 
mentioned  below.  2.  Kli,  December  14.  1774. 
,V  Hannah.  July  7.  1776:  married  Colonel  llol- 
ley  'iaylor.  4.  .<ally.  December  7.  1778.  died 
unmarried.  5.  I'atly.  .\])ril  27.  1780.  6.  Jonas. 
March  14.  1782.  7.  Luther.  May  15.  1785.  8. 
.■\sa.  1780.  9.  lletsey.  1788.  ilied  younfj.  10. 
Cheney.  .\|)ril  22.  1793.  in   liakersfield. 

(\1»  Michael,  son  of  Captain  Jonas  (2) 
nrisjham.  was  born  in  Xorth  Brookfield.  March 
2,  1772.  and  died  there  in  August.  1802.  lie 
was  a  farmer.  He  married.  .September  21. 
I7<;(j.  I'olly  Tyler,  born  July  10.  I77''>.  died 
July  19.  1833,  daughter  of  John  and  Rachel 
(Crosby)  Tyler.  She  married  (second)  Ajjril 
17.  1805.  William  liowdoin.  of  Ware.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Xorth  r.rookfield :  i.  John  Tyler, 
1795.  tlied  unmarried  1849;  merchant  in  Xew 
'S'ork.  2.  Annie  .Allen,  December  8.  1798:  mar- 
ried. .September  21.  1819,  John  (lould.  (See 
Gould).  3.  I.oring  W..  October  30.  1799.  4. 
Crosby.  1802.  died  September  2-,.  1803. 


I'lcnjamin  Caryl.  .Sr.,  settled  at 
C.AK\  L     1  lopkinton.  Massachusetts,  among 

the  tir.st  settlers. about  1720.  Many 
of  the  ])ioneers  were  Scotch- Irish,  and  Caryl 
was  doubtless  one  of  them.  He  was  a  farmer. 
The  name  is  s])elled  Carryl.  Carriel.  Cariel. 
and  is  of  the  same  origin  as  Carroll.  Children, 
born  in  Ireland:  i.  Uenjamin.  Jr..  mentioned 
below.  2.  Samuel,  settled  in  .Sutton,  an  ad- 
joining town:  ancestor  of  most  of  the  Wor- 
cester comity  families  of  Carriel.  3.  Edward, 
was  one  of  the  five  hundred  soldiers  sent  to 
Cuba  from  Massachusetts  in  the  war  against 
.Spain  in  1741.  and  perished  there:  but  fifty  of 
these  men  lived  to  return  home :  married  Ruth 

:  children:     i.  .\mos.  born  (October  20. 

1734,  soldier  in  revolution:  ii.  Louisa,  born 
.Xovember  4.  i~^f>.  4.  (jeorge.  married  .Mar- 
tha   .  and  had  several  children  at  1  lop- 
kinton.    (See  p.   1^5-60,  Xew  Lng.  Reg.,  vol. 

14)- 

(II)    IJenjamin   (2).  son  of   Kenjamin   f  i  ) 
Carvl,  was  born  about  1700.  and  came  with  his 

])arents  toHopkinton.  I  le  married  Mary . 

Children,  born  in  Hojikinton  :  I.  John,  settled 
with  his  brothers  at  Chester.  X'ermont.  and 
accorrling  to  the  census  of  1 790  had  three 
males   over    sixteen,    two   under    sixteen    aii'l 


three  females  in  his  family.  2.  Joseph,  horn 
l-ebruary  13.  1727-8:  married,  at  W'estlxtrough, 
.March  2.  1758.  Liizabclii  Dunlap:  removed  to 
W  estborrugh.  then  to  llul)bard>ton,  where  he 
died  .\|)ril  (\  1787,  aged  fifty-nine,  and  she 
died  .Sqjtember  18,  1800,  in  her  sixtieth  year: 
he  was  a  .soldier  in  the  revolution,  from  llub- 
bardston,  in  Laptain  William  .Marean's  c<jm- 
|)any  of  minute-men.  Colonel  Doolittle's  regi- 
ment, on  Lexington  alarm:  sold  his  farm  in 
Westborough.  .March  19,  I7(V),  to  Levi  Warren. 
lan<l  bought  Sejitember  1().  I7')3.  of  David 
llaldwin.  of  .Sudljury.  Car)l  then  living  in 
1  h  l)kinton  :  bought  land  of  Moses  W'heelock 
in  Westborough,  May  18.  1772;  no  children 
known.  3.  Jonathan,  born  .\larch  7.  1729- 
30:  removed  to  Hubbardston  with  his  brc)ther 
Thomas,  in  1770  or  1771  :  t(5  Chester,  \ermont, 
abi  lit  1785:  in  1790  the  census  records  the 
fact  that  lie  liad  three  males  over  sixteen,  one 
under,  and  two  females  in  his  family  at  Ches- 
ter, while  his  son  Jonathan,  Jr..  had  besides 
himself,  two  males  under  sixteen  and  one 
female  in  his  family.  4.  Rev.  15enjamin.  born 
April  22,  1732.  5.  .\sa,  born  .March  5.  1734-3; 
soldier  in  the  revolution.  6.  Mary,  born  Octo- 
ber 17.  1737.  7.  Thomas,  born  .April  18.  1740: 
mentioned  below.    8.  Sarah.  .\])ril  30.  1743. 

(Ill)  Thomas,  son  of  lieiijamin  (2)  Caryl, 
was  born  in  I  lopkinton.  .\pril  18.  1740.  He 
was  a  shoemaker  by  trade.     I  le  married  listher 

.     He  and  his  brother  Jonathan  bought 

of  Cf)lonel  John  Murray,  of  Rutland,  the  fam- 
ous Loyalist  of  later  days,  a  two-thirds  interest 
in  a  six  hundred  acre  tract  at  Hubbardston, 
.Massachusetts,  known  as  ( ireat  l-'arm.  .Xo.  18. 
originally  laid  out  to  Henry  I'ranklyn,  l'".s(|., 
and  bounded  on  the  west  Ijy  the  east  line  of 
Rutland  district,  later  llarre.  (See  Worcester 
deeds  and  I  lubbarfi>ton  l'ro])rietors"  records). 
The  deed  is  dated  September  25.  1770,  and 
Murray  held  a  mortgage  on  the  land.  They 
moved  there  in  the  summer  (jf  1770,  and  the 
l)rt)ther  Joseph  also  settled  there,  although  he 
never  owned  land  in  that  town.  Thomas  was 
a  --oldier  in  the  revolution,  sergeant  in  Ca])tain 
William  Marean's  company.  Colonel  Timotiiy 
liigelow's  regiment,  on  the  Lexington  alarin  : 
also  in  Cai)tain  .Sylvanus  Smith's  company. 
Colonel  Timothy  liigelow's  regiment,  about  a 
year  in  1780.  Between  i78oand  1785.  Thomas, 
Jonathan  and  John  removed  to  Chester.  Wind- 
sor conntv.  \  ermont.  Thomas  sold  his  proji- 
erty  at  llubbardstfm  by  rieed  dated  June  3. 
1785.  tf)  Moso  Clark,  of  Hubbarflston,  to  Isaac 
Clark,  of  Hubhardstfin.  on  the  same  date,  and 
to  William  Clark,  of  1  lubbardston.  on  the  same 


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date.  Aj^aiii  lie  deeded  land  at  Hubbardston 
to  Joseph  Clark,  June  3.  ijH<).  The  Clarks 
seem  to  be  related.  Jonathan  witnessed  some 
of  the  deeds.  The  land  they  owned  jointly  was 
deeded  to  John  Clark,  of  Hubbardston,  Octo- 
ber II,  1788,  and  included  lot  .\'o.  I,  one  hun- 
dred acres  and  their  rights  in  the  Great  Farm, 
So.  18.  .According  to  the  federal  census  of  171/3, 
Thomas  had  nine  children,  having  three  males 
over  si.xteen,  four  under,  and  four  females  in 
his  family.  Children,  born  at  Hubbardston:  I. 
Irena,  July  22,  1770.  2.  Lanson,  July  31,  1772. 
3.  Rufus,  .April  c),  1774.  4.  Leonillv,  May  10, 
1776.  5.  Child.  -April  28,  1778.  6.  Wil'lard, 
January  6,  1780;  mentioned  below.  Three 
others,  or  more. 

(IN)  W'illard.  son  of  Tiiomas  Caryl,  was 
born  at  Hubbardston,  January  6,  1780.  He  re- 
moved in  early  life  with  his  parents  to  Chester, 
N'ermont.  and  thence  to  I  laniard,  in  the  same 
county.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  lived  in  I'.arnard 
the  most  of  his  life.  He  died  in  Yorkville, 
.Michigan,  .\pril  16,  i8f)i.  He  married  (first) 
Elizabeth  Henry,  who  died  June  19,  1822: 
(second)  .\pril  19,  1824.  at  I'.arre,  Vermont, 
Patty  iirowning,  wh(3  died  at  Yorkville,  Michi- 
gan, .A])ril  25,  1868.  Children  of  first  wife:  I. 
John  Henry,  born  .August  17,  1804,  died  Xo- 
vember  21,  1823.  2.  Eucien  W'illard,  born 
February  27.  1806.  3.  Rodney  Clark,  born 
October  13,  1807;  mentioned  below.  4.  Eliza- 
beth A.,  born  July  31.  1809.  5.  Susannah  A., 
March  31,  181 1.  6.  William  Oscar.  September 
29,  1812.  7.  Isabella  J..  .August  19,  1817.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:  8.  Charles  Murray,  born 
January  24,  1828.  9.  Helen  ^E,  October  4. 
1829.  10.  I'Vaiicis  ]\L.  July  10,  1831,  died 
March  11,  1832.  11.  Horace  llallmi.  born  .Au- 
gust 12,  1833. 

(V)  Rodney  Clark,  son  of  W'illard  Caryl, 
was  born  in  Hariiard.  \'ermont,  October  13, 
1807.  and  died  there  in  1868.  He  married. 
December  31.  1831.  .\rdelia  Ja(|ues.  born  at 
I'.arnard.  .August  23,  1812.  died  at  Ware,  .Mass- 
achusetts, 1892.  He  had  a  common  school 
education,  worked  in  a  j)rovisir>n  store,  and 
kejit  a  hotel  there.  He  came  to  Ware  in  1843 
and  lived  there  until  his  death.  He  was  inter- 
ested in  public  atTairs,  and  was  an  active  useful 
citizen.  In  politics  he  was  a  Whig.  Children. 
l)i>rii  at  llarnard:  i.  Son,  died  in  infancy.  2. 
Henry  (  )..  born  July  26,  1834,  died  May  9. 
18(^3:  had  son  I'red  living  at  Ware.  3.  jane 
J.,  born  .August  3.  1835:  married  George  De- 
mond.  of  Ware.  4.  Julia  .\rdelia.  born  .August 
25,  1838;  married  J.  1'..  Cundd.  of  Ware.  (See 
Gould).    3.  Sar:di  I",..  Ixnu  }u\y  30.  1843;  lives 


at  Ware.  6.  Edwin,  died  unmarried.  7.  Emily 
C.  born  December  5.  1846:  married  Frank  Tis- 
dale.  8.  Susan  Isabel,  born  at  W  are,  May  20, 
1845;  married  Thomas  Rollinson.  9.  Eucian 
\\  illard,  born  at  Ware,  Seineniber  11.  1855; 
married  there.  .Xovember  29,  1882,  Nancy  -Ma- 
tilda Le  Gro;  children:  i.  Ethel  Estella.  born 
.Mav  14.  1884:  ii.  Rodney  Clark,  [anuarv  27, 
1886:  iii.  1  lazel  Beatrice.  Mav  8.  1888. 


The  name  evidently  came  from 
BRIDG-M  A-\"  the  occu])ation  of  bridge-keej)- 

er  or  bridge-builder,  and  a|)- 
pears  entirely  distinct  from  Brigham  and  Bridg- 
liam.  In  -America  it  is  closely  contined  to  the 
neighborhood  of  the  Connecticut  A'alley.  .Am- 
herst College  has  ten  of  the  name  in  its  alumni 
catalogue  between  1826  and  1885 :  Williams 
has  nine,  between  1795  and  1876;  Harvard 
five,  between  1762  and  1881  ;  Vale  five,  be- 
tween 1765  and  1887:  and  the  other  colleges 
appear  singularly  deficient  of  the  name  in  their 
alumni  catalogues,  which  would  indicate  the 
iiidis]X)sition  of  the  family  to  migrate  from  the 
paternal  roof,  Williams  having  two  and  L'liion 
one  Bridgeman  and  one  Bridgman. 

(I)  James  I'lridgman.  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  family  to  .America,  was  a  member  of  the 
Hartford  colony  in  1641  ;  was  in  Springfield, 
1643  to  1655,  and  removed  to  Northampton  in 
1635.  His  wife's  name  was  Sarah  and  they 
had  eight  children,  four  boys  of  whom  three 
died  during  the  first  year  of  their  existence, 
which  fatality  also  visited  one  daughter.  The 
children  of  James  and  .Sarah  Bridgman  who 
reached  maturity  were:  i.  .^arah.  who  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Tileston.  2.  John,  born  July  7, 
1643.  in  Springfield.  Massachusetts.  3.  Martha, 
l)orn  November  20,  1649:  married,  June  4, 
1668,  Samuel  Dickin.son,  of  Hartford  Colony. 
4.  Mary,  born  July  3,  1632:  married,  1672. 
Samuel  Bartlett.  and  died  in  1674.  James 
Bridgman,  the  immigrant,  died  in  1676,  and 
his  wife  Sarah,  .\ugust  31,  1^)68. 

(II)  John,  eldest  son  of  James  and  Sarah 
I'iridgman,  was  born  in  .Springfield.  Massachu- 
setts Bay  Colony.  July  7.  1643.  He  married 
.Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Isaac  Sheldon.  De- 
comber  II,  1670.  John  r.ridgman  died  in 
\'i>rtliam])toii.  Massachusetts,  .April  7.  1712. 
and  Mary  (.Sheldon)  P.ridgman.  his  widow, 
died  .\pril  28,  1728.  Children  of  John  and 
Mary  (' .^^licldon )  Bridgman.  all  born  in  North- 
amjitoii.  Massachusetts:  1.  Mary,  March  13, 
1(172:  married.  iTicji.  Judah  Hutchinson.  2. 
-A  child,  December  20,  i('73.  died  January  4, 
\f<74.     3.  John,  born  October  20.  1674,     4.  De- 


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55<J 


iiverance  (q.  v.),  March  17.  1676.  3.  James, 
about  1677-8  6.  l.saac.  March  2y,  1680.  7. 
.Sarali.  about  i(>82  ;  married,  170J,  John  Lliapui, 
of  Springtield.  8.  Ruth.  August  29,  1684;  dieil 
September  16,  i6go.  9.  Ebeiiezer,  born  Febru- 
ary 4,  1686.  10.  Thomas,  January  7,  1688; 
died  October  30.  1742.  1 1.  Martha,  August  13, 
1690:  married,  1713.  Ilezekiah  Root.  12.  Han- 
nah, October  24.  1693:  married,  1716.  John 
Bancroft,  of  W'estfield,  Massachusetts.  13. 
Dorothy,  Octt)ber  11,  1697;  died  January  20, 
1705.     14.  Orlando,  born  September  18.  1701. 

(III)  Dehverance,  second  son  of  John  and 
Mary  (Sheldon  )  I'lridgman,  was  born  in  North- 
ampton, Massachusetts.  March  17,  1676.  He 
married,  Xovember  26.  1702,  Joanna,  widow  of 
Samuel  King,  and  she  bore  him  two  children. 
Deliverance  IJridgman  died  I-'ebruary  2.  1738, 
and  his  widow.  Joainia,  January  23,  1741,  aged 
seventy-five  years.  Rhoda.  only  daughter  of 
Deliverance  and  Joainia  (  King )  Bridgman.  was 
born  .August  15.  1703.  and  married  a  Mr. 
Guernsey,  and  .Voah.  their  only  son  was  born 
July  24.  1706. 

(IV)  Xoah,  only  son  of  Deliverance  and 
Joanna  (King)  Bridgman,  was  born  in  Xorth- 
amjiton.  Massachusetts,  July  24.  1706.  He  mar- 
ried. January  15,  1731,  Mehitabcl  Warner; 
children:  i.  .N'oah.  born  December.  1731.  2. 
Rlisha.  December.  1733  ;  died  October.  1736.  3. 
Mehitable.  June.  1736;  married.  1758.  Moses 
Parsons.  4.  Eleanor.  .March  20.  1738-9:  mar- 
ried. 1757.  Elnathan  l'hel])s.  5.  Hannah,  July 
15,  1741  ;  married,  1765.  Joshua  Xarramore ; 
when  left  a  widow  before  1790,  she  married 
(second).  May  19.  1 791,  Jonathan  IMiillij^s.  6. 
Lucy,  married  Thomas  S])o(Tar(l.  7.  Rhtxla. 
born  December.  1747:  married  a  Mr.  Petti- 
bone.  Xoah  I'ridgman  flied  in  March,  1776. 
and  his  widow  .Mehitabcl  in  1749.  aged  eighty- 
si.x  years. 

(  \' )  Xoah  (  2  ),  eldest  son  of  .Xoah  ( 1 )  and 
Mehitabcl  (Warner)  I'.ridgman,  was  lx)rn  in 
Xorthampton,  .Massachusetts,  in  December. 
1 73 1.  He  married.  F-'ebruary  i.  1759,  .Mary 
Clark;  children:  1.  Elisha,  born  February  18, 
1760:  died  1835  or  '36.  2.  Erastus,  February 
24,  17(12:  died  .-\])ril  21,  1805.  3.  Israel.  Janu- 
ary 28.  1764;  died  Xovember  16.  1833.  4. 
Mercy.  March.  1766;  married,  1789,  Levi  Claf- 
lin.  5.  Clark,  Xovember  30,  17(18;  died  June  18, 
1789.  6.  Joseph  (c|.  v.),  January  23,  1771.  7. 
Lydia,  .August  24.  1774;  married  Ste])hcn  Pom- 
eroy.  8.  Xoah.  December  3.  \~~('<\  dicfl  .August 
13.  185 1  or  1857.  Xoah  Bridgman  dierl  at  the 
•close  of  1812.  probably  Xovember.  anrl  his 
wife  about  18 10. 

(\'I)   Joseph,   fifth   son   of   Xoah    (2)    and 


.Mary  (Clark)  Bridgman.  was  born  at  Horse 
Mountain.  .Xorthampton,  ^Massachusetts,  Janu- 
ary 2}^,  1771-  He  married,  Xovember  24,  1796, 
•Mary,  daughter  of  William  and  Susannah 
(Gilson)  Judd,  of  .Xorthampton.  She  was  born 
Xovember  24.  1772.  and  died  in  Hatfield,  Mass- 
achu.setts,  January  13,  18^)3,  having  borne  her 
lnisi)and  eight  children  and  outlived  him  thirty- 
nine  years,  his  death  having  taken  place  Octo- 
ber 27,  i82().  Children  of  Joseph  and  .Mary 
(Judd)  Bridgman:  i.  Sylvester  (q.  v.),  born 
October  20,  1797.  2.  John,  Xovember  30,  1799; 
died  May  9,  1860.  3.  .Ansel,  February  25, 
1802;  died  September  14,  1838.  4.  Theodore, 
.A|)ril  9.  1804.  3.  .Mary,  .Xovember  3,  1806; 
married,  l-'ebniary  12,  1843.  Horace  Waite.  of 
Hatfield:  died  .\])ril  14.  1877.  (i.  Lucinda. 
.March  19.  1809:  (lied  July  4.  1810.  7.  Joseph 
C.  .\|)ril  II.  1811:  died  Xovember  21,  1843. 
8.  .\Ielzar.  Ai)ril  28.  1814:  died  March  31,  1883. 

(  \  II  )  Sylvester,  eldest  child  of  Joseph  and 
-Mary  (Judd)  P>ridgman.  was  born  in  North- 
ampton. ^lassachusett's.  October  20,  1797.  He 
married.  January  jo.  1826.  lietscy.  daughter  of 
Worham  and  .So])hia  (Dwelley)  Cla])]).  She 
was  born  in  .Xorthamjjton.  July  4,  1797,  and 
died  there  .August  29,  1887.  Children:  i.  Sid- 
ney Edwin,  born  May  9,  1827.  2.  Joseph  Clark, 
born  October  23.  1831.  Sylvester  Bridgman 
died  in  Xorthampti^n.  Julv  22.  1870. 

(  \T1I  )  .Sidney  F.dwin.  eldest  son  of  .Sylves- 
ter and  Betsey  ((."lap]))  Bridgman.  was  born  at 
Xorth  l''arms.  Hampshire  county,  Massachu- 
setts. .May  9.  1827.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the 
Xorth  Farms  public  school  and  at  the  school  at 
the  "Center."  where  he  pursued  a  more  ad- 
vanced course  and  where  he  remained  up  to  h\> 
sixteenth  year.  He  began  his  business  life 
.\pril  14.  1844.  as  a  clerk  in  the  book  store  of 
I"-.  II.  Butler  &  Cnmpany.  cstablishcil  in  1797 
by  .Simon  I'.uller,  |)r()|)rietor  of  the  llainf'sliirc 
Gazette.  On  reaching  his  majority  in  1848,  he 
was  admitted  as  a  partner  in  the  business,  the 
firm  name  becoming  I'.utler  &  I'rirlgman.  and 
the  changes  in  the  name  of  the  firm  during  .Mr. 
I'.ridgman's  lifetime  made  it  successively  Ho])- 
kins.  Briflgman  &•  (."ompany ;  I'ridgman  & 
CliiMs;  .S.  I'".  Bridgman  &  Company,  and  Bridg- 
man &  Lyman.  This  famous  book  store  be- 
came (he  literary  center  of  the  old  tf>wn  of 
Xortliam])ton,  and  was  known  throughout  Cen- 
tral .Massachusetts  as  the  "College  Bookstore;" 
Smith,  .Amherst,  Mt.  Ilolyoke  and  Williston 
being  pereiniial  customers.  The  establishment 
n(  t  only  sold  but  ])ublished  hooks,  and  M.  II. 
Butler,  Mr.  I'.ridgman's  first  partner,  became 
the  pro])rietor  of  a  large  |)ublishing  business  in 
l'hiladel|)hia.     Mr.   Bridgman's  limited  school 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


|)rivilegcs  were  but  a  grammar  school  course, 
while  his  book  store  ^'as  his  academy  and  col- 
lege, and  he  became  the  head  of  a  literary  insti- 
tution over  which  he  presided  with  dignity,  antl 
had  as  pupils  aH<l  faculty  the  best  minds  of  the 
central  jiortion  of  the  commonwealth.  As  a 
book-seller,  book-maker,  book-lover  and  au- 
thority on  printed  literature,  he  was  fully  posted 
on  the  books  of  his  day,  and  his  day  extended 
over  a  period  of  sixty  years.  To  go  to  Xortli- 
ampton.  without  going  to  P.ridgman's  liook- 
store  or  consulting  with  Sidney  E.  Bridgman, 
was  the  imi)ossible  act  of  a  literary  man,  be  he 
publisher,  book-seller,  author,  editor  or  littera- 
teur. His  list  of  friends — for  every  one  of  his 
customers  was  a  friend — included  distinguished 
men  from  all  the  centers  of  learning  in  the  New 
I'jigland  states  and  from  New  York.  He  made 
frequent  journeys  to  the  old  world,  where  he 
found  himself  well  known  in  the  literary  circles 
of  London,  England,  and  Paris,  and  he  thus 
enlarged  his  personal  ac(|uaintance  with  men 
and  women  of  note  on  both  continents.  As  the 
dean  of  the  book  trade  in  the  United  States  he 
was  a  familiar  personage  at  the  trade-sales 
held  annually  in  Boston  and  New  York,  and 
thus  secured  valuable  additions  to  the  libraries 
of  his  customers  in  search  of  rare  books.  To 
name  his  distinguished  friends  who  had  en- 
joyed his  lios])itality  at  Northampton  or  wel- 
comed him  to  equally  hospitalile  homes  in 
Europe  and  America,  is  beyond  the  province 
of  this  article.  A  roll-call  of  the  literary  people 
of  the  Nineteenth  Century  in  America  and 
Great  I'ritain,  with  the  learned  men  of  China 
and  Japan  who  have  visited  our  shores,  would 
contain  fe^-  names  not  familiar  to  Sidney 
iiridgman,  the  book-seller  of  Northampton. 

Mr.  I'ridgman  married  (first),  June  13,  1850. 
Harriet,  daughter  of  Timothy  I 'helps,  of  Ches- 
terfield, Massachusetts,  and  by  her  he  had  three 
children:  i.  Mary,  died  in  childhood.  2.  Anne 
Cleveland.  3.  Howard,  born  .Vugust,  1859. 
Hannah  (Phelps)  Bridgman  died  January  2, 
1884,  and  Air.  Bridgman  married  (second), 
.September  3,  1889,  .\Iarion,  daughter  of  .Ahira 
and  .Malinda  (Shurtleff)  Merrill,  and  widow 
of  Henry  C.  Paddock.  She  survives  her  sec- 
ond husband,  and  bore  him  no  children.  He 
attended  the  Edwartls  Congregational  Church, 
of  Nortiiamiiton,  almost  since  its  organization, 
and  for  thirty  years  was  su])erinten(ient  of  the 
Smulay  school.  He  was  also  clerk  of  the  church 
a  number  of  vcars,  and  senior  deacon  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  popular  lay 
preacher  in  many  of  tlie  towns  in  the  Connecti- 
cut Valley,  and  in  the  early  days  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  he  was  a  member 


of  its  state  executive  committee,  and  was  asso- 
ciated with  Henry  AI.  Aloore,  of  Boston;  Rob- 
ert K.  Remington,  of  Fall  River,  and  K.  A. 
Burnell,  the  evangelist,  in  the  work  of  the  asso- 
ciation. He  contributed  articles  both  religious 
and  in  favor  of  total  abstinence.  With  Mrs. 
Bridgman  he  visited  Europe  and  the  Holy 
Land,  and  the  most  attractive  parts  of  the 
American  continent,  including  Afe.xico,  Canada 
and  Alaska.  He  left  the  Republican  party  to 
give  the  weight  of  his  active  support  to  the 
Prohibitionists.  Northampton  had  the  advan- 
tages of  his  service  for  many  years  on  the 
school  committee  and  as  moderator  of  the 
U>\\n  meetings. 

(IX)  Howard  Allen,  only  son  of  Sidney 
Edwin  and  Harriet  (  f'helps )  Bridgman,  was 
born  in  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  August 
20,  i860 ;  graduate  of  Northampton  high  school, 
1878,  and  Amherst  College,  A.  B.,  1883:  stu- 
dent at  Hartford  Theological  Seminary,  1884- 
85.  and  graduate  of  Yale  Divinity  School,  Yale 
rni\ersity.  P..  D.,  1887:  princijjal  Granby  high 
school,  1883-84;  associate  editor  Congrcgation- 
alist,  Boston,  Massachusetts.  1887-89,  managing 
editor  since  1889;  ordained  to  Congregational 
ministry,  November  19,  1890;  trustee  Talladega 
College,  Talladega,  Alabama ;  director  South 
End  House  Social  Settlement,  I'oston,  Massa- 
ciiusetts  ;  director  of  the  Monday  and  Twentieth 
Century  clubs,  Bo.ston,  and  author  of  "Steps 
Cliristward"  (1905).  He  married,  July  27  1898, 
Helen  North  I'ryant,  of  Witherbee,  New  York. 
Her  father.  Rev.  Mr.  Bryant,  is  a  Congrega- 
tional minister.  Children  of  Howard  Allen 
and  Helen  (Bryant)  P.ridgman :  Harriet,  Ed- 
win B.  and  Marion. 

(IX)  .Annie  Cleveland,  only  daughter  of 
Sidney  Edwin  and  Harriet  (Phelps)  Bridg- 
man is  secretary  of  the  American  Missionary 
.Society. 

Sidney  Edwin  I'ridgman  died  at  his  home, 
115  Elm  street,  Northampton,  Massachusetts, 
November  25,  1906.  He  was  a  trustee  of 
Mount  Holyokc  College  nearjy  forty  years. 


W.  K.  I'arrington,  found- 
FA  kl<  1  X(  ;T(  )N  er  of  the  W.  'K.  Earring- 
ton  Press  in  Boston, 
.Massachusetts,  was  born  in  Hackensack,  New- 
Jersey,  April  27,  1867.  .M  the  age  of  five  he 
removed  with  his  parents  to  Orange.  New  Jer- 
sey, and  five  years  later  to  Bloomfield,  same 
state,  where  be  attended  the  iniblic  schools, 
and  this  knowledge  was  supplemented  by  at- 
tendance at  .St.  John's  Military  Academy,  Sing 
Sing  (now  Ossining),  New  York.  .'\t  the  age 
of  eighteen  he  located  in  Newark,  New  Jersey. 


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wlien-  he  served  an  api)retiticeship  at  the  trade 
of  printing.  In  1888-89  ^^^  was  employed  in 
the  dry  goods  firm  of  Tebbitts,  Harrison  & 
Robbms.  New  York  City,  and  in  1900  was  a 
member  of  tiie  firm  of  Williams  &  Farrington. 
In  the  meantime  he  removed  to  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  served  in  the  capacity  of  general 
manager  for  Wheelman  Company]  pubhshers, 
and  in  March,  1899.  founded  the'  W.  K.  Far- 
ington  PVess  in  that  city. 


The    name   of.  Winthrop — 
W  IXTMROP     that  of  the  Governor  of  the 

.Massachusetts     Bay     Com- 
pany at  tiieir  emigration  to  Xew  England — may 
be  traced  back  in  various  spellings  for  at  least 
six  centuries  and  a  half.     The  family  can  be 
traced  to  various  places  in  the  mother  country, 
and  latterly  there  to  Groton  in  Suffolk,  "where 
they  lived  many  years."     In  a  volume  by  the 
late  Hon.  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  entitled  "Life 
and  Letters  of  John  Winthrop,"  the  line  of  de- 
scent is  there  corrected,  and  begins  with  a  man 
called  the  second  Adam  W^inthrop,  born  Octo- 
ber 9,  1498,  died  November  9,  1562  (eldest  son 
of  Adam  and  Joane  (or  Jane)  Burton)  ;  mar- 
ried,   Xovember    16,    1527,    Alice    Henry,    or 
Henny.    Children :  i.  Thomas,  born  November 
8.  1528:  died  April,   1529.     2.   William,  born 
November  12.   1529:  died  March   i,   1581,  at 
London:    had    wife    Flizabeth,    died   June    2, 
1578,  and  si.x  children:  Jonathan,  Adam,  Will- 
iam. Joshua,  Elizabeth  and  Sarah.    3.  Bridget, 
born  January  i,  1530:  died  January,  1536.    4. 
Christopher,  born  January  4,  1531  :  died  aged 
nine   months.      5.    Thomas    (2d),   born   June, 
1533:  died  1537.     .Adam  Winthrop  was  mar- 
ried ("second),  in  1534,  to  .\gnes  Sharpe,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  Sharpe,  of  Islington,  she  eighteen, 
and   he  thirty-six.      Children :  6.   Alice,   born 
November  15,  1539;  died  November  8,  1607; 
married    Sir   Thomas   Mildmay,   and   had   six 
sons.    7.  Bridget,  born  May  3,  1543;  died  .No- 
vember 4,  1614:  married  Roger  Alabaster,  and 
had  four  sons  and  one  daughter;  one  of  the 
sons   was  a  celebrated  poet.     8.   Mary,  born 
March  i.  1544;  married  Abraham  Vey,sie.     9. 
and  10.  John  and  Adam,  twins,  born  January 
20,  1546;  Adam  died  in  six  months  anrl  John 
died  in  Ireland.  July  26,  1613;  having  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Robert  Risby,  of  Thorpe 
Morieux,  Suffolk  county.     11.  Adam  (2),  born 
.August  10,  1548;  .see  beyond.     12.  Catharine, 
born  May  17,  1550;  married  and  had  children.* 

•This  last  Item  Is  chaUenKed  by  Robert   C.    Win- 
throp. 


13.  Susannah,  born  December  10,  1552;  died 
.\ugust  9,  if)04:  married  1).  Cottie  {Dr.  John 
Lotta?).  and  had  children.  The  wi<low  of  the 
talher  .Adam  Winthrop  married  William  Mild- 
may.     She  died  .May  13,  15(35. 

(II)  Adam  (2)'  Winthrop,  son  of  .Adam 
(I),  born  in  London,  August  10,  1548;  died 
.March  29,  1623:  married  (first),  December  16, 
1574.  Alice  Still,  daughter  of  William,  of 
Granthan),  Lincolnshire:  she  and  her  first  born 
child  die<l  December  24,  1577,  and  he  married 
(second),  February  20,  1579,  .Anne,  daughter 
of  Henry  Jjrowne,  of  Edwardston  ;  her  mother's 
name  was  .Agnes.  .Adam  Winthrop  (3d)  was 
a  man  of  good  education  and  high  social  stand- 
ing, lord  and  patron  of  the  manor  of  (Irotoii. 
Children  by  second  wife:  i.  .Anne,  born  Janu- 
'""■y  5-  15^0-1;  (lied  January  20,  1580-1.  2. 
-Anne,  born  January  16,  1585-6;  died  May  16, 
i6i8:  married,  I-\>bruary  25',  1604-5,  Thomas 
I'ones.  3.  John,  born  j'anuary  12,  1587;  the 
governor  of  -Massachusetts;  see  forward.  4. 
jane,  baptized  June  17,  1592;  married,  January 
5,  1612.  Thomas  Gostling.  5.  Lucy,  born  ianu- 
ary  9.  16001  :  married.  AjHil  10. "1622,  Eman- 
uel Downing. 

(IJI)  John  Winthrop,  governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts, son  of  .\dam  (2)  Winthrop,  born  in 
lylwardston,  a  little  village  in  Suffolk  county, 
Kngland,  immediately  adjoining  (iroton,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1587;  died  in  Boston,  New  England, 
.March  26,  1649,  nineteen  years  after  his  em- 
barkation on  March  22,  1629-30,  in  that  harbor. 
l->)r  details  regarding  his  early  life  the  reader 
IS  referred  to  the  admirable  work  on  that  sub- 
ject by  his  descendant,  lion.  Robert  C.  Win- 
throp, already  named,  and  to  the  various  stand- 
ard histories  of  -Massachusetts  and  New  Eng- 
land for  the  latter  part.  He  married  (first), 
.\pril  16,  1605,  Mary,  born  fanuary  i,  1583, 
died  June  26,  161 5,  daughter' and  sole  heir  of 
John  Forth,  Es(|.,  of  (Ireat  Stanibridge,  in  the 
county  of  F.ssex,  and  Thoniasine,  only  child  of 

Hilles,  in  the  county  of  Essex.     Her 

own  immediate  family  was  a  wealthy  one. 
Sixteen  children:  i.  John,  the  eldest,  born  in 
Groton,  F.ngland,  February  12,  1606;  died  in 
Boston,  April  5,  1676:  known  to  history  as 
John  Winthrop,  the  governor  of  Connecticut 
2.  Henry,  born  (baptized  January  20)  1607: 
ilrowned  at  .Salem,  Ma.ssachusetts,  ruly2,  1630, 
aged  twenty-two  years,  the  next  dav  after  "his 
landing  in  -America.  (See  his  father's  journal). 
He  was  somewhat  adventurous,  had  been  in 
the  Barbadoes;  was  married,  April  25,  1629, 
to  his  cousin  Elizabeth  Fones ;  had  daughter 
Martha,  baptized  at  Groton.  England,  May  9, 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


1630.     lie  was  left  beliiiicl  in  his  father's  lirst 
voyage,  but  arrived  safely  em  a  later  one.     He 
was  drowned  in  a  small  creek.     His  widow 
came  to  New  England  afterwards  and  married 
Robert  I-'eake.     3.   Forth,  born  December  30. 
1609:  died   (burfed  at  Groton,   England,   No- 
vember 23)   1630;  was  educated  in  the  univer- 
sities, and  was  betrothed  to  Ursula  Sherman. 
4.  and   5.    Daughters,   named   Anne,   baptized 
1614-15.  who  died  in  their  earliest  infancy.     (>. 
Mary,  eldest  of  the  first  diree  daughters,  came 
to   America,    and    married,    about    1O32,    Rev. 
Samuel    Dudley,    son    of    Governor    Thomas 
Dudley,  and  died  April  12,   1643,  having  had 
four    children,    two    of    whom    survived    her. 
Governor  Winthrop  married  (second),  Decem- 
ber 6.   if)!  3,  Thoniasine  Clojjton,  died  Decem- 
ber 8,  ifnfi,  daughter  of  William  Clopton,  Esq. 
Child:    7.    Daughter,    born    November,    1616: 
died  1616,  two  days  old.     Governor  Winthrop 
married    (third),    April    29,    1618,    Margaret 
Tyndal,  died  in  Boston,  June  14,  1647,  daughter 
of  Sir  John  Tyndal,  knight.     Her  mother  was 
.'\nne  Egerton.  widow  of  William  Dtane,  Es(|. 
Children:   8.   Stephen,  born    March  24,   1618; 
came  with  his  father  to  America  ;  was  recorder 
of    lioston;  member  of   Parliament    for   Scot- 
land under  Cromwell,  and  colonel  of  a  regi- 
ment in  the  civil  wars  of  England  ;  was  married 
and  left  posterity.  9.  Adam,  born  .\pril  7,  1620; 
see  forward.     10.  Deane,  baptized  March  23, 
1622:  died  at  PuUen   Point   (now  Winthro])), 
March  16,  1704;  married  (first)  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  Jose  Glover,  and  left  a  widow  Martha 
and  children.     11.  Nathaniel,  baptized  h'ebru- 
ary  20,  1625;  probably  died  young.     12.  .Sam- 
uel, bajjtized  August  26,  1627;  married  in  I  hjl- 
land :  had  estate  in  Antigua,  where  he  held  the 
ofiice  of  deputy  governor,  and  died  there  about 
1677,     13.  Anne,  baptized  .April  29,  1630;  died 
on  her  |)assage  with  her  mother  to  New  Eng- 
land, when  aged  about  a  year  and  a  half.     14. 
William,    born    at    P.oston,    .August    14,    1632; 
|)robal)ly  died  soon.    1 5.  Sarah,  baptized  June  2(). 
1634,  probably  died  soon.    Governor  Wiuthrnp 
married  (fourth),  December  4,  1647,  Martha, 
daughter   of   Captain    William    Rainsborough, 
and  widow  of  Captain  Thomas  Coytmore,  of 
Charlestown,   and   sister   of    increase    Nowell. 
.After    tiie    death    of    Winthro])    she    married. 
March  \C\  1652,  John  Coggan.     Child  by  Win- 
throp:   16.  Joshua,  born    December    IJ.    i()48: 
died  January  11,  i()5i. 

(IV)  .Adam  (3)  Winthrop,  son  of  John, 
born  in  Groton,  England,  .\pril  7.  1620:  died  in 
Boston,  suddenly  it  is  inferred,  .August  24, 
16^2.  thirty-two  vears  and    four  mouths  n]d: 


came  to  New  England  in  1O31.  .\(lam's  Chair, 
a  rock  in  Waltham,  Alassachusetts,  was  named 
for  him  (163!):  married  (first),  about  1642, 
Elizabeth,  died  September,  1648,  daughter  of 
I  OSS  or  Jose  ("ilover ;  married  (second)  Eliza- 
ix'th,  daughter  of  Thomas  Hawkins.  Children  : 
I.  -Adam,  born  October  15,  1647;  see  forward. 
1  le  was  his  parents'  only  child  in  1652.  and  the 
only  one,  unless  there  was  a  daughter  Mary, 
who  died  near  the  same  time  with  her  mother, 
Se])tember,  1648.  The  widow  of  Adam  (4) 
married.  May  3,  1654,  John  Richards;  no  chil- 
dren l)y  either  hu.sbaud. 

(  \' )  .Adam  (4)  Winthrop,  son  of  .\dam  13), 
born  in  Boston,  October  15,  1647:  died  August 
3,  1700,  aged  fifty-two;  will  dated  July  29, 
proved  September  5,  1700.  He  was  graduated 
at  Harvard  College,  1668  (Sibley's  "Grad- 
uates." II.,  247)  ;  was  for  some  time  a  merchant 
at  I'.ristol,  England,  and  married  there,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Luttrell,  and  there  his  chil- 
dren were  born,  one  of  whom  was  .Adam,  see 
beyond.  His  daughter  Mary  married  March  9, 
1703,  John  Hallentine.  The  father  was  an 
orphan,  about  five  years  old  in  1652.  He  re- 
turned with  his  family  to  Boston  in  1679.  He 
was  captain  of  a  military  company  in  Itoston  in 
1689;  representative,  1689-1692;  named  as  one 
of  the  governor's  council,  but  left  out  in  the 
first  popular  ejection,  Alay,  ifx)3.  No  time  of 
marriage  or  births  of  his  children  or  baptism 
of  them  is  found  here,  as  his  marriage  was  in 
JMigland,  and  there  the  children  were  born. 
.Mary,  his  widow,  married,  March  13,  1706,  as 
the  third  wife  of  Joseph  Lynde,  of  Charles- 
tdwn.     Her  death  occurred  October  30,  1715. 

(\1)  .Adam  (5)  Winthrop,  son  of  Adam 
(4),   graduated    Harvard    College,    1694,   and 

died  October  2,   1743:  married  .Aima  -— . 

1  le  was  of  the  council  of  the  province.  Chil- 
dren; 1.  Adam,  born  .\ugust  12,  1706;  died 
December  12,  1744;  Harvard  College,  1724; 
merchant  of  Boston,  and  lived  in  Brattle  street. 
I  le  was  also  clerk  of  the  judicial  courts.  Mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  Hugh  Hall,  Es{|.,  of 
I'.oston.  2.  John.  Harvard  College.  1732;  sec 
l)evt)nd. 

'(\I1)  John  (2)  Winthrop,  son  of  .Adam 
(5),  born  in  l>oston.  December  n),  1714:  died 
in"  Cambridge,   May  3,    177'):  married    (first) 

Rebecca ,  died   .\ugust   22,   1753,  aged 

twentv-niue,  daughter  of  James  Townsend,  of 
Boston  ;  married  (  second  ),  published  March  25, 
1756,   Hannah,  died   May  6.    1790,  widow  of 

— ^ Totman,  of   Boston,  and  daughter  of 

Thomas  and  Sarah  I-'aycrweathcr.  Children; 
I.   liihn,  born   So|)tembcr   17,   1747:  graduated 


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Harvard  Cdllege.  17(^)3.  lived  in  Boston,  a  mer- 
chant:  married    Sarah    I'hillips.    and    died    in 
1800,   leaving  posterity — Julm.    Harvard   Col- 
lege. 1796.  and  Adam,' Harvard  College.  1800. 
2.  Adam,  born  November  2y.   1748.  died  Feb- 
ruary   11.    1774.   aged    twenty-five,   graduated 
Harvard  College,  1767;  left  home  contrary  to 
the  desire  of  his  father,  became  a  shipmaster  in 
Covernor  Hancock's  employment,  and  in  the 
Downs  was  knocked  overboard  and  lost.      He 
•'was  unfortunately  knocked  overboard  by  the 
boom  of  his  vessel  on  his  jiassage  from  hence 
to  London,  and  was  drowned,"   T'ebruary  11, 
1774  (Boston  \c"ics  Letter).    3.  Samuel,  born 
luly  20,   1750.  died  July  28,  1751.     4-  Janus, 
■'a  man  of  much  curious  erudition,"  born  .March 
28,  1752,  graduated  Harvard  College  1769.  LL. 
D. :  Alleghenv  College  1817;  postmaster  1775 
(/.  c.  with  head(|uarters  at  Cambridge.  Boston 
being  invested  by  the  American  troops)  ;  regis- 
ter of  probate  from  September  6.   1775,  until 
1817;  for  several  years  judge  of  court  of  com- 
mon pleas  :  librarian  of  Harvard  College.  1772- 
1787  :  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society:  resided  in  Cambridge,  and 
died  unmarried,  .September  26.  1821.     A  char- 
acteristic letter  written  him  in  1775  is  published 
by  Paige.  "History  Cambridge."  ]).  700.  note  5. 
\Villiam,  "the  las't   survivor."  born  April    19. 
1753,  graduate  Harvard   College   1770:  town 
clerk  1782-1788:  selectman  ten  years  between 
1786  and  1802:  senator  in   1799:  a  gentleman 
farmer,  residing  in  Cambridge,  and  died  un- 
married. I'ebruary  5,  1825.     The  father  of  this 
intelligent  family'  was  a  man  of  great  distinc- 
tion in  his  day.    fie  was  graduated  at  Harvard 
College  in  1738.  appointed  I  U)llis  jirofessor  of 
mathematics  and  natural  philosophy  in   1738. 
He  was  in  1771.  as  already  stated  elsewhere  in 
this  work,   the   preceptor  of  Count   Runiford 
and  Colonel  Loammi  Baldwin,  of  Woburn.   He 
was  elected    llolHs  ])rofessor  of   mathematics 
and  natural  and  experimental  philosophy  .Au- 
gust 30.  1738.     1  le  was  then  a  resident  of  Bos- 
ton, and  his  inauguration  with  appropriate  cere- 
monies occurred  January  2.    1738-9-     He  de- 
clined the  office  of  president  of  the  college  in 
1769.     His  age  and  "bodily  infirmities"  were 
urged  as  objections  against  liiin.     It  was  a  time 
when  the  office  went  begging.      The  choice  was 
made  of  Samuel  Locke,  a  clergyman  of  a  small 
l>arish    about    twenty   miles    from   Cambridge, 
against  whom  was  made  the  -till  greater  objec- 
tion of  "a  want  of  knowledge  of  the  world, 
having  lived  in  retirement,  and  i)erhaps  not  a 
general  aciiuaintance  with  books."      In    1774. 
after  the  resignation  of  I,ockc.  \\'inthro|>  was 


again  chosen  president  and  declined.   President 
Ouincy*  says  of  him,  "The  literary  and  scien- 
tific  attainments  of  John    Winthrop  acquired 
celebrity  in  his  own  country  and  in  Europe,  and 
entitled  him  to  be  regarded  as  one  of  the  bright- 
est ornaments  of  Harvard  College.     .     .     The 
zeal,  activity  and  talent  with  which  he  applied 
himself  to  the  advancements  of  the  sciences 
justified  the  expectations  which  his  early  prom- 
ise raised."     As  a  lecturer  he  was  skillful  and 
attractive,  and  during  forty  years  he  fulfilled 
the  duties  of  the  professor's  chair  to  universal 
acce])tance."     His  labors  were  both  practical 
and  scientific.      He  transmitted   in   December, 
1740.  to  the  Royal  Society  of  London,  "obser- 
vations of  the  transit  of  Mercury  over  the  Sun." 
These    observations    were   published    both    in 
London  and  honorably  noticed  in  Paris.     He 
gave  a  lecture  on  the  earthquake  of  November 
18.   1755.  in   which  he  deliberately  set  out  to 
calm    the    aijprehensions    which    the    supersti- 
tions of  the  age  had  e.xcited.  with  actual  fear, 
throughout    the    territory    of    New    England, 
where  the  quake  had  been  experienced.     He 
explained   his  theory  of  the   phenomenon  of 
earthc|uake  with  originality,  research,  and  in- 
tellectual power,  and  advanced  the  consolatory 
fact  that  though  eartlK|uakes  had  occasionally 
occurred  in  New  England  from  its  first  settle- 
ment by  the  English,  not  a  single  life  had  ever 
been  lost  nor  any  great  damage  been  done  by 
them.     He  sni)i)orted  the  theories  of  Benjamin 
Franklin  concerning  lightning,  and  protection 
from  it  b\'  the  use  of  "iron  ])oints."     Even  in 
this   he   met    with   opposition,   even    from   the 
ignorance  of  natural  laws  on  the  part  of  clergy- 
men and  the  sui)erstitious  of  that  age.     One 
thought,  and  published  the  fact,  that  the  "iron 
points"  on  the  buildings  in  .New  England  drew 
the  lightning   fn  m  the  clouds  and  caused  the 
earthquake  of    1753.     Professor  Winthrop.  in 
replv,  proceeded  to  show  that  eartlniuakes  could 
not  be  accounted  for  in  that  way.     As  late  as 
1770  there  were  religious  people  who  were  op- 
posed  to   lightning   rods    (in   intelligent   New 
England!)   on  the  ground  that  "thunder  and 
lightning"  were  tokens  of  Divine  displeasure, 
and  that  it  was  im])ious  to  prevent  them  from 
doing  their  "full  execution."     Professor  Win- 
throp again  apjieared  in  their  defense  with  a 
])ublication  which  showed  that  "Divine  Provi- 
dence" governed  the  world  by  "stated  general 
laws."  and  showed  in  conclusion  that  it  was  as 
much  "our  duty  to  secure  ourselves  against  the 
efifects  of  lightning,  as  from  those  of  rain,  snow 
or  wind,  by  the  means  God  has  put  into  our 

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hands. "  t)ii  the  a])])caraiice  iil  a  remarkable 
comet  in  1759.  he  again  came  to  tlie  front  with 
lectures  in  which  he  ex])laiiiecl  the  tri>e  nature 
and  motions  of  comets,  according  to  the  latest 
discoveries  of  the  times. 

He  transmitted  to  the  Royal  Society  accoimts 
of  whirlwinds  and  other  natural  phenomena 
which  he  observed  in  this  section.  And  so  it 
was  in  many  other  scientific  observations,  tran- 
sits of  X'enus  antl  others,  of  which  the  record, 
however  creditable  to  him,  is  too  long  to  men- 
tion in  the  present  work.  It  is  said  that  his 
active,  vigorous  and  comi)rehensive  mind  em- 
braced within  its  sj^here  various  and  extensive 
knowledge,  and  that  he  was  better  entitled  to 
the  character  of  a  universal  scholar,  than  any 
individual  of  his  time,  in  this  country.  He  was 
well  versed  in  ancient  and  modern  languages, 
and  President  Ouincy  concludes  that  he  was 
one  of  the  greatest  mathematicians  and  piiilns- 
ophers  .America  had  then  |)r(jduced. 

He  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  coiuicil  of 
the  province  in  1773.  but  negatived  by  a  royal 
mandate.  In  1774  he  was  a  delegate  to  the 
pr(jvincial  congress.  In  1775  he  was  restored 
to  the  seat  in  the  council,  and  also  appointed 
judge  of  probate.  The  latter  office  he  held  until 
his  death.  May  3.  1779,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five. 


(.Ancestry    by   Arthur  G.    I,oring). 

Thomas    Brooks,    of    Concord, 
1;R0()KS     Massachusetts,  died  there  .May 

21,  1667;  his  wife  Grace,  whose 
surname  is  unknown,  died  May  12,  1664.  He 
first  settled  in  W'atertown,  as  early  as  1636, 
and  removed  very  soon  to  Concord,  where  he 
was  constable  in  1638:  representative  1642- 
1644.  1654,  1659-1662.  He  is  called  cajitain, 
and  if  so,  probably  of  the  military  comi)any  at 
Concord.  In  1660,  with  his  son-in-law,  Caj)- 
tain  Timothy  \\'heeler,  he  purchased  of  F.d- 
ward  Collins  four  hundred  acres  of  land  in 
Medford,  it  being  a  portion  of  the  Cradock 
farm.  Children:  i.  Joshua,  married  October 
17,  1653.  Hannah  Mason,  of  W'atertown.  2. 
Caleb,  see  forward.  3.  (lershom.  married 
.March  12.  1667.  Hannah  I'xkles.  of  Cambridge. 
4.  .Mary,  married  Captain  Timothy  Wheeler, 
of  Concord;  she  died  his  wirlow,  October  4, 
1693. 

(  II  )  Caleb  Brooks,  son  of  Cajitain  Thomas 
I'.rooks.  died  at  Medforrl,  July  29,  1696,  aged 
sixty-four  years;  married  first,  .\pril  10,  \(V>n, 
.Susanna  .\tkinson,  born  .\pril  28.  1641,  flaugli- 
ter  of  Th(jmas  .\tkinson.  of  Concord ;  she 
died  at  Concord,  January  19,  iftC><).  and  he 
married  (second;  her  sister.  Flannah  .Atkinson, 


born  .March  5.  104;,,  died  al  .Medford.  .March 
ID.  I70<;.  He  moved  from  Concord  to  .Med- 
ford in  if)8o,  and  occui)ied  most  of  the  land 
l)urcliased  by  his  father.  Children  by  his  fir>t 
wife:  I.  .Susan,  born  December  27,  1661,  died 
at  Medford,  Decemljer  23,  1686.  2.  Marv, 
born  November  18.  1663,  died  young.  3.  Mary, 
born  .\pril  3,  i()66;  married,  .\])ril  19,  1688, 
Nathaniel  Ball,  oi  Concord.  4.  Rebecca,  born 
.November  9,  1667.  5.  .Sai-ah.  born  December 
16.  i6()8:  married,  October  18,  1705,  I'liilij) 
Ru^seIl,  of  C'amlnidge.  Lhildren  by  second 
wife:  6.  ICbene/.er.  born  i'ebruarv  24,  1670-1  ; 
see  forward.  7.  Samuel,  boni  .September  i , 
1672;  married  Sarah   Boylston,  of   Brookline. 

I  III  )  Captain  Ebenczer  I'.rooks,  son  of  Caleb 
Pirooks.  born  at  Concord,  I'ebruary  24,  1670-1  ; 
died  at  Medford,  l-'ebruary  11,  1742-3,  in 
seventy-third  year  1  gravestone  )  :  married,  16(^3. 
Al)igail  Boylston,  daughter  of  Dr.  Tlioma-- 
and  .Mary  ((iardner)  Boylston,  of  Brookline: 
she  died  May  jj,.  1736,  in  eighty-second  year 
(gravestone).  I  le  iiiiierited  his  father's  house 
and  homestead.  Children:  1.  Caleb,  born  July 
8.  1694:  see  forward.  2.  Kbenezer,  born  Marcli 
23,  1697-8;  married,  June  20,  1737,  Haruiah 
(iibson.  of  Boston.  3.  .\bigail,  born  October 
6,  i6(;9:  married  October  27,  1720,  Thomas 
Oakes,  of  .Medford.  4.  Hannah,  born  .\pril 
15.  1701  ;  married  (intention  dated  .November 
8,  1721)  .Nathaniel  Clu-e\i'r.  of  jio^toii.  5. 
.Mary,  born  January  19,  1703-4,  died  .Septem- 
ber 3.  1704.  6.  Thomas,  born  .-\pril  28,  1705, 
died  .November  14,  1784,  aged  eighty  years.  7. 
Rebecca,  born  July  24.  170^);  married,  Decem- 
ber 2,  1725,  .Samuel  I'ratt,  of  I'.oston.  8.  .Sam- 
uel, born  I'ebniary  8.  1709-10;  married.  .\i)ril 
J.  [747.  Aliigail  lla^tings.  of  W'altham. 

(  l\  )  Captain  Caleb  (2)  ISrooks.  son  of  Cap- 
tain Ebenczer  Brooks,  born  al  .Medford,  July 
8,  i6<;4,  died  there  November  21,  1766,  seventy- 
third  year  (gravestone)  ;  married  first,  March 
30.  1730  I.  .Mary  Winn,  born  July  3.  171 1.  died 
January  1.  174.S.  aged  thirty-four  year>  and 
>ix  months  (gravestone),  daughter  of  Increase 
and  .Mary  Winn,  of  W'oburn  :  married  second, 
.March  I,  1749-50.  Ruth  .\lbree.  born  May  17, 
1718.  died  -May  6,  i7<;3.  aged  seventy-four 
years  Cgravestone  ).  daughter  of  John  and  I''liz- 
abeth  fCreen)  .\Ibree,  of  .Medford.  He  occn- 
jiied  the  estate  now  in  Winchester  known  as 
the  Le  Bo><|uet  |)lace.  at  present  .Symmes 
Corner,  at  that  time  within  the  limits  of  Med- 
ford. This  estate  was  purchased  in  1715  by 
his  father.  Captain  Kbenezer  I'.rooks,  of  Will- 
iam Symme>.  and  after  his  death  passed  to  h\> 
son,  Cai)tain   Caleb   Brooks,  and  at   his  death 


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to  Ills  son,  Ebenezer  Brooks,  whose  daugliter 
-Mary  married  Captain  John  Le  Bos(|uet,  who 
Ijiouf^ht  (int  other  heirs  ami  died  in  A])ril.  1844. 
.Mrs.  i.e  llost|uet  had  all  of  his  ])ersonal  ])ro])- 
erly  and  the  use  of  his  real  estate  during  lur 
life-time.  She  died  in  September.  1847.  and 
was  succeeded  by  Ca])tain  Lebbeus  Leach, 
whose  wife  was  one  of  the  heirs.  He  solil  to 
lion.  I'Vederick  O.  Prince,  who  conveyed  the 
house  and  a  part  of  the  lan<l  to  Marshall 
.Symmes  in  1865.  In  1881  .Mr.  Symmes  re- 
moved the  old  house  to  the  rear  of  his  barn, 
and  built  a  new  bouse  on  the  site  of  the  old 
one.  Children  by  first  wife  Mary  (  Winn  )  :  r. 
Mary,  born  at  Charlestown.  December  20.  1731  : 
married  .April  4.  1752,  Daniel  Pratt,  of  Chelsea. 
2.  .\bigail,  born  July  17,  173.?:  married,  Xo- 
vember  24,  1757.  Joseph  Hall,  of  Medford.  3. 
I-'benezer,  born  .April  22,  1735:  married,  De- 
cember 28.  1758,  Susanna  Thompson,  of  Med- 
ford. 4.  Caleb,  bajHized  at  .Medford.  Septem- 
ber 5.  1736.  died  young.  5.  Calel).  bajitized 
Octfjber  5.  1737.  died  young.  6.  Rebecca,  ba])- 
tized  July  I.  1739;  married.  Xovember  6.  17O6, 
Samuel  Hall,  of  Medford.  7.  Ruth,  baptized 
.August  2.  1741  ;  married,  Xovember  20,  1760. 
Joseph  .Seccomb,  of  .Medford.  8.  Sarah.  Ijap- 
tized  .Xovember  28,  1742:  married  John  Le 
]')Osc|uet.  9.  Caleb,  baptized  September  9,  1744; 
married,  January  I,  I/C*".  .\Iary  Kidder,  of 
Medford.  10.  Increase,  baptized  December  22, 
1745.  Children  by  second  wife,  Ruth  ( .Albree)  : 
II.  Theodore,  baptized  January  5.  1751.  12. 
John,  baptized  May  4.  1752;  see  forward.  13. 
Jose))h.  baptized  February  24,  1754.  died  -Ma\- 
II,  175'').  14.  h.lizabeth,  born  June  20.  1757; 
married,  Decemljer  31,  1 77''>,  Rev.  Jacob  Bur- 
nap,  of  Merrimack.  Xew  Hampshire.  15.  Han- 
nab,  born  February  12.  i7rio:  married.  ( )cto- 
ber  21.  1794.  Francis  Burns,  of  .Medford. 

I  \'  I  Ciovernor  John  Brooks,  son  of  Captain 
Caleb  (2)  Brooks,  born  at  Medford,  baptized 
there  May  4,  1752;  died  at  Medford,  March  i. 
1825.  aged  seventy-three  years,  married  Lucy 
.Smith,  died  at  Aledford,  Se])tembcr  2(1.  171;!. 
aged  thirty-eight  years.  Children:  i.  Lucy, 
born  at  Reading.  June  iC).  1775:  married  at 
.Medford.(  )ctober  2. 1803.1  ieorge  ( )'l\illS!uai  t, 
of  Kingston.  Canada:  had  a  son  (ieorge  O'Kill 
.Stuart,  who  was  a  mayor  of  Ouebec.  Canada. 
2.  .A  child,  died  at  Medford,  October.  1778.  3. 
.Alexander  Scammell.  born  at  Medford.  C)cto- 
ber  K).  1781,  killed  by  a  steamboat  exiilosion  at 
.St.  John's  bar  coast  of  Florida,  December  10. 
1836:  married,  Alay  28,  1817,  .Sarah  Turner, 
of  Boston:  he  ol)tained  a  commission  in  the 
armv.  first  lieutenant  of  artillerv.    1808:  caii- 


tain  in  third  artillery.  1812;  brevet  major  for 
gallantry  at  I'lattsburg.  1814  :  major  third  artil- 
lery, 1832:  lieutenant-colonel  fourth  artillery, 
1835.  (  For  a  further  accoimt  see  Brooks's 
"1  iistory  of  Medfcjrd,"  pj).  198-200)  :  children  : 
1.  Lucy,  born  at  .Medford,  .March  25,  1818: 
married.  Alay  30.  1843.  Hon.  Edward  L.  Keyes, 
of  Dedham.  2.  John,  born  June  18.  1820,  who 
died  a  passed  midshipman.  United  States  navy, 
June  4,  1843.  4-  Joli".  born  May  20,  1784, 
"killed  at  battle  of  Lake  Erie,  SeiJtember  13, 
1813:  he  graduated  at  Harvard  College,  1805; 
studied  medicine  with  his  father,  and  after- 
wards entered  the  navy  as  lieutenant  of 
marines:  he  was  unmarried.  5.  .A  child,  died 
.March  24.  1786. 

(By  William   K.  Cult,  i    i 

( iovernor  John  Brooks,  the  most 
IlkOOKS  ijistingiiished  citizen  in  Medford 
of  iiis  own  time,  was  born  in 
that  town  in  May.  1752.  It  is  said  by  his  con- 
temjjoraries  that  the  mother  of  the  future  gen- 
eral and  governor  was  a  woman  of  superior 
character.  His  father  was  a  res])ectable  farmer, 
and  esteemed  by  his  neighbors.  It  was,  how- 
ever, to  his  mother  that  he  was  indebted  for  the 
inlluence  which  encouraged  him  to  make  a  rise 
in  life,  and  through  her  family  |)hysician.  Dr. 
Simon  Tufts,  she  was  encouraged  to  give  him 
as  g(^od  an  education  as  circumstances  would 
allow. 

1  le  was  placed  at  the  town  school,  where  he 
was  taught  the  rudiments  of  science  and  the 
Latin  and  Greek  languages.  Dr.  Tufts  took 
him  into  his  family  at  the  age  of  fourteen  to 
educate  for  his  ])rofession.  I  le  cinitinued  with 
Dr.  Tufts  until  be  was  twenty-one  years  old. 
The  doctor  then  advised  him  to  begin  the  prac- 
tice of  medicine  in  the  adjoining  town  of  Read- 
ing, and  recommended  him  to  the  peojile  as  well 
nualilied  for  the  trust.  He  accordingly  settled 
there,  was  soon  married,  and  his  prospects  were 
fair  for  a  respectable  estal)lishment  in  his  pro- 
fe--sion.  I'lUt  the  revolutionary  warbroke  upon 
the  scene,  and  matters  military  engaged  the 
attention  of  all  the  peo])le,  physicians  included. 
In  his  teens  he  had  begun  to  dis|)lay  a  talent 
Mi'd  fondness  for  military  drill  and  his  hours 
of  rela.xation  were  given  to  that  e.xcrcise.  His 
village  mates  were  formed  into  a  company  com- 
manded by  himself.  He  was  ])o])ular,  and  Dr. 
rtift>'  van!  became  for  the  time  a  miniature 
iiaining  field.  .\t  Reading  lie  was  placed  in 
command  of  a  company  of  minute-men.  the 
best  soldiers  in  the  militia,  and  soon  was  ad- 
vanced to  the  position  of  major  in  a  new  regi- 


MASSACIIISF.TTS. 


5<'V 


<;ovi:KNOi;  JOHN   liUOoKS 


sr.8 


M  ASS  AC  1 1  rs  ETTS. 


ment.  I  le  displayed  rare  abilities  as  a  discijili- 
narian.  and  was  tlioiii^ht  by  all  wlio  were  con- 
nected with  liim  in  military  duty  to  be  the  most 
comiietent  to  take  the  lead.  At  first  he  declined, 
owing  to  the  increasing  and  pressing  duties  of 
his  jirofession,  hut  the  affair  of  the  19th  of 
.\pril.  1775.  happening  in  his  immediate  neigh- 
borhood, made  a  s])eedy  decision  necessary, 
and  he  (|uickly  assumed  the  duties  of  an  office 
which  he  was  well  (|ualified  to  sustain.  He 
ordered  out  his  company  with  ])romptness,  and 
directed  them  to  proceed  on  the  route  to  Con- 
cord ;  and  having  made  such  provision  for  the 
medical  relief  of  the  sick  under  his  care  as  the 
time  would  ])ermit.  he  joined  his  corps  with  all 
jxissible  sijeed.  Having  arrived  in  the  vicinit}- 
of  Concord,  he  met  the  British  on  their  retreat 
(near  Merriam's  Corner),  and  made  such  a 
disposition  of  his  men  as  to  secure  them  from 
injury,  and  enable  them  to  annoy  the  enemy 
will)  destructive  volleys  as  they  passed  a  nar- 
row defile  (in  the  ]iresent  town  of  Lincoln). 
He  then  hung  on  their  rear  and  flanks  in  con- 
junction with  other  troo])s  until  they  arrived 
at  Charlestown.  His  contemporaries  bore  testi- 
mony to  the  fact  that  on  this  occasion,  so  im- 
|)ortant  at  the  beginning  of  the  war,  he  dis- 
I)layed  the  cool  and  determined  bravery  of  a 
veteran.  His  military  talents  and  calm  cour- 
age were  remarkable  in  a  young  man  only 
twenty-three  years  of  age  who  had  never  seen 
a  battle.  Dr.  Dixwell,  who  knew  him  well, 
states  that  it  was  noticed  by  those  who  had  the 
direction  of  ])nblic  affairs,  and  he  soon  after 
received  the  commission  of  a  major  in  the  Con- 
tinental army. — the  regular  army  of  the  revolu- 
tion. 

The  contemporaries  of  ( iovernor  lirooks 
furnish  from  their  writings  the  following  facts 
regarding  the  record  of  his  life.  He  said  thai 
the  most  fatiguing  day  he  even  s])eut  was  the 
19th  of  .April.  1775.  History  informs  us  that 
the  force  under  his  command  arrived  on  the 
field  at  a  most  n])p()rtune  moment.  .\  good 
officer  in  command  on  the  .\merican  side  was 
needed.  The  impact  between  the  l\\n  opposing 
bodies  (jf  well-armed  troops  was  ol  the  utmost 
conse(|uenre  In  either,  and  bntli  I'lriton  and 
.•\merican  met  on  terms  of  ei|uality  for  the  first 
time  on  that  memorable  day.  Parker's  men  at 
r.exington  had  lied,  with  fatal  losses,  before 
the  fire  of  a  sui)erior  bo  ly.  lUittrick's  men  at 
the  X'orth  Bridge,  at  a  later  hour,  did  not  follow 
uj)  their  tritling  victory.  .\t  a  much  later  hour 
when  the  British  main  bod\  had  begun  their 
retreat.  I'.rooks.  with  the  body  of  miiutte-men 
luider  his  command,  siuldenlv  arrived  on  tlie 


scene.  Dr.  Ri])ley.  of  Concord,  says,  ".\s  the 
enemy  passed  the  road  from  Bedford,  they  r.'.et 
a  body  of  minute-men,  commanded  by  Major 
John  Brooks.  .\  little  below  Bedford  road 
there  was  a  sharp  action,  and  several  of  the 
British  were  killed."  Rev.  Mr.  Foster,  of 
Reading,  a  member  of  (jovernor  Brooks's  com- 
pany, who  wrote  a  circumstantial  account  of 
what  he  witnessed,  said  of  the  beginning  of 
the  fight :  "The  enemy  faced  about  suddenly 
and  fired  a  volley  of  musketry  upon  us.  They 
overshot.  The  fire  was  immediately  retinned, 
and  two  I*>ritsh  soldiers  fell  dead  in  the  road 
near  the  brook."  This  event  in  the  fray  was 
followed  by  some  sharp  fighting  in  the  Lincoln 
woods,  where  by  the  peculiarity  of  the  turns  in 
the  road  through  which  the  ISritish  were  oljliged 
to  |iass.  they  were  hemmed  together  in  places 
and  subjected  to  cross  fires  from  men  ensconced 
behind  stone  walls  and  large  trees  by  the  way- 
side. In  forcing  their  way  through  this  defile, 
the  Biritish  came  into  close  encounter  with  the 
.\mericans.  and  a  number  on  both  sides  of  the 
contending  forces  were  killed.  It  was  here  that 
young  I'.rooks  ])erformed  that  service  for  bis 
country,  which  afterwards  commended  him  to 
jiromotion  and  distinction  in  the  army."  .Vnd 
there  is  no  doubt  that  his  abilities  in  this  direc- 
tion were  great.  These  were  not  alone  shown 
for  the  long  period  of  the  revolutionary  war, 
but  afterwards  in  the  insurrection  in  Alassa- 
chusetts  known  as  the  Shays  Rebellion,  and  the 
War  with  b'ngland  of  1812. 

.At  the  begiiming  of  the  revolution  his  rank 
was  that  of  major  in  Colonel  I'.benezer  Bridges'? 
regiment  of  minute-men — the  new  regiment  we 
have  already  mentioned,  which  marched  .\pr'\\ 
19,  1775,  and  credited  with  a  service  of  four 
days.  Major  Brooks  engaged  himself  to  serve 
in  this  regiment  from  .April  24.  1775.  to  .\ugust 
I,  1775.  or  a  period  of  three  months  and  fifteen 
days.  He  was  detailed  while  in  this  regiment 
as  field  olificer  of  the  picket  guard.  May  8.  1775, 
also  for  the  main  and  picket  guards  at  Cam- 
bridge from  May  12  to  May  31,  1775.  and 
again  for  the  picket  guard  June  8.  1775.  His 
commission  in  same  regiment  was  dated  May 
-/•  ^J/Ti-  '''^  residence  is  given  as  Reading 
and  also  Medford.  On  the  night  of  June  16, 
1775.  he  volunteered  to  assist  in  intrenching 
I'.unker  Hill,  and  in  watching  the  enemy,  and 
on  the  morning  of  the  17th  he  was  sent  by  Col- 
iiuel  I'rescott  to  ( ieneral  Ward  at  Cambridge 
for  reinforcement.  Being  obliged  to  iierform 
this  duty  on  foot,  be  could  take  no  active  part 
in  the  engagement. 

(  hi  Jamiary  I,  1776.  Congress  appointed  bim 


MASSACUl  SKTTS. 


5f>9 


major  oi  W'l-bb's  Xinoteeiitli  regiment.  His 
regiment  was  i)resent  at  tiie  siege  oi  lloston.  in 
the  retreat  from  Long  Island,  and  in  the  battle 
of  White  Plains.  Major  Brooks  remained  with 
the  regiment  until  it.s  term  of  enlistment  had 
e.\])ired. 

IVoni  Janary  i.  1777.  to  December  31.  1779. 
he  served  in  the  Continental  army  as  lieutenant- 
colonel  commandant  and  as  lieutenant-colonel 
in  Colonel  Michael  Jackson's  Eighth  regiment. 
He  also  served  as  lieutenant-colonel  command- 
ant of  Seventh  regiment,  commissioned  No- 
vember II.  1778.  and  he  held  the  same  office 
and  position  as  regimental  commander  during 
the  year  i7<So.  an<l  also  as  acting  colonel  of  the 
Seventh  regiment.  January  26.  to  May  25.  1781. 
He  was  reported  on  command  at  I'oston  about 
June  I.  1 78 1.  .At  that  time  his  duties  appear 
to  be  divided  between  two  places,  Hoston  and 
Peekskill.  He  was  at  this  period  reported  as 
in  command  at  West  Point,  and  also  as  com- 
manding the  brigade.  1781.  The  war  had  prac- 
tically ended  with  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis 
in  that  year,  but  troops  were  still  retained  in 
active  service.  Colonel  P.rooks  was  on  furlough 
in  .Massachusetts  from  January  3. 1782.  by  leave 
of  his  general  officers.  During  the  last  year  men- 
tioned he  was  reported  as  attending  court- 
martial  in  garrison,  and  from  September  1. 
1782.  he  was  reported  on  furlough  in  Massa- 
chusetts by  leave  of  General  Wa.shington.  He 
was  stationed  at  different  places  on  the  Hud- 
son river  aiifl  its  neigliborhood  during  1 782  and 
178.V  He  reported  at  Philadelphia  by  leave  of 
(ieneral  Washington  in  1783.  and  ended  his  ser- 
vices about  June  13.  1783.  when  the  war  was 
finally  ended. 

In  the  battle  of  Saratoga.  Se|)tember  19. 
1777.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Brooks  occupied  the 
extreme  left  of  the  .\merican  line,  and  was  en- 
gaged with  the  German  troops.  On  the  7th  of 
October.  1777,  Iiis  regiment  turned  the  right  of 
the  enemy's  encampment,  and  stormed  the  re- 
doubt f)ccni)icd  by  the  Germans.  His  regiment 
remained  masters  of  the  field.  1  le  led  the  charge 
to  the  top  of  tlie  intrenchments.  He  was  also 
at  \'alley  Forge.  He  was  present  at  the  battle 
of  Monmouth.  He  was  employed  as  an  in- 
spector (drill-master)  under  .Steuben,  in  the 
field  of  military  tactics.  He  was  the  friend  and 
upholder  of  Washington  at  a  most  anxious 
moment  in  the  affairs  of  the  army.  He  retired 
in  poverty  from  the  service,  and  resumed  his 
medical  ])rofession  at  Med  ford. 

In  battle  his  manner  of  attack  was  not  a 
mere  feint,  but  a  direct  attack  in  force  :  witness 
his  conduct   at    Merriam's   Corner,   at   White 


I  Mains,  and  at  Saratoga.  His  bravery  was  un- 
(|nestioned.  .\t  .Saratoga,  at  the  second  battle 
of  the  action  of  I'.emis  Heights,  October  7, 
1777.  his  conduct  is  thus  described  by  an  eye 
witness:  "When  the  Colonel  saw  that  the  deci- 
sive moment  had  come,  he  lifted  his  sword  in 
the  air.  and  cried,  ■h'ollow  your  Colonel  at 
double  (|uick!"  lie  immediately  led  the  way  to 
the  to))  of  the  intrenchment>.  cr)ing.  "Come  on, 
conn-  nil!'  They  did  come  on;  and  a  most 
bloody  and  violent  conflict  ensued,  in  which 
they  decided  the  fate  of  the  day." 

A  letter  of  Governor  Brooks  from  \  alley 
I'orge.  Pennsylvania,  dated  January  3,  1778, 
states  the  ])recise  reason  why  the  British  had 
been  victorious  in  that  region,  namely  their 
superiority  in  numbers.  He  also  describes  in 
feeling  terms  the  sutTerings  endured  at  \  alley 
I'Orge  by  the  private  soldiers  during  their  can- 
tonment. He  is  severe  on  the  lack  of  public 
.spirit  di.s|)layed  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  middle 
states.  (See  Massachusetts  Historical  .Society 
Proceedings.  ,xiii :  243). 

He  entered,  says  his  biographer,  on  the  duties 
of  a  soldier  witli  ardor,  and  devoted  all  the 
power  of  his  mind  to  the  cause  of  his  country. 
and  the  ])rofession  of  arms.  His  gentlenianl) 
deijortment  and  unassuming  manners  secured 
the  favor  of  his  superiors  in  office,  and  ren- 
dered him  the  delight  of  his  ec|uals  and  infer- 
iors. 1  lis  skill  as  a  tactician  was  marked,  .\fter 
Bunker  Hill  battle,  the  advantages  of  sui)erior 
(lisci])line  as  shown  on  the  part  of  the  enemy 
were  a|)])arent  to  every  one.  These  advantages 
made  a  strong  improsion  on  the  .American 
officers,  and  especially  on  the  mind  of  Governor 
P.rooks.  He  had  showed  early  in  his  life  his 
talent  as  a  drill-master,  and  his  knowledge  of 
tactics  while  in  the  regular  army  was  acknowl- 
edged to  be  superior  to  that  of  his  fellow 
officers.  The  cor])s  he  commanded  was  excel- 
lent as  to  disci])line,  drill,  steadiness,  and  for  its 
skillful  movements,  either  in  advance  or  in 
retreat.  .Some  have  gone  so  far  as  to  say  that 
his  knowledge  was  second  only  to  that  of  the 
celebrated  F'.aron  .Steuben,  a  German  officer  en- 
gaged in  reforming  the  .American  army.  I-'or 
this  rea.son  he  was  associated  with  that  officer 
as  an  inspector-general  in  performing  the  diffi- 
cult task  of  inlruducing  a  uniform  system  of 
exercise  and  manoeuvres  into  the  army. 

He  was  a  major-general  of  militia  in  1786. 
He  was  nominated  a  brigadier-general  to  serve 
in  the  provisional  army  raised  in  1798.  on 
])rospect  of  war  with  I'Vance,  but  declined  the 
position.  During  the  war  of  1812  he  was  ad- 
jutant-general of  the  state.    We  f|uote  his  bio- 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


s^raphei"  in  relation  to  the  value  of  these  later 
military  services.  Dr.  Dixwell  says :  "He  was 
for  many  years  major-general  of  the  militia  of 
his  country,  and  established  in  his  division  such 
excellent  discijiline,  and  infused  into  it  such 
an  admirable  spirit  of  emulation,  that  it  was  a 
most  brilliant  exam])le  for  the  militia  of  this 
state.  In  the  insurrection  of  1786  his  division 
was  very  efficient  in  their  protection  of  the 
courts  of  justice,  and  in  their  support  of  the 
government  of  the  state.  .At  this  time  Gov- 
ernor Brooks  represented  his  town  in  general 
court,  and  he  gave  support  to  the  firm  and 
judicious  measures  of  Governor  Rowdoin  for 
su])pressing  that  alarming  rebellion.  Me  was 
appointed  by  the  acute  and  discriminating  Gov- 
ernor Strong  as  his  adjutant-general,  in  that 
]>erilous  crisis  of  our  affairs,  the  later  war  with 
England,  (  1812-1814).  The  prudence  and  dis- 
cretion with  which  he  discharged  this  arduous 
duty  will  be  long  remembered  Ijy  his  grateful 
countrymen." 

lie  was  fref|uently  chosen  a  rejiresentative. 
was  a  member  of  the  constitutional  convention 
of  1788,  several  years  a  .senator  and  a  member 
of  the  executive  council  of  the  state,  United 
States  marshal,  1791-1796,  inspector  of  rev- 
enue, 17</',  and  during  the  war  of  1812  adju- 
tant-general, and  seven  years  from  1816  to 
1823,  governor  of  .Massachusetts. 

lie  was  admirably  fitted  to  allay  party  ani- 
mosities. .\mong  his  merits  it  is  said  that  he 
maintained  the  dignity  of  the  office,  received 
distinguished  strangers  properly,  being  bred  in 
the  best  school  of  manners — that  of  the  high- 
minded  and  accomijlished  officers  of  the  army  ; 
an  1  that  in  deportment  he  was  grave  and  dig- 
nified like'  \\  ashinglon,  but  warm  and  affec- 
tionate, llis  amiable  character  and  attractive 
manners  made  friends  for  him  everywhere, 
'{"lie  kiudb  alTeclions  nf  liis  heart  increased 
his  acceptance  with  the  peo])le  as  a  popular 
l)hysiciau.  llis  practice  was  not  only  general 
in  his  own  town,  but  was  greatly  extended  to 
ether  towns.  The  parents  of  the  writer  of  this 
sketch  (not  dwellers  in  Medford)  were  assist- 
ed on  their  entrance  into  this  world,  1803  and 
1805.  by  his  skillfid  hand,  judge  then  of  his 
sacrifice  on  entering  the  army  of  his  couiUry, 
as  a  field  officer  of  infantry,  and  the  loss  fcr 
iiearlv  seven  years  thereby  of  a  growing  and 
l)rofitable  medical  practice ! 

It  is  said  that,  wiien  he  left  the  army  and  re- 
turned to  his  home,  he  found  himself  so  i)oor 
that  at  first  he  o]>ened  a  small  simp,  liut  w  itli 
out  success. 

it  is  said  that   in  his  bdvlinod  he   formed  an 


intimancy  with  the  celebrated  Count  Rumford, 
with  whom  he  kept  up  a  correspondence  until 
the  death  of  the  Count.  The  authority  for  this 
statement  is  unknown  to  the  present  writer. 
Count  Rumford  as  a  boy  was  known  as  Ben- 
jamin Thom]ison,  of  Woburn,  a  highly  intel- 
lectual man,  distinguished  in  the  higher  pursuits 
of  science,  and  a  military  man,  who  served  on 
the  British  side  at  the  close  of  the  American 
revolution,  and  later  in  one  of  the  states  of  the 
European  continent. 

It  is  said  that  as  a  church-goer  the  Governor's 
influence  was  a  powerful  example  to  the  people 
of  his  town.  I.ate  in  life  he  declared  his  public 
belief  in  the  authority  of  the  scriptures.  In 
1820,  on  the  division  between  the  two  leading 
sects  of  his  neighborhood,  he  took  side  with  the 
Unitarians,  but  never  liked  the  extremes  of 
either.  It  is  said  of  him,  "He  lived  as  he  pro- 
fessed." When  General  Lafayette  came  to 
Massachu.setts  in  1824,  he  dined  with  his  friend 
and  fellow  officer,  then  living  in  retirement  at 
Medford.  The  citizens  gave  the  guest  a  general 
welcome.  The  dinner  at  the  Governor's  house 
was  a  private  one,  and  about  twenty  were  pres- 
ent. (Governor  Brooks  departed  this  life  on 
March  i,  1825,  aged  seventy-three,  and  in 
1838  his  friends  erected  a  granite  pyramid  to 
his  meuKiry  in  the  old  burying-ground  of  the 
tnwn. 

The  judgment  of  his  contemporaries  is  con- 
firmed i)v  those  best  able  to  decide  on  his  medi- 
cal abilities  as  follows:  ".As  a  physician  he 
ranked  in  tlie  first  class  of  ])ractitioners.  His 
manners  were  dignified,  courteous  and  benign, 
llis  kind  offices  were  peculiarly  acceptable 
from  the  felicitous  manner  in  which  he  per- 
formed them.  He  was  accurate  in  his  investi- 
gations and  clear  in  his  discernment.  He  pre- 
ferred erring  on  the  side  of  i^rudence  rather 
than  on  that  of  rashness.  He  watched  the 
o])erations  of  nature,  and  never  interfered  un- 
less it  was  obvious  he  coidd  aid  and  support 
her."  Another  cause  of  his  fellow-citizens" 
ai)preciation  of  him  is  expres.sed  in  the  sen- 
tence of  Dr.  Dixwell:  "He  soared  above  the 
sordid  consideration  of  the  projierty  he  shoul  1 
accumulate  by  his  professional  labors.  Hi> 
ccHuitrvnien  who  have  ever  been  distinguished 
for  tlie  acuteness  of  their  discernment  in  judg- 
ing of  public  men  and  measures,  were  always 
ready  to  disi)lay  their  confidence  in  him." 


Henry    Baldwin,    the    inuni- 

r. Al.nWlX      grant  ancestor,  ])robably  from 

Devonshire,  in  England,  was 

oiR-  of  the  fir>t   settlers  of  the  new   town  of 


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Woburn,  and  of  that  part  of  it  wliicli  is  now 
kiunvn  as  North  Woburn.  Mere  in  1661  he 
tniilt  the  "palatial  house  whicb  is  still  one  of 
the  most  imposing  in  the  town,  and  which, 
though  with  some  changes  and  occasional  im- 
provements." has  been  owned  and  occupied  by 
his  descendants  for  six  generations.  The  house 
is  the  oldest  dwelling  in  Woburn.  The  estate 
connected  with  it  and  its  owner,  Colonel 
Loammi  lialilwin.  contained  in  1801  the  large 
innnber  of  212  acres,  valued  at  .S9.000  by  the 
town  assessors  at  that  time.  A  late  owner, 
(jeorge  R.  P.aldwin.  son  of  Colonel  Baldwin,  is 
succeeded  by  his  daughter.  Mrs.  Ciriffith.  In 
1820  the  house  was  in  looks  much  the  same  as 
now.  The  north  chimney.  ])ut  u])  by  (ieorgc  R. 
lialdwin.  was  reputed  to  be  the  first  "single 
flue"  chimney  made  in  the  country.  Me  de- 
signed the  chiunKV  ca])s  and  built  a  small  addi- 
tion to  the  rear  of  the  house.  On  the  south. 
between  the  bouse  and  the  canal,  was  formerly 
a  beautiful  garden,  with  walks  and  trees,  super- 
ior to  anything  of  the  kind  then  in  this  section. 
-Ml  traces  of  its  api)ointmeiits  having  long  since 
disap])eared.  "neither  fountain,  nor  arbor,  nor 
walk,  nor  boat,  is  there  now  to  hint  at  the  story 
of  the  past."  In  1832  (ieorge  R.  Ualdwin  occu- 
])ied  the  mansion  house,  .\ttached  to  the  estate 
in  1820  was  a  farm  house  which,  doubled  in  size, 
still  exists  as  an  attachment  to  the  larger  place. 

Henry  Baldwin  was  a  sergeant  of  the  W'o- 
bnrn  militia  from  1672-83.  and  deacon  of  the 
First  Church,  Woburn,  from  1686  until  his 
death. 

Henry  Baldwin  died  I'ebruary  14.  i()C)j-g8: 
married.  Xovcmber  i.  1649,  I'hebe,  baptized 
in  Boston,  June  3.  1632.  died  SeiUember  13. 
1716.  eldest  daughter  of  Ezekiel  and  Susanna 
Richardson.  Children:  1.  Susanna,  born  .\u- 
gust  30.  1650:  died  September  28.  1651.  2. 
Susanna,  born  July  25.  i''>52.  died  .March  7. 
1^)94:  marrieil  Israel  \\'alker  (Samuel  I),  as 
his  second  wife.  3.  I'hebe.  born  .'September  7. 
1654.  died  October  20.  1679.  aged  twenty-five: 
married.  November  7,  1676.  Samuel  Richard- 
son (Samuel  i  ),  as  his  third  wife.  4.  John, 
born  October  28.  1656.  5.  Daniel,  born  March 
15.  1659-60:  see  forward.  6.  Timothy,  born 
.May  27,  1661  :  see  forward.  7.  .Mary,  born 
July  19.  1663:  died  January  8.  1663-64.  8. 
Henry,  born  November  15.  i(')64:  sec  forward. 
0-  .Abigail.  lK)rn  .\ugust  20,  1667.  died  Decem- 
ber 25.  1769;*  married.  December  4,  1705. 
John  Reed  (Ralph  2.  William  i ).  as  his  second 


•The  statcm(>nt  Is  hcFe  atlvanced  that  the  broken 

stone    .'itii,    1766.     (alo)     (203    of    the    printed 

Inscriptions  in  the  First  Ynrili   Is  her's. — Rdltor. 


wife.  lo.  Ruth,  born  July  31.  1670;  unmar- 
ried and  alive  at  the  date  of  her  father's  will. 
II.  Benjamin,  born  January  20.  1672-73:  see 
forwarcT.  Henry  Baldwin  the  fatlier.  in  will 
allowed  .Vjiril  4,  i6<j8.  names  his  wife  IMiebc: 
sons  Henry.' Daniel.  Timothy  and  I'.enjamin  : 
his  son  Israel  Walker,  husband  of  his  daughter 
Susaima.  and  his  grandson  Israel  Walker;  liis 
son  .^anniel  Richardson,  husband  of  bis  daugh- 
ter I'liebe.  and  his  grandson.  Zachariah  Rich- 
ardson, son  of  I'hebe:  also  his  two  daughters 
then  single.  .Abigail  and  Ruth  Baldwin. 

(ill  Daniel  lialdwin.  son  of  Henry,  born 
.March  13,  i63i;-('io:  died  January  24.  1718- 
19:  married.  January  6.  1684-83.  Hannali.  born 
()cti)l)er  22.  1667.  died  September  28.  1736. 
daugliler  of  Josiali  Richardson  (  .'^anniel  i) 
and   I  lannah   ((ireeni    Richardson,     t'hiidrcn: 

I.  Hannah,  born  .August  21,  1686.  j.  I'hebe, 
born    May    13.    1690:    died    March    10,    1706- 

07.  3.  Ilenrv,  born  .March  13.  1692-93:  died 
March  12  (sic),  1692-93.  4.  Joseph,  born 
March  13,  1692-93:  died  Alarch  12  (sic),  1692- 
93.  3.  .Susaima,  born  March  31.  1694,  died 
befcire  1746:  married.  December  13.  1712.  i'>en- 
jamin  Walker,  (if  Billerica  (Joseph  2.  .Sanniei 
I  ).  C).  D;iiiiel.  born  December  16,  i(*)^:  killed 
by  liie  Indians  in  battle  near  Dunstable.  New 
Hampshire,  SeiHember  5.  1724.  7.  Dorcas, 
born  October  18.  1697:  died  March  7.  1697-98. 

8.  Joseph,  born  .March  17,  1698-99:  died  I'"eb- 
ruary  3.  1744-43:  married,  July  4,  1733,  Ruth 
Centre,  of  C"!iarlestown.  .She  died  December 
'5-  '7.33-  9-  Dorcas,  born  .August  11.  1701.  10. 
John,  born  .August  28.  1703:  married.  Decem- 
ber 8.   1726,  Sarah  Lawrence,  of  Watert<nvn. 

II.  Rebecca,  born  December  19,  1703:  died 
.March  10.  i733-,36.  12.  Benjamin,  born  March 
30,  1707.  13.  I'hebe,  born  December  28,  1708: 
married,  October  29,  1735,  Joim  Hamblet,  of 
Nottingiiam. 

In  the  case  nf  juiin  Seers  versus  Lieutenant 
Juju)  Wyman,  before  the  council  in  1676,  Dan- 
iel Baldwin,  aged  seventeen  years,  testified 
about  the  impressment  of  two  horses,  and  that 
while  i)ressing  a  horse  belonging  to  John  Wy- 
man. who  resisted  the  constable,  said  Wyman 
"sufTered  his  negrf)  servant  to  beat  me  with  a 
great  stick,  and  reproved  him  not."  In  the 
same  case,  on  the  testimony  of  several  wit- 
nesses, Daniel  Baldwin  is  called  "grandchild 
to  John  .Seers."  and  came  with  him  to  Lieuten- 
ant \\  yman's  garrison.  The  witnesses  say 
Daniel  I'.aldwin  abused  James  Carringbone. ' 
negro  servant  of  said  Wyman.  "both  in  words 
;ind  deeds,"  calling  him  "Black  Roag,"  and 
struck  iiim  with  his  gun  across  his  Iiack,  and 


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said  1k'  wiitild  "sluite"  him.  Seers  stated  tliat 
IJaldwiii  was  a  "scilger"  wlio  came  to  W  y- 
man's  witli  him,  and  tliat  one  of  \\'yman"s 
household  struck  said  lialdwin  with  a  "great 
stick."  The  particulars  of  this  interesting  case 
are  published  in  ■"Woburn  Men  in  the  Indian 
and  Other  Wars."  pp.  11-14  (editions  of  1897 
an<l  1003). 

(  ]])  Timothy  llaldwin,  son  of  Henry,  born 
at  Woburn.  May  27.  ifVu  ;  died  in  Stone- 
ham,  March  i  i,  1733-34:  married  first.  June  2. 
1687,  I'.lizabeth,  born  July  28.  1661.  died  Janu- 
ary 26,  1703-04.  daughter  of  Ralph  (Ralph  1  ) 
and  Martha  (Toothaker)  Hill,  of  Bilienca ; 
married  second,  July  9,  1706,  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Lazarus  and  Ruth  (Adams)  Grover.  of 
Maiden.  She  returned  to  Maiden  (her  will. 
May  13,  1752,  lodged  November  8.  1756,  was 
probated  in  1760).  Children:  1.  Elizabeth, 
born  May  29,  1688;  died  April  4,  1691.  2. 
Timothy,  born  November  20,  1689 ;  see  for- 
ward. 3.  Ralph,  born  June  28.  iCyji  ;  probably 
died  before  17 18.  4.  Hannah,  born  September 
6.  1692,  died  September  6,  1692.  5.  Elizabeth, 
born  June  21,  1695,  in  Charle.stown  or  Stone- 
ham.  His  will  names  wife,  son  Timothy  and 
daughter  Elizabeth,  and  grandchildren  Ralph 
and  Hannah,  children  of  Timothy,  Jr.,  and 
Hannah  (Richardson)   I'.aldwin. 

(HI)  Tinioth\-  (2)  I'.aldwin.  son  of  Timothy 
(  I  ),  born  in  \\  oburn,  November  20,  1(189  :  died 
December  3,  1750,  aged  si.xty-one  (gravestone 
at  Stoneham )  :  married,  June  10,  1713,  Han- 
nah, born  May  6,  1689,  died  after  1766,  daugh- 
ter of  Nathaniel  (Thomas  i)  and  I\Iary  ( ) 

Richardson.  His  wife  married  second,  about 
.April,  1752,  John  X'inton,  and  removed  to  Dud- 
ley :  after  his  death  in  1760  she  returned  to 
Stoneham,  where  she  was  living  in  ijfiCi.  In 
November,  1763,  she  was  living  with  her  grand- 
son Timothy,  son  of  Josc])li  and  Elizabeth 
(Baldwin)  Matthews.  (  "\'inton  Memorial," 
p.  378).  Children:  1.  Ralph,  born  March  6, 
1714,  died  May  i.  1731.  2.  Ilaunah,  born  Se])- 
tember  4,  1713:  married.  February  19,  1734. 
Josej)!!  \'inton.  3.  Elizabeth,  born  November 
9,  1717.  died  November  25.  1717.  4.  Elizabeth, 
born  .April  9.  1723:  married,  November  lO, 
1741,  Jose[)h  Matthews.  5.  Timothy,  born 
June  23,  1727,  died  bebruary  19.  1727-28.  6. 
Timothy,   born    .May    10.    1721).   died    .\]iril    I, 

'"4-- 

The    vuunger    Timnlhy    I'.aldwiu    is    styled 

"I'jisign"  on  his  gravestone.  1750.  This  office 
has  its  C(|nivalent  in  the  modern  second  lieu- 
tenant. His  will  dated  November  7,  1750, 
mentions  wife  Hannah,  and  his  daughters  1  lan- 


nah  X'inlon  and  Elizabeth  Matthews.  He  also 
mentions  a  legacy  given  to  his  honored  mother- 
in-law  ( stepmother )  by  his  honored  father. 
His  father's  will  was  dated  July  12.  1718.  Eliz- 
abeth, his  daughter,  is  mentionetl  in  it  as  mar- 
ried at  that  date,  but  to  wdiom  does  not  appear. 
Agreements  were  made  respecting  the  father's 
estate  in  1734  and  1741.  To  Elizabeth,  his 
wife,  the  father  granted  the  use  of  a  room  in 
the  east  end  of  his  house,  and  she  released  to 
the  son  her  right  to  a  room  in  the  house,  1734. 
Her  will  devised  to  grandchildren  Matthew's 
and  to  Samuel  (trover. 

I  H  )  Henry  (  2)  lialdwin,  son  of  Henry  (  I  ), 
born  in  Woburn,  November  15,  1664:  died  July 
7,  1739:  married.  May  4,  1692,  Abigail,  born 
February  i,  1674,  died  January  — ,  1 77 1,  aged 
ninetv-six  or  ninety-seven,  daughter  of  David 
and  Seaborn  (Wilson)  Fiske,  first  of  Woburn 
and  latterly  of  Lexington.  Henry  had  all  hous- 
ing of  his  father,  per  will,  after  his  mother 
I'hebe  had  deceased,  and  all  lands  after  his 
father's  decease.  Children:  I.  Henry,  born 
January  12,  iCx;2-93:  see  forward.  2.  David, 
born  April  9,  i69(j ;  see  forward.  3.  Isaac, 
born  February  20,  1699-1700;  see  forward.  4. 
Abigail,  born  February  13,  1701-02.  died  Sep- 
tember 4,  1704.  5.  James,  born  July  11,  1705, 
died  June  12,  1709.  6.  .Abigail,  born  Novem- 
ber 19,  1707.  died  before  1731  :  married  John 
Converse,  and  removed  to  Leicester.  7.  James, 
born  October  19,  1710;  see  forward.  8.  Sam- 
uel, born  .\ugust  31,  1717:  see  forward.  The 
last  will  of  Ilenry  I5aldwin,  dated  January  9, 
1732-33,  presented  by  James  Baldwin,  left  .Au- 
gust 6,  1739.  probated  September  10,  1739. 
names  wife  .Abigail:  Ilenry  I'.aldwin,  eldest 
son:  sons  David,  Isaac,  Samuel,  and  daughter 
.Abigail  Converse,  and  son  James  Baldwin, 
executor.  He  gave  wife  one-half  part  of 
house,  northerly  end,  both  upper  and  lower 
rooms,  with  the  cellar  under  them ;  his  son 
James  had  the  other  part.  He  confirmed  cer- 
tain gifts.  I  le  also  gave  his  son  James  his  saw- 
mill and  his  rights  to  said  sawmill  stream. 

(  11  )  Benjamin  I'.aldwin.  son  of  Henry  (  1  ). 
born  January  20.  1672-73:  die<l  .\pril  2S.  I73('i: 

married  Hannah  ,  died  Se]itember  28, 

173').     Children:     I.  Ji>hn.  born ,  1697. 

2.  Benjamin,  born  October  25.  1701.  The 
statement,  real  or  unfounded,  has  been  made 
that  Benjamin  I'.aldwin  resided  at  one  time  in 
CaiUerbury,  Connecticut. 

(  HI)  Hemy  13)  Baldwin,  son  of  I  lem-y  (2), 
born  in  Woburn,  January  12,  irx)2-93:  died  in 
I'elham.NewI  lanipshire  :  married, May  7,  I7i7. 
Marv,  born  January    10.   i()<)4-95.  died  Octo- 


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Iht  25.  1798.  agctl  104.  ilaugliter  i>i  Joseph 
(Joseph  2.  Samuel  1)  and  Mary  (  lUixlgct ) 
Richardson.  Children:  i.  Henry,  born  Feb- 
ruary 27.  1717-18.  2.  .\athan.  born  .May  18, 
1720.  3.  Mary,  born  January  4.  1721-22.  Tlie 
following  is  a  contemporary  notice  of  Mrs. 
Baldwin's  death. 

'■.\t  Shrew.sbury.  Mrs.  Mary  Jones,  aet. 
nearly  105  years.  Her  maiden  name  was  Mary 
Richardson.  .She  was  born  at  Wdburn.  Janu- 
ary loth.  O.  S..  ifK)4.  Her  first  husband  was 
Henry  lialdwin.  Esi[..  of  IVlham.  X.  H.,  by 
whom  she  had  three  children,  who  lived  to 
settle  in  the  world,  and  left  families.  I  ler 
second  husband  was  Cok)nel  Jones,  of  Hoi^kin- 
ton.  who  (lied  about  the  year  1772.  since  which 
time  she  remained  a  widow.  She  enjoyed  a 
good  degree  of  health,  until  within  a  few  weeks 
of  her  death.  The  serenity  of  mind,  and  (|uiet- 
ness  of  temper,  which  she  possessed  to  an  un- 
common degree,  doubtless  contributed  to  her 
great  age.  Being  early  imjjrest  with  the  im- 
portance of  religion,  the  practice  of  it,  ever 
appeared  natural  and  easy.  As  she  lived,  so 
she  died  in  the  hope  of  a  blessed  immortality, 
and  but  a  few  hours  before  her  death  was  able 
to  ex])ress.  with  great  pro|)riety,  her  views  and 
prospects  of  futurity." — Coliinibiaii  Criiliiirl 
(  Boston  ),  November  3,  1798. 

Cajjtain  Henry  Baldwin  died  in  I'elham. 
New  Hampshire,  1754.  The  gravestone  of  his 
wife  Mary  at  .Shrewsbury  reads:  Mary,  widow 
of  Colonel  John  Jones,  died  October  23,  1798, 
in  her  105th  year. 

Henry  Baldwin,  son  of  Henry  (3),  married 
Abigail  B.utler.  oi  relliam.  New  Hampshire. 
They  settled  in  Shrewsbury,  Massachusetts. 
C  hildreii :  Mary,  married  Ca])tain  IClisha  Ward, 
of  F'etersham:  also  Henry,  Xathan,  '["haddeus, 
F-"Jii)halet,  Kezia,  .\bigail,  Relief,  Lucretia. 
Henry  married  second,  Martha  .Abbott,  widow 
of  Ebenezer  .\bbott,  and  died  Xovenibcr  17. 
1789.  aged  seventy-two. 

.Xathan.  son  of  Henry  (31,  lived  in  Wor- 
cester; married  first  ."^arah  Oakes.  and  second 
I.ydia  r)akes.     Children,  jjy  first  wife:     Sarah, 

married —  Johnson:  .Abigail.     V>y  second 

wife :     Lydia.  Mary. 

Mary,  daughter  of  Henry  (3),  married  Rev. 
.M^ner  Bayley,  of  Salem,  Xew  Hampshire. 
Children:  Mary,  married  first  William  White, 
of  F'laistow.  and  second  Moses  Webster,  of 
Haverhill:  Elizabeth,  married  Henry  Little,  of 
.'^aleni.  Xew  Hami)shire:  Lavinia.  married  Rev. 
William  Kelley.  of  Warner.  Xew  Hampshire 
("X'inton  .Memorial,"  378). 

(  HI  )   Ca])tain  David  Baldwin,  son  of  Henry 


121.  born  at  Woburn.  .\pril  i),  i(«)():  died  in 
Sudlniry.  June  21,.  1770:  married  .\bigail.  born 
December  18.  1702.  died  June  12,  I7(.i7,  d.-mgh- 
ter  of  Hon.  William  and  lilizabeth  (Goldingi 
Jennison.  of  Sudbury.  He  was  an  innkeeper 
of  Watertown,  1752-1757.  Children:  i.  Will- 
iam, born  Xovember  11,  1727.  2.  Samuel,  born 
August  2j.  1731.  3.  Lydia,  born  October  27. 
1729.  died  July  8.  1732.  4.  .Xbigail.  born  .Au- 
gust 18.  1733.  5.  Lydia.  born  October  5.  1735. 
6.  Elizabeth.  7.  .Mary,  born  September  8,  1742. 

William,  son  of  David  (3),  was  graduated 
at  I  larvard  College  in  1748:  married.  I-'ebruary 
L^-  '753-  Ja»f.  daughter  of  Rev.  William  and 
Jane  Cook,  of  .Sudbury,  and  was  a  deacon  aii<l 
magistrate  in  Sudbury,  where  he  died. 

Sanuiel.  son  of  David  (3 1,  graduated  at 
Harvard  College.  1752;  married.  January  2, 
1771.  Hannah,  daughter  of  Judge  John  Cusli- 
ing.  of  Scituate;  was  ordained  pastor  at  Han- 
over. .Massachusetts.  December  i,  1756,  dis- 
missed March  8,  1780.  and  died  December  I. 
1784,  aged  fifty- four. 

Abigail,  (laughter  of  David  (3),  married 
May  7.  1752,  Joseph  Curtis,  of  Sudbury.  She 
had  a  daughter  .Abigail  who  became  the  wife 
of  Rev.  Jonathan  Barnes,  of  Hillsborough,  Xew 
I  lam])sliire.  December  14.   1774. 

Lydia.  daughter  of  David  (  3  ).  married.  F-'eb- 
rtiary  19.  1756.  lion.  Oliver  F'rescott.  of  Oo- 
ton.  a  physician  in  a  very  large  j)ractice ;  judge 
of  probate  ;  brigadier-general  before  and  during 
the  revolution,  1768-1781  ;  afterwards  major- 
general.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  board 
of  war  and  of  the  su])reme  executive  council 
of  Massachusetts;  a  brother  of  Colonel  William 
IVescott.  who  commanded  in  the  redoubt  on 
Bunker  llill,  Jiuie  17.  1775:  being  third  son 
(sixth  child)  of  FFon.  FJenjamin  and  .Abigail 
(Oliver)  F^rescott ;  while  Colonel  William  was 
their  second  son  (fourth  child).  Lucy,  sixth 
child  of  Hon.  Oliver  and  Lydia  (I'aldwin) 
['rescotl.  married  Flon.  Timothy  Bigelow.  of 
Medford.  and  their  eldest  daughter  Kalherine 
married  Hon.  .Abbott  Lawrence. 

Elizabeth,  daughter  of  David  (3).  married 
<')ctober  23.  1755.  Ilenry  Evans,  and  removed 
to  Nova  Scotia. 

AFary.  daughter  of  David  (3).  m.nried  I'eb- 
ruary  7.  I7'')4,  Captain  .Samuel  Jackson,  of 
Xewton  :  no  children. 

(  IFF  )  Fsaac  lialdwin.  son  of  Ffenry  (2  ).  born 
in  Woburn.  F'ebruary  20.  j Ck >()- \ jon :  died  in 
.Sudbury,  March  12.  1759:  married.  March 
24.  i~2f>.  Mary  T'legg  for  F'Magg.  as  the  name 
is  commonly  s|)elt).  F)orn  in  Woburn.  Decem- 
ber 5.   1702,  died  in  Sudbury,  September  23, 


574 


MASSACML'SETTS. 


1744.  daughter  of  Ebenezcr  and  Elizabeth 
(Carter)  h'lagg.  Children:  1.  Eiike.  born  De- 
cember 2^.  1728.  2.  Jeduthun.  born  January 
13,  1731-32.  3.  Nahuni.  born  May  3,  1734-  4- 
Isaac,  born  December  12,  1738.  5.  Josiah.born 
June  10,  1743.  The  father  was  married  to  a 
second  wife,  Elizabeth,  who  died  his  wictow, 
March  8,  1770. 

Luke,  son  of  Isaac  (31,  lived  to  manhood. 

Jeduthan  or  Jeduthun  ISaldwin,  son  of  Isaac 
(3),  was  born  at  Woburn,  January  13,  1732, 
and  died  at  North  Brookfiefd,  Massachusetts, 
June  4,  1788,  aged  fifty-six:  married,  April 
"28.  1757.  Lucy,  daughter  of  Rev.  Ebenezer 
Parkman,  of  \Vestborough.  "The  Revolution- 
ary Journal  of  Col.  Jeduthan  IJaldwin.  1775- 
I7'78,"  edited  by  Thomas  Williams  Baldwin, 
])rinted  for  the  De  Burians  (Bangor),  ujolS, 
contains  a  memoir  and  notes,  and  illustrations, 
besitles  the  journal.  He  was  captain  of  a  com- 
I)any  in  the  expedition  against  Crown  Point  in 
1755-56,  and  served  in  the  same  capacity  from 
March  to  December,  1758,  at  Ticonderoga  and 
at  Fort  DuOuesne.  Twenty  years  afterwards 
he  campaigned  in  the  same  country  with  dif- 
ferent generals,  as  colonel  and  chief  of  engi- 
neers, lie  lived  but  a  short  time  in  .Woburn, 
as  his  father  moved  to  Sudbury  about  1734- 
The  son  left  Sudbury  when  young,  and  settled 
in  Brookfield.  Massachusetts,  probably  about 
1754.  For  a  very  full  account  of  his  life  the 
reader  is  referred  to  the  volume  above  named. 
He  was  survived  by  his  widow,  a  son  Luke, 
and  a  daughter  Bet.sey,  and  besides  these  two 
there  were  two  other  children — one  Jeduthun, 
aged  six,  killed  by  being  thrown  from  a  cart, 
October  31,  1763;  the  other,  Isaac,  a  member 
cif  Harvard  College,  died  April  ].  1783.  aged 
nineteen  years. 

The  published  journal  of  Colonel  Jeduthan 
Baldvyin  mentions  his  father,  Isaac  Baldwin, 
under  date  of  1756,  his  brother  Nahum,  and 
later  his  father  and  mother,  and  uncle  .Samuel 
Baldwin.  Xahum  married  Martha  Low.  .\pril 
22,  1760.  Isaac  married  lumice  Jennisou,  De- 
cember 31,  1761.  Josiah  married  Susanna 
Gould,  ^iarch  29.  1763. 

Isaac,  son  of  Isaac  (3),  was  mortally  wound- 
ed at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  died  oppo- 
site the  house  of  Colonel  Royall,  in  Medford. 
lie  belonged  to  CoUjuel  John  .Stark's  regiment, 
was  the  captain  of  his  own  company  from  the 
time  of  his  entry  into  the  service,  .Vpril  23, 
1775,  and  served  two  months,  at  six  ])ounds 
]wr  month,  total  amount  of  wages  received 
twelve  pounds,   and   number   of   miles   travel. 


eighty.  He  was  the  ranking  captain  in  his 
regiment.     (X.  H.  State  Papers;  xiv.  50J. 

Isaac  Baldwin  at  the  beginning  of  the  war 
raised  a  com[)any  of  men  in  Hillsborough,  Xew 
Hampshire,  and  led  them  to  Cambridge.  While 
there  a  tender  belonging  to  the  enemy  got 
aground  on  the  Chelsea  ferry  ways,  and  he 
went  with  twelve  of  his  men  in  open  day  in  the 
face  of  the  enemy  and  burned  her,  after  taking 
out  her  guns  and  sails,  by  throwing  a  pitchfork 
of  hay  on  fire  in  the  cabin  windows.  Having 
accomplished  this  he  put  his  men  back  one  by 
one  and  brought  up  the  rear  himself  under  the 
fire  of  the  British  fleet,  and  in  this  way  reached 
their  quarters  safely  with  four  of  his  men 
wounded.  He  fought  valiantly  at  Bunker  Hill, 
and  was  shot  through  the  breast  and  died  that 
night.  He  is  said  to  have  loaded  and  dis- 
charged his  musket  three  times  after  he  was 
wounded.  When  his  men  were  carrying  him 
off  the  field  he  exhorted  them  to  fight,  assur- 
ing them  that  they  would  win  the  day  and  he 
would  be  with  them  again  directly.  He  died 
that  night.  He  came  to  Hillsborough  in  1767, 
was  a  carpenter  and  joiner  by  trade,  and  when 
the  news  of  the  battles  of  Lexington  and  Con- 
cord came,  he  was  at  work  framing  a  barn  in 
an  adjoining  town. 

Isaac  Baldwin  had  a  posthumous  son  named 
Robert,  born  July  15,  1775:  married,  .April  5, 
1803,  Martha  Brown,  and  had  a  family  in 
Waitham,  an  account  of  which  is  given  in 
Bond's  "History  of  Watertown,"  pp.  11,  675. 
Isaac  Baldwin,  probably  another  son,  served 
in  the  Continental  army  in  the  revolution,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Caldwell,  of  Woburn,  May  15. 
1794:  had  sons.  Isaac,  born  Xovember  26, 
1 7^4.  and  Charles,  born  July  27,  1797,  recorded 
on  Woburn  records.  Isaac  and  wife  Hannali 
were  both  admitted  to  Woburn  precinct  (or 
lUirlington)  church.  September  14.  1800,  and 
both  were  dismissed  to  Hillsborough.  Chil- 
dren: Isaac.  Charles,  and  Xahum,  were  bap- 
tized in  Precinct  church,  Woburn,  October  5. 
i8no. 

(  111  I  James  lialdwin.  son  of  1  leury  (  2  i.born 
in  Wciliurn.  October  i<;.  1710:  died  June  28. 
I7<;i.  aged  eighty-one;  married.  May  29.  1739. 
Ruth,  born  June  17.  1713,  died  May  13.  1791, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (  Blodget )  Rich- 
ardson, sister  of  the  wife  of  his  brother  Henry 
(3).  Children:  1.  Cyrus,  born  Xovember 
5."  1740;  .see  forward.  2.  Reuel,  born  May 
9,  1742,  died  February  21,  1745-46,  aged  three 
years  (gravestone  at  Woburn).  3.  Loammi, 
i)orn   January    10.    1744-45;   see    forward,      4. 


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575 


Kcuel.  born  June  30,  1747:  see  forward.  James, 
the  father,  was  a  carpenter  "of  good  repute." 
and  reported  to  have  been  the  "master  work- 
man" in  the  erection  of  tlie  Woburn  precinct 
(or  lUirhngton )  meeting-house  in  173J.  the 
frame  of  which  is  yet  stainHng.  but  the  exterior 
lias  been  twice  materially  altered.  He  served 
one  day  in  the  Woburn  (|uola  on  .\pril  19. 
^77S-  when  the  Woburn  men  in  great  numbers 
marciied  to  Lexington  and  Concord  and  took 
|)art  in  tiie  battle  there.  James  Baldwin  in  will 
dated  .-\pril  9.  1771.  probated  November  9, 
1791.  named  wife  Ruth,  and  sons  Cyrus.  Reuel, 
and  Loammi  (  second  son )  executor.  The  son 
Loammi  received  one-half  of  the  real  estate 
after  decease  of  the  wife.  Rulh. 

(  III  )  Cainain  Samuel  Ualdwin.  son  of  Henry 
(2).  born  at  Woburn.  August  31.  1717.  died  at 
Weston.  July  21,  1778.  aged  .sixty-one;  mar- 
ried first.  ^Jarch  23.  1741-42.  Elizabeth,  bom 
March  25.  1715.  died  February  7.  1757.  daugh- 
ter of  Captain  James  and  Sarah  (  .Moore ) 
Jones,  of  Weston:  married  second.  March  30, 

1758.  Sarah  Deming.  of  Xeedham.  died  May 

2.  ijiio.  aged  thirty-nine  ;  married  third.  Marcii 
25.  1762.  Rebecca  Cotton,  born  November  14. 
1725.  died  January  16.  1795.  aged  seventy-one. 
daughter  of  Rev.  John  and  Mary  ( Gibbs ) 
Cotton.  Children  by  wife  Elizabeth  :  i.  Sam- 
uel, born  at  Falmouth.  July  28,  1743:  married, 
Jidy  7.  1763.  Millicent  Cutler.*  2.  Flizabeth, 
born  at  Weston.  June  18.  1745:  married.  De- 
cember 22.  1768,  EHas  Jones,  oi  I-last  lloosick. 

3.  Lydia.  born  at  Weston.  January  16.  1746; 
married.  October  25.  1764,  John  Newton  I'ar- 
menter.  4.  Ephraim.  born  at  Weston.  April  2. 
1749.  died  December  30.  1751.  5.  Sarah,  born 
at  Weston.  September  15,  T750,  died  .Xpril  11, 
1756.  aged  five  and  one-half.  fi.  I^ncy.  born 
Jime  30.  1753.  7.  Esther,  born  June  27.  1756: 
married.  June  4.  1779.  Jonathan  Rawson.  Child 
by  wife  Sarah:     8.  Sarah,  born  January  28, 

1759.  Cliildren  by  wife  Rebecca:  9.  Rebecca, 
born  January  7,  1763,  died  January  29,  1763. 
10.  Rebecca,  born  July  10,  1764:  married.  De- 
cember 3.  1780.  James  Cogswell.  11.  .Mary, 
born  March  15,  1766:  married,  January  24, 
1790,  Isaac  Ilobhs,  Jr. 

n\  )  Cyrus  r'.aldwin.  son  of  James,  born 
at  Woburn,  November  5,  1740:  was  drowncil 
at  Dunstable,  November  5.  1790;  married  Ruth 

•Captain  Siimuel  Ml  Baldwin  (Samur>l  3.  Henry 
2.  Henry  1  )  wrote  a  narrative  in  hi.**  eiKltl.v-.Meoonrl 
year,  wliieh  po.*<se.*!.«!es  ron.«ifl*'ral»le  Intere.Mt.  Ho 
mentioned  lii.x  marrlaKe  to  .Millicent  Cutler,  the 
daiiffluer  of  Captain  Khenezer  Cutler,  of  Lincoln, 
and  the  name.**  of  their  children.  He  removed  from 
Wepton  to  Norlhbrldgre  In  ITGfi.  .and  thence  to 
Wlnd.sor.  Berkshire  county.  Ma.Msachu.setl.M. — Letter 
of  .Mrs.  Mercy   (Baldwin)   Howard.  .lulv  22.  1907. 


W  ilson.  of  Bedford,  and  died  without  issue. 
His  wife  was  jierhaps  Ruth,  born  October 
6.  1745.  daughter  of  James  and  Lydia  Wil- 
son, of  iSedford.  Samuel  Thom])son.  I'lsciuire. 
of  Woburn.  wrote  in  his  diary,  under  date 
of  .Xovember  5.  1790:  "Fair.  Cyrus  Bald- 
win. Estjuire,  drowned  at  Dunstable."  and 
on  Sunday.  .November  7.  following,  he  record- 
ed the  item:  "Cyrus  I'laldwin,  Es(|iiire's,  corpse 
brought  to  Woburn  :"  and  on  November  lo.  lu- 
wrote:  "\'ery  cold.  Came  hdiue  from  Salem. 
Cyrus  lialdwin  buried." 

Cyrus  Ualdwin  was  taxed  in  the  West  Li.st, 
Woburn,  I77().  and  received  his  ])roportion  of 
a  war  assessment  which  he  had  paid  before 
1777.  He  lived  for  a  time  during  the  revolu- 
tionary war  in  lioslon,  and  was  first  lieutenant 
of  the  liighth  Ward  company  in  Colonel  I  leiirv 
IJromheld's  (Boston)  militia  regiment,  anil 
commissioned  such,  November  25.  1776.  In 
the  (ligiiitied  manner  of  the  news])apers  of 
that  day,  the  following  is  the  oiil\-  pul)lic  men- 
tion of  his  death:  "Died — .\t  Dunstable,  Cyrus 
Fialdwin,  Es(|..  formerly  of  this  town," — 
C  oliiinhidii    Ccntincl,    Boston,    November    24, 

1790- 

1  he  "\  arnum  ( lenealogy,"  jx  TiS,  shows  that 
Elizabeth  \  arniim,  born  .\]jril  2(1.  1741.  daugh- 
ter of  Ahiaham  and  his  second  wife  Rachel 
\  annnn.  married  Cyrus  Baldwin,  of  Chelms- 
for<l.  |)()ssibly  a  second  wife  of  the  above  Cyrus 
Baldwin.  This  wife  was  probably  the  Mrs. 
l!ets\-  Baldwin  who  died  at  Dracut.  lainiarv  h. 
1827. 

(1\')  Colonel  Loammi  B.'ddwin.  son  of 
James,  born  January  10,  1744-45,  at  ".\'ew 
Bridge"  (North  Woburn),  died  at  his  birth- 
l)lace.  October  20,  1807.  aged  sixty-three  years 
f monument  at  Woburn):  married  first,  July 
t;,  1772,  Mary,  flied  .Se])tember  29,  1786.  aged 
thirty-nine  years,  daughter  of  James  Fowlc, 
Jr.,  (  Major  John  3,  Capt.  James  2,  Lieut.  James 
I,  h'owle )  and  Mary  (Reed)  h'owle,  (daughter 
of  Lieutenant  Israel  and  Hannah  Wyman 
Reed  1  ;  second.  May  26.  1791.  .Margaret,  born 
October  6.  1767.  died  .August  8.  1791;,  daugh- 
ter of  Josiah  (Major  John  3.  Capt.  James  2. 
Lieut.  James  i  I'owle )  and  Alargery  (Carter) 
I'fiwle.  Chiklrcn  :  i.  Cyrus,  born  June  22. 
1773:  see  forward.  2.  Mary.  l)orn  .April  24. 
1775.  died  .May  15.  \~^/C^,  "of  canker  rash."  3. 
r>cnjamin  kVanklin.  born  December  15.  1777: 
for  forward.  4.  Loammi.  born  May  16,  1780: 
see  forward.  5.  James  Fowle,  born  .April  2'). 
1782:  sec  forwarfl.  6.  Clarissa,  born  Decem- 
ber 31.  1791,  died  May  27,  1841  :  married.  Jan- 
uary 20,  1812,  Thomas  B.  Cix)lidge:  see  for- 


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MASSAC  iiLSKTTS. 


ward.     7.  (jecjrge  Rum  fi  Til.  born  January  26, 
1798;  sec  forward. 

In  earl)-  life  he  discovered  a  strong  desire 
for  act|uiring  knowledge,  and  attended  the 
grammar  school  in  W'oburn  inider  the  instruc- 
tion of  Master  John  Fowle.  a  noted  teacher  of 
that  time,  the  school  being  a  movable  one, 
being  kept  at  successive  periods  first  in  the 
centre  of  tiie  town  and  secondly  at  the  pre- 
cinct, or  the  part  of  Woburn  now  incorporated 
in  the  town  of  Burlington.  .\t  a  more  advanced 
])eriod  of  life,  with  the  intention  of  obtaining  a 
thorough  ac(|uaintance  with  natural  and  exper- 
imental piiilosophy,  he  would  walk  from  North 
Woburn  to  Cambridge,  in  company  with  his 
schoolmate,  I'.enjamin  Thompson,  Count  Rum- 
ford,  and  attend  the  lectures  of  Professor  John 
Winthro])  at  Harvard  College,  for  which  liberty 
had  been  given,  and  upon  their  return  home  on 
foot  they  were  in  the  habit  of  illustrating  the 
])rinciples  they  had  heard  enunciated  in  the 
lecture  room  by  making  rude  instruments  for 
themselves  to  pursue  their  experiments. 

lie  was  present  in  the  battle  of  Lexington. 
.As  early  as  1768  he  had  enlisted  in  a  comj^any 
of  horse-guards,  and  was  not  wholly  destitute 
of  military  experience  when  summoned  a  little 
before  the  break  of  day  to  the  field  at  Lexing- 
ton and  Concord  on  April  19,  1775.  In  his  own 
statement  he  says:  "We  mustered  as  fast  as 
l)ossible.  The  Town  turned  out  extraordinary, 
and  proceeded  toward  Lexington. "  Holding 
the  rank  of  a  major  in  the  militia,  he  says,  "I 
rode  along  a  little  before  the  main  body,  and 
when  I  was  nigh  Jacob  Reed's  (at  present 
Durenville)  I  heard  a  great  firing:  ])roceeded 
on,  soon  heard  that  the  Regulars  had  fired  upon 
Lexington  people  and  killed  a  large  number  of 
them.  We  proceeded  on  as  fast  as  possible  and 
came  to  Lexington  and  saw  about  eight  or  ten 
dead  and  numbers  wounded."  lie  then,  with 
the  rest  from  W'oburn.  ])roceeded  to  Concord 
l)y  way  of  Lincoln  meeting  house,  ascended  a 
hill  there,  and  rested  and  refreshed  themselves 
a  little.  Then  follows  a  particular  account  of 
the  action  and  of  his  own  experience.  He  had 
"several  good  shots,'"  and  jiroceeded  on  till 
coming  between  the  meeting-house  and  liuck- 
man's  tavern  at  Lexington,  with  a  jirisoner 
before  him.  the  cannon  of  the  I'iritish  began  to 
])lav,  the  balls  Hying  near  him.  and  for  safety 
be  retreated  back  behind  the  meeting-house, 
when  a  ball  came  through  near  his  head,  and 
lie  further  retreated  to  a  meadow  north  of  the 
house  and  lay  there  and  heard  the  balls  in  the 
air  and  <aw  them  strike  the  ground.     W'ohurn 


sent  to  the  field  on  that  day  one  hundred  and 
eighty  men. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  war  he  enlisted  in 
the  regiment  of  foot  commanded  by  Colonel 
.Samuel  Gerrish.  Here  he  was  rapidly  advanced 
to  be  lieutenant-colonel,  and  upon  Colonel  Ger- 
rish's  retirement  in  August,  1775,  he  was  placed 
at  the  head  of  the  regiment,  and  was  soon  com- 
missioned its  colonel.  His  regiment  was  first 
numbered  the  thirty-eighth  and  was  afterwards 
numbered  the  twenty-sixth.  Its  original  eight 
companies  were  increased  to  ten.  Till  the  end 
of  1775,  Colonel  Baldwin  and  his  men  re- 
mained near  Boston  ;  but  in  April,  1776,  he  was 
ordered  with  his  command  to  New  York  City. 
( )n  .April  19  of  that  year  he  was  at  Xew  York; 
on  June  13.  1776.  at  the  (irand  Battery  there; 
on  |une  22.  the  same;  and  on  December  26, 
1 771').  his  regiment,  commanded  by  himself, 
"went  '.m  the  expedition  to  Trentown"  (Tren- 
ton ).  In  this  regiment  was  one  company  from 
\\(jl)urn  commanded  by  Captain  John  Wood. 
( )n  the  memorable  night  of  December  25,  1776. 
in  the  face  of  a  violent  and  extremely  cold 
storm  of  snow  and  hail,  General  Washington 
and  his  army  crossed  the  Delaware  to  the  New 
fersey  side,  and  took  by  surprise  the  next 
morning  at  Trenton  about  one  thousand 
Hessian  troops  commanded  by  Colonel  Rahl, 
and  Colonel  Baldwin  and  his  men  took  part  in 
this  daring  and  successful  enterprise. 

Colonel  I'.aldwin's  experience  in  the  cam- 
l^aigns  in  New  ^'ork  and  New  Jersey  is  told  in 
his  letters  to  his  family  at  home  and  many  of 
these  letters  have  been  sacredly  preserved  by 
bis  descendants.  During  1775-76  he  was  sta- 
tioned with  about  two  hundred  or  more  of  his 
men  at  Chelsea,  while  other  companies  of  his 
regiment  were  stationed  about  I'oston  at  Brook- 
line  and  Medford.  The  "1  listory  of  Chel.sea," 
about  to  be  publi.shed  by  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Societ\-.  contains  a  great  mass  of 
material  relating  to  the  .stay  of  a  portion  of  the 
regiment  at  Chelsea,  where  their  duties  were 
those  mostly  of  guards. 

(,'olonel  Baldwin  resigned  from  the  army  in 
1777  on  account  of  ill  health.  His  subsequent 
life  was  spent  in  his  native  jilace.  and  was 
marked  bv  an  enterprising  spirit  and  the  active 
habits  of  Ills  yoiitii.  He  had  a  talent  and 
capacitv  for  Inisiness.  He  was,  in  his  public 
career,  appointed  on  many  committees  on  im- 
portant town  bu-iness  :  the  records  of  the  town 
and  manv  autographic  town  papers  are  ample 
evidence  of  this.  He  was  appointed  high  sheriff 
of  Middlesex  county  in  1780,  and  was  the  first 


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to  luiUl  ofiicL'  after  the  adoption  of  the  -late 
constitution.  In  1778.  1779  and  1780,  and  the 
four  following  years,  he  rejiresented  Wohurn 
in  tlie  general  court.  In  I7()4  he  was  a  candi- 
date for  election^to  congress,  and  had  all  the 
votes  cast  in  Wobiirn  hut  one.  In  I7(/),  on 
three  trials  for  the  choice  of  the  same  officer, 
he  had  all  the  votes  for  the  first  two  in  Woburn, 
and  on  the  tiiird  seventy-four  votes  out  of  the 
.seventy-si.\  cast  in  Woburn,  .\t  other  elec- 
tions he  was  a  prominent  candidate  among 
those  held  up  in  Woburn  for  the  offices  of 
state  senator,  lieutenant-governor  and  ])resi- 
dential  elector. 

I-Vom  his  ac(|uaintance  with  mathematics  and 
the  arts  and  sciences  of  his  time,  he  was  chosen 
a  member  of  the  .American  .Academy  of  .Arts 
and  Sciences,  and  to  the  publications  of  that 
body  he  contributed  two  papers,  entitled,  ".An 
account  of  a  Curious  .Appearance  of  the  Elec- 
trical Fluid,"  (Memoirs  .Am.  .Acad.  vol.  i, 
17S5.  pp.  257-259);  and  "Observations  on 
MIectricity  and  an  Improved  .Mode  of  Con- 
structing Lightning  Rods,"  (.Memoirs,  vol.  2, 
|)t.  2,  1804,  ])p.  9C-104).  The  first  paper  was 
written  in  1783,  and  the  "curious  appearance" 
described  was  produced  by  raising  an  electrical 
kite  at  the  time  of  a  thunder  shower.  The 
experiments,  however,  were  tried  in  July.  1771. 
.At  that  time  the  author  mentions  that  there 
stood  some  lofty  trees  near  his  house,  and  also 
a  shop  near  by  it.  llis  parents,  family,  and 
neighbors  witnessed  the  "electrical  effect"  he 
succeeded  in  producing.  The  date  of  prepar- 
ing the  .second  article  was  January  25,  1797. 
Colonel  P.aldwin  wrote  a  sketch  of  Count  Rum- 
ford  which  was  ])rinted  in  a  local  publication 
in  1805.  lie  was  also  the  author  of  a  report  on 
the  survey  of  the  Boston  and  Narragansett  P.ay 
("anal.  1806.  Of  the  .Academy  he  was  elected 
a  I-'elkjw  in  1782,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
council  1785  to  1796,  and  from  1798  to  1807. 
Further,  see  Cutter,  "Local  History  oi  W'o- 
burn,"  p.  203.  He  received  from  Harvard 
College  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  1785. 
He  was  not  one,  however,  who  for  the  sake  of 
popularity  would  sacrifice  his  principles  fif  duty 
to  the  i)ul)lic,  though,  as  the  aljove  votes  show, 
he  was  deservedly  a  favorite  with  his  towns- 
men and  fellow  citizens  generally.  Thus  he 
protested  with  others  against  the  action  of  the 
town  in  1787  in  the  time  of  tlie  Shays  Rebellion, 
when  the  majority  of  the  citizens  of  Woburn 
voted  not  to  give  any  encouragement  to  the 
men  called  out  to  go  on  the  present  expedition, 
nor  to  aid  or  assist  it.  Hut  again'^t  this  pro- 
ceeding   of    the    town    Colonel    Baldwin    and 


tlnny-M.x  otlurs  at  once  entered  their  jjrotest. 
and  two  days  after,  the  town  itself  recon- 
sidered the  votes  it  ha<l  passed  on  this  subject, 

1  le  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  construction 
of  the  .Middlesex  Canal,  completed  in  1803,  one 
of  the  earlie>t  enterprises  of  the  sort  in  the 
liiited  States. 

To  him  the  discovery  and  the  introduction 
to  public  notice  and  the  earliest  cultivation  of 
the  Baldwin  apple,  about  1784,  has  been  justly 
ascribed.  1  le  was  one  day  surveying  land  at  a 
l)Iace  called  I'.utters'  Row,  in  Wilmington,  near 
the  bounds  of  that  town,  Woburn  and  Burling- 
ton, when  he  observed  one  or  more  birds  of 
the  woodpecker  variety  Hying  repeatedly  to  a 
certain  tree  on  land  of  a  .Mr,  James  Butters, 
and  i^rompted  by  curiosity  to  ascertain  the 
cause  of  their  attraction,  he  at  length  went  to 
it,  and  found  on  the  ground  under  it  ap])lcs  of 
an  excellent  tiavtir  and  well  worth  cultivating; 
and  returning  to  the  tree  the  next  spring  lie 
took  from  it  scions  to  graft  into  stocks  of  his 
own.  Other  persons  induced  by  his  advice  or 
example  grafted  trees  of  theirs  from  the  same 
stock  ;  and  subsec|uently  when  Colonel  Baldwin 
attended  court  or  went  into  other  i)arts  of 
the  county  as  high  sheriff,  he  carried  scions  of 
this  apple  and  distributed  them  among  his 
ac(|uaiiitances,  so  that  this  sjiecies  of  fruit  soon 
became  extensively  kjiown  and  cultivated.  The 
original  tree  remained,  it  is  said,  till  18 1 5, 
when  it  was  blown  down  in  the  famous  "Seji- 
tember  gale."  The  apple  thus  became  known 
as  the  "Baldwin  apple." 

His  name  is  also  associated  witii  that  of  the 
celebrated  Count  Rumford.  In  cliildliood  they 
were  o])[)osite  neighbors,  playmates  and  school- 
m'ates.  They  attended  lectures  at  1  farvard 
college  together.  Baldwin  befriended  him 
when  arrested  by  one  of  the  local  military  com- 
panies as  a  person  inimical  tr)  the  cause  of  the 
colonies,  and  he  was  tried  and  ac(|uitted  by  a 
court  of  which  Baldwin  appears  to  be  one  of 
the  members.  To  the  last,  though  sei)arated 
by  the  ocean  and  political  j)references,  they 
were  enthusiastic  frieniN  and  correspondents — 
the  one  was  an  .American  officer,  and  the  other 
an  officer  in  the  opposing  British  fcjrces. 

The  history  of  his  house,  which  is  still  stand- 
ing at  .\orth  Woburn,  may  be  told  in  the  fol- 
lowing words  taken  from  the  recorded  state- 
ments of  different  members  of  his  family  at 
different  (icriofls.  The  house  was  built  in 
i''i6r,  as  a[)peare'l  by  the  date  on  a  timber 
which  was  lying  about  the  house  in  1835.  It 
was  owned  by  llenry  (i)  Baldwin  from  r6r>i 
to  his  death  in    tfijj.     He  was  succeeded  by 


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Henry  (  2. )  Ilaldvviii,  who  latterly  went  to  New 
Hampshire.  Henry  {2)  was  succeeded  in 
ownership  by  James  (3),  who  died  June  28, 
1791,  and  son  of  Henry  (2)  ;  Loammi,  son  of 
James,  to  1807.  who  put  on  a  third  story  in 
1802  or  1803.  lienjamin  F.  Baldwin,  son  of 
Loammi,  was  the  owner  from  1807  to  1822; 
Loammi  (second)  and  Alary  and  Clarissa 
Baldwin  were  joint  owners  from  1822  to  1836 ; 
and  George  R.  Baldwin,  sole  owner,  from 
1836  to  his  death,  October  11,  1888.  Airs. 
Catharine  R.  Griffith,  daughter  of  George  Rum- 
ford  Baldwin,  is  the  present  owner,  1888  to 
1907.  Colonel  Loammi  I'.aldwin's  estate  em- 
braced from  his  inventory,  which  is  very 
lengthy,  a  very  large  amount  of  land,  in  1801, 
according  to  a  town  assessor's  list,  212  acres. 
His  son  Benjamin  F.  Baldwin  occupied  his 
estate  from  1807  to  about  1822.  as  above  men- 
tioned. 

The  selectmen  of  Boston,  at  a  meeting  on 
April  15,  1772,  paid  Loammi  Baldwin,  of  \Vo- 
burn,  forty  dollars,  the  premium  they  adjudged 
to  him  for  raising  the  greatest  number  of  mul- 
berry trees  in  response  to  an  advertisement 
published  in  Edes  and  Gill's  Gazcitc.  1768.  The 
selectmen  took  a  receipt  of  Baldwin,  and  also 
an  obligation  to  dispose  of  one-half  the  trees 
under  the  conditions  mentioned  in  said  adver- 
tisement. The  first  premium  was  awarded  to 
Loammi  lialdwin.  Under  this  competition  Mr. 
John  Hay.  of  Woburii,  received  twenty  dollars 
as  the  premium  adjudged  him  for  raising  the 
third  greatest  number  of  mulberry  trees.  The 
statement  in  the  advertisement  was  that  a  gen- 
tleman of  Boston  had  deposited  one  hundred 
dollars  with  the  selectmen  to  be  distributed  as 
premiums  to  encourage  the  raising  of  mfil- 
berry  trees  in  the  province.  The  conditions  of 
the  awards  were  also  given.  The  name  of  the 
donor  was  William  Whitwell. 

In  accordance  with  the  dignified  cust(MU  of 
that  time  the  following  notice  of  Colonel 
Loammi  Baldwin's  decease  was  published  in 
the  leading  Boston  newspaper  of  that  date: 
"Died — In  Woburn.  yesterday  morning,  Hon. 
Loammi  I'.aldwin,  Esq.,  aet.  sixty-two.  His 
funeral  on  Friday  next,  which  the  friends  and 
relatives  are  requested  to  attend,  w-ithout  a 
fnrtlier  invitation."— Co/ind/'/ini  Ccnt'md.  Oc- 
tober 21.  1807. 

(I\')  Reuel  Baldwin,  son  of  James,  born 
June  30.  1747:  died  .\pril  18,  1775:  mar- 
ried ()ctober  4,  1769,  Keziah,  born  .\pril  8, 
1748,  died  October  23.  1822,  daughter  of  Zeb- 
ailiah  and  .\bigail  (Pierce)  Wyman.  .She  mar- 
ried second,  .\ugust  5.  T777.  Reuben  Johnson. 


Children:  i.  Reuel.  born  December  21,  1770. 
2.  James,  born  ( )ctober  7.  1773.  3.  Ruth,  born 
June  5,  1774.  4.  Josiah,  born  May  14,  1775. 
The  probate  of  Reuel  Baldwin's  estate,  April 
22,  1776,  names  Keziah,  hi^  widow,  and  his 
four  minor  children — Reuel,  Ruth.  James  and 
Josiah.  According  to  these  papers  Josiah  was 
dead  before  1794.  James,  born  1773,  a  deacon, 
died  November  25.  1827,  at  Nashua,  New- 
Hampshire  (  monument  at  Little's  Cemetery  at 
that  place).  Ruth  Baldwin  married  Ichabod 
Richardson,  Jr.,  both  of  Woburn,  September 
21,  1791. 

i\  )  Cyrus  I'.aldwin.  son  of  Loammi.  born 
at  Woburn.  June  2Z.  1773:  died  at  Chelms- 
ford. June  2T^.  1854:  married.  .\])ril  28,  1799- 
Elizabeth,  born  September  5,  1782,  died  De- 
cember 7.  1853.  daughter  of  liradleyand  Rachel 
(  Butterfield )  X'arnum.  of  Dracut.  He  was 
for  many  years  the  agent  of  the  Middlese.x 
Canal  Company,  and  resided  at  the  head  of  the 
canal  in  Chelmsford.  He  w-as  appointed  in- 
spector and  sealer  of  gunpowder  at  the  factory 
which  was  first  Hale's  and  afterwards  Whip- 
ple's, at  Lowell.    One  child,  died  May  28,  181 5. 

(V)  Colonel  Benjamin  Franklin  Baldwin, 
son  of  Loammi,  born  at  Woburn,  Decem-. 
her  15,  1777,  died  suddenly  October  11,  1821, 
aged  forty-three,  while  on  his  return  from  the 
cattle  .show  in  Brighton;  married.  May  i,  180S. 
Mary  Carter  Brewster,  born  September  n, 
1784,  died  June  18,  1874,  daughter  of  Benja- 
luin  and  Mary  Carter  (Brewster)  Coolidge. 
He  carried  on  the  business  of  a  yeoman,  and 
left  his  widow  a  handsome  estate.  She  after- 
wards married  Wyman  Richardson.  Esc|..  and 
still  later  Burrage  Yale,  and  spent  the  last  of 
her  life  with  her  children  at  Poinfret.  Connec- 
ticut. Benjamin  Franklin  Baldwin  held  the 
office  of  captain  in  the  militia  from  1800  to 
1S05.  of  major  frf)m  1807  to  1811.  and  of  lieu- 
tenant-colonel of  the  local  regiment  from  181 1 
to  1816.  Rolls  of  his  comi)any  of  date  1802 
arc  extant.  It  is  said  that  in  addition  of  his 
other  pursuits  he  devoted  himself  to  the  busi- 
ness of  civil  engineering,  and  assisted  his 
brother  in  the  construction  of  the  milldani 
across  the  Back  B.ay  in  Boston,  and  in  other 
works.  Children:  \.  Mary  Brewster,  born 
March  26,  1809,  died  December  28.  1817.  2. 
Clarissa,  born  November  29,  1810,  died  July 
15.  1813.  3.  Loammi,  horn  .\]iril  25.  1813:  see 
forward,  4.  Mary  I'.rewster.  born  January  16. 
1815,  dieil  October  23.  1834;  married.  Decem- 
ber 28.  1836,  IVofessor  Roswell  Park.  Pro- 
fessor Roswell  Park,  of  the  L^niversity  of 
Pennsvlvania,  later  entered  the  ministrv  and 


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became  Rev.  Roswcll  Park.  D.  D. :  born  Octo- 
ber I,  1807,  (lied  July  16.  i8(kj.  5.  Clarissa 
Coolidge.  born  December  i.  1819.  died  lanuarv 
22.  11500;  married.  May  id.  184;^  Hr.  Lewi's 
\\  illiams. 

Loammi.  born  .\i)rii  25.  1813.  died  .March  i. 
1S55:  married.  .March  2.  1847.  Helen  Kliza 
.Avery.  Their  children  were:  i.  Mary  Eniilv. 
bom  January  31.  1848:  married.  September 
25.  1872.  Darius  Mathewson  .-son.  (leorge  I'ald- 
win.  born  June.  1881,  died  May.  1882.  2. 
Loammi  Franklin,*  born  Xovember  6.  1841): 
married.  .Sejitember  11,  1S73.  Kate  Wymau 
Richardson;  children:  ("lara  Richardson,  horn 
.September  i.  1874;  .Mary  Brewster,  born  .Sep- 
tember 17,  1875;  James  Rumford.  horn  De- 
cember 19,  1880. 

Clarissa  Coolidge  (Baldwin)  and  Dr.  Lewi*; 
William  had  no  children. 

Children  of  Mary  Brewster  (  Baldwin)  ami 
Roswell  Park:  i.  Mary,  born  .March  4.  1839. 
2.  Clara,  born  January  12,  1845.  died  Decem- 
ber 21,  1845.  3-  Helen,  born  .\i)ril  13.  1848. 
died  October  14.  1853.  4.  Roswell.  born  .March 
4.  1852:  married.  June  i.  1880.  Martha  Pru- 
dence Durkee,  who  died  Xovember  14.  1899: 
children:  Roswell,  born  .August  12.  1885: 
Julian  Durkee,  born  Xovember  6,  1888.  5.  P>ald- 
win.  born  October   14.   1834.  died  ncti)l)er   10. 

(  \  )  LoaniTui  (  2  )  Baldwin,  son  of  Loammi  (  1  ), 
was  born  at  .Xorth  W'olmrn.  May  16.  1780.  and 
died  June  30.  1838.  intombed  at  W'oburn.  1  le 
was  fitted  for  college  at  West  ford  .\cademy, 
and  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  180D. 
His  early  inclinations  were  towards  mechanical 
subjects,  to  which  very  little  attention  was 
paid  in  the  learned  education  of  that  time:  and 
during  his  college  life  he  made  with  his  own 
hands  a  clock  which  kejit  good  time  and  was 
the  wonder  and  admiration  of  his  class.  He 
was  put  down  as  No.  9  in  a  list  for  "an  exhibi- 
tion in  mechanics."  In  1806  he  was  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  In  1799  his 
father  wrote  to  his  friencl  Count  Rumford. 
then  residing  in  London,  that  "1  have  a  son  at 
college,  whose  genius  inclines  him  strongly  to 
cultivate  the  arts.  .  .  I  have  therefore 
thought  whether  it  would  not  be  best  to  en- 
deavor to  provide  him  with  a  jilace  for  a  year 
or  two  with  some  gentleman  in  the  mathe- 
matical line  of  business  in  Europe,  who  is 
actually  in  the  occuj)ation  of  making  and  vend- 
ing mathematical  and  optical  instruments.  .  . 
It  may  be  that  you  know  of  some  good  place. 


•Loammi  Franklin  now  reside."!  with  hi."  famll.v  In 
the  old  Baldwin  mansion  at  North  Woburn. 


;  •  ;  He  is  very  lively,  ready  am!  ciiter- 
pri>iiig."  Count  Rumford  wrote  a  replv  e.\- 
l)lainiiig  the  situation  very  fully,  but  he  .said 
that  ■"no  instrument  maker  or  dealer  in  such 
would,  without  a  very  large  i)remium,  under- 
take to  instruct  a  young  gentleman  in  the 
course  of  two  or  three  years,  and  make  him 
l)eriect  in  both  branches  of  the  trade." 

'1  his  scheme,  however,  was  not  followed  any 
further.  L'i)on  gradualing  from  college  he 
entered  the  law  otifice  of  Timothy  Bigelow.  at 
( imton.  I  jere  he  constructed  a  tire-engine,  of 
which  the  town  stood  in  great  need:  and  the 
small  machine  was  still  in  active  service  a 
short  time  ago.  He  completed  his  studies  at 
Croton.  and  o])ened  an  office  in  Cambridge  in 
1804,  and  in  1807,  having  abandoned  the  prac- 
tice of  the  law  for  engineering,  he  went  to 
I'.ngland  for  the  purpose  of  examining  the 
various  public  works  of  that  country.  He  in- 
tended at  that  time  to  visit  the  continent,  but 
\vas  prevented  by  the  difficulty  of  reaching 
France.  On  his  return  he  opened  an  office  in 
Charlestown  and  began  the  life  for  which  he 
was  so  admirably  fitted.  One  of  the  earliest 
works  u()on  which  he  was  engaged  was  the 
construction  nf  I'ort  .Strong,  in  1814,  during 
the  war,  one  of  the  strong  forts  erected  for 
defense  against  the  British  in  I'.oston  Harbor. 
He  was  chief  engineer  with  the  rank  of  col- 
onel, at  this  time  a  title  which  has  sometimes 
confounded  him  with  his  father,  who  bore  that 
rank  in  the  army  of  the  revolution.  In  i8i(; 
he  was  aiipointetl  engineer  to  com|)lelc  the 
undertaking  of  building  the  .Milldam.  or  West- 
ern avenue,  now  the  extension  of  Beacon  street, 
lioston.  beyond  the  Common.  h>om  1817  to 
1820  he  was  engaged  upon  various  works  of 
internal  im])rovement  in  \'irginia.  In  182 1  he 
was  aiH'oinled  engineer  of  the  Cnion  Canal  in 
Pennsylvania.  .An  elaborate  description  of  this 
work  was  prepared  in  1830  by  W.  Milnor 
Roberts. 

In  1824  .Mr.  I'.aldwin  went  to  luirnpe  and 
remained  there  a  year,  mostly  in  h'rance.  de- 
voted to  a  careful  examination  of  the  im])ort- 
arn  public  works  in  that  country.  He  went 
also  to  .\ntwer|)  to  inspect  the  docks  there,  and 
at  this  time  he  laid  the  foundation  of  the  larg- 
est and  best  professional  library  of  engineering 
works  that  was  to  be  found  in  America. — to 
which  he  arlded,  until  at  his  death  it  had  cost 
nearly  eight  thousand  dollars. 

In  1825  he  was  associate  with  the  projectors 
of  the  I'.imker  Hill  momunenl.  He  recom- 
mended the  obelisk  nrnv  seen  there,  two  hun- 
dred and  twenty   feet  high,  etc.     His  original 


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MASSACIirSETTS. 


rt-piirt  i>  |ircsi'r\'Ld  annnig  tin-  |)a|)ers  of  tlif 
iiK iiiiiment  association. 

Among  the  early  projects  in  tlie  neighhor- 
hood  of  Boston  with  which  he  was  connected 
were  the  Salem  Mildam  corporation,  1826.  and 
the  i)roject  of  connecting  Boston  with  the  Hud- 
son river  by  a  canal,  bnt  the  day  for  canals  was 
passing  away,  and  in  1827  he  was  api)ointe(l  by 
the  governor  of  Massachusetts  to  ])rociH-e  sur- 
veys and  estimates  f<)r  a  railrcjad  from  Boston 
to  the  Hudson  river.  This  work,  however,  was 
put  into  the  hands  of  his  brother  James,  as 
Loammi  had  at  that  time  accepted  an  a])point- 
nient  from  the  United  States  government  wliich 
led  In  the  two  great  works  of  hi>  life, — the 
naval  dry  docks  at  Charlestown  and  at  Nor- 
folk. These  two  structures  were  in  process  of 
building  from  1827  to  1834,  and  were  carried 
un  both  at  the  same  time  and  with  the  crude 
appliances  of  that  day.  The  first  when  finished 
was  in  all  306  feet  long,  thirty  feet  deep  and 
thirty  feet  wide.  The  depth  of  water  at  high 
tide  was  twenty-five  feet,  and  the  rise  and  fall 
of  tide  eleven  feet.  The  surface  ol  the  site 
was  .about  nine  feet  below  ordinary  higli  tide. 
The  cost  was  S677.090. 

The  Norfolk  dock  was  a  similar  structure,  biu 
of  greater  cost,  owing  to  the  e.xtra  ])rice  of 
stone  and  l.ibnr.  both  of  which  were  sent  from 
the  North.  .Mr.  BaUhvin's  salary  on  this  work 
was  fixed  by  himself  at  .$4,000  a  year,  with 
additional  allowance  for  travel  and  eN))ense  of 
living  when  awa)'  from  home,  ili^  lime  was 
s])ent  between  tlie  two  docks,  the  summers  at 
Charlestown  and  the  winters  in  .Norfolk.  hi> 
leading  assistant  alternating  witli  him  at  those 
two  ])laces. 

■  In  addition  to  this  work  he  was  consulting 
engineer  on  other  important  works  connected 
with  the  general  government — the  Dismal 
Swamp  Canal,  the  survey  for  which  was  made 
through  an  almost  im])enetrable  ^\\anl)l.  but 
Congress  was  unwilling  to  carry  it  out  in  his 
(lay.  In  1834  he  made  an  elaborate  report 
upon  introducing  |>ure  water  into  the  city  <if 
Boston,  which  was  published,  lie  also  had 
considerable  to  do  w'ith  water  ])ower  in  Maine, 
and  also  with  a  canal  in  (leorgia,  but  the  latter 
was  never  completed. 

Mr.  lialdwin  was  independent  and  ])ositivc 
in  his  |)rofessional  o])inions.  and  dared  even  to 
ditfer  to  his  face  with  the  aggressive  (ieneral 
.Andrew  Jackson,  then  ])resident  of  the  I'nited 
States.  The  general  at  their  last  interview  at 
first  received  him  with  politeness:  hut  the 
bridge  (the  General's  pet  scheme,  as  was 
natural),  came  uj)  as  the  great  thing  in  the 


mind  nl  the  President,  antl  he  said:  "By  the 
liye.  .Mr.  Baldwin.  1  have  read  your  report  on 
the  bridge:  and.  Iiy  the  Mternal.  you  are  all 
wrong.  1  ha\e  built  and  have  seen  built  many 
bridges;  and  1  know  that  the  plan  is  a  good 
one.  and  that  the  bridge  will  stand."  "(ieneral 
Jackson."  (|uietly  replied  .Mr.  ISaldwin,  "in  all 
]>ontoon  or  temporar\'  bridge-work  for  military 
purposes.  1  should  always  yield  to  your  good 
JLulgmeiit.  and  shoidd  not  venture  to  call  it  in 
(juestion:  you  must  remember  that  this  bridge 
should  be  built  as  a  ])ermanent  structure,  and 
should  stand  for  all  coming  time.  .And  I  yield 
in  such  matters  to  no  one.  when  I  have  applied 
scientific  jjrinciples  to  my  investigations  and 
am  sure  of  m_\  conclusions.  ( iood  morning.  Gen- 
eral Jackson."  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  sa\' 
that  the  appropriation  was  not  made,  and  that 
the  pet  bridge  was  never  built,  nnich  to  the 
chagrin  of  the  President,  but  to  the  (|uiet  satis- 
faction of  Mr.  Baldwin. 

In  addition  to  the  numerous  W'Orks  already 
referred  to.  .Mr.  lialdwin  was  connected  in  re- 
gard to  man\  ntlurs,  from  a  dam  at  .Vugusta. 
.Maine,  to  a  marine  railway  at  I'ensacola.  from 
the  construction  of  buildings  at  Harvard  Col- 
lege, to  a  canal  around  the  fails  of  the  ( )hio 
river,  from  a  stone  bridge  called  the  Warren 
Bridge  at  Charlestown  to  the  1  larrisburg  Canal 
in  Pennsylvania,  llis  skill  was  in  demand, 
and  that.  too.  m  a  very  active  maimer  in  a 
great  majorit\-  of  the  internal  im])rovements 
nndertaken  at  that  formative  ])eriod  in  the 
I   nited  States. 

I  le  was  also  noted  as  an  author.  1  lis  manu- 
script reports  were  always  <lrawn  up  in  his 
own  neat,  uniform  and  co:ni)act  handwriting. 
lie  ]iublislK(l  in  18))  a  pani])hlet  of  seventy 
pages  entitled.  "  Ihoughts  on  the  Study  of 
Political  Ra  iioniy  as  comiected  with  the  Po])u- 
l.'ition.  Industry,  and  Paper  Ciu'rency  of  the 
I  niled  States."  .\  large  number  of  printed 
reports  on  engineering  enterprises  are  listed 
in  the  catalogue  of  his  special  library  on  that 
.uid  co-ordinate  subjects,  given  by  liis  niece. 
.Mis.  <  iritifith.  to  the  Public  Library  in  W'oburn. 
several  years  ago.  He  is  said  to  have  written 
an  account  of  the  .Middlesex  Canal,  and  also  a 
memoir  of  his  father's  friend,  Count  Rumfonl, 
l)Ut  neither  of  these  papers  are  in  the  above 
collection.  llis  reports  were  prejjared  with 
the  greatest  care,  .ind  were  models  for  style 
and  remarkable  for  the  exact  and  jiroper  use 
of  words.  In  1835  he  was  a  member  of  the^ 
executive  council  of  the  Commonwealth,  and 
in  1836  a  presidential  elector. 

But   there  is  little  more  to  say.      In  person 


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I^oamml  Balilwin   (2nrli  cmliK-nl  for  lil.-i  nervlcex  as  n  civil  engineer. 


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Ik-  was  over  six  feel  in  lieiijlit,  and  su])erl)ly 
l)nilt.  I  lis  face  presented  a  rare  comljinatiim 
of  intelligence,  manliness  and  dii,niity.  He  was 
a  thorough  gentleman  in  his  manner  and  his 
intercourse  with  others.  lie  detested  sham 
and  iirctense  in  everything  and  everyhody  ;  was 
liberal  in  his  mode  of  life,  and  hospitable  in 
hi.s  home.  To  his  work  he  gave  his  whole 
strength.  Mne  portraits  and  a  bust  of  him 
remain  to  give  posterity  an  idea  of  his  noble 
personal  ajjpearance.  .About  a  year  before  he 
died  he  had  a  stroke  of  paralysis;  a  second 
attack  ])rovcd  fatal.  He  died,  as  before  stated, 
at  Charlestown,  Massacluisetts,  June  30.  1H38. 
at  the  age  of  fifty-eight. 

.Mr.  llaldwin  was  twice  married:  first  to 
Ann.  daughter  of  George  Williams,  (jf  Salem. 
.She  was  sister  of  Samuel  Williams,  an  emin- 
ent .American  banker  in  Loudon  :  second,  June 
22,  1828,  to  Catherine,  widow  of  Captain 
Thomas  Heckford.  of  Charlestown.  .She  died 
May  3,  1864.  Child  by  first  marriage:  .Sam- 
uel \Villiams  haldwin.  born  1817:  died  De- 
cember 28.  1822.  aged  five  years. 

The  com]>iler  is  indebted  for  facts  for  tlli^ 
sketch  to  Mich  authorities  as  \'ose,  I'eltou.  and 
others, 

I  \  )  James  h'ow  le  I'.aldwin,  son  of  l.oammi 
(  1  ).  born  at  Wobnrn.  .\pril  2tj.  1782,  died  at 
iJoston.  Ma_\-  20,  t8()2,  aged  eighty:  married. 
July  28.  1818,  Sarah  I'arsons.  daughter  of 
.Samuel  (  \?Ai;  College.  1779)  and  .Sarah  (  I'Jir- 
Mins)  ritkm.  of  F.ast  Hartford.  Connecticut. 
Janus  was  the  fourth  son  of  his  father,  and 
received  hi;  early  education  in  the  schools  of 
his  native  t'.iwn  and  in  tlie  academies  at  I'.iller- 
ica  and  We;tford.  About  1  80  )  he  was  in  i'.os- 
ton  ac(|uiring  a  mercantile  education,  in  which 
city  he  was  afterwards  established  as  a  mer- 
chant :  but  the  iulluence  of  his  early  association 
with  the  engineering  faculties  of  the  older 
menilierv  of  his  own  family  Itu'ned  his  atten- 
ti<in  in  that  direction,  lie  joined  his  brother 
l.oammi  in  the  construction  of  the  dr\  dock  at 
Charlestown  Xavy  'N'ard.  In  1828,  he.  with 
two  others,  were  appointed  commissioners  to 
make  the  survey  for  a  railroad  to  the  western 
jiart  of  the  state,  this  being  then  a  new  and  un- 
tried enterjirise.  and  the  survey  was  made  from 
I'lOston  to  Albany.  Cpon  this  work  he  was  en- 
gaged for  more  than  iwo  \rars.  It  wa^  not 
prosecuted  at  the  time,  but  subsei|nenlly  ilic 
Western  railroad,  so  called,  was  built  U|)on  the 
location  selected  by  him  and  his  plans  wi're 
generallv  adoiiteil.  lie  always  looked  u])on 
this,  ne.xt  to  the  intro<luction  of  |)nre  water  into 
I'loston,  as  the  most  important  of  his  profes- 


sional works.  In  1832  he  began  the  location 
of  the  FJoston  &  Lowell  railroad,  which  was 
Constructed  under  his  sujierintendence.  He 
was  also  emjiloyed  on  engineering  lines  by  the 
Ware  .Manufacturing  com])any,  the  Thames 
com|)auy  of  Xorwich,  Connecticut,  and  the 
pr(]])rietors  of  the  locks  and  canals  at  Lowell. 
lie  also  determined  the  relative  amount  of 
w  ater  power  used  by  the  mills  of  the  different 
ci  mipanies  at  Lowell. 

In  1825  the  subject  of  the  water  supply  of 
r.oston  attracted  the  attention  of  the  authori- 
ties, and  an  investigation  of  the  sources  for  a 
pure  sup])ly  was  made,  and  in  1837  he  was 
a])pointed  on  a  commission  to  int|uire  still  fur- 
ther into  the  matter.  He  dissented  from  the 
iiiajorit}-  in  the  recommendation  of  Spot  and 
Mystic  ponds,  and  recommended  Long  Pond 
I  Lake  Cochituate).  Others  high  in  authority 
diii'ered  from  his  conclusion,  but  still  he  was 
immovable  in  adherence  to  his  recommenda- 
tion, in  spite  of  rejection  by  popular  vote,  to 
which  it  had  been  submitted,  and  it  was  not 
renewed  till  1844,  when  he  was  again  in  a  posi- 
tion of  influence  on  the  commission.  His  plan 
was,  however,  ado])ted  March  30,  1846:  the 
ground  was  broken  five  months  after,  an4  on 
C  )ctober  2~,.  1848.  he  had  the  jjleasure  of  seeing 
his  plan,  so  long  resisted,  finallx'  triumphant, 
and  the  I'ublic  fountain  playing  for  the  first 
lime  in  the  presence  of  a  large  concourse  of 
])eoide.  He  was  for  several  years  a  senator 
from  .Suft'olk  in  the  .Massacluisetts  general 
court,  and  the  first  president  of  the  Boston 
.S<>ciety  of  Civil  F.ngineers. 

The  lioston  l>(iily  .  Itli'crtiscr.  in  a  notice 
if  him  at  the  time  of  his  death  says,  "He  was 
of  a  kindly  and  benevolent  dis])osilion,  affable 
in  his  manners,  warm  and  unfaltering  in  his 
attachment  to  his  friends.  Ills  sense  of  justice 
and  his  fair  a]ipreciation  of  the  rights  of  others 
showed  to  great  advantage  in  many  of  his 
|iul)lic  works." 

\  memoir  tif  llou.  Jauu"-  I'owle  Baldwin, by 
Dr.  Cslier  I'arsons,  was  published  in  1865. 
IVoin  his  memoir  are  gleaned  the  following 
tributes : 

■"lie  was  a  gentleman  of  liighl\-  respectable 
aiiainmeiits.  and  surpassed  by  none  as  a  scien- 
tific and  ]iractical  engineer.  He  was  employed 
b\-  the  .State  to  su])erintend  the  construction  of 
ii-  gigantic  ])ublic  works.  1  le  was  a  prominent 
member  of  the  .\merican  .Academy  of  .Arts 
and  .Sciences,  and  during  many  years  held  the 
|ii  -ition  in  that  learned  society  in  the  section 
of  Technolog\-  an<l  Civil  Engineering."  Upon 
his  decease  a  brief  sketch  of  liis  life  and  jjublic 


massachlsi-:tts. 


5«3 


services  was  presented  and  read  before  that 
society,  and  soon  after  published  in  its  Trans- 
actions. 

lion.  lames  F.  Baldwin  had  the  care  of  the 
affairs  of  Count  Ruin  ford's  daughter,  the 
Countess  Rumford  a  great  part  of  her  life,  and 
she  at  her  decease  left  him  a  generous  betiuest. 
"It  may  be  fairly  claimed  that  the  city  of  Bos- 
ton is  pre-eminently  indebted  to  the  forecast, 
firmness,  and  professional  skill  of  Mr.  Baldwin 
for  the  present  abundant  and  constant  supply 
of  pure  water  from  Cochituate."  Instead  of 
three  millions  of  gallons  daily  for  the  first  ten 
years,  the  amount  was  actually  fifteen  millions 
of  gallons  during  that  period. 

■'.Mr.  Baldwin  was  of  commanding  presence, 
being  considerably  about  six  feet  in  stature. 
and  remarkably  well  proportioned."  His  mind 
was  clear,  but  not  rapid  in  its  operation.  He 
came  to  his  conclusions  by  successive  steps, 
carefully  taken  and  closely  examined:  but  the 
results  once  reached,  his  confidence  in  them 
was  rarely  shaken.  Confidence  in  his  integrity 
enabled  him  to  settle  (|uestions  of  the  transfer 
of  property  with  a  facility  that  was  surprising. 
e.specially  with  those  per.sons  who  had  not  the 
clearest  conviction  of  the  invariable  u])right- 
ness  of  corporate  bodies  in  their  dealings  with 
individuals.  Fie  endeavored  tr)  encourage  and 
assist  young  students  who  were  pursuing  the 
study  <  f  civil  engineering,  and  the  lumiber 
were  many  who  remembered  liini  with  affec- 
tion and  veneration. 

I  le  was  especially  the  friend  and  protector 
of  the  ori)hans.  His  last  illness  was  of  short 
duration.  Returning  from  a  walk  on  the  day 
of  his  death,  he  complained  of  indisposition, 
and  speaking  a  few  words  to  his  wife,  he  soon 
e.vpired. 

(  \'  I  Clarissa  Bal  'win.  daughter  of  Loammi 
(  I  ).  born  at  W'oburn.  December  .^i.  1791.  died 
there  May  27.  1841.  aged  forty-nine:  married. 
January  20.  1812.  Thomas  lirewster  Coolidge, 
of  Hallowell.  born  December  8.  1785,  son  of 
I'lenjamin  and  .Mary  Carter  (  Brewster)  Cool- 
iilge.  of  Boston  and  W'oburn.  Children:  t. 
Benjamin,  born  at  Hallowell.  Maine.  Xovcm- 
ber  10.  1812,  <lied  at  Lawrence,  -Massachusetts. 
.\ugnst  25.  1871  :  married.  October  i,  1844, 
Mary  White,  born  at  Med  ford.  Massachusetts, 
January  14.  t8io.  died  at  l.awrence.  .April  ii, 
1883.  (iaughter  of  Jonas  and  Mary  (Wright) 
Manning,  of  W'oburn.  Two  children:  Bald- 
win, born  at  Wolnirn.  July  7,  t845:  see  ff)r- 
ward.  Brewster,  born  N'ovember  10,  1848, 
died  at  Lawrence,  June  21.  185.V     2.  Thomas 


Brewster,  born  at  Hallowell.  May  3,  1815.  died 
at  W'oburn.  unmarried.  I'ebruarv  iS,  i8i;5. 

Baldwin  Coolidge.  .son  of  Benjamin  Coolidge, 
and  grandson  of  Clarissa  Baldwin  (5),  was 
born  at  W'oburn,  July  7,  1845;  was  married,  at 
Lawrence,  l-'ebruary  7.  i8()6,  to  Lucy,  born  at 
.Xewburyport,  Masachusetts,  November  24, 
1844.  died  at  W'oburn,  .August  13,  1004.  daugh- 
ter of  .\atlian  Thomas  and  1  lannali  (  .\oyes ) 
i'huner,  of  .Xewburyport:  was  a  soldier  in  the 
.'^lixth  Regiment  Massachusetts  X'olunteer  Mili- 
tia, campaign  of  1864,  in  the  civil  war.*  He 
was  band  boy  at  the  funeral  of  the  first  soldier 
killed  in  the  civil  war.  viz.:  ."^uunier  Henry 
Xeedham,  who  was  killed  in  the  fight  at  Balti- 
more, .\pril  19,  1861.  !Mr.  Coolidge  was  the 
first  city  engineer  of  Law  rence.  Massachusetts, 
and  having  inherited  the  Baldwin  scientific 
ingenuity  and  versatility  of  mind,  he  has  be- 
come distinguished  by  his  mechanical  feats  in 
photography,  and  for  the  artistic  excellence 
and  niunber  of  his  ])roductions  in  that  line  of 
work. 

(  \' )  ( ieorge  Rinnford  ISaldwin.  son  of  Col- 
onel Loammi  (  i  ).  was  born  in  the  Baldwin 
mansion  at  Xorth  W'oburn.  January  26,  1798, 
and  died  there  October  11.  1888.  "having  de- 
voted his  lengthened  life,  with  the  fidl  posses- 
sion of  his  facilties  till  its  close,  to  the  pursuits 
of  practical  science,  as  a  surveyor,  a  civil  engi- 
neer, and  a  constructor."  The  lands  of  the 
original  Henry  I'.aldwin  held  by  his  descendant 
George  R.  I'aldwin  at  the  time  of  his  death  in 
1888.  included  betw'een  five  and  six  hundred 
acres.  The  mansion  is  one  of  the  noteworthy 
survivals  of  our  earliest  times  in  size,  arrange- 
ment, adornment,  and  in  its  well-preserved 
relics.  Within  it  are  to  be  foimd  implements, 
household  utensils,  paintings,  ornaments,  and 
sundry  furnishings,  with  luxurious  appliances, 
gathered  by  the  generations  which  have  occu- 
pied it  from  birth  to  death.  Piles  of  tnuiks 
and  boxes  contain  their  private  papers  and 
settlements  of  estates.  Most  interesting  among 
its  contents  is  a  large,  select,  and  valuable 
librarv  of  many  thousand  volumes,  collected 
princi|)ally  by  the  father  and  brothers  of  Ceorge 
R.  I'.aldw  in  and  by  himself,  giving  evidence  of 
their  scientific  and  literary  tastes.  Learned 
tomes  in  many  languages,  costly  ilustrated 
works,  series  of  scientific  publications  on  con- 
struction and  engineering,  and  sumjjtuous  edi- 
tions of  the  best  writers  in  various  de|)artments 
rif  literature,   are   among   its   treasures.     The 


•The  .sixth  n<Klmcnt  went  to  the  front  throe 
times — In  ISni.  ISfi2.  nn<1  1864.  beInK  the  rail  tpkI- 
ment. 


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house  and  its  contents  is  a  memorial  of  one  of 
the  oldest  and  most  distinguished  families  of 
its  citizens. 

His  father  was  the  earliest  civil  engineer  in 
this  state,  and  on  the  projection  of  the  first  of 
our  public  enterprises  for  more  extended  inter- 
nal communication  the  connection  of  the  waters 
of  the  Merrimack  with  those  of  the  harbor  by 
the  Midlesex  Canal,  chartered  in  1793,  the 
father  of  (ieorge  R.  Tialdwin  was  one  of  its 
leading  promotors.  Its  course  lay  through  his 
own  estate,  the  several  hundred  acres  belong- 
ing later  to  George  R.  Baldw-in,  and  it  was 
completed  in  1803.  Of  this  then  signal  enter- 
prise the  father  was  surveyor,  engineer,  and 
constructor  under  the  supervision  of  an  Eng- 
lish engineer,  Weston  by  name,  who  was  then 
a  resident  of  Philadelphia.  The  canal  served 
its  uses  until  superseded  by  the  Lowell  rail- 
road. It  is  necessary  to  know  these  facts  in 
order  to  gain  a  background  for  the  after  career 
of  the  .son,  George  Rumford  Baldwin.  He  early 
fcnmd  o])portunity  for  the  e.xercise  of  the 
family  ingenuity  by  engaging  in  the  profession 
of  work  of  the  older  members  of  the  family. 

He  was  the  son  of  his  father's  second  wife. 
His  middle  name  recalled  the  friendly  and 
intimate  relations  which  existed  between  his 
father  and  the  distinguished  Count  Rumford. 
When  the  friend  had  attained  rank  and  title 
at  Munich,  a  correspondence  began  between 
the  two  which  is  of  great  personal  and  his- 
torical interest.  Tn  a  letter  following  the  birth 
of  George  Rumford  I'.aldwin,  the  father  writes 
to  the  Count.  "T  have  liad  a  son  born  to  me 
to  whom  I  have  given  your  name."  The  father 
wished  this  ':oy.  as  he  grew  up.  to  enter  Har- 
vard College,  but  the  son  was  disinclined  to 
scholarshij)  in  that  institution  as  its  standard 
then  was.  and  from  his  earliest  years  his  bent 
was  for  mathematical  and  scientific  .studies. 
])ursued  by  himself,  anil  for  jjractical  out-of- 
door  work  in  waterways,  surveying  and  en- 
gineering, in  the  examination  of  mills  and 
water-power,  dams  and  raceways,  lie.  as  we 
have  already  noticed,  had  marked  facilities 
for  practice  of  this  sort,  with  preliminary  train- 
ing in  a  school  kept  by  Dr.  Stearns  in  Medford, 
and  by  accomjianying  his  father  and  brother 
in  field  and  office  work.  In  his  fourteenth 
year  he  made  some  sketches  nf  tlie  furtitica- 
tions  of  i'oston  harbor  in  the  w.ir  nt  i8ij.  df 
which  hi>  brother  I.oaiunii  ILildwin  wa^  the 
chief  engineer. 

.■\  .series  of  his  diaries  f(^r  more  than  fifty 
years  contain  daily  entries  of  his  employments 
and  occupations.    1  le  liveil  a  life  of  marvellous 


industry,  of  wide  travel,  and  useful  service. 
He  was  called  upon  as  expert  witness,  referee 
or  examiner  in  many  ways,  at  a  period  when 
the  develo])ment  of  our  railroads  and  manu- 
facturing enterprises  made  a  demand  for  talent 
and  skill.  He  helped  form  the  first  associated 
company  of  engineers.  He  was  naturally  shy, 
modest,  difiidcnt.  and  reticent,  of  most  retiring 
and  undemonstrative  ways,  therefore  when 
called  upon  for  any  utterance  in  public  before 
many  persons  it  was  for  him  a  serious  strain. 
His  social  intercourse  was  limited,  and  under 
no  circumstances  could  he  have  made  a  speech 
in  public  of  advocacy  or  argument.  The  follow- 
ing were  some  of  his  early  engagements:  1821. 
built  P.  C.  llrook's  stone  bridge:  1822-1823.  in 
Pennsylvania  with  his  brother:  1823-25,  at 
factories  in  Lowell ;  1826,  surveyed  Charles- 
tmvn  Navy  Yard:  executed  Marine  Railway: 
1831-33.  in  England;  1833-34,  on  Lowell  rail- 
road: 1834-3^,  in  Xova  Scotia:  1837.  in  Geor- 
gia, on  Brunswick  Canal.  In  1845  he  was  chief 
engineer  on  the  route  of  the  Bufifalo  and  Missis- 
sippi railroad.  In  1846  he  was  employed  on 
the  examination  of  the  water  power  of  Au- 
gusta, (Georgia,  and  by  the  national  government 
on  the  Dry  Docks  in  Washington  and  Brook- 
lyn. In  1847  he  was  summoned  to  Quebec  to 
engage  on  a  professional  task  which  occupied 
him  till  he  comi)leted  it  in  1856.  This  was  the 
introduction  of  water  into  the  city.  He  was  in 
full  superintendence,  under  the  mayor  and  a 
water  board.  In  the  course  of  the  work  he 
sailed  with  his  family  to  Euro])e  to  superintend 
the  casting  of  the  jjipes.  gates,  etc.,  and  to 
arrange  for  their  shipment. 

In  1857-58  he  was  in  Europe  with  his  family, 
principally  in  Paris  and  London,  with  many 
excursions.  With  accom])lished  .skill  in  draught- 
ing and  etching,  his  jiencil  was  ever  busy  in 
sketching  all  the  objects  of  special  interest,  and 
his  descriptions  are  illustrated  by  a  mass  of 
draw  ings.  more  or  less  jierfected. 

He  was  ct)nnected  as  consulting  engineer 
with  many  more  modern  works,  the  most  im- 
portant, jierhaps.  being  the  Boston.  Hartford. 
and  Erie  railrc>ad.  His  journals  show  how 
fully  every  interval  between  these  ]iublic  works 
was  improved.  He  was  skilled  in  all  family. 
horticultural,  and  agricultural  labors,  and  his 
pen  was  ever  busy  in  his  own  alTairs,  or  for 
the  service  of  friends. 

George  R.  Baldwin  married.  December  h, 
1S37.  the  ste|)daughter  of  his  brother,  Loammi 
Baldwin,  namely.  Catherine  Richardson  Beck- 
ford,  daughter  <if  C"a|>tain  Thomas  and  Cath- 
erine    (  \Vilder  I     I'eckford.    of    Charlestown. 


MASSACHLSI',TTS. 


585 


.Massachusetts.  Mrs.  L>al<l\vin  died  in  W'ohiini. 
February  5.  1873.  aged  sixty  years.  They  lia<l 
oue  cliild.  a  daughter,  now  Mrs.  Catherine  K. 
('riftith.  and  residing  in  Quebec,  Canada. 


•  By  Arthur  G.  I.orlng.  i 

IJenjaniin  Thc)nii>son,  better 
Rl'MFf  )RD  known  asCount  Runitord.was 
a  great-great-great-grandsnn 
of  James  Thompson,  one  of  tiie  original  settlers 
of  W'oburn,  and  i)rominent  among  those  who 
early  fixed  their  residence  in  that  part  of  that 
town,  which  is  now  known  as  North  Woburn. 
The  same  difficulty  which  meets  not  a  few  who 
search  in  vain  for  the  details  of  the  old  Eng- 
lish history  of  their  ancestors,  meets  us  at  the 
outset,  says  the  family  historian,  in  regard  to 
him: — but  little  is  known  of  his  English  ante- 
cendents.  except  that  he  was  born  in  1593; 
married  a  wife  wdiose  only  name  known  to  us 
was  Elizabeth ;  had  three  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter, all  born  in  England,  and  early  in  1630, 
when  he  was  thirty-seven  years  of  age  joined 
the  company,  who,  under  the  lead  of  (jovernor 
John  W'inthrop  landed  in  .\'cw  England  during 
that  year.  The  tradition  is  that  James  Thomp- 
son landed  at  Salem  in  the  early  jiart  of  June. 
The  numerous  individuals  bearing  this  almost 
universal  name  may  be  cijnsidered  as  befogging 
the  subject,  and  therefore,  in  s[)ite  of  vigilant 
research,  it  seems  to  be  impossible  to  ascertain 
the  place  of  his  birth,  .\bsolute  proof  is  lack- 
ing u])  to  the  present  date  on  the  subject.  It 
may  ))C  that  he  belonged  to  the  numerous  re- 
lated families  of  Thompsons  in  London  and 
several  of  the  nearest  counties  around  that 
metropolis.  These  families  embraced  a  num- 
ber that  were  eminent  in  the  intellectual,  social, 
and  religious  world,  including  a  number  who 
received  the  order  of  knighthood.  The  coats- 
of-arms  of  some  of  them,  though  differing 
slightly,  are  essentially  the  same.  James  Thomj)- 
son  first  located  himself  at  Charlestown,  where 
he  anl  wife  were  admitted  to  membership  in 
the  church  at  that  place,  .\ugust  31,  1633.  lie 
was  admitted  a  freeman  later  in  the  same  year. 
In  December,  1640.  he  was  one  of  thirty-two 
who  subscribed  the  tow-n  orders  or  by-laws  for 
W'nburn.  This  town  was  incorporated  in  1642, 
and  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  broad  of 
selectmen  and  served  the  towji  in  that  office 
with  occasional  brief  intervals  for  about  twenty 
vears.  He  held  also  various  niinor  offices.  He 
was  twice  married.  His  first  wife.  Elizabeth, 
dying  November  13,  1643,  he  married,  Febru- 
ary 15,  i''>44,  Susannah  Rlodgett.  widow  of 
Thomas   Rlodgett,  of  Cambridge.     She  died 


I'ebruary  10.  1661.  Children:  i.  James,  died 
January  24,  1647,  an  uinnarried  yoiuig  man.  2. 
.Simon,  married  .Mary  Converse  (  Edward,  1  ).  3. 
Olive,  married,  September  3,  1630.  John  Cutler, 
and  died  before  her  father's  death.  4.  Jona- 
than, see  forward. 

James  Thompson  died  i()S2.  at  lite  age  of 
eighty-nine  years.  His  will,  dated  the  last  day 
of  l-'ebruary,  1681  (  meaning,  of  course,  i()8i- 
2),  s|)eaks  of  him  as  being  greatly  stricken  in 
years:  names  his  son.  Jonathan  Thompson,  the 
onl\  child  of  his  then  living;  Sarah  Rednap 
and  Hannah  Horn  (  sisters  ),  his  grandchildren  ; 
John  Cutler  and  Susannah  Eogee  (or  Logan), 
his  grandchildren,  and  his  son  Jonathan's  six 
children  (not  given  by  name  I,  James  Thoni])- 
son,  "niy  grandchild."  and  John  .Sheldon.  Sen- 
ior (  who  married  his  son  .Simon's  widow)  :  his 
son  Jonathan  he  a])points  his  executor;  .Sam- 
uel lUodgett,  Senior,  and  John  Mousall,  over- 
seers, and  he  gave  .Mr.  Blodgctt  "Mr.  Rogers 
his  book."  and  ^Ir.  Mousall.  "a  pair  of  new 
gloves." 

(II)  Jonathan  riii)nii)--on,  son  of  James 
Thompson,  burn  in  I'.ngiand :  died  at  W'o- 
burn. October  20,  ifKji  ;  married,  November 
28.  i()8^.  .Susanna  Rlodgett  (Thomas),  died 
I'ebruary  6.  ir)Q7-8.  a  daughter  of  his  father's 
second  wife  who  bore  her  mother's  name.  He 
inherited  his  father's  homestead.  He  was  the 
first  male  teacher  ever  employed  under  the 
authority  of  the  town  of  \Voburn.  He  was 
also  in  subse(|nent  years  a  constal)le  and  town 
sexton.  Children:  i.  Susannah,  born  July  4. 
1661  :  married,  March  7,  1700,  .\braham  Rob- 
erts, of  Reading.  2.  Jonathan,  born  Sc|)tember 
28,  1663;  see  forward.  3.  James,  born  1666. 
died  young.  4.  James,  born  Jime  27.  1(567; 
married.  October  22.  1(195,  Sarah  Trask.  5. 
Sarah,  born  June  i,  iC^/O:  married,  .April  11. 
iCk)2.  John  .Swan.  Ct.  .Simon,  born  June  15. 
i()73:  married.  Deceniber  t2.  ijoo.  Anna 
I'lUtterfiekl.  7.  Ebenezer.  born  .\ugnst  18. 
1676.  died  I'ebruary  19.   i()97-8.  unmarried. 

(  111  )  Jonatlian  (2)  Thompson,  sfni  of  Jona- 
than ( I  ),  Thoiupson.  born  September  28.  i6()3  : 
dieil  1748;  married  Frances  Whitmore.  daugh- 
ter of  Francis  Whitmore.  of  Cambridge.  He 
was  a  resident  of  W'oburn.  in  the  part  now 
North  W'oburn.  Children:  1.  Jonathan,  born 
I'ebruary  9.  \f)8i()-<)0:  married  first.  September 
3.  1713.  Fhebe  Carter,  of  W'oburn:  married 
second.  .Abiail  I'owle.  of  W'obm-n.  2.  Ilainiah. 
liorn  Jaiuiary  28.  if^f)i-()2;  married  Josiah 
Tierce.  3.  Joseph,  born  October  20.  ^Cv^  :  mar- 
ried. December  30.  1718,  .Sarah  Rradshaw.  of 
Metlford.    4.  James,  born  November  14,  iC^qft; 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


married  Mary  Hancock,  of  Lexington.  5.  Sus- 
annah, born  Jul}-  6,  1699:  married,  March  21, 
1722.  Benjamin  Mead.  6.  Ebenezer,  born 
March  30,  1701  ;  .see  forward.  7.  Mary,  born 
.\ngust  18,  1703;  married  first,  WilHam  Cow- 
dry,  of  Reading;  married  second.  January  20, 
1736-7,  Captain  Isaac  Hartwell,  of  Oxford. 
S.  Samuel.  Ijorn  Sc])tember  <S.  1705;  married 
Ruth  Wright,  of  Woburn.  9.  Patience,  born 
October  25,  1713;  married  Timothy  Lamson. 
of  Concord.  10.  Esther,  married,  1740,  Amos 
Lamson.  11.  Jabez,  married,  November  13, 
1735,  Lydia  Snow.     12.  Daniel,  died  young. 

(I\^)  Ebenezer  Thompson,  son  of  Jonathan 
(2)  Thompson,  born  March  30,  1701  :  died 
1755;  married,  September  27.  1728,  Hannah 
Converse,  born  May  10.  1706.  daughter  of  Caj)- 
tain  Robert  and  Mary  ( Sawyer )  Converse, 
of  Woburn.  He  was  ca])tain  of  the  local  mili- 
tia company  designated  as  the  second  foot 
company  of  the  second  regiment  of  Middlesex 
county,  of  which  regiment  Eleazer  Tyng,  Esq., 
was  colonel.  Thompson's  commission  was 
dated  July  3.  1753.  He  occui)ied  the  house 
now  standing,  known  as  the  Rum  ford  birth- 
I)lace.  ChiUlren :  1.  Hcnjamin.  born  Xovem- 
Ikt  27.  1729:  see  forward.  2.  Ebenezer.  born 
.Se])tember  15,  1731,  graduated  Harvard  Col- 
lege, 1752,  and  became  the  pastor  of  the  church 
at  York.  Maine,  where  he  died  unmarried  in 
'755-  3-  Hannah,  born  September  21.  1734. 
married.  March  8.  1753,  P-enjaniin  Flagg,  of 
Woburn.  4.  Hiram,  born  May  17,  1743;  mar- 
ried. I'V-bruary  3.  1767,  Rriflget  Snow,  of  Wo- 
liurn. 

(\  )  llenjamin  (21  Thom])sun.  s<in  nf  Captain 
Ebenezer     Thompson,     born     November     27. 

1729.  died  Xovcmber  7.  1755:  married.  May 
30,    1752.    Kuth    Simonds,    born    October    10. 

1730.  (lied  at  Baldwin.  Maine.  June  18,  181 1, 
daughter  (jf  Lieutenant  James  and  Mary 
(h'owle)  Simonds;  she  married  second,  Janu- 
ary I,  1756,  Josiah  Pierce,  of  Woburn.  Ben- 
jamin Thompson  died  before  completing  his 
twenty-sixth  year,  and  resided  in  the  house 
of  his  father,  now  known  as  the  Rum  ford 
birthplace.  His  gravestone  is  standing  in  the 
first  burial  ground  of  Woburn.  Child:  i.  Bcn- 
j;unin.  born  March  26,  1753;  see  forward. 

(\'l)  Benjamin  Thoniijson,  son  of  Ik'nja- 
min  Thonipson,  bom  March  26.  1753;  died 
in  Paris.  I'rance,  .August  21.  1814:  married 
first,  .\ovember,  1772.  or  December  25,  1772. 
.Sarah  (Walker)  Rolfe,  widow  of  lienjamin 
Rolfe.  and  daughter  of  Reverend  Timothy  and 
lumice  (  Burbeen  )  Walker,  of  Rumford.  now 
C"oncord,  New  Hampshire;  she  was  born  .\n- 


gnst  6.  1739.  and  died  January  19.  1792.  He 
married  second,  t  >ctober  24.  1805.  Marie  Anne 
Pierrette  (Paulze)  Lavoisier,  born  at  Mont- 
brison,  January  20,  1758,  died  at  Paris,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1836,  daughter  of  IVL  Paulze,  farmer- 
general  of  the  finances,  and  widow  of  Antonie 
Laurent  Lavoisier,  the  famous  chemist  and  dis- 
coverer of  oxygen.  Child:  i.  Sarah,  born 
(Jctober  18.  1774  (?l.  died  at  Concord.  New 
Hampshire.  December  2.  1852. 

His  Simonds  ancestry  is  this:  i.  James 
Simonds,  of  Concord  and  W'oburn.  whose  sec- 
ond wife  was  Judith  (  Phippen  )  Hayward,  to 
whom  he  was  married,  January  18,  1643-4. 
Their  son,  2.  James  Simonds,  born  at  Woburn, 
November  1,  1658,  died  September  15.  1717; 
married.  December  29.  1685.  Susanna  Blodgett 
(Samuel  2.  Thomas  i  ),  died  February  9.  1714- 
I  3.  Their  son,  3.  Lieutenant  James  Simonds, 
born  .November  i,  1686,  died  July  30,  1775, 
in  his  eighty-ninth  year ;  njarried.  June  17, 
1714.  Mary  Fowle  (Captain  James  3.  Lieu- 
tenant James  2,  George  i ).  born  June  18,  1689. 
died  ^larch  9.  1762.  Their  daughter.  Ruth 
.Simonds,  born  October  10,  1730;  married.  May 
30.  1752.  Benjamin  Thompson  (5),  and  was 
the  mother  of  lienjamin  Thompson.  Count 
Rumford. 

His  Converse  ancestry  is  this :  Deacon  Ed- 
ward Converse,  of  Woburn,  son  of  Allen  Con- 
verse, was  the  father  of  Lieutenant  James 
Converse,  who  died  at  Woburn.  May  10.  171 5. 
aged  ninety-five  years ;  married  first.  October 
24,  1643,  .Vnna  f,ong.  of  Charlestown  (Rob- 
ert), born  about  1625,  died  .August  10,  1691. 
Their  son.  Major  Jame.s  Converse,  born  No- 
vember 16.  1645.  (lied  July  8.  1706:  married. 
Tanuarv  i.  1669,  Hannah  Carter  (Captain 
fohn).  born  January  19.  1651.  who  married 
second.  November  22.  1708.  Henry  Summers, 
of  Charlestown.  Their  son  Captain  Robert 
Converse,  born  December  29,  1677,  died  July 
20.  1736;  married.  December  19.  1698.  Mary 
Sawyer,  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Sarah 
(Wright-Potter)  Sawyer.  Their  daughter. 
Hannah  Converse,  born  ^Lay  10.  1706;  married. 
September  27,  1728,  Ebenezer  Thompson  (4). 

(I!v  WiUiani   R.  rultcr.) 

.'^o  nmch  has  been  wriiten 
RC.MI'nKI)  concerning  the  life  of  Count 
Rumfnrd  that  the  principal 
e\ents  in  the  career  of  this  remarkable  man  may 
be  summarized  in  a  ctirsory  manner  geograph- 
ically for  the  sake  of  convenient  reference, 
paying  particular  attention  in  passing,  to  a  few 
facts  or  incidents  that  are  not  generally  known. 


M. A  SSACl  us  1£TTS. 


Replica    of    Statup    of    Count     Rumford     (Benjamin     TIiompHon )   on   r;ioiin(lM  nf    W,,l,uin    Prihllc    Mbiai 


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MASSAC  Hl'SETTS. 


\r  WuKiKX. —  \\"(il)iirn  \\c'i>  the  place  of  his 
birth.  Aside  from  the  date  of  the  event  and 
tlie  names  of  his  parents,  and  the  facts  that  his 
father  died  soon  after  the  birth  of  his  (hstin- 
gnished  son,  and  that  his  mother  soon  married 
again,  almost  nothing  is  actually  known  of  his 
early  childhood.  He  was  brought  up  in  the 
residence  of  his  stepfather.  Josiah  Pierce ; 
attended  the  Woburn  grammar  school,  kept  by 
the  celebrated  master.  John  F'owle  :  was  a  play- 
mate with  younger  members  of  the  Baldwin 
famih'.  his  stepfather's  opposite  neighbors: 
attended  scientific  lectures  at  Harvard  College 
with  i.oammi  Fialdwin.  later  famous  as  a  col- 
onel under  Washington  in  tlie  revolutionary 
war  and  a  projector  of  tlie  .Middlesex  Canal 
and  as  the  namesake  of  the  Baldwin  apple. 

Dr.  (leorge  E.  Ellis,  the  author  of  the  only 
standard  "Life  of  Count  Rumford"  (Memoir 
of  Sir  Benjamin  Thompson.  Count  Rumford, 
with  notices  of  his  daughter.  By  George  E. 
l-^llis.  Published  for  the  American  Academy  of 
.Arts  and  Sciences.  Boston)"  mentions  Rum- 
ford as  dependent  on  his  own  exertions,  with- 
out inherited  means,  or  ])atronage,  or  even  good 
fortune :  and  while  this  may  be  to  some  extent 
true  of  his  early  life  in  W'oburn.  it  was  not 
tnu-  of  his  later  life.  Likewise  it  must  be  ad- 
mitted that  he  had  in  his  early,  as  he  had  in  his 
later  li  fe.  a  lack  of  that  rigid  purity  of  principle, 
which,  as  even  Dr.  Ellis  admits,  would  not 
insure  with  propriet\-  all  his  domestic  relations 
being  the  subject  of  exact  record.  The  cause 
of  these  failings  in  virtue  is  referred  to  the  in- 
fluences he  encountered  on  foreign  soil,  and  to 
foreign  customs  in  such  matters  which  pre- 
vailed in  his  day. 

The  emblazoned  diploma  of  arms  which  he 
received  in  his  thirty-first  year  from  the  King 
of  I'jighmd  when  he  became  a  knight,  states  in 
dignified  terms  that  he  was  the  '"son  oi  Pienja- 
min  Thom])son,  late  of  the  Province  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay.  in  Xew  England.  Gent:  deceased, 
and  one  of  the  most  ancient  families  in  North 
.America :     .     .     .     .     that  his  ancestors  have 


••'The  Life  of  Rumfoni  hy  Prof,  .liuries  K.-nwlik" 
(Spark's  RioRraphy.  linrl  .'^er.,  vol.  V.  >  Is  llie  ne.\t 
consWlorjibh*  .Vincrioan  porfoi-maru-e  oti  the  s\il>jerl. 
Professor  Kenwlek  expresses  oliHgation  for  tlie  tise 
of  a  maiuiseript  helongringr  to  .losiah  Pierce,  half- 
brother  of  Count  Rtimford.  eiititleil  !iv  its  author 
"Outlines  of  the  Family.  Infancy  ami  ChlliUiooil  of 
Renjamin  Thonti>soij.  Count  Ituniford."  This  manu- 
scrl|)t  was  In  e.\istence  in  ISJS.  hut  its  present 
whereabouts  Is  to  us  unkiiown.  .losljih  I*lerce.  half 
brother  of  Count  Itumford.  married  }*liebe.  dauKhler 
of  l>anlel  and  Phebe  (Snowi  Thompson,  of  Woburn. 
His  wife's  father  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  I.#x- 
inRlon  and  Coneoril,  April  13,  177r>.  Por  an  account 
of  their  children  see  "Thompson  Memorial"  (Hoston. 
1887).  p.  50.  This  branch  of  the  Pierce  family  were 
among  the  founders  of  the  present  town  of  Kiiin- 
ford.   Maine. 


ever  livecTin  reputable  situations  in  that  coun- 
try where  he  was  born,  and  have  hitherto  used 
the  arms  of  the  ancient  and  resix-ctable  family 
of  Thomj-yson.  oi  the  county  of  York,  from  a 
constant  tradition  that  they  derived  their  de- 
scent from  that  source." 

He  was  born,  it  is  said,  in  the  we>t  end  of 
the  house  now  standing  at  North  Woburn.  and 
generally  known  by  the  name  of  the  Rumford 
birthplace.  Mis  widowed  mother  was  remar- 
ried when  he  wa>  three  years  old.  and  his  step- 
father took  hi^  new  wife  and  her  child  to 
another  house  not  far  distant,  but  long  since 
removed,  which  stood  opposite,  as  before  said, 
the  present  I  laid  win  mansion. 

The  fact  which  has  been  stated,  ])raticularly 
in  France,  that  the  child's  ste])father  banished 
him  from  his  house  in  his  infancy,  whether 
this  information  be  gotten  from  Count  Rum- 
ford himself  or  not.  must  be  taken  with  much 
allowance  for  the  exuberance  of  the  French 
imagination.  l'"or  it  was  contrary  to  the  usual 
Xew  England  character  and  contrary  to  the  re- 
gard which  Count  Rumford  afterwards  showed 
to  his  mother  and  her  children  born  of  Joseph 
Pierce.  That  his  early  life  was  always  smooth 
we  do  not  pretend  to  assert,  but  that  any  ex- 
cessive cruel  treatment  was  gi^en  the  child, 
that  we  deny.  Making  allowance  for  over- 
colored  statement,  a  few  facts  from  the  Count's 
li]is  are  here  ailvanced  : 

"If  the  death  of  m\-  father  hail  not  contrary 
to  the  order  of  nature,  preceded  that  of  my 
grandfather,  who  gave  all  his  property  to  my 
uncle,  his  second  .son,  I  should  have  lived  and 
died  an  American  husbandman.  Shortly  after 
the  death  of  my  father,  my  mother  contracted 
a  second  marriage  which  proved  for  her  a 
source  of  misfortune.  .\  tyrannical  husband 
took  me  away  from  my  grandfather's  house 
with  her.  1  was  then  a  child  :  my  grandfather, 
who  survived  my  father  only  a  few  months, 
left  me  but  a  very  slender  subsistence.  I  was 
then  launched  at  the  right  time  upon  a  world 
which  was  almost  strange  to  me.  and  I  was 
obliged  to  form  the  habit  of  thinking  and  act- 
ing for  mv>elf  and  of  depending  nii  myself  for 
a  livelihood. 

"Mv  ideas  were  not  yet  fixed:  one  project 
succeeded  another,  and  i)erhaiis  1  should  have 
ao|uired  a  habit  of  indecision  and  inconsist- 
ency. perha])s  I  should  have  been  poor  and  un- 
happy all  my  life,  if  a  k'oiiwii  had  not  loved 
me. —  if  she  had  not  given  me  a  subsistence,  a 
home,  an  iiide|)eiKlent  ftirtune." 

.Anticipating  a  little,  we  continue:  "I  mar- 
ried, or  rather.   1   was  married,  at  the  age  of 


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589 


nineteen.  I  cs]iouse(l  tlie  wiilow  of  a  Colonel 
Kolfe.  (laughter  of  tlie  Rev.  Mr.  Walker,  a 
highly  respectable  minister,  anil  one  of  the  tirst 
settlers  rti  Kuinford.  He  was  already  con- 
nected with  my  family.  He  heartily  approved 
of  the  choice  of  his  daughter,  and  he  himself 
united  our  destinies.  This  e.xcellent  man  be- 
came sincerely  attached  to  me  :  he  directed  my 
studies,  he  formed  my  taste,  and  my  position 
was  in  every  respect  the  most  agreeable  that 
could  possible  be  imagined." 

It  is  admitted  by  I'aron  Cuvier  that  Kum- 
ford  had  informed  him  himself  that  he  would 
have  probably  remaine<l  in  the  modest  condi- 
tion t)f  his  ancestors  if  the  little  fortune  which 
they  had  to  leave  him  had  not  been  lost  during 
his  infanc}'.  Thus  a  misfortune  in  early  life, 
as  in  many  other  cases  was  the  cause  of  his 
.subse(|uent  rei)Utation.  His  grandfather,  from 
whom  he  had  everything  to  expect,  had  given 
all  he  ])os8essed  to  a  younger  son.  leaving  his 
grandson  almost  penniless.  This  and  the  loss 
of  his  father  and  the  second  marriage  of  his 
nK)ther.  and  his  so  stated  removal  from  her 
care.  leads  to  the  conclusion  that  "Xothing 
could  be  more  likely  than  such  a  destitute  cou- 
dition  to  induce  a  premature  display  of  talent." 

These  statements  and  imputations  resting 
apparently  upon  positive  assertions  made  by 
himself,  however,  leave  room  for  supjjosing 
that  his  eulogists,  being  both  of  them  French- 
men, may  have  erred  in  a  matter  of  sentiment, 
bv  e.xaggerated  expressions.  (Ellis,  Life,  p. 
10  I.  Common  re|)utati<jn  gives  him  an  e.xcel- 
lent mother,  who  never  neglected  him.  but  ap- 
])ears  to  have  treated  him  with  a  redcnibled 
love.  His  own  letters  to  her,  when  in  a  state 
of  po])ular  celebrity,  comfort  and  aftluence 
abroad,  in  her  later  years,  are  full  of  affection 
and  tender  regard.  The  alleged  tyranny  of  his 
stei)father  finds  no  statement  on  the  part  of 
the  new  husband's  descendants  as  a  reason  for 
the  justification  of  any  charges  of  that  kind. 
The  stepfather  appears  to  be  in  every  as])ect 
of  the  case  a  kind  and  faithful  husband  and 
took  his  wife's  child  with  her  to  a  new  homr, 
as  already  shown.  The  eldest  son  by  her  sec- 
ond marriage  grew  up  with  the  Count  as  a 
l)layniate  anrl  in  after  life  as  a  correspondent, 
an(i  a  son  of  this  half-brother  never  heard  any- 
thing from  his  father  that  would  warrant  an 
imputation  of  ill  treatment. 

It  is  not  to  be  doubted  from  his  insistent  will 
•  luring  life,  that  he  exercised  tlx'  patience  and 
^vmpathy  of  his  friends  somewliat  severely, 
and  by.  perhaps,  at  the  outset,  a  determined 
unwillingness  to  apply  himself  to  any  routine 


aud  rewarding  work   in  accurdance  wilii  iheir 
old-fashioned  .\'ew  lingland  ideas. 

It  is  evident  from  the  handwriting  of  the 
Count  when  he  was  only  thirteen  years  of  age, 
and  from  the  spelling  and  the  almost  faultless 
grannnatical  expressions  in  his  letters  and  com- 
jjositions  before  he  had  reached  manhood,  and 
from  his  skill  in  accounts  that  he  had  not  only 
remarkable  native  powers,  hut  luul  been  the 
subject  t)f  careful  and  thorougii  training.  Credit 
for  this  is  given  to  his  village  teacher.  .Master 
John  I'owle.  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College  in 
1747.  a  man  of  unusually  good  reputation  in 
this  line  of  work.  The  handwriting  of  Rum- 
ford  was  clear,  strong  and  elegant  in  his  youth, 
and  it  remained  so  through  his  life,  aud  it  has 
been  asserted  that  the  mode  of  instruction 
ihrough  which  young  Rumford  and  his  con- 
temporaries passed  aftOrded  a  su])erior  train- 
ing with  more  signal  results  than  was  realized 
later  under  more  elaborate  ])rovisions  for  ele- 
mentary education.  Rumford  indicated  from 
his  earliest  years  an  intense  mental  inclination 
for  things  scientific  in  their  nature,  and  showed 
a  particular  ardor  for  niathenialics.  and  his 
leisure  was  devoted  to  the  manufacture  of  in- 
genious mechanical  contrivances  leading  early 
in  his  career  to  an  interest  in.  the  deeper  princi- 
])les  of  mechanics  and  natural  philosopjiy.  as  il 
was  then  understood. 

It  is  said  of  him  that  he  was  for  a  time  a 
pupil  in  a  school  at  I'.yfield.  under  the  charge 
of  a  relative :  that  he  was.  when  eleven  years 
old.  put  under  the  care  of  an  able  teacher  in 
Medford.  named  Hill:  that  in  1766  he  was 
apprenticed  to  a  Air.  John  .\ppleton.  of  Salem, 
an  imjjorter  of  foreign  goods,  and  a  bill  for 
goods  bought  from  his  store  and  receijjted  by 
Rumford  when  he  was  only  fourteen  years  old 
is  remarkable  for  grace  of  penmanship,  mer- 
cantile style,  and  business-like  signature.  I'ut 
his  career  in  Salem  is  to  be  treated  separately, 
and  we  pass  on  to  a  later  date  in  Woburn. 

In  1771  yoiuig  Rumford  began  the  study  of 
medicine  with  Dr.  John  Hay.  of  Woburn.  lie 
ai)pears  to  have  been  a  boarder  in  his  house 
from  December  15,  1770,  to  June  15.  1772.  Dr. 
I  lay  lived  on  the  estate  now  known  as  the  Kim- 
ball estate,  732  Main  street.  Central  Square, 
and  his  house  at  a  later  date  was  called  the 
"I'llack  House,"  and  was  standing  as  late  as 
1854,  Dr.  Hay  returned  about  1780  to  his 
native  town  of  Reading,  where  his  father  was 
alsf>  a  phvsician.  While  boarding  at  Dr.  Hay's, 
Rumford  attended  Mr.  Winthrop's  lectures  at 
Cambridge  C1771)  and  irom  December  9.  I77r, 
to  February  3,  1772.  he  was  keeping  school  at 


5'jo 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


Wilniingtcjii.  In  March  and  April,  1772,  he 
was  (IcMiig  the  same.  .And  in  June,  1772,  he 
was  absent  for  the  [tart  of  a  week  at  Bradford, 
probably  arranging  for  work  of  a  similar  kinil, 
as  he  is  credited  with  having  been  a  teacher 
there. 

The  following  is  an  account  of  the  division 
of  his  time  while  a  student  at  Dr.  Hays  :  "From 
eleven  at  night  to  si.x  in  the  morning,  sleep.  At 
six.  arise,  and  wash  my  hands  and  face.  T'Vom 
si.x  to  eight,  morning,  exercise  one-half  and 
study  one  half  the  time.  Eight  to  ten  .A.  M., 
breakfast,  attend  prayers.  From  ten  to  twelve, 
study  all  the  time.  From  twelve  to  one,  dine. 
From  one  to  four,  study  constantly.  From 
four  to  five,  relieve  my  min<l  by  some  diversions 
or  exercises.  From  five  till  bedtime,  follow 
what  my  inclination  leads  me,  whether  it  be  to 
go  abroad,  or  stay  at  home  and  read  either 
anatomy,  physic,  or  chemistry,  or  any  book  I 
want  to  peruse."  His  studies  while  at  Dr. 
Hay's  were  divided  into  days.  The  list  was 
anatomy,  jihysic,  surgery,  chemistry  and  the 
materia  medica. 

The  above  data  are  taken  from  minutes  maile 
by  Rum  ford  himself  at  the  time.  Through  the 
intluence  of  llaldwin  he  obtained  with  his  friend 
tlie  jirivilege  of  attending  Professor  W'intlirop's 
lectures  at  Cambridge,  neither  young  man  being 
a  regular  student  at  the  college  there.  It  is 
said  that  they  walked  to  and  from  the  place  to 
their  homes  at  Woburn,  and  were  in  the  habit 
of  repeating  the  experiments  witnessed,  with 
rude  apparatus  of  their  own  contrivance,  at 
their  homes  afterward. 

The  exact  time  when  Rum  ford  taught  school 
in  liradford  is  not  definitely  stated,  but  it  was 
some  time  in  the  year  1772,  His  experience 
here  led  to  his  being  appointed  in  the  same  year 
u>  the  mastership  of  a  school  in  Concord,  New 
I  lampshire,  then  known  as  a  town  by  the  name 
of  Rumford  :  but  his  arrival  there  was  followed 
by  his  s]ieedy  marriage. 

It  is  our  intention  to  ignore  the  various  tradi- 
tions which  have  befogged  the  actions  of  Count 
Rumford  in  Woburn  about  the  time  of  the 
battle  of  Lexington  and  Concord,  .\pril  10. 
1775,  and  present  only  an  extract  from  a  letter 
of  tiiat  time  which  has  a  very  pointed  reference 
to  him  in  connection  with  his  arrest  on  that 
date,  while  he  was  at  his  mother  Pierce's  house 
in  Xorth  Woburn.  by  a  military  company  of 
the  town  when  he  was  confined  there  by  an  ill- 
ness, probably  the  one  he  mentions  in  his  letter 
of  October  i.  1775.  which  we  have  (|uoted  else- 
where. He  said.  "1  came  out  of  P.oston  a  few 
davs  before  the  affair  at  T.exington."  having 


"enjoyed,  since  1  left  Boston  a  very  indifferent 
share  of  health."  it  is  supposed  then  that  he 
took  refuge  at  his  mother's,  and  was  ill  there 
on  the  day  of  April  K>,  as  before  hinftd.  The 
quotation  from  the  other  letter  mentioned  is 
here  presented.  It  is  an  autograph  letter  from 
Major  Josiah  Johnson  to  James  Fowle,  Esq., 
dated  September  9,  1775.  both  influential  men 
of  middle  life  in  the  then  town  of  Woburn:" 
"The  town  of  Woburn  upon  the  shortest 
notice  mustered  and  marched  180  brave  men. 
well  equipped,  for  the  assistance  and  relief  of 
their  distressed  lirethren  at  Concord,  whither 
the  Ministerial  troops  had  stolen  their  march 
for  the  destruction  of  our  magazine  there  de- 
])osited.  whose  heroic  deeds  untler  the  prudent 
conduct  of  Cajjtain  Jonathan  l""ox  and  others 
(on  the  emergency  of  the  19th  of  April  last) 
greatly  added  to  the  glorious  achievements  of 
that  memorable  day.  .  .  Though  we  don't 
find  this  Captain  P'ox  justly  charged  with  the 
illboding  conduct  of  promoting  the  escape  of 
a  supposed  enemy  that  day  ca])tivated  and  com- 
mitted to  safekeeping  by  the  heroism  of  others, 
wlK)se  worthy  deeds  justly  entitled  them  to  a 
much  better  fortune ;  a  fact  notoriously  re- 
gretted."* 

His  release  is  credited  and  probably  correctly 
to  the  intluence  of  his  friend  Baldwin.  He  had 
his  trial  later.  Woburn  is  only  five  miles  from 
Lexington,  and  hesitation  on  the  part  of  any 
man  to  go  to  the  field  on  Lexington's  battle- 
(lav  was,  under  the  excitement  which  prevailed, 
a  dangerous  thing  to  display.  It  is  commonly 
believed  that  every  able-boilied  Woburn  man 
was  present  in  the  engagement,  and  the  excuses 
of  the  few  left,  who  did  not  go,  were  rigidly 
inquired  into,  and  Rum  ford's  case  among  the 
rest.  The  appearance  of  a  militia  company 
before  his  house  on  the  evening  of  that  day  and 
its  object,  is  clearly  ex))lained  by  the  letter 
which  We  have  (|uoted.  Rumford  was  indeed 
favored  by  having  influential  friends  through- 
out the  wiiole  of  liis  career. 

In  a  letter  written  from  Woburn,  May  11. 
1775,  he  says.  "Since  Mrs.  Thomp.son  has  been 
.-It  Wol)urn  she  has  been  very  unwell,  which 
has  prevented  her  coming  to  Concord  this  week 
as  was  proposed."  On  May  iTi.  following,  he 
was  arrested  in  Woburn.  and  his  trial  was  ap- 
pointed at  the  meeting-house  in  the  first  parish 
of  that  town,  on  Thursday.  May  18.  at  two 
P.  M.     P.aUlwin  states  in  his  diary  that  Rum- 


•In  the  ".Journals  of  the  Piovlncial  Coiigre.ss  is 
pieservetl  a  petition  of  Count  Rumford  in  reference 
to  liis  trial  at  Woburn  In  May.  1775.  It  contains 
nothluK    new    in     idea,    however,    beyond    what    we 

lirosent. 


MASSACIKSI-nTS. 


5')i 


ford  was  taken  up.  as  a  Tor\ .  but  nothing  was 
found  against  him.  and  the  court  adjourned  to 
the  following  Monilay.  The  final  action  in  his 
case  is  preserved  by  his  friend  Haldwin,  in 
words  that  show  that  the  W'obiirn  committee 
having  charge  of  the  case  reported  that  they 
did  not  tind  in  any  one  instance  that  the  accused 
had  shown  a  "disiiosition  unfriendly  to  Amer- 
ican Liberty."  but  that  his  general  behavior 
had  ■"evinced  the  direct  contrary."  ( Dated 
"Woburn.  in  the  Province  of  .Massachusetts 
I'>ay.  29th  May.  1775"). 

It  ajipears  after  liis  release  that  Rumford  re- 
mained in  this  vicinity.  On  June  4.  1775,  he 
viewed  the  military  works  at  Boston,  in  com- 
l)any  with  Baldwin  (then  an  .Vmerican  major) 
from  Lechmere's  F'oint,  Cambridge,  and  on 
June  13  Baldw-in  reports  that  "Major  Thomp- 
son went  to  Woburn."  He  was  still  in  this 
vicinity  in  .\ugust.  1775.  In  that  month  he 
decided  t(->  (|uit  the  country.  lie  made  all  his 
arrangements  with  deliberate  jjreparation.  .\fter 
making  his  decision  he  remained  tw(j  months 
in  and  about  Woburn.  and  on  October  13.  1775. 
accompanied  by  his  stepbrother,  Josiah  Pierce, 
he  started  from  Woburn  in  a  country  vehicle, 
and  drove  near  to  the  bounds  of  the  province, 
on  the  shore  of  the  Xarragansett  Kay.  whence 
young  Pierce  returned.  Rumford  was  then 
taken  by  a  boat  on  board  the  ".Scarborough." 
a  British  frigate  which  lay  in  the  harbor  of 
.Newport. 

The  following  apology  for  his  unpo|>ularity 
among  the  .\mericans  at  the  opening  of  the 
revolutionary  war  w-as  written  about  1847  by 
a  .Sc(;tchman.  and  published  in  "Chambers  Mis- 
cellany." (X.  5).  His  position  comes  as  near 
tiie  truth  as  we  shall  ever  know. 

"The  truth."  says  this  writer,  "seems  to  be 
that  not  only  was  Thompson,  as  a  man  in  com- 
fortable circumstances,  was  fond  of  the  con- 
>ideration  and  oi)])orlunities  of  enjoyment 
which  they  afforded  him,  averse  to  any  dis- 
turbance, such  as  a  war  between  the  colonies 
;:nd  the  mother  country  would  cause,  but  that 
his  con>titution  and  temperament,  his  liking 
foi  calm  intellectual  f)ursuits.  disc|ualified  him 
from  taking  part  in  ])olitical  agitation.  .Many 
men  who  have  distinguished  themselves  in  liter- 
ature and  science  have,  as  a  matter  of  principle, 
kei)t  themselves  aloof  from  the  controversies 
and  political  dissensions  of  their  time,  alleging 
that,  however  important  such  f|uestions  might 
be.  it  was  not  in  discussing  them  that  their 
powers  could  be  employefl  to  most  advantage. 
In  the  case  of  Thompson,  however,  who  as  yet 
had  not  begun  to  lay  claim  to  the  character  of 


.1  man  devoicd  to  scientific  piusuits.  his  coun- 
trymen thought,  not  altogether  unreasonablv. 
lliat  they  hail  groimds  of  complaint.  What 
enipk>yment  was  he  engaged  in.  tiiat  he  ought 
to  lie  e.\em|)ted  from  tlie  duty  of  a  citizen — 
that  of  taking  interest  in  public  affairs?  So, 
l>robably.  the  most  candid  and  considerate  of 
the  .\merican  patriots  reasoned  ;  and  as  for 
the  great  mass  of  the  [lopulacc,  they  condemned 
hmi  in  the  usual  summary  maimer  in  which 
the  public  judges." 

( "olonel  P)aldwin.  his  intimate  friend,  writing 
in  1805,  confirms  the  idea  of  his  iiidilTerence : 
"I'Vom  this  general  view  of  the  conduct  of 
."^iajor  Thompson  and  his  manner  of  leaving 
.America,  some  may  have  received  unfavorable 
impressions  of  his  character.  liut  he  had  never 
made  politics  his  study  and  never  ])erlia])s  seri 
ously  considered  the  origin  and  progress  of  the 
contest:  and  if  he  sought  for  employment 
against  his  countrymen,  he  had  sufficient  o])- 
portunities  of  being  gratified."* 

.\t  Sai.icSi. —  Rumford  as  a  youth  was  a])- 
prcnticed  tn  a  merchant  in  Salem,  October  14. 
1706.  lie  li\e(l  in  his  master's  family  as  a 
member  of  the  household.  It  was  here,  it  is 
said,  that  he  was  interested  in  ])layingthe  fiddle, 
an  instrument  u])on  which  he  was  a  skillful 
performer.  I  Ktc  lie  cimtinued  until  about 
( )ctober.  17(111.  All  enlightened  minister,  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Barnard,  gave  him  his  friendshi]) 
and  encouragement.  .\s  he  says,  himself.  "The 
father  of  one  of  my  companions,  a  very  respect- 
able minister,  and,  besides,  very  enlightened 
fby  name  Barnard)  gave  me  his  friendship, 
and  of  his  own  jiromptiiig,  undertook  to  in- 
struct me.  He  taught  me  algebra,  geometry, 
astronomy,  and  even  the  higher  mathematics. 
Before  the  age  of  fourteen.  1  had  made  suffi- 
cient progress  in  this  class  of  studies  to  be  able 
without  liis  aid.  and  even  without  his  knowl- 


•The  reader  Is  referred  to  the  life  by  Profegsor 
Uenwkk  (Sp.irk's  RIojrraphle.s )  for  many  particu- 
lars ripardliiR  Itiiinfiprir.-*  lift-  In  Wolmrii  and  .Salem. 
ba.Med  ,'ipparontl.\-  fin  Ihe  statements  In  the  manu- 
script of  .loslah  Pierce  (half-lirother )  already 
referred  to  In  a  previous  note.  These  statements 
are  repeated  In  the  article  on  Count  Uumforrl  In 
the  "Chanihers  Miscellany,"  published  about  1S47. 
While  very  InlerestInK  we  have  omitted  them  here, 
because  of  their  evidently  overcolored  and  tradi- 
tionary character.  One  of  them  was.  ami  the  truth 
of  It  "we  do  not  deny,  that  the  Woburn  ineetln(r- 
house  was  "crowded  ta  Us  ver.v  doors  at  the  lime  lils 
trial  was  held.  This  meeting-house  then  stood  on 
tile  present  Woburn  Common,  and  was  within  a 
short  distance  of  the  spot  where  Uuinford's  admir- 
able statue  now  stands. 

Itenwick's  work  when  compared  with  Rumford's 
memoranda  i>resented  In  the  latter  work  of  Rills, 
shows  many  inaccura<'les  In  dates,  though  bis  state- 
ments are  in  other  respects  correil.  This  refers  to 
slaiemenis  of  fact  rexardlnp  the  events  of  his  life 
In  America.  It  Is  sujiposed  that  Itenwick  used  the 
Important  part  of  the  Pierce  manuscript  and  the 
Ijaldwln   article  i{f   lS(ir..   which    he   refers   to. 


592 


AIASSACIU'SI-ITTS. 


edge,  tu  calculate  ami  trace  rightly  the  elements 
ofa  solar  ecliijse.  We  observed  it  together, 
and  my  computation  was  correct  within  four 
seconds.  1  sliall  never  forget  the  intense  pleas- 
ure which  this  success  alYorded  me,  nor  the 
praises  which  it  drew  from  him.  I  had  been 
destined  for  trade,  but  after  a  short  trial  my 
tliirst  for  knowledge  became  inextinguishable, 
and  1  coidd  not  apply  myself  to  anything  but 
ni\   favorite  objects  of  study." 

While  in  .Salem  he  had  premission  to  make 
occasional  visits  to  W'oburn,  and  walked  one 
night  from  there  to  show  his  friend  Baldwin 
])aits  of  a  machine  he  had  made  in  the  direction 
of  solving  the  principle  of  "jjerpetual  motion." 
His  services  to  his  employer  at  Salem  becom- 
ing less  necessary,  owing  to  the  obstructions 
imposed  upon  trade  before  the  opening  of  the 
revolutionary  war,  he  was  sent  to  Boston  and 
apprenticed  to  a  similar  business  to  that  he 
had  been  at  Salem. 

In  LSosto.v. —  In  I'.oston  he  was  placed  as  an 
ajijirentice  clerk  with  a  Mr.  llopiestill  Capen, 
a  dr\-goo(ls  dealer.  This  was  in  the  autumn 
of  I/Cxj.  Here  he  attended  a  I'Vench  evening 
school  for  the  purpose  of  learning  that  lan- 
guage, but  his  stay  in  Boston  was  short,  owing 
to  the  falling  off  in  business  caused  by  the  de- 
pression of  the  times.  Dr.  Ellis  gives  a  number 
of  instances  of  Rumford's  precocity  during  the 
period  of  his  stay  in  Salem  and  Boston,  but 
thev  are  mostly  of  a  character  of  which  Rum- 
ford  would  be  ashamed  in  his  after  life.* 

,Vr  Co.vcoKi),  .\k\v  IIami'siiirk. — .An  im- 
mature lad  of  nineteen,  Rumford  married  a 
wealtln-  widow  of  thirty-three.  .She  had  been 
married  when  about  thirty  to  an  elderly  bache- 
lor of  about  sixty.  She  was  the  daughter  of  a 
clergyman,  and  the  facts  of  their  union  have 
been  given  in  the  genealogy  i)receding  this 
article.  The  widow's  husband  died  December 
21.  1 77 1-  The  date  of  her  second  marriage  is 
said  to  have  l)een  about  November.  1772,  and 
it  is  also  related  that  his  mother's  consent  was 
obtained  in  the  course  of  a  rather  sensational 
journey  on  the  part  of  the  couple  to  her  abode 
in  W'oburn.  I'.ut  this  is  a  matter  of  tradition. 
.Something  more  definite  is  this:  His  friend 
r.aldwin  writes  of  him  at  this  period  as  a  i)er- 
son  of  a  "fine  manly  make  and  figure,  nearly 
six  feet  in  height,  of  liandsome  features.  l)riglit 
blue  eyes,  and  dark  auburn  hair."  He  seems  to 
have  been  satisfactorv  to  his  Concord  friends 


•Those  Incidents  are  also  relateil  with  even  more 
fullness  of  detail  by  Renwiok.  The  most  Important 
was  his  narrow  esinjie  from  serlovis  Injury  and  the 
loss  of  his  life  In  iin  ixplosion  of  Kunpowder  with 
which  he  was  pri-parliiK  some  fireworks  for  a  cele- 
hratlon. 


a>  a  teacher,  and  in  a  letter  from  tiiete  to  liis 
mother  in  W'oburn  he  writes,  "I  have  had  ic/) 
scholars  at  my  school,  but  only  have  seventy  at 
once." 

Owing  to  the  infiuence  and  activity  of  his 
wife,  Rumford  soon  shone  in  Xew  Hampshire 
ccilonia!  society,  and  at  a  military  review  at 
Hover,  ten  miles  from  I'ortsmouth,  at  which 
both  were  jjresent,  on  the  13th  of  .November, 
1772,  he  attracted  the  attention  of  the  royal 
governor,  to  wdiom  he  was  introduced,  and  on 
the  following  day  was  a  guest  at  his  table.  The 
result  was  a  commission  as  major  in  the  militia, 
conferred  bv  the  governor  on  the  future  Count. 
This  commission  was  bestowed  on  Rumfcjnl 
over  the  heads  of  men  in  the  line  of  promotion, 
and  resulted,  for  political  and  military  reasons, 
in  his  becoming  the  subject  of  jealous  feeling 
and  hostile  criticism.  So  far  as  is  known  he 
was  at  that  time  devoid  of  both  military  knowl- 
edge and  ex]ierience.  It  was  not  so  afterwards. 
.And  whatever  may  be  said,  it  was  the  opinion 
of  the  men  of  that  day  that  Rumford  from  the 
outset  of  his  military  career  was  at  heart  a 
loxalist :  and  W'entworth.  the  governor  to  whom 
he  was  indebted  for  his  ri.se  to  military  rank, 
\va>  the  last  royal  governor  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. 1  low  much  ( and  doubtless  it  was  much) 
feminine  infiuence  may  have  helped  to  secure 
his  elevation  to  office  is  not  determined.  It  is 
eviilent  to  the  most  superficial  observer  that 
his  wife's  influence  W'as  a  potent  factor  in 
bringing  about  the  result.  Her  father  and 
brother  were  staunch  suj)])orters  of  the  .Ameri- 
can side  in  the  revolution,  and  it  is  likely  her 
notions  afterwards  were  never  again  urged 
either  on  one  side  or  the  other  of  the  contro- 
versy. 

I'\ir  a  time,  about  1773.  Rumford  became  a 
gentleman  farmer  on  his  wife's  estate.  He 
had  broad  acres  to  till  and  emjiloyed  many 
lalxirers.  To  Baldwin  he  wrote  in  the  middle 
of  julv.  1773.  "1  am  engageil  in  husbandry." 
In  .\ugust.  1774,  he  wrote;  "I  have  been  ex- 
tremely busy  this  summer,  or  I  should  have 
given  myself  the  pleasure  of  coming  to  .see 
yon." 

.\l  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  where  his 
family  connections  were  the  most  ])owerful  set 
among  the  inhabitants,  Rumford  was  protected 
for  a  time  b\  their  intluence.  1  lowever.  by  the 
people  at  large  he  was  distrusted.  He  was 
summoned  before  a  committee  at  Concord  in 
the  summer  of  1774  to  answer  to  the  suspicion 
of  "being  unfriendly  to  the  cause  of  Liberty," 
ami  he  ])ositively  denietl  the  charge,  and  chal— 
leuged  proof.     No  (iroceeding  ensued  against 


MASSACHLsi-yrrs. 


593 


him,  ami  he  was  tlischarjjcd.  In  XoveiiibiT. 
1774,  a  nn>li  gathered  rhuuI  his  dweUiiig  and 
(lemanded  his  appearance,  llad  Rnniford  been 
within  lie  would  have  been  foully  dealt  with, 
lint  he  had  secretly  left  Concord  just  before. 
Mis  wife  and  her  brother  Colonel  Walker,  came 
forth  and  assured  the  mob  that  her  husband 
was  not  in  town,  and  the  gathering  dispersed. 

Rumford  thought  it  was  to  be  only  a  tem- 
porary separation  from  the  place.  His  wife 
and  infant  child  were  with  him  afterwards  at 
Woburn  and  Boston,  but  his  separation  from 
Concord  was  perpetual.  He  found  himself 
unsafe  at  Woburn.  and  next  sought  safety  in 
Ch.Hrlestown.  and  on  his  own  admission  he 
boarded  in  Boston  (the  seat  of  a  British  army) 
until  a  few  days  before  the  19th  of  .April,  1775. 
These  facts  are  obtained  from  an  interesting 
letter  of  Rumford's.  in  which,  seeking  for  his 
goods,  he  gives  incidentally  an  account  of  his 
movements  at  the  beginning  of  the  revolution, 
."•■eijarating  these  facts  from  the  vagaries  of 
tradition,  one  gets  a  much  clearer  idea  of  the 
truth. 

October  1.  1775.  "I  came  out  of  Boston  a 
:ew  days  before  the  affair  at  Lexington  on  the 
19th  .\pril.  and  have  since  not  been  able  to  re- 
turn. When  I  left  the  town  I  little  imagined 
that  a  return  would  be  thus  difficult,  or,  rather 
impossible,  and  therefore  took  no  care  to  pro- 
vide for  such  a  contingency.  .  .  .  T  can- 
not conclude  without  informing  you  that  since 
1  left  Boston  I  have  enjoyed  but  a  very  in- 
ditterent  share  of  health.  .  .  .  Since  the 
12th  of  .-\ugust  I  have  been  confined  to  my 
room  the  greatest  part  of  the  time,  and  this  is 
the  nineteenth  day  since  I  have  had  a  settled 
fever  upon  me,  which  I  fear  is  not  come  to  a 
cr'sis  yet.  ...  I  have  not  been  out  of  the 
Frovince  of  Massachusetts  Bay  since  I  saw 
vou.  Mrs.  Thompson  and  little  Sally*  were 
with  me  during  the  month  of  May,  since  which 
time  I  have  not  had  the  jileasure  of  seeing 
either  at  them." 

The  events  in  Rumford's  life  after  the  few 
days  before  the  19th  of  April.  1775,  when  the 
struggle  actually  began  which  separated  the 
l'nite<l  .States  of  .America  from  the  English 
government,  are  continued  under  the  heading 
"Woburn"  in  this  article. 

Gricat  Brit.mn'. — .After  boarding  a  I'.ritish 
frigate  in  the  harbor  of  Newport,  Rmiiford 
sailed  in  her  to  Boston,  anrl  remained  there 
until  the  evacuation  of  that  town  by  the  British 
forces,  of  which  event  he  was  the  bearer  of 
tidings  to  England.     Henceforward  to  the  end 

•For  more  ;ihout   thi.i  rlaughler.  nee  heyonrl. 
ii— 3 


i)f  the  uar  he  was  in  the  service  of  the  Briti-'^h 
government.  Tlie  intelligence  of  the  evacua- 
tion was  made  jniblic  in  London  in  .May,  1776, 
liut  it  is  sup])osed  that  through  Rumford's 
agency  the  event  had  been  known  to  the  gov- 
ernment before.  There  will  be  no  further 
aitem])t  in  this  article  to  trace  minutely  his 
future  movements  or  to  palliate  his  motives. 
( >n  the  occasion  of  his  arrival,  "by  the  clear- 
ness of  his  details  and  the  gracefulness  of  his 
manners,  he  insinuated  himself  so  far  into  the 
graces  of  Lord  (ieorge  (iermaine  that  he  took 
him  into  his  em])loyment."  In  1779  he  was 
elected  a  fellow  of  the  Royal  Society.  In  1780 
he  wa^  made  "I'nder  .Secretary  of  State  for 
the  Xorthern  Deiiartment."  and  the  oversight 
of  all  the  ])ractical  details  for  recruiting.  C(|uiii- 
|)ing.  transporting  and  victualling  the  Ih-itish 
forces,  and  many  other  incidental  arrange- 
ments, was  committed  to  him.  He  held  this 
office  about  a  year.  He  ne.xt  sought  active 
service  in  the  British  army,  and  he  was  on  the 
.American  side  of  the  ocean  in  1782.  and  he 
was  honored  at  the  aged  of  twent\'-eight  with 
the  commission  in  the  iiritish  army  of  a  lieu- 
tenant-colonel. He  provided  for  himself  by 
raising  a  regiment  among  the  loyal  Americans. 
or  Tories,  of  his  native  land.  He  himself  said, 
he  "went  to  .America  to  command  a  regiment 
of  cavalry  which  he  had  raised  in  that  country 
for  the  King's  service.''  He  disembarked  at 
Charleston.  .Soudi  Carolina,  passed  the  winter 
there,  led  his  corps  often  against  the  enemy, 
and  was  always  successful  in  his  enterprises. 
Here  he  had  the  reputation  of  defeating  the 
famous  Marion's  brigade,  when  its  commander 
was  absent,  who,  however,  came  in  season  to 
take  part  in  the  action,  but  had  the  mortifica- 
tion of  witnessing  the  discomfiture  of  his  little 
l)an(l.  In  the  s[)ring  of  1782  Rumford  sailed 
from  Charleston  to  New  ^'ork,  and  took  com- 
mand of  his  regiment  there  awaiting  him,  and 
passed  the  winter  with  his  command  at  llimt- 
ington.  Long  Island.  It  has  been  asserted,  and 
ap))arently  with  truth,  that  he  was  merely 
(|uartered  there  from  having  nothing  to  do 
elsewhere.  Cornwallis  liad  already  surrendered, 
and  Rumford,  by  leave  of  absence  date<l  .\i)ril 
J  I,  178^,  returned  direct  to  England,  where  he 
was  advanced  to  a  colonelcy,  and  thus  secured 
half-|)ay  on  the  British  establishment  for  the 
remainder  of  his  life. 

I\  Gkrmanv. — Rumford,  on  his  return  from 
.America,  readily  obtained  leave  of  the  King  to 
visit  the  continent.  He  accordingly  left  Eng- 
land in  September.  1783.  He  arrived  at  Stras- 
burg,   where  the   I'rince   Maximilian  of   Deux 


594 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


Fonts,  llic'ii  held-niarshal  in  tlic  service  of 
France,  and  later  Elector  of  Bavaria,  was  in 
garrison,  who,  when  commanding  on  parade, 
saw  among  the  spectators  an  officer  in  a  f(jreign 
uniform,  mounted  on  a  fine  English  horse, 
whom  he  addressed.  The  officer  was  Rum  ford, 
and  thus  began  an  act|uaintance  which  had  a 
decisive  influence  on  his  future  career.  The 
Elector  of  Bavaria,  Charles  Theodore,  uncle  to 
the  above  I'rince  Maximilian,  gave  Runiford 
an  earnest  invitation  to  enter  into  his  service 
in  a  joint  military  and  civil  capacity.  The 
English  King  granted  Rumford  the  permission 
desired,  and  also  conferred  on  him  the  honor 
of  knighthood.  He  therefore  entered,  at  Mun- 
ich, in  1784,  on  the  service  of  the  Elector.  His 
labors  ranged  from  subjects  of  the  homeliest 
nature  in  relation  to  the  common  people,  up  to 
the  severest  tests  and  experiments  in  the  inter- 
ests of  practical  science.  On  his  arrival  the 
Elector  appointed  him  colonel  of  a  regiment  of 
cavalry  and  general  aide-de-camp.  He  soon 
learned  that  the  development  of  resources  and 
the  reform  of  abuses  were  the  emergent  needs 
of  the  Electorate.  He  made  reforms  in  the 
army  and  for  the  removal  of  mendicity.  The 
manner  of  their  accomplishment  has  been  a 
"honsehold  tale"  for  a  century  and  a  (|uarter.* 
In  1788  the  Elector  made  him  a  I'najor -gen- 
eral of  cavalry  and  privy  councillor  of  state. 
He  was  put  at  the  head  of  the  war  department. 
He  was  raised  in  1791  to  the  rank  of  a  Count 
of  the  1  loly  Roman  Empire,  and  selected  as  his 
title  the  former  name  of  the  village  in  his  own 
native  country,  where  he  had  first  enjoyed  the 
favors  of  fortune, — that  is,  Rumford;  and, 
criticize  as  one  may,  this  distinction  was  won 
by  merit.  In  1796  he  published  his  Essays — 
altogether  on  scientific  subjects — in  London. 
He  had  by  1797,  "by  his  own  exertions  acquired 
a  sufficiency"  not  only  for  his  own  "comfort- 
able su|)port"  during  liis  life,  but  also  to  enable 
him  to  make  a  handsome  provision  for  his 
daughter.  He  was  therefore  willing  to  re- 
nounce all  claims  he  might  have  on  his  late 
wife's  estate,  and  engage  his  daughter  to  do  so. 
He  insisted,  however,  on  the  exchange  of  re- 
ceipts. His  fame  was  also  by  this  time  well 
established  in  America.  The  property  of  his 
deceased  wife  came  for  the  most  ]iart  from 
her  former  husband,  and  would  go  mainly  to 
her  son  b\'  him.  .\  jiortion  of  the  widow's 
dower  which  she  had  enjo)-ed  as  Mrs.  Thomp- 
son, would  legallv  descend  tn  Rumfnrd's  daugli- 


•Hi.-i  career  wa.s  B'eallv  i)()piilarlze(i.  paitloularl.v 
In  .-Xmerlca.  by  an  article  in  "Cliamber.s  Misconany.*' 
which  appeared   in   tlie  \eai'   1S47. 


ter  jjy  her.  On  the  event  of  a  satisfactory 
arrangement  with  her  relatives  the  Count 
agreed  to  assume  the  whole  responsibility  of 
her  maintenance  thereafter,  and  of  provision 
for  her  survi\'al,  and  that  he  would  influence 
her  to  make  a  will  in  which  in  the  event  of  her 
death  all  she  received  from  these  relatives 
\vi  nld  be  returned  to  them  or  to  their  heirs. 
Her  grandfather  \\'alker  left  her  a  legacy  of 
£140,  to  be  received  when  she  was  married  or 
when  she  was  eighteen  years  of  age.  It  is 
understood  that  all  these  matters  wereadju.sted 
in  a  satisfactory  manner.  Rumford's  foreign 
duties,  however,  and  his  obligations  to  the 
Elector,  debarred  him  from  serving  in  certain 
positions  in  England,  and  especially  in  the  posi- 
tion of  Minister  Plenipotentiary  from  Bavaria 
to  the  Court  of  Great  Britain,  to  which  he  had 
been  appointed,  it  being  contrary  to  the  rules 
1(1  receive  in  that  capacity  from  another  coun- 
tr_\'  a  r.ritish  subject.  .\t  the  age  of  forty-five 
Count  Rumford  had  attained  the  climax  of  his 
political  services. 

Co.N'CLUsiON. — From  1800  to  the  date  of  his 
death  in  a  suburb  of  Paris,  August  21,  1814. 
Count  Rumford's  career  furnishes  less  interest 
for  Americans.  He  was  engaged  in  1799  in 
the  establishment  of  a  new  scientific  institution 
in  London,  called  the  Royal  Institution  of  Great 
liritain,  on  a  plan  regarded  exclusively  as  his 
own.  He  had  reasons  for  believing  that  his 
official  position  in  Bavaria  would  no  longer 
yield  the  fruits  it  had  previously  enjoyed,  and 
so  he  turned  his  attention  more  strictly  to  the 
pursuits  of  science.  It  is  not  our  intention  to 
enlarge  on  this,  as  there  is  plenty  of  published 
material  at  hand  for  any  one  who  is  interested 
to  investigate  it.  .\  significant  incident  in  con- 
nection with  the  name  of  his  .American  birth- 
place, was  his  visit  with  his  friend  Pictet  to 
Woburn  .Abbey,  England,  in  the  year  1801. 
He  was  in  Paris  before  1807.  Previously,  in 
1803,  he  contracted  a  marriage  with  the  rich 
widow  of  a  celebrated  French  chemist.  The 
money  settled  upon  him  by  his  second  wife,  or 
its  remainder,  he  left  by  will  to  dilTerent  insti- 
tutions; the  reversion  of  half  his  1  bavarian  |)cn- 
sion  he  left  to  his  daughter.  Owing  to  incom- 
patibility of  dis]xisitions  the  couple  separated 
hv  mutual  agreement  in  1809.  The  state  of 
war  in  Europe  aggravated  his  troubles  and  those 
of  his  second  wife  bv  preventing  their  contem- 
[ilated  travels  for  ])leasure. 

The  subject  with  which,  as  a  physicist,  he 
w  as  chiefl}'  engaged  was  the  nature  and  eft'ects 
of  heat.  .A  superb  Ijronze  statute  of  him  was 
set  up  in  1867.  in  one  of  the  public  squares  of 


iL\SSACH  LSF.TTS. 


595 


Municli.  and  a  replica,  the  gift  of  a  private 
citizen,  was  in  i,S<;9  erected  in  W'olnirn. 

His  daugliter.  Sarah  Rum  ford,  sailed  from 
Boston  for  London  in  the  winter  of  1796.  to 
see  her  father,  who  had  come  from  Munich  to 
meet  her  there.  She  went  with  him  to  Bavaria, 
and  remained  ahroad  a  little  more  than  three 
years.  The  praticulars  of  her  stay  are  given  in 
Ellis"  Life.  She  received  the  title  of  Countess 
in  1797  from  the  Elector  of  Bavaria,  and  a 
pension  which  lasted  during  her  life.  She 
made  a  second  visit  to  her  father  in  181 1.  and 
remained  in  I-Vance  and  England  many  years 
after  her  father's  death.  The  Countess  says, 
in  her  memoranda,  that  while  her  father  was  a 
great  favorite  with  the  ladies,  .some  of  them 
sharply  censured  him  for  the  four  following 
faults:  "Finst.  for  living  so  short  a  time  with 
his  wives,  considering  him.  from  it.  a  bad  hus- 
band :  second,  for  taking  sides  against  iiis 
country ;  third,  letting  his  tlaughter  get  on  as 
she  could,  he  revelling  at  the  time  in  the  city  of 
Paris:  fourth,  that  he  should  pitch  on  Paris  as 
a  permanent  residence,  when  both  in  Munich 
and  in  London  he  had  made  himself  so  useful. 
had  won  such  honors,  and  had  such  distin- 
guished as.sociates  and  friends."  This,  it  should 
be  understood,  was  the  judgment  of  European 
women  of  his  ac(|naintance.  and  Sarah  dis]>lay- 
cd  more  wisdom  than  she  is  usually  accredited 
with  when  she  made  a  record  6i  it.  Her  at- 
tractions and  ability  were  in  no  degree  remark- 
able. In  1835  '^'ic  came  to  America  and  again 
went  abroad  in  1838.  In  1844  she  came  back. 
She  died  in  the  chamber  in  which  she  was  born. 
December  2.  1852.  and  her  remains  lie  buried 
in  the  old  burial-ground  at  Concord.  New 
Hampshire.  By  inheritance  and  otherwise  she 
left  a  handsome  estate.  She  devised  her  home- 
stead and  fifteen  thousand  dollars  in  money  to 
trustees  to  found  an  institution  in  Concord  to 
be  called  "The  Rolfe  and  Rum  ford  .Asylum" 
for  young  female  orphans.  The  funds  were 
allowed  to  accumulate.  This  institution  was 
opened  for  use  about  1882,  and  has  been  in 
successful  operation  since. 

A  translation  of  part  of  Count  Rumford's 
epitaph  at  Paris  (the  original  is  in  the  French 
language)  is  here  insertefl  as  an  admirable 
tribute  to  his  worth  : 

Celebrated  Physicist!  Enlightened  Philan- 
thropist! His  Discoveries  on  Light  and  Heat 
have  made  His  Name  Famous.  His  Labors 
for  the  Bettering  the  Conditions  of  the  Poor 
will  Cause  Him  to  be  Forever  Cherished  by 
the  Friends  of  Humanit)'. 


in   i'iav;u'ia, 

Lieutenanl-Cicneral, 

i  lead  of  the  .State. 

Leader  of  tiie  Realm. 

-Majnr-(  ienerai. 

State  Councillor. 

Minister  of  War. 

In   P'rancc. 

.Member  (if  the  Institute. 

and  of 
I  he  Academy  nf  Sciences. 

The  following  signiticant  oi)inion  of  Rum- 
ford's  life  was  written  in  the  year  1847,  and 
forms  the  conclusion  of  the  sketch  in  "Cham- 
bers Miscellany  :" 

"Rumford.  whose  memoirs  we  have  now  de- 
tailed, was  not  a  faultless  character,  or  a  per- 
son in  every  respect  exemplar)- :  but  making 
due  allowances  for  circumstances  in  which  he 
was  at  the  outset  unftjrtunately  placed,  and 
keeping  in  mind  that  every  man  is  less  or  more 
the  creature  of  the  age  in  which  he  lives,  we 
arrive  at  the  conclusion  that  few  individuals 
occu])ying  a  public  ])osition  have  been  so 
thoroughly  deserving  of  esteem.  The  practical, 
calm,  and  comprehensive  nature  of  his  mind. 
Iii>  rcMilute  and  methodical  habits,  the  benev- 
olence and  usefulness  of  his  projects,  all  excite 
our  admiration.  Cuvier  speaks  of  Rumford  as 
"having  been  the  benefactor  of  his  species  with- 
out loving  or  esteeming  them,  as  well  as  of 
holding,  the  oi)inion.  that  the  mass  of  mankind 
ought  to  be  treated  as  mere  machines" — a  re- 
mark which  is  ai)iilicable  to  not  a  few  men  who 
have  been  eminent  for  labors  of  a  humane  <le- 
scription.  and  which  naturally  gives  rise  to  this 
other  remark — "that  a  g(3od  intellectual  method, 
directed  to  practical  ends,  is  often  of  more 
value  to  mankind  than  what  is  called  a  good 
heart." 

Cuvier's  remarks,  above  referred  to,  were 
more  fully  as  follows:  "But  it  must  be  con- 
fessed that  he  exhibited  in  conversation  and 
intercouse,  and  in  all  his  demeanor,  a  feeling 
which  would  seem  most  extraordinary  in  a 
man  who  was  always  so  well  treated  by  others, 
and  who  had  himself  done  so  much  good  to 
others.     Tt  was  as  if  while  he  had  been  rencler- 


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iiig  all  tliesf  services  to  his  felldw-nien  he  hail 
no  real  love  or  rejjard  for  them.  It  would 
apijear  as  if  the  vile  passions  which  he  had 
observed  in  the  miserable  objects  committed 
to  his  care,  or  those  other  passions,  not  less 
vile,  which  his  success  and  fame  had  excited 
among  his  rivals,  had  imbittered  him  towards 
human  nature.  So  he  thought  it  was  not  wise 
or  good  to  intrust  to  meu  in  the  mass  the  care 
of  their  nwn  well-being.  The  right,  which 
seems  so  natural  to  them,  of  judging  whether 
they  are  wiseh'  governed,  apjjeared  to  him  to 
be  a  fictitious  fancy  born  of  false  notions  of 
enlightenment.  His  views  of  slavery  were 
nearly  the  same  as  those  of  a  plantation-owner. 
1  le  regarded  the  government  of  China  as  com- 
ing nearest  to  jjcrfection,  because  in  giving 
over  the  i)eople  to  the  absolute  control  of  their 
only  intelligent  men.  and  in  lifting  each  of 
those  who  belonged  to  this  hierarchy  on  the 
scale  according  to  the  degree  of  his  intelligence, 
it  made,  so  to  si)eak.  so  many  millions  of  arms 
the  passive  organs  of  the  will  of  a  few  sound 
heads — a  notion  which  I  state  without  jjretend- 
ing  in  the  slightest  degree  to  approve  it.  and 
which,  as  we  know,  would  be  poorly  calculated 
to  find  jjrevalence  among  European  nations. 

'■.\f.  de  Rumford  had  cause  for  learning  by 
bis  own  experience  that  it  is  not  so  easy  in  the 
West  as  it  is  in  China  to  induce  other  people  to 
consent  to  be  only  arms ;  and  that  no  one  is  so 
well  prepared  to  turn  these  arms  of  others  to 
his  own  .service  as  is  one  who  ha^  reduced 
them  to  subjection  to  himself.  .\n  empire  such 
as  he  conceived  wmild  not  have  been  more 
difficult  for  him  to  manage  than  were  bis  bar- 
racks and  j)0()rhouses.  I  le  relied  wholly  on  the 
])rinciple  of  rigid  system  and  order.  He  called 
order  the  necessary  auxiliary  of  genius,  the 
only  possible  instrument  for  securing  any  sub- 
stantial good,  and  in  fact  almost  a  subordinate 
deity,  for  the  government  of  this  lower  world."' 

De  Candollc,  the  Swiss  botanist,  said  of 
liumford's  personal  appearance  in  later  life: 
■■'{"he  sight  of  him  very  much  reduced  our 
enthusiasm.  We  found  him  a  dry.  jjrecise  man, 
who  .spoke  of  beneficence  as  a  sort  of  disci]iline, 
and  of  the  poor  as  we  had  never  dared  to  speak 
of  vagabonds."  Sjjcaking  of  Kuniford's  sec- 
ond wife,  he  said:  "1  had  relations  with  each 
of  them,  and  never  saw  a  more  bizarre  connec- 
tion. Rumford  was  cold,  calm,  t)bstinate,  egotis- 
tic, prodigiously  occujiied  with  the  material 
elenuiit  of  life  and  the  very  smallest  inventions 
of  detail.  lie  wanted  his  chiiuueys,  lamps, 
colTce  |)ots.  windows,  made  after  a  certain  pat- 


tern, and  he  contrailicted  his  wife  a  thousand 
times  a  day  about  the  household  management.'' 
Here  we  draw  the  veil.  .Another  has  said: 
"We  enter  into  labors  of  Count  Rumford  every 
day  of  our  lives,  without  knowing  it  or  think- 
ing of  him.'"  Professor  John  Tyndall  said: 
■■^len  find  pleasure  in  exercising  the  powers 
they  possess,  and  Rumford  possessed,  in  its 
highest  and  strongest  form,  the  power  of  organ- 
ization. " 

llaldwin  says  of  his  friend:  "He  laudably 
rcM lived  not  to  sacrifice  his  bright  talents  to 
the  monotonous  occupations  of  domestic  life. 
The  world  had  higher  charms  for  him.  This 
ambition  was  to  rise  in  the  estimation  of  man- 
kind by  his  usefulness.  With  a  mind  suscepti- 
ble to  impressions  from  every  quarter,  he  could 
not  fix  his  attention  upon  any  uniform  line  of 
conduct  when  young,  and  from  this  cause  alone, 
a  want  of  regularity  in  his  behavior,  impres- 
sii-ns  unfavoralile  to  his  character  as  a  patriot 
were  made  upon  the  minds  of  his  acquaintance 
at  Concord.  The  people  in  their  zeal  for  the 
.\mcrican  cause  were  too  apt  to  construe  in- 
difference into  a  determined  attachment  to  the 
ISritish  interest.  Believing  that  the  benevolent 
])lans  which  he  afterwards  adopted  could  never 
lie  executed  but  under  the  fostering  hand  of 
well-directed  power,  he  sought  a  field  for  the 
exercise  of  his  goodness  and  ingenuity  where 
tluv  could  be. executed  and  where  there  was 
the  most  obvious  demand." 

Count  Rumford  .says  himself  in  one  of  his 
essavs:  "It  certainlv  re(|uired  some  courage 
and  perhajis  no  small  share  of  enthusiasm,  to 
stand  forth  the  voluntary  champion  of  the 
|)ublic  good.  .Again  he  says;  "I  am  not  un- 
;ic<|uainted  with  the  manners  of  the  age.  I 
have  lived  much  in  the  world,  and  have  studied 
mankind  atteiitively.  I  am  fully  aware  of  all 
the  difticidties  1  have  to  encounter  in  the  pur- 
suit of  the  great  object  to  which  I  have  de- 
voted myself." 

Cotmt  r<umford,  at  the  beginning  of  one  of 
his  ICssays  entitled  ".\n  .Account  of  an  I'-stab- 
lishment  for  the  I'otir  at  AFunich,"'  says  of 
himself:  ".\m(ong  the  vicissitudes  of  a  life 
checkered  by  a  great  variety  of  incidents,  and 
in  which  I  have  been  called  upon  to  act  in 
many  interesting  scenes.  I  have  had  an  oppor- 
tunity of  employing  my  attention  upon  a  sub- 
ject of  great  im]>ortance— a  subject  intimately 
and  inse|)arably  connected  with  the  liap|)iness 
and  well-doing  of  all  civil  societies,  and  whicli 
from  its  nature  cannot  fail  to  interest  every 
bi'uevolcnt   mind:   it   is  the  iirovidiusr   for  the 


massacfu-si:tts. 


597 


wants  of  the  poor,  and  securing  their  happiness 
and  comfort  by  the  iinro(hiction  of  order  and 
intUistry  among  them." 


Jean  Rivoire.  the  immigrant  an- 
RFA'ERE  cestor  of  the  Revere  family  of 
^[assachnsetts.  belonged  to  the 
ancient  and  distinguished  family  of  Rivoires 
or  De  Rivoires.  of  Romagnieu.  I'rance.  They 
were  Huguenots  and  some  of  the  family  fled 
from  France  during  the  Catholic  Im|uisiti(>n. 
He  married  Magdelaine  Malaperge.  Children: 
I.  Simon,  eldest  son.  was  a  refugee  from 
!•" ranee :  went  first  to  Holland  and  afterwards 
settled  in  the  Isle  of  Guernsey,  (rreat  Firitain  ; 
took  with  him  the  coat-of-arms  of  the  family, 
on  a  silver  seal:  and  these  arms  were  after- 
wards registered  in  the  French  Heraldry  P.ook, 
in  London,  at  the  Herald's  Office.  2.  Apollos. 
3.  Isaac,  mentioned  below. 

(Hi  Isaac  Rivoire,  son  of  jean  Rivoire.  was 
born  about  1670  in  France:  married,  in  \<y)4. 
.Serenne  Lambert.  They  had  several  children, 
one  of  whom  was  named  .\pollos.  The  follow- 
ing account  of  his  birth  was  written  in  the 
family  I'ible  by  the  father  and  a  copy  of  it 
sent  to  Colonel  Paul  Revere.  Boston,  by  .Mat- 
thias Rivoire.  a  second  cousin,  of  ^^artel,  near 
St.  Foy.  France,  ".\pollos  Rivoire.  or  son,  was 
born  the  thirtieth  of  Xcjvember,  1702,  about 
ten  o'clock  at  Xight  anrl  was  baptized  at  Rian- 
caud,  France,  .-Xpollos  Rivoire.  my  brother,  was 
his  Godfather  and  .Anne  Maulmon  my  sister- 
in-law  his  (]odmother.  He  set  out  for  Guern- 
sey the  2ist  of  Xovember.  1715.  "  .According 
to  the  late  (jeneral  [ose])h  Warren  Revere. 
.Apollos.  the  father  of  the  famous  Paul  Revere, 
became  the  true  heir  and  lineal  rei)reseutative 
of  his  brother.  Sirrfon  de  Rivf)ire.  and  the 
.\merican  branch  of  the  family.  consec|uently, 
is  the  legal  heir  at  the  present  day.  .All  the 
other  heirs  having  become  e.xtinct,  the  Amer- 
ican family  would  inherit  the  titles  and  estates 
if  any  now  remained  to  inherit. 

(  111  )  .Vjioilos  Rivoire,  son  of  Isaac  Rivoire, 
was  born  in  Riancaud.  France,  .Xovember  30. 
1702.  .As  stated  above  he  set  out  for  the  Isle 
of  Guernsey,  Xovember  2r,  1715,  and  must 
have  reached  the  home  of  his  uncle  by  the  time 
his  birthday  arrived.  He  was  then  thirteen 
and  wa.'  ajjprenticed  to  his  Cncle  Simond  who 
soon  afterwards  sent  the  boy  to  Bost(jn,  Mass- 
achusetts, with  instructions  to  his  corresjjond- 
ents  to  have  him  learn  the  goldsmith's  trade, 
agreeing  to  defray  all  ex|)enses.  He  learned 
bis  trade  of  John  Cony,  of  P.oston,  who  died 
.\ugust  20.  1722.     Revere's  "time,"  valued  at 


forty  punnd>.  was  i)ai<l  fur.  a--  >liiiwn  b\-  the 
settlement  of  (."ony's  estate.  During  the  year 
1723  he  returned  to  Guernsey  on  a  visit  to  his 
relatives,  but  determined  to  make  his  home  in 
l'.o.-,ton  and  soon  came  back.  He  established 
hiiuself  in  the  business  of  a  gold  and  silver- 
smith, and  modified  his  name  to  suit  the  de- 
mands of  h'nglish  tongnes.  to  Paul  Revere. 
Pint  for  many  years  tiie  surname  was  variously 
speileil  in  the  ])ublic  records.  "Reverie"  and 
"Revear"  being  common.  .About  May.  17.^0. 
he  "removed  from  Ca])tain  Pitt's  at  the  Town 
Hock  to  the  north  end  over  against  Colonel 
Hutchinson's."  This  house  w'as  on  Xorth 
street,  now  I  lanovcr.  opposite  Clark  street, 
near  the  corner  of  Love  lane,  now  Tileston 
street.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Xew  I'rick  or 
"Cockerel"  Churcli.  so  called  from  the  cockerel 
weather  vane  which  is  still  in  service  on  the 
.'-^heijherd  Memorial  Church.  Cambridge.  Sam- 
])lcs  of  his  handiwork  have  been  preserved.  .A 
silver  tankard  owtied  mnv  <>r  lately  by  Mrs. 
William  11.  Emery,  of  .Vewton.  .Massachusetts, 
was  made  about  1747  '"''  Rebecca  Goodwill, 
whose  name  and  the  date  are  engraved  on  it. 

.After  he  had  been  in  business  a  few  years  he 
married.  June  ig.  1729,  Deborah  Hitchborn, 
who  was  born  in  Boston.  January  29.  1704. 
She  died  in  May  1777:  lie  died  July  22.  1754. 
Children:  1.  Deborah,  baptized  February  27, 
1731-32.  2.  i'anl,  hnrn  r)ecember  21.  1734: 
mentioned  below  .  3.  I'rances,  born  July,  173'^, 
bajitized  jiilv  1,'^.  4.  Thnnias.  baptized  .August 
27,  1731^.  died  young.  5.  Thomas,  baptized 
January  13,  1739-40.  C).  John.  bai)tize(l  ( )cto- 
i)er  I  I.  1741.  7.  Mary,  baptized  July  13.  I74,V 
8.  i-'Iizabeth  (twin),  baptized  July  13.  1743, 
died  young.  9.  Flizabetli.  baptized  January  20. 
1744-45.    There  were  twelve  in  all. 

( I\' )  Colonel  Paid  Revere,  son  of  Paul  Re- 
vere (.Apollos  Rivoire),  was  born  in  Boston, 
December  21,  1734,  and  was  ba|)tized  Decem- 
ber 22.  1734,  the  following  day.  He  received 
his  education  from  the  famous  Master  Tileston 
at  the  Xorth  graiumar  school,  and  then  entered 
lii>  father's  sho|)  to  learn  the  trade  of  gold- 
smith and  silversmith.  He  had  much  natural 
ability  in  designing  and  drawing  and  became  a 
prominent  engraver.  He  taught  himself  the 
art  of  engraving  on  copi)er.  Ilis  early  ])lates. 
of  course,  were  crude  in  detail,  but  they  were 
forceful  aufl  e.xjjressive,  and  his  later  work 
was  characterized  by  a  considerable  degree  of 
artistic  merit  and  elegance.  His  unif|ue  abili- 
ties show^  to  the  best  advantage  in  his  craft  of 
which  he  was  a  master.  His  services  to  the 
colonies  in  the  .struggle  for  independence  aiid 


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MASSACHUSETTS. 


afterward  by  his  skill  as  an  engraver  and 
artisan  were  as  important,  jserliaps,  as  his  mili- 
tary acliievements,  to  the  cause  of  liberty.  One 
(it  his  triumphs  for  the  .American  cause  was 
ilie  manufacture  of  gunpowder  at  Canton, 
.Massachusetts,  when  the  only  source  of  supply 
was  in  the  vicinity  of  I'hiladelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, the  ]iroprietor  of  which  was  hostile  to 
the  establishment  of  Revere"s  jjlant.  He  suc- 
ceeded, however,  and  thus  greatly  strengthened 
the  resources  of  the  Northern  army.  He  was 
also  employed  by  the  government  to  oversee 
the  casting  and  manufacture  of  cannon,  to  en- 
grave and  ])rint  the  notes  issued  in  the  place 
of  money  by  Congress  and  by  the  state  of 
.Massachusetts.  In  addition  to  his  shop,  he 
established  an  important  hardware  store  on 
Essex  street,  ojjposite  the  site  of  the  famous 
Liberty  Tree  that  was  the  centre  of  much  of 
the  i^a'triotic  demonstration  of  pre-revolution- 
ary  times.  There  was  apparently  no  limit  to 
the  variety  of  work  successfully  essayed  by 
Revere,  for  it  is  shown  on  alnmdant  testimony 
that  in  his  younger  days  he  jiracticed  with 
much  skill  the  making  and  inserting  of  artificial 
teeth,  an  art  that  he  learned  of  an  English 
denti.sl  tcmijorarily  located  in  Boston,  and  he 
also  designed  many  of  the  frames  that  sur- 
rounded the  paintings  of  his  friend,  Copley. 
These  were,  however,  but  incidents  in  compari- 
siin  with  the  bolder  undertakings  of  later  years, 
hi  1789  he  established  an  iron  foundry  of  con- 
si'lerable  capacity  and  in  1792  began  to  cast 
church  bells,  the  first  of  which,  still  in  exis- 
tence, was  for  the  Second  Ciun-ch  of  Pioston. 
lie  cast  mail)'  bells,  of  which  some  are  still  in 
use  in  old  parish  churclies  of  Massachusetts, 
lie  took  his  son,  Josej^h  Warren  Revere,  into 
business  with  him.  P>rass  camion  and  many 
kinds  of  metal  work  needed  for  the  building 
and  e<|uii)ment  of  the  ships  of  the  navy  were 
manufactured  for  the  government.  lie  in- 
vented a  ])rocess  of  treating  copper  that  en- 
abled him  to  hammer  and  roll  it  while  heated, 
thus  greatly  facilitating  the  manufacture  of 
the  bolts  and  sjjikes  used  in  his  work.  In  many 
respects  the  most  important  of  all  his  enter- 
prises was  that  of  rolling  copjier  into  large 
sheets,  established  in  i<Soo.  aided  by  the  Cnited 
States  government  to  tlie  extent  of  ten  thous- 
and dollars,  to  be  rejiaid  in  sheet  co])i)er.  It 
was  the  first  cop])er  rolling  mill  in  the  country. 
The  |)lates  were  maile  in  thi^  mill  for  the 
Ijoilers  of  Roliert  b'ldton's  steantboat  and  for 
the  sheathing  of  man\  men-of-w'ar.  In  1S28 
the  business   was  incorporated  as  the    Revere 


Copper   Company   and   under   this   name   still 
continues  and  prospers. 

He  is  best  known  perhaps  for  his  part  in  the 
events  preceding  the  battle  of  Eexington  and 
Concord.  The  martial  spirit  that  stirred  him 
to  such  a  degree  in  later  life  asserted  itself  first 
on  the  occasion  of  the  campaign  against  the 
French  in  Canada  in  175^).  and  he  was  at  that 
time  commissioned  second  lieutenant  of  artil- 
lery by  Governor  Shirley  and  attached  to  the 
expedition  against  Crown  Point  under  the  com- 
mand of  General  John  Winslow.  His  service 
in  this  campaign,  however,  proved  uneventful, 
and  he  returned  some  si.x  months  later  to  his 
business.  From  this  time  his  allegiance  to 
royal  authority  steadily  waned.  He  became  a 
prominent  Whig  leader  in  Boston.  He  w^as 
popular  among  his  fellow  patriots  in  the  secret 
organization  known  as  the  Sons  of  Liberty. 
The  meetings  were  conducted  with  great  se- 
crecy, chiefly  at  the  Green  Dragon  tavern,  and 
measures  of  importance  taken  to  resist  the  en- 
croachments of  the  Pritish  authority  on  the 
rights  that  the  colonies  had  enjoyed  for  a  cen- 
tury or-  more.  Revere  was  intrusted  with  the 
execution  of  many  inijiortant  affairs,  often 
bearing  dispatches  of  importance  between  the 
committees  of  safety  and  correspondence  that 
virtually  organized  and  carried  on  the  revolu- 
tion itself.  He  was  ]>rominent  at  the  time  of 
the  Stamp  .\ct  troubles,  and  he  designed  and 
published  a  number  of  famous  cartoons  and 
caricatures.  His  views  of  the  landing  of  Brit- 
ish troops  in  Boston  and  of  the  Boston  massa- 
cre had  a  large  influence  on  the  public  mind. 
In  pursuance  of  the  non-importation  agree- 
ment the  citizens  of  Boston  took  steps  to  pre- 
vent the  landing  of  the  cargo  of  the  ship 
■"Dartmouth,"  November  ^9,  1773  ;  Revere  him- 
self was  one  of  the  guarcl  of  twenty-five  ap- 
pointed to  carry  out  the  vote  of  a  public  meet- 
ing provided  that  "the  tea  shmdd  not  be  land- 
ed." and  he  was  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Tea 
Party,  December  if\  177.V  That  was  the  first 
act  of  open  rebellion  against  the  government : 
the  port  of  I'oston  was  closed  and  Revere  pro- 
cee(led  to  Xew  'S'ork  and  Philadeliihia  to  secure 
the  co-oi)eration  of  the  other  colonies,  and  he 
took  an  imiiortanl  i)art  in  organizing  the  first 
confederac\-  of  the  |)rovinces  efl'ected  in  1774. 
lie  made  two  more  trips  to  the  city  of  Phila- 
delphia bearing  messages  from  the  Provincial 
congress  of  Massachusetts,  as  the  re-organized 
general  court  was  known.  In  Boston  the  situa- 
tion was  becoming  critical.  Dr.  Joseph  War- 
ren sent  for  Revere,  April  iR.  1775.  to  tell  him 


massaciusi-:tts. 


5*)') 


that  the  Uritish  tmops  were  gatherinjj  on  the 
liostun  Common  and  that  he  feareil  for  the 
■safety  of  Hancock  and  Adams  who  were  at 
Lexington  whither  he  behcved  the  Hritish  were 
l)reparing  to  go  in  (|uest  of  mihtary  stores.  Re- 
vere nndertook  to  warn  the  coinitry :  received 
his  signal  that  tlie  expedition  was  making  a 
start:  rode  tiirougli  Medford  to  Lexington. 
Tlie  other  messenger.  W  illiani  Dawes,  arrived 
half  an  hour  later  and  the  two  messengers  pro- 
ceeded together  to  Concord  and  were  soon 
joined  by  Dr.  Prescott.  They  were  suprised 
by  British  officers  who  had  been  i>atrolling  the 
road:  Dawes  and  Revere  were  cai)tiired.  while 
the  more  fortunate  I'rescott.  who  knew  the 
coimtry  better,  made  his  escape  and  warned 
Concord  :  the  alarm  s])reading  thence  in  every 
direction  through  all  the  colonies.  The  pris- 
oners were  closely  (|uestioned  and  threatened, 
but  suti'ered  no  actual  violence  and.  during  the 
excitement  following  a  volley  from  the  Lex- 
ington militia  as  they  drew  near  Lexington,  the 
l)risoners  were  abandoned.  He  helped  rescue 
the  papers  of  Mr.  Hancock  from  the  Clark 
house,  and  while  they  were  getting  the  trunk 
out  of  the  house  encountered  the  enemy  but 
got  away  safely.  Longfellow's  poem  has  made 
Revere's  ride  one  of  the  classic  adventures  of 
.American  history.  Revere  made  his  home  in 
Charlestown  and  after  some  weeks  his  wife 
and  familj'  joined  him  there.  He  made  other 
jierilous  trips  for  the  Whigs  to  .\'evv  \'ork  and 
l'liiladeli)hia.  .\fter  the  Lvacuation  in  177^), 
\\  a-hington  employed  Revere  to  re])air  the 
abandoned  guns  at  Castle  William,  now  I'"ort 
Independence,  and  he  succeeded  by  inventing 
a  new  kind  of  carriage,  ren.lere  1  necessary  by 
the  fact  that  the  British  had  broken  the  trun- 
nions from  the  guns.  In  July  he  was  com- 
missioned major  of  a  regiment  raised  ff)r  the 
defense  of  town  and  harbor:  in  .\V)v.nil)er 
.lieutenant-colonel  in  a  reginu-nt  of  state  artil- 
lery. ])erforming  many  important  duties,  in- 
cluding the  transfer  from  Boston  to  Worcester. 
Augu^t.  1777.  of  a  body  of  several  hundred 
j)risoners  ca])tured  at  Bennington  by  .Stark. 
He  tf)ok  part  whli  his  regiment  in  the  first 
campaign  in  f^hode  Island,  and  was  several 
times  in  command  of  Castle  William,  incident- 
ally presiding  at  many  courts  martial.  His 
service  in  defence  of  Boston  harbor  was  oner- 
ous and.  despite  adverse  conditions,  he  stead- 
fasti}'  fulfilled  his  duties  and  endeavored  to 
make  the  best  of  the  situation.  C)n  June  2(\. 
1779,  Colonel  Revere  was  ordered  to  prepare 
one  hundred  men  of  his  command  to  go  with 
the  expedition  known  as  the  Penobscot  ICxjjcdi- 


tion  to  attack  the  l'>ritish  at  .Maja-Bagaduce, 
now  Castine,  Maine.  The  expedition  ended 
in  disaster  to  the  .American  forces,  and  one 
•  unfortunate  result  of  it  was  a  (|uarrel  between 
Cok)nel  Revere  and  a  ca|)tain  of  marines,  re- 
Mdting  in  Revere's  removal  from  the  service, 
umil  he  obtained  a  hearing  at  a  court-martial 
in  i7,Si  when  he  was  comi)letel\'  vindicated  and 
acc|uitted  of  blame.  It  was  a  matter  of  great 
regret  to  Revere  that  his  service  was  restricted 
to  the  slate  :  he  hoped  and  endeavored  to  obtain 
a  place  in  the  Continental  army.  He  exerted 
his  inriuence  in  favor  of  the  ado])tion  of  the 
I'^deral  constitution  when  its  fate  seemed 
doubtful  in  Massachusetts, 

The  varied  interests  of  his  business  and  mili- 
tary career  did  not  jjrevent  him  from  cultivat- 
ing the  social  side  of  life.  He  was  the  first 
entered  apprentice  received  into  Saint  .Andrew's 
Lodge  of  I'ree  .Masons  in  Boston,  and  ten 
years  later,  in  1770.  he  was  elected  its  master. 
Me  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Cirand 
Lodge  of  Massachusetts,  and  was  its  grand 
master  from  1794  to  1797.  In  this  capacitv  he 
assisted  ( lovernor  .Samuel  .Adams  at  the  laying 
of  the  cornerstone  of  the  Massachusetts  State 
House.  July  4.  1795.  and  delivered  an  address 
on  the  occasion.  In  1783  Saint  .Andrew's 
Lodge  was  divided  upon  the  (|uestion  of  re- 
maining under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  (irand 
Lodge  of  .Scotland,  which  had  chartered  it,  " 
and  also  the  (irand  Lodge,  or  of  affiliating 
with  the  latter.  Twenty-nine  members  favored 
the  old  arrangement,  while  twenty-three,  in- 
cluding Revere,  desired  to  change.  The  minor- 
ity withlrew  and  formed  the  Rising  States 
Lodge,  .Sc])tcmber,  1784.  with  Paul  Revere  its 
first  master.  He  made  jewels  for  the>;e  lodges 
and  made  and  engraved  elaborate  certificates 
of  membership  and  notification  cards.  .\t  the 
death  of  ( ieneral  \\  asliington  he  was  made  one 
of  a  C'immittee  of  thrte  to  write  a  letter  of  con- 
dolence to  the  widow  and  ask  her  for  a  lock  of 
Washington's  hair.  This  re(|iiest  was  granted 
and  Revere  made  a  golden  urn  about  four 
inches  in  height  for  the  relic.  Through  corre- 
spondence he  cultivated  the  ac(|uaintance  of 
his  relatives  in  ( luernsey  and  h'rance.  and  many 
of  the  letters  have  been  |)reserved.  He  was 
the  chief  founrler  of  the  Alassachnsetts  Char- 
itable .Mechanic  .Association  in  iJ')S  and  was 
its  first  jiresident  from  1795  to  1799,  when  he 
declined  re-election,  although  his  interest  in  its 
affairs  was  undiminished. 

Forty  years  old  when  he  rode  on  the  mid- 
night alarm.  Paul  Revere  gave  the  best  years 
of  his  life  to  his  country.     .After  the  revolu- 


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tion  anil  tlic  pt-iiiKl  nf  >tniggle  to  organize  a 
government  Revere  received  the  un(|ualifie(l 
respect  and  honor  that  he  deserved,  while  his 
own  industry  and  skill  provided  him  with  a  • 
competency  that  enabled  him  to  live  well,  to 
educate  a  large  family  of  children  and  finally 
to  leave  them  in  comfortable  circumstances. 
He  died  May  lo,  1818,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Granary  hurial  (irounds,  I'.oston.  where  are 
also  the  graves  of  his  friends.  John  Hancock 
and  Samuel  Adams. 

He  married,  August  17,  1757,  Sarah  Orne, 
wild  died  May,  1773.  He  married  (second) 
October  10,  1773,  Rachel  Walker,  born  in  Bos- 
ton. December  27,  1745,  died  June  19.  181 5. 
The  children  of  Paul  and  Sarah  Revere:  I. 
Deborah,  born  April  3,  1758;  died  January  3. 
1797:  married  Amos  Lincoln.  2.  Paul,  born 
January  6,  1760;  mentioned  below.  3.  Sarah, 
born  January  3.  1762 ;  married,  March  20,  1 78"^, 
John  Bradford;  she  died  July  5.  1791.  4 
Mary,  born  March  31,  1764;  died  April  30, 
1763.      5.    h'rances.   Ijorn    l-"ebruary   19.    1766; 

died  June  <■).  1799:  married Stevens.  6. 

Mary,  born  March  19,  1768:  died  .\ugust.  1853  ; 
marrierl  Jedediah  Lincoln.  7.  Elizabeth,  born 
December  5.  1770;  married  Amos  Lincoln, 
whose  first  wife  was  her  sister.  8.  Hannali. 
born  December  15.  1772:  died  September  19. 
1773.  Children  of  Paul  and  Rachel  Revere: 
'9.  Joshua,  born  December  7.  1774:  died  about 
1792.  10.  John,  born  June  10,  177(1:  died  June 
27,  1776.  II.  Jose])h  Warren,  born  April  30. 
1777:  died  October  12,  1868:  succeeded  his 
father  in  business;  a  prominent  citizen  of  I'os- 
ton.  \2.  l.uc)-,  l)orn  .May  13,  1780;  died  July 
9,  1780.  13.  Harriet,  born  July  24.  1783;  died 
June  27,  i860.  14.  John,  born  December  25. 
"1784;  died  March  1786.  15.  Maria,  born  July 
4.  1785;  died  .Augu.st  22.  1847;  married  Joseph 
I'.alestier.  \C>.  John,  boi'n  March  2~.  1787: 
died  .\pril  30.  1847. 

(  \' )  Paul  Revere.  M)n  of  Colonel  Paul  Re- 
vere, was  born  in  Boston,  January  6.  1760.  He 
was  educated  in  Boston  schools  and  associated 
with  his  father  in  business.  He  resided  in 
Boston  and  Canton,  where  his  father  lived  dur- 
ing his  latter  years  in  the  summer  months.  I  le 
died  January  16.  1813,  before  his  fatlier,  aged 
fifty-three  years.  He  married  ■ — .  Chil- 
dren: Sarah,  mentioned  below  ;  Paul.  George. 
Rachel.  Mary.  Deborah.  Harriet. 

(\'\)  .Sally  or  Sarah  Revere,  daughtei-  nf 
T'aul  Revere,  was  born  in  Bostnn  about  1785. 
Married,  February  13,  i8o6.  David  Curtis;  set- 
tled in  Boston.  Children  :  David  Revere.  Mary 
Revere.     Caroline     Revere,     George     Revere, 


Charles  Revere.  Henry  Revere.  Edward  Alex- 
ander Revere,  mentioned  below. 

(  \'ll  )  Edward  Alexander  Revere  Curtis, 
son  of  David  and  Sallie  (Revere)  Curtis,  was 
born  in  Boston,  February  22.  1822.  the  year 
that  Boston  was  incorporated  as  a  city.  Like 
his  brothers  and  sisters,  he  carried  the  name 
til  remind  him  of  his  mother's  family.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city. 
He  started  a  ty])e  foundry  when  a  young  man. 
and  founded  a  large  and  prosperous  business. 
His  foundry  was  located  on  Congress  street. 
Boston,  until  it  was  destroyed  during  the  Great 
I'ire  of  1872.  His  was  the  last  building  burned, 
lie  resumed  business  afterwards  on  Federal 
-street  and  continued  until  his  death  in  1889. 
1  le  marie  his  home  for  many  years  in  Somer- 
ville,  and  was  universally  respected  and  esteem- 
ed l)y  his  townsmen  there.  He  served  in  the 
common  council  of  Somerville  and  also  in  the 
board  of  aldermen.  He  was  a  Republican  in 
politics.  He  belonged  to  the  Soley  Lodge  of 
Free  Masons  and  to  the  W'ebcowit  Club.  He 
married  Caroline  Pruden.  daughter  of  Israel 
R.  and  Caroline  (Gulliver)  Pruden.  Children: 
I.  Fl(3ra.  2.  lunma.  married  Frank  \\'.  Cole.  3. 
Paul  Revere,  died  aged  three  years.  4.  ^label, 
died  aged  three  months.  5.  Grace,  died  aged 
eleven  mnnlli--.  6.  I'rederick  Revere,  unmar- 
ried. 


The  name  of  Longfellow 
L()XGI"1'"1.L(  'W    is  found  in  the  records  of 

Yorkshire,  luigland.  as 
far  back  as  148C)  and  ajjpears  under  the  vari- 
ous spellings  of  Langfellay.  Langfellowe.  Lang- 
fellow  and  Longfellow.  The  first  of  the  name 
was  James  Langfella\-,  of  Otley.  In  1510  Sir 
Peter  Langfellowe  was  a  vicar  of  Calverley. 
It  is  well  established,  by  tradition  and  by  docu- 
ments, that  the  ancestors  of  Henry  \\'ads- 
W'rtli  Longfellow.  Maine's  most  distinguished  ■ 
son.  were  in  Horsforth.  In  1625  we  find  Ed- 
ward Longfellow,  jjerhaps  from  llkley.  pur- 
chasing "Ci^per  House."  in  Horsforth.  and  in 
I '147  he  makes  over  his  house  anfl  lands  to  his 
son  William.  This  William  was  a  well-to-do 
clothier  who  lived  in  Cjiper  House,  and,  be- 
sides, possessed  three  other  houses  or  cottages 
(being  ta.ved  for  "4  hearths"),  with  gardens. 
closes,  crofts,  etc.  He  had  two  sons.  Nathan 
and  William,  and  four  or  five  daughters.  Will- 
iam was  baptized  at  ( iuiseley  ( the  parish  church 
n\  I  lorsfni-th  ).  on  (  )ctober  20.  1650. 

I  1  )  The  first  of  the  name  in  .\merica  was 
the  above-named  William,  son  of  William,  of 
I  brsforth.     He  came  over  a  voung  man.  to 


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Xewbury.  Massachusetts,  about  1676.  I  le  mar- 
ried Anne  Scwall.  daughter  of  Henry  Sewall. 
of  Xcwlniry.  and  sister  of  Samuel  Sewall. 
afterward  the  first  chief  justice  of  .Massachu- 
setts. Xovemher  10.  1676.  He  received  from 
his  father-in-law  a  farm  in  the  jiarish  of  By- 
field,  on  the  I'arkcr  river.  He  is  .spoken  of  as 
"well  educated,  but  a  little  wild."  or.  as  an- 
other puts  it.  "not  so  much  of  a  Puritan  as 
some."  In  1670.  as  ensign  of  the  Xewbury 
company,  in  the  Esse.x  regiment,  he  joined  the 
ill-fated  expedition  of  .Sir  William  Phipps 
against  Quebec,  which  on  its  return  encounter- 
ed a  severe  storm  in  the  ( iulf  of  St.  Lawrence : 
one  of  the  shi|)s  was  wrecked  on  the  Island  of 
.-\nticosti.  and  William  Longfellow,  with  nine 
of  his  companions,  was  drowned.  He  left  five 
children.  The  fourth  of  these.  Stephen,  born 
1685.  left  to  shift  for  himself,  became  a  black- 
smith :  he  married  .\bigail.  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Edwar<l  Tom|)son.  of  Xew-bury.  after 
ward  of  Marshfield.     Their  fifth  child. 

(Hi  .^te|)hen.  born  1723.  being  a  briglit  boy. 
was  sent  to  Harvard  College,  where  he  took 
his  first  degree  in  1742.  and  his  .second  in  1745. 
In  this  latter  year  (after  having  meanwhile 
taught  a  school  in  York),  he  went  to  Portland 
in  Maine  (then  Falmouth  I.  to  be  the  school- 
master of  the  town.  The  follmving  note  was 
his  invitation  to  move  there  : 

■•Falmouth.  Ni>v.  1'..  1711. 
"Sir:  We  need  a  .school-master.  Mr.  Plaisted 
advises  of  your  being  at  liberty.  If  you  will  under- 
take the  service  in  this  place  you  ma.v  depend  upon 
our  being  generous  and  your  being  satisfied.  I  wish 
you  would  come  as  soon  as  possible,  and  doubt  not 
but  you'll  find  thhigs  much  to  your  content. 
Your  humble  serv'i. 

"Tlios.  .Smith. 

"P.  .S. — I  write  in  the  name  and  with  the  power  of 
the  selectman  of  the  town.  If  you  can't  serve  us 
l>ra>'  advise  us  per  first  opportunlt.v." 

The  salarv  for  the  first  year  was  £200.  in  a 
dei)reciated  currency.  He  gained  the  respect 
of  the  community  to  such  a  degree  that  he  was 
called  to  fill  iinijortant  offices  being  successively 
l)arish  clerk,  town  clerk,  register  of  probate, 
and  clerk  of  the  courts.  When  Portland  was 
burned  l)y  Mowatt,  in  1775,  his  house  was  de- 
stroyed, and  he  removed  to  fiorham.  where 
he  lived  till  his  death.  May  i.  1790.  For  fif- 
teen years  he  was  the  grammar  school  master ; 
[)arish  clerk  twent\-three  years :  town  clerk 
twenty-two  years:  from  1760  to  1775.  from 
the  establishment  of  the  court  to  the  time  of 
the  revolution,  he  was  register  of  probate  and 
clerk  of  the  judicial  court.      He  married,   in 


I74<;.   Tahitha    Uiagtlon.  daughter  of  Samuel 
llragdoii.  (if  N'nrk.      Their  oldest  son. 

(fill  ."Stephen,  born  1750.  inherited  his 
father's  farm,  and  married  I'atieiice  ^'oung.  of 
York.  December  13.  1773.  He  represented  his 
town  in  the  Massachusetts  general  court  for 
eight  years,  and  hi>  county  for  several  years  as 
senator.  l-"rom  1707  to  181 1  he  was  judge  of 
the  court  of  common  pleas.  He  died  Mnv  25, 
1824.      I  lis  second  child. 

(1\')  Ste|)hen.  born  in  ( iorham,  in  I77(>, 
graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  I7t;8.  .\fter 
studying  l:iw  in  Portland  he  was  admitted  to 
the  Lumberlaiid  bar  in  i8or,  where  he  soon 
attained  much  distinction.  In  ])olitics  he  was 
an  ardent  Federalist,  and  re])resented  Portland 
in  the  .Massachusetts  general  court  in  1814.  In 
1822.  after  the  separation  of  Maine  from  Mass- 
achusetts, he  was  one  term  in  congress.  In 
1828  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  from 
i'.owdoin  College,  of  which  he  had  been  a  trus- 
tee for  nearly  twenty  years.  He  w'as  elected 
president  of  the  Maine  Historical  .Society  in 
1834.  He  married.  January  i,  1804.  Zilpah. 
daughter  of  Ceneral  Peleg  \\'adsworth.  of 
Portland,  and  died  in  the  famous  Wadsworth- 
Lingfellow  house  there  in  1849.  William 
Willis,  the  historian,  said  of  Hon.  Stephen 
Lrjiigfellow  :  ".\'o  man  more  surely  gained  the 
confidence  of  all  who  a])])roached  him.  or  held 
it  firmer:  and  those. who  knew  hiiii  best,  loved 
him  most."  In  this  sanie  house,  which  bad 
been  her  home  since  childhood.  Zilpah  (W'ads- 
worth  )  Longfellow  died  in  March  1851.  and 
her  illustrious  son,  .America's  best  loved  jioet, 
wrote  in  his  journal,  under  date  of  March  12. 
1851  :  "In  the  chamber  where  I  last  took  leave 
of  her.  lay  my  mother,  to  welcome  and  take 
leave  of  me  no  more.  I  sat  all  that  night  alone 
with  her.  without  terror,  almost  without  sor- 
row, so  traii<iuil  had  been  her  death.  A  sense 
of  jjcace  came  over  me,  as  if  there  had  been  no 
shock  or  jar  in  nature,  but  a  harmonious  close 
to  a  long  life."  Mrs.  Longfellow  was  noted 
for  her  purity.  ))atience.  cheerfulness  and  fine 
manners,  and  held  a  high  ])osition  in  the  society 
of  the  tciwn  by  her  intelligence  and  worth. 

(ieneral  Wadsworth  was  desceniled  from 
John  .Mden  and  Priscilla  Mullens,  whose  court- 
"ibip  has  become  well  known  to  all  .\mericans 
and  thousands  of  foreigners  through  the  charm- 
ing poem  written  by  his  grandson.  The  (leii- 
eral's  wife.  I'"lizabeth  liartlett.  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Richard  Warren  and  Henry  .Samson, 
aufl  the  bliiorl  of  nine  persons  who  came  over 
in  the  historic  "Mayflower'''  flowed  in  the  viens 
of  Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow. 


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(  \' )  Of  such  ancestry  was  bdni  llcnry 
W'adsworth  Longfellow,  at  I'ortland.  .Maine, 
I'ebruar}-  2"],  1807.  and  lie  grew  to  manhood 
with  the  best  possible  inheritance  and  environ- 
ment. His  first  letter  was  written  to  his  father, 
who  was  attending  the  general  court  in  Boston, 
and  seems  worthy  of  reproduction  even  in  a 
short  sketch  : 

•'Portland.  (.Tan.  — .  ISU). 
"Dear  Papa:  .\nn  wants  a  little  Bible  like  little 
Betsey's.  Will  you  plea.se  buy  her  one.  if  you  can 
find  any  in  Bo-^ton.  I  have  been  to  school  all  tlie 
week,  and  got  only  seven  marks.  I  shall  have  a 
billet  on  .Momlay.     I  wish  you  buy  me  a  drum. 

Jleni-y  W.  L,ongfellow." 

At  the  age  of  five  he  had  been  fired  with 
military  ardor  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war 
of  1812.  and  insisted  upon  having  his  hair 
]M3wdered  and  carrying  a  tin  gun,  ready  to 
march  for  the  invasion  of  Canada.  His  first 
])rinted  verses,  called  "The  Rattle  of  Lovell's 
I'ond"  appeared  in  the  Portland  Gaccttc.  No- 
vember 17,  1820,  and  although  his  brother  and 
biographer.  Rev.  Samuel  Longfellow,  thought 
other  boys  of  thirteen  have  written  better 
verses,  few  have  been  actuated  by  more  patri- 
otic imiHilscs.  The  Longfellow  children  were 
thrilled  li\-  their  (irandfather  \\'adsworth"s 
accounts  of  his  capture  by  I'ritish  soldiers,  his 
being  imprisoned  at  Castine,  and  his  escape  at 
last,  and  these  stories  made  an  impression  upon 
1  lenry  which  shows  in  many  of  his  patriotic 
]K)ems,  so  lasting  are  early  influences.  In  1 82 1 
Longfellow  entered  Bowdoin  College,  but  pur- 
sued the  first  year's  studies  at  home,  taking  up 
residence  at  P.nmswick  in  1822.  He  main- 
tained a  high  rank  in  his  class — one  of  marked 
a])ilit\' — and  graduated  fourth,  standing  higher 
than  thirty-four  classmates.  .At  commencement 
he  was  assigned  an  English  oration.  "His  was 
the  first  claim  to  the  poem,  but  as  that  efl^ort 
had  no  definite  rank,  it  was  thought  due  to 
him  that  he  should  receive  an  a|)pointmeiit 
which  jilaced  his  scholarship  beyond  question.  ' 
This  statement  of  his  standing  in  college  was 
made  by  his  old  teacher  there.  Professor  .A.  S. 
Packard.  In  May.  182^1.  he  sailed  in  a  packet- 
siiip  for  b'rance.  to  study  in  luirope  that  he 
might  fit  himself  to  be  jjrofessor  of  modern 
languages  at  Bowdoin.  His  experiences  there 
were  most  interesting,  and  among  them  his 
acc|uaintance  with  Lafayette  was  particularly 
so.  he  having  taken  a  letter  to  the  Mar(|uis, 
who  was  entertained  at  the  W'adsworth-Long- 
fellow  liousein  1825.  In. August.  i82g. he  return- 
ed to  .America,  and  the  following  month  took 
uj)  liis  work  as  professor  of  modern  languages. 


eiliting  for  his  classes  several  French  and  Span- 
ish te.xt-books.  In  September,  1831,  he  mar- 
ried Alary  Storer  Potter,  daughter  of  Judge 
Barnett  Potter,  of  Portland.  -She  was  a  very 
beautiful  young  woman,  of  unusual  cultivation. 
He  held  his  Bowdoin  professorship  five  and  a 
half  years  constantly  at  work  upon  transla- 
tions, and  while  in  Brunswick  arranged  to  pub- 
lish "Outre-AIer."  In  1834  he  was  offered  the 
Smith  professorship  of  modern  languages  at 
Harvard,  and  at  once  resigned  at  Bowdoin.  and 
set  sail,  in  .April.  1835.  for  Europe,  to  perfect 
himself  in  German,  and  to  make  himself  famil- 
iar with  the  Scandinavian  tongues.  Airs.  Long- 
fellow died,  in  Rotterdam.  November  29.  1833. 
and  he  at  once  left  for  Heidelberg,  where  he 
passed  the  winter  and  spring,  spending  the  sum- 
mer in  Switzerland,  and  returning  to  .America 
in  October.  1836.  In  December  of  that  year 
Mr.  Longfellow  moved  to  Cambridge  and  as- 
sumed his  duties  at  Harvard. 

In  1839  "Hyperion"  was  published:  also 
"A'oices  of  the  Night."  his  first  volume  of 
poems.  In  a  short  time  followed  "Ballads  and 
Other  Poems."  "The  Spanish  .Student."  "The 
Poets  and  Poetry  of  Europe."  "Evangeline" 
came  out  in  1847:  "Kavanagh"  in  1849:  "Hia- 
watha" in  1855:  "The  Court.ship  of  Miles 
Standish"  in  1858:  "Tales  of  a  Wayside  Inn" 
in  1863:  "New  England  Tragedies"  in  1868: 
anil  between  this  last  year  and  1880  appeared 
the  translation  of  Dante's  "Divine  Comedy." 
"The  Divine  Tragedy."  "Christus."  "After- 
math," "Tlie  Masque  of  Pandora,  and  Other 
Poems,"  "Keramos  and  Other  Poems,"  and 
"Ultima  Thule."  besides  the  "Poems  of  Places." 
in  thirt  v-one  volumes,  which  Longfellow  edited. 

In  Tulv.  1843.  Mr.  Longfellow  married  Fran- 
ces Elizabeth  .\p]ileton.  daughter  of  Air.  Na- 
than .Appleton,  of  Boston,  who  is  described  as 
"a  woman  of  stately  presence,  cultivated  intel- 
lect, and  dcc\).  though  reserved,  feeling."  Their 
li  fe  in  the  charming  old  Craigie  Hou.se  in  Cam- 
bridge was  ideal,  and  they  w-ere  constantly 
\isited  by  tlie  literary  men  of  .America  and  all 
foreigners  who  ap|ireciated  the  charm  of  his 
]ioetrv.  and  could  secure  letters  of  introduc- 
tion. His  intimacy  with  Emerson.  Lowell. 
Holmes.  Whiltier.  Motley,  .\gassiz.  I'ryant. 
.Sumner.  I'ancroft.  Cornelius  Conway,  Felton, 
Richard  I  lenry  Dana,  father  and  son ;  James 
T.  Fields.  Ferdinand  Frciligrath.  .Arthur  Hugh 
Clough.  ( ieorge  W.  Greene.  I  lawtliorne.  Charles 
Eliot  Norton.  Prescott,  Ticknor,  Samuel  Ward, 
and  many  other  noted  men,  both  in  this  coun- 
try and  iuiroi)e,  gave  great  pleasure,  and  the 
letters  which   were  exchanged   between   them 


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liruvc  liow  deep  was  tlieir  attaclinu'iit.  Mrs. 
Longfellow  was  fatally  burned.  July  ().  i,S6i. 
and  the  burns  whicli  her  luisband  received 
while  trying  to  extinguish  the  flames  which 
enveloped  her.  kept  him  an  invalid  for  some 
time.  The  "Cross  of  Snow,"  which  was  found 
among  his  papers  after  his  death,  expresses 
very  beautifully  his  great  grief,  even  after 
eighteen  years  had  passed. 

Mr.  Longfellow's  eldest  son.  Charles  .\i)ple- 
ton  Longfellow,  went  to  the  front  in  March. 
1863.  and  was  wounded  the  following  Xoveni- 
ber.  The  father's  anxiety  must  have  been 
great,  but  how  could  a  son  of  his,  with  all  the 
W'adsworth  military  traditions,  have  failed  to 
volunteer  in  the  dark  days  of  iS''),^?  In  June, 
i8f)8.  Mr.  Longfellow  and  a  large  family  party, 
consisting  of  his  two  sisters,  his  brother  Sam- 
uel, his  three  daughters,  his  son  fvrnest  and  his 
wife,  and  Mr.  Thomas  .\|)i)leton,  the  beloved 
brother-in-law,  went  to  Europe,  where  much 
attention  was  showed  him.  Queen  Victoria 
received  him  at  Windsor,  after  informing  him 
she  should  be  sorry  to  have  him  pass  through 
England  without  meeting  him.  .Mr.  (Jladstone. 
Sir  Henry  Holland,  the  Duke  of  -Argyll,  Lord 
J(jhn  Russell,  and  Tennyson,  entertained  him, 
and  even  the  lower  classes  showed  their  admir- 
ation. I  le  said  that  no  foreign  tribute  paid  him 
touched  him  deeper  than  the  w'ords  of  an  Eng- 
lish hodcarrier.  who  came  up  to  the  carriage 
door  at  Harrow  and  a.sked  permi.ssion  to  take 
tlie  hand  of  the  man  who  had  written  "The 
X'oices  of  the  .\ight."  .After  fifteen  mo?iths 
of  delightful  travel  the  |)arty  returned  and  the 
last  years  of  the  poet's  life  were  s])ent  in  Cam- 
bridge with  occasional  visits  to  his  native  town 
and  other  places.  In  Craigie  I  louse,  surround- 
ed by  his  family  and  mourned  by  thousands,  he 
passed  away.  March  24.  1882,  and  surely  no 
lovelier  s|)irit  ever  dwelt  among  men.  The 
Pifitish  nation  has  enshrined  his  image  in  West- 
minster Abbey;  his  native  town  has  placed  a 
bronze  statue  in  a  sf|uare  named  for  him.  lint 
such  fame  as  his  needs  no  outward  emblazon- 
ing while  human  hearts  can  thrill  with  emotion 
at  his  lofty  sentiments  most  gracefully  ex- 
pressed. 

Mrs.  .Anne  (Longfellow)  Pierce,  a  beloved 
sister  of  Longfellow,  most  generously  donated 
to  the  Maine  Historical  Society  the  Wads- 
Wfirth-Longfellow  House  in  Portland,  where 
lived  General  W'adsworth.  his  rlistingui>lu-d 
sons — Lieutenant  Henry  W'adsworth  killed  at 
Tripoli,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  while  serving 
under  Commodore  Preble ;  Commfxlore  .Alex- 
ander .Scammell  Wadsworfh,  who  was  second 


in  command  to  Cajjtain  Hull  in  the  famous 
fight  oi  the  "Constitution  "  and  "( iuerriere  ;" 
the  Rev.  ."^amuel  Longfellow,  the  well  knt)wn 
I'nitarian  clergyman,  whose  ex(|iiisite  hymns 
breathe  forth  the  true  spirit  of  religion,  and 
whose  biogra|)h\-  of  his  brother  is  a  model  of 
such  work,  i'.ul  its  best  known  inmate  was 
.America's  loved  |)oet,  Henry  W'adsworth  Long- 
fellow, to  honor  whose  memory  and  to  visit 
whose  early  home  thousands  yearlv  throng  the 
rooms  in  which  grew  to  manhood  one  who  was 
descended  from  the  best  blood  of  Xew  Eng- 
land, and  who  .shed  an  added  lustre  u]ion  names 
already  distinguished. 


Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  one  of 

EMERSOX     .America's  most   famous  men 

— philosopher  and  poet,   was 

born   in    I'.oston.   May  25.    1803.   son  of   Rev. 

William  and   Ruth   (  llaskins)    Emerson. 

He  received  substantial  instruction  from  his 
mother,  and  also  from  his  aunt,  Mary  Moody 
Emerson,  a  woman  of  deep  scholarshi]),  and 
entered  the  grammar  school  at  the  age  of  eight, 
soon  afterward  entering  the  Latin  school.  He 
was  already  giving  evidence  of  his  intellectual 
powers,  when  eleven  years  old  writing  a  jioetic 
version  from  \'irgil.  .-ind  other  verse.  When 
fourteen  he  entered  Harvard  College.  .As  a 
student  there  he  excelled  in  (Ircek.  history, 
comjiosition  and  declamation,  winning  several 
prizes  in  the  two  latter  subjects  ;  was  class  poet 
in  1821,  and  had  a  part  at  commencement. 
Eor  a  few  years  he  assisted  his  brother  as 
teacher  in  a  school  prejiaratory  to  Harvard 
and  also  in  a  young  ladies'  school  in  iioston. 
At  the  age  of  twenty  he  took  up  the  study  of 
theology,  and  attended  lectures  at  Harvard 
Divinity  School,  but  flid  not  ])ursue  the  full 
course.  1  le  accejjted  the  Channing  theology, 
was  licensed  to  i)reach,  and  supplied  various 
|nil|)its.  In  1829  he  became  colleague  of  Rev. 
I  lenry  Ware,  jr.,  i)astor  of  the  .Second  Church 
(  Cnitarian  )  I'.oston.  and  for  eighteen  months 
occu|)ied  the  puljiit  while  that  divine  was 
abroad,  finally  succeeding  bin),  and  remained 
in  the  ))astoratc  until  1832,  when  he  resigned, 
on  account  of  conscientious  scruples  against 
administering  the  communion  as  provitlcd  in 
the  church  office.  In  die  two  last  years  of  his 
nn'nistry  his  church  was  open  to  all  classes  of 
reformers,  and  several  anti-slaveryites  spoke 
there.  In  1833  he  visited  Euro|)e.  in  (|uest  of 
health,  meeting  Walter  .Savage  Landor.  Cole- 
ridge. Wordsworth  antl  Carlyle.  and  |)reached 
in  London  and  elsewhere.  In  1833-34  he  lec- 
tured in  P>oston  on  "The  Relation  of  Man  to 


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the  (Ilube.  ■  ami  "Travels  in  Kurope."  In  the 
latter  year  he  was  inviteil  to  the  pastorate  of 
the  L'nitarian  Church  in  New  Bedford,  but  de- 
clined on  account  of  his  scruples  with  refer- 
ence to  communion.  In  1835  he  lectured  in 
rSoston  on  bio>;raphical  sul)jects — F,uther.  Mil- 
ton. lUirke.  Michael  Angelo,  and  George  Fox. 
In  1835  he  lectured  before  the  .American  Insti- 
tute of  Instruction  on  "Means  of  Inspiring  a 
Taste  for  English  Literature."'  During  succes- 
sive winters  he  lectured  in  I'.oston  on  "'English 
Literature."  "The  Philosophy  of  History."  and 
"Human  Culture."  In  1838  he  preached  for 
several  months  in  the  L'nitarian  Church  at 
East  i^e.xington  but  declined  a  settlement,  say- 
ing. ""My  i)ulpit  is  the  lyceum  i)latform."  In- 
1838-39  he  lecturctl  on  ""Resources  of  the  Pres- 
ent .Age."  and  in  1839-40  on  "Human  Life." 
In  1838  he  delivered  the  address  before  the 
graduating  class  of  Harvard  Divinity  School, 
in  which  he  explicitly  defined  his  faith,  and 
which  awoke  such  controversy  that  he  se])a- 
rated  from  the  L'nitarians.  In  1839  began  the 
transcendentalism  movement  in  Boston,  and 
-Mr.  Emerson  became  an  assistant  editor  of  its 
organ.  The  Dial,  in  1842  became  sole  editor, 
and  acted  as  such  until  1844.  when  it  lapsed. 
In  1841  was  organized  the  Brook  Farm  ex- 
periment, with  which  he  did  not  fully  sym- 
pathize, but  its  founders  and  leaders  were 
among  his  intimate  friends,  and  he  frequently 
visited  them. 

In  1841  -Mr.  Emerson's  fir>t  volume  of  essays 
was  published,  and  republished  in  England, 
wimiing  for  him  high  reputation  there  as  well 
as  in  the  L'nited  States.  In  1847  '^^  lectured  in 
vari<jus  ])laces  in  England  on  "'Re|)resentative 
Men,"  and  in  London  on  ""The  Mind  and  Man- 
ners of  the  Xineteenth  Century,"  and  also  lec- 
tured in  Scotland,  where  he  was  most  cordially 
received.  On  his  return  home  he  lectured  on 
"Characteristics  of  the  English  Peo|)lc."  He 
was  among  the  first  contributors  to  The  Atlan- 
tic Monthly  at  its  founding.  In  i860  he  warmly 
espoused  the  anti-slavery  cause :  in  January, 
iSf'ii.  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  Massachusetts  .Anti-slavery  .Society, 
and  in  February,  1862,  delivered  an  anti-slav- 
ery address  in  \\'ashingtf)n.  on  "".\merican 
Civilization."  which  was  heard  by  .Mr.  Lincoln 
and  his  cabinet,  and  ne.xt  day  the  President 
made  his  personal  acf|uaintance  and  the  two 
held  a  long  conference  on  the  subject  of  slav- 
ery. I'rom  1868  to  1870  he  lectured  at  Har- 
vard on  "The  Xatural  History  of  the  Intellect." 
In  1872  he  lost  many  valualile  jjapers.  includ- 
ing the  sermons  of  his  father,  by  the  burning 


of  his  house,  and  in  this  .lisaster  contracted  a 
cold  and  su.stained  a  shock  from  which  he 
never  recovered.  He  delivered  the  last  ad- 
dress he  ever  wrote.  .April  19.  1875,  on  tiie  one 
hundredth  anniver.sary  of  the  Concord  fight,  at 
the  unveiling  of  I-Vench's  statue,  "The  Minute- 
man."  In  1879  he  lectured  on  "Memory,'"  be- 
fore the  Concord  School  of  Philosophy,  and 
the  following  year  delivered  his  one  hundredth 
lecture  before  the  Concord  Lyceum,  on  "Xew 
England  Life  and  Letters."  He  was  an  over- 
seer of  Harvard  College.  1867-79;  a  fellow  of 
tile  .American  .\cademy  of  .Arts  and  .Sciences; 
a  member  of  the  .American  Phil()so|)hical  Soci- 
ety, and  the  .Massachusetts  Historical  .Society. 
He  received  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  from  Har- 
vard College  in  1866. 

.Mr.  F.mers(5n  married.  Se])teniber.  1829. 
Ellen  L.  Tucker,  who  died  in  I'Vbruarv.  18^2. 
He  married  second.  September,  1835',  Lydia 
Jackson,  daughter  of  Charles  lackslm,  aiid  a 
descendant  of  Rev.  John  Cotton.  He  died  in 
Concord,  .Massachusetts.  .April  27.  1882. 


James  Russell  Lowell,  one  of 
LOW  ELL  .Xmcrica's  most  distinguished 
autiiors  and  who  has  left  an 
enduring  mark  upon  .American  literature  and 
thouglit.  w.as  born  in  Cambridge.  Massachu- 
setts. February  22.  1819.  and  came  of  an  ex- 
cellent ancestry. 

He  was  descended  from  Percival  Lowell, 
who  came  from  Bristol,  England,  in  1639,  and 
settled  in  .Xewbury.  His  father.  Rev.  Charles 
Lowell,  was  born  in  Boston,  .August  15,  1782, 
scwi  of  Judge  John  and  Rebecca  (  Russell )' 
Tyng  Lowell,  and  grandson  of  Rev.  John  and 
Sarah  ( Champney )  Lowell  and  (if  (udge 
James  and  Katiierine  (Craves)  Russell."  these 
generations  inimbering  among  their  members 
named,  distinguished  clergymen  and  lawvers 
and  jurists. 

Charles  Lowell  was  graduated  from  Harvard 
College  A.  P..  1800.  A.  .M.  1803:  studied  theo- 
logy in  lulinburgh,  Scotland.  1802-04;  was 
made  a  fellow  of  Harvard,  1818:  and  received 
frf)m  the  same  institutif)n  the  degree  of  .S.  T. 
D.  in  1823.  .After  com|)leting  his  theological 
course  in  t-Minburgh  he  travelerl  for  a  year  in 
Europe.  He  was  installed  pastor  of  the  West 
Congregational  Church,  Bcston,  January  i, 
1806,  and  served  in  that  capacity  fifty-five 
years.  His  health  failing,  in  1837.  Dr.  Cyrus 
A.  Bartol  became  his  associate,  and  Dr.  Lowell 
traveled  for  three  years  in  Euro[)e  and  the 
Holy  Land.  He  was  secretary  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts   Historical   .Society;  a   corresponding 


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member  of  the  Archaeological  Society  of 
Athens ;  and  a  founder  and  member  of  the 
Society  of  Northern  Antiquarians  of  Co])en- 
hagen.     His  published  works  included  :    "Ser- 


i«55: 


"Practical     Sermons,"     i8 


00  > 


"Meditations  for  the  Afflicted,  Sick  and 
Dying:"  "Devotional  Exercises  for  Communi- 
cants." He  was  married,  October  2,  1806,  to 
Harriet  Bracket,  daughter  of  Keith  and  Mary 
(  Traill )  Spence,  of  I'ortsmouth,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  sister  of  Captain  Robert  Traill 
Spence,  U.  S.  N.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  Lowell 
died  in  Cambridge,  January  20,  1861. 

James  Russell  Lowell  prepared  for  college 
at  the  boarding  school  of  \\'illiam  Wells,  Cam- 
bridge, and  graduated  from  Harvard  College 
A.  1!.  1838:  LL.  n.  1840;  and  A.  ^L  1841.  He 
received  the  fciUowing  honorary  degrees  :  From 
Oxford  University,  D.  C.  L.  1873:  from  the 
University  of  Cambridge,  LL.  D.,  1874;  and 
the  latter  degree  also  from  St.  Andrews,  Edin- 
burgh, and  Harvard,  1884;  and  Bologna,  1888. 
On  January  2.  1884,  he  was  elected  Lord  Rec- 
tor of  the  L'niversity  of  St.  Andrews,  Scot- 
land. He  was  an  overseer  of  Harvard,  1887- 
91  ;  a  fellow  of  the  American  x\cademy  of  Arts 
and  Sciences:  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society,  the  American  Philosophical 
Society,  and  the  Royal  Academy  of  Spain ;  and 
a  fellow  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Edinburgh 
and  the  Royal  Society  of  Literature  of  London. 
In  all  these  bodies' he  enjoyed  a  unique  distinc- 
tion, and  in  Europe  his  talents  commanded 
the  highest  admiration. 

Mr.  Lowell  was  devoted  no  letters  from  the 
first.  While  in  college  he  edited  Harvardiana. 
After  his  graduation  he  opened  a  law  office  in 
Boston,  but  had  no  inclination  for  the  profes- 
sion, and  gave  his  time  to  literature,  writing 
numerous  pieces  of  verse  which  were  publish- 
ed in  magazines,  and  were  put  into  book  form 
in  1841,  his  first  published  volume.  In  1842 
he  brought  out  the  Pioneer  magazine,  which 
was  shortlived.  A  pronounced  Abolitionist, 
he  was  a  regular  contributor  to  the  Liberty 
Bell  and  he  afterward  became  corresponding 
editor  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Standard.  In  1846 
his  famous  "Bigelow  Papers"  ajipeared  in  the 
Boston  Courier  and  became  famous  from  the 
outset,  and  exerted  a  ])owerful  intlnence  upon 
the  jjolitical  thought  of  the  day.  These  were 
satirical  poems  in  the  Yankee  dialect  and  were 
eagerly  read,  not  only  for  their  ])eculiarity  of 
expression,  but  for  their  underlying  philosophy. 
He  was  now  a  somewhat  prolific  writer,  prin- 
cipally upon  political  topics,  and  through  the 
columns  of  the  ['>ial.  the  Denioeratie  Rcvie-n' 


and  the  Massaelinsetts  Unarlerly.  He  spent 
abiiut  a  year  in  Europe  in  1851-52.  In  1855  he 
succeeded  Henry  W.  Longfellow  as  Smith  pro- 
fessor of  French  and  Spanish  languages,  litera- 
ture and  belles  lettres  at  Harvard,  serving  until 
1886,  and  was  university  lecturer  1863-64.  He 
was  also  editor  of  the  Atlantic  Monthly  1857- 
()2.  and  joint  editor  with  Charles  Eliot  Xorton 
of  the  North  American  Review.  1863-72.  He 
was  active  in  the  organization  of  the  Repub- 
lican party  in  1856.  In  1876  he  was  a  presi- 
dential elector  from  ^lassachusetts.  In  1877 
he  was  appointed  minister  to  Spain  by  Presi- 
dent Hayes,  and  in  1880  was  made  minister  to 
the  court  of  St.  James,  England,  serving  as  such 
'until  1885.  During  his  residence  in  England 
he  was  highly  honored,  delivering  many  ad- 
dresses, and  being  the  orator  on  the  occasion 
of  the  unveiling  of  the  bust  of  Coleridge  in 
Westminster  .Abbey,  in  May,  1885.  In  these 
various  eti'orts  he  displayed  a  breadth  of 
scholarship,  originality  of  thought,  elegance  of 
expression  and  depth  of  feeling,  which  proved 
a  revelation  to  Old  \\'orld  litterateurs.  He  was 
a  devoted  student  during  all  his  absences  from 
this  country,  and  in  1887  delivered  before  the 
Lowell  Institute,  Boston,  a  course  of  lectures 
on  the  English  dramatists.  On  his  return  home 
he  retired  to  his  country  seat,  "Elmwood,"  on 
the  Charles  river,  Cambridge,  and  devoted  him- 
self to  study  and  literature,  continuing  his  lec- 
tures at  Harvard.  He  edited  the  poetical  works 
of  Marvell  Donne,  Keats,  Wordsworth  and 
Shelly  for  the  "Collection  of  British  Poets," 
bv  Professor  Francis  J.  Childs.  of  Harvard. 
His  published  works  include:  "Class  Poem." 
1838:  "A  Year's  Life,"  1841  ;  "A  Legend  of 
Brittany,  and  Other  Miscellaneous  Poems  and 
Sonnets,"  T844 :  "Vision  of  Sir  Launfal,"  1845  ; 
"Conversations  on  Some  of  the  Old  Poets," 
1815:  "Poems,"  1848:  "The  Bigelow  Papers," 
1848,  and  a  second  series,  1867:  "A  Fable  for 
Critics,"  1848:  "Poems,"  two  volumes,  1849, 
and  two  volumes  under  same  title,  1854; 
"Poetical  ^^'orks,"  two  volumes,  1858;  "Mason 
and  .Slidell,  a  Yankee  Idyl,"  1862:  "Fireside 
Travels,"  1864;  "The  President's  Policy," 
1864:  "Under  the  Willows,  and  Other  Poems." 
1869:  "Among  My  Books."  1870:  "My  Study 
Windows,"  1871  :  "The  Courtin',"  1874  ;  "Three 
Memorial  Poems,"  1876:  "Democracy,  and 
Other  Addresses,"  1887:  his  "American  Ideas 
for  English  Readers,"  "Latest  Literary  Essays 
and  .Addresses,"  and  "Old  English  Drama- 
tists." were  ]nibHshed  posthumously  in  1892. 
.\t  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  engaged  on  a 
"Life   of    Hawthorne."      His    last     published 


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poem.  ".My  I'.nuk."  appeared  in  tlie  .\'e\v  York  ■ 
Li'ilfjcr.  in  Deceml)er.  i8yo.  He  died  in  Cam- 
bridge. .\ugiist  12,  i8yi.  lie  was  married,  in 
1844.  to  .Maria  White,  of  Watertown.  Massa- 
clni.setls.  who  died  in  1833.  In  1857  he  was 
niarrie<l  to  I'Vances  Dnnlap.  a  niece  of  Gov- 
ernor Robert  P.  Dunlap,  of  .Maine.  His  Hfe 
work  is  commemorated  in  "James  Russell 
Lowell:  a  Biography,"  by  Horace  E.  Scudder. 
two  volumes,  1901.  In  1808  a  part  of  his 
estate — Rlmwood — was  purchased  by  the 
Lowell  Memorial  I'ark  Inind,  nearly  forty 
thou.sand  dollars  of  the  purchase  price  being 
obtained  by  popular- subscription. 


Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  splen- 
ll()L.MlvS  didly  ec|ui|)ped- as  a  medical 
practitioner  and  instructor,  is 
best  known  and  most  highly  esteemed  for  his 
literar\'  accomplishments.  .\s  "The  .Vutocrat 
of  the  lireakfast  Table,"  and  "The  Professpr," 
he  is  more  enjoyed  than  he  w^as  a  half-centur}' 
ago.  lie  was  born  in  Cambridge,  Massachu- 
setts, .\ugust  2y.  1809,  son  of  Rev.  Abiel  and 
Sarah  (  \Vendell )  Holmes.  I  le  was  a  descend- 
ant of  John  Holmes,  who  settled  at  Woodstock, 
Connecticut,  in  168O,  and  of  Evert  Jan.sen 
Wendell,  who  emigrated  irom  Emden,  East 
l-'riesland.  Holland,  and  settled  at  .Albany,  Xew 
\'ork.  about  1640.  His  paternal  grandfather. 
Dr.  David  Holmes,  was  a  captain  in  the  colo- 
nial army  in  the  French  and  Indian  war,  and 
subsei|uently  .served  as  surgeon  in  the  revolu- 
tionary army. 

Rev.  .\biel  Holmes,  father  of  Oliver  Wen- 
dell Holmes,  born  in  Woodstock,  Connecticut, 
December  24,  ijf*^.  was  graduated  from  ^'ale 
College  in  1783;  was  a  tutor  there,  1786-87, 
while  pursuing  theological  studies:  he  received 
the  honorary  degrees  of  .\.  M.  from  Harvard. 
1792:  n.  D.  from  Edinburgh  University,  1805: 
and  LL.  1).  from  .Mlegheny  (  Pennsylvania) 
t'nlk-gc,  1822.  He  was  pastor  of  the  Congre- 
gational church  at  .Midway,  (letirgia.  1787-91, 
and  of  the  I'irst  Parish,  Cambridge,  1792-1-832. 
lie  was  a  fellow  of  the  .\merican  .\cademy  of 
.Arts  and  Sciences,  and  a  member  of  the  Mass- 
achusetts Historical  Society  and  the  American 
Philosophical     Society.       lie     wrote    various 

worjjs:    "Stephen  Pannenius; Phe  Mohegan 

Indians:"  "John  Lathrop:  a  Uiograiihy  ;"  "Life 
ni  President  .Stiles:"  ".\nnals  of  .\merica." 
twii  Volumes:  a  volume  of  poems,  and  various 
contributions  to  the  "Collections  of  the  Massa- 
cbn>etts  lli>torical  .Society."  He  died  at  Cam- 
l>ridge.  .Ma-sachusetts.  June  4.  1837.  He  mar- 
ried, in   I7(«).  .Mary  .Stiles,  daughter  of  Presi- 


dent Ezra  Stiles,  of  Vale  College :  and  (  sec- 
ond ).  March  26.  1801.  Sarah,  daughter  of  Hon. 
(  )liver  \\  endell.  <if  lioston.      Their  son, 

( Jliver  Wendell  HohiK's.  began  his  educa- 
tion in  private  schools,  and  in  his  fifteenth  year 
had  as  classmates  Richard  Henry  Dana,  Mar- 
garet Fuller,  and  Alfred  Lee,  who  was  after- 
ward llishop  of  Delaware.  He  was  sent  to 
l'lulli]is  .\cadem\ .  in  the  hope  that  he  would 
incline  to  a  ministerial  life,  but  the  reverse  was 
the  case,  and  he  cherished  decided  Unitarian 
sentiments — a  marked  contrast  to  the  stern 
Calvinism  of  his  father.  While  a  student  in 
the  .\cademy  he  gave  the  first  evidence  of  his 
literarv  teni])erament.  producing  a  translation 
of  \irgirs  ".\eneid."  Entering  Harvard  Col- 
lege, he  was  graduated  therefrom  in  1829,  in 
the  same  class  with  William  II.  Channing,  Pro- 
fessor lienjamin  Pierce,  James l-"recnian  Clarke, 
the  Rev.  S.  I'".  Smith,  and  I'.enjamin  R.  Curtis. 
and  having  as  fellow  students,  though  not  in 
the  same  class,  Wendell  Phillips.  Charles  Sum- 
ner and  John  Lothrop  Motley.  He  was  a  fre- 
c|uent  contributor  to  college  publications,  wrote 
and  delivered  the  commencement  poem,  and 
was  one  among  si.xteen  of  his  class  whose 
scholarship  admitted  them  to  the  Phi  Beta 
l\ap])a  fraternity.  For  one  year  he  attended 
the  Dane  Law  School,  and  during  this  period 
wrote  the  famous  apostrophe  to  "Old  Iron- 
sides"— the  frigate  "Constitution,"'  then  threat- 
ened with  breaking-up  by  the  navy  department, 
and  which  his  stirring  verse  saved  from  an 
ignt>minious  end. 

Disinclined  to  law.  after  one  year's  study  he 
began  ])rei)aration  ior  a  medical  career,  in  Dr. 
James  Jackson's  jtrivate  medical  school,  and  in 
1833  visited  England  and  I'rance.  observing 
hospital  practice.  Returning  to  Cambridge  in 
1835.  he  received  his  degree  from  the  Harvard 
Medical  School  the  next  year,  and  at  once 
entered  njjon  |)ractice.  having  received  three 
of  the  Boylslon  ])rizes  for  medical  dissertations. 
1  le  was  professor  of  anatomy  and  physiology 
at  Dartmouth  College.  1S38-40.  and  the  follow- 
ing year  located  in  Boston.  In  1843  he  ituhlishcd 
his  essay  on  "The  Contagiousness  of  Puerpural 
l-'ever" — the  announcement  of  his  own  original 
and  valuable  discovery,  which,  while  now  ac- 
cepted by  the  entire  profession,  then  aroused 
bitter  controversy.  In  1847  he  became  Park- 
man  professor  of  anatomy  and  physiology  at 
Harvard  Medical  School,  besides  occasionally 
giving  instruction  in  microsco])y,  psychology 
and  kindred  subjects  :  and  in  the  year  indicated 
he  retired  from  ))ractice  and  became  dean  of 
the  medical  school,  which  |)Osition  he  occni)ied 


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until  1853.  .As  a  class  room  lecturer  he  was  a 
great  favorite,  and  was  able  to  hold  the  close 
attention  of  his  auditors  even  after  the}-  were 
well  nigh  exhausted  by  previous  study  an.l 
attendance  upon  lectures.  lie  resigned  lii^ 
professorship  in  1882,  and  was  retired  as  pro- 
fessor emeritus — a  unique  distinction  from 
Harvard.  He  gave  to  his  ])rofession  several 
works  of  permanent  value;  "Lectures  on 
Homeo]jatliy  and  its  Kindred  Delusions." 
1842;  "Report  on  Medical  Literature,"  1848; 
'"Currents  and  Countercurrents  in  Medical 
Science,"'  t86i  ;  "I'.orderland  in  Some  Pro- 
vinces of  Medical  Science,"  1862;  and  with  Dr. 
Jacob  liigelow  he  prepared  Marshall  I  lall'^ 
"Theory  and  I'racticeof  Medicine."  1839. 

Ranking  high  as  a  medical  practitioner  and 
teacher.  Dr.  Holmes'  great  fame  and  his  str(jng 
hold   u])on   tlie   .\merican   heart,   down  to  the 
present  time,  rests  u])on  his  work  as  an  essayist 
and   poet.      In    the   first   year   of    his    medical 
career  he  gave  tnit  his  first  volume,  comprising 
forty-five  miscellaneous   poems.      In    1852   he 
delivered  in  several  cities  a  course  of  lectures 
on  "The  Rnglish  Poets  of  the  Nineteenth  Cen- 
tur\-."     In  1857  he  became  one  of  the  founders 
of    'lilt-  .itiaiilic    Monthly,   he  giving   it   that 
name,  and  beginning  in  it  his  delightful  con- 
versational   papers,    "The    Autocrat    of    the 
llreakfast  Table,"  and  in  which  were  embodied 
some  of  his  best  poems.  This  was  so  favorably 
received   that   it  was   followed  by  "The   Pro- 
fessor at  the   Breakfast  Table,"   1859:  and  in 
1872  by  "The  Poet  at  the   lireakfast  'J'able." 
He  contributed  to  The  Atlantic  Monthly  the 
serial   novels:     "Elsie  Vcnner,"    1861  ;   "The 
(hiardian   Angel,"    1867;   "A    Mortal    Antip- 
athy,"  1885:  besides,  "Our  Hundred  Days  in 
luirope,"  1887:  and  "Over  the  Teacups,"  1890. 
He  was  longer  connected  with  that  periodical 
than  was  any  other  writer.     On  December  3, 
1879,  the  editor  gave  him  a  breakfast  in  honor 
of  his  seventieth  birthday,  on  which  (_)Ccasion 
he  read  a  poem  written  therefor,  "The  Iron 
date."     In  addition  to  those  before  mentioned 
his  jniblished  works  included,  "Soundings  from 
the  .Vtlantic."   1864:  "Mechanism  in  Thought 
and  Morals,"  1871  ;  "Memoir  of  John  Lothroj) 
Motley,"  1879;  "Memoir  of  Rali)ii  Waldo  V.m- 
erson,"    1884:    "Before    the    Curfew,"    1888: 
verse:       "Criana,"     1846;     "Astrea,"     1850; 
"Songs  in  Many  Keys."  1861  ;  "Songs  of  .Many 
Seasons,"   1875:  "The  Iron   Gate,  and  Other 
Poems."    1880.      His    poems   were   afterward 
collected  into  three  volumes  under  the  title  of 
"Complete  Poetical  Works  of  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,"  by  John  Torrey  Morse,  Jr.,   1896; 


anil    I'.mnia     !■,.     Brown     wrote    a    "I-ife    of 
Holmes." 

I  )r.  I  lolme>  died  in  Boston,  Octcjber  7,  1894. 
and  he  \va>  buried  at  Mount  .\ul)urn.  He 
married.  June  15.  1840.  .\melia  Lee,  daughter 
of  .Associate  Justice  Charles  Jackson,  of  Bos- 
ton, of  the  supreme  judicial  court.  They  set- 
tled in  Boston,  and  their  three  children  were 
born  at  their  home  in  Montgomery  place,  after- 
ward Bosworth  street:  Oliver  \\'endell,  born 
March  8,  1841.  of  whom  further;  Amelia  Lee, 
died  in  1889;  and  Edward  lackson,  died  in 
1884.     Mrs.  Holmes  died  in  1888. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  son  of  Dr.  <  )li\-er 
Wendell  and  Amelia  Lee  (Jackson)  Holmes, 
referred  to  above,  was  educated  in  i!oston 
schools  and  Harvard  University,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  i8f)i.  (being  class  poet), 
when  twenty  years  of  age.  When  he  was 
graduated  he  was  a  member  of  the  P'ourth 
Battalion  of  Infantry,  at  Fort  Independence, 
in  the  first  year  of  the  civil  war.  He  was  com- 
missioned second  lieutenant  in  the  Twentieth 
Regiment  Massachusetts  X'olunteers.  and  par- 
ticipated in  the  engagements  at  lialls  Blutt. 
X'irginia;  .Vntietam.  Maryland;  and  Marye's 
Heights.  X'irginia.  being  severely  wounded  in 
the  first  named  action.  He  was  commissioned 
lieutenant-colonel  in  1863,  but  the  regiment 
being  depleted  below  the  minimum,  he  could 
not  be  mustered  into  service  as  of  that  rank. 
I'rom  January  29.  1864.  to  July  17.  following, 
he  served  as  aide-de-camp  with  the  rank  of 
captain  on  the  stafl"  of  General  Jioratio  t!. 
Wright.  He  was  graduated  from  Harvard 
Law  School  in  1866.  and  the  following  year 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  entered  upon  prac- 
tice in  Boston.  Lie  was  instructor  in  consti- 
tutional law  in  Harvard  Law  School,  1870-71  ; 
edited  The  American  Laic  Rei'leic,  1870-73; 
lectured  on  common  law  before  the  Lowell 
Institute,  1880;  was  professor  of  law  at  Har- 
vard Law  .School,  1882-83;  justice  of  the  su- 
preme court  of  Massachusetts,  1882-99.  and  in 
August  of  the  latter  year  succeeded  the  de- 
ceased Chief  Justice  W'albridge  A.  Field.  He 
edited  "Kent's  Commentaries."  1873:  and  is 
author  of  "The  Common  Law."'  1881  ;  and 
"Speeches."  1891,  1896:  and  has  contributed 
to  various  jirofessional  journals.  He  received 
the  honorary  degree  of  I.L.  D.  from  A'ale  Col- 
lege in  1886.  and  from  Harvard  College  in 
1895  :  and  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Llistorical  Society,  and  a  fellow  of  the 
American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences.  He 
was  married.  June  17.  1872,  to  F^anny  Dix- 
well.  daughter  of  Epes  S.  I^ixwell,  of  r?oston. 


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Nicholas  IJutlcr,  iinniigraiU  an- 
UL'TLl-'R     cfstor,  of  l^astwell,  England,  a 

yeoman,  according  to  his  state- 
ment when  coming  to  America,  with  his  wife 
|o\ce.  three  children  and  five  servants,  came 
from  Sandwich,  ["".ngland,  before  June  <),  1637, 
and  settled  in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts.  He 
was  a  proprietor  before  September  10.  \(\^J. 
Their  names  apjiear  on  the  passenger  list  of 
tjie  sliip  "Hercules,"  sailing  June,  1637.  He 
was  admitted  a  freeman  March  4,  1638-g,  and 
is  called  "gentleman"  t)n  the  records,  a  posi- 
tion one  might  suppose  belonged  to  him  from 
the  number  of  servants.  He  was  a  town  officer 
and  leading  citizen  in  Horchester.  He  re- 
moved to  .Martha's  X'ineyard  in  \(i^\.  when  he 
gave  a  ]>ower  of  attorney  to  his  son  John  for 
sale  of  lands,  etc.  He  sold  laiul  in  Uo.xbury 
in  1652.  lie  died  at  l\dgarto\vn,  Martha's 
X'ineyard.  August  13.  1^71.  The  will  of  Joyce. 
his  wi(lo\\ .  mentions  her  grandchildren  John 
and  Thomas  llntler.  .Mary  .\thearn.  and  Han- 
nah Chadduck  and  son  Henry.  Children:  1. 
Rev.    Henry,    schoolmaster   of    Dorchester    in 

1652,  proposed  for  minister  at  I  ncatie,  Eng- 
land. 1656:  settled  at  Seoul,  Somerset,  until 
August  24.  1662,  later  at  W'illianifray,  five 
miles  from  Frome  ;  persecuted  by  authorities. 
2.  John,  mentioned  below.  3.  Lydia.  married 
May  19.  i')47.  John  Minot.  of  Dorchester. 

I  11  I  C"a])tain  John  liutler.  son  of  Xicholas 
r.utler.  was  born  in  England,  and  he  or  an 
infant  son  John  was  baptized  .September  22. 
1645.  In  1658  he  was  constable  at  Edgartown. 
whither  he  removed  with  his  father's  family. 
The  records  show  that  his  brother  Henry  owed 
him  certain  moneys.  He  was  captain  of  the 
military  company  in  ir)54-5.  He  married 
Mary  .     He  died  in   i(>5S. 

(HI)  John  (2).  ^on  of  John  (1)  I'.ulter. 
was  born  in  Edgartown.  Martha's  \  ineyard.  in 

1653.  He  made  his  will  November  10,  1733, 
at  the  age  of  eighty.  He  was  a  constable  in 
i6g2.  He  married  Priscilla  Nort<jn,  daughter 
of  Nicholas  and  Elizabeth  Norton  They  re- 
sided   at    Afartha's   \'ineyard.      t  hildren:      i. 

Henry,  married  Sarah  .     2.  John.  Jr.. 

married  December  16.  1708.  Elizabeth  Dag- 
gett, daughter  of  Captain  Thomas  Daggett.  3. 
Thomas,  born  about  1680 :  married  Septembei' 
18.  1702.  Anne  Torrey.  of  Weymouth,  who 
died  October  i.  1735.  aged  about  fifty-one.  4. 
Nicholas,  born  at  Martha's  \^ineyard :  married 
September  5,  1726,  Sarah  Ripley:  second. 
Thankful  Marchant.  5.  Samuel,  married,  after 
1712.  Elizabeth  fClay)   Stanbridge,  widow  of 


Samuel  .^tanbi'idgr  :  died  I  )cceinbei-  J3.  1768: 
he  died  l-'el)riiary  24.  171)5.  5.  Joyce,  married 
.\o\ember  20.  1703,  Josejjh  Newcomb.  Ci. 
( 'nesimus.  7.  Simeon,  married.  1712,  Hamiali 
C  heney.  8.  /ephaniah.  died  .September  15. 
1721  :  married  Thankful  Daggett.  <).  .Malachi, 
mentioned  below.  10.  I'riscilla,  married:  in 
174S  was  widow  of  Thomas  Snow.  1  1.  ( iam- 
aliel ;  married  Sarah  Chase:  he  died  I'ebruary 
24,  1765,  aged  seventy-four. 

(  l\'  )  Malachi.  son  of  John  (2)  liutler.  was 
horn  about  1700.  at  Martha's  \'ine>aril.  He 
bought  a  lot  of  his  father,  or  was  given  a  tract 
adjoining  the  place  of  his  brother  John.  March 
24.  1721-2.  .-diont  the  time  of  his  marriage. 
.\fter  1733  and  l)eft)re  1745  he  removed  to 
W  indham,  Connecticut,  and  in  the  latter  year, 
then  being  of  Windham,  deeded  to  his  ne]-)hew 
.Sluibael  lUitler  half  llie  pew  he  owned  with 
his  brother  (iamaliel.  In  1758  he  was  settled 
in  Wdodbury.  Connecticut,  and  that  year  deed- 
ed his  |)roperty  in  .Martha's  \'ineyard  to  John 
I 'ease.  These  deeds  were  recently  discovered 
in  a  search  since  (leneral  R.  I^.  F')Utler  died, 
and  were  published  by  his  daughter,  Mrs.  .\del- 
bert  .\mes.  tieneral  llutler  and  all  the  other 
desi-endants  had  confused  Malachi  with  an 
Irish  famil\-  of  lUitler  in  the  vicinity,  many  of 
will  ni  have  been  distinguished,  especiallv  in 
New  \'ork  .State.  In  1757  Malachi  lintler  had 
a  guardian  appointed,  being  ill  and  "])artly 
insane."  His  son  ISenjamin  graduated  at  Har- 
vard in  1752,  and  settled  in  Nottingham,  New 
Hampshire,  while  Zephaniah  was  in  the  Con- 
necticut troojis  in  the  French  war  in  1757  and 
1  758.  .Malachi  married  Jemima  Daggett,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  ;md  I'^lizabeth  (  Hawes  )  Dag- 
gett, of  ^'armouth.  Thomas,  who  died  .Au- 
gust 25.  1726,  was  son  of  Thomas  Daggett  and 
llann.ili  (  M;i\'he\v  )  Daggett:  Hannah  May- 
hew,  born  .April  15,  1635,  was  daughter  of 
Governor  Thomas  Mayhew.  Thomas  was  the 
son  of  Thomas  and  Hathsheba  Daggett,  the 
jiioneers.  Children  of  Afalachi  and  Jemima 
Piutler :  I.  Thankful,  baj^tized  at  ]'",dgartown. 
Januarv  20.  1723.  2.  Susanna,  baptized  De- 
cember 20,  1724.  3.  Zejihaniah.  baptized  at 
Edgartown.  January  15.  1727-8:  mentioned 
lielow.  4.  Rev.  I'enjamin.  born  April  ().  1729: 
baptized  May  4.  1729:  died  December  29.  1804: 
married.  May,  1753,  Dorcas  Abbott,  \Hio  was 
born  May  11,  1729,  and  died  .April  19.  1789; 
his  f.irm  is  still  owned  by  lineal  descendants  at 
\(  ttingham.  New  Hampshire.  5.  Margery, 
bantized  Julv  18.  1731.  fi.  Silas,  baptized  at 
F.dgartown,    November    ti.    1733:    settleil    in 


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Solonioii.    rt-moved    to    New 


York,  tliencc  to  Suulh  Camlina.  where  he  lei  I 
issue.     8.  Lydia.    <>.  .Mary. 

I  \  I  C'a])tain  /eplianiah.  mhi  of  .Malaehi 
r.iiller,  was  born  in  January.  1728:  hajjlized  in 
iMlgartown.  .Martha's  Xineyard,  January  13, 
i8_'7-8.  I  le  went  with  his  father  to  Windham, 
tiicnce  to  Woodbury,  lie  wiiu  to  Quebec  in 
the  arniv  of  Cicneral  Wolfe  in  the  hVench  and 
Indian  war.  and  (iencral  1'..  I'.  I'.utler's  family 
has  the  powder  horn  he  carried,  euijraved  with 
his  name,  and  the  date  .\pril  22.  1738.  Ik- 
was  at  lite  battles  of  Louisburt;  and  Ouehec. 
lie  was  also  a  soldier  in  the  re\olntion.  a  iiri- 
vate  in  Cajitain  Nathan  Sanborn's  company,  in 
the  regiment  of  Colonel  'I'honias  Ta-h.  raised 
to  reinforce  the  Continental  army  in  New 
^'ork.  September.  i77Ci:  als.i  in  Caiitain  Am<is 
.Morrill's  company.  Colonel  Jnhn  Stark's  regi- 
ment, in  1777.  Both  he  and  his  son  ISenjamin. 
who  was  afterward  on  the  staff  of  his  uncle. 
Colonel  Jose]jh  Cilley.  where  ni  Captam  .Na- 
than Sanborn's  company  at  the  battle  ot  I'.iniker 
1 1  ill.  as  was  also  the  second  son.  I'jioch.  Alter 
ihe  war  he  was  a  captain  of  militia.  Zei)lianiah 
I'.utUr  was  a  .school  teacher  and  farmer,  lie 
sealed  near  his  brother  llenjaniin.  the  minister, 
and  was  called  the  "school-master."  lie  mar- 
ried .Vbigail  Cilley.  daughter  of  C.cneral  Joseph 
Cilley.  -She  was  born  in  1740.  died  in  1824. 
lie  died  in  1800.  Children:  i.r.enjamin.  2. 
Mnoch.     ^.  John,  mentioned  bel<rw. 

(\l)  Ca|)tain  John  1,^).  smi  nf  C:i)itain 
Zeplianiah  I'.utler.  born  at  Nottingham,  New 
llami)shire.  May  17.  1782:  died  March.  i8i(). 
I'or  the  war  of  1812  he  raised  a  comjjany  of 
light  dragoons,  was  commissioned  captain,  July 
23.  1812.  an<l  served  on  the  northern  frontier, 
lie  married  first.  June  3.  1803.  Sarah  Hatch- 
elder,  of  Deertield,  .New  I  lamiishire :  second. 
Inly  21,  181  I.  Charlotte  I-illison,  who  was  born 
I'"ebruary  4.  17<)2.  died  October  4.  1870.  th'I- 
dren  of  John  and  Sarah  I'utler:  1.  I 'oily 
True,  borii  June  8,  1804.  2.  Sally,  born  .Marcli 
II,  i8ot).  .V  I'-etsey  Alerrill.  born  Jamiary  <). 
1808;  marrie<l  Daniel  1'..  Stevens.  .March  2. 
1827:  she  (lied  at  Nottingham.  Sei)lember  22. 
11)04:  children  :  i.  Klizabeth  I'..  Stevens,  widow 
nf  Colonel  Joiin  li.  Ualehelder.  artist  and  his- 
torian: ii.  Thomas  Stevens;  iii.  Aiuamla  Ste- 
vens :  iv.  Charlotte  I'.  .Stevens  ;  resides  at  Wash- 
ington, n.  C. :  v.  Walter  D.  Stevens,  of  Herry. 
New  Hampshire.  Children  of  John  and  Char- 
lotte I'.utler ;  4.  Charlotte,  born  May  i.v  1812: 
died  August.  1830.  3.  .Andrew  Jackson,  born 
iM-bniary  IV  1813:  dieil  I'ehrnarv  11.  i8fia: 
itVicienI   aide   and   assistant  of  his  brother  in 


iheci\il  war.     0.  I'.enjamin  branklin,  mention- 
ed below. 

(\'lll    (  ieneral    I'leujaniin    l-'ranklin    I'.utler. 
son  of  Ca])tain  John  I'.utler.  was  born  Novem- 
ber   3,    1818.    at    Deertield,    .New    1  Iam]jshire : 
died  Jaiuiar\-  1  i,  1893.     '  '^'  ^^'^^  rather  a  i)uny 
child,  and  (|uiet.  gentle,  and  eager  to  learn,  at 
the  age  of  four  was  taught  his  letters  by  his 
motiter.      In  the  summer  he  was  sent  away  to 
a  school  in  .Nottingham  S(|uare.  quite  two  miles 
from  his  home.     Me  attended  that  school   for 
six  weoJ<s  and  learned  to  read  with  little  diffi- 
culty. He  remained  at  hinie  during  the  autumn, 
and   in   the    following   winter  his  mother   and 
uncle   provided   a  home    for  him   in    Deertield 
with  ■■.\unt  I'olly"  Dame,  and  he  went  to  school 
there.     In  the  w-inter  of  his  sixth  year  he  walk- 
ed  from  home  every  morning  to   .Nottinghani 
.Square   to   school,  and   proved   a  bright   iw])il. 
In  the  course  of  time  he  was  virtually  adopted 
li\    his   grandmother,   and   attended   a   ]irivate 
>olu)ol   and   academy   at    Deerfield   until   eight 
\ears  of  age.  under  James  Hersey,  afterward 
postmaster   of    Manchester,    .New    Hamjjshire. 
I  le  was  then  sent  to  Phillips  Exeter  .Academy 
to  be  fitted  for  college.    .\  clergyman,  who  had 
liefriended  his  wiclowed  mniher.  built  a  house 
fur  in  r  to  occnp\'  in  Lowell,  and  in  1828.  at  the 
close  of  the  winter  term.    I'.utler  went  to  his 
mother's  house  and  studied  Latin  at  home  dur- 
ing the  si)ring  and  summer  following,  having 
the   kindlv   assistance   of   .Seth    .\mes.   then   a 
lawyer,    afterward    a    justiee   of    ilu'    supreme 
court.     Later  in  the  year  it  became  necessary 
for  him  to  earn  some  money,  and  his  mother 
procured  him  a  i)lacc  at  Meecham  i.*v:  Nfathew- 
son's.  the  l-"rauklin  bookstore,  the  only  estab- 
lishment of  its  kind  in  the  tt)wn.     He  remained 
in  this  clerkshiu  until  December  18.  1830,  when 
the  Lowell  high  school  was  established  through 
the  exertions  of  Rev.  Theodore  Edson.  rector 
of  St.  .Anne's  Church.     He  finished  his  fitting 
fur  college,  to  which  he  went  unwillingly.     He 
w  ished  to  go  to  West  Point  Military  .Academy 
.ind.   when    his   appointment    seemed    assured. 
Iiis  molhei's  clergyman,  a  good  P.aptist,  advised 
her  to  send  the  boy  to 'the  r.a|)tist  College  at 
Waterville,    Maine,    in    the    labor   department, 
where  he  could  do  somelbing  toward  his  own 
support.      He   was   religiously  brought   up  and 
inclined,  giving  his  good  mother  the  hoiie  that 
he  would  studv  for  the  ministry.     His  college 
career  was  a  disai)]>ointmeiit  to  him.  having  set 
his  heart  on  tlie  more  virile  and  practical  course 
;u  \\  e-i  I'oim      I  le  became  interested  in  chem- 
islrx    and    physics,   outside   of    his   jirescrihed 
work,   and   loved   experimental    research,   and 


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Ijccaine  lalioratory  assist  ant  to  I'rufessor 
Holmes.  He  taught  school  during  the  long 
winter  vacations  at  college.  .\t  the  time  of  his 
graduation.  Uutler  was  so  reduced  by  a  severe 
cough  that  he  weighed  only  ninety-seven 
|)ounds.  and  he  seemed  in  danger  of  consump- 
tion. Hut  a  sea  voyage  restored  him  to  health 
which  even  during  the  j)rivation  and  exposure 
of  the  rebellion  never  deserted  him  until  his 
last  illness.  On  his  return  to  Lowell  he  began 
the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  William  Smith, 
in  the  early  autumn  o"f  1838,  and  not  many 
months  later  before  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  secured  much  valuable  experience  in  the 
Lowell  ])olice  court.  In  the  autumn  of  1839  he 
accepted  the  position  of  teacher  in  a  Dracut 
school,  but  declined  a  reappointment,  and  de- 
voted all  his  attention  to  studying  law  and 
])racticing  in  the  police  court.  .\t  the  Se|)teiuber 
term  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  in  1840,  he 
was  admitted  by  Justice  Charles  llenry  War- 
ren . 

lie  liecame  interested  in  politics  when  i|uite 
young,  he  learned  by  heart  the  Constitution  of 
the    Cnited    States,    and    studied    the    founda- 
mental  ])rinciiiles  that, divided   the  ])arties,  as 
well  as  the  |)ublic  questions  then  agitating  the 
])ublic  mind.     The  characteristic  pugnacity  and 
disregard  of  his  future  interests  were  shown  in 
his   first  *;truggle.      He   took   advantage   of   a 
coalition  luade  by  tlie  Democrats  and  the  new 
I'ree   Soil  party  in    1851.  made  to  defeat  the 
Whigs,   and   secured  candidates    from    Lowell 
])ledged   to  the  ten-hour  luovemem.      Me  was 
a  Deiuocrat.    It  was  imi)ossil)k' to  carry  through 
tiiis  radical  reform  in  the  legislature,  but  great 
••trides  were  made  in  the  right  direction,  and 
after  unsuccessful  efforts  in  several  legislatures 
a  compromise  bill  was  enacted,  fixing  the  hours 
of  labor  at  eleven  and  a  (|uarter.     In   1852  he 
was  elected  to  the  general  court,  and  again  he 
es|)oused   a   very   imiiopnlar   cause,   the   reim- 
bursement of  the  (  )rder  of  St,  Crsula  for  the 
destruction  in  1834  of  their  convent  in  L'harles- 
lowti  bv  an  anti-Catholic  mob.      In  tlie  consti- 
tntionai  convention  of  1852  he  wa>  a  delegate 
from  Lowell,  and  served  as  chairman  of  the 
cnnimittee  to  which  was  assigned  the  revision 
of  (."hapter  Six  of  the  old  constitution.      The 
defeat  nf  thi-.  cuustitution  at  tlie  ])olls  b\    the 
Kunian  Catholics  bronglit  the  triumph  of  the 
Know-ni)thing  party  in  1853  and  the  downfall 
of  iIk-  Whigs  in  Massachusetts.     He  atleiuled 
everv    Democratic    national    convention    from 
1848  to  i8')0  inclusive:  and  was  frenueiitly  a 
candidate  for  congress,  but  his  |)arty  in  Lowell 
was  in  a  hopeless  minority.     In   i8.s8  he  was 


elected   to  the   state   senate    from   Lowell,   the 
only  Democrat  on  the  ticket.     He  drew  the  act 
reforming  the  judiciary  of  the  state  and  the 
superior  court  established  in  place  of  the  old 
court  of  common  pleas.   Most  of  the  provisions 
of  that  act  are  still  the  law  of  the  state.     In 
i8'>o  he  accejited  the  nomination  for  governor 
of  .Massachusetts  from  the  r>reckinridge  wing 
of   the    Democratic   party,   and    received   only 
about  six  thousand  votes  while  as  the  Demo- 
cratic candidate  for  governor  in   1850  he  had 
had  more  than  35.000.     lie  was  a  member  of 
the   national    committee   of   that   wing   of   his 
party.     lUit  when  the  war  broke  out.  he  stood 
in   the  Reiniblican  governor  of  Massachusetts 
an  1  the  ReiJublican  president,  and  became  the 
most  consijicuous  volunteer  general  of  the  be- 
ginning (.)f  the  war,  on  account  of  his  former 
political  affiliations  luaking  his  example  of  in- 
calculable value  to  other  Democrats  who  were 
brought  to  enlist  and  fight  for  the  Union,  and 
on   account  of  his  promptness  in  getting  his 
iroo]is  to  ISaltimore  and  his  success  in  action. 
He  came  of  a  race  of  fighters.     In  1839  he 
enlisted  in  the  Lowell  City  Ciuard  and  served 
three  years  as  a  ])rivate.     Step  by  step  he  was  " 
promoted  uiuil  he  becanie  colonel  of  the  regi- 
ment  in   which   he   first  eidisted.      During  the 
Know-nothing   furore,  Ciovernor  (lardner  re- 
organized the  luilitia  of  the  state  for  the  ex- 
press   purpose    of    disbanding    companies    of 
Roman  Catholic  soldiers,  and  as  a  conse(|nence 
Colonel    Ihiller    lost    his    command,    it    being 
assigned  to  another  district  in  which  he  did  not 
live!      Not   long  afterward,   however,  he   was 
elected   brigadier-general   by  the   field  officers 
of  the  brigade,   and    received   his  commission 
frotn  the  saiue   Know-nothing  governor.     He 
encamped  with  hi.--  brigade  in  1857.  1838.  1839 
and  i860.     In  i860  C.overnor  Ranks  called  to- 
gether the  whole  vohmteer  militia,  six  thous- 
and  men.   at    Concord,    -o   that    when   he   went 
into  service  he  had  seen  together  for  discipline, 
instruction    and    tuiliiary   movement,    a   larger 
bodv  of  trooi)>  than  even  Ceneral   Scott,  the 
commander-in-chief   himself.      With    foresight 
and    (lersistent    efi'ort.   Ceneral    I'.utler   caused 
the  .Massachusetts  volunteer  militia  to  be  made 
ready   so  that    they   were  the   first   organized 
armeil  force  marched  into  Washington  for  its 
defence.      As  early  as  January    19.   1861.  the 
Sixth    Regiment    under    C"olonel    Edward    E. 
lones.  of  Lowell,  was  prepared  and  tendered 
its  services  to  the  government.     When  the  call 
came  it  found  Ceneral  I'utler  trying  an  iiuport- 
ant  case  in   P.oston.     He  stojiiied  short,  asked 
the  judge  for  adjournment,  and  in  fact,  Ihitler 


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tells  us  that  the  case  has  never  been  finished. 
He  helped  devise  the  means  to  raise  mone\  tn 
trans]iort  the  truojjs.  The  Sixth  Ref^iment. 
strengthened  with  two  companies  from  others. 
started  for  Washington  on  .\pril  17.  (General 
lUuler  stayed  behind  to  get  his  two  otlier  regi- 
ments in  order,  and  to  wait  for  tbt-  iugbtli 
Regiment,  which  he  took  to  the  front  .April  i.S. 
He  was  in  I*hiladel])hia  when  his  Sixth  Regi- 
ment was  attacked  in  Haltimorc  with  six  men 
killed  and  thirty  wounded.  The  -Sixth  finally 
reached  the  caijital.  and  President  Lincoln,  as 
he  shook  the  colonel's  hand,  said:  "Thank 
(;«:id  you  have  come:  for  if  you  had  not.  Wash- 
ington would  have  been  in  the  hands  of  the 
rebels  before  morning."  W  ith  his  command 
General  Butler  proceeded  to  .\nnapolis  and 
took  possession  of  it  against  the  protest  of  the 
mayor  and  of  the  governor  of  the  state,  of 
which  it  was  one  of  the  capitals.  Thus  he  held 
oiK-n  a  way  for  the  transjiortation  of  troo])s  to 
Washington  and  insured  its  safety.  He  occu- 
pied and  held  the  Relay  I  louse,  and  so  prevent- 
ed an  assault  upon  Washington  from  Harper's 
Ferry,  which  the  rebels  had  cai)tured  and  were 
occupying  for  that  purpose.  I'rom  thence  he 
made  a  descent  upon  Baltimore  and  established 
it  as  a  Inion  city,  which  it  always  remained. 
These  movements  effectually  jirevented  tiic 
secession  of  Mar\land.  and  lu-Id  her  loval 
through  the  war. 

He  was  placed  in  command  of  the  Dei^art- 
ment  of  \"irginia.  North  Carolina  and  South 
Carolina,  with  liead(|uarters  at  Fortress  Mon- 
roe. He  had  immediately  to  solve  one  of  the 
most  perplexing  (|uesiions  of  the  war.  I'nder 
the  civil  law.  the  negro  slaves  that  took  refuge 
in  the  L'nion  lines  were  chattels,  and  should  be 
returned  to  thtir  owners.  Init  it  \\(i\ild  be  out 
of  the  question  for  nortlurn  t roups  to  act  as 
slave-catchers.  Ilutler  cut  the  ( lordian  knot. 
to  the  relief  of  the  whole  country,  by  declaring 
the  slaves  contraband  of  war — a  legal  subter- 
fuge, under  which  during  the  ri  st  of  the  war 
the  slaves  were  set  free,  and  wliich  |)aved  the 
way  for  the  Fmancipation  Proclamation.  .\o 
single  act  or  thought  earl)  in  the  war  helix'tl 
the  L'nion  cause  mf)re  Within  forty-live  days 
after  the  fall  of  I'ort  Sumter,  without  orders 
from  anybody,  he  seized  and  strongly  fortified 
the  imjjortant  strategic  ])oint  of  .Vewport 
N'ews.  at  the  mouth  of  the  James  river,  which 
was  held  during  the  war,  thus  keeping  open  a 
water  way  for  the  trans])ortation  of  troops  and 
supplies  to  the  intrenchments  around  Ricii- 
nioud.  by  which  the  .Army  of  the  i'otomac 
under    McClellan    escaped     from     Harrison's 


Landing.  In  co-operation  with  the  nav\-  he 
ca|)tured  Fort  llatteras  and  I'ciri  Chuk  ithu-; 
making  the  holding  of  the  st>uiids  of  N'irginia 
and  North  and  .^outh  Carolina  possible) 
.August  2i).  iSdi.  tlie  first  victory  of  anv 
accomit  that  canu'  to  the  Union  army,  taking 
715  pri.soners.  ;ni(l  giving  new  courage  after 
the  defeat  at  Hull  Run.  He  went  home  on 
leave  of  absencr,  Iml  s(k)u  became  arousfd  In 
the  need  of  a  better  system  of  recruiting  sol- 
diers. He  saw  the  ])olitical  necessity  of  the  sit- 
uation, and  ofifered  his  services  to  President 
Lincoln  to  recruit  six  regiments  of  loyal  Dem- 
ocrats in  New  F.ngland.  That  effort  was  suc- 
cessful, uniting  the  North,  and  destroying  the 
suspicion  that  the  war  was  a  Republican  pait\ 
afTair  and  to  be  supported  by  [Jartisans  of  Lin- 
cnln.  He  laised  this  division  of  si.x  thousand 
men  for  the  L'nited  States  without  the  pny- 
ment  of  btninties  or  impressment.  With  them 
he  sailed  to  Ship  Island,  in  an  ex]X'dition  aimed 
at  New  Orleans,  and.  aided  with  an  e(|ual 
number  of  troops  added  tn  his  command,  co- 
(jperating  with  the  fleet  of  the  immortal  Farra- 
gut  to  his  entire  satisfaction,  tlu-y  opened  the 
.Mississippi,  captiu'ed  New  (  )rleans,  subdued 
Louisiana,  and  held  all  of  it  that  was  ever  held 
afterwards  permanently  as  a  part  of  the  L'nited 
States.  He  enforced  tin  re  a  proper  respect  for 
the  nation's  flag,  its  laws  and  powi-r.  Ily  iiroper 
■-anitary  regulations  he  rescued  .\e\\  f  )rleans, 
the  I'l  mmercial  port  of  the  (iulf  of  .Mexico, 
fri>m  its  most  ))citent  danger,  the  yellow  fever, 
friim  the  )"avag(.s  ot  which  in  no  \car  hail  it 
ever  escaped,  a  foe  which  the  rebels  relied 
upon  to  destroy  Puller's  army,  as  it  surely 
would  have  done  if  left  luicombated.  He 
enlisted  there  the  first  colored  troops  ('xt-r 
legalh'  mustered  into  the  .■inn\  nf  the  Lniltil 
-States,  thus  inaugurating  the  jjolicy  of  arnnng 
the  colored  race  befcre  Congress  or  the  Presi- 
dent had  adopted  it.  and  by  so  doing  pointing 
the  way  to  recruiting  the  armies  of  the  L'nited 
Stalls  bv  the  enlistment  of  colored  men  to  llie 
number  of  150.000.  and  establishing  the  negro 
soldier  as  a  component  and  permaiunt  part  of 
the  military  resources  of  the  country.  He  was 
superseded  by  ( ieneral  lianks  in  command  nf 
-New  Orleans.  He  was  appointed  again  to  the 
command  of  the  Department  of  \irginia  and 
North  Carolina.  November  2.  1863.  and  subse- 
(|uently  commissioner  for  the  exchange  of 
prisoners. 

In  the  spring  of  iXd^.  (ieneral  Ilutler 
"devised,  organized  and  perfected  the  strategy 
for  a  camj-aign  against  Richmond  by  having  an 
im])regnable  intrenched  camp  containing  thirty 


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s(|uare  miles  of  terril(ir\'  within  its  hoiiiularics, 
whicli  could  be  held  b\-  ton  thousand  lucn 
against  the  whole  Rebel  forces  forever."  to 
c|uotc  his  own  words,  "within  eight  luiles  of 
the  Rebel  ca])ital.  like  a  hand  upon  its  tiimal 
never  to  l)e  unclenched,  as  it  nevt  r  was." 
l-'roni  that  iiUrenched  camp  at  llermuda  Hun- 
dred. July  15,  he  captured  Petersburg,  but  lost 
it.  as  be  says,  "through  the  sloth  of  uicom|)e- 
tenc\'  of  a  corps  commander  who  had  a  tech- 
nical military  education."  With  the  .\rm\'  of 
the  lames.  September  29.  he  rapttu'ed  I'nrt 
Harrison  and  a  line  of  intrenched  works,  a 
strong  part  of  the  defences  i>t  Richmond. 
which  were  held  by  colored  troops  uiui!  Kich- 
niond  was  evacuated.  He  j)lanned.  carried  oui 
and  constructed  the  great  strategic  work,  the 
Dutch  Gap  Canal,  and  which  remains  to  this 
dav  a  most  valuable  public  work  in  the  navi- 
gation of  the  James  Rixer.  worth  more  as  a 
commercial  avenue  in  time  of  peace  than  all 
it  cost  as  a  military  undertaking.  1  le  wa>  s  -in 
to  New  York  at  the  time  of  the  presidential 
election,  and  took  effectual  means  to  jir^vent 
disorder  and  threatened  illegal  voting  and  riot- 
ing. I  le  was  offered  the  portfolio  of  secretary 
of  war.  but  declined  it.  as  he  had  also  declined 
to  be  nominated  as  vice-|ire.>ident  011  Lincoln's 
ticket. 

In  January.  1865,  when  ( ieneral  llutler  was 
relieved  from  the  coiumand.  he  accounted 
for  and  returned  over  five  hiuidred  thousand 
dollars  which  be  bad  collected  in  various  ways, 
such  as  taxes  on  traders-tolls  on  cotton  sent 
north.  With  the  money  thus  shrewdly  gained 
for  the  I'nion  cause,  he  paid  largely  the  cost  of 
the  Dutch  (lap  Canal :  built  a  hos|)ital  at  I'oint 
of  Rocks  and  barracks  at  Fortress  Monroe. 
etc.  He  used  the  revenues  at  New  Orleans 
with  great  shrewdness,  and  was  complimented 
by  his  superiors  for  the  condition  of  his 
accounts,  and  by  the  business  men  of  that  cit\' 
for  his  regulation  of  ihi.'  me<lium  of  exchange 
and  the  banking  business,  preveiuing  hardshi]) 
to  the  i)eoi)le.  and  yet  saving  the  banks  from 
disaster.  He  cleaned  Xorfolk.  Virginia,  just 
as  be  bad  cleaned  Xew  ( )rleans  and  made  it 
habitable.  He  ])ut  deserters  and  i)etty  crimi- 
nals In  work  on  the  streets,  taking  for  three 
months  a  ibmisand  loads  of  filth  a  week  out  of 
the  city.  He  was  as  ])roud  of  keeping  the 
yellow  fever  oiU  of  Xorfolk  as  out  of  Xvw 
( )rleaiis.  CraiU  himself  wrote  to  Lincoln: 
".'\s  an  administrative  officer  t  Ieneral  I'uuler 
has  no  superior.  In  taking  charge  of  a  depart- 
ment where  there  are  no  great  l)altles  to  be 
fought,  but   a  dissatisfied  elemenl  li>  control. 


no  one  could  manage  it  better  than  he."  That 
describes  the  popular  opinion  as  well,  after  bis 
work  in  Xorfolk  and  Xew  Orleans. 

In  1 866  he  was  elected  to  congress  from  the 
Essex  district  as  a  Republican,  although  his 
residence  was  in  Lowell.  He  was  placed  on 
the  comiuittee  on  api)ropriations.  He  t(X>k  an 
active  part  in  the  debates  of  the  house.  He 
took  up  the  cudgels  for  the  legal  tender  or 
"greenback"  currency  issued  as  a  war  measure, 
and  the  coiUroversy  over  this  luonev  lasted 
many  years.  A  |)arty  known  as  the  ( ireen- 
back  Party  existed  for  several  years  and  (gen- 
eral P>utler  became  a  prominent  figure  in  it. 
In  1868  llutler  was  re-elected,  and  again  in 
1870  and  1S7J.  hut  in  1S74  he  was  defeated. 
In  1867  he  Ijecame  one  of  the  most  prominent 
figures  in  the  impeachiuent  of  the  |)resident. 
as  the  attorney  for  the  board  of  managers  on 
the  part  of  the  house  in  the  trial  before  the 
senate,  luaking  the  oueniug  argiunent.  In  1871 
he  becaiue  a  candidate  in  the  Republican  con- 
vention for  the  nomination  for  governor,  and 
was  defeated  by  William  11.  Washburn.  The 
following  year  he  ran  again  against  Covernor 
Washburn.  He  was  an  independent  candidate 
for  governor  in  1878.  and  as  such  reduced  the 
Republican  luajority  largely.  I  le  also  had  the 
nomination  of  the  Democratic  ])arty.  but  a 
section  of  that  party  sujiported  another  candi- 
date, and  he  again  was  defeated.  In  1879  be 
was  again  the  Democratic  and  so-called 
"(ireenback"  candidate,  and  was  again  de- 
feated. In  1880  he  sup])oited  the  nomination 
of  (Ieneral  Hancock  for  ])resident.  In  1882  he 
again  became  the  Democratic  candidate  for 
governor,  and  after  a  hot  canvass  won  by 
fourteen  thousand  plurality.  His  administra- 
tion was  ham|)ered  bv  the  fact  that  bis  council 
was  almost  unanimously  Re])ublican.  as  well 
as  the  legislature.  I  le  had  one  sensational  inves- 
tigation, that  of  the  Tewksbury  almshouse, 
snuething  in  the  line  of  what  has  come  in 
fashion  geiurally  in  later  days  of  muck-raking 
and  graft -probing.  The  Republican  party 
nominated  ( leorsje  1).  Robinson,  and  the  Re- 
publican governor  reclaimed  the  state  by  a 
sleiuler  luajority  of  nine  thousand.  In  1884 
(ieneral  llutler  was  elected  by  the  Democratic 
state  convention  one  of  the  delegates-at-large 
to  the  national  convention  at  Cbica.go.  and 
served  on  the  platform  committee,  (ieneral 
llutler  bad  always  stood  for  the  doctrine  of  a 
|)rotective  tariff  for  .\merican  industries,  "i 
could  not  a.gree."  be  said,  "that  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  which  I  sup|)osed  would  be  in  tin- 
ascendant,  could  st.uul  upon  anything  but  tin 


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Jacksoii  doctrine  o\  a  ■judicious  tariff, '  a  tarifi' 
to  raise  sufficient  revenue  tor  the  wants  of  the 
country,  and  to  give  American  incUistry  inci- 
dental protection  against  foreign  lal)or.  1  was 
overruled,  and  some  mongrel  resolution  was 
adopted  which  meant  anything  or  nothing,  as 
one  chose  to  construe  it."  He  declined  to  su])- 
])ort  anv  candidate  on  that  platform,  ami 
effected  a  fusion  between  the  Democrat  and 
dreenback  parties  in  Michigan,  but  failed  in 
other  states  to  carry  out  his  ])lan.  which  would 
have  defeated  Cleveland's  election.  1  le  became 
a  candidate  for  president,  and  labored  earn- 
estly in  the  ho])e  that  the  Democratic  vote  in 
Xew  York  wotild  be  split  and  the  Republican 
candidate  elected.  He  says:  "Klection  da}- 
came  and  there  were  votes  enough  thrown  for 
me  several  times  over  to  have  prevented  .Mr. 
Clevelajid's  election,  but  in  many  nf  the  poll 
ing  places  they  were  coiuited  not  fur  nic  but 
for  Cleveland."  and  so  the  electoral  vote  of  the 
state  of  Xew  York  was  counted  for  him  by  a 
few  hundred  votes  only.  In  i88S  .Mr.  I'.utler 
made  two  speeches  in  favor  of  ( ienerai  I  larri- 
son  :  after  that  he  took  no  active  ])art  in  poli- 
tics. 

He  married.  Ma\  I'l.  1S44.  al  ."^t.  Aniic'-- 
Church.  Lowell.  Sarah  llildreth.  daughter  of 
Ur.  Israel  Hildreth.  of  Draciu.  a  town  adjoin- 
ing Lowell.  .Mrs.  Ilutler  had  a  distinguished 
career  on  the  stage  before  her  marriage,  .\fter 
her  marriage  she  devoted  herself  wholly  to  her 
husband  and  family,  and  was  With  him  during 
the  whole  of  his  civil  war  service,  e.xcept 
during  active  campaigning.  She  died  .April  8, 
1876.  Children:  i.  Paul,  born  June.  184^), 
died  .April.  1850.  2.  I'.lanche.  iiniti  1847; 
married.  1871.  .Adelbert  .Ames.  3.  I'Jiul.  born 
1852:  graduate  of  Harvard  College  in  1875. 
4.   (Jen  Israel,  mentioned  below. 

(  \' )  r>en  Israel  lUitler.  son  of  <  leneral  I'lcn- 
jamin  F.  Rutler  {4).  was  born  in  Lowell  in 
1854.  He  was  educated  in  the  ])ublic  schools 
and  high  school  of  Lowell,  and  at  West  Point. 
He  graduated  with  honor,  and  acce])ted  a  lieu- 
tenant's commission  in  a  regiment  of  cr)lorcd 
troojjs  stationed  on  the  Plains,  that  he  might 
have,  in  addition  to  his  instruction  at  the  acad- 
emy, the  knowledge  of  the  movement  and  care 
of  troops  in  the  field,  and  in  actual  service.  In 
this  onerous  work  of  defending  the  scattered 
|)opulation  of  the  frontier  from  Indian  raid~. 
he  served  one  year. 

[•"our  generations  of  the  Ilutler  family 
fought  in  the  wars  of  their  country  and  held 
cotnniissions.  Cieneral  I'.utler  had  the  swords 
of   Captain   Zachariah    IJutler.  of  the    I'rench 


\\'ar  and  Revolution:  Ca|)tain  John  I'.utler  of 
the  war  of  1812:  (leneral  I'.enjamin  V.  I'.utler. 
of  the  (.'i\il  War.  and  th:il  uf  hi^  son:  all  kept 
together  in  a  gla^s  ca^e  al  his  home,  a  uni(|ue 
and  perhaps  iuiexam|)led  testimony  of  the 
loyalty  and  military  prnwe^s  of  one  family  in 
direct  line  uf  clesceiil.  (  .enei-al  I'.utler  believed 
that  there  would  be  a  war  in  each  generation, 
and  wished  his  son  In  be  prepared  to  do  his 
]);ul.  but  he  planned  ;ilso  to  make  him  hi'- 
pattin'i-  ill  the  law  bttsiness.  He  studied  at 
C'olumbia  Law  School  in  Xew  NOrk,  and  after 
two  years  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  oti  the 
very  day  that  his  career  in  partiieisliip  with  his 
distinguished  falhei'  was  tn  betjin.  lie  died. 
.Se])tember  1.  1881.  "I  had  hoped  to  lean  ii]>on 
him  in  my  declining  years."  wrote  his  lather, 
"to  take  m\-  place  in  tliat  profession  which  1 
lose  and  honor.  .Man  proposes,  but  (iud  dis- 
poses. 

The  family  of  this  name  is  of 
I'.V  .\' l'.  L' I  L  l''reneh  llumieiiot  orit;iii,  and 
was  planted  in  .Xew  ^'l>^k.  in 
what  is  now  Westchester  county,  in  loijo.  and 
there  certain  of  its  members  founded  the  {dwv 
of  .Xew  Rochelle.  In  1701  they  reiuoved  to 
lloston.  Massachtist'tts.  where  I'eter  I'anenil 
caiue  into  prominence  as  a  merchant.  Wl-en 
the  project  of  establishing  a  public  market  w;-.s 
mooted,  in  1717.  he  took  an  active  interest,  and 
it  was  largelv  through  his  instnniientality  that 
in  1734  an  ai)i)r()priation  of  £700  was  made  b\ 
the  town  for  building  market  houses.  TheM' 
did  not  meet  with  favor  from  the  euiiiitry 
peo])le,  and  they  were  soon  abandoned.  In 
1740  -Mr.  l''aneuil  ottered  In  |)rovide  at  his 
own  expense  a  market  bouse  fur  the  to'\n.  Ijut 
o])])osition  was  so  strong  that  the  >i)ti.  ot 
acceptance  carried  by  only  seven  niajoritv. 
though  he  was  complimented  with  a  unani- 
luous  \-ote  of  thanks  for  his  generosit  /  The 
edifice  was  erected  by  the  architect  .Siiiibert, 
was  opem-d  in  1842,  and  the  .ludil' iriun:  wa- 
first  |)ublicl)-  used  on  .March  14.  i74,V  wi'.eii 
jiihn  Lovell,  the  fatuous  educator,  pii  niounced 
a  funeral  oration  upon  .Mr.  l'"aneiiil,  '  >n  De- 
cember 7,0.  1760,  the  accession  uf  (  iCMii^e  III 
to  the  throne  of  England  was  proclaimed  from 
the  balconv,  and  a  state  dinner  was  served  in 
the  hall.  The  hall  was  burned  down  in  I7()i, 
and  in  17^13  was  rebuilt  by  the  town,  a  large 
]iart  of  the  building  fund  being  procured  by 
means  of  a  li.tterw  The  building  was  illi.ivi- 
nated  in  17' 17.  in  joy  over  the  re))ea!  (f  the 
stamp  act.  In  1768  the  citizens  of  Lost 0,1 
assembled  in  the  ball  to  express  ihei'-  Kidigna- 


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tion  at  tlie  tjiiartering  of  Piritish  troops  u])on 
them,  and  to  devise  means  for  resi^tmcj  r.rili;-!i 
oj)pression.  Britisli  troops  were  i|u;uiin.(l  in 
the  liall  in  October,  1768.  and  it  was  used  a--  a 
theatre  by  the  soldiers  and  loyahsts  diirin::  the 
r.ritisli  occupation.  .\fter  the  liritish  h<id 
retired  from  the  city,  the  hall  was  htld  for 
])atriotic  piu"poses.  and  JK'canie  known  as  "I'lie 
Cradle  of  .American  Liberty."  The  hall  was 
remodeled  in  1805.  after  designs  by  Bulhnch. 
The  first  city  government  was  onjaniravl 
within  its  walls,  in  1822.  The  hall  has  been 
used  for  patriotic  and  reform  meetings  from 
that  time  to  the  present.  Mr.  Faneiiil  died 
-March  3.  1743.   

Xo  more  popular  and  truly  meri- 
HO.\K  torious  famil\'  name  comes  to  the 
mind  in  writing  of  the  many  cele- 
brated family  circles  of  .\lassachusetts,  than 
tliat  to  which  the  late  lamented  I'nited  States 
Senator,  George  F.  1  loar,  belonged.  His  an- 
cestors from  the  early  day  ".Massachusetts  Bay 
Colony."  were  men  of  great  courage  and  activ- 
ity. One  writer  says.  "They  were  in  advance 
of  the  times  in  which  they  lived  and  were 
leaders  to  a  higher  and  better  sphere,  both  in 
social  and  political  sense."  The  earliest  of  his 
male  ancestors  in  this  coimtry  was  John  Hoar. 
one  of  the  three  brothers  who  came  with  their 
sister  and  mother  from  ( iloucester.  England. 
The  husband  and  father.  Charles  Hoar,  was 
sheriff  of  (iloucester  and  died  before  his  family 
came  to  .America.  His  wife,  Joanna,  died  at 
Braintree,  1 661.  Tiiey  had  three  sons  and  two 
daughters.  The  sons  were  Daniel,  who  re- 
turned to  England  in  1653;  Leonard,  at  Har- 
vard College  1650,  and  was  president  of  that 
institution  ;  and  John.  (  See  Hudson's  "His- 
tory of  Lexington."  jjage  104,  (ienealogical 
Register  ). 

(  II  I  Leonard  Hoar,  son  of  Charles  and  Jo- 
aima  illincksman)  Hoar,  of  England,  was 
president  of  Harvard  College  from  1672  until 
shortly  before  his  death  in  i''>75.  He  married 
[Bridget  Lisle,  daughter  nf  Jolm  Lord  Lisle. 
Her  father  was  jiresident  of  the  iligh  Court 
of  Justice  in  England  under  Cromwell,  and 
drew  tlie  indictment  and  sentence  nf  King 
Charles  1.  He  was  murdered  in  Lausanne. 
.Switzerland.  .August  11.  1664.  being  shot  in 
the  back  as  he  was  on  his  way  to  church,  by 
two  Irish  ruffians  who  were  inspired  by  the  ho])f 
of  reward  from  some  member  of  the  Royal 
family  in  England.  Bridget  Lisle's  mniher 
was  the  Lady  .Alicia  Lisle,  who  was  in  sym- 
|)athy  with  the  King,  and  was  one  of  the  earli- 


est victims  of  the  infamous  Chief  Justice  Jef- 
fries, being  charged  with  mis]irision  of  treason 
in  aidi!ig  and  concealing  in  Ikt  dwelling  the 
day  after  the  battle  of  .Scdgemoor,  Richard 
.Velthorpe,  a  lawyer,  antl  John  llickes,  a  min- 
ister, accused  of  being  refugees  from  Mon- 
moiuh's  army.  She  declared  herself  innocent 
of  guilty  knowleilge.  and  protested  against  the 
illegality  of  her  trial  because  the  supposed 
rebels,  to  whom  she  had  given  common  hospi- 
tality, had  not  been  convicted.  She  was  then 
advanced  in  years,  and  so  feeble  that  it  is  said 
she  was  unable  to  keep  awake  during  the  tedious 
trial.  Jeffries  arrogantly  refused  her  the  aid 
of  counsel,  admitted  irrelevant  testimony,  ex- 
celled himself  in  violent  abuse,  and  so  intimi- 
dated the  jurors  who  were  disposed  to  dismiss 
the  charge,  that  they  unwillingly  at  last  brought 
in  a  verdict  of  guilty.  She  was  hurriedly  con- 
demned "to  be  burned  alive"  the  very  after- 
noon of  tile  day  of  her  trial.  .August  28,  1685, 
but.  owing  to  the  indignant  jH-otests  of  the 
clergy  of  Winchester,  execution  was  postponed 
for  five  days,  and  the  sentence  was  "altered 
from  burning  to  beheading."  This  |junish- 
ment  was  exacted  in  the  market  ]>lace  of  Win- 
chester on  the  appointed  day,  the  imj)lacablc 
James  II.  refusing  a  pardon,  although  it  was 
])roved  that  Lady  Lisle  had  protected  many 
cavaliers  in  distress,  and  that  her  son  John  was 
serving  in  the  royal  army  ;  and  many  persons 
of  liigh  rank  interceded  for  her,  among  whom 
was  Lord  Clarendon,  brother-in-law  to  the 
King.  Lady  Lisle  was  connected  by  marriage 
with  the  liond.  W'hitmore,  Churchill  and  other 
families  of  distinction,  and  her  granddaughter 
married  Lord  James  Russell,  fifth  son  of  the 
first  Duke  of  ISedford.  tlnis  connecting  this 
tragedy  with  that  of  Lord  William  Russell, 
"the  martyr  of  English  liberty."  In  the  first 
year  of  William  and  Mary's  reign,  the  attainder 
was  reversed  by  act  of  ])arliament  u])on  peti- 
tion of  Lady  Lisle's  two  daughters.  Try|)hena 
( Irove  and  liridget  (Hoar)  Csher.  Among 
the  eight  great  historical  paintings  which  adorn 
the  corridor  leading  to  the  House  of  C'ommons, 
the  third  of  the  series  rejiresents  Lady  Lisle's 
arrest.  Lady  Lisle's  tomb  is  a  heavy  fiat  slab 
of  grey  stone,  raised  about  two  or  three  feet 
from  the  ground,  near  Ellingham  church,  clo.se 
to  the  \\;dl.  on  the  right  side  of  the  church 
prircli. 

It  i^  '-.-lid  that  wlien  Lady  Lisle  was  carried 
<jn  horseback  b\-  a  trooper  to  Winchester  for 
trial,  the  horse  lost  a  shoe  and  fell  lame.  She 
insisted  that  the  trooper  should  stop  at  a  smith's 
and  have  the  shoe  rejjlaced,  on  his  refusal  de- 


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daring  that  she  would  make  an  outcry  and  re- 
sistance unless  he  did.  saying  that  she  could  not 
bear  to  see  the  horse  suffer.  The  blacksmith  at 
first  refused  to  do  the  work,  saying  that  he 
would  do  nothing  to  help  the  carrying  off  of 
Lady  Lisle,  i)Ut  on  her  earnest  i^leading,  he  did. 
She  told  him  she  would  come  hack  that  way  in 
a  few  days,  hut  the  trooper  said,  ■'^'es.  you  will 
come  back  in  a  few  days,  but  without  your 
head."  The  body  was  returned  in  .Moyles' 
Court  tlie  day  of  the  execution  ;  the  liead  was 
brought  back  a  few  days  after  in  a  basket,  and 
l)Ut  in  at  the  pantry  window  :  the  messenger 
said  that  the  bead  was  sent  afterward  fur 
greater  indignity. 

There  is  a  further  tradition  that  when  Lady 
Lisle  heard  of  her  husljand's  connection  witli 
the  court  which  condenuted  King  Charles,  she 
was  much  distressed.  It  is  well  known  that 
she  disapproved  the  execution,  and  that  she  ile- 
clared  on  her  trial  that  she  never  ceased  to  pray 
for  the  King.  The  story  further  goes  that  she 
hastened  to  London  and  readied  iier  Inisband's 
door  as  he  had  just  mounted  his  horse  to  join 
the  procession  for  some  part  of  the  ])roceeding 
of  the  court.  She  accosted  him,  but.  being 
covered  with  a  lu'avy  veil,  he  did  iiot  recognize 
her.  and  rnughly  thrust  her  away.  .She  fell 
under  the  liiT>e's  hoofs  in  a  swoon:  she  was 
taken  up  and  cared  for  l)y  llickes.  one  of  the 
|)ersi)ns  whom  she  afterward  succored,  and 
for  relieving  whom  she  was  condemned.  -She 
remained  in  a  swoon  for  a  long  time ;  her  hus- 
band was  sent  for  and  visited  her  but.  to  u.sc 
the  phrase  in  which  the  story  was  told,  "was 
verv  odious  to  her."  She  told  llickes  that  she 
could  n(.)t  re]5ay  him  fur  bis  kindness  in  Lon- 
don, but  if  he  came  to  the  Isle  of  Wight,  or  to 
Movies'  Court,  in  both  of  which  places  she  had 
property,  sjie  would  repay  him.  saying.  ".Xt 
Movies"  Court  1  am  mistress." 

iiridget  Hoar  married  (second)  Xovember 
JO.  I'lJ'i.  Hezekiah  Csber.  jr.  .\  memorial  to 
the  memory  of  Joamia.  wife  of  Charles  Hoar, 
and  to  llridget.  wife  of  Leonard  Hoar  and 
daughter  of  Lady  Lisle,  in  the  form  of  a  double 
headstone,  shaped  from  a  large,  thick,  slab  of 
slate,  was  erected  by  Senator  ("leorge  F.  Hoar, 
a  descendant.  I'ollowing  are  the  inscri]itions  : 
"Joanna  I  loare.  <lied  in  I'raintree,  September 
2 1  St.  1651.  She  was  widow  of  Charles  Hoarc. 
Sheriff  of  Ciloucester.  I'jigland,  who  died  il'w'^- 
She  came  to  New  I'jiglaud  with  tive  chililren 
about  1640. 

"I'.ridget.  widow  of  President  Leonard  1  loar. 
died  May  25.  1723.  daughter  of  John  Lord 
l.i-le.  I'resident  of  the  High  Court  of  lusticc. 


Lord  Commissioner  of  tlie  (Ireat  Seal,  who 
drew  the  indictment  and  sentence  of  King 
Charles  I.,  and  was  murdered  at  Lausanne, 
.Aug.  iith.  if)64.  and  of  Lady  Alicia  Lisle, 
who  was  beheaded  by  the  brutal  judgment  of 
leffries.  1685.  She  was  nearly  akin  by  mar- 
riage to  Lord  William  Russell." 

(H)  John  Hoar,  son  of  first  family  who 
located  in  Xew  England  by  this  name,  was  a 
lawver.  distinguished  for  bold  manly  indejjend- 
ence.  He  resided  in  -Scituate.  Massachusetts, 
from  1643  to  1655.  It  was  about  1660  when 
Ik-  settled  in  Concord,  and  died  .April  2.  1704. 
|ji>  wife.  .Mice  Lyle.  sister  of  [Sridget  Lisle, 
who  married  Leonard  Hoar,  died  June  5.  1697. 
'i'beir  children  included  Elizabeth,  who.  Decem- 
ber. 1675.  married  Jonathan  IVescott:  Mary, 
married  Benjamin  (iraves.  October  21.  1668: 
and  Daniel,  married  (first)  Mary  Stratton. 
(second)  ^lary  Lee.  The  Hoar  family  were 
among  the  early  Bay  colonists,  and  some  true 
conception  of  their  character  may  be  had  by 
referring  to  a  matter  of  Xew  England  history, 
wherein  it  is  recorded  that  after  the  Indian 
massacre  at  Lancaster,  at  the  time  of  King 
Tbiliij's  war.  John  Hoar,  at  the  request  of  the 
colonial  authorities,  followed  the  Indian  band 
far  into  the  wilderness,  and  after  great  hard- 
ship and  the  exercise  of  great  ingenuity,  re- 
covered by  ransom  Mrs.  Rowlandson.  a  lady 
captive  from  Lancaster.  Her  account  of  her 
ransom  is  ]niblished.  The  rock  where  she  was 
redeemed  is  dose  by  the  base  of  Wacbusett 
Mountain,  and  has  been  marked  by  Senator 
Hoar  bv  a  suitable  insci  ijuion. 

(  111  )  Daniel  Hoar,  son  of  John,  born  about 
i()53;  married.  July  U).  if>77.  Mary  Stratton. 
and  October  16,  1717.  Mary  Lee.  I!y  these 
marriages  the  following  children  were  born : 
lobn.  October  24.  1678;  Leonard,  a  captain. 
(lied  .\|3ril.  1771,  aged  eighty-seven  years,  in 
Brainfield.  where  a  part  of  the  descendants 
now  reside,  some  having  taken  the  name  of 
llonur:  Daniel,  ifiSo,  married  Sarah  Jones: 
Joiialban.  died  at  the  Castle.  (;)ctober  2f>.  1702: 
Josc]ih.  died  at  sea.  1707:  Benjamin:  Mary. 
March  14.  i<>89.  died  June  10.  1702:  Samuel. 
.April  6.  \Cyqi  :  David.  Xovember  14.  1698; 
Isaac,  May  18.  ifiQS:  Elizabeth.  February  22. 
1701. 

(1\)  Daniel  (2)  Hoar,  son  of  Daniel  (  C) 
and  great-grandson  of  the  ancestor.  b<irn  ifS8o: 
married  .Sarah  Jones,  daughter  of  John  and 
Sarah  Jones.  December  20.  1705  :  lived  in  south- 
eastern j)art  of  Concord,  where  he  died  Febru- 
arv  8.  1773.  aged  ninety-three  years.  Their 
children  were  :     i.  John,  born  January  f>.  1707  ; 


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was  twice  married.  2.  Jt>natlian.  bcirn  jamiary 
().  1707  (iwiii  brother  of  John)  :  tjradiiated  at 
Harvard  College  1740;  was  an  oftieer  in  the 
provincial  service  during  the  war  of  1744  to 
1763:  in  1755  he  went  as  a  major  to  I'ort  Ed- 
w^ard.  tiie  next  year  was  a  lieutenant-colonel  in 
Xova  Scotia,  and  an  aide  to  Major-General 
Winslow  at  Crown  Point :  after  the  peace  of 
1763  he  went  to  England  and  was  apjiointed 
governor  of  Xew'foundlaiul  and  neighburuig 
provinces,  but  unfortunately  died  on  his  pass- 
age thither,  aged  fifty-two  years.  3.  Daniel, 
entered  Harvard  College  1730.  but  did  not 
graduate:  married  Rebecca  LJrooks,  November 
2,  1743.  and  removed  to  Westminster,  where 
he  died,  leaving  tw'o  sons  and  two  daughters. 
4.  Lucy,  married  John  Brooks.  3.  1-llizabeth. 
married  a  .Mr.  W'hittemore.  of  West  Cam- 
bridge. ().  .Mar\.  married  Zachariah  W'hitte- 
more. 

(  \' )  John  (2)  Hoar,  born  January  ().  1707; 
married,  in  Lexington.  June  13.  1734.  i'^sther 
I'ierce.  by  whom  he  had  two  children.  .She 
died,  and  he  married,  .\ngust  21,  1740,  in 
W'atcrtown,  Elizabeth  Coolidge.  He  died  in 
Lincoln.  Massachusetts,  .May  16,  1786.  and  his 
widow  died  March  20.  1791.  lie  lived  succes- 
sively in  Lexington,  W'atcrtown,  and  again  in 
Lexington  and  Lincoln,  it  is  not  (|uitc  clear 
when  he  first  came  to  Lexington.  He  was 
taxed  for  a  personal  and  realty  in  1729.  and 
had  a  seat  assigned  him  in  the  meeting  house 
in  1731,  when  they  reseated  the  iiouse.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  schcx)l  committee  in  1743. 
He  subse«|ueutly  filled  the  offices  of  constable, 
as.sessor  and  selectman.  His  home  was  in  that 
part  of  Lexington  set  off  to  Lincoln  in  1754. 
His  children  were:  1.  Rebecca,  born  in  Lex- 
ington. July  I.  173.S:  married.  May  ().  175.S. 
Joseph  Cutler.  2.  Esther,  born  in  \Vatertown, 
January  28,  1739:  married  Edmond  llowman, 
1760.  3.  John,  born  in  Lexington,  July  14. 
1741  :  died  young.  4.  .Samuel,  born  in  Lex- 
ington. .August  23.  1743.  5.  F'^lizabelh.  born  in 
Lexington.  October  14.  1746.  6.  .Mary,  born 
in  Lexington.  October  5,  1750:  died  young.  7. 
Sarah,  born  in  Lincoln.  June  9.  175.S:  married 
.\ehemiaii  Abbot.  8.  Leonard,  born  in  Lin- 
coln. June  29.  1758;  was  twice  married.  9. 
Rebecca,  born  in  Lincoln.  October  18.  1761  : 
married  Josei)li  White  Lancaster.  10.  Mary, 
born  Jiuie  17,  1764;  marriefl  Thomas  Wheeler. 
March  27.  1788.  11.  Josej)!!.  born  July  30, 
1767. 

(\'I)  Samuel  Hoar,  son  of  John  (2)  Hoar. 
born  in  Lexington.  Massachusetts,  .\ugust  23. 
1743:  was  an  important  man   in   Lincoln:  he 


fre(|uentl\'  rejiresentcd  bis  inwn  in  the  house 
of  representatives,  and  was  a  state  senator 
from  .Middlesex  county.  .Massachusetts,  from 
1S13  to  i8if).  He  married  .Susanna  I'ierce,  by 
whiim  he  had  ten  children — five  of  each  sex. 

(  \  1 1  )  Samuel  (2  )  Hoar,  eldest  son  of  .Sam- 
uel (  1  )  Hoar,  born  May  18,  1778:  graduated 
at  Harvard  College,  1802,  received  the  degree 
of  LL.  D.  1838.  He  taught  school  in  X'irginia 
t\\(i  years,  and  was  adiuitted  to  the  .Massachu- 
setts bar  in  1805.  He  was  an  eminent  lawyer. 
conteni]H)rary  with  Choate,  .Mason  and  Daniel 
Webster.  He  frecpiently  represented  the  town 
of  Lincoln  in  the  Massachusetts  legislature, 
was  a  senator  from  the  county  oi  .Middlesex, 
from  1813  lo  i8i6.  and  was  elected  to  congress 
for  the  years  1835-37-44.  The  legislature  of 
.Massachusetts  sent  him  to  South  Carolina  lo 
test  the  constitutionality  of  certain  acts  author- 
izing the  im])risonment  of  free  colored  ])erst)ns 
held  as  prisoners  in  that  state.  By  order  of 
the  governor  of  .South  Carolina  he  was  forcibly 
ejected  from  the  state,  and  compelled  to  leave 
before  fulfilling  his  mission,  but  ;u(|uitle(l  him- 
self manfully  throughout  the  entire  case.  He- 
was  a  man  of  marked  character  and  standing. 
1  le  died  at  Concord,  Massachusetts.  .Xoveniber 
2.  185C1.  He  married  .Sarah,  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  Roger  .Sherman,  of  Connecticut,  who 
was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  one  of  the  framers  of  the  L'nited 
.States  C'onstitution.  judge,  and  later  L'nited 
.States  senator,  and  mayor  of  New  Haven  until 
his  death.  Children  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
(.Sherman)  Hoar  were:  i.  Elizabeth,  born 
|m1\-  14.  1814.  2.  h'.benezer  Rockwood,  b'ebru- 
ai\  Ji.  iSih.  3.  .Sarah  .Sherman.  .Vovember 
9.  1817.  4.  .Samuel  Johnson,  February  4.  1820: 
died  1821.  5.  ICdward  .Sherman.  December  22. 
1823;  graduate  of  Harvard  College  1844.  l>. 
(  leorge  l-'risbie.  .\ugust  29,  1826. 

(\llll  l-".benezer  Rockw-ood  Hoar,  eldest 
son  of  .'^amuel  (  2  )  and  .Sarah  (  Sherman  )  1  loar. 
liorn  I'ebruary  21.  1816;  graduate  at  Harvard 
College  18^5.  In  i83(;  he  began  the  practice 
of  law  in  Concord,  .\lassachusetls.  and  aside 
from  rejjresenting  his  native  county  in  the 
state  senate,  was  in  1849  made  judge  of  the 
court  of  common  pleas.  In  1859  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  justice  of  the  su])reme  court  of  Mass- 
achusetts, and  in  (ieneral  U.  S.  Grant's  admin- 
istration was  ai)])ointed  attorney  general  of  the 


l'nited    States   in    .March,    i8rK;). 


1871 


was  high  connnissioner  of  the  Washington 
treaty,  and  a  member  of  congress  from  Nfass.-i- 
chnsetts.  from  1873  to  1875. 

(  \'HI )  George  Erisbie  Hoar,  .son  of  Samuel 


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(2)  and  Sarah  (Sherman)  Hoar,  was  born  in 
Concord.  Massachusetts.  August  29,  1826.  The 
scenes  of  his  boyhood  were  cast  in  jjleasant 
places,  'midst  fine  influences,  all  calculated  to 
unfold  the  germ  of  the  true  life  to  be  enacted. 
A  fter  his  common  school  days  at  Concord  he 
t-nured  Harvard  College,  gradnating  in  1846. 
Ill'  chose  the  honorable  profession  of  law  for 
his  calling  in  life,  fitting  himself  in  Harvard 
Law  School  and  in  the  law  office  of  Judge 
Thomas  in  Worcester.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1849,  and  at  once  began  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  Worcester,  which  city  has 
ever  since  claimed  him  as  one  of  her  most  hon- 
ored citizens.  Among  his  legal  associates  were 
Hon.  Emery  Washburn,  an'd  later  Hon.  Charles 
Devens  and  J.  Henry  Hill,  Esq.  Mr.  Hoar 
very  rapidly  rose  to  a  very  eminent  rank  in  his 
])rofession.  By  native  genius  of  his  mind, 
well  disciplined  by  a  thorough  educational  train- 
ing, and  augmented  by  an  uncommon  energy, 
he  steadily  moved  forward  and  became  a  recog- 
nized leader.  In  1869,  when  he  entered  con- 
gress, after  twenty  years  at  the  bar,  his  legal 
practice  was  the  largest  of  any  west  of  Middle- 
sex county  and  the  most  valual)le  in  a  financial 
])oint  of  view. 

It  was  in  1841)  when  tieorge  1'.  Hoar  first 
entered  the  political  arena  as  the  chairman  of 
the  I'ree-soil  party  for  Worcester  county,  where 
the  ])arty  was  the  best  organized  of  any  county 
in  the  United  States.  When  he  was  twenty- 
five  years  of  age.  in  1851,  he  was  eleced 
as  a  representative  tn  the  general  court  of 
Massachusetts.  I  le  was  its  youngest  mem- 
ber, but  became  the  leader  in  law  matters, 
and  to  him  was  given  the  task  of  draw- 
ing resolutions  protesting  against  the  com- 
])romise  measures  of  the  National  govern- 
ment in  1850.  He  had  so  far  advanced  in  poli- 
tical life  that  he  could  have  succeeded  Hon. 
Charles  Allen  in  congress,  but  he  would  not 
listen  to  the  call  made  by  his  friends  to  enter 
congress,  as  it  would  be  to  put  i)olitics  ahead 
of  law — his  chosen  i)rofession.  1  lad  he  at  that 
time  entered  the  congressional  field  he  would 
no  doubt  have  been  among  the  foremost  in  civil 
war  and  reconstruction  periods.  He  would  not 
go  to  congress,  but  did  not  refu.se  to  serve  in 
the  state  legislature,  which  was  pressed  upon 
him.  In  1857  he  was  a  member  of  the  senate 
and  chairman  of  the  judiciary  committee.  Tn 
that  body  he  made  a  masterly  rejiort.  He  was 
always  ready  to  make  campaign  speeches,  and 
but  few  advanced  more  thorough,  extended 
aTid  logical  arguments. 

In  iSdS  Mr.  Hoar  was  elected  a  representa- 


tive in  congress  f  Rejjublican)  as  the  successor 
of  the  late  Hon.  John  D.  Baldwin.  In  this,  the 
forty-first  congress,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
cummittee  on  education  and  labor,  and  his  chief 
work  was  the  pre])aration  and  advocacy  of  the 
bill  for  national  education.  The  bill  did  not 
pass  in  that  session,  and  Mr.  Hoar  reported  it 
in  the  next,  and  finally  in  the  forty-third  con- 
gress it  was  passed  by  the  house,  but  failed  in 
the  senate.  In  the  same  congress  he  vindicated 
(jeneral  Howard,  and  su]jported  Sumner  in  his 
opposition  to  Ceneral  Evarts'  scheme  of  annex- 
ation of  Santo  Domingo.  As  a  member  of  the 
election  committee  in  the  forty-second  congress 
he  drew  the  bill  and  had  much  to  do  along  this 
line.  In  the  following  congress  he  made  his 
famous  eulogy  on  Senator  Sumner.  He  was 
instrumental  in  passing  the  Eads  jetty  bill, 
and  thus  was  opened  up  the  Xew  Orleans  ocean 
commerce  line.  But  perhaps  of  more  import- 
ance than  all.  was  his  comiection  with  the  elec- 
toral commission  bill,  he  being  associated  with 
General  Garfield,  Judge  Abbott,  of  Massachu- 
setts, and  Payne,  of  Ohio.  In  1872  and  again 
in  1874  Mr.  Hoar  had  made  known  his  desire 
to  retire  to  private  life,  bnt  each  time  felt  his 
duty  was  in  serving,  because  his  state  demand- 
ed it. 

In  1876  his  resolve  to  not  be  a  candidate 
again  for  re-election  was  announced  as  final, 
and  the  people  elected  his  successor :  but  the 
next  Massachusetts  legislature  chose  Mr.  Hoar 
to  succeed  Mr.  Boutwell  as  UnitM  States  sen- 
ator, and  he  took  his  seat  March  4.  1877,  at 
the  beginning  of  President  Hayes'  administra- 
tion. Here  he  rapidly  rose  in  the  scale  and 
dignity  of  a  true  .Vmerican  diplomat  and  states- 
man. He  became  chairman  of  many  important 
committees,  including  that  of  privileges  and 
claims  and  on  judiciary.  He  was  author  of  the 
bill  for  distributing  the  balance  of  the  Geneva 
Award  :  the  Lawell  bankruptcy  bill ;  the  presi- 
dential succession  1)ill ;  tenure  of  office  act; 
bureau  of  labor  statistics,  and  many  others. 
The  most  of  his  time  in  the  house  and  the 
L'nited  .States  senate  was  spent  in  working  for 
bills,  laws  and  measures  of  large  scojje  and 
wide  range,  leaving  others  less  comjietent  than 
himself  to  discharge  their  duties  in  matters  of 
not  so  much  real  importance  to  the  great  and 
growing  nation. 

In  i88_^  and  i88f)  he  was  re-elected  to  his 
scat  in  the  senate.  To  have  been  elected  to  the 
legislature  so  many  times  by  a  unanimous  vote 
(if  its  members  was  a  new  record  for  Massa- 
ch\isetts.  and  only  bespoke  of  merit  for  him 
wliiMu   ihi^   brief   memoir   is  compiled,   .giving 


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him  a  rank  along  with  Charles  Sumner  and 
Daniel  \\  ebster,  who  were  in  the  same  office, 
and  as  a  contemjKirary  with  .Samuel  Hoar,  his 
father.  His  voice  had  been  hoard  in  the  national 
halls  of  legislation  for  thirty-five  years,  and  he 
served  as  L'nited  States  senator  twenty-seven 
years  at  this  jjeriod.  his  service  being  as  long, 
if  not  longer  than  any  American  of  our  time. 

Mr.  Hoar  had  four  times  served  as  the  chair- 
man of  the  Massachusetts  Republican  state 
convention,  in  1880  he  was  president  of  the 
national  convention  of  Chicago,  by  which  <  ien- 
cral  ( iarfield  wa>  made  presidential  nominee.  In 
his  deliberations  upon  that  occasion  he  proved 
his  masterly  fitness  as  a  leader  of  great  bodies 
of  great  men  in  exciting,  eventful  history-mak- 
ing times.  In  1898  President  McKinley  ten- 
dered him  the  ambassadorship  to  London,  but 
on  account  of  his  extreme  age  and  desiring  to 
further  serve  in  the  senate  he  respectfully  de- 
clined.  He  enjoyed  travel  especially  in  liurope. 
l-"rom  his  first  visit  to  England  in  i860,  he  had 
made  trips  as  follows:  1860-68-71-92-96-99. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Worcester  Fire  Society 
for  fifty  years.  This  society  was  formed  in 
1793.  and  was  limited  to  a  membership  of 
thirty  persons;  it  has  come  to  be  a  social  and 
historical  body  of  much  interest.  In  i<;o3  .Sen- 
ator Hoar  wrote  and  had  published  what  is 
known  by  its  title.  "Autobiograph)'  of  Seventy 
^'ears."  It  is  a  neat  and  well  written  detailed 
account  of  his  own  life.  It  embraces  two  vol- 
umes and  is  dedicated  to  his  wife  and  children 
— "a  record  of  a  life  which  they  made  happy," 
he  says  in  its  dedication.  One  jmragraph  in 
the  introduction  of  this  work  reads:  "The 
lesson  which  1  have  learned  in  life  which  is 
impressed  more  deeply  as  I  grow  old,  is  the 
lesson  of  (Jood  ^\'ill  and  Good  Hope.  I  be- 
lieve that  to-day  is  better  than  yesterday,  and 
that  to-morrow  will  be  better  than  to-day.  I 
believe  that  in  spite  of  so  many  errors  and 
wrongs,  and  even  crimes,  my  good  countrymen 
of  all  classes  desire  what  is  good  and  not  what 
is  evil." 

While  much  of  his  time  for  more  than  one- 
third  of  a  century  had  been  in  Washington,  yet 
Worcester  felt  the  touch  of  his  influence  and 
life.  He  was  the  prime  mover  in  establishing  a 
free  public  library  in  the  city.  He  materially 
aided  in  ])lacing  the  Polytechnic  Institute  on 
solid  foundation.  He  was  a  great  friend  and 
help  to  Clark  University.  He  was  trustee  of 
the  Leicester  .Academy,  and  first  president  of 
St.  Wulstan  .Society  at  Worcester.  He  also 
was  instrumental  in  founding  the  Worcester 
.Art  Society  and  Worcester  Club.     He  was  an 


honorary  member  of  the  Worcester  Mechanics' 
Association.  1  U-  was  the  oldest  member  at  the 
time  of  his  decease  of  any  save  two  of  the 
American  Antiquarian  Society,  and  was  an 
honorarx  member  of  the  \\  orce^ter  Society  of 
.\ntic|uity.  as  well  as  active  in  the  Massachu- 
setts Historical  Society.  He  was  chairman  of 
the  public  iireservation  committee  of  Massa- 
chusetts, and  hel])ed  in  mark  ])crmanently  the 
old  revolutionary  landmarks  bv  ])roper  stones, 
tablets,  etc.  He  bought  the  old  house  in  which 
had  lived  (ieneral  Kufus  Putnam,  at  Rutland, 
and  made  it  a  iiermanently  jireserved  historic 
relic  of  revolutionary  times. 

That  the  effect  of  his  noble  impulses  and  the 
care  an<l  consideration  he  always  gave  to  the 
helpless  and  oppressed  be  not  lost  sight  of.  it 
should  be  here  given  as  an  illustration  of  this 
marked  trait  of  his  character,  what  relates  to 
the  early  abolition  days  when  he,  a  young 
lawyer  practicing  in  Worcester,  helped  to  de- 
fend a  person  from  mob  violence.  It  was 
the  case  wherein  a  slave  "kidnapper"  during 
the  "fifties'"  was  arrested  and  tried  in  Wor- 
cester, but  finally  allowed  to  depart,  with  the 
promise  of  never  returning.  .\lany  colored 
peo])le  here  and  many  more  radical  aliolitionists 
felt  justice  had  not  been  meted  out  to  him, 
and  had  it  not  been  for  young  ( ieorge  F.  Hoar, 
anfl  his  associates,  he  would  have  been  violently 
mobbed.  While  Mr.  Hoar  was  a  life-long  friend 
and  helper  of  the  colored  race,  he  did  not  be- 
lieve in  the  mob  law.  He  ever  took  deep  inter- 
est in  the  freedom  of  the  south  and  gave  liber- 
ally toward  its  educational  institutions,  be- 
lieving, as  he  did.  that  education  would  sooner 
or  later  solve  the  race  problem. 

Due  more  recent  act  of  his  great  kindness 
was  seen  in  securing  the  charge  of  two  small 
.\ssyrian  girls,  who  accompanied  their  mother 
to  this  country  from  Assyria  in  1901  to  be  with 
the  head  of  the  family  who  had  been  here  .sev- 
eral years,  and  declared  his  intention  of  becom- 
ing a  citizen  in  Worcester,  licfore  landing  at 
P)OSton  1 1  arbor,  the  officers  discovered  that  one 
of  the  little  girls  was  afllicted  with  a  disorder 
f)f  the  e)'e  known  as  trachoma,  and  considered 
incurable  in  adults  and  contagious.  They,  under 
the  law,  were  ordered  not  to  land  on  our  shores, 
but  to  return  at  once  to  their  native  country. 
The  family  was  poor,  and  the  father  a  hard- 
working citizen  of  Worcester,  and  the  mother 
was  to  be  thus  ruthlessly  torn  from  the  idols  of 
her  heart.  The  various  officials  tried  in  vain  to 
evade  the  existing  law.  but  were  thwarted.  The 
steamer  which  was  to  take  the  little  girls  back 
was  to  sail  the  next  day.  but  through  the  inter- 


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])osili()n  of  Senator  I  loar,  whoso  son  Kockwood 
made  the  facts  known  to  him,  finally  through 
a  touching  telegram  to  I'resident  Roosevelt, 
secured  a  peremptory  order  of  release  of  the 
children,  and  they  w'ere  brought  to  Worcester, 
cared  for  and  soon  cured.  When  the  kind- 
hearted  I'resident  visited  Wdrcestir  a  few 
monllis  later,  he  wisjied  to  see  them,  and  he 
met  them  at  Senator  lloar"s  residence,  where 
ail  parties  were  pathetically  touched  by  the 
scene.  It  is  small  deeds  that  introduce  us  to 
great  characters  and  tender  iiearts,  such  as  was 
that  of  both  .Senator  Hoar  and  I'resident  Roose- 
velt. Soon  thereafter  Senator  Hoar  had  the 
law  so  amended  that  such  a  proposed  hardshiji 
could  not  again  exist  in  this  country  througli 
"red  tape." 

\\  bile  he  of  whom  we  write  had  his  political 
enemies  (  and  within  his  own  ])arty )  perhaps 
no  other  man  had  been  in  public  life  so  many 
)'ears  and  made  so  few  enemies,  and  even 
those  who  o]:)])osed  his  position  were  at  all  times 
])ersonally  his  friends.  In  the  part  he  took  in 
opposing  the  action  of  the  ])resent  Rciiublican 
ailministration  ])oiicy  regarding  the  I'hilippine 
Islands  (|uestions — onewhere  he  crossed  swords 
l)olitically  with  many  of  our  brainiest  states- 
men— all.  even  I'resident  McKinley.  himself. 
knew  of  and  res])ecte(l  his  manly  independent 
stand  as  against  |)o|)ular  opinion.  .Mr.  Mc- 
Kinley was  of  a  different  opinion  regarding  a 
ve.xed  (|ue.stion.  but  ])ersonaIly  was  one  of  Sen- 
ator lloar"s  warmest  friends.  In  Mr.  Hoar"s 
".\iitobiogra])hy,"  he  sa\s  :  "It  has  l)een  my 
ill  fortime  to  differ  with  my  jinrty  many  times." 
One  such  occasion  was  when  he  bluntlv  said  to 
-Mr.  McKinley.  "^'(nl  cannot  maintain  a  Des- 
jiotism  in  .Asia  and  a  Republic  in  .\merica." 
The  man  with  no  ojjposcrs  has  accoin])lished 
little  and  has  made  but  few  friends,  but  he  who 
in  the  pride  am!  s]iirit  of  his  manhood  advo- 
cates tlie  right,  as  he  sees  the  right,  and  not 
from  i)olicy.  is  sure  to  accomjilish  what  is  de- 
manded of  a  well  roimded  character,  whether 
in  ])olitics.  social  or  private  life.  Senator  I  loar 
was  broad  minded,  scholarly  and  patriotic  in 
all  he  said  and  smiglit  to  accomplish. 

'  )f  his  domestic  relations,  it  may  be  stated 
that  in  1853  lie  married  Mary  i^onisa  Spurr, 
(laughter  of  Samuel  0.  Sjiurr.  who  conducted 
a  dry  goods  house  in  Worcester,  kept  in  a  large 
two-story  brick  block  on  the  nortli  corner  of 
.Main  and  Central  streets.  Near  it  stood  a 
large  two-story  frame  house,  which  was  the 
residence  of  Mr.  .Sj)urr.  Mr-;.  Hoar,  at  her 
death,  left  two  children — a  daughter  Marv.and 
a  son  Rockwoiid.  who  gradnateil  from  Harvard 


C'olkge  in  1876.  and  was  elected  district  at- 
torney for  Worcester  county  in  1899.  serving 
until  January  1,  1905.  In  the  autumn  of  1904 
he  was  elected  to  a  seat  m  congress  as  the  nomi- 
nee of  the  Kei)ublican  party  for  his  district. 
I"or  his  second  wife  Senat(^r  Hoar  married 
Ruth  .\nn,  daughter  of  the  late  Henry  W. 
-Miller,  of  Worcester.  She  died  about  a  year 
in  advance  of  her  husband.  I-'inally  the  end 
came,  and  he  who  had  been  styled  "The  (".rand 
( )ld  .Man"  was  claimed  by  the  death  messenger, 
and  the  spirit  took  its  flight  at  his  home  in 
\\(jrcester,  Se|)teniber  30.  hk)4.  He  was  a 
firm  believer  in  the  L'nitarian  faith,  and  was 
identified  with  that  church  many  years.  His 
funeral  was  attended  by  one  of  the  largest 
concourse  of  peo])le  ever  seen  in  the  common- 
wcaltli  on  such  a  sad  occasion.  His  remains 
now  repose  in  Slee|)y  Hollow  cemetery,  at  the 
place  of  his  birth. 

A  most  remarkable  testimony  to  the  popular- 
ity and  worth  of  the  Senator  was  furnished  bv 
the  people  of  Worcester  shortly  after  his  death. 
.\  representative  committee  of  citizens  was 
formed  to  take  charge  of  funds  for  a  suitalile 
memorial,  and  in  a  few  months  the  fund  was 
aiu])le  for  the  i)ur])ose,  contributed  by  some 
thirty  thousand  different  persons,  reiiresenting 
nearly  every  famil\-  in  the  city  antl  many  in 
other  parts  of  the  state  and  nation.  The  memo- 
rial took  the  form  of  a  bronze  statue  executed 
by  the  famous  scul|>t(ir.  Daniel  Chester  French. 
and  it  was  located  in  perbajis  the  most  con- 
s]iicuous  spot  in  tlie  city,  near  the  city  hall,  at 
the  corner  of  Main  and  Front  .streets.  The 
Senator  is  represented  as  seated  in  a  massive 
bronze  chair,  with  manuscrij)!  in  one  hand.  hi> 
(i\ercoat  thrown  over  the  left  arm  of  the  chair, 
and  a  bag  of  legal  |3a])ers  beneath  the  chair. 
The  pedestal  is  a  great  monolith  of  granite 
bearing  bronze  tablets  containing  the  inscriji- 
tions. 

The  statue  was  dedicated  with  ap))ropriate 
ceremony  June  2(1.  igo'^.  in  the  presence  of  a 
\ast  gathering  of  |)eople.  Mayor  Jaiues  Logan 
])resided.  Rev.  Or.  Edward  Everett  Hale, 
chaplain  of  the  I'nited  .States  Senate,  a  life- 
long friend  of  the  .Senator,  offered  jirayer  and 
pronoimced  the  benediction.  Music  was  fur- 
nished by  r.attery  I'  Hand  of  Worcester.  The 
speakers  were  ^Ir.  l.ogan.  (governor  Curtis 
( luihl.  Jr..  and  Hon.  William  II.  Moody,  jus- 
tice of  the  .Supreme  Ccnirt  of  the  Cnited  .States. 
".\nd  so  we  have  erected  this  moinunent."  said 
Mayor  l.ogan.  "paid  for  by  the  free-will  offer- 
ings of  over  thirty  thousand  people.  2()48  sub- 
scriptions of  one  cent.  J2.820  from  one  cent  to 


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bj: 


twenty-five  cents,  3139  from  twenty-five  cents 
to  one  dollar,  fifteen  subscriptions  of  over  one 
hinulred  dollars,  and  the  subscrijitions  of  one 
hundred  and  tweiny-eigiit  societies.  .And  this 
has  been  done  as  a  reminder  to  the  youth  of 
coming  generations  of  the  life  he  lived,  and 
of  the  service  which  lie  rendered,  that  they 
may  be  inspired  with  the  true  grandeur  of 
-American  citizenship  as  e.xemijlified  in  the  life 
of  this  ])atriotic  iniblic  servant,  useful  citizen, 
faithful  friend,  charming  companion,  the  mem- 
ory of  whose  life  and  service  will  be  to  this 
community  an  abiding  possession.  *  *  The 
occasion  is  great  because  of  the  purpose  for 
which  we  have  come  together,  because  of  the 
character  and  fame  of  him  whom  we  thus  honor 
— our  friend  and  neigiibor — (leorge  Frisbie 
Hoar — a  man  whose  whole  life  was  character- 
ized by  unselfish  public  spirit,  of  unremitting, 
intelligent,  well-directed  etifort  for  the  welfare 
of  his  country  and  his  fellow  men." 

Governor  Guild  paid  an  eloquent  tribute  to 
the  life  and  character  of  the  Senator,  and  ren- 
dered a  glowing  appreciation  of  his  service  to 
the  commonwealth  of  Massachusetts.  He  said  : 
"W'e  shall  remember  him,  indeed,  in  future 
years,  as  the  last  of  the  Puritans:  not  because 
he  was  austere — he  exulted  in  the  joy  of  living  ; 
not  because  he  was  prejudiced— he  was  a  very 
crusader  for  the  rescue  of  free  thought  in  a 
free  land ;  but  because  in  public  as  in  private 
life,  he  lived  uncompromisingly  according  to 
conviction,  and  preferred  defeat  to  equivoca- 
tion. A  seeker  for  the  ideal,  he  had  in  marked 
degree  the  saving  grace  of  common  sense,  and 
in  him  htjuest  independence  never  degenerated 
into  mere  fantastic  opposition.  .A  wit,  a  scholar, 
a  jurist,  a  statesman,  a  Christian  /American 
gentleman,  we  may  well  be  proud  that  when 
posterity  in  the  days  to  come  names  George 
Frisbie  Hoar,  it  will  be  forced  to  add  'of  Mass- 
achusetts.' " 

Judge  Moody  spoke  for  an  hour  without 
notes,  but  giving  ample  evidence  ni  thorough 
mastery  of  his  subject.  In  closing  he  said :  "It 
seems  almost  an  intrusion  here  today,  to  his 
kindred,  neighbors  and  friends,  to  speak  of 
the  beauties  of  his  private  life,  his  insensibility 
to  the  allurements  of  wealth,  his  indifference  to 
the  constant  decay  of  his  fortune,  his  devotion 
to  the  civic  duties  of  this  community,  his  love 
of  city,  home  and  family,  his  gentle  Christian 
life  and  belief.  The  time  of  his  departure  was 
well  chosen.  We  cannot  but  rejoice  that  he 
was  spared  the  sorrow  of  the  imtimely  death 
of  his  son,  to  whom  he  would  have  gladly 
yielded  the  few  years  of  public  life  which  re- 
"—5 


niained  to  him.  Fortunate  it  was  that  with 
hope  undimmcd,  happy  in  the  love  of  those 
dear  to  him,  covered  with  honors  which  came 
because  he  had  labored  and  spared  not,  sustain- 
ed by  faith  in  God  and  faith  in  man,  he  lay 
down  for  the  eternal  rest  which  we  fondly 
trust  is  but  another  name  for  the  life  everlast- 
intr." 


The  family  of  which  this  narra- 
.■^TORER  tive  is  intended  to  treat  is  of 
English  origin,  and  is  said  by 
various  reliable  authorities  to  be  one  of  great 
antic|uity,  and  throughout  many  generations 
and  in  all  of  them  to  have  been  distinguished 
by  reason  of  the  eminent  qualities  and  high 
character  of  those  who  have  borne  its  honor- 
able patronymic.  The  immediate  ancestor  of 
the  particular  family  here  written  bore  the  title 
and  wore  the  vestments  of  the  ecclesiastic,  and 
fulfilled  the  duties  of  his  office  with  dignity, 
becoming  the  spiritual  leader  of  the  parish 
church.  Out  of  his  family  there  came  two  into 
New  England  in  the  first  half  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  the  one  a  son,  whose  calling 
was  that  of  liusbandman  and  planter,  but  him- 
self the  founder  of  a  family  which  in  point  of 
character  and  attainments  is  second  to  none 
other  in  the  continent  of  North  America.  In 
the  English  records  we  find  the  name  of  this 
family  variously  written  Storr,  Storee,  Stoors, 
.Storah  and  Story,  as  well  as  Storer,  the  latter 
being  the  accepted  form  during  the  last  almost 
three  centuries  by  those  who  claim  descent 
from  the  vicar  of  the  parish  church  of  Bilsby, 
England. 

(  I )  Rev.  Thomas  Storer,  vicar  of  Bilsby, 
had  a  son  .Augustine  and  a  daughter  Mary, 
both  of  whom  came  to  New  England  in  1637. 
Mary  .Storer  became  wife  of  Rev.  John  Wheel- 
wright, founder  of  Exeter,  New  Hampshire, 
and  founder  and  builder  up  of  a  strong  church 
congregation.  But  it  is  of  the  son  .Augustine 
and  his  descendants  that  this  narrative  has 
particularly  to  treat. 

(11)  Augustine  Storer,  son  of  Rev.  Thomas 
Storer,  was  born  in  Bilsby,  Lincolnshire,  Eng- 
land, came  to  New  England  in  July,  1637, 
landed  at  Boston,  and  in  1638  was  of  Exeter, 
New  Hampshire,  where  he  and  his  wife  Sus- 
annah joined  the  combination  established  by 
Wheelwright.  In  January,  1640,  he  was  one 
of  the  ruling  elders  of  the  church  in  Exeter, 
and  upon  him  and  his  colleagues  fell  the  duties 
of  the  office  of  selectmen.  On  the  first  division 
of  lands  there  he  was  allotted  twenty  acres  and 
one  hundred  poles  of  upland  and  two  and  three- 


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c|iiarters  acres  of  marsh.  In  the  records  of  tlie 
division  lie  is  mentioned  as  "Mr.,"  a  title  then 
applied  only  as  a  mark  of  distinction,  character 
and  worth.  When  Wheelwright  left  Exeter, 
Augnstine  Storer  also  left  the  town,  and  is 
said  to  have  taken  up  his  abode  at  Wells,  Maine. 
Me  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  l-Idward  Hutch- 
inson, granddaughter  of  John  Hutchinson,  who 
was  mayor  of  Lincoln,  England,  1556- 1 564. 
She  was  a  sister  of  Wheelwright's  second  wife. 
(HI)  William  Storer,  son  of  Augustine  and 
Susannah  (Hutchinson)  Storer,  lived  in  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  and  died  there  in  1660.  He 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Edward  Starbuck, 
who  came  from  Derbyshire,  England,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Dover  convention  and  an 
elder  of  the  church.  After  the  death  of  Will- 
iam Storer  his  widow  married,  1661,  Samuel 
Austin,  of  Wells.  Maine,  to  which  place  she 
took  her  children,  and  placed  them  under  the 
guardianship  of  Austin,  with  whom  they  lived 
until  of  full  age.  He  was  keeper  of  a  public 
hou.se,  commissioner  for  trials  for  several  years, 
and  doubtless  a  man  of  considerable  conse- 
(juence  in  the  town.  Here  the  Storer  sons 
came  to  manhood  well  grounded  in  moral  prin- 
ciples and  became  men  of  usefulness  and  worth. 
They  were  four  in  number:  i.  Benjamin, 
killed  by  Indians,  1677.  2.  Joseph,  born  Sep- 
tember 23,  1648.  3.  Samuel,  lived  in  Charles- 
town,  Massachusetts,  and  was  a  mariner  :  mem- 
ber of  the  church  in  York,  Maine;  married 
Lydia  .\ustin,  and  died  June  10,  1700. 

(IV)  Lieutenant  Joscjih  Storer,  son  of  Will- 
iam and  Sarah  (Starbuck)  Storer,  was  born 
September  23.  1C48,  and  died  in  1730.  He  was 
a  lieutenant  and  in  command  of  the  garrison 
at  Wells,  Maine,  during  the  earliest  Indian 
troubles  and  also  during  and  after  King  Philip's 
war.  He  owned  a  saw  mill  and  carried  on  a 
large  business  in  making  lumber.  He  built  a 
house  on  the  main  road  in  Wells,  and  after- 
ward surrounded  it  with  palisades.  During 
the  next  war  he  built  several  small  houses 
inside  the  fortification  for  the  use  of  those  who 
took  refuge  there,  and  his  house  was  con- 
stantly open  to  whomsoever  would  avail  him- 
self of  its  protection.  At  different  times  armed 
troops  were  (|uartered  there,  while  with  truly 
patriotic  spirit  he  always  stood  ready  to  min- 
ister to  the  wants  of  all  .settlers  who  had  been 
driven  from  their  homes  by  peril  or  suffering. 
Mr.  Wheelwright  had  not  yet  built  his  garrison 
house,  .so  that  at  three  periods  this  was  the 
frontier  garrison  of  the  jirovince.  Lieutenant 
Storer  was  in  every  way  active  in  the  common 
defense,  encouraging  the  settlers  to  hol<i  their 


lands  and  fre(|uently  giving  up  his  own  land 
near  the  fort  for  cultivation  and  pasturage  by 
the  refugees.  The  sick  and  wounded  were 
cared  for  under  his  own  hospitable  roof  by 
members  of  his  household,  and  for  all  this  ser- 
vice he  neither  asked  nor  received  any  remun- 
eration whatever.  He  was  an  officer  in  the 
service,  but  his  voluntary  acts  were  far  more 
creditable  than  any  war  record,  and  it  is  said 
that  to  him  more  tlian  to  any  other  person  was 
the  province  indebted  for  its  preservation  from 
entire  desolation,  for  without  his  garrison  house 
and  the  ample  protection  afforded  by  it  the 
Indians  would  have  either  killed  or  driven 
every  settler  from  the  region.  Joseph  Storer 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  church  at  York, 
hence  his  name  does  not  appear  among  the 
founders  of  the  church  at  Wells,  although  he 
became  a  deacon  there  and  so  continued  to  the 
end  of  his  days.  He  is  regarded  as  the  pro- 
genitor of  the  Storer  family  of  Wells  and  its 
vicinity.  He  possessed  large  means,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  was  considered  the  richest 
man  in  the  town :  his  estate  was  appraised  at 
about  $5,000.  He  married  Hannah,  daughter 
of  Roger  and  Sarah  (Cross)  Hill,  of  Saco, 
Maine:  children:  i.  Hannah,  born  May  6, 
1680:  married  Joshua  Littlefield.  2.  Sarah, 
December  2,  1682:  died  January  I.  1770:  mar- 
ried   Colburn.     3"  Mary,  born  May  12, 

1685:  when  a  child  .she  was  stolen  by  the 
Indians  and  carried  to  Montreal,  Canada ;  mar- 
ried at  Montreal,  .•\ugust  25,  1747,  Jean  St. 
(lermaine.  4.  .Abigail,  born  October  29,  1687. 
5.  Toseph.  .\ugust  2Q.  1690.  6.  John,  Septem- 
ber 5,  i6c)4.  7.  Keziah,  May  2,  i6f)7:  married 
Ebenezer  Plummer.  8.  Ebenezer,  born  at  Saco 
Fort,  June  4,  1699:  he  and  his  brother  Seth 
owned  a  sloop  in  1739.  and  it  was  lost  in  1741  ; 
in  1746  these  brothers  started  on  a  visit  to  their 
aged  mother  at  her  home,  but  when  they  reach- 
ed Kitterv  they  were  compelled  to  turn  back 
because  o'f  the'hostile  attitude  of  the  Indians : 
Ebenezer  appears  to  have  lived  in  Wells  and 
Boston,  and  died  May  22,  1761  :  married,  June 
20.  1723.  Mary  Edwards,  and  had  ten  chiMren  ; 
a  son  FJicnezer  was  treasurer  of  Harvard  Col- 
lege. 9.  Seth.  born  May  26.  1702  :  was  a  clergy- 
man, and  lived  in  Watertown  for  fifty  years. 

(V)  Tohn  Storer,  son  of  Lieutenant  Joseph 
and  Hannah  (Hill)  Storer,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 5.  1(194,  and  died  September  28,  1768.  He 
was  one  of  the  most  influential  men  of  his  time 
in  the  town  and  province,  and  was  elected  to 
several  offices  of  responsibility  and  honor.  He 
held  a  commission  as  colonel  of  militia,  and 
was  in  command  of  a  regiment  in  the  expedi- 


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tion  against  Louisbiirg.  He  served  as  repre- 
sentative to  the  general  court,  and  for  many 
years  was  a  judge  of  the  superior  court.  He 
married,  October  11,  1722,  Ehzabeth,  daughter 
of  John  Hill,  of  Berwick,  Maine,  who  also  was 
a  judge  of  the  court,  captain  of  militia  and 
representative  to  the  general  court. 

(\T)  John  (2)  Storer,  son  of  Colonel  John 
(I  )  and  Elizabeth  (Hill)  Storer,  was  born  in 
\\'ells,  Maine,  April  28,  1727,  and  died  there 
June  15,  1764.  lie  graduated  from  Harvard 
College  in  1745,  and  received  the  degree  of 
A.  B.  In  business  life  he  was  a  merchant  and 
ship  owner,  a  man  of  substance  and  influence, 
although  he  does  not  appear  to  have  taken  an 
active  part  in  public  affairs.  He  married.  Octo- 
ber 26.  1749,  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  (Hall)  Langdon.  sister  of  (iovernor 
John  Langdon,  of  New  Hamisshire.  and  a  de- 
scendant of  the  fifth  generation  of  Governor 
Dudley. 

(\TI)  Woodbury  Storer,  son  of  John  (2) 
and  Mary  (Langdon)  Storer.  was  born  in 
\\'ells,  Maine,  in  1760.  and  died  in  Portland, 
Maine,  July  i  r.  1825.  He  was  a  merchant  and 
ship  owner,  engaged  extensively  in  commerce. 
and  acquired  large  wealth.  He  was  highly 
educated,  and  for  much  of  the  time  was  in 
public  life  in  one  official  capacity  or  another: 
chief  justice  of  the  court  of  common  pleas, 
representative  to  the  general  court,  state  sen- 
ator, and  for  several  years  collector  of  customs 
at  Portland.  He  married  (first)  Ann  Titcomb, 
who  died,  leaving  three  children,  and  married 
(second)  September  13. 1792,  Margaret,  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Susannah  (Coffin)  Boyd,  and 
sister  of  General  John  Parker  Boyd.  James 
Royd  was  a  grandson  of  the  Earl  of  Kilmar- 
nock. Scotland,  and  his  wife.  Susannah  Coffin, 
was  a  granddaughter  of  Tristram  Coffin,  a 
noted  character  in  early  Xew  England  history. 
Judge  Woodbury  and  .\nn  (Titcomb)  Storer 
had  one  son,  Woodbury  Storer.  lawyer,  of 
Portland,  and  two  daughters,  Mrs.  William 
Goddard  and  Mrs.  Judge  Potter.  His  children 
by  his  second  wife  were:  Rev.  John,  a  clergy- 
man of  the  Unitarian  church;  Robert  Royd. 
born  1795  :  Rellamy.  born  179''' ;  Frances  Eliza- 
beth, born  179S;  Margaret  Susannah,  born 
1800:  Dr.  David  Humphreys,  born  1804. 

(\'ni  )  Robert  P.oyd  Storer,  son  of  Judge 
Woodbury  and  Margaret  (Royd)  Storer,  was 
born  in  Portland,  Maine,  September  2.  1795, 
and  died  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  No- 
vember 14,  1870.  He  attended  Rowdoin  Col- 
lege, but  left  before  graduation  and  entered 
mercantile  pursuits  in  Roston.  being  first  em- 


ployed by  the  importing  house  of  Codnian  & 
Ropes,  and  having  acquired  a  good  understand- 
ing of  the  business  and  methods  of  the  firm  he 
was  given  charge  of  matters  of  large  import- 
ance. He  travelled  extensively  in  foreign  coun- 
tries in  the  interest  of  his  employers,  and  on 
one  occasion  sailed  as  supercargo,  making  a 
voyage  around  the  world.  Vuv  one  year  he 
lived  at  .\rchangel,  Russia,  and  held  a  consular 
ap()ointment  there,  ."^oim  after  returning  to 
Boston  he  engaged  in  business  on  his  own 
account,  on  India  wharf,  and  for  many  years 
afterward  was  an  important  factor  in  the  com- 
mercial life  of  the  city.  He  was  for  many  years 
Russian  consul  in  Boston,  and  after  his  death, 
the  consulate  was  represented  by  his  son.  Both 
father  and  son  received  orders  of  knighthood 
from  the  Russian  government  in  recognition  of 
services  faithfully  rendered.  His  endeavors  in 
life  were  highly  successful  and  throughout  the 
period  of  his  active  career  he  held  the  confi- 
dence of  all  men  in  business  and  commercial 
circles.  Storer  street  in  Roston  is  named  in 
allusion  to  him.  He  maintained  a  residence  in 
I'loston  for  more  than  twenty  years,  and  about 
1 861  removed  to  Cambridge,  where  he  after- 
ward lived.  -  Mr.  Storer  married,  in  1837,  in 
Roston,  Sarah  Sherman  Hoar,  born  November 
9,  1817.  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Sher- 
man) Hoar,  and  sister  of  the  late  Hon.  George 
Frisbie  Hoar,  for  many  years  senator  in  con- 
gress from  Massachusetts.  (See  Hoar).  Rob- 
ert Royd  anil  Sarah  Sherman  (Hoar)  Storer 
had  four  children:  William  Rrandt,  Sarah 
I'rances,  Elizabeth  Hoar  and  Mrs.  Joseph  R. 
Warner. 

(IX)  William  Rrandt  Storer,  only  son  and 
eldest  child  of  Robert  Royd  and  Sarah  Sher- 
man (Hoar)  Storer.  was  born  in  Roston.  and 
graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1859,  A.  R. 
Early  in  the  civil  war  he  entered  the  service 
and  was  colonel  on  the  stafif  of  General  Devens. 
In  business  life  he  was  a  member  of  the  im- 
porting and  trading  hou.se  of  Robert  R.  Storer 
&  Company.  For  a  time  he  was  a  vice-consul 
of  Russia,  but  generally  he  took  little  interest 
in  political  affairs.  For  several  years  he  was  a 
flirector  of  the  National  Rank  of  Commerce, 
lioston,  and  at  one  time  was  its  vice-president. 
Mr.  .Storer  died  at  his  home  in  Cambridge, 
October  14,  1884.  He  married  Emily  F.. 
flaughter  of  .Samuel  K.  Williams,  lawyer,  of 
Roston,  and  had  three  children:  Robert  R.. 
died  young:  Elizabeth  W..  and  Helen  Langdon 
Storer. 

(\'TTT)  Rellamy  Storer,  son  of  Woodbury 
and    Margaret    (Royd)    Storer,   was   born    in 


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rortlaml.  -Maine,  March  9,  1796,  and  died  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio.  June  i,  1875.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  Bowdoin  College,  then  studied  law, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  181 7,  and  in 
the  same  year  began  his  professional  career  in 
Cincinnati.  In  1824  he  advocated  the  election 
of  John  Ouincy  Adams  to  the  presidency,  and 
edited  the  Crisis,  an  organ  of  his  party.  From 
1835  to  1837  he  was  representative  in  congress, 
and  declined  renomination  for  another  term; 
in  1844  he  was  presidential  elector  on  the 
Henry  Clay  ticket.  For  many  years  Judge 
Storer  was  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  the 
Cincinnati  Law  School,  and  served  nineteen 
years  on  the  bench  of  the  supreme  court  of 
that  city.  He  enjoyed  special  popularity  as 
speaker  at  both  political  and  religious  meetings, 
and  at  one  time  in  the  early  part  of  his  life  he 
was  one  of  the  leading  spirits  of  a  band  of 
young  men  who  were  styled  the  "Flying  Artil- 
lery." and  who  journeyed  from  town  to  town 
for  the  purpose  of  promoting  evangelical  ser- 
vices. In  1821  Judge  Storer  received  the  hon- 
"orary  degree  of  LL.  D.  from  Bowdoin  College. 
He  married  (first)  Emily  Bartow,  who  bore 
him  two  children :  Emily,  who  married  Rev. 
Mr.  Bonte.  a  clergyman  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal church,  living  in  California  ;  and  Francis. 
His  second  wife  was  Elizabeth  Drinker,  by 
whom  he  had  two  children,  Bellamy  and  Eliz- 
abeth. 

(IX)  Bellamy  (2)  Storer,  son  of  Bellamy 
(  I  )  and  Elizabeth  (Drinker)  Storer,  was  born 
in  Cincinnati.  Ohio,  August  28,  1847;  grad- 
uated from  Harvard  College  1867,  and  from 
the  Cincinnati  Law  School  1869.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  C'incinnati  in  April,  1869, 
and  practiced  in  that  city.  From  1891  until 
i8i)5  he  was  representative  in  congress;  from 
i8i)7  to  1899  I'nited  States  minister  to  Bel- 
gium; and  from  June,  1899,  to  September, 
1902,  was  United  States  minister  to  Spain. 
From  1902  to  March,  1906,  Mr.  Storer  was  am- 
bassador of  the  L'nited  States  to  Austria-Hun- 
gary. He  married  Maria  (I-ongworth)  Nichols, 
of  Cincinnati,  daughter  of  Joseph  Longworth, 
of  that  city.     They  have  no  children. 

(Vni)  Dr.  David  Humpiireys  Storer,  son 
of  Woodbury  and  Margaret  (  P>oyd)  Storer, 
was  born  in  Portland.  Maine,  March  26.  1804; 
graduated  from  Bowdoin  College  in  1822,  stud- 
ied medicine  with  Dr.  John  C.  Warren,  and 
graduated  from  Harvard  School  of  Afedicine, 
M.  D.,  in  1825.  and  in  the  same  year  began  his 
professional  career  in  that  city.  In  1837  he 
established  the  Tremont  Street  Medical  School, 
and    afterward    conducted    it    with    gratifying 


success.  However  in  1854  he  was  appointed 
to  the  professorship  of  obstetrics  and  medical 
jurisprudence  in  Harvard  Medical  School,  his 
alma  mater,  and  soon  afterward  became  dean 
of  the  school,  both  of  which  he  held  until  1868. 
From  1849  to  1858  Dr.  Storer  was  physician  to 
the  Massachusetts  General  Hospital.  In  1837, 
during  the  earlier  years  of  his  practice,  he  was 
given  charge  of  the  departments  of  zoology 
and  herpetology  under  direction  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Survey.  He  held  membershi])  in  many 
of  the  leading  professional  and  scientific  socie- 
ties, and  in  1866  was  president  of  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association.  He  was  a  frequent 
contributor  to  the  literature  of  his  profession, 
and  many  of  his  papers  are  published  in  the 
transactions  of  the  larger  organizations  of 
men  of  his  profession.  His  larger  published 
works  include  a  translation  from  the  French 
of  Kicner's  "Genera,  Species,  and  Iconography 
of  Recent  Shells."  Boston,  1837;  "Report  on 
the  Ichthyology  of  Herpetology  of  Massachu- 
setts," 1839;  "Synopsis  of  the  Fishes  of  North 
.•\merica,"  1846;  "History  of  the  Fishes  of 
Massachusetts."  1853-1867  (in  parts).  Dr. 
Storer  married  and  had  five  children :  Dr. 
Horatio  R..  Professor  Francis  H.,  Robert  W.. 
Abbie  M.  and  Mary  G.  Storer. 

(IX)  Dr.  Horatio  Robinson  Storer.  son  of 
Dr.  David  Humphreys  Storer.  was  born  in 
Boston  February  27,  1830;  graduated  from 
Harvard  College  in  1850,  and  devoted  special 
attention  to  the  study  of  natural  sciences  as  a 
private  pupil  of  Louis  Agassiz  and  Asa  Gray. 
Later  on  he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine, 
made  the  course  of  Harvard  Medical  School, 
and  graduated  M.  D.  in  1833.  He  then  went 
to  Europe  and  s]ient  two  years  in  post-graduate 
studies  in  London.  Edinburgh  and  Paris,  and 
(luring  one  year  of  this  period  he  was  assistant 
in  ])rivate  practice  to  Sir  James  Y.  Simpson. 
In  1855  he  established  himself  in  practice  in 
Boston,  making  gynecokigy  a  special  feature 
of  his  extensive  ])ractice,  and  soon  afterward 
began  giving  assistance  to  his  father  while  the 
latter  was  conducting  his  course  of  lectures  in 
Harvard  Medical  School.  In  1865  he  himself 
was  chosen  to  the  professorship  of  obstetrics 
and  medical  jurisj)rudence  in  the  Berkshire 
Medical  College,  and  filled  that  chair  during 
the  next  four  years.  In  order  to  secure  for 
himself  a  better  foundation  for  instruction  in 
medical  jurisprudence.  Dr.  Storer  made  the 
course  of  Harvard  Law  School  and  came  to 
the  bachelor  degree  in  1868.  .Afterward  he 
established  semi-aniuial  courses  for  medical 
graduates  upon  the  subject  of  surgical  diseases 


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of  women,  and  admitted  to  his  classes  none 
except  those  wlio  were  in  good  standing  in  the 
American  Medical  Association.  These  courses 
became  very  po])ular  with  the  profession  and 
drew  attendance  from  all  i)arts  of  the  country.  In 
1872,  on  account  of  impaired  health.  Dr.  Storer 
went  abroad  for  rest,  and  sjjent  five  years  in 
various  cities  of  Great  Britain  and  continental 
Europe :  but  they  were  not  idle  years,  for  the 
greater  part  of  his  time  was  given  to  study, 
with  special  attention  to  study  of  the  fevers  of 
southern  Italy.  On  returning  to  America  he 
settled  in  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  where  he 
still  lives,  although  now  retired  from  profes- 
sional pursuits.  For  many  years  he  has  en- 
joyed wide  celebrity  as  a  numismatist,  and 
besides  has  devised  and  patented  several  valu- 
able surgical  and  gynecological  instruments 
and  inauguated  new  methods.  He  is  a  life 
member  and  honorary  i)resident  of  the  New- 
port Medical  Society  and  the  .\ew-port  Natural 
History  Society:  member  of  tiie  (iynecological 
Society  of  Boston,  and  consulting  physician  to 
Newport  Hospital.  His  published  works  on 
professional  subjects  include.  "Criminal  .Abor- 
tion in  .America,"  1859:  "Criminal  .Abortion, 
its  Nature,  its  Evidence  and  its  Law"  (in  col- 
laboration )  :  "Why  Not?  a  Book  for  Every 
Woman,"  i8r)5:  "Is  it  I?  a  Book  for  Everv 
Man,"  1869;  "On  Nur.ses  and  Nursing."  "On 
Insanity  in  Women."  In  1868  Dr.  .Storer  was 
president  of  the  American  Medical  .Associa- 
tion, in  1877  was  president  of  the  -Association 
of  .American  Medical  Editors,  and  in  the  same 
year  was  president  of  the  Gynecological  .Sec- 
tion of  the  Ninth  Intt'rnational  .Medical  Con- 
gress. He  married  (  first )  lunily  Elvira  Gil- 
more,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons :  PVank 
Addison,  John  Humphreys  and  .Malcolm;  he 
married  (second)  Caroline  Gilmore,  sister  of 
his  first  wife  and  by  whom  he  had  one  daugh- 
ter: he  married  (third)  Frances  McKenzie. 

CX)  John  Humphreys  .Storer.  son  of  Dr. 
Horatio  Robinson  and  E;nily  Elvira  (Gilmore) 
Storer.  was  born  in  Milton.  Massachusetts. 
.September  28,  1859,  and  received  his  earlier 
literary  education  in  private  .schools  in  Boston  ; 
St.  Mark's  School,  .S(juthboro,  Massachusetts; 
and  at  Frankfort-on-the-Main,  Germany;  his 
higher  training  at  Harvard  College,  from  which 
he  graduated  .A.  B.  in  1882:  and  his  profes- 
sional education  at  Harvard  Law  -School,  where 
he  graduated  LL.  P..  in  1885.  .Afterwards  he 
spent  four  months  in  the  office  of  Ropes.  Gray 
&  Loring,  lawyers,  Boston,  and  in  1885  was 
admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts  of  the  com- 
monwealth.    Since  he  came  to  the  Suffolk  bar. 


Mr.  -Storer  has  devoted  his  attention  chictly  to 
real  estate  and  the  management  of  trust  prop- 
erty, and  has  had  a  ])rincipal  ]iart  in  the  organi- 
zation of  a  number  of  trusts  and  corporations. 
Including  those  to  be  named  hereinafter,  he  is 
director  or  trustee  of  forty-two  corporations 
or  trusts,  of  twenty-four  of  which  he  is  treas- 
urer, these  twenty-four  having  over  twenty- 
five  millions  of  dollars  cash  invested  or  deposit- 
ed in  hanks  or  trust  companies. 

During  the  course  of  his  business  career  Mr. 
Storer  has  been  identified  with  various  institu- 
tions and  interests  of  Boston.  Ma>sacluisctt--. 
and  .\'eu-  York,  some  of  the  jjrincipal  of  which 
may  be  mentioned  as  follows:  Member  First 
Corps  Cadets,  1881-88  ;  treasurer,  secretary  and 
director  New  York  Suburbs  Company,  City 
Buildings  Company,  Kingsboro  Realty  Com- 
pany, Randolph  Realty  Company,  Chatsworth 
Realty  Company.  I'elhamwood  Company,  Clif- 
ford B.  Harmon  &  Co..  Incorporated.  Harmon 
Water  Company  ;  Tuckahoe  .Associates,  Brook- 
lyn .Associates,  Metropolitan  .Associates  of  New- 
York,  Eureka  Harmon  Stone  Company ;  treas- 
urer and  director  of  Brooklyn  Development 
Company,  (jreater  New  ^"ork  Development 
Company,  Wood  Harmon  liond  Company,  and 
Hudson  Co-operative  .Savings  and  Loan  Asso- 
ciation :  secretary  and  director  Wood  Harmon 
Richmond  Realty  Company  ;  trustee  and  director 
Boston  Water  Power  Company :  trustee  Bos- 
ton Suburban  Development  Trust,  Church  Ave- 
nue Real  Estate  .Association,  Merchants'  Real 
Estate  Trust.  Staten  Island  As.sociates,  Pelham 
.Associates.  Harmon  Park  Trustees,  Randolph 
.Associates, Winthrop  Development  Trust,  WOod 
Harmon  Associates,  Wood  Harmon  Real  Estate 
.Xssociation  and  Wood  Harmon  Real  Estate 
Trustees:  director  Boston  Co-operative  Build- 
ing Company,  Harwood  Construction  Com- 
pany, Montague  Builders'  Supply  Coinpany, 
New  Englaiid  W'atch  and  Ward  Society:  I'oint 
Siiirley  Comi)any,  Realty  Comjjany.  State  Street 
Trust  Comi)any,WindsorTrust  Company  (  New 
A^ork),  Workingman's  Building  Association, 
Workingman's  Loan  .Association  :  trustee  Peo- 
ple's Institute,  Robert  Treat  Paine  Association, 
Wells  Memorial  Institute  for  Workingmen ; 
senior  warden  Christ  Church,  Protestant  Epis- 
copal, Waltham ;  member  of  National  Geo- 
graphical -Society,  .American  .Academy  for  the 
.\''vancenient  of  Science,  .American  Academy 
of  Social  and  Political  Science.  Boston  Natural 
History  .Society,  City  History  Club  of  New 
^'ork,  .National  Civic  Federation,  Boston  .Ath- 
letic .Association,  and  of  the  Somerset,  I'nion, 
Harvard.   Economic,    E.xchange.   St.    Botolph, 


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Boston  City.  Massachusetts  Republican,  Oak- 
ley Country,  Essex  County,  Manchester,  Yacht, 
New  York  Athletic,  Eiiiscopalian,  Harvard  of 
New  \'ork,  and  University  of  New  York  clubs. 
His  address  is  16  State  street,  Boston,  and  315 
Madison  avenue,  New  York. 

Mr.  Storer  married,  in  Boston,  November 
18.  1885.  Edith,  daughter  of  Robert  Treat 
I'aine.  Children,  with  ages  in  1909:  John 
Humphreys  (22J,  Emily  (21  ),  Edith  (19), 
Robert  Treat  Paine  (17 1.  Theodore  Lyman 
( 14)  and  Lydia  (10). 

(  IX  )  Professor  Erancis  1  lumphreys  Storer, 
son  of  Dr.  David  Humphreys  Storer.  was  born 
in  Boston,  March  27,  1832;  was  a  student  in 
Lawrence  Scientific  School  (Harvard),  1850- 
51  ;  became  assistant  in  chemistry  to  Professor 
Cooke  in  1851  ;  was  made  chemist  to  Northern 
Pacific  Exploring  Exiiedition  for  the  federal 
government.  1853  ;  returned  to  Lawrence  Scien- 
tific School  and  completed  his  course  there, 
graduating  B.  .Sc.  1855  (A.  M.  Harvard  1870). 
I'Yom  1855  to  1857  Dr.  Storer  continued  his 
studies  in  chemistry  in  foreign  cities,  then  re- 
turned and  ])racticed  in  Boston  as  chemist  from 
1857  to  18(15,  and  from  1865  to  1870  was  pro- 
fessor of  general  and  industrial  chemistry  in 
the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tcchnt)logy. 
Since  1870  he  has  held  tlie  ]irofessorsiiip  of 
chemistry  in  the  Bussey  Institution,  Harvard 
College.  Professor  Storer  is  author  of  "Dic- 
tionary of  the  Solubilities  of  Chemical  5iub- 
stances,"  1846;  "Manual  of  Inorganic  Chem- 
istry" (in  collaboration  with  l^resident  Eliot, 
of  Harvard),  1869:  "Manual  of  Qualitative 
Chemical  .Analysis"  (collaborator  with  Eliot), 
i8fi8:  "Cyclopedia  of  Quantitative  Chemical 
.-Nnalvsis,"  ".Agriculture  in  Some  of  Its  Re- 
lations with  Chemistry."  1897;  "Elementary 
.Mamialdf  Chemistry"  I  Lindsay,  collaborator  ), 
1894  '■  ".Manual  of  Qualitative  .Analysis"  (  Lind- 
.say.  cdllabnrator),  1899:  "Bulletin  of  the  Bus- 
sey institution,"  "Alloys  of  Co])per  and  Zinc" 
and  "Manufacture  of  l^araffin  Oils."  Pro- 
fessor Storer  married  Catherine  Eliot,  sister 
of  President  Charles  W.  Eliot,  of  Harvard. 


(lovernor  John  Endicott,  im- 
I-'N'DICOTT      migrant  ancestor,  was  born 

in  Dorsetshire,  England,  in 
1588;  died  in  l'>oston,  .March  15.  i<V>5.  He 
sailed  from  Weymouth  in  the  ship  ".Abigail." 
Henry  (iauden,  master,  June  20.  1628,  and 
arrived  at  Naumkeag.  I^eptembcr  ^,  1628,  with 
a  hundred  |)lanters  that  came  to  form  a  colony 
under  bis  leadership.  Johnson  in  his  "Wonder- 
working Providence"  says:    "A  fit  instrument 


to  begin  this  wilderness  worke,  of  courage  bold, 
undaunted  yet  sociable  and  of  a  cheerful  spirit, 
loving  and  austere,  applying  himselfe  to  either 
as  occasion  served."     He  i)lanted  the  first  per- 
manent  and   legally   recognized   settlement   in 
Massachusetts,  and  was  known  as  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Colony.    He  found  the  remnants 
of  the  Cape  .Ann  colony  at  Naumkeag  (Salem) 
under  Conant,  who  in  one  sense  was  the  first 
governor  of  the  tiny  colony   founded  by  the 
Dorchester   Comi)any   at    Ca])e   .Ann,   and   re- 
moved to  Naumkeag,  a  virtual  failure.     Endi- 
cott's   company   bought   all   the   property   and 
privileges  of  the  Dorchester  Com])any,  both  at 
Cape  -Ann  and  Naumkeag,  and  he  removed  the 
frame  house  from  Cape  -Ann  for  his  own  use. 
Endicott  was  governor  over  this  colony  until 
he  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  John  Winthrop,  who 
was  chosen  governor  of  the  company  and  also 
of  the  Plantation  in  June.  1630.     Endicott  took 
the  oath   of   office  as  assistant   SeiJtember   7, 
1630.  and  was  again  elected  governor  March 
26,  1649,  serving  as  governor  seventeen  years 
in  all.     He  was  a  magistrate  and  one  of  the 
most  influential  and  able  statesmen  of  the  col- 
ony, in  public  office  thirty-seven  years.     He 
was  also  captain   of   the   militia.      He   was  a 
zealous  Puritan  and  a  ])ronounced  Republican 
in  sentiment.  He  was  well  educated  and  always 
a  friend  of  learning  as  well  as  of  religion.  Like 
most  of  his  associates  in  the  colony,  he  was 
intolerant.     He  was  a  member  of  the  Salem 
cluirch  until  November,  1664,  though  he  lived 
nine  years  in  Boston,  having  removed  there  in 
1655.     In  1658  he  bought  a  (piarter  interest  in 
Block  Island.    His  place  of  burial  is  unknown. 
It  is  said,  however,  that  his  gravestone  or  tomb 
was  destroyed  by  the   British   soldiers  during 
the  revolution.     lie  called  Roger  Ludlow  "my 
brother"  in  a  letter  to  Covernor  Winthrop  in 
1644.     He  married   (first)   .Anna  Gower,  who 
came  over  in  1628,  and  died  in  1629.    .^he  was 
cousin  or  niece  of  (.lovernor   Matthew   Crad- 
r'ock.  and  .some  of  the  needlework  she  did  is 
still   preserved.      Governor    Endicott    married 
(second)   .\ugust  17.  1630,  Elizabeth  Gibson, 
of  Cambridge.  England.   The  will  of  Governor 
Endicott  was  dated  May  2.  1C159.     It  mentions 
his  orchard   farm  at  Salem  given  him  by  the 
coi'rt  of  assistants,  July  3,    i(>32,  and  which 
still  belongs  to  a  descendant  in  the  ninth  gen- 
eration :  a  farm  in  Salem  which  he  bought  of 
1  lenry  Cbickering.  October  4,  1648.  which  was 
given  to  John  Endicott  at  the  time  of  bis  mar- 
rige  in  1653,  and  which  afterward  became  the 
heme  of  Rebecca  Nourse,  of  witchcraft  fame  :  a 
portion  of  this  house  is  now  being  restored  by 


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descendants  of  Governor  Endicott  as  a  memo- 
rial to  him  and  his  son :  also  two  farms  on  the 
Ipswich  river,  bought  of  Captains  Trask  and 
Hawthorne.  Children:  i.  John,  born  about 
1632.     2.  Zerrubbabel.  mentioned  below. 

1 II  I  Dr.  Zerrubbabel.  son  of  Governor  John 
Entlicott.  resided  in  Salem,  where  he  was  a 
practicing  physician.  He  made  his  will  in  No- 
vember. 1683.  and  died  in  1684.     He  married 

(first)    in    1654.    Mary .   who  died   in 

1677.  He  married  (second)  Elizabeth  W'in- 
throp.  daughter  of  Governor  W'inthrop,  and 
widow  of  Rev.  .\ntipas  Xewman.  Children, 
all  by  the  first  wife:  1.  John,  born  i<^>37.  2. 
Samuel,  born  1659:  mentioned  belmv.  3.  Zer- 
rubbabel. born  l*"ebruary  14.  1664.  4.  IJenja- 
min.  born  1665.  5.  Mary,  born  1667:  married. 
.August  2.  1685.  Isaac  \Villiams,  of  Salem.  6. 
Joseph,  born  1672,  7.  Sarah,  born  1673:  mar- 
ried    Brown.     8.  Elizabeth,  born  1675 ; 

married  Nathaniel  Gilbert,  of  Boston,  q.  Han- 
nah, born  1676:  married  IvKvaril  ( lasbnll.  10. 
Meliitable,  born  1677;  died  unmarried  i6<)8. 

(Ill)  Samuel,  son  of  Dr.  Zerrubbabel  Endi- 
cott, was  baptized  at  the  first  church  at  Salem. 
September  19,  1666.  He  resided  at  Orchard 
Farm.  Salem,  and  married  Hannah  Felton. 
He  died  in  1694.  She  married  (second)  De- 
cember 15,  i'')97,  Thornclike  Proctor.  Children: 
I.  .'^amuel,  born  .\ugust  30,  1687;  mentioned 
below.  2.  Hannah,  born  1691  ;  married.  April 
3.  1712.  Benjamin  Porter.  3.  John,  born  Octo- 
ber 18,  1695. 

(I\' )  Samuel  (2),  .son  of  .Sanniel  f  i )  F",ndi- 
cott,  was  b'lrn  August  30.  1687.  He  was 
baptized  at  adult  age.  at  Soinh  Danvers, 
September  30,  1716.  He  married  ( first  I  his 
cousin,  .Anna  Endicott.  December  20,  171 1. 
She  died  in  May,  1723,  and  he  married  (sec- 
ond) February  11,  1724.  .Margaret  (Pratt) 
Foster,  widow.  He  died  in  May.  1766,  aged 
seventy-nine,  and  is  buried  in  the  family  bury- 
ing ground  at  Danvers.    Children  of  first  wife : 

1.  Jf)hn.  born  .April  29.  1713;  mentioned  below. 

2.  Sarah,  born  .September  19.  1715  ;  died  young. 

3.  Samuel,  born  .March  12,  1717.  4.  .Sarali. 
born  1719;  married  Dr.  Benjamin  Jones.  5. 
Robert,  born  1 72 1  ;  drowned  ;  unmarried.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:  6.  Margaret,  born  De- 
cember, 1724  (twin)  :  married.  June  30.  1743, 
Hobart  Clark.  7.  Hannah  (twin),  born  De- 
cember. 1724;  married.  September  10.  \j(y^), 
Francis  Monroe.  8.  .Ann.  born  November. 
1727:  married.  December  i.  1761.  Thomas 
.Andrews.  9,  Elias.  born  December.  1729.  10. 
Joseph,  born  I-'ebruary.  1731.  II.  Lydia,  born 
1734;  married  Peter  Putnam.     12.  Ruth,  born 


^72,'-)''  married,  December  19,  1765,  Joseph 
Dole;  died  1828. 

(\')  John  (2).  son  of  Samuel  (2).  Endi- 
cott. was  bajitized  at  the  .South  Church.  Dan- 
vers. June  9.  1717:  died  in  1783.  He  resided 
on  the  Orchard  Farm  which  contained  the 
(Governor's  hf)mestead.  He  married.  May  18, 
1738,  Elizabeth  Jacobs,  who  died  August,  1809, 
aged  ninety-one  years.  She  was  a  woman  of 
great  energy,  and  it  is  related  of  her  that  on 
the  day  of  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  when 
Colonel  Timothy  Pickering  halted  his  company 
for  a  few  minutes  near  the  south  meeting 
house  at  Danvers,  such  was  her  impatience  at 
the  delay  that  she  walked  up  to  the  captain  and 
said :  'A\'hy  on  earth  don't  you  march  ;  don't 
you  hear  the  guns  at  Charlestown?"  Children, 
born  at  Danvers:  i.  John,  born  1739,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  1741.  died 
young,  3.  \\"illiam.  born  1742.  4.  Robert, 
born  C)ctober  29,  1756. 

(VI)  John  (3).  son  of  John  (2)  Endicott, 
was  born  at  Danvers  in  1739.  baptized  in  the 
South  Church,  June  7,  1741.  He  inherited  the 
(Jrchard  Farm.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revo- 
lution, second  lieutenant  in  Captain  Caleb 
Low's  company,  (third  Danvers),  Colonel 
Henry  Herrick's  regiment  (Eight  Esse.x 
County):  also  lieutenant  in  C'aptain  .Asa 
Prince's  company.  Colonel  Timothy  Picker- 
ing's regiment,  which  marched  to  Danbury, 
Connecticut,  via  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  in 
1776;  also  second  lieutenant  in  CajJtain  Caleb 
Low's  company,  in  1776.  He  died  in  Danvers. 
March,  1816.  lie  married  Martha  Putnam, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Putnam.  She  died  .Se])- 
tcmber.  1821.  a  woman  of  great  jjurity  and 
strength  of  character,  of  blameless  life  and 
speech.  Ciiildren,  born  at  Danvers:  I.  .Samuel, 
horn  iune.  1763.  mentioned  below.  2.  John, 
born  January  13.  I7''i5.  3.  Moses,  horn  March 
19.  I7'i7.  4.  .Ann.  born  Jamiary,  I7'i9.  mar- 
ried Solomon  Giddings,  of  I'everly.  5.  L'liz- 
abeth,  born  .August.  1771,  married  James 
( Iray.  6.  Jacob,  born  July  9,  1773.  7.  ^ia^tha 
(twin),  born  September,  1775,  married  Jere- 
miah Page,  of  l)anvers.  8.  Nathan  (twin), 
b(jrn  .September.  1775.  died  young.  9.  .Sarah, 
born  .Sei)tember.  1778.  died  unmarried.  10. 
Rebecca,  born  May  20.  1780.  married  Daniel 
Hardy.  11.  William,  born  1782.  died  1806. 
12.  Timothy,  born  July  27,  1785.  married  Har- 
riet Martin,  of  Sterling. 

(V'll)  .Samuel  (3),  son  of  John  (3)  Endi- 
cott, was  born  in  Danvers,  June,  1763.  and 
bajjtized  November  i.  17^^17.  Me  followed  the 
sea    in    his    younger    days,    but    retired.      He 


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owned  with  his  brothers  the  ancestral  "Orchard 
Farm"  at  Danvers,  but  lived  at  Salem.  He 
was  prominent  in  public  affairs  and  often 
selectman.  He  represented  the  town  in  the 
general  court.  At  one  time  he  and  his  five  • 
brothers  (John,  Moses,  Jacob,  William  and 
Timothy)  were  in  command  of  vessels  sailing 
from  Salem.  He  died  May  i,  1828.  He  mar- 
ried. May  18,  1794,  Elizabeth  Putnam,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Putnam,  of  Sterling.  Massa- 
chusetts. She  died  November  9.  1841.  Chil- 
dren, born  at  Salem:  i.  Samuel,  born  March 
13,  1793,  at  Danvers,  died  unmarried  May  15, 
1S28,  in  Sterling.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  April  28, 
1797,  at  Salem:  died  February  6,  1866,  in 
Salem;  married,  February,  1838,  Augustus 
Perry.  3.  Martha,  born  November  27,  1799, 
married,  July  7,  1823,  Francis  Peabody ;  she 
died  March  12,  1891.  4.  William  Putnam, 
born  March  5,  1803.  mentioned  below.  5. 
Clarissa,  born  December  i(),  1807,  married 
September  5,  1827,  George  Peabody;  she  died 
April  18,  1892. 

(VHI)  William  Putnam,  son  of  Samuel 
(3)  Endicott,  was  born  at  Salem.  March  3, 
1803,  baptized  March  13,  1803:  died  March 
II,  1888.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  at  I  larvard  College,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1822.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Unitarian  church.  The 
old  Orchard  barm,  upon  which  five  genera- 
tions of  Mr.  Fndicott's  ancestors  had  tilled  the 
soil,  was  in  Salem  Village,  now  Danversjiort, 
and  was  granted  originally  to  Governor  Endi- 
cott by  the  Court  of  Assistants.  July  3.  1632. 
It  was  passed  down  from  father  to  eldest  son 
imtil  1828,  when  it  was  sold  and  remained  out 
of  the  family  for  sixty  years,  when  it  was 
bought  by  a  descendant  of  the  governor. 
Though  somewhat  diminished  in  size,  this  farm 
is  now  the  property  of  a  member  of  the  family 
and  the  famous  ])ear  tree,  said  to  have  been 
planted  by  the  governor  himself  in  i^>33.  still 
bears  fruit.  Mr.  Endicott  lived  in  Salem  in 
the  house  formerly  owned  and  occupied  by  his 
wife's  brother,  P.enjamin  William  Crownin- 
shield,  who  was  secretary  of  the  navy.  1814-17. 
under  Madison  and  afterward  a  member  of 
Congress  several  years.  lie  married.  January 
31.  1826,  Mary  Crowniushield,  who  died 
March  13,  1838,  daughter  of  Hon.  Jacob 
Crowninshield,  great-granddaughter  of  Rich- 
ter  Caspar  von  Crounscheldt,  who  came  from 
Lcipsic  to  Roston  about  i688.  Jacob  Crown- 
inshield was  a  state  senator  in  Massachusetts 
1800  to  1802,  and  a  prominent  congressman 
from  1802  to  1808.     He  was  appointed  secre- 


tarv  of  the  navy  by  Jefferson  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  second  term  in  1803  and  was 
confirmed  as  such  by  the  senate.  Though  his 
comiTiission  is  on  file  in  the  department  of 
state  at  Washington,  he  declined  the  office  for 
personal  reasons — that  he  could  not  be  absent 
from  his  business  and  family  all  the  year.  The 
correspondence  between  him  and  Jefferson  on 
this  subject,  on  trade,  on  finance  and  on  the 
political  aspect  of  parties  in  New  England,  is 
very  interesting,  being  partly  preserved.  His 
career  as  sailor  and  sea  captain  (  for  he  com- 
manded a  shiji  when  he  was  twenty-two  years 
old )  was  during  that  exciting  period  before 
and  after  the  P'rench  revolution  when  the  arbi- 
trary decrees,  paper  blockades,  seizures  and 
detentions  of  our  ships  and  imprisonment  of 
our  seamen  seriously  affected  the  commerce  of 
New  England.  In  1800  he  had  left  the  sea  and 
joined  his  father  and  brothers  in  the  firm  of 
George  Crowninshield  &  Sons.  Jacob  Crown- 
inshield died  at  Washington,  .\pril  13,  1808.  at 
the  early  age  of  thirty-eight  years.  .After  his 
death  his  firm  continued  its  foreign  commerce 
and  took  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  war  of 
1812,  arming  and  equipping  several  privateers, 
one  of  which,  the  "America,"  made  numerous 
captures,  fought  some  notable  battles  and 
became  famous,  realizing  her  owners  several 
hundred  thousand  dollars  in  prize  money.  The 
firm  not  only  assisted  the  naval  power  of  the 
government  but  strained  their  resources  to  lend 
money  to  the  national  treasury  during  the  war. 
Jacob  Crowninshield  married,  June  5,  1796. 
Sarah  Gardner,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Derby)  Gardner.  Mr.  Endicott  married 
(second)  December  4.  1844,  Mrs.  Harriet  F. 
Peabody,  nee  b^rench,  widow  of  Joseph  W. 
Peabody;  she  died  March  18,  1886.  Cliildren 
of  first  wife,  born  at  .'-lalem :  I.  William 
Crowninshield  (bai)tized  William  Gardner), 
born  November  19,  1826,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Mary  Crowninshield,  born  P^ebruary  4,  1830; 
died  February  26,  1833.  3.  George  Frederic 
born  September  11,  1832.  died  January  11, 
1833.  4.  Sarah  Rogers,  born  March  3,  1838, 
married  Jtuie  20,  1872,  George  Dexter. 

(IX)  Hon.  William  Crowninshield,  son  of 
William  Putnam  Endicott,  was  born  at 
Salem,  November  19,  1826,  died  in  Boston. 
May  (1.  1900.  From  a  sketch  of  his  life  con- 
tributed in  1902  to  the  Massachusetts  Histor- 
ical Society  by  Charles  Francis  .Kdams,  and 
written  by  his  son.  William  C.  Endicott  Jr.. 
the  following  is  (juoted : 

"He  was  baptized  July  i,  1827,  by  the  Rev. 
Dr.    ]-"lint.   minister   of   the    East   Church    at 


massachl;srtts. 


f\^.^ 


Salem,  ^^'iIIiam  Gardner  F.ndicott.  After  the 
death  of  his  uncle.  William  Crowninshield, 
who  was  lost  at  sea  while  making  a  voyage 
from  Marseilles  to  (lenoa.  his  name  was 
changed  on  April  19.  1837.  by  a  special  Act  of 
the  Legfislatiire.  to  William  Crowninshield 
Endicott."  *  *  *  "He  was  educated  in  the 
public  and  private  schools  of  Salem,  and 
entered  Harvard  college  in  1843  from  the 
Salem  Latin  School.  His  scholarship  was 
above  the  average,  and  during  his  college  life, 
he  acquired  an  unusual  love  for  books  which 
gave  him  an  extended  knowledge  and  accjuaint- 
ance  with  literature.  He  graduated  from  Har- 
vard in  1847.  .\t  his  commencement,  he  deliv- 
ered a  disquisition  on  'Public  Honors  at  Dif- 
ferent Ages.'  During  the  last  year  of  his  col- 
lege life,  it  had  been  projiosed  that  after  grad- 
uation he  should  go  to  China,  and  enter  one  of 
the  firms  which  at  that  time  was  very  pros- 
perous and  aj)peared  to  have  an  unusual  busi- 
ness opened  for  a  young  man  *  *  *  * 
but  he  believed  that  law  was  his  vocation,  and 
immediately  after  his  graduation  he  began  its 
study  in  the  ofifice  of  .Vathaniel  J.  Lord,  at 
that  time  one  of  the  iriost  prominent  lawyers 
in  Salem.  The  winter  of  1849-50  he  spent  at 
the  Harvard  Law  school,  where  he  remained 
for  one  year,  and  in  1850  was  admitted  to  the 
Essex  County  I'ar.  In  1853  he  formed  a  co- 
partnership with  Jairus  Ware  Perry,  and  for 
twenty  or  more  years  the  firm  of  Perry  & 
Endicott  had  a  large  portion  of  the  legal  prac- 
tice in  Essex  county.  Mr.  Perry  confined 
himself  principally  to  office  work,  and  Mr. 
Endicott  tried  and  argued  the  cases  in  court. 
During  these  years  he  was  active  in  local  poli- 
tics and  delivered  political  speeches  in  the 
various  towns  of  the  county,  and  lectures  upon 
many  subjects  before  the  lyceums  and  other 
societies.  He  also  interested  himself  more  or 
less  in  the  citv  government  of  Salein  by  serv- 
ing three  terms  in  the  Common  Council,  1852, 
1853  and  1857,  when  on  January  25,  he  was 
unanimously  elected  president  of  the  common 
council.  From  1858  to  1863  he  was  elected 
city  solicitor  of  Salem,  and  though  after  that 
he  does  not  seem  to  have  been  again  elected 
city  solicitor,  he  served  in  that  capacity  from 
time  to  time,  through  vote  of  the  aldermen  of 
the  city.  For  three  years  he  was  the  candidate 
for  Attorney  General  on  the  Democratic  ticket, 
with  Theodore  H.  Sweetser  in  1866,  and  with 
John  Quincy  .Xdams  in  1867  and  1868;  and 
in  the  autuinn  of  1870  he  was  the  Democratic 
candidate  from  the  I'"ifth  Congressional  dis- 
trict for  the  42nd  Congress  against  F.enjamin 


F.  Butler.  In  each  of  these  years  Mr.  Endi- 
cott shared  defeat  with  the  other  Democratic 
candidates.  On  I'ebruary  23,  1S73.  the  Gen- 
eral Court  of  Massachusetts  passed  an  act 
increasing  the  number  of  Associate  Justices  of 
the  Supreme  Judicial  Court  to  six.  At  that 
time  no  Democrat  was  u])on  the  bench.  (Gov- 
ernor Washburn,  a  Re[)ublican  governor, 
appointed  Mr.  Endicott  to  till  the  judgeship, 
which  has  ever  been  considered  a  graceful  and 
public-spirited  act.  The  ajjpointment  was  a 
great  surprise  to  him,  and  his  first  knowledge 
of  the  fact  was  when  his  friend  and  classmate, 
the  Hon.  Charles  Allen,  asked  him  whether  he 
would  accept  the  position  from  the  governor. 
The  appointment  was  made  on  March  5.  1S73. 
During  the  next  nine  years  Mr.  Endicott 
devoted  his  time  and  his  strength  to  the  work 
of  the  court.  For  the  most  part  his  opinions 
were  written  in  his  own  handwriting.  His 
opinions  (378  in  number),  are  to  be  found  in 
the  Massachusetts  reports.  Vols.  112-113,  and 
of  these  many  opinions,  written  during  the 
nine  years  of  his  service  as  judge  of  the  court, 
'not  one  of  his  opinions  has  since  been  over- 
ruled.' The  strain  of  this  life  told  upon  Mr. 
Endicott's  health,  and  in  the  spring  of  1882  he 
went  to  Europe.  On  October  25  of  that  year, 
he  resigned  his  seat  upon  the  bench,  and  trav- 
elled abroad  for  some  eighteen  months.  His 
resignation  was  accepted  by  Governor  Long 
witli   the  greatest   regret.     In  the  autumn  of 

1883  Mr.  Enilicott  returned  from  Europe  and 
resumed  the  practice  of  law.  Shortly  after- 
wards he  was  retained  as  general  counsel  of 
the  New  England  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company,  which  position  he  held  for  many 
years.  Originally  a  Whig  in  politics,  he  voted 
for  Taylor  and  Fillmore  in  1848,  and  for  Hell 
and  Everett  in  i860,  and  since  those  days 
always  supported  the   Democratic  ticket.     In 

1884  he  was  nominated  by  the  Democratic 
convention  at  Worcester  as  its  candidate  for 
governor.  .\t  first  he  refused  the  nomination, 
but,  finally,  much  against  his  will,  accepted  it 
witii  the  understanding  that  he  should  not 
take  the  stump.  I judoubtedly  his  prominence 
as  candidate  for  governor  brought  him  to  the 
attention  of  President  Cleveland,  and  in  Feb- 
ruary. 1885,  Mr.  Cleveland  sent  for  Mr.  Endi- 
cott to  come  to  Albany,  when  he  offered  him 
a  place  in  his  cabinet  as  Secretary  of  War.  He 
accepted  it,  and  his  career  in  the  War  Depart-' 
meiu  during  the  four  years  of  Mr.  Cleveland's 
administration  is  now  a  matter  of  history.  A 
r.oard  of  I-'ortification  and  other  Defences, 
known  as  the  Endicott   Board,  of  which  Mr. 


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Endicott  was  chairman,  was  created  by  an  act 
of  Congress  dated  March  3,  1885.  The  work 
of  the  board  was  long  and  laborious,  and  the 
coast  defences  of  the  present  day  are  the  result 
of  the  recommendations  of  this  board. 

•■(  )n  his  return  to  Massachusetts  he  resumed 
his  profession  and  was  counsel  in  several 
prominent  cases;  but  he  never  took  up  the 
active  work  of  his  earlier  years,  and  only 
accepted  a  few  of  the  most  important  cases 
which  came  to  him. 

"in  1867  he  was  one  of  nine  trustees  named 
by  Ceorge  Peabody  of  London  in  his  letter  of 
•('lift  and  Instrument  of  Trust'  accompanying 
a  large  donation  for  "The  Promotion  of  Science 
and  Useful  Knowledge  in  the  County  of 
Essex.'  He  was  chosen  vice-president  of  the 
trustees,  and  the  second  president,  and  held 
that  office  tmtil  his  resignation  in  1897.  ^^" 
October  7,  1891,  he  was  chosen  to  fill  the 
vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  Judge  Charles 
Devens  as  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Peabody 
Education  Fund,  and  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  executive  committee.  On  .\pril  6,  1897, 
he  resigned  from  this  board."  "He  always 
took  a  deep  interest  in  the  welfare  of  Harvard 
College,  and  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
board  of  overseers  from  1875  to  1876,  from 
1876  to  1882  and  from  1883  to  1889.  In  1885 
he  resigned  for  the  reason  that  he  had  been 
chosen  a  Fellow  of  the  corporation  in  June, 
1884.  On  Commencement  Day,  1882,  the 
degree  of  LL.  D.  "was  conferred  upon  him  in 
glad  recognition  of  his  attainments,  station  and 
intluence.'  On  September  24,  1895,  he 
resigned  from  the  corporation. 

"In  1848  he  was  commissioned  tirst  lieuten- 
ant in  the  6th  Regiment  of  Light  Infantry.  4th 
P.rigade,  2nd  Division  of  Militia  of  the  Com- 
niduwealth,  and.  in  1830.  captain.  He  was 
president  of  the  Salem  I'ank  ;  trustee  of  Salem 
Savings  I'ank.  ])resident  of  Salem  National 
Hank;  resident  member  of  Massachusetts  His- 
torical Society;  honorary  member  of  ['hi  lieta 
Kai)pa  Society,  Ali>ha ;  trustee  of  (iroton 
school;  member  of  .Saturday  Club;  president 
of  .'\lumni  Association  of  Harvard  college; 
member  of  committee  of  Supreme  Court  Cen- 
tennial celebration:  trustee  of  tlie  Ma^achu- 
sctts  Eye  and  l"^ar  Infirmary;  first  president  of 
the  University  Club.  Poston  ;  member  of  the 
Colonial  Society  of  Massachusetts. 

"His  addresses,  such  as  those  delivered  in 
1867  upon  the  ojiening  of  the  Peabody  .Xcad- 
ciny  of  .Science  in  .^alem,  and  in  1878  upon  the 
250th  anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  .Salem. 
were   graceful,    showed    learning   and    refined 


taste  in  the  use  of  his  language.  He  always 
stood  for  what  was  best,  and  was  consistently 
firm,  impartial,  dignified  and  just.  He  had  a 
righteous  contempt  for  anything  that  was 
mean  or  unworthy,  and  held  those  standards 
which  belong  to  the  higher  type  of  a  New 
England  man.  It  has  been  often  said  that  he 
was  born  to  be  a  judge,  and  he  certainly  filled 
that  office  with  dignity,  patience,  honor  and 
ability.  In  a])pearance  he  was  tall  and  strik- 
ing, with  dignity  and  repose  of  bearing,  and 
with  unusual  chanu  of  manner,  he  attracted  all 
with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  Democratic 
and  simple  in  his  tastes,  he  made  lasting 
friends  among  all  classes." 

The  greater  jiart  of  his  life  was  spent  in 
Salem,  where  he  lived  until  1894.  when  he 
moved  to  Danvers,  and  passed  a  large  part  of 
the  year  there.  He  visited  Europe  several 
times,  but  soon  withdrew  from  active  life.  He 
married,  December  13,  1859,  his  cousin.  Ellen 
Peabody,  daughter  of  George  and  Clara 
(Endicott)  Peabody,  of  Salem.  Children:  i. 
William  Crow^ninshield,  born  September  28, 
i860,  mentioned  below.  2.  Mary  Crownin- 
shield.  born  March  13,  1864.  married,  Novem- 
ber 13,  1888,  Rl.  Hon.  Joseph  Chamberlain. 
.M.  P..  of  I'.iriuingham.  England. 

(X|  William  Crowninshield  (2),  son  of 
Hon.  William  Crowninshield  (i)  Endicott, 
was  born  in  Salem,  September  28,  i860.  Mar- 
ried, October  3,  1889,  Maria  Louise  Huron. 

iFor  earl.v  grniratioius  ."iee  preceding  sketcli). 

iN'll)  Captain  Moses  Endi- 
i:\  1  )K!  >iT    cott.son  of  John  (  3  )  Endicott. 

was  born  at  Danvers.  March 
19.  1767,  baptized  there  November  I,  1767. 
He  died  at  Havana.  Cuba,  March  5,  1807.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  early 
in  life  began  to  follow  the  sea,  becoming  an 
able  luaster  mariner.  He  was  cut  off  in  the 
jirime  of  life,  leaving  a  wife  and  five  children. 
He  was  an  affectionate  husband  and  kind 
father  and  was  sincerely  mourned  not  only  by 
his  family  and  friends  but  by  the  many  poor 
and  unfortunate  persons  whoiu  he  had 
befriended  and  heljied.  He  married,  in  178S. 
.•\nna  Towne.  Children,  born  in  Danvers: 
I.  Nancy.  August  31,  1788. married  Dr.  George 
Osgood!  2.  Nathan.  September  19,  1790.  3. 
Charles  Moses.  December  6.  1793,  mentioned 
below.  4.  Lewis  Reiiillet,  b'ebruary  24,  1796. 
died  October  8,  1796.  5.  Sarah,  .\pril  4.  1798, 
died  .August  18,  1801.  6.  .\ugusta,  July  25, 
1803.  married  Rev.  H.  H.  Deane.  D.  D. ;  she 
died  Julv  7,  1847.     7.  Lewis.  July  2-j.  1805. 


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(\"Iin  Charles  Moses,  son  of  Captain 
Moses  Endicott.  was  born  December  6.  1793, 
at  Danvers.  He  entered  upon  a  mercantile 
career  in  the  East  India  trade  and  accumu- 
lated a  considerable  fortune.  He  was  cashier 
of  the  Salem  Bank,  president  of  the  East 
India  Marine  Society,  and  a  man  of  large 
influence  and  ability.  He  married,  June  8, 
1818.  Sarah  Rolland  Blythc.  They  resided  in 
Salem.  Children:  i.  Charles  Edward,  born 
July  7.  1832.  2.  Ingersoll  Bowditch.  May  17. 
1835.  mentioned  below. 

(IX)  Ingersoll  Bowditch.  son  of  Charles 
Moses  Endicott,  was  born  in  Salem.  May  17, 
1835.  He  was  educated  in  private  schools  in 
Salem,  and  has  lived  a  retired  life.  He  mar- 
ried Ann  Caroline  Dennett,  born  at  Standish, 
Maine.  February  3,  1839,  died  June  23.  1897, 
dau.ghter  of  Gardner  and  Eliza  R.  (Howe) 
Dennett.  Her  father.  Gardner  Dennett,  was 
born  June  14.  181 1,  died  February  11,  1887, 
son  of  Samuel  Dennett,  born  December  22. 
1769,  died  February  22.  1884.  and  Mary 
(Lowell)  Dennett,  born  .April  15.  1779,  mar- 
ried. April  22,.  1792. 

The  mother  of  Ann  Caroline  Dennett,  Eliza 
R.  (Howe)  Dennett,  was  born  at  Dorchester, 
Massachusetts.  February  20.  1812,  died  March 
II,  1854.  Children  of  Gardner  and  Eliza  A. 
(Howe)  Dennett:  i.  Ann  Caroline,  married 
Ingersoll  B.  Endicott,  mentioned  above ;  ii. 
Mary  Frances  Dennett,  born  December  9. 
1841,  lives  in  Chicago;  iii.  Edwin  Gardner 
Dennett,  born  May  23,  1844.  died  September 
II,  1869;  iv.  Frederic  Oscar  Dennett,  born 
December  17.  1847,  lives  at  Chicago,  married, 
June  24.  1869.  Emeline  Smith  Crawford,  and 
had  two  daughters.  Fannie  C.  Dennett,  born 
August  19.  1881.  died  February  17.  1884.  and 
Mary  Crawford  Dennett,  born  July  3,  1885. 
died  March  18.  1903.  Children  of  Ingersoll  I'.. 
and  .Ann  Caroline  (Dennett)  Endicott:  i. 
George  Gardner,  born  at  Standish.  Maine, 
September  19.  1857,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Eliza  Howe.  August  6.  1859,  in  Standish. 
Maine,  married.  December  11,  1881.  Charles 
FIdward  Rich:  residing  in  New  York  City; 
children:  i.  Endicott  G.  Rich,  born  March  17. 
1883;  ii.  Carleton  Wheeler  Rich,  born  I-'ebru- 
ary  17.  1885.  3.  Carrie  Inger.soU.  September 
25,  1862.  in  Boston,  married.  June  24.  1885, 
Frank  Oakley  Thissell,  of  Bangor.  Maine; 
child.  Frank  6.  Thissell  Jr..  born  October  15. 
1889.  in  P.oston  ;  they  live  in  Boston.  4,  F-mma 
Crawford,  Boston.  October  4.  1866.  died  in 
Boston.  September  2,  1868. 

(X)  George     Gardner,     son     of     Ingersoll 


rSowditch  Endicott.  was  born  in  Standish, 
Maine.  .September  19.  1857.  He  came  to 
.Salem  with  his  parents  when  very  young  and 
later  moved  to  Boston  and  was  educated  there. 
He  was  connected  with  the  firm  of  Chickering 
&  Sons.  791  Tremont  street,  Boston,  manufac- 
turers of  pianos,  until  May,  1899,  when  he 
resigned  from  tliat  jiosilion  and  has  since  been 
actively  engaged  in  the  copper  mining  business, 
being  secretary  and  treasurer  of  a  number  of 
mining  corporations.  His  office  is  at  60  State 
street.  Boston.  He  resides  in  that  section  of 
Boston  known  as  Longwood.  He  married,  in 
Boston,  June  30,  1891,  Emily  Cunningham,  of 
Wiscasset.  Their  only  child  is  John,  born  at 
\ewtonville.  Massachusets,  February  3,  1894. 


The  first  date  now  known  in 
IkAKXKY  the  history  of  this  family,  is 
1601.  It  is  evident  that  the  an- 
cestors lived  for  some  time  in  England,  and 
also  that  the  American  immigrant  came  to 
Massachusetts  for  the  same  purpose  as  did 
nearly  every  other  person  who  settled  in  New 
England  at  that  time — the  opportunity  to  wor- 
ship Cioil  according  to  the  dictates  of  his  own 
conscience.  The  fortitude,  determination,  and 
high  principles  thus  involved  are  characteristics 
which  have  come  down  through  the  genera- 
tions and  are  still  clearly  apparent  in  his  de- 
scendants. 

(  1 )  Edward  Barney,  of  Bradenham.  county 
of  Bucks.  England,  in  his  will  dated  1643, 
made  a  l)e(|uest  to  his  son  Jacob,  "if  he  be 
living  at  the  time  of  my  death,  and  come  over 
t(i  England. 

(II)  Jacob  Barney,  tnidoubtedly  tin-  nne 
ab('Ve  referred  to  in  the  will  of  Edward  Barney, 
was  born  in  England,  in  1601,  and  in  1634 
came  to  Salem,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was 
made  a  freeman.  May  14,  1634,  and  died  .\pril 
28.  1673,  aged  seventy-two  years.  1  lis  wife, 
whose  bajitismal  name  was  Elizabeth,  survived 
him.  lie  opposed  the  sentence  of  the  general 
court  against  those  who  ])etition  for  freer 
franchise.  This  indicates  that  he  was  more 
liberal  in  theology  than  were  most  of  his  con- 
temporaries. .At  a  town  meeting  held  Febru- 
ary 2.  1639,  Jacob  Barney  was  granted  fifty 
acres  of  meadow,  and  was  granted  an  addi- 
tional fifty  acres  January  28.  1650.  His  name 
a])])ears  often  in  the  early  records  of  Salem 
as  an  ajjjiraiser  of  estates,  and  also  on  a  peti- 
tion dated  June  29,  1658,  and  recorded  in 
Salem  county  court  papers.  .\  well  known 
writer  says  of  Jacob:  "An  intelligent  mer- 
chant, often  selectman  and  de])uty  to  the  gen- 


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eral  court.  1635-38-47-33-63.  and  served  on 
the  first  grand  jury  that  ever  sat  in  this  coun- 
try. The  loss  .of  such  men  as  Mr.  Barney  is 
not  easily  supplied."  Following  is  brief  men- 
tion of  the  children  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth 
P.arney:  i.  Jacob,  mentioned  below.  2.  Sarah, 
married  John  Cjrover,  May  13,  1656;  died  in 
November,  1662.  3.  Hannah,  wife  of  John 
Cromwell,  of  Salem,  who  died  in  September, 
1700,  and  mentions  in  his  will  his  wife,  but  no 
children.  4.  John,  baptized  in  Salem.  De- 
cember 13.  1639;  died  before  his  father. 

(Ill)  Jacob  (2),  eldest  child  of  Jacob  (i) 
and  Elizabeth  Harney,  was  born  in  England, 
and  must  have  been  a  child  when  he  came  with 
his  ])arents  to  .Massachusetts.  At  a  meeting 
of  the  seven  men,  .April  5,  1652,  he  was  grant- 
ed thirty  acres  of  land  to  be  laid  out  witli  hfty 
acres  formerly  granted  to  his  father.  It  is 
])robable  that  he  had  just  attained  his  majority 
at  this  time.  .After  1673  he  removed  to  Bristol, 
and  was  subsequently  a  resident  of  Rehoboth, 
where  he  died  February  12.  1693,  probably 
about  si.\ty-two  years  of  age.  His  will  was 
made  July  13  preceding  his  death,  and  was 
I)n)bated  eight  days  after  his  demise,  his  wife 
.\nn  being  exccutri.K.  He  became  a  Baptist 
clergyman,  and  founded  churches  in  Charles- 
town  and  Swansea,  and  is  probably  the  one 
who  in  1668  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
first  Baptist  societies  in  Boston.  He  was  mar- 
ried (first)  Salem,  by  Major  Hathorne.  Au- 
gust 18,  1637,  to  Hannah  Johnson,  who  died 
June  5,  1639,  leaving  an  infant  daughter  Han- 
nah, who  died  young.  He  was  married  (sec- 
ond) .April  26.  1660,  by  Captain  .Marshall,  to 
Ann  Witt,  who  survived  him  more  than  eight 
years,  and  died  in  Rehoboth,  March  17,  1701. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Sarah 
Witt,  of  Lynn.  The  children  of  the  second 
wife  were:  i.  Hannah,  born  March  2,  i66i, 
in  Salem,  probably  married  Joshua  Boynton, 
of  Newbury,  April  9.  1678,  and  died  before 
1 68 1.  2.  Sarah,  Sejitember  12.  1662,  in  Salem, 
married  Henry  Hampton.  3.  .Abigail.  Octo- 
ber 31,  1663.  in  Salem,  married  Peter  Marshall, 
of  Newbury.  4.  John,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Jacob,  born  May  21.  1667,  in  Salem,  died  be- 
fore 1692.  6.  Ruth.  September  27,  1669,  was 
immarricd  in  t68S.  7.  Dorcas,  .April  22,  1671, 
in  Salem,  married  Daniel  Throope,  .August  23, 
1689,  aufl  died  before  1697.  8.  Joseph.  March 
9.  1673.  in  Salem,  married  in  September.  1692. 
Constance  Davis,  of  Haverhill,  lived  in  Swan- 
.sea,  and  tlied  at  Rehoboth,  February  3,  1 731. 
9.  Israel,  June  17,  1673.  married  November 
18.  1606,  Elizabeth  Barrett,  and  lived  in  Reho- 


both. 10.  Jonathan.  March  29.  1677,  married 
Sarah  Gritftn  ;  lived  in  Rehoboth.  11.  Samuel, 
February  10,  1679,  was  living  in  1692.  12. 
Hannah.  October  6.  1681. 

(1\')  John,  eldest  son  of  Jacob  (2)  and 
.\nii  (Witt)  Barney,  was  born  June  I,  1665, 
in  Salem.  ;i.n(l  died  in  May.  1728,  in  Taunton. 
Massachusetts.  He  lived  in  ISristol.  Rhode 
Islaml.  in  Swansea  and  Rehoboth.  Massachu- 
setts, and  removed  to  Taimton  in  1710.  There 
he  bought  the  house  and  land  of  John  Rogers, 
formerly  the  residence  of  Robert  Thornton, 
one  of  the  first  purchasers  of  Taunton.  Little 
is  found  in  the  records  concerning  him.  but 
it  is  known  that  he  was  at  one  time  a  deputy 
sheriff.  He  married,  November  4,  1686,  Afary, 
daughter  of  Deacon  William  Throo])e.  of  Bris- 
tol. Rhode  Island,  and  the  following  children 
are  enumerated  in  his  will,  dated  May  25, 
1728:  I.  Sarah,  born  October  28,  1703,  at 
Bristol,  Rhode  Island,  married  James  Will- 
iams, and  was  living  in  1638.  2.  Marv.  mar- 
ried, \\'illiam  Carpenter.  3.  John,  died  in 
infancy.  4.  Elizabeth,  married  Peter  Caswell. 
3.  Annah.  married  William  Leonard.  6.  Jacob, 
married  a  claughter  of  Samuel  Dan  forth.  7. 
John,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Leonard.  8.  William,  subject  of  the  next 
paragraph.  9.  Joseph,  who  had  wife  Susanna. 
10.  Jonathan,  married  .Anna  Dean. 

(V )  William,  fourth  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Throope)  Barney,  was  born  March  26,  1701, 
in  Piristol.  and  died  prior  to  November  26, 
1763,  in  Taunton,  Massachusetts.  He  was 
calleil  Elder  William,  through  his  connection 
with  the  cliurch.  He  married  .Anna  Williams, 
born  in  1708.  daughter  of  Emanuel  Williams, 
of  Taunton.  Children:  Jonathan.  William. 
Syble.  .Anna  and  Joseph.  The  eldest  daughter 
married   Ephraim   Pray.   November   14.    1763. 

(VI)  William  (2),  second  son  of  \\'illiam 
( i)  and  .Anna  (Williams)  Barney,  was  prob- 
ably born  in  Taunton,  and  was  a  blacksmith 
in  that  town.  The  records  of  that  town  were 
destroyed  by  fire  in  1838.  and  it  is  impossible 
to  determine  the  time  or  place  of  his  birth.  He 
married  (  first  ~l  .August  10.  1760.  in  Taunton, 
Margaret  Sand  ford,  who  probably  lived  but 
a  short  time  thereafter.  The  date  of  bis  sec- 
(Mid  marriage  is  unknown,  but  his  wife, 
Wealtha  Staples,  was  born  March  22,  1739. 
He  died  before  December  27.  1826.  on  which 
date  his  wiflnw  Wealtha  married  Captain  Seth 
Keith,  of  Middleboro.  Massachusetts.  She 
died  Jidv  23.  1834.  in  Berkley.  Massachusetts. 
The  children  of  \\'illiam  Barney  by  the  first 
wife  are  noted  as  follows:     i.  Benjamin,  born 


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about  i7(>o;  married,  Ucccmbcr  ii.  171^3.  Deb- 
orah Crapo,  at  Taunton.  2.  William,  born 
about  1762:  married  Mercy  Crapo,  in  Taun- 
ton, February  10,  1784,  and  died  in  Jotter- 
son  county.  New  York.  3.  George,  born  May 
24,  176^1;  married,  January  i,  1792,  in  Taun- 
ton, Waitstiil  Crapo,  and  died  January  14. 
1853,  at  Collins,  Erie  county,  New  ^'ork.  4. 
Anna,  married  Consider  Crapo,  April  23, 1795, 
at  Taunton,  and  died  in  \'ictt)ry.  Cayuga 
county,  Xew  York.  5.  Joshua,  born  March  2, 
[778:  married,  Septeml)er  6,  1804,  in  Taunton. 
Chloe  Caswell,  and  died  April  29,  1861,  in 
Sjjringtielil.  Massachusetts.  lie  is  buried  near 
the  I'ine  street  entrance  of  I'eabody  cemetery 
in  that  town.  Following  is  a  brief  account  of 
their  children:  i.  Chloe,  born  May  6,  1805, 
in  Savoy,  Massachusetts,  married  Ebenezer 
Dawes.  May  15,  1833,  and  died  October  17. 
1863;  had  Rosalie  C,  Chloe  K.  and  Vesta,  ii. 
Sarah  A..  October  25,  1809;  married  Francis 
Bates,  and  died  January  20,  1877,  in  Spring- 
field, surviving  by  seventeen  years  her  hus- 
band, wlio  died  January  21,  i860;  both  are 
buried  in  Springfield  cemetery,  iii.  Wealthy, 
August  9,  1812,  married  William  Dunham,  in 
1845,  ^"fl  <^J'^'^'  August  13,  1876,  leaving  no 
issue.  The  children  of  \\  illiain  (2)  Harney, 
by  his  second  wife  were  roily.  Jairus  .Sidney 
and  \\>althy.  The  elder  daughter,  born  Feb- 
ruar)-  17,  1798,  married,  February  29,  1818, 
Phillip,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Phoebe  Caswell, 
and  died  December  5,  1859.  Phillip  Caswell 
was  born  December  15,  1790,  and  survived  his 
wife  a  little  more  than  a  month,  dying  January 
10,  iSfxD.  The  younger  daughter  married  Will- 
iam I'aull.  of  Lakeville,  Massachusetts. 

(VII)  Jairus  .Sidney,  fifth  son  of  William 
(2)  P)arney,  and  only  son  by  his  second  wife, 
was  born  February  4,  1799,  in  Taunton,  and 
died  in  Saxonville-Framingham,  Massachu- 
setts, December  27,  1859.  He  resided  in  Saxon- 
ville,  a  village  of  Framingham,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  a  manufacturer  of  machinery  foi- 
woolen  mills,  and  made  several  important  im- 
provements in  looms  and  spinning  machinery 
that  are  still  used  in  some  of  the  largest  mills 
in  the  country.  He  married,  October  14,  1827, 
in  .Saxonville-Framingham,  Harriet,  daughter 
of  Joel  Hosmer.  She  was  born  February  5, 
1805,  in  .Xcton,  Massachusetts,  and  died  in 
Saxonville-Framingham,  Massachusetts,  ,\u- 
gust  16,  1847.  Her  family  was  long  resident 
in  that  place,  and  some  of  its  members  fought 
in  the  battle  of  Lexington.  Their  children  are 
noted  as  fellows:  i.  Edward  IT.,  died  in 
infancy.     2.  Susan,  born  May  14,  1830;  mar- 


ried I).  11.  lj\  rne.^,  and  died  December  3,  1800. 
3.  William  H.,  December  28,  1631,  was  drown- 
ed .\pril  4,  1857.  4.  Edward  .\.,  was  drowned 
he  fine  two  years  and  six  montlis  old.  5. 
ICverett  llosmcr  is  the  subject  of  the  next 
paragraph.  ().  George  Washington,  January 
jh.  1838.  in  .Sa.\onville-l"ramingham.  7.  Eu- 
gene II..  .\ugust  II,  1840,  in  Saxonville-Fram- 
ingliani ;  died  before  twenty-one  years  old.  8. 
Helen  Cordelia,  October  30,  1842;  died  before 
nineteen.    9.  Adel  Viola,  May  7,  1845. 

(\II)  ICverett  Hosmer  (3),  son  of  Jairus 
and  Harriet  (Hosmer)  Ijarney,  was  born  De- 
cember 7,  1835,  in  Saxonville-l'raniingliam, 
.Massachusetts.  He  was  educated  at  the  public 
schools  and  at  the  academy  of  his  native  town, 
after  which  he  engaged  in  business  with  his 
father  until  1857,  when  he  became  a  con- 
tractor on  locomotive  work  for  Hinkley  & 
Drury,  of  Boston,  Alassachusetts.  While  en- 
gaged in  this  work  Mr.  Barney  conceived  the 
idea  of  fastening  skates  by  a  metal  clasp,  en- 
tirely dispensing  with  the  old  method  of  straps 
and  buckles.  He  took  out  his  first  patent  on 
this  <lesign  in  1864,  and  this  was  followed  by  a 
series  of  patents.  In  1864  Mr.  Barney  was 
engaged  by  James  C.  Warner,  of  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  who  had  a  large  government 
contract  for  the  manufacture  of  gtnis,  to  assist 
in  completing  the  contract.  .At  the  close  of 
the  civil  war  Mr.  Barney  turned  his  attention 
to  the  manufacture  of  his  own  inventions,  and 
formed  a  i)artnership  with  Mr.  John  Berry, 
an  old  friend,  who  had  been  his  coworker  for 
several  years.  They  rented  the  premises 
vacated  by  Mr.  Warner  after  the  completion 
'if  his  contract,  and  after  two  years  Mr.  Barney 
bought  out  his  jjartner's  interest,  retaining, 
however,  the  old  firm  name  of  Barney  & 
Berry.  The  business  grew  rapidly,  and  Mr. 
Barney  erected  the  present  factory  on  Broad 
street,  in  Springfield,  in  1872.  This  is  equipped 
with  every  modern  improvement,  and  the 
Barney  &  Berry  skates  have  a  world-wide 
reiiutation.  Mr.  Piarney  invented  a  perforat- 
ing machine  for  stamping  out  the  amount  pay- 
able on  bank  checks,  and  took  out  a  patent 
for  it.  This  machine  stamps  out  any  amount 
from  one  dollar  to  one  million  dollars,  and  also 
such  words  as  "cancelled,"  "i)aid,"  etc.  By  his 
industry  and  shrewd  management  Mr.  P)arney 
ac(|uired  a  large  fortune,  and  in  1882  he  pur- 
chased one  hundred  and  ten  acres  of  land  in 
the  southern  part  of  Springfield,  adjoining 
what  is  now  known  as  Forest  Park.  On  this 
he  erected  a  hanrlsome  residence  on  the  side 
commanding  a  superb  view  of  the  Connecticut 


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rivt-r  valley.  1  he  giound.'i  have  been  laid  out 
with  great  care,  and  contain  many  rare  and 
valual)le  tree.s  and  shruljs  inijjroved  from 
Iuiro])e,  I'-gyi't,  China,  Japan  and  India.  Hi.'; 
lotus  and  lily  ijond.^  contain  many  choice  and 
beautiful  specimens.  .Mr.  Barney  intended  his 
beautiful  home  to  pass  to  his  only  child.  ( leorge 
Murray,  ijorn  in  1863,  but  his  death  in  i88y 
decided  .Mr.  liarney  to  present  the  ])lace  to  the 
city  of  Springfield  as  a  memorial  of  his  son, 
reserving  the  right  to  occnjjy  it  as  a  home  dur- 
ing his  life  and  that  of  his  wife,  i'y  this  gift 
Springfield  ac(|uires  one  of  the  most  beamiful 
parks  in  the  country,  with  a  magnificent  view 
of  the  CoiHiecticut  river,  extending  from  the 
Longmeadow  line  to  the  South  Knd  Hridge, 
491 1  feet  along  the  river  front,  including  all 
rights  and  jjrivileges  of  the  harbor  line,  un- 
sur])assed  for  ru,stic  scenery,  rare  trees,  shrubs 
and  a<|uatic  jjlants,  numerous  ponds,  brooks, 
rivulets,  and  drives,  and  which  is  being  con- 
tinuallv  imjiroved  and  beautified  by  its  gener- 
ous donor,  to  whom  it  will  be  a  living  nionn- 
nient.  .Mr.  Harney  was  inslrnmental  in  secur- 
ing the  |)assage  of  a  bill  through  the  legislature, 
entitled  ".An  Act  to  annex  a  i)art  of  the  Town 
of  Uongmeadow  to  tlie  City  of  Sjjringfield." 
The  benefits  secured  by  this  bill  were  in  the 
interest  of  i-'orest  I'ark  improvements.  Mr. 
liarney  has  a  winter  home  in  (Jsprey,  Manatee 
comity,  {'"lorida. 

lie  married  Mliza  J.  Knowles,  born  June  30, 
1830,  in  ISelfast,  Maine,  died  April  29,  1905, 
at  Osprey,  Morida.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Lafayette  Knowles,  who  was  born  1799,  in 
\'orth|)ort.  Maine,  was  a  farmer  by  occupation, 
and  flied  May  18,  1865.  Mis  wife,  Mliza 
Crockett,  was  born  in  1804,  in  Canterbury, 
New  Ilampshirc.  and  died  December  28,  187(1 
The  only  child  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harney. 
( ieorge  Murray,  was  b(jrn  .March  2-j ,  18^13, 
and  <li('d  May  29,  1889. 


The  llosmers  are  an  old  F.ng- 
ll(  )S.MI'.1\  lish  family,  and  first  appeared 
in  New  I'.ngland  in  i^>33' 
when  Thomas  llosnier  was  one  of  the  jiro- 
prietors  of  Cambridge,  .Massachusetts,  was 
made  freeman  in  i')35,  but  afterward  removed 
to  Connecticut  and  fomuled  the  Hartford 
family  of  that  surname  whose  representatives 
are  now  scattered  throughout  the  coiuitrv. 
Thomas  llosnier  was  a  brother  of  the  immi- 
grant ancestor  of  the  family  here  treated,  and 
)>receded  him  to  .\nierica  about  two  years. 

(I)   James   llosnier.   immigrant,  brother  of 
Thomas    llosnier,    was    born    in    luigkind    in 


i')07.  and  is  said  to  have  come  from  Hock- 
hur.st,  Kent,  in  1635,  in  the  ship  "Elizabeth," 
with  his  wife  Ann.  aged  twenty-seven,  and  chil- 
dren Marie  and  Ann,  and  two  serving  women. 
He  was  a  clothier  by  trade,  and  settled  in  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts,  where  lie  was  admitted 
freeman  in  1637,  and  owned  land  before  1638. 
This  he  soon  sold  and  removed  to  Concord, 
where  he  died  February  7,  1685.  His  first  wife 
.Ann  was  born  in   1608,  and  after  her  death 

he  married  Mary  ,  who  died  in   May, 

iC)4i.     He  married  (third)  Elinne  (Ellen,  also 

mentioned  as  .-Mice)  ,  who  died  March 

3,  i(i()4-5.  His  children:  i.  Mary,  born  1633, 
died  young.  2.  .\nn,  1635.  died  young.  3. 
James.  1637;  slain  in  engagement  with  the 
Indians  at  Sudbury,  .\pril  21.  1676,  in  King 
FMiilip's  war.  4.  Mary,  born  January  10.  1639; 
died  .August  18,  1642.  5.  Stephen  (_by  wife 
-Mice),  born  November  27,  1642  (.see  post). 
().  Hannah,  born  1644;  died  December  15, 
1675:  married  Joseph  Hayward.  7.  Mary, 
born  .A]>ril   14,   1646;  married  Thomas  Sniitli. 

(H)  Ste])lien,  son  of  James  Hosmcr,  was 
born  in  Concord,  Massachusetts,  November 
27.  1C42.  He  settled  in  Concord,  and  was 
admitted  freeman  of  the  colony  in  1690.  He 
died  there  December  15,  1714.  He  married, 
.March  24,  1667,  .Abigail  \\'ood,  of  Concord, 
daughter  of  Michael  \\'ood,  granddaughter  of 
William  Wood,  the  immigrant  of  Concord. 
Childnti  of  .Stejihen  and  .Abigail  Hosmer:  i. 
Mary,  born  May  2,  i()Ci8;  married  (first)  Sam- 
uel; (second)  John  I'ellows.  2.  Abigail,  born 
November  6,  i(')69;  died  December  27,  1717; 
married  (jeorge  Wheeler.  3.  John,  born  Au- 
gust 31,  i'')7i  ;  died  1751  :  married  Mary  liill- 
ings.  4.  Ruth,  born  .\ugust  28,  1675.  5. 
Dorothy,  born  December  10,  1677:  married 
John  Wheeler.  6.  Stephen,  born  June  27, 
1680  (see  post).  7.  Hannah,  born  December 
9.  1682.  8.  James,  born  June  2~,  1685:  died 
Se])tember  28,  1685. 

(Ill)  Stephen  (2),  son  of  Stephen  (i) 
Hosmer.  was  born  in  Concord,  Massachusetts, 
June  2~.  i()8o.  I  le  removed  to  .Acton,  or  rather 
he  lived  in  that  jiart  of  Concord  that  became 
the  town  of  .Acton.  He  married,  February 
2(),  1707.  Prudence  Billings,  died  1770.  daugh- 
ter of  Nathaniel  and  Jane  (  Bannister)  Billings. 
Children:  i.  rruilcncc,  born  about  1709:  mar- 
ried Thomas  I  losnicr.  2.  Captain  Ste])hcn, 
Jr.,  married  (first)  Millicent  \\'ood  ;  (second) 
I'.lizabeth  I'arrar.  3.  Jonathan,  born  March 
29.  1712.    4.  Josiah.     5.  Jane.    6.  Ephraini. 

(I\')  I'.phraim.  son  of  Stephen  (2)  and 
I'milence    (Billings)    Hosmer,    was    born    in 


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Acton.  Xoveinber  22,  1722,  and  died  there 
March  16,  181 1.  He  married  (intentions 
April  28,  1753)  Sarali,  horn  in  Acton.  Janu- 
ary 5.  1733,  died  October  2,  1823.  daughter  of 
Samuel  Jones,  of  Acton.  Children :  Sarah, 
born  November  i.  1754:  Ephraim,  June  22, 
1756:  Prudence.  September  6,  1758;  Samuel, 
September  11.  17^)1;  Silas.  September  30, 
1763;  James.  January  14.  1766:  Amos.  De- 
cember 27,  1767;  Joel.  May  27,  1770;  Charles, 
April  23,  1772:  Artemas.  December  27.  1773. 
(V)  Joel,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Sarah  (Jones) 
Hosmer.  was  born  May  27,  1770.  and  died 
April  14.  1830.  Me  married  Esther  Wheeler, 
of  Acton,  born  June  27.  1767.  died  Novem- 
ber 8.  1844.  Children:  i.  Rebecca,  born 
March  27,  1797.  died  August  14.  1844.  2. 
Nancy,  born  .September  7.  1799.  (lied  June  i. 
1884.  3.  James.  lx)rn  March  30,  1802.  died 
October  30.  1861.  4.  Harriet,  born  in  Acton. 
February  5.  1805.  died  in  Saxonville-Framing- 
ham.  August  16.  1847;  married  Jairus  Barney, 
October  14.  1827  (q.  v.).  5.  Edmund,  born 
.September  8.  1807,  died  May  5.  1843.  ^■ 
Ephraim,  born  November  26,  1812,  died  Alarch 
5.  1871-  ■  

The  surname  Marsh  has  been 
MARSH     common   in   England   ever  since 

the  use  of  surnames.  It  is  un- 
doubtedly a  place  name.  Families  of  the  name 
of  Marsh  were  numerous  in  counties  Norfolk, 
Suffolk,  York.  Kent.  Essex,  and  in  Wiltshire 
and  Ireland.  Sir  Thomas  Marsh,  who  lived 
in  1660.  bore  these  arms,  which,  with  slight 
variations,  were  borne  by  many  different  fami- 
lies of  the  same  name :  Gules,  a  horse's  head 
couped  between  three  crosses  bottonee  fitchee 
argent.  At  least  six  immigrants  of  the  name 
of  Marsh  came  to  New  England  before  1650. 
John  Marsh,  of  Braintrec.  comity  Essex, 
England,  father  of  the  American  immigrant, 
was  a  clothier.  His  will  was  dated  .\pril  13. 
1627,  and  proved  May  29.  1627.  He  bequeath- 
ed to  the  poor  of  the  parish  three  pounds.  To 
.Samuel  CoUyn,  minister,  etc.,  fifty  shillings. 
To  William  Waslin,  which  was  my  late  ser- 
vant and  kinsman,  forty  shillings,  and  to 
Joseph  Waslin  his  father,  one  suite  of  apparel, 
vix.  one  doublet,  one  pair  of  breeches,  one  pair 
of  stockings  and  one  hat.  To  Francis  Waslin, 
my  sister,  now  the  wife  of  Joseph  Waslin. 
twenty  shillings  a  year  for  life.  To  my  servant 
Jeremy  Mannyng  ten  shillings.  To  Richard, 
Mary  and  Thomasin  Outing,  one  of  the  sons 
and  two  of  the  daughters  of  Richard  Outing, 
my  brother-in-law,  twenty  shillings  apiece.  To 


every  one  of  my  daughters  Sarah.  Mary,  (irace 
and  Lydia.  one  hundred  pounds  apiece  at  their 
several  ages  of  nineteen  years.  To  (irace  my 
wife  all  such  lands,  houses  and  buildings  which 
herein  1  do  give  to  Joseph  Marsh,  my  son,  until 
he  come  to  his  age  of  one  and  twenty  years, 
for  and  towards  the  bringing  up  of  my  chil- 
dren. To  my  said  Joseph  the  messuage  or  tene- 
ment with  the  two  orchards  is:c.  in  llranktrey, 
now  or  late  in  the  occupation  of  Thomas  Hud- 
son, and  all  those  copyhold  lands,  fields  or 
closes  in  the  said  parish  now  or  late  in  the 
occupation  of  Richard  Bedwell,  and  the  three 
fields  or  closes  commonly  called  the  broom- 
fields,  in  said  parish,  now  or  late  in  my  own 
occupation,  when  he  shall  come  to  his  age  of 
twenty  and  one  years.  All  the  rest  of  my 
messuages,  lands  etc.  for  and  towards  the 
bringing  up  of  all  my  children,  and  I  wholly 
give  them  to  the  said  John  Marsh.  To  Sarah 
Bawldwin.  widow,  ten  shillings.  To  my  son, 
Samuel  Marsh,  four  hundred  pounds  to  be 
paid  unto  the  hands  of  my  good  friends  Adrian 
Mott  and  John  Marryon,  of  Branktrey, 
clothiers,  upon  trust  &c.  to  purchase  land  or 
houses  (to  that  value)  to  the  use  of  my  wife 
tirace  until  Samuel  shall  come  to  his  age  of 
one  and  twenty  and  then  to  my  said  son.  The 
residue  of  all  my  goods  I  give  to  my  wife  and 
children  (equally).  My  said  wife  to  be  exe- 
cutrix. 

Tlic  will  of  Ills  wife  (Irace  was  dated  Janu- 
ar}-  2>).  11)57.  and  ])roved  May  22.  1607,  and 
sliows  conclusively  the  relationship  with  the 
immigrant.  "To  my  son  Joseph  Marsh  all 
that  co])yhoi(l  messuage  or  tenement  in  In- 
gateston,  F.ssex,  with  all  the  houses  &c.  and 
all  the  lands  belonging,  containing  fifty  acres, 
more  or  less,  provided  he  i)ay  the  several 
legacies  mentioned  in  the  will.  To  my  son-in- 
law,  .Nathaniel  Txers.  ami  (Irace,  now  his 
wife,  my  daughter,  seven  ])oun(ls  yearly  during 
their  lives  and  the  longer  liver  of  them  both, 
and  after  that  to  the  heirs  of  the  body  of  the 
said  (irace,  lawfully  begotten,  three  score 
jjounds.  And  for  want  of  such  heirs  of  the 
said  (jrace  the  said  Joseph  shall  pay  or  cause 
to  be  paid  unto  so  many  of  the  children  of  my 
son.  John  Marsh,  now  in  New  England,  as 
shall  be  living  at  the  time  of  my  decease  the 
sum  of  three  score  pounds  at  their  several 
ages  of  one  and  twenty.  And  he  shall  pay  to 
my  daughter  I.idia.  the  wife  of  William  Mar- 
tin, seven  (Kjunds  yearly,  for  her  life,  and  after 
that  to  .so  many  of  her  children  as  shall  be  liv- 
ing at  the  time  of  my  decease  the  sum  of  three 
score   pounds    (at  their  ages  etc).     And   my 


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son  Joseph  shall  keep  my  brother,  William 
i^alclwin,  during  his  natural  life,  at  his  own 
jirojier  cost  and  charges  or  else  pay  unto  him 
yearly  the  sum  of  six  pounds,  during  his  life. 
And  after  the  decease  of  the  said  William 
P>aldwin,  my  brother,  the  said  Joseph  shall 
pay  unto  my  grandchild.  John  Marsh,  the  son 
of  my  said  son  John,  thirty  pounds,  when  he 
sliall  attain  unto  the  age  of  one  and  twenty 
years,  and  shall  likewise  pay  to  my  grand- 
child. William  Martin,  the  son  of  my  son-in- 
law,  William  Martin,  and  Lidia  my  daughter, 
thirty  pounds  (when  of  age)  and  shall  pay  to 
the  said  John  Marsh,  my  son,  thirty  pounds. 
To  Joseph  all  my  freehold  meadow  or  parcel 
of  land  in  liranctree  containing  two  acres, 
more  or  less,  with  remainder  to  my  son  John 
&c.  Certain  household  goods  to  son  John. 
To  grandchild,  Grace  Marsli,  the  daughter  of 
son  John,  a  stitched  white  cupboard  cloth  and 
a  green  Kersey  cupboard  cloth.  To  Samuel, 
son  of  my  son  John,  a  feather  bed  and  bolster 
that  my  son  John  lieth  on.  To  Grace  my 
daughter  a  pair  of  Virginalls  (and  certain 
household  stuff)  during  her  life  and  after  her 
decease  if  not  leaving  issue,  to  the  children  of 
my  daughter  Lidia  &c.  To  John  .Sharp,  my 
grandchild,  ten  ]M:)unds  to  be  paid  in  three 
years.  To  Mr.  .\lgar,  now  minister  of  Rranc- 
tree,  twenty  shillings  and  I  desire  him  to 
preach  at  my  funeral.  To  the  poor  of  Branc- 
tree  forty  shillings.  Son  Joseph  to  be  execu- 
tor. 

To  summarize  the  family,  showing  the  connec- 
tion :  John  Marsh,  of  Braintree,  England, 
married  Grace  Baldwin,  sister  of  William 
Baldwin.  Children:  i.  .Sarah.  2.  Mary.  3. 
( irace.  married  Nathaniel  Tyers.  4.  Lidia, 
married  William  Martin.  3.  Joseph,  remained 
in  England.  6.  John,  the  immigrant,  mention-, 
ed  below.     7.  .Samuel. 

fl)  John  Marsh,  immigrant  ancestor  of 
this  branch  of  the  family,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land in  1618,  an<I  is  said  to  have  come  to  New 
luigland  in  1633,  going  first  to  Cambridge.  He 
is  supposed  to  have  gone  with  Hooker's  com- 
pany the  next  year  to  Hartford,  where  he 
became  one  of  the  first  settlers.  He  had 
grants  of  land  for  himself  and  for  others  in 
1639-40.  His  home  lot  was  No.  16,  on  the 
iforth  side  of  the  stream  that  now  runs  through 
Biishnell  I'ark,  where  Temple  and  Eront 
strc-ets  now  cross.  He  had  other  grants  later, 
one  tract,  "LTp  Neck,"  on  Windsor  avenue, 
Hartford,  is  now  in  possession  of  one  of  his 
direct  descendants.  He  was  a  proprietor  of 
the  colnnion  lands.     He  was  a  leadin<r  citizen 


of  Hartford,  one  of  the  five  higher  magistrates 
in  1639,  holiling  office  until  1655,  when 
he  became  deputy  governor.  After  serv- 
ing as  governor  in  1656,  he  resinned  the 
office  of  magistrate,  which  he  held  until 
1639.  He  removed  at  this  time  to  Had 
ley,  Massachusetts.  He  was  dismissed  from 
the  I-Iartford  church,  July  11,  1656,  his  re- 
moval being  caused  by  church  differences.  He 
had  lot  No.  34  in  Hadley,  and  was  one  of  the 
selectmen  in  1675.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
members  of  the  Northampton  church,  June 
18,  1661.  His  will  was  dated  March  3,  1687- 
88,  and  proved  December  4,  1688.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  in  Hartford,  1640.  .•Xnne  Webster, 
daughter  of  Governor  John  Webster.  She 
died  June  9,  1662.  He  married  second,  Octo- 
ber 7,  1664,  Hepzibah  (Ford)  Lyman,  widow 
of  Richard  Lyman,  and  daughter  of  Thomas 
Ford,  of  Hartford.  John  Marsh  died  Septem- 
ber 28,  1688.  at  Windsor,  Connecticut,  prob- 
abh'  while  on  a  visit  to  his  daughter,  Haimah 
Loomis,  and  is  buried  in  the  old  churchyard. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  John,  born  about 
1643,  mentioned  below.  2.  Samuel,  born  about 
1643,  married  Mary  Allison.  3.  Joseph,  bap- 
tized January  24,  1647.  4.  Isaac,  baptized 
July  15,  i'''49,  died  young.  3.  Jonathan,  born 
-September,  i(')49.  married  Dorcas  Dickinson, 
widow.  6.  Daniel,  married  Hannah  Lewis. 
7.  Hannah,  married  Joseph  Loomis.  8.  Grace, 
married  Timothy  Baker.  Children  of  second 
wife  :  9.  Lydia,  born  October  9,  1667,  married 
David  Loomis.  An  adopted  daughter.  Grace 
Martin,  daughter  of  his  sister  Lidia  (Marsh) 
.Martin.  i 

(II)  John  (2),  .son  of  John  (i")  Marsh, 
was  born  about  1643  in  Hartford,  died  in  1727. 
lie  lived  in  Hartford  and  Hadley.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  November  28,  1666.  Sarah  Lyman, 
of  Northampton,  daughter  of  Richard  and 
Hepsibah  (Ford)  Lyman.  After  his  marriage 
he  returned  to  Llartford  and  lived  on  the 
Marsh  Iiomestead.  He  was  .selectman  in  1677- 
81-87-88-04  and  1701.  In  17CX)  he  was  on  a 
committee  to  build  a  bridge  over  the  Hocka- 
num  river  in  East  Hartford.  His  will  was 
dated  1726  and  proved  .August  i,  1727.  He 
was  called  sergeant.  He  married  (second) 
January  i,  1707-8,  Susannah  Butler,  who  died 
December  24,  1714.  Children  by  first  wife: 
I.  J.ohn,  born  iCi68,  mentioned  below.  2.  Na- 
thaniel, baptized  March  3.  1671.  married  Eliz- 
beth   .Spencer.      3.  Joseph,  baptized   March   3, 

i()7i.  married.  1720.  Hannah .  4.  Sarah, 

baptized  February  17.  1673.  married  John  Mer- 
rill.    3.  Elizabeth,  baptized  June  27.  1673.    6. 


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Hannah,  baptized  December  3.  1677,  died 
young.  7.  li^benezer,  baptized  February  23, 
1679.  8.  Hannah,  baptized  April  10.  1681, 
married  Deacon  Olmsted,  baptized  January  13, 
1684.  10.  Hepzibali,  baptized  June  6,  1686, 
married  Jonathan  Wadsworth.  11.  Jonathan, 
baptized  Augtist  7,  1688.  married  (first)  Eliz- 
abeth Wadsworth;  (second)  Elizabeth  Loomis. 
Ciiild  of  second  wife:  12.  Susannali,  born 
February  5,  1710-11. 

(III)  Captain  John  (3),  son  of  John  (2) 
Marsh,  was  born  in  Hadley  or  Northampton. 
in  1668,  and  removed  when  young  with  his 
parents  to  Hartford.  He  was  selectman  there 
in  1704-10-14.  He  was  chosen  to  explore  the 
land  for  the  new  plantation  which  became 
Litchfield.  He  was  commissioned  lieutenant 
May  17,  1717,  and  in  May,  1722,  captain  and 
justice  of  the  peace  for  Litchfield.  He  was 
the  first  on  the  list  of  proprietors  there,  and 
had  the  second  choice  of  lots.  He  chose  next 
to  Rantam  river,  where  he  was  appointed  to 
erect  a  grist  mill.  He  had  command  of  a 
garrison  of  thirty  men  for  defense  against  the 
Indians.  He  returned  to  Hartford  again  and 
was  selectman  in  1730  and  1735.  He  was 
also  deputy  to  the  general  court,  associate 
judge  of  the  county  court,  justice  of  the  peace, 
member  of  the  council  of  war.  He  was  order- 
ed in  1732  by  the  general  court  to  build  a 
church  for  the  second  society  of  Farmington, 
and  was  appointed  by  Hartford  to  lay  out  two 
Connecticut  towns.  He  died  at  Hartford, 
October  i,  1744,  and  was  buried  by  the  side 
of  his  second  wife  in  the  old  burying  ground 
by  Centre  church,  where  their  gravestones 
may  still  be  seen.  He  married  (first)  Decem- 
ber 12,  1695,  Mabel  Pratt,  who  died  June  6, 
i6g6.  He  married  (second)  January  fi,  1698, 
Elizabeth  I'itkin.  who  died  December  i,  1748. 
Children:  i.  John,  born  January  31,  1699- 
1700.  aged  thirteen.  2.  Ebenczer,  born  No- 
vember 3.  1701,  married  Deborah  Ruell.  3. 
Elizabeth,  born   November  20,   1703,  married 

(first)  John  Bird:  (second)  Cook.   4. 

William,  baptized  July  i,  1706,  married  Sus- 
anna Webster.  5.  George,  baptized  February 
29,  1708,  married  Lydia  Bird.  6.  Isaac,  born 
November  8,  1709,  married  Susanna  Pratt.  7. 
John,  born  October  20,  1712,  married  Sarah 
Webster.  8.  Timothy,  born  October  i.  17 14. 
married  Sarah  Nott.  9.  Hezekiah.  mentioned 
below. 

(IV)  Captain  Hezekiah,  son  of  Captain 
John  (3)  Marsh,  was  born  .April  26,  and  bap- 
tized May  I,  1720,  in  Hartford.  He  went 
with  his  parents  to  Litchfield,  where  his  boy- 

ii-6 


hood  was  spent.  He  settled  in  Hartford  and 
became  a  prominent  man  there.  He  succeeded 
to  his  fatlier"s  business  and  the  account  book 
kept  by  them  both  is  still  in  existence,  and  was 
owned  at  last  accounts  by  his  great-grandson, 
John  E.  Marsh,  of  Hartford.  In  his  will  he 
freed  his  negro  slave  girl,  when  she  became 
twenly-six  years  of  age.  He  died  in  1791, 
aged  seventy-one.  He  married  (first)  De- 
cember I.  1744,  Christian  Edwards,  born  1727, 
died  June  16,  1 770,  daughter  of  John  Edwards. 
He  married  (second)  Elizabeth  Jones,  who 
(lied  October  26,  1788.  widow  of  Levi  Jones, 
of  Hartford.  He  married  (third)  Hannah 
Tilcy,  who  died  1789,  widow  of  Samuel  Tiley. 
Children,  all  by  first  wife:  i.  Jerusha,  born 
.\ugust  28,  174 — ,  married  Joseph  Wadsworth. 

2.  John,  born  November  6,  1749.  died  young. 

3.  Abigail,  born  November  29,  1750,  married 
Theodore  Skinner;  died  1808.  4.  John,  born 
October  4,  1753.  mentioned  below.  5.  Chris- 
tian, born  August  8,  1755,  married  Captain 
Charles  Merrill.     6.  Son,  born  and  died  1759. 

7.  Anne,  born  June  10,  1761,  married  

Bunce.  8.  Hezekiah,  born  Alarch  2,  1763, 
married  Sarah  Burnham. 

(V)  John  (4),  son  of  Captain  Hezekiah 
Marsh,  was  born  in  Hartford,  October  4,  1753, 
died  in  1817.  He  served  in  the  revolution 
under  Colonel  Swift  from  June  24  to  Decem- 
ber 13,  1780,  in  North  Hartford,  and  in  the 
Third  Regiment  from  .-\ugust  27  to  December 
24.  1 781.  He  married,  in  1783,  Susan  Bunce. 
born  1765.  died  1827,  daughter  of  Timothy 
I'.unce,  of  Hartford.  Children:  i.  John,  born 
April  24,  1784,  died  December  13,  1862;  mar- 
ried. 1829,  Chlora  Mills.  2.  Su.san,  born  Au- 
gust 12,  1786,  died  1812;  married,  1810,  Sam- 
uel Beckwith.  3.  Edwards,  born  June  15,  1788, 
married  Mary  .Ann  Egglcston.  4.  Michael, 
born  .March  27,  1790.  mentioned  below.  5. 
-Abigail,  born  March  9,  1792,  died  1866:  mar- 
ried, 1817,  Palmer  Clark.  6.  Ferderick,  born 
January  3,  1794,  married  Harriet  Hills.  7. 
Ciuy  C,  born  August  4,  1796,  married  Lamira 
Way.  8.  Timothy  B.,  born  October  13,  1799, 
married  Abby  Hubbard.  9.  James  E..  born 
December  23.  1801,  married  Eliza  Capcn. 

(\T)  Michael,  son  of  John  (4)  Marsh,  was 
born  in  Hartford,  March  22,  1790.  He  was  a 
leading  merchant  in  Hartford  of  the  firm  of 
.Mlyn  &  Marsh.  .About  1840  he  removed  to 
West  .Springfield,  where  he  kept  a  country 
store  and  w-as  postmaster.  He  also  served  as 
town  clerk  and  treasurer  there  until  his  death, 
July  21,  1847.  Interred  in  churchyarrl  in  W'est 
i^pringfield.      He  married,   in    1828,   Catherine 


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Allyn,  bom  July  8,  1793.  died  1849,  daughter 
of  Colonel  Job  and  Abigail  (Mather)  Allyn. 
(See  Allyn  and  Mather  families).  Children: 
I.  Jane  C,  bom  December  11,  1829,  married 
(first)  George  \V.  Rice:  (second)  Rev.  C.  L. 
Eastman.  2.  Charles,  born  April  13,  1832, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Oliver,  born  February 
27.  i''^35-  married  Ella  C.  Ricker.  4.  Daniel 
|a\.  born  July  2~ .  1837,  mentioned  elsewhere. 
(\  II)  Charles,  ehiest  son  of  Michael  and 
Catherine  (.Allyn)  Marsh,  was  born  in  Hart- 
ford. Connecticut,  April  13,  1832,  and  died  in 
Springfield,  Massachusetts,  November  27, 
1891.  (The  following  sketch  of  him  is  taken 
with  slight  change  from  the  "IJiographical  Re- 
view," of  Hampden  County,  published  in 
1895).  1"^^  began  to  learn  business  at  an  early 
age  in  his  father's  store  and  postotfice,  where 
he  soon  mastered  the  routine  work  of  the  latter 
institution,  and  at  tifteen  years  of  age  was  vir- 
tually i)ostmaster.  The  death  of  his  father  ind 
mother  brought  early  responsibilities  upon  his 
shoulders,  antl  as  a  lad  of  seventeen  he  found 
himself  face  to  face  with  the  serious  problems 
t)f  life,  and  though  still  a  boy  he  was  the  head 
of  a  family,  liy  a  diligent  use  of  time,  shared 
between  hard  work  and  study,  he  began  to 
prepare  for  college.  He  attended  the  West- 
field  -Academy,  and  in  1851  was  ready  to  enter 
Williams  College.  Though  his  preparation  had 
been  meagre  his  natural  scholarship  and  his 
determination  to  succeed  enabled  him  not  only 
to  take  a  creditable  i)lace  in  his  studies,  but 
soon  to  become  the  recognized  leader  of  his 
class.  He  proved  his  scholarly  ability  by  leav- 
ing college  and  working  throughout  his  junior 
year  and  still  retaining  the  lead  in  his  class, 
graduating  valedictorian  of  the  class  of  1855, 
with  John  J.  Ingalls,  late  United  States  senator 
of  Kansas,  as  his  foremost  rival  for  the  first 
honor.  The  associations  of  his  college  life  he 
always  cherished,  and  William  College  and  all 
its  interests  were  ever  dear  to  him.  There 
was  an  uncommon  bond  between  him  and  his 
beloved  president,  and  the  death  of  Mark 
Hopkins  in  later  years  came  to  him  with 
l)eculiar  meaning.  Leaving  college  with  a  rec- 
ord which  could  hardly  have  been  more  full  of 
jiromise,  Charles  Marsh  took  up  his  residence 
in  Springfield,  and,  after  a  short  time  spent  in 
teaching,  entered  upon  a  business  career.  In 
1857  he  was  chosen  treasurer  of  the  Five  Cents 
Savings  liank.  and  two  years  later  he  was 
given  the  position  of  secretary  of  the  Hamp- 
den i-'ire  Insurance  Company.  He  served  that 
organization  until  dissolution  at  the  time  of 
the  great  Portland  fire,  and  then  as  associated 


with  Dr.  J.  C.  I'ynchon  in  a  general  insurance 
business.  In  1866  he  was  elected  cashier  of 
the  I'ynchon  National  Bank,  and  continued  as 
an  officer  in  that  institution  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  The  responsibility  of  the  bank  soon 
fell  upon  him,  owing  to  the  advancing  years 
of  the  president.  Colonel  H.  X.  Case:  and  for 
twenty-five  \'ears  he  directed  its  affairs.  At 
the  death  of  Colonel  Case,  Mr.  Marsh  was 
made  i)resident  of  the  bank.  That  Mr.  Marsh 
should  not  have  followed  a  profession,  in  which 
with  his  exceptional  mental  endowments  and 
scholarly  tastes  he  could  not  have  failed  to 
have  won  wide  reputation  and  distinction,  was 
a  suprise  and  a  disapjjointment  to  many  of 
his  friends,  and  in  later  years  was  a  source  of 
regret  to  himself;  but  in  engaging  in  business 
he  never  lost  his  love  for  books,  and  through- 
out his  life  he  was  a  scholar  in  the  truest  sense. 
Charles  Marsh  has  been  called  the  ideal  college 
man  in  business.  The  same  trained  mind 
which  made  him  prominent  as  a  scholar  he 
ajiplied  to  the  problems  of  the  business  W'orld, 
and  the  widely  diversified  interests  which 
looked  to  him  for  guidance  in  matters  of 
finance,  attest  his  success  as  a  man  of  business. 
His  usefulness  in  the  community  was  proved 
by  the  almost  unlimited  demands  made  upon 
his  time.  Few'  men  in  the  city  in  which  he 
lived  had  a  w'ider  influence ;  and  no  project, 
whether  in  the  social,  civic,  or  religious  world, 
which  looked  to  the  betterment  of  the  condi- 
ti(Mi  of  his  fellowmen  failed  to  enli.st  his  sym- 
pathy, and  no  worth)'  cause  ever  appealed  to 
him  without  receiving  generous  encourage- 
ment. He  was  a  man  tlioroughly  abreast  of 
the  times,  and  was  ([uickly  responsive  to  mod- 
ern thought.  He  had  a  wonderful  amount  of 
general  knowledge,  and  in  constantly  adding 
to  it  he  was  but  satisfying  the  demands  of  an 
intensely  active  mind.  He  belonged  to  a  family 
of  Democrats,  but  in  relation  to  politics  he  was 
entirely  independent.  He  had  no  love  for 
politics  as  i)eriains  to  the  manipidation  of 
offices,  but  in  the  principles  underlying  the 
greatest  parties  he  was  keenly  interested.  He 
held  a  position  of  jirominence  and  respect  in 
local  politics,  but  was  seldom  persuaded  to  be 
a  candidate  for  office.  He  served  one  year  in 
the  common  council,  and  was  a  candidate  for 
mavor  in  187'):  and  in  1882  and  in  1883  his 
name  was  on  the  state  ticket  for  secretary  of 
state.  Probalily  no  man  in  S])ringfield  was 
activelv  identified  with  so  many  institutions 
as  Charles  Marsh,  and  he  stood  as  the  rcjire- 
sentative  of  nearly  all  the  charitable  organiza- 
tions of  Hampden  county.     The  financial  re- 


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sponsibilities  which  he  carried  in  adihlion  to 
those  of  the  Pynchon  Bank  were  ahiiost  with- 
out number.  He  was  often  chided  by  his 
friends  for  undertaking  too  wilhngly  the 
burdens  which  were  so  continually  put  upon 
him :  but  the  generous  impulse  of  his  nature 
would  not  allow  him  to  turn  aside  an  0])p(3r- 
tunity  for  doing  good,  even  though  it  over- 
taxed his  time  and  strength. 

His  first  marked  benevolent  work  was  in 
establishing  the  Soldiers'  Rest  Fund,  at  the  close 
of  the  war  of  the  rebellion,  and  from  that  time 
on  he  never  ceased  to  work  for  the  suffering. 
He  was  for  many  years,  uj)  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  treasurer  of  the  Springfield  Hospital, 
and  was  untiring  in  his  devotion  to  the  work 
of  building  u])  that  institution  to  the  highest 
degree  of  usefulness.  He  was  treasurer  of 
the  School  for  Christian  Workers  from  its 
organization  in  1885.  and  to  this  work  he  gave 
most  generously  of  his  time.  He  was  also 
treasurer  of  Hampden  County  Benevolent 
Association,  as  well  as  of  the  Hampden  Con- 
ference of  Congregational  Churches.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  finance  committee  of  the 
.American  Missionary  .\ssociation  and  his  re- 
port for  that  committee,  delivered  at  North- 
ampton, the  year  before  he  died,  was  one  of 
the  inspiring  features  of  the  meeting.  He  had 
served  as  treasurer  of  the  Connecticut  \  alley 
Congregational  Club,  and  one  year  as  its  presi- 
dent. He  was  a  corporator  in  the  Clark  Insti- 
tution for  Deaf  Mute.s  at  .Xorthampton  ;  and 
was  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the 
board,  never  failing  to  be  in  attendance  at  the 
annual  meetings.  He  was  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Springfield  Cemetery  .Vssociation, 
and  auditor  for  the  Springfield  Home  for  the 
I-'riendless.  He  was  also  vice-president  of 
the  Springfield  Institution  for  Savings,  presi- 
dent of  the  Springfield  clearing-house,  trustee 
and  member  of  the  finance  committee  of  the 
Five  Cents  Savings  Bank,  treasurer  of  the 
old  Springfield  &  Xcw  London  Road,  commis- 
sioner of  the  city  sinking  fund,  and  auditor  of 
the  old  Springfield  Fire  Assurance  Com])any. 
Aside  from  these  business  and  philanthroijic 
associations  Mr.  Marsh  had  been  the  direct- 
ing hand  in  the  settlement  of  some  of  the 
largest  estates  in  the  city.  He  joined  the  church 
while  a  student  at  the  W'estfield  .Xcademy,  and 
during  his  course  at  Williamstown  he  was  an 
active  worker  in  the  religious  life  of  the  col- 
lege. Immediately  after  graduation  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  South  Congregational 
Church,  where  he  grew  to  be  a  pillar  of 
strength ;  and  it  was  in  his  church  associations 


that  the  richest  side  of  his  character  was  shown. 
He  had  held  almost  every  office  in  the  ciun'ch 
and  [jarish.  and  in  him  the  pastors  had  found 
a  true  and  helpful  friend.  He  was  always 
deeply  interested  in  the  work  of  the  Sunday 
sch<M)l.  partly  out  of  hi.<;  love  of  studying  the 
I'.ible ;  and  he  is  remembered  by  many  who 
had  not  the  privilege  of  an  intimate  acquaint- 
ance by  his  work  in  his  famous  Sunday  school 
class.  Here  the  personality  and  character  of 
the  man  found  ample  ])lay.  His  love  of  the 
truth  was  his  inspiration,  and  nothing  gave 
him  more  genuine  delight  than  in  studying  his 
Greek  Testament  to  find  for  himself  an  inter- 
pretation which  seemed  to  throw  new  light  on 
a  passage  in  (]uestion.  In  this  way  he  turned 
his  scholarly  research  to  practical  use,  and  his 
Sunday  school  expositions  to  a  class  of  a  hun- 
dred or  more,  were  full  of  originality.  He 
was  a  careful  student  of  modern  theology,  and 
he  met  the  progressive  thought  of  the  day  with 
a  frankness  that  won  deep  respect  even  among 
those  whose  narrower  views  were  at  variance 
with  his.  Charles  Marsh  was  married  in  Spring- 
field, October  22,  1857,  to  Helen  Penniman. 
who  was  born  December  31,  1836,  and  died  in 
Springfield,  Xovember  20,  1894.  Iler  parents 
were  Henry  Harding  and  Lucy  Ann  (Bond) 
Penniman,  of  S])ringfield,  Massachusetts.  Four 
children  were  horn  of  this  marriage:  I.  Lucy 
Penniman.  horn  July  8.  1858.  2.  William 
Charles,  mentioned  at  length  below.  3.  /vuna 
I'.ond.  Xovember  26.  1865.  4.  F.dward  Hard- 
ing. December  9,  1869. 

\III)  William  Charles,  elder  of  the  two 
sons  of  Charles  and  Helen  (Penniman  )  Marsh, 
was  born  in  Springfield,  I'ebruary  13,  1862. 
He  graduated  from  the  high  school  in  the 
class  of  1881.  and  before  a  clerk  in  the  Chico- 
pee  Bank  at  Springfield.  .After  two  years  in 
that  institution  he  was  bookkeeper  and  teller 
successively  for  ten  years  in  the  Pynchon  Na- 
tional Bank,  his  experience  there  affording 
him  valuable  training  for  the  position  of  county 
treasurer,  to  which  he  was  elected  in  the  fall 
of  1891.  .\s  a  matter  of  fact  his  candidacy  was 
suggested  by  his  successful  career  in  the  bank- 
ing. He  filled  the  oflfice  of  treasurer  three 
years,  successfully,  and  was  especially  service- 
able in  negotiating  economically  the  county 
liians  during  the  panicky  times  of  that  period 
— 1892-95.  While  the  nominee  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  Mr.  Marsh  had  hundreds  of  sup- 
porters in  th  Republican  ranks;  and  in  1895 
the  strongest  .speech  was  by  a  leading  politician 
of  that  political  faith,  urging  his  nomination 
by  that  ccinvention.     In  1892  Mr.  Marsh's  first 


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(.Ifction  was  aidud  by  ilic  general  dissatisfac- 
tion  with  previous  official  record.     His  own 
management  was  not  only  eminently  satisfac- 
tory, but  lie  instituted  certain  long  needed  re- 
forms.    -As  a  candidate  for  re-election  he  had 
the   enthusiastic    supptjrt    of    his    party,    the 
cordial    approval   of    the   press,   the   principal 
bankers  in  the  county,  and  the  leading  mem- 
bers of  the  bar.     The  time  was  unfavorable, 
however  :  and,  owing  to  the  strong  Republican 
.sentiment  prevailing.  -Mr.  Marsh  w^as  defeated 
by  a  small  majority  at  the  polls.  During  Cleve- 
land's first  administration  he  was  disbursmg 
agent    for   the    L'nited   States  government   for 
tbe    new    postoffice    building     in     Springfield. 
.After    his    service    as    county    treasurer    Mr. 
Marsh    held    an    important    position    in    the 
I  uited  States  customs  department  from  1895 
to  1899.  being  deputy  surveyor.     In   1901   he 
was  in  New  York  City,  cashier  for  X'ernam  & 
Company,   brokers,   and   in    1902   he   was  ap- 
pointed   city   auditor   of    Springfield,    Massa- 
cbusetts.    aiid    has    since    held    that    position. 
I'ollowing  the  death  of  his  father  he  was  made 
clerk  and  treasurer  of  the  Springfield  Ceme- 
terv  .Association,  and  trustee  of  the  Soldiers' 
Rest  .Association.     He  has  also  been  treasurer 
of  the   South   Church,  the   Springfield  Canoe 
Club,  and  the  Springfield   Bicycle  Club.   The 
only  social  club  of  which  he  is  now  a  member 
is  the  Xayasset.     May  4.  1898,  he  was  elected 
auditor  of  the  Springfield  Institution  for  Sav- 
ings.     This   office    was   abolished   by    a    law 
enacted  in  1908:  the  duties  of  the  above  office 
are  now  transacted  by  the  trustees. 

William  C.  .Marsh  married,  June  24,  1902, 
Clara  Louise  (Hall)  Hicks,  born  in  Brooklyn. 
New  ^■ork.  December  14.  1871,  widow  of 
Francis  .Allen  Hicks,  and  daughter  of  Dr. 
Charles  William  and  lunma  Potter  (Redfield) 
Hall,  of  Xew  London.  Connecticut.  They 
have  one  child.  Charles  Hall,  born  February 
9-  '907-  

The  .\llen  or  .Allyn  families  were 
ALLICX      very  lumierous  in  Xew  England, 

even  in  the  first  years  of  the 
settlenunt  of  the  colonies.  They  were  of 
h'nglish  )>loo(l  for  the  most  part,  and  the  name 
has  always  been  numerous  in  England  from 
the  beginning  <'f  the  use  of  surnames. 

There  came  to  ancient  W'indsitr,  Connecti- 
cut, no  less  than  three  .Mien  families,  one  of 
Scotch  ancestry  and  two  of  iMiglish.  b(nh 
spellings  being  in  use.  Thomas,  Samuel  and 
Matthew  .Allyn.  all  immigrants,  were  brothers. 
Tiieir  parents  appear  to  have  come  al.so,  but 


little  is  known  of  them.  "Ould  Mr.  .Allyn" 
died  at  Windsor,  September  12,  1675;  "Old 
Mrs  Allyn"  died  there  .August  5,  1649.  One 
or  both  of  these  records  doubtless  pertain  to 
the  parents  of  the  Allyns.  Samuel  Allen,  as 
most  of  his  descendants  spell  the  name,  re- 
moved to  Windsor  before  1644;  held  offices 
there ;  was  buried  .April  28,  1646,  aged  si.xty ; 
widow  removed  to  Xorthampton  and  married 
(second)  William  Hurlburt ;  she  died  .\ovem- 
ber  13,  1(187.  Deacon  Thomas  .Allyn,  bap- 
tized. It  is  believed,  at  Chelmsford,  England, 
Xovember  22,  1604,  came  to  Cambridge,  Mass- 
achusetts, in  1632;  removed  to  Hartford  in 
1635:  married  (first)  Lsabella ;  (sec- 
ond) .Martha  Gibson,  widow  of  Roger;  he  re- 
moved to  -Middletown  where  he  was  deacon 
in  1670;  deputy  to  the  general  court;  select- 
man :  adopted  his  nephew  Obadiah,  son  of 
Samuel:  died  C)ctol>er  16,  1688.  .Matthew, 
the  third  brother,  mentioned  below. 

(I)  Hon.  Matthew  Allyn.  brother  of  Sam- 
uel and  Thomas,  son  of  Samuel  Allyn,  of 
I'.ramton,  county  Devon,  England,  was  bap- 
tized at  Chelmsford,  county  Esse.x,  .April  16, 
1604.  He  came  to  Xew  England  with  the 
original  I'raintree  company  in  1632  to  Charles- 
town.  .Massachusetts,  where  in  1633  he  re- 
ceived a  forty-five  acre  allotment  of  land,  the 
largest  of  any  of  the  settlers.  From  time  to 
time  he  had  grants  of  other  lands  at  Charles- 
town  and  in  1635  he  owned  five  houses  on 
Trinity  plot  of  Cambridge.  He  lived  in  Cam- 
bridge near  the  meeting  house  and  was  the 
largest  landholder  of  that  town.  He  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman  March  4,  1635;  was  deputy 
to  the  general  court  in  i('36.  In  1637  he  went 
to  Hartford,  Connecticut,  of  which  he  was 
one  of  the  original  jiroprietors,  having  a  house- 
lot  on  the  road  to  the  Neck,  now  Windsor 
street.  He  had  a  hundred  and  ten  acres  in 
that  and  adjoining  lots.  He  owned  the  first 
mill  at  Hartford  at  the  foot  of  what  is  now 
West  Pearl  street.  In  May.  163S,  he  was 
lodging  with  Roger  Williams,  a  jiroprietor  of 
Windsor,  and  in  i()40  was  a  large  land-owner 
in  Killingworth  and  Simsbury,  Coimccticut. 
He  was  a  member  of  Rev.  Mr.  Hooker's 
church,  but  for  some  doctrinal  difference  w-as 
excommunicated  June  3,  1644.  This  differ- 
ence doubtless  was  the  cause  of  his  removal 
to  Windsor  where  as  early  as  1638  he  had 
bought  all  the  lands,  houses,  servants,  goods 
and  chattels  of  the  Xew  Plymouth  Company, 
thus  extinguishing  the  last  vestige  of  the 
Plymouth  right  and  title  on  the  Coimecticut 
river.     His  W'indsor  homestead  stood  close  to 


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the  old  trading  house.  He  as  deputy  to  the 
general  court  from  1648  to  1658,  except  1653; 
magistrate  1657  to  1667.  and  was  much  em- 
ployed in  the  public  service ;  committee  for  the 
I'nited  Colonies  of  Xew  England.  1^)60-64. 
and  was  associated  with  his  son  on  a  commis- 
sion to  deal  with  the  Indians :  moderator ;  on 
the  committee  to  i)etition  Charles  I.  for  the 
new  charter:  chairman  of  the  committee  to 
treat  with  Xew  Haven  for  a  union  of  the 
colonies,  1662-63 :  chairman  of  the  committee 
to  treat  with  the  Dutch  envoys  from  New 
Amsterdam :  on  a  committee  with  Air.  Welles 
to  settle  the  government  of  the  English  towns 
on  the  west  end  of  Long  Island  in  i(/)3-64: 
on  the  committee  to  settle  the  boundary  w  itli 
Massachusetts.  Rhode  Island  and  the  South. 
He  and  his  son  John  were  assistants  under 
the  union  of  Connecticut  and  Xew  Haven 
colonies  in  1665-67,  and  was  a  patentee  and 
custodian  with  W'yllis  and  Talcott  of  the  Con- 
necticut charter.  He  was  active  and  public- 
spirited,  energetic,  useful,  just,  persistent,  and 
was  rightly  called  one  of  the  pro])s  of  the 
colony.  He  died  February  i,  1670-71.  His 
will  was  dated  January  30.  1670-1.  His  wife 
Margaret  was  sole  executri.x.  Children:  i. 
Hon.  John,  magistrate,  lieutenant  colonel,  one 
of  the  foremost  men  in  both  civil  and  military 
life  in  his  day;  married,  Xovember  19,  1651, 
Ann  Smith;  (second)  1675.  Hannah  Welles, 
widow  of  Samuel  Welles.  2.  Captain  Thomas, 
mentioned  below.  3.  Mary,  married.  Jime  11, 
1646.  Cai)tain  Benjamin  Xewberry ;  she  died 
December  14,  1703. 

(H)  Captain  Thomas,  son  of  Hon.  Matthew 
Allyn,  was  born  in  England,  died  February  14, 
1695-96.  He  resided  in  Windsor;  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman  in  1658;  was  listed  as  a 
trooper.  In  165 1  he  was  the  accidental  cause 
of  the  death  of  Henry  Stiles.  He  married, 
October  21,  1658,  .\bigai!  W'arham.  daughter 
of  Rev.  John  Warham.  Children,  born  at 
W'indsor:  i.  John,  born  August  17,  1659,  died 
October  4,  1659.  2.  Hon.  Matthew,  born  June 
5,  1660.  3.  Tliomas,  born  March  11,  1662-63. 
mentioned  below.  4.  John,  born  June  23,  1665. 
5.  Samuel,  born  Xovember  3,  1667.     6.  Jane, 

born  July  22.   1670.  married  Wolcott. 

7.    Abigail,    born    C  Jctober    17.    1672.    married 

I'.issell.     8.  Sarah,  born  July  13.  1674. 

9.  Hester,  born  October  29.  1679. 

(IH)  Lieutenant  Thomas  (2),  .son  of  Cap- 
tain Thomas  d)  Allyn,  was  born  in  Windsor, 
March  11.  1662-63.  died  there  April  6,  1709. 
He  married  (first)  January  6.  1686.  Martha 
Wolcott,   daughter   of   Simon    Wolcott.      She 


\\a><  I)orn  in  16^)4  and  died  September  8,  11)87. 
He  niarried  (second)  Joanna  .  Chil- 
dren of  first  wife,  born  at  Windsor:  i.  Ben- 
jamin, born  October  14,  1686,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Martha,  born  September  i,  1687, 
died  September  3.  1687.  Child  of  second  wife: 
3.  Joanna,  born  Xovember  22,  1703. 

(I\')  l')enjamin.  son  of  Lieutenant  Thomas 
(2)  .Mlyn,  was  born  in  Windsor,  October  14. 
1686.  died  there  December  14.  1713.  He  mar- 
ried there.  December  18.  1707.  Ann  Wat-~nn. 
Children,  born  at  W'indsor:  I.  .Vnn,  born 
December  13,  1708.  died  September  10,  1717. 
2.  Benjamin,  born  April  8,  171 1,  mentioned 
below.      3.  John,  born  July  4,    171 3. 

( \' I  Captain  I*>enjamin  (2),  son  of  I'enja- 
min  (  I  )  Allyn.  was  born  in  Windsor,  April  8, 
1711.  He  married  there.  .August  9,  1733,  Abi- 
gail Loomis,  who  died  May  29,  1795,  aged 
seventy-four  years.  He  died  March  18,  1776. 
Children,  born  at  Windsor:  i.  Abigail,  born 
October   30.    1734,   died   September    12,    1737. 

2.  Benjamin,  born  Se])tember  13,  1736,  died 
August  9,  1789;  married  Sarah  ;  (sec- 
ond) .Abigail  ,  who  died  May  29,  1795, 

3.  Abigail,  born  October  26,  1738.  4.  John, 
lnorn  May  26.  1740.  married.  May  2,  1761, 
Elizabeth  Mather.  5.  Samuel,  born  April  17, 
1742,  married,  Jamiary  5,  1764,  Lucy  Gillett. 
6.  Eunice,  born  July  30,  1743.  7.  Ann,  born 
lulv  21,  1745.  8.  Job.  born  .September  15, 
1747  ;  died  young.  9.  Dorothy,  born  February 
12.   1749-50.      10.  Job.  mentioned  beiow. 

(VI)  (i'olonel  job.  son  of  P.enjamin  (2) 
Allyn,  was  born  in  Windsor.  November  24, 
^75.^-  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolution, 
sergeant  of  the  Third  Wiiulsor  Company, 
Captain  Roger  Enos,  Second  Regiment,  under 
General  Josejjh  Spencer  in  1775.  Afterward 
he  was  colonel  of  his  regiment.  He  married. 
May  16,  1777.  Abigail  blather,  daughter  of 
Xathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Allyn)  Mather. 
Children,  born  at  Windsor:  1.  I'.enjamin. 
born  January  29,  1778.  2.  Anna,  burn  ( )etober 
2,  1779,  died  April  7,  1849;  married  Edward 
Moore.  3.  Bille  (William),  born  January  20, 
1 78 1,  died  January  16,  1S26.  4.  Xorman,  born 
October  12,  1782,  died  .\ugu-^t  21,  1796.  5. 
Abigail,  born  .September  i,  1784,  married,  June 

I,  1809,    Henry    Halsey.     6.    Elizabeth,   born 

August  18,  1786,  married  Wilson.     7. 

.\llyn.  baptized  March  i,  1788.  S.  Rieliard. 
born  January  5,  1789,  died  October  i,  181 1.  9. 
Roxana,  born  Xovember  3,  1790,  died  August 
18,  1796.  10.  Catherine,  born  July  8.  1793. 
married  Michael  Marsh.     (.See  Marsh  family). 

II.  Inb,  b(irn  [une  in.  i79('i,  married  Elizabeth 


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Cornish.  12.  Timotliy  Mather,  born  Septem- 
ber 7,  1800,  married  Susan  Pratt;  a  wealthy 
merchant  of  Hartford;  erected  the  Allyn 
House  and  Allyn  Hall;  was  mayor  of  the 
city. 

(The  Miither  Line — See  John  .Mather  1). 

(VH)  Nathaniel  Mather,  son  of  Dr.  Sam- 
uel Mather,  was  born  August  8,  1716,  died 
August  31,  1770.  He  lived  in  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut, and  married  Elizabeth  Allyn.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Nathaniel,  born  March  10,  1 741,  mar- 
ried, November  15,  1762,  Hannah  Filley.  2. 
Dr.  Charles,  born  September  26,  1742,  mar- 
ried, February  26,  1764,  Rhoda  Moseley ;  died 
June  3,  1822.  3.  Elijah,  born  December  I, 
1743.  died  December  11.  1796;  married  Mary 
Strong.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  October  i,  1745, 
died  November  4,  1745.  5.  Rev.  Allyn,  born 
March  21,  1747,  died  November  4,  1784;  mar- 
ried Thankful  Barnard.  6.  Colonel  Oliver, 
born  March  21,  1749.  married,  March  21, 
1778,  Jemima  Ellsworth.  7.  John,  born  Octo- 
ber 9,  1750,  married  .Vbigail  Russell :  died 
1782.  8.  Increase,  born  July  4.  1752,  married 
Martha  Wolcott.  9.  Elizabeth,  born  May  18, 
1754.  married  Hezekiah  Hayden.  10.  Dr. 
Timothy,  born  November  5,  1753,  died  .April 
7,  1788;  married  Roxana  Phelps.  11.  Abigail, 
born  September  20,  1757,  married  Colonel  Job 
Allyn,  May  16,  1777,  (see  Allyn  family)  ;  died 
June  17,  1843.  12.  Elihu,  born  17^)0,  died 
1787.  13.  Hannah,  born  January,  1762,  mar- 
ried, March  9,  1783,  James  Coodwin ;  died 
November  22,  1805.  14.  Rnxana.  born  1764. 
died  December,  1781. 


(Fiji-  ancestry  .«ee  .John    .Mai-sh    M. 

l\ll  I  1  ),inirl  lay,  son  (if  .Michael 
.\i.\l\SII  .Marsh,  was  born  in  Hartford, 
Connecticut.  July  27,  1837.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  scho(ils  and  at 
W'ilbraham  .Academy,  and  in  1850  went  ti> 
Springfield  as  a  druggist's  clerk  and  then 
bookkeeper  in  a  dry  goods  store.  ]n  1856 
he  went  to  St.  Louis  and  was  for  three 
years  clerk  and  assistant  paymaster  for  the 
builders  of  the  Ohio  i<:  Miss(->uri  railroad,  and 
also  worked  on  the  Northern  Missouri  rail- 
road, running  the  first  i)assenger  train  as  con- 
ductor from  St.  Charles  to  St.  Louis.  .After 
the  com])letioii  of  these  two  roads  he  returned 
to  Springfield  in  1837,  taking  a  ])ositi(>n  in  the 
Five  Cent  Savings  I'ank.  He  ])ractically  filled 
the  office  as  treasurer,  though  he  was  not  form- 
ally elected  until  1859.  Wiien  the  civil  war 
broke  out,  he  united  with  others  in  forming  a 
drill   club   which   sent    nianv   officiTS   into   the 


field.  In  1862  this  club  voted  to  enlist  for  nine 
months  as  Company  .A  in  the  Forty-sixth 
Regiment  of  Massachusetts  \'olunteers.  Mr. 
Marsh  was  appointed  orderly  sergeant  and 
later  lieutenant  on  staff  duty.  The  regiment 
was  sent  to  Newburn,  North  Carolina,  where 
he  was  aide-de-camp  on  the  staff  of  Ceneral 
Horace  C.  Lee  and  a  bearer  of  dispatches  to 
and  from  Washington.  For  a  time  he  was 
also  with  Generals  John  .A.  Dix  and  John  G. 
Foster.  On  the  breaking  up  of  the  brigade  he 
was  ordered  to  North  Carolina  with  orders 
to  take  all  the  men  from  the  different  hospitals, 
in  all  fifteen  hundred,  to  their  northern  homes. 
.After  eleven  months'  service  he  returned  to 
his  place  in  the  bank,  where  he  has  since 
remained.  He  was  formerly  a  director  in  the 
Second  National  Bank,  but  resigned  in  1891. 
He  served  on  the  city  council  for  one  term 
and  since  1885  has  been  president  of  the  park 
commission.  The  development  of  Forest  Park 
was  due  largely  to  his  influence.  He  was 
treasurer  of  the  Hampden  Park  Association 
from  1870  to  1875.  He  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  Springfield  Club,  of  which  he  was 
a  member  twenty-five  years.  He  belongs  to 
the  Nayasset  Club.  Massachusetts  Command- 
ery.  Military  Order  Loyal  Legion,  and  the 
Wilcox  Post  of  the  Grand  Army.  He  mar- 
ried. May  27,  1864,  Harriet  Mary  Gay,  born 
( 'ctobcr  13,  1840.  (laughter  of  N.  Denslow  and 
Mary  (  Pomeroy)  Gay.  Her  mother  is  a  lineal 
descendant  of  Sir  Rali)h  Pomeroy,  owner  of 
the  castle  at  Berry  Pomeroy,  the  best  ]irc- 
served  example  of  ancient  Norman  architec- 
ture in  I-Jigland.  Children;  i.  Henry  Daniel, 
born  March  15,  1863,  mentioned  below.  2. 
( )livcr  .Allyn,  born  October  13,  1866,  married. 
November  16,  18(^3,  .Anna  Rumrill  Dwight. 
Children:  i.  Elsie  Dwight.  born  October  3. 
iS()4;  ii.  .Allvn  Jay.  June  30.  1896;  iii.  Caro- 
line. 

(  \I  I  h  1  lenry  Daniel,  the  elder  of  the  two 
son.-^  of  Daniel  Jay  and  Harriet  M.  (Gay) 
Marsh,  was  born  in  Springfield,  March  13, 
1863.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Springfield.  .At  nineteen  years  of  age  he 
took  a  clerkship  in  the  Third  National  Rank, 
and  was  employed  there  about  a  year.  He 
then  became  a  clerk  in  the  I'ive  Cents  Savings 
Bank,  and  after  passing  through  various  posi- 
tions was  made  assistant  treasurer  and  has 
held  that  place  ever  since.  He  has  also  been 
for  some  years  a  member  of  the  corporation 
and  a  tru.stee  of  the  bank.  In  politics  he  is  a 
Democrat,  and  as  such  was  elected  to  the  com- 
mon council  in  1806.  and  to  the  board  of  alder- 


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men  in  1900.  While  scrviiii;  in  the  latter 
capacity  he  was  chairman  of  the  police  com- 
mittee and  a  member  of  the  committee  on  fire 
department  and  other  committees.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Savinsrs  Bank  Treasurer's  Club 
of  Massachusetts ;  George  Washington  Cha]i- 
ter.  Sons  of  the  .•\nierican  Revolution :  the 
County,  the  Xayasset.  the  Canoe  clubs :  and 
the  American  Canoe  Association.  Mr.  Marsh 
married  (  first  1  March  16.  189C).  .Xnna  Frances 
Lillis.  born  August  22,  1874.  She  died  April 
28.  i8c)8.  leaving  two  children:  John  .Ather- 
ton.  born  January  7.  1897 ;  and  Harriet,  born 
1898.  died  1898.  He  married  (second)  May 
20.  1902.  Edith  Sherwood  Hall,  born  in  .-Xni- 
herst.  daughter  of  Dr.  Charles  W.  Hall.  They 
have  two  children  :  Elizabeth,  born  December 
16.  1904;  and  Daniel  Jay.  (second),  born  Jan- 
uary 20.  1007. 

The    surname    Aldrich    i^    of 
ALDRICH    ancient  English  origin,  and  the 

spelling  varies  considerably. 
In  the  early  records  it  was  spelled  .\ldridge 
and  01dri<lge  and  s'lmc  branches  of  the  family 
still  prefer  the  si)elling  .Mdridge.  The  famous 
Rhode  Island  family  and  their  descendants 
have  for  many  generations  used  the  spelling 
Aldrich. 

(I)  George  .-Mdrich  was  born  in  Derby- 
shire, England,  about  1605.  He  married,  in 
England.  November  3.  1629.  Katharine  Scald, 
and  came  to  New  England  in  163 1  with  his 
wife.  She  was  born  about  1610.  according  to 
her  deposition  made  June  18.  1670,  that  she 
was  sixty  years  old.  He  was  a  tailor  by  trade. 
He  settled  in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  and 
belonged  to  the  church  there  about  1636.  He 
was  admitted  a  freeman  December  7,  1636.  In 
1663  he  was  one  of  the  first  seven  persons  to 
arrive  in  the  township  of  Mendon,  Massachu- 
setts. He  sold  his  land  in  I'raintree  lo  his 
friend.  Richard  Thayer,  of  l>raintrce.  June  9. 
1663.  He  died  at  Mendon,  after  the  re-settle- 
ment following  King  Philip's  war.  March  i. 
1682.  His  wife  died  January  11,  iC)9i.  His 
will,  dated  at  Mendon,  November  2,  1682, 
proved  .\pril  26.  1683,  bec|ueathed  to  wife:  to 
children  Joseph.  John,  Jacob.  Mary,  Sarah 
bartlett,  Alercy  Randall  and  .Martha  Dunbar, 
Children:  i.  .\bel.  born  1633.  2.  Joseph. 
June  4.  1635  ;  married  Patience  Osborne.  3. 
Mary,  June  16.  1637.  died  1683.  4.  Miriam. 
June  29,  1639;  died  May  10,  1652.  5.  Experi- 
ence, September  4,  1641  ;  died  February  2, 
1642.  at  Pjraintree.  6.  John,  April  2.  1644; 
married    (first)    Sarah    Thompson:    (second) 


Sarah  Leach.  7.  Sarah,  January  26.  1646; 
died  February   17.   1685.     8.   Peter.  April    14, 

T648.  9.  Mercy.  June  17,  1630:  married 

Randall.  10.  Miriam,  died  March  16,  1652. 
II.  Jacob,  born  February  28,  1653:  mentioned 
below.     12.   Martha,  July   10,   1656. 

(ID  Jacob,  son  of  George  .-Mdrich.  was 
born  in  P.raintree.  I-'ebruary  28.  1653.  He  set- 
tled in  Mendon.  and  was  a  farmer  there  on 
the  homestead  all  his  life.  He  died  October 
22.  1695.  He  married.  November  3,  1^175. 
Huldah  Thayer.     Children,  born  at  Mendon: 

I.  Jacob,  May  28,  1676.  2.  Abel,  January  27, 
1677.  3.  Seth.  July  6,  1679.  4.  Huldah,  born 
1680.  5.  Rachel.  1682;  died  young.  6.  Sarah. 
1683.  7.  David,  May  23.  1685 :  mentioned 
l)el()W.  8.  Peter,  October  17,  1686.  9.  John, 
November  27,  168S.     10.  Moses,  .\pril  i.  1691. 

II.  Mercy.  P^ebruary  17.  1692;  died  same  year. 
12.  Rachel,  born  December  27,  1694. 

(HI)  David,  son  of  Jacob  Aldrich.  was 
born  in  Mendon,  May  2T),  1685.  He  settled  in 
Mendon,  and  died  there  in  1758.  His  will  is 
dated  March  18,  1758.  He  married  Hannah, 
daughter  of  P>anfield  Capron.  She  died  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1732.  He  may  have  been  the  David 
.Aldrich  who  married,  July  6.  1733.  at  Smith- 
field  (where  most  of  liis  children  were  mar- 
ried) Mehitable  .Mann.  He  bequeathed  to 
David.  Edward,  Peter.  Jonathan.  Margaret, 
-Abner  and  Levi,  his  children,  and  to  his  grand- 
son Benjamin  .\Idrich.  son  of  his  eldest  daugh- 
ter Elizalteth,  who  married  .Abel  .Aldrich. 
("liildren  :  I.  David  Jr.,  born  July  6,  171  i.  2. 
Edward.  Sejitember  7,  1713:  ])robably  married 
at  (;iocester,  Rh(Kle  Island,  July  17,  1732, 
Dinah  .Aldrich.  3.  Elizalxtli.  December  20, 
1715:  married  Abel  Aldricli.  burn  January  16, 
1705.  son  of  .Seth.  4.  Jonathan.  .April  21. 
1717:  died  young.  5.  Peter,  March  ]<>,  1719. 
6.  Jonathan.  .August  31.  1721  ;  mentioned 
below.  7.  Margaret.  .April  25,  1723;  married 
at  Smilhfield,  July  2.  1741.  Edward  Thomp- 
son; (second)  George  Smith.  8.  .Abner,  Ncj- 
veniber  17.  1727;  married,  at  Smilhfield,  De- 
cember 10.  1747,  Elizabeth  Cook.  9.  Levi. 
December  19.  1729:  married,  at  .'^mithfield. 
February  27,  1745-46,  .Abigail  Hunt.  lo.  Icha- 
bod.  February  5,  1732;  died  before  his  father. 

(I\')  Jonathan,  son  of  David  .Aldrich,  was 
born  at  'Mendon,  .August  31.  1721.  Like  his 
bnithers  he  went  to  Smithfield,  and  married 
there.  March  17,  1742,  Patience  (laskill.  alsoof 
Mendon.  He  settled  immediately  afterward 
in  Cumberland,  Rhode  Island.  The  Capron 
genealogy  is  doubtless  in  error  in  stating  that 
he  married,  November  2,  1747,  Abigail  Salis- 


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hury.  Jonathan  and  I'atiencc  Aklrich,  of  Men- 
don,  deeded  land  in  I'xbridijo  that  before  her 
marriage  Eiiphalct  AVharfield  liad  deeded  to 
her,  fourteen  acres  of  upland  and  twenty  of 
woodland,  to  Eliphalet  Wharfield.  the  former 
owner.  Jonathan  .Aldrich,  son  of  Seth,  was 
the  only  other  man  of  the  name  found  at  this 
|)eriod  in  the  real  estate  records,  in  Mcndon  or 
Uxhridge.  Children  of  Jonathan  and  Patience, 
born  at  Cumberland:  i.  Asa.  May  10,  1744; 
mentioned  below.  2.  .Artemas.  May  21.  1746; 
married,  September  10,  1767,  Hannah  Bishop. 
3.  Anne,  P'ebruary  7,  1749.  4.  Alice,  Novem- 
ber 6,  1752.  5.  Amey,  December  8,  1754; 
married.  May  29,  1777,  Andrew  Greene.  6. 
Abigail,  May  21.  1757.  7.  Squire,  June  14, 
1760;  married.  March  3.  1787-8,  Mary  Whip- 
ple. 8.  Patience,  .\pril  16,  1763:  died  August 
31,  1763.  9.  Henrietta.  August  20,  1764;  mar- 
ried, July  24,  1788,  Russell  Ballon.  10. 
Patience,  July  16,   i7()7:  married  Asa  Harris. 

''V)  Asa  son  of  Jonathan  Aldrich,  was  born 
at  Cumberland,  Rhode  Island,  May  10,  1744, 
and  died  there.  He  was  brought  up  on  the 
farm,  and  the  first  money  he  ever  earned,  ten 
cents  for  a  partridge  he  had  snared  on  his 
father's  farm,  was  the  nucleus  of  his  first 
farm  money.  .Afterwards  he  became  owner 
of  four  farms  in  and  around  Cumberland  and 
Wrentham.  each  valued  at  three  thousand  dol- 
lars. To  each  of  his  sons  except  David  he 
gave  on  their  marriage  one  of  these  farms.  To 
David  he  gave  the  equivalent  in  the  form  of  a 
college  education  at  Brown  L'niversitv,  with 
some  land  besides.  Me  married,  June  28,  1770, 
Lucy,  daughter  of  .\bner  Haskell,  of  Cumber- 
land. 1  le  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church. 
Children:  i.  Nathaniel.  2.  Nathan.  3.  Abi- 
gail, married  Barnes,  and  died  aged 

ninety-nine  years  five  months.  4.  David,  born 
1780;  mentioned  below.  3.  .Amos.  6.  Samuel, 
died  at  Attlcborough.  7.  .Amy,  born  1773; 
(lied  1853  ;  married  Samuel  liancfK-k. 

(VI)  David,  son  of  Asa  .Aldrich,  was  born 
al  Wrentham,  or  Cmnberland,  in  1780,  and 
(lied  at  Cumberland,  in  1879,  aged  ninety-eight 
years  five  months  and  twenty-nine  days.  .After 
a  comnKin  school  education  he  i)repared  for 
College  at  Williams  .'-Seminary  and  entered 
I'.rown  University  in  1803  with  advanced 
standing,  graduating  in  1806,  He  studied 
theology  under  Dr.  Guno.  of  Providence,  and 
commenced  lo  preach  in  a  Baptist  church  in 
Connecticut,  where  he  remained  three  years, 
lie  then  settled,  at  the  time  of  his  marriage, 
in  his  old  home  at  Cumberland.  Rhode  Island. 
where  he  took  up  the  study  of  law.     I  le  served 


as  justice  of  the  peace,  and  was  known  as 
■■S(|uire"  .Aldrich.  He  and  his  wife  were  at 
the  time  of  their  death  the  oldest  couple  in 
Rhode  Island.  His  farm  was  on  Cumberland 
Hill,  and  was  considered  one  of  the  best  in 
the  town.  He  was  a  successful  farmer,  and 
his  wife  was  a  most  capable  woman.  .She  was 
a  tailoress  and  a  maker  of  straw  bonnets.  In 
religion  he  was  a  Baptist  and  in  politics  a 
Whig.  He  married  Jemima  Rhodes,  of  Wrent- 
ham. Children:  i.  Eliza,  married  Lewis 
Freeman.  2.  Amy  Ann,  born  181 7  ;  died  1843  ; 
married  George  Sheldon.  3.  David  Benedict, 
born  1819:  mentioned  below.  4.  Henry  De 
W'cAi.  1820:  died  1834.  3.  Emulus  Austin. 
October  13,  1822;  married,  ATay  i,  1850.  Pris- 
cilla  M.  Hanney  ;  children  :  i.  Clarence  Alberta, 
born  .April  7,  1831.  married  December  7,1. 
1878.  Lucy  F.  Hill,  and  had  Bertha  Ideila. 
born  March  12.  1881,  and  Clarence  .Alberta, 
born  December  11.  1883:  ii.  Ideila  Estella. 
born  May  6,  1834,  married  December  22,  1872, 
Charles  H.  Spooner,  and  had  Emma  E. 
Spooner.  born  July  18,  1874.  and  Carrie  I. 
Sp(joner.  born  June  23,  1877,  died  February 
21,  i8(j9:  iii.  David  Emulus.  born  March  27. 
iSf)i.  married  January  6.  1887.  Laura  J.  Per- 
kins, and  had  Charles  Anderson,  born  March 
4.  1888,  Louis  Palmer,  born  October  20,  1890. 
David  Carleton,  born  February  21,  1893,  and 
Richard  Warren,  born  September  22.  1898 ; 
iv.  Bertha  Ideila.  horn  June  7,  187.3,  married 
February.  1893,  Horace  .A.  Jenkins,  and  had 
Clarence  .A.  Jenkins,  born  November  30.  i8()3, 
I'^.  Louise  Jenkins,  born  I'ebruary  20,  1898, 
and  Ideila  Jenkins,  born  March  10.  1901.  6. 
.Amos,  born  1824:  died  1903:  married  Char- 
lotte Dunbar,  and  had  Julius,  died  aged  four- 
teen years.  7.  luneline.  born  1826;  clied  18^3. 
(VII)  David  Benedict,  son  of  David  Aid- 
rich,  was  born  at  Cumberland  in  i8i(),  and 
died  there.  He  was  educated  in  the  district 
school  at  Cumberland  Mill,  attending  during 
the  winter  moiuhs  and  working  on  the  farm  in 
the  sumnur.  Me  learned  the  trade  of  shi]) 
car|)eiUer.  .\ftcr  his  _marriage  he  settled  in 
Sluldonville.  a  part  of  Wrentham,  for  a  year. 
following  his  trade  in  .'^heldon's  boat  shop.  He 
then  returned  to  Cumberland  and  built  a  house 
on  a  ])art  of  his  father's  farm,  with  a  boat  shop 
in  the  lower  part  of  the  large  barn.  He  sold 
his  l)oats  in  Providence.  In  1841)  he  joined 
the  seekers  after  gold  and  made  the  trip 
around  the  Horn  to  California,  lie  remained 
in  the  mines  two  years,  and  while  there  was 
injured  by  a  jiremature  blast,  which  rendered 
him   partially    blind.      He    returned    east    and 


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resumed  farming,  and  also  sold  \';mki.(.' 
notions  among  the  farmers  in  the  vicinity.  It 
is  said  that  though  lie  was  blind,  no  one  ever 
took  an  unfair  advantage  of  him  in  a  trade. 
While  returning  from  one  of  these  trips,  when 
he  was  within  sight  of  his  home,  the  boy  who 
was  driving  struck  the  horse  with  the  whip, 
causing  him  to  turn  suddenly,  throwing  Mr. 
Aldrich  to  the  ground  and  inflicting  fatal  inju- 
ries. He  died  twelve  days  later.  He  was  a 
Baptist  in  religion,  of  higii  ideals  and  exem- 
plary character.  In  early  life  he  was  a  Whig, 
later  a  Republican.  He  married,  at  Wrent- 
ham,  Sarah  Rachel  Huntley,  born  at  Clare- 
mont,  Xew  Hampshire.  Children:  i.  Henry 
Leland.  born  at  Wreiuliam,  died  at  Cumber- 
land: married,  at  .\ttleborough,  Jennie  Bald- 
win. 2.  Frederick  Eugene,  born  June  4,  1849: 
mentioned  below.  3.  Frank  Albro,  born  at 
Cumberland  ;  married  Or])ha  Smith,  of  White- 
field,  Xew  Hampshire.  4.  Sarah  Samantha, 
born  December  20,  1854;  married,  August  17, 
1883.  \\'illiam  Converse  Chase ;  children ;  i. 
Sarah  Mary,  born  February  6.  18S8;  Flora 
.•\lwildia,  June  5.  1890.  5.  Mary  Flora,  born 
March  12,  1856;  married  Moses  Clark;  child: 
(ieorge  lienedict  Clark.  6.  Mary,  died  young. 
(A'HI)  Frederick  Eugene,  son  of  David 
Benruett  Aldrich,  was  born  at  Cumberland, 
June  4,  1849,  and  died  at  Franklin,  Massachu- 
setts, January  19,  1900.  He  acquired  a  com- 
mon school  education,  and  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen, shortly  after  the  death  of  his  father, 
came  to  Chestnut  Hill.  lUackstone,  Massachu- 
setts, to  work  on  the  farm  of  Caleb  Thayer. 
.Afterward  he  was  em[>loyed  by  Dr.  Jesse 
Miller,  manufacturer  of  proprietary  medicines, 
as  salesman,  and  traveled  extensively.  He 
learned  the  business  of  manufacturing  shoddy 
and  flocks  in  the  mill  of  Frederick  Thayer  at 
Millville.  was  for  several  years  traveling  sales- 
man, and  afterward  a  partner  of  Mr.  I'hayer. 
The  product  of  the  mill  was  sold  to  the  woolen 
■  mills  in  Xew  England,  .\bout  1886  he  with- 
drew from  the  firm  and  established  himself  in 
business  as  a  wholesale  dealer  in  flocks,  waste 
and  shoddy.  In  July,  1888,  he  removed  his 
business  from  Millville  to  Franklin,  where  he 
purchased  the  I'remont  Richardson  property 
at  47  Summer  street,  remodeled  it  for  his 
purposes,  added  a  large  store-house  for  his 
goods,  and  maintained  one  of  the  most  pros- 
perous establishments  in  the  town.  He  pos- 
sessed a  thorough  knowledge  of  his  business 
and  the  confidence  of  all  with  whom  he  had 
dealings.  He  was  quick  to  perceive  and 
jironipt  in  taking  advantage  of  his  oppr)rtuni- 


lies  in  business,  and  amassed  a  comfortable 
fortune.  He  retired  from  active  business  in 
i8(;8,  on  account  of  failing  health,  but  con- 
tinued in  the  management  of  his  private  affairs 
to  the  last,  exhibiting  great  fortitude  and 
endurance  in  the  presence  of  pain  and  weak- 
ness. He  had  no  ambition  to  till  public  offices, 
and  declined  to  accept  nominations  for  any 
positions.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican. 
I  le  was  a  I'ajitist  in  his  yoimger  days,  but  later 
attended  the  Universalist  church,  in  which  his 
good  judgment  and  sterling  character  were 
highly  appreciated.  He  held  various  ofifices  in 
the  cilurcli.  He  belonged  to  no  clubs  or  secret 
societies,  loving  his  own  fireside  and  family 
best,  though  he  made  many  friends  in  all  walks 
of  life.  He  was  cheerful  in  speech,  democratic 
in  his  ways  and  never  turned  a  deaf  car  to 
those  in  need  of  help.  He  was  upright,  con- 
scientious and  frank.  He  despised  all  forms 
of  deceit  and  gave  an  admirable  example  of 
right  living.  He  married,  October  31,  1878, 
Emily  Frances  Mann,  born  at  Walpole,  De- 
cember 2^,  1845,  daughter  of  Charles  and 
.Anna  Maria  (Green)  Alann,  (see  Mann). 
Children:  i.  Mabel  Huntly,  born  March  i, 
1881  :  died  June  9.  1903.  2.  Emily  Maria,  horn 
.August  13,  1882;  resides  with  her  mother. 


William  Maim,  immigrant  ances- 
.M.\.\'.\  tor,  was  burn  in  England,  prob- 
ably in  county  Kent,  about  1607, 
and  was  the  youngest  of  eleven  children.  Fie 
may  have  been  the  son  of  Sir  Charles  Mann, 
of  llatton  Braddock,  county  Kent,  who  was 
knighted  in  1623  by  Charles  I.  In  that  case 
he  was  the  eldest  son  ;  but  what  is  supposed 
to  be  the  private  record  of  Rev.  Samuel  Alann 
says  that  his  father  (William)  was  the  young- 
est of  eleven,  lie  wa>  a  ])roprietor  of  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts,  in  1634.  He  married 
I  first)  1643,  Mary  Jarred,  wlu)  came  from 
l-'.ngland  ;  (second)  June  11,  1657,  Alice  Tiel. 
His  will,  dated  December  10,  1661,  proved 
.A])ril  I.  1662,  unsigned,  be(|ueathed  to  his 
wile  and  only  son  Sanniel.  Child:  i.  Samuel, 
mentioned  below. 

(H)  Rev.  Samuel  Mann,  son  of  William 
Maim,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  July  C),  1647. 
He  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1^/15, 
and  May  13,  1667,  began  to  teach  at  Dcdham 
and  taught  five  years  there.  lie  preached  to 
the  small  society  in  that  part  of  Dedham  now 
Wrentham  until  March  30,  1676,  when  the 
peoi>le  fled  from  the  town  on  account  of  Indian 
attacks.  He  was  again  in  Dedham  as  teacher 
in   I ''>7''i-77-78.     In  the   fall  <if   iC)77  the  town 


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of  Relioboth  voted  to  invite  him  to  become 
their  minister  for  that  winter,  and  early  the 
following'  spring  he  was  engaged  to  preach  at 
Milton,  but  returned  to  Wrentham  in  tlie  sum- 
mer of  1680.  Here  he  continued  his  minis- 
terial labors  until  a  church  of  ten  ])ersons  was 
gathered,  and  April  13,  1692,  he  was  ordained 
and  ]5reached  hi,s  own  ordination  sermon.  On 
October  26,  1699,  "in  dead  of  night"  his  dwell- 
ing house  with  the  church  records  were  burned. 
It  is  said  that  he  was  much  afflicted  with  in- 
firmities, and  for  twenty-five  years  before  his 
death  did  not  go  out  of  his  own  town.  One  of 
the  first  men  of  the  province  said  that  "he 
was  not  only  a  very  good,  but  a  very  great  and 
learned  man."  He  wrote  a  work  containing  ad- 
vice to  his  children  who  were  soon  to  enter  the 
married  state.  "His  ordinary  sermons  were  fit 
for  the  press,"  and  yet  such  was  his  humility 
that  he  thought  nothing  of  his  worth  publish- 
ing. He  was  belcjved  by  his  peojjle.  His  last 
sermon  was  from  the  text,  "I  have  seen  all  the 
works  that  are  done  under  the  sun,  and  be- 
hold all  is  vanity  and  vexation  of  spirit."  He 
died  at  Wrentham.  May  22,  17 19.  He  married. 
May  19,  1673,  Esther  Ware,  born  September 
28,  1655,  died  September  3,  1734.  daughter  of 
Robert  and  Margaret  (Hunting)  Ware,  of 
Dcdham.  Children,  born  in  Wrentham  and 
Milton:  i.  Mary,  .\pril  7,  1674;  married.  May 
4,  1708,  Samuel  Dearing.  2.  Samuel,  .\ugust 
8,  1675:  died  1732.  3.  Nathaniel,  born  in 
Milton:  (lied  at  Wrentham,  .May  11,  1756.  4. 
William,  born  in  Milton,  May  i,  1679.  5. 
Theodore,  born  h\'bruary  8,  1680;  mentioned 
below.  6.  Thomas,  born  October  24.  1682: 
died  September  10,  1756.  7.  Hannah,  born 
January  12,  1685:  married,  :\])r\\  30.  1707. 
.Samuel  Davis.  8.  Picriah,  born  March  30, 
if)87:  married  Daniel  Hawes.  9.  Pelatiah. 
born  .Xijril  2.  1689 ;  married  Jemima  Farring- 
ton.  10.  Margaret,  born  December  21,  1691  ; 
married,  .April  iS,  171 1.  Nathaniel  Whiting. 
11:  Esther,  born  June  26,  1696;  married,  De- 
cember 30.  1719,  Isaac  Fisher. 

(Hit  Theodore,  .son  of  Rev.  Samuel  Mann, 
was  born  February  8,  1680,  and  died  July  29, 
1 76 1.  He  was  a  deacon  in  the  Wrentham 
church,  and  served  the  town  as  selectman,  and 
was  rejjresentative  in  1722.  He  married,  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1702,  .-\bigail  Hawes.  Children:  i. 
Theodores  (daughter),  born  Augu.st  9.  1703; 
(lied  Sejitember  i,  1703.  2.  Mary,  born  July 
16.  1704.  3.  Fhebe,  .February  if),  1706;  mar- 
ried, March  22,  1732,  John  (iould.  4.  Theo- 
dore. March  C\  1708:  mentioned  below.  3. 
-Xbigail,  September  16,  17 10;  married.  March 


7.  1733,  Eliphalet  Whiting.  6.  Margaret.  Oc- 
tober 15,  1712.  7.  Sarah,  May  6,  1714.  8. 
Daniel,  September  8,  1716.  9.  Beriah,  .April 
27,  1719;  married,  November  3,  1737,  Daniel 
Kingsbury,  Jr.  10.  Deacon  Thomas,  October 
II,  1721:  married,  October  11,  1744,  Mary 
I'.lake.  1 1.  Jerusha,  November  12,  1724:  mar- 
ried. (Jctober  11.  1751,  Gamaliel  Gerauld. 

(  IV)  Theodore  (2),  son  of  Theodore  (i) 
Mann,  was  born  at  Wrentham,  March  6.  1708, 
and  married,  February  22,  1738,  .Kbigail  Day. 
Children:  i.  Joseph.  2.  Benjamin  (twin), 
mentioned  below.  3.  Elias.  4.  Jabez.  5.  Timothy. 
(h  Daniel.   7.  Seth.  8.  Ralph.  9.  Theodore. 

(V)  Benjamin,  son  of  Theodore  (2)  Mann, 
was  born  March  8,  1755,  and  died  at  Walpole. 
January  16.  1835,  aged  eighty.  He  married, 
November  20.  1777,  Deliverance  Kendall,  who 
died  December  4,  1834,  aged  eighty.  He  was 
a  solflier  in  the  revolution,  from  \\'alpole,  in 
Cajilain  Jeremiah  Smith's  company.  Colonel 
John  Smith's  regiment,  1775.  Children,  born 
at  Walpole:  i.  Samuel,  October  20,  1779; 
mentioned  below.  2.  Fanny,  May  29,  1783. 
3.  Susanna.  July  18,  1785.  4.  Cynthia,  Febru- 
ary II,  1788.  5.  William,  June  28,  1789.  6. 
B.enjamin,  July  16,  1791.  7.  Joseph,  Septem- 
ber 16.  1793.    8.  Lewis,  June  15,  1796. 

(\'I)  Samuel,  .son  of  Benjamin  Mann,  w-as 
born  at  Wal])olc,  October  20,  1779.  He  mar- 
ried ( intentions  dated  October  27  )  1805,  Lydia 
I'airbanks.  of  Walpole.  Children:  I.Charles, 
burn  July  15,  1809:  see  forward.  2.  Sally 
Fairbanks,  born  March  5,  1813,  in  Sharon; 
married  Newell  Morse.  3.  Samuel,  born  .\])ril 
lo,  1815,  in  Sharon.    4.  John,  born  in  Sharon. 

i\II)  Charles,  son  of  Samuel  Mann,  was 
horn  in  Waljiole,  July  15,  1800.  and  died  .\pril 
21,  1888.  He  was  first  eiuployed  in  a  woolen 
mill  in  Melville,  Mas.sachu.setts.  and  returned 
to  his  native  town  in  1876,  where  he  sjient 
the  rest  of  his  life,  being  one  of  its  prominent 
citizens.  He  married  .Ann  Maria  Green,  born 
October  4.  1817,  died  March  8,  1895.  Chil- ' 
drcn :  i.  Ellen  Maria,  born  December  31, 
1839:  died  1852.  2.  Charles  Lewis,  born  in 
I'oxboro.  June  24,  1842:  die<I  1905:  married, 
I-'ebruarv  "22.  i86('),  Elizabeth  Lyon  Schofield ; 
one  son,  .Arthur  Lewis,  born  November  18, 
i8(/),  died  December  2,  1S87.  3.  Emily  Fran- 
ces, born  in  South  Walpole,  December  27, 
1845:  married  Frederick  Eugene  .Aldrich  (see 
.Aldrich).  4.  Augustus  E.,  born  October  14, 
1848:  graduate  of  Providence,  Rhode  I.sland, 
Normal  School :  taught  at  Westerly,  Rhode 
Island,  for  twenty  years:  now  j)rincipal  of  the 
|)ublic  school  of  Lancaster,  Massachusetts. 


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